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-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
Subsidy-Bill read On Saturday March 15. were six Bills read whereof one being an Act against erecting and maintaining of Cottages Bill against Cottages tertia vice lect conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Dr. Clarke Another Bill being an Act for the confirmation of the Subsidies of the Clergie prima secunda vice lect commiss ad ingross Sunday March 16. On Munday the 17th of March were four Bills read whereof the first was the Bill of the Subsidie subsidy-Subsidy-Bill assented to being tertia vice lect communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus There were also sent up to the Lords this sorenoon six Bills of no great moment On Tuesday March 18. were seven Bills read whereof one being an Act that the Children of Aliens shall pay Strangers Customs tertia vice lect conclus and sent with the former to the House of Commons by Dr. Clarke and Dr. Carewe There were also this morning brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons four Bills which were of so little moment as two of them were not mentioned in the Journal-Book On Wednesday March 19. were three Bills read of no great concernment On Thursday the 20th of March were two Bills read of no great moment And the same forenoon one other Bill of small consequence brought from the Commons On Friday March 21. were four Bills read whereof the first being an Act concerning the Hospital of Lamborn tertia vice lect conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serj. Puckering and three other Bills of no great moment There were also sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons this forenoon three Bills of no great moment On Saturday March 22. were four Bills of no great concernment brought from the House of Commons Bill for maintainance of the School at Tunbridge And the Lords having this forenoon given three readings to the Bill for the better Assurance of Lands and Tenements for the maintainance of the Free Grammar-School of Tunbridge in the County of Kent did send the said Bill with those new Amendments to be passed also in the House of Commons the Bill it self having before passed that House and had been sent up from them to the Lords on Munday last March 23. Sunday On Munday March 24. three Bills of no great moment and the Amendments of the fourth were read And five Bills of as little consequence were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons Memorandum quod Christopherus Wray Miles Capital Justiciar de Banco Reg. secum adduxit in Parliamento in Camera Parliamenti intra Dominos Breve de Errore Billam de Regina indorsat ac Rotnl in quibus continebantur placit processis in quibus supponebatur error ibid. reliquit transcript totius Recordi cum Clerico Parliamenti simul cum praedicto Breve de Errore in Parliamento On Tuesday March 25. An. 1589. 25. three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of no great moment and other Bills of as small consequence read in the House whereof one was read twice and the other thrice No mention is made of the continuance or adjournment of the Parliament being omitted by the Clerks negligence On Wednesday March 26. three Bills were read whereof the first being an Act to avoid secret Outlawries of her Majesties Subjects Bill to avid secret Outlawries For relief of Jurors tertia vice lect and sent to the Commons by Dr. Carewe And the last being an Act for the relief of Jurors read secunda tertia vice and rejected An Act also of no great moment was this forenoon sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Thursday the 27th of March nothing was done but the Parliament continued to the hour accustomed On Friday March 28. three Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first was an Act for the explanation or declaration of the Statute of 8 Hen. 6. concerning forcible Entries Bill concerning forcible Entries the Indictments thereupon found expedit and two other Bills of no great moment An Act also for naturalizing Joyce the Daughter Ralph Elkin Gent. and Wife of Richard Lambert Merchant Bill for Naturalization born beyond the Seas read thrice expedit Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinam dimid horae ante septimam On Saturday March 29. a Bill for continuance of divers Statutes tertia vice lect and sent to the House of Commons by Dr. Stanhopp and Mr. Powell Here by the negligence of the Clerk the Lords Spiritual that were present are omitted but the Lords Temporal that attended the Queen are thus named who was there personally present this day at the dissolving the Parliament Lords Temporal present at the Dissolution of this Parliament Sir Christopher Hatton Miles Dominus Cancellarius Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaur Angliae Marchio Winton Comes Darby Magnus Senescallus Comes Northumberland Comes Kane Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Comes Hundingdon Comes Bathon Comes Pembrooke Comes Hartford Comes Essex Barones Dominus Howard Admirall Dominus Hunsdon Camer Dominus Willoughby Dominus Morley Dominus Cobham Dominus Talbott Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey Dominus Darcy Dominus Sands Dominus Windsor Dominus Wentworth Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby Dominus Northe Dominus St. John Dominus Buckhurst Dominus De-la-ware Dominus Norris These being thus set and the Commons House with their Speaker and as many as conveniently could being let in the said Speaker Bills presented to the Queen for Royal Assent according to the usual form presenting her Majesty with the Bill of two Subsidies and four Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty desired her Highness graciously to accept thereof as the free Testimony of the faithful and loyal Respect of her Subjects and withal desiring her Majesty to give her gracious consent to such Acts as had been prepared and expedited by the two Houses of Parliament To the Bill of Subsidies the Queen answered Queen passes the Subsidy Le Royne remercee ses loyaule Subjects accept leur benevolence ainsi le veult The Clerk of the Parliament having read this former Answer of the Queens acceptance of the Bill of Subsidie did then read in these French words following the thanks of the Lords and Commons for her Majesties most free and gracious Pardon Les Prelats Seigneurs Communs in ce present Parliament assembles Lords and Commons return thanks in French au nom de touts vos autres Subjects remercient tres-humblement vostre Majestie prient a Dieu que il vous donne en bonne vie longue To every publick Act allowed by the Queen the Clerk of the Parliament read in French these words following La Royne le veult To every private Act that passed Soit fait comme il est desire These two last Answers to the Publick and Private
on Tuesday next at two of the clock in the afternoon Also the Bill touching Orford-Haven committed yesterday was this day delivered to Mr. Arthur Hopton one of the Committees On Saturday Feb. 15. a Bill to reform Disorders in Purveyors was read the first time Mr. Treasurer Mr. Cradock Sir William Moore and others did speak unto the Bill and afterwards it was ordered upon the Question That the said Bill should be read again this present day whereupon the said Bill was then presently read again and upon the Question committed unto all the Privy Council being of this House and all those that spake unto the Bill and some others added unto them who were appointed to meet in this House upon Munday next at two of the clock in the afternoon And the same time and place is also appointed for the Committees in the Bill for Informers and Informations Feb. 16. Sunday On Munday Feb. 17. the Bill touching the multiplicity of Suits and the excessive numbers of Atturneys Bill against excessive numbers of Suits and Atturneys was upon the second reading committed unto the Knights for the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Cromwel and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next at two of the clock in the afternoon at Serjeants-Inne in Chancery-lane Sir Edward Hobby sheweth with his great grief That since the last sitting of this House 〈…〉 he hath been of some great Personage being no Member of this House very sharply rebuked for some of his Speeches delivered in this House by him on Friday last in the setting forth of the Bill for Reformation of Abuses in some Officers in the Court of Exchequer and that the same his Speeches have been delivered by some unto the said great Personage very untruly as tending to all the Officers of the said Court. And so shewing other the particularities as well of his own said former Speeches as of the said untrue Report and sinister construction of the same somewhat at large doth in the end refer himself therein to the testimony of this whole House and withal praying the good consideration of this House towards him in this his honest and just excuse as in like former cases hath been oft accustomed towards other Members of this House and especially in regard of the maintainance and preservation of the ancient Liberties of the same desired that by some of this House the said great Personage may be satisfied of the truth of the Case And also moved to shew the name of the Reporter of the said untrue Speech and to that end citeth to them two like Presidents of this House one in the time of King Edw. 6. and the other of the Queens Majesty that now is And shewed further That he thinketh his said Speech was discover'd after Mr. Speaker his late Admonition generally given to the whole House against the uttering the Secrets of this House either in Table-talk or Notes in Writing and not before And so concluding giveth all commendation to the said Bill and prayeth another reading of it presently and also all good and speedy course both in the commitment and other passages of the same Sir Henry Knivit entering into some Speech doth testifie his approbation of the said Speech of Sir Edward Hobby and well liking and allowing of due consideration to be had thereof by this House reciteth very briefly the whole substance in effect both of the said first Speech of Sir Edward Hobby and also of his said late motion and giving due commendation of his first Speech and also of his said Protestation of excuse urgeth the present reading and proceeding upon the said Bill with all speed Whereupon after sundry other Speeches tending likewise to the prosecution of the said Bill to commitment upon the Question it was ordered that the same Bill should be presently read which was done accordingly On Tuesday Feb. 18. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last was for the relief of Thomas Hasilrigg Esq Mr. Serjeant Shuttleworth and Dr. Awbery brought down from the Lords a Bill intituled An Act providing Remedies against discontinuance of Writs of Errours in the Exchequer and Kings-bench On Wednesday Feb. 19. Mr. Serjeant Malmsey one of the Committees in the Bill touching the abridging of Proclamations appointed on Wednesday the 12th of this month upon Fines of the Common Law shewed That they have met and conferred upon the said Bill and having in some parts amended the same offered another Bill containing the same Amendments Mr. Vicechamberlain shewed that he and others the Committees in the Bill concerning Purveyors had met and had conference together with some of her Majesties Officers of the Green-cloath and according to the Commission of this House And further that they have in some parts amended the same Bill and added a Proviso thereto such an one as they think fit both for her Majesties service and also for the better passage of the Bill and relief of the Subjects and prayed the same Amendments and Proviso may be read which said Amendments and Proviso were then read twice Which done there then followed sundry Speeches upon the same Amendments and Proviso and so for that time left it at large without any further course then of question to ingrossing the House being ready to rise The Bill touching Quo titulo ingressus est was delivered to Sir Edward Hobby one of the Committees in the same The Bill concerning common Innes and Victualling-houses was delivered to Mr. Pratt one of the Committees for the same And the Bill touching the multiplicity of Suits and excessive numbers of Atturneys was delivered to Mr. Heydon one of the Committees Thursday Feb. 20. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being for the relief of Tho. Hasilrigg Esq was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Richard Knightly Sir Henry Knivit Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet on Munday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Star-chamber The Committee in the Bill touching Informers and Informations is deferred until Saturday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in the same place of meeting On Friday Feb. 21. the Bill for the true payment of the Debts of Thomas Hanford was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Controuler Sir Henry Knivit Mr. Alford Mr. Hare Mr. Grafton and Mr. Francis Moore who were appointed to meet to morrow-morning at seven of the Clock in the Committee-chamber of this House and then Mr. Hanford to attend the said Committees And also the Bill passed in the last Parliament from this House to the Lords to be also deliver'd to the said Committees both which Bills were then deliver'd unto Mr. Controuler Four other Bills had each of them one reading of which the the last being a Bill for the repealing of certain Statutes was read the second time and upon the Question committed to Mr. Cromwel Mr. Broughton
Mr. Dier Mr. Grafton and others who were appointed to meet on Tuesday next at Serjeants-Inne-hall in Chancery-lane at two of the clock in the afternoon The Amendments in the Bill touching Informers and Informations were twice read and upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed On Saturday Feb. 22. two Bills had each of them one reading whereof the second being for the relief of George Orgnell Esq was upon the second reading and upon the Question committed unto Sir Henry Brooke Mr. Serjeant Walmesey the Knights of the Shire for the County of Warwick and others who were appointed to meet upon Munday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Star-chamber Three Bills which had passed the House upon the third reading were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vicechamberlain Sir John Parrott and others with Commendations and request for their Lordships favourable expedition of which the two last were one touching Purveyors and the other touching Proclamations in Fines Two other Bills also had each of them one reading whereof the second being a Bill touching Mortmain was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Treasurer Sir John Parrott Sir Edw. Hobby Sir William Moore and others who were appointed to meet on Thursday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Sir Thomas Palmer one of the Knights for the County of Sussex is for his special occasions of business licens'd by Mr. Speaker to repair home into his Country Feb. 23. Sunday On Munday Feb. 24. the Bill for four Fifteenths and Tenths and two entire Subsidies Subsidy-bill read Bill about Dover-Haven had its first reading The Bill for reviving and enlarging of a Statute made in the 23th year of her Majesties Reign for repairing of Dover-Haven was read the first time Upon a Motion made touching a Conference to be had in the Commitment of the Bill for relief of George Ognell Esq and that Trussell the adverse Party being now in Execution in one of the Counters of London might be heard before the said Committees without peril of an Escape if he should be brought to Westminster it is agreed That the Committees which were appointed to have met this day in the afternoon about that matter in the Star-chamber do meet in the Guild-hall where the said Trussell may be brought before them with his Keeper without danger as 't is thought of an escape in the Execution Tuesday Feb. 25. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first Mr. Cradock offered to this House being for continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes and praying that the same might be read the same was read accordingly Mr. Davenport moved neither for making any new Laws nor for abrogating any old Laws but for due course of proceeding in Laws already established but executed he thinketh by some Ecclesiastical Governour contrary both to the purpose of the same Laws and also to the minde and meaning of the same Law-giver or maker to the great grief and hindrance and grievance of sundry of her Majesties good Subjects and so offered some particularities in writing to the effect he said of his motion praying the same might be read and committed to be further considered of and dealt in as this House should think good The Bill concerning Processes and Pleadings in the Exchequer passed this day in this House was sent up to the Lords by Sir John Parrott and others with request to be made unto their Lordships from this House for their good and favourable expediting of the Bill for reformation of certain Abuses by Purveyors lately sent unto their Lordships from this House Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching secret Outlawries was read the first time and upon further motion read again the second time and committed to Serjeant Walmsley Sir Henry Knivit Mr. Cradock Mr. Coke and others who were appointed to meet at two of the clock in the afternoon at Serjeants-Inne in Fleet-street The Bill touching Mortmain with a Note of the names of the Committees in the same were delivered to Humphry Waring Servant to Mr. Aldersey one of the Committees in the same Bill to be delivered to the said Mr. Aldersey On Wednesday Feb. 26. the Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers was read the first time and argued upon by Mr. Outred Sir Edward Dymmock and others and afterwards was committed to Mr. Cromwel Mr. Outred Mr. Serjeant Walmsley and others who were appointed to article to the said Bill and to meet this afternoon at two of the clock in the Chequer-chamber Upon a Speech used by Mr. Alford purporting that some that had spoken to the same Bill had uttered some words of rejecting the said Bill and casting it out of the House where in very deed there was no such Speech used at all by any that had spoken to the said Bill nor yet any word tending to such effect It was upon the Question resolved by the judgment of the whole House that there had been no such Speech used by any of them that did speak On Thursday Feb. 27. the Bill for four Fifteenths and Tenths and two entire Subsidies had its first reading Mr. Recorder one of the Committees in the Bill for reformation of Disorders of common Innes and other Victualling-houses shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and some causes which moved them to deal onely with that part thereof which concerneth Casks and the gaging of Vessels for Beer and Ale and so offered a new Bill for that purpose with request for good expediting thereof Mr. Apsloye moved this House touching the great inconvenience grown by the great number of Pluralities and non-Residents Bill against Pluralities and Non-Residents read and offered a Bill for reformation thereof and pray'd the same might be presently read which was so done accordingly On Friday Feb. 28. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for the maintenance of the Poor of Hartlepool was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Edw. Hobby Mr. George Cary Mr. Stubbs Mr. Beal the Burgesses of Newcastle Lime and Yarmouth and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon at two of the clock in the Exchequer-chamber and the Bill was delivered unto Sir Edward Hobby one of the Committees The Bill also touching Costs to be recovered against common Informers had its first reading and upon a further motion was read again and upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed On Saturday March 1. March 1. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Pluralities and Non-Residents was read the second time and after sundry Arguments many with the Bill and some against it was in the end committed to Mr. Treasurer Mr. Morice Mr. Beal Sir Robert Jermin Mr. Francis Hastings and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer-chamber this afternoon The Bill for Tunbridge-School with Amendments was
brought in by Mr. Coke one of the Committees and the reasons of the said Amendments were shewed by him The Bill concerning the Poor of Hartlepool is deferred to be considered of by the Committees on Munday next in the afternoon and Mr. Vicechamberlain and Sir John Parrot are added to the former Committees The Paper-book of the Bill touching Process and Pleadings in the Court of Exchequer is delivered to the Serjeant of this House to be by him delivered over this present afternoon to the Committees for Search and Conference March 2. Sunday On Munday March the third upon many Speeches used by Mr. Grafton touching a Report to be made to this House by the Committees touching the Examination of the Returns of one of the Batons of the Port of New Rumney in the County of Kent not yet certified into this House by or from the Clerk of the Crown Mr. Cromwel one of the said Committees sheweth That the said Committees had met about the same according to the Commission of this House and so shewing his own opinion it was after sundry other Speeches resolved upon the Question That he that was chosen by the said Town should be received into this House as a Member thereof which was done accordingly The Bill for the true payment of the Debts of Thomas Hanford was read the third time and passed upon the Question Which Bill being passed the Bill also for abridgment of Proclamations upon Fines sent down before to this House from the Lords with some Amendments and being amended accordingly were sent to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others which Mr. Treasurer moved before he went that the Lords be desired by this House That Mr. Sollicitor being return'd a Member of this House might come into this House and give his attendance in the same which was assented unto and required that he would move the Lords and the said Mr. Sollicitor also to that end accordingly Richard Leveson Esq returned into this House one of the Knights for the County of Salop for his occasion of business is licensed to depart On Tuesday March 4. the Amendments of the Bill touching Writs of Covenant c. and a Proviso added thereunto were both twice read and upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills did both pass upon the third reading of which Bill against common Informers c. the first was against common Informers and the second against the Denial for the assurance of the Joynture of Anne the Wife of Henry Nevil Esq in which there were these several Amendments incerted viz. in one place this word but put out and this word and put in and in another place this word like put out and this word good put in and after this word effect and no other as if this Act had never been made were clean put out And in another place after this word title this word and is put out and these words claim and demand are put in All which Amendments being thrice read in the end after some Speeches had the Bill was passed upon the Question which said Bill with another were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vicechamberlain and others On Wednesday March 5. the Bill concerning Richard Southwell was read prima vice Bill about Dover-haven Also the Bill for the maintenance of the Peer of Dover was read the second time and after sundry Speeches committed unto all the Privy Council being of this House Mr. Mills Mr. Alford Sir Edward Hobby and others who were appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers Bill against Forestallers Regrators c. was read the first time and upon further examination read again and upon the division of the House thereupon upon the Question after the same division with the yielding of the negative Voices ordered to be committed unto all the Privy Council being of the House Mr. John Hare Mr. George Moore Sir William Moore Mr. Grimston Mr. Cromwel and others who were appointed to meet on Friday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Thursday March 6. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill touching Cordwayners and the third concerning Curriers they were both committed unto Mr. Alford Sir William Moore Mr. Grafton Mr. Thomas Knivit and others the Bills being then also read the second time who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next in the afternoon at Guild-hall Mr. Doctor Awbury and Dr. Cary do bring word from the Lords That their Lordships desire that the Committee of this House which were with their Lordships the last day may now be sent to their Lordships for that now their Lordships have charge from her Majesty to make their Answer And thereupon the names of the Committees being read they were presently sent unto the Lords And the Bill for the maintenance of the Haven at Orford was then also sent up to their Lordships by Mr. Vicechamberlain and the residue of the said Committees Whereupon Mr. Treasurer then one of the Committees touching gaging of Casks c. having shewed their meeting about the same yesterday moved for another time of conference about the same and that being appointed upon Saturday next at Guild-hall in the afternoon it was ordered That the Brewers and such others as shall think good may then and there be heard before the Committees what they can say On Friday March 7. four Bills had each of them a reading whereof the third being a Bill for the relief of Thomas Hasilrigg was read the first time and thereupon it was ordered upon a motion That Mr. Thomas Drury should come into the House and be heard who was brought in and heard The Amendments in the Bill touching the Free Grammar-School in Tunbridge in the County of Kent was twice read and Andrew Fisher Gent. after the reading of the same being brought into the House did presently give his assent unto the said Bill and then the Bill upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill against Forestalling ingrossing and regrating committed the fifth of March instant was this day delivered unto Sir George Barney one of the Committees in the same Bill On Saturday March 8. Mr. Speaker shewed unto the House her Majesties great and inestimable care towards her loving Subjects Speaker acquaints the House of the Queen's care about the abuses of the Purveyors c. yea more than of her own self or than any of them have of themselves And as to the parts of the present humble Petition of this House unto her Highness in the grievance by the Purveyors and in the Court of Exchequer it pleased her Majesty to tell them That for the one to wit the Abuses of Purveyors her Highness of her own Princely care towards her Subjects had given order unto the late Lord Steward deceased to address her Letters-Patents to all the Shires
each of them one Reading of which the third being a Bill for repeal of certain Statutes Bill for repeal of certain Statutes past was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Amendments made by the Lords in the Bill for the relief of Thomas Haeselrigg Esquire and in the Bill for the better recovery of Costs and Damages against common Informers before passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships and the Proviso added by the Lords to the said last-recited Bill were three times read and the same Proviso and Amendments were then passed upon the Question accordingly On Saturday March 22. Mr. Palmer one of the Committees in the Bill touching Gaging of Casks and of other Forreign Vessels bringeth in the Bill with some Amendments and Provisoes being twice read the Bill was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed Four Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others of which the two first were one for the Relief of the City of Lincoln and the other against the abuse in Elections of Scholars and Presentations to Benefices with the Amendments and a Proviso March 23. Sunday On Munday March 24. Mr. Anderson being licensed to depart about her Majesties service two Bills had each of them one reading whereof the first being the Bill concerning Glass-houses was brought in by Mr. De la bar one of the Committees in such sort as it was delivered unto them and thereupon being twice read was after sundry Speeches and division of the House ordered to be ingrossed viz. with the Yeas forty three and with the Noes thirty five On Tuesday An 1589. March 25. it was ordered upon the Question That both the learned Counsel of the Earl of Warwick and also the learned Counsel of George Ognell do attend this House to morrow-morning The Bill for maintenance of houses of Husbandry and Tillage was upon the second reading committed unto the Privy Counsellors of this House Mr. Wroth Mr. Cromwel and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon at two of the clock in the Exchequer-chamber On Wednesday March 26. the Bill concerning Aliens Children was read the second time The Bill also for Strangers retailing of forraign Wares was amended by the Committee which Amendments being brought in by them with the Bill were now twice read although it be mistaken in the Original Journal-book that the Bill it self had its second reading The House was this day called over The House called over and the Defaulters noted and the Defaulters noted upon a Motion this day made by Sir John Parrot by her Majesties pleasure upon some intelligence given to her Highness of the small number of the Members of this House presently attending the service of the same the one half at least being supposed to be absent On Thursday March 27. the Bill against secret Outlawries had its second and third reading and passed upon the Question Dr. Cary and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords the Bill for the relief of the City of Lincoln with some Amendments of their Lordships unto the same with further advertisement from their Lordships that their Lordships do suspend their proceeding on the Bill for continuance and perfecting of certain Statutes sent from the House of Commons to their Lordships until their Lordships do hear from this House of the proceedings of this House in the Bill for the maintenance of Houses of Husbandry and Tillage On Friday March 28. the Amendments of the Lords in the Bill touching forcible Entries and also the Amendments of this House being all thrice read are agreed upon the Question in this House to be passed accordingly The Bill against such as steal or imbezzle the Goods Chattels or Treasure of her Majesty being put in trust with the same was read the first time Also the Bill that Aliens Children shall pay Strangers Customes was read the third time and a Proviso added unto it thrice read the Bill and Proviso upon the Question and Division of the House dashed with the Yeas sixty four and the Noes seventy four On Saturday March 29. Dr. Stanhopp and Mr. Powle do bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed this House for the continuation and perfecting of certain Statutes with a Schedule unto the same added and annexed by their Lordships and the same Schedule being thrice read passed upon the Question The Bill for the relief of the City of Lincoln being perfected according to the Amendments of the Lords and the Bill also for continuance of Statutes with the Schedule to the same were sent up to the Lords by the Master of the Wardrope and others Dr. Cary and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords two Bills viz. the Act of her Majesties gracious and free Pardon and the Act of the four Fifteenths and Tenths and two intire Subsidies which had before passed this House The Bill of the Queens Majesties most gracious and free Pardon being once read passed thereupon which Bill so passed was presently sent up unto the Lords by Mr. Fortescue and others After which Acts passed her Majesty having given her assent unto the passing of sixteen publick Acts and eight private Acts being all the Acts that passed this present Parliament Parl. dissolved Sir Christopher Hatton Kt. Lord Chancellor by her Majesties Commandment dissolved this Parliament An exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the Vpper House of Parliament 35 Eliz. holden at Westminster Anno xxxv o Reginae Eliz. Anno Dom. 1592. which begun there on Munday the 19th of February and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Tuesday the 9th of April Anno Dom. 1593. THE Summons for this Parliament being returnable upon this Munday February 19 it held accordingly Feb. 19. 1592. The Queen goes to the House of Lords The Queen coming privately by Water accompanied with Sir John Puckering Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and many of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal there being present this day these Peers and others ensuing The Names of the Peers there sitting Archiepisc Cant. Johannes Puckering Miles Dom. Custos mag Sigill Dom. Burleigh Dom. Thesaurar Angliae Marchio Wintoniae COMITES Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerarius Angliae Comes Derby Magnus Seneschallus Comes Northumbriae Comes Salopiae Comes Kanciae Comes Wignor Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Comes Huntingdon Comes Bathon Comes Pembrooke Comes Hartford Comes Essex Comes Lincoln Vicecomes Bindon EPISCOPI Episc London Episc Dunelmen Episc Asaphen Episc Cestren Episc Covent Litch Episc Lincoln Episc Peterburgh Episc Heref. Episc Cicestrens Episc Bangor Episc Wignor Episc Landaven Episc Salopiae Episc Bathon Wells BARONES Dom. Howard Mag. Maresch Admir Dom. Hunsdon Camerarius Reginae Dom. Strange Dom. Morley Dom. Stafford Dom. Grey Dom. Scroope Dom. Montjoy Dom. Sands Dom. Windsor Dom. Cromwel Dom. Wharton Dom. Rich. Dom. Willoughby Dom. Sheffield Dom. North. Dom. Shandois Dom. St. John Dom. Buckhurst Dom. De-la-ware Dom. Compton Dom. Norris The Queen and
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-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
That for this offer of three Subsidies her Majesty most graciously in all kindness thanketh her Subjects but except it were freely and willingly given she did not accept of it for her Majesty never accepteth any thing that is not freely given That if the Coffers of her Majesties Treasure were not empty or if the Revenues of the Crown and other Princely Ornaments could suffice to supply her Wants and the Charges of the Realm in the word of a Prince she doth pronounce it she would not now have charged her Subjects nor accepted of this they gave her The Lord Keeper's Speech being ended after some time of intermission the Queen being sat in her Chair of State used a Princely Speech unto the Houses of which the greatest part was to the effect and purpose following THis Kingdom hath had many wise The Qu. speaks her self noble and victorious Princes I will not compare with any of them in Wisdom Fortitude or any other Vertues but saving the duty of a Childe that is not to compare with his Father in Love Care Sincerity and Justice I will compare with any Prince that ever you had or shall have It may be thought simplicity in me that all this time of my Reign I have not sought to advance my Territories and enlarge my Dominions for opportunity hath served me to do it I acknowledge my womanhood and weakness in that respect but though it hath been not hard to obtain yet I doubted how to keep the things so obtained that hath onely held me from such attempts And I must say my minde was never to invade my Neighbours or to usurp over any I am contented to reign over mine own and to rule as a just Prince Yet the King of Spain doth challenge me to be the Quarreller and the beginner of all these Wars in which he doth me the greatest wrong that can be for my Conscience doth not accuse my thoughts wherein I have done him the least injury but I am perswaded in my Conscience if he knew what I know he himself would be sorry for the wrong that he hath done me I fear not all his Threatnings his great Preparations and mighty Forces do not stir me for though he come against me with a greater power than ever was his Invincible Navy I doubt not God assisting me upon whom I always trust but that I shall be able to defeat and overthrow him I have great advantage against him for my Cause is just I heard say when he attempted his last Invasion some upon the Sea-coast forsook their Towns and flew up higher into the Country and left all naked and exposed to his entrance But I swear unto you by God The Q. swears by God the will punish Cowards if I knew those persons or of any that shall do so hereafter I will make them know and feel what it is to be so fearful in so urgent a Cause The Subsidies you give me I accept thank-fully if you give me your good wills with them but if the necessity of the time and your preservations did not require it I would refuse them But let me tell you that the sum is not so much but that it is needful for a Prince to have so much always lying in her Coffers for your defence in time of need and not to be driven to get it when we should use it You that be Lieutenants and Gentlemen of Command in your Countries I require you to take care that the People be well armed and in readiness upon all occasions You that be Judges and Justices of the Peace I command and straightly charge you that you see the Laws to be duely executed and that you make them living Laws when we have put life into them Thus with most gracious thanks to both Houses the Princely Speech ended Then were the Titles of all the Acts read in due order and first the Bill of Subsidies to which the Clerk of the Parliament standing up did read the Queens Answer in manner and form following La Royne remercie ses loyaule Subjects accept leur benevolence ainsi le veult The Clerk of the Parliament having read the Queen's acceptance and thanks for the Subsidies given as aforesaid did then upon the reading of the Pardon pronounce in these French words following the Thanks of the Lords and Commons for the same Les Prelates Seigneurs Communes en se present Parliament assembles au nome de touts vous autres Subjects remercient tres-humblement vostre Majesty prient a Dieu que il vout done en sante bonne vie longue Nota here to the Subsidy-bill because it is the meer gift of the Subject the Queen's consent is not required for the passing of it but as it is joyned with her thankful acceptance nor to the Bill of Pardon because it is originally her free gift no other circumstance is required than that the thankful acceptance thereof by the Lords and Commons be likewise expressed it being but once read in either House before it comes thus at last to be expedited Now to all other Bills either private or publick the Queen 's express consent though in different words is always requisite as followeth The Bills of Subsidies and Pardon being passed in manner and form as aforesaid then were the Publick Acts read to every one of which allowed by the Queen the Clerk of the Parliament reads in French these words following Le Royne le veult To every Private Act that passeth the Clerk of Parliament reads the Queens Answer in these French words following Soit fait come il est desiré These two last Answers to the Publick and Private Acts that pass are to be written by the Clerk of Parliament at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty forbears to allow the Clerk of the Parliament reads in French these words following Le Roynes advisera After which ended the Dissolution of the Parliament followed in these words Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex Mandato Diminae Reginae tune praesentis dissolvit praesens Parliamentum A Journal of the Parliamentary Proceedings in the Lower House Anno xxxv o Eliz. Annoque Dom. 1592. very laboriously collected Being chiefly called for Consultation and Preparation against the ambitious Designes of the King of Spain in which some unusual Distastes happened between her Majesty and the House by reason of their intermeddling with her Majesties Successor to the Crown which she had forbidden This Session begun on Munday February 19. 1592. and ended April 9. 1593. MVnday Feb. 19. Feb. 19. The Parl. meet This day the Knights and Burgesses met and at this day appeared after that their Names were declared to the Clerk of the Crown and there entred into his book they entred into the House The House being set the Earl of Darby High-Steward for this Parliament came into the House to take their Oaths Sir Thomas Henage gave him instructions what order he should use
Committees in the Bill concerning Coopers brought in the Bill again as not dealt in by the Committee for lack of convenient time The Bill for restraint of new buildings converting of great houses into several Tenements and for restraint of Inmates and Inclosures neer unto the Cities of London and Westminster with one Amendment to the said Bill was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer Sir John Woolley and others with a Remembrance to move their Lordships for sending down of the Bill for grant of three entire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty to the end Mr. Speaker may this afternoon present the same unto her Majesty according to the former accustomed usage of this House Mr. Serjeant Owen Mr. Atturney-General and Mr. Powle brought down from the Lords an Act entituled An Act for the Queens most gracious general and free Pardon Divers other Bills were this day read This Afternoon the Parliament was dissolved 39 Eliz. A Journal of such things as passed in the Vpper House of Parliament in the Parliament that held Anno xxxix o Eliz. Reginae and began October 24. in the same year and ended February 9. following ANno Dom. 1597. Regni Eliz. Reginae 39. die Lunae 24. Mensis Octob. Inchoatum est Parliament Westmonasterii in Domo consuet quo die Regina diversi Domini tam Spiritual quam Temporal viz. Archiepiscopus Cant. Tho. Egerton Miles Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Marchio Winton Comes Sussex Magnus Marescall Comes Nottingham Magnus Scenescall eight other Earls one Viscount fifteen Bishops and twenty three Barons were present whose Name are particularly set down in the Journal-book Dicto 24. die Octob. viz. primo die hujus Parliamenti Oct. 24. introduct est Breve quo Archiepiscopus Ebor. praesenti Parliamento interesse summonibatur admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi locum salvo jure alieno Consimilima Brevia introduct sunt 4 Comitibus 10 Episcopis 5 Baronibus The Lord Keeper by the Queens commandment delivered to both Houses the Causes that moved her majesty to summons this Parliament The Lord Keeper's Speech THE Queens most excellent Majesty Lord Keeper's Speech my most gracious and dread Soveraign hath commanded me to declare unto you my Lords and others here present the Causes which have moved her Highness to summons this Parliament at this time which before I can express I must confess truely that the Royal presence of her Majesty the view of your Lordships and this honourable Assembly together with the consideration of the weightiness of the service and of my own weakness doth much appale me and cause me to fear Wherefore if either through fear I forget or through the many wants and imperfections which I have I fail to perform that duty which is required I do most humbly crave pardon of her Majesty and beseech your Lordships to bear with me The great Princely Care which her Highness now hath An. 1597. as heretofore she hath ever had to preserve her Kingdoms in Peace and safe from all forreign Attempts hath caused her at this present to assemble this honourable and great Council of her Realm to advise of the best and most needful means whereby to continue this her peaceable and happy Government and to withstand the malice of her mighty and implacable Enemy which hitherto by the space of many years through her provident and Princely wisdom hath been performed to the great and inestimable benefit of her Subjects as that the simplest amongst them could not but see and the wisest but admire their happiness therein the whole Realm enjoying Peace in all security when our Neighbour-Countries have been torn in pieces and tormented with cruel and bloody Wars This her Majesty is pleased to ascribe to the mighty power and infinite mercy of the Almighty And therefore it shall well become us all most thank-fully upon the knees of our hearts to acknowledge no less unto his holy Name who of his infinite goodness still preserve her Highness and send her many years more over us in all happiness to reign In this her blessed Government her Highness chief care and regard of all hath been of the honour and service of the Almighty God that true Religion might be planted and entertained in the hearts of her People through all the parts of her Realms and as well in that behalf as for the peace and benefit of her Subjects she hath from time to time established many good Laws to meet with the Disorders and to punish the offences of wicked and ungodly men that continuing in their bad ways they may not be hardened and go forward in their wickedness for Mora in peccato dat incrementum sceleri And whereas the number of the Laws already made are very great some also of them being obsolete andworn out of use others idle and vain serving to no purpose some again over-heavy and too severe for the offence others too loose and slack for the faults they are to punish and many of them so full of difficulties to be understood that they cause many controversies and much trouble amongst the Subjects You are to enter into a due consideration of the said Laws and where you finde superfluity to prune and cut off where defect to supply and were ambiguity to explain that they be not burthen-some but profitable to the Common-wealth Which being a service of importance and very needful to be required yet as nothing is to be regarded if due means be not had to withstand the malice and force of those professed Enemies which seeks the destruction of the whole State This before all and above all is to be thought of and with most endeavour and care to be provided for for in vain are Laws made and to little purpose will they serve be they never so good if such prevail as go about to make a Conquest of the Kingdom and destruction of the People Wars heretofore were wont to be made either out of Ambition to enlarge Deminions or out of Revenge to requite Injuries but this against us is not so In this the holy Religion of God is sought to be rooted out the whole Realm to be subdued and the precious life of her excellent Majesty to be taken away which hitherto by the powerful hand and great goodness of the Almighty have been preserved maugre the Devil the Pope the Spanish Tyrant and all the misohievous designes of all her Enemies Wherefore it is high time that this be looked into and that no way be left unsought nor means unused that may serve for defence thereof Her Majesty hath not spared to disburse a mass of Treasure and to sell her Land for the maintenance of her Armies by Sea and Land whereby with such small helps as from her Subjects hath been yielded she hath defended and kept safe her Dominions from all such forcible attempts as have been made which
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.
which are of this House Mr. Brograve Atturney of the Dutchy Sir Thomas Hobby and others who were appointed to meet on Munday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill for the better answering of her Majesties Tenths and Subsidies from the Clergy was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Recorder Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. Wingfield Sir Edward Hobby and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber and the Bill was delivered unto Mr. Sollicitor Sir Robert Wroth in the Bill to suppress the multitude of Maltsters being one of the Committee who with the rest had been appointed to meet on Wednesday last shewed the Committees have met and travail'd therein and thought good to draw a new Bill and so brought in both the old and the new Bill Sunday Novemb. 13. On Munday Novemb. 14. Mr. Laurence Hide one of the Committees in the Bill for the Town of Wanting shewed the meeting of the said Committees and some amendments made by them in some parts of the said Bill which said Amendments being twice read to the House the Bill upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed Mr. George Moore one of the Committees in the Bill touching Armour and Weapons shewed their meeting upon Saturday last and requiring to have a new day of meeting and that some of the Lawyers which are of this House being of this Committee may then attend in the same Whereupon day was given to meet again in this House upon Wednesday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon and the Committees Names being then read by the Clerk Mr. Serjeant Williams Mr. Serjeant Harris and Mr. Serjeant Heal were added unto them Mr. Francis Bacon one of the selected Committees concerning Enclosures and Tillage moved for a time to be appointed for the same selected Committees to impart their labour and travails therein to the general Committees who were appointed in the same cause upon Saturday the fifth of this instant November to the end that thereupon the same may afterwards be reported unto this House accordingly Whereupon it was ordered that they should for that purpose meet in this House to morrow at Two of the clock in the Afternoon The Bill for repressing of Robberies and touching Hue-and-crie Bill for repressing Robberies and touching Hue and Cry rejected after the second reading upon question for commitment was denied to be committed and upon another Question for the ingrossing was denied to be ingrossed and so rejected On Tuesday Novemb. 15. five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill for extirpation of Beggars was read prima vice Mr. Serjeant Drew and Dr. Stanhop brought from the Lords the Bill lately passed in this House for taking away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders against the Statute made 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of Women against their Wills unlawfully which Bill their Lordships have also passed with a Proviso thereunto annexed by their Lodships The Bill concerning the establishing of the Town-lands of Wanting in the County of Berks was read the third time and was passed upon the Question On Wednesday Novemb. 16. Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Town of Northampton was upon the second reading committed to the Knights for the County of Northampton and the Burgesses of the Town of Northampton Mr. Edward Montague Sir Edward Hobby and others who were appointed to meet at Two a clock in the Afternoon of this day at Sir Thomas Cecil's house The Bill for keeping of Horses from stealing was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Hubbert Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Maynard Mr. Porteington Sir William Brereton Mr. Henry Nevil Mr. Pennington and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Proviso which came from the Lords in the Bill for taking away the benefit of Clergie from certain Offenders in a Bill lately passed this House and sent up to the Lords was three times read and passed upon the Question On Thursday Novemb. 17. two Bills had each of them one reading of which one concerning Lands and Debts of Sir Henry Hatton Kt. deceased had its first reading The Bill also for erecting Houses of Correction Bill for erecting houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars and the punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars was read the first time On Friday Novemb. 18. twelve Bills had each of them one reading of which the last Bill for Hospitals and Work-houses being a Bill for erecting of Hospitals and Working-houses for the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Edward Hart Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Tasborough all the Readers of the Middle-Temple Mr. Boyes Mr. Henry Bellasis and others who were to meet this Afternoon at Two of the clock in the Middle-Temple hall The Bill concerning the Hospital of Warwick read the second time and committed to the Knights for Warwick-shire the Burgesses of Warwick Mr. Lindsey Sir Francis Hastings Mr. Recorder of London Dr. Cesar Mr. Fulke Grevil Sir Robert Wroth and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Saturday Novemb. 19. Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for erecting houses of Correction c. was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. George Moore Mr. Atturney of the Dutchie Mr. Atturney of the Court of Wards mr Francis Bacon Sir Thomas Cecil Sir William Moore Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet on Tuesday next in the Afternoon at the Middle-Temple-hall Sunday Novemb. 20. On Munday Novemb. 21. the Bill against Barstardie was read the second time Bill against Bastardy and committed to the former Committees in the Bill for erecting of houses of Correction c. to meet at the former time and place Also the Bill for the employment of the Poor and to restrain them from Idleness was read the second time and committed to the former Committees and to meet at the same time and place The Bill for the Lord Montjoy had its first reading The Bill concerning the Lands and Debts of Sir Henry Hatton Kt. deceased was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Controuler Sir Thomas Cecil Sir William Cornwallis Mr. Recorder and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday next at Two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Tuesday Novemb. 22. the Bill for the necessary Habitation and Relief of the Poor and Lame and Blinde in every Parish was read the second time and committed unto the former Committees for erecting houses of Correction c. The Bill for relief of Hospitals poor Prisoners and others impoverished by casual Losses was upon the second reading
Tellers and Receivers c. was upon the second reading committed to all the Privy Counsellors of this House all the Serjeants at Law being of this House Sir Oliver Lambert Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Tasborough Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Controuler Mr. George Moore and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer-chamber to morrow in the afternoon Dr. Muffet one of the Burgesses of Wilton being licensed to depart left 2 s. 6 d. with the Clerk of the House for the Poor and the Minister On Tuesday Decemb. 6. five Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill for establishing an Award made between Edward Cotton Gent. and Thomas Harvey Yeoman was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Serjeant Harries Mr. Henry Warner Mr. Edward Lukener Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Amendments in the Bill for the Lord Montjoy being twice read the Lord Marquiss of Winchester and the Lord Montjoy with their learned Counsel were heard at the bar of this House before the said Bill and Amendments were put to the Question for ingrossing and after their departure the said Bill and Amendments was upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday Decemb. 7. five Bills had each of them one reading of which Bill against lewd wandring pretended Souldiers and Mariners the last being the Bill against lewd wandring persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Moore Mr. George Moore and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill also against stealers of Corn and Fruit was upon the first and second reading committed to the former Committees in the Bill against lewd persons c. The Bill against stretching and taintering of Northern Cloath was read the second time and ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for suppressing the multitude of Maultsters was read the second time and committed to the Burgesses of York Mr. Winch Mr. Yelverton Mr. Lukenor and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill for increase of people for the strength and defence of the Realm had its first reading Bill for increase of people Post Meridiem The Bill for granting unto her Majesty six Fifteens and Tenths Subsidy-bill and three entire Subsidies was read the first time On Thursday Decemb. 8. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the better staying of Corn within the Realm was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. George Moore Mr. Wiseman Mr. Edmund Bacon Mr. Colefield Mr. Berkby and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill against the bringing in of forreign Cards for Wooll was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Serjeant Harries Mr. Serjeant Heale the Knights and Burgesses for London Mr. Hubberd and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill concerning Fustians was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees The Bill for the increase of people for the strength and service of this Realm was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy Counsellors being of this House Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Mountague Sir Thomas Cecill Mr. Pelham and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Three other Bills had each of them one reading of which Bill to alter the nature of Gavil-kind the first being the Bill to alter the nature of Gavil-kind was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Proviso in the Bill concerning the Town-lands of Wanting was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Friday Decemb. 9. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the retaining well ordering and governing of Mariners and Sea-men was upon the second reading committed unto all the Burgesses of the Port-Towns the Burgesses for York the Knights and Citizens for London Dr. Cesar Mr. Whally and others who were appointed to meet on Munday next in the afternoon in Middle-Temple-hall The Bill for establishing of good order in Grammar-schools was read the second time and upon the several Questions for committing and ingrossing was rejected Six other Bills had each of them one reading Bill to confirm the Statute-Merchant the last being a Bill for the confirmation of Statutes-Merchant acknowledged in the City of Lincoln and Town corporate of Nottingham was upon the second reading ordered to be ingrossed Seven Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others of which one was the Bill concerning Fustians and another for the repairing of Stains-bridge and Egham-cawsey The Bill for Tillage and Husbandry was read the first time The Amendments in the Bill for the recovery of certain waste marish and watery Grounds in the Isle of Ely and the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk and Suffolk being twice read the Bill upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for the Lord Marquiss of Winchester upon the second reading was committed unto Mr. Wingfield Dr. Cesar Mr. Maynard Mr. Henry Mountague Mr. Francis Moore and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Saturday Decemb. 10. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill against the decay of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex and Surrey was read the first time The Amendments in the Bill against stealing of Corn and Fruit was twice read and the Bill thereupon ordered to be ingrossed Three other Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the well ordering of such as do practise the Science of Chirurgery was read the second time and after the doubtfulness of the Question three several times put it was upon the division of the House dashed with the difference of 29 Voices viz. with the No 102 and with the Yea 72. Two Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others together with a third being for the explanation of the Statute made 5 Reginae concerning Labourers Mr. Wiseman one of the Committees in the Bill against bringing in of forreign Cards for Wooll shewed the meetings of the Committees and that eleven of the Committees did onely meet and six of them do well like of the Bill and five do not and so deliver'd in the said Bill and referred the further consideration thereof to the House Mr. Serjeant Drewe and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords two Bills lately passed in this House and now also passed with their Lordships with some Additions and Amendments the one of them being for erecting of Hospitals or Abiding and Working-houses for the Poor and the other for the establishing of
the Queens Hospital in Bristol and for the relief of the Poor and Orphans there Sunday Decemb. 11. On Munday Decemb. 12. the Bill for redressing the abuses and deceits used in Painting upon the second reading was committed unto Mr. George Moore Mr. Fettiplace Sir William Cornwallis Mr. Recorder of London and others who were to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill for confirming the Letters-Patents granted to the Merchant-Adventurers of the City of Exeter was upon the second reading committed unto the Knights and Citizens for London the Burgesses for York Lynn and Newcastle Mr. Serjeant Heale and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill against the buying of Armour brought from beyond the Seas was read the second time and rejected upon the several Questions for the committing and ingrossing The Bill for provision of a Preacher in the Tower of London Bill for a Preacher in the Tower of London was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy Counsellors of this House Mr. Henry Hubbert Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill also for building of a bridge over the River Wye was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Herbert Crofts Mr. Serjeant Williams Mr. Robert Knowls Sir John Scudamore Mr. Creswell and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill for the Lord Thomas Howard was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Winch Mr. Sollicitor and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next in the afternoon in the Treasury-chamber The Bill for the relief of the Poor was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Tuesday Decemb. 13. six Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for the true making of Daggers Swords and Rapiers and of the blades of every of them was read the second time and rejected upon the several Questions for the committing and ingrossing The Amendments in the Bill for Bristol was thrice read and passed The Bill for the recovery of certain waste marish and watery Grounds in the Isle of Ely and the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk and Suffolk was read the third time and passed upon the Question Which Bill and also the Bill for the relief of the poor which passed the House yesterday were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for Husbandry and Tillage was read the second time and after some Amendments therein by some of the Committees in the Committee-chamber of this House the said Amendments being twice read the Bill was ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday Decemb. 14. five Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for granting of three Subsidies and six Fifteens and Tenths was read the third time and passed upon the Question Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords a Bill lately passed in this House entituled An Act for the explanation of the Statute made 1 Eliz. concerning Labourers shewing that their Lordships have likewise passed the same with some Amendments Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill for the establishing of the possessions of the Bishoprick of Norwich was read the third time and staid from being put to the Question for passing till to morrow that the Counsel of one Mr. Leicester might be heard in this House Friday next is appointed to hear the Counsel learned of and concerning the Cause of Leassees and Patentees On Thursday Decemb. 15. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the lawful making of Bayes was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Amendments in the Bill for the relieving of Cloathiers concerning the weight of short broad and colour'd Cloaths to be made in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex were twice read and ordered to be committed The Bill for better staying of Corn within the Realm passed upon the Question and upon the division of the House after many Arguments with the difference of 29 Voices viz. with the Yea 124 Observation of a Ceremony of ancient custom used in the House of Com. and with the No 85. Whereupon after a Motion that according to the ancient custom of this House all the Members of the same which did speak against the passing of the said Bill should go forth of the House to bring in the Bill into the House again together with the residue of the Members of this House which went out before with the passing of the said Bill wherein as sundry Speeches were used pro contra so at last it was resolved it should be so done and observed for orders sake accordingly And then all the Members of this House being gone forth saving Mr. Speaker and the Clerk Mr. Controuler brought in the Bill in his hand accompanied with all the Members of this House and delivered the same Bill to Mr. Speaker according to the ancient former use of this House in that behalf observed On Friday Decemb. 16. five Bills had each of them the third reading and passed upon the Question of which one was against the stretching and taintering of Northern Cloath and another against the transporting of Sheep-skins and Pelts And a little after all the said Bills were passed in the House they were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sands was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Controuler Mr. Secretary Mr. Brodgrave Atturney of the Dutchie Sir William Moore Mr. Edward Lukenor Sir Francis Hastings and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber After many Arguments in the Bill for increase of people for the service and strength of the Realm both for and against it a Motion was made That a Proviso ingrossed in Parchment might be added to the same Bill which being thrice read and the Bill and Proviso put to the Question the same did pass upon the Question and it was then ordered that the said Proviso should be inserted and written in the end of the said Bill as parcel thereof On Saturday Decemb. 17. the Bill for relief of Cloathiers concerning weight of short broad coloured Cloaths to be made within the Counties of Suffolk and Essex was read the third time and passed upon the Question and after upon the division of the House with the difference of 26 Voices viz. with Yea 105 and with the No 79 Which being done and a Motion thereupon made by some That those that did sit against the Bill might rise and go forth to fetch and bring in the Bill into this House accompanied with the
residue of the Members of this House according to the ancient Orders in such cases used Mr. Speaker did thereupon move That in regard of the pretiousness of the present time the Parliament being so neer an end it might please this House in yielding and assenting to the due allowance of the right of the said Order in the said course thereof The usual Ceremony dispensed withal for this time in the ceremony of bringing in this Bill the execution of the same may be at this time omitted in regard of the shortness of the same time and was thereupon so assented unto and ordered accordingly upon the Question The Bill for Husbandry and Tillage was read the third time and passed upon the Question and after many Arguments was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary and others Sunday Decemb. 18. On Munday Decemb. 19. the Amendments in the Bill concerning the confirmation and establishment of the deprivation of divers Bishops in the beginning of her Majesties Reign being thrice read the Bill with the Amendments passed upon the Question Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against lewd and wandering persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners was read the third time and referred after sundry Speeches to Sir Robert Wroth and others to go up presently into the Committee-chamber of this House to amend some parts of the said Bill according to some of the said Motions Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords a Bill passed with their Lordships entituled An Act for the confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergie and shewed that their Lordships do recommend the same to this House for the speedy expedition of the same Bill in this House The Bill for confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy prima vice lect Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords a Bill lately passed with their Lordships with the good assent and agreement of the Parties entituled An Act of Parliament for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for enjoying the Rectory and Parsonage of South-Moulton in the County of Devon for certain years reserving the usual Rent On Tuesday Decemb. 20. the Bill for confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy was read the second time and passed upon the Question Mr. Recorder of London one of the Committees in the Bill against lewd and wandering persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners shewed That they had mended the said Bill in some parts thereof which Amendments being twice read to the House and before any allowance for the third reading of them sundry Members of this House did argue to the parts of the said Bill and Amendments both with and against it After which Committees were appointed in the said Bill against wandering Souldiers and Mariners and also in the Bill concerning Leassees and Patentees against the next sitting of this Court and to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple hall who were as followeth Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Brodgrave Atturney of the Dutchie Sir George Carewe Mr. Hunt and others together with all other Committees in all other Bills formerly committed by this House and not as yet expedited all which are to meet at the aforesaid time and place concerning such Bills as are committed unto them This day this Court was adjoured until the 11th of January next coming The House adjourned to the next month at eight of the clock in the morning by her Majesties commandment and so likewise the Upper House Upon which 11 of January Jan. 11. being Wednesday the House met again and without any other further ceremony proceeded in such ordinary Bills and businesses as had been left unperfected in the former meeting The first of which that is expressed in the Original Journal-book of the House of Commons was the giving of the first reading unto the Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords added unto the Bill lately passed in the House and sent up to their Lordships and again returned by them with the said Amendments and Provisoes being entituled An Act for erecting of houses of Correction for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars The Amendments and Proviso of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House for the relief of the Poor was this day read in this House for the first reading of the said Amendments and Proviso The Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for enjoying the Rectory and Parsonage of South-Moulton in the County of Devon for certain years reserving the usual Rent was read the first time The Bill concerning the Highway-lands of Alisbury in the County of Bucks was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Lee the Burgesses of Alisbury Mr. Boyer and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Inner-Temple-hall The Amendments and Proviso in the Bill to prevent double payment of Debts upon Shop-books was deferred until to morrow to be considered of for perfecting of the same above in the Committee-chamber of this House Lastly the Bill for taking away the benefit of Clergy from Robbers of houses in the day-time though no person be therein was read the first time On Thursday Jan. 12. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the due execution of Ordinances made in Corporations was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Philips Mr. Serjeant Warberton Mr. Finch Mr. Wingfield Mr. Pelham and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon at Serjeants-Inne in Chancery-lane The Bill for the Hundred of Beynersh alias Beynerst in the County of Berks was read the second time and upon the Question it was ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments this day made by some of the Member of this House above in the Committee-chamber in the Bill to prevent double payment of Debts upon Shop-books were twice read and upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House entituled An Act for erecting of houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars being twice read for the second and third reading of the same Amendments and Provisoes were together with the said Bill after sundry Speeches first had referred to the further consideration and examination of Sir Walter Rawleigh Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Lukenor Mr. Wingfield Sir Edward Hobby Sir William Cornwallis Mr. Hext Mr. Robert Wroth and Mr. Serjeant Harries who were appointed to meet this afternoon together with the other Committees against wandering Souldiers and Mariners at Serjeants-Inne in Chancery-lane The Bill to reform Deceits and breaches of Trusts touching Lands given to charitable uses was read the first time On Friday Jan. 13. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill concerning Garret de Malmes and John Hunger Merchants strangers was upon the
second reading committed to the Knights and Burgesses of London Mr. Tho. Smyth Sir Walter Rawleigh Mr. Oldsworth and others who were appointed to meet on Munday in the afternoon at Serjeants-Inne in Chancery-lane Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the suppressing of unlawful and unsized bread was upon the second reading committed unto the Knights and Citizens of London Mr. Edward Hubbert the Burgesses of Chester Worcester Oxford Bristol Winchester and Cambridge Serjeant Harries and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon at Serjeants Inne in Chancery-lane Mr. John Acton one of the Burgesses for Droyt in the County of Worcester is for his special businesses licensed by Mr. Speaker to depart On Saturday Jan. 14. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to avoid Deceit and breaches of Trust touching Lands given to charitable uses was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Serjeant Harries the Knights and Burgesses for London Mr. Miles Sands and others who were appointed to meet upon Munday next in the afternoon at Serjeants-Inne in Chancery-lane The Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for enjoying the Rectory and Parsonage of South-Moulton in the County of Devon for certain years reserving the usual Rent was read the third time and passed upon the Question Sir Walter Rawleigh renewing the Motion for Conference to be prayed with the Lords concerning their Lordships Amendments and Provisoes in the Bill concerning erecting houses of Correction and Punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars for the better reconciling of them with the Bill now begun against wandering Souldiers and Mariners it was thereupon thought convenient by the House that the said Sir Walter Rawleigh accompanied with a convenient number of this House should presently repair to the Upper House to move for the said Conference accordingly Which Conference the Lords granted and appointed six of themselves to meet with a convenient number of this House upon Munday next at eight a clock in the morning in the second chamber of the Upper House Sunday Jan. 15. On Munday Jan. 16. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for explanation of and addition to an Act made 5. Reginae for maintenance of the Navy was read prima vice Sir Edward Hobby moved That the Serjeant of the House be commanded to call on Leicester to appear in this House for serving a Subpoena on Sir Henry Norris and also to warn one Stevens Two Bills more had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning the Hospital of Warwick was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Tuesday Jan. 17. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the assurance of the Joynture of Joyce the wife of John Thornbrigge was read the second time and upon the several Questions for committing and ingrossing was rejected The Bill for the reforming of sundry Abuses in the garbling of Spices and Drugs was read the second time and rejected upon the several Questions for the committing and ingrossing thereof Mr. Serjeants Drewe and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords a Bill concerning a Lease of great value procured to be passed from her Majesty to William Kirkham Junior which Bill their Lordships have passed and do desire the speedy executing thereof in this House the same Bill greatly importing her Majesty whereupon the Bill was presently read in the House prima vice On Wednesday Jan. 18. eight Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill for the reviewing continuance and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Mariners and Souldiers was read the first time and the last being the Bill to tax all Lands and Goods for the payment of the Subsidies in the same Parish where it lieth was read the first time and rejected upon the Question for a second reading The Committees in the Bill for restraining the excessive making of Mault and the Committees in the Bill to restrain Deceits in breaches of Trust were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Thursday Jan. 19. the Bill for reuniting the Mannor of Parrisgarden in the County of Surrey was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Brodgrave Atturney of the Dutchie Mr. Newton Mr. Wiseman Mr. Serjeant Williams Mr. Edmond Boyer and Mr. Francis Moore and others and the Bill with the Committees Names were delivered unto Mr. Edmond Boyer who with the rest were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill for the repealing of a branch of a Statute made 34 Hen. 8. entituled The Ordinance for Wales was read the second time and not being spoken against by any was ordered to be ingrossed On Friday Jan. 20. the Bill for the sale of the Lands and Goods of John Sharpe to pay his Debts was upon the second reading committed to Sir John Hart Mr. Henry Hubbard Mr. Nevil Mr. Thomas Smith Mr. Southerton Mr. Colebrand and others and the Bill with the Committees Names were delivered unto Mr. Southerton who with the rest were appointed to meet this afternoon in Middle-Temple-hall The Bill that Thomas Culpepper and John Culpepper may dispose of their Lands whereof they are Tenants in Tail as other Tenants in tail may do was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Barker Mr. Serjeant Williams Mr. Serjeant Harries and others and the Bill and Committees Names were delivered to Mr. Serjeant Williams who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall On Saturday Jan. 21. two Bills had each of them their first reading of which the last was against carrying of Corn or Grain out of the Realm at certain times Mr. Francis Goodwyn one of the Committees in the Bill concerning the Highway-lands of Alisbury in the County of Bucks brought in the Bill with some Amendments which being twice read the Bill was upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Waldgrave one of the Committees in the Bill to prohibit the carrying of Herrings beyond the Seas shewed their meeting and their Amendments of the Bill the Bill being twice read upon the Question it was ordered to be ingrossed Sunday Jan. 22. On Munday Jan. 23. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being a Bill for explanation of a Saving in a Stat. made 27 Reginae entituled An Act for the better foundation and relief of the Poor of the Hospital of Eastbridge in the County of kent was read the second time and rejected upon the several Questions of the Committing and ingrossing Sir John Hart one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Garret de Malmes and John Younger Merchants strangers shewed the meeting and travail of the Committees and their making of a new Bill for sundry considerations then opened by him and so delivered in to the House both the old Bill and
the new On Tuesday Jan. 24. the Bill concerning Garret de Malmes and John Younger Merchant strangers had its first reading being a new Bill brought in by the Committees who had thought fit the old Bill should be rejected The new Bill also for the disposing of certain Lands of Mr. Tho. Knivett was read the first time after the old Bill had been rejected by the Committees thereof The Bill for confirmation of the Joynture of Mary Lady Verney was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Philips Mr. Sands Mr. Snigg and others and the Bill with the Committees Names delivered to Mr. Snigg who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall On Wednesday Jan. 25. Mr. Snigg one of the Committees in the Bill for confirmation of the Joynture of Lady Mary Verney the Wife of Sir Edmond Verney shewed the meeting and travail of the Committees and some few Amendments in the said Bill and so delivered in the Bill Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for avoiding of deceits in Measures and Weights was read prima vice The Committees in the Bill for the better measuring of seven miles from the Town of Great Yarmouth A Bill for the measuring 7 miles from Yarmouth are ordered to meet this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Committees in a Bill for the reviving continuing and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners are likewise to meet this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Thursday Jan 26. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill concerning Garret de Malmes and John Younger Merchant strangers was read the second time and ordered upon the Question to be ingrossed Mr. Arnold one of the Committees in the Bill for the reviving continuing and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Mariners and Souldiers prayed a new day for the meeting of the said Committees whereupon Mr. Arnold Sir Henry Norris Sir Gilley Merricke Sir Oliver Lambert the Knights and Burgesses for London and twenty three others were nominated and appointed to meet this afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall about it On Friday Jan. 27. the Bill that Plaintiffs shall pay the Defendants their Costs lying in Prison for want of Bail A Bill that the Plaintiff pay the Defendants cost lying in prison for want of Bail if the Action pass against the Plaintiff if the Action pass against the Plaintiff was read the second time and committed to Mr. Sands Mr. Boyes Mr. Snigg Mr. Crooke the Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Temple-hall The Committees likewise in the Bill for execution of Judgment and the Committees in the Bill for avoiding deceits in Measures and Weights were likewise appointed to meet at the same time and place which was now upon the second reading committed to the former Committees in the Bill that the Plaintiffs shall pay the Defendants their Costs and Mr. Johnson was added unto them The Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds c. was read prima vice On Saturday Jan. 28. the Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds c. was read the second time and committed to some Members of this House to be considered of in the Committee-chamber of this House The Bill for confirmation of Lady Mary the wife of Sir Edmond Verney Kt. her Joynture was read the third time and passed upon the Question Goodale one of the adverse parties to the Bill concerning the Highway-lands of the Town of Alisbury being present in this House and praying some words to be inserted into the Bill which being upon due and deliberate consideration of this House admitted to be inserted accordingly and three times read the Bill was put to the Question and passed accordingly Sunday Jan. 29. On Munday Jan. 30. the Bill concerning Garret de Malmes and John Hunger Merchant strangers was read the third time There were seven Bills this morning sent up to the Lords from this House by Mr. Secretary and others of which the first was the Bill for punishment of Rogues c. the second for the lawful making of Bayes the third to reform deceits and breaches of Trust touching Lands given to charitable uses with order also to move their Lordships for Conference some time after this present day with their Lordships concerning the Bill lately passed with their Lordships and sent down by them unto this House entituled An Act to reform sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties service concerning the Wars On Tuesday Jan. 31. the Bill concerning the confirming of Statute-Merchants acknowledged in the Town of Newcastle upon Tyne prima vice lect The Amendments in the Bill for reviving continuing and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Mariners and Souldiers being twice read the Bill was ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments in the Bill for avoiding deceits in Measures and Weights were twice read and after sundry Speeches had pro contra the learned Counsel of the Clerk of the Market being upon a Motion of some of this House admitted to be heard at the bar and called for that purpose by the Serjeant of this House to come in the Serjeant shewed that the said Clerk of the Market was gone down into the Hall to fetch his Counsel in the mean time the House entering into another Cause the said Bill was thereupon committed to be put to the Question for ingrossing On Wednesday Feb. 1. Feb. 1. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for reviving continuing and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Mariners and Souldiers was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Amendments in the Bill against the excess of Apparel Bill against excess in Apparel was read the second time and ordered upon the Question to be ingrossed The Bill for maintenance of Hospitality Bill for maintenance of Hospitality and for increase of all Victual and Flesh whereby the Poor shall be much relieved was read the second time and rejected upon the several Questions for committing and ingrossing On Friday Feb. 3. the Bill to restrain the lading of Corn in some Ports was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Colebrand Mr. Hext Sir Thomas Munson Mr. Arnold the Burgesses of the Port-Towns and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill also for the restraint of carrying of Corn out of the Realm was read the second time and committed to the last former Committees and the same time and place was appointed for meeting of both Committees and both the Bills were delivered to Mr. Colebrand The Bill against excess in Apparel was read tertia vice and passed upon the Question On Saturday Feb. 4. Mr. John Sherley one of the Committees in the Bill for better execution of Judgments shewed the meeting and travail of the said
Committees and some Amendments they had made in the said Bill and so delivered in the Bill and Amendments to the House The Bill for building and erecting of a bridge over the River of Wye at Wilton upon Wye neer the Town of Ross in the County of Hereford was read the third time and passed upon the Question Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp did bring from the Lords a Bill passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships entituled An Act for the establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esq and for the better enabling William Pope aforesaid to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts And another for the confirmation of the Joynture of the Lady Verney Wife of Sir Edmond Verney Knight which Bill their Lordships have also passed with some Amendments Sunday Feb. 5. On Munday Feb. 6. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the reformation of retailing and Pawn-takers was read the first time Mr. Boyes one of the Committees in the two Bills the one against carrying Corn out of the Realm and the other to restrain the lading of Corn in some Ports shewed the meeting of the Committees and that they had made some Amendments in one of the same Bills and so delivered the said Bills into the House Mr. Francis Bacon Bill against the decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry one of the Committees in the Bill late passed in the Upper House by the Lords and sent down to this House against the decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry shewed the meeting of the Committees and their Amendments in the said Bill which being read to the House were very well liked of by the whole House On Tuesday Feb. 7. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill for establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William to sell certain Lands for payment of his Debts was read the second time and committed to Mr. Controuler Mr. Lukenor Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Oglethorpe and the Knights and Burgesses of London and twenty four others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Court of Wards The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords in a Bill lately passed in this House entituled An Act for the reviving continuing and repealing of divers Statutes being thrice read the Amendments were assented unto and the Provisoes were passed upon the Question On Wednesday Feb. 8. the Bill entituled An Act for the establishing of a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts and the Bill entituled An Act for the enabling Edmond Moleneux Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of Debts and Legacies and the Bill entituled An Act against the deceitful stretching of Northern Cloath and the Bill entituled An Act for the further continuing and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners made thirty five Reginae were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for the reformation of abuses in Wine-casks was read the third time and dashed upon the Question The Bill for the better execution of Judgments was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Thursday Feb. 9. the Bill entituled An Act for reformation of Retailing-Brokers and other Pawn-takers the Bill entituled An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assignees notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown and a Bill entituled An Act for the better execution of Judgments were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for the Queens Majesties most gracious Pardon was once read and passed upon the Question Nota That whereas to the passing of other Bills three several readings are required here the Bill for her Majesties most gracious Pardon passed upon the first reading Mr. Serjeant Drewe and Dr. Carewe brought from the Lords the Bill entituled An Act for the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths and did shew that their Lordships in like manner have passed the said Bill and so delivered the same to Mr. Speaker to the end that he might carry the same up to the Upper House to be presented by him unto her Majesty in the name of the whole House Post Meridiem The Queens Majesty came to the Upper House soon after three of the clock of which the House of Commons having notice repaired thither with Christopher Yelverton Serjeant at Law their Speaker who having in the name of the whole House presented her Majesty with the Bill of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths amongst other things desired her Majesties Royal assent to such Laws as had passed the two Houses He was answered according to her Majesties command by the Lord Keeper That she thankfully accepted of the said Gift of her loving Subjects and very well allowed of the said Speakers pains and Speech Then Mr. Smith the Clerk of the Upper House The Qu. passeth 24 publick Acts and 19 private Acts and refuses 48 Acts that had passed both Houses and then dissolves this Parl. having read the Titles of all the Acts her Majesty gave her Royal assent to twenty four publick Acts and nineteen private and refused fourty eight which had passed both the Houses After which Sir Thomas Edgerton Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England by her Majesties commandment dissolved this present Parliament An exact Journal of the Passages of the Vpper House of Parliament 43 Eliz. holden at Westminster anno 43 Eliz. Reginae annoque Dom. 1601. which began on Tuesday 27 Octob. and there continued until 19 Decemb. next insuing ON Tuesday Octob. 27. Oct. 27. the Parliament held according to the Summons that had been sent forth The Qu. comes to the House of Peers and the Queens Majesty was personally present in the Upper House about three of the clock in the afternoon her Majesty came accompanied with the Lord Keeper of the great Seal and divers of the Nobility and Bishops There were present all sitting in their Parliament-Robes according to their several places these Noble Personages following Lift of the Peers then present The Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Tho. Edgerton Lord Leeper of the great Seal The Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer of England The Marquiss of Winchester The Earl of Sussex Earl Marshal of England The Earl of Nottingham Lord High-Admiral of England and Lord Steward of her Majesties Houshold The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Derby The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Cumberland The Earl of Hertford The Earl of Lincoln BISHOPS The Bishop of London The Bishop of
before the Lords in the House on Saturday next by nine of the clock in the morning On Saturday Nov. 21. to which day the Parliament had been last continued three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for assurance of Lands was read tertia vice Upon the reading of which Bill sundry Objections were made against some points of the same by the Lord Bishop of London and divers other Lords insomuch that the House was divided Whether it should be put to the question for the passing thereof or no many of the Lords affecting well the said Bill and wishing that any defect therein might rather be reformed than by the Question to put it to the hazard to be rejected Upon which it was thought meet to propound another Question viz. Whether the said Bill having been referred to Committees at the second reading and by them returned with some Amendments and thereupon appointed to be ingrossed may now after the ingrossing thereof and third reading be committed again or no Which being accordingly put to the question and the number both of the affirmative part and negative part falling out to be equal upon the accompting of them by the Lord Bishop of London and by Lord Grey 〈…〉 appointed by the Lords for that purpose it was adjâ—â—â—â—d that the Voices of the negative part which were against the 〈◊〉 committing of the Bill should prevail following therein the usual rule of Law whereof the Lord Keeper made mention that where the numbers of the affirmative and negative are equal Smper presumetur pro negante and after that the Bill it self being put to the question Whether it should pass or no was by the major part denied and refused Excuses were made for the absence of divers Lords by reason of sickness or other reasonable occasions The Marquiss of Winchester the Earl of Nottingham and the Earl of Hertford signified by some of their Servants to the Lord Keeper the Earl of Cumberland and the Lord Scroope signified by the Lord Wharton the Lord Rich by the Lord Zouche the Lord Mordant by the Lord Sturton the Lord Bishop of Coventry by the Bishop of Meneven and the Bishop of Chester by the Bishop of Bangor A Motion was made by the Lord Keeper and approved of by the Lords That the ancient course of the house may be observed hereafter in certifying the Excuses of such Lords as should happen to be absent from the House upon reasonable occasions which ought to be done by one of the Peers and not by other information Thomas Crompton Henry Best and Francis Jackson made their appearance in the House and being demanded whether the Bill concerning Eye and Dunsden might lawfully pass without their prejudice they answered That it might so do and they could take now exceptions to it On Munday Nov. 23. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for reuniting Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Suning was read tertia vice and so sent down to the House of Commons by Dr. Stanhopp and Mr. Hone. The Bill to avoid divers Misdemeanours in lewd and idle persons was read secunda vice The Bill for confirmation of Grants made to the Queen and of Letters-Patents made by her Highness to others was read secunda vice and committed to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and others who were appointed to meet at the great Council-chamber and the Bill was delivered to the Archbishop The Bill for increase of Horses of service within this Realm was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Nottingham and others and the Bill was delivered unto him being the first of the Committees The meeting of the Committees for the suppressing of the multitude of Ale-houses and for avoiding of unnecessary delays of Exeutions upon Judgments for Debt was upon a Motion of the Lord Treasurer appointed to be upon Thursday next at the little chamber neer the Parliament-presence before the House sit for that the Committees could not conveniently meet at the times formerly appointed for the same The Under-Sheriff of the County of Surrey that arrested William Hogan was brought into the House to answer for the same The Vnder-Sheriff sent to the Fleet for arresting Hogan and by Order of the House committed to the Prison of the Fleet. On Tuesday Nov. 24. to which day this Parliament had been last continued three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the establishing of the remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Ketleby Esq upon Francis Ketleby was read secunda vice and committed unto the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Lincoln the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Bishop of Worcester the Lord Cobham the Lord Chandois and the Lord Howard of Walden and the Bill was delivered to the said Lord Howard who with the rest were appointed to meet on Saturday next in the afternoon at the Chamber of the Parliament-presence This day the wife of Andrew Ketleby made her appearance in the House on the behalf of her husband and her self excusing his not coming by reason of his great age and infirmities and withal prayed their Counsel learned might be heard whereupon it was ordered That both their Counsel and the Counsel of Francis Ketleby should be heard upon Thursday next in the morning On Thursday Nov. 26. to which day the Parliament had been last continued one Bill being for the more peaceable government of the Parties of Cumberland Northumberland and Westmoreland and Bishoprick of Durham was read the second time and committed but in respect the manner of committing Bills all this Parliament was the same and that the Judges and her Majesties learned Counsel were appointed always to attend the Lords Committees and never made joynt Committees with them therefore the names of the said Committees are for the most part omitted as a thing not worth the observation It was ordered by the House upon the humble Petition of William Hone Under-Sheriff of the County of Surrey That he should be set at liberty out of the Fleet whither he had been committed for arresting one William Hogan her Majesties servant The Counsel learned of Andrew Ketleby Esq and Francis Ketleby were heard in the House and thereupon the Committees of the said Bill were appointed to meet on Saturday in the afternoon at the Chamber of Parliament-presence and the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Grey and the Lord Windsor were added to the said Committees and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas to attend them with the others formerly appointed And the Bill was delivered to the Lord Howard of Walden Dominus Custos Magnis Sigilli continuavit c. On Tuesday Decem. 1. Decemb. 1. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second was the Bill for confirmation of the last Will and Testament of George Lord Cobham deceased On Wednesday Decemb. 2. three Bills had each of them one reading Bill to avoid
the putting thereof to the Question whether it should pass or no the Lady Fane yielded her consent to the passing of the same being thereunto perswaded by sundry of the Lords The Bill to avoid the double payment of Debts was read secunda vice The Lord Treasurer made Report That the Committees in the Bill concerning Letters-Patents c. could not proceed to any certain Conference with those that were sent from the House of Commons for that purpose in respect of some doubts that were conceived whether the Proviso offered to be annexed thereunto were necessary or no. And thereupon Mr. Atturney-General was required to deliver his Opinion on that behalf which being done by him accordingly to this effect That he thought the said Proviso needless and unnecessary and the Judges also concurring with him in that opinion nevertheless upon a Motion made by the Lord Bishop of London that the Counsel learned of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Mr. Holcroft whom the said Proviso did concern in particular might be heard in the House as they desired touching the same it was thought meet and agreeable to the honour and equity of the House that they should be so heard to which end their Counsel were appointed to give their attendance to morrow by eight in the morning And moreover for the better satisfaction of the House of Commons for the present Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp were sent unto them with this Message to signifie their Lordships desire to have proceeded to Conference with them this morning about the said Bill as was yesterday appointed and that the Lords were the more willing to give furtherance to the expediting of the said Bill in regard the same was especially recommended unto their Lordships from the said House but forasmuch as they found not themselves sufficiently prepared for this Conference by reason of some doubts that were not yet cleared unto them they desired the said Conference might be respited until Friday morning next at eight of the clock at the outward chamber neer the Parliament-presence unto which Motion the House of Commons willingly consented On Thursday Decemb. 10. the Bill for the establishing of the remainder of certain lands of Andrew Ketleby Esq upon Francis Ketleby was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons by Dr. Stanhopp and Dr. Hone. Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to avoid double payment of Debts was read tertia vice and expedited The Bill concerning Resumptions c. was this day delivered to the Lord Treasurer one of the Committees The Counsel learned as well on the behalf of the Earl of Shrewsbury as on the behalf of Thomas Holcrost Henry Candish and William Candish Esquires were heard at large in the House and thereupon Mr. Atturney was required to deliver again his Opinion concerning the said Provisoes offered on either part which being done accordingly in more ample and particular manner than he had done before and having also delivered his Resolution to sundry Questions propounded to him by divers of the Lords concerning the said Cause it was ordered as followeth Upon Debate in the House concerning several Provisoes offered by the Earl of Shrewsbury and Thomas Holcroft Henry Candish and William Candish Esquires to be annexed to the Bill entituled An Act for confirmation of Grants made unto the Queens Majesty and of Letters Patents made by her Highness to others it was at last agreed That the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas calling unto them the rest of the Judges and Mr. Atturney-General should draw some new Provisoes such as they should think indifferent for all parties and meet to be annexed to the said Bill and should present the same to the Lords to morrow in the morning before their Conference with the House of Commons concerning the said Bill The Lord Keeper signified unto their Lordships that he received command from her Majesty to let them understand her pleasure to be that the Parliament should end on Thursday the 17. or Friday the 18. of this instant Decem. at the furthest to the end that their Lordships may repair home to their Countries against Christmas and therefore she required them to employ and spend that time that remaineth in matters concerning the Publick and not in private causes Memorandum The Commons desire a Conference with the Lords about a Bill preferred in the Star-chamber against a Member of their House Quod dicto decimo Decembris those of the House of Commons that were appointed to confer with some of the Lords upon the Message lately sent from the said House signifying their desire of Conference for some matters touching the honour of both Houses did make known to the Lords the Committees nominated for that purpose That the occasion of such their Message was for that as they were informed Mr. Atturney-General had preferred a Bill into the Star-chamber against one Belgrave a Member of the House of Commons for and concerning some matter of Misdemeanour pretended to be done towards the Earl of Huntington a Lord of the Upper House and therefore they desired this mutual Conference letting their Lordships understand That to the preferring of the said Bill they conceived just exceptions might be taken by them for two respects first that Belgrave being a Member of the House of Commons was thereby vexed and molested during his service in time of Parliament contrary to the honour and priviledge of the House saying that no Member of that House ought by any such means in time of his service to be distracted either in body or minde The other because in the said Bill They reflect on the Att. Gen. for preferring the said Bill because he had formerly been their Speaker and so ought to be tender of their Priviledge and Honour preferred by Mr. Atturney-General who had been heretofore Speaker of that House and therefore as they thought ought to have more regard to the honour and liberty of the same Certain words and clauses were inserted which were taken to be prejudicial and derogatory to the honour of the said House And therefore they desired that the Lords would peruse and consider of the said Bill Whereupon the said Bill being offered to be read and forasmuch as it appeared that it was not an authentical Bill testified by the hand of the Clerk of the Star-chamber as it had been meet the Lords thought it not fit though otherwise they were willing to have it read nor agreeable to the proceedings of such a Court that the said Bill or Scroul shall be received to reading And therefore with a Message to that effect were pleased to send it down again to the House of Commons by Mr. Serjeant Yelverton and Dr. Hone who finding the House risen before they came brought the said Bill back again On Friday Decemb. 11. the Bill concerning Gaptains Souldiers and other in the Queens
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
both to the Bishop present and the Successor and their Servants and to the Bishop's own Farmers and Tenants To the Bishop present in the Maintenance of his Estate which cometh only by continual Fines which if they be taken away then are they not able to maintain that Hospitality or keep that Retinue either belonging to their Place or answerable to their Living For consider the Revenue of the greatest Bishoprick in England it is but Two Thousand and Two Hundred Pounds per Annum whereof he payeth for Annual Subsidy to the Queen Five Hundred Pounds And what Damage we shall do both to him and his Successor herein his Revenue being so Beneficial to her Majesty I refer to all your Judgments To the Successor it must needs be more hurtful for when he first cometh in he payeth First-Fruits and yet is not allowed to make his Benefit by Fines which all Bishop's Farmers are contented to do So that he is cast one whole Years Revenue behind-hand and perhaps hath no Power neither to make Leases in Twelve or Sixteen Years This Mr. Speaker will be a Cause to induce the Ministers of the Word not to seek Bishopricks whereby we may bring the Clergy both to Poverty and Contempt from which they have ever been carefully defended and provided for even by the most antient Statutes and Laws of this Realm now Extant Hurtful it is to their Servants for this may be every Mans Case We know many good Gentlemens Sons served Bishops and How can they reward their long and faithful Service but only by means of granting over of these Fines or some other means out of the Spiritual Function But this Act is good for the Courtier But I must speak no more of that Lastly Mr. Speaker my self am Farmer to a Bishop and I speak this as in my own Case on my Knowledge to the House that it is ordinary upon every Grant after Four or Five Years ever to Fine and take a New Lease But I refer it to the Consideration of the House to do their Pleasures therein Only this I certifie that I have the Copy of the Bill the last Parliament exhibited to this Purpose which I having compared together with this present Bill do find them to be word for word all one and that was rejected And so I doubt not if the Reasons be well weighed but this will have the like Success Upon whose Motion it was put to the Question Upon which it was Rejected Whether it should be committed and all said No not one Yea So this Bill was rejected An Act was read That Plaintiffs in Writs of Error should give good Bail To which no Man offer'd to speak Whereupon Mr. Speaker stood up and said That if no Man speak it must be ingrossed Mr. Cary said He thought it very fit that the Bill should be first Committed For talking with Sir Roger Maynwood in his Life-time Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer he was of opinion That it was more fit and more safe for the Subjects Good and far more easie for the Judges that the Money should be brought into the Court and no Recognizance taken which if it might be committed the Bill might be amended in that Point and no doubt would pass So it was committed to be set upon on Monday in the Middle-Temple-Hall the Nineth of November Mr. Johnson moved the House That whereas the last Parliament there were Three Bills One touching Pattentees another touching the Clerk of the Market and the Third touching Petty Thefts That these being Publick Matters might be brought into the House this Parliament and Read And touching the Clerk of the Market he durst undertake to lay open as many vile Practices as almost there be Men in this House He made a very long and good Speech touching these Three Bills which for Brevity I omit An Act was read against fraudulent Administration of Testator's Goods The Bill against Drunkards was again read the effect whereof was That common Drunkards should be presented as common Barrettors which was Committed upon the Motion of Mr. Wiseman to the Committees for the Bill for the Abuse of the Sabbath-Day He said It was very convenient in his Opinion Blasphemers and Swearers were punished by some strict Law And so told of a Conference betwixt him and a Prisoner in the Gate-House at Westminster who thorow a Window secing many Children playing they Swore almost at every word Then the Recusant asked him If that was the Fruit of our Doctrine and How it chanced that our Doctrine being so sincere such Blashemy was committed Therefore that the Slanders of our Adversaries may be avoided the Sin punished and God's Name more reverenced and Himself better served some Provision in that Law touching that Point he thought very necessary An Act touching the Sowing of Hemp An Act for sowing Hemp. was read the second time To which Bill Sir Walt. Rawleigh does Oppose it Sir Walter Rawleigh spake and said For my part I do not like this Constraining of Men to Manure or use their Grounds at our Wills but rather let every Man use his Ground to that which it is most fit for and therein use his own Discretion For Halsars Cables Cordage and the like we have plentifully enough from Forreign Nations and we have divers Countries here in England make thereof in great abundance And the Bill of Tillage may be a sufficient Motive to us in this Case not to take the Course that this Bill intendeth For where the Law provideth That every Man must Plow the third Part of his Land I know it divers poor People have done so to avoyd the Penalty of the Statute when their Abilities have been so poor that they have not been able to buy Seed-Corn to Sow it withal nay they have been fain to hire others to Plow it which if it had been un-plowed would have been good Pasture for Beasts or might have been converted to other good Uses Upon this Motion all the House bad away with the Bill But it was put to the Question Whether it should be committed or no But because of Doubt the House was divided and the I I I were 103 and the Noes were 162. So the Bill was not committed After it was put to the Question for Ingrossing Upon which it was Rejected and notwithstanding a Speech Mr. Comptroller made for the Weightiness thereof it was denyed and so absolutely Rejected This was one of the Proviso's in the Bill For the Breeding and against Stealing of Horses viz. That all Justices of Assize A Proviso against Stealing of Horses in their several Circuits and all Justices of the Peace in their several Quarter-Sessions as well within Liberties as without shall have full Power and Authority to inquire of and hear and determine all Offences to be committed against this present Statute And there is a former Clause That if Sale without Voucher be made then the Person shall be apprehended and carried to the
Think you a Penalty of Ten Shillings as is here set down will make us refrain this Iniquity I may speak of this Bill as a Painter which made a most Artificial Table of the Waves of the Sea so Lively that to the Judgment it seemed the very Sea Another Painter in the same Table Painted a Tree so Lively as it might be thought it were growing out of the Sea There grew a Question Which was the most Curious Work-manship and the Deciding of this Controversie was referred to the Judgment of a third Skilfull Painter who gave his Judgment of the Tree thus O valde bene sed hic non erat locus So may I say of this Bill It is as hard for this Penalty to restrain this Sin as it is for Religion to spring out of the Common-Law and to take Effect Aristotle saith That a Men may be Bonus Civis and yet not Bonus Vir. And though I abhor the Sin yet I deny not but the Sinner may be a good Member Moses when he saw God could but see his Back-Parts only and no Man ever saw more But these Swearers Swear by all his Parts so perfectly as if they had seen Film all over Philip King of France made a Law That the Swearer should be Drowned Another Law was made That a certain Sum should be paid presently so soon as he had Sworn or else the Swearer to lose his Head We use so much Lenity in our Law as we had as good make no Law For we give a Penalty and to be taken upon Conviction before a Justice of Peace Here 's wise stuff First Mark what a Justice of Peace is and we shall easily find a Cap in our Law A Justice of Peace is a Living Creature that for half a Dozen of Chickens will Dispence with a whele Dozen of Venal Statutes We Search and Ingross they retail These be the Basket-Justices of whom the Tale may be Justified of a Justice whom I know to whom one of his Peor Nighbours coming said Sir I am very highly Rated in the Subsidy-Book I do beseech you to help me To whom he answer'd I know thee not Not me quoth the Country-man Why He gives the Justices of the Peace in the Country a severe Lath. your Worship had my Team and mine Owen such a Day and I have been ever at your Worship's Service Have you so quoth the Justice I never remember I had any such Matter not so much as a Sheeps Tail So unless you offer Sacrifice unto these Idol-Justices of Sheep and Oxen they know you not If a Warrant come from the Lords of the Council to Levy a Hundred Men he will Levy Two Hundred And what with Chopping in and Crossing out he will gain a Hundred Pounds by the Bargain Nay if he be to send forth a Warrant upon a Mans Request to have any setch't in upon Suspicion of Felony or the like he will write you the Warrant himself and you must put Two Shillings in his Pocket as his Clerk's Fee when God knows he keeps but two or three Hindes for his better Maintenance Why we have had here Five Bills One against Swearing another for Going to Church Good Ale Drunkenness and This is as good to them as a Subsidy and Two Fifteens Only in that Point I mislike the Bill for the rest I could wish it good Passage Sir Francis Hastings Sir Francis Hastings amongst other Speeches in this Bill said That such Justices were well worthy to be looked up in an Ambry But he wished That All might not be Censured for one evil One who though he neglected both the Care of Conscience and Country which he should not do yet doubtless many did not so as being touched in Conscience to remember That our long Peace should make us carefull to please Him in doing Justice that had preserved us and was the Author of our Peace even God himself So the Bill was put to the Question and Order'd to be Ingrossed Mr. Wiseman moved the House to remember two things One that it had been an ancient Custom in Parliament sometimes to call over the House which was not yet done Mr. Wisman moves for a Parliament-Collection The Other That where heretofore a Collection had been used for the Poor That those which went out of the Town before the Parliament ended would ask Leave of the Speaker and pay his Money Sir Edward Hobby said The Gentleman that last spake Moved you but I would Remove you a little further May it please you It hath been a most Laudable Usage That some Contribution or Collection should be made amongst us in pios usus And I pray you let us not forget our Parliamental Charity Every Knight paid Ten Shillings and every Burgess Five Shillings to be thus disposed of part of the Whole to the Minister part to the Servants here and part to the Poor the rest at you disposements The last time our Charity ransomed a Prisoner for his Father 's good Desert The last time Sir Robert Wroth and Mr. Fettyplace were Collectors It rests in you either to appoint them now or choose others Mr. Fettyplace said It is true Mr. Speaker Mr. Fetty place shews how the last was disposed of I was Collector the last time and there was paid out of the Money Collected to the Minister Ten Pounds to the Serjeant Thirty Pounds to Mr. John Leveson for the Redemption of Mr. Fox's Son that made the Book of Martyrs Thirty Pounds There was Money given to Seven Prisons the two Compters Ludgate and Newgate in London to two in Southwark and one in Westminster How old the Custom is I know not but how good it is I know For my own part having one undergone that Service a ready I humbly pray that it would please you to appoint another Mr. Tate said Charity proceeding from Conscience and not from Custom breeds Obedience to God and pleaseth God and so went on and spake for a Town in his Country lately Burnt That it would please the House to contribute somewhat to the Poor's loss there Mr Roger Downs brought in the Bill for Ratlesdale with some Amendments The Bill for Assurance of a Joynture to Lucy Countess of Bedford being Ingrossed passed the House and was sent up to the Lords A Bill for the Denization of certain Persons viz. William Millet Ann Pope George Chambers Peter Eaton and Nicholas Tooley being Ingrossed passed the House and was likewise sent up to the Lords with the other The Bill for Confirmation of divers Letters-Patents made by Edw. 6. to Sir Edward Seymor Knight his Grand-Father being Ingrossed passed and was sent to the Lords The Bill for the better Observation of certain Orders in the Exchecquer Ingrossed and passed and sent up to the Lords The Bill for Avoiding of trifling Suits being Ingrossed and passed was sen to the Lords Sir Robert Wroth said Mr. Speaker The Use hath been That the general Bills should be first Read and
avoid Idleness and for setting the Poor on Work Which Bill is in manner of a Monopoly for there be certain named in it who undertake to keep Fifty Thousand Poor on Work in making Pins Wool-Cards Needles c. A Bill for Reformation of Abuses in Buying and Selling of Spices and other Merchandises was brought from the Committee and Ordered to be Ingrossed A Bill for the Enlargment of a Jointure to Rachel Wife of Edward Nevill of Burling in the County of Kent Esquire A Bill for the Perfecting of the Jointure of the Lady Bridget Countess of Sussex Wife of the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Sussex Read and Committed A Bill for the Confirmation of the Sale of certain Lands sold by Lewis Lord Mordant c. Read and Committed to the former Committees Mr. Edward Mountague said Mr. Speaker Mr. Mountague's Charitable Motion I will make a Charitable Motion which I hope will tend to a Charitable End and briefly it is this That no private Bill may Pass in this House but the Procurers to give something to the Poor Mr. Secretary Cecil said My Motion is stirred up Secretary Cecil seconds it with some Alteration with the like Charitable Affection which first moved the Gentleman that last spake only I disagree from him in the Manner We see the Streets full of Souldiers some Maimed some Poor but all Distressed Our ordinary begging Poor are all Provided for and Statutes made for their Maintenance I would only move thus much to the House That this Contribution proceeding out of our Charity might be only imployed to the Relief of them who have ventured their Lives to defend Us. The House said it was a good motion and so generally agreed unto it Mr. Richard Messenger said Mr. Messenger for the same I would but move the House only that they which have already had any Bill passed this House this Parliament may also be Contributary as well as they which are to come Mr. Mountague said Mr. Mountague particularizes the Sums Because I offered to the Consideration of this House this motion first I will presume also more particularly to deliver my Opinion I think for every private Bill for Sale of Lands Ten Pounds a reasonable Benevolence and for every Estate for Life or for Jointure Five Pounds Mr. Ravenscroft said I would only move to know whether this should remain as a perpetual or temporary Order for this Parliament Mr. Secretary Cecil said The House only means it for this present and all said I I I. And so the Order was entred accordingly Mr. Dannet Mr. Dannet's Speech and Motion against the Pirates of Dunkirk and Newport a Burgess for Yarmouth said Mr. Speaker the Duty that I owe to my Sovereign and Country makes me bold to crave your Patience to hear me The Matter that I shall speak of is twofold The First concerneth the honour of the Queen The Second the safety of our Country Two very high points for me to handle and require a more Eloquent Discourse than I am able to make I will use no Circumstance or with superfluous Matter abuse the time which is precious but to the Matter I have been of the Parliament Five or Six times and I have alwayes observed by this House and I would willingly be resolved by the Honourable about the Chair that all the Wars of Her Majesty are offensive and I do not hear the contrary How then comes it that such a Number of Her Majesty's Subjects be Spoiled Robbed Beaten Wounded themselves taken and used with such extream Torture Racked Carried away Imprisoned Ransomed Fined and some times Executed and all this time no Wars But give me leave to say for these Ten Years I am sure the Subjects of this Land on the Sea-Coasts have undergone these Tyrannies And by whom Even by two base Towns Dunkirk and Newport Dunkirk began with Two Ships and are now increased almost to Twenty they be at home at Supper and the next Day here with us I must needs confess that the great Charge that I know the Lord Admiral is at Continually by lying ready to take these Pirates is much but send to take them they straight Fly home If our Ships return they are straight here again I dare boldly say they have done England more hurt since they began than all France either in the time of Hen. 8. Edw. 6. or Queen Mary If it be so that these Two base Towns shall so affront the Power of this Land I see no Reason they should be suffered For it is a great Dishonour both to the Queen and the Kingdom I have heard many say That the Navy of England is the Walls of the Kingdom and yet we suffer our Ships still to be Destroyed some to be Burnt some to be Sunk before our Faces We may compare our Sea-men to Sheep Feeding upon a Fair Mountain in the midst whereof stands a Grove full of Wolves Why Mr. Speaker we are so plagued with them that they are so bold as now and then to take our Harvest-Men tardy by Ambuscadoes I speak it with Grief and it was Reported unto me by a Scottish-Man that Duke Albertus and the Infanta should openly publish That they would pull down so many of the Walls of England that they would easily make an Entry and it had been better for Sea-Coast-Men to have given the Queen an Hundred Subsidies that they had been long since Suppressed My humble Motion is That it would please the House to enter into Consideration of these things For the Honour Good and Safety both of the Queen and Kingdom ' Mr. Peake said Mr. Peake I must needs shew unto this House upon so good an occasion offered how grievously the Town of Sandwich for which I serve is vexed and almost undone insomuch as that in that Town there is neither Owner Master nor Mariner that hath not felt it Her Majesty is continually at Charges but what insueth or cometh of it I never yet knew In the County of Kent at Shooters-Hill Gads-Hill Barram-Down c. if there should be several Roberies Committed and the Justices look nothing to it it would be taken in ill part Every day Men come home their Goods and al they have is taken away yea their very Apparel And if the Ships might be also carried away they would do it This would be Amended and looked unto we have need to Cherish this Subject For I think him to be the best and most necessary Member of the Common-Wealth I mean the Navigator Mr. Martin said Mr. Martin I like not these Extravagant Speeches in the Manner though I mislike them not in the Matter they are like to Men whose Houses being on Fire forgetting themselves run out into the Streets like Mad-Men for Help That that Cottage of Dunkirk the Flourishing Estate whereof is a dishonour to our Nation should so much offend us when we never offer to oppress them is a Marvail I think there is no
House cried I I I. No quoth the Secretary you must stand at the Bar. And the House cried No No No. Then Mr. Secretary desired it might be put to the Question Whether he should speak or No And so it was and not Twenty said No. Then it was put to the Question Whether he should speak at the Bar or No And Mr. Brown the Lawyer stood up and said Mr. Speaker Par in Parem non habet Imperium we are all Members of one Body and One cannot Judg of Another So being put to the Question there were not above twelve I I I that he should stand at the Bar. Whereupon Mr. Martyn standing in his Seat shewed the Cause of his Speech to have been only for the Order of the House and not out of any Perswasive meaning that he had For he protested he neither knew the Man nor the Matter On Thursday Decemb. the Tenth A Bill for the Denization of certain Persons viz. Josepho Lupo and others was Read And because the said Josepho Lupo had neither Father nor Mother English the House respited the Bill A Bill for the Weavers was put to the Question and Committed the time and place of Meeting to be this Afternoon in the Exchequer-Chamber The Bill for the Assize for Wood was Ordered to be Ingrossed The Bill touching the taking away Gavel-kind-Custom in Kent was Read A Bill about Gavel-kind c. And Mr. Francis Moore said He thought the Bill a very Idle and frivolous Bill and Injurious For Mr. Moore against Repealing it if a man take a Wife by the Custome she shall have a Moyety but now if we make it go according to the Common Law she shall have but a Third part So if the Father committed a Felony and be Hanged the Son shall not lose his Inheritance because the Custom is The Father to the Bough and the Son to the Plough which at the Common Law he should lose Mr. Serj. Harris said I think this Bill a very good Bill Serj. Harris to have it Repealed for it defeats a Custom which was first devised for a Punishment and Plague upon the Country For when the Conquerour came in the Reason of this Custom was To make a Decay of the great Houses of the Old English for if a man of 800. l. Per Annum had eight Children now it must be divided into eight Parts And then if they had Children it must be subdivided again usque in non quantum where if it had gone to one as by the Common Law it would still have Flourished Mr. Boys amongst many Reasons shewed Mr. Boy 's of a contrary mind It would in Kent be a great loss to the Queen in her Subsidy for by reason of these Subdivisions there were many Ten-Pound men And whosoever knows the state of our Country shall find more under Ten Pound men than above come to the Queen and now if these being divided into several hands should now go according to the Common Law this would make the Queen a great Loser This Bill being put to the Question The Bill is Rejected the Noes were the greater yet the I I I would needs go forth and upon division it appeared the I I I were but 67. and the Noes 138. and so the the Bill was Rejected The Bill for suppressing Ale-houses A Bill to Suppress Tipling-Houses and Tippling-houses was Read Mr. Francis Moore offered a Proviso to the House Mr. Moore and shewed That he was of Councel and had a standing Fee from the Corporation of Vintners in London And shewed That they were an Ancient Corporation and had ever used by force of divers Charters of Kings of this Realm to sell Wine and now by this Bill all was inhibited And therefore Pray'd the Provise might be received which was received M. Johnson said Mr. Johnson against it If this Bill should Pass it would breed a great Confusion of Government for by this Law the Justices of the County may enter into the Liberties of any Corporation and License Sale of Wine and Beer Besides he must be Licensed by four Justices perhaps there be not four Justices in a Corporation Admitting Power were not given to the Foreign Justices now when these four Justices have enabled him by this Law they have no Power by this Law upon his misbehaviour to put him down and so very Insufficient and impossible to be Mended Sir Robert Wroth said Sir Rob. Wroth against it The Bill is That no Man shall c. but he must be allowed in the Quarter-Sessions by four Justices And what pain and Charge this will be to a poor man to go with some of his Neighbours 20 or 30 miles for a License And what a monstrous Trouble to all the Justices I refer it to your considerations The Speaker certified a Message from the Lords Sir Edward Hobby said We attended the Lords this morning touching the Information against Mr. Belgrave and in the end concluded That forasmuch as it concerneth Their as well as Our Privileges they desire some time to Consult and then will send us word of their Resolutions Doctor Stanhop and Doctor Hone brought a Bill from the Lords Intituled An Act for the Stablishment of the Remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Ketleby Esquire to Francis Ketleby And so they departed Mr. Spicer said If I should not agree to the Substance of the Bill I were no good Commonwealths-man And if I should agree to the Form I should scarce think my self a good Christian for I may justly say of this Bill Nihil est ubi error non est Mr. Laurence Hide moved That in respect it came from the Lords we would give it a Commitment Mr. Serjeant Harris said If this Bill should pass as was well said we all should lose the Liberties of our Corporations And Her Majesties Justices at the Sessions Serj. Harris against it should be troubled with Brables of Ale-Houses The Statute of Ed. 6. hath had Approbation these half Hundred Years and I wish we may not Repeal a good Law to make a worse Mr. Richard Brown said Mr. Brown against it Wines heretofore have been at Ten Pound a Tun and the Laws are That Wines should be sold at Two Pence the Quart and Her Majesty Receiveth One Thousand Six Hundred Pounds a Year Custom for them If now this Statute should stand that Four Justices should License the sale of Wines this would be a wrong to divers Licenses which are made by Pattentees of her Majesty and a beggaring of all Vintners And he that now keeps an Inn if he pleases not the Justices he shall be turned out And withal there is a Clause of disability which is most grievous Sir Robert Wroth said It seemes the House doth distast this Bill and I doubt of the Passing of it I would but move the House to remember That it is an Ancient Custom that for Reverence sake to the Lords of the upper-Upper-House we only
by your Lordships Favour no cause it should deserve the Title of Improper And I take it by your Lordships Favours it was not Preposterous For the First Matter we took should be handled was the Doubts which we Imagined your Lordships had conceived of the Bill And if your Lordships had ought else conceived I thought fit to shew your Lordships that we then came without Commission So my Lords I hope I have made it appear That the Speech was neither strange improper or preposterous But We of the Lower-House who be here Committees do beseech your Lordships that you would not conceive otherwise of Us than we deserve And your Lordships shall find Us ever ready in all Dutiful Service as coadjuting Members of one United Body the House of Parliament So after withdrawing themselves a little from the Table the Lords Whispered together and at length calling Us the Lord Treasurer said The Lords were satisfied with our Answer 〈…〉 and were very glad they found Us so Conformable by which they doubted not but we should well agree for the Conference whereby the Bill might have the better Passage Mr. Secretary Cecil answered That he was very glad their Lordships did conceive aright of them and that the Committees because they were many and would not be troublesome to them with multiplicity of Speeches had chosen for their Speakers to Satisfie their Lordships Mr. Bacon Mr. Bacon c. to manage the Conference Mr. Serjeant Harris Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Henry Mountague and Mr. Boys So the Lords called Mr. Attorney General to them who began to make Objections and Mr. Bacon answering Mr. Attorney again Objected and Mr. Serjeant Harris before he had fully ended began to answer To which Mr. Attorney said Nay Good Mr. Serjeant Leap not over the Stile before you come at it Hear me out I pray you and conceive me aright So when he had done Mr. Serjeant Answered I beseech your Lordships to hear me and that I may answer without check or Controul which I little Respect because it is as light as Mr. Attorney's Arguments And so he proceeded to answer So the Conference brake up untill the next Morning at which time the Lords said They would send us word when they were ready In the Afternoon A Bill for the Relief of Theophilus Adams Touching certain Obligations supposed to be made void by a Proviso contained in the Statute 39. Reginae cap. 22. Intituled An Act for the Establishment of the Bishoprick of Norwich and the Possessions of the same against a certain pretended concealed Title made thereunto A Bill for Reformation of Abuses in Selling and Buying of Spices and other Merchandizes A Bill that no Fair or Market should be kept on Sundayes On Saturday Decemb. 12. A Bill to confirm the Assurance of the Mannors and Farmes of Sagebury aliàs Sadgbery and Obden and other Hereditaments to Samuel Sands Esq and John Harris Gentleman and their Heirs being Ingrossed was put to the Question and was Passed A Bill for Redress of certain Abuses used in Painting A Bill about Painters and Plaisterers was moved by Sir George Moore and some others that this Bill might be let slip and the Cause referred to the Lord Mayor of London because it concerned a Controversy between the Painters and Plaisterers To which Mr. Davis Answered That the last Parliament this Bill should have Passed this House but it was referred as now desired and Bonds made by the Plaisterers for performance of the Orders made by the Lord Mayor yet all will do no Good wherefore Mr. Speaker I think it good it should be put to the Question Sir Stephen Somes stood up and desired That my Lord-Mayor might not be troubled with them but that it might be put to the Question and it seemed likely to go against the Painters But I stood up as it was putting to the Question and shewed That in the Statute of 25. Ed. 3. cap. 3. Plaisterers were not then so called but Dawbers and Mudd-Wall-Makers who had for their Wages by the day Three-Pence 〈…〉 and his Knave Three-Half-Pence so was his Labourer called they continued so until King Hen. 7th's time who brought into England with him out of France certain Men that used Plaister of Paris about the Kings Ceilings and Walls whose Statute-Labourers these Dawbers were Those Statute-Labourers learned in short time the Use of Plaister of Parts and did it for the King and increased to be many then sueing to the King for his Favor to Incorporate them who fulfill'd their desire and Incorporated them by the Name of Gipsarii which was for Clay or Mudd aliàs Morter-makers Anno 16 Hen. 7. Being no Free-Men for all their Incorporation they obtained the Kings Favourable Letters to Sir William Remington then Lord Mayor of London and the Aldermen to allow them Free-men Which was granted At which time came in Four of them and paid Ten Shillings a piece for their Freedom and in Three Years after that manner came in the Number of Twenty but they paid Four Pounds a piece for Their Freedom They Renewed their Patent in King Hen. 8's time and called themselves Plaisterers aliàs Morter-makers for the Use of Loame and Lime They made an humble Petition and Supplication after this to Sir John Munday then Lord Mayor and the Aldermen to grant them Orders for the better Rule and Government of their Company in these words We the good Folkes of Plaisterers in London of Plaister and Loame of the said City for the Redress of certain Abuses of Lath-Plaister and Loame wrought in the said Crafts c. And then had allowed unto them Search for their Company for the Use of Lath Loame and Lime In all their Incorporations at no time they had any words for Colours neither yet in their Ordnances For all they were Incorporated by the name of Plaisterers yet all King Hen. 8's time they were called Dawbers as appeareth in the accompts of the Chamber of London paid to such and such Dawbers for so many Days so much and to their Labourers so much The Plaisterers never laid any Colours in the Kings Houses nor in the Sherifs of London but this Year they wore no Livery or Cloathing the Seventeenth of King Hen. 8. They have been suffered to lay Ale-house Colours as Red-lead and Oaker and such like and so now they intrude themselves into all Colours Thus they take not only their own Work but Painting also and leave nothing to do for the Painter Painters and Stainers were two several Companies in King Edw. 3. time One for Posts and all Timber-work to Paint And the other for Painting and Staining of Cloth of great continuance both Companies were joyned into one by their own Consent and by the Consent of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City The Nineteenth Year of Edw. 4. The Painters had Orders allowed them for the Use of Oyl and Colours especially named in Hen. 4's time from the Lord Mayor and City
a Clock There was another Gentleman a Noe pulled out as well as the other was kept in and therefore it had happen'd even as before howsoever Mr. Edward Johns and Mr. Barker pulled Mr. Lyonel Ducket out Sonday Decemb. 13. On Munday Decemb. 14. there was a great Eclipse about Noon A Bill against the multiplicity of Printers A Bill against Bankrupts lewd Apprentices and evil Factors The House was divided upon the second Reading of the Bill the I I I were 35. and the Noes 45. so the Bill was not to be Read the third time being lost by ten Voices A Bill for the Cloth-workers of London Ordered to be Ingrossed A Bill for the Recovery of many Hundred Thousand Acres of drowned Grounds in the I le of Ely and in the Counties of Cambridg Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk Suffolk c. was Ordered to be Committed A Bill for the Denization of certain Persons viz. Josepho Lupo and one Questor and others c. Mr. Fettyplace shewed That Questor as he was Informed had neither Father nor Mother English and therefore not fit to be Endenizen'd Mr. Browne said This Questor is a Factor for Merchants Strangers and an Ingrosser of Fish and keeps a Ware-house here in London And now because he would Defraud the Queen of a double Subsidy being an Alien Stranger he would be Indenizen'd Sir Walter Rawleigh said I know Questor well he hath served the Queen long and done Her good service he hath been these 36. Years in England hath ever shewed himself a good Subject and for his good Service I see no Reason but he should be permitted to pass with the rest Mr. Secretary Cecil said I know this man Questor well this Testimony I am able to give of him that he is a man of good Substance and of Qualitie and of his quality I know not an honester man in England he hath done good Service both to the Queen and to the State and that to my knowledge For the matter of Custom I know her Majesty is well pleased therewith and therefore no Defrauding That he should be an Ingrosser of Fish for Strangers it may be but I think he is not I protest if I knew he were I should hate him as I do hate Monopolies It is no great matter if we put him in for the Bill may be quashed either in the Upper-House or Her Majesty may dash him out at her Pleasure The Committee that was appointed this Forenoon in Ketlebies Case in the Court of Wards is appointed to be this afternoon in the same place Because the Council who were Committees and the Cause being of great Weight Five Hundred Pounds Per Annum were to go presently to end the Conference with the Lords touching Patents for they tarried for them Mr. Francis Moore brought in the Bill for continuance of some Statutes and Repeal of some others with two Provisoes touching Dover-Haven and the longer was accepted I leave it quoth he to the Consideration of the House to take whether they list or to refuse both and here stayed whilst the Clerk of the Crown and a Doctor brought two Bills from the Lords which had past this House viz. The Exchequer-Bill without any amendment only a short Proviso added to the end the Effect whereof was That upon Order in the open Court it should be Lawful for any Officer Clerk c. to award Process and drive the Parties to Plead Quo titulo c. which was Prohibited by the Bill The second was the Bill touching the joynture of Lucy Countess of Bedford with some amendments and a Proviso Mr. Secretary Cecil said If ever there was a time to look to the Ports and Havens it is now If you remember Cecil about Dover-Haven what place is Ex opposito to Dover what Neighbours we have and how greatly that Haven doth stand us in stead I believe you would be more willing to add than to take any thing away from the maintenance thereof I wish therefore to end this Controversy that this may be the Question Whether of these two Provisoes shall be added to the Law But I think the greatest is best and largest and I should be loth to Detract any thing from that Contribution So the greater was taken Amendments in the Bill of Assurance used amongst Merchants Mr. Hackwell said I think Mr. Speaker we do not give that Favor to a Bill which lies dormant in this House as the Bill meriteth It was well said by one that Ships were the Walls of our Kingdom which if we suffer to Decay as I am certainly assured they are Decaying not only a quarter or third part but even half and as our strength Diminisheth so our Enemies increase And therfore Mr. Speaker it being for a publique Good and general Happiness to us all I wish so profitable a Bill may be Read and have good passage it is Intituled A Bill touching Souldiers Mariners and maintenance of Shipping A Bill for the Repealing of an Act made 14 Eliz. concerning lengths of Kersies was Committed A Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents to the Hospitals of St. Bartholomews Bridewell and St. Thomas the Apostle The Act for Confirmation of Statutes put to the Question and agreed to be Ingrossed Sir Edw. Hobby moved the House to have their Opinions touching the Proviso sent down from the Lords with the exchequer-Exchequer-Bill which was Ingrossed in Parchment for he somewhat doubted of it and thought it ought to be in Paper for all Amendments that come from the Lords use to be in Paper and not in Parchment but agreed That it was well and according to the course of the House to be in Parchment The Bill for the Repairing and Amending two Bridges near Carlisle over the River of Eden in the County of Cumberland being Ingrossed it was Read and Passed and sent up to the Lords by Sir Edward Hobby and others And the Copy of the Information against Mr. Bellgrave under the Hand of the Clerk of the Star-Chamber The Bill concerning the Assize for Feuel Ordered to be Ingrossed and Passed Mr. Davis moved and shewed That a Servant of Mr. Hudlestons Knight for Cumberland I think being some twelve months since hurt in the Hand went unto one Mathews a Surgeon by Fleet-Bridg who for Ten Pound undertook the Cure the Man gave him a Bill of Ten Pound for the said Cure which he the said Mathews could not perform without leaving a great Scar and withal a little lameness in his hand notwithstanding he paid the Surgeon Eight Found but upon what suggestion I know not Mathews hath sued Mr Hudlestons man for the whole Ten Pound and Arrested him upon an Execution into the Counter The man told him he was Mr. Hudlestons man and that his Master was a Member of this House and a Knight of a Shire and that he was thereby privileged from Arrest and wished to be discharged But Mathews and the Serjeant said they cared not for his Master nor his
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
to lie with it upon the Cape and at Lambuck to which places comes all his Ships with Riches from all places and then they may set upon all that comes Saturday March 3. there ensued some discouse touching the Priviledges of the House Sunday March 4. Munday March 5. Mr. Beale HE desired to satisfie the House Mr. Beale by reason it was conceived by the Lords the other day that upon his Motion and by the President he shewed the House was led to deny a Conference with the Lords he acknowledged he mistook the Question appointed for there being but a Conference desired by the Lords and no confirming of what they had done he thought we might and thought fit we should confer And to this end he onely shewed the President That in the ninth year of Hen. 4. the Commons having granted a Subsidy which the Lords thought too little and they agreed to a greater and would have had the Commons to confirm that they had done This the Commons thought they could not do without prejudice to their honour Wherefore he acknowledged himself mistaken in the Question and desired if any were led by him to be satisfied for that he would have been of another opinion if he had conceived the matter as it was meant Sir Robert Cecill I Desire now I may be somewhat long Sir Rob. Cecill because I must include an Answer to three Speeches Those two honourable persons which sit above the one of them declared the true state of the Question the other what was sit we should do but my Answer shall tend onely to the other Tales that followed The first was a kind of satisfaction for a former mistaking but in the same satisfaction a new mistaking was also which was by way of information casting it into the House that the Queen should seem to demand three Subsidies Now the Queen never demanded three nor one so here is a new mistaking added to the former satisfaction The second mans Motion thus far I allow that the Councels of this House be secretly kept and that nothing be reported in Malam partem but if his meaning be that we may not impart any thing that is done here unto the Queen but that all things must be kept secret from her I am altogether against it This onely I should desire what ought to be observed that nothing ought to be reported unto her in Malam partem The third mans Motion consisted upon three points The first was News the second History the third and last a Motion His News was that mens Names were given up to the Queen this was News for I heard it not before The History was a large Report of the whole progress of this matter His Motion was that we should confer with the Lords about a Subsidy but not conclude a Subsidy with them His Motion seems contrary to his meaning or else is more than ever was meant for it was never desired of us by the Lords that we should confer with them about a Subsidy Sir Walter Rawleigh HE informed the House that he thought the Division of the House the last day Sir Walter Rawleigh to grow upon the mistaking of the Question and that some had since reported to him That had the matter been resolved that onely a general Conference was desired most of them that sat would not have been against it Wherefore he desired Mr. Speaker to put it to the question Whether they should confer with the Lords generally or no without naming a Subsidy This Motion being well liked Sir Walter Rawleigh was desired by the House to repeat it again that so it might be the better heard of them all And thereupon he said That touching the aforesaid Question which had receiv'd a No upon Saturday last he would not make it a Question again for by the Order of the House he could not but propound this for a new Question in these or the like words Whether the House would be pleased to have a general Conference with the Lords touching the great and eminent dangers of the Realm and State and the present necessary supply of Treasure to be provided speedily for the same according to the proportion of the necessity Which Question being propounded it was assented unto by all without any negative voice On Tuesday March 6. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill for confirming Letters-Patents granted to the Mayor Sheriffs Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Lincoln was read the second time Sir Edward Hobby one of the Committees for Returns and Priviledges shewed that for the Burrough of Calmesford in the County of Cornwall one Richard Leech was returned to the Sheriff for a Burgess by a false Return and that afterwards Sir George Carew Knight was returned Burgess by the true Return and alleadging that the said Richard Leech offer'd to yield the place to the said Sir George Carew he moved for the Order of this House therein And thereupon Mr. Speaker was appointed to move the Lord Keeper in the said Case for his Order either for his allowance of the said Sir George Carew in the place of the said Richard Leech or else in awarding a new Writ for chusing another at his Lordships pleasure And so for his Lordships Order in the Case of the Burgess returned for the Burrough of Southwark in the allowance of Richard Hutton already returned or else in awarding a new Writ for chusing another at his Lordships pleasure And so also for his Lordships altering the name of John Dudley to the name of Thomas Dudley in the return of one of the Burgesses of Newtown in the County of Southampton or else to award a new Writ at his Lordships pleasure Divers other Bills were read on this day On Wednesday March 7. Sir Edward Hobby moved the Case of Mr. Fitz-Herbert his bringing up unto this House by a Hab. Cor. cum causa from the Lord Keeper sheweth that he hath moved the Lord Keeper touching the said Writ and that his Lordship thinketh best in regard of the ancient priviledges of this House that a Serjeant at Arms be sent by order of this House for the said Mr. Fitz-herbert at his own charge by reason whereof he may be brought hither to this House without peril of being further arrested by the way and the state of his Cause consider'd of and examined when he shall come hither which was thereupon well liked and allowed of by this House Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second concerning the lawful deprivation of Edward Bonner late Bishop of London was read the second time On Thursday March 8. Mr. Speaker shewed unto this House that according unto the appointment of this House he hath attended the Lord Keeper touching his Lordships pleasure for the directing of a new Writ for the chusing of another Burgess for the Burrough of Southwark in the County of Surrey instead of Richard Hutton Gentleman
supposed to have been unduly and indirectly elected And also for the allowing of Sir George Carew Kt. to be Burgess for the Burrough of Camelsford in the County of Cornwall as truely returned Burgess of the said Burrough of Camelsford in the said County of Cornwall instead of Richard Leech alleadged to have been returned by the said Sheriff by a false Return made before the said other Return of the said Sir George Carew And also for changing the name of John Dudley Esq returned for the Burrough of Newtown in the County of Southampton into the name of Thomas Dudley Esq alleadged to be the same person in very deed that should have been returned and that his name was mistaken and none living known by the name of John Dudley His Lordships answer and resolution in the said Case was That the said Returns by the said Burgesses of Southwark and Camelsford should stand and continue according to the Return of the same without taking notice of any fact therein or in the Election at all And that his Lordship would direct another Writ for chusing of another Burgess for the Burrough of Newtown instead of the said John Dudley and that his Lordship would insert the said Cause of misnomer so as is before alleadged Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for confirmation of the assurance unto certain Purchasers of Lands sold by Sir Richard Knightly Kt. Valentine Knightly and Edward Knightly Esquires was upon the reading the second time committed to Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Sir Henry Vmpton Mr. Cradock and others who were appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Friday March 9. the Bill concerning Woollen-cloaths called Vesses c. was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Knowls Sir John Hart Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet on Tuesday next in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Sir John Harrington and Sir Thomas Wilks were added to the former Committees in the Bill for confirmation of certain assurances unto certain Purchasers of Land sold by Sir Richard Knightly Kt. Valentine Knightly and Edward Knightly Esquires appointed yesterday The Committees in the Bill touching Recusants nominated upon Wednesday the 28 of February before-going are appointed to meet in this House at two of the clock this afternoon The Committees also in the Bill for the naturalizing Samuel Saltingston and others nominated on the sixth of this instant March are appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall Divers Bills were this day read On Saturday March 10. Mr. Wroth one of the Committees in the Bill against stealing Oxen Sheep and Lambs shewed that he and the rest of the Committees in the same Bill have met together and added some Amendments to the same Bill and offered both the Bill and Amendments to the House which Amendments being inserted into the Bill by the Clerk of this House and the same Amendments then also twice read the Bill upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for relief of Jurors Bill for relief of Jurors upon Tryals upon Tryals between Party and Party was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Tasborough Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Wroth and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Tasborough who with the rest were appointed to meet this day at two of the clock in the afternoon at Middle-Temple-hall Divers other Bills were this day also read March 11. Sunday On Munday March 12. Mr. Lewis one of the Committees in the Bill concerning salted Fish and salted Herrings shewed That he and the rest of the Committee had taken pains in consideration of the said Bill and have added a Proviso and prayed the twice reading of the said Proviso and that the same Bill and Proviso may be ordered to be ingrossed Whereupon the said Proviso being twice read the said Bill and Proviso after some Speeches both against the said Bill and with it was upon the Question referred to the former Committees who were appointed on Munday the fifth of this instant March to be considered of in this afternoon of this present day in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill committed for the confirmation of Letters-Patents to the Mayor Sheriffs Citizens and Commonalty of Lincoln and concerning the lawful deprivation of Edward Bonner late Bishop of London are delivered to Sir Edward Dimmocke one of the Committees and also the Committees names in both the said Bills And divers Bills read On Tuesday March 13. the Bill for reducing disloyal Subjects to their obedience had its second reading Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer brought in a Preamble agreed by the major part of the Committees to be set down in the Bill for the Subsidies if this House shall think well to like of it which Preamble being read by the Clerk of this House the same was after some Speeches had pro con committed upon the Question unto Mr. Vicechamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Broughton Mr. Brown and others to be presently further considered of in the Committee-chamber of this House Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Ford brought from the Lords a Bill concerning the Lands of Henry late Lord of Abergaveny deceased with a Message also from their Lordships to desire that a Committee of selected Members of this House may be appointed to have Conference with a Committee of the Lords touching the continuance of the Statute It was resolved by the House to assent to such a Committee and that assent was also delivered in answer to the said Mr. Atturney and Dr. Ford and to attend their Lordships therein at such time and place as their Lordships should please to signifie unto this House and appoint for that purpose Divers Bills were this day read On Wednesday March 14. Sir Edward Hobby one of the Committees in the Bill touching Mr. Stafford brought in the Bill with some Amendments and opening the Effect of the said Amendments to the House the same Amendments being then also read by the Clerk it was ordered by the House that the same Amendments should be inserted into the Bill The Bill for Mr. Anthony Coke had its first reading Mr. Richard Lukenor one of the Committees in the Bill concerning the lawful deprivation of Edward Bonner late Bishop of London brought in the Bill with some Amendments and opening the contents of the same Amendments unto the House the same Amendments being then also read to the House by the Clerk it was ordered by this House that the said Amendments should be inserted in the said Bill which was done accordingly Divers other Bills were this day also read On Thursday March 15. Sir Edward Dimmocke one of the Committees in the Bill for confirmation of Letters-Patents to the Mayor Sheriffs Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Lincoln appointed on Saturday the 10th of this instant March brought in the Bill with some Amendments and opening
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
an Act concerning a Lease of great yearly Value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham read prima vice Kirkham and Ambrose Willoughby Esq to be warned to attend the Lords on Munday-morning next at which time it is appointed the said Bill shall be read the second time An Act concerning the draining and recovery from the water certain overflown Grounds in the County of Norfolk An Act for draining of Lands secunda vice lect and referred to the same Committees upon the Bill formerly read of that kind concerning 300000 Acres c. with addition of the Lord St. John and Mr. Atturney to attend appointed to meet c. and such Parties as the same may concern to be warned to attend On Saturday Jan. 14. certain Objections unto a Bill entituled An Act for the increase of People c. were set down in writing by Mr. Atturney-General and brought into the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees and the same sent to the Lower House for their consideration thereof according to a Promise made by their Lordships to the select Committees of the Lower House at the meeting yesterday about the Bill delivered by Mr. Atturney and Dr. Stanhopp Certain Knights and Burgesses of the Lower House were sent to their Lordships to desire a Conference with a competent number of that House concerning the Amendments and Provisoe added to the Bill entituled An Act for erecting of houses of Correction and punishing of Rogues Vagabonds c. whereupon choice was made of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Bishop of Winchester and two Barons being part of the number formerly appointed upon the Bill the two Chief Justices and the Chief Baron Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney-General to attend them and the same presently signified to the same Knights and Burgesses but with this caution That whatsoever had been mended or added by their Lordships could not now be altered by the Orders of the House howbeit to yield the Lower House satisfaction of the reasons that moved their Lordships to make those Amendments they assented to a Conference the meeting appointed to be in the outward Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament on Munday-morning at eight of the clock The Earl of Essex not able to attend for want of health certified by the Lord North. The Bishop of Landaff absent by reason of sickness signified by the Bishop of Chester On Munday Jan. 16. Report was made by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury That upon meeting of such of the Lords of the Higher House as were appointed this day to confer with certain select Knights and Burgesses of the Lower House concerning the Amendments and Provisoes added by their Lordships to a Bill entituled An Act for erecting houses of Correction c. the said Knights and Burgesses do hold themselves satisfied upon the Reasons alleadged by their Lordships in some part of the said Amendments but not in all Kirkham was called into the House before their Lordships and after he had been heard what he was able to say on his own behalf the same Bill was read a second time viz. An Act concerning a Lease of great yearly Value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham and commanded to be ingrossed A Motion made that a Proviso should be added to the Bill concerning the Bishoprick of Norwich which Proviso was presently drawn in the House by Mr. Atturney-General and thereupon read And for the more expedition in the proceeding of the Bill it was thought meet that the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Marshal Lord Admiral Bishop of London Lord Chamberlain and Lord Cobham should confer with a competent number of the Lower House about the said Proviso Whereupon Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney were sent to the Lower House to signifie the same unto them who presently assented to a meeting and made their repair to their Lordships forthwith An Act for enlarging the Statute made for following of Hue and Cry in 27 Reginae in some sort to relieve the Inhabitants of the small hundred of Beyvershe alias Benhurst in cases where they are in no ways voluntarily in default and yet they are or shall be charged by the same Statute and by two ancient Statutes the one made 13 Edw. 1. and the other 28 Edw. 3. for repressing Robberies On Tuesday Jan. 17. a Proviso drawn by Mr. Atturney by commandment of the House to be added to the Bill for establishing of the Bishoprick of Norwich c. was twice read and commanded to be ingrossed and then both the Bill and Proviso read the third time and returned to the Lower House for their consideration on the Proviso An Act for some better staying of Corn within this Land to give liberty to English Subjects sometimes to buy Wheat c. and to sell the same again in the same kind for the better relief of the Common-wealth tertia vice lect and rejected On Wednesday Jan. 18. the Lord Keeper signified to the House That the Parties that followed the Bill for the Hospital of Warwick are not provided of their Counsel learned whereupon the House assigned them a new day viz. Friday morning next An Act for avoiding of bringing of Pins into this Realm made and wrought in forraign parts beyond the Seas secunda vice lect and rejected The Amendments agreed upon by the Committees upon the Bill of Tillage appointed to be brought into the House to morrow-morning by the Lord Chief Justice of England An Act for the better furnishing and supply of able Chyrurgeons in and to the Land and Sea-service for her Majestie and the Realm secuuda vice lect A Bill about Chirurgeons for Sea-service The Lord Buckhurst signified that upon a Letter written unto him by the Lord Marquess of Winchester notifying his present sickness whereby he was not able to give his attendance as yet the said Lord Buckhurst according to the request of the said Lord Marquess having moved her Majesty therein it pleased her Majesty to hold him excused until his recovery and commanded that he should then give his attendance On Thursday Jan. 19. Answer was returned in writing from the Lower House and delivered by certain Knights and Burgesses sent for that purpose unto the Objections taken by their Lordships to some points of the Bill intituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm which Objections were formerly delivered unto them in writing upon their request made to their Lordships Certain selected persons of the Lower House viz. Sir William Knolles and Sir Edward Hobby Kts with divers others coming from the said Lower House delivered a Message Complaint of the Commons of an Innovation by their Lordships signifying that the Knights and Burgesses desired to receive satisfaction from their Lordships concerning an Innovation as the said Knights and Burgesses supposed very lately begun in the Upper House
in delivering an Answer from the Lords by the mouth of the Lord Keeper in other form and manner than as was pretended by the Knights and Burgesses in former times used as they did interpret it to the prejudice and derogation of the Liberty of the Lower House For whereas on the 14th instant Sir Walter Rawleigh Kt. with divers others of the Lower House were sent to the Lords to deliver a certain Message to this House after consultation had thereupon by the Lords and after signification thereof given to the said Sir Walter Rawleigh and the rest staying in the outward room for answer that they might come in and receive the same it was thought meet that the Lord Keeper should deliver the said Answer sitting in his place and every of the Lords keeping their places and not going out to the Bar as the use and form is when the Lords receive either Bills or Message from the Lower House and as the Lords had done once or twice before by errour or not attending the Formality and Order of the House in that point This was the Exception taken by the Message delivered this day from the Knights and Burgesses of the Lower House wherein they desired to receive satisfaction Upon which Message the Lords having consulted and delivered their Opinions touching that Order and Custome of the House as it had been observed and particularly noted by some of them that were the most antient and of longest continuance in Parliament and especially by the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the most antient Parliament man of any that are at this present either of the Upper or the Lower House and likewise by the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury and by the Lord Admiral the Lord North the Lord Buckhurst and others that had been present at many Parliaments It was resolved The resolution of the Lords upon the Complaint That the Order and Usage of this House was and is that when any Bills or Messages be brought from the Lower House to be preferred to the Upper House the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords are to rise from their places and to go down to the Bar there to meet such as come from the Lower House and from them to receive in that place their Messages or Bills But contrary wise when any Answer is to be delivered by the Lord Keeper in the name and behalf of this House to such Knights and Burgesses as came from the Lower House the said Knights and Burgesses are to receive the same standing towards the lower end of the House without the Bar. And the Lord Keeper is to deliver the same sitting in his place with his head covered and all the Lords keeping their places and that whensoever it had been done otherwise the same was by errour or mistaking and therefore not to be drawn into an Example or President as it was acknowledged by the Lord Keeper this day and the rest of the Lords that the going of the said Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords from their places unto the Bar some few days before once or twice to give answer to some of the Lower House whereof the Lower House seemed to take some advantage was onely by miscognizance or rather for want of due remembrance at the present of the Order and Custome of this House whereunto their Lordships having regard rather to the dispatch of matters of importance in the House than to Formalities were not greatly intentive This to have been the ancient usage of the House and that the same ought still to be was concluded by common and general consent of the Lords both upon particular remembrance and observations of the like course and Order holden afore-time by other Lords that held the place in the House of Lord-Chancellor and Lord Keeper and also by divers reasons urged and alleadged to prove and shew that the said Order doth best stand with the dignity and gravity of the House and with the conveniency and aptness for dispatch of Affairs appertaining to the Parliament and that the contrary course is both indecent and inconvenient This being so resolved and concluded The Lords send to the Commons to come up and know their Resolutions it was agreed that Mr. Atturney-General and Mr. Serjeant Drewe should go down to the Lower House and signifie from the Lords to the Knights and Burgesses That if they would send any of that House up to the Lords to receive Answer unto their aforesaid Demand Answer should be given them Whereunto the said Knights and Burgesses returned signification of their Assent by the said Mr. Atturney-General and Mr. Serjeant Drewe And within a very little time after sent up accordingly the said persons and divers of them who before had been sent to demand satisfaction but being come into the House and having placed themselves at the lower end of the room as at other times they accustomed expecting that the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords would come from their places and meet them at the Bar to deliver them Answer When the Lord Keeper moved them to come nearer to receive Answer 39 Eliz. and when they perceived the Lords were resolved not to come from their places to the Bar they protested by the mouth of Sir William Knolls The Commons protest that they had no Commission to receive Answer in that Form and so refusing to receive any Answer departed The Question and Difference thus remaining betwixt the Houses it was afterwards upon a motion sent from the Lords to the Lower House agreed on both parts The Question continuing the Lords desire a Conference that a Conference should be had and that the aforesaid selected persons of the House or so many of them as shall be needful should meet with divers of the Lords of the Upper House being nominated by the House for that purpose in the outward great Chamber before the Chamber of Parliament-presence to debate the matter and bring it to a conclusion Which Meeting and Conference being assented unto and afterwards accordingly there performed on the 19 of Jannuary and the Question debated and the reason and observation of former times for the aforesaid Order and Custom of the House being alleadged by the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Admiral the Lord North and the Lord Buckhurst that had been present in many Parliaments and especially by the Lord Treasurer the most antient Parliament-man it was found and resolved that the Order and Custom of the House was as is before written viz. where the Dispute is determined That when any Bills or Messages are brought from the Lower House to be presented to the Upper House the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords are to rise from their places and to go down to the Bar there to meet such as come from the Lower House and from them to receive in that place their Messages or Bills But contrarywise when any Answer is to be delivered
by the Lord Keeper in the name and behalf of the House to such Knights and Burgesses as 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-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
committed to the former Committees for erecting houses of Correction c. Also the Bill for setting the Poor on work was read the second time and dashed upon the third Question for the Committee and rejected upon the Question for ingrossing The Bill for relieving of the Poor out of Impropriations and other Church-livings was read the second time and after some speeches both with and against the Bill upon the doubtfulness of the double Question for the committing was upon the division of the House rejected with the difference of 29 voices with the Yea 117. and with the No 146. Three Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others of which the two last were one for the establishing of the Town-lands of Wanting in the County of Berks to the relief of the Poor and the last was for a repeal of a Statute made 13 of her Majesties reign intituled An Act for the increase of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation The Bill concerning certain Lands of Sir John Spencer Kt. Dame Mary his Wife and Robert his Son was read prima vice Three other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Arthur Hatch was uppon the second reading committed unto Mr. Sands Mr. Philips Mr. Finch Mr. Francis Popham Sir Robert Wroth and others who were appointed to meet on Thursday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall On Wednesday Novemb. 23. Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning Leases made by the Archbishops and Bishops was upon the second reading rejected upon the question for committing and so likewise upon the question for ingrossing The Bill for repealing part of the Charter granted to the Town of Yarmouth was upon the second reading committed to Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Fulk Grevil all the Burgesses of the Port-towns the Knights for Norfolk and Suffolk Mr. Nathaniel Bacon and others who were appointed to meet on Friday at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Thursday Novemb. 24. seven Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for punishment of certain Felonies hereafter to be committed was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees for the relief of the Poor c. and Mr. Wiseman Mr. Little and Mr. Let were added unto them and the Bill delivered to Mr. Wroth who with the rest were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill that Lessees many enjoy their Leases against certain Patentees in certain cases was read the first time The Bill concerning George Durant was read the third time and after many Speeches both with and against the Bill and some tending to amendments to be made in some parts of the same it was in the end deferred from being put to the Question until Saturday next upon some expectation that the parties concerned in the mean time might come to some good end among themselves without any further troubling of this House On Friday Novemb. 25. Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning the Lands and Tenements of Sir John Spencer was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Winch Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Rotheram Mr. Henry Yelverton Mr. Luke Sir Richard Knightley Mr. Henry Hubberd Mr. Robert Wingfield the Knights of Bedfordshire and Mr. Bourcher and the Bill was delivered to Sir Robert Wroth who with the rest were appointed to meet at the Middle-Temple-hall to morrow at Two of the clock in the Afternoon The Bill for assurance of certain Lands and Tenements unto Robert Cotton Esq was upon the second reading committed to the former Committees in the Bill concerning Sir John Spencer and at the same time and place and there were added unto them Sir John Hungerford Mr. William Cecil and others The Bill concerning the draining of certain Lands and Grounds in Norfolk was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Sir Anthony Cope Mr. Henry Yelverton Mr. Henry Spilman Sir Robert Wroth and others who were appointed to meet upon Munday next at Two a clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill for the increase of people for the service of the Realm was read the first time Mr. Secretary Cecil moved the second reading of this Bill to morrow and wished all the Members of this House to be present at the same and provided as they shall think fit to employ their endeavour and Speeches to the furtherance of the proceedings in the said Bill whereupon it was agreed that both this Bill and also that for increase of Tillage shall both of them be read to morrow On Saturday Nov. 26. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for inrolling and exemplifying of Defeazances was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Edward Hobby Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Edward Luknor and others who were appointed to meet on Tuesday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill concerning Transportation of Sheep-skins and Pelts over Seas was read the second time and committed to Sir Robert Carie the Burgesses of Newcastle Barwick Northampton and Lincoln Mr. Francis Moore and others who are appointed to meet on Tuesday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill for Husbandry and Tillage was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Yelverton Mr. Tasborough the Citizens of all Cities Mr. Green and others who was appointed to meet on Tuesday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in this House Sunday Nov. 27. On Munday Nov. 28. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the City of Bristol was upon the second reading committed to Dr. James Mr. Francis Moore the Citizens of Bristol Gloucester Bath and Wells Mr. Green and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon at two of the clock in the Middle-Temple-hall Mr. Coombs and Mr. Henry Powle being Members of this House shewed They were this day served with a Subpoena ad testificand in the Star-chamber by Anne the wife of Thomas Wye Gent. and so moving for priviledge the Serjeant of the House was thereupon charged to bring in the said Anne to appear in this House to answer the Contempt The Bill for increase of people for the strength and defence of the Realm upon the second reading after many Speeches all tending to the good liking and furthering of the said Bill it was ordered to be committed unto the former Committees in the Bill of Tillage so with a Note of the Names of the Committees the Bill was delivered unto Mr. Controuler Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords a Bill entituled An Act for the better explanation of a Statute made 13 Rginae cap. 4. concerning Tellers and Receivers
c. and shewed that their Lordships did especially recommend the said Bill to this House Three other Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for erecting of Hospitals or Abiding and Working-houses for the Poor had its third reading and after many Speeches both with and against the Bill it was ordered upon the Question to be recommitted to the former Committees and the Bill with a Note of the Committees Names were delivered to Mr. Boyes The Bill against excessive Fees of Ecclesiastical Judges and of their Officers and Ministers Bill against the excessive Fees of Ecclesiastical Judges c. was this day in the afternoon delivered to Mr. Speaker On Tuesday Nov. 29. eight Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for repairing the bridges of Newport and Carlion in the County of Monmouth was upon the second reading committed unto all the Knights for all the Shires and Burgesses for all the Burroughs in Wales Monmouthshire and the Citizens for Bristal and Gloucester Mr. Serjeant Williams Mr. Pembridge and Mr. Oldsworth who were appointed to meet on Thursday next in the Exchequer-chamber at two of the clock in the afternoon The Bill for the Town of Northamp was read the third time and upon the doubtfulness of the Question twice put was dashed upon the division of the House by the difference of 53 voices viz. with the No 153 and with the Yea but 100. The Bill for Arthur Hatch was read the third time and passed upon the Question the learned Counsel on both sides heretofore having been heard as well before the Committees as before this House at the bar On Wednesday Nov. 30. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last was for the prohibiting of bringing into this Realm of any forreign Cards for Wooll The Amendments and Additions in the Bill for the erecting of houses of Correction and places of punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars being twice read upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill concerning the possessions of the Bishoprick of Norwich was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Stevenson Mr. Henry Hubberd Mr. Henry Warner the Burgesses of Norwich and Lynn Mr. Nathaniel Bacon and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Henry Warner who with the rest were appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Mr. Finch one of the Committees in the sundry former Bills for the relief of the Poor Bill for relief of the Poor shewed the meetings and travel of the said Committees in sundry of the said Bills in some of which as they have not as yet throughly proceeded so he delivereth in a new Bill for the relief of the Poor into this House On Thursday Decem. 1. Decemb. 1. two Bills were each of them read the first time of which the former was a Bill for provision of a Preacher in the Tower of London Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being for maintenance and reparation of Stains-bridge and Egham-Cawsey was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Geo. Moore Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Amersham and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon at two of the clock in the Exchequer-chamber Also four other Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill against Forestallers c. was read the third time and after sundry Speeches both with and against it it passed upon the Question Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the better execution of the Statute made 13 Reginae for the establishing of Logwood alias Blockwood Bill about Logwood for Dying in the dying of Cloath Wooll or Yarn was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Friday Decemb. 2. the Bill for the establishing of an Award made between Edmond Cotton Gent. and Thomas Harvie Yeoman read prima vice Four other Bills had each of them one reading of which Bill to prevent double payment of Book-debts the last being a Bill to prevent double payment of Debts upon Shop-books was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Jackson Mr. Maynard Mr. George Moore Sir Edward Hobby Mr. Wingfield Sir Francis Hastings and others who are appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Saturday Decemb. 3. Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the speedy punishment of certain Felons and the manner of their delivery was read the first time The Amendments in the Bill for Bristol being twice read the Bill was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for recovery of surrounded waste Marshes and watery Grounds in the Isle of Ely Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln and Norfolk was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Thomas Cecill the Knights of Norfolk Northampton Lincoln Cambridge Huntington Sussex and Bedford the Burgesses of the Burroughs in the said Shires Mr. Oxborough and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon at two of the clock in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill for the Hospital called Nevil's Hospital in the County of York had its third reading and upon a Motion to have Mr. Burde Master of the said Hospital heard before the Bill be put to the Question for the passing day was given him to be heard with his Counsel in this House upon Munday next Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Controuler and others of which the first was the Bill against Forestallers c. the second concerning Arthur Hatch and the third was for the abolishing of Logwood alias Blockwood in dying of Cloaths The Bill that Leassees may enjoy their Leases against Patentees in some certain cases was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Francis Hastings Sir Thomas Hungerford Mr. Sollicitor Sir Thomas Hobby Sir Thomas Conisby Mr. Yelverton Mr. Controuler Mr. Henry Hubberd Mr. Wiseman Sir Robert Wroth and others who were appointed to meet on Tuesday next in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber and the parties concerned to bring their Counsel before the Committees Decemb. 4. Sunday On Munday Decemb. 5. six Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for erecting of houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and Beggars was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Proviso in the Bill for draining of certain over-flown and surrounded Grounds in the County of Norfolk was twice read and the Bill and Proviso were ordered to be ingrossed Six Bills were this morning sent up to the Lords of which the two principal were one concerning the Lands of Sir Henry Hatton and the other to give power to Sir John Spencer and Dame Mary his Wife and Robert their Son to alienate certain Mannors and Lands in the County of Somerset The Bill concerning
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
triyling Suits in Law of which the first was to avoid trifling Suits in Law in her Majesties Courts at Westminster On Thursday Decemb. 3. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second was the Bill for enabling Edward Nevil of Burling in the County of Kent and Sir William Nevil his son to sell certain Lands On Friday Decemb. 4. the Bill against Drunkards and common Haunters of Ale-houses and Taverns the Bill for levying of Fines with Proclamations of Lands within the County of the City of Chester the Bill for enabling of Edward Nevil of Berlin in the County of Kent Esq c. and the Bill for confirmation of Letters-Patents made by Edw. 6. to Sir Edward Seignior Kt. were each of them read secunda vice On Saturday Decemb. 5. the Bill for maintenance of the Navy increase of Mariners and for avoiding the scarcity of Victuals was read prima vice Report was made to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees concerning Musters Souldiers c. That the said Committees having oftentimes met and conferred about the said Bill did finde so many imperfections in the same as it could not conveniently be mended and therefore thought it meet to draw a new Bill which he presented to the House The Bill entituled An Act for the more peaceable government of the Parties of Cumberland c. was returned to the House with certain Amendments which Amendments were presently twice read and thereupon the Bill commanded to be ingrossed On Munday Decemb. 7. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the more peaceable government of the Parties of Cumberland c. was read tertia vice and sent down to the House of Commons by Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp The Bill to avoid the double payment of Debts was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Controuler Sir Edward Hobby and others Four other Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the confirmation as well of all Grants made to the Queen and of all resumptions made by her Highness of the possessions of any Archbishoprick or Bishoprick as of Letters-Patents made by her Majesty to others was read prima vice The Bill for confirmation of Grants made to the Queen and of Letters-Patents made by her Highness to others was this day returned to the House with certain Amendments by the Lord Treasurer the first of the Committees This day Sir William Knowls Sir Edward Hobby Knights and divers others of the House of Commons delivered a Message from the said House desiring a Conference with some of their Lordships concerning the uniting of Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning Upon the delivery of which Message after the said Sir William Knowls and the rest had a little withdrawn and then upon propounding this Motion to this House the Lords having assented thereunto Answer was made by the Lord Keeper sitting in his place and the the rest of the Lords also keeping their places unto the said Sir William Knowls and the rest That the Lords had yielded to the Conference and had appointed the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche and the Lord Cobham to meet with some select persons of the House of Commons for that purpose to morrow by eight a clock in the morning at the Utter chamber neer the Parliament-presence On Tuesday Decemb. 8. six Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers and other in the Queens service in the Wars was read secunda vice and committed to the Committees formerly appointed for the first Bill of that kind with addition of the Lord Windsor and the said Committee to meet upon the said Bill upon the first opportunity of meeting on any other Bill and the said Bill was delivered to the Earl of Nottingham the third of the Committees Nota NOTA. That here this Bill was delivered unto the Earl of Nottingham being the third of the Committees of whom the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Treasurer were the two first Whereas on Munday Nov. 23. a Bill being committed upon the second reading was delivered unto the Archbishop the first of the Committees And on Thursday Nov. 26. upon the commitment also of a Bill in the like manner the Bill was delivered unto the Lord Howard of Walden being the Puisne Baron or last of the Committees by which it is plain that in the Upper House as well as in the House of Commons after any Bill is committed upon the second reading it may be delivered indifferently to any of the said Committees A Proviso was offered by the Earl of Worcester on the behalf of the Earl of Shrewsbury to be annexed unto the Bill entituled An Act for the consirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of Letters-Patents made by her Highness to others which Proviso together with the Amendments in the said Bill were read presently And forasmuch as the Lords desired a speedy proceeding in the said Bill they sent Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp to the House of Commons to move them that some meet persons of that House might joyn in Conference with the Lords being to the number of twenty or thereabouts concerning the Proviso and Amendments aforesaid and that the meeting about the same might be at the outward Chamber neer to the Parliament-presence to morrow by eight of the clock in the morning Upon delivery of which Message to the House of Commons they assented accordingly to the Motion made on that behalf Upon a Motion sent this day from the House of Commons by Sir Walter Rawleigh Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Hobby and others signifying That they desired Conference with some of their Lordships for certain matters concerning the honour of both Houses the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Worcester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham and the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche the Lord De-la-ware the Lord Cohham and the Lord Howard of Walden were appointed to meet on Thursday next by eight a clock in the morning at the outward chamber neer the Parliament-presence which was signified to Sir VValter Rawleigh and the rest in answer of their Message On VVednesday Decemb. 9. the Counsel of the Lady Fane was heard in the House what he could say on her behalf against the Bill of Edward Nevil and Sir Henry Nevil his son whereupon the Lords finding no cause why the proceeding on that Bill should be any longer staid Order was given for the third reading thereof The Bill for the enabling of Edward Nevil Esq and Sir Henry Nevil his son and heir apparent to dispose of certain Copyhold-lands was read tertia vice upon the third reading of which Bill and before
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 subsidy- Bill to prevent holding Fairs and Markets on Sundays subsidy-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
Devon Bill to erect a Harbour and Key c. was returned to the House by the Lord Steward with one Amendment which was presently twice read The Bill for prohibiting Fairs and Markets to be kept on the Sunday was read secunday vice and committed Upon the Motion of the Earl of Worcester it was ordered by the House That William Crayford prisoner in the Fleet should come to make his humble submission before the Lords in the said House to morrow by nine of the clock in the morning The Counsel as well of the Company of Plaisterers as Painters were appointed to be heard in this House to morrow in the afternoon On Tuesday Decemb. 15. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being for the erecting and making of a Harbour and Key on the north part of Devon in the River of Severn for the safeguard of men and shipping and for the publick good of the Common-wealth was read tertia vice and sent down to the House of Commons for their consideration of an Amendment sent down by Dr. Stanhopp Dr. Swale and Dr. Hone. The Bill for the grant of four entire Subsidies eight Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertia vice and expedited The Bill for naturalizing certain persons born beyond the Seas was read secunda vice The Bill for confirmation of the Subsidy of the Clergy Subsidy of the Clergy confirmed was read prima secunda tertia vice Memorandum That at the second and third reading of the said Subsidy-bill the body of the Grant was omitted to be read according to the accustomed manner and onely the preface and confirmation of the Grant were read and the Bill was sent to the House of Commons by Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Dr. Stanhopp and Dr. Hone. Upon the humble Petition of William Crayford lately committed to the Prison of the Fleet and upon his humble submission and acknowledgment of his offence he was by order of the Court set at liberty Vide concerning this matter on Decemb. 19. following Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam post meridiem hujus diei About which time the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords assembling the Bill for naturalizing certain persons born beyond the Seas was read tertia vice and expedited Eight Bills were brought up to the House of Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for continuance of divers Statutes and for repeal of some others and the second being against the transportation of Ordnance Bill against the transportation of Guns c. Guns Metal Iron-Ore and Iron-shot were each of them read prima vice On Wednesday Decemb. 16. the Bill for the re-edifying repairing and maintaining of two bridges on the River of Edon neer the City of Carlisle in the County of Cumberland was read prima secunda vice Seven other Bills had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for continuance of divers Statutes and for the repeal of some others and the fifth to redress the misemployment of lands goods and stocks of money heretofore given to charitable uses were each of them read secunda vice Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Secretary Cecil Sir Walter Rawleigh and others of which the first being the Bill for the ending and appeasing of all differences and debates between Francis Ketleby of the one part and Andrew Ketleby and Jane his Wife of the other part and the second being for the recovery of many thousand acres of marish grounds subject commonly to surrounding with water within the Isle of Ely and Counties of Cambridge and Suffolk Huntington Northampton Lincoln and Norfolk were each of them read prima vice As also the fifth being the Bill for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners was read prima vice A Message was delivered from the House of Commons by Mr. Controuler and others That the said House was not satisfied concerning the Proviso added by the Lords to the Bill entituled An Act for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer and therefore desired a Conference with some of their Lordships about the same The Conference was yielded unto and appointed to be this afternoon at the outward chamber The Bill entituled An Act for the reformation of Deceits of certain Auditors c. was returned to the House with certain Amendments the Bill with the same Amendments was forthwith twice read and ordered to be ingrossed Upon Conference with the House of Commons concerning the Bill for confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty c. it was agreed by the Committees of both Houses That certain Amendments and Provisoes should be added to the said Bill which were returned to the House and presently twice read and so commanded to be ingrossed And thereupon the Bill it self with the said Amendments and Provisoes were read the third time and sent to the House of Commons for their Consideration of the same by Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam post meridiem hujus diei About which time the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords assembling together eleven Bills had each of them one reading of which the fifth being the Bill for the recovery of many thousand acres of marish grounds subject commonly to surrounding within the Isle of Ely c. the sixth being for redress of certain abuses and deceits used in painting Bill about ensurance amongst Merchants the seventh concerning matters of assurance amongst Merchants and the eighth being for the assize of Fewel were each of them read secunda vice Upon the meeting this afternoon with those of the House of Commons appointed to confer with the Lords Committees in the Bill entituled An Act for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer c. concerning a Proviso added by the Lords to that Bill after some debate by the Committees on both parts thereupon they of the House of Commons did signifie That the said House would allow of the said Proviso so as the same might in some certain points be amended Whereupon question grew between them Whether the said Amendment of the said Proviso should be made in the Upper House upon notice given thereof by the Committees and so be sent down again or else be made in the House of Commons which doubt being reported by the Lords Committees by order and appointment of the House it was agreed by common consent That the Amendments should be made in the House of Commons and sent up in Paper and to be inserted in the body of the Proviso which Order was by the Lords Committees signified to the Committees of the House of Commons and they thereunto assented Whereas it hath been accustomed in former Parliaments that towards the end of the Parliament a Collection should be
preserve us Bless our Consultations and Councels bless the Thoughts of our Hearts bless the Words of our Lips let our Meditations be acceptable in thy sight Let all be directed to the advancement of thy Glory the upholding of thy true Worship the safely of thy blessed Servant and Anointed Queen our dear and dread Soveraign and to the continuance of the Peace and good of this Land Let all prosper that love Thee confound the Councel of the Wicked break their Jaws in their Mouths that speak against thy Truth or have evil will against Her whom in thy great Mercy thou hast set over us multiply and increase her days add age after age in all peace and happiness unto her Years make her a long Nursing Mother unto thy Church a Comfort to thy People a Terror to thine and her Enemies Bless her Armies both at home and abroad bless her going out and her coming in bow down the Backs of all that rise against her continue thy Truth Grace Mercy and Peace amongst us whilst the Sun indureth And we will Offer unto Thee O Lord our God the Sacrifice of Prayer and Thanksgiving we will Praise Thee with joyful Lips our Hearts shall rejoyce in Thee we will sing of thy Salvation all the Days of our Lives and always say Thine is the Kingdom all Power and Glory for ever and ever Amen Munday November A Bill against Ale-Houses c. 2d The House sate and an Act was Read against Excess in Inns Victualling-Houses and Ale-Houses By the preclose of which every Ale-House-Keeper or Inn-Keeper was required to Observe certain Rules or to Forfeit sive Pound An Act for the Breeding of Horses for Service A Bill for breeding of Horses c. and for the avoiding of the stealing of them was put in by the Lord Chief Justice Popham Sir Edward Hobby Sir Edw. Hobby's Speech for Abridgment of Laws Penall made a Speech for the Abridging of the multiplicity of Penal Laws which he said Were the Thornes that did prick but did yield no Fruit and that they being not looked unto it bred in us an alteration of Manners and therefore the Proverb must needs be fulfilled Morum mutatio mutationem legum requirit times are not as they have been and therefore the necessity of the times requires a necessity of the Alteration of Laws and commending the proceedings of former Ages he concluded with a desire of a Commitment Which speech Seconded by Mr. Serjeant Harris was seconded by Mr. Serjeant Harris who said That Anno 27. of the Queen the like motion had been made and that then by reason of the shortness of the time and sudden ending of the Parliament nothing was done therein notwithstanding he said this motion being now so happily made in the beginning of the Parliament he thought it fit for his part to deserve a Commitment He was Seconded again Then by Mr. Wiseman by Mr. Wiseman of Lincolns-Inn who was of the same mind and said That divers particular Laws of his knowledge were now both needless to be performed as also dangerous to the Subjects by reason of the Penalties So a Commitment was granted divers Committees assigned and Fryday in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer-Chamber appointed for that Purpose The Act was Read for Explanation of Statutes for Leases made by Arch-Bishops and Bishops Mr. Speaker shewed to the House That some particular Members found themselves aggrieved That the antient Order for Putting off their Spur before they came into the Parliament-House was not observed which he prayed might be done others would have Boots and Rapiers taken away but nothing was done therein Tuesday November 3. The Act to preserve the Breed of Horses and against the Stealing of them was Read And a motion was made therein by Sir George Moore who said That he feared the Bill would not pass in that two Vouchers by this Bill must be where by a former Statute there is to be but one and that very hardly observed And besides the Law may be defrauded because a poor Man must sell a Horse and so be voucher after and then not able to answer the value So the Bill was Committed and the Committees appointed to meet in the Exchequer-Chamber to Morrow in the Afternoon The Act to restrain the Excess and Abuse used in Victualling-Houses Mr. Johnson moves for Corporal punishment against the Alehouse-Keepers and Mr. Johnson moved that bodily punishment might be inflicted on Alehouse-Keepers that should be offenders and also Provision made therein to restrain Resort to Alehouses In the same Bill Sir George Moore made a Speech against Drunkenness and desired some special Provision might be made against it For although there were Laws already against it yet they did not reach grievous enough to the offence in that kind now Committed And therefore we must not be like Spiders that always keep their old and the same Webs so allowing the same Laws which must alter with the times and touching the Authority that is given to the Justices of Assize and Justices of the Peace by this Bill That they shall assign Inns and Inn-Keepers I think that inconvenient for an Inn is a Mans Inheritance and they are set at great rates and therefore not to be taken away from any particular Man Another wish'd that there might be a reformation of Ale which is now made so strong that he offered to affirm it upon Oath that it is commonly sold for a Groat a Quart It is as strong as Wine and will Burn like Sack Mr. Glascock of Grays-Inn moved to the House and said Glascock against the suppressing of Alehouses for very good Reasons Mr. Speaker I will only liken this Bill to the Suppression of Stews and bawdy-Bawdy-Houses in old time That where then all Whores and Bawds were together in one House now being suppressed every Mans House is a bawdy-Bawdy-House so if you take away Alehouses and hinder them from being Drunk there it will be a ready way to make every Man Drunk at his own House at home Mr. Leigh stood up and moved Mr. Speaker that some of the House were desirous to know what the Lord Keepers Speech was Mr. Leigh 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 the Lord Keepers Speech 〈◊〉 in the upper-Upper-House of Parliament when the Burgesses were kept out And also he complained of a Gentleman Usher that said through the Door of the Upper-House That if they were not quiet they should be set in the Stocks To which Mr. Controuler made answer That he would intreat Mr. Secretary Cicil who was there in regard he had promised to procure them the understanding of the Lord Keepers Speech to deliver the Effect thereof And also he desired the House that for any word spoken to any particular Member of this House by the Usher he would undertake particular satisfaction should be made So after a pause a while Mr. Secretary stood up and spake to to this Effect Secretary Cicil
at this present by force of two Bulls of this Popes by which her Subjects are Absolved of their Obedience That you do only Remember you do it pro aris focis yea we do it for a Prince that desireth not to draw any thing extraordinary out of the Coffers of her Subjects She selleth her Land to Defend us she Supporteth all her Neighbor-Princes to gain their Amity and Establish our long Peace not these five or seven or ten Years but Forty-three Years for all our Prosperities I hope I shall not see her Funeral upon which may be Written Hic Solum restat victrix Orientis and I pray God I may not what we freely give unto Her she living bestows it to our Good dying doubtless will leave it for our Profit Thus have I out of my own Genius for my own part delivered unto you what I know And touching that I have spoken in performing your Commandment I will take no thank from you for my Pains For no man cares with less Affection to speak in this Assembly or desireth to gratify any particular Member of this House more than my self The Bill for Ale was denied to be Committed and not put to the question whether it should be Ingrossed Yea or No. But some Doubt made thereof but as it seemeth if the Committing be denyed it useth not to be Ingrossed because the House will not lightly pass it Sir George Moore moved that where the Lord Keepers Oration was that the greatest matters should be handled in the beginning of the Parliament that a Committee might be Chosen to Certifie the House what those matters were That Order might be taken accordingly which Committee was appointed to meet in the House on Saturday in the afternoon Mr. Secretary Cecil said openly Sir Rob. Wroth offers 100. l. per Annum towards the Wars that Sir Robert Wroth had offered One Hundred Pounds per Ann. towards the maintenance of the Wars On Wednesday Novemb. 4. A Bill was Read for Punishment of the Abusing and Profaning of the Sabbath-Day which after the second Reading was committed and the Committee appointed to meet at two of the Clock in the afternoon in the middle-Temple-Hall Mr. Serjant Harris moved the House That in respect great danger and inconvenience might grow by the want of any one particular Member of this House therefore he thought good to Certifie the want of a Knight for Rutlandshire for he said That Sir Andrew Noell being the Sheriff of the County had return'd himself jointly with Sir John Harrington to be Knights A Motion about a Void Election the Sheriff Returning himself which he took in Law to be a void Return because it is against the express Words of the Writ which are Ita quod neque tu neque aliquis alius Vicecomes alterius Comitatus eligatur c. Which he thought good to move the House in referring it to their Considerations and prayed that the Record may be sent for from the Clerk of the Crown For said he we know in Law that a Man cannot make an Indenture to himself No more can he here between Himself and the County for there are required Two Persons To which Sir Edward Hobby replyed That notwithstanding this Sir Edw. Hobby Replies quotes Precedents the House might well Receive him And he vouched a Precedent in the Twenty-Fifth or Twenty-First of this Queen when a Writ was directed to the Bayliffs of Southwark to return Burgesses and they returned Themselves and were Received But if we do not Receive him another Question will grow Whether a new Warrant must go from the Speaker to Elect a new Knight or from the Clerk of the Crown To which it was agreed per omnes It must go from the Speaker Then Mr. Wiseman of Lincolns-Inn stood up Mr. Wiseman Opposes him and shewed the Necessity of having all our Members because otherwise the Body is but maimed And also how dangerous a Precedent this would be if it might pass with the Applause of the House And lastly the Reason of putting in the afore-said special Words in the Writ because it must be necessarily intended that they being so great Officers having so great a Charge and their Presence in their Counties so requisite should not be returned Besides for that time they be the Chief Men of the Shire Free-Holders peradventure would rather Choose them than Men far more sufficient for that Place Mr. Cary moved Mr. Cary's Motion Whether it were with his Will he should be punished by Fine or otherwise Sir John Harrington said Sir John Harrington excuses the Sheriff Of his own Knowledge he knew him very unwilling But the Free-holders made Answer They would have none other Mr. Speaker said The Speaker is not of his Opinion It could not be intended to be against his Will because his Hand is to the Indenture But he moved Whether it should be intended that this Sir Andrew Noell were Una eadem Persona or no And though he were yet Whether they could take notice thereof and to be certifyed out of Chancery To which all the House said There was no other of the Name Then Mr. Comptroller stood up Mr. Comptroller puts a Question which the House determines and moved That in respect the Return was joynt and that they did disallow Sir Andrew Noell he desired to be resolved of the learned Masters of the Law of this House Whether all the Return was insufficient and so Sir John Harrington to be Excluded To which all the said House said No. Mr. Serjeant Harris said No because the said Warrant is Affirmative to choose any but the Sheriff who is excepted by special Words But the Return of the other is warranted but of him his Election is void Sir Edward Hobby answered Nay then Mr. Serjeant if you stand on that I think there are few Knights in this House lawfully Chosen For the Words of the Writ and of the Statute are That he must be Commorant within the County which but few are To which not one word was answered and so that Clause was shut up Mr. Speaker said A New Election voted Well I will put it to the Question which shall be two-fold One Whether a new Warrant shall be sent forth To which being twice moved all cryed I I I and not one Man said No. Sir Edward Hobby said And the Warrant to be Issued by the Speaker Mr. Speaker the Warrant must go from your self for in the 27. Reginae when Parry was chosen Burgess for Queenborough a new Election was made and the Warrant was sent from the Speaker The Act touching Bishops Leases was read A Bill touching Bishops Leases viz. That no Bishop or Arch-Bishop might make any Lease in Remainder till within Three Years of the expiring of the former Lease To which only Mr. Boyes stood up Mr. Boyes opposes it and gives his Reasons and said That this Act would be prejudicial
this House much more from the general State My Meaning was mistaken and my Words misconstrued yet both in Substance agreeing with Mr. Speaker Sir Edward Stanhop said I think in the Bill for Ale it were very fit that Power were given to Lords in Leets to take the like Penalty and to inquire thereof there And withal that they keep not Victualling nor sell Ale any longer An Act for Redress of certain Abuses used in Painting which when it was offered by the Clerk to be read he being asked by Sir Edward Hobby sitting by him What Bill it was he answered A Bill of no great Moment Nota The same was for the City of London only or for a certain Compass of Miles about it Sir Francis Hastings exhibited a Bill against Blasphemous Swearing At the Committee holden the said Fifth Day of November there were these Precedents shewed Precedents That 〈…〉 of Parliament the 〈◊〉 for New Elections must go from the Speaker to prove That Warrants ought to go from the Speaker in case of Election of Knights and Burgesses in time of Parliament viz. First The Fourth of December 1584. 27. Reginae Valentine Dale Master of the Requests was returned Burgess for Chichester and also for Hydon but he chose Chichester and John Puckering Speaker directed his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to send a Writ to make a New Election in Henden which bare Date the Tenth of December six Dayes after 27 Eliz. Secondly Nota. The Twenty-First of December 1584. The Writ bearing Test the Thirteenth of February for the same Matter In which the Style of the House is The Knights Barons Citizens and Burgesses Quod nota Thirdly The Nineteenth of February 1584. when Parry being Burgess of Queenborough in Kent was attainted for Treason a Warrant was directed to the Clerk of the Crown directing to make a Writ dated the Nineteenth of February afore-said In which Warrant under the Speaker's own Hand was inserted a Reason to this Effect viz. Because the said Parry is disabled by reasen of his Attainder Fourthly The Thirtieth of November 1584. Thomas Bodithe was elected Burgess of Portsmouth and also Baron of one of the Cinque-Ports viz. Hithe but he took Portsmouth and refused the other A Warrant was directed as above-said but no Test of the Writ was there Fifthly The Twenty-Eighth of January 1584. Alexander Pymm Esquire was chosen Burgess of Taunton Being Deceased a new Warrant was directed from the Speaker to the Clerk of the Crown and the Writ bare Test the Thirtieth of January Sixthly The Third of December 1584. John Puckering being Speaker was chosen Burgess for Bedford and for Carmarden who chose Bedford And a VVarrant was directed to the Clerk of the Crown from the Speaker to make a New Writ which bare Date the Fourth of December Anno 27. Eliz. All which VVrits were signed by the Speaker John Puckering For the Matter between Dr. Aubery Doctor of the Civil-Law and Mr. William Delabar Barrister at Common-Law touching the Burgeship of Cardigan in Wales the Case stood thus Cardigan being by antient Precedents ever since 1. Eliz. a Burgess-Town and ever the Return of the Indenture hath been for Cardigan only Now this Parliament the Sheriff of the Shire favouring a Town called Aberistowe after he received the Parliament-Writ sent his VVarrant to the Bayliffs of Aberistone to chuse a Burgess c. who chose for their Burgess Dr. Aubery and returned him Burgess of Cardigan and Aberistowe and shewed in the Indenture the Election to be made by both Towns and the Indenture was signed with the Sheriff's Hand On the other side the Bayliffs of Cardigan understanding the VVrit to be come to the Sheriff took notice thereof and without VVarrant from the Sheriff made an Indenture and Election of William Delabar and sent the same in a Letter unto him Mr. Delabar sought the Sheriff and his Deputy in London to deliver the Indenture of Cardigan but not finding him delivered the same to the Clerk of the Crown paid his Fees was Sworn and admitted into the House till this present Day Now at this Committee of Privileges Dr. Aubery came to complain The Committees found upon Examination of the Matter that the County-Court was kept at Aberistowe at Cardigan Alternis vicibus and that the County-Court was to be kept at this time at Aberistowe So when they went to Conference both Aubery and Delabar were desired to depart forth And upon Consultation these Questions arose First VVhether the House have Power to Fine the Sheriff because according to the Statute he sent not his VVarrant to Cardigan Next If he be punishable by the Penalty of the Statute Also If he have pursued his Authority in making an Election in Aberistowe VVhich were left with divers other Doubts to the Discussing of the House and to the Report of Sir Edward Hobby or Mr. Solicitor Also in the 23 Reginae a VVarrant directed to the Town of Hull from the Speaker Popham now Lord Chief Justice then Speaker Sir Edward Hobby at this Committee A Saying of Sir Edward Hobby said by Aubery and Delabar being the one Civilian the other a Common Lawyer That he might say of them as the Duke of Millan said of the Thief It 's no matter whether goes first the Hang-man or the Thief The Town of Harwich in Essex and New-Town in the County of Southampton returned Burgesses this Parliament which never did before On Friday Novemb 6. An Act for the Uniting Consolidation of certain small Churches in Exeter into one Parish Church An Act for the better setting of Watches in the Night Bill for Setting of Watchmen for the Apprehending of suspected Persons was Read To which Act Sir George More spake and said Mr. Speaker I am still of Opinion That it is good to have trial of Laws before we make them perpetual for those that be Night-walkers offend God do the Common-wealth no good and sin in both In my Opinion therefore it were good to limit the continuance of this Law and that the Defects therein may be the better Examined that it be Committed An Act to prevent and avoid divers lewd Misdemeanors in Base and Idle persons Doct. James a Civilian being a Committee brought in the Act against Drunkards and common haunters of Taverns and Ale-houses An Act for the Inhabitants of Rapesdale in the County of Lancaster touching the Buying of Wools. An Act for the better keeping of the Sabbath-day called Sunday was Read A Bill to avoid Contracts on the Sunday in which Act there was a Proviso That all Contracts made on the Sunday in Fairs or Markets should be utterly Voyd and the Goods so Contracted for Forfeited to the Queens Use Mr. Glascock of Grayes-Inn stood up and spake to this Bill and said Mr. Speaker I would willingly put one Case to the House Mr. Glascockk puts a Pleasant Case To know whether it be their minds If a Man take a Wife on a
Part of the Artificial Body but of Us the General Body when he hath his Free Voice as though he had never spoken before Then the Speaker stood up and said I will propound two Questions The First If when a man hath spoken against the Body of a Bill Speaker puts two Questions about the former Controversy he may be a Committee The Second If any Committee speak against a Bill at the Commitment yet whether he may speak again and have his free Voice Now quoth he I will propound the first Question All that will have a man that hath been against the Body of the Bill to be a Committee let them shew their Opinions by saying Yea. And not one said Yea. All that will not say No. And all said No. So he did for the second Question And not one said No but all Yea. Then he put it to the Question Whether they of London notwithstanding this Order in respect this Commitment so greatly concerned the State should be Committees And the Yeas were greater than the Noes Then he put it to the Question Whether the Two aforesaid Rules should be Entred for Orders of Record And all said Yea. On Thursday Novemb. 12. A Bill was Read for Confirming of Letters Patents made by King Edward Six to Sir Edward Seymor Knight A Bill for the Explanation of the Statutes made 3 4 5 Edv. 6. against Buyers of Butter and Cheese to sell again and against Ingrossers and Forestallers A Bill against the unlawful Hunting and Stealing of Deer in the Night-time was Read the first time A Bill for the Redressing of certain inconveniencies in a Stat. 21 Hen. 8. Cap. 13. Intituled An Act against Plurality of Benefices for taking of Farmes by Spiritual men and for Residence This Bill was drawn by Robert Eyre of Lincolns-Inn That the Proviso of that Statute might be Repealed A Bill for avoiding Frivolous Sutes in Court at Westminster To which Bill one Lashbrook an Attorney spake and shewed the Inconvenience of Scriveners being Atturnies and practising in their Names The Bill against Fraudulent Administration of Intestates Goods after Ingrosment Read and passed The Bill of VVrits of Error also Read after Ingrosment Passed VVhilst there were divers Disputes of this Bill Mr. Fleming the Queen's Solicitor took the Bill to look a word in it after he had done and laid it on the Board One Mr. Brown Clerk A Rule in the House about Bills Comptroller to the Queens Houshold stood up and said Mr. Speaker You should after a Bill is ingrossed hold it in your Hand and let no Man look into it which was confessed by all And so the Speaker took it The House was moved to send these two Bills to the Lords and they Chose Mr. Comptroller and he accompanied with divers others went with them and returned within half an hour The Bill for the Denization of certain Persons viz. Will. Millet Ann Pope George Chandlor Peter Eaton Nicholas Eaton Nicholas Taylor and others Denization of certain Persons was Read the second time and put to the Question to be Ingrossed And all said Yea and there was not one No and never Committed The Bill for Erecting of a Haven or Key on the North-part of Devon on the River of Severn The Officer that Arrested Mr. Cook 's man was brought to the Bar and upon his Submission after a sharp Exhortation was dismissed paying the Serjeant's Fees A Bill for Confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of Letters Patents made by Her Majesty to others Read Secunda Vice and then it was Committed On Friday Novemb. 13. The Bill against the Covetousness of Butchers for Buying and Ingrossing of Lambskins out of Markets and Fairs And a Bill against Pedlars Petty-Chapmen and Hawkers A Bill against Hawkers c. And a Bill for Cloath-workers And a Bill against wilfull Absence from Church on Sundays which Bill Sir Rob. Wroth preferred The Effect whereof is for the better gathering of One Shilling for every Absence which is given by the Stat. of 1 Reginae and the Statute is limited to indure the Queens Reign which was greatly whispered at and Observed in the House The Bill for matters concerning Assurance used amongst Merchants being moved for a Commitment and put to the Question there was not one No. Sir Hugh Beeston stood up in the lower end of the House and said Sir Hugh Beeston We that be here cannot hear you that are above I would it would please them that speak there to speak Louder Also I am to Certify that I am here for a Town but not in mine own Countrey Denbyshire or for any part thereof but if I should not speak something in behalf of my Country I dare not go thither again Therefore I heartily beseech you A Motion about a new Writ Mr. Speaker that the House may be Resolved what course is taken according to the Order of the House for the Election of a Knight and Burgess for they can not but find themselves greatly grieved for want of the Election but what is done I know not Mr. Secretary Cecil said Secretary Cecil reports Because I am the Reporter of the Election as also of the Proceeding I will now also Certify you that there was Order taken for the sending out of a new Warrant for the Election but what is done therein I also know not Mr. Speaker said Mr. Speaker gives Account of it I gave Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown according to the Antient Form to send forth a new Writ who answered me That the Lord Keeper desired to have the Warrant directed to him to have a new Writ and for his Warrant for Sealing thereof So that nothing is done therein in until the Pleasure of the House be known Sir Edward Hobby said There is no Court that doth not observe its Rights and follow its Privileges Sir Edward Hobby Speaks to it Much more this High Court of Parliament being the Greatest and Commander of all other Courts doth and ought to Observe the same most strictly And all the Precedents that I have seen touching this Point have ever gon to the Clerk of the Crown and no other And therefore I take it that that Course ought inviolably to be Observed Sir George Moore said Sir George Moore c. I agree with the Gentleman that last spake That Precedents ought to be Observed yet to be altered upon urgent Occasions or by necessity of time Knowing this I take it as my duty to Inform you if any alteration hath been it proceeded from imperfection of the Speaker It was well Observed by an ancient Member of this House who is now with God that no Conference with the Lords touching a Subsidy should be had yet that Rule hath been altered in late Parliaments by reason of special Causes So I do think it would be more Honour to this House to direct a Warrant to the Lord-Keeper than to an Inferiour Minister
of the Chancery Sir Francis Hastings said Sir Francis Hastings By the Leave of your Honourable Favours I will shew you that I my self was yesterday with the Lord Keeper and how honourably I heard him speak of this House That he desireth no more than to shew the Love and Duty he beareth to this House as also that himself would be our immediate Officer and would be willing and glad to receive a Warrant from us so it might be directed to him for his Discharge be it in what Terms soever we pleased And he said he doubted not but if this Honourable House knew so much they would rather choose him than any other Minister Thus much I thought fit to certify this House of which being spoken in private unto me I now deliver in publick unto you For my own Advice I think nothing can be more Honourable to this House than to have a person of so great Estate to whom we may direct our Warrant as our Minister Mr. Francis Bacon said Mr. Bacon It is far more Honourable for this House in my Opinion when our Warrant shall move the Principal Member of Justice than when it shall command a base petty or inferiour Servant to the Clerk of the Crown or the Clerk of the Petty-Bag It will be said our Warrant emanuit improvide when we shall direct our Warrant to these base Officers when we may move the great Seal of England by it even as soon as either Petty-Bag or Petty Officer Mr. Speaker said Mr. Speaker I was ever Zealous and Jealous of the Privileges and Orders of this House I was commanded by you to send forth a Warrant for the Election of a Knight and Burgesse I found a Resolution and judgment Agreed and Resolved That during the time of the Sitting of this House the Speaker for any new Election is to make a Warrant directed to the Clerk of the Crown so that in my doing thereof I hope I have done rightly Mr. Secretary Cecil said 〈…〉 I shall move unto you a Conclusion which will end this Controversy and in the mean time be a Saving unto all persons I mean not to second my former Errour for which I was excepted to That is that Mr. Speaker or any Member of this House should attend my Lord Keeper but that four of this House might be Assigned to go unto my Lord Keeper to know the cause of the Stay as also his Lordship's request unto this House And that other six may be Assigned to call before them the Clerk of the Crown the Clerk of the Petty-bag and the Clerk of this House with their Precedents and Books to see to whom this Warrant hath in former times been directed and whether the Privileges in former times have daunced a Pavan too and Pro and according to the time have been altered This to be done this afternoon and to certify the House to morrow And then We to make a Determinate Resolution To which all said It was a good Motion Mr. Holteroft a Knight for Cheshire said May it please you Mr. Speaker the County-day for Denbyshire is on Thursday next and therefore there had need be speed made or else there can be no Election this Parliament Mr. Speaker said Will 't please you to name the six Committees So the House Named Sir Edward Hobby Serjeant Harris Sir Francis Hastings and three others Mr. Speaker also said Will 't please you to Nominate the four to go to the Lord Keeper So the House 〈◊〉 Mr. Seceretary Hubbart Sir Edward Stafford Sir Edward Stanhop and Mr. Fulk Grevil On Saturday Novemb. 14. The Bill for the Confirmation of the Sale of Lands made by Leaes Lord Mordant Deceased The Bill for Amending the Statute made 8 Reginae concerning the making of Hats A Bill to enable Sir Edward Markham Knight to sell Lands was Read and committed The Committee to meet on Friday in the afternoon in the Court of Wards The Bill for the Repealing of certain Statutes for the Reforming of certain Abuses in Cloathing in the County of Somerset Mr. Johnson said Mr. Johnson informed that he is Subâ—…d Mr. Speaker I being a Member of this House I thought it my Duty to Inform you That my self and divers others are served with Subpanas I do not this either that I am loath to answer or desire to delay Justice but to Inform the House thereof by Peradventure it might be a Precedent or some prejudice to the Priviledge of this House Here is one which is now delivered into my Hand The House Cryed Read it So the Clerk Read it Edvardo Mountague Jacobo Harrington c. indorsatur Stephanus Riddlesden sequitur hoc Another was read Michaëli Hicks Thomae Lowe in Cancellaria Another Henrico Jackman Jeronimo Horsey in Scaccaria ad sectam Thomae Cornwallis Armigeri per Billam Anglicanam Another Michaëli Same 's Riccardo Same 's in Banco Reginae ad Testificandum inter Reginam Johannem Stray After the Reading of which he certified the House thus much That the Informer came to his Lodging this Morning as he was coming out of the Doors and asked for him he told him He was the Man Then quoth the Informer the Queen Greets you well What 's this quoth I A Subpoena quoth the Informer and I charge you to appear upon it according to the Contents Then I told him I was of this House and could not Attend He answered me again There it is I care not look you to it at your Peril Mr. David Waterhouse stood up and shewed David Waterhouse shews Reasons for the Allowing it That the Subpoena came out of his Office and further shewed The Necessity of Obeying it For that a Cause for want of a Witness might be lost And therefore if the Hearing be appointed at a Day certain the Client might peradventure be undone if he should not have this Subpoena ad Testificandum in due time both served and appeared unto Sir Edward Hobby alledged divers Precedents in this Point Sir Edward Hobby shews Precedents against it as the 10th of February 27 Reginae Mr. Kerle served one Roger Stepney with a Subpoena into the Star-Chamber for which he was adjudged to the Serjeant at Arms Keeping for Six Dayes and to pay Five Marks Charges And the 25th of March 27 Reginae Mr. Crook served a Member of this House with a Subpoena into the Chancery and for so doing was adjudged to give a Copy of the Bill and Twenty Shillings for Charges and was committed to the Serjeant's Keeping Mr. Wiseman said Seconded by Mr. Wiseman against it That notwithstanding the Allegation and Excuse of the Gentleman that spake in Favour of the Subpoena ad Testificandum I think it deserveth no more Favour than the other For if the Necessity of the Cause were such that he must needs be served and spared out of this House the Party ought to ask Leave of the House or at least of
to Newgate And there after a discharge gotten because he said he was a Servant to a Parliament Man he was no sooner discharged but he was strait again Arrested and carried to the Compter and there laid all Night until he sent to the Serjeant at Armes who fetched him out and kept him in his Custody And now this Day at the Bar he desired the privilege of the House he being a special Servant to a Member thereof Mr. Moore makes a Doubt Whether he could have Privilege so after he was removed out Mr. Francis Moore said I think it will grow a Question Whether he shall have privilege in that his Master is not Sworn nor here Nota Mr. Browne pleads he had as all others Fourteen days before the Meeting or Swearing of the House Where Note The Members then claimed but Fourteen Days before a Session which is now reck'ned Forty Dayes Mr. Brown said Every Parliament-Man hath privilege for himself and Servants Fourteen Days before the Parliament and this is before he is returned or Sworn much more ought we to give privilege in this Case Then was Musket that procured the Arrest brought in and being demanded the Reason How he durst meddle with any Mans Servant of the House he Answered That the said Soliciter being demanded whether he Served any Parliament-Man He Answered No. Which indeed afterwards proved untrue when they were brought Face to Face Then the Serjeant was brought in who said He was put to his Choice Whether he would tarry still at Newgate or go to the Compter Being further asked Whether he could say any more in his own Excuse He said No. So the Solicitor was brought in who justified that he was first Arrested and after Discharged and then the second time Arrested as aforesaid So they were both removed out of the House Sir Edward Hobby took hold of the Speech made by the Serjeant of his Choice to stay in Newgate or to go to the Compter as also that he was doubly Arrested and paid double Fees So after Consultation had it was put to the Question and agreed by the House That they both should pay the Solicitors Cost and Damages and be imprisoned three days in the Serjeants Custody And each of them both Musket and the Serjeant to Pay the Serjeant Attending this House his Fees and the Solicitor to Pay none and so to be Discharged A Bill for Confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of Letters-Patents made by her Majesty to others being Ingrossed was Read the Third time and without Speech or denyal Passed only Mr. â—ale of the Temple said No. Mr. Secretary Herbert said Secretary Herbert's Report from the Lord-Keeper According to Your Commandment Sir Edward Stafford and my self went to my Lord Keeper and delivered unto him That Notwithstanding some Allegations which were Alleadged on the behalf of his Lordship concerning our Resolutions about the Warrants which upon mature Deliberation we found by Precedents That they ought to go and be directed to the Clerk of the Crown His Lordship after a small Pause The Keeper's Reply to him c. Answered That he now Considered the Weightiness of divers Businesses that were now in hand The Consultation which we were likely presently to have touching the Bill of Subsidy That the Enemy the Spaniard was Landed in Ireland and the business of those Affairs of great Imports as also his own Business in the upper-Upper-House and the short end which was like to be of this Parliament And therefore he would now not stand to make Contention or shew his further Reasons but prayed us to certify you all That he would be most ready and willing to perform the desire of this House The Bill of Petty-Theft and Patents aforesaid were sent up to the Lords by Sir John Fortescue and Mr. Secretary Hubbart The House called upon Mr. Secretary to go but he desired to be excused because he was troubled with a Cold. A Bill to restrain the Transportation of Money out of the Realm A Bill to prevent Transporting of Bulloin and to Reform certain Abuses in the Exchanges was Read Mr. Fettyplace a Burgess for London spake to this Bill and said Mr. Fettyplace speaks to that Bill It is to be thought that the Netherlander having so much use for Money is the Exporter thereof out of this Realm The French King made it a Law That no man on pain of Death should Export Money thence Germany holdeth the Standard so doth France and so do We. But the Netherlander only doth not and he only thereby gained of all Three There be good Statutes already made to this purpose both in the time of Rich. 2. Hen. 3. Hen. 4. Hen. 5. and Hen. 6. That no Stranger should bring Commodities into this Land but he should bring in so much Money c. He made a very long Speech touching the manner of Trade by Exchange in Merchants Language which I could not well Note So the Bill was committed and the Chequer-Chamber appointed the place and Friday in the afternoon the Time Mr. Henry Mountague shewed That 17. Ed. 4. Mr. Mountague for the Bill such Transportation was made Felony and never since Transportation much heard of till this Queens Days in whose time none of those Laws are in force which if they were revived and set on Foot again I think such kind of Transportation would be less used than it is One of the Burgesses of Yarmouth Moved All Officers of Ports might be certified of such Goods as be Exported and the Skipper bound in Bond to be sent to her Majesties Custom House c. Mr. Davis said Mr. Speaker Mr. Davies about Money and Barture in Trade I hold this Paradox for a true ground of Policy That if there were no Money in the World then this Kingdom were the happiest Nation in the World And the best Age was when there was only bartering of Commodities For one yard of Cloath would be better than three yards of Velvet And an Ounce of Iron for the Use of man better than a Pound of Gold A Bushel of Corn better than ten Bushels of Pepper or other Grain The fundamental Cause of this Bill was That we might not be Cozened of our Moneys who have the best Standard in the World For now the Exchange is Governd by Brokers and as it pleases them the Exchange must Rise and Fall So the Bill was Committed The Bill for Setting of Watches was Read and Committed the Place of meeting appointed the Court of Wards and Tuesday next in the afternoon the Time A Bill for the Relief of Theophilus Adams touching certain obligations reputed to be made void by the Statute of 39 Eliz. intituled An Act c. Some say this Bill was cast out of the House the last Parliament On Fryday Novemb. 20. An Act for the Assurance of the Jointure of Lucy Countess of Bedford A Bill Prohibiting Fairs to be held on Sunday by which
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.
an Original Writ within the Year and so let it lie dormant After which Motion The Bill passed the House after four Hours Argument and sitting till three quarters of an hour after Twelve was devided The I I I. had 151. Voices and the Noes 102. so the Bill passed by 49. Voices Then the Noes should have fetched the Bill and goe out with it because it was at the passage of the Bill but because the time was past and it was very late and several Committees to sit this afternoon they were dispensed withal On Friday Decemb. 4. A Bill for the Repealing of a Statute made 14. Reginae for the length of Kersies A Bill touching Weights and Measures A Bill for the Confirmation of the Authority of the Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of London touching St. Katharin's Creed-Church London was Committed the place and time appointed for Meeting Doctors Commons on Friday next at two of the Clock in the afternoon A Bill intituled an Act for the Assuring of the Patronage of the Vicarage of Rotherston to Thomas Venables Esquire brought in by Mr. Clayfeild of Grays Inn who shewed That all the Parties were agreed to the Bill and called at the Committee to the Amendments was put to the Question and Ordered to be Ingrossed A Bill for Dreining of certain Grounds in the Fenny Countries after Commitment now brought in by Sir Robert Wroth who certified the House only of one little Amendment and the Omission of a long and Frivulous Proviso was also put to the question and Ordered to be Ingrossed A Bill to prevent Perjury and Subornation of Perjury and unnecessary expences in Suits in Law after commitment yesterday it was brought in by the Collector of this Journal who was Chosen to Report it to the House He shewed That the Committees had only put in the word That and commanded him to offer to the Consideration of the House the substance of the Bill c. and so he Recited it As also that there was Disputed an Exception That no Suits might be removed that were under Forty Shillings but for that perhaps it would be thought to be prejudicial to the Prerogative of the Courts at Westminster the Judges in the upper House would not so willingly assent to the Passage of this Bill Lastly because by long and Antient Custome and Common Law Suits might be Removed c. now being an Innovation and because vve know not how beneficial this Law vvill be therefore it vvas thought by the Committees convenient that it should have a time of Probation untill the end of the next Parliament And so it vvas put to the Question and Ordered to be Ingrossed A Bill for Reformation of Abuses in Sheriffes and other inferior Officers for not Executing Writs and Proclamations was Committed the time and place appointed for Meeting the Midle-Temple-Hall on Monday in the afternoon A Bill for making of Fustians vvithin this Realm and profit to the Common-Wealth by the same vvas Committed and the place and time of Meeting appointed the Exchequer-Chamber on Tuesday in the afternoon A Bill prohibiting Fairs and Markets to be holden on the Sunday vvas Committed to the former Committees for the Sabbath and the time of Meeting to be to morrow Sir Edward Hobby said It pleased the House about the beginning of the Parliament to appoint certain Committees to receive the Complaints and hear Causes touching the Privileges of the House we have met but never above three or four at one time together May it please the House That the Committees Names may be Read and that warning may be given to all to meet to morrow in the afternoon at the Court of Wards there to Debate those matters that shall happen questionable And also I am to move you to take notice of an Information exhibited in the Star-Chamber against a Member of this House which it pleased you to Commit over upon Information thereof to be decided at the Committee And all said I I I. Mr. Phillips said It pleased the House to Commit a Bill for Reformation or Explanation of the Law made 39. Reginae The Committees met and entred into three Considerations First whether the Act of 39. Reginae Intituled An Act to Reform Deceipts and breaches of Trusts touching Lands given to Charitable Uses should stand in force or no as now it is And all generally agreed it should not The Second vvas vvhether Reformation thereof should be by Explanation or Abroation And in the end it was concluded it should be by Abrogation The third was whether it should be Abrogated by the general Repeal of Statutes or that there should be a particular Statute for that purpose And 't was agreed that it should be done by a particular Statute And for that purpose being so Commanded by the Committee I have drawn a Bill referring it to the Wisdome of the House to be Considered of The Title is An Act for the good Execution of Charitable Uses in this Statute particularly mentioned Doctor Cary and the Clerk of the Crown brought a Bill from the Lords for the Suppressing of the multitude of Ale-Houses and victualling-Victualling-Houses which was presently Read Mr. Johnson upon hearing this Bill Read said Methinks there is an apparent Fault and that is the Fill gives liberty to Justices of the Peace to search c. which by the Generality thereof is as well within Corporations as without and therefore good to be considered of A Bill for continuance of divers Statutes and for Repealing of some others Mr. Serjeant Harris moved That the Statute for Tillage might be continued and said If we shall continue and discontinue upon every slight motion good Laws we shall do like little Children which make babies then beat them then pull them in pieces A Bill for the Relief of the Poor brought in by Sir Robert Wroth. The substance of the Information of which Mr. Tate the last day spake of And also Sir Edward Hobby this day An Information by Edward Coke Her Majesties Atturney Mr. Atturney Coke who sheweth That the Queen Calleth her Parliament and that her self is the Chief Peer thereof And that it was called for divers Weighty Causes and Matters And therein further shewed that the Town of Leicester in the County of Leicester is an Ancient Burrough-Town And that the said Burrough sends Burgesses to the Parliament-House And whereas the Parliament began the Twenty Seventh Day of October and they Chose George Belgrave of Belgrave Esquire in the said County of Leicester to be Burgess for the said I own supposing the said George Belgrave to come with the good liking and free consent of the Earl of Huntington without whose Advice the said Town neither hath nor will choose any Burgess whereas indeed he is a noted Enemy to the said Earl of Huntington and finding and fearing they would not Choose him because of the same he the said Belgrave against the said Election prepared put on his back a blew Coat with a Cognizance
being a Bulls-head set upon the sleeve of the same and thereby they imagined him to be the said Earles man Chose him as aforesaid And the rather to make himself sure of the said Election he offer'd upon his Corporal Oath to affirm that he was servant to and in good Favour with the said Earl with this lewd Practice the said Earl being much grieved and offended the same being being greatly to his prejudice having the Election of a Burgess there to the dishonour of Her Majesty and the House of Parliament that any Member thereof should be Chosen by such Covin and indirect Practice Prayed c. It was agreed that the Subsidy-Bill should be Read to morrow and the House called On Saturday Decemb. 5. A Bill for the grant of Four intire Subsidies and Eight Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty Read Mr. Symnel said I am not against this Bill of Subsidie for far be it from me that any such Thought should harbour in my Heart for I am of that Opinion which Cicero the famous Orator was of That whosoever would live in safety must abide necessity But all that I have to say is this That we would be humble Suitors to their Honours that sit about the Chair That it would please them to move Her Majesty That that most gracious and general free Pardon which it will please Her Majesty to bestow upon us might have no more shortness than it had at the beginning of Her Reign For if Her Majesty out of Her Goodness took Compassion upon us when we had nothing so many Penal and Intrapping Laws as we now have I hope that seeing the Statutes do abound it will please Her That Her Grace would Superabound This is my most humble Motion and this I do most humbly Pray That the House would Consider of it It was put to the Question for the Passing of the subsidy-Subsidy-Bill and all cryed I I I. and not one No. And it was Moved by Sir Edward Hobby That it might presently be sent up to the Lords with all the House and not by the Privy Council alone for the more honour thereof which was well liked and agreed unto Mr. Boyce brought in the Bill touching the joynture of Rachel the Wife of Edward Nevil of Burling in Kent A Bill for the more diligent Resort to the Church on Sundays was Read Mr. Roger Owen said That he was of the same Opinion he before had been of for Amendment of the said Bill and that himself was as willing for the Passing thereof as any other And he desired that his Errour if it were Answered might be judged Error Amoris and not Amor erroris And that as God had given him a Heart to understand and Lights and Lungs to Cool the Heat of his Heart so God had given him Understanding to cool and temper the Heat of his Soul And so he Proceeded and made a brief Repetition with some Arguments for Confirmation of the same Speech he first made Mr. Winch said I much marvail That the Gentleman which last spake would speak against this Bill allowing so well the matter I know him well and his Bringing up and both his Sufficiency and Zeal which I very well know and am well perswaded of His Speech consisted of four Points The first I heard not The second was because it repugned Magna Charta The words being Nemo Capiatur nemo imprisonetur c. nisi per pares aut per legem terrae The third because in Repeal of the Statute of 1 Reginae Authority is taken from the Justices of Assize The Fourth the 23 Reginae not Repealed c. which he Answered all but not fully Serjeant Harris moved two Doubts in the Bill First That it was by Information which appeared after to be vitium Scriptoris for it was Information by Jury now by Jury was written over Information in the interlining and the Caret made before Information whereas it should have been after the other was That Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction was taken from the Queen which indeed I could not find well Answered So the Bill was put to the question and the most Voices were I I I. At the Committee in the Afternoon in the House for some Course to be taken against Dunkirk Mr. Fettyplace shewed a remedy three manner of ways First there is a Transportation of Ordnance which being carried to the Low Countries he carrieth it to Dunkirk or our Enemies which if it were hindred doubtless our Enemies would find want in time Secondly the Law of Tonnage and Poundage Thirdly it hath been offered to the State that the Maritine parts might save themselves freely And I take it to be a Rule in policy We should not yeild that to our Friends which may be fitting to our Foes against us It was concluded at this Committee that all the Coast-Town Men of the Committee should meet together in the Afternoon on Monday and consider of some Course and relate the same to the Committee Mr. Wingfield shewed me the Bill Touching Fenns which was Exhibited the last Parliament and passed both Houses but Advised upon by Her Majesty for some respects Entituled An Act for the recovering of Three Hundred Thousand Acres more or less of Wastes Marish and Watery grounds in the Isle of Ely and in the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk Suffolk c. On the left side on the Top of the Bill was written in Roman Letters Soit baylle as Signieurs And close to the same in another hand A cest Bill avecque les amendments la provision a celle Communes les Suis sont Assentu's And underneath the Provision Annexed to the Act on the left side thereof close to the writing was written Soit baylle Aux Communes And on the back under the Title aforesaid was writen thus .2 .3 He shewed me also the Bill for Fenns in this Parliament intituled An Act concerning the Dreining and Recovery from the Water of certain over-Flown Grounds in the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk c. Sunday December 6. On Monday December 7. A Bill for Ludgate A Bill Touching the Countess of Sussex her Joynture A Bill Touching Cox and Dethick A Bill for the better making of Woollen Cloth A Bill prohibiting Markets and Fairs to be kept on the Sunday was brought in from the Committee by Mr. Doyly and put to the question and agreed to be ingrossed A Bill concerning the Assize for Feuel was read and Committed the place of meeting the Court of Wards and to Morrow in the Afternoon the time A Bill for the better Execution of the Good and Charitable Uses hereafter in this Statute mentioned It was Committed to the former Committees Mr. Bacon said I am Mr. Speaker Mr. Bacon reports about a New Bill for Insurances c. to tender to this House the Fruit of the Committees Labour which tends to the comfort of the Stomack of this Realm I mean the Merchant which if it quail or fall
into a Consumption the State cannot Choose but shortly be Sick of that Disease It is inclining already A Certainty of Gain is that which this Law provides for And by Policy of Assurance the safety of Goods is Assured unto the Merchant this is the Loadstone that draws him out to adventure and to streach even the very Punctillio of his Credit The Committees have drawn a New Bill far different from the Old the first limitted power to the Chancery this to certain Commissioners by way of Oyer and Terminer The first that it should only be there this that only upon Appeal from the Commissioners it should be finally Arbitrated But lest it should be thought to be very vexatious the party Appellant must lay in deposito c. And if upon Hearing it goes against him must pay double Costs and Damages we thought this course fittest for two Reasons First Because a Suit in Chancery is too long a course and the Merchant cannot indure delays Secondly Because our Courts have not the knowledge of their Terms neither can they tell what to say upon their Cases which be Secrets in their Science proceeding out of their Experience I referr the Bills both Old and New to your considerations wishing good Success therein both for comfort of the Merchants and Accomplishment of our desires The Bill is intituled An Act for Policy of Assurance used amongst Merchants Sir Edward Hobby said It was the good pleasure of this House Sir Edward Hobby to referr the consideration of an Information Exhibited against a Member of this House one of the Burgesses for the Town of Leicester viz. Mr. Bellgrave the Scope and purpose of which Information pretendeth an Abuse to be done to this High Court. The Gentleman himself was at the Committee and did acknowledge the substance of the Suggestion but denyed the Circumstance Some of the Committees Censured it to be an Enormous fault to invest himself for so the words of the Information are in a blew Coat but others were of a contrary opinion because they were satisfied upon Allegations Alleadged that it was done ad reducendam vexationem which had been offer'd unto him and so he thought to right himself this way Besides I am to inform the House that this information is put in Sedente Curia and therefore thought by the Committees some disgrace to the same And because this Gentleman should not take benefit of this Pardon therefore the Information is now put in as I said Sedente Curia which I wish the House to Note And because he should be debarred of remedy against the party he hath therefore caused the same to be Exhibited in Mr. Atturney-Generals name May it please the House because he desireth to be heard and being now here that he may speak for himself in that he told the Committees he had some special matter to deliver unto you and if he shall be found Culpable he would most willingly abide your Censures But because some other Bills were to be read of importance this was referred over till some other time A Bill for continuance of divers Statutes and repeal of some others Mr. Francis Moor desired it might be read and also the Exposition of the Justices upon the Statute of 39. Reginae concerning Rogues which if it please the House he thought fit to be Annexed to that Statute Mr. Bacon said Mr. Facon speaks against a Bill and dashes it There were never yet but two Articuli the one Articuli super Chartas when the Sword stood in the Commons Hands the other Articuli Cleri when the Clergy of the Land bare sway and that done upon deliberation and grave advise I beseech you remember these are done by Judges and privately and perhaps in a Chamber And shall we without scanning or view Enact them It befits not the Gravity of this House And so after a long speech dashed it Doctor Stanhop and Dr. Cary brought a Bill from the Lords Intituled An Act for the more Peaceable Government of the parts of Cumberland Northumberland Westmorland and the Bishoprick of Durham A Bill to prevent the double-payment of Debts sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others And a desire withall to have a conference with some few Touching the Bill sent from them of Eye and Dunsden to be re-united to the Mannor of Sunning The cause of this Conference came from a Motion made by Mr. Serj. Harris who said That for some especial cause and interest it was desired which I learned after what it was by Mr. Fettyplace Burgess of London that there was an admitting of all Assurances so the Londoners barred of their right which they had by reason this Eye and Dunsden were part of the Land assured to the City of London for the Loan of Twenty Thousand Pounds Lent to the Queen to be repaid at a certain time And if this Act should thus pass they were barred The Lords returned word That Ten of them would meet And so Twelve of our House were Chosen to meet them to Morrow in the afternoon Mr. Bacon Mr. Bacon upon a question that should have been propounded to the House whether the Statute 39 Elizabeth Touching Charitable Uses should be the General Act or the particular Act Exhibited by Mr. Philips said amongst many other things That the last Parliament there were so many other Bills for the Relief of the Poor that he called it a Feast of Charity And now this Statute of 39 Elizabeth having done so much good as it was delivered to the House And the Lord Keeper having told him that he never revoked but one decree of the Commissioners we should do a most Uncharitable Action to repeal and subvert such a mount of Charity and therefore said That we should rather tenderly foster it then roughly cry away with it I speak quoth he Mr. Speaker even out of the strings of my Heart which doth Alter my ordinary Form of speech for I speak not now out of the Fervency of my Brain c. So he spake somthing more against the Bill put in by Mr. Philips for Repeal by reason Bishops Lands were put in and Inrolments which he said was a good Fetch and Policy for the sole practices of the Chancery Mr. Philips answered Mr. Philips against Mr. Bacon That he would not speak as he had spoken rather out of Humor than out of Judgment neither had he brought to the House a Market-Bill or Mercers Bill concerning the State And so after many perswasions for the Bill and bitter Answers to Mr. Bacon he ended with a desire to put it to the Question whether it should be Repealed by the publique Act or his private Bill Mr. Johnson moved That the Question might be Whether it should be as well in the General Law as the particular Mr. Glascock said Glascock contra Philips I think the Gentleman that last spake Mr. Johnson a surveyor hath better Skill in Measuring of Land than Mens Consciences
should be further Disputed in And most said No No and there were some Six I I I the rather for that it had a Prohibition for bringing of Millan Fustians and also a desire to be made a Corporation But Mr. Francis Bacon kept such a quoil to have the Bill concerning Charitable Uses put to the Question which was then also to be debated that this Bill was clean husht up On Wednesday December 9. A Bill for Establishing of certain Conveyances and State of Lands betwixt one Sandis and Harris A Bill Touching Gavel-kind Lands ordered to be Engrossed A Bill for the Erecting of a Haven on the North-part of Devonshire ordered to be Engrossed A Bill for the Trinity-House Entituled An Act for maintenance of Shipping and Increase of Sea-faring men committed and the time appointed for meeting is this Afternoon A Bill for the Confirmation of the Mayor of London's Authority in St. Katharines c. ordered to be Engrossed A Bill for the True making of Cloth was committed the time of Meeting to Morrow and the place the Exchequer-Chamber After the reading of this Bill Dr. Newcoman offered a Proviso to be added to the Bill for saving the Aulnager's Right and the Queens Customs Sir Edward Hobbys Brief of Bellgraves Case to be debated at the Conserence the House bade him keep it offer it to the Committee Sir Edward Hobby offerd a Brief to the House of the Conference that should be had with the Lords Touching Mr. Bellgraves matter The effect whereof being read to the House was this viz. The Conference with the Lords must consist of two points First Touching an offence Committed by Mr. Bellgrave Secondly for the Infringing of the Liberty of the House For the First that the Commons would do nothing therein until a Conference with them For the Second to know the reason of their Lordships appointment of the Information and to bring it to some end The House agreed to the points and allowed of them A Bill for the more peaceable Government of the Counties of Northumberland Cumberland Westmorland and the Bishoprick of Durham the first Reading The points to be consider'd of in the continuance of Statutes were read and offer'd still to dispute whether the Statute of Tillage should be continued Mr. Johnson said In the time of Dearth when we made this Statute it was not consider'd Mr. Johnson about the Statute for Tillage to have it repealed that the hand of God was upon us And now Corn is Cheap and if too Cheap the Husband man is undone whom we must provide for for he is the Staple-man of the Kingdom and so after many Arguments he concluded it was fit to be Repealed Mr. Bacon said The Old commendation of Italy by the Poet Mr. Bacon opposes it is Potens viris atque Ubere Gleba And it stood not with the Pollicy of the Kingdome that the wealth of the Kingdome should be Engrossed into a Few Pasturers Hands And if you will put in so many Provisoes as he desired you will make so great a window out of the Law that we shall put the Law out of the Window The Husband-Man is a strong and hardy Man the good Foot-man which is a Chief observation of good Warriours c. So he concluded the Statute was not to be Repealed Sir Walter Rawleigh said I think this Law fit to be repealed Sir Walter Rawleigh to have it repealed for many poor men are not able to find Seed to Sow so much Ground as they are bound to Plow which they must do or incur the Penalty of the Statute Besides all Nations abound with Corn France offer'd the Queen to serve Ireland with Corn at Sixteen Shillings a quarter which is but Two Shillings a Bushel if we should sell it so here the Plow-Man would be beggar'd The Low-Country-Man and the Hollander who never Sow Corn have by their industry such Plenty that they will serve other Nations The Spaniard that often wanteth Corn had we never so much Plenty would never be beholding to the English-Man for it neither to the Low-Country-Man nor to France but will fetch it even of the very Barbarian And that which the Barbarian hath been sueing for these 200 Years I mean for Traficque of Corn into Spain this King in Policy hath set at Liberty of himself because he will not be beholding unto other Nations And therefore I think the best Course is to set it at Liberty and leave every man Free which is the Desire of a true Englishman Mr. Secretary Cecil said I do not dwell in the Country Secretary Cecil of a contrary mind nor am I acquainted with the Plough But I think that whosoever doth not maintain the Plough destroys the Kingdome There was the last Parliament great Arguments on this Point and after a deliberate Disputation the Passing of this Bill was concluded My Motion therefore shall be That this Law may not be Repealed except former Laws may be in Force and Revived Say that a Glut of Corn should be Have we not a sufficient remedy by Transportation which is allowed by the Policy of all Nations I cannot be induced or drawn from this Opinion upon Government of Foreign States I am sure when Warrants go from the Councel for levying of men in the Countries and the Certificates be returned to us again we find the greatest part of them to be Plow-men And excepting Sir Thomas Moore 's Utopia or some such fained Common-wealth you shall never find but the Plow-man is chiefly provided for the neglect whereof will not only bring a general but a particular indempnity to every man If in Ed. 1. his time a Law was made for the Maintenance of the Fry of Fish and in Hen. 7. time for the preservation of the Eggs of wild Foul shall we now throw away a Law of more Consequence and Import If we debar Tillage we give scope to the depopulator and then if the poor being thrust out of their Houses go to dwell with others straight we catch them with the Statute of Inmates If they wander abroad and be stubborn they are within the danger of the Statute of Rogues If they be more humble and urgent Beggars then are they within the Statute of the poor to be Whipped and Tormented So by this means undo this Statute and you indanger many Thousands Posterior dies discipulus prioris If former times have made us wise to make a Law let these latter times warn us to preserve such a good Law All that I can say is this Policy Nature Charity and Honour do desire of these Proceedings in Charitable uses Mr. Selby desired that the County of Northumberland might be exempted out of the Statute because it was so nigh the Scots and the Country was so infested with the Plague that not only whole Families but whole Villages have been swept away with that Calamity And so he made a long Speech to that effect Mr. Serjeant Yelverton and Doctor
is a Curse to all People and especially the poor Creatures that come from the Warrs Poor Friendless and Unhappy I am glad you are resolved this Statute shall be kept alive whereby in some measure those poor maimed Souls shall be provided for For both Religion and Charity willeth us to fall into Consideration of Amendment I do not this out of Popularity because I have been often times taxed by the men of War and more than any Gentleman of England For when I have seen Souldiers deceived by their Captains I have taxed them for it and that makes me odious unto them A Captain is a man of Note and able to keep himself but a Souldier is not I wish not any to think that I do speak of all Captains for I make a difference between the Corn and the Chaff The Statute is is That the poor Souldier must be Relieved either by the Country where he was Born or out of which he was Pressed But if that were amended and only to be relieved in the Country where he was Born this would yield a more certainty and greater Relief For in a mans Country either Charity Kindred or Commiseration will breed Pity But out of the Country where he was Prest that cannot be expected For the multitude prest out of some little Shire grows to be greater and the Charge more than in some other three Shires As in London where there be many Parishes infinite Housholds and Numbers Prest Besides there be divers Shires subject to great Levies and the division so small that it is a meer trifle as in Lancashire in respect of the Vicinity to Ireland where the Disease of the War is If it may please you that a Commitment may be had I shall be ready to attend it at which time I will speak further And so a Commitment was appointed Mr. Francis Moore said There is a Bill for the Reducing of the two Statutes for Souldiers into one it hath lain in the Deck this fortnight If it had been Read it might have been Committed Mr. Swale said Mr. Swale about the Tax for Dover-Haven There was a Doubt whether the Tax for Dover-Haven should be continued by force of the Statute the Tax is of Three Pence a Tun for the burthen of every Ship He said That the Seamen and Merchants for want of sufficient maintenance were turned to Fisher-men And the Fisher-man if he made but two Tuns of Trayn-Oyl with the Blubber of New-found-Land Fish this causes the Ship to be Taxed for the whole Burthen which is grievous to the Subject Much Money hath been Levied It comes to at least One Thousand Marks a Year and the Haven never the better Nay Mr. Speaker it is grown into a Proverb If a Tax be once on foot God sheild it continues not as Dover-Haven Mr. Boys said Mr. Boys plea is to continue it There was great Reason to continue the Tax in respect of the continual maintenance of the Haven which is the best in England for all Necessities It will ship as many men in three hours as any other Haven in a day And he said That besides former Expences there is now above Four-Hundred-Pounds-worth of Stones for the Reparation thereof ready upon the Haven Sir John Fortescue said Sir John Fortescue seconds him The Proverb is Tractent fabrilia fabri The Gentleman that first spake had not so good Instructions as he might have had There be Brew-houses and Bake-houses for the Provision of Victuals for Shipping the Haven will receive Ships of Three Hundred Tuns and is most necessary for the passing of all Merchants The Tax is small and times may be when the Haven shall need a great Tax at one time And if this should be taken away what then And therefore I think it most fit to be Continued Mr. Comptroller said And the Comproller speaks for it Me thinks we take a very Imprudent Course to go about at this present to take away a Tax which maintains Dover-Haven We are now in Dispute how to defend our selves from the Dunkirkers and to strengthen our own Havens If we take away this Tax we shall weaken this Haven which is the most necessary Haven of England and therefore I would wish no man to wrong the State so much and to be so respectless of the Good of the Navy by speaking out of any particular humor of his own Sir Walter Rawleigh said Sir Walter Rawleigh of the same Perswasion There be divers Havens which have been Famous and now are gone to Decay as Lynmouth and Setow and Winchelsey Rye is of little Receipt Sandwich as a Burgess of that Town said this Parliament Mr. Peake is even a going The Tax being imployed as it should be I hold it both good and necessary and there is no Trade of Fisher-men to Newfound-Land but by this Haven of Dover which if the Tax be taken away and that go to Decay Her Majesty shall lose one of the best and most necessary Havens of England which hath all the Commodities that Mr. Chancellor shewed and lieth opposite to all our Enemies Countries who may soon be with us and we not able to resist them and help our selves should we want this Haven And so it was Committed I think it therefore fit this matter should be Considered of and Committed And so it was Mr. Speaker said Mr. Speaker informs the House how long they are to Continue I am to deliver unto you Her Majesties Commandment That for the better and more speedy dispatch of Causes we should Sit in the Afternoons which being Moved at the first here and Her Majesty taking notice thereof well liketh and approveth of it And likewise That about this day Seven-night Her Majesties Pleasure is This Parliament shall be ended The House sate this Afternoon A Bill was Returned in to Confirm the Assurance of the Mannors or Farms of Sayeburie alias Sadgeburie and Obden and other Hereditaments to Samuel Sande Esquire and John Harris Gentleman and their Heires A Bill for the Relief of the necessity of Souldiers and Mariners was Read the first time Mr. John Hare Moved That Bills might only be Read the first or second time and not put to the Question in the Afternoon Sir Edward Hobby I Approve of the Motion that the Gentleman made And I ever held this for a Rule Manè Consilium Serò Convivium c. Mr. Richard Messenger Moved That the Collectors for the Ten Pound and Five Pound upon every private Bill might be Chosen by the House And no private Bills might be sent up to the Lords before the Fee be paid The Question was in the House Whether the Fish-mongers of London their Proviso should be added to the Statute of Continuances And the Fishmongers were Admitted to the Bar by their Council which was Mr. Nicholls of the Middle Temple He first shewed That the Fishmongers of London were an Ancient Corporation And that they had ever Twelve Men as Factors
for them to buy Fish on the Sea-Coasts and send it Fresh hither to London to be bought of the whole Company and so sold in the Market whereby Fish was then far Cheaper than now it is For now some Six Persons Ingross all to themselves and sell it at a dearer Rate by Retail to the utter undoing of the rest of the Fishmongers because then every Man sold for himself Secondly The Fish sold is seldom sweet and ever unsavory and the Fishmongers cannot Distrain because they be tyed up by that Statute Thirdly a Subversion of the Corporation followeth thereupon and an Extinguishment of all Grants made unto them by former Kings of this Realm and of the Confirmation made by Her Majesty And divers other Reasons were delivered by him A Bill for the Relief of the Poor On Friday Decemb. 11. A Bill for the Reparation of two Bridges over the River of Eden c. was Ordered to be Ingrossed A Bill for Comprehending and Continuing the Maintenance of good and profitable Arts and Trades for the Common-wealth The Effect of it was That every man which had or could invent any Art or Trade should for his Life Monopolize the same to his own Use and he that could Add to or Refine the same should do the like Mr Fettyplace shewed That the Bill was unprofitable and not good for many Reasons First It was too General because it speaketh of Arts as well Invented as to be Invented Secondly The Bill sheweth not That they will be profitable to the Common-wealth and whatsoever they be this Bill alloweth For divers Arts have been devised in London that should be wrought by one Man which could not be done heretofore with Forty this is said he unprofitable because it setteth not many hands on work Thirdly It will breed Confusion because if but a little Addition be made by another a new Licence is granted to this Man And now if to that Addition another shall add that will be ad infinitum and so breed Confusion Whereupon he Concluded That he for his part thought fit the Bill should be quash'd and divers cried Away with it I wished That the Bill might be Read again and considered because we allowed of these kind of Patents once before this Parliament Namely in the Licence for making Tyn by Mills out of the Old Rubbish in Cornwal upon the Motion of Sir Walter Rawleigh and this Bill desired no more in effect Next for the Incertainty upon Consideration of the Bill by some few Committees the same might be mended and he that performed many special devices might be Inserted Besides he that invented any Art or Trade it was reason he should have some Privilege because it would be an Incouragement to others For Nemo nascitur Artifex and no man could come to that Perfection upon the first knowledge of it but being taught by the first Inventor for a Season Also the Proposition of the Gentleman that last spake did not hold in all Arts that the work of many should be done by one For it is Profitable for the Common-wealth if Water may be brought to every Mans House for Ten Shillings Value where it could not be done for Ten Pounds cost as by the Water-work-device at London So of Iron-Mills in the low-Countries and of the Corn-Mills upon the Thames So of shooting and Charging of Ordnance and Fire Works and the like and generally of Arts and Sciences that can not be done by Poor but must be done by Persons Judicial and of Skill and those that have a more Natural Inclination to come to Perfection in those things than every base Beggar For his last Proposition I said Non est Confusio in certa Scientia Mr. Singy said The Author of the Bill perhaps was a Sugar-Man for he used the word Refiner of Arts. So it was put to the Question to be read the second time And all said No No. But when Mr. Speaker said All those that will have this Bill read the second time say I I I Sir Richard Knightly said No Aloud at which the House Laughed and not one said I I. A Bill for Weights and Measures was called for Mr. Doyly shewed That he had the Bill and had attended two Days and none of the Committees would Meet he Prayed the House would either command the Committees to Meet or Discharge him of the Bill There was a Conference betwixt the upper-Upper-House A Conference betwixt both Houses and the lower-Lower-House in the Painted-Chamber which was thus Secretary Cecil with the rest of the lower-Lower-House Secretary Cecil speaks in the name of the Commons came to the Lords as they were sitting at the Table and going to the upper-end thereof said to this effect That if their Lordships had already concluded what to do in the Bill of Patents they then had no Commission to proceed And if they had altered the Bill in any point with amendments they had no Commission But if their Lordships had done neither but only were desirous to be resolved of any doubt which they in their Wisedomes conceived and would willingly thereabouts confer with them they would most willingly accomplish their desires for they had sufficient Warrant from the House so to do The Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer The Lord Treasurer Answers him after a little Whispering with the Lords answered That he would not have us preoccupate their Judgments with a Speech both Strange Improper and Preposturous c. Mr. Secretary Cecil said He could not Answer their Lordships without Order from the other Committees and therefore Prayed they might confer together 〈…〉 which was Granted So they went forth into another Room and there considered what Answer to make And soon after they returned again and Mr. Secretary said My Lords We of the Lower-House are very sorry your Lordships should conceive otherwise than well of our Speech and good Intent Your Lordships termed our Speech for so I may say because I spake in the behalf and the name of all the Committees strange improper and preposterous My Lords I think it not Strange for it is not unknown unto your Lordships We be all Members of One Body and as we cannot be without your Lordships so your Lordships cannot be without Us. And when we are desirous it pleaseth your Lordships out of your Favour to vouchsafe Us a Conference so when your Lordships be willing it pleaseth Us out of the desire we have to be observant to yield thereunto neither have your Lordships been more willing to Gratify Us with your Favours than We of the Lower-House have been willing to further your Lordships Desires with our best Furtherance And therefore my Lords it is no Strange thing to have a Conference neither our Speech Strange because it tended to draw us to some particular point of Conference For the Epitheton Improper I am to tell your Lordships That I delivered no more than I was Commanded nor no less than I was Required And therefore
Puritans which rely wholly upon the Scriptures as upon a sure Ground And of these I would we had many more than we now have Mr. Glascocke Mr. Spicer and divers others made several Speeches but because it grew Dark I could not Write them Doctor Cary came from the Lords and brought a Bill concerning Captains Souldiers and Mariners and other the Queens Servants in the Realm Also another Bill for the Maintenance of the Navy Increase of Mariners and the Avoiding the scarcity of Victuals It was shewed by Doctor Bennet upon occasion of Speech of the Multitude of Recusants that there were Thirteen Hundred nay Fifteen Hundred Recusants in Yorkshire which he vouched upon his Credit were presented in the Ecclesiastical-Court and before the Councel at York So after divers other Speeches and Arguments it was put to the Question Whether the Bill should be Ingrossed The Substance whereof was That if any Man came Eight times in the Year to the Church and read the Divine Service Twice every Sunday and Holyday in his House with his whole Family that should be a sufficient Dispensation This was utterly misliked yet divers that were minded to overthrow the Bill went forth with the Proviso because they would have it joyned with the Bill to overthrow it Whereupon the House was divided and upon division it appeared thus the I I I were One Hundred Twenty Six and the No Noes Eighty Five So the Proviso passed Then it was put to the Question for Passing of the Bill but then divers Reasons were shewed to the contrary Mr. Bonds two Reasons of prejudice to Ministers and the Clergy and the danger by Breach of Charity That the Information was a thing contrary to Magna Charta That there might be a Conviction without inquiry c. Sir Walter Rawleigh shewed Sir Walt. Rawleigh against the Bill That all the Church-Wardens of every Shire must come to the Sessions to give Information to the Grand-Jury Say then there be 100 and 20 Parishes in a Shire there must now come Extraordinarily 200 40 Church-Wardens and say that but Two in a Parish Offend in a Quarter of a Year that makes Four Hundred and Eighty persens with the Offenders to appear What great Multitudes this will bring together What Quarrelling and Danger may happen besides giving Authority to a mean Church-Warden How prejudicial this may be with divers other Reasons against it As also he said There was some Ambiguities and Equivocations therein the Proviso being newly added being a plain Toleration from coming to Church And that the Parson could not present or constrain any if they read Service at Home So it was put to the Question thrice together and because the Truth could not be discerned the House was again divided And the I I I went forth and were 105. and the Noes within were 106. so it was lost by one Voice But the I I I said they had Mr. Speakers Voice which would make it even And then it grew a Question whether Mr. Speaker had a Voice Sir Edward Hobby who was of the I I I side said Query Whether the Speaker have a Vote That when Her Majesty had given us leave to Choose our Speaker she gave us leave to choose one out of our own Number and not a stranger He is a Citizen of London and a Member and therefore he hath a Voice To which it was Answered by Sir Walter Rawleigh The Speaker declares he hath not by Custom any Vote and confirmed by the Speaker himself That he was fore-closed of his Voice by taking of that Place which it had pleased them to impose upon him and that he was to be indifferent for both Parties And withal shewed That by the Old Order of the House The Bil was lost Mr. Boyer Secretary to the Lord Buckhurst said A Complaint of Foul Play c. Mr. Speaker I think it not lost for there hath been foul and great Abuse Offer'd in this matter A Gentleman that would willingly have gone forth according to his Conscience was pulled back Though I much Reverence my Masters of the Temple and am much bound to the Benchers of the Midle-Temple yet if it will please the House and you Mr. Speaker to Command me to Name him I will The greatest Voice said No yet Mr. Secretary Cecil willed him to Name him And he said Mr. Dale of the Midle-Temple Sir Walter Rawleigh said Why if it please you Sir Walt. Rawleigh Accuses himself of a Weakness it is a small matter to pull one by the Sleeve for so have I done my self often times And a great Stir was in the House Mr. Comptroller after some silence said The Comptroller takes him up for it We have been often troubled by Physitians meaning Mr. Bond and they have been spoken against He troubled us with Aristotle other Books If he had staid there it had been well But I think we had need of Physitians to stay our Heads and Cool our Heats and Humours not fitting a Court of Parliament For it is a most intolerable Disorder I do think the Offence an heynous Offence both against God and this Assembly for the First in that every man is to go according to his Conscience and not by Compulsion And for the other Gentleman meaning Sir Walter Rawleigh that said he had often done the like I think he may be ashamed of it for large is his Conscience that in a matter of this Consequence will be drawn either forward or backward by the Sleeve And I think it fit it is so Heynous that he answer it at the Bar meaning Mr. Dale But because Sir Walter Rawleigh was last named it was taken to be meant of him Mr. Secretary Cecil said I am sorry to see this disorder Is Seconded by Cecil and little do you know how for disorder the Parliament is Taxed I am sorry I said not Slandered I hoped as this Parliament began gravely and with judgment so we should have ended modestly and at least with discretion I protest I have a Libel in my Pocket against the Proceedings of this Parliament The Offence that the Gentleman that last spake spake of I confess is great and punishable And this I wish may be inflicted on him that he whose Voice may be drawn either forward or backward by the sleeves like a Dog in a string may no more be of this House and I wish for his Credit sake he would not But that it should be so great as to be called to the Bar I see no Reason neither do I know why any in this House should speak so Imperiously as to have a Gentleman of his Place and Quality pointing to Sir Walter Rawleigh called to the Bar. For the matter it self the Noes were 106. and the I I I 105. Mr. Speaker hath no Voice and though I am sorry to say it yet I must needs confess lost it is and farewel it And so the House rose confusedly it being after six
Privilege and said that he was not priviledged from an Execution And so being carried to the Counter he told the like to the Clerks who affirmed likewise that Priviledges would not stretch to Executions and therefore would not discharge him And therefore I Pray that both the Clerks Mathews and the Serjeant may be sent for And so it was Ordered they should Appear to morrow in the Forenoon The Bill against ordinary and usual Swearing was ordered to be Ingrossed and so Passed The Bill that Concerns Captains Souldiers and Mariners which came from the Lords was Read the first time The Bill for Relief of the Poor was brought in with Amendments and agreed to be Ingrossed In the Afternoon The Bill touching the Weaving of Silk and Gold Laces after a little Debate by the greater part it was Rejected The Reasons against the Bill were 1. That it was Incroaching a Liberty to have two miles compass 2. That it was too General silk Wares and all other Stuffs 3. That it was a Prohibition of making or selling of Norwich Stuffs 4. That the search in the Bill was too General and the Forfeiture too great 5. That it was a discommodity to have all Silk Stuffs For Statute-Lace with a third of Silk will shew and sell better so of Stuffs for Childrens Coats That the Search was General as well within Liberties as without I offered to speak before the Question was half asked but could not be suffered the Noes were so great And it being put to the Question over-ruled and the Bill Rejected A Bill A Bill about the City c. that the City of London should have full Power and Government over and in the Liberties of St. Katherines Read To which Bill Mr. Wiseman spake and said Mr. Wiseman Argues against it That diverse particular Persons had Purchased Lands within the Liberty and had given much more for the same in respect of the Priviledge than otherwise they would have done And now this Bill wipeth away all their Right And Mr. Speaker I hope I may speak it without Offence This Parliament hath been more troubled with Bills for Incroaching Liberties about the City of London than any three Parliaments before Sir Steven Some said I am bound to defend London Sir Stev Some for the City and I cannot under your Favor suffer the Imputation laid against us For Mr. Speaker I say to you these Priviledges are the very sink of Sin the Nurcery of naughty and lewd People the Harbour of Rogues Theeves and Beggars and maintainers of idle Persons for when our Shops and Houses be Robbed thither they fly for Relief and Sanctuary and we cannot help our selves The City seeing this Purchased it of the Lord Thomas Howard supposing to have had all the said Priviledges but finding the contrary by Experience they now are inforced to sue for your Favours to have it pass by Act of Parliament This is the Cause and I leave it to your Considerations whereupon it was put to the Question and the House was Divided and the I I I were 94. and the Noes 86. On Tuesday Decemb. 15. A Bill to make the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of Edward Lucas Gentleman Deceased Executor of the last Will and Testament of John Flowerdewe Esquire Deceased liable to the payment of certain Legacies given by the last Will of the said John Flowerdewe and for the payment of diverse other Debts owing by the said Lucas in his life time Mr. Snigg moved to have the Bill for Clothing Read which was Read accordingly Mr. Phettiplace prayed the House to have consideration whether the Merchants were fit to have Consideration for Cockling and Squales and so to make abatement to the Clothier And he thought not because in outward shew it seemed good yet there lurks a hurt to the Merchant And so it was put to the Question and Ordered to be Ingrossed One Anthony Mathews a Surgeon who dwelt about Fleet-Bridg caused a Serjeant to Arrest one Curwyn Servant to Mr. Hudleston Knight for Cumberland It appeared that Curwin was a Solicitor and a Servant to the said Mr. Hudleston for three Years space and had solicited his great Cause in the Star-Chamber betwixt Delebar and himself the Truth of the Case was this Curwin falling into talk with another about Fleet-Bridg touching Mr. Hudlestons Cause they fell out there and Fought and Curwin was Hurt sore in the Hand so he went to this Mathews being the next Surgeon who dressed him and after it was agreed that Mathews should have for the Cure Ten Pounds viz. Four Pounds in hand and Mr. Hudlestons and his Bill for the Payment of the other Six Pounds when the Cure was done Which Bill was Read openly Now it was Averr'd and Confessed the Cure was done and that Four Pounds more was Paid and Mathews contented to forbear the other Forty Shillings untill the next Term following but it was not paid Whereupon the said Mathews it being three Years since due caused Curwin to be Arrested And Mr. Hudleston shewed this to the House and Offer'd so he might have his man free to pay the money due And because it was Averr'd that the Serjeant knew not of the said Curwins being Mr. Hudlestons man but only was told that he was one of New-Ian which indeed was true and he lay there in his Brothers Chamber yet served Mr. Hudleston and the Serjeant offered to Swear the same But the Serjeant said That after he was Arrested Curwin told him he was Mr. Hudlestons Man And Mathews said If you let him go I will be Answer'd by you look you to it Whereupon the Serjeant confessed he kept him and if he had Offended he submitted himself So the House Awarded the Serjeant should be Discharged paying his Fees and that Mathews should pay them And Mathews to pay his Fees and remain Three Days in the Serjeants Custody for procuring the Arrest And that Curwin should have his Writ of Privilege And so he had This Matter was argued diversly Whether he should be priviledged or no And some thought not but at length I stood up and shewed the House That he ought to be privileged for we had given Judgment in the like Case of the Baron of Waltons Solicitor this Parliament And thereupon it was put to the Question And Ordered he should be Privileged The House called to have the Bill of Ordnance Read and sent up Sir Edward Hobby said I shall move you in a Matter which though is seems distasteful in the beginning yet I doubt not but it will be very pleasing in the ending I am given to understand and I know it to be true for I saw it That the Lords have a Bill in their House Touching Transportation of Ordnance far more larger in Matter and more stricter in Punishment than ours is And where we stand so much upon the Words without License and spend time therein they make no such scruple but puts it absolute Besides I dare presume to
Gentleman Serjeant Heale the last Parliament in a Bill of this nature moved to have an Exception or Proviso for all Serjeants A Motion made in Mirth it would please you to admit of a Proviso for all Lawyers At which the House Laughed heartily it being done for Mirth And divers Motions of the like nature were made On Thursday Decemb. 17. Sir Edward Hobby shewed The Parliament was now in the Wane and Order had been taken Touching the Information delivered to this House in Mr. Bellgraves Case but nothing done therein And as it seemeth by not taking out of the Process a Prosecution of the Cause is intended against the said Mr. Bellgrave I think it therefore fit because the chief scope of the said Information seemeth to be Touching a Dishonor offered to this House that it would please you that it might be put to the Question Whether he hath Offended this House yea or no If he hath he desireth to be Censured by you If he hath not it will be a good Motive to the Honourable here present who are Judges of that Court for their Satisfaction in cleering the Gentleman of that Offence when it comes before them Mr. Speaker moved the House That because the Parliament was like to end on Saturday it would please them to send the Bill of Ordnance to the Lords And that they might be moved to retain all private Bills in their Hands until the Ten Pounds or Five Pounds was paid according to our former Order So the House cried Mr. Secretary Cecil who went and did accordingly And then they proceeded in the Motion concerning Mr. Bellgrave Mr. Comptroller said I know the Gentleman to be an honest Gentleman and a good Servant to his Prince and Country And for his Offence to this House I think it very fit to clear him And do wish it may be put to the Question If it please you he may be cleared I will be ready to vouch your Sentence for his Offence to this House when it comes there But if any other Matter appears upon opening the Cause with That we have not to do withal Mr. Secretary Cecil said Touching this great Offence in the Country I have heard it spoken of diversly but for my own part I am rather apt to move Consideration against him that drew the Bill one Mr. Diott and that he should be well Punished who being a Member of this House should seek to diminish the Prerogative of this High Court of Parliament by praying Aid of the Star-Chamber for an Offence done to Us this Court Sitting And I desire that two things may be Considered First That the Gentleman Mr. Diott make an Apology for his Action in drawing of the Information And Secondly That this Gentleman Mr. Bellgrave may be cleared here which will be a good inducement to the Lords not to censure him heavily there Mr. Ravenscrost said The Gentleman Mr. Diott is holden in the Reputation of an honest Man And we ought not to proceed against a Fellow-Member till he be called It is not Apparent unto Us that he made it the Information is under Mr. Attornies Hand and therefore ought to be intended his for now it is of Record under his Hand against which we can receive no Averment of Speech of others other than the Gentleman 's own words viva vocae And that I think he will not confess And so there was no more said of this Matter It was put to the Question Whether he should be cleared of the Offence to the House Yea or No And all cried I I I but only Young Mr. Francis Grantham who gave a great No At whom the House Laughed and he Blushed Sir Francis Hastings said Sir Fr. Hastings against Extravagant Speeches Mr. Speaker Because I see the House at so good Leasure I will be bold to remember some Matters passed this Parliament and deliver my Opinion with desire of Reformation I mean not to Tax any Man Divers Speeches have been used concerning Justices of the Peace so Slanderous and Defamatory with so unwonted Epethites with such Slanderous Definitions a Testimony of Levity for the one and scant sound Judgment for the other And therefore I do humbly pray the Honourable here present that those Justices which serves Religiously Dutifully and Carefully may be Countenanced The Church and Common-Wealth are two Twins which Laugh and Live together Long have we joyed in Her Majesty's Happy Government and long may we We have two strong Enemies Rome and Spain from thence all our Rebellions have Proceeded and by Treasons Hatched there the Sacred Life of our Sweet Soveraign hath been sought and indangered The boldness of the Jesuits and Seminaries The Insolence of the Jesuits is greatly increased and they be very diligent to pervert which their often and ordinary Published Pamphlets to every Mans view well Testifieth and Apparently sheweth the Perversness of their Spirits and Corruptness of their Hearts And the Multitude being Perverted What Danger this may breed to the State and our Sovereign Queen Judge you For my part I am and will be ready to lay my Life at Her Feet to do Her Service We had need to have special Care of them for themselves do brag they have Forty Thousand true Hearted Catholiques for so they call them in England besides their retinue poor Catholiques and Neuters and I know not what It is therefore fit we look to this dangerous Case and not to think our selves secure because we find no harm For it is a true Position That Security without Providence is most Dangerous I conclude only with this desire that those who have Supream Authority will look that those who have inferior Government may do faithfully And that we may be kept in Obedience Mr. Wingfeild spake to the same effect And because it had pleased the House that the Clerks Servant should serve this Parliament in his Masters steed Mr. Onslowe who was sick that the House would in regard of his faithful Service and diligent attendance give Twelve Pence a piece or what they should think good every man in his discretion That Motion was liked and agreed to be gathered the next morning In the Afternoon A Bill for the Changing of the Surnames of William Waller Esquire A Bill to Change the Name of Wallers to Dibdens and his two Daughters and the Names of them that should Marry them into the Name of Dibden was Read the second time Serjeant Yelverton and Doctor Hone brought a Bill from the Lords Intituled An Act for Reformation of Deceipts and Frauds of certain Auditers and their Clerks in making of divers particulars Serjeant Harris spake to the Bill of Waller Serj. Harris to the Bill of Waller In Law there is a Bastard a Mulier And a Bastard hath the Name of the Mother a Mulier of the Father If a man come into a Poulterers Shop to buy a Wood-Cock or Hen he buyes it by the name of a Cock And if it be
a Goose whether it be a Goose or a Gander he buyes it by the name of a Goose And surely Sirs because the Land came by a Match by a Woman with the Dibdens he would have it go with the Name of the Woman I think he deserves the name of a Goose if not of a Wood-Cock for his Conceit which though it be a meer Toy I wish it good passage For there is an Order that upon every private Bill something must be given to the Poor which will do them much good and no harm to the preferrers thereof A Bill for the Assize of Bread was this day Read and Ordered to be Committed A Bill for Reduction of all Brewers within two miles of the City of London to the Company of Brewers there A Bill against Ingrocers and Forestallers of Butter and Cheese A Bill against Cozening with False Dice A Bill for Reformation of Abuses in Physitians On Friday December 18. As the Speaker was comming to the House in the morning the Pardon was deliver'd unto him which he took and deliverd it to the House which they sent back again because it was not brought according to course The Collection for the Clerk of the Parliaments Servant supplying his masters Place of Twelve Pence a piece according to Mr. Wingfeilds Motion Yesterday was made which amounted to about Twenty Five Pounds Mr. Boyer Secretary to the Lord Treasurer sitting in the middle of the House on the left side as you come in next to Mr. Skipwith of Lincolns-Inn swoonded upon a suddain and was Recovered within a quarter of an hour It was said he had a spice of the Falling-Sickness he was carried out by the Serjeant of the House and three of his men into the outer Room It was strange to hear the diversity of Opinions touching this Accident Some saying it was Malum Omen others that it was Bonum Omen Mr. Attorney General brought the Pardon Intituled An Act for the Queens Majesties most Gratious General and Free Pardon He came assisted on the Right hand by Doctor Cary and on the Left hand by Doctor Stanhop he also delivered unto us again our Subsidy Bill Intituled An Act for the grant of Four Intire Subsidies and eight Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty The Bill for Auditors was brought from the Committee by Mr. Secretary Cecil Mr. Hackewell made a Motion that the Speaker might say something touching the transportation of Ordnance That seeing the Bill in the lower House is fallen into an everlasting sleep and that he knew not thereof before this day he could not be blamed for that which he could not have spoken before this time but nothing was replied or done The Subsidy of the Ciergy was sent in a Roll according to the usual Acts to which Sir Edward Hobby took exceptions because it was not sent in a long skin of Parchment under the Queens Hand and Seal so it was sent back and then the other was sent Quere of Mr. Phetyplace and Sir Robert Wroth What was done with the Money viz. 10 s. of every Knight and 5 s. of every Burgess collected for the Poor and how it was agreed to be distributed On Saturday Decemb. 19. about nine of the clock in the morning this day being appointed to be the last day of the Parliament and her Majesty appointed to come to the House as the House sat quietly one talking with another about a hundred being in the House Mr. Wiseman stood up and said Mr. Speaker because I see our business is at an end and that now we have little to do but only to attend her Majesties pleasure A Case put by Mr. Wiseman discussed c. I will be bold to put a Case to the House upon one of our new Statutes of Rogues offering the Resolution thereof to your considerations the Case being common and sit by every man here to be understood It is thus A woman is begotten with Childe in one house and before she appears to be with Childe she goeth away and serveth in another house in another County My Question is Where this woman shall be relieved and where this childe shall live Mr. Brown of the Court said In my opinion the woman is to be relieved and the childe also where it is gotten for their Masters may look better to them than let their servants be so lewd And therefore this coming by his negligence or want of care or perhaps by his too much familiarity with his servants I see no reason but he in whose house the childe is gotten should be charged with both Sir George Moore said Partus sequitur ventrem the Child followeth the Mother and therefore where the Statute alloweth help to the Mother there is relief also to be given unto the Childe Mr. Phetyplace said I know not how it is in the Country or in other places but in the City I am sure the man of the house is ever the reputed Father till the true Father be known or confessed by the Mother If the Father be known and able to keep the Childe then by the Law he is constrained to relieve the woman and the Childe if he be not able the use with us in London is That the Childe shall be delivered to some Hospital or to the Parish there to be relieved Mr. Wiseman said I think I am not to be debarred from speech for this is not More Parliamentario but that I may deliver my Opinion And I shall rather hold she is to be relieved by neither but that it should be accompted for her own sin and her own impiety and the example of Penury in no relief is better than any Admonition And if some straight and severe course be not used the sin is so common that in short time we shall have nothing more common especially when we do use such cockering of them as we now do and count it a matter of charity to relieve them Mr. Francis Moore thought that both in charity and by law they both ought to be relieved by the express words of the Statutes Mr. Speaker moved the House to know their pleasures whether they would adjourn the House till one of the clock and as they were rising Mr. Herbert Crofts said Mr. Speaker though my Motion perhaps may seem unseasonable yet I beseech the House to consider with me a Speech that consisted yesterday of four parts it being Mr. Hack-well 's Speech laying open the dangerous mischiefs that come by transportation of Ordnance and that due reformation thereof may be had for restraint of private transporting I would onely put the House in mind and you also Mr. Speaker that the Gentlemen which yesterday moved it desired that Mr. Speaker might say something thereof to her Majesty in his Speech to be inserted which I do again desire the more earnestly because our Bill is fallen as he said into an everlasting sleep and we have no remedy but by her Majesty Mr. Speaker said If it please you
Alehouse-keepers Corporal punishments moved to be inflicted on them p. 181 Mr. Glascock opposes it Ibid. Aliens their children to pay strangers customs p. 10 Alisbury a bill concerning their Highway-land p. 119 Apparel a bill to reform excess in it passed p. 7 125 Armour and Weapons a bill touching them p. 105 Arrest complained of p. 134 c. Artillery where was but Iron now Brass p. 59 Assurance of Land a bill for it p. 132 143 Attendants made joynt Committees with Lords as had been usual in former Parliaments of this Queen but was not so in after-times p. 5 Attorney-General reflected on p. 141 Attorneys their number see Suits their multiplicity Inconvenient that Scriveners should act as such p. 209 Auditors a bill to prevent fraud in them and their Clerks p. 146 Award a bill to establish one p. 111 B Bastardie a bill against it p. 106 A Case put about it by Mr. Wiseman discussed p. 133 Beating the servant of a Member argued p. 259 260 Beggars a bill for their extirpation p. 105 Berwick a bill for that Town p. 26 Bill after ingrossed not to be look'd into p. 209 One returned by the Lords because sent up in Parchment when it should have been Paper p. 89 Bills not to be brought into the House obscurely p. 189 Bishops Leases a bill about them p. 186 Bishoprick the greatest in England but 2200 l. per an p. 187 Blades a bill for true making those of Daggers Swords and Rapiers p. 115 Blasphemers to be severely punish'd p. 188 An Instance of the great scandal caus'd by them Ibid. Bloud a bill for the restitution of Sir Tho. Perrot p. 73 Book-debts the bill largely debated p. 282 283 An Example of a Mercer p. 271 Bread a bill for its lawful Assize p. 74 Bridges a bill for their repairing p. 110 114 Brokers retailing a bill for them p. 97 Brownists deserve to be rooted out p. 76 A Sect too well known in England p. 320 Buildings a bill for restraint of new ones p. 77 Bullion a bill to prevent its transportation p. 226 Debated and spoken to p. 227 Burgesses two in competition p. 193 A Saying of Sir Edward Hobby concerning them Ibid. L. Burleigh the oldest Parliament-man p. 93 C Caps see Hats Captains and Souldiers p. 5 6 136 Cards for Wool a bill to prevent their importation p. 110 Case of Thomas Fitz-herbert p. 27 Cask see Clap-board Catalogue of the names of Parliament-men p. 337 Causey a bill to mend that of Egham p. 114 Cecil Sir Robert Secretary his large Speech p. 182 183 184 His saying Sir Robert Wroth had offered 100 l. per an towards the War with Spain p. 185 Chancellor Sir Christopher Hatton his Speech p. 2 CharitableVses a bill to prevent deceits and breaches of trust about them p. 97 Charter a bill to confirm that of K. Edw. 6. to the Hospitals about London p. 227 Chirurgeons A bill to provide able ones for Sea p. 93 A bill for the well ordering of them p. 114 A Case concerning a Cure p. 324 Church a bill against wilful abstaining from it debated p. 227 228 A bill for more diligent repair to it argued at large p. 273 274 275 Clap-board a bill concerning it p. 73 Clergie the benefit of it taken from them that steal away women without their consent p. 85 Cloaths a bill concerning several sorts p. 72 98 Cloath Northern a bill against stretching and Taintering p. 113 Cloathworkers a Committee for them p. 222 Coaches a bill to restrain their superfluous and excessive use p. 132 Colchester a bill concerning its Haven and Paving p. 74 Collection for poor Souldiers by the Lords p. 43 146 The like by the Commons p. 43 How disposed of p. 269 Command from the Queen to sit in the afternoons for dispatch being to sit but a week longer p. 309 Commons called over p. 15 28 Chuse their Speaker p. 15 53 Attend the Queen in the Council-chamber where the Speaker makes a Speech p. 261 Fall on their knees while the Qu. speaks p. 263 Are bidden to rise p. 264 Conveyances original by the Queen a bill p. 6 Cordwayners a bill concerning them p. 23 Corn a bill to stay it within the Realm p. 92 Correction a bill for houses to be erected p. 87 Cottages a bill against erecting and maintaining them p. 10 Counsel to attend on several occasions p. 28 139 140 Coyn a bill to prevent its transportation p. 201 Curriers a bill concerning them p. 23 Customs a bill to advance them p. 200 D Debates with some beat p. 297 Debts of Sir Henry Hatton a bill concerning them p. 106 Defaulters noted p. 28 Defeasances a bill for enrolling and exemplifying of them p. 109 Delays a bill to prevent them in Executions upon Judgments p. 135 Deprivation of Edm. Bonner late Bishop of London p. 68 And of divers other Bishops p. 85 Devon a bill for a Key in the North part in the River of Severn p. 144 Disorder in the House noted and reproved p. 301 Disms and Tenths a bill for their payment p. 6 Dominions why not enlarged p. 48 Doors of the Lords being shut complained of commanded to be opened p. 57 Their shutting excused p. 174 Dover-peer a bill for its maintenance p. 23 Spoken to by Sir Walter Rawleigh p. 309 And by Secretary Cecil p. 323 Doubt propounded and resolved p. 96 Double-Soal-Green a Highway neer London order'd to be amended p. 272 Draining certain grounds a bill for it p. 91 Drake Sir Francis resolved to be sent to Sea against the Spaniards p. 65 Dunkirk Pirates spoken against by Mr. Dannet his motion p. 280 281 It began with two Ships p. 280 Dunkirkers trouble our Fisher-men p. 58 Durham Writs upon Proclamations upon Exigents to be currant in that County Palatine p. 7 E Ecclesiastical Judges a bill against their excessive Fees p. 110 Eclipse a great one about noon p. 322 Election a Letter about a disturbance in the Election of Knights of the Shire p. 190 Embroiderers a bill to reform their abuses p. 222 Essex Earl created Earl Marshal and took his place p. 90 His rising p. 208 His matters p. 248 His going into Ireland 300000 l. spent since p. 199 Exchequer a bill touching the exactions there p. 17 A bill concerning Proces and Pleadings there p. 21 A bill for the observation of Rules there p. 143 Exeter a bill for confirming Letters Patents to the Merchant-adventurers there p. 115 A bill for uniting certain Churches into one Parish p. 193 Excuses for Lords absence to be made by Peers and not by others p. 135 Eye and Dunsden Security to the Citie for 20000 l. lent to the Queen p. 290 A bill to re-unite them to the Mannor of Sunning debated Ibid. F Family of Love see Brownists Felonies hereafter to be committed their punishment p. 108 Fifteens and Tenths see Subsidies Fish salted a bill concerning them p. 69 Fishing how prejudicial to the Lord Admiral p. 237 Fishmongers admitted
to the Bar with Counsel p. 309 Forcible Entries a bill to explain the Statute of 8 Hen. 6. concerning them p. 11 Forestallers a bill against them p. 102 Forms of speech in French at the passing of Acts p. 12 13 49 50 Foul play in the House complained of and briskly argued p. 321 A great stir about it Ibid. French King made great by the Queens supports p. 182 Fuel a bill for the Size of it p. 146 Furnaces see Glass-houses Fustians a bill about them p. 113 G Gaging Brewers and others to be heard about it p. 24 Garbling a bill for reforming abuses in it p. 121 Gavil-kinde a bill to alter the nature of it p. 113 Arguments about it p. 303 Glass-houses and Furnaces a bill about them p. 27 Government of Cumberland Northumberland Westmerland and Durham a bill to make it more peaceable p. 136 Grammar-School of Tunbridge a bill to assure its maintenance p. 11 Grammar-Schools a bill for good order in them p. 113 Grants made to her Majesty a bill to confirm them as also Letters Patents made by her p. 133 H Hartlepool a bill for maintenance of their Poor p. 22 Hats and Caps a bill for their true making p. 253 Hawkers a bill against them p. 210 Heale Sergeant hum'd and laugh'd at p. 205 Is shew'd his mistake Ibid. Hemp it s sowing in England opposed by Sir Walter Raleigh p. 188 Herrings see Fish salted Horses a bill for their breed and increase p. 133 To have Horse Armour and Weapons p. 7 Horse-stealing a bill to prevent it p. 6 106 Hospitals a bill for their erection p. 106 A bill for that of Lamborn p. 10 A bill for that of Bristol p. 88 A bill for that of Warwick p. 93 A bill for that of S. Bartholomew p. 221 A bill for Nevil's Hospital in Yorkshire p. 111 House the Lord De la Ware petitions for his place in it p. 83 Hue and Cry a bill touching it p. 105 Husbandry and Tillage a bill for its increase p. 5 A bill against its decay p. 97 I Impropriations a bill to relieve the Poor out of them p. 107 Inclosures and Inmates a bill to restrain them neer London and Westminster p. 77 Inclosures and Tillage a bill concerning them p. 105 Innes c. a bill to reform disorders in them p. 17 See it debated p. 278 Innovation complained of against the Lords p. 93 Their resolution thereupon p. 94 Invasions greater intented than ever heard of p. 33 Inventions new a bill to monopolize them thrown out p. 311 Journal the Lord Treasurers motion about it p. 83 Joynture a bill to assure it p. 9 See p. 95 98 142. Judges joyned Committees with the Lords p. 5 Justices of Peace their luxuriant power a Grievance p. 275 A hot contest about them p. 275 276 277 A fling at them by the by p. 268 Reflected on from the Queen p. 151 Further Reflections p. 355 A motion against their slanderers p. 277 Jurors a bill for their relief p. 69 K L. Keeper Sir John Puckering his Speech in Parliament p. 32 Answers the Speaker of the Commons p. 36 Replies to him p. 37 His second Reply p. 47 Sir Tho. Egerton his Speech p. 79 80 81 He answers the Speaker p. 150 His Speech in the Star-chamber by the Queens command p. 353 Kersies a bill to repeal a Statute made 14 Reginae p. 284 L Labourers a bill to explain the Statute 5 Reginae p. 89 Lands Bills for sale of them p. 9 88 96 Forfeited for Treason confirmed to the Queen p. 40 Proceedings thereupon Ibid. See Bills for other Sales p. 70 136 Laws superfluous and burthensome a bill to abridge and reform them p. 103 Often spoken against and argued by many p. 180 193 Lease from her Majesty a bill to confirm it p. 91 Leases made by Archbishops and Bishops a bill about them p. 107 Lessees to enjoy their Leases against all Patents p. 96 Letters Patents for Lincoln a bill to confirm them p. 67 Libel complained of called The Assembly of Fools but found to be an old Toy p. 217 License to depart given by the House p. 23 27 Licenses for Marriage their abuses moved against p. 104 Lincoln and Nottingham a bill to confirm Statutes Merchants there p. 114 Logwood a bill to establish it in dying of Cloth c. p. 111 London a bill to confirm the authority of the Lord Mayor in St. Katherines p. 224 The Sheriffs committed 35 H. 8. p. 196 Longford Estover a bill for rebuilding of it p. 103 Lords temporal present at a dissolution of Parliament p. 12 Both spiritual and temporal at commencement p. 13 129 Losses casual a bill for relief of prisoners and others so impoverished p. 107 M Maltsters a bill to suppress their multitude p. 103 Mannors and Lands a bill to give leave to alienate p. 113 Mariners a bill for their increase and maintenance p. 86 A bill for well ordering them and Sea-men p. 113 Marshals man brought before the Lords for an Arrest p. 87 Message from the Queen by Mr. Speaker about Monopolies p. 248 Seconded by Mr. Secretary Cecil p. 249 Joyfully received p. 252 Thanks ordered to be returned p. 253 A motion to record it and further spoken to p. 257 258 Another from the Queen by Mr. Comptroller p. 261 Misdemeanours in leud and idle persons a bill to prevent them p. 133 Mistake about an Adjournment p. 102 About the Question p. 66 About the manner of receiving Bills p. 94 Money transported impoverisheth the Realm p. 21 Better for this Kingdom if none in the world p. 225 Monopolies their Grievance p. 130 Several smart Speeches on that subject p. 230 c. See much more to the same purpose p. 238 239 240 c. Morter-makers alias Plaisterers p. 314 Mortmain a bill touching it p. 21 Motions made by several p. 61 68 One by Sir Arthur Gorge about Justices noted by Secretary Cecil p. 204 Another by the Speaker in behalf of the Clerk p. 16 Musters c. a bill concerning them p. 133 Lawyers to be exempted a pleasant motion p. 329 N Naturalization several bills for several persons See p. 11 40 44 69 78 144 Navie a bill for its maintenance p. 137 Navigation see Mariners Newcastle a bill to confirm Statutes Merchant acknowledged there p. 124 Newport see Dunkirk Two base Towns p. 280 Non-residents see Pluralities Northampton a bill for the Town p. 106 Norwich a bill to establish that Boshoprick against a concealed Title p. 90 Nottingham see Lincoln O Obedience a bill to continue the people in it p. 55 The Heads of it Ibid. Order of the Lords about Painters and Plaisterers p. 147 148 For the relief of Maimed Souldiers p. 42 Ordnance a bill to prohibit their transportation p. 291 Debates some for the bill and some for petitioning the Queen to revoke her Patent p. 291 292 c. The bill asleep in the Lower House p. 333 The Speaker promises to mention it in
Ibid. Sub-poena one served on a Member p. 212 Argued p. 213 Reasons offered for allowing it Ibid. Subsidies a bill for them requires not the Queens consent p. 49 Several Bills for them p. 9 126 142 Sir Walter Raleigh moves for them p. 197 Is seconded p. 198 How Edward the third rais'd money for his Wars p. 205 Succession a bill brought in about it by Mr. Peter Wentworth and Sir Henry Bromley p. 54 Her Majesty highly displeased therewith Ibid. They are first confin'd to their lodgings and at last committed to several Prisons Ibid. Suits a bill touching their multiplicity and the excessive number of Atturneys p. 17 Sunday a bill to prevent Markets and Fairs on that day p. 142 A bill to avoid Contracts made on that day p. 194 Whether taking a wife on that day be void Ibid. Supreme Kings of England have been so from Henry the third's time p. 36 And before the Conquest p. 37 Sussex and Surrey a bill against decay of Highways there p. 114 Swearing Mr. Glascock speaks to the Bill and lashes the Country-Justices p. 267 268 Swearers see Blasphemers T Taxes not so great as heretofore p. 81 Instance in Edward the third and other Kings Ibid. Tellers and Receivers a bill p. 85 Tenancy by Courtesie by the man and Tenancy in Dower by the woman to be lost in case of Adultery the Bill cast out p. 222 Tenements not to be made of great houses p. 77 Tenths see Disms and Fifteens p. 104 A bill for the Clergies better answering to the Queen Ibid. Term a bill to shorten that of Michaelmas p. 204 London-Burgesses oppose it p. 207 And therefore are not of the Committee Ibid. Thorns that prick and yield no fruit compared to multiplicity of Laws p. 180 Tidings glad the Queens Message about Monopolies p. 258 Tillage see Husbandry Largely debated p. 299 300 301 Timber its marking and sizing p. 76 Tin Sir Walter Raleigh urged to speak about it for several reasons p. 235 Tipling-houses a bill to suppress them p. 304 A Proviso for the Vintners Ibid. Several Speeches about it p. 304 305 Tobacco-pipes a Monopoly an idle conceit p. 247 Tower of London a bill for a Preacher there p. 110 The Prison of the House of Commons p. 260 Mr. Townshend of Lincolns-Inne the Collector of this Journal p. 239 He puts in a bill and speaks to it p. 200 He makes a Motion Ibid. He delivers a bill and speaks to it p. 221 L. Treasurer made Lord Burleigh and seated accordingly p. 97 Trifling Suits a bill to prevent them p. 136 Trinity the Lower House a new person in it p. 260 Trinity-house a bill for it committed p. 298 Tryers of Petitions p. 3 33 131 Trust a bill against imbezeling the Queens goods chattels or treasure p. 28 Tunbridge see Grammar-School Turks the Spaniards provision against them p. 184 U Vagrant see Seditious Vicarage of Rotherston a bill to confirm its Patronage p. 284 Victualing-houses see Innes Under-Sheriff of Surrey committed to the Fleet p. 135 Uncharitable action to subvert a mount of Charity p. 291 Votes when equal the Negative by custom carries it p. 134 Vouchers a bill to reform their abuses p. 89 Use in the House p. 293 Uses charitable a quoil about the Bill p. 298 Usher Gentleman to the Lords his request by the Lord Steward p. 133 W Wandering persons pretending to be Souldiers or Mariners a bill against them p. 112 Walls so curiously painted witness our Forefathers care in cherishing the art of Painting p. 316 Wanting a Town in Berkshire a Bill for mending its Highway p. 103 A bill for its Town-lands p. 105 Ward her Majestie 's Arthur Hatch a bill to enjoy a Rectory and Parsonage p. 87 War a curse to all people especially the Poor p. 307 Warrants for new Elections whence to proceed p. 192 Watches in the night a bill for setling them p. 193 Weapons see Armour Weavers see Spinners Their Bill put to the Question p. 303 Weeping for joy at the Queens Message p. 252 Weights false so numerous that we need no other metal to make Bells and Battlements for Churches p. 190 Weights and Measures the bill expung'd p. 197 A Groat makes all good Ibid. Whirpool of the Princes profits what so called p. 320 Whispering with the Lords p. 311 Wife hath no goods therefore shall not pay p. 228 Will and Testament of George Durant a bill to perform it p. 102 Lord Cobham deceased a bill to confirm it p. 136 Wish of Mr. Johnson and his good opinion of the Queen p. 236 Wood the bill for its Assize ordered to be ingrossed p. 303 Woollen Clothes a bill for them p. 68 Word the Ministers of it induced not to seek Bishopricks p. 187 Work-house for the Poor see Hospitals Workmanship and skill the gift of God p. 314 Writ of Prorogation p. 2 Writs of Errour to save discontinuance in the Exchequer p. 6 Of Covenant p. 25 Wye the River a bill for a Bridge over it p. 115 Y Yarmouth a bill to repeal part of their Charter p. 117 A bill for better measuring of seven miles from it p. 122 Z Zeal to her Country there will never be Queen with greater p. 266 The Queen shews much in her Message to the House p. 248
of this Realm for the due inquiry and certificate of the misdemeanors of Purveyors in all places and of some courses thereupon to be had for convenient redress in the same And that before any order could well be taken for accomplishing that good intended effect the Spaniard upon a sudden attempt d the Invasion of this Realm by reason whereof her Majesty said the said purpose was not performed And further shewing that her Majesty having as much skill will and power to rule and govern her own Houshold as any Subject whatsoever to rule and govern theirs without the help or aid of their Neighbours so her Majesty intends being very careful of her own more great love and affection towards her dutiful and loving Subjects whose most faithful and approved good love and fidelity towards her she more esteemeth than all the Treasures of the world besides very shortly to cause a Collection to be made of all the Laws already in force touching Puveyors and also all the Constitutions of her Highness's Houshold in that case and thereupon by the advice of her Judges and learned Counsel to set down such a formal Plot for the said Redress yea and that before the end of this present Sessions as shall be as good and better for the ease of the Subjects than that this House had attempted without her privity and in which they would have bereaved her Majesty of the Honour Glory and Commendation of the same And touching the Exchequer she said it was her Chamber and so more neer unto her than the Houshold And that in the tenth year of her Reign her Majesty had caused certain Orders and Constitutions to be set down for the due and fit course of such things in the said Court as her Subjects seem to be grieved for March 9. Sunday On Munday March 10. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being concerning Writs of Covenant c. was read the third time and a Proviso for the Lord Powes and Sir Edward Herbert and their Heirs was thrice read and after many Speeches both with the Bill and against it the said Bill was dashed upon the Question On Tuesday March 11. the Bill for relief of the City of Lincoln was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. John Stubbs the Burgesses of Norwich the Burgesses of York and others who were appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Sir Edward Hobby Mr. Markham Mr. Buckley and Mr. Peter Euers were added to the Committees in the Bill for the City of Lincoln and the Bill with their Names was delivered to Sir Edw. Dymmocke one of the Committees On Wednesday March 12. five Bills had each of them one reading of which Bill against Aliens and Strangers retailing of Goods the last being against Aliens and Strangers retailing of Forraign Wares was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Vicechamberlain Mr. Controuler Sir Robert Jermin Sir William Moore and others who were appointed to meet on Friday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Thursday March 13. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching Mr. Southwell was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Secretary Woolley Mr. John Stanhopp Mr. Haydon Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet on Saturday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Amendments in the Bill for the maintenance of Dover-Haven being opened to the House and the Bill read in such sort amended was passed upon the Question after a Proviso offered for the Cinque-Ports first refused upon a former Question On Friday March 14. three Bills had each of them a reading of which the second being for the Town of Barwick was read the second time and thereupon committed to Mr. Cromwel Mr. Grimston the Burgesses of Barwick Mr. Robert Bowes and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon at two of the clock in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill touching the Children of Aliens Denizons was upon the second reading committed to divers Committees being of this House who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Saturday March 15. three Bills had each of them one reading of which Bill against Horse-stealing the third being a Bill to prevent Horse-stealing had its first reading Also the Amendments in the Bill for the relief of the City of Lincoln being twice read and the Bill also read in such sort amended the Bill upon the Question was committed to Mr. Vicechamberlain Sir John Parrot Mr. Alford the Master of the Wardrope Sir Robert Jermin and others who were appointed to meet this present day at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Amendments of the Bill for relief of Curriers being twice read was upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed March 16. Sunday On Munday March 17. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for pursuit of Hue and Cry was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Vicechamberlain Mr. Sherley Mr. Harries Mr. Wroth Sir William Fleetwood Sir William Moore and others who were appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill for pleading at large in an Ejectione firme had its first and second reading with an Amendment twice read and upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers was brought in by Mr. Treasurer one of the Committees without any thing done to it or any Report made and so likewise the Bill made for Aliens Children Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill to prevent Horse-stealing was read the second time On Tuesday March 18. the Bill for repeal of certain Statutes was brought again without any Report by Mr. Harries one of the Committee Two other Bills had each of them their third Reading of which the second was the Bill for the relief of Curriers and after some amendments added unto it being likewise read three times the Bill was upon the question and the division of the House dashed by the difference of thirty Voices viz. with the Yea Ninety and with the No one Hundred and twenty On Wednesday March 19. the Bill concerning the Glass-Houses and Glass-Furnaces was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Moore Mr. George Moore Mr. Markham and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer-chamber this afternoon On Thursday March 20. two Bills had each of them one Reading of which the second being a Bill for the continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes upon the second Reading was committed unto Mr. Morice Mr. Hare Mr. Wroth and others who were appointed to meet in Serjeants-Inne-Hall in Fleet-street this present day at two of the clock in the afternoon On Friday March 21. Four Bills had
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
Bill have met and had conference together and that in sundry respects then open'd by him to the House they thought good to frame a new Bill and so offer'd the same new Bill and pray'd it might be read Divers other Bills were this day read On Saturday March 24. the Bill touching Clap-boards and Casks was twice read and committed to Mr. Treasurer Mr. Wroth Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Finch and others and the Bill was deliver'd unto Mr. Treasurer who with the rest were appointed to meet this afternoon at two of the clock in the Exchequer-chamber Mr. Thomas Fane return'd into this Parliament one of the Barons of the Port of Dover and Mr. henry Fane also return'd into the same Parliament one of the Barons for the Port of Hyeth are licens'd by Mr. Speaker for their necessary business to depart Divers other Bills were this day read March 25. Sunday An. 1593. On Munday March 26. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the last concerning Spinners and Weavers was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir William Knowls Sir Moyle Finch Sir Francis Hastings and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir William Knowls who with the rest were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Exchequer Mr. Speaker shewed That he had received a Bill signed by her Majesty for the restitution in bloud of Sir Thomas Parrott Knight son and heir of Sir John Parrott Knight deceased lately attainted of High-Treason whereupon the Bill of restitution of bloud of Sir Thomas Parrott Knight son and heir of the said Sir John Parrott attainted of High-Treason was twice read On Tuesday March 27. Mr. Fuller one of the Committees in the Bill for repealing of a branch of a Statute made 4 5 Philip. Mariae entituled An Act for making of Woollen-cloaths sheweth the travel of the Committees whereupon then after some other Speeches then moving the House the said Bill was recommitted to the former Committees who had been appointed on Wednesday the 14th of this instant March to meet again this afternoon The Bill touching the true and lawful assizing of Bread was read the second time and upon the doubtfulness of the Voices whether it should be ingrossed or no was upon the Question upon the division of the House rejected with the difference of twenty seven Voices viz. with the Yeas sixty five and with the Noes ninety two Divers other Bills were this day read March 28. being Wednesday The Bill for renewing continuing explanation perfecting and enabling of certain Statutes was twice read and committed to the former Committees and unto Mr. William Hiningham Mr. Doughty Mr. Rotherham Mr. Finch Mr. Atturney of the Dutchie the Barons of the Cinque-Ports Mr. John Hare Mr. Penrudeck and Dr. Cesar and the Bill was delivered unto Mr. Wroth one of the former Committees who with the rest were appointed to meet in this place at two of the clock in the afternoon Sir Robert Cecill one of the Committees in the Bill for the relief of poor maimed Souldiers shewed That the Committees had met together but in the effect upon sundry reasons shewed unto them by divers of them in the said Committee to contrary effects they could come to no conclusion but rather to a confusion upon the points of the matter For his own private part he said in the end That as this House had committed the Bill unto him and the residue of the said Committees so had he thought good to commit the same Bill to Prison rather than to return the same to this House in the same form or no better state than they did before receive it Divers other Bills were this day read On Thursday March 29. Mr. Broughton Mr. Atturney of the Dutchie Sir Thomas Dennis Sir Francis Godolphine were added to the former Committees in the Bill for the Haven of Plimouth and appointed to meet at two of the clock in the afternoon this present day The Bill concerning the Haven at Colchester and the paving of the said Town was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Vicechamberlain the Burgesses of Colchester Mr. Grimston and others and the Bill was delivered unto Mr. Wroth one of the said Committees who with the rest were appointed to meet at two of the clock this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Divers other Bills were this day read On Friday March 30. Mr. Broughton and Mr. Dier were appointed to attend the Lord Keeper touching the return of the Hab. Cor. cum Causa for the bringing up of the body of Thomas Fitz-herbert Esquire Vide concerning this matter on the first day the second day and the 17th day of this instant March and also on April 3. and 15. following The Amendments in the Bill for the continuation explanation and confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late of Sir Francis Englefield Knight being twice read to the House and the Bill it self and the Amendments read the third time also passed upon the Question Divers Bills more were this day read On Saturday March 31. the Bill for confirmation of Subsidies granted by the Clergy was read the first time The Clergies Subsidy confirmed and passed upon the Question The Bill touching Casks brought in with more Amendments by Mr. Wroth one of the Committees and the same Amendments being twice read the Bill upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed Divers other Bills were this day read April 1. Sunday April 1. On Munday April 2. the Bill concerning Woollen-cloaths called Devonshire Kersies was upon the second reading committed to the Knights and Burgesses of Devon Mr. Serjeant Harries Mr. George Moore and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir Thomas Denny one of the same Committees who with the rest were appointed to meet at two of the clock this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others of which the first was the Act for confirmation of the Subsidies granted by the Clergy and another touching the Lands of Sir Francis Englefield Knight Divers other Bills were this day read On Tuesday April 3. the Bill concerning Spinners and Weavers was twice read and committed to the former Committee and Mr. Wroth and the Burgesses of York and Norwich were added to them Sir Thomas Dennis one of the Committees for Devonshire Kersies shewed the meeting of the Committees and that they had in some few things amended the Bill praying the reading of the Amendments which being twice read the Bill upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed Divers other Bills were this day read On Wednesday April 4. Mr. Barker one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Spinners and Weavers shewed the meeting and travels of the Committees and their Amendments of the Bill praying the reading of the same which being read and ordered to be inserted by the House into the Bill the same Amendments were twice read and the Bill
upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Wreth one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Brewers shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and their Amendments of the said Bill and prayed the reading of the said Amendments which being read and ordered by the House to be inserted into the said Bill and also twice read upon the Question the Bill was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for explanation of a branch of a Statute made in the 23 year of her Majesties Reign entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience with some Amendments to the same was read the second time upon which divers Speeches in the House passed before the said Bill was committed some of them being of very good moment which because they are omitted in the original Journal-book it self is therefore supplied out of the Anonymon-Journal mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following Sir Thomas Cecill Dr. Lewyn Mr. Sands Sir Thomas Henage Sir Edward Dymmocke and some others spake diversly to this Bill touching the explanation of a branch of the Statute made Anno 23 Reginae for reducing disloyal Subjects to their Obedience as is aforesaid Sir Walter Rawleigh Sir Walter Rawleigh said In his conceit the Brownists are worthy to be rooted out of a Common-wealth but what danger may grow unto our selves if this Law passes it were fit to be considered For it is to be feared that men not guilty will be included in it and that Law is hard that taketh Life or sendeth into Banishment where mens intentions shall be judged by a Jury and they shall be Judges what another man meant But that Law that is against a Fact that is just and punish the Fact as severely as you will If two or three thousand Brownists meet at the Sea side at whose charge shall they be transported or whither will you send them I am sorry for it I am afraid there is neer twenty thousand of them in England and when they are gone who shall maintain their Wives and Children Divers other Bills were this day read On Thursday April 5. the Bill for the true assizing and marking of Timber was read the second time and committed to Mr. George Moore Mr. Dalton Mr. Wroth Sir John Hart and others and the Bill was delivered unto Sir John Hart who with the rest were appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Mr. Serjeant Owen and Mr. Powle brought in from the Lords an Act for explanation of the Statute made 34 Hen. 8. as well touching Grants made to his Majesty as for confirmation of the speedy Letters-Patents made by his Highness to others and did pray from their Lordships the speedy execution of the same Mr. Vicechamberlain one of the Committees with the Committees of the Lords in the Bill for reviving continuing explanation and perfecting of certain Statutes sheweth the meeting and conference with the Committees of the Lords and that their Lordships have thought good to adde some small Amendments to the said Bill and a Proviso also for her Majesties Prerogative in point of transportation of Corn as the like whereof was in the Statute of the 13 of her Reign Nota That the business so much before agitated touching Mr. Fitz-herbert received this day the final resolution of this House as is plainly set down in the often-before-cited Anonymon-Journal more particularly mentioned in the beginning of this present Journal although it be wholly omitted in the original Journal-book which said Case was singly thus Thomas Fitz-herbert being elected a Burgess of the Parliament two hours after his election and before the return of the Writ to the Sheriff with an Indenture of his Election the said Sheriff arresteth him upon a Capias utlegatum after Judgment at the Queens suit as may be collected out of the reasons given of their said resolution and then his Indenture was returned unto the Sheriff Upon all which matters there grew two Questions First whether the said Mr. Herbert were a Member of the House and secondly admitting he was Whether he ought to have priviledge Which said matter having been much formerly debated on the 1 2 17. and 30. days of March last as also on the 3. instant received now at last the Judgment of the House which is inserted out of the aforesaid Anonymon-Journal-book Divers Bills were this day read On Friday April 6. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for restraint of new buildings converting of great houses into several Tenements and for restraint of Inmates and Inclosures in and neer unto the Cities of London and Westminster was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy Counsellors of this House the Knights and Burgesses of London Mr. Francis Bacon and others and the Bill was delivered unto Mr. Wroth one of the said Committees who with the rest were appointed to meet this afternoon at two of the clock in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill concerning Devonshire Kersies was read the third time and passed upon the Question Divers other Bills were this day read On Saturday April 7. the Bill concerning Coopers was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Serjeant Harries Mr. Dalton Mr. Wroth and others and the Bill was delivered unto Sir John Hart one of the said Committees who with the rest were appointed to meet at two of the clock this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill for naturalizing of Justice Dormer and George Sheppie was upon the second reading ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Finch one of the Committees in the Bill for the avoiding of deceits used in the making and selling of the twice-laid Cordage and for the better preserving of the Navy of this Realm shewed the meeting of the Committees and some few Amendments to the Bill which being read and allowed by the House the said Amendments were twice read and the Bill and the said Amendments also read the third time passed upon the Question Divers other Bills were likewise this day read April 8. Sunday On Munday April 9. Westlen Webben Beer-brewer and John Lightbonne Serjeant at Mace Prisoners at the bar after admonition given them by Mr. Speaker were discharged of their Imprisonment paying their Fees Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees in the Bill for explanation of a Statute made 34 Hen. 8. as well touching Grants made to his Majesty as for confirmation of Letters-Patents made by his Majesty to others shewed the meeting of the Committees and that they had considered of some small Amendments and shewed further that four several Provisoes were offered to them one by Mr. Adams one by Tipper one by and one by Daws and so offered in both the Bills the Amendments and the said four Provisoes leaving the same to the further consideration of the House Divers other Bills were read this day April 9. Sir John Hart one of 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
Bacon and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday next at the Exchequer-Chamber at two of the clock in the Afternoon and the Bill and Committees names were then delivered to Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchie The Bill for taking away of benefit of the Clergy from Offenders against the Statute made 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of Women against their wills unlawfully was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Boyes Mr. Finch Mr. Bourcher and M. Duport to go presently into the Committee-chamber of this House who taking the Bill with them and returning again very soon after they had inserted into the Bill these words viz. hereafter to be committed which words being read unto the House and not well liked of were stricken out and these words were set down therein by consent of the House viz. to be committed after the end of this present Parliament and were then twice read and so the Bill upon the question was ordered to be ingrossed On Tuesday Novemb. 8. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching the transporting of Sheep-skins and Pelts was read prima vice Also two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for due performance of the last Will and Testament of George Durant was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Edward Hobby Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Francis Maro Sir Robert Wingfield Mr. Calthrope Sir Thomas Cecil and Sir James Harrington who were appointed to meet to morrow in the Exchequer-Court at Two of the clock in the Afternoon Sir Francis Hastings moved for the abridging and reforming of the excessive number of superfluous and burthensome penal Laws which motion being seconded by Mr. Francis Bacon and others the consideration of the management thereof was committed to all the Privy-Council being Members of the House A Bill to reform the number of superfluous and burthensome penal Laws c. all the Serjeants at Law likewise being Members of this House all the Lawyers of this House Mr. George Moore Mr. Lukenor Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. Rotherham Mr. Comistie Mr. Diggs Mr. Crompton Mr. Peake Mr. Atturney of the Court of Wards Mr. Colebrand Mr. Atturney of the Dutchie Mr. Tolerby Mr. Culpepper Dr. Bennet Dr. James Dr. Perkins all the Knights of the Counties and for the City of London returned into this House Sir William Moore Sir Edward Hobby Sir Thomas Hobby and Mr. Hubbert who were appointed to meet in this House upon Thursday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon On Wednesday Novemb. 9. two Bills had each of them one reading the second being the Bill to suppress the multitude of Maltsters Bill to suppress the multitude of Maultsters was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Hubbert the Burgesses of Iork Hull Worcester and Gloucester Mr. Nathaniel Bacon and others who were appointed to meet at Two of the clock this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being for the amendment of Weavers and Spinners Wages was read prima vice The House began this day to name Committees touching Monopolies and Patents of Priviledges of which Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Barker Mr. Lawrence Hide and some nine others being appointed Mr. Secretary Cecil moved the House the day being far spent and the business in agitation of great weight the nominating of the said Committee might be deferred until the day following and that then it might be discussed and set down touching what matter the said Committee should treat Whereupon upon the question it was deferred accordingly On Thursday Novemb. 10. the Bill for the establishing of the Town-lands of Wanting in the County of Berks to the relief of the Poor amending of High-ways and maintaining of a School-master in the Town of Wanting aforesaid was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Controler the Knights for the County of Berks Mr. Henry Nevil Sir Humphry Foster Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Oglethorp Mr. Laurence Hide Mr. Little Mr. Tasborough and Mr. Oldsworth who were appointed to meet on Saturday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in this House Three other Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for re-edifying the Town of Langford Estevor in the County of Somerset was upon the second reading committed unto the Knights for the County of Somerset Sir Francis Hastings Mr. Hexte all the Burgesses of Somerset-shire Mr. Edward Philips Mr. Alexander Popham the Knights and Citizens for London Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Jerom Horsey and Dr. James who were appointed to meet on Munday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Mr. Walgrave moved touching the abuses of Licenses for Marriages granted by Ecclesiastical persons and prayed that consideration may be had for reformation thereof by this House On Friday Novemb. 11. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill concerning the Hospital of Warwick Dr. Wingfield and Dr. James do shew sundry great abuses by Licenses for Marriages without Banes granted by Registers and other inferior Officers Whereupon Sir Thomas Cecil moved for a Committee for drawing a Bill for reformation thereof whereupon were nominated Sir Thomas Cecil Mr. Fannel Mr. Finch Dr. James Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. Robert Wingfield and others who were appointed to meet to morrow at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in Grays-Inn-hall Mr. Hexte moved touching the abuses in Probates of Wills Mr. Edward Hobby moved for a Committee for continuance of several Statutes whereupon were nominated Mr. Atturney of the Dutchie Mr. Atturney of the Court of Wards Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Sollicitor Sir Edward Hobby Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Francis Bacon all the Serjeants at Law being of this House Sir William Moore and others and a note of the names of the Committees were delivered to Sir Robert Wroth who with the rest were appointed to meet on Thursday next in the Inner-Temple-hall at Two of the clock in the Afternoon On Saturday Novemb. 12. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the repeal of the Statute of the 23 of her Majesties raign Bill for increase of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation intituled An Act for the increase of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation was upon the second reading committed unto all the Burgesses of the Port-towns all the Citizens of London York Hull and Norwich the Burgesses of Carnarvan Mr. Miles Sands and others who were appointed to meet on Munday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill against the counterfeiting the Hands of the Lords Bill against counterfeiting of Hands was read the second time and upon the question committed unto all the Privy-Council being Members of this House all the Serjeants at Law
it is a Commendable piece of Work but Mr. Speaker methinks the Bill yeildeth too great scope of Fishing into the Sea which how Prejudiciall it may be to the Office of the Lord Admiral or to his Successors or to the Royalty of any other I know not therefore That the Bill may have the safer Passage I wish it may be Considered of at a Commitment A Bill for the Assurance of a Joynture to Lucy Countess of Bedford Committed and the meeting to be in the Exchecquer-Chamber upon Wednesday in the Afternoon at two of the Clock A Bill for the Observation of certain Orders in the Exchecquer set down under her Majesties Privy-Seal And the Bill to Enable Mr. Edmond Markham to dispose of his Lands whereof he is Tenant in Tayl as other Tenants in Tayl by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm may do The question upon the Checquer-Bill grew Whether before Commitment the Counsel of the Clerks of Mr. Osborne's Office should be had in respect of Mr. Wing feild moved The old Officers might be heard by their Councel Mr. Bacon said I did rather yeildingly accept than forwardly imbrace this labour imposed upon me I Wish the Councel may be heard because we shall have the more time of consideration what to do There is nothing so great an impediment to certainty of prevailing as hast and earnestness in prosecuting I therefore think it fit that they may have time Assigned them to proceed by Councel Mr. Martyn said Mr. Speaker Mr. Martyn Here is a new Bill sprung out of the old it hath a smooth face and I think the inward part of the Bill is answerable to the Exterior I am utterly against that they should have Councel they have had time enough already to consider of it If their Councel be now without it were good we heard them if not I hold it best to proceed to the Question Then the house cryed To the Question for Commitment and it was Committed and it was agreed that they should have their Counsel there Then the Question was When the Commitment should be some said this Afternoon others Monday but being put to the Question the House was divided and the I I I were 98 and the Noes 181. and so Monday was agreed on At the Commitment in the Afternoon touching Monopolies Sir Edward Stanhop informed the House Sir Edw. Stanhop against Patentees of the great Abuse by the Patentee for Salt in his Country that betwixt Michaelmas and Saint Andrews tide where Salt was wont before the Patent to be sold for Sixteen pence a Bushel it is now fold for Fourteen and Fifteen shillings a Bushel but after the Lord President had understood thereof he Committed the Patentee who caused it to be sold as before This Patent was granted to Sir Thomas Wilks and after to one Smith To Lynn there is every year brought at least Three Thousand weight of Salt and every weight since this Patent is inhanced Twenty shillings and where the Bushel was wont to be Eight pence it is now Sixteen pence And I dare boldly say it if this Patent were called in there might well be Three Thousand Pounds a year saved in the Ports of Lynn Boston and Hull I speak this of white Salt Mr. Francis Bacon said Mr. Fr. Bacon against the Bill but Moves to go by way of Petition The Bill is very injurious and ridiculous Injurious in that it taketh or rather sweepeth away her Majesties Prerogative and Ridiculous in that there is a Proviso That this Statute shall not extend to Grants made to Corporations That is a gull to sweeten the Bill withall it is only to make Fools Fond. All men of the Law know that a Bill which is only Expository to Expound the Common-Law doth Enact nothing neither is any Proviso good therein And therefore the Statute of 34. Hen. 8. of Wills which is but an Act expository of the Statute of 32. Hen. 8. of Wills touching Sir John Bonfords Will was adjudged void Therefore I think the Bill unfit and our proceedings to be by Petition Mr. Solicitor Fleming said Mr. Solicitor's Acount of the Queen's intentions I will briefly give you an account of all things touching these Monopolies Her Majesty in her provident care gave Charge to Mr. Atturney and my self That speedy and special course may be taken for these Patents This was in the beginning of Hillary-Term last But you all know the danger of that time and what great Affairs of importance happen'd to prevent that business Since that nothing could be done therein for want of Leisure Sir Robert Wroth said Sir Rob. Wroth. I would but Note Mr. Solicitor That you were charged to take Care in Hillary-Term last Why not before There was time enough ever since the last Parliament I speak it and I speak it boldly These Patentees are worse than ever they were And I have heard a Gentleman affirm in this House That there is a Clause of Reversion in these Patents If so what needed this stir by Quo warranto and I know not what when it is but to send for the Patents and cause a redelivery There have been diverse Patents granted since the last Parliament these are now in being viz. The Patents for Currants Iron Powder Cards Hornes Oxe Shin-bones Traine Oyle Lists of Cloath Ashes Bottles Glasses Baggs Shreds of Gloves Aniseed Vinegar Sea-Coales Steele Aqua-vitae Brushes Pots Salt Salt-Petre Lead Accedence Oyle Transportation of Leather Callamint-stone Oyle of Blubber Fumothoes or dried Pilchers in the smoak and divers others Upon Reading of the Patents aforesaid Mr. Hackwel Mr. Hackwell of Lincolns-Inn stood up and asked this Is not Bread there Bread quoth another This voice seems strange quoth a third No quoth Mr. Hackwell but if order be not taken for these Bread will be there before the next Parliament Mr. Townshend of Lincolns-Inn the Collector of this Journal seeing the disagreement of the Committees Mr. Townshend and that they could agree upon nothing made a Motion to this effect First to put them in mind of a Petition made the last Parliament which though it took no effect we should much wrong her Majesty and forget our selves if we should think to speed no better in the like Case now because there was a Commitment for this purpose and the Committees drew a Speech which was deliver'd by the Speaker word for word at the end of the Parliament But now we might hope that by the sending of our Speaker presently after such a Committee and Speech made with humble Suit not only to Repeal all Monopolies Grievous to the Subject but also that it would please Her Majesty to give us leave to make an Act that they might be of no more force validity or Effect than they are at the Common Law without the strength of her Prerogative which though we might now do and the Act being so reasonable we did assure our selves Her Majesty would not deny the passing
Man but understandeth the Grief and no Man which readily knoweth the Remedy I wish that those who first propounded this Matter to the House had also laid down some Project though never so small of Remedy otherwise such cursory Motions as these cannot but be very Distasteful to the House ' Mr. Hithe said Within these Twelve Dayes one Man lost Two Hundred Pounds only by the Dunkirkers who took the same away from him Mr. Secretary Cecil said Secretary Cecil seconds the Motion My Speech shall only tend to advance the Motion of the Gentleman that spake first in this Point If we would have Remedy we are to consider two things First That it will be a Matter of Charge and Secondly That there must be a Distribution thereof For the first I leave it to you for the second it is out of my Element withal I must excuse them that have Authority to Remedy this for unless you would have a continual Charge unto Her Majesty by having Ships to lye between Us and Dunkirk it is impossible but that at sometimes these Robberies will be Committed The Business is Committed And I could very well agree to bring this Motion to some Head being a Matter in my Opinion very Considerable in a Committee Mr. Dannet And all said I I I. Mr. Dannet said I would only move the House That some Masters of Ships and Sea-men might be sent for to attend the Committee So it was agreed to be Committed And the place and time appointed for Meeting in the Exchecquer-Chamber on Saturday in the Afternoon A Bill for Levying of Fines within the County of the City of Chester Ingrossed and put to the Question passed and then sent up by Mr. Secretary Herbert and others with another Bill to the Lords Mr. Tate said I would only move the House That whereas an Information is Exhibited by the Earl of Huntington against a Member of this House Mr. Belgrave by Name into the Star-Chamber containing no matter of Substance or Note other than matter very dishonourable to this House I therefore humbly pray it may be referred to be considered of by the Committee for the Privileges of this House And all said I I I. He delivered the Information to the Speaker A Bill for the Reuniting of Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning Read the second time and Committed to certain Committees in the Committee Chamber presently A Bill for the Denization of certain Persons viz. Josepho Lopo c was Read and put to the Question and Ordered to be Ingrossed A Bill to avoid double Payment of Debts A Bill against double payment of Book-Debts Mr. Locke begins to speak falls a trembling and fits down again Mr. Bacon speaks to it was Read To this Bill Mr. Zacharias Locke began to speak but for very Fear shook so that he could not proceed but stood still a while and at length sate down Mr. Bacon speaking of this Bill said That Bills were wont to be Committed with Pleasure but now we would scarce hear them with Patience The Merchants Books he said were springing Books every Year they would increase c. Mr. Henshaw Mr. Henshaw amongst other Speeches said That it was as easy to cross a Merchants Book which a Man might see at all times as to Give the Merchant a Bond who when he had many thrust together perhaps would intreat the Gentleman to come some other time for it who if he should in the mean time Die his Executors are without remedy c. Mr. Serjeant Harris said Serj. Harris These Merchants Books are like Aarons Rod ever Budding and like Basingstoak Reckonings over Night Five Shillings Six Pence if you pay it not it is grown in the Morning to a just Noble This Debt is a Sleeping Debt and it will lull young Gentlemen into Merchants Books with the Golden Hooks of being trusted by the Merchant and his Expectancy after his Fathers Death These are Matters dangerous and I think hurtful therefore I think it a good Bill c. Mr. John Harris said Where it is said Mr. John Harris There can be no Wager of Law against a Merchants Book in London it is true But first the Merchant must Swear the Debt c. Mr. Thomas Jones said It is now my chance to Speak something Mr. Jones and that without Humming or Hawing I think this Law is a good Law Even Reckoning makes long Friends As far goes the Penny as the Penny 's Master Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subventunt Pay the Reckoning over Night and you shall not be troubled in the Morning If ready Money be Mensura Publica let every Man cut his Coat according to his Cloth When his old Suit is in the Wain let him stay till that his Money bring a new Suit in the Increase Therefore I think the Law to be good and I wish it a good Passage Mr. Hackwell of Lincolns-Inn said Mr. Hackwell I am a Man of that Rank and Condition that I never sell and seldome buy and pay ready Money and the safest course this Bill offers to me for my particular But the great Mischief that will redound by it to the Commons is that which makes me speak I am not Transported with such Vehemency but if I may be answered I will lay down the Bucklers This Bill hath a good Face but an ill Body It hath a very good Head-piece I mean the Title It is like Daniel's Image It hath a Head of Gold a Body of Silver Thighs of Brass Legs of Iron and Feet of Clay If I may pray you to put on a great deal of Patience for a little time I will make it somewhat plain We must lay down the Respects of our own Persons and put on others and their Affections for whom we speak for they speak for Us. If the Matter which was spoken of touch the Poor then think me a poor Man he that speaks must be sometimes a Lawyer sometimes a Painter sometimes a Merchant sometimes a mean Artificer Most Men desire forbearance this Bill destroys it which tends to the Gain and Good of the Creditor and Good also of the Buyer but seeking to avoid a Mischief we fall into an Inconvenience For the manner is unproportionable and unjust If the Buyer be so negligent that he will not care to see himself discharged must we needs make a Law to help his folly The Proverb is Caveat emptor If this Law goes forwards the augmentation of confidence in his ancient habilliments can not be preserved For if it be a hard Year the poor Artificer who hath Wife and Children and Houshold to maintain and lives by the Sweat of his Browes can not live for he hath not money to buy all with the Peny but perhaps he hath Credit which perhaps may help his present necessitous Estate And besides I can teach you all a Trick how for Twelve Pence you may avoid this Statute and that is File
Bellgrave I ever took him and so still do to be a man of very good Carriage To condemn him I do not mean but I humbly Pray that a course for his Honour may be taken and the matter so handled that the Honour of the Person may be saved the Gentleman freed from further Offence and this Cause ended with good conclusion Mr. Dale said Id possimus quod Jure possimus and therefore resting in doubt herein the safest course is a Conference Mr. Tate said It is not good to utter suddain Thoughts in great matters Our Dispute may seem to have this end either to Incur the danger of our Priviledges by not regarding this Cause or to pry too neer into Her Majesties Prerogative by Examining Informations exhibited into the Star-Chamber wherefore I think we ought to be Petitioners not verbum Petitioners or at least to shew our Griess to the Lords And if by an Order from them as was alledged this Information was put in methinks in Reason a Conference were good to Examine the Cause and inform this House truly thereof Mr. Skipwith the Pensioner Mr. Skipwith for Belgrave said If I knew or did think there were any Wrong done to the Earl of Huntington I would rather be a Petitioner for this Gentleman unto him than I would be a Protector of him against him I know Mr. Belgrave wrote his Letter to my Lord and that it pleased his Honour to answer him and that he offered to follow his Honour in that sort as is fitting for a Gentleman of his Worth and rather His Honour than any mans in England This I take it may satisfy the House for Answer to the first part of the Information which containeth a Dishonour offered to the Earl For the Second which is Deceiving of the Burgesses I do assure this House they were both willing and worthy to be deceived I know they had given their Voices and desired Mr. Bellgrave to undertake it For the Wrong to this Court I hope this Court hath wisdom enough to Right it self without any Course in the Star-Chamber yet by your Favours I may say thus much That if we should Punish him for coming Indirectly to this Place we should Punish three parts of the House for none ought to be Chosen but those that be resident and sworn Burgesses of the Town Sir Robert Wroth said Sir Robert Wroth brings a precedent This matter needs not so much Dispute In the last Year of Queen Mary in the Case between Pleadal and Pleadal it pleased the Lords of the Star-Chamber Sedente Parliamento to bind the one at the Suit of the other to appear 12 days after the Parliament and this was adjudged to be an Infringment of the Lberties of this House Mr. Davis said The Information savours more of Wit than Malice and therefore I think that upon Conference with the Lords the matter may be brought to a good end I therefore humbly pray it may be put to the Question and that the Bill may be sent for out of the Star-Chamber Mr. Cary said As I take it Mr. Speaker the Course hath been that if the House hath been desirous to see any Record you Mr Speaker should send a Warrant to the Lord-Keeper to grant forth a Certiorari to have the Record brought into this House And upon view thereof perhaps this matter of Dispute would have an end Sir Francis Hastings offer'd to speak again in this matter Sir France Hastings Speakes Again Mr. Bacon interrupts him And they contend a while with reproaches but Mr. Bacon interrupted him and told him It was against the Course of the House To which he Answered He was old enough to know when and how often to speak To which Mr. Bacon Answered It was no matter for that but he needed not to be so Hot in an ill Cause To which Sir Francis replied In several matters of Debate a man may speak often so I take it is the Order He pointing to Mr. Bacon talkes of Heat If I be so hot as he Was Yesterday then put me out of doores The only thing that I would say is this I wish a Conference may be had with the Lords because the matter may be brought to some friendly end For God knows what may lie in the Deck after the Parliament and I suspect it the more because the Information is filed and no Process sued out Mr. Greenvil said I wish that in our Conference A Conference agreed by the Lords we do not neglect our Privileges and that we may be a means of Mediation So Mr. Comptroller and others were sent to desire a Conference which was agreed unto by the Lords and the time appointed to be on Thursday Morning at Eight of the Clock Mr. Speaker said I am to certifie you from the Lords of a great disorder committed by the Pages and Servants as well of the Lords themselves as of your Servants So that not only Abuse is offer'd but Weapons and Blood drawn For remedy whereof the Lords have given strict Commandment That their Servants keep peaceable and quiet Order and that neither their Pages Attendants nor Servants do stand upon the Stairs or neerer the House than the Stair-foot They desire that every Member of the House would do the like to their Servants and so expresly to Charge and Command them And I would move you That you would be pleased the Serjeant might go forth and signify so much from you unto the Company without and all said I I I. Mr. Wiseman said The disorder Mr. Speaker speaks of is now grown so great that they have their Passes and Repasses and men dare not go down the Staires without a Conductor So the Serjeant went and delivered the Message and the Abuse was well Reformed The Bill for Assuring of a Joynture to the Countess of Sussex Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Dr. Cary and Dr. Stanhop came from the Lords and Serjeant Yelverton signified the Lords Desire of a Conference in the Bill for Patents made by the Queen and Grants to her c. Which the Lords did the more Respect because it was recommended to them from the House the time appointed to Morrow Morning at Eight of the Clock the Number 20. So after they went out it was agreed They should meet with a convenient Number and then they were called in again according to the Ceremony of the House and the Houses resolution deliver'd to them Mr. Serj. Harrts said Mr. Speaker The Ancient Use hath been always to double or treble the Number The last Committee were about Sixty I think by reason they were Committees and are best informed that they should attend the Lords And so it was agreed His conceipt was Sell the great Bell to buy the little Bell a Clapper In the afternoon in the House the Bill for Fustians was to be debated but by reason the Devonshire-Men made a Faction against it after small Dispute it was put to the Question whether it
Painters can not work without Colours their only mixture being Oyl and Size which the Plaisterers do now Usurp and Intrude into Painters have her Majesty's Letters Patents Dated Anno 24. Reginae forbidding any Artificer the Use of Colours and Oyl or Size after the manner of Painting but such as hath been or shall be an Apprentice with a Painter Seven Years at the least And where the Plaisterers do Object That the Painters do Abridge other Companies of their Colours That is most apparently untrue For Gold-smiths use Colours but not after the manner of Painting and work without Oyl or Size by enamelling Leather-sellers Colour their Leather but not after the manner of Painting but work without Oyl or Size Book-binders use Colours but neither with Oyl or Size So Cutlers use Varnishing and Gilding So Glasiers use Colours with nealing in the Oven Brick-layers use Colours but neither with Oyl nor Size and Joyners likewise do use Varnish Workmanship and Skill is the Gift of God and not one in ten proveth a Workman yet it is requisite that all such as have been brought up all the days of their life in a Trade and cannot attain to that Excellency of Skill that is required should live by the baser part of their Science when they can not attain to the better which is in working in Oyl and Size those flat Posts and Windows c. If Plaisterers be suffer'd to Paint Workmanship in Painting will decay for no Workman will keep an Apprentice Four or five Years to Practice and not able to get a Penny unless he might now and then get somewhat towards his Meat and Drink in laying of Oyl-Colours as on Posts c. Experience teacheth us now That amongst the Number of There Hundred there are not now Twelve sufficient Workmen in the City of London yet one of these Francis De Miter such was his Poverty was fain for his Releif to Wife and Children to wear upon the Lord Mayors Day a Blew Gown and a Red Cap and to carry a Torch he being Fifty Years Old One man will lay and Paint more Colours in a day than ten men can grind which grinding of Colours should be the Relief of such as cannot Attain to Workmanship and that is taken away by the Plaisterers and the poor men the Painters their Wives and Children go a Begging for want of Work Besides Painting of Cloth is decayed and not One Hundred Yards of new Painted Cloth made here in a Year by reason of so much painted Flanders pieces brought from thence So that the Painters have nothing to live on but laying of Oyl-Colours on Posts Windows c. It is a curious Art and requireth a good Eye and a stedfast Hand which the infirmity of Age decayeth quickly and then Painters go a begging Plaisterers take mony generally from the highest Personage to the lowest or meanest Cottage whose Walls must needs be made Painters take money but of a few for their delight Painters give to the Plaisterers six kind of Colours commonly used as the Bill importeth to be laid with Size and not with Oyl And for every Twenty Shillings earned with Oyl-Colours there is Ten Pound earned with Size-Colours they being every mans money These Walls The Bill passed thus Curiously Painted in former Ages the Arms so Artificially Drawn the Imagery so perfectly done do Witness our Fore-fathers Care in Cherishing this Art of Painting So I think the Bill is very reasonable and fit to pass And so it did Mr. Attorney General and Doctor Cary came from the Lords shewed Their Lordships were ready for a Conference touching the Bill concerning Patents and that they had given power to their Committees fully and finally to determine the same and desired that our Committees might come with the like Power which was granted but a great Number cried No No. A Bill for Reformation of Abuses in Buying and Selling of Spices and other Merchandizes This Bill was called the Garbling Bill It was put to the Question for the passage and the House was divided And the I I I were Ninety Five and the Noes Forty One So the Bill passed There was a Question in the House upon the Bill for the Relief of Souldiers Whether the Old Levy of Two Pence a Parish should stand or Six Pence a Parish To which Secretary Cecil moves for the poor Souldiers Mr. Secretary Cecil said The Law for the Relief of Souldiers I take to be both just and Honourable and that Misery which proceeds from Obedience Worthy to be Pitied and Relieved for their Obedience hath shewed it self even by Sacrificing their Bloods for our Goods and there is liker to be a continuance than a decay of their Miseries I dare boldly say it there is never a Souldier Relieved with such a Contribution as his Misery requireth and his Service hath deserved And therefore I think Six Pence a Parish at the least So they went to the Conference and the House sent up these Bills viz. 1. The Bill against Fairs and Markets on Sundays 2. The Bill to prevent Perjury and Subornation c. 3. The Bill to prevent Abuses in Sherifs and other Officers 4. The Bill concerning making of Hats 5. The Bill for Garbling of Spices 6. The Bill for Redress of Abuses in Painting 7. The Bill for making a Harbour or Key on the North side of Devon 8. The Bill for Assurance of certain Lands to Sandes and Harris And Mr. Secretary Cecil was intreated to deliver them unto the Lords The Bill for the Redress of Abuses and mis-employment of Goods and Lands given to Charitable Uses was Read the first time Mr. Solicitor General Fleming Moved That although the Order of the House was A Bill should not be Read twice in one morning yet in respect that this was a Bill of great Consequence he Prayed That it would please the House it might be Read again And it accordingly was And so it was by Order presently Committed Mr. Snigg said I would humbly pray the House that the Bill of Clothing which hath at length taken and laid open the Theft of England which we have so long followed with Hue and Cry I mean the Tayntor may be Read It Robs God of his Honour and us of our Clothing Mr. Browne said And I humbly present unto this House the natural Born Child of us all I mean the Bill against Transportation of Ordnance which is Amended and a Proviso added with Licence c. And I humbly pray the Amendments may be Read And the Bill put to the Question And so they were after a little Dispute and Ordered to be Ingrossed The Bill for Maimed Souldiers was Read To which Mr. Roger Owen spake shewing that he was commanded by all the Justices of the Peace for Salop to Deliver unto the House the poor Estate of the County and therefore prayed a Proviso might be added to exempt that County But it was replied to him That he went about to Deck up his
his Speech to the Queen but does not p. 334 Which caused a Murmur Ibid. It is further spoken to Ibid. Orford-Haven a bill for its preservation p. 9 Outlawries secret a bill to avoid them p. 11 P Painters and Plaisterers to be heard p. 144 Their Case debated p. 270 271 See more p. 313 314 315 Painting a bill to prevent abuses in it p. 114 A bill of no great moment p. 191 Pamphlets published by Jesuits and Seminaries p. 331 Pardon free several bills for it p. 29 49 147 335 To be craved for extravagant Speeches in the House p. 252 Thanks for the same p. 12 150 335 It passeth at once reading whereas other bills have three p. 44 Parishes of 8800 and odde not above 600 afford a competency p. 218 Paris garden a bill to re-unite the Mannor p. 121 Parliament summoned to begin Nov. 12. prorogued to Feb. 4. 1588. p. 1 Dissolved March 29. 1589. p. 29 Passed into Acts 16 publick and 8 private Bills Ibid. Began Nov. 19. 1592. p. 31 Dissolved Apr. 10. 1593. p. 50 We have no account of the number of Bills Began Octob. 24. 1597. p. 79 Dissolved Feb. 9. 1597. p. 99 Passed into Acts 24 publick and 19 private Bills p. 127 48 Bills refused that had past both Houses Began Octob. 27. 1601. p. 129 Dissolved Decem. 19. 1601. p. 333 Passed into Acts 19 publick and ten private Bills p. 151 Parliament-man priviledged and his servant for fourteen days p. 225 One of them swooneth in the House p. 332 Several Conjectures about it Ibid. Patents Committees named for them p. 103 Patents and Patentees a List of them Ibid. Pawn-takers see retailing Brokers Pedegree of the Marquess of Winchester p. 195 Pelts see Sheep-skins People a bill to increase them p. 90 Perjury a bill to prevent it p. 221 Petty Larceny its punishment p. 71 Phesants and Partridges a bill to preserve them p. 132 Pins a bill to avoid their importation p. 92 Plaintiff to pay the Defendant costs being in Prison for want of Bail if the Suit go against him p. 123 Plaisterers see Painters Pluralities a bill against them largely debated p. 218 219 220 Plymouth a bill for the Haven p. 74 Prayer a Copie of that used daily in the Commons House p. 179 Preamble to the bill of Subsidie p. 70 Precedent a notable one p. 233 Precedents that Warrants of new Election ought to go from the Speaker the Parliament sitting p. 192 Printers a bill against their multiplicity p. 322 One over Guild-hal-gate p. 217 Priviledges of Parliament canvass'd p. 254 255 Priviledge not to say what they list but Yea or No p. 37 Broken by an Arrest complained of p. 225 Privie-Counsellors irreverence to them blamed by the Queen p. 47 Probate of Wills its abuses moved against p. 104 Process a bill for its better execution p. 70 Proclamations upon Fines at Common Law to be abridg'd p. 7 Proctors all the Spiritual Lords but one had two p. 4 Protest of the Commons p. 95 Proviso for the Lard Powes and Sir Edward Herbert p. 25 Proxies ordinary and extraordinary p. 34 38 39 Purchasers a bill to assure their Lands p. 68 Purveyors a bill to reform their disorders p. 17 The Queens care about them signified by Mr. Speaker p. 24 Q QUEEN comes to the Vpper House p. 2 4 31 45 129 334 She makes a Speech her self p. 48 Swears by God she will punish Cowards Ibid. She makes another Speech p. 263 264 265 266 Quaere Whether the Speaker have a voice p. 321 The Speaker declares he hath none by custom Ibid. What was done with the money raised for the Poor p. 333 R Raleigh Sir Walter his sharp Speech and great silence after it p. 235 He complains for liberty of speech p. 302 He blushes p. 232 Rapesdale in Lancashire a bill for its Inhabitants p. 107 Recusants and Sectaries very pernicious to Government p. 46 Recusants Popish restrained to some place p. 40 A bill about them p. 61 Relief of Thomas Hasilrig Esq a bill p. 18 Of George Ognel Esq a bill p. 20 Of the Citie of Lincoln a bill p. 25 Remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Kettleby to be established on Francis Kettleby p. 135 Repeal of a branch of a Statute of 4 5 Phil. Mary p. 73 Roan made Admiral threatens England p. 58 Robbing in the day-time though none in the house not admitted to Clergie a bill p. 96 Robberies a bill to suppress them p. 105 S Sabbath-breakers Examples of Gods judgments upon them p. 274 School of Tunbridge a bill for it p. 22 Schoolmaster a bill to maintain one at Wanting p. 103 Secrets of the House misrepresented and discover'd complained of p. 18 Sectaries see Recusants Seditious persons a bill to punish them p. 38 Sergeant of London sent for on an Arrest p. 85 Sheeps skins a bill touching their transportation p. 102 Sheriffs a bill to reform abuses in them and their under-Officers p. 141 Ships one English beat twenty Spanish till they got our Guns p. 293 One of the Queen 's a petty Princes wealth p. 59 One ready laden with 36 Pieces of Ordnance p. 307 Shop-books a bill to prevent double payment of debts upon them p. 111 Silk-weavers a bill to reform their abuses p. 222 Sollicitors a Bill about them Ibid. Their Character p. 201 None to sollicit but without fee p. 222 No Mechanick trades-man to be one Ibid. Souldiers see Captains A bill to reform sundry abuses done by them in the War p. 95 A Collection for them p. 41 Absent Members of both Houses to pay double p. 43 Mr. Secretary Cecil's passionate Speech for maimed Souldiers p. 307 Spain the practices of that King against England p. 183 184 The Spanish General 's Letter to the Irish Catholicks p. 351 Speaker Sir George Snag He is presented excuses himself is approved His Thanks and Petitions allowed p. 4 5 Edward Coke Esq His excuse not allowed his Petitions granted p. 53 His Speech p. 35 He speaks again p. 36 His Speech to the Queen p. 45 Serjeant Yelverton His excuses Petitions c. p. 82 He giveth a Caution p. 101 John Crook Esquire Recorder of London His Speech p. 131 149 He gives an account of the Queens Speech p. 71 272 He makes his Speech p. 334 Speeches of many worthy Members upon several occasions p. 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Spinners a bill concerning them p. 73 Spur a Motion about an ancient custom of putting off the Spurs before entrance of Members into the House p. 181 Stanes Bridge a Bill for its reparation p. 110 Star-chamber persons present there p. 353 Statutes a bill to repeal certain of them p. 19 See p. 74 Stealing of horses a Proviso against it p. 189 A bill about stealing Oxen Sheep c. p. 69 Stealers of Corn and Fruit a bill against them p. 112 Stews their Case like that of Ale-houses p. 181 Being suppressed every house is a Bawdy-house
proceed with all Humbleness rather by Petition than Bill Mr. Wingfeild said Mr. Wingfeild I would but put the House in mind of the Proceedings we had in this Matter the Last Parliament In the End whereof our Speaker moved Her Majesty by way of Petition That the Grief touching these Monopolies might be Respected and the Grievance coming of them might be Redressed Her Majesty answered by the Lord-Keeper That She would take care of these Monopolies and our Griefs should be Redressed If not She would give us free Liberty to Proceed in making a Law the next Parliament The Wound Mr. Speaker is still Bleeding and we grieve under the Sore and are without Remedy It was my Hap the Last Parliament to Encounter with the word PREROGATIVE But as Then so Now I do it with all Humility and wish all Happyness both unto It and Her Majesty I am indifferent touching our Proceedings whether by Bill or Petition because that therein our Grievance may follow whereby by Her Majesty may specially understand them Sir Walter Rawleigh said I am urged to Speak in two Respects Sir Walter Rawleigh The one because I find my self touched in Particular the other in that I take some Imputation and Slander to be offer'd unto Her Majesty I mean by the Gentleman that first mentioned Tynn which was Mr. Martin For That being one of the Principal Commodities of this Kingdom and being in Cornwal it hath ever so long as there were any belonged to the Dukes of Cornwal and they had special Patents of Privilege It hath pleased Her Majesty freely to bestow on Me that Privilege and that Patent being word for word the very same the Duke's is And because by reason of my Office of Lord-Warden of the Stannaries I can sufficiently inform this House of the State thereof I will make bold to deliver it unto you When the Tynn is taken out of the Mine and Molten and Refined then is every Piece containing a Hundred Weight sealed with the Duke's Seal And by reason of this Privilege which I now have he ever had the Refusal in Buying thereof for the words of the Patent are Nisi nos emere voluimus Now I will tell you That before the granting of my Patent whether Tynn were but at Seventeen Shillings and so upward to Fifty Shillings a Hundred yet the poor Workman never had but Two Shillings a week finding himself But since my Patent whosoever will work be Tynn at what price soever they have Four Shillings a week truly paid there is no poor that will work there but may and have that Wages Notwithstanding if all others may be Repealed I will give my Consent as freely to the Cancelling of this as any Member of this House Sir Francis Hastings said It is a special Honour to this Assembly to give freedom of Speech to all and howsoever some have been heretofore troubled yet I Joy to see so great Reformation that we may speak quietly and be heard peaceably every man hath not a like Sense or Judgement neither is every mans memory alike I wish that if any Gentleman that speaks of this or any other Subject as curious shall let fall any word amiss or unpleasing that it may be Attributed rather to earnestness than want of Duty This Speech proceeded in respect of Sir Walter Rawleigh's sharp Speech as also of the great Silence after it Mr. Snigg wisht a Commitment to Devise a Course Sir Robert Wroth wished a Commitment in which a Course might be devised how Her Majesty might know our Special Griefs Mr. Downall said Mr. Downall's Proposal As I would be no let or over vehement in any thing so I am not sottish or senceless of the common Grievances of the Common-wealth If we proceed by way of Petition we can have no more gratious Answer than we had the last Parliament to our Petitions Since the Parliament we have had no Reformation And the Reason why I think no Reformation hath been had is because I never heard the Cries against Monopolies greater and more vehement Mr. Johnson said Mr. Johnson's With and good Opinion of the Queen Mr. Speaker I will be very short I say only thus much I would we were all so happy That Her Majesties Gratious Self had heard but the fifth part of that that every one of us hath heard this day I think verily in my Soul and Conscience we should not be more desirous in having these Monopolies called in than She would be earnest therein her self So it was put to the Question Agreed to be Committed When the Commitment should be And agreed to morrow in the afternoon in this House On Saturday Novemb. 21. A Bill for Explanation of the Statute made 21 Hen. 8. Cap. _____ touching Loading and Unloading of Merchandize the first time Read A Bill for the Reducing of those which be Brewers within the City of London and Suburbs thereof and within Two Miles Compass of the same into the said Company of the said City A Bill to Enable Sir Anthony Maney Knight and Anthony Maney Esquire his Son to make Sale of certain Lands of John Maney his Father Deceased Read the first time A Bill for Levying of Fines with Proclamation of Lands within the County of the City of Chester put in the Sixteenth of November 1601. The Substance of the Bill is That Fines Levied before the Mayor at the Portmoot-Court should be Available and the Conusors of Fines may take by Dedimus potestat Vide 2 Edvardi 6. Cap. _____ and 21 Hen. 7. Cap. _____ A Bill for Fines with Proclamation within the County of Chester Mr. Wingfeild brought in the Bill for Dreined Grounds Sir Edward Hobby said A Gentleman a Good Member of this House Sir John Gray was Served with a Subpoena in Chancery Ad Respondendum 30 Nov. ad sectam Roberti Atkins If no Order be taken herein I think for my own Part both the House and the Privileges thereof will grow in Contempt I wish that the Serjeant may be sent for the Party and that some Exemplary Punishment may be inflicted Mr. Doyley said Mr. Speaker We spend much time which is now Precious in Disputing of Privileges and other Matters of small Impertance For my own Part I think no time should be spent herein but that a Writ of Privilege may be Granted Mr. Johnson said Mr. Speaker Our own Lenity is the Cause of this Contempt And until some special Punishment be Inflicted it will not be otherwise Mr. Francis Moore brought in the Bill touching Sir Francis Seymor Knight A Bill to avoyd the deceitful Stretching or Tentoring of Woollen Cloths Committed to the former Committees of Woollen Cloths Sir Edward Seymor's Bill was put to the Question and Ordered to be Ingrossed A Bill for the Erecting and making an Harbour or Key on the North-part of Devon in the mouth of the River Severn was read Mr. Zacharias Locke said Mr. Speaker I am not against this Bill