Souldiers as shall be found to have most need thereof The like whereof the Commons Assembled in this Parliament have Ordered For all the Members of that House that are absent and have not paid are to contribute in double manner Which Order is thought very just considering the Lords and others who have been absent and have been at no charge to come up and give their Attendance may very reasonably and with a great saving to their Charges contribute to this Order And if any Lord Spiritual or Temporal shall refuse or forbear thus to do which is hoped in Honour none will do there shall be ordinary means used to levy the same On Friday the 6 th day of April to which day the Parliament had been last continued four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for avoiding deceits used in sale of twice laid Cordage for the better preservation of the Navy of this Realm was read tertia vice conclusa Eight Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill to make void the Spiritual Livings of those that have forsaken the Realm and do cleave to the Pope and his Religion On Saturday the 7 th day of April Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for rating of the Wages of Spinners and Weavers and to reform the falsities of Regrators of Woollen Yarn was read primâ vice On Monday the 9 th day of April to which day the Parliament had been last continued three Bills were each of them read secundà tertiâ vice and so expedited of which the second was the Bill for the bringing of fresh Water to the Town of Stonehouse in the County of Devon Eight Bills also this Morning were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Naturalizing of Justice Dormer and George Sheppy being born beyond the Seas of English Parents and to put them in the nature of meer English was read primâ secundâ vice But it doth not appear whether this Bill were committed or no which did not only happen in this place by the negligence of M r Anthony Mason at this time Clerk of the Upper House but also through the whole Original Journal Book of the said House this Parliament in all which although divers Bills are said to be read the second time yet it is not at all expressed whether they were thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed or further to be considered of by some select Committees of the House one of which of necessity must be put in Execution upon the said second reading of a Bill both in the Upper House and that of the House of Commons unless the Bill have its third reading also at the same time and pass the House or else be dasht upon the question and so cast out of it This Morning finally Whereas a Bill Intituled An Act touching Power and Liberty to repeal certain uses of a Deed Tripartite herein mentioned of and in certain Lands Mannors and Tenements of Anthony Cooke of Romford in the County of Essex Esquire hath been heretofore three times read and assented unto by the Lords in the which Bill there is no Saving to the Queens Majesty or any other person or persons of their lawful Estates or Titles This day there was a Saving drawn for her Majesty and all others which was offered to this House and some question and ambiguity did grow whether the Saving should be now added to the Bill And in the end it was resolved that the Saving should be added to the Bill for that it is usual and requisite to have some Saving in every Bill and for that there was nothing in the Saving contrary to any matter in the Bill and that her Majesties Right and all other be saved thereby Nevertheless upon weighty considerations the Lords have Ordered that this shall not hereafter be drawn to make any Precedent On Tuesday the 10 th day of April in the Morning were two Bills read of which the second being the Bill for the Queens most gracious and general free Pardon was read primâ vice and so passed upon the question Nota That the Bill or Act for the Queens general Pardon passeth each House upon the first reading Whereas other Bills cannot be expedited without being read three times both by the Lords and the Commons The Queens Majesty came not till the Afternoon and therefore in this place through the negligence of the Clerk the continuing of the Parliament until some hour in the Afternoon is omitted which should have been inserted in these words viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continnavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam c. à Meridie Between five and six of the Clock in the Afternoon this present Tuesday being the tenth day of April the Queens Majesty accompanied with her Officers and daily Attendants came to the Upper House and as soon as her Majesty with the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the rest that have place there were set the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice thereof came up with their Speaker bringing with them the Bill of Subsidy The said Speaker being placed at the Bar at the lower end of the Upper House and as many of the House of Commons as could conveniently being let in after Humble Reverence done to her Majesty spake as followeth THE High Court of Parliament most High and Mighty Prince is the greatest and most ancient Court within this your Realm For before the Conquest in the High places of the West-Saxons we read of a Parliament holden and since the Conquest they have been holden by all your Noble Predecessors Kings of England In the time of the West-Saxons a Parliament was holden by the Noble King Ina by these words I Ina King of the West-Saxons have caused all my Fatherhood Aldermen and wisest Commons with the Godly men of my Kingdom to consult of weighty matters c. Which words do plainly shew all the parts of this High Court still observed to this day For by King Ina is your Majesties most Royal Person represented The Fatherhood in Ancient time were these which we call Bishops and still we call them Reverend Fathers an Ancient and chief part of our State By Aldermen were meant your Noblemen For so honourable was the word Alderman in Ancient time that the Nobility only were called Aldermen By Wisest Commons is meant and signified Knights and Burgesses and so is your Majesties Writ de discretioribus magis sufficientibus By Godliest men is meant your Convocation-House It consisteth of such as are devoted to Religion And as Godliest men do consult of weightest matters so is your Highness Writ at this day pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos Statum defensionem Regni nostri
Recoveries in the 12. shires of Wales was read the second time The Bill concerning Insufficient Justices Sheriffs c. in Wales was read the first time and committed to the former Committees in the last former Bill and M r Recorder M r Attorney of the Wards and M r Harris were added unto them and the Bill was delivered to M r Attorney who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in Lincolns-Inn Hall M r Treasurer and the residue returning from the Lords M r Treasurer declared that according to the appointment of this House they have dealt with the Lords both as touching the Bill for the better observation of the Sabbath day and also for their Lordships answer to the Petitions and shewing unto their Lordships that by Warrant of the Precedents of this House this House might very well make additions unto their Lordships additions in the same Bill wherewith as he thought their Lordships seemed somewhat satisfied so touching their Lordships answer to the said Petitions he said That it so much passed his Capacity to conceive and understand all the effect of it as that he would not undertake upon him to make a report of it but would leave it to such other of the said Committees as could both better remember it and deliver it Whereupon M r Chancellor of the Exchequer affirming M r Treasurer his former speech touching their said proceedings for the said Bill of the Sabbath shewed further that as concerning their said motion for their Lordships answer to the said Petitions Their Lordships Sequestring the Committees of this House into the outer Chamber there came shortly after unto them the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury The said Lord Treasurer declaring first unto them the answer of the Lords to the said Petitions in general and afterwards the said Lord Archbishop shewing the same in particular having a certain note in his hand for his remembrance but uttering much more in his Speech which he said was so long and consisted of so many parts as he thought for his own part he could not sufficiently signifie unto this House And did therefore make a motion that those of the Committees which were also then present thereat might meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber and helping each other's memory set down the substance and effect of the said answer in all the parts thereof as near as they can and so then afterwards to signifie the same unto this House to morrow Which was thereupon so agreed and resolved accordingly Vide touching these Petitions on Thursday the 25 th day of this instant February following The Bill concerning the Lord Dacres and the Lord Norris was read the third time and thereupon passed the House On Tuesday the 23. day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the true Answering of Tythes c. had its first reading Upon a Motion begun by Sir Thomas Lucy and continued by Sir Thomas Moore that those of this House which are of her Majesties Privy-Council may in the name of this whole House be humble Suitors unto her Majesty that for as much as that villanous Traitor Parry was a Member of this House in the time of some of his most horrible and traiterous Conspiracies and attempts against her Majesties most Royal Person whom Almighty God long preserve her Majesty would vouchsafe to give Licence to this House for that many of this House are of the Fellowship of the Association to proceed to the devising and making of some Law for his Execution after his Conviction as may be thought fittest for his so extraordinary and most horrible kind of Treason It was resolved that those of this House being of her Majesties most honourable Privy-Council and now present at this Motion to wit Mr. Treasurer and Mr. Vice-Chamberlain shall exhibite the same humble Suit of this House unto her Majesty accordingly at their convenient opportunity A Proviso was added to the Bill for Plymouth-Haven and was twice read and Ordered with the Bill to be ingrossed M r Cromwell was added to the former Committees for Priviledges and touching serving of Process upon the Members of this House and their Servants M r John North Knight for Cambridgeshire was added to the former Committees for reviving of Statutes and the same Bill with the three Provisoes before read were again committed to the same Committees and to the same M r North together with the Bill touching Cables Halters and Ropes Sir Edward Dymock being Sheriff of the County of Lincoln was Licensed by this House to depart into the Country for the service of her Majesty in the charge of his said Office Nota That Sir Edward Dymock here being Sheriff of Lincolnshire was also a Member of the House of Commons and continued in the service of it without interruption or question a great part of this Parliament and now upon the Licence of this House departed into the Country about some necessary occasions concerning his said Office Vide concerning this matter on Friday the 4 th day of December foregoing A like Precedent also there was in Anno 31 Reginae Eliz. on Friday the 21 th day of February Quod vide The Bill for the Jointure of the Countess of Huntingdon was twice read and passed upon the Question The new Bills last passed were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer M r Vice-Chamberlain and others with Commission also to put their Lordships in remembrance touching their search for Precedents with the Clerk of the Upper House alledged by the Committees of this House for Warrant of this House in proceeding with the Bill for the better observation of the Sabbath day by additions of this House to be added unto their Lordships former Additions in the same Bill Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 25 th day of this instant February ensuing It should seem though it be not expresly set down in the Original Journal-Book that the House did this day fall into consultation and consideration of all the dangers which were imminent over the Kingdom of the means to prevent them and of the great expences her Majesty had been at in the defence of her Dominions and Allies fit to be supplied which is set down at the end of this day in manner and form following The open dangers threatned to this Kingdom are from Spain the Pope and the holy League in France the secret from the Jesuits that secretly lurked here to stir up her Majesties Subjects of the Roman Religion to all manner of Treason and Rebellion Both which dangers though the time of them were a while intermitted in respect of the Execution yet the purpose was not which their late Conspiracies and attempts both here and in Ireland did plainly show The means to prevent these dangers were to suppress the spreading of Jesuits and the growing of Popery to exact such Oaths of the Papists as
that she hath right not to succeed but to enjoy your Crown in possession and therefore as she is a most impatient Competitor acquainted with blood so will she not spare any means that may take you from us being the only Lett that she enjoyeth not her desire She is hardned in malice against your Royal Person notwithstanding that you have done her all favour mercy and kindness as well in preserving her Kingdom as saving her Life and Honour And therefore there is no place for mercy where there is no hope of amendment or that she will desist from most wicked Attempts The rather for that her malice appeareth such as that she maketh as it were her Testament of the same to be executed after her death and appointeth her Executors to perform the same She affirmeth it lawful to move Invasion therefore as of Invasion Victory may ensue and of Victory the death of the vanquished so doth she not obscurely profess it lawful to destroy you She holds it not only lawful but honourable also and meritorious to take your life c. being deprived of your Crown by her holy Father and therefore she will as she hath continually done seek it by all means whatsoever She is greedy of your death and preferreth it before her own life for in her late direction to some of her Complices she willed whatsoever became of her the Tragical Execution should be performed on you There is by so much the more danger to your Person since the Sentence than before by how much it behoveth them that would preserve her or advance her to hasten your death now or never before Execution done upon her as knowing that you and none else can give direction for her death and that by your death the Sentence hath lost the force of Execution and otherwise they should come too late if they take not the present opportunity to help her Her Friends hold Invasion unprofitable while you live and therefore in their opinion your death is first and principally to be sought as the most compendious way to ruine the Realm by Invasion Some of the eldest and wisest Papists set it down for a special good drift to occupy you with conceit that the preservation of her Life is the safety of your own and therefore you may be assured that they verily think that her life will be your death and destruction Secondly Forasmuch as concerns Religion It is most perillous to spare her that hath continually breathed the overthrow and suppression of the same being poysoned with Popery from her tender Youth and at her Age joyning in that false termed Holy League and ever since and now a professed Enemy of the Truth She resteth wholly upon Popish hopes to be delivered and advanced and is so devoted and doted in that profession that she will as well for satisfaction of others as feeding her own humor supplant the Gospel where and whensoever she may Which evil is so much the greater and the more to be avoided as that it slayeth the Soul and will spread it self not only over England and Scotland but also into all parts beyond the Seas where the Gospel of God is maintained the which cannot but be exceedingly weakened if defection should be in these two most valiant Kingdoms Thirdly For as much as concerns the happy Estate of this Realm The Lydians say Unum Regem agnoscunt Lydii duos autem tolerare non possunt So we say Unam Reginam Elizabetham agnoscunt Angli duas autem tolerare non possunt And therefore since she saith that she is Queen here and we neither can nor will acknowledge any other but you to be our Queen It will follow if she prevail she will rather make us slaves than take us for Children and therefore the Realm sigheth and groaneth under fear of such a Step-Mother She hath already provided us a Foster-Father and a Nurse the Pope and the King of Spain into whose hands if it should mis-happen us to fall what can we else look for but ruine destruction and utter extirpation of goods lands lives honour and all Whilst she shall live the enemies of the State will hope and gape after your death By your death they trust to make Invasion profitable for them which cannot be but the same should be most lamentable for us and therefore it is meet to cut off the head of that hope As she hath already by her poysoned baits brought to destruction more Noble men and their Houses and a great multitude of Subjects during her being here than she would have done if she had been in possession of her own Country and armed in the field against us so will she still be continually cause of the like spoil to the greater loss and peril of this Estate and therefore this Realm neither can or may endure her Her Sectaries do write and print that we be at our wits end worlds end if she over-live your Majesty meaning thereby that the end of our world is the beginning of theirs and therefore take her away and their world will be at an end before it begin Since the sparing of her in the 14 th year of your Reign Popish Traytors and Recusants have multiplied exceedingly And if you spare her now again they will grow both innumerable and invincible also And therefore now in the 4 th place Mercy in this case would in the end prove cruelty against us all Nam est quaedam crudelis misericordia And therefore to spare her is to spill us She is only a Cousin to you in a remote degree but we be Sons and Children of this land whereof you be not only the natural Mother but also the Wedded Spouse And therefore much more is due from you to us all than to her alone It would exceedingly grieve and wound the hearts of your loving Subjects if they should see so horrible Vice not condignly punished if any be wavering it will win them to the worser part and many will seek to make their own peace Wherefore as well for the comfort of the one as stay of the other and retaining of all It is most needful that Justice be done upon her Thousands of your loving Subjects of all degrees which have for special zeal of your safety made Oath before God to pursue to death by all forcible and possible means such as she is by just sentence found to be cannot save their Oaths if you keep her alive for then either we must take her life from her without direction which will be to our extream danger by the offence of your Law or else we must suffer her to live against our express Oath which will be to the uttermost peril of our own Souls wherewith no Act of Parliament nor power of man whatsoever can in any wise dispense And therefore seeing it resteth wholly in you by a most worthy and just execution of this sentence to keep us upright and free us in both we most humbly and earnestly
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
Temporal Lords not because as I suppose they were all returned first but because of their Ecclesiastical dignities and in respect that the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury one of their Order is the first Peer of the Realm Whence also their names are usually first set down in the Journal-Book where the presence of all the Lords is noted each day when they sit as long as the Parliament continueth Then follow the Proxies of the Temporal Lords in such order as they are here set down Rogeri Comitis Rutland which as the rest is put in the Genitive Case in relation to those first words Literae procuratoriae in hoc Parliamento sunt allatae qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Edwardi Comitis Bedford qui procuratorem suum constituit Oliverum Dominum S t John de Bletsoe Caroli Domini Mount joy qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum Hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Gulielmi Comitis Bathon ' qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum Hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Edwardi Domini Morley qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum Hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Anthonii Vicecomitis Mountague qui procuratorem suum constituit Thomam Dominum Buckhurst magnum Thesaurarium Angliae Gulielmi Domini Sandes qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Edwardi Domini Stafford qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Georgii Comitis Huntington qui procuratorem suum constituit Edwardum Comitem Wigorn ' Thomae Vicecomitis Bindon qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Domini Lumley qui procuratorem suum constituit Thomam Dominum Darcy de Chiche Johannis Domini Darcy qui procuratorem suum constituit Gilbertum Comitem Salop. Henrici Comitis Kanciae qui procuratorem suum constituit Gilbertum Comitem Salop. Edwardi Comitis Oxon qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Thomae Domini Burleigh qui procuratorem suum constituit Henricum Comitem Northumberland Nota That in respect that this present Parliament was the last of her Majesties Reign and these Proxies are entred after a different manner from most of those in the Queens time which are before set down they are all of them therefore Transcribed both ordinary and extraordinary out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of which the Ordinary I call those when a Spiritual Lord constituteth two Proctors and a Temporal Lord one and those Extraordinary when a Temporal Lord constituteth more than one Proctor and a Spiritual Lord but one or more than two Nota also that the Earl of Nottingham had eight several Proxies sent unto him this Parliament by which it is plain that by the Ancient Custom and usages of the Upper House every Member thereof is capable of as many Proxies as shall be sent unto him although the said Custom be at this day altered by an Order made in the said House upon the day of in Anno 2. Regis Caroli Anno Dom. 1626. upon the ingrossing of many Letters procuratory by George Duke of Bucks that no Lords Spiritual or Temporal should be capable of above two of the said Proxies The above-mentioned Proxies being set down in manner and form as aforesaid now followeth in the next place the beginning of the Parliament it self and the manner of her Majesties coming to the same On Tuesday the 27 th day of October and the first day of this present Parliament about three of the Clock in the Afternoon the Queen went by Land to Westminster Church riding in a Chariot made all open only like a Canopy at the Top being of Cloth of Silver or Tissue with divers Lords and others in their degree being Marshalled by the Heralds where having heard a Sermon she went into the Upper House and being there set the Lords Spiritual and Temporal took their several places whose names are Transcribed out of the Original Journal of the Upper House in manner and form following Johannes Archiepiscopus Cantuarien ' Thomas Egerton Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Matchio Winton Comites Comes Sussex Magnus Mareschallus Comes Nottingham Magnus Admirallus Angliae Magnus seneschallus Hospitii Reginae Comes Northumbr Comes Salop. Comes Darbiae Comes Wigorn ' Comes Cumbriae Comes Pembrooke Comes Hertford Comes Lincoln Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Dunelmen Episcopus Wintonien Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Coventr ' Litchfield Episcopus Wigorn. Episcopus Bathon ' Wellen. Episcopus Meneven Episcopus Lincoln Episcopus Asaphen Episcopus Cestren Episcopus Cicestren Episcopus Exon. Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Elien Episcopus Petriburgen Barones Dominus Zouch Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Dudley Dominus Lumley Dominus Stourton Dominus Windsor Dominus Mordant Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby de Parham Dominus Sheffield Dominus Darcie de Chiche Dominus Chandots Dominus S t John de Bletsoe Dominus Compton Dominus Norreys Dominus Howard de Walden These names being thus inserted out of the Original Journal-Book now follow some other passages of this day with the summ of the Lord Keepers Speech out of a private Journal of the House of Commons The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice that her Majesty with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal and others were set in the Upper House hasted thither but before they came the door of the House was shut and notwithstanding any means that was made by them was still kept shut until the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech the substance or chief scope of which said Speech was as followeth He used perswasion of thankfulness and of obedience and also shewed her Majesties desire of dissolution of this Parliament before Christmas He shewed unto us the necessity we stand in and the means to prevent it the necessity the Wars between Spain and England the means Treasure c. His advice was that Laws in force might be revised and explained and no new Laws made Our Enemies he said were Enemies to God the Queen and the peace of this Kingdom conspired to overthrow Religion to reduce us to a Tyrannical servitude These Enemies he named to be the Bishop of Rome and the King of Spain Our state being thus he summoned us to be provident by reason we deal with a provident Enemy and confident because God hath ever and I hope will ever bless the Queen with successful fortune He shewed how apparent his providence was by the means and course he taketh for our instruction And secondly the success we had against him by Gods strong Arm of defence in Anno 1588. and divers other times since You see to what effect the Queens support of the French Kings Estate hath