goodness towards him He returns his thanks in conceiving him able and worthy for the execution of a Place of that great Charge and Trust and promising his care and readiness with all diligence to undergo the same he did offer up unto her Majestie divers Petitions in the name and on the behalf of the House of Commons First Petitions the Queen in behalf of the Commons That during the continuance of this Sessions themselves and their necessary Attendants and Servants might be freed from all Suits and Arrests Secondly That they might have free access to her Majestie upon all urgent and important occasions Thirdly That they might have free liberty of speech in the said House to debate and dispute of such matters and things as should be there proposed And lastly he petitioned her Majestie on his own behalf that if any thing should be mistaken or unwillingly omitted by himself that she would be graciously pleased to pass by and pardon the same To which Speech the Lord Chancellor The Queen allows of them by commandment from the Queen shortly replied That her Majestie was graciously pleased to grant all his Petitions and that he the said Speaker and the House of Commons should use and enjoy all such Liberties and Priviledges as others in like cases before them had been accustomed to use and enjoy in the times of her Majesties most noble Progenitors withal admonishing them not to extend the said Priviledges unto any irreverent and mis-beseeming Speeches or unnecessary Accesses to her Majestie After which Speeches ended the Lord Chancellor by command from the Queen continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox hora nona On Saturday Feb. 8. to which the Parliament was continued were present the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Chancellor the Lord Treasurer the Marquiss of Winton the Earl of Derby great Steward six Earls twelve Bishops and eighteen Barons more An Act concerning Captains and Souldiers prima vice lect Two Bills read about the Souldiery and Husbandry An Act for maintainance of Husbandry and for increase of Tillage prima vice lect Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox hora nona February the ninth Sunday On Munday Feb. 10. were four Bills read whereof the last being a Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers secunda vice lect commissa Domino Thesaurario Marchioni Winton six other Earls three Bishops eleven Barons Serjeant Puckering nostro Atturnato Nota That here meer Attendants of the Upper House Observation of the Collector of this Journal and no Members of it are made joynt Committees with the Lords which is very usually done in the Parliaments foregoing in the Reign of this Queen where also the Judges being but meer Assistants of the said House are often nominated Committees also Whereas in the last Parliaments of her Majesties Reign viz. in Anno 39 Anno 43. and in the latter times of King James and our present Soveraign his Son these are seldom or never nominated as Committees but onely as Assistants to the Committees to give their advice if it shall be required and not otherwise And although the Clerk of the Parliament might at some times mistake and erre in setting such down for Committees as were onely 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 Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Veneris prox hora nona On Friday Feb. 14. an Act for the more speedy payment of Dismes and Tenths primae vice lect Memorandum 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 consent of all the Lords was received and prima vice lect An Act touching Constats of original Conveyances made by the Queens Majestie Bill about Original Conveyances Bill about Writs of Errour read and committed secunda vice lect An Act to save discontinuance of Writs of Errour upon Errours in the Courts of Exchequer secunda vice lect commissa Archiepisc Cant. Ebor. Dom. Senescallo three Earls three Bishops six Barons Magistro Rott Servient Shuttleworth nostr Attur Solicitor Nota here also as in the Page before going such as are no Members of the Upper House are made joynt Committees with the Lords Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Robis Parliamentaribus induti introdxerunt Dominum Talbott cumque ad locum suum perduxerunt praeeunte Gartira Principale Rege Armorum qui etiam tunica Armorum indutus erat Because the dayly continuing of the Parliament in these words Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum c. is but matter of form it is henceforth omitted unless somewhat extraordinary fall out in respect of the person or manner of continuing of it On Saturday Feb. 15. three Bill were read whereof two of them the first being an Act for maintainance of Houses Three Bills read two committed viz. for Tillage and Husbandry and against Horse-stealing for Husbandry and Tillage and the second being an Act against Horse-stealing were secunda vice lect tunc commissa Domino Thesaurario 4 Comitibus 2 Episcop 8 Baronibus Justiciario Gawdy Servienti Puckering Solicitatori Reginae Nota That here also one Assistant of the Upper House and two Attendants upon it are made joynt Committees with the Lords February the 16th Sunday On Munday Feb. 17. four Bills were read whereof the first was an Act for Reformation of Excess in Apparel Bill against Excess in Apparel read committed secunda vice lect commissa Domino Thesaurario 3 Comitibus 2 Episcop 6 Baronibus Servienti Shuttleworth Solicitatori Reginae On Tuesday the 18th of February four Bills were read whereof the first was an Act providing Remedy against discontinuance in Writs of Errour in the Exchequer and Kings-bench tertia vice lect conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Shuttleworth and Doctor Awbry and three other Bills Die Jovis xx o Feb. were four Bills read the first a Bill for having Horse Armour and Weapons prima vice lect and three other Bills Die Sabbati xxij o Feb. were three Bills read whereof the last was an Act concerning Captains and Souldiers tertia vice lect conclus 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. an Act concerning Informers and two others of no great moment Feb. 23. Sunday On Munday Feb. 24. four Bills were read whereof one of them being a Bill for Writs upon Proclamation upon Exigents to be currant within the County Palatine
ac vobis per seperalia Brevia nostra apud Civitat diem praedict interesse mandaverimus ad tractandum consentiendum concludendum super hiis in dicto Parliamento nostro tunc ibidem proponerentur tractarentur quibusdam tamen certis de causis considerationibus nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus dictum Parliamentum nostrum usque ad quartam diem Februarii prox futur duximus prorogandum Ita quod nec vos nec aliquis vestrum ad dictum duodecimum diem Novembris apud Civitatem praed comparere teneamini seu autemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum nos penitus openerari Mandanies tenore presentium firmiter injungendo precipientes vobis cuilibet vestrum ac omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quod ad dictum quartam diem Februarii apud praedictum Civitate Westmonaster personaliter compereatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compereat intersit ad tractand faciend agend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro de Communi consilio dicti Regni nostri favente Domino contingerint ordinari In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras sieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsam apud Westm quinto decimo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo Per ipsam Reginam Ha. Gerrarde And according to this Prorogation the Parliament held on the fourth day of February following when the Queen's Majesty in her accustomed state and order came to the Upper House accompanied by Sir Christopher Hatton Knight then Lord Chancellor of England and divers of the Nobility of which the Journal-book maketh mention in manner and form following On Tuesday the fourth of February Feb. 4. The Q. comes to the House of Lords in the 31th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to which day the Parliament had been last prorogued and accordingly now held the Queen's Majestie was personally present in Parliament but the Journal-book doth not mention the names of such Lords as were then present The Queen being set under her Cloath of Estate and the Lords placed in their several ranks and order and as many of the House of Commons as conveniently could being let in and standing before the Bar Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor of England Heads of the L. Chancellor Hatton's Speech in a well-framed and discreet Speech did there declare unto them at large 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 enjoyeth by her Government and remembred the great Conquest over the Spanish late wonderful Army or Fleet on the Seas viz. Anno Dom. 1588. He further declared how much the King of Spain remained bent against this Kingdom And lastly shewed that 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 as by councel of man is possible to be made and provided that Arms Souldiers and Moneys may be in readiness and an Armie prepared and furnished against all Events The Lord Chancellor's Speech being ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the Names of the Receivers and Triers of Petitions in French according to the usual form which were these Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Chief Justice Committees or Receivers and Triers of Petitions Sir Gilbert Gerrard Kt. Master of the Rolls Sir Robert Shute one of the Justices of the Kings-bench Dr. Aubery and Dr. Ford. Receivers 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 Dr. Clarke and Dr. Cary. Triers 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 the Lord Cobham and the Lord Gray of Wilton Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and for other Countries on the other side the Seas and the Islands The Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembrooke the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and Lord Buckhurst During this Parliament upon several days seven Temporal Lords sent their Proxies so did five Spiritual Lords Et norandum That all the said Spiritual Lords excepting one did every one constitute two several Proctors and the fifth being John Bishop of Carlisle whose Proxie was returned February the fifth made onely one viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury his Proctor It likewise seldom happeneth that any Bishop doth nominate fewer than three or two Proctors nor any Temporal Lord more than one Nota That the Lord Burleigh had this Parliament four Proxies sent unto him viz. one from the Lord Dacres one from the Earl of Warwick one from Viscount Mountacute and one from the Lord Lumley Ipsa Regina continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox hora secunda post meridiem On Thursday February 6. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Queens Majestie was personally present coming to the said Parliament in her accustomed state and order about three of the clock in the afternoon it being the time appointed for the House of Commons to present their Speaker who they had been authorized to chuse on Tuesday last when the Parliament first began And thereupon accordingly the Queen and Lords being set and the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being let into the Upper House two of the most eminent persons of the said House did lead up to the Bar of the Upper House George Snagg Serjeant at Law Geo. Snagg their Speaker presented to the Queen Excuses himself who was chosen the Speaker of the said House of Commons who being placed at the said Bar and silence being made did in a modest and discreet Speech disable himself by reason of his many imperfections and humbly desired her Majestie to discharge him of that great Place and to nominate some other more able and sufficient Member of the same House Whereupon the Lord Chancellor by commandment from the Queen The Queen approves of him did let him know That her Majestie did very well allow of his Choice and thereupon encouraged him willingly and cheerfully to undertake and execute that Charge and Place to which he had been by the free and unanimous consent of the House of Commons elected and chosen Upon which Speech of the Lord Chancellor's the said Speaker according to the usual course and form rendering all humble thankfulness to the Queens Majestie for her underserved
of Durham secunda vice lect commissa Justiciario Gawdy quod nota On Tuesday Feb. 25. two Bills were read whereof the first was an Act concerning Informers prima secunda vice lect conclus Bill about Informers and so expedited An Act for the abridgment of Proclamations upon Fines to be levied at the Common Law secunda vice lect wherein the Lords finding some imperfections sent down Serjeant Shuttleworth and Doctor Clarke to the House of Commons Lords desire a Conference to pray a Conference with some of that House which being granted the Lords for Committees were Lord Treasurer Lord Steward Bishop of Winton the Lord Cobham and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas to attend the Lords Nota Observation That here one of the Judges is particularly nominated to attend upon the Lords Committees which may further prove that in all the former places where the Judges or the Queens learned Counsel are named as Committees it is no errour or 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 Counsel being but Attendants of and upon the House were ever nominated or appointed as joynt Committees with the Lords because the very Members of either House onely are then admitted to partake of such matters of weight and secrecy as they do there commonly confer upon But when the Lords amongst themselves do appoint a Committee to consider of some ordinary Bill that is to pass their House and especially if the Bill do concern matter of Law here it hath been anciently used and may still without any prejudice to the honour of that House be continued that the Kings learned Counsel but especially the Judges may be nominated as Committees alone or as joynt Committees with the Lords for in regard that nothing can be absolutely concluded at a Committee but all matters shall still depend on 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 amendments of the Bill and afterwards this present day the Bill and Amendments received their second reading and passed the House and were sent down to the House of Commons to be amended by them by Doctor Carewe and Master Solicitor 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 and one Bill was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons all being of no great moment On Thursday Feb. 27. were two Bills read whereof the first being an Act for Reformation of Excess of Apparel Two Bills read was secunda vice lect commiss ad unum Comit. 4 Baron On Saturday March 1. March 1. were two Bills read of no great moment This forenoon also the Lords Committees return'd the Bill for the having Horses Two Bills read Armour and Weapons signifying that they could get no meeting but of so small a number as their Lordships would not deal in it The whole House presently proceeded to the Question Whether it should be ingrossed or no Upon which Question the Lords with one consent agreed it should be ingrossed March 2. Sunday On Munday March 3. two Bills were read whereof one of them concerning the sale of Tho. Hanford's Lands towards the payment of his Debts and another of no great moment had been sent up to the Lords this morning from the Commons On Tuesday March 4. two Bills were read whereof the latter was a Bill for Sale of Tho. Hanford's Lands c. secunda vice lect Whereupon the Lords ordered that as well the said Thomas Hanford as those that followed the Bill should be warned to be before them with their learned Counsel at the next sitting of the Court which shall be on Thursday next at nine a clock Two Bills of no great moment were this forenoon also sent up to the Lords House from the House of Commons On Thursday March 6. the Amendments of the Bill for maintainance of Husbandry were prima secunda vice lect commiss ad ingross Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading And one Bill concerning the preservation of Orford-haven was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Saturday March 8. were three Bills each of them once read of no great moment March 9. Sunday On Munday March 10. four Bills whereof the last being a Bill for an Assurance to be made of the Joynture of Anne Bill to assure the Joynture of Anne Nevill Wife of Henry Nevill Esq secunda tertia vice lect communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus Memorandum That before the third reading and the passing of the Act of the Joynture of the Wife of Henry Nevil by which all former Conveyances made by the said Henry Nevil of the Mannors of Waighfield and Wadhurst c. in the County of Sussex were made frustrate and void The Lords ordered That the said former Conveyance should by the Parties to the same be brought into this House and delivered to the Clerk of the Parliament sealed up to the end that if it shall please her Majesty to give her Royal assent unto the said Act that then the said Indentures and Conveyances should be forthwith cancelled But if it shall not please her Majesty to give her Royal assent that then the said Indentures and Conveyances should safely be redelivered to the said Parties unseen of any and uncancelled And to this all the Parties agreed as well before the Lords the Committees as before the whole House Memorandum That according to the said Order the Deeds mentioned therein were cancelled the 12th day of May Anno Regni Reginae Elizabethae tricesimo primo On Tuesday the 11th of March was one Bill read of no great moment Subsidy-Bill brought from the Commons And two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first was an Act of four Fifteens and Tenths and two entire Subsidies granted by the Temporalty and another of no great moment On Thursday the 13th of March the Amendments of the Bill for having of Horses Arms and Weapons prima secundae vice lect commiss ad ingross The Amendments also and a new Proviso annexed unto the Bill against Informers secunda tertia vice lect communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus and one other Bill of no great moment read prima vice On Friday March 14. the Bill of Subsidie was once read And the Bill for the Provision for Orford-Haven lect est conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Shuttleworth and Mr. Powell
the Lords being thus sate An. 1592. and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons as many as conveniently could be let in about two of the clock in the afternoon Sir John Puckering Lord Keeper of the Great Seal by command from the Queen spake to this effect The Lord Keeper's Speech THat though the assembling of Parliaments hath antiently been and still were for the Enacting of Laws and Reforming of Abuses and Grievances of the Subjects within the Realm The Lord Keepers Speech 〈◊〉 to direct the â—â—sâ—â—â—â—s in this Session yet at this time the Queens Majesty was desirous to have the Advice of all her loving people concerning the Defence and Preservation of her Self her Realms and Subjects from the Power and Oppression of a forreign Enemy Then he declared that this Enemy was the King of Spain and that his malice was increased by his loss and shame received in 88. That his resolution still was to invade this Kingdome The Spaniards Design of Reveenge discovered did plainly appear by his building and getting together many Ships of less bulk which would be fitter for service in our Seas than those greater Galliasses and Gallions had been in 88. That he desired some nearer place from whence to invade England and therefore at this time was labouring to plant himself in Britain a part of France And his Designes laid open That he had raised Factions in Scotland and Conspiracies against the King there finding him an enemy to his ambitious desires And therefore we her Majesties Subjects said he must with all dutiful consideration think what is fit for us to do Exâ—… them to raise Moneys and with all willingness yield part of our own for the defence of others and assistance of her Majesty in such an unsupportable charge Were the cause between Friend and Friend how much would we do for the relief of one another but the cause is now between our Soveraign and our selves seeing there is so much difference in the parties how much more forward ought we to be The Aid formerly granted to her Majesty in these like cases is so ill answer'd 〈…〉 Supplies paied and with such slackness performed as that the third of that which was granted cometh not to her Majesty A great shew a rich grant and a long sum seems to be made but little it is hard to be gotten and the sum not great which is paid and 〈…〉 Her Majesty thinks this to be for that the wealthier sort of men turn this charge upon the weaker and upon those of worst ability so that one dischargeth himself and th' other is not able to satisfie that he is charged withal these things should be reformed by such as are Commissioners in this service Wherefore it is her Majesties pleasure 〈…〉 the time be not spent in devising and enacting new Laws the number of which are so great already as it rather burtheneth than easeth the Subject but the principal cause of this Parliament is that her Majesty might consult with her Subjects for the better withstanding those intended Invasions which are now greater than ever before were heard of And where heretofore it hath been used that many have delighted themselves in long Orations full of verbosity and vain ostentations more than in speaking things of substance the time that is precious would not be thus spent This Session cannot be long the Spring-time is fit that Gentlemen should repair to their Countreys the Justices of Assize also to go their Circuits so the good hours would not be lost in idle Speeches but the little time we have should be bestowed wholly on such business as is needful to be considered of and Thursday next is appointed the day to present the Speaker Assoon as the Lord Keeper's Speech was ended Receivers of Petitions named the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland and Wales and Scotland Sir Francis Popham Lord Chief-Justice of the Kings-Bench John Clinch one of the Justices of the said Bench Dr. Awbery Dr. Ford and they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Peryam Lord chief-Chief-Baron Tho. Walmesley one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Doctor Cary Doctor Stanhop and they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver them within six days next ensuing Triers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquiss of Winchester the Earl of Darby Lord Steward of the Queens Houshold the Earl of Sussex 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 four of them calling to them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne 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 Lincolne the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley the Lord Buckhurst all these or any four of them Although the usual Custome in the Original Journal-books is to place all Proxies upon what days soever returnable before the beginning of the Journal it self yet I have conceived it more methodical to place all such Returns in those days upon which they were delivered to the Clerk of the Parliament and always upon the day on which the first Return was to make some short Observations of that if it be unusual and extraordinary and so to refer the view of the residue to their proper days On this instant Monday therefore being the Nineteenth day of February and the first day of the Parliament was returned only this one usual Proxie Decimonono die Februarii introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Edwardi Episcopi Norwicensis in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Episcopum Lond. Richardum Episcopum Peterburgen Nota This is one of those Proxies I call an usual or ordinary Proxie when a Spiritual Lord maketh but two Proctors and a Temporal Lord but one and those of their own Order but when a Temporal Lord nominateth a Spiritual Lord for his Proctor or nominateth more than one Proctor and when a Spiritual Lord nominateth a Temporal Lord for his Proctor or but one Proctor or more than two these I call unusual and extraordinay Proxies And therefore at this very time of nine Temporal Lords that sent their Proxies but one named two Lords of which see afterwards on Munday March 5. all the rest naming but one Indeed of six Spiritual Lords which sent their
Proxies there was but that one set down in the Page before-going which made two Proctors all the rest naming three or but one all which see afterwards on the 22.24.27 days of February and on the 7. and 28. days of March Where also it may be noted That John Archbishop of Canterbury had this Parliament five Proxies Now follows next in order to be set down the continuing of this Parliament which in the original Journal-book it self followed immediately upon the names of the Lords foregoing being present this afternoon So that the substance of the Lord Keeper's Speech foregoing and this also that follows at the presentment of the Speaker was supplied by my self out of a very exact Journal which I had of the Passages of the Lower House this present Parliament conceiving those Speeches in all my Journals ought more fitly to be referred to the Passages of the Upper House than of the House of Commons Dominus Custos Magni Sigill ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox futur On Thursday Feb. 22. the Queens Majesty her self came about three of the clock in the afternoon accompanied with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal there being present this day the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir John Puckering Kt. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Marquiss of Winchester twelve Earls two Viscounts fifteen Bishops and twenty three Barons being for the most part the very same that are by name set down to have been present on Munday last The Queen and the Lords being thus sat the House of Commons having notice thereof Edw. Cooke the Queens Sollicitor chosen and presented immediately came up with Edward Coke Esq the Queens Sollicitor into the Upper House whom they had chosen for their Speaker who being led up to the Bar at the nether end of the said House between two of the most eminent Personages of the Lower House as soon as silence was made and the rest of the House of Commons had placed themselves below the Bar he spake as followeth The Speaker's Speech YOur Majesties most loving Subjects the Knights and Burgesses of the Lower House 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 onely a Nomination yet and no Election until your Majestie giveth allowance and approbation For as in the Heavens a Star is but opacum corpus until it hath received light from the Sun so stand I corpus opacum a mute body until your high bright shining wisdom hath looked upon me and allowed me How great a Charge this is The Speaker disables himself to be the Mouth of such a Body as your House of Commons represent to utter that is spoken Grandia Regni my small experience being a poor professor of the Law can tell but how unable I am to undergo this Office my present Speech doth tell that of a number of this House I am most unfit for amongst them are many grave many learned many deep wise men and those of ripe Judgments but I an untimely Fruit not ripe nay bud a but not scarce fully blossomed so as I fear your Majesty will say Neglecta fruge liguntur folia amongst so many fair fruits you have plucked a shaking leaf If I may be so bold to remember a Speech used the last Parliament in your Majesties own mouth Many come hither ad consulendum qui neseiunt quid sit consulendum a just reprehension to many as to my self also an untimely fruit my years and judgment ill befitting the gravity of this place But howsoever I know my self the meanest and inferiour unto all that ever were before me in this place yet in faithfulness of service and dutifulness of love I think not my self inferiour to any that ever were before me And amidst my many imperfections yet this is my comfort I never knew any in this place but if your Majesty gave him favour God who also called them to this place gave them also the blessing to discharge it The Lord Keeper having received Instructions from the Queen answered him Mr. Sollicitor HER Graces most Excellent Majesty hath willed me to signifie unto you that she hath ever well conceived of you since she first heard of you which will appear when her Highness selected you from others to serve her self but by this your modest wise and well-composed Speech you give her Majesty further occasion to conceive of you above that she ever thought was in you by endeavouring to deject and abase your self and your desert you have made known and discovered your worthiness and sufficiency to discharge the place you are called to And whereas you account your self corpus opacum her Majesty by the influence of her Vertue and Wisdom 〈◊〉 is commanded and aâ—â—â—â—â—ed by the Qs. order doth enlighten you and not onely alloweth and approveth you but much than keth the Lower House and commendeth their discretions in making such a Choise and electing so fit a man Wherefore Mr. Speaker proceed in your Office and go forward to your Commendation as you have begun The Lord Keepers Speech being ended the Speaker began a new Speech COnsidering the great and wonderful Blessings The second Speech of the Speaker besides the long Peaece we have enjoyed under your Graces most happy and victorious Reign and remembring withal the Wisdom and Justice your Grace hath reigned over us with we have cause to praise God that ever you were given us and the hazard that your Majesty hath adventured and the charge that you have born for us and our safety ought to make us ready to lay down our Lives and all our Living to do you service After this he related the great Attempts of her Majesties Enemies against us especially the Pope and the King of Spain adhering unto him how wonderfully were we delivered in 88 and what a favour therein God manifested unto her Majesty His Speech 〈…〉 after this tended wholly to shew out of the Histories of England and the old State how the Kings of England ever since Henry the third's time have maintained themselves to be Supream Head over all Causes in their own Dominions and recited the Laws that were made in his and other Kings times for maintaining their own Supremacy and excluding the Pope He drew down his Proofs by Statute in every Kings time since Hen. 3. 〈…〉 unto Edw. 6. This ended he came to speak of the Laws that were so great and so many already that they were fitly to be termed Elephaentinae Leges Wherefore to make more Laws it might seem superfluous Too great a multiplicity of our Laws and to him that might ask Quid Causa ut Crescunt tot magna volumina Legis it may be answered In promptu Causa est Crescit in orbe
introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Henrici Comitis Huntingdon in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Gulielmum Dominum Burleigh Thesaurarium Angliae Robertum Comitem Essex Vicecomitem Hereford Dominum Ferrers de Chartley. On Tuesday March 6. there was one Bill read once On Wednesday March 7. Breve returnatum est quo Johannes Salisburien Episc praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliament locum salvo jure alieno The same morning there were four Bills read each of them once A Bill for restraining Popish Recusants to certain places of abode the fourth being a Bill for restraining Popish Recusants to some certain places of abode There was also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons an Act for the naturalizing and making free of William Sidney eldest son of Robert Sidney Kt. Governour of Vlushing and Dame Barbara his wife and of Peregrine Wingfield son and heir of Sir John Wingfield Kt. and Dame Susan Countess of Kent his wife And note this day also was one extraordinary Proxie return'd from a Spiritual Lord who constituted but one Proctor whereas usually no such Lord constituteth fewer than two which Proxie is thus entered in the beginning of the Journal-book of this Parliament 7º Marcii introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Mathei Dunelmensis Episc in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Cantuariensem Episcopum On Thursday March 8. were three Bills each of them once read whereof the first was an Act for explanation and confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Kt. convicted of High-Treason Not long after this Bill had been committed to ingrossing according to a certain Order formerly made by the Lords Francis Englefield Esq appeared before them with one of his learned Counsel who were commanded to declare what they could alleadge why an Act for explanation and confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Kt. attainted of High-Treason should not pass And upon Allegations made by the learned Counsel the Lords commanded they should set them down in Writing and deliver them to the Atturney-General and that on Friday they should attend on the Judges and the Queens learned Counsel at Serjeants-Inne 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 Counsel might proceed upon the said Bill as it should seem best to their Lordships On Saturday March 10. to which day the Parliament had been last continued after the reading of one private Bill prima vice the Lords gave in Commandment to Mr. Atturney-General to bring on Munday certain Depositions remaining in the Exchequer concerning the Case of Sir Francis Englefield after they had first heard the opinion of the Judges which was delivered by the Lord Chief Justice of England March 11. Sunday On Munday March 12. two Bills had each of them one reading On Tuesday March 13. two Bills being each of them once read the Lords at the Bishop of Worcester's motion A Collection in the House of Peers for poor Souldiers condescended to a Contribution for the 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 the Lord Norris Collectors thereof and committed the bestowing thereof to the Earl of Essex and Lord Willoughby of Eresby On Thursday March 15. to which day the Parliament had been last continued were four Bills each of them once read On Friday March 16. were two Bills each of them once read And then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament in the usual form to the Munday following On Munday March 19. one Bill onely upon its second reading was committed to be ingrossed On Tuesday March 20. the Bill touching Sir Francis Englefield's Lands had its third reading and was concluded Four Bills also more were this forenoon sent up to the Lords from the Commons On Thursday March 22. two Bills had each of them one reading On Saturday March 24. to which day the Parliament had been last continued was one Act concluded after the third reading and four other Bills brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof one was an Act concerning the lawful deprivation of Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London March 25. Sunday An. 1593. On Munday March 26. were three Bills each of them once read Subsidy-bill read granted by the Temporaity whereof the first was an Act for the grant of three entire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty which had passed the House of Commons and was sent up to the Lords on Saturday last This morning also two other Bills were sent up to the Lords from the said Commons On Tuesday March 27. three Bills had each of them one reading On Wednesday March 28. three Bills were read secunda vice and one Bill tertia vice Five other Bills were also sent up to the Lords from the Commons Nota This day was an unusual Proxie returned from one of the Bishops absent at this time from the Parliament as divers other Peers by the License of her Majesty in which Proxie he constituted but one Proctor whereas it is the usual custome for every Spiritual Lord to nominate two at the least and every Temporal Lord but one This Proxie is thus entered in the beginning of the original Journal-book of this Parliament 28º Die Marcii introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Thomae Cicestrensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Archiepisc Cantuariensem On Thursday March 29. seven Bills had each of them one reading On Fryday March 30. five Bills were read whereof the first was the Bill of Subsidy granted by the Temporalty Subsidy granted by the Clergy passed and the last the Bill of Subsidy granted by the Clergy both which at this time upon their several third readings passed the Lords House On Saturday March 31. were five Bills read April 1. April 1. Sunday On Munday April 2. one Bill was read and six Bills of like consequence were sent up to the Lords from the Commons On Tuesday April 3. were four Bills once read On Wednesday April 4. one Bill was read prima secundae vice On Thursday April 5. three Bills of no great moment upon their third reading passed the House and were expedited This morning also this Order was agreed on amongst the Lords An Order about the Contribution for mustred Souldiers viz. Whereas the Lords of Parliament both Spiritual and Temporal assembled in the Parliament chamber at Westminster have with one uniform consent both in their own Names and the rest of the Lords absent ordered That there shall be a charitable Relief and Contribution made towards the relief and
help of a number of Souldiers that are seen in the time of this Parliament maimed and so hurt in the Wars of France the Low Countries and on the Seas for the service of the Queens Majesty and of the Realm and for that purpose have allowed that every Archbishop Marquiss Earl and Viscount should pay towards the Contribution the sum of 40 s. every Bishop 30 s. and every Baron 20 s. For collection whereof there hath been appointed the Queens Majesties Almoner the Bishop of Worcester to collect the same of Bishops the Lord Norris to collect the sums payable by the Lords Temporal which hath been diligently done and received by them for all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal that have been present and that have attended to their great charge on the service of the Realm in this Parliament And considering the number of the Souldiers be very many to be relieved therewith notwithstanding the Knights and Burgesses of the Commons House have yielded very good and large Contributions according to their degrees for the better relief of the said maimed Souldiers It is by the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal that have given their chargeable attendance here and have charitably and honourably yielded to this Contribution thought meet and so it is ordered and decreed by them with common and free consent That all the Lords of Parliament that have been altogether absent in this Sessions The absent Peers to pay a double proportion for the relief of the indigent and maimed Souldiers by Order of the House and that shall not have contributed to this charitable Relief before the end of this Sessions shall be required by Letters to be sent to them by the Lords that had their Procurations for their absence or by Letters from the Lord Keeper of the great Seal required and charged to make payment to be made according to their degrees and vocation double the sums of money paid by the Lords that have been here present and continued their attendance that is to say every Earl that hath been absent 4 l. the Archbishop of York to pay as much and every Bishop also to pay 3 l. and every Baron 40 s. And for such as have been here present sometimes and yet very seldom but have been absent most part it is thought meet That every such Lord Spiritual and Temporal shall according to their degrees pay a third part more than the Lords that have been present All which sums of money they shall cause to be delivered to the hands of the Lord Keeper of the great Seal to be afterwards by such Spiritual Lords of Parliament as are chosen for that purpose distributed to the maimed Souldiers as shall be found to have most need thereof The Commons having taken the same method 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 to contribute in double manner which Order is thought very just considering the Lords and others that 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 shall forbear thus to do which is hoped in Honour none will do there shall be ordinary means used to levy the same On Friday April 6. Four Bills were each of them once read Eight Bills were this Morning sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the last was an Act to make void the Spiritual Livings of those that have forsaken the Realm and do cleave to the Pope and his Religion On Saturday April 7. two Bills only were each of them once read April 8. Sunday On Munday April 9. were Three Bills each of them read secunda tertia vice and so expedited Also eight Bills this Morning were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof one was read prima secunda vice and another read prima vice This Morning finally whereas a Bill entituled an Act touching Power and Repeal of certain uses of a Deed Tripartite therein mentioned of and in certain Mannors Lands and Tenements of Anthony Coke of Rumford in the County of Essex Esquire hath been heretofore three times read and assented unto by the Lords in which Bill there is no Saving to the Queens Majesty or any other person or persons of their lawful estates or titles there was a Saving drawn for her Majesty and all others which was offer'd 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 Resolv'd the same should be added to the Bill for that it is usual and requisite to have such Savings 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 others be saved thereby And nevertheless upon weighty Considerations the Lords have ordered that this shall not hereafter be drawn to make any president Then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament till the Morrow following on which it ended which said Continuance is entred in the Original Journal-book in Manner and Form following Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Martis hora octava On Tuesday April 10. In the Morning were two Bills read whereof the first was an Act for Naturalizing of certain Englishmens Children born beyond the Seas tertia vice lect expedit And the second was an Act for the Queens most gracious and free Pardon which was read only once and then passed the House 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 thrice read both by the Lords and 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 Between 5 and 6 a Clock in the Afternoon this present Tuesday being the 10 of April the Queens Majesty The Queen comes to Dissolve the Parliament accompanied with her Officers and dayly Attendance came to the Upper-House and assoon as her Majesty with her 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 the Subsidy The Speaker being placed at the Bar of the Upper-house and as many of the Commons as could conveniently be let in after humble Reverence to her Majesty spake as followeth The Speakers Speech to the Queen THe High Court of Parliament most High and Mighty Prince is the greatest and most antient Court within this Your Realm for before the Conquest
being still to be performed by infinite Charge her Majesty notwithstanding hears of nothing more unwillingly than of Aids and Subsidies to be received from her People though what she doth receive she doth carefully bestow and infinitely more of her own The Taxations at this day howsoever they seem are nothing so great as heretofore in the Reigns of former Kings they have been In the times of Edw. 3. and the two next before him and those three which succeeded next after him the payments of the Commons then did far exceed any that have been since her Majesties Reign which is of Record in the Histories of those times to be seen but never cause so great to employ great sums of money as now Now therefore you are to consider how to provide needful and convenient Aid in some measure to maintain and support her Majesties Charge which at present she is at and is to continue at for the defence of the Realm He cannot be well advised which in this case will not be forward to contribute and bestow whatsoever he hath for if with the Common-wealth it goes not well well it cannot be with any private or particular person That being in danger he that would seek then to lay up Treasure and inrich himself should be like to him that would busie himself to beautifie his house when the City wherein he dwelleth is on fire or to him that decketh up his Cabin when the Ship wherein he saileth is ready to sink To spare in that case is to spare for those which seek to devour all and to give is to give to our selves Her Majesties part being onely carefully to bestow what is delivered into her hands wherein men performing their duties there is no cause at all to fear for the War is just it is in defence of the Religion of God of our most gracious Soveraign of our Native Country of our Wives Children Liberties Lands Lives and whatsoever we have Wherefore not mistrusting your forwardness that I may not offend in too much enlarging this point as a poor Remembrancer to her Majesty I shortly say to your Lordships Quod justum 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 that 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 learned and wise man amongst you to be your Speaker who shall be for understanding sufficient and for discretion fit as your mouth to signifie your minds and to make your Petitions known unto her Highness and him upon Thursday next to present in this place The Lord Burgh was absent being the Lord Deputy of Ireland The Lord De-la-ware was absent because he made question of his place intending to make suit to the Parliament concerning the same Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox futur viz. 27º diem Octobris On Thursday Octob. 27. the Queens Majesty the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Thomas Edgerton Kt. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Marquiss of Winton the Earl of Sussex great Mareschal the Earl of Nottingham Mag. Seneschall six Earls one Viscount thirteen Bishops the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain and twenty two other Barons present Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Serj. Yelverton chosen Speaker being chosen Speaker of the Lower House was by divers Knights Citizens and Burgesses brought into the Upper House and by the hands of Sir William Knolls Controuler of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer presented to her Majesty who by a Speech full of Gravity and Modesty signifying the accomplishment of the duty of the House in making an Election but he excusing himself by pretence of many disabilities and imperfections Excuses himself and wishing earnestly that 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 Lower House might proceed to a new Election Which Excuse was not allowed by her Majesty Is allowed commended by the Queen as the Lord Keeper delivered by answer and the Choice of the said Mr. Yelverton being 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 Place and to present unto her Majesty on the behalf of the Lower House certain humble Petitions viz. For Access unto her Majesty Petitions for the House in the usual form For the using and enjoying of 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 Lord Keeper did yield her gracious assent Which are granted 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 Novembris On Saturday 5 Novembris introductum est Breve Thomae Dom. Grey de Wilton quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur Nov. 5. admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento loco salvo jure alieno The Petition of the Lord De-la-ware presented to this House for restitution of the same place in the Parliament which his Ancestors had in the Rank and Order of the Barons and referred to Committees viz. to the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury Lord Bishop of London Lord Bishop of Winton Lord Zouche Lord Stafford Lord Windsor Lord Sheffield Lord North Lord St. John of Bletsoe Lord Buckhurst Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Lord Chief Baron and Edward Coke Esq the Queens Atturney who appointed to meet at the Council-chamber at the Court at Whitehall on Sunday Nov. 6. at two of the clock in the afternoon Munday Nov. 7. An Act for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants secunda vice lect and committed to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Admiral three Earls three Bishops three Barons the Lord Chief Justice of England Mr. Baron Ewens and Mr. Atturney General to attend their Lordships and appointed to meet at the little Council-chamber in Whitehall to morrow at four a clock in the afternoon Introductum est Breve Com. Derby quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur c. On Thursday Nov. 10. the Lord Treasurer made Report to the House what had been done by the Committees upon the Petition of the Lord De-la-ware and how it was resolved by them upon hearing and debating the matter with certain learned Counsel in the
Law brought before the said Committees by the said Lord That the Place which he claimed in the Order and Rank of the Barons was due unto him viz. next after the Lord Willoughby of Ersby which Report being made to the House and the Voices of all the Lords being demanded the Opinions of the Committees was allowed by the consent of all the Lords the Lord Willoughby onely excepted And the Lord Keeper was desired to acquaint her Majesty with the Determination of the House and to know her pleasure concerning the same The Lord Treasurer made a Motion to the House The Treasurers Motion about the Journal-book that forasmuch as the Journal-books kept heretofore by the Clerk of the Parliament seemed to have some Errours in them in misplacing the Lords so as it was doubted how the same might be of true Record That it would please their Lordships to take order that the said Books that should from henceforth be kept by the Clerk of the Parliament may be viewed and perused every Parliament by certain Lords of the House to be appointed for that purpose and the List of the names of the Lords in their order to be subscribed by them taking unto them for their better information the King at Arms and that this Order might begin this present Parliament On Saturday Nov. 12. the Bill for taking away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders A Bill against the benefit of Clergy for such as take away women against their wills against a Statute made Anno 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of women against their wills was read secunda vice On Munday Nov. 14. the Lord Treasurer moved the House that such Lords as were absent from the Farliament and had not sent their Proxies and such others as had made their appearance at the beginning of the Parliament and have since neglected their attendance may be admonished to reform the same Upon the same day upon the Petition of the Lord De-la ware exhibited to her Majesty concerning his place in the Order of the Barons of the Parliament and with her Majesties commandment and direction presented unto the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in this present Parliament the fifth of this instant November and referred the same day upon the reading unto Committees as is recorded in the Session of the same day the said Committees having at the time and place appointed assembled themselves and advisedly considered of the said Petition and of all Arguments that were brought and alleadged both for the Petition and against it did resolve and determine That in their opinions the said Petition of the said Lord De-la-ware was just and that the Place which he sought was due unto him viz. to have his place betwixt the Lord Willoughby of Ersby and the Lord Berkley being the same place which his great Grandfather had held before as appeareth by Record Of which Resolution and Determination Report having been made by the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer first of the Committees the tenth of this instant November in the Session of the same day as before is recorded and the same being allowed and approved of by the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal then present in the House it was thought meet and ordered That her Majesty should be acquainted by the Lord Keeper with the Opinion and Resolution of this House Which having been performed by his Lordship her Majesty having allowed of the proceedings of this House and of the determination of the Question touching the place of the said Lord De-la-ware as hath been declared to this House by the Lord Keeper it was and is agreed and ordered by her Majesty and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal That the Lord De-la-ware should be brought into the House and placed in the room and order before mentioned to have place and voice betwixt the Lord Willoughby and Lord Berkley which was accordingly done this day The Lord De-la ware was brought in his Parliament-robes unto the place aforesaid by the Lord Zouch supplying the place of the Lord Willoughby and by the Lord Berkley in their Robes Garter the King of Arms attending them and doing his service according to his Office On Tuesday Nov. 15. an Act for the taking away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders against a Statute made 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of women against their wills unlawfully together with the Proviso annexed unto it by the consent of the House was read On Saturday Nov. 19. the absence of the Lord Marquiss of Winton and the Earl of Huntingdon severally excused by two of the Temporal Lords and the like Excuse delivered by the Bishop of Norwich for the Bishop of Chichester's absence Report was made by the Lord Keeper that the Earl of Essex received not his Writ of Summons until the 17th of this month through the negligence of the Messenger to whom the same was delivered and now his Lordship wanting health to give his attendance desired to be excused for his absence the Earls of Worcester and Southampton testifying of his sickness Introduct est Breve Richardi Dom. Eure quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissus est ad locum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento salvo jure alieno On Munday Nov. 21. a Bill for the confirmation of the deprivation of divers Bishops in the beginning of her Majesties Reign was read On Tuesday Nov. 22. a Bill formerly sent to the Commons with a Proviso from this House thereto added concerning taking away of Clergy from Offenders that take away women against their wills unlawfully expedited The Committees upon the Bill of Tellers and Receivers meeting at the little Chamber near the Chamber of the Parliament-presence and conferring on the Bill and the Provisoes that were thought on and came in question amongst them by reason of sundry doubts that were moved did refer the Bill to her Majesties Atturney-General to be reviewed On Thursday Nov. 24. an Act for the better explanation and execution of the Act made in the thirteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign concerning tellers and Receivers prima vice lect This Bill was renewed by Mr. Atturney-General by the appointment of the Committees to whom the former Bill was referred as is mentioned in a Note in the last Session and brought instead of the former Bill On Saturday Nov. 26. an Act for the explanation and execution of an Act in the thirteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign concerning Tellers Receivers c. secunda vice lect and commanded to be ingrossed A Serjeant at Arms to be sent for one Winwood A Serjeant at Arms sent to take a City-Serjeant into custody and one Stevenson a Serjeant at Mace of London who arrested Edward Barston the Lord Chandois servant contrary to the Priviledge of the House The Bill for repeal of a Statute made 23 of her Majesties Reign entituled An Act for the increase of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation was brought into the House by the Committees
with others viz. the Lord Treasurer Lord Admiral four Earls five Bishops Lord Chamberlain and twelve Barons the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas the Lord Chief Baron Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney-General to attend the Lords the meeting to be at the great Council-chamber at Whitehall to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon The Counsel on both parts for the Lord Marquiss of Winchester and the Lord Montjoy were admitted to publick hearing in the House and thereupon no just cause being found to hinder or to stay the proceeding of the Bill the same was commanded to be read the third time and so was expedited On Tuesday Decemb. 13. an Act against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers read tertia vice and return'd to the Lower House for their consideration of some Amendments An Act giving power and liberty to Sir John Spencer Knight Dame Mary his Wife and Robert Spencer Esq their Son to alienate certain Mannors and lands in the Counties of Dorset and Bedford read tertia vice and thereupon two Letters from the Lord Spencer to the Lord Chamberlain signifying his consent to the Bill were read On Wednesday Decemb. 14. order was given for release of William Wood out of the Fleet at whose suit Edward Barston the Lord Chandois servant was arrested so as he make satisfaction to the said Barston of such charges as he was at by means of the said Arrest The like Order was made for the enlargement of William Cole that arrested John Yorke the Archbishops servant paying onely the Fees of the Fleet. On Thursday Decemb. 15. an Act for explanation of the Statute made Anno 5 Reginae concerning Labourers A Bill returned because the Amendments went ingrossed in Parchment which should have been in Paper returned from the Lower House with some Exceptions to the Schedule affixed because the Amendment was ingrossed in Parchment which according to the custom of the House should have been in Paper Certain Articles were presented in writing by the Lower House touching their Opinions and Objections concerning the Bill of Tellers c. which were delivered to Mr. Atturney to the end he might confer with the Judges upon the same and make Report to their Lordships The Bill concerning Mr. Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward c. return'd into the House by the Lord Treasurer the first of the Committees And forasmuch as it seemed to the Committees that there were in the Bill certain points that could not be well reformed a Motion was made to the House upon agreement among 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 Arthur Hatch for which purpose a Bill was brought ready drawn by Mr. Atturney-General containing a form of Composition betwixt them to be ratified if it should be thought good by Parliament On Friday Decemb. 16. a Bill for the grant of three Subsidies six Fifteenths and Tenths read the third time and expedited On Saturday Decemb. 17. an Act to preserve the property of stolen Horses in the true Owners and to reform the abuses of Vouchers in the sale of Horses in Fairs and Markets read prima vice An Act for the repressing of Offences that are in the nature of Stealth and are not Felonies by the Laws of the Realm prima vice lect On Munday Decemb. 19. certain Amendments were offered to the House by the Committees on the second reading concerning Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward the said Amendments being twice read whereupon both the Bill and the said Amendments were commanded to be forthwith ingrossed which was accordingly done and presently read the third time and sent to the Lower House by Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp The Amendments in the Bill concerning Labourers formerly ingrossed in Parchment whereat some exception was taken by the Lower House and for that cause returned without their allowance to the Lords was now commanded to be written in Paper On Tuesday Decemb. 20. the Bill for erecting of houses of Correction Bill for houses of Correction and for punishment of vagabond Rogues c. was read tertia vice Dominue Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in xi o die Januar. prox sequen hora octava Wednesday Jan. 11. January 11. the Earl of Essex having been created Earl-Marshal the 18th of December last by her Majesties Letters-Patents took his place according to the said Office viz. next the Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England and before the Earl of Nottingham great Steward Thursday Jan. 12. the Bill entituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm Bill for increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm return'd to the House by the Committees A Motion made by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury first of the Committees that a Conference might be had with a competent number of chosen persons of the Lower House for the better perfecting of the Bill whereupon Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp were addressed to the Lower House with a Message to that effect and the time and place of meeting desired to be at the great Council-chamber at Whitehall to morrow by two of the clock in the afternoon Certain select Committees chosen by the Lower House concerning that Bill for the increase of People c. were sent to the Lords signifying their allowance of the time and place appointed for meeting about that Bill but desired that in the mean time they might have delivered unto them in writing such Objections of their Lordships as they do make unto the Bill to the end they might be more ready to deliver their Opinions and Resolutions at the meeting The Lords having considered of this Motion thought it unfit and not agreeable to the Order of this House to deliver the same in writing and therefore agreed that answer should be made That if upon verbal Conference they should remain unsatisfied touching the said Exceptions then they should have the same delivered unto them in writing for their further consideration thereof which Answer was presently notified to the said select Committees And in the mean season the Judges were required to set down the Objections in writing that they might be in readiness for the said Committees of the Lower House if upon the verbal Conference before-mentioned they should not be satisfied An Act for establishing the Bishoprick of Norwich and the possessions of the same against a concealed Title made thereunto read secunda vice and 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 to the end that it might be consider'd whether the same may justly pass without prejudice to the said Parties George Lester to be warned then to attend On Friday Jan. 13.
by the Lord Keeper in the name and behalf of the House to such Knights and Burgesses as come from the Lower House the said Knights and Burgesses are to receive the same standing towards the lower end of the House and the Lord Keeper is to deliver the same with his head covered and all the Lords are to keep their places And thereupon the Lower House was satisfied and the same form was afterwards kept accordingly On Friday Jan. 20. The Answer in writing that came yesterday from the Lower House to 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 was by the Order of the House referred and delivered unto the Lords Committees formerly appointed upon that Bill who were required to consider thereof and make their Report of their Opinions concerning the same On Saturday Jan. 21. the Bill for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others in the War read secunda vice On Munday Jan. 23. a Bill for establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth read prima vice On Tuesday Jan. 24. the Bill intituled An Act for the relieving of Clothiers concerning the weight of short broad and coloured Clothes to be made in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury first of the Committees who made report that upon hearing of both parties and upon due consideration of the reasons and allegations by them alleadged 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 Clothes in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex which was read prima vice Debated in the House whether Amendments upon a Bill being brought into the House by Committees may afterwards be contradicted or spoken against by any of the Committees A Doubt propouded and reâ—â—â—â—ed The doubt was left for the present unresolved but afterwards cleared and ruled Affirmatively On Wednesday Jan. 25. an Act that no person robbing of a House in the Day-time although no person be therein shall be admitted to have the benefit of his Clergie secunda vice lect An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patents their Heirs and Assignes notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown secunda vice lect and referred to Committees viz. the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury Lord Treasurer Lord Marshal and others appointed to meet c. the Lord Chief-Justice the Lord chief-Chief-Baron and Mr. Atturney-General to attend them Sir Moyle Finch to be heard by his Counsel learned openly in the House to morrow-morning concerning this Bill Notice given to the House by the Lord Treasurer that the Committees upon the Bill concerning Tellers Receivers c. had a meeting with a select number of the Lower House to confer upon the Objections and Answers touching that Bill yesterday in the Afternoon according to the order taken Jan. 23. But forasmuch as the said number of the Lower House 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 Answers might be communicated to the Lower House in writing the Lords therefore sent down the said Answers to the Lower House by the hands of Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhop On Thursday Jan. 26. an Act for enabling Edmond Molineux to sell Lands for the payment of his Debts c. was returned to the House by the Lord Marshal second of the Committees And forasmuch as the same could not be determined by the said Committees by reason of some of the Kindred of the said Edmond Molineux 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 Bishop of London and the Lord Montjoy who were appointed to meet that afternoon c. An Act to reform Deceits and breaches of Trust touching Lands given to charitable uses returned to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury 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 ingrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading The Bill intituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury first of the Committees And because it seemed to all the Committes appointed for this Bill together with the Judges that notwithstanding the Conference with several selected persons of the Lower House that this Bill could not proceed Order was given to the Judges but especially to the Lord Chief-Justice to draw a new Bill whereupon this new Bill following was brought into the House An Act against decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry prima vice lect Excuse made by the Lord Admiral for the Earl of Hertford's absence for want of health The like by the Lord Chandois for the Lord de la Ware The Lord Marshal signified to the House that the Lord Mordant and the Lord Sheffield had leave of her Majesty for their absence On Friday Jan. 27. the Lord Treasurer took his place this day as Baron of Burleigh between the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Compton The Lord Admiral his place as Earl of Nottingham between the Earl of Lincoln and the Lord Viscount Byndon The Lord Chamberlain his place as Baron of Hunsdon between the Lord Chandois and the Lord St. John of Bletsoe On Saturday Jan. 28. the Bill for the lawful making of Bays in the Counties of Essex and Suffolk was read tertia vice On Munday Jan. 30. an Act for Retailing-brokers and other Pawn-takers returned to the House by the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury first of the Committees and because there was found many defects therein so that they thought the same unfit to be proceeded in they therefore together with the said Bill presented a new Bill intituled as the former which was read prima vice On Tuesday Jan. 31. a Motion from the lower House by Sir John Forscue and others that some new time might be appointed for conference about the Act intituled An Act for reforming sundry abuses committed by Souidiers c. in regard they had appointed some other meeting this Afternoon for the 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 please the
Committees of the Lower House to come the sooner this Afternoon for this purpose they might well enough perform both the one and the other On Wednesday Feb. 1. the Bill intituled Feb. 1. An Act for the reviving continuance explanation and repealing of divers Statutes 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 writing in Paper for a third reading It is agreed that a Conference shall be had with some of the Lower House about this Bill upon Friday Morning next On Friday Feb. 3. a Proviso in the Bill for recovering 300000 Acres more or less of waste Marsh and watry Ground this day twice read and the Amendments And thereupon Commandment given the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso ingrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading Report made by the Lord Treasurer what the substance of the Conference was between their Lordships and certain select Committees of the Lower House concerning the Bill for reviving continuing and repealing of divers Statutes and the same referred to the Lord Chief-Justice and other Justices for their further consideration On Saturday Feb. 4. an Act for reformation of Retailing-brokers and other Pawn-takers read tertia vice An Act against the deceitful stretching and Taintering of Northern Cloaths tertiavice lect An Act for the reviving continuance explanation perfecting and repealing of divers Statutes tertia vice lect The three Bills above-mentioned sent to the Lower House of which the two latter were returned for their consideration of certain Amendments and Proviso's added by their Lordships The Proviso thought meet by the Committees on the Bill concerning the draining and recovery of certain over flown Grounds in the County of Norfolk twice read and commanded to be engrossed A Motion by the Lord Buckhurst that the County of Sussex might be added to the general Bill of surrounded Grounds The like Motion by the Lord North and others for the Counties of Somerset and Essex whereto the House assented and the said three Counties were accordingly added to the rest On Munday Feb. 6. hora secunda post Meridiem the Proviso added by the Lower House to the Bill for the confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sandis read tertia vice and thereupon the Bill expedited On Tuesday a Message from their Lordships to the Lower House delivered by Serjeant Drew and Dr. Carew for a Conference concerning a Bill against excess of Apparel with a competent number of the said House The time and place being desired to be at Two of the clock this Afternoon at the great Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament On Wednesday Feb. 8. the Bill for amendment of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent was read tertia vice and expedited On Thursday Feb. 9. at Three of the clock in the Afternoon They are dissolved Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae tunc dissolvit presens Parliamentum A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in Parliament holden at Westminster in Anno 39 Eliz. Reginae annoque Dom. 1597. begun there on Munday the 24 of Octob and Dissolved Febr. 9. Anno 40. ejusdem Reginae THe Ninth Parliament of our Soveraign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen 1597. Oct. 24. The Parliament assembles defender of the Faith c. began at Westminster upon Munday Octob. 24 in the 39th year of her Majesties Reign upon which day many of the Knights of the Shires Citizens of the Cities Burgesses of Burroughs and Barons of the Cinque-Ports did then make their appearance at Westminster being returned into the said Parliament for the same Shires Cities Burroughs and Ports before the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward of her Majesties most honourable Houshold Chuseth Serj. Yelverton for their Speaker and having authority to chuse their Speaker they made choice of Mr. Serjeant Yelverton to be their Speaker On Thursday Octob. 27. the House being set and before Mr. Speaker went up unto her Majesty in the Upper House Chancellor of the Exchequer moves that none may hereafter enter the House with Spurs on and pay the Serjeant his fees Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer moved and admonished that none of this House should after this present day enter into the House with their Spurs on for offending of others and withal that none do come into this House before they have paid the Serjeant's Fees due unto him according to the accustomed usage of this House in that case After which Mr. Speaker The Commens go to the Lords House with the greatest number of this House went towards the Upper House there to attend her Majesties pleasure and afterwards being admitted the said Mr. Serjeant Yelverton was presented before her Majesty and allowed of by her Speaker approved they return to the Lower House according to the usual form in that case accustomed And so returning to this House he was Speaker and took his place and sat in the Chair And then and there signified to this House that whereas in former times the Order was to have a Bill read before they did rise A caution given that no Bill could be read this day as was usual the same could not be so done at this time because her Majesty had in the Upper House adjourned this Parliament until Saturday next come seven-night being the fifth day of November next coming at eight of the clock in the Forenoon of the same day till which time he said all the Members of this House might depart and take their ease and so then every man went his way On Saturday Novemb. 5. the House met about eight of the clock in the Morning Which proved a mistake of the Speakers having through a mere mistake and errour of the Speaker and themselves conceived their House to have been adjourned by the Lord Keeper the first day of this Parliament unto this present day The Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Engrossers read the first time Mr. Finch shewing sundry great and horrible abuses committed by Vagrant and Idle persons offensive both to God and the world and further shewing the extream miserable estate of the Godly and honest sort of the poor Subjects of this Realm moved for a Committee of this House to be selected for redress thereof The Bill for the taking away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders against a Satute made 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of Women again their wills Bill against those that take away Women against their will was read prima vice Sunday Novemb. 6. On Munday Novemb. 7. four Bills had each of them one reading the last being the Bill against Forestallers c. was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Francis Bacon the Citizens for London York Coventry Bristol and Gloucester Mr. Nathaniel
Durham The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield The Bishop of Worcester The Bishop of Bath and Wells The Bishop of St. Davids The Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of St. Assaph The Bishop of Chester The Bishop of Chichester The Bishop of Exeter The Bishop of Salisbury The Bishop of Ely The Bishop of Peterborough BARONS The Lord Zouche The Lord Cobham The Lord Stafford The Lord Grey de Wilton The Lord Dudley The Lord Lumley The Lord Sturton The Lord Windsore The Lord Mordant The Lord Wharton The Lord Rich. The L. Willoughby of Parham The Lord Sheffield The Lord Darcy of Chichester The Lord Chandois The Lord St. John of Bletsoe The Lord Compton The Lord Norreys The Lord Howard of Walden Sir Thomas Edgerton Kt. Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England made a Speech to this effect An. 1601. HE used strong perswasions both to Thankfulness and Obedience Lord Keeper's Speech and also shewed her Majesty desired the Parliament might end before Christmas He shewed the necessity we stand in and the means to prevent it the necessity of the Wars between Spain and England the means and treasure we had to oppose His advice was that Laws in force might be revised and explained and no new Laws made The causes of the Wars he laid down to be that they were Enemies to God the Queen and the Peace of this Kingdom that they conspired to overthrow Religion and to reduce us to a tyrannical Servitude These two Enemies he named to be the Bishop of Rome and the King of Spain Our Estate standing thus he advised us to be provident by reason we deal with circumspect Enemies and said he was confident of good success because God hath ever and he hoped ever would bless the Queen with successful fortune He shewed how apparent his providence was for by experience and judgment his tortering he giveth the means and courses he taketh for our instructions And secondly the success we had against him by Gods strong arm of defence in Anno 1588 and divers others times since You see to what effect the Queens support of the French Kings Estate hath brought him to even made him one of the greatest Princes in Europe yet when her Majesties Forces there left him how again he was fain to ransome a servile Peace at the hands of our Enemies the Spaniards with dishonourable and servile Conditions For the Low Countries how by her aid from a confused Government and Estate she brought them to an unity in Council and defended them with such success in her Attempts against the greatest power of the Spaniards tyrannical designes which have so much galled him that how many desperate practices have been both devised consented unto and set on foot by the late King his Father I need not shew you nor trouble you with Arguments for proof thereof being confessed by them that should have been Actors themselves thereof but De mortuis nil nisi bonum I would be loath to speak ill of the dead much more to slander the dead I have seen her Majesty wear at her Girdle the price of her own bloud I mean Jewels that have been given to her Physicians to have done that unto her which God will ever keep her from but she hath worn them rather in triumph than for the price that hath not been valuable Receivers of Petitions for England Receivers of Petitions Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Kt. Lord Chief Justice Francis Gawdy one of the Justices of the Kings-bench George Kingsmell one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edm. Anderson Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Periam Kt. Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesly one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Swale and Dr. Hene Triers of Petitions of England Ireland Wales and Scotland Triers of Petitions The Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquiss of Winchester the Earl of Sussex Lord Marshal of England the Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and Steward of the Queens house the Earl of Hertford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche and the Lord Cobham All these or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the great Seal and the Lord Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants at their leisures to meet and hold their place in the Chamberlain's chamber Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles The Earl of Oxford High Chamberlain of England the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord De-la-ware the Lord Lumley the Lord Burleigh All these or any four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Atturney and Sollicitor to hold their place when their leisure did serve them to meet in the Treasurer's chamber Then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament which is set down in the Original Journal-book in these words Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliament usq in diem Veneris prox futur viz. 30 diem Octob. On Friday Octob. 30. about one of the clock in the afternoon her Majesty came by water to the Upper House and being apparelled in her Royal Robes and placed in her Chair of Estate divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being present the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons who had attended at the door with John Crooke Esq Recorder of London John Crooke Esq Recorder of London presented as Speaker their Speaker elect the full space of half an hour were at last as many as could be conveniently let in And the said Speaker was led up to the bar at the lower end of the said House by Sir William Knolls Kt. Controuler of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer and presented to her Majesty to whom after he had made three low Reverences he spake in effect as followeth Most sacred and mighty Soveraign UPon your commandment His Speech your Majesties most dutiful and loving Commons the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Lower House have chosen me your Majesties most humble servant a Member of the same House to be their Speaker but my self finding the weakness of my self and my ability too weak to undergo so great a burthen do most humbly beseech your sacred Majesty to continue your most gracious favour towards me and not to lay this Charge so unsupportable upon my unworthy and unable self And that it would please you to command your Commons to make a new Election of another more able and more sufficient to discharge the great Service to be
appointed by your Majesty and your Subjects And I beseech your most excellent Majesty not to interpret my denial herein to proceed from any unwillingness to perform all devoted dutiful service but rather out of your Majesties clemency and goodness to interpret the same to proceed from that inward fear and trembling which hath ever possessed me when heretofore with most gracious audience it hath pleased your Majesty to license me to speak before you For I know and must acknowledge that under God even through your Majesties great bounty and favour I am that I am And therefore none of your Majesties most dutiful Subjects more bound to be ready and being ready to perform even the least of your Majesties commandments I therefore do most humbly beseech your Majesty that in regard the service of so great a Prince and flourishing Kingdom may the better and more effectually be effected to command your dutiful and loving Commons the Knights citizens and Burgesses of the Lower House to proceed to a new Election On Tuesday Nov. 5. Nov. 5. were two Bills read of which the first being for assurance of Land and the second for the restraint of the excessive and superfluous use of Coaches within the Realm of England Bill against excessive and superfluous use of Coaches were each of them read prima vice Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliament usq in diem Sabbati 7 Novemb. hora decima On Saturday Nov. 7. 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 Zouche the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Rich and the Lord Howard of Walder and the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas the Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Atturney-General were appointed to attend their Lordships On Tuesday Nov. 10. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for preservation of Phesants and Partridges was read secunda vice and committed to the Lord 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 Pembrooke the Earl of Lincoln the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Ely the Lord Zouche the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Mordant the Lord Rich the Lord Sheifield the Lord Chandois the Lord Compton the Lord Howard of Walden and the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas and the Lord Chief Baron to attend the Lords And the Bill was delivered to the Archbishop of Canterbury On Thursday Nov. 12. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill concerning Musters Souldiers and other things was read secunda vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham six other Earls eight Bishops the Lord Zouche the Lord Cobham and eight other Barons and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Mr. Justice Walmesly Mr. Justice Warberton Mr. Serjeant Yelverton and Mr. Atturney-General were appointed to attend the Lords On Saturday Nov. 14. to which day the Parliament had been last continued request was made by Mr. Connisby Gent. Usher to the House and signified by the mouth of the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward That forasmuch as the bringing of any person before the Lords upon the breach of the Priviledge of the House did appertain as the said Mr. Connisby supposed and alleadged to his place though in the last Parliament by some mistake the Serjeant at Arms was employed therein that therefore their Lordships would be pleased to confirm and settle such Order as he might at this time and henceforth have the right of his place in that behalf Whose Request being considered 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 Zouche and the Lord Cobham should at their next meeting upon any other occasion take notice of such Presidents 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 Sunday Nov. 15. On Munday Nov. 16. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for reuniting Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning was read secunda vice Dominus Custos Magni Sigill continuavit praesens Parliament usq ad diem Jovis viz. 19 Novemb. On Thursday Nov. 19. the Bill for the breed and increase of Horses of Service within the Realm was read prima vice Bill for increase of Horses of service Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was to avoid and prevent divers Misdemeanours in lewd and idle persons and the other was for the confirmation of Grants made to her Majesty and of Letters-Patents made by her Majesty to others The Lord Mordant being not able to attend for want of health certified so much to the House by the Lord Compton This day William Hogan was brought into the House from the Fleet One of the Qu. servants complains of an Arrest who having made relation of his Arrest and the time when and of the parties that arrested him declaring that he was arrested by the Under-Sheriff of Surrey and others upon the Saturday before the beginning of his Parliament and that it was known unto the said Under-Sheriff that he was her Majesties servant in Ordinary and that he thought Tolkerne who was the Creditor was not privy to the Arrest contrary to the Priviledge of that Court upon the Offer and Petition of the said William Hogan it was ordered That the said William Hogan should enter into sufficient Bond to abide the Order and Judgment of the Earl of Cumberland He is ordered to give Bond to abide Judgment c. the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Zouche for such satisfaction to be made of the Debt of 50 l. and any Costs and Charges as by the said Lords should be thought fit the Bond to be taken to the said Lords and thereupon to be discharged out of Prison and Execution And likewise that the Warden of the Fleet should be free from any trouble or damage or molestation for discharge of the said William Hogan It was likewise ordered by the Court Those who arrested him to appear at the Lords Bar. That the Under-Sheriff and any others that did arrest or assist the Arrest of the said William Hogan shall be sent for to appear
made amongst the Lords for the Poor and it was this day moved by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury that the like Collection might be made at this time it was upon this Motion ordered by the House That there should now be such a Collection made and that the Lord Bishop of Chichester the Lord Bishop of Peterborough the Lord Zouche and the Lord Rich should be Collectors of the same after such Rates as have been usually given and bestowed by the Lords for the said charitable purpose as in former Parliaments and they to take order for the distribution of it On Thursday Decemb. 17. the Bill for the relief of the Poor was read secunda vice It was ordered That Edward Thomas of the Middle-Temple should be presently sent for and brought before the Lords in the House for that contrary to the Priviledge of the House he hath caused one Thomas Gerrard Gent. to be arrested And it was likewise ordered That such persons as made the Arrest or did assist in doing the same shall likewise be sent for by the Serjeant at Arms to answer their doings therein The Bill for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners was read secunda vice Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for assurance of certain Mannors and Lands for part of a Joynture to Lucy Countess of Bedford was expedited Two other Bills had also each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for reformation of deceits and frauds in certain Auditors and their Clerks in making deceitful and untrue Particulars was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons by Dr. Carewe and Dr. Hone. The Bill was brought back from the House of Commons entituled An An for confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of Letters-Patents made by her Highness to others and expedited The Bill for confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy was returned from the House of Commons and was expedited The Bill concerning the Assize of Fewel was read tertia vice and expedited Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliament usque ad horam secundam post meridiem instantis diei About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords assembling five Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for strengthening of the Grants made for the maintenance and government of the house of the Poor called St. Bartholomew's Hospital of the foundation of King Hen. 8. was read secunda vice The Bill for 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 c. was read tertia vice and expedited Upon the third reading of this Bill it was moved that certain Additions might be put in the title of the Bill and Amendments in some points in the body thereof and the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Atturney-General 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 Mr. Atturney and Dr. Hone who returned presently from the House of Commons with their allowance of the said Amendments and Addition in the title of the Counties of Sussex Essex Kent and the County Palatine of Durham Three other Bills had also each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to make the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of Edward Lucas Gent. deceased Executor of the last Will and Testament of John Flowerdew Esq deceased liable c. was read secunda vice 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 neer the Parliament-presence On Friday Decemb. 18. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for her Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon was read prima vice and sent to the House of Commons by Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp 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 Order of the House about the dispute between Painters and Plaisterers 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 said Lords of the said Upper House have thought it meet and convenient that some course may be taken for reformation of any such wrong as may be found truly complained of and fit to be remedied and for setting some good agreement and order for the said Painters and Plaisterers so as each sort of them might exercise their Trade conveniently without incroaching one upon the other It is therefore ordered by the said Court of the Upper House of Parliament That the said complaint and cause of the said Painters which proceeded not in Parliament shall be referred 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 hearing of the said Cause the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Mr. Justice Gawdy and Mr. Baron Clarke and Mr. Atturney-General or any four three or two of them shall assist and give their help for the making and establishing of some good Order and Agreement between the said two Companies And that the said Parties Complainants and also the Company of Plaisterers shall observe and keep such Order as the said Mayor the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Mr. Justice Gawdy Mr. Baron Clarke Mr. Atturney General and Mr. Recorder of London or any six five four or three of them whereof the Lord Mayor the Lord Chief Justice of England or Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas shall be two shall be set down and prescribed Memorandum That whereas William Crayford of Mongham in the County of Kent Gent. was this day brought before the Lords 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 Gent. servant to the Earl of Shrewsbury contrary to the Priviledge of the
malum The malice of our Arch-enemy the Devil though it was always great yet never greater than now and that Dolus and Malum being crept in so far amongst men it was necessary that sharp Ordinances should be provided to prevent them and all care to be used for her Majesties preservation Now am I to make unto your Majesty three Petitions in the names of your Commons First That liberty of Speech and freedom from Arrests according to the ancient custom of Parliament be granted to your Subjects That we may have access to your Royal Person to present those things which shall be considered of amongst us And lastly That your Majesty will give us your Royal Assent to the things that are agreed upon And for my self I humbly beseech your Majesty if any speech shall fall from me or Behaviour found in me not decent and unsit That it may not be imputed blame upon the House but laid upon me and pardoned in me To this Speech the Lord Keeper having received new Instructions from the Queen he replied HE commended the Speaker greatly for his Speech Lord Keeper's Reply and he added some Examples for the Kings Supremacy in Henry the second 's time and Kings before the Conquest As for the Deliverance we received from our Enemies and the Peace we enjoyed he said the Queen would have the praise of all those to be attributed to God onely To the Commendations given to her self she said Well might we have a wiser Prince but never should they have one that more regarded them and in Justice would carry an evener stroke without acceptation of Persons and such a Princess she wished they might always have Yo your three Demands the Queen answereth Liberty of Speech is granted you but how far this is to be thought on there be two things of most necessity and those two do most harm which are Wit and Speech the one exercised in Invention the other is uttering things invented Priviledge of Speech is granted A good caution about liberty of speaking in the House but you must know what Priviledge you have not to speak every one what he listeth or what cometh in his brain to utter but your Priviledge is to say Yea or No. Wherefore Mr. Speaker her Majesties pleasure is That if you perceive any idle heads which will not stick to hazard their own Estates which will meddle with reforming of the Church and transforming of the Common-wealth and do exhibit any Bills to such purpose That you receive them not until they be viewed and considered of by those whom it is fitter should consider of such things and can better judge of them To your Persons all Priviledge is granted As also about priviledge of their persons with this Caveat That under colour of this Priviledge no mans ill doings or not performing of duties be cover'd and protected The last free Access is also granted to her Majesties Person so that it be upon urgent and weighty Causes and at times convenient and when her Majesty may be at leisure from other important Causes of the Realm After this Speech was ended the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament in manner and form following Dominus Custos Magni Sigill ex mandat Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox futur This day was returned the Proxie of John Bishop of Carlisle by which he constituted John Archbishop of Canterbury John Bishop of London and Matthew Bishop of Durham his Proctors quod nota On Saturday Feb. 24. a Bill for restraining and punishing vagrant and seditious persons who under fained pretence of Conscience and Religion corrupt and seduce the Queens Subjects prima vice lect Eodem die Returnat est Breve quod Richardus Wigorn. Episcopus praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur idem Episcopus ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento locum admissus est salvo cuiquam jure suo Dominus Custos magni Sigill continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae hora nona This day was returned the Proxie of John Archbishop of York by which he constituted onely one Proctor viz. John Archbishop of Canterbury quod nota Feb. 25. Sunday On Munday Feb. 26. Returnatum est Breve quo Edwardum Dom. Cromwel praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alienae The Writ returned whereby Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury was summoned The several Writs returned whereby George Bishop of Landaff William Lord Compton and Edward Earl of Worcester were summoned It seemeth by the Journal-book that nothing else was done this day but the Parliament continued in usual form As on Thursday the 22th of February and on Saturday the 24th day of the same month two extraordinary Proxies were returned from two Spiritual Lords the first constituting three Proctors and the other but one for the most ordinary use of the Bishops is to constitute two Proctors So also on the 27th of February being Tuesday though the Lords did not sit yet was one unusual Proxie returned from another Spiritual Lord who constituted but one Proctor to give his voice in Parliament in his absence whereas it is before often observed no Temporal Lord nominateth usually above one Proctor and no Spiritual Lord fewer than two This said Proxie is thus entered in the Journal-book of the 35 year of the Queen at the beginning of it 27º Februarii introductae sunt Littera Procuratoriae Thomae Wintoniensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem On Wednesday Feb. 28. two several Writs were returned whereby John Bishop of Bath and Wells and Matthew Bishop of Durham were summoned to come to this Parliament who accordingly took their places Also this morning two Bills had each of them one reading Nota That because the dayly continuing of the Parliament in these words Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum c. being but matter of course is omitted in all the Journal afterwards unless something extraordinary and unusual doth happen in respect of the Person time or manner On Thursday March 1. March 1. two Bills were each of them once read On Saturday March 3. to which day the Parliament had on Thursday been continued four Bills had each of them one reading March 4. Sunday On Munday March 5. three Bills were read and the second upon the second reading was committed to be ingrossed Nota This day also was returned a Proxie for a Temporal Lord by which he constituted two Proctors which because it is extraordinary and unusual I desired to have it inserted and the rather because of eight other Temporal Lords none of them constituted above one Proctor according to the ordinary practice both in these times and since The said Proxie before mentioned is thus entered in the beginning of the original Journal-book of this Upper House of Parliament Quint. Marcii
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 Royal Predecessors Kings of England and Queens of England In the times of the West-Saxons a Parliament was held by the Noble Queen Ina by these words I Ina Queen of the West-Saxons The Antiquity of Parliaments in this Island have caused all my Fatherhood Aldermen and wise Commons with the Godly-men of my Kingdome to consult of weighty matters c. Which words do plainly shew the parts of this Court still observed to this day For in Queen Ina is Your Majesties most Royal Person represented The Fatherhood in antient time were those whom we call Bishops and still we call them Reverend Fathers an antient and free part of our State By Aldermen was meant your Noblemen for so honourable was the word Alderman in antient time that the Nobility only were called Aldermen By wisest Commons is signified your 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 weightiest matters so is your Highness Writ at this day Pro quibusdam arduis urgentissimis negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Ecclesiae tangentibus Your Highness Wisdome and exceeding Judgment with all careful Providence needed not our Councels yet so urgent Causes there were of this Parliament so importunate Considerations as that we may say for we cannot judge if ever Parliament was so Needful as now or ever so Honourable as this If I may be bold to say it I must presume to say that which hath been often said but what is well said cannot be too often spoken This sweet Council of ours I would compare to that sweet Commonwealth of the little Bees Sic enim parvis componere magna solebam The little Bees have but one Governour whom they all serve he is their King Quia latrea habet latiora he is placed in the midst of their habitations ut in tutissima turri they forage abroad sucking honey from every flower to bring to their King Ignavum Fucos pecus à Principibus arcent the Drones they drive out of their Hives non habentes aculeos and whoso assails their King in him immittunt aculeos tamen Rex ipse est sine aculeo Your Majesty is that Princely Governour and Noble Queen whom we all serve being protected under the shadow of your wings we live and wish you may ever sit upon your Throne over us and whosoever shall not say Amen for them we pray ut convertantur nè pereant ut confundantur nè noceant Vnder your happy Government we live upon Honey we suck upon every sweet Flower but where the Bee sucketh Honey there also the Spider draweth Poyson some such there be but such Drones and Dore-Bees we will expel the Hive and serve your Majesty and withstand any Enemy that shall assault You our Lands or Goods Our lives are prostrate at your feet to be commanded yea and thanked be God and honour be to your Majesty for it such is the power and force of your Subjects that of their own strengths they are able to encounter your greatest Enemies and though we be such yet have we a Prince that is Sine aculeo so full of that Clemency is your Majesty I come now to your Laws The Laws we have conferred upon this Session of so honourable a Parliament are of two natures the one such as have life but are ready to die except your Majesty breathe life into them again the other are Laws that never had life but being void of life do come to your Majesty to seek life The first sort are those Laws that had continuance until this Parliament and are now to receive new life or are to die for ever The other that I term capable of life are those which are newly made but have no essence until your Majesty giveth them life Two Laws there are but I must give the honour where it is due for they come from the noble wise Lords of the Vpper House the most honourable and beneficial Laws that could be desired the one a Confirmation of all Letters-Patents from your Majesties most noble Father of all Ecclesiastical Livings which that King of most renowned Memory took from those superstitious Monasteries and Priories and translated them to the erecting of many foundations of Cathedral Churches and Colledges thereby greatly furthering the maintenance of Learning and true Religion The other Law to suppress the obstinant Recusate and the dangerous Sectary both very pernicious to your Royal Government Lastly your most loving and obedient Subjects the Commons of the Lower House most humbly and with dutiful thanks stand bound unto your gracious goodness for your general and large Pardon granted unto them wherein many great Offences are pardoned but it extendeth onely to Offences done before the Parliament I have many ways since the beginning of this Parliament by ignorance and insufficiency to perform that which I should have done offended your Majesty I most humbly crave to be partaker of your most gracious Pardon The Lord Keeper then received Instructions from the Queen and afterwards replied unto the Speaker The former part of this Speech was an Answer almost verbatim to the Speaker's Oration very excellently and exactly done and those things which followed were to this or the like purpose The Lord Keeper HE said The Lord Keeper replies That her Majesty most graciously did accept of the Service and Devotions of this Parliament commending them that they had employed their time so well and spent it on necessary Affairs save onely that in some things they had spent more time than needed but she perceived some men did it more for their satisfaction than the necessity of the thing deserved She misliked also that such irreverence was shewed towards Privy-Counsellors who were not to be accounted as common Knights and Burgesses of the House Gently rebukes them for some Miscarriages that are Counsellors but during the Parliament whereas the other are standing Counsellors and for their wisdom and great service are called to the Council of State Then he said That the Queens Majesty had heard that some men in the case of great necessity and grant of Aid had seemed to regard their Country and made their necessity more than it was forgetting the urgent necessity of the time and dangers that were now eminent That her Majesty would not have the People feared with Reports of great dangers Gives them Cautions but rather to be encouraged with boldness against the Enemies of the State And therefore that she straightly charged and commanded that the mustred Companies in every County should be supplied if they were decayed and that their Provisions of Armour and Ammunition should be better than heretofore it hath been used
First that all should remove into the Court of Requests There the Lord High-Steward sitting at the door called the Knights and Burgesses of every County according to the letters of their names in the Alphabet Alphabetically every one answered as he was called and having answered departed thence up to the Parliament-house-door and there took the Oath of Supremacy given him by one of the Queens Majesties Privy Counsellors His Oath taken The Members are sworn then he entered again and took his place as Knight or Burgess of the House The Fee for entering his name into the Serjeants book is 2 s. the Rewards to the Door-keepers being 3 s. and 8 d. the Fee for returning the Indenture 2 s. This done there was no further proceeding in any matter till two of the clock in the afternoon about which time the Nobility came and were set in the Upper House The Qu. comes to the House of Lords the Queen came privately by water After her Majesties coming and the Lords being all sat the Lower House had intelligence thereof and went to attend in the Upper House below the Bar being well repleated with those that had gotten in before privately The door was shut upon us until the Lord Keeper had gone a good step in his Oration The Lower house finding themselves discontented at this because of custome the way ought to have been opened murmured so loud that the noise came to her Majesties ears who presently commanded the doors to be set open which was done and by that time the Lord Keeper was upon these words following The former part of his Oration seemed to set forth matter of form onely as the manner of Parliaments their Antiquities c. The Lord Keeper's Speech HE set forth the great malice of the King of Spain which he had towards this Realm and that he shewed by sundry instances His last Invasion intended Heads of the Lord Keeper's Speech Vide Journal of the House of Lords his Forces then addressed out of the Low Countries for that purpose to have been conducted by the Duke of Parma The high and mighty Ships that he then prepared and sent for that purpose which because he found not fit for our Seas and such a purpose he is building Ships of a lesser bulk Spaniards preparations by Sea after another fashion some like French Ships some like the Shipping of England and many he hath gotten out of the Low Countries He is now for the better invading of England planting himself in Britain Plants himself in Britany a Country of more facility to offend us than the Low Countries there he hath fortified himself in the most strong Holds in that Country In Scotland he hath of late wrought most of the Nobility to conspire against their King to give landing to his Forces there Corrupts the Scots against their King to assist him to invade England and to assist him in his Invasion and a great part of the Nobility in Scotland are combined in this Conspiracy and they have received great sums of money for their service herein And to assure the King of Spain of their Assistance To which they consent they have signed and sent their Promises sealed unto that King These Conspiracies the King of Scots was brought hardly to believe but that her Majesty advertised him thereof having received intelligence thereof as she hath of all things done and intended in those parts The King of Scotland informed of their practices by the Queen And that the King might better advise thereupon her Majesty hath sent one of her Noblemen into Scotland and that King hath assured her Majesty with all his ability and endeavour to prevent the Spaniard whose purpose is on the North part to assault us by Land and on the South side to invade us by Sea which is the most dangerous practice that could be devised against us And now the Rage of the Enemy being such his Forces joyned with other Princes his adherency is great the charge of her Majesty for the defence of her Realm both with Forees by Sea and Armies by Land hath been such that hath both spent the Contribution of her Subjects by Subsidies and what otherwise they have offered her and also consumed her Treasure yea caused her to sell part of her Highness Crown-lands And it is not to be marvelled how all this is consumed but rather to be thought how her Majesty could be able to maintain and defend this her Realm against so many Realms conspired against us Wherefore we her Majesties Subjects must with all dutiful consideration think what is sit for us to do and with all willingness yield part of our own for the defence of others and assistance of her Majesty And therefore he wished that care might be had for advancing of the Subsidies from the wealthier and better sort and concluded with a desire that the greatest part of the time might be spent by material short Speeches in advising and providing for the defence of the Kingdom against the forraign Enemy After which Speech ended her Majesty calling the Lord Keeper unto her by whose commandment he gave the Lower House authority to chuse their Speaker and to present him on Thursday following the 22th day of February unto which day he adjourn'd the Parliament Upon this Adjournment the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons departed into the Lower House and there chose Edward Cooke Esq the Queen's Sollicitor to be their Speaker who after a discreet and modest excuse of himself was notwithstanding called to the Chair and placed in it After the Ceremony ended the House of Commons likewise departed for this day On Thursday Feb. 22. the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons met about one of the clock in the afternoon and about three the same day having notice that the Queens Majesty and the Lords were sat in the Upper House expecting them and their Speaker they repaired thither and as many as could getting in the Speaker was placed at the Bar where having with all humility excused himself and confessing that in the said House there were many more experienced Members thereof and better enabled for that service To which Speech the Lord Keeper having Instructions from the Queen answered That her Majesty did very well allow of himself to the Place to which he was chosen and did also commend the House of Commons for so discreet and fit a Choice Upon which Speech the Speaker accepting of the said Charge with all humble acknowledgment of her Majesties grace and favour towards him did in the conclusion thereof make these Petitions of course for the House of Commons and in their Names That they might have free liberty of Speech and freedom from Suits and Arrests of themselves and their followers and that they might have Access to her Majesties Royal Person upon all urgent and important occasions petitioning also for himself that if any thing were
as to the Queen as for two parts of the Profits to be answered her and so all Sales hereafter to be made by any Recusant convicted the Sale being bona side The sixth They shall be disabled to be Justices of the Peace Mayors or Sheriffs The ninth Children being ten years until they be sixteen to be disposed at the appointment of four Privy Counsellors the Justices of Assize the Bishop of the Diocess Justice of the Peace And if the third part of the Land suffice not for maintenance the rest to be levied of the Parents Goods The eleventh Recusants that be Copyholders to forfeit two parts to the Lord of the Mannor if the Lord be no Recusant and if he be then to the Queen The thirteenth Protesting that he doth not come to Church under colour of any Dispensation or other allowance from the Pope but for Conscience and Religion Sir Robert Cecill AS I remember Cecill's Speech I have been of this House these five Parliaments and I have not determined to say any thing in these Assemblies further than my Cogitations should concur with my Conscience in saying bare I and No. Give me leave I pray you to rehearse an old Saying and it is in Latine Nec te Collaudes nec te Vituperes ipse For me to do the one were exceeding Arrogancy and to do the other I confess I hope you will pardon me The occasion of this Parliament which I take to be by that which we received from the honourable and learned Speech of the Lord Keeper as of and from her Majesty to us in the Higher House is for the cause of Religion and the maintenance thereof amongst us the preservation of her Majesties most Royal Person and the good of this Realm our Country All which because they be things of most dear and nearest price and at this present in exceeding great and eminent danger it is behoveful to consult of most speedy remedies which in parcels should proceed from the most wise heads The Enemy to these is the King of Spain whose malice and ambition is such that together with the Pope that Antichrist of Rome for I may well couple them together the one being always accompanied with Envy and Prosperity the other with unsatiable desire makes them by all means seek the subversion of this State But concerning the first the Cause of God and his Religion which her Majesty professed before she came on this Royal Seat which she hath defended and maintained and for which cause God hath so blessed her Government ever since her coming to the Crown yea while the Crown was scarce warm on her head she abolished the Authority of Rome and did set up God's Truth amongst us and to her great Renown made this little Land to be a Sanctuary for all the persecuted Saints of God whereby the People perceived her Magnanimity Zeal and Judgment Magnanimity in understanding so great an Enterprize Zeal in professing the same not of shew but in sincerity Judgment in defending it and preventing all the Popes designes He set forth his Bulls and Missives against her Majesty thereby most unnaturally depriving her of her most natural Right Duty and Loyalty which her Subjects should owe unto her c. Here he touched the many dangers which her Majesty had been in which as it caused him to fear to think so it did cause him to tremble to speak concerning the danger of our Country and so the loss of our Lives Liberties Wives Children and all other Priviledges Let me not trouble you with things passed so long and perhaps beyond my reach but of things passed of late years and since 88 when as we were so secure and never thought the King of Spain would have set up his Rest for England then sent he his Navy termed Invincible and had almost been upon the backs of us before we were aware yea we were so slack in Provision that it was too late to make resistance had not God preserved us his attempt against us by seeking to win the Low Countries and to obtain Ireland which being but trifles and partly devices which I mean not to trouble you with He hath now of late gone about to win France wherein he hath greatly prevailed as in Lorain and in other parts as you have heard but especially in Britain having most part of the Port-towns in his possession whither he still sends Supplies dayly and re-enforceth them every four or five months which Port is always open and his men and forces never wanting This Province he especially desireth for it lieth most fitly to annoy us whither he may send Forces continually and there have his Navy ready to annoy us the which he could not otherwise so easily do unless he had the Wind in a bag Besides having this Province he will keep us from Traffique to Rochel and Bourdeaux as he doth in the Streights from Tripoly and St. Jean de luze and so hinder us from carrying forth or bringing in into this Land any Commodities whereby this Realm might be inriched and her Majesties Impost ever increased being one of the greatest Revenues of her Crown He hath also gone about with them of Stode and the King of Poland one of his own Faction and who by reason he cannot do in that Kingdom what he listeth he may easily command him to impede or hinder our Traffique in those Eastern parts which if he could bring to pass you see how hurtful it would be to this Land But to descend yet more lower and into these latter Actions he hath seen it is but a folly to endeavour to make a wooden-bridge to pass into England therefore he hath found out a more sure way and stronger passage unto it by Land and that by Scotland which though it be not talked of at the Exchange nor preached of at Paul's Cross yet it is most true and in Scotland as common as the High-way that he hath procured to him many of the Nobility there It is true he hath sent thither no Navy and if he had endeavoured it her Majesty would not have suffered him yet do she what she can some paltry Fly-boat may escape her Majesties good Ships and carry Gold enough in her to make them Traytors and stir them to Sedition These things her Majesty understood before and advertised that King thereof but he not so well conceiving thereof hath by the effect proved the other true And unless I be deceived the last Letter that came from thence the other night sheweth that King is gone to make a Road into the North and to bring Back the Lord Bothwell and the Lord Huntley The King of Spain's malice thus dayly increaseth against us and seeketh also to stir up Sedition amongst us by his Instruments the number also of Papists dayly increaseth or at leastwise be more manifested My advice is That you would consult which ways to withstand such eminent dangers which the greater they be the sooner they
read March 1. an Act was read against Strangers born to sell forreign Wares by retail no Stranger born to do it except he hath served seven years with an Englishman in the same Trade Serjeant Yelverton HE spake concerning the Priviledges of this House Yelverton The Burgess of Misteard in Cornwall being elected the Town refused to deliver up their Indenture to the Sheriff but the Party elected made his Indenture and delivered it to the Clerk of the Crown who filed it with the rest of the Indentures returned by the Sheriff the Sheriff having indorsed it upon his Writ but this Indenture was never executed by the Sheriff nor return'd and yet this Return was held as it should seem by the Committees to be good Sir Edward Hobby THe Party outlawed is not out of his wits therefore capable Sir Edward Hobby and then he is a man able to be chosen and Idoneus to be a Burgess onely a difference may be made where the Outlawry is for a Cause Criminal and a Cause Personal as in this Cause Is this disability greater then a man outlawed may not be a Burgess as well as an Atturney to a man or as an Executor And I think it will stand with the Priviledge of the House to deliver him though he were outlawed Mr. Finch HE said he could not tell which to hold Mr. Finch or on which side to speak The book of 20 Hen. 7. doth prove that there were elected such as were attainted and that disability was taken against them The Writ to chuse a Burgess is not legalem hominem as in all places but Idoneum therefore we ought not to be so strict as if he were to be challenged upon a Jury At the Common Law Outlawries was onely for Causes Criminal as for Treason or Felony but these Outlawries in Personal Causes onely by the Statute 11 Hen. 4. not so great a difficulty as that at the Common Law On the other side utlegatus ne villen cannot be a Champion which is as a Judge to decide then à Fortiori he can be no Judge in this House Outlawry is an Attainder therefore the Party so stained is no competent Judge The great Charter is all Tryals ought to be per legales homines parum suorum the outlawed man is not of the number of Parium and so not to be a Judge Vide 8 Ed. 3. utlegatus ne puit estre c. On Friday March 2. the old Question touching an outlawed man to be a Burgess was again spoken unto Mr. Tanfield HE held Mr. Tanfield that a Person outlawed might be a Burgess He made an Exception where the difference of a Burgess grew upon matter before the Election and where after If the Exception grew after then a Burgess elected must not be out of the House If Exception be taken to this Election and this Outlawry now alleadged to disenable him the Statute of 23 Hen 6 cap. 15. will disenable most of this House for they ought to be Burgesses resident Now if this be a good Election then it follows that the Party elected is to have his Priviledge And although the Common Law doth disenable the Party yet the Priviledge of the House being urged that prevaileth over the Law Sir William Moore FIrst Sir Will. Moore he shewed that her Majesty had more cause to have Subsidies than had Hen. 8. Edw. 6. or Queen Mary for Hen. 8. Wars continued not though they were violent In his time the Wars were impulsive not defensive he had the suppression of all the Abbeys a matter of great Riches unto him he had a Benevolence and then a Subsidy paid within three months to Sir Geo. Peckham Edw. 6. had Chauntries and all the Church-plate for relief paid him Queen Mary had a Relief paid her which she never repaid But her Majesty that now is hath been a continual Defence of her own Realms and her Neighbours France and the Low Countries yet hath she repaid the Loans and hath had no such helps Sir George Carey I Speak for the Subsidy Sir Geo. Carey first answering one that hath said we must regard them and their Estates for whom we be here saying he regarded and came for them as was meet and they will more thank us for taking something from them than if we should abandon them and leave them and all that they have to the spoil of the Enemy which will be if with Forces we provide not to withstand them for eminent dangers hangs over our SPEAKERs and are intended to us this Summer The Spaniards already have sent 7000 Pistols of gold into Scotland to corrupt the Nobility and to the King 20000 Crowns now lately were dispatched out of France into Scotland for the levying of 3000 men which the Scotish Lords have promised and the King of Spain will levy 30000 men and give them all Pay Her Majesty is resolved to send Sir Francis Drake to Sea to encounter them with a great Navy wherefore this our Danger is to be prevented and these her Majesties infinite Charges supplied by us Sir Walter Rawleigh HE spake of the Subsidy not onely as he protested Sir Walter Rawleigh to please the Queen to whom he is infinitely bound above his desert but for the necessity he both saw and knew He very well discovered the great strength of the King of Spain and to shew his mightiness he told how he possessed all the world and also that his malice and ill purpose was evident to this Realm He shewed how on every side he had beleaguered us In Denmark that King being young he hath corrupted the Council and Nobility so as it was very likely he would speed himself of Shipping from thence in the Marine-Towns of the Low Countries and in Norway he hath laid in great store of Shipping in France he hath the Parliament-Towns at his command in Britain he hath all the best Havens and in Scotland he hath so corrupted the Nobility that he had promised them Forces to assist the Papists that they were ready to joyn with any forreign Forces that would make them strong to be by themselves and to resist others for as he thought there were not six Gentlemen of that Country to be of one Religion In his own Country there is all possible preparing and he is coming with sixty Gallies besides other Shipping with purpose if he goes forward and hath good success we must then have no Ships if he invade us riding at Anchor but all will be little enough to withstand him At his coming he fully resolveth to get Plimouth or at least to possess some of the Havens this Summer within our Land and Plimouth is in most danger for no Ordnance can be carried thither to remove him the passages will not give leave Now the way to defeat him was this To send a Royal Army and supplant him in Britany and to possess our selves there and to send a strong Navy to Sea and
with an Amendment thought fit to be put into the Bill the Amendment thrice read and appointed to be fixed in the Schedule of the Bill On Munday Nov. 28. the Bill that was sent from the Lower House with this Title viz. an Act for the repeal of a Statute made in the 23 year of her Majesties Reign entituled An Act for the increase of Marriners and maintenance of Navigation was after the third reading returned again to the said House for their consideration and allowance as well of another Title thought more fit by the Committees to be given thereto viz. an Act for the increase of Mariners and for maintenance of Navigation repealing a former Act made 23 of her Majesties Reign bearing the same Title as also of some Amendment in the body of the Bill added by the Committees sent by Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Carew On Thursday Decem. 1. Decemb. 1. the Parties that arrested the Lord Chandois servant viz. Wood and Stevenson with two others brought into the House by the Serjeant at Arms and upon some notice taken of the matter Mr. Justice Owens and Mr. Serjeant Drew were appointed to examine the same and make Report thereof to the Lords The Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain took his place this day as Baron of Hunsdon betwixt the Lord Chandois and Lord St. John of Bletsoe This day an Act concerning the School at Sownocke tertia vice lect and sent to the Commons House On Saturday Decemb. 3. An Act for the increase of Mariners and for maintenance of Navigation repealing a former Act made 23 of her Majesties Reign bearing the same Title which Act was sent to the Lower House from hence for their consideration and allowance of this Title and some Amendments in the body of the Bill Upon the Report of Mr. Justice Owens and Mr. Serjeant Drew unto whom the Examination of the matter was committed concerning the Arrest of my Lord Chandois servant by one Stevenson a Serjeant in London at the Suit of one William Wood being found and judged to have wilfully offended therein against the Priviledge of the House were committed and sent to the Prison of the Fleet there to be kept close Prisoners until further directions from the Lords And whereas and were this day brought into the House before the Lords L. Chandois serâ—ant Barston released out of Prison as supposed partakers in the same offence they upon examination being found not to have wilfully committed any fault therein were dismissed and order given by the Lords for the discharge of Edward Barston out of the Prison of the Counter Munday Decemb. 5. an Act for the better and safer recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common-Pleas read secunda vice and referred to the same Committees as before with the addition of the two Lords Chief Justices and Mr. Atturney-General The absence of the Earl of Essex the Lord Viscount Byndon the Earl of Cumberland the Lord Scroope the Lord Willoughby of Ersby and the Lord Bishop of Rochester were excused by the Lord Rich the Lord Chandois the Lord Wharton the Lord Zouche and the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells Order was given for the release of Stevenson the Serjeant who arrested my Lord Chandois his servant On Tuesday Decemb. 6. an Act for erecting of houses of correction and punishment of Wanderers prima vice lecta On Wednesday Decemb. 7. an Act for the confirmation of the Joynture of Dame Christian the Lady Sandies secunda vice lect and commanded to be ingrossed On Thursday Decemb. 8. an Act for the erecting of houses of correction and for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars secunda vice lect and referred to the Committees for the former Bill and the same time and place appointed for their meeting And also authority was given to the Committees to call such of the Lower House unto them at this meeting as they should finde cause to confer withal for the better perfecting of the Bill An Act for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for the enjoying the Rectory and Personage of South-Moulton according to an Agreement secunda vice lect upon which reading it was ordered That all Parties whom this Bill may concern either on the part of Mr. Hatch or against him shall be heard openly in the House upon Munday next by their Counsel learn'd and all specialties concerning the same then to be produced to the end that it may be considered whether it shall be convenient to pass this Act or not Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney-General 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 An Act for the establishing of the possession of Henry Vpton Kt. deceased and for payment of his Debts read secunda vice A Motion made by some of the Lords and agreed to by the House that there should be respit 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 alleadge if they finde cause why the Bill should not proceed the next Tuesday assign'd for this purpose William Cole the Knight-Marshal's man that arrested James Yorke the Lord Archbishop's servant was brought before the Lords by the Serjeant at Arms and being found upon his Examination before the Lords wilfully to have offended therein against the Priviledge of the House was Committed to the Fleet there to remain until their Lordships should give further directions for his enlargement On Friday Decemb. 9. an Act for the establishing of the Hospital of Queen Elizabeth in Bristol Bill to establish Q. Eliz. Hospital in Bristol and for relief of Orphans and Poor there read secunda vice Upon this reading some Amendments were thought fit by the House to be added which were presently drawn and agreed by the House and also twice read and commanded to be ingrossed On Saturday Decemb. 10. an Act that the Lord Montjoy may dispose of his lands whereof he is Tenant in tail as other Tenants in tail by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm may do a private Statute made to the contrary 27 Hen. 8. not withstanding secunda vice lect Upon the Motion of the Lord Marquiss of Winchester it was ordered that the Cause shall be heard openly in the House on Munday-morning by the Counsel learn'd on both sides An Act for the better recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common-Pleas returned and allowed by the House of Commons without any alteration expedited On Munday Decemb. 12. a Motion and Request made by the Lower House and delivered by Mr. Secretary Cecill accompanied with many others for a Conference to be had concerning the Bill entituled An Act concerning Tellers Receivers c. and assented unto Whereupon the Committees formerly named upon this Bill were appointed
service in the Wars was returned to the House by the Lord Steward with certain Amendments and a Proviso thought meet by the Committees which Amendments and Proviso were presently twice read and thereupon the Bill commanded to be ingrossed The Bill for the maintenance of the Navy increase of Mariners c. was returned to the House by the Lord Treasurer the first of the Committees with certain Amendments which Amendments 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 assurance of the Parsonage and Vicarage of Rotherston in the County of Chester and a Scholars Room in the Cathedral-church of Christ in Oxford of the foundation of King Hen. 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 the Joynture of Rachel Wife of Edward Nevil in the County of Kent Esquire both which Bills were read prima vice On Saturday Decemb. 12. eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Secretary Cecil Mr. Secretary Herbert and others which were each of them read prima vice of which the first was for reformation of abuses in Sheriffs and other their inferiour Officers for not duely executing Writs of Proclamation upon Exigents according to the Stat. 31 Reginae and the second was for prohibiting Fairs and Markets to be holden on the Sunday Bill to prevent holding Fairs and Markets on Sundays Subsidy-bill Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the the first being the Bill for the grant of four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Teuths granted by the Temporalty was read prima vice 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 appointed for them this morning Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Carewe were therefore sent unto them to let them know that their Lordships were ready presently to meet Upon which Message the House of Commons returned answer That they would make their repair to their Lordships forthwith for that purpose The Bill for the perfecting of the Joynture of the Lady Bridget Countess of Sussex Wife of Robert Earl of Sussex was read secunda vice The Bill concerning the Joynture of the Countess of Bedford was returned to the House by the Earl of Worcester the first of the Committees with a Proviso and certain Amendments thought sit to be added together with a Petition of the Lady Russel 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 referred to be made by Mr. Atturney and the same deferred till the afternoon sitting by reason the day was spent Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliament usque ad 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 water of certain over-flown 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 secunda vice The Proviso that was presented to be added to the Bill for the maintenance of the Navy and increase of Mariners c. was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons together with the Bill concerning Captains Souldiers c. by Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp The Amendments and Proviso in the Bill concerning the Countess of Bedford's Joynture were twice read and likewise the Lady Russel's 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 Rules in the Exchequer were appointed to meet forthwith in the little chamber neer 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 On Munday Decemb. 14. to which day the Parliament was last continued 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 fit by the Committees to be added was also read the third time The Bill for assurance of certain Mannors and Lands for part of a Joynture to Lucy Countess of Bedford and the Provisoes and Amendments presented by the Committees to be added to the Bill 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 Dr. Swale and the Clerk of the Crown Four Bills more had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the grant of four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read secunda vice Two Bills more were also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill for the confirmation of the Charter of Edw. 6. of the three Hospitals of Christ Bridewel and St. Thomas the Apostle to the Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of London was read prima vice The Bill to confirm the assurance of the Mannors or Farms of Sagebury alias Sadgbury and Obden and other Hereditaments to Samuel Sandis Esq and John Harris Gent. and their Heirs and the Bill for the Amendment of certain imperfections of a Statute made 8 Reginae concerning the true making of Hats were each of them read secunda vice The Paper or Scroul concerning Belgrave was this day returned from the House of Commons subscribed by the Clerk of the Council in the Star-chamber and excuse made by them for not sending the same at the first Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliament usque ad horam secundam post meridiem hujus instantis diei About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers Lords assembling six Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for augmentation of the Joynture of Rachel Wife of Edward Nevil of Berling in the County of Kent was read secunda vice The Bill concerning the erecting of a Harbour and Key in the north part of
then the private and they that carry them to give some brief Commendation of them Mr. Speaker said Who shall carry these Bills And all desired That Mr. Comptroller and Mr. Secretary Hobart would be pleased to present them Sir Walter Rawleigh brought in the Bill for Shop-Books with some Amendments One was in the Title for that it was thought to be an Imputation to Merchants And another thing I would move the House in he said and that is That there might be a Proviso for Sums under Five Pounds And because the greater part of the Committee were against it I thought fit to move it here And all the House cried No. Mr. Tate brought in the Bill touching Sir Anthony Maney to which Mr. Johnson of Grays-Inn excepted and shewed That his Wife was a Maney and though himself were far off in Remainder yet he desired the House would be pleased to except his Right for said he Nemo sapit qui sibi non sapit And therefore I presume to speak for my self And I hope the House will not give passage to the Bill Mr. Boyes shewed He was so far off as at least in the Seventeenth Degree and so the House called to the Question whether it should pass And all cried I I I. Mr. Davis brought in a Bill Mr. Davis moves in the Bill for the Painter-stainers against the Plaisterers for the Painter-Stainers for the remedy of certain Abuses done by the Plaisterers to the prejudice of that Company He shewed That this Bill was preferred the last Parliament and upon special Suit of the Citizens of London of this House the Bill was let Slip and a promise made That the Lord Mayor should finally end it betwixt the two Companies But after the same Parliament was done the Plaisterers went from their words so now the poor Men complain to you for Redress And since the beginning of this Parliament the Plaisterers are contented to enter into Bond but they will Break that too no doubt being but of small value And the Painter's Trade if it be not helped by us will go down which is the finest Trade in the World For Courtiers Knights Lords Earls Kings yea Emperours have used it They only desire to Work in Oyl as a thing incident to their Trade to make Pictures by the Life to draw Armory and Paint in Glass-work Houseing and the like Now if their be One Hundred Apprentices not Four come to the perfection of Painting by the Life and all their Trade and Gain in the other things is by the Plaisterers now usurped who are only to meddle with Loame Morter and the like yet the Painter-stainers have given them leave to use their Four Principal Colours c. Mr. Spicer said Mr. Spicer Seconds it As I wish no Man should meddle with anothers business so I wish that no Trade should meddle one with anothers Mysteries I know the Colours belong to the Painters the gross and ground-Work to Plaisterers and briefly Mr. Speaker Quam quisque nôrit artem in hac se exerceat So it was put to the Question for Ingrossing and all cried The Bill Ordered to be Ingrossed I I I. The Amendments in the Bill for Avoiding of double payment of Debts upon Shop-Books were Read Mr. Beeston shewed how good this Bill would be to keep Young Men from running too far in Debt Mr. Beeston about Book-Debts and avoiding double Payment He gave an Example of a Mercer That gave a Piece of Velvet for a Kindness done but dying Sixteen Years after the Delivery the Executor of this Man sued the Gentleman He desired to see the Book and there was Entered Delivered such a Day to such a Man so Much. The Gentleman advised with Councel what to do They told him No Remedy but to Wage his Law The Manner thereof being told him rather than he would have his Credit drawn in Question he paid it He further said They have two kind of Books the one where the Particulars be and that upon Payment is lightly Crossed The other General where the Gross Sum is and that is called The Book Dormant Out of which if you see not your Self Crossed perhaps you or your Executors may pay for it Twenty Years after It was put to the Question and the House being Divided the I I I had 154. and the Noes 88. So the I I I got it by 66. Mr. Speaker said First I am by Her Majesty's Commission Mr. Speaker gives an Account of the Queens Speech to make Report unto you of that Notable and Excellent Speech which Her Majesty deliver'd I shall deliver unto You but a Shadow of that Substance But I greatly Rejoyce that so many were there present who are well able to supply to others the True Report of Her Majesty's Speech IT pleased Her Majesty to shew In what gracious sort She accepted our Loyalty She said She Rejoyced not so much to be a Queen as to be a Queen over so Thankful a People and that God had made Her a Means to save us from Shame Tyranny and Oppression She did Accept of our intended Present which she said manifested our Love and Loyalty most graciously affirming That She was never any greedy Griper or fast Holder and what We did present She would not hoard up but Our Eyes should see the Bestowing of it For the Thanks which were yielded Her for Her great Regard of Us She willed me to return Her Thanks to You most Graciously and to tell You That Her Heart never inclined to pass any Grant but upon Suggestion that it was for the Good of Her Subjects and now that the Contrary appeared She took it Graciously that the Knowledg thereof came from Her Subjects She said She ever set the last Judgment before Her Eyes and never Thought arose in Her but for the Good of Her People If Her Grants were abused to their Hurts it was against Her Will and She hoped God would not lay their Culps and Offences to Her Charge and the Principal Members not touched And had it not been for these Her good Subjects She had fallen from Lapse into Error Those that did speak against them She thought spake out of no Spleen or Displeasure to the Grants but to deliver the Grief of their Hearts which above any Earthly Treasure She respected She said She was not allured with the Royal Authority of a KING neither did She Attribute any thing to Her Self but all to the Glory of GOD. She said The Cares and Troubles of a Crown are known only to them that Wear it And were it not more for Conscience-sake than any Desire or Want of Disposition in Her these Patentees should not escape without Condigne Punishment She desired not to Reign longer than that Her Government and Reign should be for our Good She said We might well have a Prince of more Wisdome and Sufficiency but of more Love and Affection we should never have Her Majesty deliver'd a Commandment to Mr.
in hoc bello Apostolica Authoritate à nobis Administrandum ut verum fatear possem sacillime convitia quod nobis objiciunt in ipsos retundere voluptatem quam maledicendo sumpsere illam male audiendo amittere Caeterum novimus ut debiles inermes Muliercola ad convitia fugere Sed hiis praetermissis ad objecta solida veritate ex Christiana Modestate respondere Imprimis Commoneamini nos velle subditos praetensos Reginae Angliae ab obedientia debita per dei legem servitute abducere ad nos aggregare Quod maximâ ex parte à veritate alienum est Neminem enim persuadere conamur ut debitam servitutem secundum dei Legem deneget suo Principi Sed hene nostis ante multos Annos ipsam Elizabetham for so said Mr. Secretary he bluntly called her that same Elizabeth privatam esse Regno subditosque omnes absolutos esse à Juramento Fidelitatis per supremum Pontificem cui Regnans in excelsis Bex Regum omnimodum potestatem tradidit ut evellat distruat plantet aedificet ita ut ipsos Reges temporales si ad spirituale aedificiem expediret eósque ad depositionem à Regno privat quod factum esse in Regnis Angliae Hiberniae à pluribus Pontificibus supremis viz. Pio quinto Gregorio decimo tertio nunc Clemento octavo omnibus notum est quorum Diplomata extant apud nos Catholicis Loquor non protervis Haereticis qui à Fide Romanae Ecclesiae declinaverunt nam cum Caeci sunt Caecorum Duces sundamenta veritatis prorsus ignorant etiam in hoc dissentire à nobis non mirum est Sed nostri fratres Catholici in simplicitate fidei Romanae ambulentes Ecclesia Catholica consentientes quod est columna fundamentum veritatis omnia ista facile percipiant Ergo restat quod Hiberni qui vobis adherent nil adversus legem Dei fidelitatem debitam imò secundum divina praecepta obedientiam quam supremo Pontifici debent cooperentur Secundo asseritis nos Hispanos blanditiis fictitiis adulationibus Hibernos demulcire atque multa beneficia in illos exhibere quod in nostram aversissimam est natura sed hoc m o in principio facere ut simplicium animos ad nos convertentes in posterum credulitatem circa illos exercentes sanguinolentam naturam nostram ostendemus Proh Deum immortalem quis non miretur acerbam indicibilem credulitatem audaciámque vestram in his verbis ostensam Quis est enim qui non novit crudelitatem maximam quam vos Angli adversus miseros Hibernicos exercivistis exercere non desistitis vos inquam ab ipsorum animis fidem Catholicam quam coluerunt Patris eorum in quo salus aeterna consistit auferre conamini crudeliores profectò Vrsis Leonibus qui tantum temporalem vitam auferent vos tamen aeternam spiritualem Quis temporalia omnia istius florentissimi Regni demolitus est nisi Anglus videte hoc confundamini Nos vero Patriam dulcissimam foelicissimam Hispaniam omnibus scilicet bonis refertam vicem Catholicorum dolentes relinquimus eorum Clamoribus incitati qui Coelum Terrámque attingunt aures supremi Pontificis Regis nostri Philippi pulsantes misericordia moti Ad vos Milites Argentum Aurum Arma liberali manu tandem mittere decreverunt non ut erga vos Hiberni Catholici crudelitatem ut isti singunt exercerunt sed ut foeliciter vos à Diaboli faucibus ereptos à Tyrannide liberos ad pristinam vestram ingenuitatem redigant ut libere positis fidem Catholicam profiteri Ergo dilectissimi in Christo postquam jam quod per tot ante annos desiderio desiderastis praecibus lacrimis efflagitastis impetrastis jamjam Supremus Pontifex Vicarius Christi in Terris vobis imperat ut Arma in Defensionem vestrae fidei sumatis vos omnes moveo horior atque contestor Omnes in quam ad quos istae Litterae pervenerint ut quam citissime in vestra fuerit potestate ad nos cum Amicis Armis conveniatis Qui hoc fecerit nos paratos inveniet Arma nostra ceteráque possidemus ipsis communicabimus Qui aliter enim spretis nostris Conciliis saluberrimis secerit in salibra Anglorum obedientia permanserit tanquam Haereticum Hostem Ecclesiae invisum usque ad necem prosequimur Doryum de Laguia After the Parliament at the end of Hillary-Term next following the Lord Keeper by her Majesties express Command made a Speech in the Star-chamber on the 13th of February all these Personages being present viz. Sir Thomas Egerton Lord Keeper of the great Seal The Archbishop of Canterbury The Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer of England The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Worcester Sir William Knolls Controuler of her Majesties Houshold The Bishop of London Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice of England Mr. Secretary Herbert Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir _____ Peryam Lord Chief Baron Mr. Baron Clarke Mr. Baron Savelle Mr. Justice Fenner Mr. Justice Kingsmell Mr. Justice Warberton After a silence made and some few Motions made by Mr. Atturney-General and the Queens Counsel and some others the Cryer of the Court again made silence and the Lord Keeper putting off his Hat and then putting it on again spake to this effect My Lords I Am by her Majesties commandment to deliver unto you her gracious pleasure The Lord Keeper's Speech in the Star-chamber and those things which out of her Princely wisdom and care she hath thought fit to be made known I scarce know how to enter into this matter and I am sorry that now in speaking I shall lay open the looseness of the times neither are her Majesties Proclamations regarded neither her Councils Letters respected neither her late-made Statutes and Decrees obeyed nor put in so due execution as they ought These things deserve to have a more round and strict course than have been used and we deserve not so gracious a Pardon as it hath pleased her most gracious Majesty out of her meer goodness lately to bestow upon us but this onely to divers persons and offences of those which live in degree of private men But I am to speak of Offences of Mayors Justices of Assize A Charge for the keeping of Lent strictly and men of that condition The time of Lent and abstinence from Flesh if it be not duely observed what Dearth and Penury will not almost ensue And therefore was the time of Lent well placed even in the Spring and the beginning of the increase of Beasts Her Majesties express command is That it be strictly observed and that with this caution That where fault shall be found that there extremity shall be inflicted and that no