ensuing The Session of Parliament held in the 18 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Wednesday the 18 th day of February Anno Domini 1575. and was Prorogued on Thursday the 15 th day of March ensuing The Session of Parliament held in the 23. year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 16 th day of January Anno Domini 1580. and was Dissolved on Friday the 19 th day of April Anno Domini 1583. The Parliament held in the 27 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 23. day of November Anno Domini 1584. and was Dissolved on Wednesday the 14 th day of September An. Domini 1586. Anno 28 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 28 th and 29 th years of Queen Elizabeth began on Saturday the 29 th day of October Anno Domini 1586. and was Dissolved on Thursday the 23. of March Anno 29 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 31. year of Queen Elizabeth began on Tuesday the 4 th day of February Anno Domini 1588. and was Dissolved on Saturday the 29 th day of March Anno Domini 1589. The Parliament held in the 35 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 19 th day of November Anno Domini 1592. and was Dissolved on Tuesday the 10 th day of April Anno Domini 1593. The Parliament held in the 39. and 40. years of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 24. day of October Anno Domini 1597. and was Dissolved on Thursday the 9 th day of February An. 40 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 43. and 44 th years of Queen Elizabeth began on Tuesday the 27 th day of October Anno Domini 1601. and was Dissolved on Saturday the 19 th day of December ensuing Anno 44. Regin ejusdem The Names of the Lord Keeper Lord Chancellor or others who supplied their places as Speakers of the House of Lords during all the Reign of Queen ELIZABETH as also all the Names of all the Clerks of the said House of Parliament together with the Names of the several Speakers of the House of Commons and Clerks of the same House during all the Parliaments of the said Queens Reign The several Years of her Majesties Reign in which the said Parliaments or Sessions of Parliament were held The Names of the Lord Keeper Lord Chancellor c. and of the Clerks of the House of Lords The Names of the Speakers of the House of Commons and of the Clerks of the same House IN the Parliament held in the first Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England whose place was supplied Mar. 4. by the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England Sir Thomas Gargrave Knight Speaker  Francis Spilman Esquire Clerk of the Upper House ..... Seimour Gent. Clerk of the House of Commons In the Session of Parliament held in the fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper Thomas Williams Esq Speaker The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the ninth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes during his being sick of the Gout First by the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England after by Sir Robert Catlin Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Richard Onslow Esq the Queens Sollicitor  The same Clerk who either died or surrendred his place before the next Parl. began in An. 13 Reg. Eliz. The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes during his sickness by Sir Robert Catlin K t Lord Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench. Christopher Wray Serjeant at Law Speaker  Anthony Mason aliàs Wilkes succeeded Francis Spilman in the place of the Clerk of the House of Lords Fulk Onslow Gent. Clerk of the House of Commons In the Session of Parliament held in the fourteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied in his absence for divers days by Sir Robert Catlin K t Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Robert Bell Esq Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the eighteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes in his absence by the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England The same Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the twenty third Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor John Popham Esq the Queens Sollicitor Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the twenty seventh Year of Qucen Elizabeth The same Lord Chancellor John Puckering Serjeant at Law Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the twenty eighth and twenty ninth Years of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Chancellor and his place supplied for divers dayes during his sickness by Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. John Puckering Serjeant at Law Speaker again  The same Clerk The same Clerk from Oct. 29. to Dec. 2. 1589. And the same Clerks Kinsman W. Onslow Gent. from Febr. 15. to March 23. ensuing In the Parliament held in the thirty first Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor George Snagg Serjeant at Law Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirty fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Edward Coke Esq the Queens Sollicitor Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirty ninth and fortieth Years of Queen Elizabeth Sir Thomas Egerton Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Christopher Yelverton Serjeant at Law Speaker  Thomas Smith Esq succeeded Clerk of the Upper House to Anthony Mason alids Wilkes The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the 43 44 Years of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper J. Croke Esq Recorder of London The same Clerk The same Clerk THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A o 1 o Regin Eliz. A. D. 1558 1559. The Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster A o 1 o Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1558. beginning there after one Prorogation of the same on Wednesday the 25 th of January and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Monday the 8 th day of May Anno Dom. 1559. QUeen Mary Deceased on Thursday the 17 th day of November in the year of our Lord 1558. and the Parliament then Assembled in the 6th and last year of her Reign thereby immediately Dissolving the thrice Excellent and Prudent Princess Queen Elizabeth according to her right and Hereditary Title without any opposition or difficulty King Philip being then very happily absent beyond the
notwithstanding all the disbursements of these her great Charges yet she was as I right well know very hardly brought to and perswaded to call this Parliament in which she should be driven to require any aid or by any means to charge her Subjects if by any other means it might have been holpen and so her Majesty her self Commanded to be declared And I for my part and so do others very well know for the Commons little think or consider what a trouble want is to her whereby she is forced to ask of them which surely is against her nature but that she is thereunto forced for the surety of this Realm And for that the nether House cannot being so many together but of necessity must have one to be a Mouth Aider or Instructer unto them for the opening of matters which is called the Speaker Therefore go and Assemble your selves together and Elect one a discreet wise and learned Man to be your Speaker and on Friday next the Queens Majesty appointeth to repair hither again for to receive the Presentment of him accordingly The manner of her Majesties coming to the Upper House with the Lord Keepers Speech being supplied out of that written Copy or Anonymous Memorial I had by me as aforesaid now follow the Names of the Receivers and Tryors of Petitions out of the Original Journal-Book it self of the Upper House Then the Clerk of the Parliament read in French the Names of such as should receive hear and try the Petitions for England France Scotland Ireland Gascoigne and Guyen c. which were as followeth Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland viz. Sir Robert Catlin Chief Justice of the Kings Bench Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Anthony Browne Knight Sir Richard Read Knight and Doctor Huicke And such as will prefer any Petitions are to deliver them in six days next ensuing Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles viz. Sir James Dyer Knight Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Saunders Knight Chief Baron Justice Weston M r John Vaughan and Doctor Yale And such as will prefer any Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland viz. The Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Marquess of Winchester Treasurer of England the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Pembroke the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Clinton Admiral of England the Lord Rich all these together or four of the Prelates and Lords calling to them the Keeper of the Great Seal and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeant when need shall require shall hold their places in the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries and parts beyond the Sea viz. The Archbishop of York the Marquess of Northampton the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Oxon the Lord Howard the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Abergaveny the Lord Wentworth the Lord Willoughby and the Lord North all they together or four of the Prelates and Lords aforesaid calling to them the Queens Serjeant Attorney and Sollicitor when need shall require shall hold their place in the Treasurers Chamber These Names of the Receivers and Tryors of Petitions foregoing being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House there should follow out of the same the Adjournment or Continuance of the Parliament by the Queens Majesty or the Lord Keeper by her Commandment but the same being wholly omitted through the negligence of Francis Spilman Clerk of the same it is in part supplied out of that before-mentioned memorial Copy of this present days passages following Then the Lord Keeper Adjourned the Parliament till Friday next and then the Queen returned to her Chamber and shifted her and so did all the Lords and then waited on her to the Water side where she took her Boat and departed to Whiteball from whence she came and they till Friday at their pleasures upon which ensuing Friday her Majesty came again to the Upper House but the manner and form thereof being wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and only found in the foresaid Anonymous Memorials I had by me is therefore inserted out of the same in manner and form following On Friday the 15 th day of Jan. 1562. the Queens Majesty at her Privy-Stairs took Boat and went by Water to the Parliament-House about two of the Clock the Lords and Heralds waiting on her to the Landing place on the back side of the Parliament and so brought her to her Privy-Chamber where she shifted her and put on her Robes and the Lords theirs as the first day and then she repaired to her Seat and the Lords to theirs with their Serjeants and Gentlemen-Ushers before her the Lord Marquess of Northampton bearing the Cap of Estate the Duke of Norsolk the Rod of the Marshalsie and the Earl of Northumberland the Sword the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and the Baron of Hunsdon sustained her Mantle from her Arms And her Train was born by the Lord Chamberlain Vice-Chamberlain and M r Ashley Master of the Jewel-House and the Lord Keeper standing at the back of the Rail on the right and the Lord Treasurer on the left And because this is the first Session of the Second Parliament of her Majesty I thought it worth the labour to cause the presence of her Majesty and the Lords spiritual and Temporal to be inserted directly according unto the Copy thereof in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper-House Die Veneris 15 to Januar. Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur praesentes fuerunt Pr. Regina Pr. Archiepiscopus Cantuar. Pr. Archiepiscopus Eboracen Pr. Episcopus London Pr. Episcopus Dunelmen Pr. Episcopus Winton Pr. Episcopus Cicestren Episcopus Landaph Pr. Episcopus Hereford Pr. Episcopus Elien Pr. Episcopus Wigorn. Pr. Episcopus Bangoren Pr. Episcopus Lincoln Pr. Episcopus Sarum Pr. Episcopus Meneven Pr. Episcopus Rofsen Pr. Episcopus Bathon Wellen. Pr. Episcopus Coven Lichfeild Pr. Episcopus Exon. Pr. Episcopus Norwicen Pr. Episcopus Petriburgen Episcopus Carliolen Pr. Episcopus Cestren Pr. Episcopus Assaven Pr. Episcopus Gloucestren Nota That this is the very express manner and form by which the presence of her Majesty the Lord Keeper and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal is set down and marked out upon this present Friday being the first day of this her Highnesses Second Session of her Parliament and at the beginning of every Lords name that was present are the Letters Pr. prefixed by which it appeareth and may certainly be concluded that all they before whose names those Letters are not set down and entred were then absent which hath been the constant course
you And I shall pray as I am bound to God for your long and prosperous Reign over us Then her Majesty called the Lord Keeper and Commanded him to Answer him which he did as followeth M r Speaker The Queens Majesty hath heard your humble Petitions and request made unto her the effect whereof she gathereth to stand in two points first for access to her person and secondly for good interpretation of your meaning and also larger Declaration thereof if need be For the former her Highness as her Noble Progenitors have done is well contented that in convenient time and for convenient Causes in convenient place and without importunity for that these parts now touched have not been afore this time so well handled as she trusteth now it shall be which considered as free access she granteth you as any other hath had For the second point because no man at all times may do so well but sometimes things may be uttered which may be mispoken for which cause in that time also you shall have her intreatable but she thinketh your circumspection to be such as she shall not therein need And so ended Now a word or two to remember you here present of both the Houses first this it is that I would advise you in this your proceeding to prefer the most weighty matters first and not trouble your selves with small matters and of no weight and therein also that all be done to understand the truth and to avoid all superfluous matters and losing or driving away of time Secondly It is profitable that you my Lords and all others that be here consider that long time requireth great expences and therefore wish you to make Expedition the rather to avoid the same And yet not meaning such Expedition that any thing needful to be done should be lightly passed over and not substantially done and seen unto but only I mean that you should settle your selves wholly to mighty matters and those which be necessary and to spare superfluous things and which needeth not And this is the sum I have to say Then the Speaker and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having made their low Reverence towards her Majesty departed to their own House and the Queen after the Lord Keeper had by her Majesties Commandment continued the Parliament unto the Morrow following returned into her Privy-Chamber and there shifted her and then repaired to her Barge and so to the Court Hactenus ex Memoriali praefato On Thursday the third day of October were three Bills read of which the last being the Bill for the better Execution of certain Statutes and for the reformation of certain disorders used in the Law was read primâ vice tunc commissa Archiepiscopo Cantuarien Duci Norfolciae Comiti Mareschall Angliae Comiti Salopiae Comiti Wigorniae Comiti Leicester Episcopo Dunelmen Episcopo Elien Episcopo Carliolen Domino Cobham Domino Grey de Wilton Domino Haistings Domino Primario Justiciario Banci Regis Domino Primario Baroni Scaccarii Scrvienti Carus Nota That this days passages are wholly transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House as are also the greatest part of the days following although the whole proceedings of Wednesday foregoing were inserted out of the before-mentioned Anonymous memorial touching the Speakers presentment and allowance which I had by me Nota also That the former Bill touching the better Execution of certain Statutes c. was not only committed upon the first reading which is not usual till after the second but committed also to the Judges being but Assistants of the Upper House and to the Queens Serjeant being but a meer Attendant upon the same jointly with the Lords the only proper and undoubted Members of that Great Council which is a matter to be observed because of later days neither the said Assistants nor Attendant are ever appointed joint Committees with the Lords as here but only Commanded by the House to attend upon the Committee and there to give such advice as shall be required from them which is no greater respect yielded them at a Committee than in the House it self sitting the Parliament and were they still admitted to be Committees as they usually were in all these first Parliaments of the Queen yet could no inconvenience ensue thereby because at a Committee things are only prepared and made ready for the House in which and no where else they ought to be concluded and expedited And Nota lastly That the Parliament was this day continued to Saturday the 5 th day of October ensuing but whether by the Lord Keeper who as it seems at this time fell sick of the Gout or by the Lord Treasurer who for a while afterwards was appointed by the Queens Commission to continue it according to the usual form and course in such case used doth not appear in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is omitted through the negligence of Francis Spilman Esq now Clerk of the same House On Saturday the 5 th day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the taking away Clergy in certain Cases was read secundâ vice commissa Archiepiscopo Eboracen Duci Norf. Comiti Huntington Comiti Leicester Vice-Comiti Mountague Episcopo London Episcopo Dunelmen Episcopo Lincoln Domino Clinton Domino Morley Domino Wentworth Domino Willoughby Domino North Domino Hunsdon the two Chief Justices and the Chief Baron Nota That the Judges being meer Assistants and no Members of the Upper House were here also made joint Committees with the Lords which hath never been admitted of in later times These two Bills were read the Lord Keeper by reason of his being sick of the Gout abstaining this day and a good while aster from the Upper House and therefore William Lord Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England was Authorized by verbal Commission from the Queen to supply his place and accordingly continued the Parliament unto Monday next being the 7 th day of October the form and manner whereof although the President be very rare and of great use is only entred very briefly in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in these words following Hodie dictus Thesaurarius ex Mandato Dominae Reginae eò quod Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli Podagrae Morbo laboraret continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae proxim horâ consuetâ Nota That here the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England did supply the Lord Keepers place in the Upper House without any Authority given him by Commission under the great Seal which in like Cases is usual and therefore it is most probable that her Majesty did by word of Mouth give him this Commandment or Commission either in private or in the presence of some other Lords of the Upper House which although it
be not very usual yet there want not Presidents of the same nature as I was assured by Henry Elsing Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House upon Friday the 16 th day of April 1630. and that especially in former times as of King Edward the third and others the Lord Keepers place was during his absence for the most part supplied by vertue of the Kings verbal Command and seldom by Commission October the 6 th Sunday On Monday the 7 th day of October An Act to make void fraudulent Gifts Bargains and Alienations made for the deceiving of Creditors was read primâ vice and committed to Justice Dyer Quod nota The Lord Treasurer continued the Parliament until the next day at nine of the Clock On Tuesday the 8 th day of October the Bill that no man killing any person by misfortune at twelve score or longer mark shall therefore forfeit his Lands Tenements or Goods was read primâ vice Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliament usque in diem Jovis prox horâ nonâ On Thursday the 10 th day of October Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill that no man killing any person at twelvescore prick or longer mark shall forfeit his Goods or Chattels in which Bill for that it toucheth the Queens Prerogative it was thought not convenient to proceed further without her Highness pleasure first known in the same Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox hora nona and so every sitting day until Friday the 25 th day of October exclusivè the Parliament was continued in this Form by the Lord Treasurer except Monday the 21 th day and Tuesday the 22 th day of October on both which days the House did sit and Bills were read but in the Original Journal-Book is no mention of continuing the Court by any person which seemeth to have happened by negligence of the Clerk and after the said 25 th day of October on which Sir Robert Catlin Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was appointed by her Majesties Commission to supply the place of the Lord Keeper during his Sickness it was continued until Saturday the 9 th day of November ensuing when Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal repaired again to the Upper House and there continued his place till the Dissolution of this present Session of Parliament On Saturday the 12 th day of October Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against fraudulent Gifts of Goods and Chattels and also a remedy for Creditors against Bankrupts was Committed to the Lord Chief Justice Dyer and Justice Southcote to be by them considered against the next meeting Quod nota October the 13 th Sunday On Monday the 14 th day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued by the Lord Treasurer Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the taking away of Clergy from Pick-Purses and Cut-Purses was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossand On Tuesday the 15 th day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued by the Lord Treasurer Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the two first the one being the Bill to take away the benefit of the Clergy from certain Offenders for some Felonies for which by the Common Law they could not be denied it was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa And the other being a Bill for the Confirmation of Fines and Recoveries notwithstanding the fault of the Original Writ majore Procerum numero assentientium conclusa est And the said two Bills so concluded were committed unto the Queens Attorney and M r Martin to be carried down to the House of Commons On Wednesday the 16. day of October the Lords did meet in the Parliament Chamber and nothing done but the Parliament continued by the Lord Treasurer in usual Form until Thursday the 17. day of October On Thursday the 17. day of October Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to Naturalize John Stafford born beyond the Seas was primâ vice lect and the third being against fraudulent Gifts of Goods and Chattels and also a remedy against Bankrupts was by the consent of all the Lords concluded On Saturday the 19. day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing by the Lord Treasurer the Bill for the punishment of the negligence and false return of Writs by under-Sheriffs and Bayliffs was by common consent of the Lords concluded and with two other Bills before concluded was sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and the Attorney General On Monday the 21. day of October the Bill for annexing of Hexhamshire to the County of Northumberland was read primâ vice Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons viz. One to take the benefit of Clergy from certain Offendors returned exped And another to repeal a branch of a Statute made Anno 23 Hen. 8. touching prices of Barrells and Kilderkins On Tuesday the 22. day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the annexing of Hexhamshire to the County of Northumberland was read secundâ vice and committed to the Archbishop of York the Earl of Northumberland the Earls of Westmoreland and Bedford the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Carlisle the Lord Evers the Lord Rich and the Lord North and to Justice Welsh and Serjeant Carus Nota That here a Judge being but an Assistant and a Serjeant being but an Attendant upon the Upper House are made Joint-Committees with the Lords Ut vide plus on Thursday the third day of this instant October foregoing Nota also That an Extraordinary Proxy is Entered in the beginning of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have been introduced this day being as followeth viz. 22 die Octobris introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Cuthberti Domini Ogle in quibus Procuratores constituit Franciscum Comitem Bedford Johannem Dominum Lumley This I call an Extraordinary Proxy in respect that a Temporal Lord did Constitute two Proctors whereas usually they nominate but one and the Spiritual Lords for the most part two and this Proxy of the Lord Ogle's may the rather seem unusual in respect that of sixteen Temporal Lords who were absent by her Majesties Licence from this Session of Parliament there was but one more viz. Francis Earl of Bedford ut vide on Saturday the 9. day of November following who Constituted above one Proxy It is also worth the noting that Robert Earl of Leicester being at this time a Favorite was
although it be not very usual yet there want not divers Presidents Vide April the 20 th Friday postea Nota also That here the Judges being but Assistants unto the Upper House are made joint Committees with the Lords which is usually found in all these Parliaments of her Majesties Reign until the thirty ninth of the same Dominus Custos magni Sigilli adjournavit praesens Parliamentum until to Morrow at eight of the Clock On Friday the 6 th day of April Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third touching Receivers c. deceiving the Queen of her Treasure was read secundâ vice commissa to the Earl of Hunt the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hastings of Loughborough the Lord North the Lord Hunsdon and to the Queens Attorney and M r Sollicitor Nota That here the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor who are but meer Attendants upon the Upper House are made joint Committees with the Lords Dominus Custos magni Sigilli adjournavit praesens Parliamentum in diem Crastinum hora nona On Saturday the 7 th day of April the Lords Assembled according to the last Adjournment and the Lord Keeper being absent Dominus Clinton vicem gerens Senescalli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae proximum hora nona April the 8 th Sunday On Monday the 9 th day of April Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against such as shall bring in any Bulls c. was read prima vice and committed unto the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Pembroke and others and to the Chief Justices of the Common-Pleas Justice Southcot and Justice Carus Nota That the Judges who were but meer Assistants unto the Upper House are here made joint Committees with the Lords Vide consimise Apr. 5. Thursday And the second touching Receivers Collectors c. was read the second time eisdem Dominis quibus primò commissa fuit denuò committitur Nota That this Bill was read before the second time on Friday the 6 th day of this instant April foregoing and committed and therefore it should seem that this Bill was not now read again the second time but only some additions or amendments thereunto annexed by the Committees and thereupon the Bill was again referred unto them to be further considered of For that Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England was sick her Majesties Letters Patents were read Authorizing Sir Robert Catlin Chief Justice of England to supply the place of the said Lord Keeper at all times when the Lord Keeper during this present Parliament shall be absent The tenor of which here followeth verbatim ELizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Trusty and Right Well-beloved Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of our Common-Pleas before us to be holden Greeting Where our Right Trusty and Right Well-beloved Councellor Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England is at this time so visited with Sickness that he is not able to travel to the Upper House of this our present Parliament holden at Westminster nor there to supply the room and place in the said Upper House amongst the Lord Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled as to the Office of the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England hath been accustomed We therefore minding the same place and room to be supplied in all things as appertaineth for and during every time of his absence have named and appointed you and by these Presents do Constitute name appoint and authorize you from day to day and time to time when and so often as the said Lord Keeper shall happen at any time or times during this present Parliament to be absent from his accustomed place in the Upper House to occupy use and supply the room and place of the said Lord Keeper in the said Upper House amongst the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled at every such day and time of his absence and then and there at every such time to do and execute all such things as the said Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England should or might do if he were there personally present using and supplying the same room Wherefore we will and Command you the said Sir Robert Catlin to attend to the doing and Execution of the Premises with effect And these our Letters Patents shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge for the same in every behalf In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our selves at Westminster the 9 th day of April in the Thirteenth Year of our Reign Powle Nota That this Commission is in one respect very exotick and unusual because it doth not only give Authority to the Lord Chief Justice to supply the Lord Keepers place until his recovery and return to Parliament as is ordinary in other Commissions but it doth further authorize him to supply the said Lord Keepers place at any time during this Parliament when he shall be absent as well as at this present whence in this ensuing Journal it is frequent that sometimes the Lord Keeper and sometimes the Lord Chief Justice though seldomer without any new Commission do in their several turns continue the Parliament Robertus Catlin Miles Dominus Capital Justiciarius Banci Regis continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Tuesday the 10 th day of April Billa de novo reformata per Dominos quibus pridie committebatur touching the bringing in of any Bulls or other Writings from the Bishop of Rome was read the first time The new Bill touching Receivers Treasurers Collectors c. defrauding the Queens Majesty of her Treasure was read the first time The Bill touching the Confirmation of the Attainder of Charles Earl of Westmerland Thomas Earl of Northumberland and others was read the first time The Lords requested to have Conference with certain of the House of Commons touching a Bill brought to them concerning matters of Religion whereupon Committees were appointed viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Northampton and others The Lord Keeper continued the Parliament usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Wednesday the 11 th day of April it was Ordered by the House that the Lords Committees for the Bill of Bankrupts may call unto them such of the House of Commons and others as they shall think good which may best inform touching any doubt or other matter that may rise upon the said Bill Two Bills also had each of them their second reading of which the second being the new Bill against the bringing in of Bulls was read the second time commissa Justiciario
them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the County Palatine of Durham and the Isle of Ely was upon the second reading committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Northumberland the Bishop of London and others Dominus Thesaurarius in absentia Domini Custodis magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox hora nona Nota That there appeareth no Commission or other Authority in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House by which the Lord Treasurer supplied the Lord Keepers place but most probable it is that either the Commission it self is negligently omitted by Anthony Mason Esquire at this time Clerk of the same House or that the Lord Treasurer did continue it only upon her Majesties verbal Authority and Command as it is very likely the Lord Chief Justice did supply the Lord Keeper's place on Thursday the 5 th day of June in the first Session of this very Parliament in Anno 14 Reginae Eliz. And it is certain that Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal growing at this time after which he did not long live both Aged and Sickly gave occasion to her Majesty by reason of his weakness to Authorize others more frequently to supply his place than it is otherwise likely she would have done Vide Consimil Mar. 4. in An. 1 Eliz. On Monday the 5 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching the Lord Viscount Bindou and Henry Howard his Son was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was for the assurance of certain Lands to Sir John Rivers Knight and another for the perpetual maintenance of Rochester-Bridge Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 6 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for setting the poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness was read the second time but no mention made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the House of Commons The Bill for the true Tanning and Currying of Leather was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching Viscount Bindon and Henry Howard his Son was read tertiâ vice Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was for the repairing of Chepstow-Bridge and the third was the Bill for Reformation of the Jeofails Two Bills finally had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill whereby certain Authority was given to the Justices of the Queens Majesties Parks Forests and Chases was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem prox hora nona On Wednesday the 7 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the restitution in Blood of John Lord Stourton his Brother and Sisters was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by D r Yale and D r Barkley Four other Bills also had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill whereby certain Authority was given to the Justices of the Queens Parks Forests and Chases was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Yale and M r Powle Clerk of the Crown Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of the which one was for the Confirmation of Letters Patents with certain Amendments and another for avoiding of sraudulent Gifts by the late Rebels in the North. The Bill lastly for the Trial of Nisi prius in the County of Middlesex was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the House of Commons Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ nonâ On Thursday the 8 th day of March Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for maintenance of the Colleges in the Universities of Winchester and Eaton and the second against buying and selling of Rooms and Places in Colleges and Schools were each of them read primâ vice Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for setting the poor on work and for the avoiding of Idleness was read tertia vice conclusa with a Proviso added by the Lords and certain Amendments and sent to the House of Commons by D r Vaughan and D r Yale Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem About which hour the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling Ten Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the Toleration of certain Cloths in Com. Wilts Somers and Dors. the fifth for Reformation of Disorders in common Informers the sixth for the payment of Tythes in the Town of Reading in like sort as it is in the City of London the seventh touching Benefices Impropriate the eighth for reformation of Abuses in Goldsmiths and the last being the Bill for the reformation of Jeofailes were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because they had been formerly sent from the House of Commons Four Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was for the making of certain Denizens and another for avoiding fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances made by the late Rebels in the North. On Friday the 9 th of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fifth being the Bill for the repairing and amending of Highways and Bridges near unto Oxford and the sixth and last being the Bill that the Plaintiff shall be sworn upon his Bill as the Defendant is sworn upon his Answer was read secundâ vice but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Hospital at Leicester was returned conclusa Four Bills of no great moment lastly had each of them
first time M r Doctor Vaughan and M r Doctor Yale brought from the Lords the Bill for setting the Poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness with certain amendments and a Proviso M r Treasurer one of the Committees in the Lady Wainman's Cause reported that both the Parties have submitted themselves to the Arbitrement of the Lord Treasurer the Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Leicester M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Dutchy and M r Captain of the Guard or the most part of them to be made within one Year next after the Session of this present Session of Parliament for the performance and accomplishment of the same Arbitrement A Proviso with some Amendments was offered to the Bill for reformation of Inholders common Cooks and Tavern Keepers and being twice read after the Question was upon the Division of the House by the advantage of the number of forty persons Ordered to be ingrossed and added to the Bill and then afterwards upon another Question and like Division of the House the Bill with the Proviso was dashed with the difference of twenty eight persons Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Barham did bring from the Lords a Bill for the appointing of Wharfs and Keys for the unlading and discharging of Merchandizes and withal a Message from them that some of this House may be appointed to have Conference with some such of their Lordships as shall be thought meet touching such private Bills in both Houses as upon their Conference together shall be thought fittest to be Examined whereupon it was Ordered that twelve of this House shall be appointed for that purpose viz. M r Treasurer M r Captain of the Guard M r Wilson Master of the Requests Sir Henry Ratcliffe Sir Rowland Hayward Sir Thomas Scott Sir John Thynne Sir Henry Wallope Sir George Penrudock M r Popham M r Sampoole and M r Yelverton The Bill concerning Authority given to the Justices of the Queens Majesties Forests Chaces and Parks was read the second time and committed this day afterwards The two Bills for Denizens and the Bill for Presentations by Lapse being amended were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others M r Serjeant Barham and M r Doctor Vaughan brought word from the Lords that their Lordships do require that the Committees of this House may confer with them to Morrow in the Morning before eight of the Clock in the Parliament Chamber M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Captain of the Guard Sir Henry Gates Sir Henry Ratcliffe Sir Thomas Barrington Sir Nicolas Arnold Sir Henry Knivett M r Recorder of London M r Sampoole M r Stanhoppe M r Crooke M r Snagg M r John Vaughan M r Serjeant Jeffries M r Serjeant Lovelace M r Edward Horsey M r Robert Wroth M r Colby M r Topclyffe M r Bowyer M r John S t John M r Dawney M r Robert Colshill M r Digbie and M r Birkhed were appointed in Committee for the Bill concerning certain Authority given to the Justices of the Queens Majesties Forests Chaces Parks and Warrens Nota That this Bill having been sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons on Wednesday the 7 th day of this instant March foregoing should without all question never have been referd to Committees upon the second reading this instant Thursday except the said House of Commons had taken such just exceptions at the same as they afterwards made known to a Committee of the Lords and by reason of which finally the same was stopped from further passing The further carriage and proceeding of which business being wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons through the great negligence of Fulk Onslow Esq at this time Clerk of the same I have thought good to supply it out of a written Memorial or Copy thereof I had by me because it may appear upon what just grounds and solid reasons the Members of the said House did refuse to pass the said Bill and although it doth not certainly appear whether the said Proceedings in the said Bill between the Committees of either House were this day or no yet I have referred it thereunto as the most probable and likely time in respect that there is no further mention made of this Bill or business in either of the Original Journal-Books of the Upper House or House of Commons upon any ensuing day during this present Session of Parliament These things being thus premised the foresaid Memorial or written Discourse of this business doth now ensue to be inserted The Committees before-named having upon deliberate consideration of the parts and of the scope of the said Bill touching Authority to be given to the Justices of the Queens Majesties Forests c. found the same not convenient to proceed did nevertheless out of their respect unto the Lords from whom the Bill had been sent down desire first to satisfie them before they utterly refused and dashed the said Bill and did thereupon send unto their Lordships who as it appeareth by the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House did this Afternoon sit to offer them Conference which they accordingly accepted and thereupon there did assemble in a place appointed as Commissioners or rather as Committees for the Lords the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Leicester the Lord Grey of Wilton and the Lord Hunsdon having for their assistance standing by the two Chief Justices and the Queens Attorney General upon these the foresaid Committees of the House of Commons by Order of the same House gave their attendance and by Sir Walter Mildmay K t Chancellor of the Exchequer the second of the said Committees in the name and by consent of the rest said to the Lords in effect as followeth viz. That whereas a Bill touching the enlargement of the Justices of Forest-Authority had passed from their Lordships and was sent to the House of Commons the same had received there two readings and upon the second reading was greatly impugned by many Arguments made against it nevertheless the respect they had to their Lordships moved them to stay any further proceeding therein to the hazard of the Bill until by some Conference with their Lordships the House in such things as were objected might be satisfied To that end he said the House of Commons had sent them to attend upon their Lordships and so entring into the matter said That of many things spoken to the hindrance of the Bill they would trouble their Lordships but with some few such as they had noted to have been of most value by which he said their Lordships should find that the House of Commons did take the Bill to be unnecessary chargeable dangerous obscure For the first that whereas in the preamble of the Bill it was pretended that one principal cause of this Act was that the Justices of the Forests having no Authority to sit
their several places the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof who thereupon repairing thither as many as conveniently could were let in and standing all together at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the Upper House Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor by the Queen Commandment declared unto them the Causes of the Assembling of this Parliament But what those Causes were neither the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House nor that of the House of Commons do at all mention in setting down the other daily Passages of this Parliament de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. But in respect they are set down the above-mentioned Catalogue of Honour imprinted at London An. Domini 1610. pag. 〈◊〉 and that it is most probable that were there inserted out of the Collections or Memorial of some Member of the House of Commons at this Parliament therefore I have thought good to supply it verbatim as it is there set down The said Lord Chancellor declared unto them in her Majesties name that this Assembly of Parliament was for three causes called viz. For the glory of Almighty God and the furthering of Religion for the health and preservation of her Royal Majesty and the welfare of the Common-Weal Which after that he had a loud and most eloquently at large declared turning his Speech unto the Knights and Burgesses standing on a heap together below he willed them to make choice of their Prolocutor and to give notice of him so Chosen unto the Lords of the Privy-Council from whom they should expect what the Queens Pleasure and Answer was concerning him so Chosen to be afterward presented The substance of this Speech being so shortly set down in the said Catalogue of Honour I thought good to transcribe although it were imprinted because it doth much augment and perfect this present Journal of the Upper House The residue whereof doth next in order follow out of the Original Journal-Book of the same House there being only added now and then as the occasion offered it self some Observations and Animadversions upon it Nota Also that no names of any of the Lords Spiritual or Temporal are noted to have been present this day which happened through the negligence of the Clerk of the Parliament but it may be conjectured who they were by the names of such whose presence is noted on Thursday next following being the 26 th day of this instant November on which said day the presence of such Lords as attended this Parliament is first marked Then follow the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions which is the more remarkable at this time because it is said that the Clerk of the Parliament did read them by the Lord Chancellors Commandment whereas it should seem at other times and which is agreeable also to the course at this day he doth presently stand up of himself as soon as the Lord Chancellors or Lord Keepers Speech is ended and reads the said Receivors and Triors names yet the entrance aforesaid is at this time set down in the said Journal-Book in manner and form following Tunc having before-mentioned the Lord Chancellors Speech Parliamenti Clericus ex mandato Cancellarn omnibus Petitionibus exhiberi volentibus Receptorum Examinatorum nomina formâ subsequenti recitavit Then follows all in French of which the names were these Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Lord Chief Justice of England Sir Gilbert Gerrard Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Gawel Knight one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench Doctor Clarke and Doctor Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Lord Chief Baron Francis Windam one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Awbery and Doctor Barkley Such as will deliver Petitions must so do within six days next ensuing Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Leicester Lord High Steward of England the Earl of Darby the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Howard of Effingham Chamberlain of the Queens House the Lord Gray of Wilton the Lord North. All these or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants at their leisure to meet and hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and the Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles The Archbishop of York the Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembroke the Bishop of Norwich the Bishop of Chester the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Cobham the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst All these or four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor to hold their place when their leisure did serve to meet in the Treasurers Chamber Breve returnatum which was returned this Morning quo Johannes Episcopus Gloucestren praesenti Parliamento interesse summonitus fuit qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 24 th day of November the Lords met in the Upper House but nothing was done saving the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor until nine of the Clock the next Morning On Wednesday the 25 th day of November there was a like meeting of the Lords but nothing done saving the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon the day following But no presence of the Lords is noted on this day in the Original Journal-Book On Thursday the 26 th day of November the Commons having chosen their Speaker who upon his Presentment to the Queen was this day to be allowed of in the said place her Majesty Accompanied with divers of the Nobility came into the Upper House about three of the Clock in the Afternoon whose name and the names of such Lords Spiritual and Temporal as are marked in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament to have been present this day do here ensue Regina Archiepiscopus Cantuar. Dominus Thomas Bromley Miles Cancellarius Archiepiscopus Eboracen Dominus Barleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Marchio Winton Comites Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerarius Comes Arundell Comes Kantiae Comes Darbiae Comes Wigorn. Comes Rutland Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Comes Bathon Comes Pembrooke Comes Hartford Vice-Comes Mountague Vice-Comes Bindon Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Winton Episcopus Meneven Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Petriburgen Episcopus Norwicen Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Cestren Barones Dominus Howard Camerar Dominus Zouch Dominus Willoughbie Dominus Dacres Dominus Cobham Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Lumley Dominus Stourton Dominus Mountjoy
Chief Baron had not committed any contempt against this Right Honourable Court And further Ordered 13 o die Decembris that the appearance of the same James Diggs by rendring himself into the Exchequer was and should be a sufficient discharge of his Sureties and their Bonds and that the Bonds shall be redelivered Provided nevertheless that for as much as the said James Diggs was not Arrested in Execution at the Suit of Richard Howe but was committed after Judgment by the Barons of the Exchequer upon a Reddit se for discharge of his Sureties It is therefore further Ordered by the said Lords that touching the sum of money recovered by the said Howe against the said James Diggs the said Howe and James Diggs shall stand to such Order as the Lord Chief Baron and other of the Barons of the Exchequer shall set down for the same Vide more afterwards concerning this matter upon Monday the 14 th and on Tuesday the 15 th day of this instant December following On Thursday the third day of December to which day the Parliament had been on Tuesday last continued the Bill for fit and convenient places for landing and shipping of Merchandize was read secunda vice and then committed to the Lord Treasurer and others and to the two Senior Barons of the Exchequer Nota That here two Judges who are but Assistants unto the Upper House are made joint Committees with the Lords On Friday the 4 th day of December Two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being an Act for the maintenance of Navigation was read prima vice and the second touching the Clothiers of Essex was read prima secunda vice and then committed On Saturday the 5 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Inning of Erith and Plumsted Marsh was read secunda vice and committed unto three Earls one Bishop and five Barons which Committees did appoint to hear amongst themselves as well the Parties Owners as Inners touching the same Bill The Bill also concerning the Essex Clothiers which had been sent up yesterday to the Lords from the House of Commons was this day upon the third reading and conclusion thereof sent back again thither On Monday the 7 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills had each of them one reading the first for maintenance of Navigation and the second for increase of Mariners Two Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons the one touching the Essex Clothiers the other for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day Nota That this Bill concerning the Sabbath day was long in passing the two Houses being committed and amendments upon amendments added unto it as Vide afterwards on Tuesday the 8 th day on Monday the 14 th day and on Saturday the 19 th day of this instant December ensuing as also on Wednesday the third day and on Saturday the 6 th day of March following Vide etiam on Wednesday the 9 th day of this instant December foregoing Whereas the Lord Viscount Bindon moved the Lords for the priviledge of the House for Robert Finnies alledging that he was his Servant the Lords gave Commandment to the Gentleman-Usher to go to the Counter in Woodstreet where the said Robert Finnies then lay upon an Execution and to bring him and the Parties that Arrested him before them And this day the said Lords after the hearing of the Cause thought it not convenient that the said Robert Finnies should enjoy the priviledge of this House as well because he claimed not the priviledge when he was first Arrested nor in the Counter when he was charged with the Execution as also for that he was not a menial Servant nor yet ordinary Attendant upon the said Viscount And further Ordered that the Officers of the Sheriffs of London should take again in Execution the said Finnies and convey him to the place from whence he came and that the bringing of the said Finnies before the said Lords at their Commandment should not be in any wise prejudicial to the Sheriffs or their Officers On Tuesday the 8 th day of December the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day was read prima vice Vide concerning this Bill on Monday the 7 th day of this instant December foregoing On Wednesday the 9 th day of December Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the increase of Mariners was read the second time and thereupon committed And the second of the said Bills being for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day was read the second time and committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward the Earl of Kent the Earl of Darby the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Bedford Viscount Mountague the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Chester the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Zouch the Lord Willoughby the Lord Grey the Lord North the Lord Norris the Lord Chief Baron and Justice Windham Nota That here two Judges being here meer Assistants of the Upper House were made joint Committees with the Lords whereas of later times they are always Commanded to attend the Lords Committees of which also there was another Precedent this Morning The Bill to provide remedy against fraudulent means used to defeat Wardships Liveries and primier seisin was read secunda vice and committed to the Lord Treasurer being Master of the Wards to two Earls Viscount Mountague two Bishops five Barons the two Chief Justices and the Queens Attorney The continuance or Adjournment of the Parliament this day is not at all Entred in the Original Journal-Book which seemeth to have happened through the Clerks negligence On Thursday the 10 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was concerning Sir Thomas Lucy Knight and others On Saturday the 12 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to provide remedy against fraudulent Conveyances and another concerning certain assurances of Sir Thomas Lucy and others were after the third reading sent down unto the House of Commons A Bill lastly being for the assurance of certain Lands unto George Chewne Esquire and others in Fee-simple was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Monday the 14 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day with certain amendments was read tertiâ vice and with another bill of no great moment was sent down to the
her Majesties Reign viz. in Anno 39 Anno 43. and in these latter times of King James and our present Soveraign his Son these are seldom or never nominated as Committees but only as Assistants to the Committees to give their advice if they shall be required and not otherwise And though the Clerk of the Parliament might at some time mistake and err in setting down such for Committees as were only Commanded to be Attendant upon or Assistant unto the said Committees yet that he should so often mistake in so many Parliaments and the rather because such Committees are frequently named divers times in sundry of the several Sessions it is most unlikely and improbable On Friday the 14 th day of February the Bill for the more speedy payment of Fines and Tenths was read prima vice Memorand The Lords Committees brought in the Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers with Amendments and by reason of divers defects in the same Bill they had framed a new Bill which new Bill by the consent of all the Lords was received and read prima vice Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill touching Constats of Original Conveyances made to the Queens Majesty was read secunda vice And the second being a Bill to save discontinuance of Writs of Error upon Errors in the Court of Exchequer was read secunda vice commisia Archiepiscopo Cantuar ' Ebor ' Domino Senesechallo three Earls three Bishops six Barons Magistro Rotulorum Servienti Shuttleworth Magistro Attornato Sollicitatori Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford robis Parliamentariis induti introduxerunt Dominum Talbot eúmque ad locum suum perduxerunt praeeunte Gartiro principali Reg. Armorum qui etiam tunica armorum indutus erat On Saturday the 15 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued three Bills were read whereof two of them the first being a Bill for maintenance of Houses of Husbandry and Tillage and the second being a Bill for Horse-stealing and House-burning were read secunda vice tunc commissae Domino Thesaurario 4 Comitibus 2 Episcopis 8 Baronibus Justiciar ' Gawdie Servienti Puckering Sollicitatori Reginae On Monday the 17 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued four Bills were read of which the first being a Bill for reformation in excess of Apparel was read secunda vice commissa Domino Thesaurario 3 Comitibus 2 Episcopis 6 Baronibus Servienti Shuttleworth Sollicitatori Reginae Quod nota On Tuesday the 18 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued were four Bills read whereof the first being a Bill providing remedy against discontinuance in Writs of Error in the Exchequer and Kings Bench was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Shuttleworth and Dr. Aubery with three other Bills On Thursday the 20 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued were four Bills read of which the first being a Bill for having Horse-Armour and Weapons was read prima vice On Saturday the 22 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued were three Bills read of which the last being a Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers was read tertia vice conclusa and together with the two Bills aforesaid sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Puckering and Doctor Ford. Three Bills were also sent from the House of Commons viz. a Bill concerning Informers and two others of no great moment On Monday the 24 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued were four Bills read whereof one of them being a Bill for Writs upon Proclamation upon Exigents to be Currant within the County Palatine of Durham was read secunda vice commissa Justiciario Gawdie Quod nota On Tuesday the 25 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued were two Bills read whereof the first being a Bill concerning Informers was read prima secunda vice conclusa and so expedited And the second being a Bill for the abridgment of Proclamations upon Fines to be levied at the Common Law was read secunda vice wherein the Lords finding some imperfections sent down Serjeant Shuttleworth and D r Clark to the lower House to pray a Conference with some of that House which being yielded the Lords Ordered for Committees the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward the Bishop of Winton the Lord Cobham the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas to attend the Lords Nota That here one of the Judges is particularly nominated to attend upon the Lords Committees which may further prove that in all those former places where the Judges or the Queens Learned Council are named as Committees it is no Error nor mistake of the Clerk So that hence the difference may very well be gathered to be this That where a Committee of the Lords was formerly used to be selected out to meet with another Committee of the House of Commons here neither the Judges being but Assistants nor the Queens Learned Council being but Attendants of and upon that House were ever nominated or appointed as Joint Committees with the Lords because the very Members of either House only are then admitted to partake of such matters of weight and secrecy as they do there commonly confer upon But when the Lords do amongst themselves appoint a Committee to consider only of some ordinary Bill that is to pass their House and especially if the Bill do concern matter of Law here it antiently hath been used and may still without any prejudice to the honour of that House be continued that the Kings Learned Council but especially the Judges may be nominated as Committees alone or as Joint Committees with the Lords for in regard that nothing can be absolutely concluded at a Committee all matters shall still depend upon the resolution of the House and so no inconvenience shall ensue thereupon After the Committees of both Houses had met the Lords Committees proceeded to the Amendment of the Bill and afterwards this present day the Bill and Amendments received their second reading and passed the House and was sent down to the House of Commons to be amended by them by D r Carew and M r Sollicitor It appeareth by the Journal-Book that the House of Commons having yielded to a Conference did presently chuse Committees and sent them up to the Upper House Two other Bills had each of them one reading in the House and one Bill was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons all being of no great moment On Thursday the 27 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill for reformation of excess in
Petition by her Commandment and direction it was sent unto the Lords into the Upper House by Sir Robert Cecill then her Majesties Secretary and endorsed on the back side thus in his own hand Her Majesty hath commanded me to signifie unto your Lordships that upon the humble Suit of the Lord de la Ware she is pleased this Petition be considered and determined in the House Robert Cecill Which Petition being this 5 th day of November sent unto the House was there read as followeth To the Queens most Excellent Majesty BEseecheth your most Excellent Majesty your most humble Subject Thomas le Ware K r That whereas Thomas sometimes Lord Le Ware Ancestor and great Grandfather of your said Subject whose Heir Male he is That is to say your Subject is Son and Heir to William who was Son and Heir to George who was Brother and Heir to Thomas who was Son and Heir to the said Thomas your Subject's great Grandfather in the third year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth your Noble Father by Writ of Summons of Parliament of the said King Henry the Eighth came to the Parliament then holden at Westminster in the said third year and so continually the said Thomas the great Grandfather and his Heirs Males Ancestors of your Suppliant in many other Parliaments holden as well in the time of the said King Henry the Eighth as in the time of your Noble Brother King Edward the Sixth and in the time of your Dear Sister Queen Mary have come in their proper persons by their Writs and Commandment until the Parliament holden at Westminster in the first and second years of King Philip and Queen Mary which was after the Death of the said Thomas your Suppliants great Grandfather and of Thomas his Son that had not any Issue of his Body and of the said George who died in the Life of his Brother Thomas the said William Father of your Suppliant being the Son and Heir of the said George and Heir Male to his said great Grandfather to which Parliament he was not summoned for that he stood by Act of Parliament holden before at Westminster in the third year of the said Edward the Sixth disabled to claim and enjoy the dignity of the Seigniory of the Lord La Ware during his Life and the said William being now dead your said Suppliant is come to this present Parliament in his proper person by your Writ and Commandment May it please your most gracious Majesty to consider the Premisles and thereupon to Grant and Ordain by advice of your most wise Council in this present Parliament Assembled That your said Suppliant may have his place in this present Parliament in your presence as his Ancestors Lords La Ware have had in the said Parliament before this time This Petition being read it was referr'd to these Committees following viz. The Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Winton the Lord Zouch the Lord Stafford the Lord Windsor the Lord Shefsield the Lord North the Lord S t John of Bletso the Lord Buckhurst Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Perriam Lord Chief Baron and Edward Coke the Queens Attorney who were appointed to meet at the Council-Chamber in Whitehall on Sunday the 6 th day of November at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Where what they did and what Judgment the Lords and the whole House gave in this Case followeth afterwards on Thursday the 10 th of this instant November and on Monday the 14 th day of the same On Monday the 7 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Admiral the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Earl of Worcester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Zouch the Lord North and the Lord Buckhurst the Lord Chief Justice of England M r Baron Evans and M r Attorney General to attend the Lords appointed to meet at the Little Council-Chamber at Whitehall to Morrow being the 8 th day of November at four of the Clock in the Afternoon See more of this on Monday the 14 th of November following Nota That here upon the Commitment of an ordinary Bill the Judges are said to be appointed to attend the Committee of the Lords and are not nominated as Joint-Committees with them which is usually to be seen in every former Parliament almost of her Majesties Reign and therefore it should seem that either the Lords of the Upper House themselves did alter and abolish the said ancient Priviledges which the Judges had of being constituted Joint-Committees with them in respect that they were no Members of but only Assistants unto the said Upper House or else that Thomas Smith Esquire now Clerk of the said House was more careful and diligent in the distinct and exact setting down that the said Judges were not nominated as Joint-Committees but only to attend such Lords Committees as were appointed by the said House which Anthony Mason Esquire his Predecessor in the said place had for the most part neglected to distinguish And yet the said M r Mason may in some sort be justly excused of any universal or continual carelessness in this kind in respect that where the Lords Committees were appointed either to treat with the Committees of the House of Commons or by themselves about any matter of weight there the Judges and her Majesties Learned Councel are always set down as appointed to attend the said Lords Committees But when an ordinary Bill only was committed upon the second reading and especially if it concerned matter of Law there the Judges for the most part and sometimes also the Queens Learned Councel were nominated as Joint-Committees with them But whatsoever the usage hath been in former times most certain it is that not only in this present Parliament but in all that have been since unto this present year 1629. the said Judges being Assistants unto and the King 's Learned Councel being Attendants upon the said Upper House have never been nominated as Joint-Committees with their Lordships but have always been appointed to attend them And which may make it seem the more strange Whereas the Judges have liberty in the said Upper House it self upon leave given them by the Lord Keeper or the Lord Chancellor for the time being to cover their heads at a Committee they are now always accustomed to sit bare and uncovered which said course finally was constantly observed during all the continuance of this present Parliament as may appear not only by the instance foregoing but by those many other Committees which followed on Thursday the 24 th day of this instant November on
had by the House of Commons and delivered by M r Secretary accompanied with many others for a Conference to be had concerning the Bill intituled An Act concerning Tellors Receivors c. Whereupon the House nominated the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral and divers other Lords both Earls Bishops and Barons as Committees to confer with such a number of the House of Commons as should confer with the Lords touching the said Bill The Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas the Lord Chief Baron M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney being appointed to attend the Lords and the meeting to be at the great Councel Table at the Court at Whitehal to Morrow being the 13 th day of this instant December at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first concerning Stains Bridge was read tertiâ vice expedit The Councel on both parties viz. for Arthur Hatch on the one part and of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor of the other were admitted to publick hearing in the House And thereupon the Bill of Arthur Hatch was referred to Committees being Peers and Members of the House and the Lord Chief Justice of England and M r Attorney to attend their Lordships Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 8 th day of this instant December foregoing The Councel on both parts for the Lord Marquess of Minchester on the one part and the Lord Wountjoy of the other were admitted to publick hearing in the House And thereupon no just cause to hinder or stay the proceeding of the Bill appearing the same was commanded to be read the third time and so was expedited Vide touching this business on Saturday the 10 th day of this instant December foregoing The Committees upon the Bill to enable the owners of Gavelkind Lands in the County of Kent to alter the said Custom who were appointed on Saturday the 10 th day of this instant December foregoing although their names and the Commitment of the said Bill upon the second reading be there purposely omitted as matter of small consequence returned the same to the House without alteration On Tuesday the 13 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of his Debts and Legacies was read secunda vice and committed unto the Earl of Shrewsbury and others and M r Justice Gaudie and M r Serjeant Crew to attend their Lordships Which Committees were Ordered to meet at the Earl of Lincolns House in Cannon Row on Thursday next by two of the Clock in the Afternoon Two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill for relief of the poor was read primâ vice Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against Forestallers Regraters and Ingrossers was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Stanhop for their consideration of some Amendments The Bill giving power and liberty to Sir John Spencer Knight Mary his Wife and Robert Spencer Esquire their Son to alienate certain Mannors and Lands in the County of Dorset and Bedford was read secunda vice And thereupon two Letters from the Lady Spencer to the Lord Chamberlain were read in the House signifying her pleasure and consent to the Bill The Bill for explanation of the Statute made in the 5 th year of her Majesties Reign concerning Labourers was read secundâ vice And a motion being made in the House for some Amendent of the Bill the Amendment was presently agreed on in the said House On Wednesday the 14 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for explanation of the Statute made in the 5 th year of her Majesties Reign concerning Labourers was read tertiâ vice and thereupon was sent down to the House of Commons from whence it had been formerly brought up to their Lordships with some Amendments added thereunto by M r Attorney and D r Stanhop The Bill for the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Comptroller and others This day Order was given for the release of M r Wood out of the prison of the Fleet at whose Suit the Lord Chandois his Servant called Edward Barston was arrested so as he make satisfaction unto the said Barston of such charges as he was at by means of that Arrest Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 26 th day of November foregoing as also on Thursday the first day Saturday the third day and on Monday the 5 th day of this instant December last past The like Order taken for the enlargement of William Cole that arrested John Yorke the Lord Archbishops Servant paying only the Fees of the Fleet. Vide touching this business on Thursday the eighth day of this instant December foregoing Certain Amendments were thought fit by the Committees to be added to the Bill intituled An Act for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggers which Amendments were twice read and upon consideration of the same direction was given to some of the said Committees viz. the Lord North the Lord S t John and the Lord Buckhurst to review the said Amendments for reformation of some defects found therein by the House and the Lord Chief Justice of England appointed to attend them On Thursday the 15 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for grant of three Subsidies and six Fiftenths and Tenths was read prima vice Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for establishing the Hospital of Queen Elizabeth in Bristol for relief of the Orphans and Poor there and was returned with allowance of the Amendments Certain Articles were presented in writing by the House of Commons touching their opinions and objections concerning the Bill of Tellors and Receivors which were delivered to M r Attorney to the end he might confer with the Judges upon the same and make Report to the Lords The Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward was returned into the House by the Lord Treasurer first of the Committees who said that there were in the Bill certain Points that could not be well reformed whereupon motion was made to the House upon agreement amongst the Committees that the proceeding in this Bill might cease and that another course might be taken by way of Composition betwixt the Dean and Chapter of Windsor and
Trust touching Lands given to Charitable uses was returned to the House by the Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees with some Amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added which were twice read and thereupon Commandment given that the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso engrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading Upon a Motion by the Earl Marshal that the Committees in the Bill against lewd and wandring persons who were appointed Yesterday had not convenient time this Morning to perfect the said Bill according to the Order of the House agreed upon Yesterday their Lordships appointed the said Committees to meet again about the same to Morrow Morning before the House sit The Bill entituled An Act for the encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm was returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the first of the Committees And because it seemed to all the Committees appointed for this Bill together with the Judges that notwithstanding the Conference with divers selected persons of the House of Commons this Bill could not proceed Order was given to the Judges and especially to the Lord Chief Justice to draw a new Bill Whereupon this new Bill following was brought into the House The Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry was read primâ vice The Bill against carrying of Pelts c. was returned into the House by the Earl Marshal Excuse was made by the Lord Admiral for the Earl of Hereford's absence for want of health The like excuse by the Lord Chandois for the Lord La Ware The Earl Marshal signified unto the House that the Lord Mordant and the Lord Sheffeild have leave of her Majesty for their absence On Friday the 27 th day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to prohibit the carrying of Herrings beyond the Seas was read secundâ vice but no mention that it was committed The Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry was read secundâ vice Certain Amendments upon this Bill were drawn by the Lord Chief Justice and being allowed by the House were also twice read and thereupon the Bill with the said Amendments was commanded presently to be engrossed The Bill touching the making of short broad course coloured Cloths in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex was upon the second reading committed unto the Earl of Shrewsbury Lord Viscount Bindon the Lord Bishop of London the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain the Lord Zouch the Lord Wharton the Lord Darcie of Chich and the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Baron M r Justice Owen and M r Baron Evers to attend their Lordships Two Bills lastly had each of them their third reading of which the first being the Bill to reform deceits and breaches of Trust touching Lands given to charitable uses with some Amendments was returned to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Stanhop for their consideration of the said Amendments The Lord Treasurer took his place this day as Baron of Burleigh between the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Compton The Lord Admiral took his place as Earl of Nottingham between the Earl of Lincoln and the Lord Viscount Bindon And the Lord Chamberlain his place as Baron of Hunsdon between the Lord Chandois and the Lord S t John of Bletso On Saturday the 28 th day of January the Bill for the lawful making of Bayes c. The Bill to restrain the excessive making of Malt and one other of no great moment were each of them read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and Doctor Carew The Bill for establishing a Jointure to Anne Lady Wentworth was read secunda vice and committed unto the Earl of Essex Lord Marshal the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Zouch the Lord Cobham the Lord Sandes the Lord Chandois and the Lord Compton and M r Baron Clerke and M r Baron Evers or either of them to attend their Lordships The Bill lastly for confirmation of Statutes Merchants acknowledged in the Town Corporate of Newcastle upon Tine was read secundâ vice But no mention is made in the Original Journal-Book that this Bill was committed for at the next sitting viz. Die Lunae 30 o die Januarii the same Bill was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Carew and Doctor Stanhop On Monday the 30 th day of January to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for retailing Broakers and other Pawn-takers was returned to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees And because the Committees found many defects therein so that they thought the same unfit to proceed they therefore together with the said Bill presented a new Bill intituled as the former which was read primâ vice The Bill touching the making of short broad course coloured Cloths which was committed on Friday the 27 th day of this instant January foregoing was returned to the House by the first of the Committees and therewithal because the same was by the said Committees thought defective a new Bill of the same title was likewise presented Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of Statutes Merchant acknowledged in the Town Corporate of Newcastle upon Tine was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by D r Carew and D r Stanhop Seven Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the fourth being the Bill against lewd and wandering persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners was returned with the allowance of an Amendment which was added by the Lords Sir Robert Cecill and other Knights and Burgesses that brought the seven Bills last mentioned and moved the House for a Conference concerning the Bill sent from their Lordships Intituled An Act for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars to which Conference the Lords assented and the time and place appointed to Morrow in the Afternoon at the Great Council Chamber at the Court at Whitehall and the same Committees that were formerly appointed on Monday the 16 th day of this instant January foregoing and the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Rutland the Lord Zouch and the Lord Cobham were added unto them The Bill Intituled An Act for the enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esq to sell the Lands c. was returned to the House by the Earl of Rutland the first of the Committees or Arbitrators with Amendments which
were twice read and agreed that the Bill should be engrossed Vide touching this matter on Tuesday the 13 th day and on Wednesday the 14 th day of December foregoing as also on Thursday the 26 th day of this instant January last past A new meeting was appointed for the Committees upon the Bill Intituled An Act for reformation of certain abuses touching Wine-Casks who were appointed on Thursday the 19 th day of this instant January foregoing and the time and place appointed to Morrow Morning in the little Chamber near the Parliament presence On Tuesday the 31 th day of January the Committees in the Bill concerning Lessees and Patentees who had been appointed on Wednesday the 25 th day of this instant January foregoing were this day appointed to meet to Morrow the first day of February following in the Afternoon in the little Chamber near the Parliament presence and the Judges there required to attend The Bill for retailing Broakers and other Pawn-takers was read secundâ vice and was referr'd to the Committees formerly appointed for that Bill on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January foregoing with Addition of some Lords who met presently about the same and returned the Bill with some Amendments which being presently twice read the Bill was commanded to be ingrossed The Bill for reformation of certain abuses touching Wine-Casks was returned by the Earl of Nottingham the second of the Committees with some Amendments which were presently twice read and the Bill commanded to be ingrossed Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning Garret de Malynes and John Hunger Merchant Strangers was read primâ vice The Bill for establishing a Jointure to Anne Lady Wentworth was returned unto the House with some Amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added which Amendments and Proviso were twice read and the Bill commanded to be ingrossed A Motion was made from the House of Commons by Sir John Fortescue and others that some new time might be appointed for Conference about the Bill Intituled An Act to reform sundry abuses committed by Souldiers c. in regard they had appointed some other meeting this Afternoon for preparing of a Bill of Accomptants in readiness to proceed their Lordships having considered of the Motion made Answer by the Lord Keeper That they wished for some good consideration that the appointed time viz. this Afternoon might hold for this Conference supposing that if it pleased the Committees of the House of Commons to come somewhat the sooner this Afternoon for this purpose they might well enough perform both the one and the other Vide diem praecedentem Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esq to sell Lands for payment of his Debts and Legacies was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Drew and D r Carew Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 13 th day and on Saturday the 17 th day of December foregoing as also on Thursday the 20 th day and on Monday the 30 th day of this instant January last past On Wednesday the first day of February the Bill Intituled An Act for the reviving continuance Explanation perfecting and repealing of divers Statutes was returned to the House by the Lord Chief Justice with some Amendments which were presently twice read and thereupon commandment given to be prepared ready in written Paper for a third reading It was agreed that a Conference should be had with some of the House of Commons about this Bill upon Friday Morning next The Bill for establishing of the Lands given by John Bedford's Will was read secundâ vice and committed which said Committees were appointed to meet presently in the little Chamber near the Parliament presence who returning with some Amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added to the said Bill the said Amendments and Proviso were forthwith twice read and the Bill thereupon commanded to be engrossed Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of the Jointure of the Lady Varney Wife of Sir Edmund Varney was returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the second of the Committees with some Amendments which were presently twice read and thereupon commanded to be engrossed The Bill lastly concerning Garret de Malynes and John Hunger Merchants Strangers was read secundâ vice and the parties on both sides are to be heard openly in the House by their Councel Learned on Friday Morning next On Friday the third day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Wednesday foregoing Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the establishing the Lands given by John Bedford's Will c. was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Drew and Doctor Stanhop for their consideration of the Amendments and a Proviso added The Amendments and a Proviso in the Bill for recovering of three hundred thousand Acres more or less of Waste Marish and Watery grounds c. were this day twice read and thereupon Commandment given that the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso ingrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill concerning a Lease of great yearly value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham the younger The Bill against deceitful stretching and tentering of Northern Cloths was returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the first of the Committees with some Amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added which Amendments and Proviso were twice read and Commandment given that the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso ingrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading The Councel Learned as well on the part of Garrett de Malynes as of John Hunger c. was openly this day heard in the House I I de concerning this Bill in fine diei praecedentis Report was made by the Lord Treasurer what the substance of the Conference was between their Lordships and certain select Members of the House of Commons concerning the Bill for reviving continuing and repealing of divers Statutes And the same was referred to the Lord Chief Justice and others for their further consideration On Saturday the 4 th day of February the Bill concerning Broakers and Pawn-takers the Bill against the deceitful tentering of Northern Cloths and the Bill for reviving continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes were each of them read tertiâ vice and passed the House and were sent down to the House of Commons of which the two latter were returned for their consideration of certain Amendments and Provisoes added by their Lordships Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the
only for Order to leave some short Memorial of them in the Journals of the House of Commons Now follows the continuance of the Parliament out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House where it is Entred in these words viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis quintum Mensis Novembris After which as is set down in the foresaid private Journal room being made the Queen came through the Commons to go to the great Chamber who graciously offering her hand to the Speaker he kist it but not one word she spake unto him and as she went through the Commons very few said God save your Majesty as they were wont in all great Assemblies and so she returned back again to Whitehal by Water Now follow the next days Passages out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House On Thursday the 5 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Friday the 30 th day of October foregoing were two Bills read of which the first being for Assurance of Lands and the second for the restraint of the excessive and superfluous use of Coaches within the Realm of England were each of them read primâ vice On Saturday the 7 th day of November the Bill for Assurance of Lands was read secunda vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Cumberland the Earl of Lincoln the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Durham the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Rich the Lord Howard of Walden and the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas the Lord Chief Baron and M r Attorney General were appointed to attend their Lordships The Bill to restrain the excessive use of Coaches within this Realm of England was read secundâ vice and rejected Hereupon Motion was made by the Lord Keeper that forasmuch as the said Bill did in some sort concern the maintenance of Horses within this Realm consideration might be had of the Statutes heretofore made and Ordained touching the breed and maintenance of Horses And that M r Attorney General should peruse and consider of the said Statutes and of some fit Bill to be drawn and prefer'd to the House touching the same and concerning the use of Coaches And that he should acquaint therewith the Committees appointed for the Bill before-mentioned for Assurance of Lands Which Motion was approved by the House The Bill for the preservation of Pheasants and Partridges was read primâ vice On Tuesday the 10 th day of November Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for preservation of Pheasants and Partridges was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Derby the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Cumberland the Earl of Pembrook and divers others to attend the Lords Vide concerning this attendance of the Judges upon the Lords Committees on Thursday the 3 d day of this instant November foregoing who were appointed to meet at the Little Chamber near the Parliament presence and the Bill was delivered to the Archbishop of Canterbury On Thursday the 12 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Tuesday foregoing The Bill concerning Musters Souldiers and other things appertaining thereunto was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal And the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas M r Justice Walmesley M r Justice Warberton M r Serjeant Yelverton and M r Attorney General were appointed to attend the Lords Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William Knolles and M r Secretary Herbert of which the first being the Bill against fraudulent Administration of Intestates goods was read primâ vice The Bill for Assurance of Lands was this day returned to the House with certain Amendments by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees which Amendments were presently twice read and thereupon the Bill was appointed to be ingrossed Memorandum That upon the reading of the said Amendments the Lord Bishop of London one of the Committees did offer to speak unto the Bill or unto the said Amendments Whereupon a doubt was moved by the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward whether it were agreeable to the good Order and Antient Custom of the House that the said Lord Bishop being one of the Committees and dissenting from the rest in some matter either of the Bill or of the Amendments might speak thereunto upon the bringing in and presenting of the Amendments or no. Which doubt being upon this occasion propounded in generality to the House by the Lord Keeper and put to the question It was adjudged and resolved by the major part That any Committee might speak in like case either to the body of the Bill or to the Amendments upon the bringing in of the same before it be ingrossed Upon which resolution Order was given to the Clerk of the Parliament that a remembrance or observation thereof should be Entred in the Journal-Book for the resolving and clearing of the like doubt if it should happen hereafter And thereupon after the reading of the Amendments the said Lord Bishop of London proceeded to his Speech and the Bill was appointed to be ingrossed as aforesaid Vide in the Parliament de an 39 Regin Eliz. on Tuesday the 24 th day of January Memorandum Report was made unto the House by the Lord Zouch of one William Hogan an Ordinary Servant of the Queens Majesty Arrested and Imprisoned upon an Execution by one John Tolkerne since the beginning of the Parliament And a Motion was likewise made by his Lordship to know the Judgment and resolution of the House in this point whether any Ordinary Servant of her Majesty though he be none of the Parliament be not priviledged and protected from Arrest during the time of the Parliament by vertue of his said Service to her Majesty in like sort as the Servants of the Lords of the Parliament attending the said Lords their Masters are priviledged and freed for that time from any Arrests of their Persons And withal being Arrested upon Execution whether in this Case he may by good Order of this House be discharged Which Motion and doubt the Lord Zouch professed that he did the rather propound because though there were divers Examples of former times touching the Servants of the Lords of the Parliament the like to this concerning one of the Queens Servants had not been so far as was remembred brought in question heretofore And therefore it pleased the Lords to take
knowledge of this Motion and to give Order that Tolkerne should be sent for at whose Suit the Arrest was made And withal that such Precedents as the Clerk of the Parliament could shew should be looked out and made known to the House Vide plus concerning this matter on Monday the 23 th day of this instant November following On Saturday the 14 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing by occasion of sending for the aforesaid Tolkerne request was made by M r Conisbie Gentleman Usher to the House and signified by the Mouth of the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward That for as much as the bringing of any person before the Lords upon breach of the Priviledge of the House did appertain as the said M r Conisbie supposed and alledged to his place though in the last Parliament by some mistaking as he thought the Serjeant at Arms was imployed therein That therefore their Lordships would be pleased to confirm and settle such Order as he might at this time and from henceforth have the Right of his place in that behalf Whose request being considered of by the Lords it was thought meet that the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Worcester the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch and the Lord Cobham should at their next meeting upon any other occasion take notice of such Precedents as could be produced therein either for the Gentleman-Usher or for the Serjeant at Arms and thereof to make Report to the House whereupon their Lordships would proceed to the deciding of the question between them Vide concerning this business on Tuesday the first day of December next following The meeting of the Committees about the Bill concerning Musters Souldiers c. who were nominated on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant November foregoing and appointed to meet this Afternoon was upon Motion to the House by some of the Committees deserr'd until Monday next being the 16 th day of this instant November by eight of the Clock in the Morning A Motion was made by the Lord Keeper that the Gentleman-Usher might be sent to such Lords as are absent from the Parliament and have not sent their Proxies to admonish them thereof Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for suppressing the multitude of Ale-Houses and Tippling-Houses was read secundâ vice and committed to the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Hartford the Earl of Lincoln the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Chester the Bishop of Exeter the Bishop of Ely the Lord Zouch the Lord Cobham the Lord Rich the Lord Sheffield the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John of Bletsoe and the Lord Compton and the Lord Chief Justice of England M r Justice Gawdy M r Baron Savile and M r Serjeant Yelverton were appointed to attend their Lordships The third Bill also being for the avoiding of unnecessary delayes of Executions upon Judgment in Debt was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Pembrook the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of S t Asaph the Lord Cobham the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John of Bletsoe and M r Justice Gawdy M r Baron Savile and M r Serjeant Yelverton were appointed to attend their Lordships The Lord Zouch renewed his former motion concerning the Arrest of William Hogan her Majesties Ordinary servant at the suit of John Tolkerne Whereupon the Clerk of the Parliament was required to shew forth all such Precedents as he had found touching the Arrests of any Persons priviledged by Parliament having received directions from the Lords for that purpose as is before Recorded of which sort out of the Journal-Book remaining in his custody there were to be found only these four hereunder mentioned and no more 1. Anno 27. Reginae Fliz. die Martis primo die Decembris of James Diggs servant to my Lords Grace of Canterbury 2. Anno 27. Reginae Eliz. die Lunae 7. Die Decembris of Robert Finneis servant to the Lord Viscount Binden 3. Item in the last Parliament of 39 Eliz. 26. die Novembris of Edward Barston servant to the Lord Chandois and 8. die Decembris of John York the Lord Arch-Bishops servant 4. Item Anno 14. Reginae die ultimo Junii It appeareth that the Lord Cromwel made complaint unto the Parliament of an Attachment served upon his Person and that his Lordship was by Order of the Parliament discharged of the Attachment but whether this Attachment was served in the time of the Parliament it doth not certainly appear Which said Precedents being accordingly presented to the Lord Keeper the same were presently read together with certain Observations out of a Book written by Richard Crompton Esquire Intituled the Authority and Jurisdiction of the Queens Courts concerning the proceedings of the House in the like case of George Ferrers Gent. an ordinary servant to King Henry 8. about the thirty fourth year of his Reign This being done albeit sundry Motions were thereupon made by divers of the Lords for a present proceeding in this matter nevertheless because the said Tolkerne having been formerly sent for could not yet be found and also in respect there was less appearance of the Lords this day than at other times and this matter concerning the priviledge of the House was of great importance and therefore required a more full Assembly Stay was made of any further proceeding until Thursday next being the 19 th day of this instant November And in the mean time it was Ordered that Tolkerne should again be sent for to appear before the Lords in the House that day by nine of the Clock in the Morning Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 23 th day of this Instant November following On Monday the 16 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for reuniting Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning was read secundâ vice Motion was made by the Lord Sheffield upon reading of this Bill that Thomas Crompton Son of Thomas Crompton Esquire deceased with Henry Best Francis Jackson and others whom it may concern should be heard in the House whether they or any of them could pretend any right or Interest in these Lands in respect of a Grant heretofore made thereof by her Majesty to the said Thomas Crompton Which Motion was well approved by the House and Ordered that the Gentleman Usher should move the said parties to appear before their Lordships in the House for that purpose upon Saturday next the 21. day of this Instant November by eight of the Clock in the Morning and to bring them such persons as are interested in the Conveyance of those Lands Vide December 7 th Monday postea Memorandum That the
House when the Bill is brought in again p. 603. An Amendment of a Proviso added to a Bill in the Upper House agreed upon by the Committees of both Houses at a Conference it is consented unto by the whole Upper House that the Amendment shall be made in the House of Commons and be sent up in paper to the Lords to be by them inserted in the Proviso p. 616 Answers by the Lord Keeper given unto Messages sent from the House of Commons use to be given by him sitting with his Hat on and all the Lords keeping their places p. 439 440 Apparel a Bill against buying it without ready money save by men of such a degree p. 69 70. A Bill to avoid excess in it p. 112. dashed p. 134. Another for not buying wares sold for Apparel without ready money dashed p. 188. Another Bill for reformation of excess in Apparel p. 228. another for the same p. 424. another having passed the Commons is rejected by the Lords and why p. 594 Arch-bishops a Bill declaring the manner of making and consecrating of them and other Bishops to be good p. 108. 110. Arch-bishop of Canterbury the first Peer of the Realm p. 140 Assistants Vide Committees Attach No Peer to be Attached during the Sessions of Parliament p. 203. nor any of their Menial Servants committed to Prison p. 314. 323. 530 c. but other of their servants may p. 315. two committed close Prisoners to the Fleet for arresting a Servant of the Lord Chandois p. 530. another also for arresting the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's Servant p. 532. on what conditions they have their enlargement p. 533. A question moved whether an ordinary servant of the Queens being no Parliament-man be priviledged from being attached in the time of Parliament p. 603 604 606. When a servant of a Peer is committed to Prison upon Execution resolved that he shall be brought to the House not by issuing out a Writ of priviledge of Parliament to the Sheriff but by immediate order from the House to the Gentleman Usher or Serjeant at Arms. p. 605. but the contrary resolved upon search of Precedents and the Lord Keeper to make out the Writ p. 608 Queens Attorney made a Joint-Committee with the Lords p. 142 Award Ordered that if the parties at variance will not enter into such Bond as is appointed by the House to stand to the Award of such Lords as the matter is reserr'd to they shall be committed to Prison p. 618 B. BAbington's Conspiracy 28 Eliz. a Parliament called thereupon p. 375 Bacon Sir Nicholas made Lord Keeper 1 Eliz. p. 1. his Speech to the first Parliament of the Queen in an 1. of her Reign p. 11. His Speech to the Speaker of the House of Commons in the same Parliament at his admission p. 15. and his Reply to the Speakers disabling himself and to his Petitions p. 16. His Reply to the Speaker's Speech at the end of this Session p. 31 32 33. His Speech to the Parliament 5 Eliz. p. 59. at the end of the Session p. 75. and so at the beginning and end of each Session during his life till 23 Eliz. when he was succeeded by Sir Thomas Bromley p. 226 Baron Lord Chief Baron who is but an Assistant to the Upper House made a Committee p. 108 109 Belgrave a Member of Parliament his Case against whom was preferred a Bill in the Star-Chamber for a misdemeanour against a Peer p. 612 Bills usually not spoken to upon the first reading p. 17. Precedents of the contrary ibid. When a Bill has past one House it is seldom Committed or Ordered to be Ingrossed by the other and why ibid. and p. 19 20. 147 148. 326. sometimes Committed upon the first reading Precedents thereof p. 17 18 69. sometimes neither Committed nor Ingrossed either upon the first or second reading p. 111. the manner of delivering a Bill from the House of Lords to the House of Commons p. 19. the manner of passing of a Bill ibid. Bills of Grace seldom Committed nor Ingrossed and why p. 20. sometimes have but one reading p. 73. 91. 464. how passed into Acts. p. 116. Bills sometimes in Queen Elizabeths time not ingrossed till the day after the second reading but now always on the same day p. 26 27. The manner of giving the Royal Assent unto such Bills as are passed into Acts and of disallowing those that are not p. 35. 76. 116. A Bill is sometimes rejected after it has passed the third reading p. 271. A Bill passed by the Lords and rejected by the Commons the Lords expect an account of the reasons of such rejection p. 272 273. Bills of general pardon and of Subsidies not passed into Acts like other Bills p. 274. 328. When Bills are sent up from the Commons the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords are to arise from their places and to go down to the Bar to receive them p. 439 440 Bishops are commanded to reform abuses in Religion p. 345. Why their names are placed on the dexter side of the Journal of the Upper House p. 422. Vide Popish and Arch-bishop Bloud Vide Restitution in Bloud Bromley Sir Thomas made Lord Chancellor 22 Eliz. p. 226. he died in April 29 Eliz. p. 419 Lord Burleigh his place in Parliament p. 543. C. CAnterbury Vide Arch-bishop Chancellor a Bill declaring his Authority and that of the Lord Keeper to be all one p. 70. Letters Patents to the Lord Chief Justice to supply his place when absent p. 143 A Bill that Chancellors Commissaries c. shall be Graduates in one University p. 72 Clergy Vide Subsidy Coaches a Bill to restrain the excessive use of them within this Realm in 43 Eliz. p. 602. Collection of money for the poor usually made towards the end of a Parliament p. 616. Commissions to certain Lords to Prorogue the Parliament p. 77. 93 94. 274. Verbal Commission to the Lord Treasurer to supply the Lord Keepers place p. 99. A Commission in writing to the Lord Chief Justice to the same purpose p. 102. 383. a revocation of the same p. 108. A Commission 35. Lords or any three of them to dissolve the Parliament p. 275. the like p. 329. and 389. A Commission to three Lords to supply the Queens place in the Parliament 28 29 Eliz. p. 377. These Lords are stiled Lords Lieutenants p. 378. The Parliament cannot be dissolved without a Commission unless the Sovereign be present to give the command to the Lord Keeper c. p. 547. Committees the Judges Queen's Serjeants Baron c. made Joint-Committees with the Lords vide Judges Serjeant Baron c. An Order of the House that a Committee who disallows the Amendments of a Bill or something in the body of the Bill it self may give his reasons to the House when the Bill is brought in again p. 603. A Bill may be delivered to the eldest or youngest Baron of a Committee or indifferently to any of them p. 607. 610.
Seigneurs sont assentus and so the Bill was delivered to Mr. Attorny and Mr. Vaughan as aforesaid to be carried to the House of Commons together with the Bill whereby the Queen's Majesty is made inheritable to the late Queen Ann her Highnesse's Mother But if the Lords had added any new Proviso to the foresaid Subsidy-Bill that ought to have been sent down to the House of Commons written in Parchment ut vid. March 23. Thursday postea On Munday the 20th day of February The Bill of the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage which by common consent was concluded upon the third reading was delivered to Mr. Solicitor and Mr. Martin Clerk of the Crown to be carried to the House of Commons with certain Amendments to be put thereunto On Tuesday the 21th day of February two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Subsidy and the second to restore the Queen in blood to the late Queen Ann her Highnesse's Mother were each of them return'd exped ' The Bill also for the restitution of the First-fruits and Tenths and Rents reserved Nomine Decimae and of Parsonages impropriate to the Imperial Crown of this Realm was returned from the House of Commons with five Provisoes added thereunto by the said Commons and certain Amendments to be reformed therein which said Provisoes were written in Parchment and the Amendments in Paper Whereas J. Broxham brought an Assize against the Lord Willoughby of Parham to be Tryed at the Assizes and Sessions now next to be holden at Lincoln at the Complaint and Petition of the said Lord Willoughby in respect of his necessary attendance at the Parliament whereby he cannot attend with his Learned Council at the Assizes the rather for that some of his Council are also Burgesses and attend the Parliament it is Ordered and Decreed by the Lords that an Injunction presently be awarded out of the Chancery to the said John Broxham his Counsellors and Solicitors commanding them and every of them upon pain of 500 l. that none of them in any wise proceed in and to the Tryal of the said Assize at this Assizes now next to be holden at Lincoln On Wednesday the 22th day of Feb. the Bill for the Restitution in blood of Sir James Crofte was read prima vice On Fryday the 24th day of February the Bill for the restitution in Blood of Sir Henry Gate was read three times and the like Bill for Sir James Crofte was read Secunda tertia vice and both sent down to the House of Commons by Mr. Solicitor and the Clerk of the Crown The manner whereof vide on Saturday the 4th of this instant Feb. foregoing On Saturday the 25th day of February the Bill for the Restitution in blood of the Lord John Gray was twice read and after that the Bill against Conveyance of Horses into Scotland was read the first time the said Bill for the Lord Gray was read the third time and Passed and sent to the House of Commons by Mr. Attorny and Mr. Solicitor which was done in honour of him On Munday the 27th of February the Bill whereby certain Offences be made Treason with a Request that a Proviso therein contained be put out and another devised by the House of Commons to be put in the stead thereof The Bill for the restoring the Supremacy to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and Repealing divers Acts of Parliament made to the contrary and the Bill for the restitution of the Lord Cardinal Pool were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons the manner of which see on Saturday the 11th day of this Instant Feb. foregoing And the said Bill touching Cardinal Pool was read prima vice and committed to the Chief Justice and the Queen's Attorney vid. March 3. postea The Bill lastly against Conveyance of Horses into Scotland was read Secunda vice Commissa ad ingrossandum On Tuesday the 28th day of February the Bill for the restoring of the Supremacy to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and the Bill for the explanation of the attainder of the Lord Cardinal Pool were each of them read secunda vice but there is no mention made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons on the day immediately foregoing On the first day of March the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords met but nothing was done save only the Parliament continued the entrance whereof is thus erroneously set down in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House through the Clerks negligence viz. Dominus Cancellarius mistaken for Custos magni Sigilli continuavit presens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Thursday the second day of March the Bill of Recognition of the Queen's Highnesse's Title to the Imperial Crown of this Realm the Bill of Subsidy for Tonnage and Poundage the Bill touching Tanners and Sellers of Tann'd Leather and the Bill touching Shoemakers and Curriers were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons The Bill lastly touching the Duke of Norfolk and the Bill for the restitution of Robert Rudston were each of them read the first time On Fryday the third day of March the Bill for Treasons which had been Read the second time on Fryday the 10th day and the third time on Saturday the 11th day of February foregoing and then sent down to the House of Commons although it be there omitted as matter of no great moment and from them sent back again to their Lordships on Munday the 27th day of the same Month with a request that a Proviso therein contained might be put out and another by them inserted was Committed to the Earl of Sussex the Bishop of Chichester the Bishop of Carlile the Lord Rich and the Lord Hastings of Loughborrough to confer therein with certain of the House of Commons touching a Proviso to be put into the same by which the Lords did express their great desire to keep Correspondency with the House of Commons who had commended the inserting of the above-mentioned Proviso unto them Nota also that whereas the Judges are in most of the Journals of her Majesties Reign although they be but Attendants of the Upper House named joynt Committees with the Lords in ordinary Bills or else are named as Attendants upon them in matters of greatConsequence yet in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House A. isto primo Regin Eliz. there is no mention made of them as joynt Committees or as Attendants upon their said Lordships save only that on Munday the 27th day of February foregoing a Bill upon the first reading is said to have been Committed to the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench and the Queen's Attorny which may rather be called a Reference than a Commitment as see on Saturday the 4th day of February preceding and therefore that they are not
at all named with the Committees of the Lords in all the aforesaid Journal Books may doubtless be conceived to have happened through the Clerk's negligence For in the very next ensuing Session of Parliament in An. 5. Regin Eliz. they are seldom omitted prout on Tuesday the 26th day of January on Saturday the 30th day of the same Month as also on Saturday the 20th day of March then next following The Bill for Restitution of Robert Rudston was read secunda vice and again tertia vice conclusa The Bill also to revive a Statute made A. 23. H. 8. against the Conveyance of Horses Geldings and Mares into Scotland was read tertia vice conclusa and the Bill touching the Duke of Norfolk was read secunda vice Commiss ' ad ingrossandum Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being for the restitution in blood of the Lord John Grey the second for restitution in blood of Sir J. Gates Knight and the third for restitution in blood of Sir James Croft Knight were each of them returned conclus ' the fourth was touching the changing of Gavelkind Land of the Lands of Thomas Brown and George Brown the fifth for the Incorporation of Trinity Colledge n. Cambridge and the last for assurance of Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy On Saturday the fourth day of March the Bill to change the nature of Gavelkind Land of the Lands of Thomas Brown and George Brown was read the first time The Bill touching Tanners and Sellers of Tanned Leather was read the first time and the Bill for Shoemakers and Curriers was read the second time and both of them Committed to the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Shrewsbury the Bishop of London the Bishop of Carlile the Lord Rich and the Lord Willoughby Dominus Thesaurar ' continuavit presens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox ' hora nona Nota That that there appeareth no Commission or other Authority in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House by which the Lord Treasurer supplied the Lord Keeper's place but most probable it is that either the Commission it self is negligently omitted by Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the said House or else that the said Lord Treasurer did continue it only upon her Majesties Verbal Authority and Command as did the Lord Treasurer in the like Case in the Session of Parliament A. 18. Regin Eliz. on Saturday the third day of March. On Munday the 6th of March the Bill for the Ratification of the Marriage between the Duke of Norfolk and the Lady Margaret now his Wife and for the assurance of certain Lands for her Joynture was read tertia vice conclusa The Bill also for the restitution in blood of Harry Howard c. younger Brother to the Duke of Norfolk was read prima vice The Bill also for the Explanation of the restitution of the Lord Cardinal Pool was committed to the Archbishop of York the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Carlile the Lord Rich the Lord Willoughby and the Lord Hastings of Loughborough but no mention is made of the reading thereof which was doubtless omitted through the great Negligence of Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Upper House for this Bill was read prima vice on Munday the 27th of February foregoing and was Committed to the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench and the Queen's Attorny to consider of it as is probable and to make report thereof unto the Lords which being done this day and the Bill thereupon as may likewise be gathered read the second time it was Committed to the Lords abovenamed and on the morrow following it was read tertia vice and Passed the House and on Wednesday the 8th of this instant March following was sent down to the House of Commons by Mr. Lewes and Mr. Vaughan On Tuesday the 7th day of March the Bill for the explanation of the Repeal of the Attainder of the late Lord Cardinal Pool was read tertia vice conclusa The Bill also for the assurance of Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy and the Bill for the Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge were each of them read prima vice The Bill lastly for explaining the Statute made against ingrossing of Dead Victuals and the Bill that Gerson Wroth born in Germany shall be reputed the Queen's natural born Subject were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Wednesday the 8th day of March the Bill for the explanation of the Statute against ingrossing of Dead Victuals and the Bill for the true Answering of the Queen's Majesties Revenues were each of them read prima vice Four other Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for the changing of the nature of Gavelkind Lands of Thomas Brown and George Brown and another for the assurance of Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy were each of them read secunda vice but no mention made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons on the day next foregoing The Bill touching the Duke of Norfolk and that concerning Cardinal Pool were sent to the House of Commons by Mr. Lewis Mr. Vaughan On Thursday the 9th of March the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy de Chiche was read tertia vice conclusa dissentientibus Episcopo London Meneven ' Abbat ' de Westm ' the Bill for Gerson Wroth was read tertia vice conclusa and the Bill for exchange of the nature of Gavelkind Lands of the two Browns was read also tertia vice conclusa dissentient ' Duce Norfolciae Quatuor Comitibus tribus Baronibus The Bill lastly for the true Answering of the Queen's Majesties Revenues was read secunda vice Commissa ad ingrossand On Fryday the 10th day of March the Bill for the Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge and the Bill for the true Answering of the Queen's Majesties Revenue were each of them read tertia vice conclusa and sent down to the House of Commons The Bill lastly for the explanation of the Statute against ingrossing of Dead Victuals was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either referr'd to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been sent from the House of Commons Tuesday the 7th day of this instant March foregoing v. a like Commitment on Munday 13th day of Feb. foregoing On Saturday the 11th day of March a Proviso to be annexed to the Bill of Treason was read prima secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Munday the 13th day of March a Proviso to be annexed to the Bill of Treasons was read tertia vice
Mountague and Viscount Hereford present Then the Earls but nineteen present the Earl of Hertford the Earl of Pembroke Bedford Southampton Warwick Bath Huntington Sussex Cumberland Rutland Worcester Darby Shrewsbury Westmoreland Northumberland Oxford and Arundel their Robes of Scarlet with their Rows of Miniver Then the Marquess of Winchester but now as Lord Treasurer and the Marquess of Northampton the Duke of Norfolk went as Earl Marshal Then the Lord Keepers Serjeant and Seal and after Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in his Gown Here Clarenceux and Norroy Then the Queens Serjeant at Arms and after Garter Then the Duke of Norfolk with the gilt Rod as Marshal the Lord Treasurer with the Cap of Estate and the Earl of Worcester with the Sword Then the Queens Majesty on Horseback a little behind the Lord Chamberlain and Vice-Chamberlain her Grace Apparelled in her Mantle opened before furr'd with Ermines and her Kirtle of Crimson Velvet close before and close Sleeves but the Hands turned up with Ermines and a Hood hanging low round about her Neck of Ermins Over all a rich Coller set with Stones and other Jewels and on her Head a rich Caul And the next after Her the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse leading the spare Horse And after all other Ladies two and two in their Ordinary Apparel By side the Queen went her Footmen and along on either side of her went the Pensioners with their Axes after the Ladies followed the Captain of the Guard Sir William St. Loe and after him the Guard In which Order Her Majesty proceeded to the North Door of the Church of Westminster where the Dean there and the Dean of the Chappel met her and the whole Chappel in Copes and S t Edwards Staff with the Inlet in the top was delivered unto her her Arm for the bearing thereof assisted by the Baron of Hunsdon the Canopy born over her by Charles Howard Esq Sir George Howard Sir Richard Blunt Sir Ed. Warner Sir John Perrott and Sir William Fitz-Williams Knights her Graces Train born up and assisted for the weight thereof from her Arms by the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and Sir Francis Knowles Vice-Chamberlain and so orderly proceeded to the Travers beside the Table of Administration Although other Princes have used to be placed in the Quire till the Offering but not now because there was neither Communion nor Offering and so she being placed all the Lords sate down on Forms besides the Travers the Spiritualty on the North side and the Temporalty on the South side the Sword and the Cap of Estate laid down on the Table Then the Quire sung the English Procession which ended M r Noell Dean of Pauls began his Sermon and first made his Prayer orderly for the Queens Majesty and the Universal Church and especially for that Honourable Assembly of three Estates there present that they might make such Laws as should be to Gods Glory and the good of the Realm The Sermon being ended and a Psalm sung her Majesty and the rest orderly on foot proceeded out of the South Door where she delivered the Dean the Scepter and so proceeded into the Parliament Chamber where the Queen stayed a while in her Privy Chamber till all the Lords and others were placed and then her Highness came forth and went and fate her down in her Royal Place and Chair of Estate the Sword and Cap of Maintenance born before her and when she stood up her Mantle was assisted and born up from her Arms by the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and Sir Francis Knowles Vice-Chamberlain The Lord Keeper sate alone upon the uppermost Sack until the Queen was sate and then went and stood without the Rail on the right hand the Cloth of Estate and the Lord Treasurer holding the Cap of Estate on the right hand before the Queen Garter standing by him and on the left hand standing the Earl of Worcester with the Sword and by him the Lord Chamberlain The Duke of Norfolk began the first Form and the Viscount Mountague for that the Viscount Bindon was not there ended it The Lord Clinton the Lord Admiral began the Form behind that of Barons and the Lord St. John of Bletsoe ended it The Archbishop of Canterbury began the Bishops Form and the Bishop of Glocester ended the same On the Woolsack on the right hand and Northside sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer Chief Justices Sir William Peter Anthony Browne Corbett Weston and M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney On the Sack on the left hand and Southside sate Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Edward Saunders Chief Baron Justice Widdon Serjeant Carus and M r Russell the Queens Sollicitor and at their Backs sate Sir Richard Read Doctor Yale and Doctor Vaughan On the other Sack sate Doctor Huicke Spilman Clerk of the Parliament and M r Martin Clerk of the Crown and behind them kneeled M r 〈◊〉 Allen Dyeter Nicasius Cliffe and Permitter At the side hand of the Queen sate on the ground three or four Ladies and no more and at the back of the Rail behind the Cloth of Estate kneeled the Earls of Oxford and Rutland under Age the Earl of Desmond the Lord Roos the Lord Herbert of Cardiffe and divers other Noblemens Sons and Heirs Nota That these foregoing passages touching the solemn manner of her Majesties coming to the Upper House are not at all found in the Original Journal-Book of the same but are transcribed out of a written Copy or memorial of them I had by me as doth also the Lord Keepers Speech follow out of the same in the next place The Queens Majesty being set as aforesaid under the Cloth of Estate the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the same repaired to the Upper House and being as many as conveniently could let in she Commanded Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper to open the cause of Calling and Assembling this Parliament who thereupon spake as followeth My Lords and others of this Honourable Assembly YOU shall understand that my most Dread and Sovereign Lady the Queens Majesty here present hath Commanded me to declare the occasion of this Assembly which I am not able but unmeet to do as it ought to be done among such a noble wise and discreet Company Howbeit knowing the Experience of her Majesty bearing with such as do their good wills and your Honours Patience in bearing with me in the like afore this time it encourageth me the better herein not doubting of the like at this present Therefore my Lords the occasion is that necessary matters be provided for propounded and scanned and after agreed upon and ended which afterwards shall remain and continue which matters in my Judgment may well be divided into two parts one touching Religion for the setting forth of Gods Honour and Glory and the other concerning Policy for the Common-Wealth as
Queens Majesty and this Parliament in your Opinion by building a Fort named the fear of God might take Order and live surely in time to come And in the fourth part made four Petitions the first for free access to her Person and Upper House the second for well taking your meaning and the third and fourth for free Liberty of Speech and Persons Now for the Answering of them her Majesty hath Commanded me to say That for the first part she commendeth much those Godly Virtues that you opened to be in her and also those beautiful budding benefits which you declared to come from her and doubteth not the rather by this your remembring of them but they shall be on her part hereafter performed for which she thanketh you thinking all things well bestowed when they are well remembred In the second part you declare certain Monsters which trouble this Region and would be redressed the Remedy whereof you declared in your third part wherein she desireth you to travel for the bringing of it to pass And for the fourth part being your Petitions which be also four for the first being for free access to her Person she granteth it not doubting of your discretion to use it as rath as may be not out of time nor yet without they be matters of great importance For the second that if you mistake their meanings that they may notwithstanding redress the same without prejudice to them this also she granteth although unneedful for that she trusteth you will not offend therein And for the third to have free Speech she granteth also so that it be reverently used And to the last point for them and theirs to be free without disturbance she is pleased therewith howbeit great regard would be therein had not thereby to avoid or delay their Creditors but to be well used according to the meaning of the first grant thereof Now a word or two more I would advise you to make your Laws as few and as plain as may be for many be burthenous and doubtful to understand and so accordingly to make them as brief as the matter will suffer and thirdly that you proceed to the great and weighty matters first and then to others of smaller importance and that so speedily as can be whereby this Assembly may be again at their Liberties and so end Then the Speaker and nether House did their Reverence and departed and the Queen returned into her Privy-Chamber and shifted her and the Lords likewise and then she repaired to her Barge and so to Whitehall unto which place the Sword was born the Officers of Arms waited to and fro On Monday the 18 th day of January three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the punishment of Clipping and washing of the Queens Majesties Coin and other Moneys Currant within the Realm was read the first time Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum hora Nona On Tuesday the 19 th day of January four Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being for the good Order and Government of the Garrison of Barwick was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand and the second being the Bill for punishment of Clipping and washing of the Queens Majesties Coin was read tertia vice commissa Archiepiscopo Ebor. Duci Norfolciae Marchion Northampton Episcopo Hereford Domino Wentworth Domino Willoughby Domino Hastings de Loughborough On Wednesday the 20 th day of January the Bill touching the Government of the Garrison of Barwick was read tertia vice conclns and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and the Queens Attorney On Thursday the 21 th day of January two Bills had each of them one reading of which one was the Bill to repeal a Branch of a Statute made Anno primo Edwardi 6 ti touching the Conveying of Horses out of the Realm and being read tertia vice was concluded and sent down to the House of Commons On Saturday the 23 th day of January the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled but nothing was done save only the Parliament continued by the Lord Keeper in usual Form usque in diem Martis prox hora nona On Tuesday the 26 th day of January the Bill for fulling and thicking of Caps was read prima vice commissa to the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Exeter the Lord Wentworth the Lord Willoughby and the Lord Shandois And the Bill also against forging of Evidences and Writings was upon the first reading Committed to the Archbishop of York the Duke of Norfolk the Marquess of Northampton the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Clinton the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich the Lord Willoughby the Lord Hastings of Loughborough the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and the Queens Sollicitor Nota That this last mentioned Bill touching the forging of Evidences c. was not only committed upon the first reading which is not usual till after the second but committed also to the Judges being but Assistants of the Upper House and to the Queens Sollicitor being but a meer Attendant upon the same jointly with the Lords the only proper and undoubted Members of that great Council which is to be observed because of latter days neither the said Assistants nor Attendants are ever appointed joint Committees with the Lords as here but only Commanded by the House to attend upon the Committee and thereby to give such advice as shall be required of them which is no greater respect yielded them at a Committee than in the House it self sitting the Parliament and were they still admitted to be Committees as they usually were in all these first Parliaments of the Queen yet could no inconvenience ensue thereby because at a Committee things are only prepared and made ready for the House in which and no where else they ought to be concluded and expedited The Bill lastly for Repeal of a Statute made an 1 Ed. 6. touching conveying of Horses out of the Realm was concluded and sent down to the House of Commons Here the House was doubtless continued until Thursday next the 28 th day of this Instant January because this being Hillary Term the ensuing Wednesday being the 27 th day of the same Month was Star-Chamber day on which the House seldom sits and this may be observed very usual not only in this Journal but in the Original Journal-Books of the Upper-House of all her Majesties time in whose Reign the Star-Chamber-Days were first certainly appointed to be on Wednesdays and Fridays True it is that in former times when Star-Chamber-Days were uncertain then it is hard to guess when the House sat not by reason of them
to the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Bangor the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich the Lord Willoughby and the two Chief Justices Nota That here the Judges who are but Assistants unto the Upper House are made joint Committees with the Lords vide a like President on Tuesday the 26. of January foregoing Four other Bills had each of them their third reading and passed and were sent to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Carus and the Queens Sollicitor of which one was for the preservation of the Woods in Sussex and another for the punishment of Clipping filing rounding or washing of the Coin of this Realm or any other Coin currant within this Realm Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was against fond and phantastick Prophecies The second against Conjurations Enchantments and Witchcrafts And the third for the punishment of the vice of Buggery On Monday the 22. day of March Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the punishment of such persons as shall procure and commit wilful Perjury and the Bill touching Fines and Recoveries with Voucher where the Original Writ is imbezilled or lacking were each of them read the first time and committed to the Queens Learned Counsel On Tuesday the 23. day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the punishment of unlawful taking of Fish Deer and Hawks was read the second time On Wednesday the 24. day of March the Bill for the maintenance of the Navy with certain Provisoes added thereunto by the Lords was read tertiâ vice conclusa and committed to Serjeant Carus and the Queens Attorney to be carried to the House of Commons The Bill also against unlawful Contracts and Bargains upon Usury was read tertiâ vice and rejected On Thursday the 25. day of March Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for punishment of such persons as shall commit wilful Perjury was read the second time A Proviso to be annex'd to the Bill for Stealing of Hawks Deer or Conies was read prima secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum On Friday the 26. day of March the Bill for reviving of a Statute made An. 23 H. 8. touching the making of Goals was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Saturday the 27. day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the punishment of unlawful taking of Fish Deer or Hawks was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus On Monday the 29. day of March Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the punishment of such persons as shall procure or commit any wilful Perjury And the second for the due Execution of the Writ de Excommunicato capiendo were each of them read the third time communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus and committed to the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor to be carried to the House of Commons The Bill for Plumsted-Marsh was committed to the Lord Chief Justice Quod nota On Tuesday the 30. of March Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof six having been formerly ent down from the Lords were now returned expedited The seventh and eighth being for the translating of the Bible and other Divine Service into the Welch Tongue and that Chancellors Commissaries and Officials in Ecclesiastical Courts shall be Graduates of one University were each of them prima vice Two Bills were brought from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill touching an Annuity granted to the finding of a School in Guildford was primâ vice lect The Bill lastly to fill up Juries de Circumstantibus lacking in Wales was tertiâ vice lect conclusa On Wednesday the 31. day of March four Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that Chancellors Commissaries and Officials in Ecclesiastical Courts shall be Graduates of one University And the second for translating the Bible and other Divine Service into the Welch Tongue were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons on the day foregoing On Thursday the first day of April the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled in the House but nothing was done save only the Parliament continued by the Lord Keeper in Form following Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox hora nona On Saturday the 3 d day of April Three Bills were brought from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for relief of the Poor with divers Amendments added by the House of Commons and two Provisoes And the second for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted to the Town of Southampton touching the bringing in of Wines by Merchant Strangers with a Proviso added by the Commons The Bill touching the Annuity granted for the finding of a School at Guildford was read tertiâ vice conclus Hodiè introduct est à domo Communi Billa touching an Assignment of the Queens Majesties Houshold with certain Provisoes thereunto added by the Commons quae primâ secunda tertia vice lect conclus sunt The Bill lastly for the Annexing of the County of Dorset to the Jurisdiction of the Bishoprick of Salisbury was read prima vice On Monday the 5. day of April the Bill for the translating of the Bible and other Divine Service into the Welch Tongue was read the third time and a Proviso added thereunto by the Lords was also thrice read conclus commissa Servienti Carus in Domum Communem deferend The Bill for the relief of the Poor was read tertiâ vice conclus On Tuesday the 6. day of April Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the translating of the Bible into the Welch Tongue with three others was returned conclus And the fifth being the Bill touching Curriers Shoo-makers and other Artificers occupying the working of Leather was read prima vice The Proviso added by the Lords to the Bill for the Town of Southampton was read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice conclus commissa Attornato Sollicitatori Dominae Regin in Domum Communem deferend Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam à Meridie On the aforesaid Tuesday in the Afternoon the Bill touching Tanners Curriers Shoomakers and other Artificers occupying the working of Leather was read secundâ
vice Et nota that the same Bill was read the day following tertiâ vice conclus On Wednesday the 7. day of April Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the one was for Orders for Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements and another for Retailers of Worsted Wools in Norwich and the County of Norfolk with a Proviso added by the Commons Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam à Meridie On the aforesaid Wednesday in the Afternoon the Bill touching Orders for Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements was read primâ vice On Thursday the 8. day of April Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill to take away the Misdemeanors of Purveyors and Takers was read primâ vice The Bill for divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants of Husbandry and Apprentices was read tertiâ vice conclus and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and D r Yale Two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons the one that Sanctuary shall not be allowed to defraud any due Debt And the other was for the Paving of Kentish Town near Southwark The Proviso annex'd by the Commons to the Bill for Retailers of Worsted-Woolls in Norwich and the County of Norfolk was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus The Proviso annex'd by the Commons to the Bill for the maintenance of Tillage And also one other Proviso annex'd to the same Bill by the Lords were each of them read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice On Friday the 9. day of April the Bill for Tillage was given to M r Attorney and M r Martin to be carried to the House of Commons The Bill touching Orders of Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements was read secundâ vice Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons conclus of which one was touching divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants of Husbandry and Apprentices And the second for the maintenance of Tillage And the third for the due Execution of the Writ de Excommunicato capiendo with a Proviso annex'd by the Commons and divers Amendments quae primâ secundâ vice lect sunt eadem Provis tertiâ vice lect a est conclus The Bill to take away the misdemeanors of Purveyors and Takers was read the second time and committed to Justice Southcot Quod nota The Bill for the destruction of Rooks Coughs and other Vermine was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons which said Bill was on the day following in the Afternoon read primâ vice On Saturday the 10 th day of April the Bill for the reviving of a Statute made Anno xxiii o Hen. 8. touching the making of Goals with a Proviso thereunto annex'd by the Commons which said Proviso was read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice conclus The Bill for the Queens Majesties most free and General Pardon was read primâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Nota That this Bill for the general Pardon was concluded after the first reading whereas to all other Bills three readings are required before they can be passed The Bill also for Reformation of divers misdemeanors in Purveyors was read tertiâ vice with certain Amendments conclusa And then following the ordinary form the Parliament was continued in manner and order accustomed viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam primam à Mcridie In the Afternoon the Bill for destruction of Rooks and Coughs and other Vermin And the Bill touching buying and selling of course Woolls to make Cottons c. were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus Two Bills were returned from the House of Commons conclus One to take away the misdemeanors of Purveyors and Takers and the other touching Orders for Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements Nota That in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House next after the setting down or entring of the two Bills aforesaid to have been returned up to the Lords from the House of Commons there followeth immediately the entrance of the Prorogation of this Session of Parliament which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the said Upper House For the Queens Majesty her self with the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal was present in her Robes and gave her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed Although no presence of any of the Lords or her Majesty be at all marked in the said Original Journal-Book And therefore I have caused the solemn and stately manner of the Queens coming to the Upper House with the several Interlocutory Speeches of the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Lord Keeper to be inserted at large out of a written Copy or Anonymous memorial thereof I had by me being doubtless the very Original Draught set down by some Member of one of the two Houses or at least by some other observant person then present while the said Speeches passed in the Upper House for it is written in a hand and language of that very time and in many places amended and interlined About three of the Clock this present Saturday in the Afternoon the Queens Majesty came by Water from Whitehall and landed on the backside of the Parliament Chamber and so the Earl of Northumberland bearing the Sword afore her the Dutchess of Norfolk the Train she proceeded up into her Privy-Chamber and there Apparell'd her self in her Parliament Robes during which time the Lords likewise put on their Robes and took their Places On the Upper Sack sate the Lord Keeper till the Queen came and then he went to his place at the Rail on the right hand to the Cloth of Estate On the Wooll-sack on the North-side sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer the two Chief Justices Sir John Mason and Serjeant Carus M r Ruswell the Queens Sollicitor and Doctor Yale On the Sack on the South-side sate Sir William Cecill Secretary Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Justice Weston Serjeant Southcott M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney and Doctor Lewes On the nether Sack sate M r Spilman Clerk of the Parliament M r Powle Deputy and joint Patentee with M r Martin Clerk of the Crown M r Heming and some Clerks of the Signet Dister and Permiter before which nether Sack stood a little Table Then the Queens Majesty being Apparell'd in her Parliament Robes with a Caul on her Head came forth and proceeded up and took the Seat the Duke of Norfolk as Earl Marshal with his gilt Rod before her with the Marquess of Northampton bearing the Cap of Maintenance and stood on her right hand and the Earl of Northumberland the Sword on her left hand the
therein Vide touching this Bill in fine diei praecedentis On Thursday the 11 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Servants robbing their Masters Buggery Invocation of evil Spirits Inchantments c. to be Felony was read the third time and passed the House Mr. Attorney and Mr. Sollicitor brought from the Lords a Bill against Forgers of Deeds which was presently read the first time On Friday the 12 th day of February Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for punishment of Forgers of false Deeds and Wills was read the second time But no mention is made that it was either referr'd to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords The House desired the Privy-Council to 〈◊〉 the Queens Majesty to have in 〈◊〉 their Petition looking for her most Gracious Answer Vide touching this matter on Thursday the 28 th day of January foregoing as also on Tuesday the 16. day of this instant February following The Committees do certifie the House that Sir Hen. Jones his men may be committed to the Serjeant and that he attend Mr. Recorder and Mr. Gargrave with the persons before the Lord Chief Justice to enter with Sureties in Bond of five hundred pound to appear personally in the Queens Bench in Trinity Term next to Answer to such things as shall be then objected to them on the Queens behalf and so set at Liberty Vide concerning this matter on Friday the 5. day on Monday the 8. day and on Wednesday the 10. day of this instant February foregoing On Saturday the 13. day of February Arguments touching the Oath of Assessors in the Subsidy being had the Bill was Ordered to be engrossed Vide plus on Tuesday the 9. day of this instant February foregoing Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the latter being the Bill touching levying of Fines for respite of Homage was read the second time and rejected For that John Harrington Esquire returned Burgess of S t Ives in Cornwal and also for Carnarvon in Wales doth appear for Carnarvon a Writ was required for a Burgess for S t Ives On Monday the 15. day of February the new Bill touching Usury was read the first time Three Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain of which one was the Bill touching Servants robbing their Masters and Buggery to be Felony The Bill against those that extol the Bishop of Rome and refuse the Oath of Allegiance was read the second time and as it should seem committed to Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and others not named Divers Arguments being had upon the Bill for respite of Homage it was at the last rejected On Tuesday the 16. day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching Usury was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed Robert Parker Servant to Sir William Woodhouse Knight for Norfolk attached in London at the Suit of Thomas Raber Baker in Transgr had a Warrant for Priviledge notwithstanding a judgment given against him Mr. Serjeant Carus and Mr. Attorney brought from the Lords five Bills for Restitution in Blood of divers persons Mr. Comptroller and Mr. Secretary declared from the Queens Highness that she doubted not but the grave Heads of this House did right well consider that she forgot not the Suit of this House for the Succession the matter being so weighty nor could forget it but she willed the young Heads to take Example of the Antients Vide touching this business on Saturday the 16. day Monday the 18. day Tuesday the 19. day Tuesday the 26. day Wednesday the 27. day and on Thursday the 28. day of January foregoing as also on Friday the 12. day of this instant February preceeding Vide April the 10. postea On Wednesday the 17. day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to confirm the Liberties of Exeter was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Thursday the 18. day of February Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the fifth being the Bill for Confirmation of the Liberties of Exeter was read the third time and passed the House And the last being the Bill for punishment of Usury and unlawful Bargains was read also the third time and passed per Divisionem Domus viz. with the Bill a hundred thirty four and against it ninety On Friday the 19. day of February Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Subsidy and two Fifteens granted by the Temporalty was read the third time and passed the House Vide touching this Bill on Tuesday the 9. day of this Instant February foregoing Thomas Andrews Esq Burgess for Sudbury in Suffolk and Thomas Eymis Burgess for Thuske in the Country of York for their weighty affairs have Licence to be absent On Saturday the 20. day of February Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against ingrossing of Wooll and that Wooll-Winders may buy Wooll was read the second time and thereupon rejected Three Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain of which one was for the punishment of Usury and another for the Subsidy granted by the Temporalty Four other Bills also had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against those that shall extol the Bishop of Rome or shall refuse the Oath of Allegiance was read the third time and passed the House Robert Wieth Gent. Burgess for Wiche in the County of Worcester for his necessary affairs is Licensed to be absent On Monday the 22. day of February Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Bowyers of London And the last to raise Grigg Mills between Plime and Dart in Devonshire were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill against those that extol the Bishop of Rome c. was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary William Poughnyll Gent. Burgess of Ludlow in the County of Salop for his great affairs in the Marches hath Licence to be absent On Tuesday the 23. day of February Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being for the avoiding of divers Foreign Wares The second touching Badgers of Corn The third for punishment of those that call themselves Egyptians And the fourth for allowance to Sheriffs for Justices Dyets at the Assizes were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be engrossed Richard Bertie Esq one of the Knights of the County of Lincoln for his weighty affairs was Licensed to be absent On Wednesday the 24. day of February Four
Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae fidei defensor c. Sexto in quem diem praesens hoc Parliamentum Prorogatum fuerat convenerunt Domini tam spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Marchio Winton Thesaurarius Comes Suffex Comes Huntington Episcopus London Episcopus Roffen Dominus Clinton Admirallus Dominus Howard Camerarius Dominus Cobham Dominus Hunsdon Qui cum convenissent una cum populi atque Burgensium ut vocant satis magna frequentia praedictus Archiepiscopus Cantuarien paucis verbis declaravit conventum Procerum populi quem Parliamentum vocant in hunc diem destinatum à dicta domina Regina ccrtis quibusdam de causis considerationibus illam ad id specialiter moven differri in tricesimum diem Aprilis prox futurum atque ut tam proceribus quam populo palam fieret Regiam Majestatem ita constituisse Literas Commissorias dict Dominae Reginae Francisco Spilman Armig Clerico Parliamenti publicè clarâ voce legendas in manus tradidii Earum autem Tenor sequitur in haec verba Elizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei defensor c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Matheo Cantuarien Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac Charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Willielmo Marchioni Winton Thesaurario Angliae ncc non charissimis consanguineis suis Thomae Comiti Sussex Henrico Comiti Huntingdon Reverendis in Christo patribus Edmundo Episcopo London Edmundo Episcopo Roffen ac etiam praedilectis fidelibus consiliariis suis Edwardo Domino Clinton magno Admirallo suo Angliae Willielmo Domino Howard de Essingham Domino Camerario suo ac praedilectis sidelibus suis Willielmo Domino Cobham Gardiano sive Custodi quinque portuum suorum ac Henrico Domino Hunsdon salutem Cum nuper pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernen praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitat nostram Westmonasterii duodecimo die Januarii Anno regni nostri Quinto inchoari teneri ordinaverimus à quo die idem Parliamentum nostrum tunc ibidem tent continuat fuerat usque decimum diem Aprilis tunc prox sequen ac post diversas Prorogationes idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in instantem Quintum diem Octobris Prorogatum ibidemque tunc tenend prosequend Sciatis tamen quod certis urgentibus causis considerationibus nos specialiter moven idem Parliamentum nostrum ulterius Prorogand duximus de sidelitate igitur prudentiâ circumspectione vestris plurimum considentes de avisamento assensu Concilii nostri assignavimus vos tres vestrum dantes vobis novem octo septem sex quinque quatuor tribus vestrum tenore praesentium plenam potestatem facultatem authoritatem hoc instan die Jovis ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum nomine nostro ad in tricesimum Aprilis prox futur usque praedictam Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii Prorogand continuand ibidemque tunc tenend prosequend ideo vobis mandamus quod circa praemissa diligenter intendatis ea in formâ praedicta effect ualiter expleatis Damus autem universis singulis Archiepiscopis Ducibus Magnatibus Comitibus Vice-Comitibus Episcopis Baronibus Militibus Civibus Burgen ac omnibus ahis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum conventur tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis quod vobis in praenissis faciend pareant obediant intendant prout decet In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium Quinto die Octobris Anno Regni nostri Sexto The like Commission bearing date 30. die Aprilis An. 7 Eliz. was directed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norsolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Derby Thomas Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntingdon the Earl of Pembroke the Earl of Warwick and the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Cobham Warden of the Cinque-Ports the Lord Wentworth and the Lord Hunsdon Authorizing them 17 16 15 14 13 c. or three of them to Prorogue and continue the Parliament ut supra in the other Commissions mutatis mutandis unto the 4 th day of October next coming Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium 30 die Aprilis Anno Regni nostri Septimo On which 30 th day of April the Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Derby the Earl of Sussex the Earls of Huntingdon Pembroke and Warwick the Bishop of London the Lord Admiral the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Cobham the Lord Wentworth and the Lord Hunsdon did meet in the Parliament Chamber and in due and accustomed Form did Adjourn the Parliament unto the 4 th day of October according to the said Commission last specified and caused the said Commission to be publickly read by Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Parliament in hearing of the Commons then also present according to antient Custom in that behalf On the 4 th day of October Anno Regni Reginae Eliz. Septimo The like Commission ut supra bearing date the said 4 th day of October directed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Sussex Chief Justice of all Forrests c. on this side Trent Ambrose Earl of Warwick Master of the Ordnance the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Rochester Edward Lord Clinton great Admiral of England William Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain Thomas Lord Wentworth and Henry Lord Hunsdon authorizing them 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 and 3. ut antea mutatis mutandis to Prorogue and continue the same Parliament in Septimum diem Februarii prox futurum Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium 4 die Octobris Anno Regni nostri Septimo Which Commission was read by the Clerk of the Parliament in the Parliament Chamber in presence of ten of the Commissioners and of the Commons Memorandum quod hodie septimo die Februarii Anno Regni Eliz. Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae sidei defensor c. Octavo in quem diem praesens hoc Parliamentum Prorogatum suer at convenerunt Domini tam spirituales quam temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur viz. Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Nicolaus Bacon Miles Custos magni Sigilli Marchio Winton Thesaurar Dux Norfolc Comes Marescallus Marchio North Comes Sussex Comes Warwick Episcopus London Episcopus Roffen Dominus Clinton Admirallus Dominus Howard Camerarius Dominus Wentworth Dominus de Hunsdon Qui cum convenissent unà cum populi atque Burgen ut vocant satis magnâ frequentiâ praedictus Nicolaus Bacon
which is usual in other continuations of it But the reason why they met not till the Afternoon seemeth to be because then the Queens Majesty her self came thither to whom Richard Onslow Esq her Majesties Sollicitor having been Chosen Speaker for the House of Commons the day past was presented and admitted by her in manner and form as followeth About three of the Clock in the Afternoon this present Wednesday the second day of October the Queens Majesty took her Barge and Landed on the back-side of the Parliament-Chamber and so the Earl of Northumberland bearing the Sword the Lady Strainge her Trayn with the Lords in their daily Apparel and the Heralds attending on her she proceeded up into the Privy-Chamber to prepare her self during which time the Lords and Justices put on their Parliament Robes and took their places in manner and form following In which it is to be noted that no part of this days passages already set down is found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is either transcribed out of a certain Anonymous memorial I had by me in which the presentment of the Speaker this day is somewhat exactly set down or was supplied by my self upon the comparing of several things together Now follow the Names of the Lords and others as aforesaid First on the Form on the North-side together with the Upper Form at the nether end sate the Bishops as followeth Younge Archbishop of York Grindall Bishop of London Pilkington Bishop of Durham Sands Bishop of Winchester Birkley Bishop of Bath and Wells Bett. Bishop of Carlisle Barlow Bishop of Chichester Alleo Bishop of Exeter Gest. Bishop of Rochester Skamler Bishop of Peterburgh Horne Bishop of Worcester Bullingham Bishop of Lincoln Bentam Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield Denham Bishop of Chester Scorie Bishop of Hereford Davies Bishop of S t Davids Parkhurst Bishop of Norwich Cheyney Bishop of Gloucester Nota That these names with those that follow being transcribed in a different manner from all others in the residue of the Journals of the Queens time were so found with the Names of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal added to them in that before-mentioned Anonymous memorial of this present Wednesdays passages being the second day of October and were therefore transcribed out of it as is aforesaid rather than out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House although the Series of them that were present set down there did serve well to rectifie those foregoing and these also that next ensue At the foremost Form on the South-side sate these Peers viz. William Paulet Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshall of England William Parre Marquess of Northampton Thomas Peircie Earl of Northumberland Charles Nevill Earl of Westmorland George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury William Sommerset alias Plantagenet Earl of Worcester Thomas Ratcliff Earl of Sussex Henry Haistings Earl of Huntingdon Edward Seymor Earl of Hartford Robert Sutton alias Dudley Earl of Leicester and Master of the Horse Anthony Brown Viscount Mountague Nota That Edward de Vere Earl of Oxford Lord Great Chamberlain of England Edward Mannors Earl of Rutland William Bowrchier Earl of Bath and Henry Wriotheisly Earl of South-hampton were at this time under Age and in Ward to the Queen and therefore they were not admitted to take their places in the Uppermost House but if they were present did either stand besides the upper part of the Rail at the higher end of the said House or were admitted to kneel at the upper end of the same House near the Chair of State at this time and upon like solemn days for no Peer is admitted to have his free Voice or sit as a Member of that Great Council untill he have accomplished his full Age unless by the special Grace of the Prince At the Form at their back and the nether Form at the nether end sate these Peers Fynes Lord Clinton as Lord Admiral sate first amongst the Barons Howard Lord Effingham as Lord Chamberlain of her Majesties Houshold sate second Nevill Lord of Burgaveny sate in his due place of preheminence and so the rest that follow unless such as were misplaced by the Clerks error which is too frequent Zouch Lord Zouch Standley Lord Strange Birkley Lord Birkley Parker Lord Morley Brooke Lord Cobham Stafford Lord Stafford Gray Lord Gray of Wilton Sutton Lord Dudley Lumley Lord Lumley Blunt Lord Mountjoy Darcy Lord Darcy of Mevill Standley Lord Mounteagle Sands Lord Sands Vaux Lord Vaux Windsor Lord Windsor Wentworth Lord Wentworth Burrough Lord Borough Mordant Lord Mordant Cromwell Lord Cromwell Evers Lord Evers Willoughby Lord Willoughby Sheffeild Lord Sheffeild Paget Lord Paget Darcy de Chiche Dominus Darcy North Lord North of Carthelige Bridges Lord Shandois Haistings Lord Haistings of Loughborough Carey Lord Carey of Hunsdon S t John Lord S t John of Bletsoe Nota That Dutchet Lord Audley and the Lord Dacres of the North were under Age. All which Peers abovesaid had their Mantles Hood and Circots furred with Miniver their Arms put on the right side and the Duke of Norfolk had Bars of Miniver the Marquess of Winchester and Northampton had three Bars of Miniver the Earls likewise the Viscounts two and the Barons two Item On the upper Sack of Wooll sate the Lord Keeper till the Queen came and then went to his place at the Rail On the Woolsack on the Northside sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer the Queens two Chief Justices M r Corbet Weston and Southcote Justices of both Benches on the Woolsack on the Southside sate Sir William Cecill the Queens Principal Secretary Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Sanders Chief Baron Baron Whiddon ..... Carus the Queens Serjeant ..... Gerrard the Queens Attorney and on the nether Sack sate M r Vaughan and Yale Masters of the Chancery M r Spilman Clerk of the Parliament M r Martin Clerk of the Crown and M r Peile his Joint Patentee And behind them kneeled Smith Clerk of the Council and Jones Clerk of the Signet Permiter and Dister Then the Queens Majesty being Apparelled in her Parliament Robes with a Caul on her Head came forth and took her Seat the Marquess of Northampton carrying the Cap of Maintenance and after stood on her right hand the Duke of Norfolk carrying his Marshals Rod and on her left hand the Earl of Northumberland with the Sword the Heralds also and Serjeants at Arms being before her her Majesties Mantle was born up on either side from her Shoulders by the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord of Hunsdon who also stood still by her for the assisting thereof when she stood up her Train was born by the Lady Strange assisted by Sir Francis Knolles Vice-Chamberlain at the left hand of the Queen and on the South-side kneeled the Ladies and at the Rail at the Queens back on the right hand stood the Lord Keeper and on the left hand the Lord Treasurer Then the Queen
there to do in such manner and form as though no such Commission had been directed and made any clause Sentence or matter in our said Letters Patents of commission or any other thing to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding and these presents shall be your Warrant and discharge for the same In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our Self at Westminster the 8 th day of November in the Eighth Year of Our Reign There are no other passages of this day set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House after the publick reading of the foregoing Commission by which the Lord Keeper was resetled in his former place in the said House saving the Entrance of the Continuation of the Parliament in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque diem Lunae prox xi die Novembris November the 10 th Sunday On Monday the 11 th day of November Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to restrain the Carriage of the Woolls of the growth of Pembroke Carmarthen and Cardigan-shires out of the Counties where they grow was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Nota That the daily continuance of the Parliament entred in these words Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum c. being now hereafter performed in the residue of this Journal according to the ordinary use by the Lord Keeper only is for the most part omitted On Tuesday the 12 th day of November the Bill for the Lady Cobham's Jointure was read secundâ vice On Wednesday the 13 th day of November the Bill for the Lady Cobham's Jointure was read tertiâ vice quae communi omnium Procerum consensu conclusa est postea cum Billà to restrain the Carriage of Woolls of the growth of Pembroke c. was delivered to Serjeant Carus and Doctor Huick to be carried to the House of Commons Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents made for the Hospital of S t Bartholomew in Gloucester was read primâ vice On Thursday the 14 th day of November Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the avoiding of penal Laws was read primâ vice On Saturday the 16 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the better Execution of penal Laws was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Bishop of Worcester Viscount Mountague the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Willoughby the Lord Loughborough the Lord Hunsdon and to the Lord Chief Baron Justice Welch and the Attorney General Two Bills lastly were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill that in divers Counties there shall be but one Sheriss in one County was read primâ vice On Monday the 18 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill to avoid excess in Apparel was read primâ vice On Tuesday the 19 th day of November Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to avoid excess in Apparel was read secundà vice and committed unto the Marquess of Northampton the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Leicester Viscount Mountague the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winton the Bishop of Hereford the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Lumley the Lord Sheffeild the Lord Pagett the Lord Hunsdon Justice Welch and Justice Southcot And the third being the Bill to enable the Town of Woollmarsh in the County of Surrey to use Cloth-making was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa On Wednesday the 20 th day of November Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the avoiding of worngful vexation upon the Writ of Latitat was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossand Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox horâ nonâ At which time the Lords Spiritual and Temporal did meet and nothing done but the Parliament continued by the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England until Saturday the 23 th day of November On Saturday the 23 th day of November Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of Letters Patents made for the Hospital of S t Bartholomew in Gloucester was read tertiâ vice and by common consent of the Lords concluded The Bill also for avoiding of worngful vexation upon the Writ of Latitat was read tertiâ vice which by common consent of the Lords was concluded and by Serjeant Carus and R. R. sent down to the House of Commons On Monday the 25 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the more expedition of the Administration of Justice in the Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Durham communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa est On Tuesday the 26 th day of November the Bill for the Assurance of a Jointure to the Lady Mary Wife to Edward Lord Stafford was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum consensa conclusa The said Bill for the Lady Staffords Jointure and the Bill for the more speedy expedition of the Administration of Justice in the Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Durham were delivered to Serjeant Carus and M r Vaughan in Domum Communem deferend On Wednesday the 27 th day of November and likewise on Thursday the 28 th day of the same Month the Lords did meet and nothing done save only the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper in Ordinary Form unto Monday the second day of December following On Monday the 2 d day of December Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the erection of a Free School at Denbigh in Wales was read primâ vice Six Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the repeal of a Statute made Anno 7 Edw. 6. for the prices of Wines sold by retail was read primâ vice And the third being the Bill declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of the Archbishops and Bishops of this Realm to be good lawful and perfect returned cum provisione annex was read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice
Patents were each of them read secundâ vice The Bill lastly touching Cloth-Workers and Cloths ready wrought to be Shipped over the Seas was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa In the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House is no entrance or mention made of the continuance of the Parliament But it appeareth that the House did sit in the Afternoon for without entrance of the presence of any Lord in particular it appeareth that in the Afternoon two Bills were read viz. The Bill for the Almeshouse at Plymouth And the Bill for the Provision of Grain were each of them read primâ vice On Monday the 23 th day of December the Bill for the Confirmation of Fines and Recoveries notwithstanding the default of the Original Writs was read primâ vice cum additione provisione annex cum quâdam reformatione eidem annex Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one being the Bill for Sea-Marks and Mariners And another against carrying over the Sea Rams Lambs or Sheep being alive were read each of them primâ vice The Bill lastly concerning Tonnage of Wares brought from beyond the Seas was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam in Pomeridiano About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal meeting the Bill concerning Sea-Marks and Mariners And the Bill against the carrying over the Sea Rams Lambs or Sheep alive were each of them read secundâ tertiâ vice and thereupon concluded Two Bills also were sent from the Lords to the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill of her Majesties Free and General Pardon The Bill for making of Salt within her Majesties Dominions and the Bill for keeping a Market in the Mannor of Battell in Sussex upon Thursday were each of them read primâ secundâ vice Two Bills lastly had each of them their first reading of which the second was the Bill for the Inning of Plumstead-Marsh On Tuesday the 24 th day of December the Bill touching the transporting of Tann'd Leather made of Sheep-Skins and the Bill for Inning of Plumstead-Marsh being surrounded were each of them read secundâ tertiâ vice and thereupon concluded Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for keeping the Market in the Mannor of Battell in Sussex upon Thursday was read tertiâ vice conclusa The Bill finally for continuance of certain Statutes was read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice Quod nota that it had three readings together Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad diem Lunae tricesimum diem Decembris On Monday the 30 th day of December the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal met but nothing was done save only the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper unto Thursday the 2 d day of January following upon which day in the Afternoon the Parliament was Dissolved On Thursday the 2 d day of January the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal were present although through the negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House it doth not certainly appear who they were in the Original Journal-Book of the same House but no Bill as it seemeth was read or any thing else done but only the Parliament continued by the Lord Keeper which is there Entred in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam primam in Pomeridiano Nota That it appears in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons that after the Parliament had been continued as aforesaid Doctor Huick was sent down to the said House from the Lord Keeper to give them notice thereof Nota also That in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House there is no mention made of any thing that was done or of any Speech used nor touching the Dissolution of this present Session of Parliament but only that her Majesty was there present with divers Lords both Spiritual and Temporal and therefore I have supplyed the whole Proceedings of this Afternoon at large out of a very Copious and Elaborate Anonymous Memorial thereof I had by me which also I have in some places supplyed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although it be so little and short as it may rather be called matter of Confirmation than Enlargement in which also it shall lastly suffice to touch briefly that I have always observed contrary to the ordinary course to insert all such Speeches and other passages as largely as by any good Authority I might into the Journal of the Upper House in which House they were agitated and uttered and to the Journal of which House they do most properly belong and do only for Order sake add some short expressions thereof in the Journals of the House of Commons The said Passages of this Afternoon do now next ensue out of the above-mentioned Manuscript Memorial The Queens Majesty between two or three of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present Thursday being the second day of January in the ninth year of her Reign came by Water from Whitehall and Landed on the backside of the Parliament-Chamber And so the Earl of Westmorland bearing the Sword afore her the Lady Strange the Train with the Lords in their daily Apparel and Heralds attending on her she proceeded up into the Privy-Chamber to prepare her self in her Parliament-Robes during which time the Lords and Justices put on their Parliament-Robes and took their places And upon the upper Woollsack sate the Lord Keeper till the Queen came and then went to his place at the Rail on the right hand of the Cloth of State On the Woollsack on the Northside sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer the two Chief Justices and Richard Read under and M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney On the Sack on the Southside sate Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Justice Brown Justice Welsh and Serjeant Carus On the Westside sate Vaughan and Talc Masters of the Chancery M r Spilman Clerk of the Parliament M r Powle Deputy and Joint-Patentec with M r Martin Clerk of the Crown afore which Sack stood a little Table Then the Queens Majesty being Apparelled in her Parliament-Robes with a Caul on her Head came forth and proceeded up and took her Seat the Marquess of Northampton carrying the Cap of Maintenance and stood on her right hand and the Earl of Westmorland the Sword at her left hand with the Heralds and Serjeants at Arms before her the Queens Mantle born up on either side from her Arms by the Earl of Leicester and the Lord of Hunsdon who always stood still by her for the assisting thereof when she
Southcot Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius c. continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Thursday the 12 th day of April the Bill against Receivers Treasurers c. was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by D r Lewis and D r Huick Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the avoiding of frudulent Deeds and Gifts c. was read primâ vice Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum in diem Sabbathi hora Octavâ On Saturday the 14 th day of April a Bill concerning the Commission of Sewers was brought from the House of Commons and read primâ vice Then the Parliament was continued by the Lord Chief Justice c. unto Thursday next horâ nonâ On Thursday the 19 th day of April to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that the consent and Exemplification of Letters Patents shall be as good and available as the Letters Patents themselves was read primâ vice commissa Domino Dier Justiciario Justiciario Southcot Then the Parliament was continued in ordinary form by the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal unto to Morrow horâ nonâ On Friday the 20 th day of April Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against bringing in of Bulls from the See of Rome was read the second time commissa ad ingrossandum it was read secundâ vice antea and it seems now some Additions were only read The Bill against fraudulent Gifts Alienations c. was read the first time and thereupon committed unto the Earl of Sussex Viscount Hereford and other Lords and to the Lord Chief Justice Dier and Justice Southcot Vide Apr. 5 th antea Another Bill committed upon the first reading The Parliament was continued in ordinary form by the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal unto to Morrow horâ nonâ On Saturday the 21 th day of April Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against the bringing in and putting in Execution of Bulls Writings or Instruments and other superstitious things from the See of Rome was read tertiâ vice Communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Sir Richard Read Knight and D r Yale The Bill against fraudulent Gifts Alienations c. was read primâ vice but it should rather seem That this Bill was read secundâ vice in respect that it had its first reading before on Friday the 20 th day of this instant April and being then committed was either now upon the bringing in of it again by the Committees read the second time or else some Additions or Amendments thereof annexed unto it by the said Committees were now read the first time and not the Bill it self but whether it were th' one or the other it may easily be conjectured that this Bill was dashed in the House upon the said reading this Forenoon for on Wednesday the 25 th day of this instant April ensuing a new Bill as is very probable with this very Title had its first reading The Bill for Commissions of Sewers was committed unto the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Ely the Lord Admiral the Lord Burleigh the Lord Rich the Lord ..... the Lord Darcie de Dethick and unto Justice Southcot Nota That the Bill here committed is not mentioned to have had any reading at this time although it were most probable that this commitment had reference to the second reading of the Bill in the Morning Yesterday notwithstanding that the second reading thereof be there omitted as a matter of no great moment which is a thing both likely and usual neither do there want Presidents of this nature in the very next Session of Parliament ensuing in An. 14 Reg. Eliz. where divers Bills are referred to Committees although there be no mention made of any reading they had Ut vide on Wednesday the 28 th day of May on Wednesday the 4 th day on Tuesday the 9 th day of June in anno Praedicto Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Mercurii prox horâ Octavâ On Wednesday the 25 th day of April Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Confirmation of the Attainder of Charles Earl of Westmerland Thomas Earl of Northumberland and others was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crast. horâ nonâ On Thursday the 26 th day of April Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for avoiding of fraudulent Gifts was read secundà vice and committed to the Earl of Sussex Viscount Hereford and others and to Serjeant Barham and the Queens Sollicitor Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentium usque in diem Sabbathi prox horâ nonâ On Saturday the 28 th day of April Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for the Confirmation of the Attainder of Charles Earl of Westmerland Thomas Earl of Northumberland and others was read tertiâ vice conclusa And the fifth and last being the Bill for the reviving and continuance of certain Statutes was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Barham and the Queens Sollicitor Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox horâ nonâ April the 29 th Sunday On Monday the 30 th day of April Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Usury was read the second time and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Chichester the Bishop of Lincoln and others and to Serjeant Barham and the Sollicitor General Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Tuesday the first day of May the Bill to make a free Denizen Peregrine Barty Son of Richard Barty Esq and Katherine Dutchess of Suffolk his Wife was read primâ vice Four Bills were brought from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill against Fugitives over the Sea Another was the Bill for the Town of Shrewsbury Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against fraudulent Deeds Gifts Alienations c. was read tertiâ vice
allowed and approved by the wisdom of a whole House There may also lastly a third reason be assigned in some extraordinary Cases as this where Bills of Grace viz. for the Restitution in Blood of any and such like were sent to the House from her Majesty fairly ingrossed in Parchment and Signed with her Hand which for the most part do pass the House without any stop or question On Thursday the 17 th day of May to which day the Parliament had been last continued by the Lord Keeper on the day foregoing Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first touching Morrice Rodney Esq the second for the Town of Lestwithiell in the County of Cornwall and the last to discharge Sheriffs of the Dyets of the Justices of Assize were each of them read the second time but no mention was made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees of which see the reason at large discussed on the day foregoing fitly suiting to this present occasion Three Bills also of the aforesaid six had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Henry Brercton Esquire and the second to License the Earl of Leicester to found an Hospital Seven Bills of no great moment were brought from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill whereby certain offences are made Treason was returned conclusa with requests that it might be fair written again which the Lords performed accordingly on Tuesday the 21 th day of this instant May ensuing Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion was read tertiâ vice conclusa dissentientibus Comitibus Wigorn. Southampton Dominis Windsor Vaux Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal meeting six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy was read the second time and referred to the Committees of which two were Viscount Hereford and Viscount Mountague The Bill also for the Town of Bristol was read the second time but there is no mention made that it was referred to Committees or ordered to be ingrossed because it had been sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons on Tuesday the first day of this instant May foregoing of which see a like President on Wednesday the 16 th day of the same Month immediately preceeding Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati hora nona On Saturday the 19 th day of May Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for avoiding of delays upon Vouchers in real actions was read primâ vice and was thereupon committed to the Lord Dier Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas and other the Justices to consider thereof and the fifth being the Bill touching the Town of Southampton was read tertiâ vice conclusa with certain Corrections and Amendments thereunto added by the Lords Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the preservation of Timber and Wood was read primâ vice The Bill for Southampton the Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy and Fugitives over the Seas were delivered to Doctor Lewis and Doctor Yale to be carried to the House of Commons Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords meeting Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill to restrain the oppression of common Promoters and the last for the avoiding of Perjury in Clerks Convict were each of them read secundâ vice but no mention is made that they were ordered to be ingrossed or referred to the Committees because they had been formerly sent unto the Lords from the House of Commons on Saturday the 12 th day and on Tuesday the 15 th day of this instant May foregoing of which see a like President on Wednesday the 16 th day of the said Month of May preceeding Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox horâ nonâ May the 20 th Sunday On Monday the 21 th day of May Eight Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against Vagabonds and for relief of the Poor was read secundâ vice but no mention is made that it was either ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent up unto the Lords from the House of Commons on Saturday the 19 th day of this instant Month of May preceeding although it be there omitted The second of the said eight Bills being for the preservation of Wood was read the second time and committed unto divers Lords and unto the Queens Sollicitor The Bill for Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy was returned by the Lords from the House of Commons conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal meeting Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Commutation of Penance in Clerks Convict was read secundâ vice commissa unto the Earl of Hereford Viscount Hereford the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Worcester Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem proximum horâ Octavâ On Tuesday the 22 th day of May the Bill to make the Lands and Tenements of Tellors c. liable to the payment of their Debts was read tertiâ vice conclusa missa in Domum Communem by Doctor Lewis and Doctor Yale together with the Bill of Treasons newly written out and examined by six of the Lords according to the request of the House of Commons on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant May foregoing viz. the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Salisbury and the Bishop of S t Davids Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to restrain the oppression of common Promoters was read tertiâ vice conclusa with certain Amendments added thereunto Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill to make the River of Welland Navigable the second
against Simony the third for the severance of Sheriffs in the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham the fourth for the erection of a Grammar-School and writing-School in the Borough of Southwark and the last for the making of William Watson a free Denizen Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal meeting Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Erection of a Grammar-School and Writing-School in the Borough of Southwark was read primâ vice The Bill to restrain the Oppression of common Promoters was sent to the House of Commons by M r Attorney and Doctor Huick Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem proximum horâ Octavâ On Wednesday the 23 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching Priests disguising themselves was read the first time Ten Bills were brought from the House of Commons the first to License the Earl of Leicester to found an Hospital the second whereby certain offences be made Treasons the third against fraudulent gifts to the intent to defeat Dilapidations the fourth for the paving of the Town of Ipswich the fifth whereby the Queens Majesties Servants in Ordinary of her Houshold and Chamber shall not be returned on Juries the sixth against the bringing in of Foreign Wares forbidden the seventh for the continuance of Sheriffs of sundry Counties the eighth for the bringing in of Bow-staves into the Realm the ninth for Ministers of the Church to be sound in Religion and the tenth for paving of a street without Aldgate Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem Nota That here the Lord Chief Justice did continue the Parliament unto the Afternoon by Virtue of that Authority which was given unto him by her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal of England and set down at large on Monday the 9 th day of April foregoing On the said 23 th day of May in the Afternoon Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the paving of a Street without Aldgate the fourth for the bringing in of Bowes-staves into the Realm and the sixth for the paving of the Town of Ipswich were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either referred to the Committees or ordered to be ingrossed in respect that they had been sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons this present Wednesday in the Forenoon of which see a like President on Wednesday the 16 th day of this instant May foregoing The last also of the said seven Bills touching Priests disguising themselves in strange Apparel was read the second time commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem proximum horâ Octavâ On Thursday the 24 th day of May Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the maintenance of the Navy and for encrease of Tillage and the second for incorporating and uniting of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis in Com. Dorset were each of them read secundâ vice commissae ad ingrossand Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons the first being the Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion the second touching order for Bankrupts the third for the Commission of Sewers the fourth for the appointing of two Sheriffs for the two Counties of Huntington and Cambridge the fifth for the restitution in Blood of Sir Thomas Wyat's Children the sixth that no Hay or Plate shall cross the Seas the seventh for speedy Tryal to be had upon Issues in the Counties of Salop. and Hereford and the last was the Bill for the Tryal of Felons in the twelve Shires of Wales Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal being Assembled Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Incorporation of both Universities and the second for the Tryal of Felons in the twelve Counties of Wales were each of them read primâ vice The Bill for coming to Church and the Bill for severance of Sheriffs in the Counties of Bucks and Bedford were delivered to Doctor Yale and Doctor Vaughan to be carried to the House of Commons Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the speedy Tryal to be had upon Issues in the Counties of Salop and Hereford was read prima vice commissa Justiciario Harper Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons the first to restrain the oppression of common Promoters the second for the restitution in Blood of Henry Brereton Esquire and the third for John Tirrell Esq The Bill for the paving of the Town of Ipswich was read tertiâ vice conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Friday the 25 th day of May Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first was for the Incorporation of both Universities the second for the Incorporation and uniting of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis in Com. Dorset and the third for increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy they had each of them their third reading and passed upon the question And were sent to the Commons by M r Attorney and Doctor Vaughan Five Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill whereby the Queens Majesties Ordinary Servants of Houshold and Chamber shall not be returned on Juries was read tertiâ vice reject Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion was returned conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lords met but nothing was done save only the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper usque in diem proximum horâ Octavâ On Saturday the 26 th day of May Three Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill that no Purveyor shall take Grain Corn or Victual within five Miles of Cambridge and Oxford was returned with certain Amendments and so the Bill was concluded Two Bill also were brought from the House of Commons of which the first
blank or void place was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent from the Lords on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant May foregoing The Bill for the preservation of Timber and Fuel within twelve Miles of London and Subburbs of the same was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Essex the Lord Abergavenny the Lord S t John of Bletsoe and the Lord Compton The Bill for the assurance of certain Lands according to the meaning of Sir Thomas Woodhouse for the benefit of certain Infants was read secunda vice The Bill for repeal of a Statute made for the Town of Shrewsbury an 8 Reginae Eliz. was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Essex and others The Bill also touching Presentations to Benefices by lapse was read the second time and committed unto the Archbishop of York the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Hartford the Bishop of Worcester the Lord Cromwell the Lord Ewers Justice Southcott and Justice Wray The Bill for keeping of the Assizes and Sessions in the Town of Stafford and the Bill for annexing the Sheriffwicks of Huntingtonshire and Cambridgshire were each of them read secunda vice Commisse ad ingrossand The Bill lastly touching Sea-Marks and that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas was read prima vice and committed to the Earl of Suffolk the Earl of Leicester the Lord Burlcigh the Lord Darey de Chich. the Lord Cheyney the Lord Norris Serjeant Barham and Doctor Lewes Nota That this is not committed only upon the first reading but also a Serjeant and a Doctor who are but Attendants upon the Upper House are here made joint Committees with the Lords On Friday the 30 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for inserting of the name of the Mannor of Havering at Bowre in a blank and void place of certain Letters Patents of the late King Edward the Sixth made unto certain persons of certain Lands and Tenements in West-ham in the County of Essex was read the third time and passed the House On Saturday the 31 th of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for renewing of a Statute made for the keeping of the Assises and Sessions within the Town of Stafford was read tertia vice conclusa And the fourth and last being the Bill against corrupt Presentations was read secunda vice commissa to the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Sussex the Lord Chandois and the former Lords nominated on Saturday the 17 th day of this instant May foregoing where this Bill was then read the second time and then committed On Monday the second day of June Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands and Tenements according to the meaning of Sir Thomas Woodhouse for the benefit of certain Infants was read tertia vice conclusa On Tuesday the third day of June Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to renew a Statute made an 1 o of the Queens Reign inhibiting the transporting of Leather or Raw-Hides out of the Realm was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Wednesday the 4 th day of June the Bill touching a Statute made an 1 mo of the Queens Reign inhibiting the transporting of Leather or Raw-Hides was read tertia vice conclusa and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Barham and Doctor Huick Four Provisoes annexed by the Commons to the Bill for Vagabonds with certain other Amendments in the said Bill were read secunda tertia vice conclusa communi Procerum assensu Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for avoiding of Recoveries suffered by Collusion of Tenants for term of life and such others was read prima vice The Bill touching Mary the late Scottish Queen was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for avoiding of Recoveries suffered by Collusion of Tenants was committed to the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Sussex and others but there is no mention made whether this Bill was at all read of which see a like President on Wednesday the 28 th day of May foregoing On Thursday the 5 th day of June the Bill touching Mary the Daughter and Heir of James the Fifth late King of Scots was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Barham and the Queens Attorney Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill against such as shall conspire or practise the enlargement of any Prisoner committed for High-Treason and the third for annexing of Hexham and Hexhamshire to the County of Northumberland were each of them returned conclusae The Bill for the better and further assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of the Free Grammar-School at Tunbridge in the County of Kent was read prima vice and committed to the Archbishop of York the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Hartford the Bishop of Chichester the Bishop of Rochester the Lord de la Ware the Lord Norris the Master of the Rolls and Justice Southcott Vide concerning this Bill on Monday the 9 th day Tuesday the 10 th day and on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant June following The Bill that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas and touching Sea-Marks was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus primarius Justiciarius Banci Regis continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem Nota That this continuance of the Parliament with some others that follow by the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was not without some express Authority given him by her Majesty but through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House it doth not appear in the Original Journal-Book of the same whether the said Authority were given by Commission or otherwise About which hour in the Afternoon four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the true making of Hand-Guns Callivers c. and the last for Partition of certain Lands between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfeild K t and their Heirs were each of them read prima vice Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regis continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Friday the 6 th day of June Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the
Bill against flying with long-winged Hawks under certain degrees was read prima vice Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regii continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crast. hora nona On Saturday the 7 th day of June Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the true making proving and marking of Callivers Muskets Hand-Guns Dags and other small Ordnance was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Hartford the Earl of Leicester the Earl of Essex the Lord Grey the Lord Evers the Lord North the Lord Chandois and the Lord Norris and to Justice Harper And the fourth and last being the Bill touching Hawks and preservation of Game was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Hartford the Lord Darcy the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John de Bletsoe the Lord Compton the Lord Cheyney and Justice Wray Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regii continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae proxim hora nona On Monday the 9 th day of June Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill that the inhabitants of the City of Winchester and of the Liberty of Soke adjoining to the same may use the Trade of Cloth-making and take Apprentices was read prima vice Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them their second reading of which the second being the Bill for the Partition of certain Lands between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfeild Knight and their Heirs was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the House of Commons The Bill lastly being for the School of Tunbridge was committed unto the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Hartford the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Wentworth the Lord Norris being doubtless brought in this day by the Committees nominated on Wednesday the 4 th of this instant June foregoing but it was not at all now read but had its second reading with a new Proviso added unto it on the Morrow following and on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant June and was committed the third time upon the third reading Vide a like President on Wednesday the 28 th day of May foregoing Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regii continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Tuesday the 10 th day of June Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the severance of the Sheriffwick of Cambridgeshire and Huntingtonshire and the second for the punishment of such as shall rebelliously take or detain from the Queens Majesty any Castles Fortresses c. were each of them returned conclus The Bill for the better and further assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of a Free Grammar-School at Tunbridge in the County of Kent was read secunda vice with a new Proviso added thereunto by the Lords which was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Upon request made by the House of Commons to have Conference with some of the Lords to be appointed by the House touching the great Bill of the Queen of Scots were appointed these Lords following viz. The Archbishop of York The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Bedford The Earl of Leicester The Earl of Essex The Bishop of London The Bishop of Winchester The Lord Burleigh The Lord Grey The Lord Wentworth The Lord Chandois and The Lord North. But no Judges were nominated because they were to confer with the House of Commons Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 12 th day and on Wednesday the 28 th day of May foregoing Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem prox hora nona Nota That as it did not appear before on Thursday the 5 th day of this instant June so neither is it expressed here by what Authority the Lord Keeper is re-authorised to exercise the same again which hapned through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House The Presidents are familiar in other Journals of this Queens Reign where this Authority hath been given to the Lord Chief Justice or some other to supply the Lord Keeper's place by Commission under the Great Seal and that the readmittance of the Lord Keeper to the Executing of his said place again was by like Commission but here it is possible that either were at this time here Executed by some other Authority On Wednesday the 11 th day of June Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching Sea-Marks and the reviving of a Statute that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas was read tertia vice conclusa Three Bills were sent from the Lords to the House of Commons by Doctor Vaughan and Doctor Huick of which one was the Bill for continuance of Statutes The Bill to revive a Statute made an 1. of the Queens Majesties Reign inhibiting the transporting out of the Realm of Leather Tallow and Raw-Hides was returned from the House of Commons conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in vicesimum quartum diem Junii prox hora nona mané On Tuesday the 24 th day of June Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that Wooll and Yarn may be bought and sold in the Markets and Fairs to be kept in the Borough of New Woodstock in the County of Oxon was read prima vice Three Bills also were sent to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for Partition to be made between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfield Knight and their Heirs On Wednesday the 25 th day of June Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the avoiding of Recoveries suffered by Collusions of Tenants for Term of life and such others was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been sent formerly from the House of Commons The Bill for the Inning of Plumsted-Marsh in the County of Kent being surrounded was returned from the House of Commons conclusa On Thursday the 26 th day of June The Bill for the assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of a Sermon to be had in the Church of S t Paul in London every Holyday in the Afternoon for ever was read secunda vice but no mention that it was committed or Ordered
reformed the said Bill according to some parts of the Alterations sent by this House unto them and did also bring a Bill from their Lordships touching Edward Lord Zouch with special recommendation also from their Lordship to this House for expediting the Bill for the Hospital of Ledbury which was before sent from their Lordships to this House Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for relief of the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham K t deceased was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Recorder M r Sands M r Cowper M r Alford and M r Norton who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon this present day On Friday the 10 th day of March Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the repairing of Dover Haven was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Barkley did bring from the Lords two Bills viz. one for restitution in blood of Philip Earl of Arundel another for the Pardon and Restitution in Blood of John and Dudley S r Leger with request also to this House to have consideration of the Bill of Fines and Recoveries which came to this House from their Lordships The Bill for the repair of Dover Haven was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others The Bill touching the true making melting and working of Wax was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Amendments in the Bill for the relief of the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham Knight deceased were twice read and so the Bill upon the question was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and common Recoveries was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Recorder of London M r Cromwell M r Cobly and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at Serjeants-Inn Hall On Saturday the 11 th day of March Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the two last the one being for the Inning of Erith and Plumsted Marsh and the other for reformation of errors in Fines and Recoveries were each of them read the third time and passed upon the Question The Bill touching slanderous words rumors and other seditious practices against her Majesty which coming first from the Lords unto this House and afterward with some alterations and Additions passed this House and so sent up again unto their Lordships and again sithence brought from thence to this House with some other alterations by their Lordships made unto the said former Additions and Alterations of this House and not disallowing the amendments of this House was upon the Question after sundry Motions and Arguments resolved by this House to be sent up again unto their Lordships and left with them as a Bill that this House cannot deal withal On Monday the 13 th day of March the Bill for relief of the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham Knight deceased was read the third time and passed upon the Question Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and Recoveries and another for the restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayney Esquire Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for confirmation of an assurance of a certain yearly Rent-Charge of eighty two pounds ten shillings to the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield and his Successors was read the third time and passed upon the Question Mr. Treasurer with others which carried up the last Bills to the Lords coming into this House again from their Lordships Mr. Treasurer did declare that after he had delivered the other Bill he then shewed their Lordships that this House had sent up to be left with their Lordships a Bill against slanderous words and rumors and other seditious practices against her Majesty for that the same Bill when it was last sent to this House by their Lordships was and is such as this House cannot deal with and that thereupon the Lord Chancellor answered that as their said Lordships were not to take knowledge of the opinion of this House touching the state of the said Bill so their Lordships would not receive the said Bill Which Report being made by M r Treasurer the Bill was thereupon left in this House Vide March the 14 th Tuesday following The Bill touching Iron-Mills near unto the City of London and the River of Thames was read the third time and three Provisoes likewise thrice read and all after many Arguments passed upon the Question M r Doctor Barkley and M r Doctor Ford did bring from the Lords a Bill for the Exposition of the Statute of Bankrupts and also that their Lordships do require a Conference to be had with ten of their Lordships at two of the Clock this Afternoon at the Court in the Council Chamber touching the Bill for maintenance of the Borders towards Scotland and thereupon were appointed the former Committees in the same matter who were appointed on Saturday the 25 th day of February foregoing The Bill for the Lord Zouch and the Bill for the Lord Compton had each of them one reading being the second reading After some Motions and Speeches offered upon the reading of the said Bill for the Lord Zouch it was resolved That as well the Lord Zouch with his Learned Councel as also any person or persons any thing claiming or pretending in the Lands mentioned in the said Bill and their Councel should be heard in this House to Morrow next And that Sir James Dyer Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas should likewise there be heard in this House to Morrow next touching the Record mentioned in the said Bill and remaining in the said Court of Common-Pleas and also that the same Record should likewise be then brought into this House there to be seen and perused for the better satisfaction of this House in their further proceedings in the said Bill And withal that M r Speaker should by Order of this House give notice unto the said Lord Chief Justice to be here at the said time and bring with him the said Record accordingly Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 14 th day and on Friday the 17 th day of this instant March following On Tuesday the 14 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against secret Conveyances and deceitful sale of Lands was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Recorder of London Mr. Atkins Mr. Lewkenor Mr. Cowper and others who were appointed to meet in the Middle Temple Hall at two of the Clock this Afternoon Sir James Dyer Knight Lord Chief
House of Commons by two Doctors Nota That though this Bill were upon Wednesday last past being the 9 th day of this instant December referred to Committees yet no mention is made in the Original Journal-Book when it was again returned or brought into the House by the said Committees by whom it is most probable that these amendments were added unto it and for the passing of which the said Bill was at this time sent down to the House of Commons having formerly passed that House and been sent up from thence to the Lords before the aforesaid new amendments had been added by them on Monday last past being the 7 th day of this instant December The Bill touching the Lord Dacres and the Lord Norris was read prima vice Memorand That upon the Petition of the Lord Norris the Lords Ordered that he and the Lord Dacres with their Council should be heard upon Saturday next to Answer the said Bills Memorand That touching the former Order Entred primo die Decembris concerning James Diggs for that there wanted words for the discharge of the Bond and Sureties of the said James Diggs This day the Lords Ordered that the appearance of the said James Diggs by rendring himself in the Exchequer was and should be a sufficient discharge of his Sureties and their Bonds and that the Bonds should be redelivered and that this Order should be added to the former Order Memorand That where the said James Diggs exhibited to the Court a Bill of complaint in form of supplication against Sir Roger Manwood Knight Lord Chief Baron the Lords having heard the Parties and the Witnesses of M r Diggs and deliberately considered the Contents thereof with one consent agreed and adjudged that the said complaint was untrue and unjustifiable against the Lord Chief Baron And further Ordered that the said James Diggs by humble submission and open recognition should confess and acknowledge his fault And that the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Lumley the Lord North and the Lord S t John of Bletsoe the Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Gawdy should peruse and consider the said recognition whether it were made in due form and that then it should be Entred on Record Vide touching this matter on Tuesday the first day of this instant December foregoing On Tuesday the 15 th day of December four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for confirmation of her Majesties Letters Patents granted to Queens-Colleà ge in Oxford was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum This day James Diggs Gent. did according to their Lordships Order made yesterday humbly submit himself in manner and form following as it stands Entred upon Record in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament The humble Submission of James Diggs unto the High Court of Parliament as well for his contempt unto the said Court as unto Sir Roger Manwood Lord Chief Baron by his untrue and unadvised Speeches in his Bill of complaint Whereas I James Diggs did of late exhibite a Bill of complaint unto your honourable Lordships in this High Court of Parliament against the said Lord Chief Baron wherein amongst other things is contained as followeth that is to say That the said Lord Chief Baron doth still continue an obstinate intention to frustrate your Lordships honourable Order taken for the discharging of the great Bonds of the said James Diggs his Sureties boldly saying that the same your Lordships honourable Order should be undone or brought about again as by the said Bill of complaint doth appear And whereas also it pleased your most honourable Lordships upon the humble Petition of me the said James Diggs to call before your honourable Lordships that Witness which I the said James Diggs did avow for the proof of the Allegations before rehearsed in the said Bill of Complaint against the said Lord Chief Baron which Witness being heard and examined at large touching the said Allegations with the circumstances of the same openly before your honourable Lordships in this High Court of Parliament it hath plainly and evidently appeared that there was no such obstinate intention in the said Lord Chief Baron nor that he did utter the said words or Speeches above-mentioned Whereupon it hath pleased your honourable Lordships to Order that I the said James Diggs should before your Lordships openly in this honourable Court of Parliament recognize my fault for this my untrue and unadvised complaint against him Wherefore I the said James Diggs being now heartily sorry for my said untrue and unadvised complaint in the Speeches aforesaid exhibited against the Lord Chief Baron do openly before your Lordships in this most High Court of Parliament consess and acknowledge my said offence in my said unadvised and untrue complaint made against the said Lord Chief Baron And do here before your Lordships heartily pray and desire the said Lord Chief Baron to remit and forget my said offence in my untrue and unadvised complaint made against him and withal do most humbly beseech all your Lordships to pardon my contempt and offence committed to this most High Court in exhibiting unto your Lordships of the said unadvised and untrue complaint Vide the former proceedings of this case of James Diggs Gentleman on Tuesday the first day and on Monday the 14 th day of this instant December foregoing Nota also That there is no continuance or adjournment of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor in usual form entred in the Original Journal-Book which seemeth to have happened through the negligence of the Clerk of the Parment but it is easie to be conjectured the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto nine of the Clock in the forenoon of Wednesday next following On Wednesday the 16 th day of December two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against scandalous Libelling was read secundâ vice and committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Archbishop of York the Lord Treasurer and others the Master of the Rolls the two Chief Justices the Queens Serjeant and Attorney Nota That here not only the Judges which are but Assistants to the Lords but also the Queens Council which are but meer Attendants upon the upper House are made joynt Committees with the Lords On Thursday the 17 th day of December the Bill for restitution in blood of Thomas Howard Son of Thomas Howard late Dake of Norfolk was read primâ vice And the same Bill was again read secundà tertiâ vice and by all the Lords concluded and sent to the House of Commons by two Doctors being Masters of the Chancery Nota The speedy passing of this Bill by vouchsasing of it three readings at one time each after other did express the special desire of the Lords to pass this Bill with as much honour as lay in them to do Eight other Bills of no great moment
Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo primo die Decembris Anno Regni nostri vicesimo septimo Nota That by these Letters Patents the Parliament was adjourned forty four days viz. from Monday the 21 th day of December unto Thursday the 4 th day of February ensuing From which as also from many other like Precedents it appeareth that it is and always hath been the power of the Prince not only to summon dissolve and prorogue but also to adjourn his Parliament at his pleasure yet this must be done either by himself in person or by matter of Record yet it is also in the power of either House when they shall think it expedient to adjourn it self The meeting of the two Houses at the end of this foresaid Adjournment was in such manner as it useth to be at the end of a Prorogation without all Solemnity and Pomp yet with this difference At the end of every Prorogation a new Session beginneth though the same Parliament continueth but at the end of an Adjournment there beginneth neither new Session nor new Parliament but be the Adjournment for one day or for many the business is so entred upon at the next meeting as it was left and as it stood at the time of the Adjournment Yet because the Adjournment was for so many days I have caused all the Names of the Lords who were present this Thursday following being the 4 th day of February to be transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book which course though it be usually observed in all these Journals at the beginning only of a new Parliament or at least of a new Session yet it is in one respect somewhat necessary at the beginning of this new meeting after the Adjournment because the presence of the Lords on this said ensuing Thursday though it appears not that any new Proxies were returned which is usual after a long Adjournment as well as after a Prorogation differeth much from that former number of the Lords noted to have been present on Tuesday the 26 th day of November foregoing as may appear by this which followeth On Thursday the 4 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Monday the 21 th day of December last past by her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal adjourned the Lords and Commons repaired each of them without all manner of Pomp or Solemnity to their several Houses and there fell upon such ordinary business as had been left unperfected at their last Adjournment The Names of the Lords who were this day present in the Upper House being as followeth out of the Original Journal-Book Archiepiscopus Cantuar. Archiepiscopus Eboracen Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Marchio Winton Comites Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerarius Comes Leicester Magnus Seneschallus Comes Kantiae Comes Sussex Vice-Comes Mountague Episcopi Episcopus Winton Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Oxon. Episcopus Meneven Barones Dominus Zouch Dominus Willoughbie Dominus Dacres Dominus Cobham Dominus Stourton Dominus Mountjoy Dominus Wentworth Dominus Borough Dominus Cromwell Dominus Evers Dominus Rich. Dominus Darcy de Chiche Dominus North. Dominus Hunsdon Dominus de la Ware Dominus Compton Dominus Norris This day also three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of her Majesties Letters Patents granted to the Queens Colledge in Oxford was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by two Serjeants at Law And the last being the Bill for the Savoy was read secunda vice commissa Archiepiscopis Cantuar Eboracen Dominis Thesaurario Seneschallo Comitibus Kantiae Bedford Episcopis London Winton Dominis North Hunsdon Baroni Shute Servienti Gawdy On Saturday the 6 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued returnatum fuit breve quo Episcopus Wigorn. praesenti Parliamento summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae in Parliamento sedendi locum salvo jure alieno The Bill also against Jesuits Seminary Priests and other such like disobedient persons was read prima vice commissa Archrepiscopo Cantuar. Domino Thesaurario Domino Senesebatio Comiti Kantiae Comiti Bedford Episcopo London Episcopo Winton Episcopo Sarisburien Domino Camerario Domino Cobham Domino North Domino Hunsdon Domino Primario Justiciario Baroni Shute On Monday the 8 th day of February the Bill for the paving of Lewes was read secunda vice commissa On Tuesday the 9 th day of February Returnatum suit breve quo Thomas Dominus Darcy de Chiche praesenti Parliamento summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae in Parliamento sedendi locum salvo jure alieno Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was the Bill that Parsonages impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses The matter which had been debated on Tuesday the 7 th day of March in the last Parliament de anno 23 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1580. between M r Oughtred and the Lord Marquess of Winchester concerning certain accompts was again this Tuesday Morning brought into the Upper House before the Lords who for the more speedy ending of the same committed it with the consent of the parties unto the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Hartford Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Lumley and the Lord North. And it is Ordered that the said Lords should hear and end the matter between the Parties if they could or otherwise to make report thereof to the whole House and appointed the Lord Chief Justice of England Justice Windham and Serjeant Gawdy to attend the Lords Vide plus concerning this matter on Thursday the 4 th day of March ensuing Nota That here the Judges and the Queens Council are not nominated as joint Committees with the Lords but only appointed to attend upon them which is very rare in any Parliaments of the Queens time until in Anno 39 43 Reginae ejusdem On Wednesday the 10 th day of February four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill that Parsonages impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses was read prima vice On Thursday the 11 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the better foundation and relief of the Hospital of Eastbridge in the City of Canterbury was read prima vice Five Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for paving Newark upon Trent in the County of Nottingham Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox
horâ consuetâ On Monday the 15 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing four Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was a Bill for returning of Justices Jurors and for expedition of Trials The Lords Ordered that Edward Fisher and Katherine his Wife should personally appear before them on Wednesday next the 17 th day of this instant February for the better satisfying of their Lordships of their consent to the passing of a Bill Entituled An Act for the assurance of certain Lands unto George Chewne Giles Flood Christopher Puckering and their Heirs Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 17 th day of this instant February ensuing The Lords also Ordered that the Master of the Rolls the Lord Chief Baron Justice Gawdy and Baron Shute should have the hearing of the matter of the Writ of Error between Akrode c. and M r Whawley On Tuesday the 16 th day of February Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the continuance of a former Statute Intituled An Act to redress disorders in common Informers upon penal Laws made in the eighteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading and had been brought to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill against Class-Houses and making of Glass by Aliens born On Wednesday the 17 th day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last save one being the Bill concerning the Lord Dacres and the Lord Norris was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rodes and the Queens Attorney Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon At which time as the Lords had Ordered M r Edward Fisher with his Councel viz. M r Serjeant Walmesley and M r Cowper appeared before them The Lords having heard the consent of the said Edward Fisher to the passing of the Bill Intituled Au Act for the assurance of certain Lands unto George Chewne c. and their Heirs committed again the said Edward Fisher to the Custody of the Warden of the Fleet and further Ordered that the bringing of the said Edward Fisher before their Lordships at their Commandment should not in any wise be prejudicial to the said Warden The said Edward Fisher and his Councel made two Petitions to the Lords the one that the Preamble of the Act alledging the cause of the making of the same Act to be for doubtfulness of his ill dealing because he was judged in the Star-Chamber to have made two false and forged Writings to the prejudice of the said Bargains might be amended and that the same might be taken out of the Act and not to remain in perpetual memory of his shame for ever The second that Serjeant Puckering to whose behalf the said Lands were sold having him and his Lands in Execution upon a Statute of eight thousand pound for not performance of the Covenants of the same yet also enjoying the Lands sold would release him the said Execution and take a new Statute in that behalf to which the said Serjeant Puckering whom the cause chiefly concerned being present by the appointment of the Lords answered as to the first request That if to alter or take out of the said Act the said Preamble being parcell of the Bill and matter passed from the House of Commons to this Honourable House in that form should be no hurt or prejudice to the Bill so passed from the Lower House to the Lords he was well content therewith and therein submitted himself to their honourable Lordships And as to the second Request he Answered That whensoever the said Edward Fisher shall have cleared and discharged the said Lands and Tenements by him bargained and sold as aforesaid of and from all Statutes Staple and Recognizances charges and incumbrances liable or chargeable upon the same then he having a new like Recognizance in nature of a Statute Staple made unto him by the said Edward Fisher of the sum of eight thousand pound for performance of Covenants mentioned in the said Indenture of Bargain and Sale from thenceforth to be performed unto which Recognizance all the Lands and Tenements of the said Edward Fisher which shall not be sold for the payment of his Debts shall be liable and chargeable and that there were no former Statutes and Recognizances knowledged by the said Edward Fisher to the prejudice of the same he was contented then after that done to discharge the said new Execution having and takeing a new Recognizance in form aforesaid Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 15 th day of this instant February foregoing On Thursday the 18 th day of February Nine Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the two first were upon the third reading concluded and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rolls and D r Carey the one being the Bill to explain the Statute concerning Tellors and Receivors c. made An. 13 Reginae Eliz. and the other being for the better relief of the Hospital of Eastbridge within the City of Canterbury Nota That the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons sets down a third Bill assented unto and concluded at this time The last of the said Bills touching divers Assurances made by the Bishop and Dean and Chapter of Exeter was read secunda vice commissa Archiepiscopo Eboracen Comiti Sussex Episcopo Exon. Domino Stourton Domino Buckhurst On Saturday the 20 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued a Proviso added by the House of Commons to the Bill concerning certain assurances of Sir Thomas Lucy and others was read and concluded The Bill also to make a Fine levied by Peter Heam and Johan his Wife and Tredolias Leza and his Wife during the Minority of the said Johan and Anne to be void against the said Anne was read secundâ vice The Lords appointed Monday next in the Afternoon for the hearing of the Cause and have given Order that the Parties shall have warning to be then there with their Councel by two of the Clock in the Afternoon Five other Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for the well-ordering and governing of the Savoy was read the third time and sent to the House of Commons On Monday the 22 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for preservation of Grain and Game with
another Bill against Moor-burning in the Counties of Northumberland Cumberland Westmerland and Durham with an amendment added unto it by the Lords were upon the third reading sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rolls and Doctor Ford. Three Bills also had each of them one reading being brought from the House of Commons of which the first was for redress of erroneous Judgments in the Court called the Kings-Bench Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon at which time the Lords Assembling themselves two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being against Glass-Houses and making of Glass by Aliens born was read the first time This Afternoon also the Lords having heard the Councel of both Parties touching the Bill Intituled An Act to make a Fine levied by Peter Heam and Johan his Wife and Tredolias Leza and Anne his Wife during the minority of the said Johan and Anne to be void against the said Anne for a more speedy end of the said cause with the consent of the said Parties committed the matter to the hearing of certain of the Lords which should be named by the Parties themselves The Plaintiff Anne did chuse the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Arundell the Bishop of Salisbury and the Lord North and M r Vinion the Defendant chose the Lord Steward the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of Exeter and the Lord Buckhurst And further Ordered that the said Lords should end the matter between the Parties if they could and if they could not then to certifie the State of the matter as they found it to the whole House And the Lord Chief Justice and the Lord Chief Baron were appointed to attend the Lords On Tuesday the 23 th day of February Six Bill s of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the furtherance of Justice was read prima vice Two Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was concerning the Jointure of the Countess of Huntington On Wednesday the 24 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the better assurance of her Majesties Letters Patents granted for the better foundation of the Hospital called Sherborn-House was read prima vice Commissa Archiepiscopo Eboracen Episcopo London Domino Darcy Domino Evers the Lord Chief Baron and Justice Gawdy On Thursday the 25 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of her Majesties Letters Patents to the Masters Fellows and Scholars of Clare-Hall in Cambridge was read secunda vice but no mention is made whether it was Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees On Saturday the 27 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued the Bill for following of Hue and Cry was read secunda vice and committed to one Earl three Lords the Lord Chief Baron and one Judge Where still Nota the Judges are joint Committees with the Lords One Bill also touching Plymouth-Haven was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons And three other Bills of no great moment the first concerning Rochester-Bridge was read secunda vice On Monday the first day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for returning of sufficient Jurors for the better expediting of Trials was read tertia vice and concluded The Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Rodes were appointed Committees to hear the matter between M r Vinion and M r Tredolias Leza and his Wife and Commission given to the said Committees to end the matter between the Parties if they could and if they could not then the Parties with their Councel to be before the Lords at this House upon Thursday next Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests c. was read secunda vice with certain Amendments and a Proviso added by the Lords On Wednesday the third day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Monday foregoing Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests c. with the Amendments and Provisoes added by the Lords was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjcant Rodes and the Queens Attorney Two Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill for the repairing and maintenance of the Sea-Banks and Sea-Works on the Sea-Coast in the County of Norf. Committees were appointed to hear the matter between the Lord Willoughby and M r Heronden who were chosen by the Parties themselves viz. the Earl of Kent and the Lord Zouch for the Lord Willoughby and Viscount Mountague and the Lord Cobham for M r Heronden And the Lords further Ordered that the said Lords Committees should end the matter between the said Parties if they could Committees lastly were this day Chosen to examine the Record touching passing Amendments of Amendments moved by the House of Commons viz. the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Suff. Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Hunsdon the Lord Buckhurst the Master of the Rolls and M r Attorney about the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day to which the House of Commons had added Amendments upon Amendments The Precedents they named were the Bills for Treasons and bringing in of Bulls Acts passed in Anno 13 o of the Queen Nota That this Bill concerning the Sabbath as hath been before observed was long in passing the two Houses and much debated betwixt them being committed and Amendments upon Amendments added unto it which as appeareth in this place was the cause of some Disputation between the Lords and the said Commons Of the other several Passages of this Bill Vide on Monday the 7 th day Tuesday the 8 th day Wednesday the 9 th day Monday the 14 th day and on Saturday the 19 th day of December foregoing As also on Thursday the 4 th day Saturday the 6 th day and on Saturday the 13 th day of this instant March following Nota also That the Master of the Rolls and the Queens Attorney being no Members of the Upper House are here made joint-Committees with the Lords On Thursday the 4 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands in the Counties of Norsolk Suff. Lincoln and Warwick unto the Lord Willoughby of Willoughby
and Erisby against the Heirs and Assigns of M r Heronden was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Gawdy and Serjeant Rolls Memorandum That this day before the passing of my Lord Willoughbies Act Edward Heronden came before the Lords and gave his Assent thereunto Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the third day of this instant March foregoing Saturday next was appointed by the House for the appearance of M r Oughtred and the Earl of Sussex and Viscount Mountague appointed to talk with the Lady Marchioness about the assurance of her Jointure by a Parliament Nota That this matter was formerly debated on Tuesday the 7 th day of March in the last Parliament de anno 23 Reginae Eliz. and before also in this present Parliament on Tuesday the 9 th day of February last past when Committees were appointed about it Vide also on Monday the 29 th day of this instant March following M r Vinions matter of which Vide antca on Monday the first day of this instant March foregoing was again referred to the Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Rodes The Bill lastly for redress of erroneous Judgment in the Kings-Bench was read tertia vice communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa Sir Christopher Wray Knight Lord Chief Justice of England brought in also a certain Record touching a Writ of Error according to a Bill preferred to her Majesty and Signed with her Highness hand concerning the same Which see at large on Monday the 8 th day of this instant March following For though it was this day brought into the Upper-House yet it is likely it was not there publickly read until the said Monday and therefore it is Entred at large on that day in the Original Journal-Book upon which it was read and not upon this day when it was brought into the House by the Lord Chief Justice as aforesaid On Friday the 5 th day of March Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for following of Hue and Cry was read tertia vice communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa On Saturday the 6 th day of March Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath to which the Lords having formerly added some Amendments had sent it back to the House of Commons where it first passed on Monday the 14 th day of December foregoing And upon this instant Saturday the said Commons sent it back again to the Lords with new Amendments upon their Amendments which said new Amendments of the Commons their Lordships did this Morning pass without further Disputation having read them prima secunda tertia vice Vide concerning this Bill of the Sabbath on Monday the 7 th day Tuesday the 8 th day Wednesday the 9 th day Monday the 14 th day and Saturday the 19 th day of December foregoing As also on Wednesday the third day of this instant March last past and on Saturday the 13 th day of the same Month ensuing In all which days it will appear fully how hardly and difficultly it passed either House And yet at last when it was agreed on by both the said Houses it was dashed by her Majesty at the last day of this Parliament upon that prejudicated and ill followed Principle as may be conjectured that she would suffer nothing to be altered in matter of Religion or Ecclesiastical Government Vide itidem on Thursday the 18 th day of this instant March following Memorandum That whereas Ferdinando Clark one of the Ordinary Gentlemen of the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Leicester Lord Steward was committed to the Prison commonly called the Kings-Bench upon a Reddit se in the Kings-Bench for the discharge of his Sureties since the beginning of this present Parliament the Lords at the Motion of the Lord North in the name of the Lord Steward claiming the ancient priviledge of this High Court after the hearing of the Cause between the said Ferdinando and one John Lacy Citizen of London Ordered that the said Ferdinando by vertue of the priviledge of this High Court should be enlarged and set at liberty And further for as much as the said Ferdinando was not Arrested in Execution at the suit of the said John Lacy but was committed after Judgment by the Lord Chief Justice and the rest of the Justices of the Kings-Bench upon a Reddit se for discharge of his Sureties and their Bonds the said Lords Ordered that touching the sum of money recovered by the said John Lacy against the said Ferdinando Clark should stand to such order and mitigation therein as the said Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench shall set down and order for the same And further Ordered that the appearance of the said Ferdinando Clark by rendring himself into the said Court of Kings-Bench was and should be a sufficient discharge of his Sureties and their Bonds and that the Bonds should be redelivered And it was further Ordered that ..... Catesby Marshal of the Kings-Bench should be discharged of the Prisoner and of any Action that might be brought against the said Marshal for the same On Monday the 8 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Record touching a Writ of Error which the Lord Chief Justice had brought into the Upper House on Thursday the 4 th day of this instant March foregoing was Entred in the Original Journal-Book and as it should seem read publickly in the House being in manner and form following Memorandum quod Christopherus Wray Miles Capitalis Justiciarius de Banco Regis secum adduxit in Cameram Parliamenti inter Dominos Breve de errore Billam per Reginam indorsat ' Rotul ' in quibus supponebatur error ibidem reliquit transcriptum totius Recordi cum Clerico Parliamenti simul cum praedicto Breve de Errore in Parliamento Et super hoc venerunt Richardus Harbert Johannes Awbery Willielmus Filian Simon Browne in propriis personis suis in Parliamento statim dixerunt quod in Recordo processu praedictis ac etiam in redditione Judicii praedicti manifestè est erratum in hoc quod posiquam Judicium praedictum in loqkela hac versus praefatum Thomam Gonnel redditum fait antequam praedictus Joh. Hunt hunc prosecutus suit impetravit praedictum primum breve de seire facias versus praefatum Richardum Harbert Johannem Awbery Willielmum Filian Simonem Browne Manucaptores praedicti Thomae Gonnell nullum breve de Cap. ad satisfaciendum pro debito damnis praedictis per praefatum Johannem Hunt in placito praedicto prosecutum returnatum suit versus praefatum Thomam Gonnell ubi per consuetudinem Curiae dictae Dominae Reginae coram ipsa
Regina ac tempore cujus contrarii memoria hominum non existit in eadem usitat approbat breve de Cap. ad satisfaciendum versus cundem Tho. Gonnell pro debito damnis praedictis in placito praedicto prosequi returnari deberet antequam aligned breve de seire facias versus manucaptores praedictos in loquela illa impetrari seu prosequi deberet licet consuetudo sorma captionis recognitionum in Curia praedict a usae suerunt in sorma praedicta viz. Si contigerit cundem Thomam Gonnel in placito praedicto convinci tunc iidem Manucaptores concesserunt quilibet corum per se concessit tam debitum praedictum quà m omnia hujusmodi damna nune custag ' quae praesato Johanni Hunt in ea parte adjudicentur de terris Catallis suis cerum 〈◊〉 it sieri ad opus praedicti Johannis Hunt 〈◊〉 si consigerit praedictum Thomam Gonnell debitum damna illa praefato Johanni Hunt minimè 〈◊〉 aut si pri onae Marescal ' Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina ea occasione non reddere c. Et peturt iidem Richardus Harbert Johannes Awbery Willielmus Filian Simon Browne quod Judicium praedictum processus super 〈◊〉 praedicta de seire 〈◊〉 prosecut in Curia dict' Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina revocetur adnulletur penitus pro nullis habeatur Et super hoc Domini per 〈◊〉 Justiciariorum post longam maturam deliverationem uno consensu adjudicaverunt ..... quod judicium praedictum processus super brevia praedicta de scire sac ' prosecut ' in Curia dictae Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina revocetur adnulletur penitus pro nullis habcatur On Wednesday the 10 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Monday last continued Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents made unto the Dean and Chapter of Norwich was read prima vice Six Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for Provision to be made for the Surety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the continuance of the Realm in Peace was read prima vice On Thursday the 11 th day of March Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the last recited Bill for Surety of the Queens Royal Person c. was read secunda vice And the second being the Bill for the good Government of the City and Borough of Westminster in the County of Middlesex was read tertia vice with a Schedule and certain Amendments quae communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa dat' Doctori Barkeley Servienti Rolls in Domum Communem deferend Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon About which hour the Lords Spiritual and Temporal meeting six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill concerning the Lady Marchioness of Winchesters Jointure was read secunda vice commissa to the Master of the Rolls and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas For as much as in the matter depending now in Parliament by Writ of Error brought by John Akerode Thomas Stanfeild and divers others against Richard Whalley Defendant for reversing of certain Errors supposed by the said Plaintiff to be in the said Defendants Grandfathers form of Pleading and other things in his Recovery of the Mannor of Eringden in the County of York it hath appeared to this honourable Court by the Certificate of the Lords Chief Justices the Master of the Rolls and others being by this Honourable Court appointed Committees to hear and examine the matter privately before them that the Writ of Error and the scire facias are insufficient in Law for divers Causes opened to this Court. Therefore it is Ordered by the Lords that the same Writ of Error shall abate and the Plaintiffs to pursue their further remedy as they shall thing good On Saturday the 13 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued the Bill for Provision to be made for the Surety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the continuance of the Realm in Peace was read tertia vice quae communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa with one amendment in the 44. line that is after this word left put out so as and in place thereof put in foreseeing that This amendment was made after the third reading and before the Bill was put to the question and was delivered to Doctor Barkeley and Serjeant Rodes to be carried to the Lower House with the Bill for the better observing of the Sabbath day with request for that there are whole Sentences inserted into the said Bill for the Sabbath day and the Bill would remain a very soul Record it might be fair written again Vide concerning this Bill of the Sabbath on Wednesday the third day and on Saturday the 6 th day of this instant March foregoing Two other Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Oxford-Haven was read tertia vice expedita Four Bills lastly were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty On Monday the 15 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued prima secunda tertia vice lecta est schedula of the amendments of the Bill against Jesuits sent from the House of Commons quae communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa est with an Addition to the said Schedule added by them of the House of Commons data Doctori Barkeley Servienti Rolles in Domum Communem deferend Six several Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Consirmation of the Subsidy of six shillings in the pound granted by the Clergy was read prima vice commissa ad ingrossandum Three Bills lastly were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the renewing continuance explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon about which time the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the payment and satisfaction of the Debt of William last Lord Marquess of Winchester deceased due to the Queens Majesty was read prima vice On Tuesday the 16 th day of March Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the
only the said Elected Knights who as those also who opposed them brought their Councel on both sides and were fully heard what they could say After which also Mr. Recorder and himself desiring fully to inquire into this matter had conferred and devised therein with the Clerk of the Crown-Office in the Chancery and comparing those Records together with some of the Statutes Ordained in those Cases they do find such difference in them tending to matter of effect and to be Answered by the Sheriff if there be cause and not for any matter in their opinions for this House to deal with whereby to cassate or make void the said Election as they take it And yet because that resteth now chiefly upon matter of Precedents to see further how this House may decide this cause he declared that Mr. Recorder and he will make further search of the Precedents in like Cases with the Clerk of the higher House for that purpose and then further to advertise this House as cause shall require Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 8 th day and on Saturday the 12 th day of this instant December foregoing The Bill for the preservation of the Haven of Plymouth was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Francis Drake M r Wroth Mr. Edgcombe and others who were appointed to meet the third day of the next sitting of this Court in Lincolns-Inn Hall in the Afternoon of the same day A new Bill that Parsonages impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses was read the first time Mr. Sollicitor touching the excessive number of penal Laws in force very intolerable to the Subjects neither possible to be kept and yet not any put in Execution as that for Apparel in King H. 8. his time and such like moved that a Committee be had of some selected Members of this House learned in the Laws to make a view of the same Laws against the next sitting of this Court after the Adjournment of the same to the end that this House may then thereupon proceed to some course of diminishing the great number of the same as upon due considerations in that behalf to be had shall be further thought meet and convenient And thereupon were named and chosen for that purpose all the Privy-Council being of this House Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Morrice Mr. Sandes Mr. Attorney of the Wards and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday before the next Term in the Afternoon in Lincolns-Inn Hall The Bill for paving of the Town of Newark upon Trent after the third reading passed upon the question Mr. Treasurer and the residue of the Committees returning from the Lords he declared that they have received some Answer from their Lordships upon the Conference and referred the report thereof to Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer as unto whom the same was by their said Lordships appointed to be delivered over unto this House Whereupon Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer declared that their Lordships had caused the said Notes in writing to be read in the House and their Lordships found the said grievances to concern but some particular Countries and not the whole Realm to wit the Countries only of Warwick Lincoln and Essex and therefore might be considered to be reformed in time by some other convenient means But being Answered by the Committees of this House that albeit there were Petitions in writing exhibited but for these three Counties yet by Motions and Speeches in the House it well appeared to be the grief of the whole Realm Which their Lordships having understood did feelingly express how sensible they were of it and how truly they did join with us of the House of Commons in wishing the reformation thereof and were now ready to aid us with their best assistances therein as erst in the two last former Sessions of Parliament they had done at both which times her Majesty had thereupon Commanded some of the Lords of the Clergy to take care and consideration of the same causes wherein as little or nothing hath been done for case or redress of the same so their Lordships of the Upper House not minding to impute the fault thereof to any and yet remembring withal that their Lordships were present when her Majesty by the Mouth of the Lord Chancellor did give Commandment unto Mr. Speaker not to deal in the House of Commons with matters concerning Religion or the Church without her Highness pleasure first known and therefore do also take the same Commandment to extend as well to their Lordships as to this House have resolved that those of the Lords which are of her Majesties Privy-Council do first move her Highness to know her Majesties Pleasure therein before they proceed any further in the matter The Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and the Master of the Rolls being sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons and admitted into the said House the said Lord Chief Justice having in his hand a Commission under the Great Seal of England declared unto Mr. Speaker that her Majesty having given Authority by Commission under the Great Seal of England unto divers of my Lords the Bishops Earls and Barons of the Upper House to Adjourn this Parliament unto the 4 th day of February next coming the said Lords Commissioners have Adjourned the same in the Upper House and their Lordships have thereupon also sent them to this House to signifie the same Adjournment over unto this House that the Knights Citizens and Burgesses and Barons of this House may likewise take notice of the same Adjournment accordingly Which thing was also after their departure out of this House declared unto this House by Mr. Speaker And so thereupon this Court by Warrant and in sorm aforesaid was adjourned unto the said 4 th day of February next coming Which done M r Vice-Chamberlain standing up and putting the House in remembrance of her Majesties most Princely and loving kindnesses signified unto this House in the former Messages and Declarations of her Highnesses thankful acceptations of the dutiful cares and travails of this House in the Service of her Majesty and the Realm moved the House that besides the rendring of our most humble and Loyal thanks unto her Highness we do being assembled altogether joyn our hearts and minds together in most humble and earnest prayer unto Almighty God for the long continuance of the most prosperous preservation of her Majesty with most due and thankful acknowledgment of his infinite benefits and blessings poured upon this whole Realm through the mediation of her Highnesses Ministry unde him And he said he had a Paper in writing in his hand devised and set down by an honest godly and learned man and which albeit it was not very well written yet he would willingly read it as well as he could if it pleased them to follow and say after him as
Stourton Dominus Darcie Dominus Sandes Dominus Windsor Dominus Wentworth Dominus Borough Dominus Cromwell Dominus Evers Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby de Parham Dominus Darcie de Chiche Dominus Shandois Dominus S t John Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Delaware Dominus Compton Dominus Cheney Dominus Norris The Lords being all set in this Order in their Parliament-Robes and the Judges placed with other Attendants and Assistants of the Upper House being also before the said Lords Commissioners had taken their places on the right side of the Chair of State the Lord Chancellor shewed forth the Queens Majesties Letters Patents by which She committed full Power to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England and the Earl of Darby to supply her place in the said Parliament which were as followeth viz. Hodie cùm omnes Proceres Robis Parliamentaribus induti in suo Loco quisque sederent Milites Cives Burgenses qui ad hoc praesens Parliamentum summoniti fuerunt praesso essent jam universt tam Proceres quà m Communes Reginae adventum expectarent Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius exponit omnibus Regiam Majestatem maximis urgentissimis causis adeò esse impeditam ut non queat impraesentiarum commodè interesse ut decreverat Nihilominus inquit sua Majestas Literis suis Patentibus plenam potestatem commisit Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Johanni Cantuar. Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac praedilecto fideli suo Willielmo Domino de Burleigh Domino Thesaurario Angliae ac charissimo Consanguineo suo Henrico Comiti Darbiae ad facienda nomine suo omnia singula quae in dicto Parliamento gerenda essent ut per easdem Liter as Patentes 〈◊〉 apparet quas hiis dictis Dominus Cancellarius Clerico Parliamentar publicè legendas tradidit Earum autem tenor sequitur in haec verba ELizabetha Dei graetiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei Defensor c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd cùm de advisamento Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae ae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernen quoddam Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonaster 29 o die instant mensis Octobris teneri ordinavimus quia verò propter certas causas ad Parliamentum praedictum non potuerimus interesse nos de circumspectione sideliate industria Reverendissimi in Christo Patris Johannis Cantuar. Archiepiscopi totius Angliae Primat Metropolitan ac praedilecti fidelis nostri Willielmi Domini de Burleigh Domini Thesaurarii Angliae ac charissimi Consanguinei nostri Henrici Comitis Darbiae plenam fiduciam reportand eisdem Archiepiscopo Willielmo Domino de Burleigh Henrico Comiti Darbiae duobus eorum ad Parliamentum praedictum nomine meo inchoand tenend negotiáque praedict exponend declarand ac exponi declarari faciend necnon in negotiis illis Parliamento praedicto ac omnibus sin gulis in eo procedend ad faciend omnia singula quae pro nobis per nos pro bono regimine gubernatione praedicti Regni nostri Angliae ac aliorum Dominiorum nostrorum eidem Regno nostro pertinen ibid. fuerint faciend necnon ad Parliamentum illud si necesse fuerit continuand adjournand prorogand de assensu Concilii nostri praedicti plenam tenore praesentium committimus prtestatem Dante 's ulteriùs de assensu ejusdem Concilii nostri tam universis singulis Archiepiscopis Episcopis Comitibus Vicecomitibus Baronibus Militibus quà m omnibus aliis quorum interest ad Parliamentum nostrum praedictum conventur similit tenore praesentium firmiter in Mandatis Quòd eisdem Archiepiscopo Willielmo Domino Burleigh Henrico Comiti Darbiae duobus eorum intendant in praemissis in fornia praedicta In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras sieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo octavo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri vicesimo octavo Per ipsam Reginam c. The Letters Patents foregoing being read the said three Lords Commissioners leaving their own places went to a Seat prepared for them on the right side of the Chair of State beneath the steps Then the said Lord Chancellor going first to the said Lords and conferring a while with them went to his accustomed place and there made intimation of the Cause of this present Summons of Parliament which as he said were no usual Causes not for making of Laws whereof her Majesty thought there were more made than were duly executed nor for Fifteenths and Subsidies although there were some cause yet her Majesty would not charge her loving Subjects so far at this time But that the cause was rare and extraordinary of great weight great peril and dangerous consequence Then he declared what dangerous practices had been contrived of late and how miraculously the Providence of God had by discovery thereof beyond all humane Policy preserved her Majesty the destruction of whose Sacred Person was most traiterously compassed and imagined Here he shewed what misery the loss of so Noble a Queen would have brought to all Estates and said That although some of them had suffered according to their demerits yet one remained that by due course of Law had received her Sentence which was the chief cause of this Assembly and wherein her Majesty required their faithful advice and therefore said he you may orderly proceed therein And you of the House of Commons are to make present choice of some one amongst you to be your Speaker and to present him unto the Lords Lieutenants as soon as conveniently you may Assoon as the Lord Chancellor had ended his Speech the Clerk of the Parliament stood up and read the Names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions in French which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland France and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Knight Lord Chief Justice Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Gawdy Knight one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Awberry and Doctor Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Knight Lord Chief Baron Francis Windham one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Barkeley and Doctor Cary. Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Darby Lord High Steward of England the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Howard of Essingham Lord High Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton Tryors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles the Archbishop of York the Earl
read Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Thursday the 10 th day of November the Lords Committees made report unto the whole House that they of the House of Commons upon hearing the Sentence and divers of the special Evidences and Proofs whereupon the Sentence was grounded openly read unto them after long deliberation and consultation had betwixt them both publickly and privately they all with one assent allowed the same Sentence to be just true and honourable and that they humbly desired their Lordships to make choice of such number of Lords as their Lordships should think meet to joyn with them in Petition to her Majesty Whereupon their Lordships made choice of the said Lords following viz. the Lord Chancellor the Lord Treasurer the Lord High Chamberlain the Lord Steward the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Kent the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Pembroke and the Earl of Hartford the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Abergavenny the Lord Zouch the Lord Morley the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Lumley the Lord de la Ware and the Lord Norris Memorandum That the Commons House made request to have the Petition assented unto by both the Houses to be introlled in the Parliament Roll the which the Lords thought better to defer until her Majesties liking or misliking were first had of the same Dominus Cancellarius adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Martis prox horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 15 th day of November the Lord Chancellor declared unto the whole House the order of proceeding of Committees in presenting the Petition unto her Highness and that her Majesties Answer was in so eloquent and goodly sort and with words so well placed that he would not take upon him to report it as it was uttered by her Majesty but that the effect was that her Highness highly thanked her so dutiful and loving Subjects for their great care and tender zeal that they shewed to have of her safety and were it not in respect of them and of the state of the Realm and maintenance of the true Religion she would not ..... And that her Highness did well know the greatness of the peril and the dangerous practice attempted against her Person and that her Majesty did acknowledge it to be the maintaining and defending hand of him that hath delivered her so often and from so great perils Her Highness concluded it was a Cause of great moment and required good deliberation and that she could not presently give Answer unto them but that her Highness would shortly deliver it to some of her Privy Council which should declare unto them her Highnesses mind And thus her Highness answered This day further the Lord Chancellor signified unto the Lords that on Monday her Majesty commanded him to require the Lords to advise amongst them if some other course might be taken without proceeding to the extremity of Execution which her Highness could better like of if any such might be found and that her Highness looked for Answer from their Lordships Nota That the whole entrance of this days business viz. the Lord Chancellors Report of the Queens Answer is crossed in the Original Journal-Book but remaineth as legible as any other part except a few interlined words but by the whole course following that ought to stand which is crossed for without that the business following hath no coherence with the premisses Dominus Cancellarius adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox horâ consuetâ Die Sabbati 19 Die Novembris Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Martis prox horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 22 d day of November after many Speeches which tended all to one effect which was that their Lordships in their opinions could not find any other way than was already set down in their Petition then the Lords agreed that the matter should be put to the question and being particularly asked every one his several voice answered with one Consent that they could find no other way The House of Commons came up and desired the Lords to be content to appoint some of the Lords to confer with them upon the Answer that was to be made to her Highness and to deliver the same to her Majesty Whereupon the Lords made choice of these Lords following viz. the Archbishops of Canterbury and York the Lord Treasurer c. And the said Lords upon Conference had with the Committee of the Lower House made report that the like question was propounded to them of the House of Commons and that they Answered all with one consent no man gainsaying that they could find none other way Whereupon the said Committees of both Houses agreed upon this Answer to be made to her Majesty That having often conferred and debated of that question according to her Highness Commandment they could find none other way than was set down in the Petition Which Answer for the Lords was delivered unto her Majesty by the Lord Chancellor and for the Commons by their Speaker at Richmond on Thursday the 24 th day of November Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Vcneris prox horâ nonâ On Friday the 25 th day of November the Lord Chancellor delivered her Maiesties Answer to the Lords to the last resolution the Effect whereof was as followeth viz. If said her Highness I should say unto you that I mean not to grant your Petition by my faith I should say unto you more than perhaps I mean And if I should say unto you that I mean to grant your Petition I should then tell you more than is fit for you to know And thus I must deliver you an Answer Answerless Whereas on the 7 th day of this instant Month of November whilst the Lords were in Consultation about the great matter of the Queen of Scots the Chief and only Cause of the Summons of this Parliament they of the House of Commons came up and desired Conference with some of the Lords of this House what number it should please their Lordships to appoint touching the said great cause which as they affirmed had been opened and declared unto them Whereupon the Lords made choice of divers Lords whose names see at large on Munday the 7 th day of this instant Month of November foregoing And to attend the said Lords were appointed the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas the Lord Chief Baron and Justice Gawdie the time and place of their meeting being in the very Parliament Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon and after often meeting and long Conferences had they agreed upon a form of Petition which by both the Houses should be presented unto her Majesty And that Choice should be made of a certain number of either House to prefer the same unto her Highness Which being reported to this House the Lords liked very
added viz. vicesimo nono In the fourth and last place the Printed Books of Statutes are likewise mistaken for Christopher Barker at this time Printer to the Queens Majesty who Printed the Statutes of this Parliament at large in Anno 1587. maketh no mention of any Parliament or meeting of Parliament in Anno 28 Regin Eliz. but mentioneth that Book of Statutes in this manner Anno 29 o Regin Eliz. at this present Session of Parliament holden by Prorogation at Westminster the 15 th day of February in the 29 th year of the Raign of our most gracious Soveraign Lady Elizabeth c. Whereas if he had intituled it truly it should have been thus At this present Parliament holden at Westminster the 29 th day of October in the 28 th and 29 th years of the Raign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lady Elizabeth c. M r Poulton also in his Abridgement of Statutes Printed by the Company of Stationers Anno Dom. 1612. setteth down a false Title before the Statutes of this Parliament viz. Statutes made at the Session of Parliament holden by Prorogation at Westminster the 29 th day of October Anno 28 Eliz. and Anno Dom. 1587. c. In which said Title there are these two notorious and gross mistakes The first in that he saith this Parliament was holden by Prorogation whereas the former Parliament held in Anno 27 o Regin Eliz. being dissolved upon the 14 th day of September in Anno 28 Regin ejusdem this Parliament begun and held in the said 28 th and 29 th years of her Majesty was newly Summoned and not held by Prorogation His second mistake is more gross than this in that he allots all these proceedings to the year of our Lord 1587. whereas both meetings did begin and end during the year 1586. reckoning the year to begin upon the 25 th day of March as in all the Journal-Books of Parliaments and the Printed Books of Statutes and all Records and private Instruments it is always observed All which may show how great inconvenience it may bring to take up things upon trust from others without searching out the truth seeing so many men in that which they were best skilled in and had doubtless so industriously travelled in yet should be so grosly mistaken for it is not worth the proof that this was an Adjournment and not a Prorogation seeing it is positively entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House on Friday the second day of December foregoing And likewise when the two Houses did meet again on Wednesday the 15 th day of February following the foresaid Journal-Book beginneth thus Die Mercurii 15 o die Februarii Domini tam Spirituales quà m Temporales quorum nomina subsequntur praesentes fuerunt Whereas if that meeting had been a new Session the Entrance ought to have been thus viz. Die Mercurii 15 o die Februarii in quem diem hoc praesens Parliamentum Prorogatum fuerat Proceres tam Spirituales auà m Temporales c. Or thus viz. In quem diem c. Sessio Parliament Prorogata fuit teneri inchoari apud Westminster die loco praedict Domini tam Spiritual quà m Temporal quorum nomina Subscribuntur praesentes fuerunt c. To which also may lastly be added that no Bill passing the two Houses in the first meeting of this Parliament nay for ought that can be gathered out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House no one Bill having so much as any reading there as hath been before observed and so no Royal Assent putting life into any one Law it could not be a Session but a meer meeting which continued from Saturday the 29 th of October unto Friday the second day of December in Annis 28 29. Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1586. This doubt being thus fully cleared and the mistakings upon which it grew being likewise discovered the residue of the Journal of this present Parliament upon the second meeting of the two Houses next ensueth On Wednesday the 15 th day of February Anno 29 o Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1586. to which day the Parliament had been on Friday the second day of December foregoing last Adjourned The two Houses met in their several places without any presence of the Queen or Solemnity amongst the Lords by coming in their Robes or any other Pomp whatsoever because this was neither new Parliament nor new Session but a meer new meeting of either House upon an Adjournment of the former meeting thereof which began on the 29 th day of October being Saturday in Anno 28 Regin Eliz. as is aforesaid Memorandum that this day Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas shewed forth to be publickly read a Commission directed unto him from her Majesty in which appeared that the Lord Chancellor was so visited at this time with sickness that he was not able to travel to the Upper House to supply his room and place there her Majesty minding the said room and place to be supplied in all things during the absence of the said Lord Chancellor hath appointed and authorized the said Sir Edmund Anderson during the absence of the said Lord Chancellor to supply his Room as by the Tenour of the said Commission here ensuing more fully appeareth ELizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Trusty and right Well-beloved Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Chief Justice of our Court of Common-Pleas Greeting Whereas our Right Trusty and Right Well-beloved Chancellor Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor of England is at this time so visited with Sickness that he is not able to travel to the Upper-House of this our present Parliament holden at Westminster nor there to supply the room and place in the said Upper-House among the Lords Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled as to the Office of the said Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England hath been accustomed We minding the same place and room to be supplied in all things as appertaineth for and during every time of his absence have named and appointed you and by these presents do constitute name appoint and Authorize you from day to day and time to time when and as often as the said Lord Chancellor shall happen at any time or times during this present Parliament to be absent from his accustomed place in the said Upper House to occupy use and supply the room and place of the said Lord Chancellor in the Upper House amongst the Lords Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled at every such day and time of his absence And then and there at every such time to do and execute all such things as the said Lord Chancellor of England should or might do if he were there personally present using and supplying the same room Wherefore we Will and Command you the said Sir Edmund Anderson to supply the doing and Execution of the Premisses with
effect and these our Letters Patents shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge for the same in every behalf In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our Self at Westminster the 15 th day of February in the twenty ninth year of our Reign c. As soon as the said Sir Edmund Anderson had caused the foresaid Commission to be read he took his place on the Uppermost Woolsack where the Lord Chancellor useth to sit and in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament where the presence of the Lords is noted he is always ranked in the first place as the Lord Chancellor should have been if he had been present with this Addition after the setting down of his name and place Locum tenens Cancellarii in such Order as followeth viz. Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Edmundus Anderson Miles Justiciar de Communibus Placitis Locum tenens Cancellarii Comes Sussex Comes Hartford Comes Lincoln Vice-Comes Bindon Episcopi Episcopus Winton Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Rofsen Episcopus Hereforden Barones Dominus Howard Admirallus Dominus Hunsdon Camerarius Dominus Morley Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Stourton Dominus Sandes Dominus Cromwell Dominus Windsor Dominus Sheffield Dominus North. Dominus S t John de Bletsoe Dominus Compton Dominus Norris Which are all the Peers the Journal-Book noteth to have been present Nota That though I do usually observe in all these Jourtials never to have the presence of the Lords transcribed but at the beginning only of a new Parliament or at least a new Session yet I have observed it here though but at the beginning of a new meeting partly because it was after a long Adjournment and partly because many Lords did send new Proxies So that the presence of the Lords before set down at the beginning of this Parliament on the 29 th day of October being Saturday could not serve to be any rule for the presence of those that attended at this new meeting Which is for the most part the chiefest reason why the presence of the said Lords is marked on the first day of the Parliament or on the next day from the first on which they be noted if through the Clerk of the Upper House his negligence as it often happeneth it be omitted on the said first day A second but less material cause why I have their names transcribed is to see the due places and precedencies of the Lords Temporal On this 15 th day of February lastly although this were neither new Parliament nor new Session but meerly a second meeting of one and the same Parliament as hath been already observed was one unusual or extraordinary Proxy returned which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. 15 Die Februarii introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Thomae Episcopi Bathonien ' Welien ' in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Thomam Episcopum Wintonien ' Thomam Episcopum Cicestren ' Willielmum Episcopum Coventrien ' Litchfield ' The difference between an usual and an unusual Proxy see before on Saturday the 29 th day of October in the latter end thereof on which said day this Parliament began where also it is set down why those ordinary ones are for the most part omitted Other unusual Proxies returned also at this new meeting of Parliament vide on Friday the 17 th day on Sunday the 19 th day and on Saturday the 25 th day of this instant February All which I have ever caused to be set down upon the several days on which they were returned if the said day be particularly expressed and not altogether before the beginning of the Parliament as is usually observed in the Original Journal-Books of the Upper House Nota Lastly that John Archbishop of Canterbury was Constituted Joint Proctor with others by five several Bishops this Parliament of which the first Proxy was returned on Sunday the 19 th day of this instant February from John Bishop of Exeter the second on the same Day from Richard Bishop of Durham the third on Saturday the 25 th day of this instant February from Edmund Bishop of Worcester the fourth on Thursday the 9 th day of March next ensuing from Hugh Bishop of Bangor and the fifth and last on the same day from William Bishop of S t Asaph Which with many other precedents of a like nature frequent almost in every Parliament doth plainly prove that any Lord Spiritual or Temporal being a Member of the Upper House is capable of as many Proxies as shall be sent unto him by the ancient Customs and Usages of that House although the contrary hath been of late ordered upon the ..... day of ..... in the Parliaments in Anno secundo Regis Caroli Sir Edmund Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas sitting in and supplying of the place of Sir Thomas Bromley Lord Chancellor absent as is before observed by reason of sickness did by the Assent of the Lords Commissioners Adjourn the Parliament unto Wednesday next at Nine of the Clock in the Morning being a full se'night after Nota That during this intervenient time of Adjournment three unusual Proxies were delivered in unto the Clerk of the Parliament the first of which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have been returned upon Friday the 17 th day of this Instant February in manner and form following viz. 17 o Die Februarii introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Anthonii vicecomitis Mountague in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Ambrosium Comitem Warwici Robertum Comitem Leicestren 19 o Die Februarii introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Johannis Episcopi Exon in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuarien ' Thomam Episcopum Winton ' Johannem Episcopum Roffen ' Item introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Richardi Episcopi Dunelmen in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cautuarien ' Johannem Episcopum London Thomam Episcopum Wintonien Nota That here a Temporal Lord constituted two Proctors and two Spiritual Lords nominated each of them three which being extraordinary and unusual Proxies are well worthy the observation Vide intrationes Literarum consimilium procurator ' die Saturni die 29 o Octobris praecedentis in fine dici die Mercurii die 15 o Februar jam instantis antea die Saturni die vicesimo quinto ejusdem Febr ' postea On Wednesday the 22 d day of February the Bill toavoid fraudulent Assurances made or to be made in certain cases by Traitors was read primâ vice Edmundus Anderson Capitalis Justiciarius de placito communi continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Thursday the 23 d day of February the Lords met but it seems nothing was done but only the Parliament continued unto a further day the Entrance whereof in the Original Journal-Book is in manner
said several Acts and Ordinances by you our said Subjects the Lords and Commons in this our present Parliament Assembled be fully agreed and consented unto and seem very necessary and profitable for the Commonwealth which nevertheless be not of any force or effect in the Law without our Royal Assent given and put to the same Acts and Ordinances and every of them And forasmuch as for divers great and urgent Causes and Considerations We cannot conveniently at this present be personally in our Royal Person in our Higher House of Parliament being the place accustomed to give our Royal Assent unto such Acts and Ordinances as have been agreed upon by our said Subjects the Lords and Commons We have therefore caused these our Letters Patents to have been made and have signed and caused the same to be Sealed accordingly And by the same do declare and notify as well to you the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons aforesaid as to all and singular other our loving Subjects That we by these Presents do give put our Royal Assent to all and singular the said Acts and Ordinances and to all Articles Clauses and Provisions in them contained and be fully agreed and consented to all and every the said Acts willing that the said Acts and every Article Clause sentence and provision in them contained from henceforth shall be of the same strength force and effect as if we had been personally present in the said Higher House and had openly and publickly in the presence of you all assented to the same Commanding also by these Presents as well our Chancellor of England to seal these our Letters Patents with our great Seal as our Trusty and well-beloved Sir Edmund Anderson Knight our Chief Justice of our Common Pleas to declare and notify this our Royal Assent in our absence in the said Higher House in the presence of you the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons of our Parliament 〈◊〉 to be assembled for that purpose and the Clerk of our Parliament to Indorse the said Acts with such Terms and Words in our Name as is requisite and hath been accustomed for the same And also to Inrol these our Letters in the said Parliament Roll and these our Letters Patents shall be to every of them sufficient Warrant in that behalf And finally declare and will that after this our Royal Assent given and passed by these Presents and declared and notified as is aforesaid That then immediately the said Acts and every of them shall be taken accepted and admitted good sufficient and perfect Laws to all intents Constructions and purposes and to be put in due Execution accordingly the Continuance or Dissolution of this our Parliament or any other Use Custom thing or things to the contrary thereof notwithstanding In Witness whereof We have caused those our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the 23 th day of March in the 29 th year of our Reign Per ipsam Reginam Nota That the Clerk of the Parliament having read the said Letters Patents before set down Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas still supplying the place of Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor delivered other Letters Patents unto the said Clerk openly to be read whereby eight several Commissioners were nominated and authorized to dissolve the Parliament viz. The Archbishop of Canterbury the Archbishop of York the Earl of Shrewsbury Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Darby Lord Steward the Earl of Kent the Earl of Leicester Master of her Majesties Horse the Lord Howard Lord Admiral of England Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Cobham Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports For doubtless unless a new Commission had come forth by which these before-named Honourable Personages had been de novo nominated to this purpose the three Commissioners at first appointed in the beginning of this Parliament which see at large upon Saturday the 29 th day of October foregoing might without any other new authority though not have Dissolved the Parliament yet have Prorogued it to a further day as they had formerly Adjourned it upon Friday the second day of December foregoing unto Wednesday the 15 th day of February next ensuing which was for ten weeks space at the least but that former Authority being now at an end by these new Letters Patents the manner of their delivery the removal of the new Commissioners in them nominated and the Commission lastly it self are thus verbatim set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House Postquam verò Clericus Parliament has Literas palà m perlegisset Edmundus Anderson Miles alias etiam Literas Patentes eidem Clerico Parliamenti publicè legendas tradidit atque hîc notandum est omnes Dominos Commissionarios in Literis patentibus nominatos locis suis relictis in medio banco consedisse dum diclae Literae legerentur Earum autem tenor hic sequitur ELizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei Defensor c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri ac Consiliario suo Johanni Cantuarien Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Edwino Archiepiscopo Eboracen Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac etiam chavissimis Consanguineis Consiliariis suis Georgio Comiti Salop Comiti Marescallo Angliae Henrico Comiti Darbiae magno Seneschallo necnon charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Henrico Comiti Kantiae ac charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Roberto Comiti Leicestr Magistro Equorum suorum ac etiam praedilectis fidelibus Consiliariis suis Carolo Domino Howard magno Admirallo suo Angliae Henrico Domino de Hunsdon Domino Carmerario suo Willielmo Domino Cohham Domino Gardiano quinque Portuum suorum Salutem Cùm nuper pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum desensionem Regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concern praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii decimo quinto die Octobris ultimo praeterito inchoari teneri ordinaverimus in à quo dic idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in vicesimum septimum ejusdem mensis Octobris prorogat fuerat eodémque die idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in vicesimum nonum diem dicti mensis Octobris prorogat ' fuerat ac ibid ' tunc tent ' continuat ' fuerat usque ad in secundum diem Decembris tunc proximum sequentem Eódémque die idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in decimum quintum diem Februarii tunc prox ' sequent ' adjournat ' fuit Eodémque die idem Parliamentum nostrum tunc ibidem tent ' continuat ' fuerat usque ad in vicesimum tertium diem instantis mensis Martii Sciatis tamen certis urgentibus causis considerationibus nos specialiter moven ' idem Parliamentum nostrum hoc instante vicesimo
tertio die Martii duximus dissolvend ' De fidelitate igitur prudentiâ circumspectione vestris plurimùm confident ' de avisamento assensu Concilii nostri assignavimus vos aliquos tres vel plures vestrum Commissionarios nostros dantes vobis aliquibus tribus vel pluribus vestrum tenore praesentium plenam potestatem facultatem authoritatem hoc instante vicesimo tertio die Martii ad dictum Parliamentum nostrum Nomine nostro plenar ' dissolvend ' Et ideo vobis Mandamus quòd vos aliqui tres vel plures vestrum idem Parliamentum nostrum eodem instante vicesimo tertio die Martii virtute harum Literarum Patentium Nomine nostro plenè dissolvatis determinetis Et ideo vobis Mandamus quòd circa praemissa diligenter intendatis ac ea in forma praedicta effectualiter expleatis exequamini Damus autem universis singulis Archiepiscopis Marchionibus Comitibus Vicecomitibus Episcopis Baronibus Militibus Civibus Burgensibus ac omnibus aliis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum nostrum conventur ' tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis quòd vobis in praemissis pareant obediant intendant in omnibus prout decet In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras sieri secimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo tertio die Martii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo nono Per ipsam Reginam Powle It should seem that the reading of these Commissions and the Dissolution of this Parliament were all of them finished this Thursday the 23 th day of this instant March in the Forenoon for else there must have been some other continuance of it by the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas supplying the place of the Lord Chancellor upon the rising of the Lords to dinner unto some hour in the Afternoon which may very well be in respect that although the Queens Majesty came usually in Person to give her Royal Assent in the Afternoon yet that being now performed after an unusual and extraordinary manner by her Majesties Letters Patents or a Commission under the Great Seal the time was also altered So that though this Parliament were not long in continuance for both the meetings thereof put together make but ten weeks at the most yet it had many weighty matters debated in it and this Journal of the Upper House is richly stored with rarer Precedents than any other of all the Queens time Finally Her Majesties loving Subjects considering the great Charges she sustained by the maintenance of the Low Countries Wars and withal in a manner foreseeing the stupendious preparations of Spain at this time most intentive in providing and furnishing of that mighty Armado stiled afterwards Invincible did not only grant unto her Majesty one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths as the Clergy had also granted unto her one other Subsidy but did likewise consult in either House severally for the Lords refused to joyn with the House of Commons therein concerning a Contribution to be bestowed upon her Majesty in like sort also towards the further and better support of those foresaid continual and chargeable Wars of the Netherlands THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS An Exact large and very perfect Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1586. which began there on Saturday the 29 th Day of October after two several Prorogations thereof and there continued until it was at length Dissolved on Thursday the 23 th Day of March Anno 29 Reginae ejusdem THE Passages of this Journal of the House of Commons are fully replenished with excellent and rare matter both in respect of the business of Mary Queen of Scots handled in the first meeting and of the publick dangers threatned against her Majesties person and Realms discussed in the second meeting of this Parliament in which also there wanted not the passing of divers good and wholesome Laws and the discussing of many emergent disputes touching the private affairs of the said House all which are in themselves very useful and worthy of observation Although the Parliament had been summoned to have begun upon Saturday the 15 th day of October in Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. yet it held not but was on the said day further Prorogued unto Thursday the 27 th day of the same Month upon which said day it was lastly Prorogued unto Saturday the 29 th day of the same next ensuing On which said 29 th day of October the Parliament held accordingly although her Majesty came not in person but appointed by her Letters Patents under the Great Seal the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer and the Earl of Darby Lord Steward or any two of them her Delegates or Commissioners in her Majesties name and stead to begin this said Parliament and the same further to hold continue Adjourn or Prorogue as to them should seem fitting and needful The Lords therefore being set the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired unto the Upper House and as many as could conveniently being let in Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor shewed that the Queens Majesty was with-held by some very great and important occasions so that she could not be there personally present at this time but yet had appointed some other Honourable personages there present to supply her place and in her name to begin the said Parliament And then the same Letters Patents were read After which the foresaid three Commissioners leaving their places went to a Seat prepared for them on the right side of the Chair of State who being so placed the Lord Chancellor did Lastly declare that the meer cause for which this Parliament had been so suddenly called at this time was upon the discoveries of the late most great and horrible Treasons plotted for the taking away of her Majesties Life and the subversion of true Religion and that one great offender therein did yet remain touching whose punishment her Majesty did crave their faithful advice and therefore wished those of the House of Commons to make present choice of some one amongst them to be their Speaker and to present him unto the Lords Lieutenants or Lords Commissioners as soon as conveniently they might Whereupon the Knights Citizens Barons and Burgesses of the House of Commons repairing to their said House did there elect and chuse John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Prolocutor who had been Speaker also the last Parliament Nota That there is not any one word of all this before set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons de annis istis 28 o 29 o Reginae Eliz. which is very defective not only here but in some other places thereof but that which is before set down is for the most part gathered out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and only
matter of the said Petition And thereupon were appointed M r Treasurer and M r Vice-Chamberlain who going then presently to the Lords and returning again afterwards Mr. Vice-Chamberlain shewed that the Message they brought again from the Lords was very short to wit that their Lordships did appoint for that purpose to morrow in the Forenoon And afterwards the same Record of the whole course of the said proceeding in the said Commission being read and the said Petition then read also Mr. Vice-Chamberlain moved that this House would be Suitors to the Lords to have the said Petition entred and inrol led in the said higher House there to remain of Record as an Act. And thereupon it was upon the Question resolved by the whole House That the said Request should be made to their Lordships in that behalf by the said Committees on the morrow when they deliver unto their Lordships the full and whole good liking of this House had of the said Petition Then Mr. Speaker moved That for as much as by reason of the shortness of the said Petition he is appointed by this House to yield reasons unto her Majesty in such objections as should please her Highness to make touching the Contents of the said Petition the House would deliver him in writing for his better memory and the righter direction of their Service imposed upon him in that behalf such reasons as they should think meet for him in their Names to remember unto her Majesty And thereupon it was ordered That the said Committees of this House and every other Member of this House that would should meet at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of the same day in the Exchequer-Chamber and there shew and deliver such reasons inferring the necessity of the said Petition or other matter tending to the safety and preservation of her Majesties most Royal Person as to every or any Member of this House should seem meet and convenient And upon another Motion of Mr. Speaker that some of her Majesties Privy Council being of this House might be requested by this House to make humble Suit to her Majesty for Access of some competent number of this House unto her Highness accordingly It was prayed and agreed by the whole House that Mr. Vice-Chamberlain do the same And so then the House did rise and adjourned the Court until the Friday next following upon a former request then a little before made by Mr. Speaker for sparing his Service till then in respect he might in the mean time the better bethink and prepare himself to attend upon her Highness in performance of their said Charge so as before imposed upon him On Friday the 11 th day of November the Committees in the Bill for Orford-Haven whose Names see before on Monday the 7 th day of November are appointed to meet this Afternoon at three of the Clock in the Middle Temple Hall Mr. Cromwell one of the Committees for the Examination of Writs and the Returns for the Knights of the County of Norfolk which said Committees Names see on Friday the 4 th day of November foregoing maketh report That yesterday eleven of them met and upon view of the Dates of the same Writs and Returns and upon Conference by them then also had with the Clerk of the Crown and Under-Sheriff of Norfolk touching the manner of executing of the same Writs and Returns and hearing all such parties grieved with their learned Councel as repaired then to them for that purpose they do find that the first Writ and Return both in manner and form was perfect and also duly executed and the second Writ not so and that besides it might also be a perillous Precedent for the time to come to the Liberty and Priviledge of this House to admit or pass over any such Writ or Return in such manner and course as the said second Writ carrieth And further declared That they understood by the said Clerk of the Crown that the Lord Chancellor had then lately commanded him to receive and accept the said first Writ and Return by the which Mr. Farmer and Mr. Gresham were elected and returned as the Writ rightly and duly executed and did also understand by Mr. Recorder one of the said Committees That Sir Edmund Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas had also shewed him that the said Lord Chancellor and the Judges had resolved That the said first Writ should be returned as that which was in all parts duly and rightly executed and not the second And shewed further That one of the Committees assenting with the residue in opinion of validity of the said first Writ and Return and of the invalidity of the said second and also in resolution that the explanation and ordering of the Case as it standeth appertaineth only to the Censure of this House moved notwithstanding in the Committee That two of the Committees might be sent to the said Lord Chancellor to understand what his Lordship had done in the matter which the residue thought not convenient first for that they were sufficiently satisfied therein by divers of themselves but principally in respect they thought it very prejudicial and injurious to the Priviledge and Liberties of this House to have the said Cause decided or dealt in in any sort by any others than only by such as are Members of this House and that albeit they thought very reverently as becometh them of the said Lord Chancellor and Judges and know them to be competent Judges in their places yet in this case they took them not for Judges in Parliament in this House and so further required that if it were so thought good Mr. Farmer and Mr. Gresham might take their Oaths and be allowed of and received into this House by force of the said first Writ as so allowed and admitted only by the censure of this House and not as allowed of by the said Lord Chancellor or Judges Which was agreed unto accordingly by the whole House and so Ordered also to be set down and Entred by the Clerk Mr. Treasurer one of the said Committees in the said Examination sheweth for his part his privity and assent unto the whole recited course of proceeding in the said Committee as it hath been declared by Mr. Cromwell and that before himself the said Mr. Farmer hath already pronounced and taken his Oath Shewing further withal that in the Committee he moved that some might be sent to the Lord Chancellor to know what his Lordship had done in the matter which he then thought and yet still doth think necessary to have been done as one of the circumstances of the said examinations and not for want of any satisfaction otherwise but only in respect of the orderly proceeding in the Commission unto them by this House tending to circumstances of the matter of which he thinketh one to have been to send as aforesaid unto the said Lord Chancellor though they were resolved by themselves amongst themselves before
Mr. Recorder of London making a large and plentiful discourse of the ancient priviledges and liberties of this House furnished with recital of sundry Precedents and examples and lastly coming down to the matter in hand sheweth that Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Commons Pleas told him this morning that the said Lord Chancellor and the Judges had resolved that the said first Writ ought to be returned and had so given order to the Sheriff and Clerk of the Crown And that he thereupon answered the said Sir Edmund Anderson again that the censure thereof belonged unto this House and not unto them and that he for his part would take no notice thereof at their hands of their so doing but only by way of instructions and not otherwise And so concluded with the allowance of the good course and order of this House in setting down and entring the said Judgement accordingly as before Mr. Vice-Chamberlain shewed unto the House that according to their appointment he hath been an humble suitor unto her Majesty on the behalf of this House for access there to be had unto her Highness to exhibit their Petition unto her Majesty And that her Majesty thereupon hath very Graciously granted to hear them at the Court upon to morrow next between one and two of the Clock in the Afternoon signifying also unto them further that her Majesty having heard that the Lords do appoint them twenty of themselves of the Higher House to attend her Majesty also for the same purpose so her Highness thinketh meet that forty of this House were likewise appointed for this House which She thinketh to be a sufficient number but is nevertheless well pleased if the House shall think good to send a more or greater Number at their discretions but leaveth the same to their own considerations Which her Majesties most Gracious Favour as the whole House did take it in most joyful and dutiful part So did they then desire the said Mr. Vice-Chamberlain that he would in the name of this whole House present unto her Majesty their most humble and dutiful thanks for the same her Highnesses most gracious clemency and great loving kindness towards them Which so to do the said Mr. Vice-Chamberlain told them he purposed God willing in the Afternoon of this present day And these were appointed by this House to attend upon her Majesty to morrow at the Court as many of the former Committees as would whose names see at large on Friday the 4 th day of this instant November foregoing and also Sir Henry Barkeley Sir William Mohun Sir Edward Dymocke Sir Thomas Jones Sir Henry Bagnell Sir Andrew Nevill Sir Henry Knyvet Mr. Farmer Sir Edward Osborne Mr. Henry Bromley Mr. Ralph Horsey Mr. James Croft and Mr. Tasborough then added unto them which done upon a Motion that for as much as the Knights for the County of Norsolk and the Burgesses for all the Boroughs within the same County saving only the Citizens for the City of Norwich were returned and certified into this House this present day and not before the Petition might therefore be read again in this House in the presence of the same Knights and Burgesses to the intent that they being made privy thereof might also yield their Assents to the same Petition whereby the rather the same being for a matter of so great moment might in very deed be the Action of the whole House then being possessed and consisting of all the Members thereof the same Petition was read by the Clerk and well liked of agreed unto and allowed by the voices of the said Knights and Burgesses upon the question thereof unto them made in that behalf by Mr. Speaker And afterwards Mr. Vice-Chamberlain made a motion that Mr. Speaker be put in remembrance by this House besides the residue of his reasons to be shewed to her Majesty for maintenance of the parts of the said Petition to urge if need be to her Majesty the matter and necessity of the late Instruments of Association respecting especially the Consciences of a great number of her Highnesses good and Loyal subjects which cannot be dispensed with by Laws whereupon request was so made by the House to Mr. Speaker accordingly Mr. Treasurer shewed that yesterday he and others of the Committees in the great Cause presented unto the Lords in the Upper House the Request of this House unto their Lordships to have the said Petition entred and recorded in the Upper House there to remain as an Act. Whereunto their Lordships assented and willed that the same might first be ingrossed in Parchment and so delivered to their Lordships this present Forenoon shewing further That the Clerk of this House then had the same already ingrossed and exact accordingly but that the same could not that day be sent to their Lordships for that their Lordships did not sit this Forenoon and therefore he said it must be delivered at some other time And so then the House did rise and this Court was adjourned till Monday next following Memorandum That in the Afternoon of this present day the said Petition ingrossed was delivered into the hands of the Lord Chancellor by the Appointment of Mr. Speaker and so lest with his Lordship On Saturday the 12 th day of November although the House of Commons sate not any part of the day in their proper place yet in the Afternoon according to her Majesties direction sent unto the House yesterday by Sir Christopher Hatton her Vice-Chamberlain John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Speaker with all the Privy Council and divers other Members of the said House whose Names see before on Friday the 4 th day and on Friday the 11 th day of this instant November last past repaired to her Majesty unto the Court there to joyn with Sir Thomas Bromiey Lord Chancellor and twenty Temporal Lords of the Upper House in presenting a certain Petition which had been agreed upon by both Houses unto her Highness for the speedy Execution of Mary late Queen of Scots according to that just Sentence which had been pronounced against her And to move her Majesty thereunto the said Speaker of the House of Commons did use many excellent and solid reasons which were all found in a certain Memorial written with his own hand being as followeth Unless Execution of this just Sentence be done 1. Your Majesties Person cannot any while be safe 2. The Religion cannot long continue amongst us 3. The most flourishing present State of this Realm must shortly receive a woful Fall 4. And consequently in sparing her your Majesty shall not only give courage and hardiness to the Enemies of God of your Majesties self and of your Kingdom but shall discomfort and daunt with despair the hearts of your loving People and so deservedly provoke the heavy hand and wrath of God And that summarily for the reasons ensuing First forasmuch as concerns the danger of your Majesty Both she and her Favourers think
Prorogand Ita quod nec vos nec aliquis vestruin ad dictum duodecimum diem Novembris apud Civitatem praedictam comparere teneamini seu arctemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum erga nos penitus exonerari Mandantes tenore praesentium firmiter injungendo praecipientes vobis cuilibet vestrum omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quòd ad dictum quartum diem Februarii apud praedictam Civitatem Westmonasterii personaliter compareatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compareat intersit ad tractand faciend agend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro de communi Concilio dicti regni nostri favente Domino contigerint ordinari In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium 15. die Octobris Anno Regni nostri 30. Per ipsam Reginam Ha. Gerrard On Tuesday the 4 th day of February in the 31. year of her Majesties Reign to which day the Parliament had been last Prorogued upon Tuesday the 12 th day of November foregoing and accordingly now held The Queens Majesty was personally present accompanied by the Lord Chancellor and divers of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal but the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House doth not at all mention the presence of any Lords which happened through the great negligence of M r Anthony Mason at this time Clerk thereof yet it may be collected February 8. The Queen being set under her Cloth of State and the Lords placed in their Parliamentary Robes according to their several ranks and orders the Knights Citizens Barons and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired to the said Upper House and as many of them as conveniently could being let in stood before the Rail or Bar at the nether end thereof Then Sir Christoper Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor of England in a Speech which he used did at large declare the Queens gracious disposition to peace and her great wisdom in preserving the same and singular government of the Realm Next he shewed the great benefit which this Kingdom enjoyed by her government and remembred her great Conquest over the Spanish late wonderful Army or Fleet on the Seas videlicet in Anno 30 Reign Eliz. Anno Domini 1588. He further declared how much the King of Spain remained bent against this Kingdom And lastly shewed the Cause of calling this Parliament to be that by the consent of the most grave and wise Persons now called together out of all parts of the Realm preparation may as far forth by the Counsel of man as is possible be made and provided that Arms Souldiers and Money may be in readiness and an Army prepared and furnished against all Events The Lord Chancellors Speech being ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French according to the usual form which were these Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Chief Justice Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Robert Shute one of the Justices of Kings Bench D r Aubrey and D r Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Chief Baron Francis Windham one of the Justices of the Common Pleas D r Clerk and D r Cary. Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Darby the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Sussex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton Tryors of Petitions for Gascoigne and for other Countries beyond the Seas and the Islands The Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembrook the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst As soon as the Clerk of the Parliament had read these names and had likewise ended other things of course belonging unto them viz. That the first Tryors of England c. or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants should at their leisure meet together in the Chamberlains Chamber and that the last Tryors of Gascoigne c. or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor should hold their place when their leisure did serve them to meet in the Treasurers Chamber Then the Queen continued the Parliament unto a day to come which is entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. Ipsa Regina continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox ' hora secunda post Meridiem On Wednesday the 5 th day of this instant February although the Upper House sate not yet was one extraordinary Proxy returned or brought in unto the Clerk of the said House as there had formerly been another of a like nature returned on Monday the third day of the said Month foregoing which because it was returned before the Parliament it self began and is entred together with that before mentioned in the beginning of the Original Journal-Book of the said House it shall not be much amiss to set them down both together in this place in such manner and form as they are entred in the said Journal-Book viz. Vacat 3. die Februarii introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Willielmi Assaphen ' Episcopi in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuar ' Johannem Episcopum Roffen Hugonem Episcopum Bangoren ' Nota That though the word vacat be here placed in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the Margent of this Proxy in such manner and sort as this is transcribed yet there doth not appear any reason thereof for as it may be collected by the presence of the Lords set down on Saturday the 8 th day of this instant February following neither the said Bishop of S t Asaph was present himself after the said Proxy sent nor all nor any of his Proctors absent nor himself dead which are only causes of a Vacat 5 to Die Februarii introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Johannis Carliolen ' Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constitiuit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuarien ' Nota That these Two Proxies are therefore called unusual and extraordinary because these two Bishops did constitute the first of them three Proctors and the last of them but one whereas for the most part the Spiritual Lords do nominate two and the Temporal Lords but one which may be collected in part out of the very Returns of this Parliament for of five Spiritual Lords that sent their Proxies three constituted two
and touched with his said misbehaviours delivered in their Motions and Speeches that as for their own particular they could be pleased upon his consession of his said offences and his due submission thereupon to remit the same so in regard of the publick injury by him done to the whole House they referred the further consideration thereof to the same House It should seem that these speeches and misdemeanours of Thomas Drurie Gentleman were accasioned by a certain Bill which passed the House against him upon Monday the 17 th day of this instant March foregoing for the relief of Thomas Haselrigg Esquire of which matter see on Friday the 21. day of February preceeding and upon Friday the 7 th day and on Tuesday the 18 th day of this instant March last past and upon Friday the 21. day of this said Month. Which very Bill also having been this day read secunda tertia vice in the Upper House and having had also its first reading before with the Lords was by them concluded and sent down to the House of Commons and now brought to them whilest it should seem they were in agitation of these misdemeanours of the said Thomas Drurie by M r Doctor Ford and M r Doctor Stanhop with some amendments but the sending down of the said Bill is omitted in the original Journal-Book of the said House On Thursday the 20 th day of March two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes was upon the second reading committed unto M r Morrice M r Hare M r Wroth and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Wroth who with the rest was appointed to meet in Serjeants-Inn Hall in Fleetstreet this present day at two of the Clock this Afternoon The amendments in the Bill for the relief of the City of Lincoln being twice read the Bill was upon the question ordered to be ingrossed The amendments in the Bill for the relief of George Ognell Esquire were twice read and after many arguments was deferred from the question of ingrossing till my Lord of Warwick's Council be further heard which was first apponited to have been done to Morrow at two of the Clock but upon a further Motion of M r Sutton alledging my Lord of Warwick not to be in Town is deferred till Monday next at 10. of the Clock M r Doctor Stanhop and M r Powle do bring word from the Lords that touching the Bill lately passed this House against secret Outlawries and sent up unto their Lordships they have considered thereof with some advice of the Judges and do pray that some six of this House do meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Chamber of the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas at Serjeants-Inn in Fleetstreet that thereupon some such good course may be taken as the same Bill may be made to become a Law And thereupon were then nominated for that purpose M r Alford M r John Hare M r Harris M r White M r Shirley M r Grafton M r Cromwell and appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon at the said Serjeants-Inn in the Chamber there of the said Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill against the erecting and maintenance of Cottages shewed that the Committees have met together and considered of the same Bill and in their own opinions have thought good that some things in the same Bill were very meet to be put out of the same and some other things to be put in And also a proviso fit to be added to the same and shewed how and wherein And moved further that some of this House may be sent to the Lords to pray conference which their Lordships touching the said amendments and Proviso for the passage of the said Bill Whereupon M r Vice-Chamberlain and sundry other of the former Committees were presently sent to their Lordships to move for Conference and the Bill lately expedited and passed in this House against discontinuances in Writs of Error in the Court of Exchequer and the Kings Bench was then sent up by them unto their Lordships Vide de ista materia in fine hujus diei Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against abuses in election of Scholars and Presentations to Benefices had its first reading and then read also again for the second reading of the same and was committed unto M r Treasurer M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Secretary Wolley the Master of the Wardrobe Sir Philip Butler and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Sir Edward Hobby M r Shirley M r Francis Moor and M r Morrice for the Exchequer matter It should seem that these were appointed to consider of the Bill referred before upon Friday the 14 th day of February touching certain Exactions imposed upon the Subject by certain Officers of the Exchequer which is the more plain because Sir Edward Hobby who then preferred it and obtained the first reading thereof is here named in the first place now again to consider of it which it seems was occasioned by the stopping of this Bill and another touching Purveyors by reason of her Majesties dislike and the entring of the House again upon the treating of them after her Highness had been fully satisfied with their clear and honest intentions therein Concerning which matters see more on Saturday the 15 th day on Monday the 17 th day and on Thursday the 27 th day of February foregoing as also on Tuesday the 4 th day Thursday the 6 th day Saturday the 8 th day Monday the 17 th day and on Tuesday the 18 th day of this instant March last past M r Vice-Chamberlain and the residue returning from the Lords he shewed that they have had Conference together with a Committee of the Lords and that their Lordships after some long and effectual Arguments used by them for maintenance of all the parts of the said Bill in sort as the same Bill now is without any great cause or necessity of such amendments as this House doth require in the same Their Lordships yet nevertheless were pleased to gratifie the House in yielding to assent unto their request of the same amendments wishing withal that this House in the same their amendments would have consideration of such Cottages as might happen to be erected for the burning of Lime or making of Brick during the time only of such burning of Lime or making of Tyles and Bricks On Friday the 21 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the repeal of certain Statutes was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Vice-Chamberlain M r
Her Majesty thinketh this to be for that the wealthier sort of men turn this charge upon the weaker and upon those of worst ability for that one dischargeth himself and the other is not able to satisfie what he is charged withal These things would be reformed by such as are Commissioners in this present service Her Majesty further hath willed me to signify unto you that the calling of this Parliament now is not for the making of any more new Laws and Statutes for there are already a sufficient number both of Ecclesiastical and Temporal and so many there be that rather than to burthen the Subject with more to their grievance it were fitting an Abridgment were made of those there are already Wherefore it is her Majesties Pleasure that the time be not spent therein But the principal Cause of this Parliament is that her Majesty might consult with her Subjects for the better withstanding of those intended Invasions which are now greater than were ever heretofore heard of And whereas heretofore it hath been used that many have delighted themselves in long Orations full of verbosity and of vain ostentations more than in speaking things of substance The time that is precious would not be thus spent The Sessions cannot be long by reason the Spring time 't is fit that Gentlemen should repair to their Countries the Justices of Assize also to go their Circuits So the good hours should not be lost in idle Speeches but the little time we have should be bestowed wholly on such businesses as are needful to be considered of And so willed them to Elect a Speaker As soon as the Lord Keepers Speech was ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French according to the ancient use and form which were as followeth viz. Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench John Clynch one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench Francis Gawdy another of the Justices of the said Bench Doctor Awberry and Doctor Ford. They which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Receivors of Petitions for Gascoign and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Perrian Lord Chief Baron and Thomas Walmsley one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Doctor Cary and Doctor Stanhop And they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Darby Lord Steward of the Queens Houshold the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Pembroke the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Lord Howard of Effingham Earl Marshal and Lord Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton All these or any four of them calling to them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their places in the Chamberlains Chamber Tryors of Petitions for Gascoign and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles the Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst These or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their places in the Treasurers Chamber Nota That all that which is set down touching the coming up of those of the House of Commons into the Higher House and the Lord Keepers Speech being before placed after the names of such Lords Spiritual and Temporal as were this day present is not found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is here inserted partly out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and partly out of another very exact Journal of that House which was in my Custody being very diligently observed and set down by some Anonymus who was a Member of the said House during this Parliament And I have always thought it most fitting in all these several Journals ever to refer the aforesaid Speeches the Presentments of the Speakers and such other Passages as are wholly handled and agitated in the Upper House to be set down as largely as by any good Authority they may in the Journal of the same to which they do most truly and properly belong and only for Orders sake to give a short touch or remembrance of them in the Journal of the House of Commons Finally at the Conclusion of this days business the Continuance of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox ' futurum On Thursday the 22 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Queens Majesty her self came about three of the Clock in the Afternoon accompanied by the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Marquess of Winchester and divers others of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being for the most part the very same that are by name set down to have been present on Monday foregoing the first day of this Parliament The Queen and the Lords being thus set the House of Commons had notice thereof who immediately thereupon came up with Edward Cooke Esquire the Queens Sollicitor into the Upper House whom they had Chosen for their Speaker or Prolocutor Which said Speaker being led up to the Bar at the nether end of the said House between two of the most Eminent Personages of the House of Commons who as soon as silence was made and the rest of the said House as many as could conveniently get in had placed themselves in the space below the said Bar spake as followeth YOur Majesties most loving Subjects the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons have nominated me your Graces poor Servant and Subject to be their Speaker This their nomination hath hitherto proceeded that they present me to speak before your Majesty Yet this their nomination is only as yet a Nomination and no Election until your Majesty giveth Allowance and Approbation For as in the Heavens a Star is but opacum Corpus until it have received light from the Sun so stand I Corpus opacum a Mute Body until your Highness bright shining Wisdom hath looked upon me and allowed me How great a Charge this is to be the Mouth of such a Body as your whole Commons represent to utter what is spoken Grandia Regni My small Experience being a poor Professor of the Law can tell But how unable I
who accordingly were admitted to their several places Two Bills also this Morning of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill for the better Assurance and Confirmation of the Jointure of the Lady Margaret Countess of Cumberland which was read prima vice On Thursday the first day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Assurance of certain Lands sold to Liste Cave and others was read primâ vice On Saturday the third day of March to which day the Parliament had been continued on Thursday foregoing Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being against Counterfeiting of Councellors and principal Officers hands was read primâ vice On Monday the 5 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being against Counterfeiting of Councellors and principal Officers hands was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossand 5 Martii introductae sunt literae procuratoriae Henrici Comitis Huntingdon in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Gulielmum Dominum Burleigh The saurarium Angliae Robertum Comitem Essex Vicecomitem Hereford ' Dominum Ferrers de Chartly Quod nota On Tuesday the 6 th day of March the Bill for the Assurance of Land sold to Lisle Cave was read tertiâ vice On Wednesday the 7 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued Retornatum est breve quo Johannes Salisburien ' Episcopus praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno There was also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons a Bill for the Naturalizing and making free of William Sidney Son of Sir Robert Sidney Knight Governor of Flushing and Dame Barbara his Wife and of Peregrine Wingfield Son and Heir of Sir John Wingfield Knight and Dame Susan Countess of Kent his Wife And this day also was one extraordinary or unusual Proxy returned from a spiritual Lord who constituted but one Proctor whereas usually no such Lord constituteth fewer than two which said Proxy is thus Entred in the begining of the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament 7 Martii introductae sunt literae procuratoriae Matthaei Dunelmensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Cantuariensem Episcopum On Thursday the 8 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill for Explanation and Confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Knight Attainted of High Treason Not long after this Bill upon the second reading had been committed to ingrossing according to a certainOrder formerly made by the Lords Francis Englefield Esquire appeared before them with one of the Learned Councel who were commanded to declare why an Act for Explanation and Confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Knight Attainted of High Treason should not pass And upon Allegations made by the said Learned Councel the Lords Commanded that they should set them down in writing and deliver them to the Attorney General and that on Friday they should attend on the Judges and the Queens Learned Councel at Serjeants-Inn and shew such Deeds of Conveyance as they made mention of before the Lords That the said Lords upon Answer of the Judges and Learned Councel might proceed in the said Bill as it should seem best to their Lordships On Saturday the 10 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for Naturalizing and making free of William Sidney the eldest Son of Sir Robert Sidney K t c. being read primâ vice the Lords gave in Commandment to M r Attorney General to bring on Monday certain Depositions remaining in the Exchequer concerning the Cause of Sir Francis Englefield after they had first heard the Opinion of the Judges which was delivered to the Lord Chief Justice of England On Monday the 12 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for restraining of Popish Recusants to some certain places of aboad was read tertia vice conclusa On Tuesday the 13 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning the Lands of Henry Lord Abergavenny deceased was read tertiâ vice conclusa The Lords at the Bishop of Worcesters Motion condescended to a Contribution for relief of such poor Souldiers as went begging in the Streets of London viz. That every Earl should give forty shillings every Bishop thirty shillings and every Baron twenty shillings And appointed the said Bishop and Lord Norris Collectors thereof and committed the bestowing thereof to the Earl of Essex and the Lord Willoughby of Eresby On Thursday the 15 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Lord Harowden was read primâ vice On Friday the 16 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment of which the first being against persons Outlawed and such as will not pay their Debts and Duties was read tertia vice conclusa And then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament in the usual form to Monday following On Monday the 19 th day of March the Bill touching the Lord Harowden was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum On Tuesday the 20 th day of March the Bill touching Sir Francis Englefield's Lands had its third reading and was concluded Four Bills were also this Forenoon sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second touching the sale of certain Mannors Lands and Tenements from Valentine Knightley Esq c. was read prima vice On Thursday the 22 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second concerning the Assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to Read Stafford Esquire and Mabell his Wife and to the Heirs of the said Read was read secunda vice On Saturday the 24 th day of March the Bill touching the Lord Harowden was upon the third reading concluded Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was concerning the lawful deprivation of Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London On Monday the 26 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been
it is in defence of the Religion of God of our most gracious Soveraign and of our natural Country of our Wives our Children our Liberties Lands Lives and whatsoever we have Wherefore not mistrusting your forwardness that I may not offend in too much enlarging of this point as a poor remembrance of her Majesty I shortly say to your Lordships quod justum est necessarium est nothing can be more just than this War nothing ought to seem more necessary than carefully to provide due maintenance for the same And to you of the House of Commons to the end you may orderly proceed and wisely consult of these weighty Causes delivered unto you her Majesties pleasure is you should according to your accustomed manner go down to the Lower House and there make choice of some grave wise and Learned man among you to be your Speaker who shall be for an understanding sufficient and for discretion fit as your Mouth to signify your minds and to make your Petitions known to her Highness and him on Thursday next to present in this place Nota that this foregoing Speech of the Lord Keeper is not found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is supplied by me out of a Copy thereof lying by me which I conceive to have been very truely transcribed out of the Original and I have always conceived it most proper to refer this and such like other Speeches if warranted by any good authority to the Journal of the said Upper House because they are delivered in it and only for Order sake to have some short Memorial thereof in the Journal of the House of Commons As soon as the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses were departed down to their own House the Clerk of the Upper House read the Names of the Receivers and Triers of Petitions in French which were as followeth viz. Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland France and Scotland Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice John Clinch one of the Justices of the Kings Bench Francis Gaudy one of the Justices of the said Bench Dr. Carew and Dr. Stanhop Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Willam Perriam Knight Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesley one of the Justices of the said Common Pleas Dr. Lewen and Dr. Cousins and they who will deliver Petitions to deliver them within six days Tryers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Sussex great Marshal the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward of the Queens Household and Lord Admiral of England the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Cobham and the Lord North. All these Lords and Prelats or any four of them calling unto them the Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants shall hold their place when their leisure serveth in the Chamberlains Chamber Tryers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles The Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Worcester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst All these Lords and Prelats or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants and also the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor when their leisure serveth shall hold their place in the Treasurers Chamber The Lord Burgh absent being at this time Lord Deputy of Ireland The Lord De la Ware absent because he made question of his place intending to make Suit to the Parliament concerning the same Dicto 24 o die Octobris viz. Primo die hujus Parliamenti Introductum est breve quo Archiepiscopus Eboracen ' praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissas est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno 〈◊〉 brevia introduct sunt 4. Comitibus 10. Episcopis 5. Baronibus Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis proximum futurum viz. 27 diem Octobris On Thursday the 27 th day of October the Queens Majesty repaired in the-Afternoon to the Upper House of Parliament accompanied with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal who attended her Majesty this said day in the House being for the most part the same that are mentioned to have been present there on Monday the 24 th day of this instant October foregoing Of which the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice M r Serjeant Yelverton being chosen Prolocutor or Speaker of the said House was by them brought into the Upper House and by the hands of Sir William Knolles Controller of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer presented Who by a Speech full of Gravity and Modesty signifying the accomplishment of the Duty of the House of Commons in making an Election but excusing himself by pretence of many disabilities and imperfections and wishing earnestly he were of sufficiency to perform the Duty of that place made humble Suit to her Majesty that he might be discharged and that the said House of Commons might proceed to a new Election Which excuse was not allowed by her Majesty as the Lord Keeper delivered by Answer but the choice of the said M r Yelverton was by her Majesty very well approved and his sufficiency much commended He then proceeded in another Speech according to the manner to undertake that charge and to present to her Majesty in the behalf of the said House of Commons certain humble Petitions for access unto her Majesty in the behalf of the said House upon needful occasions and for the using and enjoying such Liberties and Priviledges as in former times had been granted and allowed by her Majesties Progenitors and her self Whereunto her Majesty making Answer by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper did yield her Gracious Assent with admonition that the said Liberties and Priviledges should be discreetly and wisely used as was meet Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem quintum Mensis Octobris On Saturday the 5 th day of November the Bill for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants was read primâ vice Introductum est breve Thomae Domini Gray de Wilton quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno The Earl of Lincoln's excuse by reason of sickness presented by the Lord Treasurer Thomas Lord de la Ware having petitioned the Queens Majesty for his Ancient and right Place of Precedence in and amongst the Peers in Parliament and her Majesty well allowing his said
sent to the House of Commons by M r Attorney and M r D r Carew The Bill for the relief of the poor in times of extream dearth of Corn was read secunda vice and referr'd to these Committees following viz. The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral of England the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Southampton the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield the Bishop of Hereford the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Norwich the Bishop of Chester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain the Lord Zouch the Lord De la Ware the Lord Cobham the Lord Mountjoy the Lord Darcy the Lord Windsor the Lord North the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John the Lord Buckhurst The two Chief Justices the Lord Chief Baron M r Justice Gaudy M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney General to attend the Lords Vide plus antea November 7 th Monday These Committees to meet at the little Council Chamber at the Court of Whitehall on Saturday next being the 10 th day of this instant December at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction and for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars was read secunda vice and referr'd to the Committees for the former Bill and the same time and place appointed for meeting And also Authority was given to the said Committees to call such of the House of Commons unto them at this meeting as they should find cause to confer withal for the better perfecting of the Bill Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for the enjoying the Rectory or Parsonage of South Molton according to an Agreement thereof had c. was read secundâ vice Upon which reading it was Ordered that all parties whom this Bill may concern either on the part of M r Hatch or against him shall be heard openly in the House upon Monday next the 12 th day of this instant December by their Councel Learned and all specialties concerning the same to be then produced to the end it may be considered whether it shall be convenient to pass this Bill or no M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney being appointed by the Lords to inform themselves against that time whether any thing be contained in the Bill that may prejudice the poor Knights of Windsor and to make Report thereof accordingly on the part of the said poor Knights Vide December 12 th postea The Bill lastly for the establishing of the Possession of Sir Henry Unton Knight lately deceased and for payment of his Debts was read secunda vice A Motion was made by some of the Lords and approved by the House that there should be respite of some days taken before the third reading for any such Party or Parties as the Bill concerneth and namely any of the Wentworths to come to the House and alledge if they find cause why the Bill should not proceed And the next Tuesday was assigned for this purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Knight Marshal's Man that arrested John York the Lord Archbishops Servant was brought before the Lords this day by the Serjeant at Armes and being found upon his Examination before the Lords to have wilfully offended therein against the priviledge of the House was committed to the Prison of the Fleet there to remain till their Lordships should give direction for his enlargement Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 14 th day of this instant December following On Friday the 9 th day of December Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for establishing of the Hospital of Queen Elizabeth in Bristol and for relief of the Orphans and Poor there was read secundâ vice upon the reading whereof some Amendments were thought sit by the House to be added which were presently drawn and agreed upon by the same House which being twice read the Bill with the said Amendments were Ordered to be ingrossed Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill that the Lord Mountjoy may dispose of his Lands whereof he is Tenant in Tail by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm as other Tenants in Tail may do a private Statute made 27 Hen. 8. to the contrary notwithstanding was with three other of the said Bills being of no great moment read primâ vice The fifth was the Bill for repairing the Bridges of Newport and Carlioll in the County of Monmouth The sixth was for the establishing the Town Lands of Wanting in the County of Berks which Bill was returned with allowance of the Proviso so added by their Lordships after the same was presented by the House of Commons And the seventh and last was the Bill for the establishment of the new Colledge of the poor at Cobham in the County of Kent which was returned into the House without any Alteration On Saturday the 10 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment were each of them read tertiâ vice of which the first being the Bill for the erecting of Hospitals or abiding and working Houses for the Poor with another Bill of no great consequence which had been formerly sent up from the House of Commons to their Lordships were now with some Amendments sent down again from them to the said Commons by Serjeant Drew and Doctor Stanhop The Bill Entituled An Act against Forestallers Regraters and Engrossers was returned into the House by the Committees who were appointed on Monday the 15 th day of this instant December foregoing although their names and the Commitment of the said Bill upon the second reading be there omitted as a matter of small consequence with some Amendments which were twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that the Lord Mountjoy may dispose of his Lands as other Tenants in Tail by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm may do a private Statute made An. 27 H. 8. to the contrary notwithstanding was secunda vice lect Upon the Motion of the Lord Marquess of Winchester It was Ordered that the Cause should be heard openly in the House upon Monday Morning next by the Learned Councel on both sides Vide Decemb. 12. sequen Three Bills also of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the better and safer recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common Pleas and was returned and allowed by the said House of Commons without any Alteration On Monday the 12 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing a Motion and request was
Arthur Hatch for which purpose a Bill was ready drawn and brought by M r Attorney General containing a form of composition betwixt them to be ratified if it shall be thought good by Parliament Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in postmeridianum tempus hodierni diei horâ tertiâ at which time the Bill only for the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths was read secundâ vice On Friday the 16 th day of December Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths was read tertiâ vice expedit Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William Knolles and others of which the first being the Bill touching the School at Seavenoake was returned from the House of Commons with their allowance thereof The Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for the enjoying of the Rectory and Parsonage of South-Molton in the County of Devon for certain years reserving the usual rent was read prima vice On Saturday the 17 th day of December Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for the enjoying of the Rectory and Parsonage of South-Molton c. was read secundâ vice and referr'd to the same Committees that were formerly appointed on Monday the 12 th day of this instant December foregoing and the Earl of Worcester and Bishop of London were added to them Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm The Bill Intituled An Act for the enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esq for the payment of his Debts and Legacies was returned into the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the first of the Committees who said the Committees had heard the Councel Learned on both parts as well on the part of M r Mollineux as against him and finding some matter of difficulty in the Bill the Councel desired to be heard openly in the House On Monday the 19 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons by M r Attorney and D r Stanhop Certain Amendments were offered to the House by the Committees upon the second Bill concerning Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward c. And the same Amendments were twice read Whereupon both the Bill and the said Amendments were commanded forthwith to be ingrossed which was accordingly done and presently read the third time and sent to the House of Commons by M r Attorney and M r D r Stanhop Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 15 th day of this instant December foregoing The Committees upon the Bill Intituled An Act for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars and An Act for the relief of the Poor returned the same to the House with some Amendments which were presently twice read and commanded to be ingrossed The Amendments in the Bill concerning Labourers formerly ingrossed in Parchment at which exception was taken by the House of Commons and for that cause returned without their allowance because the Amendments were ingrossed in Parchment which according to the Custom and use of the House should have been Paper and thereupon the Lords now commanded them to be written in Paper Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William Knolles and others of which the first was the Bill for the confirmation and establishment of the deprivation of divers Bishops in the beginning of her Majesties Reign returned into the Upper House with some Amendments which said Amendments were thrice read And the second being for the establishment of the Bishoprick of Norwich and the Possessions of the same against a certain pretended concealed title made thereunto was read prima vice Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 12 th day Saturday the 14 th day on Monday the 16 th day and on Thursday the 17 th day of January next ensuing Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm was read primâ vice On Tuesday the 20 th day of December Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars was read tertiâ vice The Amendments of the Bill concerning Labourers was presented to the House written in paper Vide concerning this Bill on the day immediately foregoing The three Bills aforesaid were sent down to the House of Commons for their consideration of the several Amendments and Provisoes added unto them by M r Attorney General and M r D r Stanhop Two Bills of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last concerning Labourers was returned with the allowance of the Amendments The Bill lastly for the encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury and others and the two Lords Chief Justices the Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Attorney General to attend their Lordships who were appointed to meet at the great Council Chamber at the Court at Whitehall on Wednesday the 11 th day of January next following at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae adjornavit praesens Parliamentum usque in 11. diem Januarii proae ' sequentem horâ octavâ Nota That this Adjournment although but for the space of twenty one days was by her Majesties Commandment being personally present as may be directly gathered out of those words ex mandato Dominae Reginae notwithstanding the word praesentis be omitted here as in divers other places also of these Journals of the Queens time upon the like occasion for otherwise if her said Majesty had not been personally present in the Upper House this Adjournment ought to have been by Commission under the Great Seal as a like Adjournment had been from Monday the 21 th day of December unto Thursday the 4 th day of February then next ensuing in the Parliament in Anno 27 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1584. Nota also That at the end of this Adjournment the two Houses met in their several places without any pomp or state and also fell to the reading of such Bills and perfecting of such ordinary businesses as they had left unperfected at the time of the aforesaid Adjournment Which said new meeting of the Lords in the Upper House is Entred as followeth in the
foregoing The Bill for the establishing of the Bishoprick of Norwich and the Possessions of the same against a certain concealed title made thereunto was read secunda vice Upon this reading it was Ordered by the Lords that all parties whom this Bill may concern should be openly heard in the House upon Saturday next in the Morning being the 14 th day of this instant January to the end it might be considered whether the same may justly pass without prejudice to the said parties and George Lester then to be warned to attend Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 14 th day of December foregoing as also on Saturday the 14 th day Monday the 16 th day and Tuesday the 17 th day of this instant January following Another Bill also of no great moment touching Clothiers was read secunda vice and referr'd to Committees Vide plus de ista materia die sequente Certain Amendments were offered unto the House by the Committees upon the Bill Intituled An Act for the Naturalizing of certain Englishmens Children and others born beyond the Seas Which Amendments were presently twice read And thereupon both the Bill and the Amendments were read the third time and returned unto the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r D r Carew On Friday the 13 th day of January the Bill concerning a Lease of great yearly value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham was read primâ vice The said Kirkham and Ambrose Willoughby Esq are to be warned to attend the Lords on Monday Morning next being the 16 th day of this instant February at which time it is appointed that the said Bill shall be read the second time Vide touching this matter on Monday the 16 th day and Tuesday the 17 th day of this instant January following The Bill against deceitful stretching and tentering of Northern Cloth was read secundâ vice and committed to the Earl of Shrewsbury Viscount Bindon the Bishop of London the Bishop of Bath and Wells and the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Zouch and the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Chief Baron M r Justice Owen and M r Baron Evers to attend their Lordships Vide concerning this attendance of the Judges on Monday the 7 th day of November foregoing The same Committees time and place appointed upon the Bill for the relieving of Clothiers concerning the weight of short broad and coloured Cloths c. the former Committees being part of this number having not had time to perfect the same who had been appointed yesterday Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to preserve the property of stoln Horses in the true Owners of Vouchers in sale of Horses in Fairs and Markets was read tertia vice and refused The Bill concerning the recovery and draining from the water certain overflown grounds in the County of Norfolk was read secundâ vice and referr'd to the same Committees upon the Bill formerly read of that kind concerning three hundred thousand Acres c. whose names see before on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant January foregoing with Addition of the Lord S t John and M r Attorney to attend appointed to meet at the same time and place c. And such parties as the same may concern to be warned to attend also On Saturday the 14 th day of January certain Objections unto the Bill Intituled An Act for the increase of people c. were set down in writing by M r Attorney General and brought into the House by the Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees And the same was sent to the House of Commons for their consideration thereof according to a Proviso made by their Lordships to the Select Committees of the House of Commons at the meeting yesterday about that Bill by Mr. Attorney General and Dr. Stanhop Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant January foregoing as also on Friday the 20th day of the same Month following Upon Motion made by the Lord Archbishop that the Committees for the Bill of Tillage had not time to perfect the same at the meeting formerly Assigned It was Ordered by the House that the said Committees should meet again about it at the great Council Chamber c. The like Motion was made touching the Bill of Broakers and Pawn takers and the like Order Certain Knights and Burgesses of the House of Commons sent to the Lords to desire a Conference with a competent number of that House concerning the Amendments and Provisoes added to the Bill Intituled An Act for erecting of Houses of Corrections and punishment of Bogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars Whereupon choice was made of the Lord Archbishop the Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Bishop of Winchester being part of the number formerly appointed upon that Bill the three Chief Justices Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Attorney to attend And the same presently signified to the said Knights and Burgesses but with this caution That whatsoever had been amended or added by their Lordships could not now be altered by the Orders of the House Howbeit to yield the House of Commons satisfaction of the reasons that moved their Lordships to make those Amendments they assented to the Conference and the meeting was appointed to be in the outward Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament on Monday the sixteenth day of this instant January following by eight of the Clock in the Morning On which said Monday see more of this matter The Bill for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties services concerning the Wars was read primâ vice The Councel Learned as well on the part of the Bishop of Norwich and his Tenants as on the part and behalf of George Lester were heard openly in the House but for the present no further Order or proceeding therein Vide touching this business on Tuesday the 20 th day of December last past and on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant January foregoing as also on Monday the 16 th day and Tuesday the 17 th day of the same Month next ensuing The Earl of Essex not able to attend for want of health was certified by the Lord North. The Bishop of Landaff absent by reason of sickness signified by the Bishop of Chester On Monday the 16 th day of January to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of Statutes Merchant acknowledged in the City of Lincoln and the Town corporate of Nottingham was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Treasurer of England the Earl of Essex Earl Marshal the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Chester the Lord
Evers the Lord North the Lord St. John and the Lord Buckhurst the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas M r Justice Clench M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney General to attend their Lordships Vide concerning this attendance of the Judges on Monday the 7 th day of November foregoing Report was made to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury that upon the meeting of such of the Lords of the Upper House as were appointed this day to confer with certain select Knights and Burgesses of the House of Commons concerning the Amendments and Provisoes added by their Lordships to the Bill intituled An Act for erecting of Houses of Correction c. The said Knights and Burgesses do hold themselves satisfied upon the reason alledged by their Lordships in some part of the said Amendments but not in all Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January foregoing Kirkham was called into the House before their Lordships and after he had been heard what he was able to say in his own behalf concerning the Bill the same was read the second time viz. The Bill concerning a Lease of great yearly value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham was read secundâ vice and Ordered to be engrossed Vide concerning this Bill on Friday the 13 th day of this instant January foregoing as also on Tuesday the 17 th day of the same Month immediately ensuing Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for repressing of offences that are of the nature of stealth c. was returned unto the House by the Earl of Essex the first of the Committees with certain Amendments which Amendments were presently thrice read and sent by M r Serjeant Drew and M r D r Stanhop to the House of Commons for their consideration A Motion was made that a Proviso should be added to the Bill concerning the Bishoprick of Norwich which Proviso was presently drawn in the House by M r Attorney and thereupon read And for the more expedition in the proceeding of the Bill it was thought meet that the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Essex Lord Marshal the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Bishop of London the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Cobham should confer with a competent number of the House of Commons about the said Proviso Whereupon M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney were sent to the said House of Commons to signifie the same Who presently assented to a meeting and made their repair to their Lordships forthwith accordingly Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 20 th day of December foregoing and on Thursday the 12 th day and on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January last past as also on Tuesday the 17 th day of the same Month immediately ensuing Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill for confirmation and better assurance and conveyance of certain Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments given and intended to an Hospital or Meason de Dieu in Warwick founded and established by the Earl of Leicester Vide postea concerning this Bill on to Morrow following On Tuesday the 17 th day of January it was agreed upon in the House that the Committees upon the Bill for maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage who were appointed on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant January foregoing should meet for perfecting of the same at the great Council Chamber at the Court at Whitehall this present day by two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill concerning a Lease of great yearly value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r D r Stanhop Vide touching this business on Friday the 13 th day and on Monday the 16 th day of this instant January foregoing Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation and better assurance and Conveyance of certain Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments given and intended to an Hospital or Meason de Dieu in Warwick founded and established by the late Earl of Leicester was read primâ vice George Ognell and the parties that follow the Bill for the Hospital to be heard openly in the House by their Councel Learned to Morrow the 18. day of this instant January in the Morning Vide concerning this business on Monday the 16. day of this instant January foregoing in fine Diei A Proviso drawn by M r Attorney by Commandment of the House and appointed to be added to the Bill for establishing the Bishoprick of Norwich c. was twice read and commanded to be ingrossed And then both the Bill and the Proviso being read the third time were returned to the House of Commons for their consideration of the Proviso Vide touching this matter on Tuesday the 20 th day of December foregoing and on Thursday the 12. day Saturday the 14. and on Monday the 16. day of this instant January foregoing The Earl Marshal was added to the Bill concerning Accomptants Three Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for some better staying of Corn within the Land to give liberty to English Subjects sometimes to buy Wheat c. and to sell the same again in the same kind for the better relief of the Common-Wealth was read tertiâ vice and rejected On Wednesday the 18 th day of January the Lord Keeper signified to the House that the parties that follow the Bill for the Hospital of Warwick are not provided of their Councel Learned Whereupon the House assigned them a new day viz. Friday Morning the 20. day of this instant January following Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 16. day and on Tuesday the 17. day of this instant Month foregoing Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the two last the one for the avoiding of bringing in of Pins and the other for the better furnishing and supplying of skilful Chirurgeons in and to the Land and Sea services for her Majesty and the Realm were each of them upon the second reading rejected The Earl Marshal was added to the Bill for Broakers and Pawn-takers The Committees upon the Bill for confirmation of Statute Merchants in the Cities of Lincoln and Town of Nottingham and the Committees upon the Bill concerning Tellors and Receivors were appointed to meet this present day The Councel learned on both sides upon the Bill concerning M r Mollineux were appointed to be heard openly in the House on Saturday next being the 21 th day of this instant January and warning to be given in the mean while thereof to the parties The Amendments agreed upon by the Councel upon the Bill of Tillage who were appointed on Wednesday the
11 th day of this instant January foregoing were appointed to be brought into the House to Morrow Morning by the Lord Chief Justice of England The Lord Buckhurst signified That upon a Letter written unto him by the Lord Marquess of Winchester notifying his present sickness whereby he was not able to give his Attendance as yet the said Lord Buckhurst having moved her Majesty therein according to the request of the said Lord Marquess it pleased her Majesty to hold him excused for the present until his recovery and commanded that he should then give his Attendance On Thursday the 19 th day of January the Bill for reforming of certain abuses touching Wine Casks was read secundâ vice and commited unto the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl Marshal the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Chichester the Lord North the Lord Buckhurst the Lord Howard of Walden and M r Justice Owen and M r Serjeant Drew to attend their Lordships Vide concerning this attendance of the Judges on Monday the 7 th day of November foregoing which said Committees were appointed to meet at the little Council Chamber at the Court at Whitehall at three of the Clock in the Afternoon Certain Amendments and a Proviso was brought into the House and delivered by the Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees upon the Bill of Maintenance of Husbandry c. and the same being twice read were commanded to be ingrossed Answer was returned in writing from the House of Commons and delivered by certain Knights and Burgesses sent for that purpose unto the Objections taken by their Lordships to some Points of the Bill intituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm which objections were also formerly delivered unto them in writing upon their request made unto their Lordships Certain selected Persons of the House of Commons viz. Sir William Knolls and Sir Edward Hobby Knights with divers others coming from the said House of Commons in delivered a Message signifying that the said Knights and Burgesses desired to receive satisfaction from the Lords concerning an Innovation as the said Knights and Burgesses supposed very lately begun in the Upper House in delivering of an Answer from the Lords by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper in other form and manner than was pretended by the Knights and Burgesses to have been in former times used and as they did interpret it to the prejudice and derogation of the liberty of the House of Commons For whereas on the fourteenth day of this instant January foregoing Sir Walter Raleigh Knight with divers others of the said House of Commons were sent up to the Lords to deliver a certain Message to the House after Consultation had thereon by the Lords and after signification given to the said Sir Walter Raleigh and the rest staying in the outward Room for Answer that they might come in to receive the same it was thought meet that the Lord Keeper should deliver the said Answer sitting in his place and all and every of the Lords keeping their places and not going down to the Bar as the use and form is when the Lords either receive Bills or Message from the House of Commons and as the Lord Keeper had done once or twice before by Error or not attending the Formality and Order of the House in that Point This was the Exception taken by the Message delivered this day from the Knights and Burgesses of the same House of Commons wherein they desire to receive satisfaction as is before mentioned Upon which Message the Lords having consulted and delivered their Opinions touching the said Order and Custom of the House as it had been observed and particularly noted and remembred by some of them that were the most ancient and of longest continuance in Parliaments and especially by the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the most ancient Parliament man of any that were at that time present either of the Upper House or House of Commons and likewise by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and by the Lord Admiral the Lord North the Lord Buckhurst and others that had been present in many Parliaments It was resolved that the Order and usage of the House was and is That when any Bills or Messages be brought from the House of Commons to be preferred to the Upper House the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords are to arise from their places and to go down to the Bar there to meet such as come from the said House of Commons and from them to receive in that place their Messages or Bills But contrariwise when any Answer is to be delivered by the Lord Keeper in the name and behalf of the House to such Knights and Burgesses as came from the House of Commons the said Knights and Burgesses are to receive the same standing towards the lower end of the said Upper House without the Bar and the Lord Keeper is to deliver the same sitting in his place with his head covered and all the Lords keeping their places and that whensoever it had been otherwise done it had been by error and mistaking and therefore not to be drawn into an Example or Precedent as it was acknowledged by the Lord Keeper this day and the rest of the Lords that the going of the said Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords from their places to the Bar some few days before once or twice to give Answer to some of the House of Commons whereof the said House of Commons seemed to take some advantage was only by miscognizance or rather for want of due remembrance at that present of the Order and Custom of the House whereunto their Lordships having regard rather to dispatch of matters of importance in the House than to formalities were not greatly intentive This to have been the ancient usage of the House and that the same ought still to be was concluded by common and general consent both upon particular remembrances and observations of the like course and Order holden aforetime by other Lords that held the place in the House of Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper and also by divers reasons produced and alledged to prove and shew that the said Order doth best stand with the dignity and gravity of the House and with the conveniency and aptness for dispatch of affairs appertaining to the Parliament and that the contrary course is both undecent and inconvenient This being so resolved and concluded it was agreed that M r Attorney General and Mr. Serjeant Drew should go down to the House of Commons and signify from the Lords to the Knights and Burgesses That if they would send any of that House up to the Lords to receive Answer unto their aforesaid Demands Answer should be given them Whereunto the said Knights and Burgesses returned signification of their assent by the said M r Attorney General and M r Serjeant Drew And in very little time after sent up
unto by the House of Commons with a competent number of them The Councel Learned on part of George Ognell and on the behalf of the Hospital of Warwick c. were openly heard in the House Vide concerning this business on Monday the 16 th day Tuesday the 17 th day and Friday the 20 th day of this instant January foregoing Excuse was made by the Bishop of London for the Bishop of Norwich in regard of his unhealthiness The Committees in the Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds c. who were appointed on Saturday the 21 th day of this instant January foregoing returned the same to the House with some Amendments by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chief Justice required to consider of the Amendments Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown was presented by Sir Robert Cecill and others On Tuesday the 24 th day of January Three Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was that no person robbing any House in the day although no person be therein shall be admitted to have benefit of Clergy The Bill Entituled An Act for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars was returned by the Lord Marshal second of the Committees with sundry Amendments thought meet to be added which Amendments were presently twice read and after consideration thereof had and much debate whether the Bill should so pass or no it was thought necessary to be recommitted to the said Committees who were appointed on Monday the 16. day of this instant January foregoing and the time and place appointed presently at the little Chamber near the Parliaments presence The Bill was brought in again with the same Amendments and no Alteration and thereupon commanded to be engrossed The Bill entituled An Act for the relieving of Clothiers concerning the weight of short broad and coloured Cloths to be made within the Counties of Suffolk and Essex was returned to the House by the Earl of shrewsbury the first of the Committees who made Report that upon hearing of both Parties and upon due consideration of the reasons and allegations by them alledged the Committees thought there could not be any further proceedings in the same Whereupon a new Bill was presented bearing this Title viz. An Act touching the making of short broad course coloured Cloths in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex which was presently read primâ vice The Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds c. was brought into the House by the Lord Chief Justice with certain Amendments It was debated in the House whether Amendments upon a Bill being brought into the House by the Committees may afterwards be contradicted or spoken against by any of the Committees but the doubt was left for the present unresolved Vide on Thursday the 12 th day of November in the Parliament de Anno 43 Regin Eliz. where this doubt was cleared and ruled affirmatively On Wednesday the 25 th day of January Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last was the Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown Sir Moile Finch to be heard by his Councel Learned to Morrow openly in the House concerning this Bill Four Bills of no great moment were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for reforming of sundry abuses by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars was read tertiâ vice The Earl Marshal informing that the Committees upon the Bill for the lawful making of Bays c. who had been appointed on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant January foregoing had not time at the day formerly assigned and moving for a new day to be appointed for their meeting the House appointed that the said Committees should meet for that purpose this Afternoon at the said Earl Marshals Chamber Notice was given to the House by the Lord Treasurer that the Committees upon the Bill concerning Tellors Receivors c. had a meeting with a select number of the House of Commons to confer upon the Objections and Answers touching that Bill Yesterday in the Afternoon according to the Order taken the 23 th day of January But for as much as the said number of the House of Commons at the meeting affirmed that they had no Authority to undertake the debating of the said Objections and Answers otherwise than to speak as they should see cause as private men and desired that the Answer might be communicated to the said Commons in writing the Lords therefore sent down the said Answers to the House of Commons by the hands of M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Stanhop The Committees upon the Bill concerning the draining of Waste and Marish grounds and who had been appointed on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant January foregoing were appointed to meet at the Earl Marshals Chamber this day by two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Amendments upon the Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds c. were twice read And thereupon the Bill with the said Amendments was commanded to be engrossed On Thursday the 26 th day of January the Bill to enable Edward Mollineux to sell his Lands for the payment of his debts c. was returned by the Earl Marshal the second of the Committees by reason of some of the Kindred of the said Edward Mollineux who opposed themselves against the Bill A Motion was therefore made that the Cause might be ended by some Arbitrary Course Whereupon the Parties on both sides were called into the House and moved to that purpose unto which they assented and made choice of the Earl of Rutland the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Mountjoy who were appointed to meet this Afternoon Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 17 th day of December foregoing Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fifth being the Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney General The Bill for the lawful making of Bayes c. was returned by the Earl Marshal the second of the Committees with a Proviso thought meet to be added which Proviso was twice read and commanded to be engrossed The Bill to reform deceits and breaches of
second being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted by the Queens Majesty to the Mayor c. of the City of Lincoln in the thirty ninth year of her Reign for the taking the acknowledgment of Statutes Merchants was upon the second reading committed unto the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Chester the Lord Zouch the Lord Windsor the Lord Wharton the Lord Rich and M r Justice Clinch to attend their Lordships The Bill concerning Garret de Malynes and John Hunger Merchants Strangers was read tertiâ vice Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the first day and on Friday the third day of this Instant February foregoing The Proviso added in the House of Commons concerning the Joynture of Christian Lady Sands was this day twice read The Proviso thought meet by the Committees in the Bill concerning the draining and recovery from the Water of certain overflowen grounds in the County of Norfolk was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed A Motion was made by the Lord Buckhurst that the County of Sussex might be added to the general Bill of surrounded Grounds The like motion was made by the Lord North and others for the Counties of Somerset and Essex whereunto the House assented And the said three Counties were accordingly added to the rest On Monday the 6 th day of February the Bill for the confirmation of Letters Patents granted by the Queens Majesty to the Mayor c. of the City of Lincoln c. was returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the first of the Committees with some Amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added The Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns was returned to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees with a Proviso thought necessary to be added Excuse was made by the Earl Marshal for the absence of the Earl of Sussex in regard of his unhealthiness The like excuse was made by the Bishop of Rochester for the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was for the more speedy payment of the Queens Majesties debts c. and the second against the Excess of Apparel The Bill for the explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners c. The Bill for the recovering of three hundred thousand Acres of Marsh-grounds more or less with one other of no great moment were each of them read tertiâ vice and passed the House and were sent down to the House of Commons by D r Carew and D r Stanhop Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in secundam horam post-meridian At which time the Amendments and Proviso added by the Committees to the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted to the Mayor c. of the City of Lincoln c. were twice read The Proviso also added by the House of Commons to the Bill for Confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sandes was read the third time and thereupon the Bill was expedited Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the more speedy paying of the Queens Majesties debts and for the better explanation of the Act made Anno 13 o of the Queen intituled An Act to make the Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels of Tellors Receivors c. liable to the payment of their Debts was read secundâ vice Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 7 th day of February Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against the Excess of Apparel was upon the second reading committed unto the Earl Marshal the Lord Admiral the Earl of Northumberland and others Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William Knolles Sir John Forteseue and others of which the second being the Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry was sent back with some Amendments which were presently twice read The Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rent during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown was returned with some Amendments by the Lord Chief Justice with a Proviso thought meet to be added Which Proviso and Amendments were once read A Message was sent to the House of Commons from their Lordships by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Carew for a Conference concerning the Bill against excess of Apparel with a competent number of the said House and the time and place was desired to be this Afternoon by two of the Clock in the great Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam postmeridianam At which time the Amendments in the Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry were read secundâ vice The Amendments and Provisoes thought meet to be added to the Bill concerning Patentees were read the second time and thereupon commandment was given that the said Proviso should be ingrossed in Parchment and the Amendments written in Paper ready for the third reading The Bill for Amendments of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent was read secundâ vice The Bill for reviving continuance Explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes was returned with their allowance of the Amendments and Proviso added by their Lordships Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum On Wednesday the 8 th day of February the Amendments in the Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry were read the third time as they were ingrossed in the Bill And thereupon the same Bill with the Amendments were expedited The Bill also for Amendments of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent was read tertiâ vice and expedited The Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees c. notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown was returned to the House of Commons by Doctor Carew and Doctor Stanhop for their considerations of the said Amendments and Provisoes No continuance of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Book of the Upper House which seemeth to have happened by the Error of Thomas Smith Esquire at this time Clerk of the same On Thursday the 9 th day of February Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the further continuance and Explanation of an Act made in the thirty fifth year of the Queens Majesties Reign that now is was returned with the
confirmation and establishment of the Deprivation of divers Bishops in the beginning of her Majesties Reign being thrice read the Bill with the Amendments passed upon the question Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against lewd and wandring persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners was read the third time and referred after sundry speeches unto Sir Robert Wroth and others to go up unto the Committees Chamber of this House and to amend some parts of the said Bill according to some of the said motions M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Stanhop do bring from the Lords a Bill passed with their Lordships intituled An Act for confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy and do shew that their Lordships do recommend the same to this House for the speedy expedition of the same Bill in this House The Bill for confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy had its first reading M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Stanhop do bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed from their Lordships by the good assent and agreement of the said parties Intituled An Act of Parliament for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for the injoying of the Rectory and Parsonage of South Molton in the County of Devon for certain years reserving the usual Rent The Amendments of the Committees of this House that 〈◊〉 may enjoy their Leases against Patentees in several Cases being twice read and also one Proviso for her Majesty in the same Bill likewise twice read were ordered to be joyned and inserted into the said Bill And one special Proviso also for M r Throgmorton being twice read It was Ordered after many Arguments upon the said Bill and last Proviso pro contra That M r Throgmorton and M r Moyle Finch being at the Door of this House should be severally called in and demanded by M r Speaker whether they would assent to have the matter in controversy between them referred to be ended by such Arbitrators as had been before nominated for that purpose unto them in the Committee viz. the Lord Keeper and the Lord Treasurer and the two Chief Justices and in what sum they would be bound each to other for their standing to and performing of such Award therein so to be made It was at last after sundry such demands made resolved by both their assents at the Bar in this House that each of them should enter into Bond unto the other in the sum of five thousand pound to stand to the Order and Arbitrament of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the two Chief Justices or any three of them for and concerning the two Leases in question So as the same Order or Arbitrament be made before the first sitting of this Court which shall happen to be held next after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord now next ensuing and the Condition of the Bond to be drawn by the Learned Councel of the Parties and to be perused and considered of further by M r Speaker On Tuesday the 20 th day of December the Bill for Confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy was read the second time and passed upon the Question M r Recorder of London one of the Committees in the Bill against lewd and wandring persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners who were appointed on Wednesday the 7 th day of this instant December foregoing shewed that they had amended the said Bill in some parts which Amendments being twice read to the House before any allowance for the third reading of them several Members of this House did argue to the parts of the said Bill and Amendments both with it and against it after which Committees were appointed in the said Bill against wandring Souldiers and Mariners and also in the Bill concerning Lessees and Patentees against the next sitting of this Court and to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall who were as followeth viz. M r Sollicitor Sir Thomas Egerton Sir Gilley Merick M r Rosse M r Recorder of London M r Brograve Attorney of the Dutchy Sir George Carey M r Crew M r John Hunt M r Philips M r Finch M r Hext M r Serjeants Harries Heyle and Warherton Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Robert Wroth Sir Oliver Lambert M r Francis Moore Sir Henry Norris M r Bourchier M r Mountague M r George Crooke together with all the Committees in all other Bills formerly committed by this House and not as yet expedited who are likewise to meet at the aforesaid time and place concerning such Bills as are committed unto them M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring three Bills from the Lords which had passed before in this House and had been sent up to their Lordships whereof one was the Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars which Bill their Lordships had passed with some Amendments and Additions Another Bill was for relief of the Poor which Bill their Lordships had in like manner passed with some Amendments and Additions And the third was for Explanation of a Statute made in the first year of the Queens Majesties Reign concerning Labourers which Bill their Lordships had also before passed with some Amendments and sent it down into this House and had received the same again afterwards with Message from this House that this House had no Warrant to take notice of that Amendment because it was in Parchment and not in Paper And shewed that their Lordships did not expect any exception of such Levity from the Gravity of this House and the rather because this House had before in this present Sessions of Parliament admitted of such like Amendments in Parchment from their Lordships in two other Bills and not in Paper without any such exception their Lordships taking it not to be much material whether such Amendments be written in Parchment or in Paper either white Paper black Paper or brown Paper Which Message being so delivered and the said M r Attorney and M r Doctor Stanhop departed M r Speaker reported unto the House the substance of the same Message putting them in remembrance that the said Amendment not only was not in Paper but was also subscribed or indorsed with Soit baille aux Communes And further shewed that the Cause of the said returning of the said last recited Bill unto their Lordships to the end the said Amendments thereof might be sent down by their Lordships unto this House in Paper without any such subscription or indorsement and not in Parchment did proceed upon the Advertisement of the Clerk of this House unto M r Speaker that the Ancient and usual Order of the Parliament in both Houses was and is that Amendments in Bills are to be set down only in Paper and not in Parchment and that also without any manner of Endorsement in the
and Dunsden might lawfully pass without their prejudice they Answered that it might so do and that they could take no exceptions at it Vide Dec. 7 th Monday postea Hodie introduction est breve Francisci Domini Norris qui praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissus est ad praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno On Monday the 23 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for reuniting Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by M r Doctor Stanhop and M r Hone. The Bill to avoid and prevent divers misdemeanors in lewd and idle persons was read secundâ vice Nota That there is no mention at all in the Original Journal-Book of the referring of this Bill unto Committees upon the second reading thereof nor yet that it was Ordered to be ingrossed By which it may seem that either the omission of it did happen by the negligence of Thomas Smith Esquire now Clerk of the Upper House who did forget to set down the referring of it to Committees if it were at all committed or else that it being not committed was engrossed of Course And it is the rather probable that this happened not by any omission of the said Clerk in respect that divers other Bills at this Parliament are set down in the Original Journal-Book of the said Upper House to have been read the second time without any further mention either of the Commitment or ingrossing as on Wednesday the 2 d day Friday the 4 th day Wednesday the 9 th day Saturday the 12 th day Monday the 14 th day and on Wednesday the 16 th day of December next ensuing The Bill for Confirmation of Grants made to the Queen and of Letters Patents made by her Highness to others was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and others who were appointed to meet at the great Council Chamber And the Bill was delivered to the said Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees The Bill for encrease and breed of Horses of service within this Realm was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward and others And the Bill was delivered unto him being the first of the Committees Vide November 26 th Thursday The meeting of the Committees upon the Bills concerning the suppressing of the multitude of Alehouses and for the avoiding of unnecessary delays of Executions upon Judgments in Debt who were appointed on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant November foregoing was upon a Motion of the Lord Treasurer appointed to be upon Thursday next at the little Chamber near the Parliament presence before the House sit for that the Committees could not conveniently meet at the times formerly appointed for the same The Under-Sheriff of the County of Surry that Arrested William Hogan was brought into the House to Answer for the same and by Order of the House committed to the Prison of the Fleet. Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 12 th day Saturday the 14 th day Monday the 16 th day and on Thursday the 19 th day of this instant November foregoing as also on Thursday the 26 th day of the same Month following On Tuesday the 24 th day of November Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the establishing of the remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Kettlebie was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Earl of Worcester the Lord Cobham the Lord Chandois and the Lord Howard of Walden And the Bill was delivered unto the said Lord Howard who with the rest was appointed to meet on Saturday next by two of the Clock in the Afternoon at the Chamber of Parliament Presence This day the Wife of Andrew Kettlebie made her appearance in the House in the behalf of her Husband and her Self excusing his not coming by reason of his great Age and Infirmities And withal prayed that their Councel Learned might be heard Whereupon it was Ordered that both their Councel and the Councel of Francis Kettlebie should be heard in the House upon Thursday next being the 26 th of this instant November in the Morning On Thursday the 26 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing one Bill being for the more peaceable Government of the parts of Cumberland Northumberland Westmerland and the Bishoprick of Durham was read the second time and committed But in respect that the manner of committing Bills during all this Parliament was the same and that the Judges and her Majesties Learned Councel were always appointed to attend the Lords Committees and never made Joint-Committees with them as is at large observed in the next precedent Parliament therefore the names of the said Committees are for the most part omitted It was Ordered by the House upon the humble Petition of William Hone Under-Sheriff of the County of Surrey that he should be enlarged and set at liberty out of the Prison of the Fleet whither he was lately committed for Arresting William Hogan her Majesties Servant Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 23 th day of this instant November foregoing The Councel of Andrew Kettlebie Esq and Francis Kettlebie were heard in the House And thereupon the Committees of the said Bill were appointed to meet upon Saturday next by two of the Clock in the Afternoon at the Chamber of Parliament Presence And the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Grey and the Lord Windsor were added unto the said Committees And the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas to attend with the others formerly appointed And the Bill was delivered to the Lord Howard of Walden Nota That here the Bill was delivered to the Lord Howard of Walden being the puisne Baron of the Committees and on Monday the 23 th day of this instant November foregoing two several Bills being committed the one of them was delivered to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other to the Earl of Nottingham who were each of them the first or chief of either of the said Committees By which it is plain that as well in the Upper House as in the House of Commons after any Bill is committed upon the second reading it may be delivered indifferently to any of the said Committees Vide also concerning this matter on Tuesday Dec. 8 th ensuing And so the Parliament continued until Tuesday the first day of December On which day two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of all Leases made and to be made according to the true intent of the last Will and Testament of George Lord Cobham Deceased was read primâ vice Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William
by Thomas Holcroft Henry Cavendish and William Cavendish Esquires to be annext to the Bill Intituled An Act for Confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and others It was at last agreed that the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas calling unto them the rest of the Judges and M r Attorney General should draw some new Provisoes such as they should think indifferent for all Parties and meet to be annexed to the said Bill and should present the same to the Lords to Morrow in the Morning before their Conference with the House of Commons about the said Bill Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant December ensuing The Lord Keeper signified unto their Lordships that he received Commandment from her Majesty to let them understand her Pleasure to be that the Parliament should end upon Thursday the 17 th day or Friday the 18 th day of this instant December at the furthest to the end their Lordships may repair home into their Countries against Christmas And therefore she required them to imploy and spend that time which remaineth in matters concerning the publick and not in private Causes Memorandum Quod die decimo praedicto viz. dicti Mensis Decembris Those of the House of Commons that were appointed to confer with some of the Lords upon the Message lately sent from the said House signifying their desire of Conference for some matter touching the Honour of both Houses did make known unto the Lords of the Committees nominated for that purpose that the occasion of such their Message was for that as they were informed M r Attorney General had preferr'd a Bill into the Star-Chamber against one Belgrave a Member of the House of Commons for and concerning some matter of misdemeanour pretended to be done towards the Earl of Huntington a Lord of the Upper House And therefore they desired this mutual Conference letting their Lordships understand that to the preferring of the said Bill they conceived just exceptions might be taken by them for two respects First That Belgrave being a Member of the House of Commons was thereby vexed and molested during his Service in the time of Parliament contrary to the Honour and Priviledge of the House saying that no Member of that House ought by any such means in time of his Service to be distracted either in body or mind The other because in the said Bill preferr'd by M r Attorney General who had been heretofore Speaker of that House and therefore as they thought ought to have more regard to the honour and liberty of the same certain words and clauses were inserted which were taken to be prejudicial and derogatory to the honour of the said House And therefore they desired that the Lords would peruse and consider of the said Bill Whereupon the said Bill being offered to be read and for as much as it appeared that it was not an authentick Bill testified by the hand of the Clerk of the Star-Chamber as had been meet the Lords thought it not meet though otherwise they were willing to have it read nor agreeable to the proceeding of such a Court that the said Bill or Scroll shall be received to reading And therefore with a Message to that effect were pleased to send it down again to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Yelverton and M r D r Hone who finding the House risen before they came brought the said Bill back again Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 14 th day of this instant December following On Friday the 11 th day of December the Bill concerning Captains Souldiers and other in the Queens Services in the Wars was returned to the House by the Lord Steward with certain Amendments and a Proviso thought meet by the Committees whose names see on Thursday the 12 th day of November foregoing as also on Tuesday the 8 th day of this instant December last past which Amendments and Provisoes were presently twice read and thereupon the Bill Commanded to be ingrossed The Bill for maintenance of the Navy encrease of Mariners c. which was committed on Monday the 7 th day of this instant December foregoing although the mention thereof as being of little moment be there purposely omitted was returned to the House by the Lord Treasurer the first of the Committees with certain Amendments which were presently twice read Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the two last were one for the Assurance of the Parsonage of the Vicaridge of Rotherston in the County of Chester and a Scholars Room in the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxon of the Foundation of K. H. 8. by the Dean and Chapter of the said Cathedral Church to Thomas Venables Esq and his Heirs for ever And the other for the Augmentation of Rachel Wife of Edward Nevil in the Counties of Kent both which Bills were read primâ vice Memorandum A Proviso being drawn by the Judges for the Bill for Confirmation of Grants made by her Majesty c. as by the Court was Yesterday appointed the same was presented to the House by the Lord Treasurer the second of the Committees testified by M r Attorney General that both Parties viz. the Earl of Shrewsbury and Thomas Holcroft Esq c. like of it and the same was read primâ vice and Conference had immediately with the Committees of the House of Commons in the Outward Chamber Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant December following The Bill before-mentioned sent down Yesterday by M r Serjeant Yelverton and D r Hone was sent by them again with the same Message and moreover to signifie unto them that the Lords are ready to have Conference with them Whereunto the House of Commons returned Answer that for the Conference they are ready to meet with the Lords forthwith And concerning the Bill they will do what shall be fit Vide Concerning this on Thursday the 17 th of December ensuing On Saturday the 12 th day of December Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Secretary Cecill M r Secretary Herbert and others which were each of them read primâ vice of which the first was for reformation of abuses in Sheriffs and other their inferiour Officers for not duly executing Writs of Proclamation upon Exigents according to the Statute of 31 Eliz. And the second was the Bill for prohibiting Fairs and Markets to be holden on the Sunday Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Grant of four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read primâ vice Vide concerning this Bill on Monday the 14 th day and on Tuesday the 15 th day of this instant December ensuing The Lords and those of the House of Commons not having time yesterday to
conclude their Conference about the Bill concerning Letters Patents and Conveyances c. another meeting was then appointed for them this Morning M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Carew were therefore sent unto them to let them know that their Lordships were ready presently to meet Unto which Message the House of Commons returned Answer that they would make their repair to their Lordships forthwith for that purpose Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant December ensuing The Bill for the perfecting the Joynture of the Lady Bridget Countess of Sussex Wife of Robert Earl of Sussex was read secundâ vice but no mention was made either of the Commitment or Engrossing thereof the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing The Bill concerning the Joynture of the Countess of Bedford was returned to the House by the Earl of Worcester first of the Committees who were appointed on Friday the 4 th day of this instant December foregoing with a Proviso and certain Amendments thought meet to be added together with a Petition of the Lady Russell against the said Bill The Lords that were appointed Committees for the Bill touching Letters Patents c. went forth to the outward Chamber to have Conference with those of the House of Commons appointed Committees for the same Bill but nothing concluded touching the Amendments because the said Committees had no power to conclude and therefore after long debate the Bill was brought back to the House and the relation thereof referr'd to be made by M r Attorney and the same deferred till the Afternoon sitting by reason the day was spent Domimus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam tertiam post Meridiem hujus diei About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers Lords having assembled themselves five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first concerning the draining and recovery from the Water of certain Overflown-Grounds in the County of Norfolk The second for Reformation of Abuses committed in buying and selling of Spices and other Merchandizes and the third to prevent Perjury and Subornation of Perjury and unnecessary expences in suits of Law were each of them read secundà vice But no mention is made either of their Commitment or Engrossing the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing The Proviso that was pretended to be added to the Bill for the Maintenance of the Navy encrease of Mariners c. was this day twice read in like sort as the Amendments of the said Bill had been before and thereupon the Bill was appointed to be forthwith engrossed The Bill for the maintenance of the Navy encrease of Mariners c. was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons together with the Bill concerning Captains Souldiers c. by D r Carew and D r Hone. The Amendments and Proviso in the Bill concerning the Countess of Bedfords Joynture were twice read and likewise the Lady Russells Petition was read Whereupon it was appointed that the Proviso should be ingrossed in Parchment and the Amendments in Paper The Committees in the Bill for the observation of Orders in the Exchequer who were nominated on Thursday the 10 th day of this instant December foregoing were appointed forthwith to meet in the little Chamber near the Parliament Presence to consider of a Proviso drawn by the Lord Chief Justice and the rest of the Judges by direction of the Committees which Proviso having been considered of accordingly was brought into the House and presently twice read And thereupon the said Proviso was commanded to be ingrossed The Bill for the assuring the Patronage of the Vicaridge of Rotherston in the County of Chester and a Scholars room in the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxon of the Foundation of King Hen. 8 th by the Dean and Chapter of the said Cathedral Church to Thomas Venables Esquire and his Heirs for ever was read secundâ vice But no mention is made either of the Commitment or Engrossing the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing Relation was made by M r Attorney of the Conference with the Committees of the House of Commons touching Amendments of the Bill of Letters Patents c. Whereupon because the Committees of both Houses were not agreed it was thought good they should meet again upon Monday Morning being the 14 th day of this instant December and should have Authority to agree touching the setting down and penning of the said Amendments and reducing of them to a certainty together with the Committees of the House of Commons coming with the like Authority that afterwards the same might be presented to the Judgment of the House This Motion was sent down by D r Carew and D r Hone and was accepted Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant December ensuing On Monday the 14 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer set down and established by vertue of her Majesties Privy Seal was read tertia vice And the Proviso thought meet by the Committees to be added was also read the third time The Bill for the Assurance of certain Mannors and Lands for part of a Jointure to Lucy Countess of Bedford And the Provisoes and Amendments presented by the Committees to be added were also read the third time both which Bills were sent to the House of Commons for their consideration of the several Provisoes and Amendments by the hands of D r Swale and the Clerk of the Crown Four Bills also had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Grant of four entire Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read secundâ vice But no mention is made either of the Commitment or ingrossing thereof the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing Vide also concerning this Bill on Tuesday the 15 th day of this instant December immediately following Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of the Charter of King Edward the Sixth of the three Hospitals of Christ Bridewell and S t Thomas the Apostle to the Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of London was read primâ vice The Bill to confirm the Assurance of the Mannors or Farms of Sagebury aliàs Sadgebury and Obden and other Hereditaments to Samuel Sands Esq and John Harris Gent ' and their Heirs And the Bill for the Amendment of certain imperfections of a Statute made in the Eighth Year of her Majesties Reign concerning the true making of Hats
was read tertiâ vice expedit Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam post meridiem hujus instantis diei About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords assembling Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the strengthening of the Grants made for the Maintenance and Government of the House of the Poor called S t Bartholomews Hospital of the Foundation of King Hen. the Eighth was read secundâ vice The Bill for the recovery of many hundred thousand Acres of Marshes and other Grounds subject commonly to surrounding within the Isle of Ely and Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk and Suffolk was read iertiâ vice expedit Upon the third reading of this Bill it was moved by the House that certain Additions might be put in the Title of the Bill and Amendments in some part of the body thereof and the Lord Chief Justice and M r Attorney were required to draw the same which was done presently by them and presented to the House Whereupon the said Additions and Amendments were thrice read and then sent to the House of Commons for their consideration of the same by M r Attorney and M r D r Hone who returned presently from the House of Commons with their allowance of the said Amendments and Addition in the Title of of the Counties of Essex Sussex Kent and the County Palatine of Durham Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to make the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of Edward Lucas Gentleman deceased Executor of the last Will and Testament of John Flowerden Esquire deceased lyable c. was read secundâ vice but no mention is made either of the Commitment or Engrossing thereof the reason or cause of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 d day of November foregoing Conference was desired by the House of Commons with some of their Lordships about the Bill sent to them this day concerning the reformation of Deceits and Frauds of certain Auditors c. The Conference was yielded unto and appointed to be presently at the outward Chamber near the Parliament Presence On Friday the 18 th day of December Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Queens Majesties most Gracious General and free Pardon was read primâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Stanhop Memorandum that whereas a Bill hath been presented to the High Court of Parliament by the Company of the Mystery or Trade of Painters making thereby complaint against the Company of Plaisterers for and concerning certain wrongs pretended to be done to the said Painters by the Company of Plaisterers in using some part of their Trade of Painting contrary to the right of their Charter as is pretended and humbly seeking by the said Bill reformation of the said wrong And whereas the said Bill passed not the Upper House of Parliament for just and good reasons moving the Lords of the Higher House to the contrary Yet nevertheless the Lords of the Upper House have thought it meet and convenient that some course might be taken for reformation of any such wrong as may be found truly complained of and fit to be remedied and for the setling of some good agreement and Order for the said Painters and Plaisterers so as each sort of them might exercise their Trade conveniently without impeaching one the other It is therefore Ordered by the Court of the Upper House of Parliament that the said complaint and cause of the said Painters which proceeded not in Parliament shall be referr'd to the Lord Mayor of London and the Recorder of London to be heard and examined adjudged and Ordered as in Justice and Equity shall be found meet And that at the time or times of the hearing of the said Cause the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas M r Justice Gawdie M r Baron Clark and M r Attorney General or any four three or two of them shall assist and give their help for the making and establishing some good Order and Agreement And that the said parties complainant and also the Company of the Plaisterers shall observe and keep such Order as by the said Mayor the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas M r Justice Gawdie M r Baron Clark M r Attorney General M r Recorder of London or any six five four or three of them whereof the Lord Mayor and the Lord Chief Justice of England or Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas to be two shall be set down and prescribed Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 14 th day of this instant December foregoing Memorandum that whereas William Crayford of Mongham in the County of Kent Gentleman was this day brought before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Upper House of Parliament to answer an Information made against him that he had procured and suborned his Son William Crayford to lay sundry Executions and Outlawries on William Vaughan Gentleman Servant to the Earl of Shrewesbury contrary to the priviledge of the Court And the said Crayford having been heard in the presence of William Vaughan what he could say concerning the said Information wherein he protested that he was guiltless and that his said Son had not in any sort received such direction from him as was informed It was therefore by the Court thought meet and so Ordered that the examination and determining of the controversies and Suits depending between the said Crayford and Vaughan should be referr'd to the Earl of Worcester the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Cobham And that they the said Crayford and Vaughan should enter into good and sufficient Bonds each to other to stand to observe and perform such Award and Arbitrement as the said Lords shall make and set down between them Vide concerning this Matter on Saturday the 19 th day of this instant December immediately following On Saturday the 19 th day of December a Motion was made in the House for avoiding of all further controversy between William Crayford and William Vaughan Gentlemen That forasmuch as each of them took mutual Exception one to the other touching the Bonds whereinto they formerly entred by Order of the Court the said William Crayford alledging that it sufficed not William Vaughan alone to be bound because his Heirs or some other claiming by and from him might trouble and molest him And that the said Vaughan is insufficient And the said William Vaughan alledging that if William Craysord were bound alone his Sons or Heirs might molest and trouble the said Vaughan without hazard of the Bond some further Order might thereupon be taken It was therefore this day Ordered by the Court that the said William Crayford and
had some matters of importance not fit to be read Yet if it please the House to command it they should Whereupon all cried No No. Sir Edward Hobbie answered Methinks under favour the motion Mr. Secretary made is good but the form therein I speak with all reverence not fitting the State of this House For he said M r Speaker shall attend my Lord Keeper Attend It is well known that the Speaker of the House is the Mouth of the whole Realm And that the whole State of the Commonalty of a Kingdom should attend one Person I see no reason I refer it to the consideration of the House Only this proposition I hold That our Speaker is to be commanded by none neither to attend any but the Queen only M r Johnson said The Speaker might ex Officio send a Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown who is to certify the Lord Keeper and so to make a new Warrant Sir Edward Hobbie said That for Election of Burgesles he had seen half a score yesterday with Sir John Puckerings hand when he was Speaker M r Speaker said I may inform you of the Order of the House that a Warrant must go from the Speaker to the Clerk of the Crown who is to inform the Lord Keeper and then to make a new Writ M r Secretary Cecill said I should be very sorry to detract from any particular Member of this House much more from the general State my meaning was mistaken and my words misconstrued yet both in substance agreeing with M r Speaker Post Meridiem At the Committee held this Afternoon touching Returns and matters of priviledge who had been appointed on Saturday the 31. day of October foregoing there were shewed divers Precedents to prove that the Warrant to be directed to the Clerk of the Crown for a Writ to be sent out for a new Election of any Member of the House ought to be directed from the Speaker which said Precedents were as followeth viz. In Anno 27. Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1584. 4 th Decembris Valentine Dale Master of the Requests was returned Burgess for Chichester and also for Hindon but he chose Chichester And John Puckering Speaker directed his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to send a Writ to make a new Election in Hindon which bare date the 10 th of December six days after 27 Eliz. Secondly In Anno 27 o Regin Eliz. Anno Domini 1584. 21 o Decembr the Writ bearing Teste 19 February for the same matter In which the stile of the House is Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons quod nota Thirdly Anno praedicto Regin ejusdem Anno Domini 1584. 19 Febr. when Parry being Burgess of Quecnborough in Kent was Attainted of Treason A Warrant was directed to the Clerk of the Crown to make a new Writ dated the 19 th day of February aforesaid in which Warrant under the Speakers own hand was inserted a reason to this effect viz. because the said Parry is disabled by reason of his Attainder Fourthly In An o xxvii o praedict Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1584. 30 Novembr Thomas Bodley was Elected Burgess of Portsmouth and also Baron for one of the Cinque-Ports viz. Hieth but he took Portsmouth and refused the other whereupon a Warrant was directed as abovesaid but no Teste of the Writ was there Fifthly 28 th January 1584. Alexander Pine Esq chosen Burgess for Taunton being Deceased a new Writ was made The Writ bare Teste 30 th January Sixthly 3 o Decembr Anno Domini 1584. John Puckering being Speaker was chosen for Bedford and Caermarthen and chose Bedford whereupon a Warrant was made to the Clerk of the Crown for a new Writ which bare date the 4 th day of December Anno xxvii o Regin Eliz. All which Warrants were signed by the Speaker John Puckering For the matter between Doctor Awbrey Doctor of the Civil Law and Mr. William Delabarr Barrester of the Common Law of Lincolns Inn touching the Burgessship of Cardigan in Wales the Cause stood thus Cardigan hath been by antient Precedents ever since the first Year of Queen Elizabeth a Burgess Town and ever the Return of the Indenture hath been for Cardigan only Now this Parliament the Sheriff of the Shire favouring a Town called Aberystwith after he received the Parliament Writ sent his Warrants to the Bayliffs of Aberystwith to chuse a Burgess c. who chose a Burgess viz. Doctor Awbrey and return'd him Burgess for Cardigan and Aberystwith and shewed in the Indenture the Election to be made by both Towns And the Indenture was signed with the Sheriffs hand On the other side the Bayliffs of Cardigan understanding the Writ to be come to the Sheriff took notice thereof and without Warrant from the Sheriff made an Indenture and Election of William Delabarr and sent the same in a Letter to him M r Delabarr sought the Sheriff or his Deputy in London to deliver the Indenture of Cardigan but not finding him delivered the same to the Clerk of the Crown paid his Fees was sworn and admitted into the House till this present day Now at this Committee for Priviledges Dr. Awbrey came to complain the Committees found upon Examination of the matter that the County Court was as well kept at Aberystwith as at Cardigan alternis vicibus and that the County Court was to be kept this time at Aberystwith So when they went to the Conference both Awbrey and Delabarr were desired to depart forth And upon Consultation these Questions arose First Whether the House have Power to Fine the Sheriff because according to the Statute he sent not his Warrant to Cardigan Next If he be punishable by the Penalty of the Statute Also if he have pursued his Authority in making his Election in Aberystwith Which are left with divers other doubts to the discussing of the House the next day and to the Report of Sir Edward Hobbie or Mr. Sollicitor Also in the twenty third of Elizabeth a Warrant to the Town of Hull from the Speaker Popham now Lord Chief Justice being then Speaker Sir Edward Hobbie at this Committee said Awbrey and Delabarr the one a Civil the other a Common Lawyer That he might say to them as the Duke of Millain said of the Thief It is no matter whether goes first the Hangman or the Thief The Town of Harwich in Essex and Newtown in the County of Southampton have returned Burgesses this Parliament which they never did before Thus far out of the aforesaid private Journal The ensuing days Passages do follow out of the Original Book it self On Friday the 6 th day of November Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to avoid divers misdemeanors in base and idle Persons was read the first time Mr. Dr. James being a Committee in the Bill against Drunkenness which was committed on Wednesday the 4 th day of this instant November foregoing declared the meeting
and was again recovered within a quarter of an hour It was said he had a spice of the Falling Sickness He was carried forth of the House by the Serjeant of the same and three of his men into the outer Room It was strange to hear the diversity of opinions touching this accident some saying it was Malum omen others that it was Bonum omen c. But as God will so be it Thus far of this days passages out of private Journals some other business of this day doth now follow out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons it self viz. Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords unto this House two Acts one Intituled An Act of the Queens Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon and another Act for the granting of four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty before passed in this House Mr. Secretary Cecill made Report of the meeting and travel of the Committees in the Bill that came from the Lords Yesterday Intituled An Act for reformation of deceits in Auditors and their Clerks in making untrue particulars and that for the errors in the form of digestion of the same it is thought not fit in the opinion of the Committees to be any further dealt in at this time and so resolved of in the Conference had with the Lords M r Hackwell made a Motion that the Speaker might say something touching the transportation of Ordnance that seeing the Bill in the Lower House is fallen into an everlasting sleep and that we knew not thereof before this day he could not be blamed for that which he could not have spoken before this time but nothing was replied or done The Subsidy of the Clergy was sent in a Roll according to the usual Acts to which Sir Edward Hobbie took Exceptions because it was not sent in a long Skin of Parchment under the Queens Hand and Seal So it was sent back again and then the other sent On Saturday the 19 th day of December about nine of the Clock the House came together this day being appointed to be the last day of the Parliament M r Speaker moved the House to know their Pleasures if they should Adjourn the House till one of the Clock which was assented unto yet as they were rising M r Herbert Croft said M r Speaker though perhaps my Motion may seem unseasonable at this present yet I beseech the House consider with me a Speech made Yesterday that consisted of four parts the scope whereof it being M r Hackwell's Speech layes open the dangerous mischiefs that come by transportation of Ordnance and that due reformation thereof may be had for restraint of private transporting I would only put the House in mind and you also M r Speaker that the Gentleman which Yesterday moved it desired that M r Speaker might say something thereof to her Majesty in his Speech to be inserted Which I do again desire the more earnestly because our Bill is fallen as he said into an Everlasting sleep and we have now no remedy but by her Majesty M r Speaker said If it please you upon the Motion of the Gentleman made Yesterday I mean to say something therein both for your satisfaction and performance of my duty And therefore this matter shall need no further to be moved With which the House rested well satisfied and so arose But it is to be noted that the Speaker said not one word in his Speech to her Majesty touching that matter which was greatly murmured at and spoken against amongst the Burgesses that the House should be so abused and that nothing was done therein Post Meridiem An Act of the Queens Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon was sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary Herbert The sending up of this Bill of the general Pardon being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons the rest of this Afternoons Passages as also the Conclusion of the Parliament do now follow About one of the Clock divers Gentlemen met together at the House whither the Speaker came and after the Privy-Council where sitting till past two of the Clock they went to the Upper House and stayed there at the Gallery Door above half an hour and at length the Door was opened and the Lords of the Upper House being all set and her Majesty under a rich Cloth of State the Speaker went to the usual place at the Bar where after three Reverences made and the like done in their times by all the Commons the said Speaker amongst other things in his Speech presented her Majesty in the name of the said House with the Gifts of four Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths although he somewhat mistook the manner of it in the delivery Unto which the Lord Keeper having Answered in her Majesties name with thanks Dissolved the Parliament after her Majesty had given her Royal Assent unto nineteen publick Acts and ten private FINIS An Alphabetical TABLE Directing to the principal matters contained in the JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A. ABsence of a Peer to be with licence from the Prince whereas of a Commoner from that House only p. 539. 543. The reason of absence ought to be signified to the House by one of the Peers and not by other Information p. 605 Acts how passed by the Sovereign p. 35. Acts of Grace how ibid. How Acts are transcribed and certified into the Rolls ibid. All the Acts at one Session passed by the Lord Chief Justice by vertue of Letters Patents from the Queen p. 389 Addition Vide Amendment Adjourn why the Lords commonly adjourn for several dayes at the beginning of a Session p. 270. The form of Letters Patents to certain Lords to adjourn the Parliament p. 317. The Sovercign may adjourn the Parliament as well as the Parliament adjourn it self p. 318. An Adjournment maketh no new Session as a Prorogation doth ibid. The Parliament adjourned by the Queens Commissioners without a particular Commission p. 382 Amendments of Bills by the Lords sent from the Commons how made p. 20. They use to be written in paper ibid. and p. 26. When a Bill has once passed the Lords and is sent down to the Commons if these make additions or amendments thereof the Lords upon the return of the Bill read them only and not the Bill it self p. 271. The Lords having ingrossed Amendments to a certain Bill in parchment the Commons will not allow of them but return the Bill with the Amendments to have these writ in paper p. 534 A Bill sent from the Commons receiving Amendments and Additions in the House of Lords the Orders of this House will not permit that the Lords should consent to any alterations of such Amendments or Additions by the Commons p. 537. If one Committee differ from the rest in some Amendments of a Bill he may give his reasons of such dissent to the
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Presence of her Majesty the Lord Keeper and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal is not at all marked in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House although this entrance following of the said day be there thus Recorded viz. Die Mercurij 25. die Januarij proceres tain Spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur presentes fuerunt But before this Title there is nothing specified touching the presence of her Majesty or of any of the Lords for the Letters which should be set at the beginning of the names of such Peers as this day attended her Majesty in the Upper House are not at all prefixed to any of them which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House Yet most certain it is that her Majesty Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper the Duke of Norfolk and divers other Peers were present but the direct manner of the ranking of them in respect of the negligent omission of setting the Pr. as aforesaid at the beginning of every Lords name that was present could not be orderly and and directly entred in his place although this was the first day of this first Parliament of her Majesty nor on Saturday the 28th day of this instant January being the second day of the same because by like negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House there is no presence of any Lords there set down in the Original Journal Book of the same House nor any mention of the Speakers presentment by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons and therefore of necessity it could not be supplied until the third day of this foresaid first Parliament of her Majesty being Monday the 30th day of this instant January on which day the names of all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being entred the Letters Pr. are prefixed before the name of the Lord Keeper and of such Peers as were then present as see at large on the said Monday next ensuing and therefore that President there so expresly Transcribed may serve as a Pattern for all the residue that follow in all the Journals of the Upper House during her Majesties Reign in which there are no other names inserted but of such Lords as were marked to be present unless it be upon Thursday the 21th day of March following in the afternoon in this present Journal and on Fryday the 15th day of January in the Session of Parliament A. 5. of her Majesty in the Journal of the Upper House And although the names of her Majesty and the Lords that attended could not be exactly set down yet it will not be impertinent in the next place to insert the manner of their sitting in the said House which being not at all mentioned in the aforesaid Original Journal Book of the same A. 1. Reg. Eliz. I have therefore partly supplied it according to 3 other Presidents in these ensuing Journals on which the first was on Thursday the 12th of Jan. in the Session of Parliament A. 5. Reg. Eliz. the second on Wednesday the 2d day of Octob. pomerid ' in the second and last Session of that Parliament being held in A. 8. Reg. 〈◊〉 and the third on Monday the 2d day of Apr. in the Parliament A. 13. Regin praedict ' all which do follow in the several Journals of the Upper House Annis praesatis and it is partly supplied also out the Printed Statute A. 31. H. 8. C. 10. and partly out of that elaborate written Treatise intituled Modus tenendi Parliament ' apud Anglos first confusedly gathered by Wil. Bowyer Esq as I conceive and now lately digested into a Methodical Treatise and enlarged by H. Essing Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House viz. in A. 1630. L. 1. C. 3. de loco modo sedendi Sect. 3. of the manner of sitting in Parliament at this day Her Majesty sate in the Chair of Estate and when she stood up her Mantle was assisted and born up from her Arms by two Noblemen or others of Eminent Rank thereunto appointed The Two Seats on the right and left-hand of the Chair of Estate were void in respect that the first was Anciently for the King of Scots when he used to come to our Parliaments and the other on the left hand is for the Prince the immediate Heir of the Crown On the Form on the right side of the Chair of Estate which stands on the North-side of the Upper House sate the Spiritual Lords the Archbishop of York beginning the Form and the Abbot of Westminster ending it Who was the last Abbot that ever sate in the said House in England since this first Parliament of her Majesty But at this day the two Archbishops sit upon one Form by themselves and then the other Bishops in order upon two Forms on the right hand of the State the Bishop of London sits first the Bishop of Durham second and the Bishop of Winchester hath the third place and then all other Bishops according to the Antiquity of their Consecrations On the left side of the Chair of Estate which is on the South-side of the Upper House upon the foremost Form sate all the Temporal Lords above the degree of Barons The Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England beginning that Form and the Viscount Bindon ending it The Barons sate on the second Form on the left hand of the State and it should seem at this Parliament as it fell out also in the next Sessions following in A. 5. Regin Eliz. on Tuesday the 12th day of January that one Form held them all so as the Lord Clinton Lord Admiral of England began the said Form by reason of his Office and the Lord St. John of Bletsoe ended it But at this day the number of Peers being much encreased divers of the Barons do sit upon other Forms Places Cross-ways at the lower end of the House Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper because he was under the degree of a Baron as also her Majesties chief Secretary being but a Knight were to have been placed at the uppermost part of the sack in the midst of the said House upon one Form by the fore recited Statute A. 3. H. 8. Cap. 10. But at this present Parliament as also at this day during her Majesties being present the Lord Keeper stood behind the Cloth of Estate on the right-hand and when her Majesty was absent then his Lordship sate on the first Woolsack which is placed athwart the House the Seal and Mace by him On the Woolsack on the North-side of the House and of the right-hand of the Estate sate the two Chief Justices and divers other Judges On the Woolsack on the left-hand of the Estate and on the South-side of the House sate the Master of the Rolls the Lord Chief Baron the Queen 's Learned Council and others And note That all these may properly besaid to sit on the Inner-side of
was Prorogued on Saturday the 10 th day of April then next following together with the Solemn and Royal manner of her Majesties passing to the House of Lords on either of the said Days are for the most part transcribed out of several Anonymous Memorials thereof I had in my Custody being doubtless the very Original Draughts or Autographs set down by some observant Member of one of the Houses or by some other person then present in the Upper House for it was written in a hand of that time and much interlined The Parliament was Summoned to begin at Westminster on Monday the 11 th day of Jan. An. 5 Regin Eliz. An. D. 1562. upon which day Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England with divers other Lords repaired to the Parliament Chamber commonly called the UpperHouse and then and there in presence of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses Summoned to the same Parliament the Lord Keeper declared that the Queens Majesty by reason of the evil disposition of her Health could not be present this 11 th day of January and that she hath therefore been pleased to Prorogue the same until to Morrow being the 12 th day of the same And to this purpose a Writ Patent under the Great Seal of England whereby the said Parliament was Prorogued unto the 12. day of this Instant Jan. was read publickly by the Clerk of the Upper House in these words following Elizabeth Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei desensor c. praedilectis sidelibus nostris Praelatis Magnatióus Proceribus Regni nostri Angliae dilectis sidelibus nostris Militibus Civibus Burgen dicti Regni nostri ad Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii undecimo die instantis mensis Jan. inchoand tenend convocatis electis vestrum cuilibet salutem Cum nos pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem dicti Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernent dictum Parliamentum nostrum ad diem locum praedict teneri ordinaverimus Ac vobis per separalia Brevia nostra apud Civitatem die praedict interesse mandaverimus ad tract and. consentiend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro tune ibidem proponcrentur tractarentur Quibusdam tamen certis de causis considerationibus nos ad tempus specialiter movent dictum Parliamentum nostrum usque duodecimum diem hujus instantis Mensis Jan. duximus prorogand it a quod nec vos nec aliquis vestrum ad dictum undecimum diem Jan. apud Civitatem praedictam comparere teneamini seu arctemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum inde erga nos penitus exonerari Mandantes tenore praesentium firmiter injungendo praecipientes vohis cuilibet vestrum ac omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quod ad dictum duodecimum dicm Januarii apud praedictam Civitatem Westmonasterii personaliter compareatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compareat intersit ad tractand faciend agend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro de communi concilio dicti Regni nostri favente Deo contigerint ordinari Teste me ipsâ apud Westmonasterium nono die Januarii anno Regni nostri quinto This day although the Parliament began not nor any Peers sate in the Upper House but the Lord Keeper and some others of either House met only in the Parliament Chamber to Prorogue the Parliament unto the 12. day of this Instant Month as aforesaid were divers Proxies returned from many of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal who in their absence did constitute others to give their Voices for them Nota That the Duke of Norfolk was Constituted the sole or joint Proctor of four several Peers and Francis Earl of Bedford was nominated the sole or joint Proctor of seven several Lords whereof one was Thomas Archbishop of York and another of them was William Bishop of Exeter By which it doth appear not only that a Spiritual Lord did Constitute a Temporal which at this day is altogether forborn as also for a Temporal Lord to Constitute a Spiritual which was but rarely used during this Queens Reign but likewise that any Peer of the Upper House by the ancient and undoubted usages and Custom of the same is capable of as many Proxies as shall be sent unto him On Tuesday the 12. day of January the Parliament held according to the Prorogation on yesterday foregoing and about eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon the Queens Majesty took her Horse at the Hall Door and proceeded in manner as followeth First All Gentlemen two and two then Esquires Knights and Bannerets and Lords being no Barons or under Age. Then the Trumpeters sounding Then the Queens Serjeant M r Carus in his Circot-Hood and Mantle unlined of Scarlet Then M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney and M r Russell Sollicitor Then Anthony Browne Justice of the Common Pleas and M r Weston of the Kings Bench. Then the Barons of the Exchequer Then M r Corbett and M r Whidon two Justiees of the Kings Bench. Then Sir Thomas Saunders Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Sir James Dyer Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Then Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls in his Gown and Sir Robert Catlin Chief Justice of the Kings Bench and these Justices and Barons of the Exchequer in their Scarlet Mantles Hood and Circot edged with Miniver the Mantle shorter than the Circot by a foot Then Knights Counsellors in their Gowns as Sir Anthony Cooke Sir Richard Sackvile Sir William Peeters and Sir Ambrose Cane Then Sir William Cecill Chief Secretary and Sir Edward Rogers Comptroller Then William Howard bearing the Queens Cloak and Hat Then Barons in all forty but there in number 30. a. St. John of Bletso Hunsdon Hastings of Loughborough Chandois North Effingham but now as the Lord Chamberlain Darcy of Chicke Paget Sheffield Willoughby Rich Wharton Evers Cromwell St. John Mordaunt Borough Wentworth Windsor Vaux Sands Mountegle Darcy of Menell Ogle Mountjoy Lumley Latimer Scroope Grey of Wilton Stafford Cobham Dacres of the North Dacres of the South Morley Barkley Strange Zouch Audeley Clinton but now Lord Admiral and Bargaveny their Mantles Hoods and Circot furr'd and two Rows of Miniver on their right Shoulder Then proceeded the Bishops all that were there present were but twenty two as Glocester and St. Asaph Chester Carlisle and Peterborough Norwich and Exeter Lichfield and Coventry Bath and Wells Rochester and St. Davids Salisbury and Lincoln Bangor and Worcester Ely and Hereford Landaffe Chichester and Winchester Durham and London their Robes of Scarlet lined and a Hood down their back of Miniver Then the Viscounts their Robes as the Barons but that they had two Rows and an half of Miniver as the Viscount of Bindon absent Viscount
Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox October the 27 th Sunday On Monday the 28. day of October Sir Robert Catlyn Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench supplying the place of the Lord Keeper at this time sick of the Gout as is before-mentioned with divers other Lords Spiritual and Temporal met in the Upper House but nothing appeareth to have been done in the Original Journal of the same House only the continuance of the Parliament unto Wednesday next following On Wednesday the 30. day of October Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of Archbishops and Bishops of this Realm to be good lawful and perfect was read secundâ vice The Lords whose names are here next after written were appointed to have Conference with a setled number of the House of Commons touching Petition to be made to the Queens Highness as well for the Succession as for her Marriage viz. The Archbishop of York The Lord Treasurer The Duke of Norfolk The Marquess of Northampton The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Westmorland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Huntingdon The Earl of Warwick The Earl of Bedford The Earl of Pembroke The Earl of Leicester Viscount Mountague Viscount Bindon The Bishop of London The Bishop of Durham The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Worcester The Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield The Lord Admiral The Lord Chamberlain The Lord Morley The Lord Cobham The Lord Grey The Lord Wentworth The Lord Windsor The Lord Rich. The Lord Sheffeild The Lord Paget The Lord North. The Lord Haistings of Loughborough The Lord Hunsdon It should seem that the Lords had intended at first to have appointed but thirty of themselves to have joined with the House of Commons about the foresaid Treaty or Conference to be had between them touching the said great matters of Succession and Marriage however it fell out afterwards as appeareth by the names above set down that they appointed more for it appeareth plainly by the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although there be no mention at all of it in that of the Upper House that the Lords did this day send down word unto the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Carus and M r Attorney that they had Chosen thirty of themselves to consult and confer with a Select Committee of the said House touching the foresaid great business touching which see more on Tuesday the 5 th day of November following Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox On Thursday the 31 th day of October the Bill for declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of the Archbishops and Bishops of this Realm to be good lawful and perfect Commissa est to the Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Justice Southcote and Attorney General The Bill for annexing of Hexamshire to the County of Northumberland was read secundâ vice The House of Commons appointed Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold Sir Francis Knolles her Majesties Vice-Chamberlian Sir William Cecill her Highness Chief Secretary Sir Ambrose Cave Knight Chancellor of her Dutchy of Lancaster Sir William Peeter Sir Ralph Sadler Sir Walter Mildmay Knights all of her Highness Privy-Council and divers other Members of the House of Commons to have Conference with the Lords aforenamed whose names see on yesterday foregoing touching those two great matters of the Succession and Marriage to be dealt in by Petition to her Majesty As see more at large upon to Morrow ensuing in the Afternoon Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Martis 5 die Novembris prox On Tuesday the 5 th day of November the Bill for the annexing of Hexamshire unto the County of Northumberland and the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the same unto the See of the Bishoprick of Durham was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa The Nobles under-named were appointed to wait on the Queens Highness this Afternoon with thirty of the House of Commons by her Highness special Commandment The Archbishop of York The Lord Treasurer The Duke of Norsolk The Marquess of Northampton The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Westmerland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Huntingdon The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Warwick The Earl of Bedford The Earl of Pembroke The Earl of Leicester Viscount Mountague Viscount Bindon The Bishop of London The Bishop of Duresm The Lord Clinton Lord Admiral The Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain The Lord Morley The Lord Lumley The Lord Rich. The Lord Sheffeild The Lord Paget The Lord North. The Lord Haistings of Loughborough and The Lord Hunsdon Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliament usque in diem Crastinum hora consueta But there is no mention at all in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to what end or purpose the Lords above-mentioned with those thirty Members of the House of Commons repaired to her Majesty which doubtless fell out by the great negligence in a matter of so great weight of Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Upper House and therefore I have thought fitting and necessary to supply it at large partly out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and partly out of other several Manuscript Memorials I had by me all which in their proper place I have particularly vouched It is therefore in the first place to be noted as fit matter of preparation to that which follows that these two great matters touching her Majesties Marriage and the Declaration of a certain Successor were agitated in the House of Commons in the first Session of this present Parliament in An. 5 Regin Eliz. and thereupon the greatest part of the said House with Thomas Williams their Speaker did prefer a Petition to her Majesty upon Thursday the 28 th day of January in the said fifth Year of her Majesties Reign by her Allowance in which having humbly supplicated her Majesty to Marry or in default of Issue of her own Body to declare a certain Successor they received a gracious Answer But now the same Parliament reassembling again to this second Session thereof in the eighth year of the Reign of the Queen and finding nothing to have been acted by her Majesty in either kind but that she remained still a Virgin without all likelyhood of Marriage and that the Succession of the Crown depended upon great uncertainties some holding the Queen of Scots to have best Right others the Countess of Lenox being the Daughter of Margaret of England by Archibald Douglass Earl of Anguisse her Second Husband and others also argued very strongly for Catherine Countess of Hartford being the Daughter and Coheir of Henry
original of the creation of Patronages being considered it appeareth that nothing is left to the Patron of right The manner of their original he shewed at large and that the same was granted Deo Ecclesiae and concluded that the Patron had nothing of worth or value but a bare nomination if it be truly used since that dealing sincerely he is neither to respect Commodity Blood Affection Friendship nor any thing else but the worth and sufficiency of the Man c. The Bill against Vagabonds was read the first time after which ensued divers Speeches which is not commonly used until after the second reading and therefore they are the rather transcribed out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal M r St. John moved that an old Bill before this time exhibited into the Lower House concerning this matter might be perused M r Sands endeavoured to prove this Law for Beggars to be over sharp and bloody standing much on the care which is to be had for the Poor saying that it might be possible with some travail had by the Justices to relieve every man at his own house and to stay them from wandring this experience he shewed and what was done in the Country of Worcester M r Treasurer talked to this effect that he would have a Bridcwel in every Town and every Tipler in the County to yield twelve pence yearly to the maintenance thereof M r Wilson a Master of the requests argued thus that poor of necessity we must have for so Christ hath said until his latter coming and as that is true so said he also that Beggars by Gods word might not be amongst his People Ne sit mendicus inter vos His Experience he shewed through the greatest part of Christendome concluding that such looseness and lewdness was no where as here he said it was no Charity to give to such a one as we know not being a stranger unto us Thus said he did the Locrenses constitute by their Laws Even as of Thieves did the Grecians judge of them To the pain of the Constables for their remiss dealings he wished might be conjoined Imprisonment On Saturday the 14 th day of April the Bill for one William Skevington was read whereby was supposed a deceit practised by one Sacheveril for conveying of Land contrary to the true meaning by subtile forging of a false deed in place of the true deed which being read it shewed the confession of Sacheveril and prayed restitution with discharge of all mean incumbrances during such time as it was in the possession of Sacheveril M r Fleetwood endeavoured to prove that all such sinister false fraudulent or convenous dealings being opened in that place albeit that the party pray not redress yet being made apparent to that High Court ought not to be pretermitted without due consideration and convenient punishment to be by the House assigned and the party to be brought to the Bar of that House for proof thereof he shewed in the time of King Henry the Fourth that the abusing of one of that House coming home into his Country for what he had done or spoken in the House was afterwards adjudged of in that place and a Law presently made for what before was not thought upon the like he shewed to be done in Henry the Eighth his time concerning an Excommunication had at Serjeants-Inn c. He also remembred a President of one John Rue who for that he meaning to have deceived a Merchant of London in sale of certain sums of money due unto him to be paid out of the Exchequer as he pretended whereas in truth the money was before received by him who sold the Debt Judgment was given for the subtilty of the loss of his goods the profit of his Lands and perpetual Imprisonment For every Conspiracy the Judgment is by Law said he villanous even as in the Case of Attaint to have the Houses turned up the Meadows Eared c. He shewed also that in the time of Edward the Third one meaning to cause the price of Wooll to fall gave out that there was likelihood of Wars to be between the King of England and the King of Denmark by which means the Traffick of the Staple was like to be stayed Whereupon it was presently ordained that he should be banished though for that purpose there were no Law before After this Speech as it should seem Committees were appointed for this Bill whose names being not found in the aforesaid Anonymous Journal out of which the preceeding Speeches are transcribed they are therefore supplied out of the Original Journal-Book it self of the House of Commons and were as followeth viz. Sir John Thinne M r Stokes M r Bell M r Fleetwood M r Bedell and M r Smith to meet in the Star-Chamber upon Wednesday next at three of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for the Free Grammar-School in Southwark was read the first time For the Bill of Treasons and Additions it was Ordered that such of the Committees as are Learned in the Laws shall have Authority to conser with the Queens Majesties Learned Councel touching the same Bill and Additions The Bill for Reformation of the Book of Common-Prayer was read the first time after which the Bill being preferred by M r Strickland ensued divers long Arguments which being omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons are therefore supplied with some small alteration where need required out of that often before-cited elaborate Anonymous Journal of the same House in manner and form following M r Treasurer of her Majesties Houshold reasoned to this effect That if the matters mentioned to be reformed were Heretical then verily they were presently to be condemned but if they are but matters of Ceremony then it behoveth us to refer the same to her Majesty who hath Authority as Chief of the Church to deal herein And for us to meddle with matters of her Prerogative quoth he it were not expedient Withal he said what Cause there might be to make her Majesty not to run and join with those who seem to be most earnest We are not to search whether it be for that in time and order she hopeth to bring them with her or what other secret cause or scruple there may be in the heart of Princes it is not for all people to know M r Comptroller argued to this effect as afore commending the Zeal but that the place and time were not fit And since we knowledge her to be Supream Head we are not in these petty matters to run before the Ball which to do and therein to offend were great folly how forewarned we were herein he did refer to our consideration insinuating in some sort that our heady and hasty proceedings contrary to and before the Law did rather hinder than help Hereupon one Pistor with a grave and seemly Countenance and good natural Eloquence shewed how Conscience enforced him to speak and rather to hazard his Credit than to the
the outward observance and a convenient silence as not to dislike what is publickly professed but to inforce any to do the Act which may tend to the discovery of his Conscience it is never found He shewed the difference betwixt coming to Church and receiving the Communion the one he allowed to be incomprehensible in Law the other he could not allow And in Answer of that which before had been said that the Conscience was not straitned but a penalty of the loss of their goods only adjudged whereof no doubt the Law of God and the Law of Nations had given to the Prince an absolute Power he said to this out of Cicero de Legibus that man out of his own nature is to care for the safety of man as being reasonable Creatures and not the one to seek to bereave the other of his necessary livelyhood adding out of the same Book this saying of Tully Qui Deum non curat hunc Deus ipse judicabit He shewed out of S t Paul that we must not do ill that good may grow thereby we must not take from him that is his to the end thereby to make him to do what is not in his power to be fit for so great a mystery God above of his free gift may make a man To come unworthily the penalty is appointed S t Paul hath pronounced it to be Death and Damnation as guilty of the Blood and Death of Christ. Not to come our Compulsory Law shall now condemn so that this our favour herein to be extended is either to beg or be exiled from our native Country He said there was no Example in the Primitive Church to prove a Commandment for coming to the Communion but an Exhortation he said S t Ambrose did Excommunicate Theodosius and forbid him to come to the Communion because he was an evil man And for us to will and command men to come because they are wicked men it is too strange an inforcement and without President M r Agmondesham without regard of any thing spoken before made mention of a Decree in the Star-Chamber made by nine of the Privy-Council signed with their hands and the hands of the Chief Justices concerning the receiving of the Communion by Gentlemen of the Temple This Decree made by so grave and learned men he thought for himself and to his own Conscience was a stay what to judge and a direction or president what to follow the tenor of which Decree for so much as it did concern the reformation of the Houses of Courts and principal places to be thought and considered of he wished might be inserted into the Law The motion was well liked and he required to bring the same the next day which was done M r Norton shewed that where many men be there must be many minds and in consultations convenient it is to have contrary opinions contrary reasons and contradictions thereby the rather to wrest out the best but this by the rule of reasoning and reason must be sine jurgiis he then said that not only the external and outward show is to be sought but the very secrets of the heart in Gods cause who is scrutator Cordium must come to a reckoning And the good Seed so sifted from the Cockle that the one may be known from the other A man Baptized is not to be permitted among us for a Jew And here somewhat slipping from the matter inSpeech he moved that all suspected for Papistry might make this Oath That they did acknowledge the Queen to be Queen for any thing the Pope in any respect might do noting some imperfection in the former Oath To this end quoth he are the Bulls now sent to discharge men of their Allegiance and to give free pardon of sins so that he who thus should be pardoned should from henceforth in no sort Communicate with the Professors of the Gospel and now quoth he the very touchstone of trial who be those Rebellious Calves whom the Bull hath begotten must be the receiving of the Communion which who so shall refuse we may justly say he savoureth c. And men are not otherwise to be known but by the external sign To Answer and satisfy the Dilemma objected before in the first day made concerning the disorders of certain Ministers in saying of the Service contrary to the instruction of the Book he wished this Proviso might be added that mistaking of Chapters misreading c. should be recovered as no offence so that there be no Mass-Song or Popish Service used in Latin c. And thus the Bill rested to be further considered of These preceeding Speeches being thus transcribed out of the aforesaid Anonymous imperfect Journal a great part of the residue of this days passages do now next ensue out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons in manner and form following The Committees for the Bill of Treasons were appointed to meet in the Star-Chamber upon Tuesday next between two and three of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for Bristol was brought in by M r Comptroller corrected in form but not in substance or matter M r Serjeant Barham and M r Attorney General declared that the Lords desire that some of this House be sent presently to them for Conference whereupon it was Ordered that all the Privy-Council being of this House Sir Christopher Heydon M r Wilson Sir John Thynne Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Henry Gate Sir Henry Norrice M r Audrian Stocks M r Recorder of London M r Fleetwood M r Serjeant Manwood M r Serjeant Lovelace M r Henry Knolles Sen. M r Heneage M r Bell M r Mounson M r Norton and M r Yelverton shall presently repair unto their Lordships who so did and thereupon brought report to this House from the Lords that as the Season of the Year waxed very hot and dangerous for sickness so they desired that this House would spend the time in proceeding with necessary Bills for the Common-Wealth and lay aside all private Bills in the mean time Vide Apr. 26. Thursday postea Which report was made by M r Treasurer and a Note brought from the Lords by him of such Bills as they thought meetest to be treated of was read by the Clark viz. The Bill for Treasons The Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion The Bill against untrue demeanors of Tellors Receivors and Collectors Against such as be fled beyond the Seas without Licence Against fraudulent gifts and conveyances of Lands and Goods For preservation of Wood. For respite of Homage For corrupt returns by Sheriffs For the Subsidy For Suits by Promoters The Bill for Subsidy was read the first time to which there is nothing mentioned to have been spoken by any Member of the House of Commons in the Original Journal-Book of the said House and therefore although that little that is set down in the often already cited Anonymous Journal do there remain imperfect yet in respect it is the very last thing
as two for one place and one for two places and other corrupt courses in sundry of the Returns to the great prejudice both of the liberties and also of the service of this House It is ordered that it be committed unto Sir William Moore Sir Edward Hobby M r Edward Dyer M r Cromwell M r Recorder of London M r Alford M r Francis Hastings Sir Edward Dymock M r Robert Markham M r Lieutenant of the Tower M r Rowland Watson Clerk of the Crown and that he do attend as well with the Returns of the Sheriffs as with his own Book of the same Returns certified by him into this House and to meet in the Exchequer Chamber upon Monday next at three of the Clock in the Afternoon And upon a further motion made by M r Humphrey Conisby for due consideration to be had that the Members of this House may give their better attendance in this House hereafter than hath been of late accustomed This matter is also referred to the said former Committees and the said M r Conisby added unto them The Bill touching Informers and Informations upon Penal Statutes was read the second time and committed unto all the Privy Council of this House M r Recorder Sir William Moore M r Grafton and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Monday the 10 th day of February the Bill touching the benefit of Clergy in some cases of Offenders was upon the second reading committed unto M r Cromwell M r Secretary Wolley and others who were appointed to meet in the Star-Chamber upon Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Upon a motion this day made by M r Treasurer that M r Robert Knowles Esquire being returned into this House both Knight for the County of Brecknock and also one of the Burgesses for the Town of Reading and hath made his choice to appear as Knight of the said County of Brecknock It is ordered that a Warrant from this House be directed to the Clerk of the Crown for another Writ to choose another Burgess for the said Town of Reading in the lieu and stead of the said Robert Knowles Upon motions also made for some Burgesses returned into this Session and which are sick and desirous to have others to serve in their places to be returned upon new Writs partly by Certificate of the same parties under their hands and partly by report of some of the Members of this House It is ordered after sundry arguments that this Case be considered of by the foresaid Committees this Afternoon whose names see before on Friday the 7 th day of this instant February and Sir Francis Godolphin Sir Henry Cobham M r Francis Bacon M r Francis Moore and M r Fane are now added unto them A Bill that Lands Intailed and Copy-hold Lands may be liable to the payment of debts was read the first time and after sundry Arguments rejected upon the question On Tuesday the 11 th day of February a Bill touching the pursuit of Hue and Cry was read the first time M r Treasurer in the name of himself and of the residue of the Committees whose names see before on Friday the 7 th day of this instant February for examination of the Returns and attendance of the Members of this House doth shew that they met yesterday in the Afternoon and having conferred together about those matters were of opinion that this House is to take notice of all Returns only in such sort as the same shall be certified unto this House by the Clerk of the Crown in the Chancery and not otherwise without any intermedling at all with any business of the Sheriffs or of any others in making the Election of any such Member to be Knight Citizen Burgess or Baron but yet that this House hath nevertheless authority in cases where no Return is made at all to direct their Warrant under the hand of M r Speaker unto the said Clerk of the Crown Office for her Majesties Writ to go forth for chusing and returning any Knight Citizen Burgess or Baron into this House in every such Case where any such shall not before happen to be returned at all And further that upon Conference they do find that no new Knight Citizen Burgess or Baron hath been chosen in the place of another being sick unless the sickness be irrecoverable in all likelihood as Frensy or such like And moreover where in the Return of the Burgesses for the Borough of Appleby in the County of Westmerland it appeareth that in the Indenture returned being razed in the sentence of Election Laurence Lister and Thomas Musgrave are named Burgesses and in the sentence for giving them authority being likewise razed Robert Warcop and Anthony Felton are named with the former hand they do think it convenient upon the insufficiency and uncertainty thereof that a new Writ be granted for chusing of new Burgesses for the said Borough and the said former Return not yet received of Record to be utterly disallowed Which opinion of the said Committees in every behalf was well liked of by this House And that as concerning better attendance to be given hereafter by the Members of this House for the service of the same House they think it meet to be redressed by way of Fines or Amerciaments to be inflicted upon such the Members of this House as upon the calling of the House or otherwise shall be found to make such default or to be much or long absent from the service of this House without Licence or some reasonable cause to be shewed for the same Which course was also well liked and allowed of by this said House And after this report made by Mr. Treasurer M r Speaker putting the House in remembrance of some persons already in this present Session allowed by this House to be returned into the place of some others sick and the Warrants already gone out for the same being repugnant directly to one part of the said report now allowed and liked of by this House doth desire to know the further resolution of this House touching those persons so now to be newly returned upon the said Warrants And after some Speeches thereof had not throughly digested Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer stood up and offering to speak of some great matter but yet without prejudice to the due consideration of the things then in disputation as very necessary but yet to be referred to another time putteth the House in mind of the prosperous and quiet state of this Realm under her Majesties most happy and Blessed Government by the space now of thirty years But what should here follow is very negligently omitted especially there being almost three entire blank pages left for the inserting of it but it may probably be conjectured that the chief end and scope of his Speech was as to set forth the Excellency and Justice of her Majestres