Order After which ended and her Majesties Assent thereunto then the Dissolution of the Parliament followed by the Lord Keeper which is entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in these words following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae Dissolvit hoc praesens Parliamentum THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 43 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1601. which began there on Tuesday the 27 th Day of October and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Saturday the 19 th Day of December ensuing Anno 44 Reginae ejusdem THIS large and copious Journal containeth in it not only a number of excellent Passages concerning the Orders and Priviledge of the House of Commons which are usually found in other Journals of the same House but also much matter touching the publick State and that great grievance of the Realm by reason of Patents of Priviledge or Monopolies in the abdication or censure of which her Majesty most graciously concurr'd with her Subjects In which also a great number of Speeches and other Passages which were not found in the Original Journal-Book of the said House are supplied out of a Journal of the same House taken at this Parliament by one of the Members thereof But yet to avoid confusion whatsoever is here inserted out of the said private Journal is particularly distinguished from that which is taken out of the above-mentioned Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons by some Animadversion or expression thereof both before and after the inserting of it The tenth Parliament of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith c. begun at Westminster upon Tuesday being the 27 th day of October in the forty third year of her Majesties Reign upon which day many of the Knights for the Shires Citizens for Cities Burgesses for Boroughs and Barons for Ports returned into the same Parliament did make their appearance at Westminster aforesaid before the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral and Lord Steward of her Highnesses most Honourable Houshold and did then and there take the Oath according to the Statute in that behalf made and provided tendred by the said Earl or by his Deputies who were Sir William Knolls Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold Sir John Stanhop her Highness Vice-Chamberlain Sir Robert Cecill Principal Secretary and John Herbert Esq second Secretary After which all the said Lord Steward's Deputies and some others of the House of Commons having gotten into the Upper House and her Majesty with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being set the greatest part of the residue of the Members of the said House of Commons had notice thereof about four of the Clock in the Afternoon being at that time still suting in the said House and expecting her Majesties Pleasure to be sent for up unto the said Upper House according to the antient usage and custom of former Parliaments And thereupon the said residue repaired immediately unto the Door of the said House but could not be let in the Door being still kept shut and so returned back again unto their own House much discontented Shortly after which time the Right Honourable Sir William Knolls one of the Deputies aforesaid came down into the said House of Commons and so being there set with the said residue for some little space of time M r Richard Lieffe one of the Barons returned into this present Parliament for the Port of Hastings in the County of Sussex stood up and shewing unto the said Comptroller the wrong done unto the greatest part of the Members of this House in their not being suffered to come into the said Upper House to hear her Majesties Pleasure signified by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England humbly desired the said Comptroller to be a means that the effect thereof might be imparted unto some of the Members of this House for their better satisfactions Which as his Honour did think very reasonable and meet to be done at convenient time so did he impute the said fault wholly to the Gentleman-Usher of the said Upper House Which done and the residue of the said Deputies being shortly after come into the said House of Commons and there sitting the said M r Comptroller after some pause stood up and shewing unto this House that his place was to break the silence of this House for that time and putting the House in mind to make Choice of a Speaker according to her Majesties Pleasure given unto them in that behalf shewed that in his opinion he thinketh M r John Crooke Recorder of London returned one of the Knights for the City of London into this present Parliament to be a very fit able and sufficient Man to supply the whole Charge of the said Office of Speaker being a Gentleman very Religious very Judicious of a good Conscience and well furnished with all other good parts yet leaveth nevertheless the further consideration thereof to this House and so did sit again Which done and no one contrary Voice at all being delivered the said M r Crooke after some large Pause first taken stood up and very Learnedly and Eloquently endeavoured to disable himself at large for the burthen of that charge alledging his great defects both of Nature and of Art fit to supply that place and shewing all full Complements for the same to abound in many other Learned and grave Members of this House in the end prayed most humbly that they would accept of his due excuse and be pleased to proceed to a new Election and did then sit down again Whereupon the said M r Comptroller did stand up and said that hearing no negative Voice he took it for a due Election and demanding the further opinion of this House therein they all Answered Yea and gave their Assents Whereupon the said M r Comptroller and the Right Honourable Sir John Stanhop her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain immediately went to the said M r John Crooke and did set him in the Chair which done the said M r Crooke after some little pause did stand up and yielding unto this whole House most humble thanks for their great good opinion of him and loving favour towards him and praying them to accept of his willing mind and readiness and to bear with his unableness and wants in the service of this House referr'd himself to their good favours And then the said M r Comptroller signified further unto this House that her Majesties Pleasure was that the Members of this House having made choice of their Speaker should present him unto her Highness upon Friday next following in the Afternoon And so then every man departed and went his way On Friday the 30 th day of October about one of the Clock in the Afternoon the Knights Citizens and
President on the day following A motion was made by a Burgess for a Subsidy The Queens Serjeant and Attorney brought a Bill from the Lords touching the Garrison of Barwick An Excellent Declaration was this day made by M r Secretary Cecill of the great Charges defrayed by the Queens Majesty and of the Causes of the Wars in France for not keeping the Edict there made by the Parliament and also touching the Charges at Barwicke and New-haven the Provision of Armour and the Navy the Cavillation of the French for Callice concluding to consider for the Aid The Bill lastly for the Government of the Garrison and Souldiers of Barwick was read the first time On Thursday the 21. day of January For that it is said that M r Elrington hath interest in the Iron-Mill in the Town of Shere in Surrey whereas the Bill is to put down the same It was resolved that M r Speaker should direct his Letter to him in the name of the House to come and shew if he will for saving his Estate therein Vide touching this business on Saturday the 30. day of this Instant January ensuing The Bill against breaking of Ponds and Stealing of Fish and Conies was read the first time A like Letter was sent also to the Heir of Walter Herenden for the Lands claimed by M r Barty and the Duchess of Suffolk The Bill to revive divers Acts to be Felony M r Sidney By which manner of Entring the Title of the said Bill it may plainly be collected that the Bill it self had at this time its second reading and was thereupon committed to M r Sidney aforesaid to whom it seemeth the Bill was delivered and others whose names are omitted The Queens Serjeant and others brought a Bill from the Lords touching the Repeal of a branch for conveying of Horses which Bill was presently read the first time On Friday the 22 th day of January M r Elrington Owner of the Iron-Mill in Shere for the suppressing of which a Bill was put into this House desired a Copy of the Bill and a day to Answer with his learned Counsel two in number and to bring his Answer on Friday next Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against carrying of Horses out of the Realm was secundâ vice lect but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent down from the Lords And the last being the Bill for the Government of the Garrison and Souldiers of Barwick was read the second time and as it should seem was committed to M r Fitz-Chamberlain mistaken for M r Vice-Chamberlain and others Vide a like President on Thursday the 21 th day of this instant January foregoing For that Burgesses be returned of divers Boroughs not lately returned in the Chancery viz. the Burgess of Tregony S t Jermynes and Maws in Cornwall the Borough of Minked in Somersetshire the Borough of Tamworth in Stafford and the Borough of Stankbridge in Southampton M r Speaker declared to the House that the Lord Steward agreed they should resort into the House and with convenient speed to shew Letters Patents why they be returned into this Parliament Nota That it was very common and ordinary in former times to avoid the Charges of their Burgesses allowance in time of Parliament when the Town grew into any poverty or decay that the Boroughs did either get Licence of the Sovereign for the time being to be discharged from such Election and Attendance or did by degrees discontinue it themselves but of later times the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons for the most part bearing their own Charges many of those Borough-Towns who had discontinued their former priviledge by not sending did again recontinue it as these Towns here both during her Majesties Reign and afterwards in the Reign of King James her Successor On Saturday the 23 th day of January Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for levying of Fines in the County Palatine of Durham was read the second time and Ordered to be engrossed The Bill to repeal the branch for carrying of Horses out of the Realm was read the third time and passed upon the Question Three other Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to avoid Aliens not being Denizens nor being here for Religion nor Conscience sake was upon the second reading rejected and the Bill torn On Monday the 25 th day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Oak-Timber preservation of Bark was read the second time and thereupon rejected and torn Certain Articles in writing were objected by the Burgesses of Barwick against the Bill of Barwick which was sent down by the Lords For that Lewes Mountgomery Esq is returned Burgess for Northampton and also for Dorchester and doth appear for Northampton a new Writ de Burgens eligendo was required for Dorchester The Queens Council with twenty four of the Shires and fix of Wales were appointed on Wednesday next to meet in the Star-Chamber for Order to be taken concerning the Subsidy On Tuesday the 26 th day of January Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill that Apothecaries and their Stuff shall be under the search of the Colledge of Physicians was read the first time A Petition devised by the Committees who were appointed on Tuesday the 19 th day of this instant January foregoing although their names be wholly omitted through the Clerks negligence to be made to the Queens Majesty by M r Speaker for limitation of Succession was read by M r Norton one of the Committees And thereupon the Queens Privy-Council were required to move her Majesty that M r Speaker with the whole House may exhibit to her Highness that Petition and to certifie her Highness pleasure Vide touching this business on Thursday the 28 th day of this instant January ensuing in Pomeridiano The Bill touching carrying of Horses out of the Realm was sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller with a request to the Lords to further the Petition of this House to the Queens Majesty touching Marriage and Succession which was well allowed of by the Lords Vide on Thursday the 28 th day of this instant January following For that Francis Walsinghaw returned Burgess for Linn in Dorsetshire and for Banbury in Oxfordshire doth appear for Linne a new Writ de Burgens eligend was required for Banbury On Wednesday the 27 th day of January the Bill touching Curriers to buy Tann'd-Leather to work and sell it was read the second time and as it should seem was committed to Mr. Crosts and others not named Vide a like President on Thursday the 21 th day of this instant January foregoing Mr. Comptroller with
which is usual in other continuations of it But the reason why they met not till the Afternoon seemeth to be because then the Queens Majesty her self came thither to whom Richard Onslow Esq her Majesties Sollicitor having been Chosen Speaker for the House of Commons the day past was presented and admitted by her in manner and form as followeth About three of the Clock in the Afternoon this present Wednesday the second day of October the Queens Majesty took her Barge and Landed on the back-side of the Parliament-Chamber and so the Earl of Northumberland bearing the Sword the Lady Strainge her Trayn with the Lords in their daily Apparel and the Heralds attending on her she proceeded up into the Privy-Chamber to prepare her self during which time the Lords and Justices put on their Parliament Robes and took their places in manner and form following In which it is to be noted that no part of this days passages already set down is found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is either transcribed out of a certain Anonymous memorial I had by me in which the presentment of the Speaker this day is somewhat exactly set down or was supplied by my self upon the comparing of several things together Now follow the Names of the Lords and others as aforesaid First on the Form on the North-side together with the Upper Form at the nether end sate the Bishops as followeth Younge Archbishop of York Grindall Bishop of London Pilkington Bishop of Durham Sands Bishop of Winchester Birkley Bishop of Bath and Wells Bett. Bishop of Carlisle Barlow Bishop of Chichester Alleo Bishop of Exeter Gest. Bishop of Rochester Skamler Bishop of Peterburgh Horne Bishop of Worcester Bullingham Bishop of Lincoln Bentam Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield Denham Bishop of Chester Scorie Bishop of Hereford Davies Bishop of S t Davids Parkhurst Bishop of Norwich Cheyney Bishop of Gloucester Nota That these names with those that follow being transcribed in a different manner from all others in the residue of the Journals of the Queens time were so found with the Names of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal added to them in that before-mentioned Anonymous memorial of this present Wednesdays passages being the second day of October and were therefore transcribed out of it as is aforesaid rather than out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House although the Series of them that were present set down there did serve well to rectifie those foregoing and these also that next ensue At the foremost Form on the South-side sate these Peers viz. William Paulet Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshall of England William Parre Marquess of Northampton Thomas Peircie Earl of Northumberland Charles Nevill Earl of Westmorland George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury William Sommerset alias Plantagenet Earl of Worcester Thomas Ratcliff Earl of Sussex Henry Haistings Earl of Huntingdon Edward Seymor Earl of Hartford Robert Sutton alias Dudley Earl of Leicester and Master of the Horse Anthony Brown Viscount Mountague Nota That Edward de Vere Earl of Oxford Lord Great Chamberlain of England Edward Mannors Earl of Rutland William Bowrchier Earl of Bath and Henry Wriotheisly Earl of South-hampton were at this time under Age and in Ward to the Queen and therefore they were not admitted to take their places in the Uppermost House but if they were present did either stand besides the upper part of the Rail at the higher end of the said House or were admitted to kneel at the upper end of the same House near the Chair of State at this time and upon like solemn days for no Peer is admitted to have his free Voice or sit as a Member of that Great Council untill he have accomplished his full Age unless by the special Grace of the Prince At the Form at their back and the nether Form at the nether end sate these Peers Fynes Lord Clinton as Lord Admiral sate first amongst the Barons Howard Lord Effingham as Lord Chamberlain of her Majesties Houshold sate second Nevill Lord of Burgaveny sate in his due place of preheminence and so the rest that follow unless such as were misplaced by the Clerks error which is too frequent Zouch Lord Zouch Standley Lord Strange Birkley Lord Birkley Parker Lord Morley Brooke Lord Cobham Stafford Lord Stafford Gray Lord Gray of Wilton Sutton Lord Dudley Lumley Lord Lumley Blunt Lord Mountjoy Darcy Lord Darcy of Mevill Standley Lord Mounteagle Sands Lord Sands Vaux Lord Vaux Windsor Lord Windsor Wentworth Lord Wentworth Burrough Lord Borough Mordant Lord Mordant Cromwell Lord Cromwell Evers Lord Evers Willoughby Lord Willoughby Sheffeild Lord Sheffeild Paget Lord Paget Darcy de Chiche Dominus Darcy North Lord North of Carthelige Bridges Lord Shandois Haistings Lord Haistings of Loughborough Carey Lord Carey of Hunsdon S t John Lord S t John of Bletsoe Nota That Dutchet Lord Audley and the Lord Dacres of the North were under Age. All which Peers abovesaid had their Mantles Hood and Circots furred with Miniver their Arms put on the right side and the Duke of Norfolk had Bars of Miniver the Marquess of Winchester and Northampton had three Bars of Miniver the Earls likewise the Viscounts two and the Barons two Item On the upper Sack of Wooll sate the Lord Keeper till the Queen came and then went to his place at the Rail On the Woolsack on the Northside sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer the Queens two Chief Justices M r Corbet Weston and Southcote Justices of both Benches on the Woolsack on the Southside sate Sir William Cecill the Queens Principal Secretary Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Sanders Chief Baron Baron Whiddon ..... Carus the Queens Serjeant ..... Gerrard the Queens Attorney and on the nether Sack sate M r Vaughan and Yale Masters of the Chancery M r Spilman Clerk of the Parliament M r Martin Clerk of the Crown and M r Peile his Joint Patentee And behind them kneeled Smith Clerk of the Council and Jones Clerk of the Signet Permiter and Dister Then the Queens Majesty being Apparelled in her Parliament Robes with a Caul on her Head came forth and took her Seat the Marquess of Northampton carrying the Cap of Maintenance and after stood on her right hand the Duke of Norfolk carrying his Marshals Rod and on her left hand the Earl of Northumberland with the Sword the Heralds also and Serjeants at Arms being before her her Majesties Mantle was born up on either side from her Shoulders by the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord of Hunsdon who also stood still by her for the assisting thereof when she stood up her Train was born by the Lady Strange assisted by Sir Francis Knolles Vice-Chamberlain at the left hand of the Queen and on the South-side kneeled the Ladies and at the Rail at the Queens back on the right hand stood the Lord Keeper and on the left hand the Lord Treasurer Then the Queen
had notice that divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal with Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England were Assembled in the Upper House and expected their repair thither they presently went up unto the Lords where the Lord Keeper shewed forth a Commission from her Majesty under the Great Seal of England directed unto him which he Commanded the Clerk openly to read Which said Commission as also the greatest part of the foregoing days passages are transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and inserted here as into the due and proper place Which very things were in part also mentioned in the Original Book of the House of Commons with the passages of this present Tuesday although in both I have not omitted to supply some things my self which might easily be gathered by the comparing of several things together The Tenor of the said Commission ensueth verbatim ELizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our right Trusty and right well Beloved Chancellor Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England Greeting Where in the beginning of this present Parliament holden at Westminster the 12 th day of January in the fifth Year of our Reign the Knights Citizens and Burgesses being Assembled in the same Year in the same Parliament were Commanded by us to go to their accustomed place and there to chuse among themselves one to be their Speaker according to their accustomed manner whereupon the same Knights Citizens and Burgesses did Elect and chuse one Thomas Williams Esq to be their Speaker and the same their Election did afterwards certifie unto us which we did allow and ratifie since which time this our present Parliament hath been continued by divers Prorogations until the 30. of September in this present eighth Year of our Reign at which day the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and also the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses being Assembled for this present Parliament at Westminster in their accustomed places the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses have declared unto us that the said Thomas Williams since the last Session of this present Parliament is dead And thereupon have made their humble Suit and Petition unto us that they might have Licence and Commandment from us to proceed to elect among themselves one other to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament yet to come Wherefore We having certain and perfect knowledge that the said Thomas Williams is dead as they have alledged and considering their humble Petition and Request very meet and necessary to be granted have appointed and Constituted you and by these Presents We do Will Command Constitute and Appoint you for us and in our Name to call the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses before you and other the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled in this our present Parliament in the Higher House of our Parliament at Westminster and there for us and in our Name to Will and Command the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses to resort to their accustomed place and there to Elect and chuse amongst themselves one sufficient and able person to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament to come And after they have so made their Election that then three or four of them for and in all their names shall signifie the same unto us And thereupon we will further signifie our pleasure unto them what day and time they shall present the person Elected before us as heretofore hath been in like cases accustomed to be done wherefore our Will and Pleasure is that you do diligently attend about the doing of the premises and execute the same with effect In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters of Commission to be Sealed with our Great Seal of England Witness our Self at Westminster the first day of October in the Eighth Year of our Reign The residue of this Days Passages follows out of the Journal of the House of Commons As soon as the said Commission had been read the Knights Citizens and Burgesses and Barons of the House of Commons departed into their own House where Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold declared unto them that for as much as Richard Onslow Esq her Majesties Sollicitor General was a Member of their said House being Elected a Burgess for the Borough of ..... in the County of Sussex they would use some means to have him restored unto them who as yet attended in the Upper House to join with them in their Election of a Speaker And thereupon notice thereof being given to the Lords of the Upper House upon Consultation had amongst them the said M r Onslow was sent down with the Queens Serjeant at Law M r Carus and M r Attorney General to shew for himself why he should not be a Member of this House who alledging many weighty reasons as well for his Office of Sollicitor as for his Writ of Attendance in the Upper House was nevertheless adjudged to be a Member of this House And thereupon proceeding to the Election M r Comptroller nominated M r Onslow to be Speaker who humbly disabled himself as well for non-ability of substance meet for that place as also for his Oath made to the Queens Majesty and required them to proceed to a new Election upon whose Arguments the House was divided and the number to have him Speaker was eighty two and the contrary was sixty And immediately M r Comptroller and M r Vice-Chamberlain brought him from his place to the Chair and there set him down On Wednesday the second day of October between three and four of the Clock in the Afternoon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons repaired to the Upper House having notice that her Majesty with the Lords and divers others were already set in the said House expecting their coming where Richard Onslow Esq their Speaker Elect was led up to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said House between Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold and Sir Francis Knolles Knight her Highness Vice-Chamberlain and so presented unto her Majesty where having disabled himself in many respects he was notwithstanding allowed by her Majesty by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper After which having desired free access to her Highness and pardon for himself if he should in any thing unwittingly fail or mistake the Lord Keeper by her Majesties Commandment declared her full Assent to the said particulars And thereupon the said Speaker being now compleatly and perfectly invested in his place departed back with the residue of the House of Commons unto their own House where according to the usual Form one Bill had its first reading viz. The Bill how Sanctuary-persons shall be compellable for payment of their Debts Nota That the Passages of this Afternoon containing in them the manner of the Presentment and Allowance of
against Simony the third for the severance of Sheriffs in the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham the fourth for the erection of a Grammar-School and writing-School in the Borough of Southwark and the last for the making of William Watson a free Denizen Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal meeting Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Erection of a Grammar-School and Writing-School in the Borough of Southwark was read primâ vice The Bill to restrain the Oppression of common Promoters was sent to the House of Commons by M r Attorney and Doctor Huick Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem proximum horâ Octavâ On Wednesday the 23 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching Priests disguising themselves was read the first time Ten Bills were brought from the House of Commons the first to License the Earl of Leicester to found an Hospital the second whereby certain offences be made Treasons the third against fraudulent gifts to the intent to defeat Dilapidations the fourth for the paving of the Town of Ipswich the fifth whereby the Queens Majesties Servants in Ordinary of her Houshold and Chamber shall not be returned on Juries the sixth against the bringing in of Foreign Wares forbidden the seventh for the continuance of Sheriffs of sundry Counties the eighth for the bringing in of Bow-staves into the Realm the ninth for Ministers of the Church to be sound in Religion and the tenth for paving of a street without Aldgate Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem Nota That here the Lord Chief Justice did continue the Parliament unto the Afternoon by Virtue of that Authority which was given unto him by her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal of England and set down at large on Monday the 9 th day of April foregoing On the said 23 th day of May in the Afternoon Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the paving of a Street without Aldgate the fourth for the bringing in of Bowes-staves into the Realm and the sixth for the paving of the Town of Ipswich were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either referred to the Committees or ordered to be ingrossed in respect that they had been sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons this present Wednesday in the Forenoon of which see a like President on Wednesday the 16 th day of this instant May foregoing The last also of the said seven Bills touching Priests disguising themselves in strange Apparel was read the second time commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem proximum horâ Octavâ On Thursday the 24 th day of May Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the maintenance of the Navy and for encrease of Tillage and the second for incorporating and uniting of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis in Com. Dorset were each of them read secundâ vice commissae ad ingrossand Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons the first being the Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion the second touching order for Bankrupts the third for the Commission of Sewers the fourth for the appointing of two Sheriffs for the two Counties of Huntington and Cambridge the fifth for the restitution in Blood of Sir Thomas Wyat's Children the sixth that no Hay or Plate shall cross the Seas the seventh for speedy Tryal to be had upon Issues in the Counties of Salop. and Hereford and the last was the Bill for the Tryal of Felons in the twelve Shires of Wales Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal being Assembled Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Incorporation of both Universities and the second for the Tryal of Felons in the twelve Counties of Wales were each of them read primâ vice The Bill for coming to Church and the Bill for severance of Sheriffs in the Counties of Bucks and Bedford were delivered to Doctor Yale and Doctor Vaughan to be carried to the House of Commons Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the speedy Tryal to be had upon Issues in the Counties of Salop and Hereford was read prima vice commissa Justiciario Harper Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons the first to restrain the oppression of common Promoters the second for the restitution in Blood of Henry Brereton Esquire and the third for John Tirrell Esq The Bill for the paving of the Town of Ipswich was read tertiâ vice conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Friday the 25 th day of May Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first was for the Incorporation of both Universities the second for the Incorporation and uniting of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis in Com. Dorset and the third for increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy they had each of them their third reading and passed upon the question And were sent to the Commons by M r Attorney and Doctor Vaughan Five Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill whereby the Queens Majesties Ordinary Servants of Houshold and Chamber shall not be returned on Juries was read tertiâ vice reject Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion was returned conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lords met but nothing was done save only the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper usque in diem proximum horâ Octavâ On Saturday the 26 th day of May Three Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill that no Purveyor shall take Grain Corn or Victual within five Miles of Cambridge and Oxford was returned with certain Amendments and so the Bill was concluded Two Bill also were brought from the House of Commons of which the first
and Authorize the said Sir Francis Knolles Sir James Crofts Sir Ralph Sadler Sir Walter Mildmay and Sir Thomas Smith Knights to be his Deputies for and in the ministring of the Oath to all and singular the Knights of the Shires Citizens of Cities Burgesses of Boroughs and Barons of the Ports returned and to be returned for that present Parliament according to the form of the Statute in that behalf then lately made and provided And immediately thereupon the faid Lord Steward and his Deputies did then and there Minister the said Oath to all such of the said Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons as were then present accordingly Which done the Sermon ended and the Queens Majesty sat in her Royal Seat in the Upper House of Parliament the Commons standing at the lower end of the Chamber the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England learnedly and briefly declared the Causes of Calling the said Parliament and so in the end willed them to repair into their House and there after their accustomed manner to chuse of themselves an apt and fit man to be their Speaker and to present him to the Queens Majesty on the Wednesday next following in the Afternoon Whereupon the said Commons immediately resorted to their Common House and being there Assembled the Right Worshipful M r Christopher Wray Esq one of the Queens Majesties Serjeants at Law was by the first motion and nomination of the said M r Treasurer with one voice of the said whole House Chosen to be Speaker and placed in the Chair notwithstanding his Allegations of disabling himself and humble request for their proceeding to a new Election On Wednesday the 4 th day of April in the Afternoon Christopher Wray Esquire one of the Queens Majesties Serjeants at Law the Speaker Elect of the House of Commons was presented unto her Highness who sitting in her Royal Seat and allowing and affirming the Election after his Oration made and ordinary Petitions granted the said Lord Keeper willed him with the residue to repair to the House of Commons there to deliberate and consult upon the making of such good and wholesome Laws as might tend to the advancement of Gods Glory and preservation and safety of the Queens Majesty and the Common-Wealth of this Realm of England And thereupon the said M r Speaker and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons returned back unto their own House and being there sat one Bill according to the usual Course had its first reading which was The Bill concerning coming to Church and receiving the Communion It was this day finally agreed upon the Motion of M r Speaker that the Letany should be read every day in the House during this Parliament as in the last was used and also a Prayer by M r Speaker such as he should think fittest for this time to be begun every day at half an hour after eight of the Clock in the Morning and that each one of this House then making default should forfeit every time four pence to the poor Mans Box. On Thursday the 5 th day of April Thomas Clark and Anthony Bull of the Inner-Temple London Gentlemen were by this House committed to the Serjeants Ward until further order should be taken with them for that they presumed to enter into this House and were no Members of the same as themselves at the Bar confessed This day the House was called and thereupon Edward Lewkenor John Bullock Nicholas Plumtree Edward Goodwyn and John Garnons were Commanded to attend the order of this House to Morrow next for that the House being this day called they had entred into the House and had not as them been returned by the Clerk of the Crown except Garnons whose Case is for that he is said to be Excommunicate On Friday the 6 th day of April It was Ordered that the Burgesses for Estringsted shall remain according to the return This day M r Treasurer M r Serjeant Manwood Geffrie and Lovelace M r Feltman M r Bell and M r Mounson were appointed to confer with M r Attorney and M r Sollicitor about the return of the Burgesses following for that the same Towns returned no Burgesses the last Parliament viz. Cornwall the Boroughs of Estlow Fowley Gloucestershire the Borough of Chichester Nottinghamshire the Borough of Easiretford Kent the Borough of Queenborough Oxfordshire the Borough of Woodstock Hampshire the Borough of Christ-Church Suffolk the Boroughs of Aldburgh Eye And to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon at three of the Clock in M r Treasurers Chamber at the Court. Nota That these ensuing Speeches are taken out of the before-mentioned Anonymous Journal M r Strickland a grave and ancient Man of Great Zeal stood up and made a long Discourse tending to the remembrance of Gods Goodness giving unto us the light of his Word together with the gracious disposition of her Majesty by whom as by his Instrument God hath wrought so great things and blaming our slackness and carelesness in not esteeming and following the time and blessing offered but still as men not sufficiently instructed what is truth or so that we think it not convenient to publish and profess it openly and that all reproachful Speeches of the slanderous might be stopped the draw-backs brought forward and the Over-runners such as over-run and exceed the rule of the Law reduced to a certainty he thought it Operae pretium to be occupied therein for which purpose he said the Professors of the Gospel in other Nations had writ and published to the World the Confession of their Faith as did those of Strasburgh and Franckford c. for which purpose also great Learned men in this Realm had travelled as Peter Martyr Paulus Fagius and others whose works hereupon were Extant And before this time and offer thereof was made in Parliament that it might be approved but either the slackness or somewhat else of some men in that time was the lett thereof or what else he said he would not say This Book he said rested in the Custody of M r Norton as he guessed a man neither ill disposed to Religion nor a negligent Keeper of such matters of Charge and thereupon requested that M r Norton might be required to produce the same he added also that after so many Years as now by Gods Providence we had been learning the purity of Gods truth we should not permit for any cause of Policy or other pretence any errors in matters of Doctrine to continue amongst us And therefore said he although the Book of Common-Prayer is God be praised drawn very near to the sincerity of the truth yet are there some things inserted more superstitious than in so high matters be tolerable as namely in the Administration of the Sacrament of Baptism the sign of the Cross to be made with some Ceremonies and such other Errors all which he said might well be changed without note of chopping or changing of Religion whereby the Enemies might slander us
Bill against flying with long-winged Hawks under certain degrees was read prima vice Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regii continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crast. hora nona On Saturday the 7 th day of June Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the true making proving and marking of Callivers Muskets Hand-Guns Dags and other small Ordnance was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Hartford the Earl of Leicester the Earl of Essex the Lord Grey the Lord Evers the Lord North the Lord Chandois and the Lord Norris and to Justice Harper And the fourth and last being the Bill touching Hawks and preservation of Game was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Hartford the Lord Darcy the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John de Bletsoe the Lord Compton the Lord Cheyney and Justice Wray Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regii continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae proxim hora nona On Monday the 9 th day of June Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill that the inhabitants of the City of Winchester and of the Liberty of Soke adjoining to the same may use the Trade of Cloth-making and take Apprentices was read prima vice Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them their second reading of which the second being the Bill for the Partition of certain Lands between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfeild Knight and their Heirs was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the House of Commons The Bill lastly being for the School of Tunbridge was committed unto the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Hartford the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Wentworth the Lord Norris being doubtless brought in this day by the Committees nominated on Wednesday the 4 th of this instant June foregoing but it was not at all now read but had its second reading with a new Proviso added unto it on the Morrow following and on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant June and was committed the third time upon the third reading Vide a like President on Wednesday the 28 th day of May foregoing Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regii continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Tuesday the 10 th day of June Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the severance of the Sheriffwick of Cambridgeshire and Huntingtonshire and the second for the punishment of such as shall rebelliously take or detain from the Queens Majesty any Castles Fortresses c. were each of them returned conclus The Bill for the better and further assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of a Free Grammar-School at Tunbridge in the County of Kent was read secunda vice with a new Proviso added thereunto by the Lords which was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Upon request made by the House of Commons to have Conference with some of the Lords to be appointed by the House touching the great Bill of the Queen of Scots were appointed these Lords following viz. The Archbishop of York The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Bedford The Earl of Leicester The Earl of Essex The Bishop of London The Bishop of Winchester The Lord Burleigh The Lord Grey The Lord Wentworth The Lord Chandois and The Lord North. But no Judges were nominated because they were to confer with the House of Commons Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 12 th day and on Wednesday the 28 th day of May foregoing Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem prox hora nona Nota That as it did not appear before on Thursday the 5 th day of this instant June so neither is it expressed here by what Authority the Lord Keeper is re-authorised to exercise the same again which hapned through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House The Presidents are familiar in other Journals of this Queens Reign where this Authority hath been given to the Lord Chief Justice or some other to supply the Lord Keeper's place by Commission under the Great Seal and that the readmittance of the Lord Keeper to the Executing of his said place again was by like Commission but here it is possible that either were at this time here Executed by some other Authority On Wednesday the 11 th day of June Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching Sea-Marks and the reviving of a Statute that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas was read tertia vice conclusa Three Bills were sent from the Lords to the House of Commons by Doctor Vaughan and Doctor Huick of which one was the Bill for continuance of Statutes The Bill to revive a Statute made an 1. of the Queens Majesties Reign inhibiting the transporting out of the Realm of Leather Tallow and Raw-Hides was returned from the House of Commons conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in vicesimum quartum diem Junii prox hora nona mané On Tuesday the 24 th day of June Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that Wooll and Yarn may be bought and sold in the Markets and Fairs to be kept in the Borough of New Woodstock in the County of Oxon was read prima vice Three Bills also were sent to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for Partition to be made between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfield Knight and their Heirs On Wednesday the 25 th day of June Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the avoiding of Recoveries suffered by Collusions of Tenants for Term of life and such others was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been sent formerly from the House of Commons The Bill for the Inning of Plumsted-Marsh in the County of Kent being surrounded was returned from the House of Commons conclusa On Thursday the 26 th day of June The Bill for the assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of a Sermon to be had in the Church of S t Paul in London every Holyday in the Afternoon for ever was read secunda vice but no mention that it was committed or Ordered
Regina ac tempore cujus contrarii memoria hominum non existit in eadem usitat approbat breve de Cap. ad satisfaciendum versus cundem Tho. Gonnell pro debito damnis praedictis in placito praedicto prosequi returnari deberet antequam aligned breve de seire facias versus manucaptores praedictos in loquela illa impetrari seu prosequi deberet licet consuetudo sorma captionis recognitionum in Curia praedict a usae suerunt in sorma praedicta viz. Si contigerit cundem Thomam Gonnel in placito praedicto convinci tunc iidem Manucaptores concesserunt quilibet corum per se concessit tam debitum praedictum quà m omnia hujusmodi damna nune custag ' quae praesato Johanni Hunt in ea parte adjudicentur de terris Catallis suis cerum 〈◊〉 it sieri ad opus praedicti Johannis Hunt 〈◊〉 si consigerit praedictum Thomam Gonnell debitum damna illa praefato Johanni Hunt minimè 〈◊〉 aut si pri onae Marescal ' Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina ea occasione non reddere c. Et peturt iidem Richardus Harbert Johannes Awbery Willielmus Filian Simon Browne quod Judicium praedictum processus super 〈◊〉 praedicta de seire 〈◊〉 prosecut in Curia dict' Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina revocetur adnulletur penitus pro nullis habeatur Et super hoc Domini per 〈◊〉 Justiciariorum post longam maturam deliverationem uno consensu adjudicaverunt ..... quod judicium praedictum processus super brevia praedicta de scire sac ' prosecut ' in Curia dictae Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina revocetur adnulletur penitus pro nullis habcatur On Wednesday the 10 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Monday last continued Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents made unto the Dean and Chapter of Norwich was read prima vice Six Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for Provision to be made for the Surety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the continuance of the Realm in Peace was read prima vice On Thursday the 11 th day of March Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the last recited Bill for Surety of the Queens Royal Person c. was read secunda vice And the second being the Bill for the good Government of the City and Borough of Westminster in the County of Middlesex was read tertia vice with a Schedule and certain Amendments quae communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa dat' Doctori Barkeley Servienti Rolls in Domum Communem deferend Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon About which hour the Lords Spiritual and Temporal meeting six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill concerning the Lady Marchioness of Winchesters Jointure was read secunda vice commissa to the Master of the Rolls and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas For as much as in the matter depending now in Parliament by Writ of Error brought by John Akerode Thomas Stanfeild and divers others against Richard Whalley Defendant for reversing of certain Errors supposed by the said Plaintiff to be in the said Defendants Grandfathers form of Pleading and other things in his Recovery of the Mannor of Eringden in the County of York it hath appeared to this honourable Court by the Certificate of the Lords Chief Justices the Master of the Rolls and others being by this Honourable Court appointed Committees to hear and examine the matter privately before them that the Writ of Error and the scire facias are insufficient in Law for divers Causes opened to this Court. Therefore it is Ordered by the Lords that the same Writ of Error shall abate and the Plaintiffs to pursue their further remedy as they shall thing good On Saturday the 13 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued the Bill for Provision to be made for the Surety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the continuance of the Realm in Peace was read tertia vice quae communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa with one amendment in the 44. line that is after this word left put out so as and in place thereof put in foreseeing that This amendment was made after the third reading and before the Bill was put to the question and was delivered to Doctor Barkeley and Serjeant Rodes to be carried to the Lower House with the Bill for the better observing of the Sabbath day with request for that there are whole Sentences inserted into the said Bill for the Sabbath day and the Bill would remain a very soul Record it might be fair written again Vide concerning this Bill of the Sabbath on Wednesday the third day and on Saturday the 6 th day of this instant March foregoing Two other Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Oxford-Haven was read tertia vice expedita Four Bills lastly were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty On Monday the 15 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued prima secunda tertia vice lecta est schedula of the amendments of the Bill against Jesuits sent from the House of Commons quae communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa est with an Addition to the said Schedule added by them of the House of Commons data Doctori Barkeley Servienti Rolles in Domum Communem deferend Six several Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Consirmation of the Subsidy of six shillings in the pound granted by the Clergy was read prima vice commissa ad ingrossandum Three Bills lastly were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the renewing continuance explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon about which time the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the payment and satisfaction of the Debt of William last Lord Marquess of Winchester deceased due to the Queens Majesty was read prima vice On Tuesday the 16 th day of March Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the
incorporation of Christs Hospital was read tertia vice communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa data Doctori Barkeley Servienti Rodes in Domum Communem deferend And the second being the Bill to give her Majesty Authority to alter and new make a Kalendar according to the Kalendar now used in other Countries was read prima vice Four Bills also of no great moment were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill whereby Marriage was declared lawful at all times of the Year Two other Bills were lastly read each of them secunda vice of which the last being the Bill for the grant of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty was read secunda vice About two of the Clock in the Afternoon to which hour the Lord Chancellor had in the Forenoon continued the Parliament the Lords Spiritual and Temporal meeting nine Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Haven of Plymouth was read secunda vice The Amendments lastly in the Bill concerning the Hospital of East-Bridge were read prima secunda tertia vice conclusae dissentientibus Vicecomite Mountague Comite Hertford On Wednesday the 17 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa The fourth also being an Act for the assurance of certain Lands unto the Lord Hunsdon was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum After which Robert Elrington and Alice his Wife mentioned in the said Bill touching the Lord Hunsdons assurance came into the House and gave their consent to the passing of the said Bill The Bill against the making of Starch was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons and had its first reading After which lastly three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for bringing in of Staple Fish and Herrings into the Realm was read secunda vice On Thursday the 18 th day of March six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Hunsdon and the second being the Bill touching the breadth of white Woollen Clothes made within the Counties of Wilts Glocester and Oxon ' with the amendments were each of them read tertia vice conclusae datae servienti Rodes It should seem that these Bills were delivered to him to carry down to the House of Commons although so much be not expressed There were also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons four Bills of no great moment of which the first being the Bill that Parsonages impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses and the third for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day were each of them read the first time Vide concerning this Bill of the Sabbath on Saturday the 6 th day of this instant March foregoing But what the intent or scope of this Bill was her Majesty refusing to pass it upon the last day of this Parliament cannot be certainly set down it being not now remaining in the bundle of the Acts de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. in the Clerk of the Upper House his Office in which said bundle I searched for it on Thursday the 8 th day of October in the year 1629. About two of the Clock in the Afternoon to which hour the Lord Chancellor had in the Forenoon continued the Parliament Proceres tam Spirituales quà m Temporales quorum nomina subscribuntur praesentes fuerunt and so is the entrance of every sitting in the Afternoon upon such continuance ut supra viz. the same form which is used in entring the sitting of the House in the Forenoon which for brevity is in this Collection elsewhere omitted Two Bills had this Afternoon each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against covenous and sraudulent Conveyances with certain amendments was read tertia vice On Friday the 29 th day of March five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against covenous and fraudulent Conveyances with the amendments was read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa data servienti Rodes Doctori Barkeley in domum communem deferend Nota That this Bill is said to have been read tertia vice in the Afternoon of the day past which was Thursday and therefore it could not be now read again but to reconcile this difference it should seem the Bill it self had then its third reading and the amendments but the second and this day the said amendments passed upon the third reading but the Bill it self which had passed yesterday was no more read which by the negligence of Mr. Mason at this time Clerk of the Parliament was suffered to be set down thus confusedly in the Original Journal-Book and so to stand On Saturday the 20 th day of March the Bill for the explanation of the Statute made Anno 13 of the Queens Majesty entituled An Act to make the Lauds Tenements Goods and Chattels of Receivors c. liable to pay their debts was read prima secunda tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Three other Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading There were also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons nine Bills of which the first was an Act for the good Government of the City and Borough of Westminster and the second being for the Subsidy of the Clergy was returned and expedited The Lord Bishop of Exeter shewed unto the Lord Chancellor Sir Francis Walsingham's Letter dated at the Court this 14 th day of March 1584. importing her Majesties licence for the said Bishop to depart home to his charge Nota That it appeareth not by the Original Journal-Book whether the Bishop of Exeter aforesaid absenting himself for this time from the Parliament by her Majesties licence did constitute any Proctor or no and it should seem that he did not because his departure from it was but for some few weeks during the last sitting thereof and that also in open Parliament and as it were with the allowance also of the rest of the Lords On Monday the 22 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and Recoveries in the twelve Shires of Wales with a Proviso added by the Lords from the Earl of Kent was read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa
Anno Dom. 1601. which was the last Parliament of her Majesties Reign a greater viz. of four Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths was again yielded unto whence it is plain that whatsoever is once granted by the Subject may often be raised but seldom falleth THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the House of Commons in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 39 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1597. which began there on Monday the 24 th Day of October and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Thursday the 9 th Day of February Anno 40 Reginae ejusdem THIS present Journal of the House of Commons is not only abundantly stored with many and sundry Passages touching the Orders Use and Priviledge of the House it self but containeth in it excellent matter touching the publick affairs of Church and State in which also her Majesty was most graciously pleased to give the said House free Liberty to reform some abuses of the first and to search into the dangers of the latter And that this said Journal might be the more exact and copious in some few places the defects thereof are supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and out of a certain imperfect and fragmentary Journal of the House of Commons The ninth Parliament of our Soveraign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith c. begun at Westminster upon Monday being the 24 th day of October in the thirty ninth year of her Majesties Reign Upon which day many of the Knights of the Shires Citizens of Cities Burgesses of Boroughs and Barons of Ports did make their appearance at Westminster being returned into the same Parliament for the same Shires Cities Boroughs and Ports before the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward of her Majesties most honourable Household And did then and there in the Room commonly called the Court of Requests take the Oath of Supremacy seven or eight at a time being Enacted by and contained in the Statute de an 1 Reginae Eliz. Cap. 1. before the said Lord Steward and before Sir William Knolles Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir Robert Cecill Principal Secretary his Lordships Deputies And thereupon the said Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons entring into their own House and expecting her Majesties further Pleasure her Highness then being in her Royal Seat in the Higher House of Parliament the said Commons were commanded to come before her Highness and being there Assembled the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Egerton Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England delivered unto the said Commons the Causes of her Majesties Calling of this Parliament and so in the end willed them to repair again into the said House of Commons and there to make choice of their Speaker according to the former laudable usage and custom of the same House in that Case accustomed and willed them to present him unto her Majesty upon the Thursday next following Which done the said Commons presently repaired unto their own House and there being Assembled and sitting some space of time very silent at last the Right Honourable Sir William Knolls one of her Highness most Honourable Privy Council and Comptroller of her Majesties Household stood up and spake to the effect following Necessity constraineth me to break off this silence and to give others cause for speech According to the usual Custom we are to chuse our Speaker and though I am least able and therefore unfit to speak in this place yet better I deem it to discover my own Imperfections than that her most sacred Majesties Commandment to me delivered should not be fulfilled or your Expectation of this first days work by all our silences to be in any sort frustrate First therefore I think it very expedient to remember the Excellent and Learned Speech of that good man my Lord Keeper at which all of us or the most part of us at the least were present who very wisely shewed the Cause of calling this Honourable Assembly shewing unto us that it is partly for the reforming those Laws which be amiss partly quite to repeal others partly to augment those that be good and partly to Enact new Laws both for the Honour and profit of her Majesty and for the benefit of the Common-wealth And in conclusion wished us to depart from whence we came and there to chuse our Speaker who ought to be the Mouth of us all and to whom we might commit such weighty affairs as in this place should be debated amongst us For unfit it is if we have occasion to go unto the Sacred presence of her Majesty to go either confusedly without order or unorderly without Judgment Now because that knowledge doth rest in certainty I will with the more speed set afoot this motion deliver my opinion unto you who is most fit for this place being a member of this House and those good abilities which I know to be in him here he made a little pause and the House hawked and spat and after silence made he proceeded unto this place of dignity and calling in my opinion here he stayed a little M r Serjeant Yelverton looking upon him is the fittest man to be preferred after which words M r Yelverton blushed and put off his Hat and after sate bare-headed for I am assured that he is yea and I dare avow it I know him to be a man wise and learned secret and circumspect Religious and faithful no way disable but every way able to supply this place Wherefore in my Judgment I deem him though I will not say best worthy amongst us yet sufficient enough to supply this place and herein if any man think I err I wish him to deliver his mind as freely as I have done if not that we all join together in giving general consent and approbation to this motion So that the whole House cried I I I let him be And then Master Comptroller made a low reverence and sat down and after a little pause and silence M r Serjeant Yelverton rose up and after a very humble reverence made spake in effect thus much WHence your unexpected choice of me to be your Mouth or Speaker should proceed I am utterly ignorant If from my merits strange it were that so few deserts should purchase suddenly so great an Honour Nor from my ability doth this your choice proceed for well known it is to a great number in this place now assembled that my Estate is nothing correspondent for the maintenance of this dignity For my Father dying left me a younger Brother and nothing to me but my bare Annuity Then growing to mans estate and some small practice of the Law I took a Wise by whom I have had many Children the keeping of us all being a great impoverishing to my Estate and the daily living of us
QUEEN ELIZABETH IN PARLIAMENT A. L. Chancellor B. Marquises Earles C. Barons D. Bishops E. Judges F. Masters of Chancery G. Clerks H. Speaker of y e com̄ons I. Black Rod. K. Sergeant at Armes L. Members of the Commons house M. Sr. Francis Walsingham Secretary of State THE JOURNALS OF ALL THE PARLIAMENTS During the REIGN of Queen ELIZABETH BOTH OF THE HOUSE of LORDS AND HOUSE of COMMONS Collected By Sir SIMONDS D'EWES of Stow-Hall in the County of SUFFOLK Knight and Baronet Revised and Published By PAUL BOWES of the MIDDLE-TEMPLE LONDON Esq LONDON Printed for John Starkey at the Mitre in Fleetstreet near Temple-Bar 1682. TO Sir Willoughby D'Ewes Baronet SIR ALthough none can have so good Title to your Father's Labours as your Self and the improvement of his Posterity by them was his great desire yet he did not intend to confine them to his own Family but his Study tended to the publick good Amongst those very many and large Volumes Written by his own hand and his Servants I made choice thoroughly to revise these Journals in the Collecting of which the most indesatigably Industrious Author imployed much Time Labour and Cost constantly endeavouring to find out the Truth and faithfully and impartially relating the same In his own Preface to which there needs no other to be added he doth declare his Credentials and Vouchers̄ and also the Usefulness of the Work But there are several other good purposes to which these Journals are very conducible not particularly mentioned in his Preface Yet I shall name but two The one to be a discovery of the true intent and meaning of some Acts of Parliament of those times which are now controuerted The other to be a just representation of that Sincerity Perspicuity and Unreseruedness with which the Members of Parliament then exprest their Minds and gave their Advice that there was no difficulty to understand them The Authority and substantial Excellency of these Collections especially since the Original Journal Books are not now extant and their rarity do sufficiently recommend them to all Judicious Persons and did abundantly convince me that I could do no better service to my Country nor greater Justice to the Memory of my Worthy Uncle than to publish this Monument of his Fame Nor do I know how duly to express my thankfulness to you otherwise than by this publick acknowledgement as of your many other Favours so in particular for my free access unto and use of your well stored Library which hath furnisht me with this opportunity to subscribe my self Your most Obliged Humble Servant PAUL BOWES THE PREFACE OF Sir Simonds D'Ewes BEFORE THE ENSUING JOURNALS OF ALL THE Parliaments and Sessions of Parliament during the Reign of Queen ELIZABETH Wherein are expressed the several Materials and Authorities out of which the said Journals were extracted and drawn As also what Method and Form hath been observed in the transcribing of them together with the excellency and use of them IN respect that these ensuing Journals both of the Upper House and House of Commons during the Reign of that Incomparable Princess and Virgin Queen Queen Elizabeth whose memory will ever remain dear and precious to the Church of God are Collected and Framed up by my exceeding great pains and diligence out of several Materials and do contain in them Incomparable Historical matters both touching the Church and State as well as matters of rarity and Precedent incident to the Orders Priviledges or Usages of either House It shall not be amis shortly to touch those Heads that so they may serve as a Key for the better Direction and Guidance in the use of the Journals themselves First therefore I will set down briefly all those Materials out of which I have Collected these ensuing Journals Secondly the Method I have constantly observed in the causing them to be Penned or Transcribed And thirdly the rich Treasures of rarity and knowledge contained in them First for the Materials out of which I drew these ensuing Journals of either House they were for the most part rare and invulgar viz. 1. The Original Manuscript or Journal-Books of the Upper House of every Parliament and Session of Parliament of the Queens Reign remaining in the Office of the Clerk of the same House and these are absolute and undeniable Records and therefore could not be removed out of the said Office but I was inforced as often as I had occasion to use them to repair unto the same to which I had most free and respectful access always offered me as also to the Bundles of Original Acts and Petitions reserved there 2. A large Manuscript Abridgment in Folio of all the said Original Journal Books of the Upper House during her Majesties Reign very faithfully for the most part collected and transcribed with his own hands by Robert Bowyer Esquire who continued Clerk of the said House ab an 6 Jacobi Regis until the eighteenth year of the same King 3. The Original Journal-Book Manuscripts of the House of Commons of every Parliament and Session of Parliament during her Majesties Raign 4. Another help which I had for the perfecting of these Journals were the two Manuscript Volumes of Fragmentary and Imperfect Journals or rather Collections of the Parliaments and Sessions of Parliament of Queen Elizabeth's Reign which remained in Sir Robert Cottons well known and much famoused Library in the said Years 1629 and 1630. out of which I had most of the Speeches of Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Out of these also I had passages which did excellently serve to enlarge and beautify some of the Journals of the House of Commons as is fully mentioned in their proper places In which two Volumes of Parliamentary Collections which then remained in Sir Robert Cottons Library as asoresaid who since Deceased on Friday the 6. day of May Anno Domini 1631. many things being either ignorantly or negligently referred to other times than in truth they belonged unto are here rectified and enlarged according as the occasion it self required 5. And another means to enlarge these Ensuing Volumes were Manuscripts or written Fragments I had by me of Parliamentary Speeches Petitions and such like Passages especially touching the House of Commons all which served most fitly in their due places to supply those things and matters in which the Original Journal-Books themselves were defective 6. A further material for the furtherance of this present work was a Manuscript Treatise which I had by me Intituled Modus tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos Compiled especially as I conceive by Robert Bowyer Esquire and afterwards enlarged by Henry Elsing Esquire at this present Clerk of the Upper House of Parliament in which were many good Collections touching Proxies Summons Receivors and Tryors of Petitions the Commons Prolocutor and other matters incident to the Passages of the Journals of either House and those especially gathered out of Records of which Treatise there is very
ensuing The Session of Parliament held in the 18 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Wednesday the 18 th day of February Anno Domini 1575. and was Prorogued on Thursday the 15 th day of March ensuing The Session of Parliament held in the 23. year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 16 th day of January Anno Domini 1580. and was Dissolved on Friday the 19 th day of April Anno Domini 1583. The Parliament held in the 27 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 23. day of November Anno Domini 1584. and was Dissolved on Wednesday the 14 th day of September An. Domini 1586. Anno 28 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 28 th and 29 th years of Queen Elizabeth began on Saturday the 29 th day of October Anno Domini 1586. and was Dissolved on Thursday the 23. of March Anno 29 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 31. year of Queen Elizabeth began on Tuesday the 4 th day of February Anno Domini 1588. and was Dissolved on Saturday the 29 th day of March Anno Domini 1589. The Parliament held in the 35 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 19 th day of November Anno Domini 1592. and was Dissolved on Tuesday the 10 th day of April Anno Domini 1593. The Parliament held in the 39. and 40. years of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 24. day of October Anno Domini 1597. and was Dissolved on Thursday the 9 th day of February An. 40 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 43. and 44 th years of Queen Elizabeth began on Tuesday the 27 th day of October Anno Domini 1601. and was Dissolved on Saturday the 19 th day of December ensuing Anno 44. Regin ejusdem The Names of the Lord Keeper Lord Chancellor or others who supplied their places as Speakers of the House of Lords during all the Reign of Queen ELIZABETH as also all the Names of all the Clerks of the said House of Parliament together with the Names of the several Speakers of the House of Commons and Clerks of the same House during all the Parliaments of the said Queens Reign The several Years of her Majesties Reign in which the said Parliaments or Sessions of Parliament were held The Names of the Lord Keeper Lord Chancellor c. and of the Clerks of the House of Lords The Names of the Speakers of the House of Commons and of the Clerks of the same House IN the Parliament held in the first Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England whose place was supplied Mar. 4. by the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England Sir Thomas Gargrave Knight Speaker  Francis Spilman Esquire Clerk of the Upper House ..... Seimour Gent. Clerk of the House of Commons In the Session of Parliament held in the fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper Thomas Williams Esq Speaker The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the ninth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes during his being sick of the Gout First by the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England after by Sir Robert Catlin Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Richard Onslow Esq the Queens Sollicitor  The same Clerk who either died or surrendred his place before the next Parl. began in An. 13 Reg. Eliz. The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes during his sickness by Sir Robert Catlin K t Lord Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench. Christopher Wray Serjeant at Law Speaker  Anthony Mason aliàs Wilkes succeeded Francis Spilman in the place of the Clerk of the House of Lords Fulk Onslow Gent. Clerk of the House of Commons In the Session of Parliament held in the fourteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied in his absence for divers days by Sir Robert Catlin K t Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Robert Bell Esq Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the eighteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes in his absence by the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England The same Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the twenty third Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor John Popham Esq the Queens Sollicitor Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the twenty seventh Year of Qucen Elizabeth The same Lord Chancellor John Puckering Serjeant at Law Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the twenty eighth and twenty ninth Years of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Chancellor and his place supplied for divers dayes during his sickness by Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. John Puckering Serjeant at Law Speaker again  The same Clerk The same Clerk from Oct. 29. to Dec. 2. 1589. And the same Clerks Kinsman W. Onslow Gent. from Febr. 15. to March 23. ensuing In the Parliament held in the thirty first Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor George Snagg Serjeant at Law Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirty fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Edward Coke Esq the Queens Sollicitor Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirty ninth and fortieth Years of Queen Elizabeth Sir Thomas Egerton Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Christopher Yelverton Serjeant at Law Speaker  Thomas Smith Esq succeeded Clerk of the Upper House to Anthony Mason alids Wilkes The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the 43 44 Years of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper J. Croke Esq Recorder of London The same Clerk The same Clerk THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A o 1 o Regin Eliz. A. D. 1558 1559. The Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster A o 1 o Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1558. beginning there after one Prorogation of the same on Wednesday the 25 th of January and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Monday the 8 th day of May Anno Dom. 1559. QUeen Mary Deceased on Thursday the 17 th day of November in the year of our Lord 1558. and the Parliament then Assembled in the 6th and last year of her Reign thereby immediately Dissolving the thrice Excellent and Prudent Princess Queen Elizabeth according to her right and Hereditary Title without any opposition or difficulty King Philip being then very happily absent beyond the
Presence of her Majesty the Lord Keeper and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal is not at all marked in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House although this entrance following of the said day be there thus Recorded viz. Die Mercurij 25. die Januarij proceres tain Spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur presentes fuerunt But before this Title there is nothing specified touching the presence of her Majesty or of any of the Lords for the Letters which should be set at the beginning of the names of such Peers as this day attended her Majesty in the Upper House are not at all prefixed to any of them which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House Yet most certain it is that her Majesty Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper the Duke of Norfolk and divers other Peers were present but the direct manner of the ranking of them in respect of the negligent omission of setting the Pr. as aforesaid at the beginning of every Lords name that was present could not be orderly and and directly entred in his place although this was the first day of this first Parliament of her Majesty nor on Saturday the 28th day of this instant January being the second day of the same because by like negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House there is no presence of any Lords there set down in the Original Journal Book of the same House nor any mention of the Speakers presentment by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons and therefore of necessity it could not be supplied until the third day of this foresaid first Parliament of her Majesty being Monday the 30th day of this instant January on which day the names of all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being entred the Letters Pr. are prefixed before the name of the Lord Keeper and of such Peers as were then present as see at large on the said Monday next ensuing and therefore that President there so expresly Transcribed may serve as a Pattern for all the residue that follow in all the Journals of the Upper House during her Majesties Reign in which there are no other names inserted but of such Lords as were marked to be present unless it be upon Thursday the 21th day of March following in the afternoon in this present Journal and on Fryday the 15th day of January in the Session of Parliament A. 5. of her Majesty in the Journal of the Upper House And although the names of her Majesty and the Lords that attended could not be exactly set down yet it will not be impertinent in the next place to insert the manner of their sitting in the said House which being not at all mentioned in the aforesaid Original Journal Book of the same A. 1. Reg. Eliz. I have therefore partly supplied it according to 3 other Presidents in these ensuing Journals on which the first was on Thursday the 12th of Jan. in the Session of Parliament A. 5. Reg. Eliz. the second on Wednesday the 2d day of Octob. pomerid ' in the second and last Session of that Parliament being held in A. 8. Reg. 〈◊〉 and the third on Monday the 2d day of Apr. in the Parliament A. 13. Regin praedict ' all which do follow in the several Journals of the Upper House Annis praesatis and it is partly supplied also out the Printed Statute A. 31. H. 8. C. 10. and partly out of that elaborate written Treatise intituled Modus tenendi Parliament ' apud Anglos first confusedly gathered by Wil. Bowyer Esq as I conceive and now lately digested into a Methodical Treatise and enlarged by H. Essing Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House viz. in A. 1630. L. 1. C. 3. de loco modo sedendi Sect. 3. of the manner of sitting in Parliament at this day Her Majesty sate in the Chair of Estate and when she stood up her Mantle was assisted and born up from her Arms by two Noblemen or others of Eminent Rank thereunto appointed The Two Seats on the right and left-hand of the Chair of Estate were void in respect that the first was Anciently for the King of Scots when he used to come to our Parliaments and the other on the left hand is for the Prince the immediate Heir of the Crown On the Form on the right side of the Chair of Estate which stands on the North-side of the Upper House sate the Spiritual Lords the Archbishop of York beginning the Form and the Abbot of Westminster ending it Who was the last Abbot that ever sate in the said House in England since this first Parliament of her Majesty But at this day the two Archbishops sit upon one Form by themselves and then the other Bishops in order upon two Forms on the right hand of the State the Bishop of London sits first the Bishop of Durham second and the Bishop of Winchester hath the third place and then all other Bishops according to the Antiquity of their Consecrations On the left side of the Chair of Estate which is on the South-side of the Upper House upon the foremost Form sate all the Temporal Lords above the degree of Barons The Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England beginning that Form and the Viscount Bindon ending it The Barons sate on the second Form on the left hand of the State and it should seem at this Parliament as it fell out also in the next Sessions following in A. 5. Regin Eliz. on Tuesday the 12th day of January that one Form held them all so as the Lord Clinton Lord Admiral of England began the said Form by reason of his Office and the Lord St. John of Bletsoe ended it But at this day the number of Peers being much encreased divers of the Barons do sit upon other Forms Places Cross-ways at the lower end of the House Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper because he was under the degree of a Baron as also her Majesties chief Secretary being but a Knight were to have been placed at the uppermost part of the sack in the midst of the said House upon one Form by the fore recited Statute A. 3. H. 8. Cap. 10. But at this present Parliament as also at this day during her Majesties being present the Lord Keeper stood behind the Cloth of Estate on the right-hand and when her Majesty was absent then his Lordship sate on the first Woolsack which is placed athwart the House the Seal and Mace by him On the Woolsack on the North-side of the House and of the right-hand of the Estate sate the two Chief Justices and divers other Judges On the Woolsack on the left-hand of the Estate and on the South-side of the House sate the Master of the Rolls the Lord Chief Baron the Queen 's Learned Council and others And note That all these may properly besaid to sit on the Inner-side of
but that they will so lovingly carefully and prudently consider and weigh this great and weighty Matter that such provision out of hand be taken therein as her Highness shall be preserved in all Honour and Royal Dignity and you and the rest of her Loving Subjects in common quiet and surety Now to make an end The Queen's Majestie 's pleasure is That you her welbeloved and trusty Knights of her Shires and Burgesses according to your laudable Custom shall repair to your Common House and there deliberately and advisedly Elect or rather amongst so many already Elect persons select one both grave and discreet who after he be by you presented and that Presentation by her Highness admitted shall then occupy the Office and Room of your Common Mouth and Speaker and of your day of presentation the Queens Majesty giveth you As soon as the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses retired to the House of Commons to Elect and choose their Speaker Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Upper House stood up and read the Names of Receivers and Tryers of Petitions in French according to the Ancient and unusual manner And because I resolve in all the ensuing Journals of the said House during the Reign of this most Sacred Queen only to set down their said names without tying my self to the express Form or Language therefore I have in this place once for all Transcribed the exact Form thereof as it is entred in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House A. isto primo Regin Eliz. with this difference only that whereas it is there entred before the beginning of the said Journal here I have caused it to be referred unto and placed in that day to which it more properly belongs After which also divers Animadversions touching the Ancient use and nature of the said Receivers and Tryers are inserted Recepveurs des Petitions d' Angleterre Ir'land Gallee et D'Escoce Messire Robert Catelyn chl chef Justicier Et ceux qui veuleut delivrer leur Petitions les baillent dedans six jours prochainement ensuivants Messire Guillame Cordell chl garden des Rolles Messire Umfrey Browne chl et Justicier Messire Rich. Reed chlr Docteur Lewis Docteur Harnye Recepveurs des Petitions de Gascoigne et des autres terres et pais de per de la mer et des Isles Messire James Dyer chl et Justicier Et ceux qui veuleut delievrer leur Petitions les baillent dedans six jours prochainement ensuivants Messire Edward Saunders chl le chief Baron Messire Anthony Browne Justicier Messire Johan Vaughan Docteur Mowse Et sout assignes trieurs des Petitions d' Angleterre Ireland Gallee et d' Escoce Larcheresque de York Toute eux ensembles ou quatre des Prelattes et Seigneurs avant ditz appellants auecque eulx Mons. Le Garden du grand-Seal et Le Thesaurarier et ausi les Serians de la Roigne quand besoigne sera et tiendrout leur places en la Chambre du Chambrelain Le Marquisse de Winchester Thesaurar de Angleterre Le Duc de Norf. Conte Marescalle de Angleterre Le Cont de Arundel Le Cont de Rutland Le Cont de Bedford Le Cont de Pembrooke Le Baron Clinton et Saye Le Grand Admiral de Angleterre Le Baron Rych Et sout assignes Trieurs des Petitions de Gascoigne et de autres terres et pays per de la mer et des Isles Le Marquiss de Northampton Toute eux ensembles ou quatre des Prelats et Seigneurs avant-ditz appellants a-vecques eulx les Serjeans de la Roigne quand il sera besoigne et tiendrout leur places en le Chambre de Thesaurarier Le Conte de Shrewsbury Le Conte de Sussex Le Conte de Huntingdon Le Evesque de London Le Evesque de Carlisle Le Baron Howard d'effingham Chambrelaine de la Roigne Le Baron Stafford Le Baron Willoughby Le Baron Williams de Thame Le Baron North. The Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the House of Commons having Notice about one of the Clock in the Afternoon of this foresaid Saturday being the 28th day of Jan. That her Majesty the Lord Keeper and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal were set in the Upper House expecting their attendance they repaired immediately thither with Sir Thomas Gargrave Knight their Speaker Elect and being let in as many as conveniently could the said Sir Thomas Gargrave was led up to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said House by two of the most honorable Personages of the House of Commons where after three Reverences made to her Majesty he modestly and submissively excused himself as being unable to undergo the many and great difficulties of that place to which by the Grace of the Queen and the undeserved favour of the House of Commons he had been chosen Alledging withal that there were many Members in that House more worthy of the honour and more able to undergo the Charge of that service than himself And therefore desired and humbly advised the Queen's Majesty to free him from that employment and to commend to her Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons the Choice of some other of their more able Members But notwithstanding all these reasons and excuses according to the usual form by the said Prolocutor alledged Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Seal by her Majesties Commandment both encouraged him to the Careful undertaking of that Service and assured him of the Queen's acceptance and admission of him by this Oration following SIR Thomas Gargrave the Queen's Majesty doth right well perceive and understand your Comely and Modest manner in the disabling of your self for this Office and room whereunto her Trusty and Wel-beloved Knights and Burgesses have Elected you and do now presently present you and therewith also hath heard your Petition and Suit made with all humbleness and reverence for your discharge in this matter for answer whereunto her Majesty hath commanded me to say unto you that She her self right well doth understand that by the Orders and Rules of good Government and Policy Power and Authority to receive or refuse any Office of Service in any Common-Wealth should not be permitted to be in the Arbitriment of him who is thereunto Orderly called or appointed nor that the Judgment and discerning of Ability and disability in service pertaineth to the person called but to her Majesty asdoth right well appear by a Similitude that is old and Common but neither unapt nor untrue that is like as unto the head of a natural body pertaineth the appointment and as it were the Marshalling of every Member of the same Body to the particular Service and Office So to the Head of every Body Politick be it Emperor King or less State belongeth mediately or immediately derived the assignment and admitting of every Member of the same body to his Ministry
your things you observe such Order that matters of the greatest Moment and most Material to the State be chiefly and first set forth so as they be not hindred by particular and private Bills to this purpose That when those great Matters be past this Assembly may sooner take end and men be licensed to take their ease I have said The Speaker being thus allowed he returned to the House of Commons with the Serjeant of the House bearing the Mace before him and the Queen's Majesty and the Lords rose and departed On Monday the 30th day of January were divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal present as is plainly set down in the entrance of the names in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Upper House standing at the Table near the lower Woolsack did there read a certain Bill written in Paper and Intituled An Act for the restitution of the first Fruits and Tenths and Rents reserved Nomine Decimae and of Parsonages Impropriate to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and after he had so read it which was accounted the first reading thereof then he delivered the same kneeling unto Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal together with a Brief of the Bill The Lord Keeper read the Title of the Bill and then reported the effect of the same unto the House out of the Brief And then concluded with these words viz. This is the first time of the reading of this Bill And there is no mention made in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House that this Bill was at all spoken unto upon this reading neither is it indeed usual although there have not wanted Presidents thereof prout A. 1. H. 8. 11. Die Parliamenti Billa de actionibus brought from the Commons Lecta prima vice Domini disputando censuerunt reformandum quod Regia Majestas haberet 3. vel 4 Annos pars vero contra partem nisi unum Annum And a Bill hath been rejected upon the first reading prout Anno 3. Edw. 6. 14. Nova Billa pro jurisdictione Episcoporum Rejected and a Committee appointed to draw a new Bill of which also there want not divers other Presidents in most of the other Journals during her Majesties Reign but most true it is that usually a Bill is seldom rejected till the second reading for then it is most proper to be spoken unto and when it hath received either a longer or shorter disputation in the House then the proceedings eommonly are either to order it to be engrossed or refer it to Committees or to reject it which course holdeth only in Bills that come newly into either House For if a Bill having passed one of the two Houses be sont unto the other it is never ordered to be ingrossed because it comes from thence ready ingrossed in Parchment and seldom referred to Committees or rejected there want not also divers Presidents when a Bill hath been disputed after the third reading and sometimes recommitted and sometimes rejected Of all which the Examples and Presidents are so frequent in all the insuing Journals of this Queen as also in those foregoing of H. 8. Ed. 6. and Queen Mary as there is not need to make any large Citation of them Neither do there want in their several places fit and due references whereby to refer the several Presidents of this nature contained in one and the same Journal from one to another Which things being thus premised and observed now follow some Animadversions or Presidents touching the Commission of Bills and further proceedings in them upon the first reading Bills also have been Committed upon the first reading prout An. 6. H. 8. 14. Feb. recepta est Billa in papyro concernens apparatum lecta est prima vice deliberata Magistro Pigot reformanda Anno Primo Ed. 6. 21. Novembris allata est à Communi domo Billa for benefices Common Preachers and residence quae prima vice lecta est commissa Archiepis Cantuarien ' Episcopo Elien Episcopo Dunolmen ' Episcopo Roffen ' Episcopo Lincoln ' Marchioni Northampton Domino St. John Comiti Arundel Domino Admirallo Domino Wentworth and in A. 5. Edw. 6. 16. Feb. Hodie prima vice lecta est Billa to avoid regrating forestalling c. commissa est Magistro Hales Magistro Molineux Magistro Saunders Solicitatori Reginae And there are very many Presidents that Bills have been committed upon the first reading in the times of Hen. 8. and Ed. 6. as may appear by the Committees of those times The like Presidents are to be found in most of the Journals of her Majesty prout A. 8. Eliz. Oct. 3. The Bill for the better Executing of Statutes c. codem An. 5. Octob. touching Fines and Recoveries An. 13. Eliz. 20. Aprilis against fraudulent Conveyances c. An. 14. Eliz. 12. Maij for preservation of Woods eodem An. die for the punishment of Vagabonds and so in many other Parliaments of this Queen's time of which because they are so frequently obvious it would be unnecessary to make further repetition And although there be no mention made in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House that the Lords and Members of the same were this day called yet there is no great doubt to be made thereof and therefore I have caused it to be inserted and applied unto this time in manner and form following Francis Spilman the Clerk did on this third day of the Parliament call every Lord in the House by his Name that so it might be seen who were present beginning with the lowest Baron and ascending to the highest Peer where also the Proxies and other Excuses of the absent Lords were Registred But it may be Collected by the Parliament Rolls Annis 37. 38. 40. 43. 45. 47. 50. Ed. 3. that the Lords names were called the first day and the Commons also in the Upper House before the King 's coming which Order in respect of the time is held still with the Commons whose Names are usually called at this day in the Court of Requests the first day of the Parliament Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit presens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora Octava On Tuesday the 31th day of Jan. the former Bill for the restitution and annexation of the first Fruits and Tenths to the Imperial Crown of the Queen's Majesty was read the Second time Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the House having read the said Bill for the Restitution and Annexation of the First-fruits c. standing at the Table near the nether Woolsack did then deliver the same without any Brief Kneeling to the Lord Keeper who thereupon read the Title thereof to the House and said This is the second Reading and so the Bill was Ordered to be Ingrossed which is no more than to Transcribe the Bill sairly out of the Paper in which it was written into Parchment More
at all named with the Committees of the Lords in all the aforesaid Journal Books may doubtless be conceived to have happened through the Clerk's negligence For in the very next ensuing Session of Parliament in An. 5. Regin Eliz. they are seldom omitted prout on Tuesday the 26th day of January on Saturday the 30th day of the same Month as also on Saturday the 20th day of March then next following The Bill for Restitution of Robert Rudston was read secunda vice and again tertia vice conclusa The Bill also to revive a Statute made A. 23. H. 8. against the Conveyance of Horses Geldings and Mares into Scotland was read tertia vice conclusa and the Bill touching the Duke of Norfolk was read secunda vice Commiss ' ad ingrossandum Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being for the restitution in blood of the Lord John Grey the second for restitution in blood of Sir J. Gates Knight and the third for restitution in blood of Sir James Croft Knight were each of them returned conclus ' the fourth was touching the changing of Gavelkind Land of the Lands of Thomas Brown and George Brown the fifth for the Incorporation of Trinity Colledge n. Cambridge and the last for assurance of Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy On Saturday the fourth day of March the Bill to change the nature of Gavelkind Land of the Lands of Thomas Brown and George Brown was read the first time The Bill touching Tanners and Sellers of Tanned Leather was read the first time and the Bill for Shoemakers and Curriers was read the second time and both of them Committed to the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Shrewsbury the Bishop of London the Bishop of Carlile the Lord Rich and the Lord Willoughby Dominus Thesaurar ' continuavit presens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox ' hora nona Nota That that there appeareth no Commission or other Authority in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House by which the Lord Treasurer supplied the Lord Keeper's place but most probable it is that either the Commission it self is negligently omitted by Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the said House or else that the said Lord Treasurer did continue it only upon her Majesties Verbal Authority and Command as did the Lord Treasurer in the like Case in the Session of Parliament A. 18. Regin Eliz. on Saturday the third day of March. On Munday the 6th of March the Bill for the Ratification of the Marriage between the Duke of Norfolk and the Lady Margaret now his Wife and for the assurance of certain Lands for her Joynture was read tertia vice conclusa The Bill also for the restitution in blood of Harry Howard c. younger Brother to the Duke of Norfolk was read prima vice The Bill also for the Explanation of the restitution of the Lord Cardinal Pool was committed to the Archbishop of York the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Carlile the Lord Rich the Lord Willoughby and the Lord Hastings of Loughborough but no mention is made of the reading thereof which was doubtless omitted through the great Negligence of Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Upper House for this Bill was read prima vice on Munday the 27th of February foregoing and was Committed to the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench and the Queen's Attorny to consider of it as is probable and to make report thereof unto the Lords which being done this day and the Bill thereupon as may likewise be gathered read the second time it was Committed to the Lords abovenamed and on the morrow following it was read tertia vice and Passed the House and on Wednesday the 8th of this instant March following was sent down to the House of Commons by Mr. Lewes and Mr. Vaughan On Tuesday the 7th day of March the Bill for the explanation of the Repeal of the Attainder of the late Lord Cardinal Pool was read tertia vice conclusa The Bill also for the assurance of Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy and the Bill for the Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge were each of them read prima vice The Bill lastly for explaining the Statute made against ingrossing of Dead Victuals and the Bill that Gerson Wroth born in Germany shall be reputed the Queen's natural born Subject were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Wednesday the 8th day of March the Bill for the explanation of the Statute against ingrossing of Dead Victuals and the Bill for the true Answering of the Queen's Majesties Revenues were each of them read prima vice Four other Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for the changing of the nature of Gavelkind Lands of Thomas Brown and George Brown and another for the assurance of Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy were each of them read secunda vice but no mention made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons on the day next foregoing The Bill touching the Duke of Norfolk and that concerning Cardinal Pool were sent to the House of Commons by Mr. Lewis Mr. Vaughan On Thursday the 9th of March the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy de Chiche was read tertia vice conclusa dissentientibus Episcopo London Meneven ' Abbat ' de Westm ' the Bill for Gerson Wroth was read tertia vice conclusa and the Bill for exchange of the nature of Gavelkind Lands of the two Browns was read also tertia vice conclusa dissentient ' Duce Norfolciae Quatuor Comitibus tribus Baronibus The Bill lastly for the true Answering of the Queen's Majesties Revenues was read secunda vice Commissa ad ingrossand On Fryday the 10th day of March the Bill for the Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge and the Bill for the true Answering of the Queen's Majesties Revenue were each of them read tertia vice conclusa and sent down to the House of Commons The Bill lastly for the explanation of the Statute against ingrossing of Dead Victuals was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either referr'd to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been sent from the House of Commons Tuesday the 7th day of this instant March foregoing v. a like Commitment on Munday 13th day of Feb. foregoing On Saturday the 11th day of March a Proviso to be annexed to the Bill of Treason was read prima secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Munday the 13th day of March a Proviso to be annexed to the Bill of Treasons was read tertia vice
having given it a second reading did notwithstanding that it had passed the House of Commons refer it to divers Committees there named who did it seems add divers Provisoes thereunto containing the substance of a new Bill to be annexed to the old Bill and which with it made but one Act or Statute and had its first reading on Wednesday the 15. day and its second reading on Thursday the 16. day of the same Month and on Saturday the 18. day thereof Also both the old Bill sent up from the House of Commons and the Provisoes and Amendments annexed unto it in nature of a new Bill were tertia vice lect and passed the Lords notwithstanding the malitious opposition of divers Popish Bishops although this Bill did upon the matter declare no more than the Antient Kings of this Realm had always aimed at which said new Provisoes and Amendments being in the nature of a new Bill were the same day sent down to the House of Commons with their old Bill where the said Provisoes and Alterations added by the Lords had their first reading on Monday the 20. day their second on Tuesday the 21. day and their third on Wednesday the 22. day of the aforesaid March preceding and the said old Bill touching the Supremacy with those new provisions and alterations annexed to it and now passed also by the House of Commons were the same Forenoon returned up again unto their Lordships with a new Proviso added by the said Commons thereunto which said new Proviso was then read also prima secunda tertia vice and passed in the Upper House But whether the many new Additions and Alterations in this foregoing Bill had made some confusion in it or that the House of Commons disliked that their Bill formerly passed with them had received so much reformation in the Upper House or for what other cause I know not most certain it is that they had no desire the said former Bill should be made a perpetual Law by her Majesties Royal Assent and thereupon they framed a new Bill to the like purpose in which I suppose they included also the substance of all the Additions Provisoes and Amendments which the Lords had annexed to their former Bill which had its first reading in the House of Commons as appears by the Original Journal Book of the same House fol. 207. a. on Monday the 19. day of this Instant April being thus intituled much differing from the title thereof here annexed or after added before the Printed Statute viz. The Bill to avoid the usurped power claimed by any Foreign Potentate in this Realm and for the Oath to be taken by spiritual and temporal Officers After which it had its second reading on Wednesday the 12. day and its third reading on Thursday the 13. day of the same Month where also it is entred with this new title viz. The Bill for restoring the spiritual Jurisdiction to the Imperial Crown of the Realm and abolishing Foreign Power And in the inner Margent of the said Journal Book fol. 203. a. over against the beginning of the said title is written Judicium Assent which sheweth that upon the said third reading it passed the House after which on the next day following being Friday it was with three other Bills sent up to the Lords And on Saturday the 15. day of the said April it was read prima vice in the Upper House And on Monday the 17. day thereof next ensuing it was read there secunda vice and thereupon committed to divers Peers as the former Bill in this great and important cause had been before referr'd to Committees on Monday the 13 th day of March preceding although it had been sent up from the Commons and had passed their House in such manner and form as the present Bill had been passed by them And as to that said former Bill so to this also as it is easie to be gathered did the Lords Committees make some addition although but of one new Proviso which was read prima secunda vice on Tuesday the 25 th day of this Instant April after which both the Bill it self and that new Proviso had their third reading and passed the Upper House on Wednesday the 26 th day of the same Month and the said Bill with the said new Proviso written in Parchment were at the same time sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Weston and the Queens Attorney where the said new Proviso added by the Lords was passed and the Bill returned again from them unto their Lordships on Friday the 28 th day of this Instant April with another new Proviso added by them although through the great negligence of ..... Scymour Esq now Clerk of the same House there be no mention at all of the sending down of the said Proviso passing it or adding of the new Proviso but only of the returning the same to the Lords Apr. 27. in the Original Journal Book of the same House To 〈◊〉 new Proviso also it should seem the 〈◊〉 gave three readings this present day and so passed it And it is probable that it happened only through the error of Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Upper House that the said Proviso is set down to have been read only tertia vice this Instant Saturday the 29 th day of April The Bill also limiting the times for laying on Land Merchandizes from beyond the Sea and touching the Custom of Sweet Wines and the Bill for the continuance of certain Statutes were each of them read prima vice The Bill touching Hexham and Hexhamshire in the County of Northumberland and the Bill whereby the use or practice of Inchantments Witchcrafts and Sorceries is made Felony were each of them read secunda vice Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first Bill set down in the Original Journal Book to have been brought up as aforesaid is thus intituled viz. An Act for Uniformity of Common-Prayer and Service in the Church and the Administration of the Sacraments conclus which doubtless was so entred through the negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House For it is plain that no such Bill was remaining at this time in the House of Commons and that only two other Bills the one to annex to the Crown certain Religious Houses c. and the other touching the Garbling of Feathers c. were sent up by Mr. Vicechamberlain as is there set down fol. 213. a. which two Bills are also set down in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House For this Bill touching the Unity of Service in the Church c. was passed in the House of Commons upon the third reading on Thursday the 20 th of this Instant April foregoing as appears by the Original Journal Book of the same fol. 210. a. and was from thence sent up to the Lords on Tuesday the 25 th day and was read prima vice
25 th day of February last past as also on Saturday the 18 th day Monday the 20 th day on Tuesday the 21 th day and on Wednesday the 22 th day of March preceeding Et vide etiam a Note touching this business in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House on Saturday the 29 th day of April foregoing The Bill for Garbling of Feathers Forsings and Flocks was read the third time and passed the House And lastly the Bill that the Queen by Commission may restore spiritual persons deprived was read the first time On Friday the 28 th day of April the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Lord Dacres of the South was read the second time Henry Clifford Gent. Burgess for Bedwyn was Licensed for his Affairs to be absent The Provisoes in the Bill for Suppression of Abbies Priories c. was read the first and second time On Saturday the 29. day of April the Bill for Watermen on the Thames to have Harque-buts c. was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Uniting of Abbies Priories Nunneries Hospitals and Chauntries founded since the Reign of Queen Mary to be annexed to the Crown was read the third time and passed the House upon the Question and was sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain The Bill lastly to restore such persons to their Benefices as were unlawfully deprived was read the second time and was thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed April the 30. Sunday On Munday the first day of May the Bill for the Restitution of the Brothers and Sister of the Duke of Norfolks The Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Lord Dacres of the South The Bill that Timber Trees in divers places shall not be felled for Cole to make Iron And the Bill that the Inhabitants of Dorking Coxall and Dedham Westbarford c. may make Woollen Cloths there were each of them read the third time and passed the House The Bill lastly that Watermen of the Thames shall have and shoot in Harque-buts c. was read and upon the Question and Division of the House dashed by the difference of ten Voices viz. with the Bill fifty two and against the Bill sixty two On Tuesday the second day of May the Bill that the Queen by Commission may restore such spiritual persons as have been unlawfully deprived was read the third time and passed the House and was sent up to the Lords by M r Sadler and others with the four other Bills which last passed The Bill lastly for the continuance of divers Acts was brought from the Lords On Wednesday the third day of May three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for carriage of Corn over Sea when Wheat is 10 s Barley 3 s 8 d Beans and Rye at 6 s and Oats at 3 s 4 d the Quarter was read the third time and passed the House On Friday the 5 th day of May the Bill for continuance of certain Acts was read the third time and passed the House and was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary On Saturday the 6 th day of May the Bill touching Abbies c. was brought from the Lords to be reformed with three Provisoes of their Lordships And the Bill for preservation of Fry of Fish was likewise brought down from the Lords to be amended May the 7 th Sunday On Monday the 8 th of May the Provisoes in the Bill for preservation of the Fry and Spawn of Fish were read the second and third time and passed the House In the Afternoon the Queens Majesty sitting in her Royal Seat the Lords and Commons attending M r Speaker made a Learned Oration Exhibiting the Bill for the Subsidy and the Bill of Tonnage and Poundage and required the Queens Assent might be given to such Bills as had passed both the Houses which Oration being praised and Answered by the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Royal Assent was given to forty two Acts and by the Queens Pleasure this Parliament was Dissolved § Henry the VI. 6 Martii An. 31. called a Parliament at Reading 8 Martii Thorpe was Chosen Speaker from thence the Parliament was Adjourned to Westminster till 25. Apr. where it continued till 2. July and then Prorogued till 12. Nov. to Reading again Adjourned till 12. February after till 14. at Westm. During these Adjournments and Prorogations Richard Duke of York having got the Ascendant of the King prepared Habiliments of War at the Palace of the Bishop of Durham Thorpe being Speaker by Command of the King took the Arms whereupon in Michaelmas Term the Duke brought his Action of Trespass in the Exchequer against Thorpe and upon Tryal that Term recovered a thousand pound Damages and ten pound for Costs of Suit and thereupon Thorpe was Committed to the Prison of the Fleet in Execution After all this the Parliament met 14. Feb. and the Duke of York having got a Commission to hold and dissolve the Parliament laboured to keep Thorpe in Prison whom he mortally hated as being faithful to King Henry and having gained his point in the Lords House afterwards the Commons gave up their Speaker which was no sooner done and another Chosen but the Duke by the Assent of the Lords and Commons and after Confirmed by Commission from the King was made Protector of the Realm Thorpe having paid the Debt fled to the Kings Party and after was taken at Nottingham Field from thence sent to Newgate then to the Marshalsey and at last Beheaded at Haryingay Park in Middlesex THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Session of Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 5 Regin Eliz. An. D. 1562. which began there after one Prorogation of the same on Tuesday the 12 th of January and then and there continued until the Prorogation thereof upon Saturday the 10 th day of April An. D. 1563. THIS Session in An. 5 Regin Eliz. making but one and the same Parliament with that Session next ensuing in an 8 Reginae ejusdem is replenished with some extraordinary matter besides the accustomed and usual passages of reading committing and expediting of Bills For not only the pompous and solemn manner of her Majestics repairing to the Lords House is set down but the several Speeches also of that Eloquent Orator and wise Statist Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper are supplied at large together with such Interlocutory Speeches as passed in the House of Peers from Thomas Williams Esq the Speaker or Prolocutor of the House of Commons which said several Speeches being not found in the Original Journal-Book of either House are therefore supplied out of several written Copies or Anonymous Memorials of them I had by me especially the latter passages and Speeches both when the Speaker was presented on Friday the 15 th day of January and when this Session of Parliament
was Prorogued on Saturday the 10 th day of April then next following together with the Solemn and Royal manner of her Majesties passing to the House of Lords on either of the said Days are for the most part transcribed out of several Anonymous Memorials thereof I had in my Custody being doubtless the very Original Draughts or Autographs set down by some observant Member of one of the Houses or by some other person then present in the Upper House for it was written in a hand of that time and much interlined The Parliament was Summoned to begin at Westminster on Monday the 11 th day of Jan. An. 5 Regin Eliz. An. D. 1562. upon which day Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England with divers other Lords repaired to the Parliament Chamber commonly called the UpperHouse and then and there in presence of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses Summoned to the same Parliament the Lord Keeper declared that the Queens Majesty by reason of the evil disposition of her Health could not be present this 11 th day of January and that she hath therefore been pleased to Prorogue the same until to Morrow being the 12 th day of the same And to this purpose a Writ Patent under the Great Seal of England whereby the said Parliament was Prorogued unto the 12. day of this Instant Jan. was read publickly by the Clerk of the Upper House in these words following Elizabeth Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei desensor c. praedilectis sidelibus nostris Praelatis Magnatióus Proceribus Regni nostri Angliae dilectis sidelibus nostris Militibus Civibus Burgen dicti Regni nostri ad Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii undecimo die instantis mensis Jan. inchoand tenend convocatis electis vestrum cuilibet salutem Cum nos pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem dicti Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernent dictum Parliamentum nostrum ad diem locum praedict teneri ordinaverimus Ac vobis per separalia Brevia nostra apud Civitatem die praedict interesse mandaverimus ad tract and. consentiend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro tune ibidem proponcrentur tractarentur Quibusdam tamen certis de causis considerationibus nos ad tempus specialiter movent dictum Parliamentum nostrum usque duodecimum diem hujus instantis Mensis Jan. duximus prorogand it a quod nec vos nec aliquis vestrum ad dictum undecimum diem Jan. apud Civitatem praedictam comparere teneamini seu arctemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum inde erga nos penitus exonerari Mandantes tenore praesentium firmiter injungendo praecipientes vohis cuilibet vestrum ac omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quod ad dictum duodecimum dicm Januarii apud praedictam Civitatem Westmonasterii personaliter compareatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compareat intersit ad tractand faciend agend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro de communi concilio dicti Regni nostri favente Deo contigerint ordinari Teste me ipsâ apud Westmonasterium nono die Januarii anno Regni nostri quinto This day although the Parliament began not nor any Peers sate in the Upper House but the Lord Keeper and some others of either House met only in the Parliament Chamber to Prorogue the Parliament unto the 12. day of this Instant Month as aforesaid were divers Proxies returned from many of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal who in their absence did constitute others to give their Voices for them Nota That the Duke of Norfolk was Constituted the sole or joint Proctor of four several Peers and Francis Earl of Bedford was nominated the sole or joint Proctor of seven several Lords whereof one was Thomas Archbishop of York and another of them was William Bishop of Exeter By which it doth appear not only that a Spiritual Lord did Constitute a Temporal which at this day is altogether forborn as also for a Temporal Lord to Constitute a Spiritual which was but rarely used during this Queens Reign but likewise that any Peer of the Upper House by the ancient and undoubted usages and Custom of the same is capable of as many Proxies as shall be sent unto him On Tuesday the 12. day of January the Parliament held according to the Prorogation on yesterday foregoing and about eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon the Queens Majesty took her Horse at the Hall Door and proceeded in manner as followeth First All Gentlemen two and two then Esquires Knights and Bannerets and Lords being no Barons or under Age. Then the Trumpeters sounding Then the Queens Serjeant M r Carus in his Circot-Hood and Mantle unlined of Scarlet Then M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney and M r Russell Sollicitor Then Anthony Browne Justice of the Common Pleas and M r Weston of the Kings Bench. Then the Barons of the Exchequer Then M r Corbett and M r Whidon two Justiees of the Kings Bench. Then Sir Thomas Saunders Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Sir James Dyer Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Then Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls in his Gown and Sir Robert Catlin Chief Justice of the Kings Bench and these Justices and Barons of the Exchequer in their Scarlet Mantles Hood and Circot edged with Miniver the Mantle shorter than the Circot by a foot Then Knights Counsellors in their Gowns as Sir Anthony Cooke Sir Richard Sackvile Sir William Peeters and Sir Ambrose Cane Then Sir William Cecill Chief Secretary and Sir Edward Rogers Comptroller Then William Howard bearing the Queens Cloak and Hat Then Barons in all forty but there in number 30. a. St. John of Bletso Hunsdon Hastings of Loughborough Chandois North Effingham but now as the Lord Chamberlain Darcy of Chicke Paget Sheffield Willoughby Rich Wharton Evers Cromwell St. John Mordaunt Borough Wentworth Windsor Vaux Sands Mountegle Darcy of Menell Ogle Mountjoy Lumley Latimer Scroope Grey of Wilton Stafford Cobham Dacres of the North Dacres of the South Morley Barkley Strange Zouch Audeley Clinton but now Lord Admiral and Bargaveny their Mantles Hoods and Circot furr'd and two Rows of Miniver on their right Shoulder Then proceeded the Bishops all that were there present were but twenty two as Glocester and St. Asaph Chester Carlisle and Peterborough Norwich and Exeter Lichfield and Coventry Bath and Wells Rochester and St. Davids Salisbury and Lincoln Bangor and Worcester Ely and Hereford Landaffe Chichester and Winchester Durham and London their Robes of Scarlet lined and a Hood down their back of Miniver Then the Viscounts their Robes as the Barons but that they had two Rows and an half of Miniver as the Viscount of Bindon absent Viscount
of Recording such presence in all the Original Journal-Books of the Upper House both of former and latter times which is so obvious to every mans curiosity that will search that it needs no further dilating Pr. Nicolaus Bacon Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli Pr. Marchio Winton Thesaurarius Angliae Pr. Dux Norfolciae Comes Mareschallus Angliae Pr. Marchio Northampton Pr. Comes Arundell Seneschallus Hospitii Dominae Reginae Pr. Comes Northumbriae Comes Westmoreland Pr. Comes Salop. Pr. Comes Darbiae Pr. Comes Wigorn. Pr. Comes Rutland Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Pr. Comes Huntington Comes Bathon Pr. Comes Bedford Pr. Comes Pembrooke Pr. Vice-Comes Hereford Pr. Vice-Comes Mountague Vice-Comes Howard de Bindon In the next and second Rank after the Spiritual Lords are the names of the Lord Keepers and of all other Temporal Lords entred above the degree of Barons and the reason why the names of the Spiritual Lords are thus entred before the Lord Keepers and all other Temporal Lords although divers of them enjoy likewise the great Offices of the Kingdom is not because they have all precedence of them but either in respect that the Archbishop of Canterbury when there is one is the first Peer of the Realm and so one of the rank with whom they sit in the Upper House and therefore ought to be ranked with him or else in respect of their Ecclesiastical Dignities which are preferred before the Temporal as the Church is before the Common-Wealth Pr. Dominus Clinton Admirallus Angliae Pr. Dominus Howard de Effingham Camerarius Dominae Reginae Pr. Dominus Burgavenny Dominus Audley Pr. Dominus Strange Dominus Zouch Pr. Dominus Barkeley Pr. Dominus Morley Pr. Dominus Dacres Pr. Dominus Dacres de Gillesland Pr. Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey de Wilton Pr. Dominus Scroope Dominus Dudley Pr. Dominus Lumley Dominus Montery Dominus Ogle Pr. Dominus Darcie Pr. Dominus Mountegle Dominus Sandes Pr. Dominus Vauxe Pr. Dominus Windsor Pr. Dominus Wentworth Pr. Dominus Mordant Pr. Dominus St. John Pr. Dominus Cromwell Pr. Dominus Evers Dominus Wharton Dominus Riche Pr. Dominus Willoughbye Pr. Dominus Sheffield Dominus Pagett Pr. Dominus Darcie de Chiche Dominus North. Pr. Dominus Chandos Pr. Dominus Haistings de Loughborough Pr. Dominus Cary de Hunsedon Pr. Dominus St. John de Bletsoe In this third and last rank are placed the Barons names of which the two first precede in respect of their Offices the rest follow according to their several rights The presence of the Lords being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House there is nothing worthy the further observation therein but only that the Abbot of Westminster who sat all the last Parliament is not here at all mentioned and the reason was because himself with five other Abbots and Abbesses and many other of the Popish Clergy were deprived of their Ecclesiastical Promotions in An. Dom. 1559. at the end of the last Parliament And now in the next place follows the manner of the Presentment of the Speaker with his several Speeches and the Lord Keepers Answers at large out of a Memorial thereof I had by me which I conceive for the most part to be the very Autography or Original Copy thereof taken by the hand of some industrious Member of one of the Houses or at least some other Hearer at this time present in the Upper House It being set down in a hand at that time and full of interlinings and amendments The Queens Majesty being set under her Cloth of Estate and the Lords having placed themselves according to their several Ranks in their Parliament Robes the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repairing to the Upper House with Thomas Williams Esq their Speaker Elect were as many of them as conveniently could let in and the Speaker was led up unto the Bar or Rail at the lower end of the said House between Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold and Sir William Cecill Knight her said Majesties Principal Secretary all of them making in their proceeding up thither three Obeysances and the said Speaker being placed there after he had made three other like Obeysances began as followeth RIght Excellent and most Vertuous Prince our Renowned and Dread Soveraign Lady on Tuesday last it pleased your Highness by the Mouth of the Right Honourable the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for the more ease of the nether House of this Parliament to Command them to go and Assemble themselves and to Elect one being wise discreet and learned to be their Speaker who after a Consultation had with one Voice did Elect me being indeed insufficient as by and for divers Causes I did then to them declare Howbeit whether it were that they being so many wise men together at the Electing of me and therefore would not seem to speak against their own Election or for what other cause I know not but they refused my denial and stood to their said Choice and now present me here to be at your Graces Appointment I therefore knowing my own imbecillity and yet not arrogantly refusing the same as one amongst the Romans chosen from the Plough to a place of Estimation and after to the Plough again even so I a Countryman sit for the same and not for this place most humbly desire your Majesty to discharge me hereof and to appoint some other more able and I as I am bounden will not only pray for your Highness but also serve your Highness and my Country to my power in the place of a Citizen whereunto first I was Elect and appointed Then the Queen Called the Lord Keeper to her declaring to him her Opinion for the Answering of him whereupon he returned to his place and Answered as followeth M r Williams The Queens Majesty hath well heard and pondered your Speech and doth well perceive your modest and humble manner in the disabling your self to that place whereunto her well-beloved Subjects have Elected and Chosen you and now accordingly presented you and hath also heard your Suit for discharge of the said Room and for Answer she hath Commanded me to declare unto you that she commendeth well your modest and humble manner in so disabling your self knowing that Judgment appertaineth to the Caller and not to the party Called And forasmuch as her Majesty is credibly informed as well of your knowledge and experience in other Parliaments as in other great and weighty matters she thinketh now therefore she cannot disable you without some peril to the Realm and the rather for that the wise Knights Citizens and Burgesses have nominated and Chosen you she cannot grant your Petition And besides that your modest Order in disabling your self doth right well declare your ability to furnish the place for which cause the doth allow this Election and Presentation made of you not doubting your care to be such but
of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Chancellor to be all one And the Bill touching the true fulling and thicking of Caps were each of them read the third time and concluded Et unà cum aliâ Billa For the making Denizens of certain Children born beyond the Seas commissae sunt Attorn Dom. Reginae Doctori Huick in Dom. Communem deferend Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill against such as shall sell any Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under three thousand pound Lands or Fees was returned conclus And the last was the Bill that the Hospital Church of St. Katherine near the Tower of London shall be a Parish Church and for the erecting of a School Two Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Inchantments Sorceries and Witchcraft was read the first time On Tuesday the 9 th day of March Nine Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir PeterCarew Knight And the second against Inchantments Sorceries Witchcrafts c. were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be engrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been formerly sent to the Lords from the House of Commons The sixth being the Bill for the uniting and annexing of Churches was read primâ vice commissa Justiciario Southcot ut in duos libros redigatur On Wednesday the 10 th day of March the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of William West And the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Sir William Carew Knight were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus Eight other Bills had each of them one reading of which the three last the one for Badgers of Corn and Drovers of Cattle to be Licensed Another touching the Lord Viscount Bindon And the third for the relief of the Poor were each of them read secunda vice On Thursday the 11 th day of March the Bill for avoiding of divers Foreign Wares made by Handy-crafts-men beyond the Seas The Bill against fond and phantastical Prophecies And the Bill for the punishment of the vice of Buggery were each of them read tertia vice conclusae commissae sunt Attornato Dominae Reginae Doctori Yale in Domum Communem deferend Six other Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Forgers of false Deeds and Writings and the third being the Bill for Badgers of Corn and Drovers of Cattle to be Licensed were each of them read tertia vice conclus Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy and the second declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Chancellor to be one were each of them returned conclus On Saturday the 13 th day of March the Bill touching the Town of Southampton was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand The Bill touching the Boyers of Westminster was read prima secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum The Bill also for Confirmation of divers Liberties granted by Letters Patents to the City of Exeter was read tertiâ vice And a Proviso added thereunto by the Lords being read prima secunda tertia vice the Bill was concluded Commun omnium procerum assensu On Monday the 15 th day of March Seven Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill that the Hospital of St. Katherines near the Tower of London shall be a Parish Church and for the erecting of a School was read primâ vice and committed to the Bishop of London Quod nota For Bills are not usually committed until the second reading vide tamen consimile on Tuesday the 26 th day of January foregoing The fourth also being the Bill for the Enrolment of Bargains and Sales in the Queens Majesties Courts of Record in Lancaster Chester and Durham was read tertiâ vice commissa Servienti Carus Attornato Dominae Reginae unà cum Bill Civitat Exon. in Domum Communem deferend Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlaine Knight and John Harleston Esq And the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Anne Thomas Daughter and Heir of William Thomas Esq were each of them returned conclus On Tuesday 16. day of March the Bill for the relief of the Poor The Bill for uniting of Churches in Cities and Towns Corporate The Bill for the Boyers of London Westminster and Southwark And the Bill for the Confirmation of a Grant made by Letters Patents to the Town of Southampton touching the bringing of Malmesies and Sweet Wines by Merchant Strangers were each of them read tertiâ vice conclusae The Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions which had been before here passed and concluded in the Upper House and sent down by them to the House of Commons and from the Commons sent back again to the Lords with certain Provisoes and Amendments added thereunto The said Bill needed no new reading but the said Provisoes and Amendments which had been added since it had passed the Upper House were now read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice all at once and so passed The Bills for Southampton and the Boyers of Westminster were sent down to the House of Commons by M r Sollicitor and D r Yale and from thence were returned two other Bills which had passed the Upper House the one for sundry politick Constitutions for the encrease of the Navy and the other for the Restitution in Blood of William West On Wednesday the 17 th day of March the Bill for Assignment for the Queens Houshold was read tertiâ vice and with the Bill for uniting of Churches in Towns Corporate and for relief of the Poor was sent from the Lords to the House of Commons The Bill for allowance to be made to the Sheriffs being called for the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal declared to the Lords that the Queen would her self take Order therein which her pleasure and determination she willed him to signifie unto them on her behalf On Thursday the 18. day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill against Filing Washing and Clipping of Coins was read the second time and committed to be ingrossed The Bill concerning Viscount Bindon and the Bill for Tillage were Ordered this day to be ingrossed On Saturday the 20. day of March the Bill touching peculiar Jurisdictions was upon the second reading committed
vice Et nota that the same Bill was read the day following tertiâ vice conclus On Wednesday the 7. day of April Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the one was for Orders for Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements and another for Retailers of Worsted Wools in Norwich and the County of Norfolk with a Proviso added by the Commons Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam à Meridie On the aforesaid Wednesday in the Afternoon the Bill touching Orders for Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements was read primâ vice On Thursday the 8. day of April Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill to take away the Misdemeanors of Purveyors and Takers was read primâ vice The Bill for divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants of Husbandry and Apprentices was read tertiâ vice conclus and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and D r Yale Two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons the one that Sanctuary shall not be allowed to defraud any due Debt And the other was for the Paving of Kentish Town near Southwark The Proviso annex'd by the Commons to the Bill for Retailers of Worsted-Woolls in Norwich and the County of Norfolk was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus The Proviso annex'd by the Commons to the Bill for the maintenance of Tillage And also one other Proviso annex'd to the same Bill by the Lords were each of them read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice On Friday the 9. day of April the Bill for Tillage was given to M r Attorney and M r Martin to be carried to the House of Commons The Bill touching Orders of Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements was read secundâ vice Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons conclus of which one was touching divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants of Husbandry and Apprentices And the second for the maintenance of Tillage And the third for the due Execution of the Writ de Excommunicato capiendo with a Proviso annex'd by the Commons and divers Amendments quae primâ secundâ vice lect sunt eadem Provis tertiâ vice lect a est conclus The Bill to take away the misdemeanors of Purveyors and Takers was read the second time and committed to Justice Southcot Quod nota The Bill for the destruction of Rooks Coughs and other Vermine was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons which said Bill was on the day following in the Afternoon read primâ vice On Saturday the 10 th day of April the Bill for the reviving of a Statute made Anno xxiii o Hen. 8. touching the making of Goals with a Proviso thereunto annex'd by the Commons which said Proviso was read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice conclus The Bill for the Queens Majesties most free and General Pardon was read primâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Nota That this Bill for the general Pardon was concluded after the first reading whereas to all other Bills three readings are required before they can be passed The Bill also for Reformation of divers misdemeanors in Purveyors was read tertiâ vice with certain Amendments conclusa And then following the ordinary form the Parliament was continued in manner and order accustomed viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam primam à Mcridie In the Afternoon the Bill for destruction of Rooks and Coughs and other Vermin And the Bill touching buying and selling of course Woolls to make Cottons c. were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus Two Bills were returned from the House of Commons conclus One to take away the misdemeanors of Purveyors and Takers and the other touching Orders for Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements Nota That in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House next after the setting down or entring of the two Bills aforesaid to have been returned up to the Lords from the House of Commons there followeth immediately the entrance of the Prorogation of this Session of Parliament which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the said Upper House For the Queens Majesty her self with the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal was present in her Robes and gave her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed Although no presence of any of the Lords or her Majesty be at all marked in the said Original Journal-Book And therefore I have caused the solemn and stately manner of the Queens coming to the Upper House with the several Interlocutory Speeches of the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Lord Keeper to be inserted at large out of a written Copy or Anonymous memorial thereof I had by me being doubtless the very Original Draught set down by some Member of one of the two Houses or at least by some other observant person then present while the said Speeches passed in the Upper House for it is written in a hand and language of that very time and in many places amended and interlined About three of the Clock this present Saturday in the Afternoon the Queens Majesty came by Water from Whitehall and landed on the backside of the Parliament Chamber and so the Earl of Northumberland bearing the Sword afore her the Dutchess of Norfolk the Train she proceeded up into her Privy-Chamber and there Apparell'd her self in her Parliament Robes during which time the Lords likewise put on their Robes and took their Places On the Upper Sack sate the Lord Keeper till the Queen came and then he went to his place at the Rail on the right hand to the Cloth of Estate On the Wooll-sack on the North-side sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer the two Chief Justices Sir John Mason and Serjeant Carus M r Ruswell the Queens Sollicitor and Doctor Yale On the Sack on the South-side sate Sir William Cecill Secretary Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Justice Weston Serjeant Southcott M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney and Doctor Lewes On the nether Sack sate M r Spilman Clerk of the Parliament M r Powle Deputy and joint Patentee with M r Martin Clerk of the Crown M r Heming and some Clerks of the Signet Dister and Permiter before which nether Sack stood a little Table Then the Queens Majesty being Apparell'd in her Parliament Robes with a Caul on her Head came forth and proceeded up and took the Seat the Duke of Norfolk as Earl Marshal with his gilt Rod before her with the Marquess of Northampton bearing the Cap of Maintenance and stood on her right hand and the Earl of Northumberland the Sword on her left hand the
same so that the referring of a Bill to Committees is scarce discoverable in respect that the name only of one of them is for the most part mentioned yet the manner of the Burgesses taking the Oath of Supremacy which was never in use before this Session of Parliament it having been enjoined by Statute in the first year of her Majesties Reign together with the manner of the Election and Presentment of the Speaker is very Methodically and Orderly entered And lastly whereas there is mention made in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons aforesaid that the Speaker with the whole House did exhibit their Petition to the Queens Majesty on Thursday 23. day of January in the Afternoon touching her Marriage and the Limitation of the Succession of the Crown which said Petition is there omitted I have therefore caused it to be inserted at large out of a Copy thereof I had by me which I gather by all concurring circumstances to be the very same which is only generally remembred in the said Original Journal-Books as aforesaid The second Parliament of the most Noble Princess Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England c. begun at Westminster on Monday the 11. day of January in the fifth Year of her Gracious Reign By her Highness Commission directed to the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Steward the Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk c. to Prorogue the same Parliament until the 12. day of the same Month viz. the Morrow following And the Knights and Burgesses being sent for to come unto the Lords in the Upper House without any appearance of their names taken then by the Lord Steward and Lord Treasurer the Lord Keeper shewed in few words that the Queens Majesty was somewhat sick of a Stitch wherefore she had sent her Writ for the Prorogation until the Morrow which was done accordingly And on the Morrow being the 12. day of January about ten of the Clock the Queens Majesty with the Lords and Bishops in Parliament Robes did ride from the Palace to Westminster-Church and there heard a Sermon during which the Earl of Arundel being Lord Steward repaired unto Whitehall and there Recorded the Appearance of the Knights and Burgesses at which time also as may very well be collected by comparing this instant days passages with those of Thursday the third day of October in the Journal of the House of Commons de an 8 9 Regin Eliz. following the said Lord Steward did doubtless either in his own person or by his Deputies administer the Oath of Supremacy according to the Statute de an 1 Eliz. Cap. 1. to such Knights Citizens and Burgesses as were at this time present and appeared And after the Queen coming from the Church and being set in her Royal Seat in the Upper House and the Commons standing at the lower end of the Chamber The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal with great Eloquence declared this Parliament to be called for Religion Discipline and Aid to the State in defence of Enemies with Excellent Dilation of those Causes And in the end willed the Commons to repair to their House and there to chuse a discreet grave and wise man to be their Speaker and to present him to the Queens Majesty on Friday next in the Afternoon immediately the Commons resorted to their Common House where after they were set M r Comptroller standing up rehearsed the Lord Keepers Oration for the Election of a Speaker and said that in his Opinion M r Thomas Williams Esq one of the Fellows of the Inner-Temple being grave learned and wise was very meet to that Office whereupon the whole House with one intire Voice cried M r Williams M r Williams And then M r Williams standing up and reverently disabling himself required the House to proceed to a new Election unto whom M r Secretary Cecill Answering that the House had gravely considered of him and therefore required him to take the place and he approaching was led and set in the Chair by M r Comptroller and it was agreed by the House to meet all there again on Friday next at one of the Clock in the Afternoon to present M r Speaker to the Queens Majesty On Friday the 15 th of January in the Afternoon M r Speaker with the rest of the House of Commons went before the Queen in her Royal Seat where M r Speaker most humbly disabled himself requiring that a new Election might be made to the which the Queens Majesty confirming the same Election by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper M r Speaker made an Excellent Oration and in the end made the accustomed Petitions which being granted the Lord Keeper willed him with the rest to resort to the House of Commons there to deliberate upon matters necessary which being done The Bill for increase of Woods in Champain Grounds and saving of Bark of Timber to be felled was read the first time On Saturday the 16. day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one was touching Servants to serve their Masters And the other to put down an Iron-Mill near Guilford and were each of them read the first time A motion was this day made by a Burgess at length for the Succession of the Crown of which see more on Thursday the 28 th day of this Instant January ensuing January the 17 th day Sunday On Monday the 18 th day of January Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one and the first reading of which the second was the Bill for the assurance of the Mannors of Whiteacre and Whiteacre Burgh to Richard Bertie and Katherine Duchess of Suffolk his Wife from Walter Herenden being a Feoffee in Trust. Certain Arguments were this day had in the House by divers wise Personages for motion to be made for the Queens Marriage and Succession of the Crown On Tuesday the 19 th day of January the Bill for allowance to Sheriffs upon their Accompts for Justices Diets was read the first time M r Speaker with the Counsel and twenty four more of the House were appointed to meet this Afternoon to draw Articles of Petition for the Queens Marriage and Succession Vide Concerning this business on Thursday the 28. day of this Instant January following M r Comptroller is nominated one of them For that it seemed to the House being very full that they were a greater number than were returned therefore the names were immediately called and as they were called they departed out of the House and in the end ten or eleven remained who said they were returned and would bring Warrants thereof On Wednesday the 20. day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for allowance to Sheriffs upon their Accompts for Justices Diets was read the second time and as it should seem Committed to M r Sackvill and others see a like
Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the new Bill against Clipping Washing and Filing of Coins was read the first time On Thursday the 25. day of February Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the third for punishment of Clipping and Washing of money And the fifth for such as lend their Goods for Apparel were each of them upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed And the last being the Bill against forging of false Deeds with Provisoes from this House was read the third time and passed Post Meridiem In the Afternoon six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Anne Thomas was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords William Undale Esq Burgess for the Town of Southampton was for his necessary affairs Licensed to be absent On Friday the 26 th day of February the Bill for dressed Flax and the Bill touching Originals of Fines imbezelled were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Four other Bills also had each of them one reading of which one was the Bill that S t Katherines Church shall be a Parish Church and a School Erected The Bill for Clipping and Washing of money and the Bill against Sale of Wares for Apparel to persons under Land or Fees c. were each of them read the third time and passed the House And the last being for having Grigg Mills between Plime and Dart in Devonshire was upon the third reading dashed by the division of the House viz. with the Bill forty seven and against the Bill eighty four On Saturday the 27 th day of February Sir Robert Wingfeild one of the Knights for the County of Suffolk for his affairs at the Assizes was Licensed to be absent The Bill for further punishment of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians and the Bill for allowance to Sheriffs for Justices Dyets were each of them read the third time and passed the House Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary with the Bill of the Subsidy amended of which one was touching the punishment of Vagabonds and another for Clipping and washing of money Three Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill to add de circumstantibus to the Juries in Wales and Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Chester was read the third time and passed the House On Monday the first day of March Two Bills had each of them their first reading of which the second being against Purveyors was as it should seem referr'd to M r Vice-Chamberlain to consider of it Arguments being had in the House to the Proviso for Hunting of Conies that eat other mens Corn was as it seemeth referr'd to M r Vice-Chamberlain and others not named Griffin Curtis Esq Burgess for the Burrough of Ludgersall in Wilts for his Affairs at the Assizes was Licensed to depart John Cheney Esq one of the Knights for the County of Berks hath also Licence for his Affairs On Tuesday the 2 d day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching Badgers of Corn was read the third time and passed the House M r D r Read and M r D r Huick brought from the Lords the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Children of the Lord Hussey And the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Children of Archbishop Cranmer Long Arguments being had to the Bill for the encrease of the Navy and Fish-Days and a Proviso brought in by M r Secretary the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 3 d day of March the Bill for the Orders and Wages of Servants of Husbandry and Artificers was read the first time and as it should seem committed to M r Crofts to consider of it On Thursday the 4 th day of March Sir Thomas Gargrave Knight one of the Knights for the County of York for great Affairs with the rest of the Council in the North parts was Licensed to depart M r Richard Baker and ..... Leonard Esq with their Council learned required that a Proviso may be for them put to the Bill for the restitution in Blood of the Sons of Henry Iseley Attainted of Treason William and Edward Iseley with their learned Council require that considering the Bill doth restore them towards the Lands but to such Title as they had before that that State may continue unto them Vide touching this matter on the day following The Queens Serjeant and M r Attorney brought from the Lords two Bills of which one being the Bill touching the Oath with four Provisoes added by the Lords the same Provisoes were read the first and second time Post Meridiem In the Afternoon Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill that S t Katherines shall be a Parish Church and a School there was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrost Seven other Bills had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill that the Bible and Book of Service may be in the Welch Tongue And another that Sanctuary shall not serve for Debt were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrost On Friday the 5 th day of March Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for avoiding of divers Foreign Wares made by Artificers beyond the Seas was read the third time and passed the House The Parties on both sides for M r Isely's Bill require that it might proceed in form for they be both agreed that M r Isely after this Bill pass shall release to M r Richard Baker and M r Leonard all their right title interest and demand in such Lands as the said Baker and Leonard severally have late Sir Henry Iseley's Father to the said William and Edward Iseley Vide touching this business on the day foregoing The Bill lastly for restitution in Blood of William and Edward Iseley And the Bill for restitution in Blood of Thomas Brook alias Cobham and others were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords On Saturday the 6 th day of March the Bill for the punishment of Perjury and false Witnesses was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The three Bills last past of which one was for avoiding of Foreign Wares were sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary with twelve more The Queens Serjeant brought from the Lords the Bill of Subsidy of the Clergy And the Bill for restitution in Blood of Ed. Turner The Bill also for continuance of Statutes for the mending of High-ways was read the second time and Ordered
to be ingrossed Post Meridiem In the Afternoon twelve Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for restitution in Blood of Edward Turner And the second for restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlain and John Hurleston had each of them their second reading but neither committed nor ordered to be ingrossed because they had been formerly sent from the Lords John Eire Esquire one of the Knights of the County of Wilts for his Affairs is Licensed to be absent On Monday the 8 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that S t Katherines Church shall be a Parish Church And the Second for the repairing and mending of High-ways were read the third time and passed the House and were sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller M r Attorney brought from the Lords three Bills of which one was the Bill for Denizens Children The Bill also against the unlawful taking of Fish Deer or Hawks was read the third time and passed Post Meridiem In the Afternoon eight Bills had each of them one reading of which one was the Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy Richard Parrott Gent. Burgess for Sandwich for his Sickness was Licensed to be absent On Tuesday the 9. day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords Four other Bills also were each of them read the third time of which one being the Bill for restitution in Blood of Anne Thomas Another for restitution in Blood of Edward Turner And a third for restitution in Blood of Thomas Cranmer and Margaret Children of the Archbishop Cranmer did each of them pass the House Post Meridiem In the Afternoon eight Bills had each of them one reading of which the fifth being the Bill for the paving of Kentish-street near Southwark was read the second time and as it should seem committed to M r Graston and others not named Vide consimile on Thursday the 21. day of January foregoing Long Arguments were this day had in the House upon the Bill for having Wednesday to be a Fish-Day Vide touching this business on Thursday the 11. day of this instant March following On Wednesday the 10. day of March the Bill for restitution in Blood of William and Edward Iseley The Bill for restitution in Blood of Thomas Cobham The Bill to make Denizens the Children of John Fitz-Williams and others And the Bill for the restitution in Blood of the Heirs of the Lord Hussey were each of them read the third time and passed the House The Bill that Merchants shall not marry Strangers beyond the Seas was read the first time The Bill that the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal hath the like Power as the Lord Chancellor And the Bill for the restitution in Blood of the Daughters of Thomas Iseley were each of them read the third time and passed M r Sollicitor brought from the Lords the Bill for the restitution in Blood of Sir Peter Carew and William West Long Arguments upon the Bill for having the Wednesday to be a Fish-Day were continued till the Morrow after On Thursday the 11. day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy was read the third time and passed and was sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary together with the Lord Keepers Bill and the Bill for Fish Deer and Hawks Long Arguments were had upon the Bill for encrease of the Navy whether the Wednesday shall be a Fish-Day and upon the Question the House was divided and to have it a Fish-Day were a hundred fifty nine and not to have it a Fish-Day were ninety six And immediately after upon the qualification of that day the greater number agreed to the qualification Vide touching this matter on Tuesday the 9. day and on Wednesday the 10. day of this instant March foregoing George Cope Burgess of Ludgersall in Wilts for his affairs at the Assizes hath Licence to be absent On Friday the 12. day of March the Bill touching Consecration of Bishops was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Four other Bills also had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for the Inning of Plumsted-Marsh now surrounded was read the third time and passed the House On Saturday the 13 th day of March the Bill for the restitution in Blood of Leonard Diggs and Thomas Diggs and the Bill for restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlain Knight and John Hurleston were each of them read the third time and passed The Bill against Conjurations was brought from the Lords by M r Sollicitor Post Meridiem In the Afternoon six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for increase of Woods and Champian Grounds was read the second time and as it should seem committed to M r Marsh and others not named On Monday the 15 th day of March the Bill against fulling of Caps in Mills was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either committed or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords George Lee Esq one of the Burgesses for Rippon in Yorkshire and Elice Price one of the Knights for Merionethshire in Wales for their affairs were Licensed to be absent Three Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain of which one was the Bill for Inning of Plumsted-Marsh The Provisoes added to the Bill for increase of Navigation were read the third time and passed M r Serjeant Carus and M r Attorney brought from the Lords the Bill for Enrolment of Bargains in Lancaster with a Proviso in Exeter Bill On Tuesday the 16 th day of March the Bill for the Enrolment of Writings Indented at Lancaster Chester and Duresm and a Proviso added to the Bill of Exeter were each of them read the first time The Bill for the Navy and the Bill for restitution in Blood of M r West were sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary and the Bill for Southampton and the Bill for Bowyers were sent from the Lords by M r Comptroller Post Meridiem In the Afternoon six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for unlading of Malmesies and Sweet Wines at South-hampton was read the first time On Wednesday the 17 th day of March the Proviso to the Bill of Exeter was read the third time and passed M r Sackvil declared from the Queens Majesty that she would take Order to make allowance for Justices Diets and that Commissioners should be sent to enquire of Vicountels
that may be levied and the rest Order should be taken for the discharge thereof Michael Poultney Esquire Burgess for Lichfeild Robert Buckstones Burgess for Horsam in Sussex and Henry Green Citizen for the City of Hereford were for their several affairs Licensed to be absent On Thursday the 18 th day of March the Proviso to the Bill of Bowyers was read the third time and passed the House The Bill against phantastical Prophecies The Bill for punishment of Witchcrafts And the Bill against wilful Perjury were each of them read the third time and passed Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the uniting of Churches by the Bishop so that the value be not above 24 l of the Churches united with two others were each of them read the first time On Friday the 19 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for punishment of Invocations of evil Spirits And the last That Fines or Recoveries with Voucher though the Original be imbezelled shall be good were each of them read the third time and passed the House On Saturday the 20 th day of March the Bill for continuance of Statutes to endure for ever was read the second time and as it should seem committed to M r Clare and others not named And the Bill against Bankrupts being read also the second time was as may be gathered committed to M r Mersh and others not named Vide consimile on Thursday the 21 th day of January foregoing M r Serjeant Carus and M r Sollicitor brought from the Lords the Bill against Washing and Clipping of money The Bill touching Leases made by Viscount Bindon and his Wife with two others Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain of which one was for the punishment of Witchcraft and another touching Fines and Recoveries with Voucher c. with two others of no great moment and immediately the Bill that Clipping or Washing of money shall be Treason The Bill for preservation of Woods in Sussex were each of them read the first time John Gardner Gent. Burgess for Dorchester in Dorset was for his affairs Licensed to be absent Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the relief of the poor And the Bill for the uniting of Parish Churches in Cities and Corporate Towns to the value of 24 l were each of them read the second time John Darrington Esq one of the Knights for the County of Huntington is for his affairs Licensed to be absent On Monday the 22 th day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that Clipping and Washing of Monies shall be Treason was read the second time but not committed nor ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords It was Ordered that William Gerrard a necessary Witness for M r Pledal as he saith may be served by the Serjeant to attend Mr. Haddon at the rising of the House one of the Committees with the Master of the Rolls Mr. Recorder and Sir William Arnold and Mr. Norton discharged of this Examination Vide plus on Saturday the 10 th day of April ensuing Post Meridiem In the Afternoon four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the paving of Kentish-street was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed John Dorrington Esq Knight for Huntington Humphrey Quarnby Burgess for Nottingham William Dawtrye Knight for Suffex Simon Thellwall Knight for Denbigh for their several necessary affairs were Licensed to be absent Three Bills lastly had each of them their first reading of which the first was the Bill touching Demurrers in Law On Tuesday the 23 th day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that Clipping and Washing of money shall be Felony was read the third time and passed the House The Bill for encrease of Tillage was brought from the Lords by M r Serjeant Carus Post Meridiem In the Afternoon Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching Leases to be made by the Lord Thomas Howard Viscount Bindon and his Wife And the second that Henry Howard Esq shall not discontinue Lands that shall descend were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords On Wednesday the 24 th day of March Two Bills had each of them their second reading of which the latter being the Bill for Assignment of forty thousand twenty seven pound four shillings and two pence half penny to the Expences of the Queens Houshold which Bill notwithstanding that it had passed the Upper House and been sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons on Wednesday the 17 th day of this instant March foregoing yet it was committed or at least referred to M r Vice-Chamberlain being an Officer of her Majesties said Houshold to be further considered of and was lastly passed in the House of Commons upon the third reading on Saturday the third day of April ensuing and was then immediately returned back to the Lords by M r Comptroller Two Bills were each of them read the third time of which one being the Bill for Fulling of Caps by foot and hand was dashed upon the Question Morris William Knight for the County of Carnarvon for his weighty affairs was Licensed to be absent On Thursday the 25 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that the Lord Abergavenny may make Leases for twenty Years or three Lives And the second that Henry Howard Esq shall not discontinue Lands descending to him were each of them read the third time and passed And the third being the Bill for the Annuity of six pound thirteen shillings and four pence out of Wandlesworth in Surrey being the Archbishop of Yorks Lands to the School of Guildford was read the third time but it should seem the House did desire to consider further of this Bill and thereupon passed it not at this time but gave it a fourth reading on Tuesday the 30 th day of this instant March ensuing and then it passed the House Post Meridiem In the Afternoon four Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for payment of Alneagers Fees for Sealing Cloaths in Lancashire was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Friday the 26 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being that the Lord Howard and the Lady Elizabeth his Wife may make Leases c. was read the third time and passed On Saturday the 27 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that the Bible and the
Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae fidei defensor c. Sexto in quem diem praesens hoc Parliamentum Prorogatum fuerat convenerunt Domini tam spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Marchio Winton Thesaurarius Comes Suffex Comes Huntington Episcopus London Episcopus Roffen Dominus Clinton Admirallus Dominus Howard Camerarius Dominus Cobham Dominus Hunsdon Qui cum convenissent una cum populi atque Burgensium ut vocant satis magna frequentia praedictus Archiepiscopus Cantuarien paucis verbis declaravit conventum Procerum populi quem Parliamentum vocant in hunc diem destinatum à dicta domina Regina ccrtis quibusdam de causis considerationibus illam ad id specialiter moven differri in tricesimum diem Aprilis prox futurum atque ut tam proceribus quam populo palam fieret Regiam Majestatem ita constituisse Literas Commissorias dict Dominae Reginae Francisco Spilman Armig Clerico Parliamenti publicè clarâ voce legendas in manus tradidii Earum autem Tenor sequitur in haec verba Elizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei defensor c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Matheo Cantuarien Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac Charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Willielmo Marchioni Winton Thesaurario Angliae ncc non charissimis consanguineis suis Thomae Comiti Sussex Henrico Comiti Huntingdon Reverendis in Christo patribus Edmundo Episcopo London Edmundo Episcopo Roffen ac etiam praedilectis fidelibus consiliariis suis Edwardo Domino Clinton magno Admirallo suo Angliae Willielmo Domino Howard de Essingham Domino Camerario suo ac praedilectis sidelibus suis Willielmo Domino Cobham Gardiano sive Custodi quinque portuum suorum ac Henrico Domino Hunsdon salutem Cum nuper pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernen praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitat nostram Westmonasterii duodecimo die Januarii Anno regni nostri Quinto inchoari teneri ordinaverimus à quo die idem Parliamentum nostrum tunc ibidem tent continuat fuerat usque decimum diem Aprilis tunc prox sequen ac post diversas Prorogationes idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in instantem Quintum diem Octobris Prorogatum ibidemque tunc tenend prosequend Sciatis tamen quod certis urgentibus causis considerationibus nos specialiter moven idem Parliamentum nostrum ulterius Prorogand duximus de sidelitate igitur prudentiâ circumspectione vestris plurimum considentes de avisamento assensu Concilii nostri assignavimus vos tres vestrum dantes vobis novem octo septem sex quinque quatuor tribus vestrum tenore praesentium plenam potestatem facultatem authoritatem hoc instan die Jovis ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum nomine nostro ad in tricesimum Aprilis prox futur usque praedictam Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii Prorogand continuand ibidemque tunc tenend prosequend ideo vobis mandamus quod circa praemissa diligenter intendatis ea in formâ praedicta effect ualiter expleatis Damus autem universis singulis Archiepiscopis Ducibus Magnatibus Comitibus Vice-Comitibus Episcopis Baronibus Militibus Civibus Burgen ac omnibus ahis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum conventur tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis quod vobis in praenissis faciend pareant obediant intendant prout decet In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium Quinto die Octobris Anno Regni nostri Sexto The like Commission bearing date 30. die Aprilis An. 7 Eliz. was directed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norsolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Derby Thomas Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntingdon the Earl of Pembroke the Earl of Warwick and the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Cobham Warden of the Cinque-Ports the Lord Wentworth and the Lord Hunsdon Authorizing them 17 16 15 14 13 c. or three of them to Prorogue and continue the Parliament ut supra in the other Commissions mutatis mutandis unto the 4 th day of October next coming Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium 30 die Aprilis Anno Regni nostri Septimo On which 30 th day of April the Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Derby the Earl of Sussex the Earls of Huntingdon Pembroke and Warwick the Bishop of London the Lord Admiral the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Cobham the Lord Wentworth and the Lord Hunsdon did meet in the Parliament Chamber and in due and accustomed Form did Adjourn the Parliament unto the 4 th day of October according to the said Commission last specified and caused the said Commission to be publickly read by Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Parliament in hearing of the Commons then also present according to antient Custom in that behalf On the 4 th day of October Anno Regni Reginae Eliz. Septimo The like Commission ut supra bearing date the said 4 th day of October directed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Sussex Chief Justice of all Forrests c. on this side Trent Ambrose Earl of Warwick Master of the Ordnance the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Rochester Edward Lord Clinton great Admiral of England William Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain Thomas Lord Wentworth and Henry Lord Hunsdon authorizing them 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 and 3. ut antea mutatis mutandis to Prorogue and continue the same Parliament in Septimum diem Februarii prox futurum Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium 4 die Octobris Anno Regni nostri Septimo Which Commission was read by the Clerk of the Parliament in the Parliament Chamber in presence of ten of the Commissioners and of the Commons Memorandum quod hodie septimo die Februarii Anno Regni Eliz. Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae sidei defensor c. Octavo in quem diem praesens hoc Parliamentum Prorogatum suer at convenerunt Domini tam spirituales quam temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur viz. Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Nicolaus Bacon Miles Custos magni Sigilli Marchio Winton Thesaurar Dux Norfolc Comes Marescallus Marchio North Comes Sussex Comes Warwick Episcopus London Episcopus Roffen Dominus Clinton Admirallus Dominus Howard Camerarius Dominus Wentworth Dominus de Hunsdon Qui cum convenissent unà cum populi atque Burgen ut vocant satis magnâ frequentiâ praedictus Nicolaus Bacon
as aforesaid being placed at the South Door came in the House of Commons bringing in between Sir Edward Rogers Comptroller of the Queens House and Sir Francis Knolles Vice-Chamberlain M r Richard Onslow Esq the Queens Sollicitor whom they had Chosen for their Speaker and after a Reverence done proceeded after down to the Wall and from thence came up to the Rail in the way doing three Reverences and then began the said Speaker to say as followeth IF it please your Royal Majesty most Vertuous and most Excellent Princess At the humble Suit of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of your nether House of Parliament now Assembled was signified from your Majesty by the mouth of the Lord Keeper by force of your Highness Letters of Commission your pleasure and grant of free Election to the Knights Citizens and Burgesses to chuse a fit and learned man to be their Speaker instead of Thomas Williams Esq their late Speaker whom it hath pleased God to call to his Mercy For which they have Commanded me in their Names to render unto your Majesty most humble thanks And have Commanded and forced me to my great grief to signifie to your Majesty how accordingly they have proceeded to an Election and chosen and assigned me as I may say being most unworthy to speak in this place for this Parliament and for that I would not be obstinate I am forced to wound my self with their Sword which wound yet being green and ☞ new your Majesty being the perfect Physician may Cure in disallowing that which they have allowed for that without your consent it is nothing And although I being very loth to trouble your Highness have made Suit and used all ways and means to avoid it yet could I find no remedy and therefore am driven to seek remedy at your hands for though I have the experience of their uprightness wisdom and knowledge which chose me who if they would have found any fault in me I would lightly have believed them notwithstanding that we are for the most part given to think too much of our selves but in this day that they seem to enable me to this calling whereof I know my self unable I cannot credit them no more than the simple Patient grievously tormented with sickness will believe the Physician nay the whole Colledge of them if they say he hath no grief pain or sickness I therefore do not attempt this releasing of me for any ease of my self but would be glad to serve your Majesty to the uttermost of my Power in the Office of Sollicitorship whereunto I am appointed and not in this being unfit for the same and that for divers Causes For first I consider I have to deal with many well Learned the Flower and Choice of the Realm whose deep understanding my Wit cannot attain to reach unto No if they for great carefulness would often inculcate it into my dull Head to signifie the same unto your Highness yet my Memory is so slippery by Nature and Sickness that I should likely lose it by the way yet if perhaps I kept part thereof I have no other knowledge to help my self withall but a little in the Law far inferiour to divers in this House and so should want Learning and Utterance to declare their meanings as it requireth specially when I consider your Royal Majesty a Princess endowed with so many Vertues Learning and flowing Eloquence it will abash and astonish me and therefore finding these infirmities and other in me I think my self most unworthy of this place I trust therefore only in your Highness that you will disallow this Election and the rather for that by the true intent of your said Letters it may not be gathered that they should elect any of your Majesties Officers for although the words be to have their free Election yet the Law may restrain them in some measure As for Example we find in the Law that if it would please your Majesty to grant Licence to a Dean and Chapter to purchase to them and their Successors a hundred pound yearly which words be generally yet if the purchased Lands be holden in Capite this grant is void And again if you grant the Fines and Amerciaments of all your Tenants to one who after chanceth to be Sheriff of a Shire yet being a Sheriff he cannot have them So this me seemeth if it please your Highness serveth my Case Another Cause is for want of substance to maintain this my Countenance but yet your Majesties goodness in this point stoppeth my Mouth for that I have none other living but in manner by you So for all these considerations and divers others as it shall please your Majesty to consider I humbly desire your Highness to disallow this Election Commanding them to repair again together and to chuse another more fit to serve the same And so he ended and did his Reverence Then the Queen called the Keeper declaring her opinion in Answering him who returning to his place said as followeth M r Onslow The Queens Majesty hath heard and well understood this disabling your self to this Office and doth well perceive your earnest Suit to be discharged of the same and for Answer hath Commanded me to say that she doubteth not but you very well understand that when one is chosen to serve the Common-Wealth it is not in him which is called who hath appointed him thereunto Also there is an old similitude that like as it appertaineth to the head to dispose every inferior member in his place so it pertaineth to the Queens Majesty being the Head to appoint every one in the Common-Wealth This being truth and her Majesty withal remembring your Fidelity and long Experience in Parliament matters and again being chosen by so learned and expert men thinketh therefore your fitness needeth not to be disputed here and therefore they giving unto you such Faith and Credit according to an Antient Custom she cannot but do the like and also you in disabling your self have abled your self and therefore she doth allow and approve this their Election nothing doubting her opinion in your ability to serve this turn and so ended M r Onslow's Answer SEeing that it hath pleased your Majesty to ratify this Election I to the uttermost of my power shall serve your Highness and this Common-Wealth but first my humble suit is that it would please your Majesty to accept my good will and the better to discharge my Duty towards them which have Chosen me that in great matters sent from them I may have access to your Majesty at times convenient as the weight shall require Secondly If by weakness I shall mistake the effect and meaning of the matters committed to me by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses and thereby against my will misreport them that then thereby this Common-Wealth may take no detriment but that I may confer again with them the better to understand their meaning and so with more words to utter the same unto
you And I shall pray as I am bound to God for your long and prosperous Reign over us Then her Majesty called the Lord Keeper and Commanded him to Answer him which he did as followeth M r Speaker The Queens Majesty hath heard your humble Petitions and request made unto her the effect whereof she gathereth to stand in two points first for access to her person and secondly for good interpretation of your meaning and also larger Declaration thereof if need be For the former her Highness as her Noble Progenitors have done is well contented that in convenient time and for convenient Causes in convenient place and without importunity for that these parts now touched have not been afore this time so well handled as she trusteth now it shall be which considered as free access she granteth you as any other hath had For the second point because no man at all times may do so well but sometimes things may be uttered which may be mispoken for which cause in that time also you shall have her intreatable but she thinketh your circumspection to be such as she shall not therein need And so ended Now a word or two to remember you here present of both the Houses first this it is that I would advise you in this your proceeding to prefer the most weighty matters first and not trouble your selves with small matters and of no weight and therein also that all be done to understand the truth and to avoid all superfluous matters and losing or driving away of time Secondly It is profitable that you my Lords and all others that be here consider that long time requireth great expences and therefore wish you to make Expedition the rather to avoid the same And yet not meaning such Expedition that any thing needful to be done should be lightly passed over and not substantially done and seen unto but only I mean that you should settle your selves wholly to mighty matters and those which be necessary and to spare superfluous things and which needeth not And this is the sum I have to say Then the Speaker and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having made their low Reverence towards her Majesty departed to their own House and the Queen after the Lord Keeper had by her Majesties Commandment continued the Parliament unto the Morrow following returned into her Privy-Chamber and there shifted her and then repaired to her Barge and so to the Court Hactenus ex Memoriali praefato On Thursday the third day of October were three Bills read of which the last being the Bill for the better Execution of certain Statutes and for the reformation of certain disorders used in the Law was read primâ vice tunc commissa Archiepiscopo Cantuarien Duci Norfolciae Comiti Mareschall Angliae Comiti Salopiae Comiti Wigorniae Comiti Leicester Episcopo Dunelmen Episcopo Elien Episcopo Carliolen Domino Cobham Domino Grey de Wilton Domino Haistings Domino Primario Justiciario Banci Regis Domino Primario Baroni Scaccarii Scrvienti Carus Nota That this days passages are wholly transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House as are also the greatest part of the days following although the whole proceedings of Wednesday foregoing were inserted out of the before-mentioned Anonymous memorial touching the Speakers presentment and allowance which I had by me Nota also That the former Bill touching the better Execution of certain Statutes c. was not only committed upon the first reading which is not usual till after the second but committed also to the Judges being but Assistants of the Upper House and to the Queens Serjeant being but a meer Attendant upon the same jointly with the Lords the only proper and undoubted Members of that Great Council which is a matter to be observed because of later days neither the said Assistants nor Attendant are ever appointed joint Committees with the Lords as here but only Commanded by the House to attend upon the Committee and there to give such advice as shall be required from them which is no greater respect yielded them at a Committee than in the House it self sitting the Parliament and were they still admitted to be Committees as they usually were in all these first Parliaments of the Queen yet could no inconvenience ensue thereby because at a Committee things are only prepared and made ready for the House in which and no where else they ought to be concluded and expedited And Nota lastly That the Parliament was this day continued to Saturday the 5 th day of October ensuing but whether by the Lord Keeper who as it seems at this time fell sick of the Gout or by the Lord Treasurer who for a while afterwards was appointed by the Queens Commission to continue it according to the usual form and course in such case used doth not appear in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is omitted through the negligence of Francis Spilman Esq now Clerk of the same House On Saturday the 5 th day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the taking away Clergy in certain Cases was read secundâ vice commissa Archiepiscopo Eboracen Duci Norf. Comiti Huntington Comiti Leicester Vice-Comiti Mountague Episcopo London Episcopo Dunelmen Episcopo Lincoln Domino Clinton Domino Morley Domino Wentworth Domino Willoughby Domino North Domino Hunsdon the two Chief Justices and the Chief Baron Nota That the Judges being meer Assistants and no Members of the Upper House were here also made joint Committees with the Lords which hath never been admitted of in later times These two Bills were read the Lord Keeper by reason of his being sick of the Gout abstaining this day and a good while aster from the Upper House and therefore William Lord Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England was Authorized by verbal Commission from the Queen to supply his place and accordingly continued the Parliament unto Monday next being the 7 th day of October the form and manner whereof although the President be very rare and of great use is only entred very briefly in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in these words following Hodie dictus Thesaurarius ex Mandato Dominae Reginae eò quod Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli Podagrae Morbo laboraret continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae proxim horâ consuetâ Nota That here the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England did supply the Lord Keepers place in the Upper House without any Authority given him by Commission under the great Seal which in like Cases is usual and therefore it is most probable that her Majesty did by word of Mouth give him this Commandment or Commission either in private or in the presence of some other Lords of the Upper House which although it
Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox October the 27 th Sunday On Monday the 28. day of October Sir Robert Catlyn Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench supplying the place of the Lord Keeper at this time sick of the Gout as is before-mentioned with divers other Lords Spiritual and Temporal met in the Upper House but nothing appeareth to have been done in the Original Journal of the same House only the continuance of the Parliament unto Wednesday next following On Wednesday the 30. day of October Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of Archbishops and Bishops of this Realm to be good lawful and perfect was read secundâ vice The Lords whose names are here next after written were appointed to have Conference with a setled number of the House of Commons touching Petition to be made to the Queens Highness as well for the Succession as for her Marriage viz. The Archbishop of York The Lord Treasurer The Duke of Norfolk The Marquess of Northampton The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Westmorland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Huntingdon The Earl of Warwick The Earl of Bedford The Earl of Pembroke The Earl of Leicester Viscount Mountague Viscount Bindon The Bishop of London The Bishop of Durham The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Worcester The Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield The Lord Admiral The Lord Chamberlain The Lord Morley The Lord Cobham The Lord Grey The Lord Wentworth The Lord Windsor The Lord Rich. The Lord Sheffeild The Lord Paget The Lord North. The Lord Haistings of Loughborough The Lord Hunsdon It should seem that the Lords had intended at first to have appointed but thirty of themselves to have joined with the House of Commons about the foresaid Treaty or Conference to be had between them touching the said great matters of Succession and Marriage however it fell out afterwards as appeareth by the names above set down that they appointed more for it appeareth plainly by the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although there be no mention at all of it in that of the Upper House that the Lords did this day send down word unto the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Carus and M r Attorney that they had Chosen thirty of themselves to consult and confer with a Select Committee of the said House touching the foresaid great business touching which see more on Tuesday the 5 th day of November following Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox On Thursday the 31 th day of October the Bill for declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of the Archbishops and Bishops of this Realm to be good lawful and perfect Commissa est to the Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Justice Southcote and Attorney General The Bill for annexing of Hexamshire to the County of Northumberland was read secundâ vice The House of Commons appointed Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold Sir Francis Knolles her Majesties Vice-Chamberlian Sir William Cecill her Highness Chief Secretary Sir Ambrose Cave Knight Chancellor of her Dutchy of Lancaster Sir William Peeter Sir Ralph Sadler Sir Walter Mildmay Knights all of her Highness Privy-Council and divers other Members of the House of Commons to have Conference with the Lords aforenamed whose names see on yesterday foregoing touching those two great matters of the Succession and Marriage to be dealt in by Petition to her Majesty As see more at large upon to Morrow ensuing in the Afternoon Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Martis 5 die Novembris prox On Tuesday the 5 th day of November the Bill for the annexing of Hexamshire unto the County of Northumberland and the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the same unto the See of the Bishoprick of Durham was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa The Nobles under-named were appointed to wait on the Queens Highness this Afternoon with thirty of the House of Commons by her Highness special Commandment The Archbishop of York The Lord Treasurer The Duke of Norsolk The Marquess of Northampton The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Westmerland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Huntingdon The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Warwick The Earl of Bedford The Earl of Pembroke The Earl of Leicester Viscount Mountague Viscount Bindon The Bishop of London The Bishop of Duresm The Lord Clinton Lord Admiral The Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain The Lord Morley The Lord Lumley The Lord Rich. The Lord Sheffeild The Lord Paget The Lord North. The Lord Haistings of Loughborough and The Lord Hunsdon Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliament usque in diem Crastinum hora consueta But there is no mention at all in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to what end or purpose the Lords above-mentioned with those thirty Members of the House of Commons repaired to her Majesty which doubtless fell out by the great negligence in a matter of so great weight of Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Upper House and therefore I have thought fitting and necessary to supply it at large partly out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and partly out of other several Manuscript Memorials I had by me all which in their proper place I have particularly vouched It is therefore in the first place to be noted as fit matter of preparation to that which follows that these two great matters touching her Majesties Marriage and the Declaration of a certain Successor were agitated in the House of Commons in the first Session of this present Parliament in An. 5 Regin Eliz. and thereupon the greatest part of the said House with Thomas Williams their Speaker did prefer a Petition to her Majesty upon Thursday the 28 th day of January in the said fifth Year of her Majesties Reign by her Allowance in which having humbly supplicated her Majesty to Marry or in default of Issue of her own Body to declare a certain Successor they received a gracious Answer But now the same Parliament reassembling again to this second Session thereof in the eighth year of the Reign of the Queen and finding nothing to have been acted by her Majesty in either kind but that she remained still a Virgin without all likelyhood of Marriage and that the Succession of the Crown depended upon great uncertainties some holding the Queen of Scots to have best Right others the Countess of Lenox being the Daughter of Margaret of England by Archibald Douglass Earl of Anguisse her Second Husband and others also argued very strongly for Catherine Countess of Hartford being the Daughter and Coheir of Henry
Patents were each of them read secundâ vice The Bill lastly touching Cloth-Workers and Cloths ready wrought to be Shipped over the Seas was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa In the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House is no entrance or mention made of the continuance of the Parliament But it appeareth that the House did sit in the Afternoon for without entrance of the presence of any Lord in particular it appeareth that in the Afternoon two Bills were read viz. The Bill for the Almeshouse at Plymouth And the Bill for the Provision of Grain were each of them read primâ vice On Monday the 23 th day of December the Bill for the Confirmation of Fines and Recoveries notwithstanding the default of the Original Writs was read primâ vice cum additione provisione annex cum quâdam reformatione eidem annex Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one being the Bill for Sea-Marks and Mariners And another against carrying over the Sea Rams Lambs or Sheep being alive were read each of them primâ vice The Bill lastly concerning Tonnage of Wares brought from beyond the Seas was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam in Pomeridiano About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal meeting the Bill concerning Sea-Marks and Mariners And the Bill against the carrying over the Sea Rams Lambs or Sheep alive were each of them read secundâ tertiâ vice and thereupon concluded Two Bills also were sent from the Lords to the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill of her Majesties Free and General Pardon The Bill for making of Salt within her Majesties Dominions and the Bill for keeping a Market in the Mannor of Battell in Sussex upon Thursday were each of them read primâ secundâ vice Two Bills lastly had each of them their first reading of which the second was the Bill for the Inning of Plumstead-Marsh On Tuesday the 24 th day of December the Bill touching the transporting of Tann'd Leather made of Sheep-Skins and the Bill for Inning of Plumstead-Marsh being surrounded were each of them read secundâ tertiâ vice and thereupon concluded Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for keeping the Market in the Mannor of Battell in Sussex upon Thursday was read tertiâ vice conclusa The Bill finally for continuance of certain Statutes was read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice Quod nota that it had three readings together Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad diem Lunae tricesimum diem Decembris On Monday the 30 th day of December the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal met but nothing was done save only the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper unto Thursday the 2 d day of January following upon which day in the Afternoon the Parliament was Dissolved On Thursday the 2 d day of January the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal were present although through the negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House it doth not certainly appear who they were in the Original Journal-Book of the same House but no Bill as it seemeth was read or any thing else done but only the Parliament continued by the Lord Keeper which is there Entred in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam primam in Pomeridiano Nota That it appears in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons that after the Parliament had been continued as aforesaid Doctor Huick was sent down to the said House from the Lord Keeper to give them notice thereof Nota also That in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House there is no mention made of any thing that was done or of any Speech used nor touching the Dissolution of this present Session of Parliament but only that her Majesty was there present with divers Lords both Spiritual and Temporal and therefore I have supplyed the whole Proceedings of this Afternoon at large out of a very Copious and Elaborate Anonymous Memorial thereof I had by me which also I have in some places supplyed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although it be so little and short as it may rather be called matter of Confirmation than Enlargement in which also it shall lastly suffice to touch briefly that I have always observed contrary to the ordinary course to insert all such Speeches and other passages as largely as by any good Authority I might into the Journal of the Upper House in which House they were agitated and uttered and to the Journal of which House they do most properly belong and do only for Order sake add some short expressions thereof in the Journals of the House of Commons The said Passages of this Afternoon do now next ensue out of the above-mentioned Manuscript Memorial The Queens Majesty between two or three of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present Thursday being the second day of January in the ninth year of her Reign came by Water from Whitehall and Landed on the backside of the Parliament-Chamber And so the Earl of Westmorland bearing the Sword afore her the Lady Strange the Train with the Lords in their daily Apparel and Heralds attending on her she proceeded up into the Privy-Chamber to prepare her self in her Parliament-Robes during which time the Lords and Justices put on their Parliament-Robes and took their places And upon the upper Woollsack sate the Lord Keeper till the Queen came and then went to his place at the Rail on the right hand of the Cloth of State On the Woollsack on the Northside sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer the two Chief Justices and Richard Read under and M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney On the Sack on the Southside sate Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Justice Brown Justice Welsh and Serjeant Carus On the Westside sate Vaughan and Talc Masters of the Chancery M r Spilman Clerk of the Parliament M r Powle Deputy and Joint-Patentec with M r Martin Clerk of the Crown afore which Sack stood a little Table Then the Queens Majesty being Apparelled in her Parliament-Robes with a Caul on her Head came forth and proceeded up and took her Seat the Marquess of Northampton carrying the Cap of Maintenance and stood on her right hand and the Earl of Westmorland the Sword at her left hand with the Heralds and Serjeants at Arms before her the Queens Mantle born up on either side from her Arms by the Earl of Leicester and the Lord of Hunsdon who always stood still by her for the assisting thereof when she
Bill touching Cutters of Tann'd Leather was read the second time but no mention is made either of committing or ingrossing of it The Bill for several Sherifss to be in several Counties And the Bill to avoid excess in Apparel in divers degrees were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain Robert Ireland Burgess for the Borough of Salop Edward Leighton Esq one of the Knights for the County of Salop were each of them Licensed by the House for their special Affairs to be absent until ..... and so this matter without expressing the certain time breaks off abruptly in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons through the great negligence of M r Seymour Clerk of the said House although it may very probably be conjectured that this Licence was not granted unto them absolutely but upon condition to return again and attend the service of the House at some certain day prefixed Vide consimile December 7 th postea Upon divers Arguments made that Edward Jones might be sent to the Tower for so using Grey in attaching his Goods tending to the breach of the Priviledge of this House the matter was eftsoons committed to M r Wroth and others as well to provide Surety of Jones against the said Grey until Saturday next and then further to report as also touching an Informer sent to Ward by M r Grafton and removed by Habeas Corpus into the Kings-Bench Vide on Tuesday the 3 d day of December following November the 17 th Sunday On Monday the 18 th day of November William Epse Burgess for Rumney was Licensed to be absent for eight days Vide consimile in die praecedente Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for making of Allom and Copperas by the Lord Mountjoy And the fourth being the Bill to repeal the Act made for prices were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Tuesday the 19 th day of November Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Alneagers Fees of Lancaster and the length breadth and weight of Cottons Frizes and Rugs was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 20 th day of November Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for places for the keeping of Records in the twelve Shires of Wales was read the first time The Bill for Wollnersh in the County of Surrey was brought from the Lords by M r Attorney Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Jointure of the Lady Frances Cobham in Cooling was read the second time On Thursday the 21 th day of November Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to repeal a Branch in the Act for Watermen upon the Thames And the second touching the Act made for sale of stuff for Apparel not paid for were each of them read the first time On Friday the 22 th day of November Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the Felt-makers and Hat-makers was upon the second reading rejected and the fourth and sixth being for wearing of Caps upon the Sabbath or Holy-Days and also that Tryals of Felonies done in Wales shall be at the great Sessions there were each of them read the second time and as it should seem committed to M r Crofts and others Richard Wheatley Clerk Attendant upon Sir Henry Cromwell Knight one of the Knights for the County of Huntingdon being Attached by several Bills of Middlesex in several Pleas of Trespass at the Suit of William Marlyn and Michaell Welch required the Priviledge of the House On Saturday the 23 th day of November A Proviso added to the Bill for Bishops in lieu of the Lords Proviso was read the first time The Bill touching Latitats was brought from the Lords by M r Serjeant Carus and M r Read M r Thomas Wroth declared John Grey and Edward Jones by Mediation to be agreed and that attachment to be void upon condition that M r Grey should openly in the House promise that he nor any by him should hurt the said Jones when he should come next to the House being now sick of the small Pox and the Recognizance taken not to be certified Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 3 d day of December following On Monday the 25 th day of November Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Jointure of the Lady Cobham was read the second time The Proviso to the Bill for Bishops in lieu of the Lords Proviso was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed M r Speaker coming from the Queens Majesty declared her Highness Pleasure to be that for her good will to the House she did revoke her two former Commandments requiring the House no further to proceed at this time in the matter Which Revocation was taken of all the House most joyfully with most hearty Prayer and thanks for the same HER Majesty having found by Experience that the desire of the House of Commons in that great business touching the Declaration of a Successor in Case she should die without Issue was like other Passions more easily calmed and quieted by following than resisting did now at length remit unto them as appeareth by this Message brought by the Speaker that freedom of Speech and liberty of discussion which they had formerly made use of without any such allowance and by that means did sooner satisfie their discontent and procure their silence than by any former secret diversions or open inhibitions And though that business only touching the Declaration of a Successor be mentioned here yet both in the first Session of this Parliament in an 5 Regin Eliz. and in the greatest part of this present Session de an 8 9 Reginae ejusdem it was joined with the other great matter of her Majesties Marriage For the House of Commons having in the said fifth Year of her Majestie Petitioned her in their own name only on Thursday the 28 th day of January in the Afternoon both to incline her Royal Person to Marriage and to make Declaration of her next and rightful Successor in default of her own Issue they received from her a Gracious Answer but finding now in this second Session of that Parliament begun and continued above three Years after that there followed no Issue or effect thereupon in respect that her Majesty remained still as far from any likelihood of Marriage as then and that the State of the Kingdom in Case she should die grew every day more dangerous than other in respect of the several pretended Rights to the Crown which now began openly to be disputed and maintained according to the several inclinations and opinions of men Therefore
comfortable words and commanded the Parliament to be dissolved Nota That this business had many and long Agitations in the House of Commons who were especially violent in that latter branch of it touching the Declaration of a Successor as see more at large on Monday the 25 th day of November foregoing and lastly I have thought good to give a short touch that all the foregoing passages of this Afternoon touching her Majesties Presence Royal Assent Speech and Dissolving the Parliament were thus Orderly set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and have here received little Alterations THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS The Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster An. 13 Reg. Eliz. A. D. 1571 which began there on Monday the 2 d day of April and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Tuesday the 29 th day of May ensuing THIS Journal of the Upper House continuing about the space of two Months was very carelesly entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House by the Clerk thereof who as it seems was Anthony Mason Esq succeeding about this time in the said Office of Clerk of the Upper House unto Francis Spilman Esq who had formerly supplied that place But yet by means of a Copious Journal I had by me of the Passages of the House of Commons in this Parliament taken by some Anonymous Member thereof and also of some Copies I had of the Speeches of Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper at the beginning and conclusion of this said Parliament this ensuing Journal is much enlarged And therefore to avoid confusion whatsoever is here inserted out of the said private Journal is particularly distinguished from that which is taken out of the above-mentioned Journal-Book of the Upper House by some Animadversions or Expression thereof both before and after the inserting of it Neither doth the Original Journal-Book it self of the Upper House want some matter of variety besides the ordinary Reading Committing and passing of Bills in respect that Sir Robert Catlyn Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was appointed by her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal to supply the Lord Keepers place upon occasion of his sickness during some part of this said Parliament in the first entry whereof is set down out of the foresaid Anonymous Journal of the House of Commons her Majesties coming to the Upper House with the Order and manner of it the substance also of which is found though somewhat more briefly set down in the Original Journal-Book of the same House On Monday the second day of April the Parliament beginning according to the Writs of Summons sent forth her Majesty about eleven of the Clock came towards Westminster in the antient accustomed most honourable Passage having first riding before her the Gentlemen Sworn to attend her Person the Batchellors Knights after them the Knights of the Bath then the Barons of the Exchequer and Judges of either Bench with the Master of the Rolls her Majesties Attorney General and Sollicitor General whom followed in Order the Bishops and after them the Earls then the Archbishop of Canterbury The Hat of Maintenance was Carried by the Marquess of Northampton and the Sword by the Earl of Sussex The place of the Lord Steward for that day was supplied by the Lord Clinton Lord Admiral of England the Lord Great Chamberlain was the Earl of Oxenford And the Earl Marshal by Deputation from the Duke of Norfolk was the Earl of Worcester Her Majesty sate in her Coach in her Imperial Robes and a Wreath or Coronet of Gold set with rich Pearl and Stones over her Head her Coach drawn by two Palfries covered with Crimson Velvet drawn out imbossed and imbroidered very richly Next after her Chariot followed the Earl of Leicester in respect of his Office of the Master of the Horse leading her Majesties spare Horse And then forty seven Ladies and Women of Honour The Guard in their rich Coats going on every side of them The Trumpeters before the first sounding and the Heralds riding and keeping their rooms and places Orderly In Westminster Church the Bishop of Lincoln Preached before her Majesty whose Sermon-being done her Majesty came from the Church the Lords all on foot in order as afore and over her Head a rich Canopy was carried all the way She being entred into the Upper House of Parliament and there sate in Princely and seemly sort under a high and rich Cloth of Estate her Robe was supported by the Earl of Oxenford the Earl of Sussex kneeling holding the Sword on the left hand and the Earl of Huntingdon holding the Hat of Estate and the Lords all in their Rooms on each side of the Chamber that is to say the Lords Spiritual on the right hand and the Lords Temporal on the left Nota That whereas the presence of these Lords ought here according to the usual course to have been inserted out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House it must of necessity be omitted in respect that through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time as it should seem Clerk of the said House there are none of the said Lords noted to have been present yet it may be probably guessed who they were by those who attended on Wednesday of this instant April ensuing Quod vide The Judges and her Learned Councel being at the Woollsacks in the midst of the Chamber and at her Highness Feet at each side of her kneeling one of the Grooms or Gentlemen of the Chamber their Faces towards her the Knights Citizens and Burgesses all standing below the Bar her Majesty then stood up in her Regal Seat and with a Princely Grace and singular good Countenance after a long stay spake a few words to this effect or thus Mr right Loving Lords and you our right faithful and Obedient Subjects we in the name of God for his Service and for the safety of this State are now here Assembled to his Glory I hope and pray that it may be to your Comfort and the common quiet of our yours and all ours for ever And then looking on the right side of her towards Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England standing a little beside the Cloth of Estate and somewhat back and lower from the same she willed him to shew the cause of the Parliament who thereupon spake as followeth THE Queens most Excellent Majesty our most Dread and Gracious Soveraign hath Commanded me to declare unto you the Causes of your Calling and Assembly at this time which I mean to do as briefly as I can led thereunto as one very loth to be tedious to her Majesty and also because to wise men and well-disposed as I judge you be a few words do suffice The Causes be chiefly two The one to establish or dissolve Laws as best shall serve for the Governance of the Realm
allowed and approved by the wisdom of a whole House There may also lastly a third reason be assigned in some extraordinary Cases as this where Bills of Grace viz. for the Restitution in Blood of any and such like were sent to the House from her Majesty fairly ingrossed in Parchment and Signed with her Hand which for the most part do pass the House without any stop or question On Thursday the 17 th day of May to which day the Parliament had been last continued by the Lord Keeper on the day foregoing Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first touching Morrice Rodney Esq the second for the Town of Lestwithiell in the County of Cornwall and the last to discharge Sheriffs of the Dyets of the Justices of Assize were each of them read the second time but no mention was made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees of which see the reason at large discussed on the day foregoing fitly suiting to this present occasion Three Bills also of the aforesaid six had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Henry Brercton Esquire and the second to License the Earl of Leicester to found an Hospital Seven Bills of no great moment were brought from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill whereby certain offences are made Treason was returned conclusa with requests that it might be fair written again which the Lords performed accordingly on Tuesday the 21 th day of this instant May ensuing Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion was read tertiâ vice conclusa dissentientibus Comitibus Wigorn. Southampton Dominis Windsor Vaux Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal meeting six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy was read the second time and referred to the Committees of which two were Viscount Hereford and Viscount Mountague The Bill also for the Town of Bristol was read the second time but there is no mention made that it was referred to Committees or ordered to be ingrossed because it had been sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons on Tuesday the first day of this instant May foregoing of which see a like President on Wednesday the 16 th day of the same Month immediately preceeding Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati hora nona On Saturday the 19 th day of May Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for avoiding of delays upon Vouchers in real actions was read primâ vice and was thereupon committed to the Lord Dier Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas and other the Justices to consider thereof and the fifth being the Bill touching the Town of Southampton was read tertiâ vice conclusa with certain Corrections and Amendments thereunto added by the Lords Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the preservation of Timber and Wood was read primâ vice The Bill for Southampton the Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy and Fugitives over the Seas were delivered to Doctor Lewis and Doctor Yale to be carried to the House of Commons Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords meeting Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill to restrain the oppression of common Promoters and the last for the avoiding of Perjury in Clerks Convict were each of them read secundâ vice but no mention is made that they were ordered to be ingrossed or referred to the Committees because they had been formerly sent unto the Lords from the House of Commons on Saturday the 12 th day and on Tuesday the 15 th day of this instant May foregoing of which see a like President on Wednesday the 16 th day of the said Month of May preceeding Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox horâ nonâ May the 20 th Sunday On Monday the 21 th day of May Eight Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against Vagabonds and for relief of the Poor was read secundâ vice but no mention is made that it was either ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent up unto the Lords from the House of Commons on Saturday the 19 th day of this instant Month of May preceeding although it be there omitted The second of the said eight Bills being for the preservation of Wood was read the second time and committed unto divers Lords and unto the Queens Sollicitor The Bill for Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy was returned by the Lords from the House of Commons conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal meeting Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Commutation of Penance in Clerks Convict was read secundâ vice commissa unto the Earl of Hereford Viscount Hereford the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Worcester Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem proximum horâ Octavâ On Tuesday the 22 th day of May the Bill to make the Lands and Tenements of Tellors c. liable to the payment of their Debts was read tertiâ vice conclusa missa in Domum Communem by Doctor Lewis and Doctor Yale together with the Bill of Treasons newly written out and examined by six of the Lords according to the request of the House of Commons on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant May foregoing viz. the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Salisbury and the Bishop of S t Davids Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to restrain the oppression of common Promoters was read tertiâ vice conclusa with certain Amendments added thereunto Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill to make the River of Welland Navigable the second
the See of Rome was read the second and third time and passed upon the Question with a note containing some Additions and Alterations referring to the Lines Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Sollicitor did bring from the Lords the former Bill of Treasons with a new Proviso and certain other Alterations contained in a Paper affiled to the same Bill The new Bill against Licences and Dispensations granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury was read the third time and passed upon the Question Two Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Fines and Recoveries with three Provisoes passed upon the Question On Thursday the 10 th day of May the Bill against Collusions and delays in Vouchers was read the first time The Bill touching the Commutation of Penance by the Ecclesiastical Judge being the last Bill of those seven preferred this Parliament touching the reformation of matters of Religion and therefore called in the Original Journal Book of the House of Commons the Bill G was read the first time Touching which Bill see a more full Animadversion or Declaration on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant May following The Bill for the River of Welland was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Bill for preservation of Woods was read the first time and committed unto Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir George Bowes Sir Thomas Scot Mr. Humberson Mr. Moore Mr. Gayer Mr. Wightman Mr. Sampoole Mr. Winchcomb Mr. Robert Snagg Mr. Roper Mr. Cowper and Mr. Fenner who were appointed to meet at the Temple Church at two of the Clock this Afternoon Vide May 14. postea Nine Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Treasurer and others of which one was the Bill for Fines and Recoveries and another for the River of Welland The Provisoes to the Bill against Vagabonds were twice read and committed to Mr. Atkins and others Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Lestwithiell was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Forasmuch as Thomas Long Gent. returned one of the Burgesses for the Borough of Westbury in the County of Wilts for this present Parliament being a very simple man and of small capacity to serve in that place did this day in open Court confess that he did give to Anthony Garland Mayor of the said Town of Westbury and unto one ..... Wats of the same Town the sum of four pound for that place and room of Burgesship It was Ordered by this House that the said Anthony Garland and the said Wats shall forthwith repay unto the said Thomas Long the same sum of four pound and also that a fine of twenty pound be assessed upon the said Corporation or Inhabitants of the said Town of Westbury for the Queens Majesties use for their said lewd and slanderous attempt And that the said Thomas Long his Executors and Administrators shall be discharged against the said Anthony Garland and ..... Wats their Heirs Executors and Administrators of and from all Bonds made by the said Thomas Long to any person or persons touching the discharge of the exercise of the said room or place of Burgesship in any wise Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Vaughan pray from the Lords that some Members of this House may be presently sent to confer with their Lordships touching the Bill of Attainders and the Bill against Bulls c. Whereupon were sent unto them Mr. Heneage Sir Thomas Smith Sir John Thynne Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Christopher Haydon Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Sampoole Mr. Popham and Mr. Alford On Friday the 11 th day of May it was Ordered that a Pursuivant be sent with Letters from this House unto Anthony Garland Mayor of the Town of Westbury in the County of Wilts and ..... Wats of the same Town for their personal appearance forthwith to be made in this House and also to bring with them all such Bonds as Thomas Long Gentleman lately returned one of the Burgesses for the same Town standeth bound in unto them or either of them or unto any other to their use And also to Answer unto such matters as at their coming shall be objected against them by this House The Bill against Exactions of Collectors of the Tenths of the Clergy was read the first time The Bill against Perjury in Clarks Convict and the Bill for the continuance of the severance of Sheriffs in sundry Shires were each of them twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for severance of the Sheriffs in the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed All the Privy-Council being Members of this House Sir Henry Morrice Sir Thomas Scot Sir John Thynne Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. Attorney of the Wards Mr. Serjeant Manwood Mr. Stokes Mr. Bell Mr. Mounson Mr. Thomas Snagg Mr. Telverton Mr. Norton Mr. Dalton and Mr. Rugby were appointed to consider amongst themselves this Afternoon at the Star-Chamber touching the Bill of Treasons and then afterwards with the Lords upon further appointment Vide plus de ista materia on Thursday the 12 th day of April foregoing Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Morrice Rodney Esq was read the first time and passed upon the Question Post Meridiem In the Afternoon ten Bills had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for the maintenance of the Havens of Plymouth and Dartmouth c. and the fifth against the Usurpation of Tinners in the County of Devon were each of them read the first time and thereupon committed to Sir John St. Leger and others Nota That these two Bills were committed upon the first reading which is not usual until the second Vide May 14. On Saturday the 12 th day of May the Bill for the Haberdashers was read the second time and rejected upon the Question The Bill for residence of Pastors being the third Bill of those seven preferred this Parliament touching the Reformation of matters of Religion and therefore called in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons the Bill C was read the first time Touching all which said Bills and matters of Religion see on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant May following The Bill for maintenance of Navigation was read the third time and passed the House Seven Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill against Usury and another touching Morrice Rodney Esq The Bill of Jeofails was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Serjeant Manwood Mr. Thomas Snagg Mr. Sampoole and Mr. Cromwell The Bill against Exactions of Collectors of the Tenths of the Clergy was read the second time and Ordered to
great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against great Hosen was read the second time and committed On Friday the 18 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Free Grammar-School in Southwark was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill against great Hosen was read the third time and upon the division of the House with the advantage of one man it was Ordered that the Clause for disabling the wearer to prosecute or commence any Suit shall be allowed to be in the Bill in manner and form as in the Bill is contained The Bill for the preservation of Woods c. was read the third time and upon the division of the House passed Post Meridiem This day in the Afternoon eleven Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was the Bill for the Free-School of Bletchingly and the second for John Tirrell On Saturday the 19 th day of May the Bill against the bringing into this Realm of Foreign Wares forbidden was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the twelve Shires of Wales was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed which is usual upon the second reading M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Yale did bring from the Lords seven Bills whereof one was to License the Earl of Leicester to found an Hospital another for the Restitution in Blood of Henry Brereton Esq another against fraudulent gifts to defeat Dilapidations another against corrupt Presentations to Benefices another against Simony another for the River of Welland and another for the coming to Church and receiving the Communion All which Bills are particularly transcribed in respect that the sending down of them to the House of Commons is wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House The Bill for preservation of Wood and the Bill against Vagabonds were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Yale brought from the Lords three Bills one against Fugitives another for Southampton and another for Confirmation of a Subsidy of the Clergy All the Privy-Council being of this House my Lord President Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Owen Hopton Mr. Stokes Mr. Mounson Mr. Bell Mr. Yelverton Sir Francis Hastings Sir Henry Knolles Sen. Mr. Edward Hastings Mr. Strickland Mr. Carleton Mr. More Mr. Norton and Mr. Dalton were appointed to confer with the Lords touching the Lords Bill for coming to Church and receiving of the Communion May the 20 th Sunday On Monday the 21 th day of May the Bill for Confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy was read three times The Bill also for reviving and continuance of certain Statutes was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees as was only this day a Bill against Bankrupts It was this day Ordered that the Court do from henceforth every day during this Sessions sit in the Afternoon and proceed as well to the second reading of Bills as to the first The Proviso to the Bill for reviving and continuance of Statutes and the Proviso to the Bill against buying of the Wares for Apparel without ready money were each of them twice read The Bill for the twelve Shires of Wales was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for limitation of the Subsidy of the Clergy was sent to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others The Bill against Bankrupts was read the second time Nota That this Bill having formerly passed the Upper House was sent down from them to the House of Commons on Wednesday the 16 th day of this instant May foregoing And therefore now upon the second reading is neither Ordered to be ingrossed nor referred to the Committees for it being sent down fairly ingrossed in Parchment from the said House after it is passed unless the Bill be wholly dashed or much altered it shall need no other ingrossing And for referring a Bill to Committees it is chiefly for amendment or alteration thereof after it hath been penned and put into the House by some one or more private men But when a Bill hath once passed the Upper House in which besides the Lords the greater part of the Judges of the Realm are commonly Assistants there shall need no consideration thereof either for Addition or mutation for either House doth ever for the most part shew it self so careful to keep firm correspondency with the other as that when a Bill hath passed either of the said Houses and is sent to the other it doth for the most part pass and is neither dashed nor altered without very great cause upon mature deliberation and usually also not without Conference desired and had thereupon that so full satisfaction may be given to that House from which the Bill so rejected or altered was sent Of which the Presidents are so frequent in every Journal of her Majesties Reign as there shall need no further reference or Citation Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords three Bills one for Pastors to be of sound Religion another that no Hoyes or Plate shall cross the Seas and another that no Purveyor shall take any Victuals within five Miles compass of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Mr. Treasurer Sir Christopher Heydon Sir Henry Gate Sir Valentine Brown Mr. Hawkins Mr. Grice Mr. Holstock Mr. Langley Mr. Humberston Mr. Holliard Mr. Sampoole Mr. Boynton Mr. Palmer Mr. Grimston Mr. Hassett and Mr. Vaughan were appointed to confer this Afternoon with the Lords touching the Bill for increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy Three Bills of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was the Bill for the Free Grammar-School of Southwark The Bill that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas was read the first time Post Meridiem In the Afternoon five Bills of no great moment had each of them their second reading and were Ordered to be ingrossed of which the first was the Bill for the removing of the Grammar-School from Laughton to Gainsborough The Bill to License the Earl of Leicester to found an Hospital and the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Henry Brereton Esq were each of them read twice being the first and second time The Bill against fraudulent gifts to defeat Dilapidations was read the first time The Bill lastly for the Restitution in Blood of the Children of Sir Thomas Wyat Knight and the Bill for the severance of the Counties of Huntington and Cambridge were each of them read the second time But neither Ordered to be ingrossed nor referred to Committees
because they had been sent from the Lords On Tuesday the 22 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for John Tirrell Esq was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Yale brought from the Lords two Bills one against the untrue Demeanours of Tellors Receivors Treasurers and Collectors and another for Treasons newly written and truly examined by the former Book thereof lately passed this House to the end the same may likewise be Examined by this House and so then pass accordingly M r Doctor Vaughan and M r Doctor Yale did pray from the Lords that this House would send unto them such Bills as are already passed this House for that their Lordships do tarry for them and thereupon five Bills were sent unto them by M r Chancellor of the Dutchy and others of which one was the Bill for the River of Welland The Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion was Ordered upon the Question to be general as to the body thereof Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill against taking of any Grain or Victual within five Miles compass of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge was read the first time M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Haick brought from the Lords a Bill against the Oppression of common Promoters Four Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against fraudulent gifts and Conveyances for defeating of Dilapidations and the third for Sewers were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been sent from the Lords On Wednesday the 23 th day of May Five Bills of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was the Bill for the paving of the street without Aldgate The Bill that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas was read the second time but neither ingrossed nor committed because it had been sent from the Lords Two Bills also had each of them their third reading of which the second was the Bill for the removing of the Grammar-School from Laughton to Gainsborough All these Bills which passed this Day were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others M r Attorney General and M r Richard Read did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships prayed Conference with some of this House touching the Bill for preservation of Timber and Woods the Bill against Vagabonds and the Bill for continuance of Statutes Whereupon were sent unto them the former Committees in the Bill for coming to the Church and receiving the Communion whose names see on Saturday the 21 th day of April foregoing Three Bills lastly had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the second was the Bill for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Sir Thomas Wyat Knight Post Meridiem In the Afternoon six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Jointure of the Lady Berkley and the fifth against taking of any Grain or Victual within five Miles compass of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge were each of them read the second time but neither Ordered to be ingrossed nor referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords On Thursday the 24 th day of May the Bill against the untrue Demeanors of Tellors Receivors Treasurers and Collectors was read the second time but neither Ordered to be ingrossed nor referred to Committees Vide consimile May the 22 th Tuesday foregoing The Bill for Sewers was read the third time and a Proviso added to the said Bill was thrice read whereupon the Bill passed the House The Bill also against Bankrupts and the Bill that no Hoyes nor Plate shall cross the Seas were each of them read the third time and passed the House All the Bills which last passed the House were sent to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others The Bill for the reviving and continuance of Statutes was read the third time M r Serjeam Barham and M r Doctor Huick did bring from the Lords a Bill for bringing the River of Lee to the North-side of the City of London M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Yale did bring word that the Lords pray present Conference with three or four of this House touching the amendments of the Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion and thereupon were sent M r Treasurer and others The Bill for not paying for Wares sold for Apparel without ready money was upon the Question Ordered to be rejected and not to be revived or any longer continued The Bill for carrying out of Leather beyond the Seas was likewise upon the Question Ordered to be rejected or discontinued Post Meridiem In the Afternoon two Bills of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Henry Brereton Esq The Bill for maintenance of Tillage was upon the Question Ordered to be revived and continued in such sort as in the Bill for the reviving and continuance of Statutes is contained The Proviso to the Bill against Regrators Forestallers and Ingrossers mentioned in the said Bill of Reviver was read the third time and passed the House An Addition to the old former Statute for preservation of Woods was read the second time Mr. Doctor Yale and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords two Bills the one for coming to Church and receiving the Communion and the other for the severance of the Sheriffs in the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham with some amendments and did also require that six of this House may presently confer with the Lords touching the Bill against Bankrupts The Bill for reviving and continuance of certain Statutes was passed upon the Question with some Additions and some Substractions On Friday the 25 th day of May Mr. Treasurer Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Scott Sir Henry Morrice Mr. Serjeant Manwood Mr. Mounson Mr. Norton Mr. Alford Mr. Cromwell Mr. Thomas Snagg Mr. Bedle Mr. Nicholas S t Leger and Mr. Sands were appointed to have Conference with the Lords touching the Bill against Fugitives The Bill against taking of any Grain or Victuals within five Miles of the City of London was read the third time and passed the House Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords three Bills one for the Incorporation of both the Universities another for the Incorporation of Weymouth and Melcomb Regis in the County of Dorset and another for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy with recommendations from the Lords of the Bill against taking of any Grain or Victual within five Miles
without a Head thus do therefore it resteth that you according to your antient Order of your selves chuse some wise and discreet man who after he hath been by you chosen and presented and that presentation by the Queens Majesty allowed shall then be your Speaker and Day is given c. This Speech being thus transcribed out of the Copy I had of it as is aforesaid now follow the names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House which the Clerk of the same readeth in French as soon as the Lord Keepers Speech is ended and which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Sir William Cordell Knight Master of the Rolls Sir John Widdon Knight one of the Justices of the ----- Sir Richard Read K t one of the Justices of the ----- and D r Huick and they that will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six dayes next ensuing Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir James Dyer Knight Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Sanders Knight Lord Chief Baron Richard Weston one of the Justices of the ----- John Southcott one of the Justices of the ----- Doctor Lewis Doctor Yale and Doctor Vaughan and they that will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Oxford the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Ely the Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain of the Queens House the Lord Windsor and the Lord North. All these or four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Islands beyond the Seas The Archbishop of York the Earl of Lincoln Lord Admiral of England the Earl of Leicester the Earl of Essex the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Burleigh Principal Secretary the Lord Wentworth the Lord Buckhurst All they or four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants Attorney and Sollicitor when need shall require shall hold their place in the Treasurer's Chamber Hodiè retornatum est breve Dom. Reginae quo Henricus Compton de Compton Chevalier praesenti Parliamento interesse summonitus est qui praesens admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo cuique jure suo And two other Writs were returned in like manner by which Henry Cheyney of Toddington and Henry Lord Norris of Ricott were Summoned to be present this Parliament who were accordingly admitted to their due places saving to all others their right Nota That there is no entrance in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of any Continuance or Adjournment of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the said House There were also divers Proxies returned on this present Thursday being the 8 th day of May but whether before or after the Continuance of the Parliament appeareth not in which two Spiritual Lords Constituted each of them two Proctors apiece according to the usual and frequent manner and are therefore omitted but four other Bishops nominating either three Proctors apiece or but one which is somewhat extraordinary therefore they are here inserted Die 8 o Maij introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Hugonis Episcopi Landaven in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Nicolaum Wigorn. Richardum Meneven Nicolaum Bangoren Episcopos Eodem die introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Jacobi Dunelmensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Edmundum Archiepiscopum Ebor. Eodem die introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Johannis Herefordensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Matthaeum Cantuariensem Archiepiscopum Edwin London Nicolaum Wigorn. Episcopos Eodem die introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Thomae Assavensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Robertum Wintonien Nicolaum Wigorn. ac Nicolaum Bangoren Episcopos Now although it be most usual for the Spiritual Lords to name two Proctors yet here four of six varied from it three of them exceeding that number and the other nominating but one It is likewise as usual for the Temporal Lords to Constitute but one Proctor and it is an Action worthy observation where they nominate more for in this very Parliament of fifteen Temporal Lords that sent Proxies but one nominated two Proctors which see afterwards on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May following and all the rest Constituted but one Proctor apiece which being trivial and ordinary are omitted Nota Also that the Earl of Leicester had this Parliament eight Proxies sent unto him viz. from George Earl of Shrewsbury Edward Earl of Darby Henry Lord Scroop Edward Lord Dudley Anthony Viscount Mountacute Gregory Lord Dacres William Lord Sands and Edward Earl of Lincoln all which seem to have been returned on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May in such order as they are here set down Nota That the Lord Burleigh also Principal Secretary to her Majesty had six Proxies sent unto him this Parliament viz. from John Marquess of Winchester Henry Lord Hunsdon Thomas Lord Buckhurst John Lord Latimer Edward Earl of Lincoln who made also the Earl of Leicester his joint Proctor with him and Robert Lord Rich. These also are set down in the Journal-Book to have been returned the 12 th day of May in such order as they are here set down but now by a late Order made in the Upper House an 2 do Caroli Regis no Lord is capable of above two Proxies Nota That in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House it doth not appear at all whether her Majesty or any of the Lords were present on Saturday following being the tenth day of this instant May it appearing plainly that neither House sate on Friday the 9 th day of the same nor what was done thereon and therefore the Passages of the same are supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons On Saturday the 10 th day of May in the Afternoon her Majesty being come to the Upper House with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being there also set and the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the House of Commons having notice repaired thither with Robert Bell of the Middle-Temple London Esq their Speaker Elect who was led up unto the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House by two of the most Eminent Personages of the Commons and presented to her Majesty whom she allowed and Confirmed
from the House of Commons than the negligence of the Clerk of the Upper House in respect that it is easie to be conjectured that this foregoing Bill was either Ordered to be ingrossed or recommitted to the former Committees whose names see on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May foregoing On Friday the 16 th day of May the Bill against Forging and Counterfeiting of Foreign Coin being not currant within the Realm was read prima vice On Saturday the 17 th day of May the Bill against Forging and Counterfeiting of Foreign Coin being not currant within the Realm was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand The Bill against corrupt Presentations was read secunda vice commissa Comiti Huntington Com. Bedford Episcopo Wigorn. Episcopo Wintonien Domino Grey Domino S t John de Bletsoe Vide concerning this Bill on Saturday the 31 th of this instant May following The Bill also for the annexing of the Jurisdiction of Dorset to the See of Sarum was read prima vice commissa Archiepiscopo Cantuar. Archiepiscopo Ebor. Comiti Bedford Comiti Pembroke Vice-Com Bindon Episcopo Wigorn. Episcopo Exon. Episcopo Lincoln Episcopo Roffen Domino Mountjoy Domino S t John Domino Chandois The Bill lastly for punishment of Vagabonds and relief of the Poor was read tertia vice conclusa May the 18 th Sunday On Monday the 19 th day of May to which day the Parliament had been last continued The Bill for the punishment of Vagabonds and relief of the Poor was delivered to Doctor Lewes and Doctor Vaughan to be carried to the House of Commons The Bill also against Forging and Counterfeiting of Foreign Coin being not currant within the Realm was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Yale and Doctor Huick The Bill lastly for punishment of such as shall rebelliously take or detain from the Queens Majesty any Castle Tower Fortress Ship or other Munition of War was read prima vice On Wednesday the 21 th day of May to which day the Parliament had been on Monday last continued three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill that the Tenant and Defendant may have a Tales de circumstantibus and the second against the deceit of Under-Collectors of the Tenths and Subsidies of the Clergy were each of them read prima vice On Thursday the 22 th day of May introducta fuit Billa nova touching corrupt Presentations prima vice lecta Six other Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill touching corrupt Presentations another that the Tenant and Defendant may have a Tales de Circumstantibus as well as the Demandant or Plaintiff and the last being the Bill against deceits of Under-Collectors of the Tenths and Subsidies of the Clergy were each of them read secunda vice but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be engrossed or referred to Committees because they had been sent to their Lordships from the House of Commons the day foregoing On Friday the 23 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against deceits of Under-Collectors of the Tenths and Subsidies of the Clergy was read tertia vice conclusa Three other Bills also were each of them read secunda vice commissae ad ingrossand of which the third was the Bill against such as shall conspire or practice the enlargement of any Prisoner committed for High-Treason c. On Saturday the 24 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the second was the Bill against such as shall conspire or practise the enlargement of any Prisoner committed for High-Treason The Bill that the Tenant or Defendant may have a Tales de Circumstantibus as well as the Demandant or Plaintiff was sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Barham and Doctor Huick Five Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill for the inserting of the Mannor of Havering at Bowre in a blank and void place in certain Letters Patents of the late King Edward the Sixth made unto certain persons of certain Lands and Tenements in the County of Essex On Wednesday the 28 th day of May Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill touching Fine and Recoveries was read secunda vice commissa Comiti Rutland Comiti Suff. Comiti Huntington Domino Wentworth Domino North Domino primario Justiciario Com. Placitorum primario Baroni Scaccarii Justiciario Wray Nota That here the Judges who are but Assistants unto the Upper House are made joint Committees with the Lords The Bill of Wood which had been read prima vice on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May foregoing and then committed to those whose names are there set down was now recommitted to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Chichester the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Burleigh the Lord Wentworth the Lord Chandois the Lord Norris the Master of the Rolls Justice Weston Justice Southcott and M r Serjeant Barham But whether this Bill had its second reading at this present or upon some other day foregoing doth not certainly appear but seemeth to have been omitted through the negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House Neither do there want Presidents that Bills after the first reading have been referred to Committees when there hath been no mention made of any second reading nay sometimes when the Bill hath had its second reading on a former day as it was in the Bill for the Commission of Sewers referred to Committees on Saturday the 21 th day of April in the Parliament de an 13 Regin Eliz. in the Journal of the Upper House it is afterwards committed and sometimes it is committed when it hath its second reading at an after-day as it was at this present Journal in the Bill touching Tunbridge-School on Monday the 9 th day of June ensuing For the great matters touching the Scottish Queen which had been referred to Committees on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May foregoing were appointed these Lords viz. The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Burleigh and the Lord Grey Vide touching this matter on Tuesday the 10 th day of June next ensuing On Thursday the 29 th day of May the Bill for the annexing of Hexham and Hexamshire c. was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons The Bill for the inserting of the name of the Mannor of Havcring at Bowre in a
blank or void place was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent from the Lords on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant May foregoing The Bill for the preservation of Timber and Fuel within twelve Miles of London and Subburbs of the same was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Essex the Lord Abergavenny the Lord S t John of Bletsoe and the Lord Compton The Bill for the assurance of certain Lands according to the meaning of Sir Thomas Woodhouse for the benefit of certain Infants was read secunda vice The Bill for repeal of a Statute made for the Town of Shrewsbury an 8 Reginae Eliz. was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Essex and others The Bill also touching Presentations to Benefices by lapse was read the second time and committed unto the Archbishop of York the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Hartford the Bishop of Worcester the Lord Cromwell the Lord Ewers Justice Southcott and Justice Wray The Bill for keeping of the Assizes and Sessions in the Town of Stafford and the Bill for annexing the Sheriffwicks of Huntingtonshire and Cambridgshire were each of them read secunda vice Commisse ad ingrossand The Bill lastly touching Sea-Marks and that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas was read prima vice and committed to the Earl of Suffolk the Earl of Leicester the Lord Burlcigh the Lord Darey de Chich. the Lord Cheyney the Lord Norris Serjeant Barham and Doctor Lewes Nota That this is not committed only upon the first reading but also a Serjeant and a Doctor who are but Attendants upon the Upper House are here made joint Committees with the Lords On Friday the 30 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for inserting of the name of the Mannor of Havering at Bowre in a blank and void place of certain Letters Patents of the late King Edward the Sixth made unto certain persons of certain Lands and Tenements in West-ham in the County of Essex was read the third time and passed the House On Saturday the 31 th of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for renewing of a Statute made for the keeping of the Assises and Sessions within the Town of Stafford was read tertia vice conclusa And the fourth and last being the Bill against corrupt Presentations was read secunda vice commissa to the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Sussex the Lord Chandois and the former Lords nominated on Saturday the 17 th day of this instant May foregoing where this Bill was then read the second time and then committed On Monday the second day of June Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands and Tenements according to the meaning of Sir Thomas Woodhouse for the benefit of certain Infants was read tertia vice conclusa On Tuesday the third day of June Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to renew a Statute made an 1 o of the Queens Reign inhibiting the transporting of Leather or Raw-Hides out of the Realm was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Wednesday the 4 th day of June the Bill touching a Statute made an 1 mo of the Queens Reign inhibiting the transporting of Leather or Raw-Hides was read tertia vice conclusa and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Barham and Doctor Huick Four Provisoes annexed by the Commons to the Bill for Vagabonds with certain other Amendments in the said Bill were read secunda tertia vice conclusa communi Procerum assensu Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for avoiding of Recoveries suffered by Collusion of Tenants for term of life and such others was read prima vice The Bill touching Mary the late Scottish Queen was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for avoiding of Recoveries suffered by Collusion of Tenants was committed to the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Sussex and others but there is no mention made whether this Bill was at all read of which see a like President on Wednesday the 28 th day of May foregoing On Thursday the 5 th day of June the Bill touching Mary the Daughter and Heir of James the Fifth late King of Scots was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Barham and the Queens Attorney Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill against such as shall conspire or practise the enlargement of any Prisoner committed for High-Treason and the third for annexing of Hexham and Hexhamshire to the County of Northumberland were each of them returned conclusae The Bill for the better and further assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of the Free Grammar-School at Tunbridge in the County of Kent was read prima vice and committed to the Archbishop of York the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Hartford the Bishop of Chichester the Bishop of Rochester the Lord de la Ware the Lord Norris the Master of the Rolls and Justice Southcott Vide concerning this Bill on Monday the 9 th day Tuesday the 10 th day and on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant June following The Bill that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas and touching Sea-Marks was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus primarius Justiciarius Banci Regis continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem Nota That this continuance of the Parliament with some others that follow by the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was not without some express Authority given him by her Majesty but through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House it doth not appear in the Original Journal-Book of the same whether the said Authority were given by Commission or otherwise About which hour in the Afternoon four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the true making of Hand-Guns Callivers c. and the last for Partition of certain Lands between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfeild K t and their Heirs were each of them read prima vice Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regis continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Friday the 6 th day of June Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the
Saturday last continued The Bill for the reviving of a Statute made an 8 Eliz. for the Town of Shrewsbury was returned from the House of Commons conclusa The Bill against delays in Judgment in the Common Law was read secunda vice but there is no mention made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent from the House of Commons on Saturday the 28 th day of this instant June immediately foregoing In the Parliament Chamber where the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled the day abovesaid in an 14 Regin Eliz. c. Whereas upon Complaint and Declaration made to the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal by Henry Lord Cromwell a Lord of the Parliament that in a Case between one James Tavernor against the said Lord Cromwell depending in the Court of Chancery for not obeying to an Injunction given in the said Court of Chancery in the absence of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal at the Suit of the said Tavernor the person of the said Lord Cromwell was by the Sheriff of the County of Norfolk attached by virtue of a Writ of Attachment proceeding out of the said Court of Chancery contrary to the antient priviledge and immunity time out of memory unto the Lords of Parliament and Peers of this Realm in such case used and allowed as on the behalf of the said Lord Cromwell was declared and affirmed wherein the said Lord Cromwell as a Lord of Parliament prayed remedy Forasmuch as upon deliberate Examination of this Case in the said Parliament Chamber in the presence of the Judges and other of the Queens Majesties Learned Council there attendant in Parliament and upon Declaration of the opinions of the said Judges and Learned Council there hath been no matter directly produced or declared whereby it did appear or seem to the said Lords of Parliament there Assembled that by the Common Law or Custom of the Realm or by any Statute Law or by any President of the said Court of Chancery it is warranted that the person of any Lord having place and voice in Parliament in the like case in the said Court of Chancery before this time hath been Attached so as the awarding of the said Attachment at the Suit of the said Tavernor against the said Lord Cromwell for any thing as yet declared to the said Lords appeareth to be derogatory and prejudicial to the antient priviledge claimed to belong to the Lords of this Realm Therefore it is the day and year aforesaid Ordered by consent of all the said Lords in Parliament there Assembled that the person of the said Lord Cromwell be from henceforth discharged of and from the said Attachment Provided nevertheless and so is the mind of the said Lords in Parliament plainly by them with one assent declared That if at any time during this Parliament or hereafter in any other Parliament there shall be shewed sufficient matter that by the Queens Prerogative or by the Common Law or Custom of this Realm or by any Statute Law or sufficient Presidents the person of any of the Lords of Parliament in such Case as this Case of the Lord Cromwell is ought to be attached or attachable then and from thenceforth it is by this order intended that to take place which so shall be shewed and warranted as above is said This Order or any thing therein to the contrary notwithstanding In the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House is no entrance of any continuance of the Parliament which seemeth to have been omitted through the negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the same House although it may very easily be gathered that the Parliament was continued unto some hour in the Afternoon of this present day and most probable it is that it was continued by the Lord Keeper because it appeareth without all question that he was present in the Afternoon Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Queens Majesty as may easily be gathered was present with the Lord Keeper and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal but their names through the great negligence of the above-named Anthony Mason Esq are not at all noted with the mark of being present neither are any of the passages of this Afternoon there entred saving only the Adjournment of the Parliament although it be most certain that her Majesty being present this Afternoon did put an end to this Session of Parliament by giving her Royal Assent to thirteen publick Acts and four private But yet there passed no Bill of her Majesties free and general pardon to the Subject nor of any Subsidies from them to her Majesty and the reason of it is plain because this Session of Parliament although some Statutes did of course pass in it was doubtless convocated chiefly for that great business touching the Scottish Queen of which there are divers passages in this proceeding Journal which see on Monday the 12 th day and on Wednesday the 28 th day of May on Tuesday the 10 th day and on Thursday the 26 th day of this instant June foregoing And therefore now lastly as touching the manner of her Majesties giving her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed in respect that it is matter of form and seldom differeth it is therefore supplied omitting that only which concerns the Bills of Subsidy and Pardon out of a draught thereof set down in the end of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the Parliament de an 39 Regin Eliz. although it be omitted in that of this present Session of Parliament To every publick Act that passed after that it had been read the Clerk of the Upper House standing up did openly pronounce her Majesties Allowance in these French words following La Roigne le veult To every private Act that passed the said Clerk read 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 said Clerk at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty doth forbear to allow the Clerk of the Parliament read in these French words following La Roigne s'advisera The several Acts being thus passed the next matter that followed was the Adjournment of the Parliament which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the manner and form following Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in festum omnium Sanctorum proximum futurum By the Entrance of which Adjournment it doth plainly appear that her Majesty was present in respect that it is said that the Lord Keeper Adjourned the Parliament ex mandato Dominae Reginae And it is also worthy the observation that as the greatest part of the passages of this foregoing Monday on which this Session of Parliament ended are through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House
first time M r Doctor Vaughan and M r Doctor Yale brought from the Lords the Bill for setting the Poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness with certain amendments and a Proviso M r Treasurer one of the Committees in the Lady Wainman's Cause reported that both the Parties have submitted themselves to the Arbitrement of the Lord Treasurer the Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Leicester M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Dutchy and M r Captain of the Guard or the most part of them to be made within one Year next after the Session of this present Session of Parliament for the performance and accomplishment of the same Arbitrement A Proviso with some Amendments was offered to the Bill for reformation of Inholders common Cooks and Tavern Keepers and being twice read after the Question was upon the Division of the House by the advantage of the number of forty persons Ordered to be ingrossed and added to the Bill and then afterwards upon another Question and like Division of the House the Bill with the Proviso was dashed with the difference of twenty eight persons Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Barham did bring from the Lords a Bill for the appointing of Wharfs and Keys for the unlading and discharging of Merchandizes and withal a Message from them that some of this House may be appointed to have Conference with some such of their Lordships as shall be thought meet touching such private Bills in both Houses as upon their Conference together shall be thought fittest to be Examined whereupon it was Ordered that twelve of this House shall be appointed for that purpose viz. M r Treasurer M r Captain of the Guard M r Wilson Master of the Requests Sir Henry Ratcliffe Sir Rowland Hayward Sir Thomas Scott Sir John Thynne Sir Henry Wallope Sir George Penrudock M r Popham M r Sampoole and M r Yelverton The Bill concerning Authority given to the Justices of the Queens Majesties Forests Chaces and Parks was read the second time and committed this day afterwards The two Bills for Denizens and the Bill for Presentations by Lapse being amended were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others M r Serjeant Barham and M r Doctor Vaughan brought word from the Lords that their Lordships do require that the Committees of this House may confer with them to Morrow in the Morning before eight of the Clock in the Parliament Chamber M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Captain of the Guard Sir Henry Gates Sir Henry Ratcliffe Sir Thomas Barrington Sir Nicolas Arnold Sir Henry Knivett M r Recorder of London M r Sampoole M r Stanhoppe M r Crooke M r Snagg M r John Vaughan M r Serjeant Jeffries M r Serjeant Lovelace M r Edward Horsey M r Robert Wroth M r Colby M r Topclyffe M r Bowyer M r John S t John M r Dawney M r Robert Colshill M r Digbie and M r Birkhed were appointed in Committee for the Bill concerning certain Authority given to the Justices of the Queens Majesties Forests Chaces Parks and Warrens Nota That this Bill having been sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons on Wednesday the 7 th day of this instant March foregoing should without all question never have been referd to Committees upon the second reading this instant Thursday except the said House of Commons had taken such just exceptions at the same as they afterwards made known to a Committee of the Lords and by reason of which finally the same was stopped from further passing The further carriage and proceeding of which business being wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons through the great negligence of Fulk Onslow Esq at this time Clerk of the same I have thought good to supply it out of a written Memorial or Copy thereof I had by me because it may appear upon what just grounds and solid reasons the Members of the said House did refuse to pass the said Bill and although it doth not certainly appear whether the said Proceedings in the said Bill between the Committees of either House were this day or no yet I have referred it thereunto as the most probable and likely time in respect that there is no further mention made of this Bill or business in either of the Original Journal-Books of the Upper House or House of Commons upon any ensuing day during this present Session of Parliament These things being thus premised the foresaid Memorial or written Discourse of this business doth now ensue to be inserted The Committees before-named having upon deliberate consideration of the parts and of the scope of the said Bill touching Authority to be given to the Justices of the Queens Majesties Forests c. found the same not convenient to proceed did nevertheless out of their respect unto the Lords from whom the Bill had been sent down desire first to satisfie them before they utterly refused and dashed the said Bill and did thereupon send unto their Lordships who as it appeareth by the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House did this Afternoon sit to offer them Conference which they accordingly accepted and thereupon there did assemble in a place appointed as Commissioners or rather as Committees for the Lords the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Leicester the Lord Grey of Wilton and the Lord Hunsdon having for their assistance standing by the two Chief Justices and the Queens Attorney General upon these the foresaid Committees of the House of Commons by Order of the same House gave their attendance and by Sir Walter Mildmay K t Chancellor of the Exchequer the second of the said Committees in the name and by consent of the rest said to the Lords in effect as followeth viz. That whereas a Bill touching the enlargement of the Justices of Forest-Authority had passed from their Lordships and was sent to the House of Commons the same had received there two readings and upon the second reading was greatly impugned by many Arguments made against it nevertheless the respect they had to their Lordships moved them to stay any further proceeding therein to the hazard of the Bill until by some Conference with their Lordships the House in such things as were objected might be satisfied To that end he said the House of Commons had sent them to attend upon their Lordships and so entring into the matter said That of many things spoken to the hindrance of the Bill they would trouble their Lordships but with some few such as they had noted to have been of most value by which he said their Lordships should find that the House of Commons did take the Bill to be unnecessary chargeable dangerous obscure For the first that whereas in the preamble of the Bill it was pretended that one principal cause of this Act was that the Justices of the Forests having no Authority to sit
Lordships for that now their leisure well serveth them and also they do desire to know whether this House will make them a further Answer to the matter of the last Conference or no. Whereupon after sundry Motions and Arguments it was agreed that the former Committees with the residue afterwards added unto them both yesterday and also this day as also M r S t John now lastly added be sent up to the Lords with Answer to be pronounced by M r Chancellor of the Exchequer in the name of the whole House that as touching the unkindness wherewith their Lordships do charge this House which this House hath not done doth not and will not give their Lordships any such occasion Nota That this is the last Passage in this so long and controverted business betwixt the two Houses which this Morning had been throughly handled at a Committee of the said Houses for the Upper House having first passed this Bill and sent it down to the House of Commons on Wednesday the 7 th day of this instant March foregoing it had its several readings there on Saturday the 10 th day of the same Month in the Afternoon and on Monday the 12 th day and on Tuesday the 13 th day of the same having also added a Proviso unto it with which they sent it up again to the Lords who disliking the said Proviso required Conference with some Committees of the said House that very foresaid 13 th day of March when the Bill had been sent up unto them upon which meeting this Morning they had full Conference as is before at large set down but the Lords as it should seem utterly disliking the said Proviso and not being satisfied with the said Conference did never give the said Proviso any reading in their House and so the Bill was dashed Now follows the residue of this days Passages with the Conclusion of this Session of Parliament by Prorogation out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons some things only of form or otherwise necessary to be inserted being added The Bill against the abuses of Goldsmiths was read the third time and passed the House Post Meridiem The Bill last passed touching abuses of Goldsmiths was this Afternoon sent unto the Lords by M r Treasurer and others Two Provisoes and certain Amendments to the Bill touching Wharfs and Keyes were thrice read and upon the Question with the Bill rejected M r Doctor Barkley and M r Powle did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do desire to know whether there be any more Bills ready to be sent unto them unto whom Answer was made There is none This Afternoon also her Majesty came in Person to the Upper House where Robert Bell Esq Speaker of the House of Commons did amongst other things in his Speech move her Majesty in the name of the House to Marry by which it may be collected that it was agreed in the House where this matter had been propounded on Friday the 9 th day of this instant March foregoing and further debated of on Monday the 12 th day of the same Month that it was I say agreed that the Speaker should thus move her Majesty in the behalf of her Marriage upon the Conclusion of this Session in this Speech also the said Speaker did according unto the usual Custom present her Majesty with the Bill of the Subsidy in the name of the Commons After which her Majesty having given her Assent unto twenty three publick Acts and thirteen private the Lord Keeper Adjourned the Parliament by her Majesties Commandment until two of the Clock in the Afternoon of the day following And on the said Thursday the 15 th day of March in the Afternoon her Majesty came again unto the Upper House Accompanied with Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal but I cannot gather that there was any other cause or occasion of her Majesties coming thither than only for the further Prorogation of this Session which otherwise must have been done by a Commission under the Great Seal and thereupon the Parliament was Prorogued accordingly unto the 5 th day of November then next ensuing After which followed divers other Prorogations of this Parliament unto the re-assembling of it again upon Monday the 16 th day of January in An. 23 Reginae Eliz. upon which said day the third and last Session of this instant Parliament began THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS An Exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Session of Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 23 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1580. which began there after many Prorogations and Adjournments of the same on Monday the 16 th Day of January and there continued until it was first Prorogued on Saturday the 18 th Day of March and lastly Dissolved on Friday the 19 th Day of April Anno 25 Reginae ejusdem Anno Domini 1583. THIS Session in Anno 23 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1580. maketh but one and the same Parliament with that in Anno 14 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1572. which was the first Session of it and with that in Anno 18 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1575. which was the second Session of the same so that this present Assembly of the Peers and Commons of the Realm in this their great Councel was but the third and last Session of it being one and the same Parliament as aforesaid being continued without any Dissolution near upon the space of twelve years by fourscore several Prorogations or thereabouts viz. from Thursday the 8 th day of May in the fourteenth year of the Queen on which said Thursday it first began until the Dissolution thereof upon the 19 th day of April Anno 25 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1583. The Prorogations between that former Session in An. 18 Reginae Eliz. which was as hath been observed the second and middle Session of this Parliament and this in Anno 23 Reginae ejusdem with those after it which was the third and last Session thereof were about threescore of which the two first happening within the said eighteenth year are both of them placed at the end of the Journal of the said year of which the first was on Saturday the 18 th day of March in Anno 18 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1580. by which the Parliament was Prorogued unto the 5 th day of November Anno 18 Regin Eliz. Anno Domini 1581. at which day it was the second time Prorogued unto the 26 th day of March in Anno 19 Reginae ejusdem Anno Domini 1582. upon which day it was further Prorogued by Commission unto the 3 d day of June following On the third day of June to which day the Parliament had been last Prorogued it was again further Prorogued unto the 12 th day of November next following at and from which time it was Prorogued from day to day
in the Committee Chamber of this House Three other Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for addition for paving the street without Aldgate was read the second time and committed to M r Secretary Wilson M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir William Winter Sir Rowland Hayward Mr. Robert Wroth and Mr. Aldersey who were appointed to meet on Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon at the Court in Mr. Secretaries Chamber Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Gibbon did bring from the Lords a Bill touching the Hospital of Ledbury in the County of Hereford Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against the forging of Deeds and Evidences c. was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Treasurer moved that the Committees of this House which were yesterday with the Lords might meet together at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill against counterfeit Instruments and counterfeit Seals of Offices was read the third time and after many Arguments both against the Bill and with the Bill was referred to further Argument till to Morrow next On Friday the 10 th day of February Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first touching Gavelkind Land within the City of Exeter and the last being the Bill for granting of one Subsidy two Fifteenths and Tenths had each of them their first reading On Saturday the 11 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the true making of Woollen-Cloths and the Bill for the abolishing of certain deceitful stuffs used in dying of Cloths were each of them read the second time and committed to the former Committees for Cloths who were appointed on Saturday the 4 th day of this instant February foregoing After sundry further Arguments upon the Bill touching counterfeit Seals it was upon the Question Ordered that Committees be appointed to consider of the Bill as it standeth only in the matter of the Seals of Corporations to be holpen with a Proviso And thereupon also Authority was given unto the former Committees and unto Mr. Thomas Sampoole Sir Thomas Scott Mr. Recorder Mr. Carleton Mr. Norton Mr. S t Leiger Mr. Lewkenor Mr. Cromwell and Mr. Atkins who were appointed to meet upon Monday next in the Morning at seven of the Clock in the Committee Chamber of this House The Bill for Explanation of the Statute for forging of Evidences and Writings was read the third time and passed upon the Question after the amendment of certain words likewise three times read Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against inordinate selling of Wooll and Yarn was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Bointon Sir William Moore M r George Speak M r Layton M r Keale and others who were appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon at the Guild-Hall Mr. Cromwell one of the Committees in the Bill for ratification of an award for certain Copyholders in the County of Worcester who were appointed on Monday the 6 th day of this instant February foregoing brought in the Bill with the amendment of one Letter in a mans name viz. Dallowe for Ballowe and also with an Addition of a general saving Which being twice read the Bill upon the Question was Ordered to be ingrossed M r Secretary Wilson one of the Committees for the paving of a Street without Aldgate who were appointed on Thursday the 9 th day of this instant February foregoing brought in the Bill which being amended in these words put out viz. the same and these words put in viz. the lately paved which words being twice read the Bill was upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed The new Bill against the Erecting of Iron Mills near the City of London and River of Thames was read the first time Mr. Serjeant Anderson and Mr. Doctor Barkley did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do desire that the Committees of this House appointed to meet with their Lordships in the Bill for Religion do meet with them to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Star-Chamber Whereupon the House being moved it was resolved they should so do and so it was Answered unto the said Mr. Serjeant Anderson and Mr. Doctor Barkley accordingly Mr. Serjeant Anderson and Mr. Doctor Clark did bring from the Lords a Bill touching the fortifying of the Borders towards Scotland After sundry Arguments made to the Bill last read it is upon the doubtfulness in the Answer to the Question resolved upon the Division of the House that the Bill to be drawn by the Committees shall contain the number of eighteen Miles distant from the City of London by the difference of forty three persons And upon another Question clearly resolved that the same Bill so to be drawn shall contain but eight Miles from the River of Thames And upon another Question it is Ordered that the House be called upon Thursday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Nota That there is no mention made of Monday the 13 th day of this instant February or of any Passages thereof in the House of Commons in the Original Journal-Book of the same House and it may thereupon be very probably concluded that the said House sate not upon the said day which may seem the more strange also because the Lords of the Upper House did sit On Tuesday the 14 th day of February the Bill for ratification of an award made between William Hide Esq and William Darrell Esquire was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Serjeant Flowerdewe Mr. Cromwell Mr. Boyes and Mr. Norton and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Norton Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Explanation of the Statute of 32 H. 8. for limitation of prescription was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Serjeant Fenner Mr. Serjeant Flowerdewe and Mr. Cromwell and the Bill was delivered to the said Mr. Cromwell M r Vice-Chamberlain for himself and the residue of the Committees appointed to Examine M r Hall the Printer the Scrivener and all other persons privy to the setting forth and publishing of the Book declared that they had charged the said M r Hall with contempt against this House the last Session in that being injoined by this House to appear he departed out of Town in contempt of the Court and afterwards testified the same his wilful contempt by an unseemly Letter addressed by him to this House and charged him further with divers Articles of great importance selected by the said Committees out of
them with his said leud demeanor also avowed to his face before them by two Witnesses the one alledging in this House that he said the Curriers could have no Justice in this House and the other that the Curriers could have no Equity in this House did not nor could not much deny the same Speeches as that there were not fifty persons in the House when the said Shoomakers Bill passed and that the said Tanners Bill was not all read out and that it was Ordered before by the House that the Shoomakers Bill should not be read any more till the Curriers Bill had been first read before And further answered that he had been told so but utterly refused in any wise to shew them who told him so Whereupon the said Bland was brought by the Serjeant to the Bar where being particularly and severally charged by Mr. Speaker and confessing his name to be John Bland and that he was a Currier of London could not much deny the matter he was charged with but in some sort excusing himself and alledging that he had spoke some words to the foresaid effect to some of the Shoomakers and none others and that he was told of some he knew not he said of whom both of the said Order of staying the said Shoomakers Bill from further reading till the Curriers Bill was first read and also of the not through reading of all the whole Tanners Bill and praying this House to be good to him and to forgive him his fault if he said he had offended He was then sequestred the House Whereupon it was afterwards resolved after sundry Motions and Speeches that in respect he was a poor man and had a great charge of Children he should if he would acknowledge his fault and submit himself to the satisfaction of this House be then delivered paying his Fees and that he should pay to the Serjeant therein for his Fee twenty shillings and taking the Oath of Supremacy Which done the said Bland was brought in again to the Bar who kneeling upon his knee and being signified by Mr. Speaker of the pitiful and favourable consideration of this House towards him upon condition of such his submission as aforesaid to be made he then made the same submission accordingly pronounced the said Oath at the Table after the Clerk with his right hand upon the Bible kissed the Book and so then departed Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 11 th day of this instant March foregoing The Bill for the increase of Pheasants and Partridges had its first reading which being read Mr. Treasurer did thereupon presently disavow and relinquish any authority or ability by the said Bill of giving Licence to any to take any Pheasants or Partridges for the provision of her Majesties House Which done Sir Henry Cock did the like openly in the House in the behalf and by the appointment of the right honourable the Lord Steward The Bill for continuance of Statutes was read the third time and a Proviso touching the times limited for commencing of Suits upon the penalties in the Statutes revived for the increase of Tillage was twice read and upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed and the same Proviso being once read again after the ingrossing thereof the Bill was put to the question and passed accordingly Mr. Serjeant Rodes and Mr. Doctor Barkley brought from the Lords two Bills the one for provision to be made for the safety of her Majesties most Royal Person and continuance of the Realm in Peace with some little amendments And the Bill for the better and more reverend observing of the Sabbath day with Message from their Lordships touching that Bill that as the same Bill upon divers Conferences had between both Houses hath received divers Alterations Additions and Amendments upon Amendments so their Lordships do desire that the said Bill standing in such case of Amendments Additions and other things as now it is in may be fair written again in Parchment and then so further to be Examined by the Committees of both Houses that by the Agreement of both Houses the Record of so good and godly Law may remain fair and perfect and then the Bill to be new passed again in both Houses Which matter being opened to the House by Mr. Speaker after the departure of the said Mr. Serjeant Rodes and Mr. Doctor Barkley the said Motion from the Lords therein was assented unto by this House accordingly and liked well of Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the third day of December foregoing The Amendments in the Bill for provision to be made for the safety of her Majesties most Royal Person and continuance of the Realm in Peace added by the Lords before their late sending down thereof were only these viz. the words foreseeing that were put in for the words so as which said words so newly added by their Lordships were at this time twice read the Bill it self having before passed this House and from hence sent up to the Lords on Wednesday last past being the 10 th day of this instant March and being well allowed by the said House the same were inserted into the same Bill accordingly and presently after were read the third time and so passed upon the question And the said Bill was sent back again to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others with four other Bills of no great moment with direction to pray their Lordships that Conference may be had touching the Bill against Jesuits according to the former resolution of this House The Amendments in the Bill for the better imploying of Lands Tenements c. given to the maintenance of High-ways c. and for relief of the Poor and Provisoes added to the same Bill were all twice read and so the Bill and all the Amendments and Provisoes were Ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments and Provisoes added to the Bill touching the Water-Bailiff were twice read and Ordered with the Bill to be ingrossed On Monday the 15 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill that Marriages may be lawfully solemnized at all seasons of the Year was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Serjeant Rodes and Mr. Doctor Barkley did bring from the Lords three Bills of which one was for establishment of an Award made between the Lord Rich and Sir Thomas Barrington Knight and the third was a Bill for the Inning of Erith and Plumsted Marsh. Nota That these two Bills are not at all mentioned in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have been sent down at this time from the Lords to the House of Commons but only the Bill against Jesuits and it is very probable that they were omitted through the negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House The Bill against abuses in making of Devonshire Kersies was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Mohun M r Edgcombe
Stourton Dominus Darcie Dominus Sandes Dominus Windsor Dominus Wentworth Dominus Borough Dominus Cromwell Dominus Evers Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby de Parham Dominus Darcie de Chiche Dominus Shandois Dominus S t John Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Delaware Dominus Compton Dominus Cheney Dominus Norris The Lords being all set in this Order in their Parliament-Robes and the Judges placed with other Attendants and Assistants of the Upper House being also before the said Lords Commissioners had taken their places on the right side of the Chair of State the Lord Chancellor shewed forth the Queens Majesties Letters Patents by which She committed full Power to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England and the Earl of Darby to supply her place in the said Parliament which were as followeth viz. Hodie cùm omnes Proceres Robis Parliamentaribus induti in suo Loco quisque sederent Milites Cives Burgenses qui ad hoc praesens Parliamentum summoniti fuerunt praesso essent jam universt tam Proceres quà m Communes Reginae adventum expectarent Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius exponit omnibus Regiam Majestatem maximis urgentissimis causis adeò esse impeditam ut non queat impraesentiarum commodè interesse ut decreverat Nihilominus inquit sua Majestas Literis suis Patentibus plenam potestatem commisit Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Johanni Cantuar. Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac praedilecto fideli suo Willielmo Domino de Burleigh Domino Thesaurario Angliae ac charissimo Consanguineo suo Henrico Comiti Darbiae ad facienda nomine suo omnia singula quae in dicto Parliamento gerenda essent ut per easdem Liter as Patentes 〈◊〉 apparet quas hiis dictis Dominus Cancellarius Clerico Parliamentar publicè legendas tradidit Earum autem tenor sequitur in haec verba ELizabetha Dei graetiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei Defensor c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd cùm de advisamento Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae ae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernen quoddam Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonaster 29 o die instant mensis Octobris teneri ordinavimus quia verò propter certas causas ad Parliamentum praedictum non potuerimus interesse nos de circumspectione sideliate industria Reverendissimi in Christo Patris Johannis Cantuar. Archiepiscopi totius Angliae Primat Metropolitan ac praedilecti fidelis nostri Willielmi Domini de Burleigh Domini Thesaurarii Angliae ac charissimi Consanguinei nostri Henrici Comitis Darbiae plenam fiduciam reportand eisdem Archiepiscopo Willielmo Domino de Burleigh Henrico Comiti Darbiae duobus eorum ad Parliamentum praedictum nomine meo inchoand tenend negotiáque praedict exponend declarand ac exponi declarari faciend necnon in negotiis illis Parliamento praedicto ac omnibus sin gulis in eo procedend ad faciend omnia singula quae pro nobis per nos pro bono regimine gubernatione praedicti Regni nostri Angliae ac aliorum Dominiorum nostrorum eidem Regno nostro pertinen ibid. fuerint faciend necnon ad Parliamentum illud si necesse fuerit continuand adjournand prorogand de assensu Concilii nostri praedicti plenam tenore praesentium committimus prtestatem Dante 's ulteriùs de assensu ejusdem Concilii nostri tam universis singulis Archiepiscopis Episcopis Comitibus Vicecomitibus Baronibus Militibus quà m omnibus aliis quorum interest ad Parliamentum nostrum praedictum conventur similit tenore praesentium firmiter in Mandatis Quòd eisdem Archiepiscopo Willielmo Domino Burleigh Henrico Comiti Darbiae duobus eorum intendant in praemissis in fornia praedicta In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras sieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo octavo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri vicesimo octavo Per ipsam Reginam c. The Letters Patents foregoing being read the said three Lords Commissioners leaving their own places went to a Seat prepared for them on the right side of the Chair of State beneath the steps Then the said Lord Chancellor going first to the said Lords and conferring a while with them went to his accustomed place and there made intimation of the Cause of this present Summons of Parliament which as he said were no usual Causes not for making of Laws whereof her Majesty thought there were more made than were duly executed nor for Fifteenths and Subsidies although there were some cause yet her Majesty would not charge her loving Subjects so far at this time But that the cause was rare and extraordinary of great weight great peril and dangerous consequence Then he declared what dangerous practices had been contrived of late and how miraculously the Providence of God had by discovery thereof beyond all humane Policy preserved her Majesty the destruction of whose Sacred Person was most traiterously compassed and imagined Here he shewed what misery the loss of so Noble a Queen would have brought to all Estates and said That although some of them had suffered according to their demerits yet one remained that by due course of Law had received her Sentence which was the chief cause of this Assembly and wherein her Majesty required their faithful advice and therefore said he you may orderly proceed therein And you of the House of Commons are to make present choice of some one amongst you to be your Speaker and to present him unto the Lords Lieutenants as soon as conveniently you may Assoon as the Lord Chancellor had ended his Speech the Clerk of the Parliament stood up and read the Names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions in French which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland France and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Knight Lord Chief Justice Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Gawdy Knight one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Awberry and Doctor Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Knight Lord Chief Baron Francis Windham one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Barkeley and Doctor Cary. Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Darby Lord High Steward of England the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Howard of Essingham Lord High Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton Tryors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles the Archbishop of York the Earl
the Bill for one Subsidy granted by the Clergy was read tertiâ vice and the Bill touching Oxford Haven was read secundâ tertiâ vice On Tuesday the 14 th day of March the Bill for confirmation of the Sale of Edward Fishers Lands made towards satisfaction of his Debts Charges and Incumbrances was brought from the House of Commons and read primâ vice Vide plus concerning this matter on the day following The Bill for Confirmation of the Attainder of Thomas late Lord Paget and others was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa expedita dissentiente Domino Darcy who is sometimes called the Lord Darcy of Meinel Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading being the last reading and thereupon passed of which the second being the Bill for the more speedy and due execution of certain branches of the Statute made in the 23 d year of the Queens Majesties Reign intituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience was expedited communi omnium Procerum assensu dissentiente solummodò Comite Rutland Which two Bills aforesaid were sent down to the House of Commons by the Queens Attorney and Doctor Carew Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first being an Act of one Subsidy granted by the Clergy was returned expedited and the other was the Bill for the payment of the Debts and Legacies of Sir Gerrard Croker Knight deceased and of John Croker Esq his Son On Wednesday the 15 th day of March the Bill for the payment of the Debts and Legacies of Sir Gerrard Croker Knight and of the Debts of John Croker Esq his Son was read primâ vice Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first being a Bill touching Errours in Records of Attainders of High Treason was read primâ vice commissa and the second being a Bill for repealing of a Statute made in the 23 d year of the Queens Majesties Reign touching the bringing in Fish into this Realm was read primâ vice commissa The Bill for the confirmation of the Seal of Edward Fishers Lands made towards the satisfaction of his Debts Charges and Incumbrances was read secundâ vice Whereupon the Lords ordered that Edward Fisher now in the Fleet should be brought before them to morrow at nine of the Clock and that he should bring his learned Counsel with him And that the Parties who follow the said Bill should have like warning to be there with their learned Counsel Nota That this very Bill or some other to the same purpose had divers readings and was often debated in the Parliament both in the Upper House and in the House of Commons but passed not And there it seemeth that the same or a new Bill to the like purpose was now again offered unto the House Vide the first reading of it upon Tuesday immediately foregoing The Lords Committees made Report unto the whole House that upon divers Conferences had with the Committees of the Lower House touching their Request made to the Lords to joyn with them in Petition to her Majesty about a Benevolence or Contribution which they of the House of Commons thought good to offer unto her Majesty the said Lords Committees thought it not fit for divers reasons to joyn with the House of Commons herein Which reasons when the whole House had heard and considered their Lordships did resolve that the House of Commons should be left to themselves and their Lordships would take such order therein for themselves as to them should seem convenient Vide plus concerning this matter on Saturday the 11 th day of this instant March foregoing On Thursday the 16 th day of March the Committees in the Bill for the repealing of a Statute made in the three and twentieth year of the Queens Majesties Reign touching the bringing in of Fish into this Realm according to the Lords appointment delivered their opinions and reasons by the Lord Chief Baron touching the said Bill which when the Lords had heard and considered they ordered that the said Bill for the Repeal of the said Statute should be rejected This day was chosen a new Committee to resolve upon somewhat touching the Contribution viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury the Archbishop of York the Lord Steward the Earl of Kent the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Hartford and the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winton and the Bishop of Salop the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Morley the Lord Cobham the Lord Gray the Lord Stafford the Lord Stourton the Lord Cromwell the Lord North the Lord Delaware and the Lord Norris The Lords Committees last named upon Conference had betwixt them in respect of the great Charges that her Majesty hath sustained heretofore and that her Highness shall be enforced hereafter to be at for the defence of this Realm and other her Majesties Dominions did resolve amongst themselves freely to give to her Majesty two shillings in the pound after the rate of the valuation of the Subsidy of the Temporality granted in this present Session of Parliament to be paid unto such persons and at such time as it shall please her Majesty to appoint Which being after openly declared to the whole House the Temporal Lords in as much as the Lords Spiritual had made former offer of Contribution unto her Majesty did all together with one consent most willingly ratifie the said resolution both touching the Sum and the payment thereof and ordered that this their free gift should be entred upon Record And that such of the Lords of her Majesties Privy Council as were there present should signifie the same to her Highness in all their Names On Friday the 17 th day of March a Bill touching Errours in Records of High Treason was read secundâ tertiâ vice conclusa On Saturday the 18 th day of March the Bill for the confirmation of the Sale of Edward Fishers Lands made towards the satisfaction of his Debts Charges and Incumbrances with certain amendments in a Schedule added unto the said Bill was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa tradita Doctori Barkley Doctori Carew in Domum Communem deserend ' Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 14 th day and on Wednesday the 15 th day of this instant March foregoing Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being a Bill touching Exemplifications and Constats of Original Conveyances made to the Queens Majesty was read primâ vice On Monday the 20 th day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading whereof the second being a Bill for the limitation of time touching Writs of Errour upon Fines and Recoveries was read secundâ vice Six Bills of no great moment were this day lastly brought
Apparel was read secunda vice commissa uni Comiti 4 Baronibus On Saturday the first day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill for Writs upon Proclamations and Exigents to be currant within the County Palatine of Durham was read tertia vice conclusa This Forenoon also the Lords Committees returned the Bill for the having of Horses Armour and Weapons signifying that they could get no meeting but of so small a number as their Lordships would not deal in so that the whole House presently proceeded to the Question whether it should be ingrossed or no upon which question asked the Lords with one consent agreed that it should be ingrossed On Monday the 3 d day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one of them was concerning the Sale of Thomas Hanfords Lands towards the payment of his Debts and another had been this Morning sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons These Bills being sent up to the Lords by Sir Francis Knowles Knight Treasurer of her Majestics Houshold and other Members of the House of Commons they had also Order to desire of their Lordships in the name of the said House that Mr. Sollicitor being returned a Member thereof might be suffered to come thither and give his attendance in the same To which desire of theirs their Lordships a little after sent down word by Mr. Serjeant Puckering and Mr. Attorney General to the said House that the said Mr. Sollicitor was called by her Majesties Writ to serve in the Upper House long before he was chosen a Member of the said House of Commons and therefore thought it very fitting he should still continue his attendance in the said Upper House Nota That there is no mention made in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of this Question touching the Attendance of the Queens Sollicitor but it was supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons fol. 242. a. On Tuesday the 4 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading whereof the latter being a Bill for the sale of Thomas Hanfords Lands c. was read secunda vice 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 Councel at the next sitting of the Court which shall be on Thursday next at nine of the Clock Two Bills also of no great moment were this Forenoon sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the better recovery of such costs and damages as shall be adjudged to any person against common Informers On Thursday the 6 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Tuesday foregoing the amendments of the Bill for the maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage were read prima secunda vice commissae ad ingrossand One Bill concerning the preservation of Orford-Haven was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill to avoid abuses in chusing of Fellows and Scholars was read prima vice On Saturday the 8 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill for the maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage was read tertia vice conclusa M r Serjeant Shuttleworth and M r Doctor Awbery were sent down from their Lordships to the House of Commons with two Bills of which the first was the Bill for maintenance of Houses of Husbandry and Tillage and the second for reformation of excess in Apparel both which said Bills had been passed by their Lordships this Morning upon the third reading Nota That the sending down of these two Bills is wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House through the great negligence of the Clerk of the said House and is therefore supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons fol. 245. b. On Monday the 10 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for an assurance to be made of the Jointure of Anne Wife of Henry Nevill Esquire was read secunda tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Memorandum That before the third reading and passing of the Bill for the Jointure of the Wife of Henry Nevill by which all former Conveyances made by the said Henry Nevill 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 Conveyances 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 That then the said Indentures and Conveyances should be forthwith cancelled but if it shall not please her Majesty to give her Royal Assent Then the said Indenture and Conveyances should be safely re-delivered 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 were cancelled the 12 th day of May Anno Regni Eliz. 31. The Bill against Pluralities and Non-residence was this day brought up to their Lordships from the House of Commons Nota That the bringing up of this Bill to their Lordships being omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House is supplied out of that of the House of Commons fol. 246. a. On Tuesday the 11 th day of March The Bill against erecting and maintaining of Cottages was read tertiâ vice Two Bills also of rio great moment were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was a Bill of four Fifteens and Tenths and two entire Subsidies granted by the Temporalty The Bill for the assurance to be made of the Jointure of Ann the wife of Henry Nevill Esq which had been sent up to their Lordships from the House of Commons with another Bill against Informers on Tuesday the 4 th day of this instant March foregoing was this day sent down again to the said House with some amendments by Doctor Aubery and Doctor Cary. Nota That the sending down of this Bill from their Lordships to the House of Commons is by the negligence of M r Anthony Mason at this
prayeth the reading thereof which were afterwards twice read and the said Bill and Additions upon the Question were Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Treasurer one of the Committees in the Bill against Election of Scholars and Presentations to Benefices bringeth in the Amendments in all parts reformed according to the Assent of this House therein Yesterday referring the residue of the report thereof to be made unto this House by Mr. Morrice who shewing all the parts of the same the said Amendments and Proviso were twice read and then the same Proviso being ready ingrossed in Parchment and Examined by the Paper-Book was offered to the House for the more speedy expediting of the said Bill which with the Amendments and Proviso aforesaid were read and the said Bill in such sort being put to the question passed accordingly Four Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others of which the two first were one for relief of the City of Lincoln and the other against Abuses in Elections of Scholars and Presentations of Benefices with the Amendments and a Proviso The Bill concerning the Almeshouse of Lamborn in the County of Berks was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Alford Mr. Hill Mr. Morrice Mr. Graston Mr. Francis Moore and others who were appointed to confer presently in the Committees Chamber Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being against the false packing of Hops was read the third time with the words Authority Royal inserted in the Bill twice read and these words also this Act to continue to the end of the next Session of Parliament thrice read but this Bill was upon the question dashed Mr. Doctor Carew and Mr. Poole did bring from the Lords the Bill for the better assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of the free Grammar School of Tunbridge in the County of Kent before passed this House and sent up to their Lordships and now passed also by their Lordships with some Amendments therein offered by them to this House The Bill against the Erecting and maintenance of Cottages in former sort amended together with the Proviso to the same Bill being all the third time read passed upon the question accordingly On Monday the 24 th day of March M r Anderson was licensed to depart about her Majesties Service Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning Glass-Houses was brought in by M r De-la-bar one of the Committees in 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 Yea one thirty five hundred and with the No forty three M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill touching Captains and Souldiers shewed that the Committees have met and conferred the Bill with the old Laws already in force and finding many imperfections both in the old Laws and also in the new Law offered by the said Bill shewed forth a Note collected of the same imperfections and also of sundry sharp and dangerous Points in both the same Laws and especially in the said later Law which was thereupon then read accordingly M r Comptroller one of the Committees in the Bill against excess of Apparel shewed likewise the meeting and travail of the Committees in the same Bill with some amendments thought fit by them to be added to the said Bill which amendments were also then read in the House and refered to be further considered of afterwards and more fully and advisedly compared with those Laws which are already in force The Bill for continuation and perfecting of divers Statutes had its third reading and after some Speeches and Motions for some Reformations and Additions was passed upon the question without any such Reformation or Addition at all Five Bills were sent up to the Lords at two several times this day the first four being of no great moment by M r Treasurer and others of which the last was the Bill for the continuance and perfecting of certain Statutes and the fifth touching the Gaging of Casks and other Foreign Vessels was sent up by M r Comptroller and others which said Bill had passed the House this very Morning a little before it was sent up M r Tasborough one of the Committees in the Bills concerning Jurors and Freeholders shewed that the Committees have met and had conference together about the same Bill and having used also therein the privity and advices of the Judges and also of some of her Majesties Learned Council have thought good to make a new Bill for that purpose and so offered the same new Bill and prayed the present reading of the same which was thereupon then read accordingly And afterwards upon a further Motion the same was read again for the second reading and Ordered upon the question to be ingrossed M r Doctor Clark and Mr. Doctor Awberry do bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do pray Conference with some of this House in the Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers and in the Bill against Excess of Apparel this present day at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Council Chamber at the Court. Which being signified unto this House by Mr. Speaker It was Ordered thereupon that the former Committees in both the said Bills should attend their Lordships at the said time and place And the names of the Committees in both the said Bills were read by the Clerk And that Mr. Morrice one of the said Committees in the said Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers should shew unto their Lordships the great imperfections conceived by this House in the same Bill and also the reasons if their Lordships should require it and else not without any further Conference or reply unto any answer to be made by their Lordships unto the said Reasons of this House so as before to be rendred After which the aforesaid Doctors did bring from the Lords the Bill touching forcible Entries with amendments which lately passed this House and was sent up to their Lordships and thereupon the same Bill was referred over to be further considered of touching the same amendments unto Mr. Morrice Mr. Harries Mr. Atkins and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Harries who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon at four of the Clock in the Middle-Temple Hall Thomas Shuter and Humfrey Wall returned into this House Burgesses for the Borough of Lemster in the County of Hereford are for their special and necessary businesses licensed to depart On Tuesday the 25 th day of March it was Ordered upon the question that both the Learned Councel of the Lord of Warwick and of George Ognell do attend this House to Morrow in the Morning and that the Serjeant of this House do make the said Earl of Warwick privy unto the same Mr. Treasurer reported that he and the residue appointed by
who accordingly were admitted to their several places Two Bills also this Morning of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill for the better Assurance and Confirmation of the Jointure of the Lady Margaret Countess of Cumberland which was read prima vice On Thursday the first day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Assurance of certain Lands sold to Liste Cave and others was read primâ vice On Saturday the third day of March to which day the Parliament had been continued on Thursday foregoing Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being against Counterfeiting of Councellors and principal Officers hands was read primâ vice On Monday the 5 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being against Counterfeiting of Councellors and principal Officers hands was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossand 5 Martii introductae sunt literae procuratoriae Henrici Comitis Huntingdon in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Gulielmum Dominum Burleigh The saurarium Angliae Robertum Comitem Essex Vicecomitem Hereford ' Dominum Ferrers de Chartly Quod nota On Tuesday the 6 th day of March the Bill for the Assurance of Land sold to Lisle Cave was read tertiâ vice On Wednesday the 7 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued Retornatum est breve quo Johannes Salisburien ' Episcopus praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno There was also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons a Bill for the Naturalizing and making free of William Sidney Son of Sir Robert Sidney Knight Governor of Flushing and Dame Barbara his Wife and of Peregrine Wingfield Son and Heir of Sir John Wingfield Knight and Dame Susan Countess of Kent his Wife And this day also was one extraordinary or unusual Proxy returned from a spiritual Lord who constituted but one Proctor whereas usually no such Lord constituteth fewer than two which said Proxy is thus Entred in the begining of the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament 7 Martii introductae sunt literae procuratoriae Matthaei Dunelmensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Cantuariensem Episcopum On Thursday the 8 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill for Explanation and Confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Knight Attainted of High Treason Not long after this Bill upon the second reading had been committed to ingrossing according to a certainOrder formerly made by the Lords Francis Englefield Esquire appeared before them with one of the Learned Councel who were commanded to declare why an Act for Explanation and Confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Knight Attainted of High Treason should not pass And upon Allegations made by the said Learned Councel the Lords Commanded that they should set them down in writing and deliver them to the Attorney General and that on Friday they should attend on the Judges and the Queens Learned Councel at Serjeants-Inn and shew such Deeds of Conveyance as they made mention of before the Lords That the said Lords upon Answer of the Judges and Learned Councel might proceed in the said Bill as it should seem best to their Lordships On Saturday the 10 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for Naturalizing and making free of William Sidney the eldest Son of Sir Robert Sidney K t c. being read primâ vice the Lords gave in Commandment to M r Attorney General to bring on Monday certain Depositions remaining in the Exchequer concerning the Cause of Sir Francis Englefield after they had first heard the Opinion of the Judges which was delivered to the Lord Chief Justice of England On Monday the 12 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for restraining of Popish Recusants to some certain places of aboad was read tertia vice conclusa On Tuesday the 13 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning the Lands of Henry Lord Abergavenny deceased was read tertiâ vice conclusa The Lords at the Bishop of Worcesters Motion condescended to a Contribution for relief of such poor Souldiers as went begging in the Streets of London viz. That every Earl should give forty shillings every Bishop thirty shillings and every Baron twenty shillings And appointed the said Bishop and Lord Norris Collectors thereof and committed the bestowing thereof to the Earl of Essex and the Lord Willoughby of Eresby On Thursday the 15 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Lord Harowden was read primâ vice On Friday the 16 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment of which the first being against persons Outlawed and such as will not pay their Debts and Duties was read tertia vice conclusa And then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament in the usual form to Monday following On Monday the 19 th day of March the Bill touching the Lord Harowden was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum On Tuesday the 20 th day of March the Bill touching Sir Francis Englefield's Lands had its third reading and was concluded Four Bills were also this Forenoon sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second touching the sale of certain Mannors Lands and Tenements from Valentine Knightley Esq c. was read prima vice On Thursday the 22 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second concerning the Assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to Read Stafford Esquire and Mabell his Wife and to the Heirs of the said Read was read secunda vice On Saturday the 24 th day of March the Bill touching the Lord Harowden was upon the third reading concluded Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was concerning the lawful deprivation of Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London On Monday the 26 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been
fact therein or in the Election at all And that his Lordship would direct a Writ for chusing of another Burgess for the said Borough of Newtown in the stead of the said John Dudley And that his Lordship would in the said Writ insert the said Cause of misbehaviour so as before alledged Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Confirmation of the assurance unto certain Purchasers of Lands sold by Sir Richard Knightley Knight M r Valentine Knightley and M r Edward Knightley Esquires was upon the second reading committed unto M r Serjeant Yelverton Sir Henry Umpton M r Cradock and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill to take away the benefit of Clergy in some Cases was twice read and committed unto the former Committees in the last former Bill and M r Richard Brown Gentleman was added unto them who with the rest was appointed to meet at the same time and place as in the said last former Bill viz. to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Two other Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of the sale of the Lands of William Raven Gentleman made unto Lisle Cave and others was twice read and committed unto M r Heale M r Serjeant Yelverton Sir Henry Knivet M r Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall M r Vice-Chamberlain shewed that he and the residue of the Committees of this House for Conference with the Lords did meet together yesterday in the Afternoon according to the appointment of this House and that after many Speeches and Arguments gravely ' delivered by sundry of the said Committees the greater part of them did assent and agree unto the granting of a triple Subsidy and of six Fifteenths and Tenths to be yielded to her Majesty towards the provision against the great and imminent perils and dangers of this Realm The same triple Subsidy and six Fifteenths and Tenths to be levyed and paid in four years in a certain form which they had set down in Articles that is to say one intire Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths at one payment in the first year and one other intire Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths at one other payment in the second year and one intire Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths at two payments in the third and fourth years Which done he moved further to know the resolution of the House Whether it would please them to give liking to the said travel of the said Committees in the said Cause or that it might be their pleasures to resolve of any such other course therein as they may have Warrant to impart unto the Lords this Afternoon according to the promise of this House to the Lords Whereupon after many long and grave Speeches and Arguments by divers of the said Members of this House it was agreed by them all without any contradiction that the proportion should be a treble Subsidy and six Fifteenths and Tenths And the said Articles for the manner of payment being read by the Clerk of the House seemed for the most part to be well liked of Whereupon after some Motions to the Question M r Speaker dividing it into two several parts the one for the number of the said three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths and the other for the manner and time of levying and payment of the same three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths it was upon the same several questions severally resolved by the whole House the proportion to be a treble Subsidy and six Fifteenths and Tenths and the manner of paying and levying the same to be made in four years according to the said Articles thereof read And then were the said Committees appointed and authorized by this House to signify the said resolution of this House unto their Lordships in the Afternoon of this present day accordingly and to be reported unto their said Lordships by Sir Robert Cecill for that M r Vice-Chamberlain was then at that very instant very sharply grieved and pained with his infirmity of the Gout On Friday the 9 th day of March the Bill concerning Woollen-Cloths called Vesses c. was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Knolles Sir John Hart M r Recorder of London M r Wroth and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Sir John Harrington and Sir Thomas Wilkes are added to the former Committees in the Bill for Confirmation of Assurances unto certain Purchasors of Lands sold by Sir Richard Knightley K r M r Valentine Knightley and M r Edward Knightley Esquires appointed yesterday The Committees in the Bill touching Recusants nominated on Wednesday the 28 th day of February foregoing are appointed to meet in this House at two of the Clock this Afternoon The Committees in the Bill also for Naturalizing of Samuel Saltingstall and others nominated on Monday the sixth day of this instant March soregoing are appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill concerning Spinners and Weavers was read the first time The Bill for the Confirmation of the Joynture of the Lady Margaret Countess of Cumberland is deferred till to Morrow to be further dealt in Sir Robert Cecill reporteth at large the Message of this House yesterday by him and the residue of the Committees of this House delivered unto their Lordships and their Lordships good acceptation of the same Which done after sundry other speeches of divers Members of this House it was resolved upon the Question that the former Committees of this House for the Subsidy their names being then read by the Clerk of this House should meet in this House at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present day for the setting down of Articles for the drawing of the Bill for the granting of the Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths to be paid in four years according to the former resolution of this House therein The Bill against springing Uses and Perpetuities was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy Council being of this House all the Knights of the Shires returned unto this House M r Cradock and others who were appointed to meet in this House upon Tuesday at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Richard Hutton Gentleman one of the Burgesses returned for the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey is upon a Motion made by M r Recorder of London and also after some Report made by M r Speaker of the opinion and pleasure of the Lord Keeper in that Case adjudged upon the question to be a Member of the House
Arthur Hatch for which purpose a Bill was ready drawn and brought by M r Attorney General containing a form of composition betwixt them to be ratified if it shall be thought good by Parliament Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in postmeridianum tempus hodierni diei horâ tertiâ at which time the Bill only for the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths was read secundâ vice On Friday the 16 th day of December Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths was read tertiâ vice expedit Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William Knolles and others of which the first being the Bill touching the School at Seavenoake was returned from the House of Commons with their allowance thereof The Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for the enjoying of the Rectory and Parsonage of South-Molton in the County of Devon for certain years reserving the usual rent was read prima vice On Saturday the 17 th day of December Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for the enjoying of the Rectory and Parsonage of South-Molton c. was read secundâ vice and referr'd to the same Committees that were formerly appointed on Monday the 12 th day of this instant December foregoing and the Earl of Worcester and Bishop of London were added to them Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm The Bill Intituled An Act for the enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esq for the payment of his Debts and Legacies was returned into the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the first of the Committees who said the Committees had heard the Councel Learned on both parts as well on the part of M r Mollineux as against him and finding some matter of difficulty in the Bill the Councel desired to be heard openly in the House On Monday the 19 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons by M r Attorney and D r Stanhop Certain Amendments were offered to the House by the Committees upon the second Bill concerning Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward c. And the same Amendments were twice read Whereupon both the Bill and the said Amendments were commanded forthwith to be ingrossed which was accordingly done and presently read the third time and sent to the House of Commons by M r Attorney and M r D r Stanhop Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 15 th day of this instant December foregoing The Committees upon the Bill Intituled An Act for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars and An Act for the relief of the Poor returned the same to the House with some Amendments which were presently twice read and commanded to be ingrossed The Amendments in the Bill concerning Labourers formerly ingrossed in Parchment at which exception was taken by the House of Commons and for that cause returned without their allowance because the Amendments were ingrossed in Parchment which according to the Custom and use of the House should have been Paper and thereupon the Lords now commanded them to be written in Paper Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William Knolles and others of which the first was the Bill for the confirmation and establishment of the deprivation of divers Bishops in the beginning of her Majesties Reign returned into the Upper House with some Amendments which said Amendments were thrice read And the second being for the establishment of the Bishoprick of Norwich and the Possessions of the same against a certain pretended concealed title made thereunto was read prima vice Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 12 th day Saturday the 14 th day on Monday the 16 th day and on Thursday the 17 th day of January next ensuing Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm was read primâ vice On Tuesday the 20 th day of December Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars was read tertiâ vice The Amendments of the Bill concerning Labourers was presented to the House written in paper Vide concerning this Bill on the day immediately foregoing The three Bills aforesaid were sent down to the House of Commons for their consideration of the several Amendments and Provisoes added unto them by M r Attorney General and M r D r Stanhop Two Bills of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last concerning Labourers was returned with the allowance of the Amendments The Bill lastly for the encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury and others and the two Lords Chief Justices the Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Attorney General to attend their Lordships who were appointed to meet at the great Council Chamber at the Court at Whitehall on Wednesday the 11 th day of January next following at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae adjornavit praesens Parliamentum usque in 11. diem Januarii proae ' sequentem horâ octavâ Nota That this Adjournment although but for the space of twenty one days was by her Majesties Commandment being personally present as may be directly gathered out of those words ex mandato Dominae Reginae notwithstanding the word praesentis be omitted here as in divers other places also of these Journals of the Queens time upon the like occasion for otherwise if her said Majesty had not been personally present in the Upper House this Adjournment ought to have been by Commission under the Great Seal as a like Adjournment had been from Monday the 21 th day of December unto Thursday the 4 th day of February then next ensuing in the Parliament in Anno 27 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1584. Nota also That at the end of this Adjournment the two Houses met in their several places without any pomp or state and also fell to the reading of such Bills and perfecting of such ordinary businesses as they had left unperfected at the time of the aforesaid Adjournment Which said new meeting of the Lords in the Upper House is Entred as followeth in the
Trust touching Lands given to Charitable uses was returned to the House by the Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees with some Amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added which were twice read and thereupon Commandment given that the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso engrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading Upon a Motion by the Earl Marshal that the Committees in the Bill against lewd and wandring persons who were appointed Yesterday had not convenient time this Morning to perfect the said Bill according to the Order of the House agreed upon Yesterday their Lordships appointed the said Committees to meet again about the same to Morrow Morning before the House sit The Bill entituled An Act for the encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm was returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the first of the Committees And because it seemed to all the Committees appointed for this Bill together with the Judges that notwithstanding the Conference with divers selected persons of the House of Commons this Bill could not proceed Order was given to the Judges and especially to the Lord Chief Justice to draw a new Bill Whereupon this new Bill following was brought into the House The Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry was read primâ vice The Bill against carrying of Pelts c. was returned into the House by the Earl Marshal Excuse was made by the Lord Admiral for the Earl of Hereford's absence for want of health The like excuse by the Lord Chandois for the Lord La Ware The Earl Marshal signified unto the House that the Lord Mordant and the Lord Sheffeild have leave of her Majesty for their absence On Friday the 27 th day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to prohibit the carrying of Herrings beyond the Seas was read secundâ vice but no mention that it was committed The Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry was read secundâ vice Certain Amendments upon this Bill were drawn by the Lord Chief Justice and being allowed by the House were also twice read and thereupon the Bill with the said Amendments was commanded presently to be engrossed The Bill touching the making of short broad course coloured Cloths in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex was upon the second reading committed unto the Earl of Shrewsbury Lord Viscount Bindon the Lord Bishop of London the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain the Lord Zouch the Lord Wharton the Lord Darcie of Chich and the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Baron M r Justice Owen and M r Baron Evers to attend their Lordships Two Bills lastly had each of them their third reading of which the first being the Bill to reform deceits and breaches of Trust touching Lands given to charitable uses with some Amendments was returned to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Stanhop for their consideration of the said Amendments The Lord Treasurer took his place this day as Baron of Burleigh between the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Compton The Lord Admiral took his place as Earl of Nottingham between the Earl of Lincoln and the Lord Viscount Bindon And the Lord Chamberlain his place as Baron of Hunsdon between the Lord Chandois and the Lord S t John of Bletso On Saturday the 28 th day of January the Bill for the lawful making of Bayes c. The Bill to restrain the excessive making of Malt and one other of no great moment were each of them read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and Doctor Carew The Bill for establishing a Jointure to Anne Lady Wentworth was read secunda vice and committed unto the Earl of Essex Lord Marshal the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Zouch the Lord Cobham the Lord Sandes the Lord Chandois and the Lord Compton and M r Baron Clerke and M r Baron Evers or either of them to attend their Lordships The Bill lastly for confirmation of Statutes Merchants acknowledged in the Town Corporate of Newcastle upon Tine was read secundâ vice But no mention is made in the Original Journal-Book that this Bill was committed for at the next sitting viz. Die Lunae 30 o die Januarii the same Bill was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Carew and Doctor Stanhop On Monday the 30 th day of January to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for retailing Broakers and other Pawn-takers was returned to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees And because the Committees found many defects therein so that they thought the same unfit to proceed they therefore together with the said Bill presented a new Bill intituled as the former which was read primâ vice The Bill touching the making of short broad course coloured Cloths which was committed on Friday the 27 th day of this instant January foregoing was returned to the House by the first of the Committees and therewithal because the same was by the said Committees thought defective a new Bill of the same title was likewise presented Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of Statutes Merchant acknowledged in the Town Corporate of Newcastle upon Tine was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by D r Carew and D r Stanhop Seven Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the fourth being the Bill against lewd and wandering persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners was returned with the allowance of an Amendment which was added by the Lords Sir Robert Cecill and other Knights and Burgesses that brought the seven Bills last mentioned and moved the House for a Conference concerning the Bill sent from their Lordships Intituled An Act for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars to which Conference the Lords assented and the time and place appointed to Morrow in the Afternoon at the Great Council Chamber at the Court at Whitehall and the same Committees that were formerly appointed on Monday the 16 th day of this instant January foregoing and the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Rutland the Lord Zouch and the Lord Cobham were added unto them The Bill Intituled An Act for the enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esq to sell the Lands c. was returned to the House by the Earl of Rutland the first of the Committees or Arbitrators with Amendments which
same Amendments at all because the Indorsement thereof is subscribed in the Ingrossed Bill it self under the Indorsement of this House in the same Bill Whereupon some of the Members of this House charging the said Clerk that by his default and Error this House was charged by the Lords with the said imputation of Levity the said Clerk then humbly prayed that some of the Ancient Parliament men of this House might have the Examination of the said Cause how it had been proceeded in and to report such the default and errour of the Clerk if any such were The House thereupon resolved to hear the said Clerk speak himself Which done the said Clerk of this House shewed that the Clerk of the Upper House coming into the Exercise of his Office but in this present Sessions of Parliament the two Bills mentioned by M r Attorney to have been sent to this House from the Lords with Amendments in Parchment and unto which no Exceptions had been taken by this House he the said Clerk of this House did in some friendly and courteous intention towards the said Clerk of the said Upper House seek to salve up those mistakings for the time only in some part of them but not in the whole and so to make the said Clerk of the said Upper House afterwards acquainted with the due Order and Form of the Reformation therein against other times afterwards in like Cases and had so made one of the Clerks of the said Clerk of the Upper House privy of the right course and manner of the sending down such Amendments in Paper and not in Parchment and that also without any Indorsement yet nevertheless the said Amendment in the said Bill so returned as afore said was eftsoons both sent down in Parchment and also subscribed or Indorsed with Soit baille aux Communes contrary to the said advice and instruction of the said Clerk of this House so as aforesaid given to one of the Clerks of the said Clerk of the Upper House And did further aver unto this House that the said three Bills being passed in this House Ingrossed in Parchment are the Bills of this House and not the Bills of the Lords though sent up by this House to their Lordships and do still remain the Bills of this House And that if their Lordships would have any words of Amendment either taken out of the same Bill or put into it or else otherwise altered or changed in it then must such words be set down in Paper by their Lordships and annexed to the Bill shewing the line and place of the line in the Bill where such words should be either taken out or put in and then their Lordships to subscribe or Indorse under the superscription or Indorsement of this House in the same Bill A ceste Bille avecque les amendments à mesme le Bille annexe les Seigneurs sent assentus But if their Lordships do add any new matter or Proviso to the said Bill which was not before in the same Bill then must all that be ingrossed in Parchment and affiled to the said Bill and the said Bill must be subscribed or Indorsed under the subscription or Indorsement of this House in the same Bill A ceste Bille avecque le schedule à mesme le Bille annexe les Seigneurs sont assentus or A ceste Bille avecque une provision annexe les Seigneurs sont assentus if it be a Proviso and not a Schedule to the body of the Bill Then also must the said Schedule or Proviso so Ingrossed in Parchment be annexed to the said Bill and be subscribed and Indorsed by their Lordships under such Schedule or Proviso Soit baille aux Communes and so be sent down to this House passed by their Lordships which done the said words in Paper must be taken out of the same Bill or else put into the same Bill only by this House in the said Lines and places of Lines according to the direction of the Lords said Amendments in Paper And the said Schedule or Proviso being three times read and passed in this House upon the question the same Schedule or Proviso must be subscribed and Indorsed by this House under their Lordships said Indorsement thereof A ceste Schedule les Communes sont assentus if it be a Schedule or A ceste provision les Communes sont assentus if it be a Proviso Which Course being so then also approved by some of the Ancientest now Parliament Members of this House It was thought meet that all the Members of this House being of her Majesties Privy Council together which the best sort of the rest of the Members of this House accompanied with the Serjeants at Law which are of this House should be presently sent to their Lordships from this House without carrying up any Bill at all and to signify unto their Lordships in the name of this whole House That as this House had not in any manner of sort erred in their said returning unto their Lordships the said Bill and Amendments in Parchment to have had the same done in Paper and without any Subscription or Indorsement at all to the end this House might by Warrant thereof have inserted the same Amendments into that their own ingrossed Bill according to the ancient Order of Parliament in such Cases formerly used by this House So this House doth take it self to be very hardly dealt with to be taxed by their Lordships with imputation of Levity and reproached by other unusual and unnecessary terms delivered unto them this day in the said Message from their Lordships And then upon some further Motion it was resolved that M r Secretary accompanied with M r Chancellor of the Exchequer and others should be thereupon sent to their said Lordships presently for that purpose Which done the said M r Secretary putting the House in mind that the Lords had sent down to this House three Bills at their time of sending down their said Message to this House Moved that this House would be pleased to accompany this their Message unto their Lordships imposed upon him with the Bill which this day passed in this House for Confirmation of the Subsidy of the Clergy Which being yielded unto the Amendments of the Lords in Paper annexed to the said ingrossed Bill of this House Intituled An Act for the Explanation of the Statute made in the first year of her Majesties Reign concerning Labourers were three times read by the Clerk and agreed upon the Question and presently inserted into the said ingrossed Bill accordingly and both Bills were thereupon sent up to their Lordships by the said M r Secretary and others together with the said Message of this House and at their returning back again the said M r Secretary signified unto this House that he had delivered their said Message unto the Lords according to their charge laid upon him therein But what was their Lordships Answer is most negligently and inconsiderately omitted by Fulk Onslow Esq
this House Which being done and the said M r Attorney and M r Doctor Stanhop gone out of the House It was resolved that a convenient number of this House should presently attend their Lordships in the said Conference And the same being afterwards so signified unto the said M r Attorney and M r Doctor Stanhop who were called again into this House to receive that answer all the Privy Council being Members of this House Sir William Moore M r Fulk Grevil and others being Members of this House were presently thereupon sent up unto their Lordships accordingly The Bill for the reviving continuing and Explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Mariners and Souldiers was upon the second reading committed unto the Committees in the Bill against the excess of Apparel who were appointed yesterday foregoing and to meet in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock this Afternoon and M r Arnold was now added to the same Committee The Amendments of the Committees in the Bill for taking away of Clergy from Robbers of Houses in the day-time though no body be in the House at the time of the Robbery done being twice read the Bill was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill to prohibit the carrying of Herrings was upon the second reading committed unto M r Walgrave M r Oldsworth M r Edward Lewkenor M r Wiseman and others who were appointed to confer presently in the Committee Chamber of this House M r Comptroller and the residue returning from the Lords M r Secretary shewed that in the debate of the ..... but touching what business this Report was made by M r Secretary or what that business was is evey negligently omitted by Fulk Onslow Esq Clerk of the House of Commons in the Original Journal-Book it self of that House although a whole blank Page be there left with intention doubtless at first to have inserted it And therefore it shall not be amiss here in some sort to set it down partly out of some former passages of the said Journal Book and partly out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House And first for the business it self it was grounded upon some distaste that Sir Walter Raleigh and other Members of the House of Commons had received from the Carriage of the Lords towards them in not rising unto them upon the delivery of an Answer to a certain Message brought up by them to their Lordships on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January foregoing as is there set down at large To which said distast of theirs the Lords did this present Friday being the 20 th day of the same Month in the Conference had between the Committees of either House desire to make satisfaction according to the resolution had by their Lordships in their own House Yesterday being Thursday Which said Resolution or Answer of their Lordships was as it should seem now reported unto the House of Commons by M r Secretary Cecill upon his return with the other Committees from the said Conference and is set down upon the said Thursday being the 19 th day of the said instant January in the above-mentioned Original Journal-Book of the Upper House much to the purpose and effect following viz. That their Lordships Answer was that in the delivery of the said Message unto the said Sir Walter Raleigh and others the said Members of the House of Commons upon Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January last past their Lordships had not given unto them the said Members of the said House any just distast or therein offered unto the said House of Commons it self any indignity at all but that their Lordships had therein observed the ancient Order of Parliament which they were fully satisfied to be as followeth viz. That when any Bills or Messages are brought from the House of Commons to be presented to the Upper House the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords are to arise from their places and go down to the Bar there to meet such as come from the House of Commons and from them to receive in that place their Messages or Bills But contrariwise when any Answer is delivered by the Lord Keeper in the name and behalf of the House to such Knights and Burgesses as come from the House of Commons 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 hereupon the House of Commons was satisfied and the same form was afterwards kept accordingly Nota That this little foregoing Passage only is supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and now what ensueth is again inserted out of that of the House of Commons On Saturday the 21 th day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last was the Bill for restraint of carrying of Corn or Grain out of this Realm at certain times M r Francis Goodwin one of the Committees in the Bill for establishing certain Lands given by Will for the maintenance of the High-ways at Ailesbury in the County of Buckingham who were appointed on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant January foregoing brought in the Bill with some Amendments which being twice read the Bill was upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed M r Walgrave one of the Committees in the Bill to prohibite the carrying of Herrings beyond the Seas who were appointed Yesterday shewed the meeting of the Committees and their Amendments of the Bill which Amendments being twice read the Bill was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill that the Plaintiffs shall pay the Defendants their Costs by lying in Prison for want of Bayl if the Action pass against the Plaintiffs and for the punishment of wrongful Arrests upon forged Warrants was read the first time M r Sollicitor one of the Committees in the Bill for the reviving continuance explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes who were appointed on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant January foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and some their Amendments in the same Bill which Amendments being twice read to the House it was after many Motions and Speeches for recommitment of the same Bill Ordered upon the Division of the House in the doubtfulness of two former Questions with the advantage of thirty Voices viz. with the No an hundred twenty four with the Yea ninety one that the said Bill should not be recommitted And afterwards upon another Question it was Ordered that the said Bill should be ingrossed The Lord Sandes and Sir Walter Sandes with their Councel were present here in this House at the Bar and heard at large touching the Bill for the Confirmation of the Jointure of Christian Lady Sandes which had been read the second time and committed on
brought him even made him one of the greatest Princes in Europe when her Majesties Forces there left him how again he was fain to Ransom a servile Peace at our enemies the Spaniards hands with dishonourable and servile Conditions For the Low-Countries how by her aid from a confused Government and State she brought them to an Unity in Counsel and defended them with such success in her Attempts against the greatest power of the Spaniards Tyrannical designs which have so much gauled him that how many desperate practices have been both devised consented to and set on foot by commandment of the late King his Father I need not shew you neither trouble you with Arguments for proof thereof being confessed by them that should have been Authors themselves But de mortuis nil nisi bonum I would be loth to speak of the dead much more to slander the dead I have seen her Majesty wear at her Girdle the price of her blood I mean Jewels which have been given to her Physicians to have done that unto her which I hope God will ever keep from her but she hath rather worn them in Triumph than for the price which hath not been greatly valuable Then he fell to perswade us because new occasions were offered of consultations to be provident in provision of means for our own defence and safety seeing the King of Spain means to make England miserable by beginning with Ireland neither doth he begin with the Rebels but even with the Territory of the Queen her self He shewed that Treasure must be our means for Treasure is the sinews of War Nota That the substance of this Speech is only here inserted as it was afterwards repeated in the said House upon Tuesday the third day of November which next ensued by Sir Robert Cecill her Majesties principal Secretary who had done it to satisfy divers Members of the same who could not get into the Upper House to hear it this first day of the Parliament as is aforesaid Now follow the Names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions out of the Original Journal-Book of the said House As soon as the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech and that such of her Majesties Privy-Council and others of the House of Commons as had privately got in and heard it were departed down to their own House Thomas Smith Esq Clerk of the Upper House read the Names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Knight Lord Chief Justice Francis Gawdy one of the Justices of the Kings Bench George Kingsmell one of the Justices of the Common Pleas D r Carew and D r Stanhop Receivors of Petitions for Gascoign and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir William Perriam Knight Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesley one of the Justices of the Common Pleas D r Swale and D r Howard They who will deliver Petitions to deliver them within six dayes Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Sussex Lord Marshal of England the Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and Steward of the Queens House the Earl of Hartford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch and the Lord Cobham All these or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants at their leisure to meet and hold their place at the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoign and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles The Earl of Oxford High Chamberlain of England the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Le Ware the Lord Lumley and the Lord Burleigh All these or four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor when their leisure did serve them to meet and hold their place in the Treasurers Chamber Then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament which is set down in the Original Journal-Book in manner and form following Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Veneris proximè futurum viz. 30 m diem Octobris Nota That although there be some short mention made of the Presentment of the Speaker of the House of Commons in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House yet because it is very imperfectly and briefly Entred there I have therefore supplied it somewhat largely out of a private Journal of the House of Commons On Friday the 30 th day of October about one of the Clock in the Afternoon her Majesty came by Water to the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House and being Apparelled in her Royal Robes and placed in her Chair of State divers also of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being present the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons who had attended at the Door of the said House with John Crooke Esq Recorder of London their Speaker Elect the full space of half an hour were at last as many as conveniently could let in and the said Speaker was led up to the Bar or Rayl at the lower end of the same House by the hands of Sir William Knolles Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer and presented to her Majesty to whom after he had made three low Reverences he spake in effect as followeth MOST Sacred and Mighty Sovereign Upon your Majesties Commandment your most dutiful and loving Commons the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Lower House have chosen me your Majesties most humble Servant being a Member of the same House to be their Speaker but finding the weakness of my self and my ability too weak to undergo so great a burthen I do most humbly beseech your Sacred Majesty to continue your most gracious favour towards me and not to lay this charge so unsupportable upon my unworthy and unable Self And that it would please you to Command your Commons to make a new Election of another more able and more sufficient to discharge the great service to be appointed by your Majesty and your Subjects And I beseech your most excellent Majesty not to interpret my denial herein to proceed from any unwillingness to perform all devoted dutiful service but rather out of your Majesties Clemency and Goodness to interpret the same to proceed from that inward fear and trembling which hath ever possessed me when heretofore with most gracious Audience it hath pleased your Majesty to Licence me to speak before you For I know and must acknowledge that
Committees upon the Bill for Musters and Souldiers who were appointed to meet this Afternoon on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant November foregoing have upon a Motion to the House appointed another meeting about the same upon Thursday Morning next being the 19 th day of this instant November before the House sit Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for establishing of the Remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Kettlebie Esq upon Francis Kettlebie was read the first time Upon reading whereof it was Ordered by the Lords that Andrew Kettlebie Esq and Jane his Wife whom the Bill concerneth should be heard in the House either by themselves or by any other person or persons sufficiently deputed and appointed by them in that behalf what they could answer and alledge concerning the same And the Gentleman-Usher was appointed to give them present notice of this Order A Motion was made again by some of the Lords touching William Hogan Prisoner in the Fleet that he might be sent for out of the said Prison and brought into the House before the Lords to the end he might make relation of his Cause that thereupon such Order might be speedily taken with him as should by the Court be found meet and agreeable to the priviledge of the said Court. Upon which Motion it was debated by what course the said Hogan should be brought out of the Fleet being then in Execution whether by Warrant to be directed from the Lords to the Lord Keeper requiring him to grant forth a Writ in her Majesties name for the bringing of the said Hagan from thence or by immediate direction and order from the House to the Gentleman-Usher or Serjeant at Arms without any such Writ Which being put to the question by the Lord Keeper it was resolved and Ordered by the general consent of the House that it should be done by immediate direction and Order from the House without any such Writ as aforesaid And accordingly Ordered that the said William Hogan should be sent for and brought before the Lords by the Gentleman-Usher into the said House of Parliament upon Thursday next being the 19 th day of this instant November by nine of the Clock in the Morning Vide touching this business on Monday the 23 th day of this instant November ensuing Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis viz. 19 diem Novembris On Thursday the 19 th day of November the Bill for Breed and encrease of Horses of Service within the Realm was read primâ vice Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was to avoid and prevent divers misdemeanors in lewd and idle persons And the third was for confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of Letters Patents made by her Highness to others Touching which Bill see at large on Thursday the 17 th day of December following The Lord Mordant not able to attend for want of Health certified by the Lord Compton This day William Hogan was brought from the Fleet into the House before the Lords who having made as he was required to do relation of his Arrest and of the time and parties that Arrested him declaring that he was Arrested by the Under-Sheriff of the County of Surrey and others assisting him upon Saturday before the beginning of the Parliament which began on the Tuesday following and that it was known to the said Under-Sheriff that he was her Majesties Ordinary Servant and moreover that he thought Tolkerne was not privy to his Arrest at that time contrary to the priviledge of that Court Upon the offer and Petition of the said William Hogan himself to pay the principal Debt of fifty Pounds it was Resolved and Ordered by the Lords that the said William Hogan should enter into sufficient to abide the Order and Judgment of the Earl of Cumberland the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Zouch for such satisfaction to be made of the debt of fifty pounds any costs and charges as by the said Lords should be thought fit the Bond to be taken to the said Lords and thereupon be discharged out of Prison and out of Execution And likewise that the Warden of the Fleet should be free from any trouble damage or molestation for discharge of the said William Hogan It was likewise Ordered by the Court 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 before the Lords in the House on Saturday next being the 21 th day of this instant November by nine of the Clock in the Morning Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 23 th day of this instant November ensuing On Saturday the 21 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Assurance of Lands was read tertiâ vice Upon the reading of which said Bill sundry Objections were made against some points of the same by the Lord Bishop of London and divers others of the Lords insomuch that the House was divided in opinion 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 be rather reformed than by the question to put it to the hazard of being rejected By which occasion it was thought meet first to propound another question viz. whether the said Bill having been referr'd to Committees at the second reading and been by them returned with some Amendments and thereupon appointed to be engrossed may now after the engrossing 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 falling out to be equal upon the accompting of them by the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Grey appointed by the Lords for that purpose it was adjudged that the Voices of the negative part which were against the new 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 semper praesumitur 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 A Motion was made by the Lord Keeper and approved by the Lords that the antient course of the House may be observed hereafter in certifying the excuses of such Lords as should be absent from the House upon reasonable occasion which ought to be done by one of their 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
by Thomas Holcroft Henry Cavendish and William Cavendish Esquires to be annext to the Bill Intituled An Act for Confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and others It was at last agreed that the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas calling unto them the rest of the Judges and M r Attorney General should draw some new Provisoes such as they should think indifferent for all Parties and meet to be annexed to the said Bill and should present the same to the Lords to Morrow in the Morning before their Conference with the House of Commons about the said Bill Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant December ensuing The Lord Keeper signified unto their Lordships that he received Commandment from her Majesty to let them understand her Pleasure to be that the Parliament should end upon Thursday the 17 th day or Friday the 18 th day of this instant December at the furthest to the end their Lordships may repair home into their Countries against Christmas And therefore she required them to imploy and spend that time which remaineth in matters concerning the publick and not in private Causes Memorandum Quod die decimo praedicto viz. dicti Mensis Decembris Those of the House of Commons that were appointed to confer with some of the Lords upon the Message lately sent from the said House signifying their desire of Conference for some matter touching the Honour of both Houses did make known unto the Lords of the Committees nominated for that purpose that the occasion of such their Message was for that as they were informed M r Attorney General had preferr'd a Bill into the Star-Chamber against one Belgrave a Member of the House of Commons for and concerning some matter of misdemeanour pretended to be done towards the Earl of Huntington a Lord of the Upper House And therefore they desired this mutual Conference letting their Lordships understand that to the preferring of the said Bill they conceived just exceptions might be taken by them for two respects First That Belgrave being a Member of the House of Commons was thereby vexed and molested during his Service in the time of Parliament contrary to the Honour and Priviledge of the House saying that no Member of that House ought by any such means in time of his Service to be distracted either in body or mind The other because in the said Bill preferr'd by M r Attorney General who had been heretofore Speaker of that House and therefore as they thought ought to have more regard to the honour and liberty of the same certain words and clauses were inserted which were taken to be prejudicial and derogatory to the honour of the said House And therefore they desired that the Lords would peruse and consider of the said Bill Whereupon the said Bill being offered to be read and for as much as it appeared that it was not an authentick Bill testified by the hand of the Clerk of the Star-Chamber as had been meet the Lords thought it not meet though otherwise they were willing to have it read nor agreeable to the proceeding of such a Court that the said Bill or Scroll shall be received to reading And therefore with a Message to that effect were pleased to send it down again to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Yelverton and M r D r Hone who finding the House risen before they came brought the said Bill back again Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 14 th day of this instant December following On Friday the 11 th day of December the Bill concerning Captains Souldiers and other in the Queens Services in the Wars was returned to the House by the Lord Steward with certain Amendments and a Proviso thought meet by the Committees whose names see on Thursday the 12 th day of November foregoing as also on Tuesday the 8 th day of this instant December last past which Amendments and Provisoes were presently twice read and thereupon the Bill Commanded to be ingrossed The Bill for maintenance of the Navy encrease of Mariners c. which was committed on Monday the 7 th day of this instant December foregoing although the mention thereof as being of little moment be there purposely omitted was returned to the House by the Lord Treasurer the first of the Committees with certain Amendments which were presently twice read Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the two last were one for the Assurance of the Parsonage of the Vicaridge of Rotherston in the County of Chester and a Scholars Room in the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxon of the Foundation of K. H. 8. by the Dean and Chapter of the said Cathedral Church to Thomas Venables Esq and his Heirs for ever And the other for the Augmentation of Rachel Wife of Edward Nevil in the Counties of Kent both which Bills were read primâ vice Memorandum A Proviso being drawn by the Judges for the Bill for Confirmation of Grants made by her Majesty c. as by the Court was Yesterday appointed the same was presented to the House by the Lord Treasurer the second of the Committees testified by M r Attorney General that both Parties viz. the Earl of Shrewsbury and Thomas Holcroft Esq c. like of it and the same was read primâ vice and Conference had immediately with the Committees of the House of Commons in the Outward Chamber Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant December following The Bill before-mentioned sent down Yesterday by M r Serjeant Yelverton and D r Hone was sent by them again with the same Message and moreover to signifie unto them that the Lords are ready to have Conference with them Whereunto the House of Commons returned Answer that for the Conference they are ready to meet with the Lords forthwith And concerning the Bill they will do what shall be fit Vide Concerning this on Thursday the 17 th of December ensuing On Saturday the 12 th day of December Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Secretary Cecill M r Secretary Herbert and others which were each of them read primâ vice of which the first was for reformation of abuses in Sheriffs and other their inferiour Officers for not duly executing Writs of Proclamation upon Exigents according to the Statute of 31 Eliz. And the second was the Bill for prohibiting Fairs and Markets to be holden on the Sunday Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Grant of four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read primâ vice Vide concerning this Bill on Monday the 14 th day and on Tuesday the 15 th day of this instant December ensuing The Lords and those of the House of Commons not having time yesterday to
were each of them read secundâ vice But no mention is made either of their Commitment or engrossing the supposed cause or reason of which omissions see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing The Paper or Scroll concerning Belgrave was this day returned from the House of Commons subscribed by the Clerk of the Star-Chamber and excuse made by them for not sending the same at the first Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 10 th day of this instant December foregoing Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum 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 the Augmentation of the Jointure of Rachell Wife of Edward Nevill of Berling in the County of Kent was read secundâ vice But no mention is made either of the Commitment or engrossing of the same the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing The Bill concerning the erecting of a Harbour and Bay in the North part of Devon c. was returned to the House by the Lord Steward with one Amendment which was presently twice read The Bill prohibiting Fairs and Markets to be holden on Sunday was read secundâ vice and Committed But in respect that all the Commitments of Bills this Parliament were of one and the same nature wherein the Judges were always appointed to attend the Lords Committees and never nominated as Joint Committees with them as see more at large discussed on Saturday the 7 th day of November foregoing therefore the said Committees names are in this place as in divers others purposely omitted as being matter of no great moment yet none of the Judges were appointed to attend upon the Lords Committees in this present last above-mentioned Bill but only the Attorney General Upon Motion made by 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 Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 19 th day of this instant December ensuing The Councel as well of the Company of Plaisterers as Painters were appointed to be heard in the House to Morrow in the Afternoon Vide touching this business on Monday the 18 th day of this instant December following On Tuesday the 15 th day of December Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the erecting and making a Harbour and Bay on the North part of Devon in the River of Severn for the Safeguard of Men and Shipping and to the publick good of the Common-Wealth was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons for their considerations of the Amendments by D r Stanhop D r Swale and D r Hone. The Bill for the Grant of four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertiâ vice expedit Nota That whereas in the Parliament which was begun and holden at Westminster in Anno 35 Regin Eliz. Anno Domini 1592. The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons were not drawn without much and long dispute both amongst themselves and with the Lords to yield unto the Grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths being a greater Gift than had been before ever given unto her Majesty and that the same was then also assented unto in respect of the great dangers were newly threatned to her Majesty from Rome and Spain with caution and promise nevertheless that it should not be drawn into Precedent for future times Yet in the next Parliament which ensued in an 39 Regin Eliz. Anno Domini 1596. although none of the said imminent dangers which had been feared in the above-mentioned thirty fifth Year of her Majesties Reign had to that time come into any real Execution the House of Commons was notwithstanding again drawn to yield unto the same proportion of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths to be paid also to her Majesty within a shorter time And now lastly in this present Parliament in an 43 44 Regin ejusdem Anno Domini 1601. the said House was finally drawn in respect chiefly of the troubles of Ireland where the Spaniard had set footing to present unto her Highness the extraordinary and great Gift of four Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths The Bill whereof did this present Tuesday being the 15 th day of this instant December pass the Upper House upon the third reading as it had formerly passed the House of Commons on Saturday the 5 th day of this instant Month foregoing and had been then sent up unto the Lords by M r Comptroller and others although the sending up thereof at the said time be very negligently omitted by Thomas Smith Esq Clerk of the Upper House in the Original Journal-Book of the said House From all which matters lastly compared together this one Thesis or Conclusion may be drawn That whatsoever the Subject doth once yield unto may be afterwards advanced but seldom falleth The Bill for Naturalizing certain persons born beyond the Seas was read secundâ vice The Bill for Confirmation of the Subsidy of the Clergy was read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice Memorandum That at the second and third reading of the said Subsidy the body of the Grant was omitted to be read according to the accustomed manner and only the Preface and Confirmation of the Grant were read And the Bill was sent to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Yelverton M r Doctor Stanhop and M r Doctor 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 the Order of the Court enlarged and set at liberty Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 19 th day of this instant December following Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam post Meridiem hujus instantis diei About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords being Assembled the Bill for Naturalizing of certain persons born beyond the Seas was read tertiâ vice expedit Eight Bills were brought up to the 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 Gun Metal Iron Oar Iron Mine and Iron Shot were each of them read primâ vice On Wednesday the 16 th day of December the Bill for re-edifying repairing and maintaining of two Bridges of the River of Eden near the City of Carlisle in Cumberland was read primâ secundâ vice
in the old and the new On Thursday the 10 th day of December the Bill touching Silk-Weavers c. was read the second time and committed unto the Knights and Citizens for London the Citizens for York Bristoll Norwich and Canterbury Mr. Barrington M r Johnson and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Johnson a Committee in the Bill for Assize of Fuel brought in the Bill amended in some parts by the Committees and delivered it in The Amendments in the Bill touching the Assize of Fuel were twice read and the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching the taking away of Gavelkind Custom in Kent was read the third time M r Francis Moore said He thought the Bill a very idle and frivolous Bill and injurious for if a Man take a Wise by the Custom she shall have the Moiety but now if we make it go according to the Common Law she shall have but the third part So if the Father commit a Felony and be Hanged the Son shall not lose his Inheritance because the Custom is The Father to the Bough the Son to the Plough which at Common Law he shall lose M r Serjeant Harris said I think this Bill a very good Bill for it defeats a Custom which was first devised as a punishment and plague unto the Country For when the Conqueror came in the reason of this Custom was to make a decay of the great Houses of the antient Britains For if a Man of eight hundred pound per Annum had had eight Children it must be divided into eight parts And then if these also had Children subdivided again usque in non quantum whereas if it had gone to one by the Common Law it would still have flourished c. M r Bois among many reasons shewed that it would in Kent be a great loss to the Queen of her Subsidy for by reason of these Sub-divisions there were many ten pound men And whosoever knows the State of our Country shall find more by under ten pound men than above come to the Queen And now if these being divided in several hands should now go according to the Common Law this would make the Queen a great loser Being put to the question the No was the greater yet the I I I. would needs go forth and upon division it appeared the I I I. were sixty seven and the No a hundred thirty eight and so the Bill was rejected The Bill for suppressing of Alehouses and Tipling-Houses was read the second time and upon the question for committing dashed M r Francis Moore offered a Proviso to the House and shewed that he was of Councel and standing Fee with the Corporation of Vintners in London and shewed that they were an antient Corporation and had ever used by force of divers Charters of Kings of this Realm to sell Wines and now by this Bill all was inhibited And therefore c. which was received Mr. Johnson said If this Bill should pass it would breed a great confusion of Government for by this Law the Justices of the County might enter into the liberty 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 Justice Now when these four Justices have enabled him by this Law they have not power upon his misbehaviour to put him down and so very insufficient and impossible to be mended Sir Robert Wroth said The Bill is that no man shall sell 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 twenty or thirty Miles for a Licence and what a monstrous trouble to all the Justices I refer to your considerations c. and so the Bill was dashed as is aforesaid Mr. Speaker shewed her Majesties Pleasure to be that this House should proceed in all convenient speedy course of dispatching the businesses at this time fit to be dealt in for that her Majesty purposeth shortly to end this present Session of Parliament This Message being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons now follows the residue of the Passages of this Forenoon out of a private Journal Sir Edward Hobbie said We attended the Lords this Morning touching the Information against Mr. Belgrave and in the end concluded That forasmuch as it concerned their Lordships as well as our Priviledges they desired some time to consult and will send us word of their resolutions Vide December the 16 th Wednesday ensuing Doctor Stanhop and Doctor Hone brought a Bill from the Lords Intituled An Act for establishing of the remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Kettleby Esq to Francis Kettleby and so they departed Then the questions upon the continuance of Statutes were offered to be read but the House called for the Bill of Ordnance yet the Clerk fell to read the questions but the House still cryed upon Ordnance At length Mr. Carey stood up and said In the Roman Senate the Consul always appointed what should be read what not so may our Speaker whose place is a Consuls place if he err or do not his duty sitting to his place we may remove him And there have been Precedents But to appoint what business shall be handled in my opinion we cannot At which Speech some hissed Mr. Wiseman said I reverence Mr. Speaker in his place but I take great difference between the old Roman Consuls and him Ours is a Municipial Government and we know our own Grievances better than Mr. Speaker And therefore fit every man alternis vicibus should have those Acts called for he conceives most necessary All said I I I. Mr. Hackwell said I wish nothing may be done but with consent that breeds the best Concordance my desire is the Bill of Ordnance should be read If you Mr. Speaker do not think so I humbly pray it may be put to the question Mr. Martin and Mr. Francis Moore stood up but Mr. Martin first one would not yield to the other and great calling there was till at length Mr. Comptroller stood up and said I am sorry to see this confusion in this House it were better we used more silence and kept better Order Yesterday you Ordered the continuance of Statutes should be read now in an humour you cry Ordnance Ordnance I pray you that which we first decree let us stick to and not do and undo upon every idle Motion Mr. Secretary Cecill said I will speak shortly because it best becomes me neither will I trouble your Patience long because the time permits it not It is a Maxim praestat otiosum esse quà m nihil agere I wish the Bill for continuance of Statutes may be read and that agrees with the Precedent Order of this House and more with the gravity
Two Committees for two several Bills made one Committee for both Bills p. 607 Common Prayer vide Uniformity Conference to be had before a Bill passed either House be rejected by the other p. 272 273. 388. Vide the Table to the Journal of the House of Commons Contribution of two shillings in the pound made by the Lords towards the Queens extraordinary charge in defence of the Realm p. 387. Contribution made by them for relief of such poor Souldiers as went begging in the Streets of London p. 462. An Order that such Lords as were absent the whole Session should pay double to what others did who constantly attended the service of the House and those that came but seldom to the House a third part more p. 463 464 Convocation-days the House of Lords either sit not or do little business on them p. 67 Crown a Bill restoring to it the ancient jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual c. p. 28 D. ABill for Denization of Peregrine Berty and Katharine Dutchess of Suffolk his Wife p. 145. of William Watson p. 148 Dissolve vide Commissions Doctors of the Civil Law made Joint-Committees with the Lords p. 145 E. EGerton Sir Thomas made Lord Keeper 38 Eliz. p. 522. His Speech to the Parliament 39 and 40 Eliz. p. 524. Q. Elizabeth enter'd on the Government Nov. 17. ann Dom. 1558. p. 1. and within nine weeks summons a Parliament viz. Jan 23. ibid. A Bill in that Parliament to make her inherit able to the late Q. Anne her Mother p. 19. she is averse from declaring a Successor p. 107. 127 128. Her sharp Speech to the Parliament in ann 8 and 9. for their Petition to that purpose p. 116. She remitteth the third payment of a Subsidy to take the Parliament off from urging her to declare a Successor p. 131. Her Pious Speech at the end of the Session 27. of her Reign p. 328. In the Parliament 28 and 29 of her Reign called upon the discovery of Babingtons conspiracy she appeared not in person but gave Commission to three Lords to supply her place with the title of Lords Lieutenants p. 377 378. Both Houses petition her to execute the sentence upon Mary Queen of Scots with her Answer thereto p. 380 381 382. Her Speech at the end of the Parliament in 35 of her Reign p. 466. Her great success against the Spaniard set forth in a Speech by the Lord Keeper p. 599. Jewels given to her Physicians to poyson her p. 599 G. GArgrave Sir Thomas chosen Speaker to the Commons in the Parliament holden 1 Eliz. p. 15. and 40. The manner of his disabling himself to the House first and then to the Queen ibid. His Petitions of course on behalf of the House of Commons p. 16. His Speech at the conclusion of the Session p. 31 Gavelkind what and in what places it obtaineth p. 272. A Bill to enable the owners of Gavelkind Lands in the County of Kent to alter the said Custom p. 533 Gentleman-Usher of the House claims right to bring such persons before the Upper House as are accused of breach of priviledge and sayes it does not belong to the Serjeant at Arms. p. 603. He is sent for an ordinary servant of the Queens committed to the Fleet for debt upon Execution and for him that arrested him p. 605. 607. This not to injure the Serjeant at Arms in his pretensions to that office p. 607 Grace Vide Bills and Acts. H. HAtton Sir Christopher made Chancellor 29 Eliz. upon the death of Sir Thomas Bromley p. 419 Herald at Arms in ordinary to the Queen not to have priviledge from Arrest on account of the Session of Parliament p. 608. 611 Hexamshire a Bill to annex it to the County of Northumberland and its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction to the Bishoprick of Durham 8 9 Eliz. p. 103. but not passed into an Act till 14 Eliz. p. 200 Horses a Bill against conveying them into Scotland 1 Eliz. being a revival of an Act made 23 H. 8. p. 21 22 Lord Hunsdon's place in Parliament between the Lord Chandois and the Lord S t John of Bletso p. 530. 543 I. INgrossing of a Bill what p. 18. Vide Bills Injunctions to stop proceeding at Law in Parliament time p. 21 Judges who are but assistants to the Upper House made Joint Committees with the Lords p. 67. 71. 99. and so in every Parliament till 39 40 Eliz. p. 142. 527. but only to consider of some ordinary Bill and which concerned matter of Law for they were never of such Committees as were to have Conference with the Commons p. 423. They have leave from the Lord Chancellor or Keeper to sit covered in the House but are always uncovered at a Committee p. 527 K. KEeper vide Chancellor Kentish-Street in Southwark a Bill for the paving of it 8 and 9 Eliz. p. 112 L. THE River Lee a Bill to bring it to the North-side of London 13 Eliz. p. 150 Low-Country Wars a voluntary contribution of both Houses towards the maintaining of them p. 387 M. MArry see the word in the Table to the Journal of the House of Commons the Queen Petition'd by the House of Lords to marry with her Answer p. 105. 107. The advice and consent of the Parliament often required for the marrying of the Kings of England p. 117 119. Earl Marshal his place in Parliament is betwixt the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward p. 535 Queen Mary died Nov. 17. 1558. in the sixth year of her Reign p. 1 Mary Queen of Scots Vide the Table to the Commons Journal Mason Anthony Esq Clerk of the Upper House 13 Eliz. p. 137. He is succeeded by Thomas Smith Esquire in the Parliament 39 40 Eliz. p. 522 Melcomb Regis Vide Weymouth Messages sent from the House of Commons to the Upper House are received by the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords at the Bar whither they are to go and meet those that come from the Commons p. 539 540 Mises not to be paid by the Shires of Wales and County Palatine of Chester when Subsidies are paid nor the contrary p. 20 Monopolies Petition'd against in 39 40 Eliz. which the Queen judges an invasion of her Prerogative ibid. N. A Bill of Naturalization of Gerson Wroth a German p. 22. of William Sidney and his Wife and of Sir John Wingfield and his Lady p. 462. of Justice Dormer and George Sheppy p. 464. of Samuel Saltingstal p. 488 Newgate the Keeper of it committed to the Fleet for not obeying an Order of the Lords for the bringing of one that was Prisoner there upon Execution and was Servant to a Peer p. 608 Duke of Norfolk a Bill for the confirmation of his marriage with the Lady Margaret his Wife 1 Eliz p. 22. and for the assurance of certain Lands for her Jointure p. 25 Earl of Nottingham his place in Parliament betwixt the Earl of Lincoln and Lord Viscount Bindon p. 543 O. OBjections against a
Bill by the Lords denied to be given in writing to the Commons till Conference first had p. 536 Onslow Richard chosen Speaker in the Parliament held 8 9 Eliz. his Speeches to the Queen at his Confirmation p. 97 98. at the Dissolution of that Parliament p. 114 115 P. THE Painters having presented a Bill against the Plaisterers which passed not the Upper House it is Ordered by that House that their complaint shall be heard and adjudged by the Lord Mayor Recorder c. p. 617 Pardon Vide Bills Parliament which is the first and last day thereof or of a particular Session p. 9. The manner of the Sovereign and Peers sitting in Parliament p. 10. 59. 96. the manner of setting down the presence of the Peers in the Journal Book p. 62 Passing of Bills Vide Bills Patents of priviledge petition'd against in the Parliament 39 40 Eliz. which the Queen construes to be a violation of her Prerogative p. 547 Peers to be of age before they sit in the House p. 11. 96. how attired p. 11. Vide Parliament Popish Bishops suffered to sit in the Parliament 1 Eliz. but turn'd out of their Sees at the end of the Session p. 23. How they opposed divers Bills ibid. and p. 28. 30. a dispute betwixt them and some English men come from Geneva p. 53 Presence of the Peers how marked p. 62 111. Priviledge Vide Attach The solemn Procession of the Queen and House of Lords at the opening of the Parliament 5 Eliz. p. 58. and 13 Eliz. p. 136 Prorogation Vide Writ The Sovereign after a Prorogation comes not to the Parliament with that solemnity as is usual at the first meeting p. 95. After the end of a Prorogation a new Session beginneth p. 318 Provisoes when added by the Lords unto Bills sent up to them from the Commons are written in Parchment p. 26 Proxie the form of the Licence from the Queen to a Peer to make one p. 3. a Peer ordinarily does not make one without such licence p. 270. The form of making a Proxy and entring it in the Journal-Book p. 4. and 8. The nature and use of a Proxy and the form of returning them p. 5. What an absent Peer used to forfeit if he constituted no Proxy p. 6. The form of making a Proxy without licence from the Sovereign ibid. The form of revoking a Proxy p. 7. How many Proxies one Peer is capable of receiving p. 8 9. 58. 101. 196. 598. where as also p. 314. is mentioned an Order of the Lords 2 Car. 1. that from thenceforth no Lord should be capable of above two Proxies A Commoner can constitute no Proxy and why p. 9. A spiritual Lord does not now appoint a Temporal Lord for his Proxy nor on the contrary but formerly they did p. 58. 378. A Temporal Lord usually constitutes but one Proxy and a Spiritual two p. 101. Yet a Spiritual Lord sometimes appoints but one sometimes three p. 196. 460 461. and also a Temporal sometimes two ibid. Proxies are appointed after a Prorogation as well as at the beginning of a Parliament p. 268. They may be delivered into the hands of the Clerk as well before the Parliament begin as after p. 311. Why Bishops Proxies are entred before those of the Temporal Lords p. 523. 598. In the former part of the Queens Reign they were entred in the Journal Book with express mention of the several dayes on which they were returned but in the latter part thereof and since only generally p. 597 Serjeant Puckering Lord Keeper in 35 Eliz. p. 456. His Speech to the Parliament held that year p. 457 458. He dies in 38 Eliz. Anno Domini 1596. p. 522 R. REading Vide Bills Receivors and Tryors of Petitions in the House of Lords the manner of entring them in the Journal Book p. 14 15 A Bill for Recognition of the Queens Title to the Crown of England p. 18 Restitution in bloud of Sir James Crost a Bill for it p. 21. of Sir Henry Gate ibid. of John Lord Grey ibid. of Robert Rudston ibid. of Henry Howard p. 22. of the Sons and Daughters of Edward Lewkenor p. 25. of Katherine Wife to the Lord Berkely and of her Sisters p. 27. 54 55. of Gregory Fynes ibid. of Lord Dacres of the South p. 55. of Ann Thomas Thomas Isely Thomas Diggs Thomas Brook William Cromer Cutbert Vaughan c. p. 68. of Arch-bishop Cranmer's and Lord Husseys Children p. 69. of Sir Ralph Chamberlain John Harleston and William West ibid. and p. 70. of Sir Peter Carew and Edward Turner p. 70. of Sir Thomas Wyats Children p. 146. of Henry Brereton Esq p. 147. of John Lord Stourton his Brothers and Sisters p. 230. Vid. p. 261 262. the Bills dashed p. 264 265. of Henry Lord Norris of Ricaut p. 231. of Anthony Mayney ibid. and 273. of Thomas Howard Son of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk p. 317. of Sir Thomas Parrot p. 510 S. A Saving requisite in every Bill p. 464 Queens Serjeants though but Attendants on the House made Committees p. 99. 108. Though they are to attend upon the Upper House as Councellors yet they have no voice there but may in the House of Commons if Members thereof p. 249 Serjeant at Arms whether to be employed to take into custody those that are accused of breach of priviledge of the Upper House or whether the Gentleman Usher p. 603. He is ordered to bring before the House a Lords Servant committed upon an Arrest to Newgate as also him that Arrested him for breach of Priviledge p. 607. This not to injure the Gentleman Usher's pretensions to that right ibid. Under Sheriff of Surrey committed to Prison for aiding the Arrest of an ordinary Servant of the Queen in Parliament time p. 606 Thomas Smith Esq made Clerk of the House of Lords 39 Eliz. p. 522 Queens Solicitour made a Joint-Committee with the Lords p. 142. Being chosen a Member of the House of Commons he is demanded of them to attend there but denied by the Lords p. 424 Spain's design against England set out in a Speech by the Lord Keeper p. 599. See the word in the Table to the Journal to the House of Commons Spilman Francis Clerk of the House of Lords in the Parliament 1 Eliz. p. 14. continued in that place in the Parliaments held 5 Eliz. and 8 9 Eliz. but in 13 Eliz. succeeded by Anthony Mason p. 136 Spiritual Lords why their Names are set down in the Journal Book before those of the Temporal p. 598 Star-Chamber dayes the Lords seldom sate on them p. 67 Bills of Subsidy sent from the Commons seldom alter'd by the Lords p. 69. Subsidies granted by the Clergy always ingrossed in Latin but the confirmation thereof in Parliament is in English p. 229. The Subsidy of the Clergy should be sent to the Commons in a Skin of Parchment under the Sovereigns band and seal p. 688. The body of the Grant of the Subsidies of the
the Lords unto Bills that have past the Commons are to be writ or ingrossed and subscribed respectively see at large p. 576 577. When a Bill is objected against a verbal Conference is first to be had before the reasons of such objecting can be demanded to be delivered in to that House that had past the Bill p. 578. Forty eight several Bills refused by the Queen in the 39 th year of her Reign that had passed both Houses p. 596. An Order that such as shall prefer and have benefit by any private Bill shall pay somewhat toward the poor and how much p. 665. Any Member may propose those Bills to be read he judges most necessary as well as the Speaker p. 677. Bills that come from the Lords are to be delivered to the Speaker in the House and not out of it p. 688 Boroughs growing poor did formerly get licence from the Sovereign to be discharged from the election of Burgesses because they used to bear their charges but seldom so now p. 80 Sir Henry Bromley c. sent to the Fleet for desiring the Lords to join in a Petition to the Queen for entailing the Succession of the Crown p. 470 Brownists how numerous in 35 Eliz. p. 517. A Bill against them and the Barrowists as well as Popish Recusants ibid. Burgesses a Bill for the validity of such as are not resiant with long arguments thereupon p. 168 169 170 171. A Burgess that had given Money to be elected turned out of the House and the Corporation fined p. 182. A Burgess elected for two several Boroughs may chuse for which he will serve p. 430. 622. passim C. CAlling the Names of the Parliament-men at their first meeting in former times different from the present and the manner of both p. 39. Since 5 Eliz. they take the Oath of Supremacy at that time and since 7 Jac. the Oath of Allegiance ibid. and p. 78. They take these Oaths but once in the same Parliament though it consist of several Sessions p. 122 123 Canons are like By-laws to the Clergy but not to the Laity p. 640 Cardigan a Burgess Town since 1 Eliz. p. 628. Whether the Return of the Indenture for chusing a Burgess ought to be for that Town only or for it and Aberystwith ibid. Chirurgery a Bill for the well ordering of such as practise it p. 571 Church thought to need reformation in 13 Eliz. p. 157. A Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion with some Arguments thereupon p. 177. A Committee of the House of Commons and some of the Bishops join in a Petition to the Queen for redress of several enormities in the Church 23 Eliz. p. 302 303 Cinque-ports discharged from payment of Subsidies p. 406 Clerk of the House his seat in Parliament p. 43. He sometimes reads the Prayers p. 47. Mr. Seymour Clerk in the Parliaments held 1 Eliz. p. 43. 5 Eliz. p. 84. 8 and 9 Eliz. p. 122. He took the Oath of Supremacy in that Parliament as the Members did ibid. Mr. Fulk Onslow succeeded him in the Parliament 13 Eliz. p. 155. being indisposed his place is supplied by a Deputy who is first to take the Oath usually administred to the Members p. 431. 623. The Clerk receives the Money for the Poor and Minister of the Members that have leave to go into the Country sitting the Parliament p. 565. 568. passim The Collection for him in 43 Eliz. amounted to twenty five pound p. 688 A Collection made in the House for the present relief of maimed Souldiers 35 Eliz. with an account of every ones rate p. 503. 507. Hereupon a Bill is framed for a continual Contribution to their relief p. 503. Collections for the Poor and other uses usually made each Session and how much the Members are commonly rated p. 661 Colledges Corruptions in the Masters of them 39 Eliz. p. 559 Commission to the Lord Keeper to will the House of Commons to chuse a Speaker p. 120 Commit the manner of Committing a Bill p. 44. It uses to be Committed at the second Reading ibid. Commonly not Committed when sent from the Lords p. 47. but sometimes is when of great moment ibid. p. 89. 186. never committed till it be once read at least p. 476 Committees how chosen p. 44. Nothing to be delivered to the House as the Resolve of the Committee but what the greater number of the Committees agree upon p. 298. At least half the number of the Committees nominated in any Bill are to be present or else no consultation to be had p. 436. Eleven Bills committed to one and the same Committee at the same time p. 561. He that speaks against the body of a Bill cannot be chosen a committee therein p. 629. 635. The Knights and Citizens of London dispensed with in a particular case and why p. 634 635. A Committee may speak either sitting or standing p. 630. He that has been a Committee in a Bill may afterwards speak against the same Bill in the House p. 635 Common Prayer a Bill for the Reformation of the Book of Common Prayer 13 Eliz. with divers Arguments thereon p. 166 House of Commons formerly sate with the Lords p. 515 Comptroller of the Household by his place usually is the first that speaks at the meeting of a Parliament and makes the first motion in the House to chuse a Speaker p. 621 passim The Comptroller either alone or with another places the Speaker Elect in the Chair p. 79. 621 c. Communion Vide Church Conference concerning a Bill to be desired only by that House which is possessed of the Bill p. 261 262 263. How to be managed by those that are appointed to have it p. 293. The Lords do always nominate time and place for Conference passim Verbal conference to be had before the reasons of objecting against any Bill be given in writing p. 578. Each House is at liberty whether they will admit of a Conference p. 352. No Conference to be admitted with the Lords about the number of Subsidies to be granted p. 486. 488 M r Edw. Cook chosen Speaker in the Parliament 35 Eliz. p. 469. His Speeches at his being presented to the Queen p. 459. at the end of the Session p. 465 Corn may be carried over Sea when it does not exceed such and such prices p. 56 John Crooke Esq chosen Speaker in the Parliament 43 Eliz. p. 621. His Speech to the Queen at his presentation p. 600 601 Cross in Baptism desired to be taken away in the Parliament held 13 Eliz. p. 157 D. MEmbers Departing without Licence to forfeit their Wages p. 309 Discipline in the Church the Queen petition'd to reform it who promises it p. 257 Disloyal Vide Subjects A Bill against 〈◊〉 granted by the Arch 〈◊〉 several Arguments thereupon Dunkirk and Newport very much by robbery on their Coasts 〈◊〉 of Queen Elizabeths Reign p. 665 〈◊〉 appointed to consider of means to 〈◊〉 and what means were
668. Poor men commonly higher taxed in the raising of Subsidies than the rich and how it comes about p. 633. Few Justices vated at above eight or ten pound Lands whereas according to the Statute they ought to be at twenty ibid. Subsidies are of free gift and cannot be exacted by the Sovereign ibid. Succession Vide Limitation Two or three Members committed to Prison by the Queen for desiring the Lords to join with the House of Commons in a Petition to the Queen to entail the Succession of the Crown p. 470. Upon a Motion in the House for Petitioning the Queen for their enlargement the Courtiers are against it p. 497 Sunday Vide Sabbath Supersedeas to be awarded by the Lord Chancellor to stop proceedings in a Nisi prius against a Member p. 436 Supremacy a Bill for restoring it to the Crown 1 Eliz. sent from the Lords dashed by the Commons p. 47. The Oath of Supremacy made 1 Eliz. begun to be taken by the Members of Parl. 5 Eliz. p. 39. 78 A Member suspended by the Council from sitting in the House for bringing in a Bill to reform Ceremonies p. 168. But the suspension soon taken off p. 176 Common Swearing a Bill against it with a very ingenious Speech thereupon p. 660 661 T. THree Tenures in England p. 492 Thorp Vide Speaker Changing of Tillage into pasture prejudicial to the Common-wealth p. 551. Several Speeches on occasion of repealing a Statute for the increase of Tillage p. 674 Tin-Mines in Cornwall belonged to the Dukes of Cornwall so long as there were any by special Patent p. 646 Tonnage and Poundage a Bill for them 1 Eliz. p. 45 A Bill to make certain offences Treason 13 Eliz. with several Arguments thereupon p. 162 163 164 165 U. A Bill against Vagrants with some Speeches thereupon p. 165 Voices in Parliament ought to be free without any manner of compulsion p. 683 684 A Bill against Usury with sundry arguments and speeches thereon p. 171. ad p. 174 The End of the TABLE W. WAR Vide Spain A Bill that Wednesday shall be a Fish-day p. 87. It s benefit to the Navy and Mariners and in what places to be observed p. 372 A Bill against false Weights and Measures ingeniously spoken to by him that brought it in p. 626 627. Another to the same purpose p. 662 Welch tongue a Bill to translate the Bible and Service-Book into it p. 72 89 Lord Wentworth Arraigned for the loss of Calis p. 54 Peter Wentworth Esq his notable Speech for the Liberty of the House p. 236. ad p. 241. A Committee appointed to examine him upon it p. 241. He is sent to the Tower for speaking undutifully of her Majesty in it p. 244. Upon her Majesties pardoning him he is received into the House again after above a months imprisonment p. 259 260. He is sent to the Tower again by the Queens Order in the Parliament 35 Eliz. for desiring the Lords to join with the Lower House in a Petition to the Queen for entailing the Succession of the Crown p. 470 Westminster Vide Sanctuary Weymouth and Melcomb Regis incorporated by the Queens Letters Patents into one Borough but so that they still chuse four Burgesses p. 554. Whispering not permitted in the House p. 487 Whitby-haven a Bill for the re-edifying of it in 39 Eliz. rejected p. 567 Williams Thomas chosen Speaker 5 Eliz. p. 79. Vide the Table to the Journal of the House of Lords Winchester a Bill for the assurance of certain Lands late parcel of that Bishoprick to divers Patentees of Edw. 6. with that Bishops opposition to it p. 50 51. passed p. 52 Wray Christopher chosen Speaker 13 Eliz. p. 156 Writ of Summons to the Sheriffs for chusing Parliament men p. 37. Some alteration in the present from those of former times p. 38 39 Y. YArmouth a Bill for repealing part of its Charter dashed p. 562 Serjeant Yelverton chosen Speaker in the Parliament 39 40 Eliz. p. 549 550. His more than usual disabling of himself p. 549. His Speech to the Queen at the end of the Session p. 546 547 York a Bill for the office of its Town-Clerk p. 131 The End of the TABLE A Catalogue of Books Printed for John Starkey Bookseller at the Mitre in Fleetstreet near Temple-Bar DIVINITY 1. A Discourse of the Freedom of the Will By Peter Sterry sometime Fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge in folio 2. The Jesuits Morals collected by a Doctor of the Colledge of Sorbon in Paris who hath faithfully extracted them out of the Jesuits own Books which are printed by the permission and approbation of the Superiors of their Society Written in French and exactly translated into English in folio 3. 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Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli paucis verbis declaravit conventum Procerum populi quem Parliamentum vocant in hunc diem destinatum à dictâ Dominâ Reginâ certis quibusdam de causis considerationibus illam ad id specialiter moven differri in 30 diem Septembris prox futur These foregoing Prorogations of this present Session of Parliament being thus at large or abstractedly transcribed now follows in Order the Assembling and Meeting of both Houses in their several places on Monday the 30 th day of September to which day it had been last Prorogued so that either House going on where they last left there was no Meeting in the Upper House at all of both Houses nor the Queen came not in Person as she used to do when a new Parliament began nor hath it ever been used in latter times upon a meer Prorogation but yet on Wednesday the second day of October following by reason of the Choice of a new Speaker in the House of Commons which was occasioned by the Death of the former the Queens Majesty came in her accustomed Royalty as at the beginning of a Parliament is usual and there admitted of their new Speaker presented unto her whom they had Chosen but the day before by vertue of her Majesties Commission all which in due Form and Order follows On Monday the 30. day of September to which day this present Session of Parliament had been last Prorogued there Assembled in the Upper House according to the usual form and course as also the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons did in their own proper place Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England the Lord Archbishop of York the Lord Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Marquess of Northampton with divers Earls Viscounts Bishops and Barons the particular setting down of whose names is purposely omitted here although it were the first day of their Assembling together because they are at large set down on the second day of October following being Wednesday when by reason of her Majesties coming in Person to the Upper House the presence of the Lords was somewhat greater than upon this instant Monday Hodiè retornatum fuit Breve quo Edwardus Dominus Stafford ad praesens Parliament summonitus fuit qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae locum salvo semper jure superioris sedentis Consimile pro Henrico Domino Paget Consimile pro Rogero Domino North. Consimile pro Roberto Comite Leicestriae Consimile pro Henrico Comite Westmorl This day Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold Sir Francis Knolles Knight her Highness Vice-Chamberlain Sir William Cecill Knight her Highness Principal Secretary and Sir Ambrose Cave Knight Chancellor of her Highness Dutchy of Lancaster four Chief Members of the House of Commons and divers others of that Assembly to the number of twenty persons being sent up to the Lords from that House upon some urgent and weighty occasions desired to be admitted into the Upper House there to make known to their Lordships somewhat wherein they should require their advice and need their assistance upon which being admitted the said M r Comptroller assisted with the Personages and Company aforesaid did in comely order and discreet modesty make manifest and known unto the said Lords that Thomas Williams Esquire their late Speà ker in the last Session of this Parliament in the fifth Year of the Queens Majesty that now is was bereft from them by Death which had been openly and manifestly made known and testified unto them for remedy of which defection they humbly prayed their Lordships advice after which the Lord Keeper first requiring the said Personages a while to withdraw themselves and then commending the Order of the matter to the Lords sitting in consultation for the same it was by them all upon considerate advice therein had thought fit to signifie unto the said Commons by the Personages aforesaid that they thought it expedient and good the said Lord Keeper the Lord Treasurer of England the Duke his Grace of Norfolk and the Lord Marquess of Northampton with the four forecited Personages of the said House of Commons being also of her Highness most Honourable Privy-Council should in the name of both of the Assemblies with all humbleness and due celerity make intimation of their said Estate and the Petition thereupon depending unto her said Highness to which advice the said House of Commons upon knowledge had of the same wholly assented Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Martis primum Octobris On Tuesday the first day of October the Bill for the making void of fraudulent Gifts and Alienations was read primâ vice The Queen having been moved as it seemeth the day past about the Death of the former Speaker and the Choice of a new one in the House of Commons by those eight Right Honourable Personages who were then and there named to move her Highness in it did give Order that this present Tuesday both the Lords and Commons should Assemble and meet together in the Parliament Chamber there to receive her Majesties Answer Where being Assembled the Lord Keeper shewed forth a Commission from her Highness under the great Seal of England which was directed unto him only the tenor whereof is set down at large in the Journal of the House of Commons de An. isto 8 Regin Eliz. to which House it properly belonged viz. That in respect Thomas Williams Esq the former Speaker was dead therefore the Lord Keeper was for her Majesty and in her Name to will and Command the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the said House of Commons to resort unto their accustomed place and there to Elect and chuse amongst themselves one able and sufficient person to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament yet to come And after they should have made their Election that then three or four of them for and in all their names should signifie the same unto her Majesty and thereupon her Highness would further signifie her pleasure unto them what day and time they should present him so Elected before her as it had been used formerly in like Cases to be done There was this day no other Bill or other business agitated in the Upper House for immediately upon the reading of the last above-mentioned Commission the Continuance of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the said House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque diem Mercurii secundum diem Octobris On Wednesday the second day of October it seemeth there was no meeting of the Lords nor any thing done in the Forenoon neither is any mention made in the foregoing continuance of this Parliament by the Lord Keeper to what Hour of this Wednesday it was continued
be not very usual yet there want not Presidents of the same nature as I was assured by Henry Elsing Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House upon Friday the 16 th day of April 1630. and that especially in former times as of King Edward the third and others the Lord Keepers place was during his absence for the most part supplied by vertue of the Kings verbal Command and seldom by Commission October the 6 th Sunday On Monday the 7 th day of October An Act to make void fraudulent Gifts Bargains and Alienations made for the deceiving of Creditors was read primâ vice and committed to Justice Dyer Quod nota The Lord Treasurer continued the Parliament until the next day at nine of the Clock On Tuesday the 8 th day of October the Bill that no man killing any person by misfortune at twelve score or longer mark shall therefore forfeit his Lands Tenements or Goods was read primâ vice Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliament usque in diem Jovis prox horâ nonâ On Thursday the 10 th day of October Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill that no man killing any person at twelvescore prick or longer mark shall forfeit his Goods or Chattels in which Bill for that it toucheth the Queens Prerogative it was thought not convenient to proceed further without her Highness pleasure first known in the same Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox hora nona and so every sitting day until Friday the 25 th day of October exclusivè the Parliament was continued in this Form by the Lord Treasurer except Monday the 21 th day and Tuesday the 22 th day of October on both which days the House did sit and Bills were read but in the Original Journal-Book is no mention of continuing the Court by any person which seemeth to have happened by negligence of the Clerk and after the said 25 th day of October on which Sir Robert Catlin Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was appointed by her Majesties Commission to supply the place of the Lord Keeper during his Sickness it was continued until Saturday the 9 th day of November ensuing when Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal repaired again to the Upper House and there continued his place till the Dissolution of this present Session of Parliament On Saturday the 12 th day of October Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against fraudulent Gifts of Goods and Chattels and also a remedy for Creditors against Bankrupts was Committed to the Lord Chief Justice Dyer and Justice Southcote to be by them considered against the next meeting Quod nota October the 13 th Sunday On Monday the 14 th day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued by the Lord Treasurer Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the taking away of Clergy from Pick-Purses and Cut-Purses was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossand On Tuesday the 15 th day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued by the Lord Treasurer Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the two first the one being the Bill to take away the benefit of the Clergy from certain Offenders for some Felonies for which by the Common Law they could not be denied it was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa And the other being a Bill for the Confirmation of Fines and Recoveries notwithstanding the fault of the Original Writ majore Procerum numero assentientium conclusa est And the said two Bills so concluded were committed unto the Queens Attorney and M r Martin to be carried down to the House of Commons On Wednesday the 16. day of October the Lords did meet in the Parliament Chamber and nothing done but the Parliament continued by the Lord Treasurer in usual Form until Thursday the 17. day of October On Thursday the 17. day of October Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to Naturalize John Stafford born beyond the Seas was primâ vice lect and the third being against fraudulent Gifts of Goods and Chattels and also a remedy against Bankrupts was by the consent of all the Lords concluded On Saturday the 19. day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing by the Lord Treasurer the Bill for the punishment of the negligence and false return of Writs by under-Sheriffs and Bayliffs was by common consent of the Lords concluded and with two other Bills before concluded was sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and the Attorney General On Monday the 21. day of October the Bill for annexing of Hexhamshire to the County of Northumberland was read primâ vice Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons viz. One to take the benefit of Clergy from certain Offendors returned exped And another to repeal a branch of a Statute made Anno 23 Hen. 8. touching prices of Barrells and Kilderkins On Tuesday the 22. day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the annexing of Hexhamshire to the County of Northumberland was read secundâ vice and committed to the Archbishop of York the Earl of Northumberland the Earls of Westmoreland and Bedford the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Carlisle the Lord Evers the Lord Rich and the Lord North and to Justice Welsh and Serjeant Carus Nota That here a Judge being but an Assistant and a Serjeant being but an Attendant upon the Upper House are made Joint-Committees with the Lords Ut vide plus on Thursday the third day of this instant October foregoing Nota also That an Extraordinary Proxy is Entered in the beginning of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have been introduced this day being as followeth viz. 22 die Octobris introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Cuthberti Domini Ogle in quibus Procuratores constituit Franciscum Comitem Bedford Johannem Dominum Lumley This I call an Extraordinary Proxy in respect that a Temporal Lord did Constitute two Proctors whereas usually they nominate but one and the Spiritual Lords for the most part two and this Proxy of the Lord Ogle's may the rather seem unusual in respect that of sixteen Temporal Lords who were absent by her Majesties Licence from this Session of Parliament there was but one more viz. Francis Earl of Bedford ut vide on Saturday the 9. day of November following who Constituted above one Proxy It is also worth the noting that Robert Earl of Leicester being at this time a Favorite was