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
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
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
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
and Duty and as the contrary doing in the first were Monstrous in nature so surely the contrary doing in the second were Monstrous in reason Now her Majesty having this Authority in her as Head of the Politick Body of this Realm and therewith being credibly informed of your approved Fidelity wisdom and discretion and of the long experience that you have had in Parliament matters thinketh that if her Highness should assent to your Desire it would be prejudicial to her Majesty and the Common-wealth of the Realm Besides also for as much as you have been chosen and enabled to this Office and place according to an Ancient and Laudable Order by so many wise sage and discreet Knights and Burgesses to whose Judgment and opinion her Highness thinketh it meet and convenient for her to have great regard and to give much credit and saith that for that respect also her Majesty may not conveniently grant your Petition Again your self seeking in humble and reverent manner your own discharge and disablement have indeed by well comely modest and orderly doing thereof given no small cause whereby you are to be enabled and therefore her Majesty upon these respects and divers others doth now presently admit this Election and presentation made of you nothing at all doubting but that you will with such diligence faithfulness and circumspection use and Exercise your Office as thereby the good hope and expectation that her Majesty hath received of you by that she hath heard of others already shall be by that her self shall see and hear not only confirmed but also increased and augmented And so as her Highness's Loving Subjects of her Common's House shall neither have just cause to repent their Election her Majesty her admission nor you your self the assumption and taking upon you this Charge Unto which Speech of the Lord Keepers Sir Thomas Gargrave humbly submitting himself to the undergoing of the Charge and service imposed on him made a discreet and submissive answer in which he expressed the great blessedness now accrewed to the Realm and all conditions therein by her Majesties attaining the Crown being a Princess so Richly endued with Piety Wisdom Mercy Justice and tender Care of her people's good and safety and with all other gifts of mind and body requisite for the Government of so great a Kingdom Then he proceeded to many hearty Prayers and feeling Expressions of the good success of the Parliament and for the uniting of their Councils in one Issue and to the repairing of the many losses and preventing of many dangers now imminent over the Realm And lastly he came according to the usual Form first to desire Liberty of access for the House of Commons to the Queen's Majesties presence upon all Urgent and Necessary Occasions Secondly that if in any thing himself should mistake or misreport or over-slip that which should be committed unto him to declare that it might without prejudice to the House be better declared and that his unwilling Miscarriage therein might be pardoned Thirdly that they might have Liberty and freedom of Speech in whatsoever they Treated of or had occasion to propound and debate in the House The fourth and last that all the Members of the House with their Servants and necessary Attendants might be exempted from all manner of Arrests and Suits during the continuance of the Parliament and the usual space both before the beginning and after the ending thereof as in former times hath always been accustomed To which Speech of the said Speaker the Lord Keeper without any long pausing repli'd again in manner and form following MR. Speaker the Queen's Majesty hath heard and doth very well understand your wise and discreet Oration full of good meaning good Will and good Matter the Effect whereof as I take it may be divided into three parts of those the first containeth the commendation of the Queen's Highness The Second certain good wishes and desires of yours very honorable profitable and Commodious for the Realm to be followed and put into Execution The third divers Petitions concerning the Exercises of your Office and the Liberties and Priviledges of the Commons House For the first the Queen's Majesty giveth you most hearty thanks as for a good Exhortation made to her Highness to become such a one as you have commended her for but not acknowledging those vertues to be in her Highness Marry confessing that such as she hath be God's graces And therewithal her Highness wisheth as she trusteth you all do that for England's sake there were as many vertues in her as would serve for the good Government of this her Realm committed to her Royal Charge and desireth you all with her to give God dayly thanks for those which she hath and to make humble Petition to grant such increase of the rest as to his divine Providence shall be thought for his honour most Meet For the Second her Maiesty trusteth and verily believeth that those good wishes and desires of yours are so deeply graven and perfectly imprinted in the hearts of the hearers that the good success and sequel that should come thereof will evidently declare that you have not in vain spoken them nor they negligently heard them For the third and last you have divided into four Petitions The first for your access to the Queen's Highness and her Nobles for your reports and conference The Second that you be born with in any thing if you should in any of your reports be mistaken or overslipped and that without prejudice to the House it be better declared The Third Liberty of Speech for well debating of Matters propounded The Fourth and last that all the Members of the House and their Servants may have the same freedom from all manner of Suits as before time they used to have To these Petitions the Queen's Majesty hath commanded me to say unto you that her Highness is right well contented to grant them unto you as largely as amply and as liberally as ever they were granted by any her Noble Progenitors and to confirm the same with as great an Authority Marry with these Conditions and cautions first that your access be void of importunity and for matters Needful and in time Convenient For the Second that your Diligence and Carefulness be such Mr. Speaker that the defaults in that part be as rare as may be whereof her Majesty doubteth little For the Third which is for Liberty of Speech therewith her Highness is right well contented but so as they be neither unmindful or uncareful of their Duties Reverence and Obedience to their Sovereign For the last great heed would be taken that no evil disposed person seek of purpose that priviledge for the only defrauding of his Creditors and for the maintenance of injuries and wrongs These Admonitions being well remembred her Majesty thinketh all the said Liberties and Priviledges well granted To come to an end only this I have to put you in mind of that in the sorting of
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
in the Upper House but nothing was done save only the Parliament continued by the Lord Keeper which is entred in the Original Journal-Book of the same House in manner and form following Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour in the Afternoon the Queens Majesty came in person into the Upper House of Parliament where were then present to attend her Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal who being all set in their Parliament Robes according to their several Ranks in their due places the House of Commons had notice thereof and repaired thither with Sir Thomas Gargrave Knight their Speaker whose Speech to her Majesty and his very coming up being wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House I have partly before supplyed it according to the usual course and added also the residue in like manner touching the substance of what he spake being also partly furthered in the setting down of it out of the Answer of Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal unto him whose said Answer I have also caused to be inserted at large out of a Copy thereof I had by me Sir Thomas Gargrave Knight before mentioned with as many of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons as conveniently could being let into the Upper House and he placed at the Rail or Bar at the nether end of the same made a Learned Speech to her Majesty which is termed in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons fol. 214. b. A Learned Oration the effect whereof may very probably be gathered to have been as followeth viz. He declared unto the Queens Majesty and that present Assembly with what care and speed the House of Commons had this present Parliament enacted and passed many good Laws which remaining yet as a dead Letter and without force he did humbly desire that her Majesty would be pleased by adding her Royal Assent unto them to make them living and active Laws Then he desir'd in the name of the House that her Majesty would be pleased to accept of the good endeavours and desires of the said House of Commons expressed this Parliament in all their proceedings and more especially that her Majesty would be pleased to take in good part the free gift of her said Subjects who in token of their Love and Zeal to her Majesty did with one assent offer unto her not only the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage but likewise one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths as an undoubted effect and Testimony of their Duty and thankfulness towards her Majesty for those many blessings and benefits which had accrued to the Church and State by her Highnesses most lawful and just Succession Lastly He concluded with an humble desire that her Majesty would be pleased to accept of his hearty and zealous thanks in allowing and admitting him though unworthy to that place of trust and importance and to pardon all those weaknesses and imperfections which he had unwillingly or casually discovered in the Execution of it To which said Speech of the Prolocutors Sir Nicholis Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal having first repaired to the Queen to her Chair of Estate to know her Majesties pleasure as in her name and by her Command returned him this wise and large Answer M r Speaker The Queens Majesty hath heard how discreetly and wisely you have declar'd the proceedings of this Session in the House of Commons for Answer whereunto and for the better signification to be made to my Lords of the Upper House of the Judgment of the Parliament men and these Parliament matters her Majesties pleasure and Commandment is that I should open and utter unto you three things The one is what her Highness understandeth by your doings this Parliament of your wisdom and diligence The second what of your liberality and benevolence and therewith how comfortable the former is and how thankful the second The third what her Highness would you should do for the good Execution of the Laws devised by you and of the rest heretofore devised by others And here my Lords and Masters all albeit in labouring to bear this burthen I am much more like to fall than but to faint under it because neither am I able to perform it as the Queens Majesty hath commanded it nor as your deserts justly crave it nor as my will wisheth and desireth it Nevertheless my trust is that you will pardon my weakness and want so as no note of arrogancy or folly be ascribed to me for it seeing as you know by duty driven I do it I had rather and I know it much better for me to be silent and so to have no need of your pardon than by Speech to all your pains in hearing and to mine also in speaking to deserve to pray it if mine Office would suffer But now to the matter For the first part wherein her Majesty considereth how in the debating of the great and weighty Causes of this Parliament we have banished all suddain rash and swift proceedings dangerous Enemies to all good Counsel and in place thereof have taken such convenient leisure as the weightiness of the matters of their better consideration hath requir'd And again what freedom of Speech hath been used and permitted for the plain Declaration of every mans knowledge and Conscience yea and how men in some Cases and some places have been rather by gentle perswasions provoked than by any sharp manner of Speech by men of Council disswaded therefrom and therewith also how learnedly and cunningly the disputable matters being of moment have been agreed and reasoned how gravely and deeply weighed and considered how advisedly and considerately resolved and concluded and lastly with what nigh and universal consent they have been by you enacted and established Besides also remembring your great Studies and endeavours and diligences for the opening and declaring what may be said Pro contra in all causes of doubts to the end as it seemeth to her Highness that when all was said and heard on both parts that by any of your could be inferr'd or produc'd That that which should thereupon for all respects appear to stand most with the Honour and Glory of God and the common Wealth of the Realm might be the better and more safely agreed upon and determined When her Majesty I say remembreth and considereth these things she saith she cannot but much commend and allow your wisdom and diligence therein greatly to her comfort and consolation and much to all your praises and commendations For now her Majesty verily trusteth that like as no manner of determination in Parliament neither can nor ought by any private Man to be infringed or undone so these determinations of yours in this form begun proceeded and concluded cannot hereafter justly no not by
Majesties coming to the Upper House The manner of calling the Names of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in former times did much differ from that which is used at this day as appears by the Parliament Rolls in the Tower for in an 7 R. 2. the Knights and Burgesses were called by name in presence of the King which shews they staid without till then And in an 2 H. 4. an 4 H. 4. they were called by name in the Chancery at Westminster-Hall before the Chancellor and the Steward of the Kings House And in an 13 H. 4. the said Knights and Burgesses were called at the Door of the Painted Chamber in presence of the Steward of the Kings House as the manner is Only one President differs from all the latter which is found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House de Anno 33 H. 8. where the Duke of Suffolk Lord Steward commanded the Clerk of the Parliament to read the Names of the Commons unto which every one answered they being all in the Upper House below the Bar and then the King came But at this day they are called by their names by the Clerk of the Crown in presence of the Lord Steward in the Court of Requests and now since the first Year of Queen Eliz. and from the fifth the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons as hath been before observed do take the Oath of Supremacy and since the seventh of King James they take the Oath of Allegiance also which the Lord Steward administers to some and appoints certain of them his Deputies to give the same unto the rest 7 Jac. cap. 6. These passages touching the Antient and Modern calling of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being not at all touched in the Original Journal-Book of the same House but supplied from other Authority now follows the residue of this days passages out of the foresaid Journal-Book with some Additions Upon the already named 25 th day of January her Majesty came to the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House and being there set and attended by Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal in their Parliament Robes the House of Commons had notice thereof and repaired thither And being as many as conveniently could let in and silence made the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal after an Excellent Oration by him made containing the urgent causes for the Calling of this Parliament declared the Queens pleasure to be that the Commons should repair to their accustomed place and there to chuse their Speaker Whereupon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses departing to their own House did there take their several places and most remaining silent or speaking very submissively M r Treasurer of the Queens House standing up uncovered did first put the House in remembrance of the Lord Keepers late Speech and of his Declaration of her Majesties pleasure that they should chuse a Speaker and therefore in humble Obedience to her Majesties said pleasure seeing others remain silent he thought it his Duty to take that occasion to commend to their Choice Sir Thomas Gargrave Knight one of the Honourable Council in the North Parts a worthy Member of the House and Learned in the Laws of this Realm By which Commendations of his of the aforesaid worthy Member of the House to their Consideration he said he did not intend to debar any other there present from uttering their free opinions and nominating any other whom they thought to be more fitting and therefore desired them to make known their opinions who thereupon did with one consent and voice allow and approve of M r Treasurers nomination and Elected the said Sir Thomas Gargrave to be the Prolocutor or Speaker of the said House The said Sir Thomas Gargrave being thus Elected Speaker after a good pause made stood up uncovered and having in all humility disabled himself as being unfurnisht with that Experience and other qualities which were required for the undertaking and undergoing of so great a Charge did conclude with an humble Request to the House to proceed to the New Election of some other more able and worthy Member amongst them But the House still calling upon him to take his place of M r Speaker the before-mentioned M r Treasurer and M r Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold as may very well be gathered did rise from their places and going unto the said Sir Thomas Gargrave unto the place where he sate did each of them take him one by the right Arm and the other by the left and led him to the Chair at the upper end of the House of Commons and there placed him where having sate a while covered he arose and so standing bare-headed he returned his humble Thanks unto the whole House for their good opinion of him promising his best and uttermost endeavour for the faithful discharge of that weighty place to which they had Elected him And soon after M r Treasurer and M r Comptroller repaired to the Queen to know her Highnesses pleasure when M r Speaker should be presented to her Majesty for Confirmation of this Election and soon after they returned shewing her pleasure was that to be done on Saturday next at one of the Clock in the Afternoon Here it shall not be amiss to add somewhat touching the Election of the Speaker which because I find it ready penn'd to my hand in that elaborate MS. Intituled Modus tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos Written by my kind Friend Henry Elsinge Esq Clerk of the Upper House this present Year 1630. Libr. 1. cap. 7. § 1. 2. Therefore I shall without any great alteration here add it in the next place and first touching the Antiquity of the Speaker it is most likely that he began to be when the House of Commons first sate For it may clearly be gathered ex Lib. Sancti Albani fol. 207. in Bibliotheca Cottoniana that in the Parliament de an 44 H. 3. The House of Commons had then a Speaker For there Pope Alexander labouring to have Adomar the Elect Bishop of Winchester recalled from banishment the Answer of the Parliament was as followeth viz. Si Dominus Rex Regni majores hoc vellent communitas tamen ipsius ingressum in Angliam jam nullatenus sustineret Which is Signed and Sealed by all the Lords and by Petrus de Mountefortivice communitatis which shews plainly that he was thire Speaker for the very same words did Sir John Tiptofte their Speaker Sign and Seal to the Entaile of the Crown Parl. an 7 8 H. 4. But it is true that the first Speaker who is directly named in Record was in the Parliament Rolls in the Tower de an 51 E. 3. N. 87. The last day of the Parliament saith the Records Sir Thomas Hungerford Knight Speaker declared to the Lords that he had moved the King to Pardon all such as were unjustly Convicted in the Last Parliament And that
the King willed him to make special Bills for them which he had done for seven c. And therefore it can be no Argument that the House of Commons had no Speaker before the 51 th year of E. 3. because no former Records mention him For this is to be noted that the Antient Parliament Rolls did record only what Acts passed between both Houses and what Laws were made and omitted matters of Form and Ceremony There are also divers Parliament Rolls tempore R. 2. that do mention the Presentment of the Speaker prout in an 1 Rich. 2. n. an 2 R. 2. n. 18. 20 22 23 an 4 R. 2. n. 10 12 13. an 5 R. 2. n. 10 16. an 21 R. 2. n. 8 9 14 15. So also the Speaker is mentioned in the Parliament Rolls de annis 1 2 4 5 6 11 H. 4. and in the Parliament Rolls of H. 5. H. 6. and E. 4. remaining in the Tower and in the Parliament Rolls of R. 3. H. 7. remaining in the Chappel of the Rolls in Chancery-lane and since H. 8. time the Original Journal-Books of the Upper House of divers of his Years remain in the Parliament Office scituate and being in the Palace-Yard at Westminster at the South Corner thereof as also the Original Journal-Books downwards to this time and from the first Year of Ed. 6. to this day the Original Journal-Books of the House of Commons are in the Custody or at the disposing of my kind Friend John Wright Esq Clerk of the same House this present Year 1630. And now here do 〈◊〉 the next place follow certain Observations upon the Election of the said Speaker transcribed also with very little alteration out of the before-mentioned Treatise of M r Elsinge Lib. Cap. eodem § 2. in which two Questions are moved First Whether the Commons might chuse their Speaker if the King Commands them not Secondly Whether the Election be in their own absolute choice For to clear these two we must view the Antient Records those of R. 2. are the first that frequently mention the Speaker It doth not appear by any of them that the Commons had ever any such Commandment to chuse their Speaker Neither is there a word of it in any Record of E. 3. which have the Speeches at large touching the Cause of Summons most of them concluding with a Charge to the Commons to consider and advise thereof amongst themselves but nothing touching the Election of their Speaker yet out of doubt they did first chuse their Speaker before they entred into any Debate of their Charge The first Charge to chuse their Speaker is in an 2 H. 4. and yet it is omitted again in the Parliament 7 8 H. 4. but that only excepted it is continued from the 2 H. 4. until this day and the long use hath made it so material that without the Kings Commandment or leave they cannot chuse their Speaker which appears by this that in an 31 H. 6. the Parliament being Prorogued and the Speaker arrested in Execution in the interim before the access the Commons prayed his Enlargement which after long Debates of the Priviledges of Parliament was denied And then certain of the Lords were sent to the House of Commons and Commanded them in the Kings name to chuse a new Speaker and thereupon they did so Vid. An Account of this President at the end of this Session out of Rot. Parl. 31 32 H. 6. And of late Years in the time of Queen Eliz. the Parliament being Prorogued at two several times and the several Speakers dead in the interim before their second access as shall be more largely declared hereafter in these Journals the Commons before they proceeded to any business acquainted the Lords therewith and desired them to intimate the same to the Queen and so were commanded by her Majesty to chuse new Speakers Ut vide in an 8 Regin Eliz. die 1 Oct. in an 23 Reginae ejusdem die 18 Jan. But as touching the second Question surely the Election of the Speaker was antiently free to the Commons to chuse who they would of their own House which appears in this that the King never rejected any whom they made choice of Vide 5 R. 2. The Parliament began 4 Novemb. and the 18 th of Novemb. the Commons came and presented Sir Richard Walgrave whom they had chosen for their Speaker who excused himself desiring to be discharged But the King Lui chargeast del faire sur sa ligeaunce in as much as his Companions had chosen him whereby it appears plainly that the choice was absolutely in their own power These Animadversions touching the Antiquity and Election of the Speaker of the House of Commons being thus inserted from several Authorities Now follows the Presentment of the Speaker and her Majesties allowance of him out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons in which many things of Form are also added by my self and divers Animadversions out of that before-mentioned elaborate MS. Treatise of M r Elsinge's penning Lib. 1. cap. 7. with some small Additions or Alterations On Saturday the 28 th day of Jan. about one of the Clock in the Afternoon to which day and hour the Parliament had been last Adjourned or continued on Wednesday the 25 th day of this instant Jan. foregoing her Majesty Sir Nicholas Bacon and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal were present in the Upper House which said Lords as also her Majesty had on their several Parliament Robes of which the Knights Citizens and Burgesses and Barons of the House of Commons having notice they repaired thither Sir Thomas Gargrave was led up to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House who submissively excusing himself he humbly desired the Queens Majesty to free him from that Imployment and to Command her Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons to Elect amongst themselves some other more able Member for the discharge of the said place But notwithstanding these reasons her Majesty signified his allowance by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper Nota That the exeuse of the Speaker is at this day meerly formal and out of modesty For he first excuseth himself unto the Commons when they Elect him and afterwards to the Soveraign when he is presented But antiently it seemeth they were both hearty and real or else no excuse at all was made And the first President of this nature that is found in Record is in the Parliament Rolls de an 5 R. 2. n. 9. die 4 Novembris where Sir Richard de Waldgrave Knight the Lineal Ancestor in the Male Line of the several Families of Waldegrave in Suffolk being chosen Speaker of the House of Commons did excuse himself unto the said King but was charged upon his Allegiance to undertake it sith he was Chosen by the Commons The next is in an 1 H. 4. of Sir John Cheny who made no excuse at his Presentment
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 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
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
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
Hereford the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Burleigh the Lord Cobham the Lord Lumley the Lord Hastings of Loughborough and Serjeant Barham Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Thursday the 10 th day of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the appointing of two several Sheriffs for the Counties of Cambridge and Huntington was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum And the last that no Purveyors shall take any Corn Grain or Victuals within five Miles of Cambridge and Oxford was read primâ vice Nota That Cambridge is here ranked before Oxford in the title of this Bill Nine Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the third being the Bill against the bringing in and putting in Execution of Bulls c. from the See of Rome was returned as it seemeth not expedited for the Journal-Book doth not set it down conclus as in like Cases is usual The Earl of Sussex the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Winchester the Bishop of Ely the Lord Burleigh and the Lord Wentworth were appointed to confer with certain of the House of Commons about the Bill of Tellors c. The Bill for increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy was referred to Committees of which two were Viscount Hereford and Viscount Mountague but no mention is made of the reading of it of which nature see a like President on Saturday the 21 th day of April foregoing Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati horâ Octavâ On Saturday the 12 th day of May the Bill for two Fifteenths and Tenths and one Subsidy granted by the Laity was read primâ vice Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill to restrain the Oppression of Common Promoters and another for the maintenance of Navigation Four Bills also had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for Restitution in Bloud of the Children of Sir Thomas Wyatt Knight was read tertiâ vice conclusa The Bill lastly against the bringing in of Bulls c. was committed to the Lords that were in the Committee for the Bill of Treasons who were appointed on Saturday the 5 th day of this instant May foregoing to confer therein in certain points with certain of the House of Commons Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox horâ Octavâ May the 13 th Sunday On Monday the 14 th day of May Nine Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for one Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Laity was read secundâ vice Vide May 16. postea The reason why no Commitment And the last for Orders for Bankrupts was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum Three Bills which passed this day with the Bill for Restitution in Bloud of the Children of Sir Thomas Wyatt Knight were sent to the House of Commons by M r Sollicitor and Doctor Lewis The Bill for respite of Homage was referred to Committees but no mention made of the reading of it of which see a like President on Saturday the 21 th day of April foregoing Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Tuesday the 15 th day of May Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for one Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Laity was read secundâ vice conclusa Five Bills were brought to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was for the Confirmation of the Attainder of Charles Earl of Westmerland and Thomas Earl of Northumberland and others with a Proviso and Amendments And another was the Bill for the Town of Lestwithiell in the County of Cornwall The Bill lastly against Simony was read secundâ vice and committed to the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Ely the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Burleigh the Lord Shandois the Lord Hastings and the Lord Hunsdon And to the same Committees was likewise committed the Bill against corrupt Presentations Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Wednesday the 16 th day of May Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill touching Orders for Bankrupts was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Yale and Doctor Huick The Proviso and Amendments required by the House of Commons to be put in the Bill for Confirmation of the Attainder of the Earls of Westmerland and Northumberland c. were thrice read and the Lords gave their Assent thereunto The Amendments likewise in the Bill for Constats and Exemplifications of Letters Patents being thrice read the Lords also gave their Assents 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 thirteen Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third touching Dilapidations the fifth for Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy and the twelfth that no Hay or Plate shall cross the Seas were each of them read the second time and ordered to be ingrossed And of the said Bills the second being to License the Earl of Leicester to Erect an Hospital the fourth for the making of the River of Welland Navigable the eighth for the maintenance of Navigation and the tenth for the continuance of making of Caps were each of them read secundâ vice but no mention is made that they were either ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees of which there can be but two Reasons the first that the Lords deferred the committing or ingrossing thereof until some other time as fell out before in the Bill touching the Commission of Sewers which being read secundâ vice on Friday the 2 d day of April foregoing was referred to a Committee the day following although sometimes it may be omitted likewise through the negligence of the Clerk of the Upper House or else another reason there may be that such Bills having passed the House of Commons and being sent up to the Lords fairly ingrossed in Parchment can be no more ingrossed neither do the Lords ordinarily refer such Bills to Committees unless there be very great Cause in respect that each House holding correspondency with other they do not willingly submit that to the agitation of a private Committee which hath been
passed the House of which the first was the Bill for preservation of Order and Uniformity in the Church and the second for William Skeffington Esquire The Proviso to the Bill of Subsidy for Rumney-Marsh was twice read The Bill for respite of Homage was read the third time The Proviso to the Bill for respite of Homage was twice read The Bill for respite of Homage was committed to Mr. Serjeant Manwood Mr. Serjeant Lovelace Mr. Wilbraham and Mr. Popham who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at three of the Clock and to make report unto this Court to Morrow next On Saturday the 28 th day of April a Supplication for the Merchants of Dantzick touching Cony-Skins was this day read unto the House and delivered unto Mr. Treasurer The Proviso to the Bill for Fugitives was twice read and upon the question it was Ordered that the Bill shall stand as it is touching the relief of Wives and Children And the Bill was also Ordered to be ingrossed with the Proviso for the Dutchess of Feria and the Lady Jane Dormer Widow The Bill against Usury was read the third time Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for Conservation of Orders and Uniformity in the Church and another against Popish Priests disguising themselves in Serving-mens Apparel The Bill for keeping Residence in Cathedral Churches was read the first time Mr. Henry Knolles Sen. Mr. Strickland Mr. Mounson and Mr. Yelverton were appointed to sort the Bills for Religion in such order and course for proceeding one before another as they shall think meetest Vide May 17. postea The Bill for Shrewsbury was read the third time The Committees in the Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion whose names see on Saturday the 21 th day of this instant April preceeding and the Committees in the Bill for respite of Homage who were nominated on Friday the 27 th day of the same Month foregoing were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Temple Church The second Bill for Religion was read the second time and committed unto the Lord President of the Marches of Wales Sir Thomas Smith Sir Thomas Scott Mr. Attorney of the Wards Mr. Norton Mr. Greenfeild Mr. Grimston Mr. Smith Mr. Fenner and Mr. Agmordsam who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at three of the Clock in the Star-Chamber Vide May 17. postea what this Bill was The Bill for Bristol was read the third time and after long Arguing passed upon the Question Mr. Serjeant Barham and Mr. Sollicitor brought two Bills from the Lords the one for the Confirmation of the Attainder of the late Earls of Northumberland and Westmerland and others and the other for reviving and continuance of certain Statutes April the 29 th Sunday On Monday the 30 th day of April Two Bills had each of them their second reading and were Ordered to be ingrossed of which the first was the Bill for allowance to be made unto Sheriffs for the Justices Diets Two Bills also had each of them their third reading and were likewise Ordered to be ingrossed of which the first was the Bill for coming to Church and receiving of the Communion On Tuesday the first day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Fugitives was read the third time and after many Arguments passed upon the Question Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Huick did desire from the Lords that some of this House may attend upon six of the Lords to Morrow Morning for Conference touching the Bill against Priests disguising themselves in Serving-mens Apparel which was granted and thereupon were appointed for that purpose Mr. Treasurer Sir Thomas Scott Sir Owen Hopton Sir Thomas Lucy Sir Henry Jones Mr. Serjeant Manwood Mr. Cleere Mr. Thomas Browne Mr. Norton Mr. Yelverton Mr. Strickland Mr. Mounson and Mr. Thomas Hussy Mr. Serjeant Barham and Mr. Attorney General did desire from the Lords that a convenient number be sent presently unto their Lordships from this House for Answer touching Articles for Religion Whereupon my Lord Deputy of Ireland Mr. Treasurer and divers others were sent for that purpose and had with them the four Bills last passed viz. The Bill against Fugitives The Bill for Bristol The Bill for William Skeffington and the Bill for Shrewsbury And afterwards returned Answer from the Lords that the Queens Majesty having been made privy to the said Articles liketh very well of them and mindeth to publish them and have them Executed by the Bishops by direction of her Highness Regal Authority of Supremacy of the Church of England and not to have the same dealt in by Parliament Nota That there was in this Parliament much and long agitation touching the reforming of several enormities and Ceremonies in matters of Religion which now at last the Queen took out of the hands of the House and promised other Amendment as appeareth by the above-mentioned Message sent from the Lords to the said House although the said matters and agitations were not thereupon deserted but continued in part as is more at large observed upon Thursday the 17 th day of this instant May ensuing where the whole beginning Progress and Issue of this business is at large collected and digested into an orderly relation The Bill for allowance to be made unto Sheriffs for the Justices Diets was read the third time M r Sollicitor and M r Doctor Lewes brought from the Lords two Bills the one against fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances and the other for Constats and Exemplifications of Letters Patents to be as good and available as Letters Patents themselves The Bill of Attainder was read the first time Sir Henry Peircy Knight was appointed to be heard in this House with his Learned Council upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for Constats and Exemplifications of Letters Patents was read the first time On Wednesday the second day of May Five Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading The Bill for Leases of Benefices being the fifth Bill of those seven Bills 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 E was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Touching which said Bill and matters of Religion see a more full and ample Animadversion or Declaration on Thursday the 7 th day of this instant May ensuing M r Treasurer with the residue of the Commissioners having been with the Lords about the Bill against Priests disguising themselves in Serving-mens Apparel shewed that upon Conference therein had with the Lords their request is that some of the said Committees might confer with the Queens Majesties Learned Councel touching the enlargement and better Explanation of some parts of the same Bill Whereupon the House liking
well of that course of proceeding it is agreed that the Committees for the Bill against the untrue demeanors of Tellors Receivors Treasurers and Collectors and for the Bill against Bulls c. procured from the See of Rome and such like Bills as shall hereafter come from their Lordships needful to be considered or added unto or altered shall make request unto the Lords for Conference and privity in that behalf to be had and made with them as they in the said former Bill have used and done towards this House The Bill for respite of Homage was committed unto Sir Walter Mildmay M r Serjeant Lovelace M r Mounson M r Sampoole Mr. Wilbraham Mr. Popham and Mr. Fenner to consider of this Afternoon at three of the Clock at the Rolls and to deliver it again to the House to Morrow Morning in such sort as now it is if in the mean time they shall not alter the same or some part thereof On Thursday the third day of May Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for increase of Tillage and maintenance of Navigation was read the first time The Bill for the Order of Ministers being the second of those seven Bills preferred this Parliament touching the matters of Religion and therefore called in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons the Bill B was read the fourth time and passed Touching all which said Bills of matters of Religion see a more ample and full Animadversion or Declaration on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant May ensuing The Bill for allowance to be made unto Sheriffs for the Justices Diets was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others The Bill for making Peregrine Barty free Denizen was read three times and passed the House as also the Bill against Usury after they had been brought from the Lords by Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Vaughan It was Ordered that Sir Nicholas Points Knight one of the Knights from the County of Glocester shall have a Writ of Priviledge for his Servant Thomas Wickham being attached in the City of London upon two Actions of Trespass the one at the Suit of Christopher Temple Goldsmith and the other at the Suit of Fr. Acton Grocer On Friday the 4 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Licences and Dispensations granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Sir Thomas Smith Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Norton Mr. Greenfeild Mr. Eglenby Mr. Strickland and Mr. Yelverton The Bill for Fines and Recoveries was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for coming to Church and receiving of the Communion was read the third time and passed the House It was Ordered that the Officer which made the Arrest upon Sir Henry Clinton's Servants and also the party that procured the same do appear here to Morrow at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon Three Bills lastly had each of them their second reading and were thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed of which the first was the Bill for respite of Homage and the last was for South-hampton On Saturday the 5 th day of May Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the River of Welland was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Confirmation of Attainders was read the second time at which time Sir Henry Peircy Knight with Mr. Fetiplace being of his Learned Councel were present And Wednesday next was given them to be further heard again The Bill for respite of Homage was read the third time and sent up to the Lords with the Bill for the coming to Church and receiving of the Communion by Mr. Treasurer Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Scott Sir Francis Hastings Sir William Pawlet Sir John Thinne Sir Owen Hopton Sir Henry Gate Sir William Buts Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Thomas Lucy Sir Robert Lane Mr. Austley Mr. Stokes Mr. Serjeant Lovelace Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Sampoole Mr. Mounson Mr. Norton Mr. Yelverton Mr. More Mr. Henry Knolles Mr. Carleton Mr. Strickland Mr. John Hastings and Mr. Halliard On Monday the 7 th day of May Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Licences and Dispensations granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Leases of Benefices being the fifth of those seven Bills 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 E was read the third time and passed the House Touching all which said Bills and matters of Religion see at large on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant May ensuing The Provisoes to the Bill against Vagabonds were twice read Three Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Tuesday the 8 th day of May the Bill for the maintenance of Navigation was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Sir John S t Leger Sir Owen Hopton Sir Richard Buckley Mr. Holstock Mr. Grimston Mr. Mohun Mr. John Hastings Mr. Grice Mr. Crownier Mr. Wilford Mr. Humberston Mr. Pelham Mr. Lieff Mr. Gerby Mr. Gaire Mr. Downing Mr. Norton Mr. Popham Mr. Strickland and Mr. Thornton who were appointed to meet at the Star-Chamber to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Three Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for South-hampton was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Wednesday the 9 th day of May the Bill for Maurice Radney Esq was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed It was Ordered upon a Motion made by Mr. Norton that upon Friday next coming the House do begin to sit at three of the Clock in the Afternoon and to continue till five and so every Monday Wednesday and Friday until the end of this Session of Parliament which time to be imployed only in the first reading of private Bills The Bill against Promoters was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill to avoid corrupt Presentations being the fourth Bill of those seven preferred this Parliament touching the reformation of the matters of Religion and therefore called in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons the Bill D was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Touching which Bills and matters of Religion see a more full Animadversion or Declaration on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant May following The Bill against Bulls c. procured from
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
be ingrossed The Bill for the payment of Tithes was read the first time and rejected upon the Question May the 13 th Sunday On Monday the 14 th day of May the Bill for not returning in Juries persons of the Queens Majesties Houshold was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Sir John Thinne Mr. Cofferer Mr. Brown Mr. More and Mr. Ferrers The Bill for Residence of Pastors being the third of those seven Bills preferred this Parliament touching the reformation of matters in Religion and therefore called in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons the Bill C was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Touching which Bill and matters of Religion see a more full Animadversion or Declaration on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant May following The Bill against Vagabonds and the first Bill for preservation of Wood were Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Conveyances and Assurances of Lands to be made without Covin was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Marsh Mr. Stanhop Mr. Grice Mr. Sampoole Mr. Norton Mr. Alford and Mr. Dalton who were appointed to meet in the Temple Church at two of the Clock this Afternoon Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Attorney brought from the Lords four Bills of which the two last were one for the Restitution in Blood of the Children of Sir Thomas Wyat and the other for the Assurance of the Jointure of the Lady Barkley Three Bills had each of them their third reading and passed upon the question of which the last was the Bill against the Exaction of Collectors of the Tenths of the Clergy The Bill lastly for severance of the Sheriffs in the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham were read the second time and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed Post Meridiem Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning Hospitals and the third for Planting of Hops were each of them read the first time and the second being the Bill against great Hosen was read the first time and committed unto Sir Christopher Heydon Sir William Buts Mr. Stokes Mr. Moore Mr. Warncomb Mr. St. John Mr. Gare Mr. Humberston Mr. Layton and Mr. Sackerston Which is the rather to be observed in respect that this Bill was committed upon the first reading which is not usual until the second of which there were three like Presidents viz. one on Thursday the 10 th day and two on Friday the 11 th day of this instant May foregoing The Bill for making of William Watson a free Denizen was twice read and the Bill lastly for Leverpool was read the first time On Tuesday the 15 th day of May the Bill against Wednesdays was read the first time The Bill touching the Commutation of Penance by the Ecclesiastical Judge being the last of those seven Bills 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 second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Touching which Bill and matters of Religion see more at large on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant May following Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Confirmation of Attainders was read the third time and passed the House The Proviso for the Countess of Cumberland and others to the Bill for Confirmation of Attainders was thrice read And further Ordered by the House that the Saving for Sir Henry Peircy Knight shall be placed in the Book before the general saving without any alteration or change of any word or words at all The Bill for Confirmation of Attainders with the other last passed were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Treasurer and others The Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Children of Sir Thomas Wyat Knight was read the third time The Bill lastly for the continuance of the severance of Sheriffs in sundry Shires was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Wednesday the 16 th day of May the Bill against Wednesdays was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The new Bill against great Hosen and a new Bill of Jeofails were each of them read the first time M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords the Bill for Confirmation of Attainders for mending of an Indorsement Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against Collusions and Delays in Vouchers was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Huick did require from the Lords to have the Committees in the Bill for Treasons presently sent to them for Conference The Bill for Residence of Pastors being the third of those seven Bills preferred this Parliament touching matters of Religion and therefore called in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons the Bill C was read the third time and upon the Division of the House dashed M r Doctor Huick and Mr. Doctor Yale did bring from the Lords a Bill against Bankrupts with Commendations for the expediting thereof Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for search of Fairs of Maidston in Kent was read the first time Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Huick brought from the Lords the Bill against Bulls c. and the Bill for Treasons both reformed as appeareth in several Papers annexed containing the places and words of Amendments Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being a new Bill for the maintenance of the Havens of Plymouth and Dartmouth c. was read the second time On Thursday the 17 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them their second reading and Ordered to be ingrossed of which the second was the Bill against Clothworkers The Bill against Cloth-workers was read the second time and Ordered to be stayed Sir Walter Mildmay Sir Thomas Smith Mr. Serjeant Lovelace Mr. Bell Mr. Mounson Mr. Popham Mr. Sampool Mr. Sands and Mr. Yelverton were appointed to have Conference with the Lords touching the Bill for respite of Homage in the outer Chamber of the Upper House at two of the Clock this Afternoon The Bill for Sewers was read the first time The Bill against Bulls and the Bill for Treasons were upon the Question absolutely passed with all the Additions and Amendments The Bill also against Wednesdays and the Bill against Collusion and delays in Vouchers were each of them read the third time and passed the House The Bill touching the Commutation of Penance by the Ecclesiastical Judge being last of those seven Bills preferred this Parliament touching Reformation of matters of Religion and therefore called in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons the Bill G was read the
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
compass of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge like as their Lordships had done on their parts upon like request of this House in the said Bill concerning Tillage and the Navy Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Huick brought word that the Lords pray Conference with some of this House at two of the Clock this Afternoon touching the Bill for the twelve Shires of Wales and also present report of the Committees of this House touching the Bill against Bankrupts My Lord Deputy of Ireland Mr. Comptroller Sir Nicholas Arnold Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy Sir Henry Jones Sir George Blunt Mr. William Gerrard and Mr. Bassett were appointed to attend upon the Lords touching the Bill of the twelve Shires of Wales The Bill against the taking of any Grain or Victual within five Miles compass of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge being a Bill sent from the Lords and specially recommended from them having at the third reading thereof an Addition or amendment in paper upon the Question affiled unto it the said Addition or amendment then having been but once read the Bill was put to the Question and the House thereupon divided and afterwards the error aforesaid being found it was after sundry motions Ordered upon another Question that the said Addition or amendment being three times read the Bill should go to the Question again which being so done the Bill afterwards passed upon the division of the House accordingly Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the maintenance of the Havens of Plymouth and Dartmouth c. was read the third time and passed the House Sir Thomas Smith Sir William Pawlet Sir Francis Hastings Mr. Heneage Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Stokes Mr. Thomas Browne Mr. Hussy Mr. John Hastings Mr. Thomas Snagg Mr. Strickland and Mr. S t John were appointed to have Conference with the Lords touching the Bill against corrupt Presentations The Bill for the Incorporation of the Towns of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis and the Bill for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy were each of them twice read Mr. Comptroller Sir Christopher Haydon Sir Thomas Russell Sir William Pawlet Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Henry Gate Mr. Baynton Mr. Grice Mr. Strickland Mr. Seckerson Mr. Cleere Mr. John Horsey Mr. Stanhop Mr. Hasset Mr. Edgcomb and Mr. Laton were appointed to ..... And here the whole matter breaks off abruptly in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons through the negligence of Fulk Onslow Esq Clerk of the same but it is most probable that these Committees were nominated in the Bill last before-mentioned upon the first and second reading thereof On Saturday the 26 th day of May the Bill for the River of Lee was read the first time and referred to be considered of by M r Comptroller of the Dutchy M r Wilson the Master of Requests Sir Henry Gate Sir John White M r Moore M r Holstock M r Grimston M r Baghe M r Robert North M r Henry Cock M r Dacre M r Norton M r Humberston and M r Bowyer The Bill against the untrue Demeanors of Tellors Receivors Treasurers and Collectors was read the third time and referred to be considered of by M r Treasurer M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Humphrey Gilbert M r Heneage M r Recorder of London Mr. Sampoole Mr. Humberston Mr. Bedle Mr. Norton Mr. Ireby and Mr. Thomas Brown The Bill for Incorporating of both the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge was twice read Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Huick brought from the Lords one Bill touching the limitation reviving and continuing of Statutes The Bills which lastly passed in this House were sent to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others The Bill for the Incorporating of the Towns of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis was read the third time and passed the House Post Meridiem In the Afternoon Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords one Bill touching the limitation of Fees for Councellors and others towards the Law which was specially recommended from the Queens Majesty Mr. Doctor Yale and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords the said former Bill Indorsed for that the same was delivered without Indorsement Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Yale did desire from the Lords that six of this House be presently sent unto them of those which did yesterday confer with their Lordships touching the Bill against Fugitives Four Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy was read the third time and passed upon the Question May the 27 th Sunday On Monday the 28 th day of May the Bill for the Jointure of the Lady Berkley was read the third time and passed the House The Provisoes to the Bill for the River of Lee were thrice read and passed with the Bill upon the Question and sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy and others The Proviso to the Bill for the Jointure of the Lady Berkley was thrice read and passed with the Bill upon the Question and sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others Sir Richard Read and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords the Bill for John Tirrell Esquire with certain amendments Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Huick brought word that the Lords desire to have six of this House to confer with them presently touching the severance of the Sheriffs in the Counties of Surrey and Sussex Whereupon Mr. Thomas Brown M r Moor M r Palmer M r Comper M r Morley and M r Bowyer were appointed and sent to them accordingly M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Yale did desire from the Lords to know the mind of this House whether this House can be contented to leave Surrey and Sussex out of the Bill for severance of Sheriffs if there Lordships shall so think meet which being opened to the House it was upon the Question Ordered that they shall be left out if the Lords so will All the Privy-Council being Members of this House Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Thomas Scott Sir Thomas Lucy Sir Humphrey Gilbert M r Recorder of London M r Mounson M r Yelverton and M r Robert North were upon some Speeches uttered to this House that some of the Members of this House should take money for their Voices appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Star-Chamber and to Examine what persons being Members of this House have taken any Fees or Rewards for their Voices in the furtherance or hinderance of any Bills offered in this House and then afterwards to make report of the particularities thereof unto this House accordingly Vide the residue of this business on the next day following Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for shooting in Hand-Guns and Harquebuses was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Huick brought from the Lords the Bill
against untrue Demeanors of Tellors Receivors Treasurers and Collectors with a new Proviso and the Bill for severance of Sheriffs in sundry Counties Surrey and Sussex being left out The Bill for Councellors Fees was read the third time M r Doctor Huick and M r Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords the Bill for the River of Lee with some Additions and Amendments Sir Walter Mildmay Sir Thomas Smith Sir John Thynne M r Wilson Master of the Requests M r Heneage M r Recorder M r Mounson M r Yelverton and M r Bembrick were appointed to meet here in the Chamber to Morrow in the Morning at seven of the Clock to consider of the Bill for Councellors Fees On Tuesday the 29 th day of May M r Serjeant Barham and M r Doctor Huick brought from the Lords the Bill of the Queens Majesties General and free Pardon The Committees for Examination of Fees or Rewards taken for Voices in the House reported That they cannot learn of any that hath sold his Voice in this House or any way dealt unlawfully or indirectly in that behalf and thereupon M r Norton declaring that he heard that some had him in suspition justified himself and was upon the question purged by the Voice of the whole House and their good opinion of him and of his honest and dutiful dealing and great pains taking in the service of this House were in very good and acceptable part declared and affirmed by the like Voice of the whole House The Bill for shooting in Hand-Guns and Harquebuses was read the third time and passed the House And the Bill also for the Queens Majesties most gracious and free Pardon was read Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for Councellors Fees the third reading being yesterday accomplished was now passed upon the Question All the Bills passed were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others After which the manner of the Conclusion of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons Verbatim as followeth About four of the Clock this Afternoon the Queens Majesty being set in her Royal Seat in the Upper House M r Speaker made his Oration presented unto her Highness the Book of the Subsidy and in the name of the whole House gave her Majesty most humble thanks for her Highness General and free Pardon And prayed her Majesties Royal Assent unto such Acts and Laws as had passed both the Houses in this Sessions Whereupon her Highness gave her Royal Assent unto forty one Acts and so Dissolved this present Parliament THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS The Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 14 Reginae Eliz. A. D. 1572 which began there on Thursday the 8 th Day of May and then and there continued until the Adjournment thereof on Monday the 30 th and last Day of June next ensuing THIS Session of Parliament held in An. 14 Reginae Eliz. although it lasted no long time yet it containeth in it a great deal of extraordinary matter touching the Proceeding of the House in the business of the Scottish Queen and towards the Conclusion thereof touching the Priviledge of the Members of the same and that which doth yet somewhat the more enlarge and beautifie it is the Addition of Sir Nicholas Bacon's Speech being the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal on the first day of this Session But howsoever this said Session were in it self short in Continuance yet considering the two other following Sessions which with it made but one and the same Parliament and that the longest of any in this Queens time it will not prove unworthy although the aforesaid extraordinary passages wanted of a careful and methodical setting down For the second Session being held in An. 18 Regin Eliz. and the third and last Session in An. 23 Regin ejusdem it was continued by many Adjournments and Prorogations although the House sate but a part of the time until the final Dissolution thereof upon the 19 th day of April in An. 25 Reginae praedictae after it had lasted about the space of eleven years On Thursday the 8 th day of May according to the Writ of Summons that had been sent forth dated at Greenwich the 5 th day of May in the fourteenth year of the Queen the Parliament held Nota That the Writ of Summons is set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have born date the 5 th day of May in this fourteenth year and the Parliament to have begun on the 8 th day of May in the same year of the Queen but three days after the Writ of Summons it self which is impossible and it is plain that the day of the beginning of the Parliament cannot be mistaken because according to that all the other days through the whole Journal-Book do follow in due form and order and therefore it is very probable that the date of the Writ is set down contrary to the Originals themselves which were dated the 5 th day of March and that the Clerk might mistake This is likewise very conjecturable in respect that the name of the Month being set down and perhaps abbreviated it was easily written May for March and so this incongruity is only the slip and error of the Clerk The Queens Majesty was doubtless present her self this day in the Upper House and was attended by Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal but in the Journal-Book of the Upper House there is no mention made who were present this day only it may be guessed by the names of such as the said Original Journal-Book setteth down to have been present on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May following which is the first day on which the presence of any Lords is marked according to the usual form by the Clerk of the Parliament Neither can it possibly be collected or gathered by the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House or House of Commons whether her Majesty was present or no. For as concerning the Journal of the House of Commons it appeareth only that divers of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the said House of Commons did this day take the Oath in that Case accustomed And therefore the chief ground I had to conclude that her Majesty was this day personally in the Upper House was a Copy I had by me of the Lord Keepers Speech made there this day in the publick Assembly of both Houses in the end of which he gives direction to the House of Commons to Elect their Speaker which shews also that the said Speech in divers Copies thereof is falsly attributed to the eighteenth Year of her Majesty which was but the second Session of this Parliament and no Speaker Elected in it and therefore this Error seemeth only to have grown through the fault of Transcribers and the ignorance of such as suffered so groundless
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
wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the same so also by a like negligence are all those many and several Prorogations buried in Silence by which this Parliament was continued without Dissolution until the next meeting thereof on Wednesday the 8 th day of February in the eighteenth year of her Majesties Reign which was the second Session of this present Parliament and held about four years after the determination of this first Session by Adjournment as aforesaid so that it is very probable that there are not less than twenty several Prorogations For between that foresaid second Session in an 18 Reginae Eliz. and the third Session of this present Parliament in an 23 Reginae ejusdem which contained not above one years space more than had intervened between the two former Sessions there passed at least twenty five Prorogations as doth plainly appear in the end of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the said Session of Parliament de an 18 Reginae praedict where they are for the most part set down either abstractedly or at large And lastly As touching the great business of the Scottish Queen so much and so long agitated in both Houses it did at this time receive no period or conclusion but in this Session of Parliament in an 14 Reginae Eliz. an Act passed both Houses against her and lastly in the Parliament de an 28 29 Reginae ejusdem she was a little before her Execution at Fortheringhay-Castle in Northamptonshire Condemned to be Worthy of Death by the Vote of both the said Houses of Parliament THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Session of Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 14 Reginae Eliz. A. D. 1572 which began there on Thursday the 8 th Day of May and then and there continued until the Adjournment thereof on Monday the 30 th and last Day of June next ensuing THIS Journal of the House of Commons containeth in it not only many good passages touching the ordinary reading committing and expediting of Bills but is plentifully stored also with the frequent agitation and discussion of that great business touching the Scottish Queen whose practices not only with Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk but also with the Foreign Enemies of her Majesty for the destruction and Invasion of the Realm are notably described which also is much enlarged out of a written Copy I had by me of such reasons as were conceived in the House of Commons for her speedy Execution and of the Petition also preferred to her Majesty to the same purpose which said Reasons and Petition being not found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons I have therefore to avoid confusion distinguished by an Annotation or Animadversion from that of the Journal it self where it hath in its due place been inserted There passed also in this said Session a Bill against the said Queen of Scots which is falsly referred in divers Copies thereof to the 23 th year of her Majesty On Thursday the 8 th day of May this first Session of the fourth Parliament of her Majesties Reign beginning at Westminster The Right Honourable the Earl of Lincoln High Admiral of England and by her Highness appointed Lord Steward for this present time came to the Lower House of Parliament accompanied with divers others of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council viz. Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Highness most Honourable Houshold Sir James Crofts Knight Comptroller of the same Sir Ralph Sadler Knight Chancellor of her Majesties Dutchy of Lancaster and Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Chancellor of her Highness Court of Exchequer And did then and there minister the Oath unto all the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons then and there Assembled The said Earl of Lincoln Constituting and Authorizing the said Sir Francis Knolles Sir James Crofts Sir Ralph Sadler and Sir Walter Mildmay to be his Deputies in and for the more speedy ministration of the said Oath according to the Statute in that behalf lately made and provided unto all such others of the said Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons as should happen afterwards to appear upon any return during this present Parliament This day Robert Bell of the Middle-Temple London Esq was Chosen Speaker for this present Parliament But whether her Majesty were this day in Person in the Upper House or by what Authority from her said Highness the said Speaker was Elected cannot possibly be gathered out of the Original Journal of the said Upper House or that of the House of Commons but elsewhere it appears the Lord Keeper gave them Authority in the end of his Speech on Thursday foregoing On Saturday the 10 th day of May M r Speaker was by the House presented to the Queens Majesty and of her Highness well accepted and allowed who after his Oration made and the Ordinary Petitions granted repaired to the House of Commons and being set in the Chair received the Oath After which according to the usual form was read The Bill concerning Bayles to be taken in the Court of Common-Pleas was read the first time On Monday the 12 th day of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the third being the Bill for Proclamations to be made in Parish Churches and Chappels before Outlawries was committed unto M r Gent M r Robert Snagg M r Fenner M r Humberston M r Flowerdue M r French and M r Boyes who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Temple Church The Lords did send Sir Richard Read and M r D r Huick to require M r Speaker and this whole House forthwith to make their repair unto their Lordships in the Upper House and upon their repair thither the Lord Keeper signified unto them that the Queens Majesties Pleasure is that twenty one of the said Upper House and forty four of this House should meet to Morrow in the Morning at eight of the Clock in the Star-Chamber then and there to consult and deliberate upon matters concerning the Queen of Scots Whereunto were appointed of this House M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Dutchy M r Chancellor of the Exchequer My Lord Deputy of Ireland Sir Maurice Berkeley Sir Hugh Pawlet Sir Thomas Scott Sir Owen Hopton Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir John Thinne Sir Hen. Gate Sir Rowland Hayward M r Doctor Wilson M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Recorder of London M r Serjeant Manwood M r Serjeant Geffry M r Mounson M r Sands M r Popham M r Yelverton M r Coleby M r Heneage M r Charles Howard M r Hatton M r Asteley M r Shute M r Hen. Knolles Sen. M r Hen. Knolles Jun. M r Peter Wentworth M r Sampole M r Norton M r William Moor. M r John Vaughan M r Tho. Randall M r John Vaughan of Caermarthen M r Greenfield Sen. M r Charles Somerset M
M r Mounson M r Yelverton M r Cooper M r Beamond M r Sampole and M r Knyvet were appointed to meet at the Savoy at three of the Clock this Afternoon at M r Chancellors of the Dutchy for Conference in the Bill of fraudulent Conveyances of Lands On Wednesday June the 4 th Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the new Bill for assurances by Corporations was read the first time The Bill also for the City and Soke of Winchester was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Upon the Question it was Ordered by this House that the Lord Compton do before the Committees make his Answer to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Star-Chamber at three of the Clock Unto the Bill Exhibited by the Earl of Kent which was in open Court signified unto the Lord Compton and upon another Question day was given unto both the said Parties with their Councel to be here present at the report of the Committees upon Friday next in the Morning unless the same Committees shall upon further motion of this House for that purpose in the mean time pray Saturday M r Serjeant Barham and M r Doctor Huick did bring from the Lords the Bill to revive an Act against the transporting of Leather Tallow and Raw-Hides M r Treasurer M r Comptroller and M r Chancellor of the Dutchy were added to the former Committees for the Earl of Kent his Bill The Bill for the true making proving and marking of Calivers and the Bill for the School of Tunbridge were each of them read the third time and passed the House and were with two others sent up to the Lords by M r Chancellor of the Dutchy and others The Bill against such as shall keep or detain from the Queens Majesty any Castles Fortresses c. The Bill against such as go about to enlarge any Person Imprisoned for Treason and the Bill for annexing of Hexam and Hexamshire to the County of Northumberland were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because they had been formerly sent from the Lords On Thursday the 5 th day of June Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Severance of the Sheriffs in the Counties of Surrey and Sussex was read the first time The Bill for the City of Worcester was read the third time and was rejected upon the Division of the House with the difference of six persons Five Bills of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House and were sent up unto the Lords by M r Treasurer and others of which one was for Partition of Lands between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfeild Knight and another for Plumstead Marsh. M r Serjeant Barham and M r Attorney General did bring from the Lords the Bill against Mary the Daughter and Heir of James the Fifth late King of Scots commonly called the Queen of Scots with Recommendation of the said Bill from their Lordships and pray a present reading thereof this day And did further signifie the time of the Year considered the Queens Majesties pleasure is that this House do proceed in that and other weighty Causes laying apart all private matters Vide Thursday 26 th of June postea The Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots was read the first time On Friday the 6 th day of June the Bill for Coggshall Cloaths was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Serjeant was commanded by the House to warn Andrew Fisher that he make his personal appearance here presently this Forenoon immediately after that the Lords now dealing in the Committee of his Cause shall have left off their present Conference And Sir Thomas Scott M r S t Leger M r Norton and others of the Committees of this House in the matter before the Bill passed were presently sent from this House to the said Lords Committees to inform them of the former proceedings of the said Committees of this House in the matter Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the new Bill against fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances of Lands was read the first time The Bill against the bringing in of Foreign Wares forbidden was stayed the third reading till another time The Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots was read the second time M r Chancellor of the Dutchy M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Serjeant Manwood Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. Attorney of the Court of Wards Mr. Popham Mr. Mounson Mr. Yelverton and Mr. Norton to have Conference for the understanding of the Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots to meet this Afternoon and all Arguments to be received as upon the second reading of the Bill until it shall be read the third time It is Ordered by the House to sit at Afternoons from three of the Clock till six and to proceed but only in private Bills and not to go to the Question of any such Bill if it concern any Town or Shire unless the Knights of such Shire or Shires or the Burgesses of such Town or Towns shall then be present Andrew Fisher being called this day to the Bar and charged with certain Objections was further Adjourned to make his appearance here in this Court to Morrow next coming Post Meridiem In the Afternoon two Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the second was the new Bill for Weights and Measures Mr. Weekes and Mr. Dennis with their Councel were appointed to be heard to Morrow at three of the Clock in the Afternoon and Dennis at his peril for the other to be heard in his absence Day was given to the Earl of Kent and the Lord Compton with their Councel on both sides to be heard to Morrow at four of the Clock in the Afternoon On Saturday the 7 th day of June Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against covenous Vouchers and another for Woodstock were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Sir William Harper Knight was read the first time being a new Bill Mr. Attorney and Mr. Doctor Huick brought from the Lords the Bill against such as do withhold from the Queens Majesty any Forts c. with certain Amendments by their Lordships added unto the former Amendments of this House Mr. Coleby and Mr. Flowerdew were added to the former Committees in the Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill that none serving any Subject shall be a Justice of Peace or High Constable was read the first time The Bill for repairing the Wayes and Bridges near Oxford was read
the second time but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or Ordered to be engrossed because it had been sent from the Lords Upon the Argument in the matter between the Earl of Kent and the Lord Compton by their Learned Councel of both sides this House thinketh good to be further advised upon the matter and so it was signified unto their Lordships and their Councel On Monday the 9 th day of June the Bill for Mr. Smith was read the first and second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill that no Servant of any Subjects shall be a Justice of Peace or High Constable was read the second time and Ordered to be engrossed Mr. Sandes Mr. Fenner and Mr. Shute were appointed presently to consider and correct the Bill of my Lord of Kent exhibited against the Lord Compton Three 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 Fugitives was read the third time and with the Bill for Presentations by Lapse and two others of no great moment sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others Upon the Question it was resolved by this House that some Committees of this House be appointed to have Conference with the Lords touching the Proviso to the Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots Mr. Comptroller Mr. Treasurer Sir Thomas Scott Mr. Doctor Wilson Master of the Requests Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Cromwell Mr. Langhorne Mr. Fenner Mr. Snagg Mr. Dalton Mr. S t Leger and Mr. Cowper were for that purpose added to the former Committees Vide touching this matter on Thursday the 26 th day of this instant June following and Monday the 19 th of May foregoing Post Meridiem In the Afternoon three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Severance of Sheriffs in the Counties of Surrey and Sussex was read the third time and passed upon the Question Upon the Question it was Ordered that the matter be presently proceeded in to the hearing between the Earl of Kent and my Lord Compton notwithstanding my Lord Compton his Allegations of the want of his Councel and the hearing to be dealt in only touching the matter of the release and the procuring of the same Geo. Goscoigne and Tho. Cole being produced Vide de ista materia in die praecedente On Tuesday the 10 th day of June Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill that no Houshold Servant or Retainer to any Subject shall be a Justice of Peace or High Constable And the third for Cogshall were each of them read the third time and passed the House and were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Seckford Master of the Requests and others Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Huick did signify from the Lords that their Lordships have appointed a Committee to have Conference with the Committees of this House in the Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots and that their Lordships do require the same to be done presently Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 26 th of this instant June following The Bill for the transporting of Corn was read the second and third time and passed upon the Question Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Town of Stafford was read the first time Post Meridiem In the Afternoon two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the marking of tanned Leather was read the first time Six Bills also had each of them their second reading of which the first was the Bill for Corporations and the last for the Earl of Kent was upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed and both the Parties to be in this House with their Learned Councel at the next Session of this Court to be holden next after this present day On Wednesday the 11 th day of June Mr. Doctor Huick and Mr. Doctor Vaughan did bring word from the Lords that having understood the Queens Majesties Pleasure to be that they should adjourn their Sessions until Tuesday come Se'nnight they did signifie the same unto this House to the end this House may likewise Adjourn until the same time and nevertheless to continue the Session this Forenoon and send unto them such Bills as are already passed this House or shall pass this Forenoon Upon the Question Mr. Snagg was by the whole Voice of the House purged of the words and meaning which it was pretended he should have heretofore uttered in this House to the dishonour and discontentation of the Lords of the Upper House The Bill touching the transporting of Leather and Tallow was sent up to the Lords by all the Privy Council being of this House and others The Bill against fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances of Lands was read the third time and passed the House Mr. Doctor Huick and Mr. Doctor Vaughan did bring from the Lords three Bills of which the first was touching Sea-Marks and the second for Partition of Lands to be had between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfeild Knight and their Heirs The Bill against fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances of Lands and the Bill for Partition of Lands between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfeild were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others and by them brought back again for that the Lords were risen and gone The Bill for Grants by Corporations was read the third time and passed the House The Court was this day Adjourned until Tuesday come S'ennight next coming On Tuesday the 24 th day of June Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching Lands and Tenements within the County and City of Exeter was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Grants by Corporations with two others of no great moment was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others with request to be by them made unto their Lordships for their Answer touching Conference in the Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots The Bill against delays in Judgment at the Common Law 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 formerly sent from the Lords The Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots was sent to the Lords to see and consider by Sir Rowland Hayward Mr. Dr. Wilson Mr. Serjeant Manwood and Mr. Attorney of the Court of Wards The Bill against delays in Judgment was upon the Question committed unto Mr. Serjeant Manwood Mr. Serjeant Jefferies Mr. Popham and Mr. Sands who were appointed to meet at the Temple Church at two of the Clock this
were appointed to have Conference in the Star-Chamber to Morrow at three of the Clock in the Afternoon for drawing of a Bill against the oppression of common Promoters The Bill lastly for setting the poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness was read the second time On Saturday the 11 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for M r Hatton was read the first time Upon sundry Arguments made unto the Bill for setting the poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness it was committed unto M r Treasurer Sir Rowland Hayward Sir Nichlas Arnold M r More M r Robert Bowes M r Atkins M r Alford M r Aldrich M r Sampoole M r Norton M r Cromwell M r Snagg M r Layton M r Waye M r Popham M r Woley M r Fleet M r Honnywood M r Longley M r Ailmer M r Newdigate M r William Thomas M r Tate M r Owen M r Grimston and M r Cure to meet at this House upon Monday next at three of the Clock in the Afternoon Christopher Dighton Gent. one of the Citizens for the City of Worcester was licensed by M r Speaker to take his Journey unto the said City of Worcester for Execution of Dedimus potestatem in the Service of our Soveraign Lady the Queens Majesty On Monday the 13 th day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill that in Actions upon the Case brought for words the County may be traversed was read the second time and committed presently after this Forenoon M r Treasurer for himself and the residue of the Committees for the Subsidy whose names see on Friday the 10 th day of this instant February foregoing declared that upon Conference had amongst them at their meeting together upon Friday last they did then Assent unto certain Articles for drawing of a Bill for one Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths to be paid at several times whereupon the same Articles were read by the Clerk and then by Order of the House were the same Articles delivered to some of the Committees being of the Privy-Council that some of the Queens Majesties Learned Councel may by Warrant from this House cause the same Bill to be drawn accordingly Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 27 th day of this instant February ensuing The Bill for traversing of the County in Actions upon the Case was committed unto M r Seckford Master of the Requests M r Colshill M r Newdigate and others who were appointed to meet upon Thursday next at three of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Temple Church The Petitions touching Ports was read and committed unto all the Privy-Council being of this House the Lord Russell M r Captain of the Guard Sir Thomas Scott Sir William Winter M r Recorder of London the Burgesses for Dover M r Sampoole M r Grice Mr. John Hastings Mr. Norton Sir Arthur Basset Mr. Diggs Sir Henry Gate Sir Henry Wallop Mr. Langley Mr. Hawkins Richardson Mr. Randall Mr. Gardiner Mr. Sanders Mr. Jenison Mr. Beale Mr. Honnywood Mr. Tremaine Sir George Speak Mr. Captain of the Wight Sir Henry Ratcliffe Mr. Elesdon Mr. Layton and the Burgesses of Linne to meet to Morrow at three of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Sir Nicholas Arnold Mr. Snagg Mr. Norton and Mr. Atkins were added to the former Committees for drawing of a Bill against the Promoters whose names see on Friday the 10 th day of February to meet upon Thursday next in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Treasury-Chamber near the Star-Chamber The Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and common Recoveries was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. Baber Mr. Yelverlon and others to meet at three of the Clock this present day in the Exchequer Chamber Charles Johnson of the Inner Temple Gent. being Examined at the Bar for coming into this House this present day the House sitting confessing himself to be no Member of this House is Ordered that M r Wilson Master of the Requests Mr. Recorder of London and Mr. Cromwell to examine him wherein he seigned to excuse himself by ignorance he was committed to the Serjeants Ward till further Order should be taken by this House Sir Richard Read and Mr. Doctor Berkley brought into this House a Bill from the Lords touching the diminishing and impairing of the Coins of this Realm and of other Foreign Coins not currant within this Realm Two Bills lastly had each of them their several readings of which the second being the Bill for the preservation of the Lords Seignories was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Tuesday the 14 th day of February the Bill for Mr. Hatton was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr. Heneage Mr. Cromwell Mr. Dalton Mr. John Spencer Mr. Norton and Mr. Alford to examine the suggestion of the Bill touching the consent of the parties to the passing of the same Bill whereupon Mr. John Spencer one of the Committees being also one of the persons named in the said Bill so resolved the residue of the Committees that upon the report thereof made to the House by Mr. Treasurer it was presently Ordered that the Bill should be ingrossed and the Proviso omitted and left out The Bill for the true payment of the Debts of William Isley Esquire was read the second time and the Proviso to the same Bill being twice read it was committed to Mr. Secretary Walsingham Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Treasurer of the Chamber and others Two Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Jeofailes was read the first time On Wednesday the 15 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against diminishing and impairing the Coins of this Realm or of other Foreign Realms currant within this Realm was read the second time and committed to Mr. Treasurer Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Secretary Smith Mr. Secretary Walsingham Mr. Captain of the Guard Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy Mr. Heneage Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Mr. Sandes Mr. Darrington Mr. Popham and Mr. Norton to confer with the Lords at the next time that any Bill shall be sent to the Lords from this House The Bill against Bastardy was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Comptroller Mr. Secretary Smith Sir Thomas Scott and others to meet upon Friday next at three of the Clock in the Afternoon at the Star-Chamber The Bill for reformation of Jeofailes c. was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Seckford Master of the Requests Mr. Serjeant Lovelace Mr. Recorder of London and others The Bill for the Freemen of the
Hoddy Mr. French Mr. Alford and Mr. Norton to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon at three of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber Certain Amendments in the Bill of Rogues c. reported by Mr. Treasurer upon the last Committee of the Bill which amendments were read and thereupon the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills lastly had each of them their first reading of which the latter was the Bill for Trials by Juries Edward Smalley Servant unto Arthur Hall Esq being this day brought to the Bar in the House by the Serjeant of this House and accompanied with two Serjeants of London was presently delivered from his Imprisonment and Execution according to the former Judgment of this House and the said Serjeants of London discharged of their said Prisoner and immediately after that the said Serjeants of London were sequestred out of this House and the said Edward Smalley was committed to the charge of the Serjeant of this House And thereupon the said Edward Smalley was sequestred till this House should be resolved upon some former Motions whether the said Edward Smalley did procure himself to be Arrested upon the said Execution in the abusing and contempt of this House or not Vide Mar. 10. Saturday postea All the Privy-Council being of this House the Lord Russell Mr. Captain of the Guard Mr. Wilson Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Sir William Winter Mr. Serjeant Lovelace Sir Henry Knivett Mr. Crooke Mr. Coleby Mr. Popham and Mr. Norton were appointed to meet upon Friday next in the Afternoon at three of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber but through the great negligence of Fulk Onslow Esquire at this time Clerk of the House of Commons the business about which the foresaid Members of the House were appointed to meet doth not at all appear On Wednesday the 29 th day of February Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for Chepstow-Bridge another for Rochester-Bridge and the third for the Town of Reading were each of them read the third time and upon the Question passed the House Upon a Motion made by Robert Bainbrigge Gent. one of the Burgesses for the Borough of ..... in the County of ..... against one Williams as well for sundry unsitting Speeches pronounced by the said Williams in misliking of the present State and Government of the Realm and also for threatning and assaulting of the said Robert Bainbrigge the Serjeant of this House was thereupon by Order of this House presently sent for the said Williams to be brought unto this House to Answer such matters as shall be objected against him Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against excess in Apparel was read the first time The Petition and Motions made touching the reformation of Discipline in the Church was committed only to all the Privy-Council of this House Vide concerning this matter on Friday the 10 th day of March ensuing Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Berkley brought from the Lords four Bills of which the first was the Bill for the assurance of the Mannor of New Hall to Thomas Earl of Sussex the second for the appointing of Justices in the Shires of Wales the third concerning Offices found in the Counties Palatines and the last for the assurance of certain Lands unto Sir John Ryvers Knight All the Privy-Council being of this House the Lord Russell the Masters of the Requests Sir Thomas Scott Sir Henry Gates Sir Henry Wallope and divers others were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber between two and three of the Clock and agree touching the nature of the Petition to be made to the Queens Majesty upon the Motions for reformation of Discipline in the Church and that the matter of the Petition so agreed upon then those of the Privy-Council only to move the same to the Lords of the Privy-Council after report first made thereof to this House Vide concerning this matter on Friday the 10 th day of March following Walter Williams being brought to the Bar confessed that he did strike Mr. Bainbrigge and that he offered to strike at him with his Dagger Whereupon it was Ordered that he remain in the Serjeants Ward till the Order of this House be further known to Morrow Vide. On Thursday the first day of March Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for the true making of Woollen-Cloths another for Kentish and Suffolk Cloths and another for toleration of certain Clothiers in the Counties of Somerset Wilts and Gloucester were each of them read the first time and thereupon committed to the former Committees who were nominated on Thursday the 16 th day of February foregoing and unto Sir Thomas Scott Mr. Serjeant Lovelace Mr. Savile Mr. Peacock Mr. Gargrave Mr. Mickleborn Mr. Langley and Mr. S t John to meet this Afternoon in the Star-Chamber at two of the Clock as also to conser touching the unlawful ingrossing of Woolls Two Bills also had each of them their first reading of which the second was the Bill against common Promoters Sir Richard Read and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords the Bill for the payment of Tythes within the Parish of Hallifax and the other to take away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders in Rape and Burglary Martin Cole one of the Burgesses for Sudbury in the County of Suffolk was this day Licensed by Mr. Speaker for his great business to be absent for four days The Bill lastly for setting the poor on work and for avoiding of idleness was read the third time and passed the House On Friday the second day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for assurance of certain Lands to Sir John Rivers K t 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 formerly sent from the Lords The Bill against wearing of unlawful Weapons was twice read and committed thereupon unto Mr. Comptroller Sir Henry Radcliffe Sir Thomas Scott Sir Henry Knivett Sir Henry Gates and others to be considered of presently Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against the buying and selling of rooms and places in Colledges Schools c. was read the first time Mr. Treasurer one of the Committees for the Petition touching reformation of the Discipline of the Church reported that he and the residue of the Committees have met and agreed upon a Bill to be made for that purpose which Bill was then offered and received in the said House and then read accordingly Vide concerning this matter on Friday the 9 th day of this instant March ensuing The two Bills viz. for maintenance of Colledges and against buying and selling of rooms and places in Schools
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
in the days of our Predecessors by the punishment of such inconsiderate and disorderly Speakers hath appeared And so to return Let this serve us for an Example to beware that we offend not in the like hereafter lest that in forgetting our duties so far we may give just cause to our gracious Soveraign to think that this her Clemency hath given occasion of further boldness and thereby so much grieve and provoke her as contrary to her most gracious and mild consideration she be constrained to change her natural Clemency into necessary and just severity a thing that he trusted should never happen amongst wise and dutiful men such as the Members of this House are thought always to be Between which Speech and the reftoring of the said M r Wentworth unto the House although it be not mentioned in the before-cited written Memorial of the said Speech I had by me as appeareth plainly by the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons these ensuing Passages intervened in the said House as followeth viz. M r Treasurer M r John Thynne Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Henry Gate M r Marsh and M r Cromwell were sent to the Lords for Conference presently touching the reforming of some amendments of this House in the Bill which came from the Lords for taking away the benefit of the Clergy from persons Convict of Rape and Burglary M r Doctor Vaughan and M r Doctor Barkley did bring from the Lords the Bill for preservation of Pheasants and Partridges All the Privy-Councel being of this House the Lord Russell M r Captain of the Guard the Masters of Requests M r Treasurer of the Chamber the Master of the Wardrobe the Master of the Jewel-House Sir Henry Knivett Sir Thomas Scott Sir John Thynne Sir William Winter M r Crooke M r Popham M r Yelverton M r Norton M r Sampoole M r Alford and M r Skinner were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber touching Conference for the manner of Petition to be made unto the Queens Majesty touching Marriage Vide on Friday the 9 th day of this instant March foregoing and on Wednesday March the 14 th in the Afternoon ensuing These intervening Passages being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons now follows the manner of the restoring of the aforesaid Peter Wentworth Esquire being partly transcribed out of the abovesaid Original Journal-Book and partly out of the before-mentioned written Memorial or Copy thereof in manner and form ensuing M r Peter Wentworth was brought by the Serjeant at Arms that attended the House to the Bar within the same and after some Declaration made unto him by M r Speaker in the name of the whole House both of his own great fault and offence and also of her Majesties great and bountiful mercy shewed unto him and after his humble Submission upon his Knees acknowledging his fault and craving her Majesties Pardon and Favour he was received again into the House and restored to his place to the great contentment of all that were present This business of M r Wentworth being thus at large set down now follows a great part of the residue of this dayes Passages out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons it self The Bill for the Lord Stourton was read the third time in setting down of which Bill it seemeth the time of the reading is erroneously entred for this was doubtless the second reading and that the third as appeareth plainly by the Original Journal-Book it self was not until Tuesday the 13 th day of this instant March ensuing when the Bill also passed and it is the rather probable that this was but the second reading as is also set down in a written Memorial of this business I had by me in respect that it was upon this reading spoken unto ' and referred to Committees but as it should seem before the said Bill was agitated in the House or referred to Committees this business intervened which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons in manner and form following M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Yale did bring from the Lords the Bill touching taking away the benefit of the Clergy from Persons Convict of Rape and Burglary to be amended in the former addition of amendment thereof by this House whereupon the same being presently amended was together with the Bill of Addition to the former Statutes for amending and repairing of High-ways the Bill with the Amendments and Proviso for the repairing of the Bridges and High-ways near unto the City of Oxford the Bill for the Hospital of S t Cross near Winchester and the Bill for the Lord Viscount Howard of Bindon sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary Smith and others with the Bill also for maintenance of the Universities and of the Colledges of Eaton and Winchester to be reformed in the Amendments of their Lordships in the same Bill Which business being over-passed as it is inserted out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons now follows the dispute in the House upon the foresaid second reading of the Lord Stourton's Bill which is supplied out of a written Memorial or Copy of that business I had by me with very little alteration or addition It was first alledged in the House of Commons against the further proceeding of the Bill for the restitution in Blood of the Lord Stourton whose Father was Attainted of Murther and thereby his Blood corrupted by some in the said House that the said party who now sued to be restored in Blood had before given cause for men to think that he would not hereafter be worthy of so much favour and by some other that there wanted in the Bill sufficient provision for such as had been Purchasers from his Father Grandfather and other his Ancestors To the first Objection it was said in the House That seeing her Majesty had so graciously yielded to his Petition there was no doubt but she was well satisfied in all such things as might touch him and therefore no cause that this House should mislike her gracious Favours to be extended to any of her Subjects in such Cases but rather to hope that he being a young Nobleman would prove a good Servant to her Majesty and the Realm as divers of his Ancestors had done The second Objection was thought worthy of consideration That if the saving which was already in the Bill were not sufficient there might be other provision added This dispute concerning the foresaid Bill being thus transcribed out of the foresaid written Memorial or Copy thereof I had by me now follows the Committees names who were appointed thereupon out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons being as followeth M r Chancellor of the Exchequer the Master of the Wardrobe M r Recorder of London M r Norton M r Sampoole M r Dalton M r Savile M r Marsh M r Yelverton M r
unto the 16 th day of January being Monday on which day this Session following in Anno 23 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1580 began But her Majesty because it was no new Parliament was not present nor did the Lords wear their Robes on this said Monday being the first day of their meeting nor was their any solemn Speech made by the Lord Keeper but either House assembling themselves together severally in their due places fell to their ordinary businesses as upon other days is usually accustomed yet the beginning of this Session is as solemnly Entred in the Original Journal-Book as if it had been a new Parliament where it appeareth to be in manner and form following Die Lunae 16 die Januarii 1580 Anno Regni Excellentissimae metuendissimae Dominae nostrae Elizabethae Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae Fidei Defensatricis c. Vicesimo tertio in quem diem post varias ac diversas Prorogationes praesens haec Sessio Parliamenti Prorogata fuit teneri inchoari apud Westmonasterium die loco praedict Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur praesentes suerunt Episcopus London Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Wigorn. Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Coventr Litchfield These Bishops are thus placed in the Original Journal-Book on the dexter-side of the Lords not by reason of preheminency unless the Archbishop of Canterbury had been present but by reason of their Ecclesiastical Dignity these being all that are noted in the said Journal-Book to have been present this day now follow the names of the Lord Keeper and the Temporal Lords Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius Dominus Burleigh Thesaurarius Angliae Marchio Winton Comes Lincoln Magnus Admirallus Angliae Comes Arundell Comes Northampton Comes Wigorn. Comes Cumberland Comes Bathon Comes Norwicen Comes Southampton Comes Pembrook Comes Hartford Comes Leicester Vice-comes Mountague Vice-comes Bindon Barones Dominus Burgavenny Dominus Willoughby de Erisby Dominus Dacres Dominus Stafford Dominus Dudley Dominus Lumley Dominus Stourton Dominus Mountjoy Dominus Darcy de Darcy Dominus Windsor Dominus Cromwell Dominus Evers Dominus Wharton Dominus Willoughbie de Parham Dominus Howard Dominus North. Dominus S t John de Bletso Dominus de la Ware Dominus Cheyney Dominus Norris Nota There were no names of Receivors or Triors of Petitions read because this was but the third and last Session of a former Parliament as hath been observed and those names are never read but in the beginning of a new Parliament One Bill was read this Morning being for the reformation of Sheriffs Under-Sheriffs and their Ministers primâ vice Hodiè retornatum est Breve quo Preregrinus Bartye Dominus Willoughby silius haeres Katherinae Ducissae Suff. siliae haeredis Willielmi Willoughby nuper Domini Willoughby praesenti Parliamento interesse summonitus est qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno viz. the said Lord Willoughby was seated and took place next under the Lord Audley and above the Lord Barkley The like Writ returned for Edward Parker Lord Morley who accordingly was admitted salvo jure alieno and placed next under the Lord Barkley and above the Lord Dacres The Lords being thus set and in agitation of their own businesses Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Majesties Houshold Accompanied with Sir James Crosts Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold Sir Francis Walsingham Knight one of her Majesties Principal Secretaries and M r Doctor Wilson Esquire another of her Majesties Principal Secretaries Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Chancellor of her Majesties Exchequer and divers others being sent up to the said Lords by the House of Commons upon some urgent and weighty occasions desired to be admitted into the said Upper House there to make known to their Lordships somewhat of importance wherein they should require their advice and need their assistance upon which being admitted the said M r Treasurer assisted with the Personages and Company aforesaid did in comely order and discreet manner make manifest and known unto the said Lords that Sir Robert Bell Knight late Lord Chief Baron and Speaker of the said House who had been Elected to the said place in the first Session of this Parliament in the fourteenth year of her Majesty and had continued also the second Session thereof being in the eighteenth year of her said Highness Reign in the said place was now dead 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 unto the said Lords sitting in Consultation for the same it was upon considerate advice therein had by them all thought fitting to signifie unto the said Commons by the Personages aforesaid who had been sent from them that they thought it expedient and good that such of the Lords of the said House as were of her Highness Privy-Council with the Lord Marquess of Winchester and the Earl of Arundel Accompanied with such a number of the Commons House as by them should be agreed upon should in the name of both the Assemblies make intimation of their said Estate and the Petition thereupon depending unto her said Highness to which advice the said Commons upon knowledge had of the same wholly assented Then followed the Adjournment of the said Parliament by the Lord Keeper according to the usual form which is thus Entred in the Original Journal-Book Dominus Cancellarius Adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Mercurii proximum hora nona On Wednesday the 18 th day of January Billa for reformation of abuses in Sheriffs Under-Sheriffs and their Ministers secunda vice lecta Two other Bills also of no great moment were read primâ vice The Queen having been moved as it seemeth according to the resolution of the two Houses jointly agreed upon between them on Monday last past the 16 th day of this instant January about the Death of Sir Robert Bell late Lord Chief Baron their former Speaker and the choice of a new one in the House of Commons by the Marquess of Winchester and those other right honourable Personages who were then and there named to move her Highness in it did give Order that this present Wednesday both the Lords and Commons should assemble and meet together in the Upper House commonly called the Lords Parliament Chamber there to receive her Majesties Answer where being Assembled Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor of England shewed forth a Commission from her Highness under the Great Seal of England which was directed to him only wherein her Majesty taking notice of the Death of Sir Robert Bell their former Speaker did Authorize the Lord Keeper for her Majesty and in her name to will and Command the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of
quem diem Prorogatum fuerat praesens Parliamentum The Parliament was by the Lord Chancellor the Earl of Darby and the Bishop of Sarisbury Commissioners c. Adjourned ad in 12 diem Junii Duodecimo die Junii in quem diem Prorogatum fuerat c. The Parliament was by the Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer and five other Commissioners Adjourned ad in 28 diem jam instantis Junii Vicesimo octavo die Junii Anno 23 Eliz. Reginae in quem diem Prorogatum fuerat hoc praesens Parliamentum The Parliament was by the Lord Chancellor the Earl of Arundell and the Lord Dacres Commissioners c. Adjourned ad in 26 diem Julii prox futurum Vicesimo sexto die Julii Anno 23 Eliz. Reginae The Parliament was by Sir Thomas Bromley Lord Chancellor and three other Commissioners Adjourned ad in 12 diem Augusti Anno 23 Eliz. Reginae prox futurum Vicesimo primo die Augusti Anno 23 Eliz. Reginae in quem diem Prorogatum fuerat c. The Parliament was by the Lord Wentworth and the Bishop of London Commissioners c. Prorogued ad in quintum diem Octobris prox futurum Quinto die Octobris Anno 23 Eliz. Reginae The Parliament was by the Bishop of London and the Lord Dacres Prorogued by vertue of the Queens Majesties Commission c. ad in 23 diem Novembris prox futurum Vicesimo tertio die Novembris Anno 24 Eliz. Reginae The Parliament was Adjourned by Sir Thomas Bromley Lord Chancellor and Edward Lord Stafford by vertue of the Queens Majesties Commission ad in quintum diem Decembris prox futurum Quinto die Decembris Anno 24 Eliz. Reginae The Parliament was by the Lord Chancellor and Edward Lord Stafford Adjourned according to the Queens Majesties Commission in that behalf c. ad in 18 diem Januarii prox futurum Decimo octavo die Januarii Anno 24 Eliz. Reginae The Parliament was Adjourned by the Lord Chancellor the Lord Treasurer the Bishop of London and the Lord Howard of Effingham by vertue of the Queens Majesties Commission ad in duodecimum diem Februarii proximè futurum Duodecimo die Februarii Anno 24 Eliz. Reginae The Parliament was Adjourned by the Lord Chancellor the Lord Treasurer the Bishop of London and the Lord Buckhurst by Vertue of a Commission ad in 12 diem Martii prox futurum Upon which said 12 th day of March in the same twenty fourth year of her Majesties Reign the Lord Chancellor and other Lords met and Prorogued the Parliament unto a further day which after five other Prorogations was at last Dissolved all which follow in their several places viz. Duodecimo die Martii Anno 24 Eliz. Reginae The Parliament was by the Lord Chancellor the Bishop of London and Gregory Lord Dacres by vertue of a Commission Adjourned ad in 26 diem Aprilis prox futurum Vicesimo sexto die Aprilis Anno 24 Eliz. Reginae The Parliament was Adjourned by the Lord Chancellor one Earl one Bishop and two Lords by vertue of a Commission ad in 26 diem Maii prox futurum Vicesimo sexto die Maii Anno 24 Eliz. Reginae The Parliament was Adjourned by the Lord Chancellor and Roger Lord Morley by vertue of a Commission c. ad in decimum diem Octobris prox futur Decimo die Octobris Anno 24 Eliz. Reginae the Parliament was in usual form Adjourned by the Bishop of London and Gregory Lord Dacres by vertue of a Commission c. ad in 29 diem Novembris prox faturum Vicesimo nono die Novembris Anno 25 Eliz. Reginae The Parliament was in usual manner Adjourned by the Bishop of London and Gregory Lord Dacres by vertue of a Commission c. ad in 24 diem Januarii prox futurum Nota the word Adjourned is used for Prorogued Vicesimo quarto die Januarii Anno 25 Eliz. Reginae the Parliament was in usual form Adjourned by the Lord Chancellor the Lord Treasurer and the Bishop of London by vertue of a Commission c. ad in 19 diem Aprilis prox futurum Memorand quod hodierno die decimo nono die Aprilis Anno Regni 25 Elizabethae Reginae in quem diem Prorogatum fuit hoc praesens Parliamentum convenere Proceres tam Spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subseribuntur Thomas Bromley Miles Cancellarius Angliae Willielmus Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Philippus Comes Arundell Franciscus Comes Bedford Johannes Episcopus London Edwardus Dominus Stafford Fredericus Dominus Windefor Henricus Dominus Hunsdon Henricus Dominus Norris Qui cum convenissent Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius Angliae literas Regias Commissarias Anthonio Mason Clerico Parliamenti publice legendas in manus tradidit virtute quarum Dissolutum est hoc praesens Parliamentum Earum autem tenor hic erat ELizabetha Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensatrix c. praedilecto fideli Consiliario suo Thomae Bromley Militi Domino Cancellario Angliae reverendissimóque in Christo Patri Edwino Ebor. Archiepiscopo Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac praedilecto Consiliario suo Willielmo Domino Burleigh Domino Thesaurario Angliae ac etiam charissimis consanguineis Consiliariis suis Edwardo Comiti Lincoln magno Admirallo suo Angliae Thomae Comiti Sussex Domino Camerario suo Necnon charissimis consanguineis suis Philippo Comiti Arundell Henrico Comiti Northumbr Henrico Comiti Darby Willielmo Comiti Wigorn. ac etiam charissimis consanguineis Consiliariis suis Henrico Comiti Huntingdon Domino Praesidenti Concilii sui in partibus Borealibus Ambrosio Comiti Warwici Magistro Ordinationum suarum Francisco Comiti Bedford Charissimis consinguineisque suis Henrico Comiti Pembroke Edwardo Comiti Hertford ac Charissimo consanguineo Consiliario suo Roberto Comiti Leicestr Migistro Equorum suorum ac etiam charissimo consanguineo suo Anthonio Vicecomiti Mountague necnon reverendis in Christo Patribus Johanni Episcopo London Johanni Episcopo Sarisburien Johanni Episcopo Roffen ac etiam praedilectis fidelibus suis Willielmo Domino Cobham Domino Gardiano Quinque Portuum suorum Peregrino Domino Willoughby Gregorio Domino Dacre Edwardo Domino Stafford Johanni Domino Lumley Frederico Domino Windesor Thomae Domino Wentworth Lodovico Domino Mordant Henrico Domino Cromwell Carolo Domino Howard de Effingham Rogero Domino North praedilecto fideli Consiliario suo Henrico Domino de Hunsdon Domino Gardiano Marchiarum Orientalium versus Scotiam ac praedilectis fidelibus suis Thomae Domino Buckhurst Henrico Domino Compton Henrico Domino Cheyney de Tuddington Henrico Domino de Norris de Ricott salutem Cum nuper pro quibusdam arduts urgentibus negotiis Nos statum Defensionem Regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii octavo
and rejected It is Ordered that M r Speaker in the name of this House do require the Warden of the Fleet being a Member of this House that he do cause from henceforth two of his Servants to attend at the Stair-head near unto the outer Door of this House and to lay hands upon two or three of such disordered Serving-men or Pages as shall happen to use such lewd disorder and outrage as hath been accustomed to be exercised there this Parliament time to the end they may thereupon be brought into this House and receive such punishment as to this House shall seem meet On Thursday the second day of February it seemeth that neither House sate for in the Journal of the House of Commons there is no mention at all of the day or of any passages in it And that the Upper House sate not it is most certain for on the Wednesday foregoing being the first day of this instant February Sir Thomas Bromley the now Lord Chancellor Adjourned the Parliament unto Saturday following being the 4 th day of this instant Month. On Friday the third day of February Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the seventh being the Bill against slanderous Libelling was upon the second reading committed to M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Chancellor of the Dutchy Sir Henry Knivett M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Serjeant Fenner and others to meet in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon M r Treasurer brought in a Bill touching Children of Strangers born in England and a new Bill devised by the Committees for that purpose which Bill had its first reading John Owld Porter of Serjeants-Inn in Fleetstreet who on Wednesday last past being the first day of this instant February had been by Order of this House committed to the Serjeants Ward for his miscarriage towards M r Norton a Member of this House being this day brought to the Bar upon his humble submission and acknowledgment of his fault was set at liberty paying his Fees On Saturday the 4 th day of February Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for Cloths called Tauntons Bridgewaters and Charde was upon the second reading committed unto M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir George Speake Sir William Moore M r Norton and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Sir Thomas Scott one of the Committees in the Bill for preservation of Woods offered a new Bill for that purpose to this House drawn by the privity and assent of himself and of the residue of the said Committees M r Serjeant Anderson and M r Doctor Clark did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do require a Conference with some of this House in the Council Chamber at the Court on Tuesday next in the Afternoon touching the Bill passed this House for avoiding of certain Incumbrances against Purchasers Whereupon are appointed all the Privy-Council being of this House Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Recorder of London M r Serjeant Flowerdewe M r Serjeant Fenner M r Colbie M r Yelverton M r Sands and M r Dalton The Bill for reformation of disorders in Sheriffs c. was read and committed to M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Osborne and others who were appointed to meet at the Exchequer Chamber upon Thursday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon and withal to consider of the former Bills of like effect offered to this House now or heretofore Upon a Motion made to this House by M r Norton in which he declared that some person of late had caused a Book to be set forth in print not only greatly reproachful against some particular good Members of this House of great Credit but also very much slanderous and derogatory to the general Authority Power and State of this House and prejudicial to the validity of the Proceedings of the same in making and establishing of Laws charging this House with Drunkenness as Accompanied in their Councils with Bacchus and then also with Choler as those which had never sailed to Anticyra and the Proceedings of this House to be opera tenebrarum and further that by the circumstance of the residue of the Discourse of the said Book he conjectured the same to be done and procured by Mr. Arthur Hall one of this House and so prayed thereupon the said Mr. Hall might be called by this House to Answer and the matter further to be duly examined as the weight thereof in due consideration of the gravity and wisdom of this House and of the Authority State and Liberty of the same requireth It is resolved that the said Mr. Hall be forthwith sent for by the Serjeant at Armes attending upon this House to make his appearance here in that behalf accordingly And then immediately Mr. Secretary Wilson did thereupon signifie unto this House that the said Mr. Hall had upon his Examination therein before the Lords of the Council heretofore confessed in the hearing of the said Mr. Secretary that he did cause the said Book to be printed indeed Upon relation whereof and after some Speech then also uttered unto this House by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer of the dangerous and lewd contents of the Book the Serjeant was forthwith by Order of this House sent to apprehend the said Arthur Hall and presently assisted for that purpose with Sir Thomos Scott and Sir Thomas Browne by the appointment of this House A Commission was also given by this whole House unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Secretary Wilson Mr. Treasurer of the Chamber Sir Henry Lea Sir Thomas Cecill Sir William fitz Williams and Sir Henry Gate to send for the Printer of the said Book and to examine him touching the said matter and afterwards to make report thereof to this House accordingly And also to take Order and advice further for the sending for and apprehending of the said Arthur Hall if it should so fall out that he did withdraw himself or depart out of Town before such time as the said Serjeant could find him with this further Resolution also that any such Member of this House as should happen first to see him or meet him might and should in the name of this whole House stay him and bring him forth to Answer the said matter forthwith before the whole House with all possible speed Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 14 th of this instant February following and also on Saturday the 18 th day of March next following On Monday the 6 th day of February the Bill for ratifying of an award for certain Copyholders in the County of Worcester and the Bill for Partition of Lands amongst the Coheirs of the late Lord Latimer were each of
Bill so amended requiring that the same should now be presently read as for the first reading thereof Whereupon the said Bill was read accordingly for the first reading The Committees in M r Hydes Bill are appointed to meet on Monday Morning next in the Treasury Chamber It is Ordered that the House be called upon Monday next in the Afternoon On Monday the 20 th day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for the paving a Street without Aldgate was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Bill for Explanation of the Statute of Limitation made in the 37 th year of H. 〈◊〉 was brought in by M r Cromwell one of the Committees with some amendments The Bill for ratification of a Decree between Mr. Hyde and Mr. Darrell was brought in by the Committees and the amendments being twice read the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed Sir Thomas Scott one of the Committees in the Bill against the Family of Love who were appointed on Thursday the 16 th day of this instant February foregoing brought in the old Bill with a new Bill also for that purpose drawn by the said Committees but he protested not assented unto only by himself and that for one only Article in the same new Bill contained Mr. Serjeant Flowerdewe Mr. Beale Mr. Topcliffe Mr. Cromwell Mr. Newdigate Mr. Alford and Mr. Layton were added to the former Committees in the Bill touching the Attornies and appointed to meet in the Inner-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for the relief of the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham Knight Deceased was read the second time The Bill against slanderous Speeches and rumors and other seditious practices against the Queens Majesty was brought in by the Committees with certain Amendments and Additions all three times read and so now the Bill was read the third time and passed upon the Question and was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and others together with the other Bill passed this day viz. the Bill for paving of the Street without Aldgate Mr. Treasurer Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir William Moore Mr. Recorder Mr. Serjeant Flowerdewe Mr. Wroth Mr. Cromwell and others were appointed to meet in the Exchequer-Chamber on Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon for the Bill touching the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham and Licence given to all persons and parties whom it may concern to bring their Learned Councel as well before the said Committees as also before this House if it shall be so thought requisite The Bill touching coloured Cloths made in the Counties of Suff. and Essex was read the second time and committed to the former Committees for Cloths and the Bill was delivered to M r Grimston On Tuesday the 21 th day of February Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for Explanation of the Statute of Limitation of prescription of 32 H. 8. with the Amendments was twice read and with the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Partition of the Lands late of the Lord Latimer Deceased was brought in by the Committees with a Proviso for the Earl of Oxford and Sir Thomas Tindale the same Proviso being twice read the Bill and Proviso were Ordered to be ingrossed by assent of both parties The Bill for Assize of Fewel and touching Iron-Mills were brought in by M r Comptroller with a new Bill for the Assize of Fewel another touching Glass-Houses and another for the Assize of Fewel within the City of Worcester The Bill last read was upon the Question and Division of the House passed with the advantage of the number of twelve Voices The three Bills last passed were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the new Bill for the punishing of the Family of Love was read the first time M r Serjeant Anderson and M r Doctor Clark did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships having considered of the Amendments and Additions of this House in a Bill touching slanderous Speeches and Rumors and other seditious practices against the Queens Majesty and minding to understand the meaning and intent of this House in some part of the same Amendments and Additions have appointed twelve of themselves to have Conference with some of this House to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Council Chamber at the Court and did pray that a convenient number of this House might be appointed to meet with them at the said time and place for Conference with the Lords in that behalf accordingly Whereupon were appointed for that purpose all those of this House which were in the former Committee of the same Bill before whose names see on Wednesday the first day of this instant February foregoing On Wednesday the 22 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the true making of Hats and Caps was read the second time and committed unto M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Rowland Haywood M r Recorder M r Askwith M r Perry and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Lieutenant of the Tower who with the rest was appointed to meet at Guild-hall upon Friday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Thursday the 23 th day of February the Bill against sowing of Lineseed or Hempseed within the County of Hertford by force of any penal Laws was read the second time and committed unto Sir Henry Cock Sir Henry Knivett Sir Thomas Browne Sir Thomas Scott Sir James Harrington Sir William More and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir William More aforesaid who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Temple Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the true folding and winding of Woolls was read the second time and committed unto Sir Rowland Hayward Sir George Turpin Sir James Barrington M r Keale M r Benbridge and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Benbridge who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Church at two of the Clock On Friday the 24 th day of February Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for re-edifying of the Borough of New-Woodstock was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching the Mayor Bayliffs and Commonalty of the City of Coventry was brought in by M r Grimsditch with Amendments agreed upon by all the Parties to the same Bill Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the true melting
and working of Wax was read the second time and committed unto M r Comptroller M r Edgecombe M r Lieutenant M r Recorder and Mr. Cromwell to consider presently in the Committee Chamber Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer brought in the Bill for Sheriffs with some Amendments and Additions and also a new Bill touching the return of Jurors which all were read Post Meridiem The House being called and some returned into the places of others Deceased since the last Session of this present Parliament and yet some of them supposed to be living some in place of others sick and diseased and some in place of others imployed in the Queens Majesties Service it is Ordered that all the said returns of this Session be Examined and the Orders and Precedents of this House in like Cases formerly used be also considered by some of this House and thereupon report to be made to this whole House of the state of the said Returns and Precedents to the end further order may be taken therein accordingly Whereupon were appointed for that purpose M r Treasurer M r Chancellor of the Dutchy M r Treasurer of the Chamber Sir Thomas Shirley Sir Edward Horsey Sir William Moore Sir Henry Gate Sir John Hibbott M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Diggs M r Cromwell and M r Poole William Boreman Esq one of the Burgess for the Town of Wells was Licensed by Mr. Speaker to be absent for his necessary Affairs at the next Assizes in the County of Somerset On Saturday the 25 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Explanation of the Statute of 32 H. 8. for Limitation of prescription was read the third time and passed upon the Question Tuesday next in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber is appointed for the Committees to meet together to examine the returns and defaults appearing upon the calling of the House The Bill for the better fortifying of the Borders and Frontiers towards Scotland was read the second time and after many Arguments committed unto all the Privy-Council being Members of this House M r Treasurer of the Chamber M r Knight Marshal Sir Thomas Cecil Sir Henry Lea Sir Henry Knivett and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Monday the 27 th day of February Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Examination of Witnesses in Towns Corporate was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The two Bills which passed yesterday were now sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller and others The Bill touching Leases of Tenants in Tail was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Sandes M r Amerdeth M r Cromwell M r Edward Stanhope and M r Shirley who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for the City of Carliol was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Comptroller Mr. Knight Marshal Sir Henry Knivett Sir John Dawney Sir Edward Horsey Sir Robert Stapleton Sir Henry Gate and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Serjeant Anderson and Mr. Dr. Barkeley did bring from the Lords word that their Lordships have appointed to meet with the Committees of this House at the Court in the Council Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon touching the Bill of disobedient Subjects It is Ordered thereupon for this time that the former Committees with some others now added and no more shall attend the Lords to Morrow in the Afternoon according to the Message brought from their Lordships in the Bill for Religion The Bill for the punishment of Hereticks called the Family of Love was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Comptroller Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Secretary Wilson and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon It was Ordered that the House should be called again upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Tuesday the 28 th day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill touching Clothes called Tauntons and Bridgewaters was read the third time and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Doctor Barkley and Mr. Doctor Ford did bring from the Lords a Bill touching the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Compton The Bill against Moor-burning was read the second time The Bill touching Examination of Witnesses in Corporate Towns and these words viz. without Commission or Warrant from some of her Majesties Courts or Councels and these words or nisi prius are upon the Question Ordered to be put into the Bill and the word heretofore already in the Bill was upon the division of the House after the doubtfulness of the Question Ordered to remain in the Bill by the advantage of the number of nine persons and the Bill so amended was passed upon the Question On Wednesday the first day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for granting one Subsidy two Fifteenths and Tenths was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Thursday the second day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Mayor Bailiffs and Commonalty of the City of Coventry was read the third time and passed upon the Question Five Bills were sent up to the Lords by all the Privy-Council being of this House and others of which one was the Bill touching Limitation of prescription in a Formedon in the Descender and another against the false packing of Hops Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against the Corporation of the Merchant Adventurers being Freemen of the City of London was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Secretary Wilson Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower the Master of the Jewel-House M r Dale Master of the Requests and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon And further that the said Committees shall have Authority to hear such proofs on both parts as shall make request to come before them touching the contents of the said Bill On Friday the third day of March the Additions and Amendments in the Bill touching Tinners and Spaliers were twice read and the Bill 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 preservation of
reformed the said Bill according to some parts of the Alterations sent by this House unto them and did also bring a Bill from their Lordships touching Edward Lord Zouch with special recommendation also from their Lordship to this House for expediting the Bill for the Hospital of Ledbury which was before sent from their Lordships to this House Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for relief of the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham K t deceased was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Recorder M r Sands M r Cowper M r Alford and M r Norton who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon this present day On Friday the 10 th day of March Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the repairing of Dover Haven was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Barkley did bring from the Lords two Bills viz. one for restitution in blood of Philip Earl of Arundel another for the Pardon and Restitution in Blood of John and Dudley S r Leger with request also to this House to have consideration of the Bill of Fines and Recoveries which came to this House from their Lordships The Bill for the repair of Dover Haven was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others The Bill touching the true making melting and working of Wax was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Amendments in the Bill for the relief of the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham Knight deceased were twice read and so the Bill upon the question was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and common Recoveries was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Recorder of London M r Cromwell M r Cobly and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at Serjeants-Inn Hall On Saturday the 11 th day of March Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the two last the one being for the Inning of Erith and Plumsted Marsh and the other for reformation of errors in Fines and Recoveries were each of them read the third time and passed upon the Question The Bill touching slanderous words rumors and other seditious practices against her Majesty which coming first from the Lords unto this House and afterward with some alterations and Additions passed this House and so sent up again unto their Lordships and again sithence brought from thence to this House with some other alterations by their Lordships made unto the said former Additions and Alterations of this House and not disallowing the amendments of this House was upon the Question after sundry Motions and Arguments resolved by this House to be sent up again unto their Lordships and left with them as a Bill that this House cannot deal withal On Monday the 13 th day of March the Bill for relief of the Creditors of Sir Thomas Gresham Knight deceased was read the third time and passed upon the Question Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and Recoveries and another for the restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayney Esquire Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for confirmation of an assurance of a certain yearly Rent-Charge of eighty two pounds ten shillings to the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield and his Successors was read the third time and passed upon the Question Mr. Treasurer with others which carried up the last Bills to the Lords coming into this House again from their Lordships Mr. Treasurer did declare that after he had delivered the other Bill he then shewed their Lordships that this House had sent up to be left with their Lordships a Bill against slanderous words and rumors and other seditious practices against her Majesty for that the same Bill when it was last sent to this House by their Lordships was and is such as this House cannot deal with and that thereupon the Lord Chancellor answered that as their said Lordships were not to take knowledge of the opinion of this House touching the state of the said Bill so their Lordships would not receive the said Bill Which Report being made by M r Treasurer the Bill was thereupon left in this House Vide March the 14 th Tuesday following The Bill touching Iron-Mills near unto the City of London and the River of Thames was read the third time and three Provisoes likewise thrice read and all after many Arguments passed upon the Question M r Doctor Barkley and M r Doctor Ford did bring from the Lords a Bill for the Exposition of the Statute of Bankrupts and also that their Lordships do require a Conference to be had with ten of their Lordships at two of the Clock this Afternoon at the Court in the Council Chamber touching the Bill for maintenance of the Borders towards Scotland and thereupon were appointed the former Committees in the same matter who were appointed on Saturday the 25 th day of February foregoing The Bill for the Lord Zouch and the Bill for the Lord Compton had each of them one reading being the second reading After some Motions and Speeches offered upon the reading of the said Bill for the Lord Zouch it was resolved That as well the Lord Zouch with his Learned Councel as also any person or persons any thing claiming or pretending in the Lands mentioned in the said Bill and their Councel should be heard in this House to Morrow next And that Sir James Dyer Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas should likewise there be heard in this House to Morrow next touching the Record mentioned in the said Bill and remaining in the said Court of Common-Pleas and also that the same Record should likewise be then brought into this House there to be seen and perused for the better satisfaction of this House in their further proceedings in the said Bill And withal that M r Speaker should by Order of this House give notice unto the said Lord Chief Justice to be here at the said time and bring with him the said Record accordingly Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 14 th day and on Friday the 17 th day of this instant March following On Tuesday the 14 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against secret Conveyances and deceitful sale of Lands was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Recorder of London Mr. Atkins Mr. Lewkenor Mr. Cowper and others who were appointed to meet in the Middle Temple Hall at two of the Clock this Afternoon Sir James Dyer Knight Lord Chief
Justice of the Common-Pleas having informed this House touching the State of the Record mentioned in the Bill for the Lord Zouch and the said Lord Zouch having been here likewise heard at the Bar and the said Record having been here seen and perused in this House and read by the Clerk it was resolved that Sir Thomas Sampoole Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Harrington Mr. Cromwell Mr. Lewkenor and Mr. Cowper do consider of the Decree heretofore made in the Chancery touching the said matter and of the Exemplification of the said Record and meet to Morrow Morning at seven of the Clock in the Forenoon in the Committee Chamber of this House and afterwards to make Report Vide touching this matter on Friday the 17 th day of this instant March following Mr. Treasurer touching the Committee yesterday with the Lords for the Bill of maintenance of the Borders against Scotland declared that their Lordships in the Conference yesterday seem'd to marvel much that their Lordships having first passed a Bill with them for the said purpose and sending it down to this House this House would without requiring further Conference with their Lordships take upon them to make a new Bill for the same matter and not proceed with the said Bill thereof which came from their Lordships And their Lordships thought this House ought not so to have done neither could well by Warrant of any former Precedents of this House And further that some of the said Committees of this House then answered unto their Lordships that this House had cause to do as they did and might likewise well so do Mr. Vice-Chamberlain very excellently setting forth the great benefits and blessings of God upon this Realm in the Godly most loving and careful Government and Ministry of her Majesty and withal the great earnest most faithful and dutiful zeal and obedience of this House unto her Highness no less in every particular Member of the same than is or can be in any other Subject of this Realm whosoever noble or other as hath and may well appear by them all in their Actions And also taking occasion of the Bill lately very gravely carefully and dutifully considered and dealt in by this House for the due care and preservation of her Majesties Honour Fame and Dignity but nevertheless dashed by the Lords in the Upper House and not in this House nor in the default of this House moved that this House would yet notwithstanding for many great and weighty respects by him most excellently amply and effectually and no less aptly declared proceed to some such course for due provision to the same end of the safety of her Highness Honour Fame and Dignity as by some of this House for that purpose to be selected shall seem meet to express and shew the faithful hearts careful love and dutiful obedience of such thankful Subjects unto so Gracious Provident and Merciful a Prince Whereupon were appointed all the Privy-Council being of this House M r Treasurer of the Chamber M r Knight Marshal M r Doctor Dile Master of the Requests Sir Thomas Sanpoole Sir William fitz William Sir William Moore Sir Thomas Shirley M r Recorder of London M r Sands M r Atkins M r Cowper M r Cromwell M r Norton Sir Henry Gate Sir George Turpin M r Wolley M r Beale M r Thomson M r Crooke M r Nicholas S t Leger M r Vincent Skinner M r Pister Mr. Edward Lewkenor Mr. Diggs Mr. Dalton and Mr. Alford to meet in the Exchequer Chamber between one and two of the Clock this Afternoon to confer for the drawing of a Bill against to Morrow Morning for the safety and preservation of her Majesties Honour Fame and Person accordingly Vide concerning a Bill on Wednesday the first day of February foregoing much to this purpose as also on March the 13 th Monday foregoing The Bill for restitution in Blood of Philip Earl of Arundel was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Wednesday the 15 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation was read the second time and two Provisoes also to the same Bill were twice read and committed unto Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Thomas Sampoole Mr. Aldersey Mr. Grice Mr. Lewkenor Mr. Norton and others who were appointed to meet at the Temple-Hall at two of the Clock this Afternoon Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the Bill for the more indifferent Tryal by Juries was read the third time and dashed upon the Question Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by Sir Henry Ratclyffe Sir Thomas Cecill Sir Edward Horsey Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower and others whereof the fifth was the Bill for restitution in Blood of John and Dudley S t Leger and the last for the more indifferent Tryal by Juries Mr. Treasurer reported that according to the Order and Commission of this House to him yesterday and others he and others of the Committees had met together and drawn a new Bill and so delivered the Bill in the House to be read The Bill against seditious words and rumors uttered against the Queens most Excellent Majesty was twice read and upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Gibbon did bring from the Lords the Bill for fortifying of the Borders against Scotland with some Amendments which Bill had passed this House before and was sent to their Lordships from this House On Thursday the 16 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for Exposition of the Statute of Bankrupts was read the third time and dashed upon the Question Sir Thomas Sampoole one of the Committees in the matter for the Lord Zouch whose names see on Monday the 13 th day of this instant March foregoing made report of their Travel therein and of the Estate of the Title of the said Lord Zouch to the Mannor in demand and thereupon the said Lord Zouch was afterward with his Councel heard at the Bar. Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 14 th day of this instant March foregoing and also on Friday the 17 th day of the same Month following Mr. Doctor Clark and Mr. Doctor Barkley did bring from the Lords a Bill before-passed this House touching the abolishing of certain deceitful stuffs used in the dying of Cloths and now returned by their Lordships with some Amendments and Provisoes thereunto added The Bill against seditious words and rumors uttered against the Queens most Excellent Majesty was read the third time and after sundry Motions and Arguments and some Amendments added were thrice read and the Bill passed upon the question Mr. Cope standing up and offering to speak unto the House said unto Mr. Speaker and Charged him with these Speeches that is to say That Mr. Speaker
in some such matters as he hath favoured hath without Licence of this House spoken to the Bill and in some other Cases which he did not favour and like of he would prejudice the Speeches of the Members of this House with the Question On Friday the 17 th day of March the Bill for maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation was read the third time The Bill against seditious words and rumors uttered against the Queens most Excellent Majesty which passed in this House yesterday was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and all the residue of the Privy-Council being of this House and then present with others and also the Bill for the Borders wherein their Lordships are to be moved for the perfecting only of the sence in some parts of their Amendments that this House may proceed to their further dealing in the said Bill accordingly M r Serjeant Anderson and M r Doctor Gibbon did bring from the Lords again the Bill for the Borders amended according to the request of this House with Commendation also from her Majesty from the Lords of the Bill for the maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation Whereupon the amendments being finished and three times read and passed upon the question the Bill was remanded unto their Lordships by M r Comptroller and others together with the Bill against deceitful stuff used in dying of Cloths wherein their Lordships are to be moved for the perfecting of some part of their Lordships Amendments sent by them to this House viz. the mistaking of a line in the Bill to the end that the same being done this House may proceed in perfecting of the said Bill accordingly in the said amendments M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Henry Ratclyffe Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Aldersey M r Wroth M r Cromwell Mr. Norton Mr. Alford and Mr. Grice were appointed to consider presently in the Committee Chamber of the Bill for maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation The Bill for the Lord Zouch was read the third time M r Comptroller returning from the Lords brought word from their Lordships that they do add some amendments to the Bill against seditious words and rumors uttered against her Majesty and did pray that when their Lordships shall now forthwith send down the same Bill and amendments to this House it may then have speedy Expedition and did eftsoons recommend unto this House the Bill for maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Clark did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do pray present Conference with half a score of this House touching the Bill against seditious words and rumors uttered against her Majesty And thereupon were appointed Mr. Treasurer Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Vice-Chamberlam Sir Thomas Sampoole Mr. Doctor Dale Master of the Requests Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Cromwell Mr. Cowper and Mr. Alford to confer with their Lordships accordingly Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the first day of February foregoing M r Doctor Lewes did bring from the Lords the Bill for abolishing certain deceitful stuff used in the dying of Cloths with the reformation in their Lordships said amendments done and made according to the Request of this House to their Lordships in that behalf It is Ordered upon the Question that the Bill for the Lord Zouch be committed to be reformed by M r Treasurer M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Cromwell M r Wentworth M r Snagg M r Diggs M r S t Leger M r Lewkenor M r Carleton and M r Ameredith and appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber this Afternoon Vide de ista materia on Tuesday the 14 th of this instant March foregoing Mr. Treasurer and others coming from Conference with the Lords Mr. Treasurer declared that their Lordships have delivered unto them certain notes in writing to move unto the House touching the Bill against seditious words and rumors uttered against her Majesty which notes in writing were by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain declared that their Lordships would feel the opinion of this House whether this House could be content to leave in force unrepealed so much of the Statute of the first and second of King Philip and Queen Mary as concerneth such matter as in this said Bill is not provided for or met with as partly touching slanderous words against Noblemen and the Lords of the Clergy And further whether this House can like to have the words directly or indirectly added to the said Bill in such parts thereof as do make mention of tending to her Majesties Death It was upon the Question of these Motions to the House in these points resolved That the repeal of the said Statute of the first and second of King Philip and Queen Mary should stand in sort as it is already passed by this House in the said Bill for that her Majesty may at any time by her Commission renew or receive thereof repealed at her Highness Pleasure And also that these words or any words directly to that effect shall be put in and inserted in their Lordships said notes to be added to the said Bill in that part thereof which maketh mention of any person willing wishing or desiring her Majesties Death Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the first day of February foregoing On Saturday the 18 th day of March the Amendments and Proviso in the Bill against certain deceitful stuff used in the dying of Cloths was read the third time and passed upon the question Mr. Cromwell one of the Committees for Examination of the returns and defaults noted upon the last calling of the House made report unto the House of the state of the same Examinations Whereupon after sundry Motions and Arguments it was resolved by the House That all such Persons as have not been duly returned into this present Parliament as in lieu and place of others absent being either sick or employed in her Majesties Services or otherwise and not dead shall be for this time holden excused of their attendance and of their sitting in this House until this present time but shall from henceforth stand and be utterly discharged and disabled of their said rooms and places in the stead of such other persons not being dead unless special Order shall be therein taken by this House to the contrary And then perusing the said returns and defaults and also the former Precedents of this House in like Cases it is adjudged and Ordered by this House That Edward Flowerdewe Esq Serjeant at Law and who the last former Session of this present Parliament did stand and appear a Burgess of Castle-Riseing in the County of Norff. and was nevertheless returned into this present Session of Parliament a Citizen for the City of Norwich in lieu and place of Thomas Beamont sick shall still stand and remain in his place for Castle-Riseing and not for the said City of Norwich And for as much also as it is
now credibly informed to this House by John Aldrich Gentleman one of the Citizens returned for the City of Norwich and also by Sir Roger Woodhouse Knight one of the Knights for the said County of Norff. and also by Edward Grimstone Esquire one of the Burgesses for the Town of Ipswich in the County of Suff. that the said Thomas Beamont is impotent and incurably sick and diseased it was at the earnest motion of the said John Aldrich made to this House for another Citizen to be chosen and returned for the said City of Norwich in the place and stead of the said Thomas Beamont Ordered and resolved by this House that a Warrant be made forthwith by this House to the Clerk of the Crown-Office in the Chancery for the directing of a new Writ for the chusing and returning of another Citizen of the said City of Norwich in the place and stead of the said Thomas Beamont accordingly And for as much as Hugh Graves one of the Citizens for the City of York did the last former Session of this present Parliament move the House and make request that by Order of this House another Citizen might be chosen and returned for the said City of York in lieu and stead of Gregory Peacocke his fellow Citizen being then and yet still incurably sick and diseased and for that also that Robert Askewith is already returned and hath attended this present Session in the room and place of the said Gregory Peacocke it was now Ordered and resolved by this House that the said Robert shall stand and remain still as a Citizen for the said City of York in the lieu and place of the said Gregory Peacocke according to the return thereof made The Bill for the Lord Zouch was after sundry Motions and Arguments put to the Question and dashed It was also upon further consideration of the said returns and defaults Ordered and resolved That Thomas Fleming Gentleman being returned into this Session and appearing in the place of James Dalton one of the Burgesses for Kingstone upon Hull in the County of York being incurably sick and diseased shall stand and continue according to the return in that behalf already made And that John Fawcher likewise returned a Burgess for the said Town of Kingston upon Hull in the lieu and stead of James Clerkson sick and Samuel Cox Esquire returned a Burgess for the City of Rochester in the County of Kent in the room and place of William Partridge Esquire being sick Sir William Drury Knight returned a Burgess for Castle Riseing in the County of Norff. in the room and place of Edward Flowerdewe Esq being sick Richard Mollineux Esquire returned a Burgess for the Town of Wigan in the County of Lancaster in the room and place of Edward Fitton Esquire being in the Queens Majesties Service Fulke Grevill Esquire returned a Burgess for the Town of Southampton in the room and place of Sir Henry Wallop Knight being in the Queens Majesties Service and Richard Herbert Esquire returned a Burgess for the Town of Montgomery in the room and place of Rowland Pugh Esquire supposed to be dead but yet known to be in plain life shall be forthwith amoved from their said places and the said James Clerkson Edward Flowerdew Esquire Edward Fitton Esquire William Partridge Esquire Sir Henry Wallop Knight and Rowland Pugh Esq and every of them shall stand and continue for their said several rooms and places notwithstanding any such causes of sickness the Queens Majesties Service or supposed allegation of being dead Vide Januar 19. Januar. 21. antea And it is also further agreed upon and resolved by this House That during the time of sitting of this Court there do not any time any Writ go out for the chusing or returning of any Knight Citizen Burgess or Baron without the Warrant of this House first directed for the same to the Clerk of the Crown according to the ancient Jurisdiction and Authority of this House in that behalf accustomed and used Nota. This resolution of the House is no other than had been formerly taken by them in the beginning of this Parliament upon Saturday the 21 th day of January foregoing which also was further ratified and confirmed by the opinion and judgment of Sir Thomas Bromley Knight at this time Lord Chancellor of England M r Doctor Gibbon and M r Doctor Clerk did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships did desire present Conference with ten of this House or more touching the Bill lately passed in this House concerning Iron-Mills Whereupon were appointed M r Comptroller M r Treasurer of the Chamber Sir Thomas Shirley Sir William Moore Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Recorder of London M r Norton M r Cowper M r Aldersey M r Gaymes and M r Leife The Bill against certain deceitful stuff used in the dying of Cloths was sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller and the said Committees and the provision passed and assented unto and amended according to the request of their Lordships The Bill for maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation all the Amendments Provisions and Additions being three times read was passed upon the Question Where by a former Order of this House Arthur Hall Esquire was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London there to remain by the space of six Months and so much longer as until himself should willingly make a general revocation or retractation under his hand in writing of certain Errors and slanders contained in a certain Book set forth in print and published in part greatly tending to the slander and reproach of Sir Robert Bell Knight deceased late Speaker of this present Parliament and of sundry other particular Members of this House and also of the Power Antiquity and Authority of this House to the satisfaction of this House or of such Order as this House should take for the same during the continuance of this present Session of Parliament as by the same Order made and set down by this House upon Tuesday being the 14 th day of February foregoing in this present Session of Parliament more at large doth and may appear And where also the said Arthur Hall hath ever since the said Order taken remained in the said Prison of the Tower and yet still doth and hath not at all made any revocation or retractation of the said slanders errors and untruths to the satisfaction of this said House according to the said Order It is now therefore Ordered and resolved by this House That the further allowance of such revocation or retractation to be hereafter made as aforesaid shall be referred unto the Right Honourable Sir Francis Knolles K t one of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council and Treasurer of her Highness most Honourable Houshold Sir James Crofte Knight one other of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council and Comptroller of her Majesties said most Honourable Houshold Sir Christopher Hatton Knight one other of her Highness said most Honourable
their several places the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof who thereupon repairing thither as many as conveniently could were let in and standing all together at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the Upper House Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor by the Queen Commandment declared unto them the Causes of the Assembling of this Parliament But what those Causes were neither the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House nor that of the House of Commons do at all mention in setting down the other daily Passages of this Parliament de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. But in respect they are set down the above-mentioned Catalogue of Honour imprinted at London An. Domini 1610. pag. 〈◊〉 and that it is most probable that were there inserted out of the Collections or Memorial of some Member of the House of Commons at this Parliament therefore I have thought good to supply it verbatim as it is there set down The said Lord Chancellor declared unto them in her Majesties name that this Assembly of Parliament was for three causes called viz. For the glory of Almighty God and the furthering of Religion for the health and preservation of her Royal Majesty and the welfare of the Common-Weal Which after that he had a loud and most eloquently at large declared turning his Speech unto the Knights and Burgesses standing on a heap together below he willed them to make choice of their Prolocutor and to give notice of him so Chosen unto the Lords of the Privy-Council from whom they should expect what the Queens Pleasure and Answer was concerning him so Chosen to be afterward presented The substance of this Speech being so shortly set down in the said Catalogue of Honour I thought good to transcribe although it were imprinted because it doth much augment and perfect this present Journal of the Upper House The residue whereof doth next in order follow out of the Original Journal-Book of the same House there being only added now and then as the occasion offered it self some Observations and Animadversions upon it Nota Also that no names of any of the Lords Spiritual or Temporal are noted to have been present this day which happened through the negligence of the Clerk of the Parliament but it may be conjectured who they were by the names of such whose presence is noted on Thursday next following being the 26 th day of this instant November on which said day the presence of such Lords as attended this Parliament is first marked Then follow the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions which is the more remarkable at this time because it is said that the Clerk of the Parliament did read them by the Lord Chancellors Commandment whereas it should seem at other times and which is agreeable also to the course at this day he doth presently stand up of himself as soon as the Lord Chancellors or Lord Keepers Speech is ended and reads the said Receivors and Triors names yet the entrance aforesaid is at this time set down in the said Journal-Book in manner and form following Tunc having before-mentioned the Lord Chancellors Speech Parliamenti Clericus ex mandato Cancellarn omnibus Petitionibus exhiberi volentibus Receptorum Examinatorum nomina formâ subsequenti recitavit Then follows all in French of which the names were these Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Lord Chief Justice of England Sir Gilbert Gerrard Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Gawel Knight one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench Doctor Clarke and Doctor Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Lord Chief Baron Francis Windam one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Awbery and Doctor Barkley Such as will deliver Petitions must so do within six days next ensuing Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Leicester Lord High Steward of England the Earl of Darby the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Howard of Effingham Chamberlain of the Queens House the Lord Gray of Wilton the Lord North. All these or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants at their leisure to meet and hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and the Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles The Archbishop of York the Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembroke the Bishop of Norwich the Bishop of Chester the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Cobham the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst All these or four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor to hold their place when their leisure did serve to meet in the Treasurers Chamber Breve returnatum which was returned this Morning quo Johannes Episcopus Gloucestren praesenti Parliamento interesse summonitus fuit qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 24 th day of November the Lords met in the Upper House but nothing was done saving the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor until nine of the Clock the next Morning On Wednesday the 25 th day of November there was a like meeting of the Lords but nothing done saving the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon the day following But no presence of the Lords is noted on this day in the Original Journal-Book On Thursday the 26 th day of November the Commons having chosen their Speaker who upon his Presentment to the Queen was this day to be allowed of in the said place her Majesty Accompanied with divers of the Nobility came into the Upper House about three of the Clock in the Afternoon whose name and the names of such Lords Spiritual and Temporal as are marked in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament to have been present this day do here ensue Regina Archiepiscopus Cantuar. Dominus Thomas Bromley Miles Cancellarius Archiepiscopus Eboracen Dominus Barleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Marchio Winton Comites Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerarius Comes Arundell Comes Kantiae Comes Darbiae Comes Wigorn. Comes Rutland Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Comes Bathon Comes Pembrooke Comes Hartford Vice-Comes Mountague Vice-Comes Bindon Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Winton Episcopus Meneven Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Petriburgen Episcopus Norwicen Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Cestren Barones Dominus Howard Camerar Dominus Zouch Dominus Willoughbie Dominus Dacres Dominus Cobham Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Lumley Dominus Stourton Dominus Mountjoy
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
instante decimo quarto die Septembris dissolutum determinatum sit per has literas nostras patentes idem Parliamentum nostrum penitus dissolvimus determinamus Et ideo vobis mandamus quòd circa praemissa diligenter intendalis ac ea in forma praedicta effectualiter expleatis exequamini Volumus etiam concedimus quòd omnes singuli Archiepiscopi Marchiones Comites Vicecomites Episcopi Barones Milites Cives Burgenses ac omnes alii quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum nostrum conventuri de omni eo quod eis pertinet in praemissis faciend ' exequend sint omnino tenore praesentium exonerati quieti in omnibus prout decet In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium decimo quarto die Septembris Anno Regni nostri 28o. Per ipsam Reginam Nota That this last Dissolution of the aforesaid Parliament in Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1586. was somewhat above one whole year and a half from and after the first Prorogation thereof which was on Monday the 29 th day of March Anno 27 Reginae ejusdem Anno Domini 1585. by which it is probable that her Majesty had intended at first to have made this and the Parliament that follows to have been but two Sessions and not two several Parliaments as afterwards it sell out and as they now remain And it is the more strange that this resolution was at all altered because the ensuing Parliament held in Anno 28 29 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1586. began within some forty five days after this last recited day on which this aforesaid Parliament was Dissolved as is aforesaid And that which yet maketh this foresaid Dissolution of the above-mentioned Parliament on this 14 th day of September the more strange is because it had been last prorogued on the 26 th day of April Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. unto the 14 th day of November following which if it had held would have fallen out full two Months after this day of the Dissolution thereof and at least a Fortnight after the 29 th day of October on which the next and new Parliament began in the said twenty eighth year of her Majesties Reign But to clear this doubtfully there was no other cause or ground upon which her Majesty altered that her first resolution but the blessed and strange discovery of that most horrible and merciless Conspiracy plotted between the Scottish Queen Ballard Babington and others for the speedy Murthering of her Majesty and Extirpation of true Religion The manner and Execution whereof having continued in agitation between them from July to September in this said twenty eighth year of her Majesties Reign upon the 20 th day of the last mentioned Month the two foresaid Conspirators and five more of their notablest Complices were Executed in S t Giles-Fields near London having been Condemned upon Tuesday the 13 th day of the said Month which was the very day foregoing the said 14 th day of the same Month on which the foresaid Parliament was Dissolved as appears fully by the fore-recited Commission After which also before the new Parliament began on Saturday the 29 th day of October following the Queen of Scots was tried at Fothringhay Castle in Northamptonshire and after Condemned in the Star-Chamber by the lawful Verdict of her Peers the proceedings whereof lasted from the 11 th day of the Month aforesaid being Wednesday unto the 25 th day of the same being Tuesday which Sentence was affirmed and allowed by the Parliament following in Anno 28 Regin Eliz. THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 27 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1584. which began there on Monday the 23 th Day of November and then and there continued until the Prorogation thereof on Monday the 29 th Day of March Anno Domini 1585. and was lastly Dissolved on Wednesday the 14 th Day of September Anno 28 Reginae ejusdem Anno Domini 1586. THIS Ensuing Parliament is replenished with many Excellent Passages concerning the Orders Priviledges and Usages of the same from which also divers good Precedents may be gathered touching Elections and Joint-Conferences with the Lords of the Upper House neither finally doth it want sufficient matter of publick Agitations the danger of the State and the Ecclesiastical Government of the Church being at large debated in it in which also appears the zeal of the said House against one Doctor Parrie a notorious Traytor being a Member thereof The Parliament beginning on Monday the 23 th day of November in Anno hoc 27 Reginae Eliz. her Majesty came from her Palace of Whitchall in her accustomed and Royal and stately manner unto the Cathedral Church of Westminster about .... of the Clock in the Forenoon during whose being there the Earl of Leicester at this time Lord Steward of her Highness Houshold came into the Utter Room of the House of Commons and then and there before his Lordship did the right honourable M r Treasurer and M r Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold and M r Chancellor of the Exchequer being severally chosen and returned Knights into the said House of Commons for the Counties of Oxon Hereford and Northampton take and pronounce the Oath according to the Statute in that behalf made and provided which done the said Lord Steward departed from the House into the lower end of the Room called the White-Hall or Court of Requests and then also did the right honourable M r Secretary Walsingham returned one of the Knights for the County of Surrey likewise take and pronounce the said Oath before his Lordship And then his Lordship caused as many of the said Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons as at that time were returned into the Crown-Office to be called and returned and the names to be pricked of so many of them as then appeared and so nominating and appointing the said four honourable Personages to be his Lordships Deputies to see the said Oath taken and pronounced by all the residue of the said House of Commons departed and thereupon his Lordships said Deputies proceeded to the further ministring of the said Oath unto the residue of the said House of Commons But before such time as these four right honourable Personages deputed by the Earl of Leicester as aforesaid had administred the said Oath to all such of their fellow Members of the House of Commons as were present although the greatest part of them had taken it they had notice about two of the Clock in the Afternoon that her Majesty with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal were then already set in the Upper House and there expected them who thereupon all of them together repaired thither and as many as conveniently could being let in Sir Thomas Bromley Lord Chancellor having made an
touching Collectors of Issues by Juries was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Cromwell Mr. Nathanael Bacon Mr. Henry Barkley and others and the Bill was delivered to the said Mr. Barkley who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Middle-Temple Hall to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Lords did this Morning send down to the House of Commons a Bill touching the assurance of certain Lands to Sir Thomas Lucy Knight and others The business of Mr. Arthur Hall of which the House had been informed upon their first meeting this Morning was before the rising of the House referred to Mr. Wolley Mr. Cromwell Mr. Diggs and Mr. Sandes to peruse the order touching the same against Monday next being the day appointed by the House for the said Mr. Hall to appear before them On Monday the 14 th day of December further day was given unto the Committees for the Bill touching Tanners c. and to meet at the Yeeld-Hall alias Guild-Hall to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted unto Walter Rawleigh Esquire for the discovery of Foreign Countries was read primâ vice Three Petitions touching the liberty of Godly Preachers and to exercise and continue their Ministries and also for the speedy supply of able and sufficient men into divers places now destitute and void of the ordinary means of Salvation were offered unto the House the first by Sir Thomas Lucy the second by Sir Edward Dymock and the third by Mr. Gates which were all thereupon read and further proceedings therein deferred until a more convenient time Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 22 th day of February following and more largely on Thursday the 25 th day of February ensuing Which notwithstanding Doctor Turner a little after rose up and put the House in remembrance of a Bill and Book heretofore offered by him unto the said House which had been digested and framed by certain Godly and Learned Ministers and which said Bill and Book did tend to no other end as he conceived than the Glory of God the Safety of her Majesty and the benefit of the Common-Wealth and therefore prayed that it might be read Against which Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Majesties Houshold spake first but in few words and after him Sir Christopher Hatton Knight her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain more largely who pressed and moved the House so far therein that it was at length resolved that the said Book and Bill should not be read But touching all necessary and fit liberty of the aforesaid Ministers or supply of able men in places that wanted they did not doubt but that her Majesty would take some speedy order concerning the same according to whatsoever was justly required either in the aforesaid Petitions that had been read or in the last mentioned Book and Bill the reading whereof had been forborn of which also the said Mr. Vice-Chamberlain did affirm that he doubted not but that it would be done accordingly Vide concerning this business on Saturday the 27 th day of March following He also further moved that for the better and more speedy expedition of other great matters now in hand this Court would be pleased to appoint to sit again at two of the Clock this Afternoon to give reading to a Bill but now lately finished wherein provision was made for the safety and preservation of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person Which he the rather desired because he conceived that this House would very shortly be adjourned till after Christmas The Bill against fraudulent Conveyances was read the third time Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the before-mentioned Bill for provision to be made for safety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the quiet State of the Realm was read the first time The Bill also for provision of maintenance for Ministers and Preachers in Towns Corporate c. was after the second reading and much dispute put to the question whether it should be committed and upon the division of the House the major part of the Voices fell out to be against the commitment After which also upon another Question whether it should be ingrossed or no the Bill it self was lastly upon another division of the House dashed The Bill lastly for Confirmation of Letters Patents made unto M r Walter Rawleigh was read the second time and committed unto M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Secretary Sir Philip Sidney Sir Francis Drake Sir Richard Greensield Sir William Courtnay Sir William Mohun and others On Tuesday the 15 th day of December three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being for the relief of the Creditors of Edward Fisher Esquire was after the second reading committed unto M r Sollicitor M r Morrice M r Cromwell M r John Fisher and M r Cradock who were appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in Lincolns-Inn-Hall The Committees for M r Rawleighs Bill were appointed to meet presently in the Committee-Chamber of this House The Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster was after the second reading committed unto Sir George Carie M r Recorder of London M r Thomas Knivet M r Thomas Cecill and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the open Exchequer-Court The Bill against Informers was brought in by M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the name of all the Committees with allowance of the same only he further moved the reviving and continuing the former Act in that behalf made in the 18 th year of her Majesties Reign The Bill for provision to be made for the surety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the good estate of the Realm was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for bringing in of Staple Fish and Ling was brought in again by Sir Edward Dymock one of the Committees without any thing done in the same for that the Committees could not in their meeting assent to any alteration of the same Bill The Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests and such like disobedient persons was upon the second reading ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 16 th day of December three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being a new one touching Hue and Cry was read the first time M r Ash one of the Committees in the Bill for Swearing of Under-Sheriffs in the name of himself and the residue of the same Committees brought in the old Bill and also a new Bill framed by them praying the reading thereof M r Treasurer one of the Committees in the Bill for disposing of Parsonages impropriate to charitable and pious uses for himself and the residue of the same Committees brought in the old Bill and also a new Bill praying the reading thereof The Bill for perfecting of Assurances was upon the second reading committed unto M r
Sollicitor M r Atturney of the Wards M r Sands and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Sollicitor who with the rest was appointed to meet to morrow in the Afternoon in Lincolns-Inn-Hall After some Motions made touching the former Petitions exhibited and read in this House on Monday the 14 th day of this instant November foregoing which concerned the liberty of some Ministers and the placing of others in places that wanted many Arguments ensuing but it was at last resolved upon the motion of Sir Walter Mildmay Chancellor of the Exchequer who spake exceeding well touching this business that some Committees should be appointed by the House to view over the said Petitions and to reduce the contents of the same into some particular Heads or Articles which being put in writing might be imparted unto the Lords of the Upper House and that request might thereupon be made to their Lordships to joyn with the House of Commons in such further course as should be thought meet And thereupon divers Committees were chosen to consider of the said business accordingly viz. Sir Thomas Heneage Sir Thomas Manners M r Rawleigh M r Sollicitor M r George Cary Sir Edward Dymock Sir Robert Germin Sir William Herbert Sir Jahn Higham M r Cromwell M r Doctor Hammond M r Doctor James and M r Edward Lewkenor who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer-Chamber for that purpose Vide plus concerning this business on Monday the 21 th day of this instant December following and on Thursday the 25 th of February ensuing After which the House conceiving the weight of this business required a greater number of Committees did further nominate these following viz. M r Atturney of the Wards M r Beale M r Candish M r Blage the Master of the Requests Mr. Wolley Mr. Doctor Fletcher Mr. Skinner Mr. William Stoughton Mr. Thomson Mr. Recorder Mr. Morrice Mr. Alford Sir William Moore and Mr. Wroth who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at the place aforesaid Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the continuation and explanation of certain Statutes was read the first time On Thursday the 17 th day of December the Bill for assurance of certain Lands of Sir Thomas Lucy and others was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Digby Mr. Barker Mr. Cradock and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the Middle Temple Hall The Bill for confirmation of Letters Patents granted unto Mr. Walter Rawleigh was brought in by the Committees not altered in any word and upon motion for ingrossing was after some Arguments upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Doctor Awberry and Mr. Doctor Barkeley did bring from the Lords two Bills the one for the restitution in blood of the Lord Thomas Howard and the other for the paving of Newarke upon Trent with request from the Earl of Rutland unto Mr. Speaker for expediting of the same Bill for the paving of Newark upon Trent The Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests and such like disobedient Subjects having upon the third reading passed the House was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others The Bill upon the reading passed the House with little or no Argument except it were from one Doctor Parry who in very violent terms spake directly against the whole Bill affirming it to favour of Treasons to be full of blood danger despair and terrour or dread to the English Subjects of this Realm our Brethren Uncles and Kinsfolks and also full of Confiscations but unto whom Not said he to her Majesty which he wished they were and said he did not think the contrary but that zeal would cause the Bill to have passage both in this House and with the Lords but yet he hoped when it should come into her Highnesses most merciful hands that it would stay and rest there until which time he said he would reserve his reasons of his negative voice against the Bill then to be discovered by him only unto her Majesty Whereupon Dr. Parry by Order of this House was appointed to be sequestred into the outer Room of this House into the Serjeants Custody and without conferring with any whiles the matter now in question concerning his former Speeches against the Bill last passed is in debating or arguing until he shall be called in again And afterwards being brought to the Bar and there kneeling upon his knee he was told by Mr. Speaker in the name of the whole House that if he thought good the House was contented to hear him what reasons he could yield for himself in maintenance of his said Speeches against the aforesaid Bill to the better satisfaction of this House or what other matter of excuse he could alledge touching his former contempt uttered in the presence of this said House in very unseemly manner and in unfitting words in that he did speak so directly reproachfully and absolutely against a Bill first travelled in and publickly allowed of in the House and then considerately and maturely perused and digested by so great and grave a Committee selected and framed out of the ablest Members of this House who having further diligently and dutifully laboured therein and brought it again into the House with one unanimous approbation of it as of a good and necessary Bill and that lastly it had been also so approved of this day and upon the third reading had passed the House and yet that he the said Doctor Parry had termed the said Bill to be a Bill savouring of Treasons and to be full of Confiscations blood danger despair and terrour to the Subjects of this Realm and withal that he would well prove and justifie the same by good reasons which nevertheless he said he would not deliver to this House but would reserve them only to be revealed to her Majesty Whereupon being further demanded as aforesaid what further excuse or defence he could make for himself he answered that what he had said and bound it with a protestation was without any intent of offence towards the Queens Majesty to whom he owed all dutiful obedience or towards the House and made repetition of his said former words and still avowed the justification of the same And so entring into some declaration of his own estate tending altogether to his own credit as of his sundry good Services done to her Majesty his reputation with persons of good sort and other such like Speeches in his own commendation concluded in the end that as before when he spake to the Bill and gave his negative voice to the same he then concealed his said reasons from this House so he would now conceal the same still Whereupon being sequestred again it was resolved That for that he did speak to the Bill and gave his negative voice so directly and undutifully and in contempt of this House would not shew his reasons for the same being meerly against the
ancient Orders and usage of this High Court and not for that he said he would shew them only to be discovered to her Majesty it was resolved That he should be committed to the Serjeants Ward till the matter shall be further considered of by this House the day being then very far spent Vide concerning this matter on Friday the 18 th day Wednesday the 23. day and on Thursday the 24 th day of this instant December following On Friday the 18 th day of December the Bill touching Appeals out of the Ecclesiastical Court was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Treasurer the Master of the Requests Mr. Doctor Hammond Mr. Sands Mr. Cromwell Mr. Doctor Cousin Mr. Barker Mr. Flower Mr. Wolley Mr. Beale and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer-Chamber The Bill also for the restitution in blood of the Lord Thomas Howard had this day its first reading and the Bill for confirmation of Letters Patents made unto Walter Rawleigh Esquire was upon the third reading after many Arguments and a Proviso added unto it passed upon the Question Sir Christopher Hatton Knight her Majesties Vicechamberlain declared unto the House That her Majesty having heard of the great and dutiful care of this House in devising and providing of Laws for the preservation of her Majesties Royal Person doth accept the same in most humble loving and thankful part and having thereupon inquired of the manner and parts of the same Laws doth both very well like and allow of the same and is also of her own most loving and merciful disposition pleased that all persons barred or disabled by force of the same Law as it now is shall be first called to answer and be heard what they can say in excuse of themselves before they shall be prejudiced in their pretended Right or Titles And also that her Majesty will take away the Proviso in that Law by which any of these Subjects which have taken the Oath of Association might any way hereafter by any possibility be touched in conscience And then made a motion that a convenient Committee of the wise and grave Members of this House might be appointed to consider of the said former Bill already ingrossed and so then to devise another to be conceived according to the purport of her Majesties Pleasure in that behalf so as before is signified Whereupon it was then resolved that all the former Committees and M r George Ireland now added unto them should meet together for that purpose this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber And further the said M r Vice-Chamberlain also declared unto this House that her Majesty having been made privy unto the mis-behaviour of Mr. Doctor Parry yesterday shewed in this House and of the order of this House taken therein with him for the same her Highness doth not only deem him to have given just cause of offence unto this House in the same his misdemeanor but also doth very well allow of the grave discretion of this House in forbearing for the time to use any sharp course of Correction against him for his said offence in respect that he had said he reserved his reasons to be imparted to her Majesty only which as he had discovered unto some of the Lords of the Council by her Highnesses appointment and that partly to the satisfaction of her Majesty so her Highness did think that upon his humble submission unto this House with a dutiful acknowledgment of his fault this House would the rather dispense with him therein Which done M r Doctor Parry was called to the Bar where humbly acknowledging his fault upon his knees it was told him by M r Speaker after he had put him in remembrance of the manner of his offence that it might be the House would nevertheless deal favourably with him if they should see such cause upon his unfeigned and earnest confession and repentance of his fault and his humble submission unto the House with good and dutiful endeavour of amendment hereafter And then kneeling upon his knee in very humble manner affirmed directly that he had very undutifully misbehaved himself and had rashly and unadvisedly uttered those Speeches he used and was with all his heart very sorry for it alledging withal that he had never been of this House before this Session and so could not so well know the Orders of the House as he should do and that he would not willingly offend this House nor any man in it and so humbly prayed their good favour towards him Whereupon being sequestred again out of the House it was after some Arguments and Speeches had resolved That upon that his said acknowledgment of his fault and his humble submission he should be received into this House again as a Member of the same and take his place as before so that he would afterwards use himself in good sort as he ought to do And thereupon being called again to the Bar and there kneeling upon his knee and directly reiterating his former confession of his fault and also his former humble submission protesting further that if ever after he should give any just cause of offence again to this House or any Member thereof he would then never after crave any more favour of them Whereupon M r Speaker declared the good pleasure of this House in remitting his said offence by receiving him again into them with condition and hope of his better behaviour hereafter Which as he prosessed and promised to perform accordingly so did he in very good dutiful sort give most humble thanks unto God and to her Majesty and also unto this whole House and every Member of the same for their good courteous and favourable dealing towards him in this behalf Vide February the 18 th and February the 24 th postea On Saturday the 19 th day of December four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching the keeping of the great Sessions of the Peace and the Assizes for the Town of Caernarvon to be kept in the Town of Caernarvon was read the third time And the third being the Bi for restitution in blood of the Lord Thomas Howard had this day its second and third reading And three Bills thereupon were at this time sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others which had not been delivered because their Lordships were risen and departed before their coming Vide on December the 14 th last past when two of them had been sent up A Motion was made in the House that their Lordships might be sent unto to know the reason of the new manner of indorsing their Bills For whereas in former times all Bills sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons were ever indorsed in the lower part of the same Bills contrary to the said accustomed use the Bills which were lately sent down from their Lordships
prayer and thanksgiving accordingly The Master of the Rolls and the Lord Chief Baron did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do desire present Conference with some of this House in a matter of great importance and that their Lordships have appointed of themselves seventeen Whereupon were Chosen presently thirty four of this House viz. M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Exchequer the Lord Russell Sir Thomas Heneage M r Sollicitor M r Beale M r Wolley Sir Robert Germin Sir John Higham M r Doctor James Sir Richard Knightley Sir George Carey M r Edward Lewkenor Sir Henry Cock Sir William Moore M r Edward Barker M r Branker the Master of the Requests M r George Greenfield Sir Edward Dymock M r Skinner M r Atturney of the Wards Sir William Mallory M r Strickland M r David Williams M r Harris M r Henry Barkley Sir Thomas Shirley M r Robert Bowes M r Recorder of London M r Morrice M r William Knolles M r Faunshaw Sir Drew Drury M r Oughtred M r George Digby and Mr. Cheek who repaired then presently to the Lords accordingly Mr. Yelverton being of the Learned Councel of one of the Creditors of Edward Fisher Esquire and coming into this House for him and also some of the Creditors of the said Edward Fisher being likewise present in this House at the Bar the Bill had in their presence its second reading and further Order was then given that they be here again to Morrow in the Morning at the first sitting of this Court Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 22 th day of February ensuing Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning the assurances of Sir Thomas Lucie and others the Proviso of it having been once read had it self the third reading and passed upon the question with the foresaid Proviso The last former Committees returning from the Lords Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the said Committees declared unto the House that they attended the Lords in the Upper House according to the direction of this House to them in that behalf given and that they found the Lords not to want many of that number which was signified unto this House from them and withal that there were likewise almost as many of the Committees of this House as were by this House appointed for that purpose And that the Lord Treasurer being the chiefest of the Committees of the Lords shewed unto the said Committees of this House that their Lordships of the Upper House being of such quality and calling as they are known to be are one Member of the Parliament And also that the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of this House representing the whole Commons of this Realm are also another Member of the same Parliament and her Majesty the Head And that of these three Estates doth consist the whole Body of the Parliament able to make Laws And that none of the said two Houses without the other can in any wise make Laws And withal that therefore of ancient Courtesie and Custom both the same Houses have used mutual Conference each with other in matters of doubt happening amongst them from time to time in making and establishing of Laws and that yet notwithstanding their Lordships have heard by Speeches abroad not out of this House for they are not to take knowledge of any thing in this House that a Bill to provide remedy against fraudulent Conveyances passed with their Lordships and lately sent down from them to this House was upon a second reading thereof in this House denied to receive a Committee whereof their Lordships do greatly marvail and think it very strange not having known the like course used in this House before especially the Bill being so good and necessary for the Common-Wealth and so specially recommended from their Lordships to this House both at the first sending down thereof to this House and sithence And being as their Lordships are informed upon the reading thereof the first time nothing spoken unto at all and now lately at the second reading thereof argued unto both with the Bill and against the Bill by sundry on both sides learned in the Laws and of good account and discretion otherwise which doth greatly import the Bill very much to deserve Conference without all contradiction And further declaring that the said Bill was very well favoured and liked of her Majesty yea in so much that her Highness used to call it her own Bill that it was framed and drawn by her Highness learned Councel very maturely and advisedly digested in the Upper House with the privity and assistance of the Judges there attending considered of also in a Committee amongst their Lordships themselves and with very great deliberation passed also with them and as before specially recommended unto this House from them moved in Conclusion that this House would have such further consideration for proceeding in some convenient course in the said Bill by Conference or otherwise as may in good discretion seem requisite And not doubting but as their Lordships think many of this House have mistaken and misconceived some part of the said Bill so their Lordships upon Conference had they doubt not will resolve and satisfie them in the same And therefore they desire to be advertised of the Answer of this House therein as soon as may be conveniently Vide de ista materia in die sequenti On Tuesday the 16 th day of February a Motion was made for Mr. Kirles releasment from his Imprisonment and thereupon he was brought into this House and kneeling upon his Knees making very humble submission unto this House and acknowledging his fault alledging it also to have proceeded of ignorance and not of wilfulness and likewise having paid to the Serjeant of this House to M r Stepneth's use three pound six shillings eight pence set down by M r Morrice and M r Sands according to the former Order of this House was discharged paying his Fees after he had first taken the Oath of Supremacy Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 10 th day and on Thursday the 11 th day of this instant February foregoing Upon a Motion made by M r Doctor James that a Member of this House yesterday having given great offence unto this whole House in charging this whole House generally with matter of accusation in those things which they do offer and prefer unto this House only by way of Petitions and Motions for redress of certain griefs in dutiful and convenient manner may not so go away with those undecent forms of Speech but be further called to Question for the same M r Atkins was thereupon Licensed by the House to interpret his said Speeches in his place without being Commanded to the Bar who in very humble sort declared his intention was very sorry for his over-sight craved their good opinions and submitted himself to the good satisfaction of this
had been already Ordained to provide for the preservation of her Majesties Person to terrifie Ireland and to provide sufficient Forces at home both by Land and Sea The great expence that her Majesty had been at even since the last Parliament did appear plainly in respect of divers places and Forts which had been repaired much Powder and Munition had been stored up and her Navy also since that time increased besides many other extraordinary Charges and Expences which she had been at in the assisting of her Allies and the preserving of Ireland and that her Majesty did specially shun danger from Ireland of which they conceived this Proverb to be true Look to Ireland if we will rest quiet in England And therefore it seemeth some of the Privy-Council did move to think of what supply were now fit to be given to her Majesty towards the supporting and sustaining of all her said great Expences and Charges On Wednesday the 24 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for imploying of Lands and Tenements given to the maintenance of High-ways Bridges c. was read the second time and committed unto M r Wroth Mr. Sandes Mr. Cradock and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Sands who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Mr. John North and Mr. Heile were added to the former Committees for continuance of Statutes the Bill and Provisoes and also the Bill for Cables Halters and Ropes were delivered to Mr. Vice-Chamberlain who with the rest was to meet in the Exchequer Chamber this Afternoon Mr. Attorney of the Court of Wards one of the Committees in the Bill for Jonas Scot brought in the Bill again into the Court. It seemeth that some of the Privy-Council or others moved this day for consideration to be had in what measure and manner they should supply her Majesty by Subsidy And it seemeth that the House did thereupon further assent unto it All which is very negligently omitted by Mr. Fulk Ouslow at this time Clerk of the House of Commons for there is only set down the names of the Committees in manner and form following viz. All the Privy-Council being Members of this House the Lord Russell Sir Philip Sidney Sir Thomas Heneage Mr. Sollicitor Sir William Moore Sir Robert Germin Sir George Carie Sir Henry Nevill Mr. George Rotheram Mr. Sandes Sir William Mohun Sir Robert Bowes Mr. John North Sir Walter Rawleigh Mr. Trenchard Mr. Ralph Evers Sir John Tracy Mr. Bevill Sir Henry Cock Sir Thomas Cecill Sir Francis Hastings Mr. Mollineux Mr. Wroth Mr. William Herbert Sir Thomas Manners Sir Drew Drewry Mr. Digby Mr. Edward Audeley Mr. Leveson Mr. Attorney of the Wards Mr. Henry Barkley Sir Thomas Shirley Mr. Anthony Mildmay Mr. Henry Talbot Mr. Russell Sir Thomas Lucie all the Knights for Wales Sir Nicholas Woodroofe Mr. Recorder Mr. Robinson Mr. Layer and Mr. Wolley who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber for the Subsidy At the nominating of this Committee as it seemeth the whole Treasons plotted between Henry Nevill and Doctor Parry according to their own Confessions were related where these fragmentary particulars only through the Clerks negligence are set down to this or the like purpose following viz. That the said Doctor Parry having behaved himself unreverently and disorderly in the House of Commons upon revealing his mind to her Majesty which he denied to do there had been pardoned both by her Majesty and the House as see on Thursday the 17 th day of December and on Friday the 18 th day of the same Month as also on Thursday the 18 th day and on Tuesday the 23 th day of this instant February foregoing And since upon discovery of fouler matters had been Imprisoned and disabled from being a Member of this House That the said Nevill and he had had divers Conferences and Projects for the advancement of the King of Spains Conquest of England from whose Wars the said Nevill having served in them had lately returned poor into England That the said Parry and Nevill had amongst other things Plotted to go into the North there to raise Rebellion or to take the Island in Kent or to sell Barwick or lastly to Murther her Majesty That they had read together Doctor Allens Seditious Book concerning the Deposition and Murthering of Heretical Princes as he styles them That they had sworn together mutual Secrecy with divers other matters partly agreed upon between the said Nevill and Parry in their Confessions and partly confessed by either of them singly and deemed by the other To which purpose Sir Christopher Hatton Vice-Chamberlain made a very exact and Elaborate Speech of which there are only some short heads or notes set down in the Original Journal-Book much to the purpose following viz. That the said Nevill and Parry had resolved either to Murther her Majesty in her Garden at S t James's or else to set upon her whilst she should be in her Coach in the Fields each of them having for their assistance five or six men with Pistols That Nevill began first to be touched with remorse of Conscience and notwithstanding his Oath of Secrecy did threaten Parry that except he would desist from his said intended Treason he would reveal it That the said Nevill thereupon departing from the said Parry upon his next meeting again with him continued with him in the same mind and still refused to join with him in the Execution of their former Complotted Treason and that shortly after Parries Commitment and Imprisonment he had discovered it That the said Parrey in the Year 1580. having been Pardoned by the Queen after a Capital offence committed by him departed with Licence into France where being reconciled to the Roman Church he travelled to Venice and there having been diversly and severally instructed and incouraged by Benedict Palmes a Jesuit by Campegio the Pones Nuntio there and lastly again afterwards at Paris in France by one Morgan an Agent of the Queen of Scots here upon the Encouragement of Cardinal Como and the Pope himself he returned into England with a mind full of Treason and Disloyalty with divers other things in the like purpose which are at large set down in Annal. Regin Eliz. conscript à Guiliel Cambden Edit Latinè Lugd. Bat. Anno Domini 1625. à pag. 391. ad pag. 395. Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day and on Friday the 18 th day of December foregoing as also on Thursday the 18 th day and on Tuesday the 23 th day of this instant February last past On Thursday the 25 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for repairing of Sea-Banks and Sea-Works was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed The Articles for two Fifteenths and Tenths and one entire Subsidy
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
in the Bill against covenous and fraudulent Conveyances And the Bill passed this House against the abuse of Corn and Grain was sent up to their Lordships by the said Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and others And the Bill likewise for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day fair written in Parchment according to the former Amendments and Additions therein of both Houses with desire that the same new written Bill may be Examined by the former old Bill and the Amendments and Additions therein of both Houses according to the former Agreement of both the same Houses in that behalf and so then to be passed in both Houses accordingly Vide on Thursday the third day Saturday the 5 th day Monday the 7 th day Thursday the 10 th day Saturday the 12 th day and on Saturday the 19 th day of December foregoing as also on Monday the 22 th day and on Tuesday the 23 th day of February preceding The Bill for increase of Pheasants and Partridges was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Sir William Moore and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Amendments and Additions in the Bill for the preservation of Grain and Game were read and committed to Sir John Higham Mr. William Staughton Mr. Audeley Mr. Topcliffe and others who were added to the former Committees for increase of Pheasants and Partridges and made with them as it seemeth one Committee for both the foresaid Bills being to meet as for the former this Afternoon in the same place The Amendments in the Bill that Parsonages Impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses were twice read and were Ordered to be inserted in the Bill which being so done the same Amendment ingrossed was read and also passed upon the question Sir Christopher Hatton her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain returning from the Lords shewed that he and the residue of the Committes of this House appointed to have Conference with their Lordships in the same Bill and that their Lordships will presently send down the same Bill to this House with some Amendments as their said Lordships do think meet And shewed further that he and the residue moved their Lordships touching the foresaid new written Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day and that thereupon their Lordships and the Committees of this House did examine the said new written Bill with the said old former Bill and the Amendments and Additions of the same Bill the said whole new Bill being read and found to agree without alteration or want of any one word moved that the said new written Bill may be passed presently which was thereupon so done accordingly Vide de ista materia on the day foregoing The Bill that was first read this day and which was upon the reading thereof rejected viz. the Bill touching slanderous Books and Libels was by Mr. Speakers Commandment delivered by the Clerk of the Parliament unto him in the Afternoon of the same day before the siting of the House and was he said delivered over by him to Mr. Attorney General with whom it seemeth it still remained Post Meridiem M r Wiseman one of the Committees in the Bill for the establishing of an Award made between the Lord Rich and Sir Thomas Barrington Knight brought in the Bill with an amendment of the alteration of one word only Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Incorporation of the Hospital of Christ in the Town of Sherburn was upon the second reading committed unto M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Recorder Sir Drew Drury and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Recorder who with the rest was appointed to meet to morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Court On Thursday the 18 th day of March Seven Bill of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill that Lands Tenements c. of Tellors Receivors c. Shall be lyable to the payment of their debts was read the third time and the amendment and Schedule annexed was also read the third time and the Bill and all passed upon the question And another being the Bill for the Inning of Erith and Plumstead-Marsh was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Treasurer M r Vice-Chamberlain and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Treasurer one of the Committees in the Bill for the true making of Malt remembred the Committees to meet in the Exchequer Chamber this Afternoon The Bill for the better Execution of the Statute of the thirteenth of her Majesty for reformation of certain disorders in Ministers of the Church was read the first time Four Bills of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was the Bill That the Lands Tenements c. of Tellors Receivors c. may be lyable c. And the last was the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day Which said Bills were sent up by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others Mr. Serjeant Rodes and Mr. Doctor Barkley did bring from the Lords three Bills viz. the Bill touching the breadth of Wollen-Cloths with some Amendments which Bill before passed this House The Bill against fraudulent means used to defeat Wardships Liveries and Primer seisins and the third was a Bill for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Hunsdon with report touching that Bill that Robert Elrington and Alice his Wife were present before the Lords and gave their consent to the passing of the Bill Nota That the second of the said Bills is omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House through the negligence of the Clerk The Bill for preservation of Woods near the Town of Crambrooke in Kent was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Philip Sidney Sir Henry Nevill and others who were appointed to meet upon Saturday in the Afternoon in the open Exchequer Court Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching the Curriers of London was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Philip Sidney Sir Henry Nevill Mr. Rotheram and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir William Moore one of the said Committees who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the open Exchequer Court The Amendments and Schedule in the Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster were three times read and so passed upon the question On Friday the 19 th day of March the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Hunsdon was read the second time Mr. Elrington and Alice his Wife being brought to the Bar did there give their open assents to the passing of the said Bill Sir William Moore one
John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Speaker who being placed at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House did according to the usual form humbly crave her Majesties most Royal Assent to such good Laws as had passed the two Houses Whereupon her Majesty having by her Assent given Life to thirty publick Acts and nineteen private the Parliament was Prorogued unto the 20 th day of May next ensuing and at last after five other Prorogations it was Dissolved upon Wednesday the 15 th day of September Anno 28 Regin Eliz. Anno Domini 1586. THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS An Exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the Upper House in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1586. which began there on Saturday the 29 th Day of October after two Several Prorogations thereof and then and there continued until it was at length Dissolved on Thursday the 23 th Day of March Anno 29 Reginae ejusdem THE Journal of this Parliament both in respect of the greatness of the matter handled in it being the business of Mary Queen of Scots as also of the many rare Precedents which happened in the Carriage of it the Queens Person being represented and the Lord Chancellors place supplied by others with the Adjournment and re-assembling again of the same somewhat extraordinary is and ought to be esteemed most worthy of observation And it is most plain that this Parliament was at the first beyond the Queens own expectation summoned and afterwards Assembled upon no other cause or ground than the timely and strange discovery of that bloody and merciless Treason Plotted by Babington and others for the violent cutting off her Majesties life of which Mary Queen of Scots had been first by a most Just and Honourable Tryal fully Convicted and afterwards Judicially pronounced to have been in a high nature guilty But yet her Majesty not satisfied with her so just a Tryal and Attainder assembled the Parliament on purpose that so all those former proceedings how just so ever might be further Committed and referred to the impartial examination and final Judgment of the whole Realm And that this great Council of the Kingdom was merely called together at this time about this business is most plain because the last Prorogation of ths former Parliament holden in Anno 27 Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1584. was from the 26 th day of April Anno 28 Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1586. unto the 14 th day of November then next ensuing But long before the said day the former Conspiracy being discovered about the latter end of July in Anno eodem the former Parliament was dissolved on Wednesday the fourteenth day of September following in the 28 th year of her Majesty And this new one Assembled on Saturday the 29 th day of October immediately after ensuing At which time the Queen came not to the Upper House in Person but was represented by three Commissioners not as her Majesty afterward professed because she feared the Violence of any Assassinte but because she abhorred to be an hearer of so foul and unnatural a conspiracy plotted against her by the Scottish Queen a Kinswoman so near to her Highness Yet by this means her absence doubtless drew on the greater safety and her Loving and Loyal Subjects did the more clearly perceive in how great and unavoidable danger she stood as long as that Queen lived and were therefore doubtless stirred up to consult in this so important a Cause with the greater Zeal and earnestness for the preservation of Religion the Security of her Majesties Life and the safety of these Realms Which matters the Lords of the Upper House did so seriously intend as that in this first meeting in this present Parliament which lasted from the foresaid 29 th day of October being Saturday unto the second day of December next following being Friday it appeareth not in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House that any one Bill publick or private was read or so much as once treated of This Parliament was summoned to have begun on Saturday the 15 th day of October Anno 28 Regin Eliz. at which said day her Highness for great and weighty causes and Considerations her thereunto especially moving did prolong and adjourn the said Parliament unto Thursday being the 27 th day of the said Month of October by vertue of a Writ under the Great Seal dated the eighth day of this present October whereupon on the said 15 th day of October the Archbishop of Canterbury with divers other Lords and Councellors repaired to the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House and there in presence of divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal the Knights Citizens and Burgesses summoned to the same Parliament did declare her Highnesses pleasure to Prorogue the same Parliament from this first summoned day until the 27 th of the said Month and thereupon the Writ for the said Prorogation was publickly read by the Clerk of the Upper House Upon the said 27 th day of October Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor of England and divers Lords with a good number of the House of Commons met again in the Parliament Chamber and did again Prorogue this present Parliament after the usual and accustomed form unto the Saturday next following being the 29 th day of this present October On which said 29 th day of October the Parliament held accordingly and the Lords in the Afternoon repaired to the Upper House and there placed themselves according to their several Degrees Upon which the Knights Citizens and Burgesses having notice that the Lords expected their presence repaired to the said House and being let in as many as could conveniently Sir Thomas Bromley the Lord Chancellor declared unto the whole Assembly that her Majesty was so hindred by great and urgent occasions as she could not be present yet had notwithstanding given full Authority to Three Members of the Upper House in her Majesties name and stead to begin the said Parliament Whose names are entred in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament in manner and form following Regina representata per Commissionarios viz. Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem Dominum Burleigh Thesaurarium Comitem Darbiae Magnum Seneschallum All the Lords then present were these following Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius Archiepiscopus Eboracen Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Comites Comes Oxon Magnus Camerarius Comes Kantiae Comes Darbiae Magnus Seneschallus Comes Wigorn. Comes Rutland Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Comes Pembrook Comes Hartford Comes Lincoln Vicecomes Mountague Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Dunelmen Episcopus Winton Episcopus Bathon Wellen. Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Exon. Episcopus Cestren Barones Dominus Howard Admirallus Dominus Aburgavenny Dominus Zouch Dominus Barkley Dominus Morley Dominus Dacres Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Lumley Dominus
effect and these our Letters Patents shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge for the same in every behalf In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our Self at Westminster the 15 th day of February in the twenty ninth year of our Reign c. As soon as the said Sir Edmund Anderson had caused the foresaid Commission to be read he took his place on the Uppermost Woolsack where the Lord Chancellor useth to sit and in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament where the presence of the Lords is noted he is always ranked in the first place as the Lord Chancellor should have been if he had been present with this Addition after the setting down of his name and place Locum tenens Cancellarii in such Order as followeth viz. Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Edmundus Anderson Miles Justiciar de Communibus Placitis Locum tenens Cancellarii Comes Sussex Comes Hartford Comes Lincoln Vice-Comes Bindon Episcopi Episcopus Winton Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Rofsen Episcopus Hereforden Barones Dominus Howard Admirallus Dominus Hunsdon Camerarius Dominus Morley Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Stourton Dominus Sandes Dominus Cromwell Dominus Windsor Dominus Sheffield Dominus North. Dominus S t John de Bletsoe Dominus Compton Dominus Norris Which are all the Peers the Journal-Book noteth to have been present Nota That though I do usually observe in all these Jourtials never to have the presence of the Lords transcribed but at the beginning only of a new Parliament or at least a new Session yet I have observed it here though but at the beginning of a new meeting partly because it was after a long Adjournment and partly because many Lords did send new Proxies So that the presence of the Lords before set down at the beginning of this Parliament on the 29 th day of October being Saturday could not serve to be any rule for the presence of those that attended at this new meeting Which is for the most part the chiefest reason why the presence of the said Lords is marked on the first day of the Parliament or on the next day from the first on which they be noted if through the Clerk of the Upper House his negligence as it often happeneth it be omitted on the said first day A second but less material cause why I have their names transcribed is to see the due places and precedencies of the Lords Temporal On this 15 th day of February lastly although this were neither new Parliament nor new Session but meerly a second meeting of one and the same Parliament as hath been already observed was one unusual or extraordinary Proxy returned which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. 15 Die Februarii introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Thomae Episcopi Bathonien ' Welien ' in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Thomam Episcopum Wintonien ' Thomam Episcopum Cicestren ' Willielmum Episcopum Coventrien ' Litchfield ' The difference between an usual and an unusual Proxy see before on Saturday the 29 th day of October in the latter end thereof on which said day this Parliament began where also it is set down why those ordinary ones are for the most part omitted Other unusual Proxies returned also at this new meeting of Parliament vide on Friday the 17 th day on Sunday the 19 th day and on Saturday the 25 th day of this instant February All which I have ever caused to be set down upon the several days on which they were returned if the said day be particularly expressed and not altogether before the beginning of the Parliament as is usually observed in the Original Journal-Books of the Upper House Nota Lastly that John Archbishop of Canterbury was Constituted Joint Proctor with others by five several Bishops this Parliament of which the first Proxy was returned on Sunday the 19 th day of this instant February from John Bishop of Exeter the second on the same Day from Richard Bishop of Durham the third on Saturday the 25 th day of this instant February from Edmund Bishop of Worcester the fourth on Thursday the 9 th day of March next ensuing from Hugh Bishop of Bangor and the fifth and last on the same day from William Bishop of S t Asaph Which with many other precedents of a like nature frequent almost in every Parliament doth plainly prove that any Lord Spiritual or Temporal being a Member of the Upper House is capable of as many Proxies as shall be sent unto him by the ancient Customs and Usages of that House although the contrary hath been of late ordered upon the ..... day of ..... in the Parliaments in Anno secundo Regis Caroli Sir Edmund Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas sitting in and supplying of the place of Sir Thomas Bromley Lord Chancellor absent as is before observed by reason of sickness did by the Assent of the Lords Commissioners Adjourn the Parliament unto Wednesday next at Nine of the Clock in the Morning being a full se'night after Nota That during this intervenient time of Adjournment three unusual Proxies were delivered in unto the Clerk of the Parliament the first of which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have been returned upon Friday the 17 th day of this Instant February in manner and form following viz. 17 o Die Februarii introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Anthonii vicecomitis Mountague in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Ambrosium Comitem Warwici Robertum Comitem Leicestren 19 o Die Februarii introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Johannis Episcopi Exon in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuarien ' Thomam Episcopum Winton ' Johannem Episcopum Roffen ' Item introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Richardi Episcopi Dunelmen in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cautuarien ' Johannem Episcopum London Thomam Episcopum Wintonien Nota That here a Temporal Lord constituted two Proctors and two Spiritual Lords nominated each of them three which being extraordinary and unusual Proxies are well worthy the observation Vide intrationes Literarum consimilium procurator ' die Saturni die 29 o Octobris praecedentis in fine dici die Mercurii die 15 o Februar jam instantis antea die Saturni die vicesimo quinto ejusdem Febr ' postea On Wednesday the 22 d day of February the Bill toavoid fraudulent Assurances made or to be made in certain cases by Traitors was read primâ vice Edmundus Anderson Capitalis Justiciarius de placito communi continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Thursday the 23 d day of February the Lords met but it seems nothing was done but only the Parliament continued unto a further day the Entrance whereof in the Original Journal-Book is in manner
said several Acts and Ordinances by you our said Subjects the Lords and Commons in this our present Parliament Assembled be fully agreed and consented unto and seem very necessary and profitable for the Commonwealth which nevertheless be not of any force or effect in the Law without our Royal Assent given and put to the same Acts and Ordinances and every of them And forasmuch as for divers great and urgent Causes and Considerations We cannot conveniently at this present be personally in our Royal Person in our Higher House of Parliament being the place accustomed to give our Royal Assent unto such Acts and Ordinances as have been agreed upon by our said Subjects the Lords and Commons We have therefore caused these our Letters Patents to have been made and have signed and caused the same to be Sealed accordingly And by the same do declare and notify as well to you the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons aforesaid as to all and singular other our loving Subjects That we by these Presents do give put our Royal Assent to all and singular the said Acts and Ordinances and to all Articles Clauses and Provisions in them contained and be fully agreed and consented to all and every the said Acts willing that the said Acts and every Article Clause sentence and provision in them contained from henceforth shall be of the same strength force and effect as if we had been personally present in the said Higher House and had openly and publickly in the presence of you all assented to the same Commanding also by these Presents as well our Chancellor of England to seal these our Letters Patents with our great Seal as our Trusty and well-beloved Sir Edmund Anderson Knight our Chief Justice of our Common Pleas to declare and notify this our Royal Assent in our absence in the said Higher House in the presence of you the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons of our Parliament 〈◊〉 to be assembled for that purpose and the Clerk of our Parliament to Indorse the said Acts with such Terms and Words in our Name as is requisite and hath been accustomed for the same And also to Inrol these our Letters in the said Parliament Roll and these our Letters Patents shall be to every of them sufficient Warrant in that behalf And finally declare and will that after this our Royal Assent given and passed by these Presents and declared and notified as is aforesaid That then immediately the said Acts and every of them shall be taken accepted and admitted good sufficient and perfect Laws to all intents Constructions and purposes and to be put in due Execution accordingly the Continuance or Dissolution of this our Parliament or any other Use Custom thing or things to the contrary thereof notwithstanding In Witness whereof We have caused those our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the 23 th day of March in the 29 th year of our Reign Per ipsam Reginam Nota That the Clerk of the Parliament having read the said Letters Patents before set down Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas still supplying the place of Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor delivered other Letters Patents unto the said Clerk openly to be read whereby eight several Commissioners were nominated and authorized to dissolve the Parliament viz. The Archbishop of Canterbury the Archbishop of York the Earl of Shrewsbury Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Darby Lord Steward the Earl of Kent the Earl of Leicester Master of her Majesties Horse the Lord Howard Lord Admiral of England Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Cobham Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports For doubtless unless a new Commission had come forth by which these before-named Honourable Personages had been de novo nominated to this purpose the three Commissioners at first appointed in the beginning of this Parliament which see at large upon Saturday the 29 th day of October foregoing might without any other new authority though not have Dissolved the Parliament yet have Prorogued it to a further day as they had formerly Adjourned it upon Friday the second day of December foregoing unto Wednesday the 15 th day of February next ensuing which was for ten weeks space at the least but that former Authority being now at an end by these new Letters Patents the manner of their delivery the removal of the new Commissioners in them nominated and the Commission lastly it self are thus verbatim set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House Postquam verò Clericus Parliament has Literas palà m perlegisset Edmundus Anderson Miles alias etiam Literas Patentes eidem Clerico Parliamenti publicè legendas tradidit atque hîc notandum est omnes Dominos Commissionarios in Literis patentibus nominatos locis suis relictis in medio banco consedisse dum diclae Literae legerentur Earum autem tenor hic sequitur ELizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei Defensor c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri ac Consiliario suo Johanni Cantuarien Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Edwino Archiepiscopo Eboracen Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac etiam chavissimis Consanguineis Consiliariis suis Georgio Comiti Salop Comiti Marescallo Angliae Henrico Comiti Darbiae magno Seneschallo necnon charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Henrico Comiti Kantiae ac charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Roberto Comiti Leicestr Magistro Equorum suorum ac etiam praedilectis fidelibus Consiliariis suis Carolo Domino Howard magno Admirallo suo Angliae Henrico Domino de Hunsdon Domino Carmerario suo Willielmo Domino Cohham Domino Gardiano quinque Portuum suorum Salutem Cùm nuper pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum desensionem Regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concern praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii decimo quinto die Octobris ultimo praeterito inchoari teneri ordinaverimus in à quo dic idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in vicesimum septimum ejusdem mensis Octobris prorogat fuerat eodémque die idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in vicesimum nonum diem dicti mensis Octobris prorogat ' fuerat ac ibid ' tunc tent ' continuat ' fuerat usque ad in secundum diem Decembris tunc proximum sequentem Eódémque die idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in decimum quintum diem Februarii tunc prox ' sequent ' adjournat ' fuit Eodémque die idem Parliamentum nostrum tunc ibidem tent ' continuat ' fuerat usque ad in vicesimum tertium diem instantis mensis Martii Sciatis tamen certis urgentibus causis considerationibus nos specialiter moven ' idem Parliamentum nostrum hoc instante vicesimo
tertio die Martii duximus dissolvend ' De fidelitate igitur prudentiâ circumspectione vestris plurimùm confident ' de avisamento assensu Concilii nostri assignavimus vos aliquos tres vel plures vestrum Commissionarios nostros dantes vobis aliquibus tribus vel pluribus vestrum tenore praesentium plenam potestatem facultatem authoritatem hoc instante vicesimo tertio die Martii ad dictum Parliamentum nostrum Nomine nostro plenar ' dissolvend ' Et ideo vobis Mandamus quòd vos aliqui tres vel plures vestrum idem Parliamentum nostrum eodem instante vicesimo tertio die Martii virtute harum Literarum Patentium Nomine nostro plenè dissolvatis determinetis Et ideo vobis Mandamus quòd circa praemissa diligenter intendatis ac ea in forma praedicta effectualiter expleatis exequamini Damus autem universis singulis Archiepiscopis Marchionibus Comitibus Vicecomitibus Episcopis Baronibus Militibus Civibus Burgensibus ac omnibus aliis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum nostrum conventur ' tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis quòd vobis in praemissis pareant obediant intendant in omnibus prout decet In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras sieri secimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo tertio die Martii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo nono Per ipsam Reginam Powle It should seem that the reading of these Commissions and the Dissolution of this Parliament were all of them finished this Thursday the 23 th day of this instant March in the Forenoon for else there must have been some other continuance of it by the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas supplying the place of the Lord Chancellor upon the rising of the Lords to dinner unto some hour in the Afternoon which may very well be in respect that although the Queens Majesty came usually in Person to give her Royal Assent in the Afternoon yet that being now performed after an unusual and extraordinary manner by her Majesties Letters Patents or a Commission under the Great Seal the time was also altered So that though this Parliament were not long in continuance for both the meetings thereof put together make but ten weeks at the most yet it had many weighty matters debated in it and this Journal of the Upper House is richly stored with rarer Precedents than any other of all the Queens time Finally Her Majesties loving Subjects considering the great Charges she sustained by the maintenance of the Low Countries Wars and withal in a manner foreseeing the stupendious preparations of Spain at this time most intentive in providing and furnishing of that mighty Armado stiled afterwards Invincible did not only grant unto her Majesty one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths as the Clergy had also granted unto her one other Subsidy but did likewise consult in either House severally for the Lords refused to joyn with the House of Commons therein concerning a Contribution to be bestowed upon her Majesty in like sort also towards the further and better support of those foresaid continual and chargeable Wars of the Netherlands THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS An Exact large and very perfect Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1586. which began there on Saturday the 29 th Day of October after two several Prorogations thereof and there continued until it was at length Dissolved on Thursday the 23 th Day of March Anno 29 Reginae ejusdem THE Passages of this Journal of the House of Commons are fully replenished with excellent and rare matter both in respect of the business of Mary Queen of Scots handled in the first meeting and of the publick dangers threatned against her Majesties person and Realms discussed in the second meeting of this Parliament in which also there wanted not the passing of divers good and wholesome Laws and the discussing of many emergent disputes touching the private affairs of the said House all which are in themselves very useful and worthy of observation Although the Parliament had been summoned to have begun upon Saturday the 15 th day of October in Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. yet it held not but was on the said day further Prorogued unto Thursday the 27 th day of the same Month upon which said day it was lastly Prorogued unto Saturday the 29 th day of the same next ensuing On which said 29 th day of October the Parliament held accordingly although her Majesty came not in person but appointed by her Letters Patents under the Great Seal the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer and the Earl of Darby Lord Steward or any two of them her Delegates or Commissioners in her Majesties name and stead to begin this said Parliament and the same further to hold continue Adjourn or Prorogue as to them should seem fitting and needful The Lords therefore being set the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired unto the Upper House and as many as could conveniently being let in Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor shewed that the Queens Majesty was with-held by some very great and important occasions so that she could not be there personally present at this time but yet had appointed some other Honourable personages there present to supply her place and in her name to begin the said Parliament And then the same Letters Patents were read After which the foresaid three Commissioners leaving their places went to a Seat prepared for them on the right side of the Chair of State who being so placed the Lord Chancellor did Lastly declare that the meer cause for which this Parliament had been so suddenly called at this time was upon the discoveries of the late most great and horrible Treasons plotted for the taking away of her Majesties Life and the subversion of true Religion and that one great offender therein did yet remain touching whose punishment her Majesty did crave their faithful advice and therefore wished those of the House of Commons to make present choice of some one amongst them to be their Speaker and to present him unto the Lords Lieutenants or Lords Commissioners as soon as conveniently they might Whereupon the Knights Citizens Barons and Burgesses of the House of Commons repairing to their said House did there elect and chuse John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Prolocutor who had been Speaker also the last Parliament Nota That there is not any one word of all this before set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons de annis istis 28 o 29 o Reginae Eliz. which is very defective not only here but in some other places thereof but that which is before set down is for the most part gathered out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and only
this House the summary cause of her Majesties calling and assembling of this great Council at this time which was he said not to make any more Laws as being many more already than well executed nor yet for any Subsidy albeit if need so required the same were convenient enough to be done but said he to consult for such matters as the like were never erst heard of nor any Parliament called for in former time that can be found or read of And so very excellently plainly and effectually made relation of the horrible and wicked practices and attempts caused and procured by the Queen of Scots so called meerly tending to the ruine and overthrow of the true and sincere Religion established in this Realm the Invasion of Foreign Forces into this Realm Rebellion and Civil Wars and dissension within this Realm yea and withal which his heart quaked and trembled to utter and think on the death and destruction of the most Sacred Person of our most Gracious Soveraign Lady the Queens Majesty to the utter desolation and conquest of this most Noble Realm of England And so discoursing of the matter and great execrable Treacheries and Conspiracies of the said Queen of Scots even from the first to the last in particularities very amply and effectually such of them at the least as have been hitherto discovered shewing also very manifestly and evidently the proofs and all other circumstances of the same Treachery and Conspiracies and so thinketh good for his part that speedy Consultation he had by this House for the cutting of her off by course of Justice for that otherwise our said Soveraign Lady the Queens Majesties most Royal Person cannot be continued with safety concludeth with this Sentence Ne pereat Israel pereat Absolon Which done M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Chancellor of the Dutchy and M r Secretary Woolley using each of them severally very effectual Speeches at large touching the said horrible Treasons and Conspiracies caused and procured by the said Queen of Scots the House did then rise the time being far spent with reservation nevertheless by M r Speaker remembred for further Speech therein to be had by others of this House to morrow again and a saving also till some other more convenient time for such of this House as shall please to speak to the said Bill of Inrollments upon the said second reading of the same accordingly Vide 7 th November Monday On Friday the 4 th day of November M r Recorder of London having made Declaration unto this House that divers of the Members of the same do find themselves grieved for that their Servants attending upon them are daily arrested contrary to the ancient Liberties and Priviledges of this House and having further moved also that a like Committee of this House may at this time be appointed as had been the last Parliament for the examining and reporting Cases of Priviledge It was resolved and agreed by the House that the same shall be exercised and done accordingly And for the performance thereof the said M r Recorder Sir Henry Gate M r Robert Wroth and M r William Fleetwood were appointed by the Authority of the House Upon the Motion of M r Speaker putting the House in remembrance of continuing and further prosecuting of the great Cause they dealt in yesterday divers Speeches were made to that effect by Sir James Croft Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold Sir Francis Knowles Treasurer of the same Sir William Herbert Sir Thomas Scot M r Francis Bacon M r Alford M r Throgmorton M r Barker M r Dalton M r Biynbrigg and M r Sollicitor by all which it was concluded That considering the late horrible Treasons and Practices conspired against the Life of the Queens Majesty and also for the procuring of Foreign Invasion in respect of the Attempt and also for endeavouring to raise Rebellion within the Realm for and by Mary late Queen of Scots therefore of necessity present remedy and provision must be had for preventing the like attempts and practices hereafter which could never be unless the said Scottish Queen did presently suffer the due Execution of Justice according to her deserts And then upon the further Motion of the said M r Sollicitor for a Committee of this House to be had to confer of some convenient and fit course to be taken by Petition and Suit to her Majesty in that behalf with request also unto the Lords to joyn therein with this House to her Highness if it please them thereupon this Committee following was nominated and appointed in that behalf accordingly viz. all the Privy Council of the House Sir William Herbert Sir Thomas Scot Sir Henry Gate Sir William Moore Sir Thomas Manners Sir Thomas Fairfax Sir Robert Jermin Sir John Petre Sir Henry Cock Sir Henry Cobham Sir Henry Knyvet Sir John Higham Sir Thomas Stanhope M r Fortescue Master of the Wardrobe M r Randal M r Osborne M r George Moore M r Cromwell M r Beale M r Wroth M r Burlace M r George Carie M r Doctor Stanhopp M r Dale Master of Requests M r Francis Hastings M r Sollicitor M r Attorney of the Wards M r Serjeant Snagg M r Morrice M r Sandes M r Dalton M r Bacon M r Alford M r Barker M r Bainbrigge M r Throckmorton M r Corbett M r Palmes M r Pate M r Skinner M r Amersam M r Edward Lukenor M r Thynne and M r Hellyard Recorder of York who were all of them appointed by the House to meet in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock this Afternoon On Saturday the 5 th day of November M r George Moore entring into some discourse touching the great Cause concludeth after sundry great and weighty reasons first shewed that only Popery is the chief and principal root of all the late horrible and wicked treacheries and practices and the Queen of Scots a principal branch issuing from the same root and the most perillous and full of poyson of all the other branches thereof for that the Papists in very deed for the most part not knowing the Person of the said Queen of Scots do wish the Establishing of her in the Crown of this Realm rather in respect of Popery which she would set up than for any affection they bear to her Person and so likewise for the most part all of them either wish or could easily bear the death of our Soveraign Lady the Queens Majesty though perhaps they would not shew themselves to be Actors or Dealers therein He therefore moveth that it may be joyned in the Petition for the great Cause that her Majesty may be moved to retain no Servants about her Highnesses Person but such only as may be well known both to profess the true and sincere Religion and also to be every way true and faithful Subjects And further that the Laws already in force against Papists may be put in due Execution Which Speeches being ended M r Speaker shewed that the
Hospitality And therefore whereas these two meetings are placed in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons very incongruously in two distinct and several Journals as if they had been two distinct and several Sessions they are here rightly placed together and so the passages of the said second meeting do now follow in due course and order On Wednesday the 15 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been Adjourned by the Lords Commissioners aforesaid on Friday the 2 d day of December foregoing the two Houses met in their several places without any pomp or Solemnity this being as hath been before observed neither new Parliament nor new Session but a mere new meeting of either House upon the said Adjournment of the former meeting thereof which began on the 29 th day of October being Saturday in Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. as is aforesaid The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being set M r Serjeant Puckering then Speaker thereof informed the House that M r Fulk Onslow Clerk of the Parliament was so weakned by Sickness that he could not at this present exercise his place Therefore he had appointed M r William Onslow his Knisman a Member of this House here present to supply it and therefore asked their allowance which they very willingly granted The same time M r Cromwell moved the House for that at their Petition her Majesty had done Justice upon the Scottish Queen to the greater Safeguard of her Majesties Person and the whole Realm he thought it fit that her Majesty might receive from them their humble thanks which motion was well liked but at this time it proceeded no further Two Bills had each of them one reading whereof the first was touching Fines and Recoveries before the Justices of the Common Pleas and the second for limitation of time touching Writs of Error growing by fraud The same day M r Vice-Chamberlain commanded as he said by her Majesty moved the House for that this Parliament was not expected to hold at this time many of the Nobility being Lieutenants in their Countries and others principal Members of this House were absent by occasion whereof those great weighty causes for which this Parliament is called cannot have such deep consultation as is fit Therefore he thought it convenient to have an Adjournment and therefore to move the Lords of the Upper House for the liking thereof Which motion being well liked M r Vice-Chamberlain and a convenient number of the House so many as would without nomination did attend him to the Lords who upon his return from the Lords made report that they having considered of the motion found the same want and therefore yielded to an Adjournment of the Parliament until Wednesday next being the 22 d day of this instant Month of February if this House would condescend unto it Unto which Adjournment this House also yielded which consent M r Vice-Chamberlain did there presently signifie to the Lords and upon his return the House brake up On Wednesday the 22 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last adjourned upon Wednesday the 15 th day of this instant February foregoing the House again sitting the Right Honourable Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Vice-Chamberlain to her Majesty and one of her Majesties most Honourable Privy Council used this Speech in effect to the House viz. That it was her Majesties pleasure to have dangers disclosed and to have the House know that she thanked God for the goodness of the House that she wished the Session mistaken for Meeting to be short that men of Government might go home for matter of Government hospitality and defence and to take another time for making of Laws saving such as be now of necessity The dangers which her Majesty meaneth proceed of ancient malice and are to be prepared for and God called upon for aid The principal heads of the dangers The Catholicks abroad the Pope the King of Spain the Princes of the League the Papists at home and their Ministers The principal root hereof The Council of Trent which agreed to extirp Christian Religion which they term Heresie whereunto divers Princes assented and bound themselves in solemn manner Pope Pius Quint us sent her Excommunication against her Majesty Dr. Mourton and Mendoza a Spanish Ambassadour bestirred them a Northern Rebellion was bred the Pope and the rest practised for the Scottish Queen and she being acquainted proceeds by her means Pope Paulus the Thirteenth proceeds and sends Jesuits and Seminaries to England and Ireland and they proceed to inveagle the Subjects and disswade them from obedience Visko beginneth a Rebellion in Ireland James Fitz-Morris furthereth the Execution thereof Doctor Sanders and Desmond stir new Rebellion there and wrote into England c. Parry was moved to kill her Majesty and perswaded it was meritorious Pope Sixtus the Fifth imitateth the other Popes to execute their former devices and writeth to the Cardinal of Lorain and Guise that he will overthrow the Gospel which Mr. Vice-Chamberlain honourably termed the glorious Gospel and therefore moved them to join with the Princes of the League and to practise to win the King of Scots and to set up the Scottish Queen in England and made his reckoning of the Cantons that be Popish the Switzers the Duke of Savoy the Duke of Ferrara King of Spain and King of France A chief Instrument to work this was one Carew called also Father Henry He was sent into Germany and over Italy and France wrote to the Scottish Queen that the Powers will join to overthrow England and make known the effect of his labour to the Pope Invasion should have been made into England and Ireland the last year and not unlike to be attempted this year The Pope excommunicateth the King of Navar The Pope accounteth not of Popish preaching and perswasions that way but nevertheless moveth all to use the word and for maintenance thereof spareth his Treasure otherwise and withdraweth maintenance from Jesuits Seminaries and divers others Letters were found with the Scottish Queen which prove all these to be true If we serve Almighty God in sincerity of heart we need not to fear It is to be remembred that the King of Spain sought to recover some part of his Fathers credit by using our Treasure and force to get S t Quintines but he soon made his advantage of it and regarded not our Territories in France but suffered the loss of Calice and all our Territories and after the death of Queen Mary what he could Her Majesty sought for his good will sending the Lord Mountague the Lord Cobham Sir Thomas Chamberlain Knight M r Maun and others and they were but hardly used some of them were offered great indignity and M r Mauns Son forced by strength to do a kind of Penance He comforted the Queens Enemies he giveth colour of Wars he chargeth the Queen that her Subjects have aided his Rebels in the Low Countries with
the 7th day of this instant March foregoing The Bill for Fish brought into this House again by the Committees was twice read and committed unto Mr. Serjeant Snagg Mr. Morrice Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. Recorder and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in Serjeants-Inn in Chancery-lane at two of the Clock Here it seemeth Mr. William Onslow who by the Licence of the House supplied the place of Mr. Fulk Onslow his Kinsman Clerk of the same at this meeting is much mistaken in setting down this Commitment for the Bill it self was formerly twice read and according to the usual course committed upon the second reading to Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Sandes and others on Monday the 7th day of March and therefore doubtless this was either a new Bill brought in by the said Committees or else some new Additions and Amendments inserted into the old Bill which had this day their first and second reading and thereupon again committed unto some of the old Committees and others Vide plus die sequente Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the payment of Sir Gerrard Croker Knight his Debts was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Alford Sir Thomas Browne Mr. Thomas Harris Mr. John Ingleseild and others On Friday the 10 th day of March the Bill for Estretford was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Markham Mr. Topclyffe Mr. Savil and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle Temple Hall Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for stealing of Horses and other Cattel and Beasts was upon the second reading Committed unto Sir William Moore Mr. Sands Mr. Wroth and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Committee Chamber The Bill for bringing in of Fish was brought in again by the Committees by which it is most probable that there was a new Bill brought in yesterday which was twice read at one and the same time and then committed The Bill for Sir Gerrard Crokers payment of his Debts was brought in again by the Committees and amended On Saturday the 11 th day of March the Bill against fraudulent Conveyances by Fugitives was read the first time The Bill for the payment of Sir Gerrard Crokers Debts was brought in again by the Committees and committed to be ingrossed Three Bills being passed the House were sent up to the Lords whereof the two last were the Bill for the great abuses of Purveyors and the Bill for the confirmation of the Attainders of the late Lord Pagett and others A Motion being made by Mr. Treasurer for the matter of benevolence for the charges to be supplied in the Low Countries whether that this House should only deal in it without the Lords or else that they should make the Lords privy to it and join with them It was thought good by the House to join with the Lords in the same cause and commit it unto these persons viz. all the Privy Council of this House Sir Thomas Browne Mr. Sollicitor Sir Robert Jermin Sir John Heigham Master of the Requests Mr. Francis Hastings Mr. Sands Mr. Topclyffe and others Vide diem Saturn 18. diem Mar. This day a new Bill was brought in again for the payment of Edward Fishers Debts by the Committees and therefore the new was twice read and committed to be ingrossed Nota That a Bill to this purpose was in great agitation the last Parliament de anno 27 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1584. The Bill for confirmation of Letters Patents was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy Council of this House Mr. Sands Mr. Sollicitor and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Vice-Chamberlain This day the Committees made report of the priviledge of Mr. Martin a Member of this House Arrested upon mean Process by White above twenty days before the beginning of this Parliament holden by Prorogation mistaken for Adjournment and in respect that the House was divided about it in opinion Mr. Speaker with the consent of the House the sooner to grow to some certainty of the Judgment of the House in this cause moved these questions to the House viz. First Whether they would limit a time certain or a reasonable time to any Member of the House for his priviledge The House Answered a convenient time Secondly Whether Mr. Martin was Arrested within this reasonable time The House Answered yea Thirdly If White should be punished for arresting Martin The House Answered no because the arrest was twenty days before the beginning of the Parliament and unknown to him that would be taken for reasonable time But the principal cause why Martin had his priviledge was for that White the last Session mistaken for Meeting of Parliament arrested Mr. Martin and then knowing him to be returned a Burgess for this House discharged his Arrest And then afterwards Mr. Martin again returning out of his Country to London to serve in this House Mr. White did again arrest him and therefore this House took in evil part against him his second Arrest and thereupon judged that Martin should be discharged of his second Arrest out of the Fleet by the said Mr. White Vide Febr. 27 Monday The Bill to avoid fraudulent assurances made in certain Cases by Traytors was sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons by Dr. Ford and Serjeant Gawdie Nota That this Bill is not mentioned to have been sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons which as it should seem happened through the negligence of Mr. William Onslow who at this time supply'd the place of the Clerk of the said House And therefore it is supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House On Monday the 13 th day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against fraudulent Conveyances by Fugitives was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Sands and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Hughes of Grayes-Inn who with the rest was appointed to meet at Lincolns-Inn this Afternoon The Bill for Fish was brought in by the Committees and Ordered to be ingrosted Vide concerning this Bill on Thursday the 9 th day and on Friday the 10 th day of this instant March foregoing The Bills against delay of Execution by suing Writs of Error was read the second time upon the new bringing in of it by the Committees and upon the question was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for payment of Edward Fishers debts was read the third time and passed upon the Question A Motion was made by Mr. Cromwell to have some conference with the Privy Council of this House and some others of the same concerning those Gentlemen Members of this House lately committed to the Tower Whereupon these were appointed viz. all the Privy Council
day of November in the first meeting of this present Parliament on the behalf of the Borough of Grantham in the Country of Lincoln against Arthur Hall Gentleman that the said Arthur Hall had Commenced Suits against them for Wages by him demanded of the said Borough as one of the Burgesses of the Parliament in the Sessions of Parliament holden the thirteenth fourteenth eighteenth and twenty third years of the Reign of our Soveraign Lady the Queens Majesty wherein it was alledged that the said Borough ought not to be charged as well in respect of the negligent attendance of the said Mr. Hall at the said Sessions of Parliament and some other offences by him committed at some of the said Sessions as also in respect that he had made promise not to require any such Wages the Examination of the said cause on the second day of December in the last Session mistaken for Meeting of this Parliament by Order of this House was committed unto Sir Ralph Sadler Knight Chancellor of the Dutchy Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Chancellor of the Exchequer Thomas Cromwell Robert Markham and Robert Wroth Esquires This day report was made by the said Committees that not having time during the last Session of Parliament mistaken for Meeting to examine the circumstances of the cause they had in the mean Season by their Letters advertised my Lord Chancellor that the said cause was committed unto them and humbly requested his Lordship to stay the issuing forth of any further Process against the said Borough until this Session of Parliament mistaken for Meeting which accordingly his Lordship had very honourably performed And the said Committees did further declare that having during this Session of Parliament mistaken for Meeting sent for Mr. Hall declared unto him the effect of the complaint against him they had desired him to remit the said wages which he had demanded of the said Borough whom they found very conformable to condescend to such their request and that the said Mr. Hall then affirmed unto them that if the said Citizens of the said Borough would have made suit unto him he would upon such their own Suit then remitted the same so was he very willing to do any thing which might be grateful to this House and did freely and frankly remit the same which being well liked of by this House it was by them this day Ordered that the same should be entred accordingly On Thursday the 23 th day of March the Bill for the Queens Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon was sent down from the Lords by Serjeant Gawdie and Doctor Carew which having passed the House was sent back again this Morning unto their Lordships with another Bill which was for the continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes This day finally the Speaker with the rest of the House of Commons being sent for into the Upper House and thereupon repairing thither two Commissions under the Great Seal were read by the first of which her Majesty being absent gave her Royal Assent to ten several Acts or Statutes which passed at this time and by the other this Parliament was dissolved Nota That all this days Passages are supplied out of the Upper House Journal THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS An Exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 31 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1588. which began there after one Prorogation of the same on Tuesday the 4 th Day of February and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Saturday the 29 th Day of March Anno Domini 1589. THE Queens Majesty soon after that her wonderful and glorious Victory which God Almighty had given her Navy over that vainly stiled Invincible Armado sent against her Realm of England by the Spanish King summoned this her High Court of Parliament to begin on Tuesday the 12 th day of November that present year 1588. and the 30 th year of her Reign that so by common Advice and Counsel she might prepare and provide against the inbred malice of that Prince and Nation Sir Christopher Hatton Knight her Majesties late Vice-Chamberlain being made Lord Chancellor in the room and stead of Sir Thomas Bromley Knight who having been sick a great part of the last Parliament dyed in April following Anno 29 Regin Eliz. Anno Domini 1587. But other occasions of some importance requiring the deferring of the said Assembly her Majesty Prorogued the same in manner and form following Memorandum That whereas the Queens Majesty by her Writ summoned her Parliament to begin and to be holden at Westminster this present Tuesday being the 12 th day of November her Highness for certain great and weighty Causes and Considerations her Majesty specially moving by the advice of her Privy Council and of her Justices of both her Benches and other of her Council learned did Prorogue and adjourn the said Parliament until the 4 th day of February next by virtue of her Writ Patent sealed with the Great Seal and bearing date the 15 th day of October last past Whereupon at this said 12 th day of November the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Chancellor William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of London and three other Barons repaired to the Parliament-Chamber commonly called the Upper House and there in the presence of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses summoned to the said Parliament declared That her Highness for divers good causes and considerations her specially moving by her Highnesses said Writ had Prorogued the said Parliament from this said first summoned day until the 4 th day of February next Whereupon the Writ for the said Prorogation in the presence of all that Assembly was openly read by the Clerk of the Upper House in haec verba ELizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei Defensor c. Praedilectis fidelibus nostris Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus Regni nostri Angliae ac dilectis fidelibus nostris Militibus Civibus Burgensibus dicti Regni nostri ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii 12 die Novembris proximè futuro inchoand ' tenend ' convocatis electis vestrum cuilibet Salutem Cùm nos pro quibusdam ardnis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem dicti Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus dictum Parliamentum nostrum ad diem locum praedictos teneri ordinaverimus ac vobis per separalia Brevia nostra apud Civitatem diem praedictum interesse mandaverimus ad tractand consentiend concludend ' super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro tunc ibidem proponerentur tractarentur Quibusdam tamen certis de causis considerationibus nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus dictum Parliamentum nostrum nsque ad in quartum diem Februarii prox ' futurum duximus
upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Sir Henry Knyvet Mr. Wroth and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Vice-Chamberlain who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for relief of the City of Lincoln was brought in by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the same who shewed that they have met and conferred upon the same Bill and have amended it in four parts thereof and sheweth wherein leaving the same to the further proceeding of this House in the expediting thereof Mr. Vice-Chamberlain shewed that he and divers others of the Committees of this House met yesterday in Conference about the matter touching abuses of Purveyors and received all such Informations as were then delivered unto them which he said were very many and foul and some of them offered to be proved true in such sort as the same had been reported unto them and so moving this House to make choice of four of the Members of the same to be specially selected to attend upon the Lords in the said matter according to her Majesties said pleasure formerly signified unto them by Mr. Speaker Sir Henry Kuyvet Mr. Thomas Cromwell Mr. John Hare and Mr. Robert Wroth were thereupon nominated for that purpose and Ordered and assented that all the Members of this House might at their pleasure in the mean time of the said Conference so to be had with the Lords repair unto the said Sir Henry Knyvet Mr. Thomas Cromwell Mr. John Hare and Mr. Robert Wroth and to every or any one of them with such instructions either in writing or by information otherwise as they shall think fit for the better furnishing of the same Sir Henry Knyvet Mr. Cromwell Mr. Hare and Mr. Wroth with matter against the time of the said conference to be had with the Lords Nota That this House having formerly dealt in this matter and in reforming some exactions of the Exchequer had been forbidden by her Majesty to deal any further therein and yet afterwards upon some new considerations had leave for their further proceeding in the said matter as see before on Saturday the 15 th day and on Thursday the 17 th day and on Monday the 27 th day of February foregoing and on Tuesday the 4 th day Thursday the 6 th day Saturday the 8 th day and on Monday the 17 th day of this instant March last past Mr. Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill of Hue and Cry appointed on Saturday the 15 th day of this instant March foregoing shewed that in respect of other particular attendance committed unto him in her Majesties service elsewhere he could not be at the said Commitment this Afternoon and therefore prayed he may be excused and some other appointed in his stead Whereupon presently Sir John Parrot and the Master of the Wardrobe were added to the former Committees and the said Mr. Vice-Camberlain withdrawn And the Bill together with the names of the Committees was then delivered to the said Sir John Parrot On Wednesday the 19 th day of March the Bill concerning Glass-houses and Glass-Furnaces was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Moore Mr. George Moore Mr. Markham and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir William Moore who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock this Afternoon The Bill for the Lady Gressam was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Cromwell Mr. Grafton Mr. Grimston Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber to Morrow in the Afternoon at two of the Clock The Bill against discontinuances in Writs of Error in the Courts of Exchequer and the Kings Bench was read the second time and upon further Motion was read again for the third reading thereof and so passed upon the question The Master of the Wardrobe one of the Committees in the Bill touching Leases of the Lands Parcel of the Possession of the Bishoprick of Oxford brought in the same Bill with report that the said Committees do think the same Bill not meet to be further dealt in by this House The Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers was read the second time and after the doubtfulness of the voices upon two several questions for the commitment thereof was upon the division of the House by the difference of thirty five Persons Ordered to be committed viz. with the Yea one hundred thirty one and with the No ninety six unto all the Privy Council being of this House Sir Henry Knyvet M r Wroth M r Lieutenant of the Tower M r North and others who were appointed to meet upon Friday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Sir John Parrot one of the Committees in the Bill touching Hue and Cry brought in the Bill again with report that the Committees have met and conferred upon the same Bill and finding good Laws in force already touching that matter are of opinion that in respect also partly of the shortness of this Parliament likely to ensue the said Bill may be reserved to be further considered of in another Session Thomas Drurie Gent. being brought to the Bar was charged by M r Speaker in the name of this whole House with great and deep offences committed by him against the whole State of this House in general in having untruly reported and given out both to some of the Lords in the Upper House and also to divers others Persons elsewhere that he could have no justice in this House nor could himself be heard nor have his Witnesses in his Cause heard neither in the House nor before the Committees and also against divers Members of this House in particular in offering unto some of them great threats and to some others of them great sums of Money to speak in this House for him and not against him and likewise in using of hard Speeches both to some of them and of some of them to the great discredit wrong and prejudice both of the whole State of this said House in general and also of divers Members of the same in particular for that in very deed he had been heard at large both in this House and also before the Committees and for that likewise sundry of his misbehaviours towards divers Members of this House were directly proved in this House against him to the full satisfaction of this House in the same And so was required by M r Speaker to answer therein for himself Whereupon the said Thomas Drurie in very humble sort and good terms sought to excuse himself not directly acknowledging any the said offences but humbly craving pardon of this House if he had committed any such And then being sequestred the House till his said pretended Speeches of excuse and conditional form of craving pardon were considered of it was by divers of the Members of this House grieved
Her Majesty thinketh this to be for that the wealthier sort of men turn this charge upon the weaker and upon those of worst ability for that one dischargeth himself and the other is not able to satisfie what he is charged withal These things would be reformed by such as are Commissioners in this present service Her Majesty further hath willed me to signify unto you that the calling of this Parliament now is not for the making of any more new Laws and Statutes for there are already a sufficient number both of Ecclesiastical and Temporal and so many there be that rather than to burthen the Subject with more to their grievance it were fitting an Abridgment were made of those there are already Wherefore it is her Majesties Pleasure that the time be not spent therein But the principal Cause of this Parliament is that her Majesty might consult with her Subjects for the better withstanding of those intended Invasions which are now greater than were ever heretofore heard of And whereas heretofore it hath been used that many have delighted themselves in long Orations full of verbosity and of vain ostentations more than in speaking things of substance The time that is precious would not be thus spent The Sessions cannot be long by reason the Spring time 't is fit that Gentlemen should repair to their Countries the Justices of Assize also to go their Circuits So the good hours should not be lost in idle Speeches but the little time we have should be bestowed wholly on such businesses as are needful to be considered of And so willed them to Elect a Speaker As soon as the Lord Keepers Speech was ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French according to the ancient use and form which were as followeth viz. Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench John Clynch one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench Francis Gawdy another of the Justices of the said Bench Doctor Awberry and Doctor Ford. They which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Receivors of Petitions for Gascoign and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Perrian Lord Chief Baron and Thomas Walmsley one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Doctor Cary and Doctor Stanhop And they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Darby Lord Steward of the Queens Houshold the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Pembroke the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Lord Howard of Effingham Earl Marshal and Lord Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton All these or any four of them calling to them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their places in the Chamberlains Chamber Tryors of Petitions for Gascoign and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles the Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst These or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their places in the Treasurers Chamber Nota That all that which is set down touching the coming up of those of the House of Commons into the Higher House and the Lord Keepers Speech being before placed after the names of such Lords Spiritual and Temporal as were this day present is not found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is here inserted partly out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and partly out of another very exact Journal of that House which was in my Custody being very diligently observed and set down by some Anonymus who was a Member of the said House during this Parliament And I have always thought it most fitting in all these several Journals ever to refer the aforesaid Speeches the Presentments of the Speakers and such other Passages as are wholly handled and agitated in the Upper House to be set down as largely as by any good Authority they may in the Journal of the same to which they do most truly and properly belong and only for Orders sake to give a short touch or remembrance of them in the Journal of the House of Commons Finally at the Conclusion of this days business the Continuance of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox ' futurum On Thursday the 22 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Queens Majesty her self came about three of the Clock in the Afternoon accompanied by the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Marquess of Winchester and divers others of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being for the most part the very same that are by name set down to have been present on Monday foregoing the first day of this Parliament The Queen and the Lords being thus set the House of Commons had notice thereof who immediately thereupon came up with Edward Cooke Esquire the Queens Sollicitor into the Upper House whom they had Chosen for their Speaker or Prolocutor Which said Speaker being led up to the Bar at the nether end of the said House between two of the most Eminent Personages of the House of Commons who as soon as silence was made and the rest of the said House as many as could conveniently get in had placed themselves in the space below the said Bar spake as followeth YOur Majesties most loving Subjects the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons have nominated me your Graces poor Servant and Subject to be their Speaker This their nomination hath hitherto proceeded that they present me to speak before your Majesty Yet this their nomination is only as yet a Nomination and no Election until your Majesty giveth Allowance and Approbation For as in the Heavens a Star is but opacum Corpus until it have received light from the Sun so stand I Corpus opacum a Mute Body until your Highness bright shining Wisdom hath looked upon me and allowed me How great a Charge this is to be the Mouth of such a Body as your whole Commons represent to utter what is spoken Grandia Regni My small Experience being a poor Professor of the Law can tell But how unable I
last continued Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the grant of three entire Subsidies and fix Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read primâ vice which said Bill had already passed the House of Commons and had been sent up from them to the Lords on Saturday last This Morning also two Bills of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was the Bill concerning the restraining of Popish Recusants to certain places of aboad c. On Tuesday the 27 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being for the Assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to Read Stafford and Mabell his Wife was read tertia vice expedit On Wednesday the 28 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being for the grant of three entire Subsidies and Fifteenths c. was read secunda vice Five Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was for restitution in blood of Sir Thomas Parrot K t and was read primâ vice This day finally was one unusual or extraordinary Proxy returned from one of the Bishops absent at this time from the Parliament as divers other Peers by the Licence of her Majesty in which said Proxy he constituted but one Proctor whereas the Ordinary Custom is for every Spiritual Lord to nominate two Proctors at the least and every Temporal Lord but one This Proxy is thus Entred in the beginning of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House viz. 28 Martii introductae sunt Literae Procuratoriae Thomae Cicestrensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Cantuariensem Episcopum On Thursday the 29 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for restitution in blood of Sir Thomas Parrot K t was read secunda tertia vice expedit On Friday the 30 th day of March Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill for the grant of three entire Subsidies c. granted by the Temporalty And the last was the Bill of Subsidy granted by the Clergy Both which Bills at this time upon their several third readings passed the House On Saturday the 31 th day of March Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill prohibiting Strangers born to sell by way of retail Foreign Wares brought into this Realm was read secunda tertia vice and rejected On Monday the second day of April to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for Explanation of a Statute made in the thirty third year of Henry the Eighth touching Grants made to his Majesty and Confirmation of Letters Patents was read secunda vice Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was for bringing in of fresh Water into the Town of Stonehouse in the County of Devon On Tuesday the third day of April Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for the maintenance of the Navigation of England was read secunda vice On Wednesday the 4 th day of April the Bill for Explanation of the Statute made in the thirty fourth year of Henry the Eighth for confirmation of Letters Patents made by his Highness to others was read primâ secundâ vice On Thursday the 5 th day of April Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents to the Mayors Sheriffs Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Lincoln was read tertiâ vice conclusa This Morning also this Order following was agreed on amongst the Lords viz. WHereas the Lords of Parliament both Spiritual and Temporal assembled in the Parliament Chamber here at Westminster have with one uniform consent both in their own names and the rest of the Lords now absent Ordered that there shall be a charitable relief and contribution made towards the Aid and help of a number of Souldiers that are seen in the time of this Parliament maimed and sore hurt in the Wars of France and Low Countries and on the Seas for the service of the Queens Majesty and the Realm and for that purpose have allowed that every Archbishop Marquess Earl and Viscount should pay toward their Contribution the sum of forty shilings every Bishop thirty shillings and every Baron twenty shillings for Collection whereof there hath been appointed the Queens Majesties Almoner and the Bishop of Worcester to collect the sums of Bishops and the Lord Norris to collect the sums payable by the Lords Temporal which hath been diligently done and received by them from all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal that have been present and that have attended to their great charge on the service of the Realm in this Parliament And considering the number of the Souldiers to be relieved therewith being very many notwithstanding the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons have yielded very good and large Contributions according to their Degrees Yet for the better relief of the said maimed Souldiers It is by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal that have given their Attendance here and have charitably and honourably yielded to this Contribution thought meet and so it is Ordered and Decreed by them with common and free consent that all the Lords of Parliament that have been altogether absent in this Sessions and that shall not have Contributed to this charitable use of relief before the end of this Sessions shall be required by Letters to be sent to them by the Lords that had their Procuration for their absence or by Letters from the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal required and charged to Cause payments to be made according to their Degrees and Vocations the double of the sums of money paid by the Lords that have been here present and continued their Attendance That is to say that every Earl that hath been absent shall pay four pound the Archbishop of York to pay as much And every Bishop also absent to pay three pound and every Baron forty shillings And for such as have been here present and continued their Attendance at some times though very seldom having been absent for the more part it is thought meet that every such Lord Spiritual and Temporal shall according to their Degrees pay a third part more than the Lords that have been constantly present All which sums of money they shall cause to be delivered to the hands of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal to be afterwards by such Spiritual Lords of Parliament as are chosen for that purpose distributed to the maimed
Keeper having allowed and approved his Election the said Speaker having in a second Speech shortly touched her Highness happy and victorious Reign and somewhat largely proved the antientSupremacy of the Kings of England in Ecclesiastical matters did in the end of his said Speech make certain Petitions of course in the name of the House of Commons First For liberty of Speech Secondly For freedom from Arrests And thirdly For Access unto her Majesty And lastly For Pardon for himself if he should in any thing unwittingly be mistaken To which Speech the Lord Keeper having received new Instructions from her Majesty made a reply in particular to the several branches of the said Speakers Speech And to his three demands he Answered that liberty of Speech was granted in respect of the I and No but not that every one should speak what he listed And touching freedom from Arrests and Access to her Majesty he advised that they might be cautiously made use of Nota That none of these Particulars touching the Presentment of the Speaker are set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons but are abstracted out of another Journal of the same House taken by an Anonymous Member of the same during the Parliament mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal yet it appeareth plainly by the very Original Journal-Book it self Fol. 262. l. that the Prosocutor was this day presented to her Majesty where the words are as followeth viz. Jovis xxii do Febr. 92. This Day M r Speaker was presented unto her Majesty Which said words being only here a little otherwise placed for Order sake than there have a large Blank left at the end of them of somewhat above half a page with intention no doubt at the first to have inserted the whole manner of the proceeding both of this presentment and admission After the Return also of the Speaker now compleatly invested in that place with the rest of the House of Commons one Bill was read according to the usual form in that Case accustomed which is set down in the said Journal-Book in these words following viz. The Bill that a Bar at large may be pleaded in any Action of Ejectione firmae was read the first time M r Speaker immediately after the reading of this Bill and his opening of the contents of the same to this House shewed unto them from her Majesty that her Highness had Adjourned mistaken for continued the Higher House till Saturday next And also that her Majesties pleasure likewise was that this House should therefore be Adjourned till the same time which being so done accordingly this House did then rise and every man went away On Saturday the 24 th day of February the House being set and a great number of the Members of the same assembled M r Speaker not then as yet being come to the House some of the House said one to another they heard he was sick And one affirmed it to be so indeed shewing that he had been with him this Morning himself and left him sick in his Bed and his Physician and his Wife with him and some others supposing that he would shortly signify unto this House the Cause of that his absence moved that the Clerk might in the mean time proceed to saying of the Litany and Prayers Which being so done accordingly the Serjeant of this House presently after the said Prayers finished brought word from M r Speaker unto the Right Honourable Sir John Woolley Knight one of her Majesties most Honourable Privy Council and a Member of this House and then present in the same House that he had been this last Night and also was this present Forenoon so extreamly pained with a wind in his Stomach and Loosness of Body that he could not as yet without his further great peril and danger adventure into the Air at this time which otherwise most willingly he would have done And willed that the Clerk of this House might signify unto the House the said estate of his Case and in his name to desire their good favourable considerations of the same not doubting their gentle and courteous acceptance of that his so reasonable excuse as by this House hath also been in former time used in like Case towards some other his Predecessors in the place he now serveth And to shew them he trusteth in God he shall be able to attend them in this House upon the next day of sitting which will be Monday next The Effect of which Message being then signified unto this House by the said Clerk of the House all the said Members of this House being very sorry for M r Speaker his sickness rested well satisfied And so the House did rise and every man departed away Nota That this is all which is found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons touching this days business and therefore that which followeth is supplied out of that Anonymous Journal mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal touching the residue of this days passages This day M r Peter Wentworth and Sir Henry Bromley delivered a Petition unto the Lord Keeper therein desiring the Lords of the Upper House to be suppliants with them of the lower House unto her Majesty for Entailing the Succession of the Crown whereof a Bill was readily drawn by them Her Majesty was highly displeased therewith after she knew therof as a matter contrary to her former strait Commandment and charged the Council to call the parties before them Sir Thomas Heneage presently sent for them and after Speeches had with them commanded them to forbear the Parliament and not to go out from their several Lodgings The day after being Sunday and the 25 th of Febr. though the House sate not yet they were called before the Lord Treasurer the Lord Buckhurst and Sir Thomas Heneage The Lords intreated them favourably and with good Speeches But so highly was her Majesty offended that they must needs commit them and so they told them Whereupon M r Peter Wentworth was sent Prisoner unto the Tower Sir Henry Bromley and one M r Richard Stevens to whom Sir Henry Bromley had imparted the matter were sent to the Fleet as also M r Welch the other Knight for Worcestershire Vide Mar. 10. About this matter in the beginning of the Parliament was appointed a Committee to be had of many grave wise and ancient Parliament men which were of the House but at this time few met at the place appointed at least not such as were expected It was appointed also at this time to M r Stevens to peruse the penning of the Petition that should have been delivered to that House and to have provided a Speech upon the delivery of it But this Office by reason of other occasions he could not attend What other things were done or spoken in that Conference were as I heard confessed to some of the Privy-Council by some of those Parties that were present at that Conference All that were there
themselves to join in Conference with the Committee of this House and have appointed the place to be in the Chamber next to the Upper House of Parliament and the time to be to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon And thereupon the Committee of this House appointed to have conferred amongst themselves for the matter of the Subsidy this present Afternoon in this House are appointed to defer their further consultation therein until the said other Committees of this House appointed for the said general Conference with the Lords shall have further acquainted this House of their travail and treaty to be first had with the said Committees of the Lords And also the meeting of the Committees in the Bill for reducing of disloyal Subjects to their due obedience is now signified to the same Committees to be held in the Afternoon of this present day in this place On Tuesday the 6 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted to the Mayor Sheriffs Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Lincoln was read the second time Sir Edward Hobby one of the Committees for Returns and Priviledges shewed that for the Borough of Camelford in the County of Cornwall one Richard Leech was returned to the Sheriff for a Burgess by a false Return And that afterwards Sir George Carew Knight was returned Burgess by the true Return And alledging that the said Richard Leech offered to yield the place to Sir George Carew moved the Order of this House therein And thereupon M r Speaker was appointed to move the Lord Keeper in the said Case for this Order either in the allowance of the said Sir George Carew in the place of the said Richard Leech or else in awarding a new Writ for the chusing another at his Lordships pleasure And so for his Lordships Order in the Case of the Burgess returned for the Borough of Southwark in the allowance of Richard Hutton already returned or else in awarding of a new Writ for chusing of another at his Lordships pleasure And so also for his Lordships Order in altering the name of John Dudley to the name of Thomas Dudley in the Return of one of the Burgesses of Newtown in the County of Southampton or else to award a new Writ at his Lordships pleasure The Bill against Aliens born to sell by way of retail Foreign Wares brought into this Realm was upon the second reading committed unto Sir John Wolley Sir Edward Stafford Sir Robert Sidney M r Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet upon Thursday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill touching M r Read Stafford c. was upon the second reading committed unto M r Heyle Sir Edward Stafford Sir Henry Umpton Sir Thomas West and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Star Chamber M r Vice-Chamberlain putting the House in remembrance of their resolution yesterday for praying Conference with their Lordships touching the great dangers and necessary remedies to be considered of and which was then so signified unto their Lordships by the House which return from their Lordships of the time and place appointed by them for that Conference being at two of the Clock in the Afternoon this present day in the Chamber next to the Upper House of Parliament moved that it may be presently resolved in this House wherein and how far the said Committees of this House shall have Warrant to treat with the Committees of the Lords It was after many Speeches of sundry Members of this House very well delivered to divers effects and purposes resolved and agreed by the whole House upon the Question that the said Committees of the House should have Authority to confer with the said Committees of the Lords generally concerning the said dangers and remedies as occasion should serve But not in any manner of wise to conclude or resolve of any thing in the said Conference particularly without the further privity or assent of this whole House to be had in that behalf upon the report of the said Committees to be first made unto this House of their Proceedings in the said Conference to be had this present day as aforesaid Nota That there is no more found of this days Passages in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although there be almost two pages left blank by M r Fulk Onslow at this time Clerk of the said House with intention doubtless at the first to have inserted them and therefore they are very largely and fully supplied out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal very elaborately taken by some Member of the same House during this Parliament where it appeareth that after the aforesaid Speech of Sir Thomas Heneage her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain M r Oliver S t John spake next in the manner and form following M r Oliver S t John said he thought that M r Vice-Chamberlain did mistake the thing we agreed upon that we went not to confer with their Lordships in any thing that we had to deliver but to understand of things from them the Conference being offered from them and not from us Sir Walter Raleigh Answered M r S t John that he mistook M r Vice-Chamberlain and the thing agreed by the House for we agreed all to a general Conference but not in particular for the Subsidy for this we refused If we confer generally it must be of our dangers and of the remedies which must be by means if of means it must be of Money and Aid So our Conference must needs be of Subsidy or rather Aid but to agree upon this with any resolution either in the matter or substance it is not our meaning Sir Robert Cecill answered M r S t John that he mistaking M r Vice-Chamberlain did wrong him in saying he delivered the Message insufficiently or untruly and so would have the priviledge of the House and that it should be delivered by the Committees whether M r Vice-Chamberlain did report truly and if truly then M r S t John to answer it and so said Sir John Woolley The House having cleared Sir Thomas Heneage Vice-Chamberlain he said he would have no other satisfaction than to be cleared by the House And protested he thought no ill of the Gentleman but allowed him for speaking as he thought Sir Henry Umpton agreed to the Conference and was glad the last days No and this were so well concluded and moved that we might not be deprived of thanks to agree unto a treble Subsidy before we went to confer M r Frowick Grevill said There are two scruples in the House which I would gladly satisfy the one the priviledge of the House the other the poverty of the people For Precedents they are but Examples of things past Now every Example ought to be stronger than
treble Subsidies and like proportionable Fifteenths and 〈◊〉 and some by other sorts of benevolences resolved upon the question that the former Committees of this House for consultation to be had for necessary supply of Treasures to be had for the repelling of the said dangers should meet in this House in the Afternoon of this present day to confer and consult generally touching the said great dangers as also touching the remedies that the same being digested may be reported over unto this House into such form as to the same shall be thought good to the end that afterwards it may in the Afternoon be imparted unto the Lords accordingly Nota That there is no more of this days Passages found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although there followed divers Speeches upon the foregoing Motion of Sir Thomas Heneage her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain concerning the great business of supply to be given to her Majesty all which are therefore inserted out of that foresaid Anonymous Journal taken by some Member of the said House during this Parliament which are there set down with very little alteration added to them in manner and form following Sir Thomas Cerill speaking next after Sir Thomas Heneage had ended his former Speech said that three Subsidies might be set down to be paid in four years and to be charged upon men of ten pound and upwards to spare them that were under Sir Henry Knivet affirmed the poverty of our Country against the reasons used The principal reason of our poverty he said was because we brought in more Foreign Wares than we vented Commodities and so by this means our money was carried out of our Country Alledging it to be like a Pond fed with a Spring but having a breach through which more passeth than cometh in so c. He made these two Motions First that the Queen should be helped by a survey taken of all mens Lands and Goods in England and so much to be yearly levyed as to serve the Queen to maintain Wars the proportion being set a hundred thousand pound yearly And secondly if this were misliked every man upon his word and power to deliver what were the profits of his Lands and worth of his goods and so a proportion to be had accordingly Sir Francis Hastings said The preparations of the Enemies Forces are both ready and great and intus they conspire therefore a great Aid must be yielded And I could wish three Subsidies to be levyed in this matter in the first of them those to be charged of five pound Lands and five Marks Goods in the second those of twelve pound Lands and eight pound Goods and in the third all to be charged as these have been Sir Walter Raleigh Answered them that spake of the Poverty of the Land which they argued by the multitude of Beggars he gave these reasons That the broken Companies in Normandy and the Low Countries who returned maimed hither never went back again to the Towns from whence they came For a multitude of Clothiers take their Looms into their own hands spinning their Wooll themselves and except we would work unto them better cheap than they can make themselves they will set none on work This grossing of so many Trades into their own hands beggereth so many as usually lived by the Trade He thought it inconvenient to have so many mens livings surveyed For many are now esteemed richer than they are and if their Land and Wealth were surveyed they would be found Beggars and so their credit which is now their Wealth would be found nothing worth He reported of his own knowledge that the West Country since the Parliament begun had taken from them the worth of four hundred and forty thousand pound They of Newcastle lie still for fear because Burdeaux Fleet was taken this year by the Enemy For the Enemy approaching us and being our Neighbour as he is gotten to be our Trades will decay every day and so our poverty encreaseth every day more and more And this is most certain the longer we defer Aid the less able shall we be to yield Aid And in the end the greater Aid will be required of us And so sparing them now we shall charge them when they shall be less able to bear it For this is most true one hundred thousand pound would have done the last year that which three will not now do and three will do this year that which six will not do hereafter So in conclusion he agreed to three Subsidies in them the three pound men to be spared and the summ which came from them to be levied upon those of ten pound and upwards and the payment to be speedy Sir Henry Umpton agreed that there should be three Subsidies granted according to the old payment only that a care should be had of assessing it on them that were best able And his conclusion was that it might be soon agreed upon for so it would be more acceptable because Tardè velle nolle instar est Sir Edward Stafford thought Subsidies were not so fit a remedy for the dangers we were in but advised rather there being ten thousand Parishes in England that it should be imposed on every Parish to find so many men for the Wars and the richer Parishes to help the poorer And the allowance for every man yearly to be twelve pound After this he moved to have the Parliament Prorogued Sir Francis Drake described the King of Spains strength and cruelty where he came and wished a frank Aid to be yielded to withstand him and he agreed to three Subsidies Serjeant Harris moved for three Subsidies but the ancient custom of payment to be retained besides no three pound men to be excused for then every man will labour by his Friend to be set three pound And that it was not needful to find men for the Field For by the Tenures of which there are three in England this is provided for The first Chivalry that is to do service in the Field the second Socage that is to find us victum vestitum by the Plough the last Frankal moign who are to pray for us to God Now every one by whom fealty is to be done by his Tenure he is to be forty dayes in the Field with his Lord. Sir Robert Cevill said I am glad to see the willingness of the House and readiness to yield Aid and having a feeling of the necessity requiring it my desire is that the Sentence which had had so many Parentheses might now be brought to a Period and the Bears Whelp that hath so many times been licked over might now be made somewhat For that is always the most Honourable Conclusion which having received many Contradictions is in the end concluded So he desired this matter of Subsidying might be committed to some special Committees in the Afternoon Sir John Fortescue thought it liberal to grant three Subsidies but did assure of his proper knowledge that three
Subsidies would not defray her Majesties Charges though all other Customs and Revenues were added unto them And motioned what should be delivered by the House and what should be delivered to the Lords by the Committees Sir Thomas Heneage her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain affirmed he never saw the House so willing to yield to needful Aids And that he was one who had now served her Majesty a long time and knew something her disposition Wherefore he advised that the wonted course should be followed For he heard her Majesty speak of it that she loved not such fineness of device and novel inventions but liked rather to have the antient usages offered It is best so to have it paid as it hath been heretofore Only a greater discretion to be used in the charging of it To charge the poor men more deeply he thought it not fit yet they to be grateful to her Majesty he thought it would be accepted And that the best able men should offer somewhat to her Majesty of their ability And for the Order of our Proceedings he thought it fit that we first agree to three Subsidies and six Fifteenths this to be considered upon by Committees this Afternoon and to Morrow to be propounded to the House And then if it were allowed we might at our going to the Lords tell them what we have agreed upon Hereupon a murmur was in the House whether we should have a Committee for three Subsidies or a general Committee to confer of all matters of remedies The question being propounded it was Answered that it should be by a general Committee In the Afternoon at the General Committee the Committees met and it was debated how the Subsidy could be levied in shorter time than heretofore The poverty of the people and hard Collections of other Subsidies and the double charge which this would be unto them with many other reasons were alledged against the Parliaments so speedy Collection On the other side it was vehemently pressed that the necessity of the time was such as it could not carry the accustomed time for payment her Majesties Purse and Coffers being empty the danger would be over before the usual payment would come in Wherefore if the help were not timely it would be no service There was much division about this Some of the Committees would have this propounded whether the three Subsidies should be paid in four years or three others dissented from it M r Heale amongst the Committees argued the wealth of the Country to be greater than ever it was affirming that of his own knowledge from the Mount to London the Country was richer many thousand pounds than heretofore He also urged the necessity which being so great and her Majesty having expended as was said since Eighty eight above ten hundred and thirty four thousand pounds and that only in Normandy Brittany and in the Low Countries and upon her Navy and Artillery besides all her Pensions to Foreign Princes her Officers Fees the charges of her Garrison of Barwick standing her yearly in seventeen thousand pounds and all this is besides the Expences in her House These things being considered he thought more than Subsidies would be yielded and if Subsidies only the richer Men must be the more deeply charged and the Commission so penned as the Commissioners may have Authority to force men M r Francis Bacon assented to three Subsidies but not to the payments under six years And to this propounded three questions which he desired might be answered The first Impossibility or difficulty the second Danger or discontentment and thirdly a better manner of supply than Subsidy For Impossibility the poor mens Rent is such as they are not able to yield it nor to pay so much for the present The Gentlemen must sell their Plate and Farmers their Brass Pots ere this will be paid And for us we are here to search the wounds of the Realm and not to skin them over therefore not to perswade our selves of their wealth more than it is The dangers are these We shall first breed discontentment in paying these Subsidies and in the Cause endanger her Majesty's safety which must consist more in the love of the people than in their wealth and therefore not to give them discontentment in paying these Subsidies thus we run into a double peril In putting two payments into one we make a double Subsidy For it maketh four shillings in the pound a double payment The second is this that this being granted in this sort other Princes hereafter will look for the like So we shall put an evil precedent upon our selves and our Posterity And in Histories it is to be observed that of all Nations the English are not to be subject base or Taxable The manner of supply may be by Levy or Imposition when need shall most require so when her Majesties Coffers are empty they may be filled by this means Sir Thomas Heneage her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain said my Opinion shall not prejudice any mans Judgment but this my answer to the Gentlemans two reasons that spake last which were difficulty and discontentment For the first it is strange to count that impossible which hath been proved or that difficulty which hath been used For discontentment a people sound in Religion and faithful to the Queen and State were never found to love their Prince so little as to be discontented c. The necessity of the time is to be considered and shall be informed unto them which is such as has not been at any time these sixty years nor at any time the like was ever heard of Yea such dangers as are not to be read that ever the like was intended to any State Therefore for this extraordinary time some accustomed help must be had and from these Subsidies do but take away the benefit of time and then the payments will yield no help to our necessity for in two years the dangers will be over So he desired that in this Case Examples might not lead us but that the present dangers should move us Sir Thomas Cecill moved also that the Cinque-Ports might be also brought into the Taxes of the Subsidies at this time for that it hath been the use of men having any Lands in the Cinque-Ports to take sanctuary there before the Sessing of the Subsidy by removing themselves and keeping their Houses there Sir Walter Raleigh said I can see no reason that the suspicion of discontentment should cross the provision for the present danger The time is now more dangerous than it was in Eighty eight for then the Spaniard which came from Spain was to pass dangerous Seas and had no place of retreat or relief if he failed But now he hath in Brittany great store of Shipping a Landing place in Scotland and Men and Horses there as good as we have any But for the difficulty in getting this Subsidy I think it seems more difficult by speaking than it would be in gathering Now stood up two or
one of the Committees in the Bill against counterfeiting of Councellors and principal Officers hands appointed on Saturday the 10 th day of this instant March foregoing shewed that he and the residue of the Committees have met together and upon the end of their Travel therein do all of them think it a very dangerous Bill and not fit in their opinions to pass this House And did further think good to leave the same to the good consideration of this House And because it is a Bill which came from the Lords they thought good with 〈◊〉 said report first made to deliver the said Bill again into this House and so there to leave it in such sort as it is and not otherwise The Bill concerning the Lands late of Henry late Lord Burgavenny was upon the second reading committed unto M r Thomas Fane Sir Henry Knivett M r Recorder of London and others And the Bill was delivered to Sir William Haward one of the said Committees who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Four Bills of no great moment were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others of which the first was touching the sale of Raven's Lands and another touching salted Fish It is Ordered that touching the Bill against Alien Strangers selling by way of Retail whereof report was now made by M r Recorder of London one of the Committees in the same Bill of that which was done yesterday by such of the Committees as then did meet or at the least by the more part of them viz. by five there being in very deed but nine in all both parts should be heard to Morrow in this House with their Council The Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents to the Mayor Sheriff Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Lincoln was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Serjeant Owen and M r Powle did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships desire Conference with the Committees of this House upon Thursday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Chamber next the Upper House touching the Continuance of Statutes and relief of poor maimed Souldiers if this House shall so like Which Message being opened to the House by M r Speaker it was Ordered by this whole House that the former Committees of this House whose names see before on Monday the 12 th day of this instant March foregoing should attend their Lordships at the said time and place accordingly Which resolution of this House was also thereupon signified from this House to their Lordships by the said M r Serjeant Owen and M r Powle The Bill for the better expedition of Justice in the Court of Star-Chamber was read the second time After the reading of which Bill M r Francis Bacon stood up and and spake very earnestly against it by means whereof as it should afterwards seem the Bill was Dashed Which said Speech containing divers matters of good moment in it although it be omitted in the Original Journal-Book it self yet I have thought good to supply it out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal being in manner and form following M r Francis Bacon after silence made spake as followeth Neither Profit nor Peril shall move me to speak against my Consciene in this place Yet because I am a party interessed in this Office which the Bill aims at so may I seem to speak with feeling my self also not thinking it fit that being here a Judge I should speak also as a party yet I beseech you as the manner is in places Judicial if the Judge be a party though he sit not there as Judge yet may he defend and speak at the Bar as a party in his own Case So I beseech you because I may hap to yield reason to the satisfying of any that yet may stand for the Bill let me be heard to speak at the Bar. And then he offered to go to the Bar but the House in favour would needs have him speak in the place where he sat First there is cunning shewed in the Bill and for that my Lord Keeper might be affected it seems to give him the bestowing of the Clerks places Secondly to insinuate with practising Lawyers it gives them a Fee For no Interrogatories should be administred whereto their hand was not under Thirdly it offered also some kindness to me for it gave a present Forfeiture of the Office upon sundry defaults Fifthly to the subject in general it pretended a very great relief So that it carried a plausible show but indeed the Bill was in it self prejudicial to her Majesty inconvenient to the Judges of that Court and burthensome to the Subject Prejudicial to her Majesty for it makes a diminution of her Inheritance Inconvenient for the Clerks place hath always been in her Gift and this Bill would carry it to the Lord Keeper who never before had it It is an Indignity offered unto the Court for that the Clerk must be Ordered by an Act of Parliament as if their wisdom and Care were not sufficent to relieve any abuses they should find in their Officers to the grief of the Subject Great Injury is offered to the parties interessed for first an Office which is incident unto the Clerk is given from him he shall not have the appointing of his own Examiner And again the Ancient Fee hath always been twelve pence the sheet and as much in other Courts therefore this is not tolerable And considering the place of his Attendance his place is in the highest Court wherefore in reason his Fee is to have proportion with his Attendance Now where relief and Ease were pretended to the Subjects no such thing will come by the Bill but rather a greater Charge for it gives a Fee for Judicial Acts as for making Reports for which no such Fee is due It appoints that a Councellors hand must be to all Interrogatories so their Clyents must pay a Fee more than usually Also whereas he used upon Commission the parties talking with their Deponents to have Cause presently to draw Interrogatories they thought not ..... before now they cannot minister any such Interrogatories nay to every Commission sitting they must bring their Councel which will be an exceeding great charge Besides the Commissioners are bound under a pain not to accept Interrogatories that are not signed under a Councellors hand so the Commissioners must take notice at their peril who be Councellors admitted to the parties who not These with many other reasons There was much division thereupon Wherefore the Speaker propounded the question that as many as will not have the Bill rejected say I and the other to say No. The voice was so indifferent that it could not be discerned which were greater Then the question grew whether part should go out those that said I or those that said
being also three times read the said Bill with some Additions and Amendments passed upon the Question On Monday the 9 th day of April Wesselen Weblen Bear-Brewer and John Lightburn Serjeant at Mace Prisoners at the Bar are after admonition given them by M r Speaker discharged by the Order of this House of their Imprisonment paying their Fees Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 5 th day and on Friday the 6 th day of this instant April immediately foregoing M r Chancellour of the Exchequer one of the Committees in the Bill for Explanation of a Statute made in the thirty fourth year of King Hen. 8. as well touching Grants made to his Majesty as for Confirmation of Letters Patents made by his Highness to others shewed the meeting of the Committees and that they have considered of some small amendments and shewed further that four several Provisoes were offered to them touching the said Bill one by M r Adams and one by M r ..... Tipper and one by M r Daws and so offereth both the Bill and the Amendments and the said former Provisoes also leaving all the same to the further consideration of this House Six Bills which last passed this House of which the first was the Bill for avoiding of deceit used in making and selling of twice laid Cordage and for the better preserving of the Navy of this Realm and the second for Mr. Anthony Cook were sent up to the Lords by Sir Robert Cecil and others Upon sundry arguments touching the Proviso offered by Sir Thomas Shirley to the Bill for Explanation of the Statute of 34 Hen. 8. c. it was upon the Question denied to be received and the Proviso for Mr. Stanhop was upon the Question and division of the House denied to be received with the difference of forty Persons viz. with the No one hundred twenty nine and with the Yea eighty nine Mr. Serjeant Owen and Doctor Carey do bring word from their Lordships that their Lordships do desire to know whether this House have any Bills ready to send up unto them shewing that their Lordships are now at good leisure And willed them to put this House in remembrance of the expediting of two Bills which were sent from their Lordships to this House viz. the Bill for Explanation of the Statute made in the thirty fourth year of King Hen. 8. a Bill touching Grants made to his Majesty as also for Confirmation of Letters Patents made by his Highness to others and the Bill for restraint of new Buildings c. Which Message being opened to the House Answer was made that one of the said Bills being presently in debate in the House should by and by be returned unto their Lordships The Bill for Explanation of the Statute made in the thirty fourth year of King Hen. 8 as well touching Grants made to his Majesty as for Confirmation of Letters Patents made by his Highness to others was read the third time and passed upon the Question and was presently sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and others Mr. Fuller one of the Committees in the Bill for restraint of new Buildings and converting of great Houses into several Tenements and restraint of Inmates and Inclosures in and near the Cities of London and Westminster who had been appointed on Friday the 6 th day of this instant April foregoing shewed the meeting and Travel of the Committees and their Opinions for leaving out of one Clause in the Bill and gave the Reasons which being liked of and allowed by the House the Bill was read the third time and after many Arguments both for the Bill and against the Bill it passed upon the Question On Tuesday the 10 th day of April Sir John Hart one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Coopers appointed on Saturday the 24 th day of March foregoing brought in the Bill again as not dealt in by the Committees for lack of convenient time The Bill for restraint of new building converting of great Houses into several Tenements and for restraint of Inmates and Inclosures in and near unto the Cities of London and Westminster with one amendment to the same Bill was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer Sir John Wolley and others with a remembrance to move their Lordships for sending down the Bill for the Grant of three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty to the end M r Speaker may this Afternoon present the same unto her Majesty according to the former accustomed usage of this House M r Serjeant Owen M r Attorney General and M r Powle do bring from the Lords an Act intituled An Act for the Queens Majesties most Gracious general and free Pardon The Bill intituled an Act for the Queens Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon was read and then passed upon the Question and was presently sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others Post Meridiem This day in the Afternoon the Queens Majesty came into the Upper House of Parliament and there sitting in her Royal Throne M r Speaker accompanied with the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons repaired unto the said Upper House where making an Excellent Oration unto her Highness and giving unto her Majesty most humble thanks on the behalf of this House for her Highness most gracious and favourable acceptation of their dutiful service and offering unto her Majesty in their names the Act for three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths her Highness gave the Royal assent to fourteen publick Bills and thirteen private Bills and so dissolved this Parliament THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS An exact and perfect Journal of the House of Lords 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 Journal of the House of Lords and all the rest that have since followed both the Queens Reign and in the Reigns of King James and King Charles her Successors unto this present year 1629. have been more exactly and largely taken than before For Thomas Smith Esquire now succeeding unto Anthony Mason Esquire formerly Clerk of the said House of Lords was much more careful in observing and setting down the dayly passages thereof this Parliament than the said M r Mason had been In which the said Sir Thomas Smith's successors for he was afterwards Knighted have much exceeded him also by the large and diligent digesting of the particular agitations of every day upon which the said House did sit Only the Return of the Proxies as is presently more fully declared was more distinctly entred by the abovenamed M r Anthony Mason than hath been since accustomed At this Parliament also there succeeded a new Lord Keeper For Sir John
Darcy de Chiche Dominus North. Dominus Shandois Dominus S t John de Bletso Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Compton These Lords Spiritual and Temporal being sat and her Majesty placed in her Chair of Estate the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons upon notice thereof repaired thither and being as many as conveniently could let in Sir Thomas Egerton by her Majesties Commandment spake as followeth viz. THE Queens most Excellent Majesty my most Gracious and Dread Soveraign hath commanded me to declare unto you my Lords and others here present the Causes which have moved her Highness to summon this High Court of Parliament at this time Which before I can express I must confess truly That the Royal presence of her Majesty the view of your Lordships and this honourable Assembly together with the consideration of the weightiness of the service and my own weakness do much appal me and cause me to fear Wherefore if either through fear I forget or through the many wants and imperfections which I have I fail to perform that duty which is required I do most humbly crave pardon of her Majesty and beseech your Lordships to bear with me The great and Princely Care which her Highness now hath as heretofore she hath ever had to preserve her Kingdoms in Peace and Safety from all Foreign Attempts hath caused her at this present to assemble this honourable and great Council of her Realm to advise of the best and most needful means whereby to continue this her peaceable happy Government and to withstand the malice of her weighty and implacable Enemies which hitherto by the space of many years through her provident and Princely Wisdom hath been performed to the great and inestimable benefit of her Subjects as that the simplest amongst them could not but see and the wisest but admire their happiness therein the whole Realm enjoying Peace in all Security wherein our Neighbour Countries have been torn in pieces and tormented continually with cruel and bloody Wars This her Majesty is pleased to ascribe to the mighty Power and Infinite Mercy of the Almighty And therefore it shall well become us all of all sorts most thankfully upon the Knees of our Hearts to acknowledge no less unto his holy name who of his infinite goodness still preserves her Highness and send her many years over us all in Happiness to Reign In this her blessed Government her Highness chief care and regard above all hath been of the Honour and Service of Almighty God that true Religion might be planted and maintained in the hearts of her people through all the parts of her Realms and as well in that behalf as for the peace and benefits of her Subjects she hath from time to time established many good Laws to meet with the disorders and to punish the offences of wicked and ungodly men that continuing in their bad ways they might not be hardned and go forward in their wickedness For Mora in peccato dat incrementum sceleri And whereas the number of Laws already made is very great some of them being obsolete and worn out of use others idle and vain serving to no purpose some again over-heavy and too severe for the offence others too loose and slack for the faults they are to punish and many so full of difficulty to be understood that they cause many Controversies and much trouble to arise amongst the Subjects You are to enter into a due consideration of the Laws and where you find superfluity to prune and cut off where defect to supply and where ambiguity to explain that they be not burthensome but profitable to the Common-Wealth Which being a Service of importance and very needful to be required yet as nothing is to be regarded if due mean be not had to withstand the malice and the force of those professed Enemies which seek the destruction of the whole State this before and above all is to be thought of and with most endeavour and care to be provided for For in vain are Laws made and to little purpose will they serve be they never so good if such prevail as go about to make a Conquest of the Kingdom Wars heretofore were wont to be made either of Ambition to enlarge Dominions or of revenge to quit injuries But this against us is not so in this the Holy Religion of God is sought to be rooted out the whole Realm to be subdued and the precious life of her Excellent Majesty to be taken away Which hitherto by the powerful hand and great goodness of the Almighty hath been preserved mauger the Devil the Pope and the Spanish Tyrant and all the mischievous designs of all her Enemies Wherefore it is high time that this be looked unto and that no way be left unsought nor means unused which may serve for defence thereof Her Majesty hath not spared to disburse a Mass of Treasure and to sell her Land for maintenance of her Armies by Sea and Land whereby with such small helps as from her Subjects have been yielded she hath defended and kept safe her Dominions from all such forcible attempts as have been made Which being still to be performed by infinite charge her Majesty doth notwithstanding hear of nothing more unwillingly than of Aids and Subsidies to be returned from her people though what she doth receive she doth carefully bestow and infinitely more of her own The Taxations at this day howsoever they seem are nothing so great as heretofore in the Reign of former Kings they have been In the time of Edward the third the two next before him and those three which succeded after him the payments of the Commons did far exceed any that have been since her Majesties Reign which is of Record in Histories to be seen but never cause so great to imploy great sums of Money as now Now therefore you are to consider how to provide needful and convenient Aid in some measure to maintain and support her Majesties exceeding charge which at this present she is at and is to continue for the defence of the Realm He cannot be well advised who in this case will not be forward to contribute and bestow whatsoever he hath For if with the Common-wealth it go not well well it cannot be with any private or particular person that being in danger He that would seek to lay up Treasure and so inrich himself should be like to him that would busy himself to beautify his House when the City where he dwelleth were on fire or to deck up his Cabbin when the Ship wherein he saileth were ready to drown so as perish he must of necessity either with it or for it To spare in that Case is to spare for those which seek to devour all and to give is to give to our selves her Majesties part only being carefully to bestow what is delivered into her hands Wherein men performing their Duties there is no Cause at all to fear for this War is just
it is in defence of the Religion of God of our most gracious Soveraign and of our natural Country of our Wives our Children our Liberties Lands Lives and whatsoever we have Wherefore not mistrusting your forwardness that I may not offend in too much enlarging of this point as a poor remembrance of her Majesty I shortly say to your Lordships quod justum est necessarium est nothing can be more just than this War nothing ought to seem more necessary than carefully to provide due maintenance for the same And to you of the House of Commons to the end you may orderly proceed and wisely consult of these weighty Causes delivered unto you her Majesties pleasure is you should according to your accustomed manner go down to the Lower House and there make choice of some grave wise and Learned man among you to be your Speaker who shall be for an understanding sufficient and for discretion fit as your Mouth to signify your minds and to make your Petitions known to her Highness and him on Thursday next to present in this place Nota that this foregoing Speech of the Lord Keeper is not found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is supplied by me out of a Copy thereof lying by me which I conceive to have been very truely transcribed out of the Original and I have always conceived it most proper to refer this and such like other Speeches if warranted by any good authority to the Journal of the said Upper House because they are delivered in it and only for Order sake to have some short Memorial thereof in the Journal of the House of Commons As soon as the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses were departed down to their own House the Clerk of the Upper House read the Names of the Receivers and Triers of Petitions in French which were as followeth viz. Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland France and Scotland Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice John Clinch one of the Justices of the Kings Bench Francis Gaudy one of the Justices of the said Bench Dr. Carew and Dr. Stanhop Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Willam Perriam Knight Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesley one of the Justices of the said Common Pleas Dr. Lewen and Dr. Cousins and they who will deliver Petitions to deliver them within six days Tryers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Sussex great Marshal the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward of the Queens Household and Lord Admiral of England the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Cobham and the Lord North. All these Lords and Prelats or any four of them calling unto them the Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants shall hold their place when their leisure serveth in the Chamberlains Chamber Tryers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles The Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Worcester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst All these Lords and Prelats or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants and also the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor when their leisure serveth shall hold their place in the Treasurers Chamber The Lord Burgh absent being at this time Lord Deputy of Ireland The Lord De la Ware absent because he made question of his place intending to make Suit to the Parliament concerning the same Dicto 24 o die Octobris viz. Primo die hujus Parliamenti Introductum est breve quo Archiepiscopus Eboracen ' praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissas est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno 〈◊〉 brevia introduct sunt 4. Comitibus 10. Episcopis 5. Baronibus Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis proximum futurum viz. 27 diem Octobris On Thursday the 27 th day of October the Queens Majesty repaired in the-Afternoon to the Upper House of Parliament accompanied with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal who attended her Majesty this said day in the House being for the most part the same that are mentioned to have been present there on Monday the 24 th day of this instant October foregoing Of which the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice M r Serjeant Yelverton being chosen Prolocutor or Speaker of the said House was by them brought into the Upper House and by the hands of Sir William Knolles Controller of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer presented Who by a Speech full of Gravity and Modesty signifying the accomplishment of the Duty of the House of Commons in making an Election but excusing himself by pretence of many disabilities and imperfections and wishing earnestly he were of sufficiency to perform the Duty of that place made humble Suit to her Majesty that he might be discharged and that the said House of Commons might proceed to a new Election Which excuse was not allowed by her Majesty as the Lord Keeper delivered by Answer but the choice of the said M r Yelverton was by her Majesty very well approved and his sufficiency much commended He then proceeded in another Speech according to the manner to undertake that charge and to present to her Majesty in the behalf of the said House of Commons certain humble Petitions for access unto her Majesty in the behalf of the said House upon needful occasions and for the using and enjoying such Liberties and Priviledges as in former times had been granted and allowed by her Majesties Progenitors and her self Whereunto her Majesty making Answer by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper did yield her Gracious Assent with admonition that the said Liberties and Priviledges should be discreetly and wisely used as was meet Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem quintum Mensis Octobris On Saturday the 5 th day of November the Bill for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants was read primâ vice Introductum est breve Thomae Domini Gray de Wilton quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno The Earl of Lincoln's excuse by reason of sickness presented by the Lord Treasurer Thomas Lord de la Ware having petitioned the Queens Majesty for his Ancient and right Place of Precedence in and amongst the Peers in Parliament and her Majesty well allowing his said
Petition by her Commandment and direction it was sent unto the Lords into the Upper House by Sir Robert Cecill then her Majesties Secretary and endorsed on the back side thus in his own hand Her Majesty hath commanded me to signifie unto your Lordships that upon the humble Suit of the Lord de la Ware she is pleased this Petition be considered and determined in the House Robert Cecill Which Petition being this 5 th day of November sent unto the House was there read as followeth To the Queens most Excellent Majesty BEseecheth your most Excellent Majesty your most humble Subject Thomas le Ware K r That whereas Thomas sometimes Lord Le Ware Ancestor and great Grandfather of your said Subject whose Heir Male he is That is to say your Subject is Son and Heir to William who was Son and Heir to George who was Brother and Heir to Thomas who was Son and Heir to the said Thomas your Subject's great Grandfather in the third year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth your Noble Father by Writ of Summons of Parliament of the said King Henry the Eighth came to the Parliament then holden at Westminster in the said third year and so continually the said Thomas the great Grandfather and his Heirs Males Ancestors of your Suppliant in many other Parliaments holden as well in the time of the said King Henry the Eighth as in the time of your Noble Brother King Edward the Sixth and in the time of your Dear Sister Queen Mary have come in their proper persons by their Writs and Commandment until the Parliament holden at Westminster in the first and second years of King Philip and Queen Mary which was after the Death of the said Thomas your Suppliants great Grandfather and of Thomas his Son that had not any Issue of his Body and of the said George who died in the Life of his Brother Thomas the said William Father of your Suppliant being the Son and Heir of the said George and Heir Male to his said great Grandfather to which Parliament he was not summoned for that he stood by Act of Parliament holden before at Westminster in the third year of the said Edward the Sixth disabled to claim and enjoy the dignity of the Seigniory of the Lord La Ware during his Life and the said William being now dead your said Suppliant is come to this present Parliament in his proper person by your Writ and Commandment May it please your most gracious Majesty to consider the Premisles and thereupon to Grant and Ordain by advice of your most wise Council in this present Parliament Assembled That your said Suppliant may have his place in this present Parliament in your presence as his Ancestors Lords La Ware have had in the said Parliament before this time This Petition being read it was referr'd to these Committees following viz. The Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Winton the Lord Zouch the Lord Stafford the Lord Windsor the Lord Shefsield the Lord North the Lord S t John of Bletso the Lord Buckhurst Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Perriam Lord Chief Baron and Edward Coke the Queens Attorney who were appointed to meet at the Council-Chamber in Whitehall on Sunday the 6 th day of November at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Where what they did and what Judgment the Lords and the whole House gave in this Case followeth afterwards on Thursday the 10 th of this instant November and on Monday the 14 th day of the same On Monday the 7 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Admiral the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Earl of Worcester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Zouch the Lord North and the Lord Buckhurst the Lord Chief Justice of England M r Baron Evans and M r Attorney General to attend the Lords appointed to meet at the Little Council-Chamber at Whitehall to Morrow being the 8 th day of November at four of the Clock in the Afternoon See more of this on Monday the 14 th of November following Nota That here upon the Commitment of an ordinary Bill the Judges are said to be appointed to attend the Committee of the Lords and are not nominated as Joint-Committees with them which is usually to be seen in every former Parliament almost of her Majesties Reign and therefore it should seem that either the Lords of the Upper House themselves did alter and abolish the said ancient Priviledges which the Judges had of being constituted Joint-Committees with them in respect that they were no Members of but only Assistants unto the said Upper House or else that Thomas Smith Esquire now Clerk of the said House was more careful and diligent in the distinct and exact setting down that the said Judges were not nominated as Joint-Committees but only to attend such Lords Committees as were appointed by the said House which Anthony Mason Esquire his Predecessor in the said place had for the most part neglected to distinguish And yet the said M r Mason may in some sort be justly excused of any universal or continual carelessness in this kind in respect that where the Lords Committees were appointed either to treat with the Committees of the House of Commons or by themselves about any matter of weight there the Judges and her Majesties Learned Councel are always set down as appointed to attend the said Lords Committees But when an ordinary Bill only was committed upon the second reading and especially if it concerned matter of Law there the Judges for the most part and sometimes also the Queens Learned Councel were nominated as Joint-Committees with them But whatsoever the usage hath been in former times most certain it is that not only in this present Parliament but in all that have been since unto this present year 1629. the said Judges being Assistants unto and the King 's Learned Councel being Attendants upon the said Upper House have never been nominated as Joint-Committees with their Lordships but have always been appointed to attend them And which may make it seem the more strange Whereas the Judges have liberty in the said Upper House it self upon leave given them by the Lord Keeper or the Lord Chancellor for the time being to cover their heads at a Committee they are now always accustomed to sit bare and uncovered which said course finally was constantly observed during all the continuance of this present Parliament as may appear not only by the instance foregoing but by those many other Committees which followed on Thursday the 24 th day of this instant November on
allowance of the Amendments expedited And the second Bill for establishing a Jointure to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William Pope to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts was returned with some Amendments which were presently thrice read and the Bill was thereupon expedited and five others of no great moment Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam tertiam postmeridianam Her Majesty somewhat after the said hour of three this Afternoon came unto the Upper House and being there sat with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons with Christopher Yelverton Serjeant at Law their Speaker having waited a good while at the said Upper House Door were at length admitted into the said Upper House viz. as many of them as could conveniently get in And the said Speaker having made his three Reverences unto her Majesty spake in effect as followeth First he shewed the happiness of a Common-Wealth governed by Laws by which Subjects are held in due obedience which her Majesty observing had now called a Parliament for the preservation of some Laws amending of others cutting off of unnecessary Statutes and the making of new never before Enacted And that her Majesties Subjects in this Parliament considering the strength of the Realm to consist in the strength of the Prince and Subjects and their strength to stand first in the hands of God and next in Provision of Treasure And therefore said he your Majesties most humble dutiful and obedient Subjects have by me their Mouth and Speaker presented here a free gift of their free and loving hearts And so with that he kneeled down and delivered the Bill of Subsidy which the Clerk of the Crown received and laid it on a little Table standing before the Speaker betwixt two great Wax-Candles on a plain Green Carpet the which I hope and think was granted without a thought of No sure I am without the word of a No. The second part shewed a Commandment imposed on him by the House of Commons which was touching Monopolies or Patents of priviledge the which was a set and penned Speech made at a Committee The third shewed a thankfulness of the House of Commons for the Pardon The fourth and last contained the said Speaker's own Petition that if any fault had been committed in the House they might not be now again revived And if either he had spoken too much or not so much as in duty he ought to have done he besought her Majesties Pardon And that as it had pleased her Majesty to grant Pardon to all her Loving Subjects so that she would not exempt him alone c. After which Speech ended the Queen called Sir Thomas Egerton Lord Keeper to whom kneeling down before her she spake in private And so after he went unto a place like a Desk made even with the Cloth of Estate on the right side and there made Answer to the Speakers Speech which in effect was thus much OUR Most Dread Soveraign her Excellent Majesty hath given me in Charge to say unto you and the rest of her Loving Subjects that she doth thankfully accept of their free gift of Subsidy granted by the Commons which she would not have required had not the puissance of the Enemy constrained her thereunto Secondly touching the Monopolies her Majesty hoped that her dutiful and loving Subjects would not take away her Prerogative which is the chiefest Flower in her Garden and the principal and head Pearl in her Crown and Diadem but that they will rather leave that to her disposition And as her Majesty hath proceeded to tryal of them already so she promiseth to continue that they shall all be examined to abide the tryal and true Touchstone of the Law Thirdly touching her Pardon her Majesties Pleasure is that I shew unto you that you do not so willingly accept it as she giveth it c. Fourthly for your Pardon M r Speaker her Majesty saith that you have so learnedly and so eloquently defended your self now and painfully behaved your self heretofore as that your labour deserveth double her thanks But in your Petition I must also join with you in beseeching her most Excellent Majesty that if any thing through want of Experience or through mine imperfections and ignorance have over-slipped me it may be pardoned and remitted And so the Lord Keeper ended his Speech Nota That the several and interlocutory Speeches of the Speaker and of Sir Thomas Egerton Lord Keeper c. immediately foregoing with the coming of the said Speaker and the rest of the House of Commons into the Upper House are not found in the Original Journal Book of the same House but are here inserted out of a certain fragmentary Journal of the House of Commons After the before-recited Speeches were ended as abovesaid then were the Titles of all the Acts read in their due Order After the passing the Acts followed the Dissolution of the Parliament in these words viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae tune 〈◊〉 it praesens Parliamentum Nota That although after these words ex mandato Dominae sometime the word praesentis doth follow at the end of divers of these Journals during the Queens Reign where the Dissolution of the Parliament is usually entred yet elsewhere the said word praesentis is divers times omitted as well as in this place as being in it self superfluous in respect that the aforesaid words Ex mandato Dominae Reginae c. do necessarily imply the Royal Presence for otherwise in her absence there could be no such Dissolution by her Highness Command only without an express Commission or Letters Patents under the great Seal to that purpose and howsoever the said words be here omitted yet it is most certain that her Majesty was both personally present at that time in the Upper House and gave her Royal Assent also to such Laws as passed as doth appear most plainly by that fragmentary Journal of the House of Commons taken by a Member of the same at this Parliament as is before more particularly mentioned at the end of the Lord Keepers Speech delivered this very Afternoon in Answer to the Commons Speaker or Prolocutor Nota also that whereas in the last Parliament in an 35 Regin Eliz. Anno Domini 1592. the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had not without long and great debate both with the Lords of the Upper House and by themselves at length yielded unto the grant of three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths and had then also given with that Caution that it might not hereafter be drawn into a Precedent for future times yet now at this present Parliament de an 39 40 Regin Eliz. A. D. 1597. the same proportion and in the Parliament ensuing which was held in an 43 Regin ejusdem
out of Norwich and Norfolk unwrought was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees for Logwood and to meet at the same time and place And the Knights of Norfolk M r Nathaniel Bacon and M r Southerton were added unto them And the Bill was delivered to Sir John Hart one of the Committees The Bill concerning the Hospital of Warwick was read the second time and committed unto the Knights for Warwickshire the Burgesses of Warwick M r Linley Sir Francis Hastings M r Recorder of London Mr. Doctor Caesar Mr. Foulk Grevill Sir Robert Wroth and others And the Bill was delivered to M r Foulk Grevill with a Note of the Committees names who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber upon Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Thomas Layton Esquire one of the Knights for the County of Salop having been much visited with sickness since his coming up to this Session of Parliament is for the better hope of recovery of his health licensed by M r Speaker to depart home into his Country On Saturday the 19 th day of November Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and Sturdy Beggars was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. George Moore Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy and Mr. Attorney of the Court of Wards Mr. Francis Bacon Sir Thomas Cecill Sir William Moore Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet on Tuesday next in the Middle-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees for the Subsidy who were appointed on Tuesday the 15 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees yesterday and their assents to grant unto her Majesty three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths the two first Fifteenths to be levied before next and three Subsidies to be paid at three intire payments in the three next years Whereupon some of the House were of opinion that the last of the said three Subsidies should have been in two several years at two several payments in the like manner as the third and last Subsidy granted in the last Parliament was paid Whereupon Mr. Secretary Cecill purporting to the House the said Assent of the Committees for the said payments in manner as Mr. Chancellor had before declared shewing very many forcible reasons and causes of very great importance for the said speedy performance of the said payments accordingly Which done it was upon the Question resolved that the said last payment of the said three Subsidies shall be made in one year and at one intire payment in like sort as the two first of the same three Subsidies are to be paid Vide Decemb. 7 th post Mr. Davies shewing many Corruptions in the Masters of Colledges in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in their abusing of the Possessions of the same Colledges contrary to the intents of the Founders converting the benefit of the same to their own private Commodities prayed the advice of this House for reformation and having a Bill drawn to that purpose desired he might have assistance of some of the Members of this House being learned in the Laws for the better digesting of the said Bill against the next sitting of this Court. Wherein Mr. Speaker referred him to Mr. Francis Moore and Mr. Boise with such other Members of the House as are of the Temple together in the same House with the said Mr. Davies Sir Edward Hobbie liking very well of the said Motion made by the said Mr. Davies moved that like consideration may be had of Deans and Chapters as of the said Masters of Colledges On Monday the 21 th day of November the Bill against Bastardy was read the second time and committed unto the former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and the punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars to meet at the former time and place The Bill for imployment of the Poor on work and to refrain them from idleness was read the second time and committed to the former Committees to meet at the same former time and place The Bill for the Lord Mountjoy had its first reading Sir Thomas Cecill one of the Committees in the Bill for George Durrant who were appointed on Tuesday the 8 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and sundry particulars of their travel in the said Bill to the good satisfaction of this House Whereupon the said Bill was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Adrian Gilbert one of the Burgesses for Burtport in the County of Dorset is for his necessary repair into the Country unto his Brother Sir Walter Raleigh Knight being as it is said visited with sickness licensed by Mr. Speaker to depart into the Country unto his said Brother The Bill concerning the Lands and Debts of Sir Henry Vnton Knight deceased was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Comptroller Sir Thomas Cecill and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir William Cornwallis who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Baker one of the Committees concerning Weavers and Spinners who were appointed on Thursday the 10 th day of this instant November foregoing brought in the old Bill which was recommitted unto the former Committees and Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. Hext Sir John Savile Mr. Davies and Mr. Bourchier were added unto them All which were appointed to meet in the Middle-Temple Hall upon Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon And the Bill was delivered unto Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. Francis Bacon one of the Committees for Tillage and re-edifying of Houses who were appointed on Saturday the 5 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the sundry meetings and traverses of the Committees in divers and sundry courses concerning the converting of Tillage into Pasture And that as touching the said matter of Tillage they have framed a Bill which he offered unto this House requiring the same might be read to Morrow And as touching the said matter of re-edifying of Houses being not so throughly digested in the said Committee as the other was for Tillage he hopeth nevertheless to have the same very shortly ready to go forward together with the other Mr. Boyse one of the Committees in the Bill for Hospitals abiding and working Houses for the Poor who were appointed on Friday the 18 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and some Amendments in the Bill and delivered in the Bill so amended which Amendments being twice read the Bill was upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Robert Wingfield one of the Committees touching the abuses of Licences who were appointed 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
his eldest Son Edward Craysord should enter into sufficient Bond unto the said William Vaughan without hazard of the Bond for themselves and their Heirs that they and every of them shall stand to the Award and Arbitrement of the Earl of Worcester the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Cobham or any two of them And that also the said William Vaughan shall enter into like Bond with a sufficient surety for himself and his Heirs to stand to the said Award of the Lords before-mentioned or any two of them so as such Award be made before the Feast of Easter next following And moreover it is Ordered by the Court that if they or either of them shall refuse to enter into Bond according to the said Order That the Lord Keeper notwithstanding the ending of the Parliament and thought it be after the time shall commit them or either of them to close Prison so refusing there to remain until the party refusing be conformable to the said Order Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the first day Wednesday the second day Thursday the third day Friday the fourth day Monday the fourteenth day Tuesday the fifteenth day and on Friday the eighteenth day of this instant December foregoing Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continnavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundum post meridiem hujus instantis diei About which hour in the Afternoon the Queens Majesty was personally present being accompanied with the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Thomas Egerton Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer of England and with divers other Lords Spiritual and Temporal but what was there done is not mentioned in the Original Journal of the Upper House and is therefore supplied out of a very elaborate private Journal of the House of Commons Her Majesty with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal being set in the Upper House in their Parliament Robes between two and three of the Clock in the Afternoon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired thither with John Crooke Esquire Recorder of London their Speaker who being placed at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House after he had made three Reverences to her Majesty fitting under a rich Cloth of State spake to this effect following That Laws were not at first made with humane Pen but by Divine Ordinance That politick Laws were made according to the evil conditions of Men and that all Laws serve not for all times no more than one Medicine for all Diseases If he were asked what were the first and chiefest thing to be considered he would say Religion So Religion is all in all for Religion breeds Devotion Devotion breeds Zeal and Piety to God which breedeth Obedience and Duty to the Prince and obedience of the Laws which breedeth Faithfulness and Honesty and Love Three necessary and only things to be wished and observed in a well Governed Common-Wealth And that her Majesty by planting true Religion had laid such a Foundation upon which all those Virtues were so planted and builded that they could not easily be rooted up and extirpated And therefore he did acknowledge that we ought and do acknowledge that we will praise God and her Majesty for it And then he descended to speak of Governments and Laws of Nations among and above all which he principally preferr'd the Laws of this Land which he said were so many and so wise that there was almost no offence but was met with in a Law Notwithstanding her Majesty being desirous for the good of her Land to call a Parliament for redress of some old Laws and making some new her dutiful and loving Subjects having considered of them have made some new and amended some old which they humbly desire may be made Laws by her most Royal Assent which giveth life unto them And so after thanks given for the Pardon by which we dread your Justice and admire your mercy and a prayer unto her Majesty that she would accept as the Testimonies of our Love and duty offered unto her with a free Heart and willing Spirit Four entire Subsidies and Eight Fifteenths and Tenths to be collected of our Lands and Livelihoods In speaking whereof he mistook and said Four entire Fifteenths and Eight Subsidies but he was remembred by some of the Councel that stood near about him and so spake right as aforesaid and having craved pardon for his offence if either he had forgotten himself in Word or Action he ended The which the Lord Keeper Answered thus in effect First as touching her Majesties proceedings in the Laws for her Royal Assent that should be as God should direct her Sacred Spirit Secondly For your presentation of Four Subsidies and Eight Fifteenths and Tenths Thirdly your humble thankfulness for the Pardon for them and yourself I will deliver her Majesties Commandment with what brevity I may that I be not tedious to my most gracious Sovereign First she saith touching your proceeding in the matter of her Prerogative that she is perswaded Subjects did never more dutifully And that she understood you did but obiter touch her Prerogative and no otherwise but by humble Petition And therefore that thanks that a Prince may give to her Subjects she willingly yieldeth But she now well perceiveth that private respects are privately masqued under publick presence Secondly touching the presentation of your Subsidy she specially regardeth two things both the persons and the manner For the first he fell into Commendations of the Commonalty for the second the manner which was speedy not by perswasion or perswasive inducements but freely out of duty with great contentment In the thing which ye have granted her Majesty greatly commendeth your confidence and Judgment And though it be not proportionable to her occasions yet she most thankfully receiveth the same as a loving and thankful Prince And that no Prince was ever more unwilling to exact or receive any thing from the Subject than she our most gracious Sovereign For we all know she never was a greedy Grasper nor strait-handed Keeper And therefore she commanded me to say that you have done and so she taketh it dutifully plentifully and thankfully For your self M r Speaker her Majesty commanded me to say that you have proceeded with such Wisdom and Discretion that it is much to your Commendations and that none before you hath deserved more And so he ended after an Admonition given to the Justices of the Peace that they would not deserve the Epithetes of prolling Justices Justices of Quarrels who counted Champetrie good Chevesance Sinning Justices who do suck and consume the wealth and good of the Common-Wealth and also against those who lie if not all the Year yet at least three quarters of the year in this City of London After the before-recited Speeches were ended as abovesaid then were the titles of all the Acts read in their due
who said that in the 27 th year of the Queen the like Motion had been made and that then by reason of the shortness of the time and suddain ending of the Parliament nothing was done therein Notwithstanding he said that now this motion being so happily made and that then by reason of the shortness of the time nothing was done he thought it fit for a Committee He was seconded again by M r Wiseman of Lincolns-Inn who was of the same mind and said That divers particular Laws of his knowledge were now both needless to be performed as also dangerous to the Subject by reason of the Penalties Whereupon the House agreed that the said Bill should be committed and Committees were nominated which are inserted out of the Orinal Journal-Book it self viz. All the Privy Council being Members of this House M r D r Caesar Master of Requests Sir Edward Hobbie M r Wiseman M r D r Crompton M r D r Perkins M r D r Dunn the Knights and Citizens for London the Knights and Citizens for Norwich Sir Walter Raleigh M r Tanfield M r Francis Bacon M r Robert Wingfield Sir Robert Wroth Sir George Moore Sir Moile Finch Sir John Harrington Sir Thomas Leighton M r Snigg M r Phillipps M r Winch Mr. Tho. Culpepper Mr. Hide Mr. Oldsworth Mr. Maynard the Lord Howard Sir Richard Knightley Sir Robert Carey the Lord Clinton Mr. Dale Mr. William Lane Mr. Michael Stanhop Mr. Warcop Sir Henry Nevil Sir Arthur George Sir Edward Hungerford Sir William Strowde Sir William Courtney Mr. John Egerton Mr. Dr. James Sir Crew Rawleigh Mr. Boyse Sir Henry Brunker and Sir Thomas Gerrard who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber upon Friday next in the Afternoon The Bill for the explanation of such Statutes as touch Leases to be made by Archbishops and Bishops was read the first time Monition was this day given by Mr. Speaker unto the Members of this House that they would forbear from henceforth to come into this House with their Spurs on in regard it is very offensive to many others of the residue of them Thus far out of the Original Book it self Others also although nothing were done therein moved to have Boots and Rapiers taken away as is set down in the above mentioned private Journal On Tuesday the 3 d day of November Upon a Motion made by Mr. Speaker on the behalf of Mr. Fulk Onslow the Clerk of this House for that it hath pleased God to visit him with an Ague That it would please this House to vouchsafe their allowance unto Cadwallader Tydder his Servant to execute the place in his absence as Deputy unto the said Mr. Onslow until it shall please God to restore him to health Which was willingly assented unto by the whole House and by Order of the whole House the said Tydder took the Oath of Supremacy Nota That there was a like precedent in the second meeting of the Parliament after an Adjournment thereof in Anno 28 29. Regin Eliz. An. Dom. 1586. when upon the like Motion of the Speaker on Wednesday the 15 th day of February William Onslow kinsman of the said Mr. Fulk Onslow being at that time a Member of the House of Commons was during his sickness allowed by the said House to exercise and supply the place of Clerk thereof as at this present time Cadwallader Tydder servant to the said Mr. Fulk Onslow was licensed to supply the same Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the better preserving the breed of Horses and to avoid the common stealing of them was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Edward Hobbie Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Walter Cope Mr. Fulk Grevil Mr. Hide and others who were appointed to meet on Monday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon And the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Sir Robert Wroth. The Bill to reform the Abuses in Inns Victualling-Houses c. was read the second time and being put to the question for committing was upon the question refused to be committed Upon a Motion made by Mr. Leife that whereas many Members of this House which could not come to the Upper House upon the first day of this Parliament the Door being kept shut to hear her Majesties pleasure signified by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper of the Causes of her Majesties calling of this Parliament they might in some sort be satisfied of the same He putteth Mr. Comptroller in mind of his Honours promise to relate the same unto them Who thereupon desired Mr. Secretary Cecil because he the said Mr. Comptroller was not there himself to make the same relation which the said Mr. Secretary doing at large The chief intent and scope thereof appeared to aim at the setting forth of two things especially the First the Danger the Kingdom stood in in respect of the power and malice of the Spaniard the Second that timely provision of Treasure might be made for the prevention Thus far out of the Original Journal-Book it self M r Secretary Cecil's Speech which followeth being spoken after that he had repeated the Lord Keepers Speech is inserted out of the beforecited private Journal of the House in manner and form following For my own advice touching the particular Counsels of this House I wish that we would not trouble our selves with any fantastick speeches or idle Bills but rather such as be for the general good both light in conception and facile in execution Now seeing it hath pleased you all hitherto with patience to hear me if with your favour I may particularize and show the grounds of the former delivered Speech touching the State of Ireland I shall be very glad both for my own discharge and for your satisfaction The King of Spain having quit himself of France by a base and servile Peace forgetteth not to follow the Objects of his Fathers Ambition England and the Low-Countries He hath made Overtures of Peace which if they might both be honourable and for the publick good I hold him neither a wise nor an honest man would impugn them He hath put an Army into Ireland the number Four thousand Souldiers under the conduct of a valiant expert and hardy Captain who chooseth rather than return into his own Country without any famous enterprize to live and dy in this service These Four thousand are three parts Natural Spaniards and of his best expert Souldiers except them of the Low-Countries Those he could not spare because of his enterprize of Ostend And how dangerous the loss of that Town would be to this Land I think there is no man of experience but can witness with me For he would easily be Master of all that Coast so that the Trade betwen England and the Low-Countries would be quite dissolved Yea he would be so dangerous a Neighbour to us that we which are now Tenants by discretion are
Bacon M r Francis Moore M r Serjeant Harris and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next in the House at two of the Clock in the Afternoon after a question first had whether it should be sitten upon in Committee this Afternoon and was upon the division of the House upon the difference of forty six persons viz. with the Yea for this day ninety five and with the No for Monday a hundred sixty one Ordered to be sitten in Committee on Monday next as aforesaid Thus far out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons the residue which fell out in the Afternoon at the Committee for Monopolies or Patents of Priviledge whose names see before on Yesterday foregoing is supplied out of the private Journal Sir Edward Hobbie informed the House of the great abuse of the Patentee for Salt in his Country That betwixt Michaelmas and S t Andrews Tide where Salt before the Patent was wont to be sold for sixteen pence a Bushel it is now sold for fourteen or fifteen shillings a Bushel But after the Lord President had understanding thereof he committed the Patentee and caused it to be sold for sixteen pence as before This Patent was granted to Sir Thomas Wilkes and after to one Smith To Lyme there is brought every Year above three thousand Wey of Salt and every Wey of Salt is since the Patent enhaunced to twenty shillings and where the Bushel was wont to be eight pence it is now sixteen pence And I dare boldly say it if this Patent were called in there might well three thousand pound a year be saved in the Ports of Lyme Boston and Hull I speak of white Salt M r Francis Bacon said The Bill is very injurious and ridiculous injurious in that it taketh or rather sweepeth away her Majesties Prerogative and ridiculous in that there is a Proviso that this Statute shall not extend to Grants made to Corporations that is a Gull to sweeten the Bill withal it is only to make Fools fain All men of the Law know that a Bill which is only expository to expound the Common Law doth enact nothing neither is any promise of good therein And therefore the Proviso in the Statute of 34 Hen. 8. of Wills which is but a Statute expository of the Statute of 32 Hen. 8. of Wills touching Sir John Gainsfords Will was adjudged void Therefore I think the Bill very unfit and our Proceedings to be by Petition M r Sollicitor Flemming said I will briefly give account of all things touching these Monopolies Her Majesty in her Provident Care gave Charge unto M r Attorney and my Self that speedy and special Order may be taken for these Patents this was in the beginning of Hillary Term last but you all know the danger of that time and what great affairs of importance happened to prevent these businesses and since that time nothing could be done for want of leisure Sir Robert Wroth said I would but note M r Sollicitor that you were charged to take Order in Hillary Term last why not before there was time enough ever since the last Parliament I speak it and I speak it boldly these Patentees are worse than ever they were And I have heard a Gentleman affirm in this House that there is a Clause of Revocation in these Patents if so what needed this stir of Scire facias Quo Warranto and I know not what when it is but only to send for the Patentees and cause a redelivery There have been divers Patents granted since the last Parliament these are now in being viz. The Patents for Currants Iron Powder Cards Ox-shin Bones Train Oyl Transportation of Leather Lists of Cloth Ashes Anniseeds Vinegar Sea-Coals Steel Aquavitae Brushes Pots Salt-Peter Lead Accidences Oyl Calamint Stone Oyl of Blubber Fumathoes or dryed Piltchers in the Smoak and divers others Upon the reading of the Patents aforesaid M r Hackwell of Lincolns-Inn stood up and asked thus Is not Bread there Bread quoth one Bread quoth another this Voice seems strange quoth another this Voice seems strange quoth a third No quoth M r Hackwell if Order be not taken for these Bread will be there before the next Parliament M r Heyward Townesend of Lincoln's-Inn said I seeing the disagreement of the Committee and that they would agree upon nothing made a Motion to this effect first to put them in mind of a Petition made the last Parliament which though it took no effect yet we should much wrong her Majesty and forget our selves if we should think to speed no better now in the like Case because then there was a Commitment for this purpose and the Committees drew a Speech which was delivered by the Speaker word for word at the end of the Parliament but now we might help that by sending our Speaker presently after such a Committee and Speech made with humble Suit not only to repeal all Monopolies grievous to the Subject but also that it would please her Majesty to give us leave to make an Act that they might be of no more force validity or effect than they are at the Common Law without the strength of her Prerogative Which though we might now do and the Act being so reasonable we might assure our selves her Majesty would not delay the passing thereof yet we her loving Subjects c. would not offer without her privity or consent the Cause so nearly touching her Prerogative or go about to do any such Act. And also that at the Committee which should make this Speech every Member of this House which either found himself his Town or Country grieved might put in in fair writing such Exceptions against Monopolies as he would justifie to be true And that the Speaker might deliver them with his own hands because many obstacles and hindrances might happen M r Francis Bacon after a long Speech concluded thus in the end Why you have the readiest course that possibly can be devised I would wish no further Order be taken but to prefer the wise and discreet Speech made by the Young Gentleman even the Youngest in this Assembly that last spake I will tell you that even ex ore Infantium lactantium the true and most certain course is propounded unto us So the House as it should seem agreed thereunto and appointed to meet on Monday next post Meridiem at which time all the aforesaid matters past On Monday the 23 th day of November Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of the Grant of the Hospitals of Christ Bridewell and S t Thomas the Apostle was read the second time and committed to the former Committees who were appointed on Tuesday the 17 th day of this instant November foregoing and Sir George Moore M r Paule M r Edward Moore and M r Barnham were added to the former Committees who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of
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
divina Abbas Monasterii beatae Mariae sanctique Botolphi de Thorney subjectionem et fidelitatem omnimodas cum orationibus assiduis et devotis ad comparend ' pro me et nomine meo in Parliamento vestro coram vestra regia celsitudine vicessimo die Mensis Januarij prox ' futur ' post datum presens apud Westm ' favente gratia Spiritûs sancti felicitor inchoand ' Nè personali comparitione in eodem penes vestram regiam celsitudinem quoties opus sucrit excusand ' precipuè pretextu adversae valetudinis nostrae caeterisque ex causis justis veris et probabilibus quod interesse non valemus prout affectamus Qua proptervestrae Regiae humilitèr celsitudini supplicamus quatenus absentiam nostram personalem in hà c parte excusatam gratiose dignetur habere vestrae Clementia Majestatis et ut vestro Mandato in quantum possumus in omnibus pareamus Reverendos in Christo Patres Sancti Albani Sti ' Edmundi de Bury Sti ' benedicti de Ranisy et Sti ' Gutlaci de Coland ' Abbates conjunctim et divisim et corum quemlibet nostros veros et Legitimos procuratores Atturnatosque fideles tenore presentium constituimus et ordinamus promittens me ratum gratum et firmum perpetuo habiturum quicquid praedicti pro me et nomine meo fecerint vel alter fecerit in premissis seu aliquo promissor ' vestrae Regiae celsitudini humilitèr supplico quatenus absentiam meam personalem hac vice ex Regia mansuetudine habere dignemini gratiose excusatam In cujus Rei testimonium Sigillum nostrum Commune present ' est appensum Dat' apud Thorney praedict ' decimo quarto die Mensis Januarij An. Regni Regis Henrici Octavi Quinto Sometimes also the said Sickness or cause of Absence is Testified by Oath as appears in the Original Journal of the Upper House A. 6. H. 8. Feb. die 12. where James Marshal servant to the Lord Scroop made Affidavit of his Lord's detention by Sickness But even Anciently if the Parliament were to be Assembled by reason of some great and extraordinary occasion And that the King declared in his Writ of Summons that he would not admit of any Proxies ista vice then none did presume to send them but upon the King's Licence first obtained as appears ex Rotulo Parliamenti A. 6. Ed. 3. die 27. Januarij A. 22. Ed. 3. die 20. Novemb. A. 6. Ric. 2. die 2. Jan. ct A. 11. Ric. 2. die 20. Martij But of later times since the 38th year of H. 8. the Lords in their very Proxies do express their absence to be by the King or Queen's Licence and oftentimes the Clerk of the Upper House doth insert the Memorial of their return with their expression of their absence by the said Licence And in making of Proxies it hath always been at the free Choice and Election of a Spiritual Lord that sent the said Proxie to constitute some other Spiritual Lord or a Temporal Lord or both and so likewise mutatis mutandis hath the liberty been of a Temporal Lord although there appears but three Presidents thereof during her Majesties Reign of which the first was in A. 5. Regin Eliz. where William Bishop of Exeter constituted for his Proctor Francis Earl of Bedford And the second in A. eodem Regin ejusdem where Thomas Archbishop of York Constituted the Earl of Bedford his joynt Proctor with Richard Bishop of Ely and Rowland Bishop of Bangor And the third and last in A. 28. 29. Regin praedict ' where Hugh Bishop of Bangor did Constitute William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England his joynt Proctor with John Archbishop of Canterbury but in former time the Presidents of this nature are more frequent For there was so little observation kept in this kind as sometimes the Lords Spiritual and Temporal did Constitute the Judges and Barons of the Exchequer being but attendants on the House for their Proctors and sometimes Strangers as the Abbot of Selby in Edward the third's time Constituted John Goldale a Monk of that house and William R. Clerk his Proctors and these also were sometimes appointed Tryers of Petitions joyntly with the Lords as appears A. 14. Ed. 3. and sometimes Committees with the Lords prout patet ex rotulo Parliam ' de A. 14. Ed. 3. N. 13. 14. 18. These Animadversions being thus premised of Proxies in general now follow some others that concern the Particular Proxies foregoing and the residue that were returned at this Session on Saturday the 4th day of February ensuing and on Wednesday the 8th day and on Saturday the 18th day of March following and on Tuesday the 4th day of April ensuing And therefore in the first place it shall not be amiss to make remembrance that in the Journal of this Parliament I have caused the entry of all Proxies whatsoever as well ordinary as extraordinary to be Transcribed because it is the first Parliament of her Majesty whereas in most of the residue I have only caused those to be inserted into my Journals which were extraordinary and unusual And whereas the word Vacat is added at the beginning of the entrance of the return of the Proxie of Thomas Tresham Prior of St. Johns of Jerusalem in England as also before that of William Lord Euers which are before amongst others set down The reason of the first I cannot possibly Guess because neither the Archbishop of York to whom the said Thomas Tresham had sent his Proxie was himself absent nor the said Prior present nor dead before the return of his said Proxie as may easily be gathered but for the other it is plain that the Lord Clinton whom the Lord Euers did Constitute for his Proctor was absent at the beginning of this Parliament and did himself send his Proxie which is entred at the beginning of the Original Journal Book of the Upper House to have been returned on Saturday the 4th day of February although the word Vacat be prefixed also before the entrance of the return of the same because he afterwards came to the Parliament himself and served in Person in the Upper House the greatest part of the continuance thereof and from these examples may be gathered the true Causes both why and when a Proxie that is returned becometh void either when the Peer or Lord that sends the Proxie dies himself or comes to the House in Person before the end of the Parliament or that the Proctor or Proctors whom he constitutes do die or be otherwise absent and send their Proxies themselves for in this latter case those Proxies are to be repealed by the Lord Chancellor as there is a President for it in the end of the Original Journal Book of the Upper House A. 33. et 34. H. 8. in the case of Nevil Lord Latimer for though the absent Lord or Lords to whom the Proxie is directed do constitute other Proctors yet they cannot execute such Proxies as are
directed unto him for a Proxie is but an Authority to give another man's assent which cannot be transferred to a third person yet doth the sending of one Proxie sufficiently excuse any absent Lord although the Peer to whom it is directed be not present himself but as soon as that absent Lord shall have notice that he or they whom he constituted for his Procurators do themselves send their Proxies also by reason of their absence then may he send another Proxie and constitute one other or more Proctors for himself and in his stead to give his voice de Novo as the Lord Vaux did in A. 18. Jacobi Regis After those Bloody and Intestine Civil Wars which had been raised in England in the year 1642. and that Robert Earl of Essex General of the Forces raised by the two Houses of Parliament against the King had by the Power of the Independent Faction over ballancing those who desired the settling of the Presbyterian Government been laid aside and Sir Thomas Fairfax Knight placed in his Room the opposition between those two Parties in either House of Parliament growing every day higher and higher the Aged Earl of Mulgrave being an Enemy to all Faction and Innovation was much troubled that William Viscount Say and Seale the chief Promoter of the Independent Novelties did make use of his Proxie for the acting and passing those particulars which were contrary to the Judgment and Conscience of him the said Earl of Mulgrave And therefore my advise being desired by some of the Members of the House of Commons for the reminding him thereof I drew the Letter and Instrument ensuing being not only the first but the sole President also of this King which yet remains upon Record in the Office of the Clerk of the House of Peers To the Right Honourable the Speaker of the House of Peers pro Tempore My very good Lord I am humbly to request of your Lordship to communicate this my present Instrument under my hand and Seal to the House of Peers that it may be publickly there Read and remain upon Record in the Office of the Clerk of the same House Kenzington April 1646. I am Your Lordships humble Servant TO all Christian People to whom these presents shall come Edmund Earl of Mulgrave Greeting Know Ye that Whereas I the said Edmund Earl of Mulgrave have formerly constituted the Right Honourable William Viscount Say and Seal c. my lawful Actor and Procurator for me and in my name to give my Voice and Suffrage upon all such emergent Occasions as the same shall be requisite by the ancient Orders and Constitutions of the House of Peers That I do now by these presents Revoke and Vacate the Proxie by which I did formerly Constitute the said William Viscount Say and Seal my lawful Actor and Procurator as is aforesaid and do hereby declare the same Proxie to be utterly Annulled Vacated and Revoked to all intents and purposes whatsoever In witness whereof I have Signed and Scaled these presents this day of April in the 22th year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King etc. An. Dom. 1646. This Instrument was written and ingrossed in Parchment as a Deed Poll is and to it in a Libel of Parchment was the Seal of the said Earl of Mulgrave affixed and it was read and allowed in the House of Peers Soon after the allowance of the aforesaid Instrument the said Earl of Mulgrave sent this ensuing Proxie to the Earl of Essex who made use of it in the House of Peers and it was there allowed of without any the least question or dispute OMnibus Christi Fidelibus ad quos hoc presens Scriptum pervener it Edmundus Comes de Mulgrave Salutem Noveritis me prefatum Edmundum Comitem de Mulgrave per Licentiam Serenissimi Domini nostri Regis a presenti hoc suo Parliamento inchoat ' et tent ' apud Westmonasterium etc. sufficientèr excusatum abesse nominare ordinare et constituere dilectum mihi in Christo et honorandum Virum Robertum Comitem Essex meum verum certum et indubitatum Factorem Actorem seu Procuratorem per presentes eidemque procuratori meo dare concedere plenam Authoritatem potestatem pro me nomine meo de super quibuscunque causis negotiis in Presenti hoc Parliamento exponendis seu declarandis tractandi tractatibusque hujusmodi inibi factis seu faciendis consilium auxilium nomine meo impendendi statutisque etiam ordination ' quae ex maturo deliberato judicio Domincrum in eodem Parliamento congregat ' inactitart seu ordinari contiger in t nomine meo consentiendi Caeteraque omnia singula quae in praemissis necessaria fuerint seu quomodolibet requisita faciendi exercendi in tam amplis modo forma ut ego ipse facere possem aut deberem si presens personalitèr interessem Ratum Gratum habiturus totum quicquid Procuratormeus statuerit aut fecerit in praemissis In 〈◊〉 rei testimonium praesentibus subscripsi Sigillumque apposui Neither will it be impertinent to set down here how many Proxies were sent to some special Peers at this Parliament it having been my usual course to make some short remembrance of them in all their Journals of Queen Eliz's Reign upon the first day that any extraordinary Proxies were returned and I have caused not only the Presidents of this kind to be inserted here at large in respect this was the first Parliament of her Majesties Reign but also because they are more full and direct than any other that ensue to prove what hath been the ancient use and Priviledge of the Peers of the Upper House in the matter of sending and receiving of Lords Procuratory At first Nicolas Archbishop of York for the See of Canterbury remained still void since the Death of Cardinal Pool was constituted the sole or joynt Proctor of David Bishop of Peterborough Cuthbert Bishop of Durham Thomas Bishop of Ely Gilbert Bishop of Bath and Wells Henry Bishop of St. Davids and of Thomas Tresham Prior of St. Johns of Jerusalem all which Proxies are entred at the beginning of the Original Journal Book of the Upper House to have been returned on Monday the 23th day of January on which this present Parliament was Summoned to have begun Francis Earl of Bedford was also Constituted the sole or joynt Proctor of 15 several Peers viz. of John Lord Mordant William Lord Paget George Lord Zouch and of Henry Lord Aburgaveny all which Proxies are entred at the beginning of the Original Journal Book of the Upper House to have been returned this present Monday the 23th day of January He was also constituted the joynt Proctor of Edward Lord Clinton Lord Admiral Thomas Lord Sands William Lord Vaux of Heredoun William Lord Gray of Wilton and Henry Earl of Cumberland all whose Proxies are entred in such
order as they be here set down in the aforesaid Journal Book to have been returned on Saturday the 4th day of February The Proxies also of Edward Earl of Derby John Earl of Oxford Henry Lord Strange Thomas Viscount Howard of Bindon and Henry Lord Morley by which the said Earl of Bedford was Constituted their sole or joynt Proctor are entred in the same order they are Transcribed in the before mentioned Original Journal Book to have been returned on Saturday the 18th day of March ensuing And lastly the said Earl of Bedford was Constituted the joynt Proctor with Edward Lord Clinton Lord Admiral of Oliver Lord St. John of Bletto whose Letters Procuratory are entred to have been returned on Tuesday the 4th day of April ensuing Edward Lord Clinton Lord Admiral was Constituted the sole Proctor of William Lord Burgh Edward Lord Windsor and William Lord Euers whose Proxies are entred at the beginning of the Original Journal Book of this Parliament to have been returned on this Monday the 23th day of this January He was also Constituted the joynt Proctor of William Lord Grey of Wilton whose Proxie is entred as aforesaid to have been returned on Saturday the 4th day of February ensuing the Proxie also of Francis Earl of Huntington is entred as before to have been returned on Saturday the 18th day of March following by which he Constituted the said Lord Clinton his joynt Proctor with Henry Lord Hastings And for the Proxie of John Lord Darcie of Darcie entred there as before to have been returned on this day likewise he is Constituted his sole Proctor And lastly the said Lord Clinton Lord Admiral was Constituted the sole or joynt Proctor of William Lord Willoughby of Parham Edward Lord Hastings of Louthbury and of Oliver Lord St. John of Blestoe whose Proxies are entred to have been returned on Tuesday the 4th day of April ensuing By these three foregoing Presidents it doth plainly appear as also from all other Presidents of former and latter times that any Member of the Upper House by the ancient usage and Custom of the same is capable of as many Proxies as shall be directed unto him although there were an Order made in the said House to the contrary upon the day of Anno Regis Caroli An. Dom. 1626. That no Lord cr Member whatsoever of the Upper House should for the time to come be capable of above two Proxies at the most which said order was occasioned in respect that George Duke of Bucks both the favorite of the King deceased and of King Charles now Reigning this present year 1630 did to strengthen himself by voices not only procure divers persons to be made Members of that House but also ingrossed to himself near upon 20. several Proxies And now if this doubt or conceipt should arise in any mans mind that therefore the Lords have a greater Priviledge than the Members of the House of Commons because they can appoint others to serve in and supply their places in their absence which the Commons cannot they are much deceived and mistaken for it is plain that the chief end of a Proxie is that the Upper House may have all its Members either in person or by representation and therefore the Lords Spiritual and Temporal who are Summoned thither in their own right have anciently had and still do retain the liberty of Constituting their Procurators whereas every Member of the House of Commons appeareth and doth serve in the right of that County City Burrough and Port for which he is Elected and Chosen which being a Trust and Confidence reposed in them can be no more transferred from him to a third person than can the Proxie of the Lords be from him to whom it is directed if he shall be absent likewise and therefore if any Knight Citizen Burgess or Baron after he is Elected and returned shall before the meeting of the House be disabled by Sickness Attainder or other Cause from serving in the same then presently order is given from the House to the Clerk of the Crown for the sending thither a second Writ for a new Election so that the said House may not remain without any Member that appertains unto it And this I conceive Tantamount unto a Proxie which cannot be granted but when the absence of the Lord that sends it is perpetual during that whole Parliament or Session for which he Constitutes one or more Proctors for if he repair to the Upper House any time after and serve in Person his Proxie is presently void On Wednesday the 25th day of Ian. the Parliament was held according to the last Prorogation thereof on Monday the 23th day of this instant Ianuary foregoing and therefore this day is to be reckoned the first day of the Parliament and it was the error of Seimour Esq at this time Clerk of the House of Commons that in the Original Journal Book of the same House fol. 186. a. he accounteth and setteth down the Parliament to have begun on the aforesaid 23th day of Ianuary when it was only prorogued by which he would make that to be the first day thereof True it is that Anciently if the Parliament had been Prorogued on that day to which the Summons thereof had referred in the beginning of it they were so far from accounting that day the first of the ensuing Parliaments that new Writs of Summons were thereupon sent forth and a new day appointed for the beginning thereof as appears in the Parliament Rolls Anno 23. Edw. 1. die 20. Novemb. An. 60. Edw. 1. die 11. Decembris A. 33. Edw. 1. die 13. Julij A. 11. Edw. 2. die 3. Martij But yet it hath been the constant usage most Anciently and doth doubtless hold at this day also that if the King do come in Person to the Parliament on that day to which the Writs of Summons do refer and there cause it to be referred to another day in his own presence then shall that day be accounted the first day of the Parliament of which there are many Presidents also in the Parliament Rolls still remaining in the Tower of London prout in A. 6. Edw. 3. Octobris Sti ' Hillarij A. 14. Edw. 3. tempore Quadragessimi A. 15. Edw. 3. Quindena Paschae and of divers other Parliaments in his time and in the time of King R. 2. his Successor And thus also the last day of the Parliament or of any particular Session is counted to be that on which the Royal assent is given to one or more Acts of Parliament yet if that Parliament or Sessions be adjourned to another day on which the Sovereign doth again come in Person and cause it to be dissolved or further Prorogued then that latter day is to be accounted the last day thereof of which there is one only President during all the Reign of Queen Eliz ' viz. in the Original Journal Book A. 18. Dictae Reginae on Thursday the 15th day of March. The
occasions Licensed to depart On Wednesday the first day of March the Bill for false using of Linnen-Cloth and the Bill for Gavelkind for Thomas Browne and George Browne were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill against Cancellations of Recoveries was read the first time And the Bill for allowances to be made to Sheriffs being read the second time was as it should seem committed to M r Comptroller and others The Bill also for Ecclesiastical Laws to be made by thirty two persons And the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands late parcel of the Bishoprick of London to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy were each of them read the second time and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill also for recognition of the Queens Highnesses Title to the Crown of this Realm was read the third time and passed the House The Bill lastly for restitution in Blood of the Lord Grey and the Bill also for restitution in Blood of Sir James Crofts were each of them read the second time The Bishop of Winchester in proper person required the Copy of the Bill exhibited here touching his Lands which was granted And further to bring in his Answer and Counsel on Saturday next at nine of the Clock On Thursday the 2 d Day of March the Bill for restitution in Blood of Sir Henry Gates was read the second time The Bill to revive a Fair at Linn-Regis at Candlemas was read the first time And the Bill for changing the Parish Church of Avernant in Wales And the Bill for Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching Ingrossers and Forestallers of divers Victuals was read the first time The Bill for searching and sealing Woollen Cloths was read the second time Three Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller and others of which one was the Bill for recognition of the Queens Highnesses Title to the Crown of this Realm The three Bills for restitution in Blood of John Lord Grey Sir James Crofts and Sir Henry Gates had each of them their third reading and passed the House The Bill lastly concerning the Confirmation of the Bishoprick of London to the now Bishop of London was read the first time On Friday March the 3 d the Bill for the restitution in Blood of Edward Lewkenor and three of his Brethren and six of his Sisters And the Bill against often buying and selling of Horses and Mares had each of them one reading The Bill for the true Garbling of Feathers The Bill that Leases of Benefices shall not be charged with payment of Tenths And the Bill against ingrossing of dead Victuals called Monopoly were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Assurance of Lands late parcel of the Bishoprick of London to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy The Bill for the Gavelkind Lands of Thomas Browne and George Browne And the Bill for the Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge ..... M r Mason required that the Counsel of the Patentees for the Bishop of Winchesters Lands may be here to morrow to hear what the Bishop and his Counsel will say which Request was granted by the House M r Sollicitor coming from the Lords declared that ten of this House shall attend certain of the Lords to morrow for the Proviso in the Bill of Treasons Six Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill for the Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge and another for Gavelkind Lands On Saturday the 4 th day of March four Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the last was the Bill for the Assurance of Hartlebury and Wychenford to Sir Francis Jobson and Walter Blount severally The Bill for the reviving of the Act for the carrying of Horses into Scotland And that for the Restitution of Robert Rudston were brought from the Lords by D r Vaughan John Cheeseman one of the Burgesses of Rumney in the five Ports for his business was Licensed to be absent The Bishop of Winchester in proper person opened his Title to the Mannors saying they had been parcel of the Bishoprick by a thousand three hundred Years and required this House of Justice The Queens Atturney hearing the talk of the Bishop required for the Queen that he might be heard for the Queen touching certain Lands late parcel of the said Bishoprick and Day was given as well to M r Atturney as to the Bishop to be here on Monday next at half an hour before nine of the Clock M r Chancellor of the Dutchy complained that M r White had called him a Witness not to like the Book of Service M r White answered that M r Chancellor said he wished the Book to be well considered of But for that the House doth take that Mr. White did mistake him therefore Mr. White standing asked him forgiveness which Mr. Chancellor did take thankfully On Monday the 6 th day of March the new Bill for Artificers in the County of Kent to dwell in Towns was read the first time Divers Arguments were had touching Cancellation of the Records in the Chancery for the late Bishop of Winchesters Lands and the Examination thereof was committed to Mr. Comptroller and others The Queens Attorney for that the Bishop of Winchester had brought Learned Counsel with him desired they might say their minds whereby Mr. Attorney might fully Answer and the Bishop said that his Counsel was not yet instructed wherefore Mr. Attorney Answered the effect whereof was that the Appeal made by Gardiner was not of effect For that in the Commission at his Deputation was contained cum appellatione remota And so the Grant made to King Edward the Sixth by the Bishop ne point d'effect Mr. Noell and Mr. Bell of Counsel with the Patentees declared in effect for the Patentees as Mr. Attorney had shewed for the Queen On Tuesday the 7 th day of March three Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the last being the Bill that Executors shall make the Supervisors privy to the performance of a Will was committed to Mr. Chamberlain as it should seem to be considered of The Bill touching the late Bishop of Worcesters Lands to Sir Francis Jobson and M r Blount was read the second time and Ordered to be engrossed The Bill for carrying of unwrought Cloths of 6 l over the Seas was read the second time The Bill to revive a Fair at Linn Regis the day after the Purification of our Lady was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed And the Bill for preservation of Woods being read also the second time was committed The Bill touching the ingrossing of dead Victuals for a Monopoly And the Bill for Gerson Wroth born in Stratsburgh to be
accepteth your Liberality And thirdly For the Executing of the Laws Here my Lords and Masters although I cannot declare or open it unto you as her Majesty hath Commanded me and therefore willingly would hold my Tongue if I might which for that I cannot be so excused say unto you as followeth not doubting of her Highness Clemency in bearing with me herein First Her Majesty considereth how wisely you have done for the abolishing of the Romish Power the Common Enemy of this Realm remembring your care for the defence of the same Realm your respects for the maintenance of Victual the banishment of Vagabonds and relief of the Poor with other And therefore alloweth your worthy Proceedings herein Secondly Your Liberality and Benevolence wherein your wise Considerations towards her Charges is by her Majesty taken in thankful part and I take it to be my Duty to put you in remembrance that although this Subsidy is made and to be born by Subjects not daily accustomed thereunto but that at her first entrance she had the like and that the grant thereof is more liberal than afore hath been accustomed and that it is of your necessity yet it is to withstand a greater necessity that for fault thereof would else have ensued and therefore that penny is well spent that saveth a groat which also hath been granted neither with perswasions threats nor sharp words which afore this time hath been accustomed but by one general consent of you all wherein appeareth your good wills and benevolent minds you bear to her Majesty which zeal she most accepteth and as she hath cause thanketh you Again by her Majesties Commandment she remembring by whom why and to whom this was granted doth think as freely as you have granted the most part whereof hath been accepted and lest those that have so freely offered should not be so ready towards the gathering thinketh it much better to lose the sum granted than to lose your benevolent minds Thirdly To the Execution of Laws I have little to say although the whole substance consisteth therein because I did in the beginning of this Parliament declare my Opinion in that matter and therefore as now you have to your Charges taken pains in making good Laws so put to your helps to see these and all other Executed for as it is infallible that a thing done unconstrained is much better than when they be constrained thereunto even so her Majesty willeth you to look well without more words to the Execution lest her Grace should be driven to do as she doth in her Ecclesiastical Laws make Commissions to inquire whether they be done or no whereby she shall know those Justices and Officers who have done their Duty and are to be used in service of Justice whereof her Majesty desireth to have many and again she shall understand who are to be barred from the like rooms and the penal Statutes to be on them Executed after this gentle warning which inquiry I know is like to fall on me as well as another Howbeit if Justice be not Executed I shall be glad to see this Order taken Notwithstanding her Majesty hopeth that this her admonition shall not need for that you see Laws without Execution be as a Torch unlighted or Body without a Soul therefore look well to the Executing Here endeth the three things which her Majesty commanded me to say unto you Besides this her Majesty hath to Answer your Petitions and as to the first in which you desire her Royal Assent to such matters as you have agreed upon to that she saith how at this present she is come for that purpose And for your other Petitions to accept in good part as well your service as the travails and doings of the nether House this Parliament and to that she Answereth how that she doth not only accept them in good part but also thanketh both you and them for the same And touching your request before this made unto her for her Marriage and Succession because it is of such importance whereby I doubted my own opening thereof and therefore desire her Majesty that her meaning might be written which she hath done and delivered to me to be read as followeth SInce there can be no duer Debt than Princes words which I would observe therefore I Answer to the same thus it is The two Petitions which you made unto me do contain two things my Marriage and Succession after me For the first If I had let slip too much time or if my strength had been decayed you might the better have spoke therein or if any think I never meant to try that Life they be deceived but if I may hereafter bend my mind thereunto the rather for fulfilling your request I shall be therewith very well content For the second the greatness thereof maketh me to say and pray that I may linger here in this Vale of Misery for your Comfort wherein I have witness of my Study and Travail for your Surety And I cannot with Nunc dimittis end my Life without I see some foundation of your Surety after my Grave Stone These foregoing Speeches being thus transcribed out of the very Autograph or Original Memorial of them as aforesaid now follows the form and manner of her Majesties Royal Assent to such Acts as passed Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper Commanded the Clerk of the Crown to read the Acts whereupon M r Thomas Powle as Joint-Patentee and in the absence of M r Martin Clerk of the Crown stood up before the little Table set before the Wooll-sacks and after Obeysance made began to read the Titles of the same as followeth An Act for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions Then Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Upper House standing up after Obeysance made read her Majesties Answer in these words viz. La Roigne le veult And then both the Clerk of the Crown and the Clerk of the Upper House made Obeysance together Thomas Powle Esq Clerk of the Crown standing up did read the Title of the Bill of Subsidy and then Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Upper House standing up likewise did read the Queens Majesties Answer in manner and form following viz. La Roigne remercye ses loyaulx subjects accept leur benevolence ainsi le veult The said Clerk having read the Queens Acceptance and thanks for the Subsidy given as aforesaid did then upon the reading of the Title of her Majesties Pardon by the Clerk of the Crown as aforesaid pronounce in these French words following the thanks of the Lords and Commons for the same Les Prelats Seigneurs Communes en ce present Parliament Assembles au nom de touts vous autres subjects remercient tres humblement vostre Majestye prient à Dieu que ils vous donne en santè bonne vie longue The Bills of Subsidy and Pardon being passed then were the Titles of the publick Acts
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
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
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
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
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
3. declares Ad omnem notitiam volumus pervenire quod de assensu Magnatum fidelium nostrorum words comprehensive of a Parliament precedent and future Authorities in the like Case considered acceptabimus ducere in uxorem legitimam Alianoram filiam nobilis viri P. Comitis Provinciae c. he having had once a purpose to Marry the King of Scots younger Sister Proposuit Rex sayes the Historian ducere in uxorem Regis Scotiae Sororem indignantibus Comitibus Baronibus suis universis non enim ut dixerunt decebat quod Rex duceret filiam natu minorem cum Hubertus Justiciarius meaning Hubert de Burgo natu majorem haberet sibi matrimonio copulatam 5. Edward the Second pro solempnitate sponsalium Coronationis Consulted with his Parliament in his first Year 6. And An. 5 E. 3. the Chancellor declaring the reasons of the Assembly of the Parliament amongst others tells them that it was to consult and resolve whether the King should proceed with France for recovery of his Seignories en voie de amiable trete per aliance de mariage ou de guerre 7. In the 23 d Year of H. 6. that great Favourite William de la Pole Marquess of Suffolk then Chancellor by the Kings Command informs the Parliament that the Marriage with Margaret the Sicilian Kings Daughter was Contracted for inducing the Peace made with France against which the Lords as being made without their advice made Protestation and caused it to be entred upon the Parliament Roll but it appears the Commons agreed to it by the Petition which they put up to the King whereby they recommended by the Chancellors Interest his Services and Actions praying his Grace to accept him to his gracious favour and good acceptance and that he was a great instrument of the intended Peace and Marriage which the Commons well liked of though the Lords did not 8. The Lords Spiritual Temporal and Commons tell the King that they had considered how that the pretended Marriage between E. 4. and Elizabetl Gray was made of great presumption without the knowledge and assent of the Lords of this Land 9. And in the Parliament 1 H. 7. the Commons by Thomas Lovell their Speaker did Petition the King to Marry Elizabeth Edward the Fourths Daughter which he at their request back'd by the Lords agreed to do the Memorial of which is thus recorded in the Parliament Roll. Memorand quod decimo die Decembris Anno praesenti Communes Regni Angliae in pleno Parliamento coram Domino Rege comparentes per Thomam Lovell Prolocutorem suum Regiae Celsitudini bumillime supplicabant eandem Celsitudinem assectuose requirentes co considerato quod authoritate Parliamenti stabilitum est inactitatum quod baereditates Regnorum Angliae Franciae cum praeeminentia potestate Regali sint restent remaneant permaneant in persona ejusdem Domini Regis haeredum de corpore suo legitimè exeuntium eadem Regalis sublimitas vellet sibi il lam praeclaram Dominam Elizabetham Regis Edwardi Quarti siliam in Uxorem Conthoralem assumere unde per Dei gratiam sobolium propagatio de stirpe Regum à multis speratarum in totius Regni consolationem consequeretur Quare Domini Spirituales Temporales in eodem Parliamento existentes à sedibus suis surgentes ante Regem in Regali solio residentem stantes capitibus suis inclinatis eandem requestam fecerunt voce divisa quibus idem Rex respondebat ore preprio se juxta eorum desideria requestas procedere fuisse contentum 10. Anno Domini 1530. Anno 21 H. 8. the Parliament sent a Declaration or Letter to the Pope touching the Marriage and Divorce of that King from Queen Katherine telling him that Causa Regiae Majestatis nostra cujusque propria est à Capite in membra derivata dolor ad omnes atque injuria ex aequo pertinet and that if his Holiness did not give his consent nostri nobis curam esse relictam aliunde nobis remedia conquiramus that is in plain English if the Pope would not do it they would which indeed afterwards they did To which Pope Clement the Seventh sent an Answer directed thus Venerabilibus fratribus Archiepiscopis Episcopis ac dilectis filiis Abbatibus Nobilibusque viris Ducibus Marchionibus Comitibus Baronibus Militibus ac Doctoribus Parliamenti Regni Angliae 11. The Marriage of King Philip and Queen Mary it is true was treated on before yet nothing could absolutely be concluded till the whole Treaty and Articles of Marriage were solemnly and solidly debated in Parliament which being agreed to they confirm and establish them by a Law 12. We your Majesties most humble Subjects cannot forbear but with all humbleness most thankfully to set before the same our most lowly thanks for three special matters proceeding from your Majesty to our benefit joy and comfort in this present Assembly First For the more Princely consideration had of us in the forbearing at this time some portion of that which according to the greatness and necessity of your Affairs we of Duty meant and intended to have yielded unto your Majesty Secondly For the most comfortable assurance and promise by your Majesty made and declared unto us that for our Weal and Surety your Majesty would Marry as soon as God should give you opportunity to accomplish the same whereof we have received infinite comfort and shall pray to Almighty God to further and prosper all your Majesties Actions tending thereunto that we your most natural Subjects may speedily see some noble Issue of your Body to continue perpetually by Descent the Succession of this Imperial Crown Thirdly For the great hope and comfort we have conceived by the means of your Majesties most Honourable Speech uttered and declared unto us of your most Gracious and Princely Disposition and determination when time thereunto shall serve conveniently with the Surety of your Majesties Person and the Weal and Tranquillity of your Realm to have due regard to the further establishing of the Succession of your Imperial Crown Quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbetur THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS The Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Commons in the Session of Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 8 Reg. Eliz. A. D. 1566. which began there after divers Prorogations of the same on Monday the 30 th of September and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Thursday the 2 d day of Jan. An. 9 Reg. ejusdem THIS Journal of the House of Commons in this present Session of Parliament de An. 8 Regin Eliz. is not only replenished with excellent matter touching the usual Orders and Liberties of the House but also enriched with the unusual Election of a new Speaker and with the extraordinary agitation of those two great businesses touching her Majesties Marriage
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
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
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
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
the 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 formerly in like Cases accustomed to be done Nota That this Commission is set down at large in the Journal of the House of Commons de isto Anno 23 Reginae Eliz. to which it more properly belongeth This day lastly was returned one unusual Proxy from John Bishop of Exeter which is thus Entred in the Original Journal-Book the words only a little misplaced 18 die Januarii Johannis permissione divina Episcopi Exoniensis introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit reverendum in Christo Patrem Johannem Episcopum Wigorniensem Nota That though there were no names of Triors or Receivors of Petitions read at this time because it was but the latter Session of a former Parliament and those said Receivors and Triors are never assigned but at the beginning of a new one yet it is very usual for the Lords of the Upper House to send their Proxies after a Prorogation as well as at the beginning of a new Parliament and especially if there be any long space or distance between the Sessions as was likewise used in the former Parliaments viz. in that second Session of Parliament held in Anno 8 Reginae Eliz. and the foregoing Session of Parliament held in Anno 18 Reginae ejusdem The Proxy before set down I therefore call an unusual because a spiritual Lord Constituted but one Proctor whereas for the most part they seldom or never nominate fewer than two and the Temporal Lords as seldom more than one and therefore those ordinary Proxies are for the most part wholly omitted and the extraordinary only transcribed out of the Journal-Book and at this Session of three Earls and ten Barons who sent their Proxies only one viz. Henry Earl of Huntington Constituted two Proctors which Proxies with some other unusual ones are set down the 23 th day of this instant January following on which said day being Monday they are all set down in the Original Journal-Book to have been introducted The Earl of Leicester had this Parliamentary Session six several Proxies sent unto him set down in the Original Journal-Book in the same Order they here follow viz. from Henry Earl of Darby Henry Lord Scroope Thomas Lord Buckhurst George Earl of Shrewsbury John Lord Darcy of Aston and from Henry Earl of Huntington who Constituted him the said Earl of Leicester his Proctor severally and jointly with Francis Earl of Bedford all which said Proxies or Letters Procuratory are Entred in the Original Journal-Book to have been returned or introducted on Wednesday the 25 th day of this instant January On Thursday the 19 th day of January Billa for avoiding of slanderous Libelling prima vice lecta and two other Bills of no great moment were each of them read secunda vice after which the continuance of the Parliament is thus Entred in the Original Journal-Book Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem prox hora secunda post meridiem On Friday the 20 th day of January the House met not till about two of the Clock in the Afternoon when her Majesty was her Self present with Sir Thomas Bromley Lord Chancellor and divers of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal who being all set the Knights Citizens and Burgesses had notice given them thereof and thereupon repaired unto the Upper House with John Popham Esquire the Queens Sollicitor whom they had Elected and Chosen their Speaker on Wednesday the 18 th day of this instant January last past The said Speaker or Prolocutor with as many of the House of Commons as conveniently could being let in was led up between two of the most eminent Personages of the said House of Commons unto the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the Upper House and being there placed after three Reverences made spake to the effect following That whereas at the humble Suit of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament now Assembled it had been signified from her Majesty by the Mouth of the Lord Chancellor and by force of her Highness Commission under the Great Seal of England that it was her Pleasure and Command that the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses should chuse a Learned man for their Speaker instead of Sir Robert Bell late Lord Chief Baron and their Speaker whom it had pleased God to take out of this World that thereupon they had Chosen and compelled himself to take upon him that weighty Charge for which finding himself altogether unable and further at large pressing his own disability he lastly desired that her Majesty out of her gracious favour would be pleased to free him from that great imployment and that the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses might have Authority to Elect and Chuse some other more able and sufficient Member amongst them to undertake and perform the same Then the Queen called the Lord Chancellor unto her declaring her Opinion in that which he should Answer to the said Speaker or Prolocutor who thereupon returning to his place Answered the said Speaker that her Majesty had fully heard and did well allow of his modest and humble disabling of himself but yet being also acquainted with his faithfulness care and many abilities her Majesty was resolved he should undertake this Charge and therefore did both allow and approve of the said Election of the House of Commons Whereupon the said Speaker rendring his most humble thanks to her Majesty and acknowledging her gracious favour towards him promised his most faithful and careful endeavour for the discharge of the said place after which he proceeded to Petition her Majesty in the name of the House of Commons according to the usual course for freedom of Speech freedom of Access to her Majesty and freedom from Arrests and Suits for themselves and their necessary Attendants And lastly that if in any thing he should unwittingly mistake the blame might not lie upon the House but upon himself and that her Majesty would be pleased graciously to Pardon him To which the Lord Chancellor by Command from her Majesty Answered that she did well accept of his humble thankfulness and the promise of his best endeavour and diligence and that for all his Petitions her Majesty was well pleased that himself and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons should have and enjoy all such freedoms and priviledges as had been formerly in like Case enjoyed and used in the times of her Majesties most
Right well Beloved Counsellor Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor of England Greeting Whereas in the beginning of this our present Parliament holden at Westminster the eight day of May in the fourteenth year of our Reign the Knights Citizens and Burgesses being Assembled in the same Parliament were Commanded by us to go to their accustomed place and there to chuse to themselves one to be their Speaker according to the accustomed manner Whereupon the same Knights Citizens and Burgesses did Elect and Chuse one Robert Bell Esq afterwards Knight and Chief Baron of our Exchequer now deceased to be their Speaker and the same their Election did afterwards certifie unto us which Election we did allow and ratifie since which time this our present Parliament hath been continued by divers Prorogations until the 8 th day of February in the eighteenth year of our Reign at which time the said Parliament was holden and continued from the said 8 th day of February until the 15 th day of March then next following from which time also the said Parliament hath continued by divers and sundry Prorogations until the 16 th day of January in this present twenty third year of our Reign At which day the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and also the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses have declared unto us that the said Robert Bell since the last Session of this present Parliament is dead and thereupon have made their humble Suit and Petition to us that they might have Licence and Commandment from us to proceed to Elect amongst 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 Robert Bell is dead as they have alledged and considering their humble Petition and Request is very meet and necessary to be granted have appointed and Constituted you and by the 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 present 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 yet to come and after they have once 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 doing of the premises and execute the same with effect In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters Patents to be Sealed with our Great Seal Witness our Self at Westminster the 16 th day of January in the twenty third Year of our Reign Thus far out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House now follows the continuance of this days Passages as also of the residue of the matters handled in the House of Commons during this Session of Parliament out of the Original Journal-Book of the same House At the return of such Members of the House of Commons into their own House as had been present in the Upper House during the time the recited Commission was in reading for many of the House of Commons conceiving that their sending for to the Upper House aforesaid being only by their own Serjeant whom they had sent up to the Lords to see if the Lord Chancellor and the rest of their Lordships were come thither or no was no orderly giving them notice of their Lordships desires in that behalf according to former usage in respect that the said Commons are to be sent for by ..... amongst the said Members as aforesaid who had been so present in the said Upper House Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Majesties Household did at his return declare that for Answer to the Suit her Majesties Commission was read to license and Command the Commons to Chuse a Speaker and that four of this House being of the Privy-Council should make report of the Election to her Majesty that her Highness might thereupon signifie her further Pleasure for appointing the day for presenting of him M r Treasurer further declared unto the House before their proceeding to Election that he and others had just now seen in the Upper House one that is a Member of this House to wit M r John Popham her Majesties Sollicitor General being one of the Citizens for Bristol and therefore made a Motion that some of this House might be sent to their Lordships with request that the said M r Popham being a Member of this House might forthwith be remanded and restored to this House again which some thought not needful to be done before the Election and others again denying that he or any other could be Chosen Speaker except he were present himself The Clerk was Commanded to read the said Precedent again of chusing M r Onslow in the said eighth year of her Majesties Reign which said Precedent see on Monday the 16 th day of this instant foregoing and thereupon that course being agreed upon to be followed the said M r Treasurer and others were sent up to the Lords to demand the restitution of the said M r Popham and brought Answer again that their Lordships had resolved he should be sent down the rather because he was a Member of this House and this House possessed of him before he was Sollicitor or had any place of Attendance in the Upper House Upon relation whereof a Motion was presently made that it was not meet or convenient to chuse a Speaker by persons that were not of the House and withal it was thought of some that divers persons being newly returned in the places of others yet living were not or ought not to be accounted Members of this House Whereupon to avoid length of Argument and the impediment of the Election the said M r Treasurer by the Assent of the House pronounced an Admonition that all such as were newly returned in the places of others yet living should forbear to repair to the House till their case were further considered Then immediately M r Anderson the Queens Serjeant at Law and Sir Gilbert Gerard Knight her Highness Attorney General brought from the Lords the said M r Popham her Majesties Sollicitor General one of the Citizens for the City of Bristol and restored him to this House as a Member of the same and so departed And then was a Motion made by M r Lewkenor for Prayer to be used before the Election that it might please God both in that and in the residue
House of Commons by two Doctors Nota That though this Bill were upon Wednesday last past being the 9 th day of this instant December referred to Committees yet no mention is made in the Original Journal-Book when it was again returned or brought into the House by the said Committees by whom it is most probable that these amendments were added unto it and for the passing of which the said Bill was at this time sent down to the House of Commons having formerly passed that House and been sent up from thence to the Lords before the aforesaid new amendments had been added by them on Monday last past being the 7 th day of this instant December The Bill touching the Lord Dacres and the Lord Norris was read prima vice Memorand That upon the Petition of the Lord Norris the Lords Ordered that he and the Lord Dacres with their Council should be heard upon Saturday next to Answer the said Bills Memorand That touching the former Order Entred primo die Decembris concerning James Diggs for that there wanted words for the discharge of the Bond and Sureties of the said James Diggs This day the Lords Ordered that the appearance of the said James Diggs by rendring himself in the Exchequer was and should be a sufficient discharge of his Sureties and their Bonds and that the Bonds should be redelivered and that this Order should be added to the former Order Memorand That where the said James Diggs exhibited to the Court a Bill of complaint in form of supplication against Sir Roger Manwood Knight Lord Chief Baron the Lords having heard the Parties and the Witnesses of M r Diggs and deliberately considered the Contents thereof with one consent agreed and adjudged that the said complaint was untrue and unjustifiable against the Lord Chief Baron And further Ordered that the said James Diggs by humble submission and open recognition should confess and acknowledge his fault And that the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Lumley the Lord North and the Lord S t John of Bletsoe the Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Gawdy should peruse and consider the said recognition whether it were made in due form and that then it should be Entred on Record Vide touching this matter on Tuesday the first day of this instant December foregoing On Tuesday the 15 th day of December four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for confirmation of her Majesties Letters Patents granted to Queens-Colleà ge in Oxford was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum This day James Diggs Gent. did according to their Lordships Order made yesterday humbly submit himself in manner and form following as it stands Entred upon Record in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament The humble Submission of James Diggs unto the High Court of Parliament as well for his contempt unto the said Court as unto Sir Roger Manwood Lord Chief Baron by his untrue and unadvised Speeches in his Bill of complaint Whereas I James Diggs did of late exhibite a Bill of complaint unto your honourable Lordships in this High Court of Parliament against the said Lord Chief Baron wherein amongst other things is contained as followeth that is to say That the said Lord Chief Baron doth still continue an obstinate intention to frustrate your Lordships honourable Order taken for the discharging of the great Bonds of the said James Diggs his Sureties boldly saying that the same your Lordships honourable Order should be undone or brought about again as by the said Bill of complaint doth appear And whereas also it pleased your most honourable Lordships upon the humble Petition of me the said James Diggs to call before your honourable Lordships that Witness which I the said James Diggs did avow for the proof of the Allegations before rehearsed in the said Bill of Complaint against the said Lord Chief Baron which Witness being heard and examined at large touching the said Allegations with the circumstances of the same openly before your honourable Lordships in this High Court of Parliament it hath plainly and evidently appeared that there was no such obstinate intention in the said Lord Chief Baron nor that he did utter the said words or Speeches above-mentioned Whereupon it hath pleased your honourable Lordships to Order that I the said James Diggs should before your Lordships openly in this honourable Court of Parliament recognize my fault for this my untrue and unadvised complaint against him Wherefore I the said James Diggs being now heartily sorry for my said untrue and unadvised complaint in the Speeches aforesaid exhibited against the Lord Chief Baron do openly before your Lordships in this most High Court of Parliament consess and acknowledge my said offence in my said unadvised and untrue complaint made against the said Lord Chief Baron And do here before your Lordships heartily pray and desire the said Lord Chief Baron to remit and forget my said offence in my untrue and unadvised complaint made against him and withal do most humbly beseech all your Lordships to pardon my contempt and offence committed to this most High Court in exhibiting unto your Lordships of the said unadvised and untrue complaint Vide the former proceedings of this case of James Diggs Gentleman on Tuesday the first day and on Monday the 14 th day of this instant December foregoing Nota also That there is no continuance or adjournment of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor in usual form entred in the Original Journal-Book which seemeth to have happened through the negligence of the Clerk of the Parment but it is easie to be conjectured the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto nine of the Clock in the forenoon of Wednesday next following On Wednesday the 16 th day of December two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against scandalous Libelling was read secundâ vice and committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Archbishop of York the Lord Treasurer and others the Master of the Rolls the two Chief Justices the Queens Serjeant and Attorney Nota That here not only the Judges which are but Assistants to the Lords but also the Queens Council which are but meer Attendants upon the upper House are made joynt Committees with the Lords On Thursday the 17 th day of December the Bill for restitution in blood of Thomas Howard Son of Thomas Howard late Dake of Norfolk was read primâ vice And the same Bill was again read secundà tertiâ vice and by all the Lords concluded and sent to the House of Commons by two Doctors being Masters of the Chancery Nota The speedy passing of this Bill by vouchsasing of it three readings at one time each after other did express the special desire of the Lords to pass this Bill with as much honour as lay in them to do Eight other Bills of no great moment
had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the paving of Newark upon Trent in Com. Nott. was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons On Saturday the 19 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill for the restitution in blood of the Lord Thomas Howard which it seemeth the House of Commons passed with great expedition having given it one reading yesterday morning when they sent it again up to the Lords as appeareth by the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons de Anno isto 27 o Reginae Eliz. pag. 44 50. The Bill also for the paving of Lewes in the County of Suffex was read primâ vice Lectae sunt the Reasons and Allegations of the Lord Norris why the Bill exhibited by the Lord and Lady Dacres should not be enacted Memorandum This day the Lords as they had ordered before having heard both the Council of the Lord Dacres and Lord Norris and Samson Leonard Esquire upon offer and agreement of the parties to commit the Cause to the hearing of four of the Lords and two of the Judges the Lords thought it most convenient that they should be named by the parties themselves The Lord Dacres and Samson Leonard named William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer Robert Earl of Leicester Lord Steward and Sir Roger Manwood Knight Lord Chief Baron The Lord Norris named the Earl of Kent the Earl of Bedsord and Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls And further Ordered That the Lords and Judges should end the matter between the said parties before the next Session of Parliament if they could and if they could not then to make Report thereof to the whole House And further Ordered That all the parties should have Letters directed to such Witnesses to appear before the said Lords as they thought convenient and that the said Lords should have Authority to examine all parties upon their Oaths if occasion so required Memorandum That whereas the Lords received a Bill from the House of Commons viz. for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day the said Lords having passed the same with some amendments sent down the said Bill to the House of Commons who sent up the same with other amendments of theirs which because the Lords thought it not to stand with the Order of the House to pass the same Bill again with their new amendments they returned the said Bill to them again and signisied the same unto them by M r Serjeant Gawdy c. On Monday the 21 th day of December Consedentibus Proceribus Dominus Cancellarius exposirit Regiam Majestatem satis perpendere Fcstum solemne Nativitatis is Domini in proximo esse nec posse ante idem hoc Parliamentum terminari nec in longum tempus prorogari propter quas alias causas considerationes idem Cancellarius jussu suae Majestatis lectis Literis Patentibus magno Sigillo suo sigillat hoc Parliamentum in quartum diem Februarii prox sequentem adjournavit adhortatusque est omnes singulos ut tunc adsint facturi quod decuerit Earúmque autem tenor sequitur in haec verba ELizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Johanni Cantuar ' Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano praedilecto fideli Consiliario suo Thomae Bromley Militi Domino Cancellario Angliae ac etiam Reverendissimo in Christi Patri Edwino Eboracen ' Archiepiscopo Angliae Primati Metropolitano necnon praedilecto fideli Consiliario suo Willielmo Domino Burleigh Domino Thesaurario Angliae ac charissimo consanguineo Edwardo Comiti Oxon ' magno Camerario Angliae ac etiam charissimis consanguineis consiliariis suis Edwardo Comiti Lincoln ' magno Admirallo suo Angliae Georgio Comiti Salop ' Comiti Mareschallo Angliae Roberto Comiti Leicester magno Seneschallo Hospitii sui necnon charissimis consanguineis suis Philippo Comiti Arundel Henrico Comiti Kantiae Henrico Comiti Darbiae Willielmo Comiti Wigorn ' Elwardo Comiti Rutland Georgio Comiti Cumberland Henrico Comiti Sussex ac charissimis consanguineis consiliariis suis Ambrosio Comiti Warwici Magistro Ordinationum suarum Francisco Comiti Bedford ac etiam charissimis consanguineis suis Henrico Comiti Pembroke Edwardo Comiti Hartford Anthonio Vicecomiti Mountague necnon Reverendis in Christo Patribus Johanni Episcopo London Thomae Episcopo Winton ' ac praedilectis fidelibus suis Carolo Domino Howard Domino Camerario Hospitii sui Edwardo Domino Zouch Peregrino Domino Willoughby Edwardo Domino Morley Willielmo Domino Cobham Domino Gardiano quinque Portuuni ac etiam praedilecto fideli suo Henrico Domino de Hunsdon Domino Gardiano Marchiarum Orientalium versus Scotiam Salutem Cùm nuper pro quibuselam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii vicesimo vertio die Novembris ultimo praeterito inchoari teneri ordinaverimus à quo die idem Parliamentum nostrum tunc ibidem tentum continuatum fuerat usque in instantem vicesimum primum diem Decembris Sciatis tamen quia negotia Parliamenti nostri in eodem communicata ante Festum Natalis Domini nunc prox ' instantis terminari non possunt propter alias causas considerationes nos specialiter move ntes praedictum Parliamentum nostrum omnes causas materias inceptas non adhuc terminatas adjornand ' duximus De fidelitate igitur prudentiâ circumspectione vestris plurimùm confidentes de avisamento assensu Concilii nostri assignavinius vos Commissionarios nostros dantes vobis aliquibus sex vel pluribus vestrum tenore praesentium plenam potestatem authoritatem hoc instante die Lunae ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum ac omnia negotia materias supradict ' adhuc ut praesertur non terminata nomine nostro ad in quartum diem Februarii jam prox ' futurum usque praedictam Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii adjornand ' continuand ' ibidem tunc tenend ' prosequend ' Et ideo vobis mandamus quòd circa praemissae diligenter intendatis ac ea in forma praedicta effectualiter expleatis Damus autem universis singulis Archiepiscopis Marchionibus Comitibus Vicecomitibus Episcopis Baronibus Militibus Civibus Burgensibus ac omnibus aliis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum nostrum conventuris tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis quod vobis in praemissis faciend ' agend ' exequend ' pareant obediant intendant prout decet In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras sicri fecimus Patentes
Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo primo die Decembris Anno Regni nostri vicesimo septimo Nota That by these Letters Patents the Parliament was adjourned forty four days viz. from Monday the 21 th day of December unto Thursday the 4 th day of February ensuing From which as also from many other like Precedents it appeareth that it is and always hath been the power of the Prince not only to summon dissolve and prorogue but also to adjourn his Parliament at his pleasure yet this must be done either by himself in person or by matter of Record yet it is also in the power of either House when they shall think it expedient to adjourn it self The meeting of the two Houses at the end of this foresaid Adjournment was in such manner as it useth to be at the end of a Prorogation without all Solemnity and Pomp yet with this difference At the end of every Prorogation a new Session beginneth though the same Parliament continueth but at the end of an Adjournment there beginneth neither new Session nor new Parliament but be the Adjournment for one day or for many the business is so entred upon at the next meeting as it was left and as it stood at the time of the Adjournment Yet because the Adjournment was for so many days I have caused all the Names of the Lords who were present this Thursday following being the 4 th day of February to be transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book which course though it be usually observed in all these Journals at the beginning only of a new Parliament or at least of a new Session yet it is in one respect somewhat necessary at the beginning of this new meeting after the Adjournment because the presence of the Lords on this said ensuing Thursday though it appears not that any new Proxies were returned which is usual after a long Adjournment as well as after a Prorogation differeth much from that former number of the Lords noted to have been present on Tuesday the 26 th day of November foregoing as may appear by this which followeth On Thursday the 4 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Monday the 21 th day of December last past by her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal adjourned the Lords and Commons repaired each of them without all manner of Pomp or Solemnity to their several Houses and there fell upon such ordinary business as had been left unperfected at their last Adjournment The Names of the Lords who were this day present in the Upper House being as followeth out of the Original Journal-Book Archiepiscopus Cantuar. Archiepiscopus Eboracen Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Marchio Winton Comites Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerarius Comes Leicester Magnus Seneschallus Comes Kantiae Comes Sussex Vice-Comes Mountague Episcopi Episcopus Winton Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Oxon. Episcopus Meneven Barones Dominus Zouch Dominus Willoughbie Dominus Dacres Dominus Cobham Dominus Stourton Dominus Mountjoy Dominus Wentworth Dominus Borough Dominus Cromwell Dominus Evers Dominus Rich. Dominus Darcy de Chiche Dominus North. Dominus Hunsdon Dominus de la Ware Dominus Compton Dominus Norris This day also three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of her Majesties Letters Patents granted to the Queens Colledge in Oxford was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by two Serjeants at Law And the last being the Bill for the Savoy was read secunda vice commissa Archiepiscopis Cantuar Eboracen Dominis Thesaurario Seneschallo Comitibus Kantiae Bedford Episcopis London Winton Dominis North Hunsdon Baroni Shute Servienti Gawdy On Saturday the 6 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued returnatum fuit breve quo Episcopus Wigorn. praesenti Parliamento summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae in Parliamento sedendi locum salvo jure alieno The Bill also against Jesuits Seminary Priests and other such like disobedient persons was read prima vice commissa Archrepiscopo Cantuar. Domino Thesaurario Domino Senesebatio Comiti Kantiae Comiti Bedford Episcopo London Episcopo Winton Episcopo Sarisburien Domino Camerario Domino Cobham Domino North Domino Hunsdon Domino Primario Justiciario Baroni Shute On Monday the 8 th day of February the Bill for the paving of Lewes was read secunda vice commissa On Tuesday the 9 th day of February Returnatum suit breve quo Thomas Dominus Darcy de Chiche praesenti Parliamento summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae in Parliamento sedendi locum salvo jure alieno Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was the Bill that Parsonages impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses The matter which had been debated on Tuesday the 7 th day of March in the last Parliament de anno 23 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1580. between M r Oughtred and the Lord Marquess of Winchester concerning certain accompts was again this Tuesday Morning brought into the Upper House before the Lords who for the more speedy ending of the same committed it with the consent of the parties unto the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Hartford Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Lumley and the Lord North. And it is Ordered that the said Lords should hear and end the matter between the Parties if they could or otherwise to make report thereof to the whole House and appointed the Lord Chief Justice of England Justice Windham and Serjeant Gawdy to attend the Lords Vide plus concerning this matter on Thursday the 4 th day of March ensuing Nota That here the Judges and the Queens Council are not nominated as joint Committees with the Lords but only appointed to attend upon them which is very rare in any Parliaments of the Queens time until in Anno 39 43 Reginae ejusdem On Wednesday the 10 th day of February four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill that Parsonages impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses was read prima vice On Thursday the 11 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the better foundation and relief of the Hospital of Eastbridge in the City of Canterbury was read prima vice Five Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for paving Newark upon Trent in the County of Nottingham Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox
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
were indorsed in the upper or higher part of the same which the said M r Treasurer and the rest at this time sent up to the Upper House with the aforesaid three Bills did accordingly impart to their Lordships Vide plus de ista materia on Monday the 21 th day of this instant December following The Bill for Hue and Cry was read the second time during the absence of M r Treasurer and the rest as aforesaid The reading of which Bill being ended M r Treasurer and the residue returning from the Lords brought word that he the said M r Treasurer imparted unto their Lordships the Request of this House for Conference with their Lordships both for the Bill touching the Sabbath de qua Billa vide on Wednesday the 17 th day of March ensuing and also for the Petitions of the griefs of this House unto both which the Lords said they would by and by send their Answer Vide concerning Petitions on Thursday the 25 th day of February ensuing M r Vice-Chamberlain declared unto this House That her Majesty graciously considering the great pains and careful travel of this House in the Service and Affairs of the Realm hath determined upon Monday next to adjourn the Court of Parliament until some other convenient time after Christmas that such Gentlemen and other Members of this House may the more conveniently repair home to their houses in the mean time for their better ease and recreation And so moved further That as before that time of Adjournment being upon Monday next there can nothing of great moment possibly be prepared to passing so he wished that the same short time may be imployed in the speeding of such Bills as are nearest to the passing and mentioned some of those which came unto us from the Lords and that the residue may rest in the same case of furtherance in the mean time as now they are in M r Serjeant Gawdy and M r Doctor Ford did bring from the Lords again the Bill for the restitution in blood of the Lord Thomas Howard amended in the indorsement viz. indorsed under the Bill and the former indorsement above razed out The Bill for restitution in blood of the Lord Thomas Howard was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others and also the Bill for paving of the Town of Newark upon Trent the Bill for the Town of Caernarvon and the Bill for fraudulent Conveyances all which came from their Lordships before not rightly indorsed were sent up to their Lordships to have the same indorsements reformed and amended as that in the Bill for the Lord Thomas Howard was before amended The Bill for the true answering of the Debts of Edward Fisher was read the first time Vide on Monday the 22. day of February ensuing M r Richard Lewkenor one of the Committees in the Bill to avoid partial Juries and Tryals in the name of himself and the residue of the same Committees brought in the old Bill and also a new Bill praying that the same new Bill may be read accordingly The Bill for reformation of Errours in Fines and Common Recoveries in the twelve Shires of Wales was upon the second reading committed unto M r Sollicitor Sir William Herbert M r Penruddock M r David Williams and others who were appointed to meet upon Thursday next in the Afternoon in Lincolns-Inn-Hall After which the Bill for continuance and explanation of divers Statutes had its second reading M r Serjeant Gawdy and M r Doctor Barkeley did bring from the Lords the Bill touching the Sabhath day with Message from their Lordships that they can find by no Precedent that they can now add any thing at all upon our Conference to their former Additions inserted into the said Bill and do think withal that those things we desire are already provided for in their said Additions as the Bill now standeth and do therefore pray that being so good a Bill as this is they will have care it do not miscarry and so departed Whereupon it was then thought good to reserve the Bill in state as it was till it may be further considered of by view of the Precedents of this House in like cases And Sir Thomas Heneage M r Sollicitor M r Recorder Sir William Moore M r Cromwell and M r Sandes were appointed to search the Precedents of this House for that purpose in the mean time of the next sitting of this Court after the said Adjournment Vide plus de ista materia on Wednesday the 17 th day of February ensuing The Bill for the preservation of Grain was ordered upon the Question to be discontinued and divers others of no great moment as touching Ecclesrastical Livings Maintenance of the Navy and the like were continued until the end of this Adjournment which was now drawing on on Monday next being the 21 th day of December And the Committees appointed for the continuance of them were these following viz. M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Heneage Sir Thomas Cecil Sir William Moore M r Sollicitor M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Richard Knightley M r Francis Hastings Sir Nicholas Woodroofe M r Dannet M r Haymond M r Cromwell M r Owen M r Rawleigh M r Grafton Sir Francis Drake M r Doctor Hammond M r Wolley M r Grice Sir Henry Nevill Sir John Peter Sir William Drury Sir Robert Conestable Sir Robert Germin Sir Henry Cock who were appointed to meet on Thursday after Christmas-day in the Afternoon at two of the Clock at Ely place After M r Vice Chamberlain's late former Speeches delivered unto this House of her Majesties good and grateful acceptation of the earnest and dutiful care and proceedings of this House in providing for the safety of her most Royal Person and of her Highnesses said most loving and favourable regard of adjourning this Court of Parliament for some such convenient time as during which the greater part of the Members of this House may at their pleasure repair home to their dwellings as well for their better recreations and ease as for their further dealing in their own private affairs it was moved by Mr. Speaker That some due form or course of yielding unto her Majesty most humble and dutiful thanks for the same her said Highnesses most honourable and gracious acceptation and consideration in the name and behalf of this whole House in most loyal humble dutiful and obedient manner may be considered of and devised Whereupon after a few Speeches resolved and prayed that the same should and might be done most fitly and conveniently by those honourable Personages Members of this House which are of her Majesties most honourable Privy Council who being then present did very willingly and honourably undertake to execute the same most faithfully and effectually On Monday the 21 th day of December three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the true payment of
up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being for the Sale of Edward Fishers Lands was returned expedited and the second was a Bill for the more speedy and due Execution of certain branches of the Statute made in the twenty third year of the Queens Majesties Reign intituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience with an amendment and a provision annexed quae communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa expedit ' and the third being the Bill for continuance of Statutes was read primâ vice On Tuesday the 21 th day of March primâ secundà tertiâ vice lect ' sunt the Amendments of the Bill to avoid fraudulent Assurances made in certain cases by Traitors quae commumi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa tradit ' servienti Gawdy Doctori Carew in Domum Communem deserend ' Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill for limitation of time touching Writs of Errours upon Fines and Recoveries was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu rejecta est Two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons which as it seemeth were of so little moment as that they are omitted in the very Original Journal-Book of the Upper House On Wednesday the 22 th day of March the Bill for the continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes was read secundâ tetriâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Gawdy and Doctor Carew being first passed by the Lords with an Amendment The first reading of this Bill appeareth not in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and by that which followeth on Thursday the 23 d day of this instant March following it is plain that the Entrance of the several readings of this Bill with the Amendments thereof is much mistaken and confounded through the great negligence of M r Anthony Mason at this time Clerk of the Upper House A Bill for the Sale of Thomas Hanford's Lands was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons The Lords having before passed a Bill to the same effect and sent it down to the House of Commons and they having rejected it without any Conference first desired and had with their Lordships therefore the Lords thought it a Precedent so strange and so far different from the Orders of this House that they of the House of Commons should reject a Bill sent from this House without Conference and frame a new Bill to the same effect and send it up that they did resolve to put it to the Question Whether this new Bill should by the Orders of this House be read here or not The whole House being particularly asked their opinions herein with one assent concluded not one gainsaying that it should not be read On Thursday the 23 d day of March the Bill for the continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes was read secundâ tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa with the Amendments Vide concerning this matter in the beginning of the day immediately foregoing being Wednesday for it should seem that the Bill it self was then read primâ secundâ vice and the Amendments only at this time although they be both set down very confusedly through the negligence of the Clerk of the Upper House The Bill for the Queens Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa tradit ' servienti Gawdy Doctori Carew in Domum Communem deferend ' Which said Bill was brought back again this morning from the said House of Commons unto the Lords with another Bill which was for the continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes There is no other or further business of this day set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House save only her Majesties Royal Assent given to divers Bills which had passed both Houses although she her self was absent which was done by her Majesties Letters Patents under the Great Seal Which because of the rarity of the Precedent are here verbatim transcribed together with the manner and solemnity of this days meeting out of the said Original Journal-Book in manner and form following viz. Hodie quum omnes Proceres Robis Parliament aribus induti in suo quisque loco sederent Prolocutor de Domo Communi unà cum omnibus qui ad hoc praesens Parliamentum summoniti suerant Militibus civibus Burgensibus accersitis praestò esset Edmundus Anderson Miles Capitalis Justiciarius de placito communi quia Cancellarius nondum convaluit exponit omnibus Regiam Majestatem magnis urgentissimis quibusdam negotiis adeò esse impeditam ut non queat impraesentiar ' commodè interesse Tamen inquit sua Majestas imperavit mibi ut suo nomine vobis hîc praesentibus declarem quibus Legibus seu Statutis à vobis in hoc praesenti Parliamento pro vestra parte stabilitis velit Regium assensum suum adhibere sine quo Legum vigorem obtinere non debent sicuti vos probè nôstis Et hiis dictis protendit Clerico Parliamentor ' quasdam Literas sub magno Sigillo Angliae Patentes quos ipse publicè legit Literae autem scriptae fuerunt in haec verba 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 the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and to our Trusty and well-beloved the Knights Citizens and Burgesses the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled Greeting We have seen and perfectly understand divers and sundry Acts and Ordinances annexed and affiled to these Presents agreed and accorded by our loving Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this our present Parliament assembled and severally indorsed by you as hath been accustomed The Titles and names of which Acts hereafter do particularly ensue that is to say an Act for the Confirmation of the Attainders of Thomas late Lord Pagett and others An Act concerning Errors in Records of Attainders of High-Treason An Act to avoid frandulent Assurances made in certain Cases by Traitors An Act to prevent Extortion in Sheriffs Under-Sheriffs and Bailiffs of Franchises or Liberties in Cases of Execution An Act for the Continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes An Act for the more speedy and due Execution of certain Branches of the Statute made in the 23 d year of the Queens Majesties Raign intituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience An Act for the Confirmation of the Sale of Edward Fishers Lands made towards satisfaction of his Debts Charges and Incumbrances An Act of one Subsidy granted by the Clergy An Act for the Grant of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty An Act for the Queens Majesties most gratious general and free Pardon And albeit the
of this House Sir Robert Jermin Sir John Higham Sir Thomas Brown Sir William Moore Mr. Francis Hastings Mr. Cromwell Sir John Harrington Mr. Recorder Mr. Beal These Members of the House touching whose Commitment Mr. Cromwell moveth were sent unto the Tower on Thursday the 2 d day of this instant March foregoing for whose liberty Sir John Higham had also moved before on Saturday the 4 th day of the same Month last past The Bill for errors in Records of Attainders was read the second time with the amendments and upon the motion was ordered to be ingrossed On Tuesday the 14 th day of March the Bill for confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy was thrice read and passed upon the question The Bill against buying of Wares by strangers was upon the second reading committed unto Mr Aldersey M r Saunders M r Harris and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next in Serjeants-Inn Hall in Chancery Lane The Bill for Curriers was read the second time and committed to the Committees aforesaid and to Mr. Recorder Mr. Beale Mr. Salkingston and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Salkingston The Bill for fraudulent Conveyances by Traytors was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Harris Mr. Wroth Mr. Conisbie and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the said Committees who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber this Afternoon The Bill for payment of Sir Gerrard Croker his debts was brought in again by the Committees being amended after the same was ingrossed and passed upon the Question The Bill for Horse-stealing was read the third time with the amendments and additions and dashed upon the question Mr. Attorney and Mr. Doctor Carew do bring from the Lords two Bills of which the first was for the Sale of Thomas Hanfords lands Three Bill of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being an Act for the more speedy and due execution of certain Branches of the Statute of 23. of her Majesty to keep her Majesties Subjects in due obedience was read the first time Two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first was the Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy Nota That there is no mention made of the sending up of these two Bills in the Journal-Book of the House of Commons which happened through the negligence of M r William Onslow at this time supplying the place of the Clerk of that House and therefore it is supplyed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House On Wednesday the 15 th day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading whereof the first was the Bill of Fines for abridging Proclamations The Bill for payment of Hanfords debts was twice read and committed unto Mr. Morrice Mr. Cromwell Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Comptroller and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Comptroller The Bill for delay of Execution in Writs of Errors was thrice read and upon some arguments upon the Bill again committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor Mr. Wolley Mr. Cromwell and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Nota. That this Bill was committed after the second reading upon Monday the 27 th day of February foregoing and now again as it seemeth upon the third reading which is not usual by reason of some dispute that rose about it Two Bills were sent up to the Lords this day of which the first was touching errors in records of Attainders of High Treason and the second for repealing of a Statute touching Fish made in Anno 13 Reginae Eliz. The sending up of these two Bills is not at all mentioned in the Journal-Book of the House of Commons which happened in this place as in divers others of this second meeting of this present Parliament through the inexperience and negligence of Mr. William Onslow who supplied the place of Mr. Fulk Onslow Clerk of the said House being detained from thence by sickness and therefore it is supplyed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House On Thursday the 16 th day of March the Bill for Recusants was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy Council of this House Sir Robert Jermin Sir John Higham Sir William Moore and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill against delay of Execution by Writs of Error being put to the question upon the third reading by the division of the House the same was dashed The Bill for to take away one Proviso made 13 o of the Queen for Deeds Grants c. was dashed upon the question but after what reading it was dashed it doth not appear yet it is probable it was upon the second reading it having been read the first time upon the Wednesday immediately foregoing The Bill for confirmation of Leters Patents from her Majesty under the great Seal of England c. was twice read and committed to be ingrossed The Bill for making of Cloths in Suffolk was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Robert Jermin Sir John Higham Sir William Moore Mr. Cromwell and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir Robert Jermin who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Guildhall M r Edward Penruddock M r Sprynt M r Richard Lewkenor and M r Gyles Estcourt have leave to depart but upon what reasons or grounds the House gave them leave is very negligently omitted On Friday the 17 th day of March the Bill for Fines with Proclamation was upon the second reading committed to be ingrossed The Bill for Avenon was upon the second reading committed to M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Chancellor M r Woolley Sir Robert Jermin and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-Chamber A Proviso added to the Bill of Fines was twice read and ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Errors in Fines brought in by the Committees with the Amendments was twice read and committed to be ingrossed A Saving to Hanford's Bill was twice read and committed to the former Committees The Bill brought in again by the Committees against Recusants with a Proviso and Amendments also twice read The Bill for continuance of Statutes was read the third time and passed not upon the Question A Proviso also added to the same Bill that no person shall put in Sureties upon any Information was twice read and committed unto Mr. Recorder Mr. Glanvile Mr. Harris Mr. Wroth Mr. Philipps Mr. Morley Mr. Fansham Mr. Hare and Mr. Jones who were appointed to meet at the Middle Temple Hall this Afternoon at four of the Clock Nota That it is not expressed in the Original Journal-Book whether this Bill passed upon the third reading or not but it is most probable that the House did defer to give their assent unto
it until the foresaid Proviso should likewise have its third reading and that which further confirms the not passing of it at this time is because upon Monday the 20 th day of this instant March following divers Committees were appointed to go up unto the Lords and to confer with them about this said Bill Sir George Hastings hath pardon of his absence this Parliament Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill against Extortion of Sheriffs was twice read and committed unto M r Philips Mr. Harris Mr. Wroth Mr. Cromwell and others who were appointed to meet in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall On Saturday the 18 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Recusants with the Proviso was read the third time and passed upon the Question Mr. Speaker declared to the House from her Majesty That she thanked God understanding of their great love unto her in regard of her charges sustained in the Low-Countries and that her Majesty was contented this Afternoon that some convenient number of them should have Audience before her Majesty Whereupon these persons were appointed by the House all the Privy-Council of this House Sir Robert Jermin Sir John Higham Sir Henry Cock Sir Thomas Browne Mr. Fortefoue Master of the Requests Sir John Peter Sir William Moore Mr. Wroth Mr. Tasborough Mr. Markham Mr. Revel and Mr. George Moore Vide concerning this business on Saturday the 11 th day of this instant March foregoing The Proviso that persons Arrested by Informers may appear by Attornies was read the third time and passed upon the question Mr. Wingfield was brought into this House to Answer his misdemeanor against Mr. Walton a Member of this House for that as Walton informed Mr. Wingfield did offer to draw his Weapon upon him and gave evil Language which Mr. Wingfield denied and said for that his Brother ..... was slain by ..... of Walton and Walton being an Accessary to that Murther he said he could not well take it and knew not what might happen Whereupon Mr. Speaker exhorted him to remit all that was past seeing that he had taken the course of Law for his Brothers Death unto which Exhortation Mr. Wingfield yielded and so was discharged The Bill for payment of Fishers Debts was sent from the Lords with a Proviso and Amendments which were thrice read and assented unto by the House upon the Question Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons the first touching Exemplifications and Constats of Original Conveyances made to the Queens Majesty and the second for limitation of time touching Writs of Error upon Fines and Recoveries The sending up of these two Bills is not at all mentioned in the Journal-Book of the House of Commons which happened in this place as in divers others of this second meeting of this present Parliament through the inexperience and negligence of Mr. William Onslow who supplied the place of Mr. Fulk Onslow Clerk of the said House being detained from thence by sickness and therefore it is supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House On Monday the 20 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment did each of them pass upon the Question after the third reading of which the first was the Bill to prevent Extortion in Sheriffs and Under-Sheriffs c. for Executions The House appointed divers to go up to the Lords to confer with them about the Bill for continuance of Statutes who were as followeth Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Attorney of the Wards Mr. Morrice Mr. Saunders Sir William Moore Mr. Cromwell Mr. Hare and Mr. Francis Bacon Vide concerning this Bill on Friday the 17 th day of this instant March foregoing The old Committees appointed on Wednesday the 15 th day of this instant March foregoing in the Bill for the payment of Hanfords Debts were to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall and the Bill which came from the Lords and the new Bill drawn by the said Hanford which was once read were both delivered to M r Comptroller being one of the said former Committees Six Bills were sent up to the Lords the first touching the Sale of Edward Fishers Lands the second for the more speedy and due Execution of certain Branches of the Statute made in the twenty third year of the Queens Majesties Reign Intituled an Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience the third for continuance of Statutes the fourth to prevent Extortion in Sheriffs Under-Sheriffs c. the fifth for abridging of Proclamations to be made upon Fines levied in the Court of Common Pleas and the sixth to avoid fraudulent Assurances made in certain Cases with a Proviso annexed and Amendments Nota That the sending up of these six Bills is not at all mentioned in the Journal-Book of the House of Commons and therefore it is supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House On Tuesday the 21 th day of March the Bill for exemplifying Letters Patents was read the third time and passed upon the question The Bill new brought in for the payment of Hanfords Debts he himself being present assented to it and did subscribe every leaf with his own hand whereupon the Bill was read twice and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill to avoid fraudulent Conveyances made in certain Cases by Traytors was sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons Two Bills also of no great moment were sent up from the said House to the Lords The sending up of these two Bills to the Lords or the sending down the first Bill to the Commons is very negligently omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and are therefore inserted as the like was done Yesterday and upon divers other dayes out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House The Bill for payment of Hanfords Debts was read the third time and passed upon the question The Bill for breeding of Horses in the wast grounds of Devon and Cornwall was read the second time A Proviso offered by Mr. Conisbie to be inserted into the same Bill which being read the Bill and the Proviso were dashed upon the Question whether they should be ingrossed or no. The Bill for the continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes was sent from the Lords to the House of Commons by Serjeant Gawdie and Doctor Carew A new Bill also for the sale of Thomas Hanfords Lands was sent up to the Lords as it should seem by Mr. Treasurer and others The mutual sending of these two Bills from either House to other is very negligently omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and is therefore inserted out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House An Order delivered by M r Cromwell Entred by consent of the House WHereas upon complaint made to this House upon Monday the 21 th
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
time Clerk of the Upper House wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the said House and is therefore supplied here as elsewhere also out of that of the House of Commons On Thursday the 13 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Tuesday foregoing the amendments of the Bill for having Horses Armour and Weapons was read prima secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand The Amendments also and a new Proviso annexed unto the Bill against Informers was read secunda tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusae and one other Bill of no great moment had its first reading The Bill for the better recovery of Costs and Damages against Informers which had been sent up to their Lordships on Tuesday the 4 th day of this instant March foregoing was sent down again this day to the said House by M r Doctor Ford and M r Doctor Cary. Nota That the sending down of this Bill from the Lords to the House of Commons is wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and is therefore supplied out of that of the House of Commons On Friday the 14 th day of March The Bill of Subsidy was once read and the Provision of the Bill for Orford-Haven was read and concluded and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Shuttleworth and M r Powle On Saturday the 15 th day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being a Bill for the confirmation of the Subsidies of the Clergy was read prima secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand And another being a Bill against erecting and maintaining of Cottages was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Clark On Monday the 17 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 first being the Bill of the Subsidy was read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa There were also sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons this Forenoon six Bills of no great moment of which the first was the Bill for reviving and enlarging of a Statute made in the 23 d year of her Majesties Raign for repairing of Dover Haven and the second was the Bill for the preservation of the Haven of Orford in the County of Suffolk On Tuesday the 18 th day of March Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against the abuses in election of Scholars and Presentation of Benefices was read tertia vice conclusa And the scond being a Bill that the Children of Aliens shall pay Strangers Customs was read tertia vice and concluded and was sent down to the House of Commons with the former Bill by Doctor Clark and Doctor Cary. There were also this morning brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons four Bills of no great moment of which the first was a Bill for the better execution of the Statute made in the 8 th year of her Majesties Reign touching Cloth workers and Cloths to be shipped over the Seas and the second touching Outlawries The Two other Bills touching forcible Entries and touching pleading at large in an Ejectione firmae which were sent up at this time with the two former are omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and are therefore supplied out of that of the House of Commons On Wednesday the 19. day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for avoiding of certain Conveyances and other Estates supposed to be procured by Thomas Drewry of the lands of Thomas Hasilrigge with the Amendments was read secunda tertia vice conclusa On Thursday the 20 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill concerning Pleadings in Actions of Trespass for Trespasses under the value of forty shillings was read tertia vice conclusae An Act providing remedy against Discontinuances in Writs of Error in the Exchequer and Kings Bench was brought from the House of Commons On Friday the 21 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning the Hospital of Lamborne was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Puckering There were also sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons this Forenoon three Bills of no great moment of which the first was a Bill for Writs upon Proclamations and Exigents to be currant within the County Palatine of Durham On Saturday the 22 th day of March four Bills of no great moment were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was a Bill for avoiding of certain Conveyances c. procured by Thomas Drewry of the Lands and Leases of Thomas Hasilrigg and the second was the Bill for the better recovery of such costs and damages as shall be adjudged to any person against common Informers The Lords having this Forenoon given three readings to the Amendments of the Bill for the better assurance of Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of the free Grammer School of Tunbridge in the County of Kent did send the same Bill with those new Amendments to be passed also in the House of Commons by Doctor Carew and M r Powle the Bill it self having before passed that House and had been sent up from them to the Lords on Monday the 17 th day of this instant March foregoing On Monday the 14 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Amendments of the Bill against abuses in Election of Scholars c. were read and concluded Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for the repeal of certain Statutes was read secunda vice Five Bills were also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was an Act against the erecting and maintaining of Cottages sent up with the Amendments from the House of Commons which said Amendments were thrice read communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusae Memorand quod Christopherus Wray Miles Capitalis Justic. de Banco Regis secum adduxit in Parliamento in Camera Parliamenti intra Dominos breve de errore billam de Regina indorsat ac Rotul in quibus continebantur placit process in quibus supponebatur error ibidem reliquit transcriptum totius recordi cum Clerico Parliamenti simul cum praedicto breve de errore in Parliamento On Tuesday the 25 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment were brought up
thereof as they upon good considerations in their own conceits thought convenient And so offering the said Bill in such sort amended delivered in the same to be further dealt in by this House as this House should think good And withal moved further for avoiding of confusion hereafter and for a more orderly and speedy proceeding of this House in the making of Laws that they would from henceforth in their Commitments use to name a fewer number than they have hitherto in this Session of Parliament for the most part used to do And that those so to be named should give better Attendance in the same Commitment than hitherto they have done this Session And further that at each meeting of the same Committees at the times and places appointed for the same the names of all the said such Committees should then be first read and if the more part of them or at least the one half of them shall be present then the more part or one half of them to proceed to Conference accordingly or else not Which Motion was well liked of and allowed Sir John Parrot one of the Committees in the Bill of Quo titulo ingressus est sheweth that by reason of the great time spent yesterday in the Commitment of the Bill touching Informers and Informations upon penal Statutes he and the residue of the said Committees in this Bill could not end their Conference in the same And therefore moved another meeting again about the same this Afternoon and that her Majesties learned Councel might also be there with them Whereupon for that it was then Answered by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain that her Highness said learned Councel could not be there this Afternoon but were he well knew to be elsewhere imployed all the same whole Afternoon It was resolved that the said Committees should nevertheless then meet together and proceed in the said Conference as much as they could in the mean time until a further time might be afterwards taken for her Majesties said learned Councel to be with them On Friday the 21 th day of February the Bill for the true payment of the Debts of Thomas Hanford was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Comptroller Sir Henry Knyvet Mr. Alford Mr. Hare Mr. Graston and Mr. Francis Moor who were appointed to meet to Morrow Morning at seven of the Clock in the Committee Chamber of this House and then Mr. Hanford to attend the said Committees and also the Bill that passed in the last Parliament from this House to the Lords to be also delivered to the said Committees both which Bills were then delivered to Mr. Comptroller Upon a Motion made by Mr. John Stubs it is Ordered that Thomas Drury may with his free liberty by the priviledge of this House attend the Committees in the Bill for the relief of Thomas Haselrigg Esquire exhibited into this House against him and also to prosecute in the same cause without any molestation or arrest during the pleasure of this House Vide March 7. March 18 Mar. 19. following Mar. 21. Upon a Motion made by Mr. Harris that divers Members of this House having Writs of nisi prius brought against them to be tried at the Assizes in sundry places of this Realm to be holden and kept in the Circuits of this present Vacation and that Writs of Supersedeas might be awarded in those Cases in respect of the priviledge of this House due and appertaining to the Members of the same It is agreed that those of this House which shall have occasion to require such benefit of priviledge in that behalf may repair unto Mr. Speaker to declare unto him the state of their Cases and that he upon his discretion if the Cases shall so require may direct the Warrant of this House to the Lord Chancellor of England for the awarding of such Writs of Supersedeas accordingly Upon a Motion made by this House that ..... Saintpole Esquire one of the Knights in this present Parliament for the County of Lincoln being also Sheriff of the said County of Lincoln at this present time might have Licence by this House to depart into the Country about the attendance of his said Office of Sheriffwick It was granted and agreed that he might so do accordingly Nota That by this it appeareth to be a thing no ways strange or in it self incompetible for a Sheriff of any Shire to be a Member of the House of Commons and there to perform the service of that House And that the Licence given to such at any time to depart is no other than is at any time vouchsafed of course to the Members of that House upon any urgent occasions by them alledged requiring their absence for some time be it longer or shorter of which also there is a remarkable Precedent in the Journal of the House of Commons de Anno 27 Reginae Eliz. upon Friday the 4 th of December and another Precedent also in the same Parliament upon Tuesday the 23 th day of February de anno isto praedicto 27 Reginae Eliz. yet was there a Precedent in this very Case otherwise adjudged by the House after much dispute upon Wednesday the 4 th day of November in the Parliament de anno 43 44 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1601. Where Sir Andrew Nowell being Sheriff of the County of Rutland was afterwards Elected one of the Knights for the same and so compelled to return himself which perhaps also may make the difference in the Case and that where any man is first Elected a Member of the House of Commons and afterwards made Sheriff of some County his first Election stands good Vide etiam Dec. 2. de anno isto 43. The Proviso to the Bill concerning Purveyors was twice read and in the Bill these words or within were interlined in one place of the said Amendments in the said Bill and inserted in the Bill by Order of this House which were also twice read and so the Bill and Proviso Ordered upon the question to be ingrossed The Amendments in the Bill touching Informers were twice read and upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for repealing of certain Statutes was read the second time and upon the question committed unto Mr. Cromwell Mr. Broughton Mr. Edward Dyer M r Grafton and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next at Serjeants-Inn Hall in Chancery Lane at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Committee in the Bill touching Orford-Haven who were appointed on Thursday the 13 th day of this instant February foregoing is deferred till to morrow in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the place formerly appointed The Commitment in the Bill against multiplicity of Suits and the excessive number of Attornies who were appointed on Monday the 17 th day of this instant February foregoing is appointed to be dealt in at one
the 4 th day Thursday the 6 th day Saturday the 8 th day of this instant March preceding touching Purveyors and some exacted Fees in the Exchequer which the rather may be gathered because it should seem the House did presently upon this Message appoint the Committees in either Bill a time for their meeting to consider of them accordingly And yet this also is set down in the said Journal-Book very imperfectly in these words only following viz. for the Purveyors this Afternoon and for the Exchequer to Morrow in the Afternoon After many Speeches touching the present state of the Paper-Book of the Bill for relief of Thomas Haselrigg Esquire being altered in some parts differing from the ingrossed Bill in Parchment since the ingrossing of the same Bill It is upon the question Ordered that the said Paper-Book shall be by the Clerk of this House reformed again in all parts of the same agreeably to the said ingrossed Bill And that thereupon the said ingrossed Bill should be then read accordingly which was so thereupon read for the third reading And upon the question in the 4 th line these words one well experimented in slights and deceits as is supposed were put out and these words were put in the 5 th line after the word further and these words or his Heirs in the six and twentieth line after this word Haselrigg in the same line which amendments being three times read and the Bill passed upon the question the same Bill was thereupon delivered to Sir Edward Hobby to be by him carried to M r Treasurer and those others who were but lately before gone up to the Lords with five other Bills To the end they might then also deliver that Bill likewise to the Lords with those others of which one being the principal was for the assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of the free Grammar School of Tunbridge in the County of Kent M r Serjeant Puckering and M r Attorney General coming from the Lords the said Mr. Serjeant brought a Bill from the Lords for Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy with an Instrument of the same under Seal and a Bill touching Horses Armour and weapons with very special commendation of the same Bills as things of very great importance And the said Mr. Attorney brought again from the Lords the Bill for the relief of Thomas Haselrigg Esquire this present day passed in this House and afterwards sent up to their Lordships but as he said brought up but with four or five Members of this House in sort not erst accustomed whereof as their Lordships did much marvel so did they return the same Bill back unto this House again not any way misliking of the Bill at all but that it might by further consideration of this House be sent up again when this House should think good with a greater number of the Members of this House after their accustomed manner whereby their Lordships might think the Bill had passed this House with good and full liking of the same And said further that their Lordships commanded him to desire Mr. Speaker to put this House in remembrance for the speedy proceeding of this House in the Bills sent from their Lordships unto this House and some of them specially recommended from their Lordships to this House whereof the said Lords did name five viz. one concerning Captains and Souldiers another touching excess of Apparel a third touching Houses of Husbandry and Tillage a fourth against Horse-stealing and the fifth against the erecting and maintenance of Cottages as very necessary Laws for the Common-wealth And that therefore their Lordships do eftsoons desire the said Bills may with all convenient speed be considered of and expedited especially for that it is very like that this Parliament draweth near unto an end Which being reported unto the House by Mr. Speaker the said Bill for Haselrigg was presently sent to the Lords by the Master of the Wardrobe and a convenient number of others Two Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to avoid Horse-stealing was read the second time On Tuesday the 18 th day of March the Bill for Repeal of certain Statutes was brought in again without any report by M r Harris one of the Committees Four Bills upon the third reading having passed this House were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others of which two of them were one touching forcible Entries and the other concerning pleading at large in an Ejectione firmae Two Bills also had each of them their third reading of which the second was the Bill for the relief of the Curriours and after some amendments added unto it being likewise read three times the Bill was upon the question and the division of the House dashed by the difference of thirty voices viz. with the Yea ninety and with the No one hundred and twenty Mr. Treasurer one of the Committees in the Bill against strangers Retaylers of foreign Wares appointed on Wednesday the 12 th day of this instant March foregoing brought in the Bill again with some amendments which were not then read After divers Motions it is ordered upon the question That the Serjeant of this House do bring in Thomas Drury Gentleman into this House to Morrow at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon to answer unto those things which he shall be charged with as well on the behalf of this whole House as of some particular Member of the same Vide concerning this business on Friday the 21 th day of February foregoing and on Friday the 7 th day of this instant March last past as also upon Wednesday the 19 th day of the same March ensuing Mr. Doctor Clark and Mr. Doctor Cary do bring from the Lords two Bills of which the last was that Children of Aliens shall pay strangers Customes And a little after the foresaid Doctors did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do desire Conference to Morrow at eight of the Clock in the morning with those of this House which were committed in the Bill that lately passed in this House for the true payment of the Debts of Thomas Hanford for that their Lordships having sent for the said Hanford to his House and not finding him there left peremptory Order for his repair to their Lordships at a day already past and wherein he hath failed of his appearance before them and shew further that their Lordships have appointed six of themselves for that Conference to wit two Earls two Barons and two Bishops and thereupon M r Cromwell M r Markham M r Recorder of London M r Faunsham M r Osborn and M r Francis Hastings were added to the former Committees and to attend upon the said Committees of the Lords to Morrow at eight of the Clock in the Forenoon according to the said appointment of their Lordships The Bill against Erecting and Maintenance of Cottages was
and touched with his said misbehaviours delivered in their Motions and Speeches that as for their own particular they could be pleased upon his consession of his said offences and his due submission thereupon to remit the same so in regard of the publick injury by him done to the whole House they referred the further consideration thereof to the same House It should seem that these speeches and misdemeanours of Thomas Drurie Gentleman were accasioned by a certain Bill which passed the House against him upon Monday the 17 th day of this instant March foregoing for the relief of Thomas Haselrigg Esquire of which matter see on Friday the 21. day of February preceeding and upon Friday the 7 th day and on Tuesday the 18 th day of this instant March last past and upon Friday the 21. day of this said Month. Which very Bill also having been this day read secunda tertia vice in the Upper House and having had also its first reading before with the Lords was by them concluded and sent down to the House of Commons and now brought to them whilest it should seem they were in agitation of these misdemeanours of the said Thomas Drurie by M r Doctor Ford and M r Doctor Stanhop with some amendments but the sending down of the said Bill is omitted in the original Journal-Book of the said House On Thursday the 20 th day of March two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes was upon the second reading committed unto M r Morrice M r Hare M r Wroth and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Wroth who with the rest was appointed to meet in Serjeants-Inn Hall in Fleetstreet this present day at two of the Clock this Afternoon The amendments in the Bill for the relief of the City of Lincoln being twice read the Bill was upon the question ordered to be ingrossed The amendments in the Bill for the relief of George Ognell Esquire were twice read and after many arguments was deferred from the question of ingrossing till my Lord of Warwick's Council be further heard which was first apponited to have been done to Morrow at two of the Clock but upon a further Motion of M r Sutton alledging my Lord of Warwick not to be in Town is deferred till Monday next at 10. of the Clock M r Doctor Stanhop and M r Powle do bring word from the Lords that touching the Bill lately passed this House against secret Outlawries and sent up unto their Lordships they have considered thereof with some advice of the Judges and do pray that some six of this House do meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Chamber of the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas at Serjeants-Inn in Fleetstreet that thereupon some such good course may be taken as the same Bill may be made to become a Law And thereupon were then nominated for that purpose M r Alford M r John Hare M r Harris M r White M r Shirley M r Grafton M r Cromwell and appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon at the said Serjeants-Inn in the Chamber there of the said Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill against the erecting and maintenance of Cottages shewed that the Committees have met together and considered of the same Bill and in their own opinions have thought good that some things in the same Bill were very meet to be put out of the same and some other things to be put in And also a proviso fit to be added to the same and shewed how and wherein And moved further that some of this House may be sent to the Lords to pray conference which their Lordships touching the said amendments and Proviso for the passage of the said Bill Whereupon M r Vice-Chamberlain and sundry other of the former Committees were presently sent to their Lordships to move for Conference and the Bill lately expedited and passed in this House against discontinuances in Writs of Error in the Court of Exchequer and the Kings Bench was then sent up by them unto their Lordships Vide de ista materia in fine hujus diei Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against abuses in election of Scholars and Presentations to Benefices had its first reading and then read also again for the second reading of the same and was committed unto M r Treasurer M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Secretary Wolley the Master of the Wardrobe Sir Philip Butler and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Sir Edward Hobby M r Shirley M r Francis Moor and M r Morrice for the Exchequer matter It should seem that these were appointed to consider of the Bill referred before upon Friday the 14 th day of February touching certain Exactions imposed upon the Subject by certain Officers of the Exchequer which is the more plain because Sir Edward Hobby who then preferred it and obtained the first reading thereof is here named in the first place now again to consider of it which it seems was occasioned by the stopping of this Bill and another touching Purveyors by reason of her Majesties dislike and the entring of the House again upon the treating of them after her Highness had been fully satisfied with their clear and honest intentions therein Concerning which matters see more on Saturday the 15 th day on Monday the 17 th day and on Thursday the 27 th day of February foregoing as also on Tuesday the 4 th day Thursday the 6 th day Saturday the 8 th day Monday the 17 th day and on Tuesday the 18 th day of this instant March last past M r Vice-Chamberlain and the residue returning from the Lords he shewed that they have had Conference together with a Committee of the Lords and that their Lordships after some long and effectual Arguments used by them for maintenance of all the parts of the said Bill in sort as the same Bill now is without any great cause or necessity of such amendments as this House doth require in the same Their Lordships yet nevertheless were pleased to gratifie the House in yielding to assent unto their request of the same amendments wishing withal that this House in the same their amendments would have consideration of such Cottages as might happen to be erected for the burning of Lime or making of Brick during the time only of such burning of Lime or making of Tyles and Bricks On Friday the 21 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the repeal of certain Statutes was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Vice-Chamberlain M r
De-la-Bar M r Palmer and others are appointed to meet this day in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock for the Glass-Houses The Bill against excess in apparel was upon the second reading committed unto M r Comptroller M r Lieutenant of the Tower M r Cromwell M r Jones M r Morrice and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Amendments made by the Lords in the Bill for the relief of Thomas Haselrigg Esquire and in the Bill for the better recovery of Costs and damages against common Informers before passed this House and sent up unto their Lordships and the Proviso added by the Lords to the said last recited Bill were three times read and the same Proviso and Amendments were thereupon passed upon the question accordingly M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill against the erecting and maintenance of Cottages shewed that since their Conference with the Lords yesterday he and the residue of the same Committees have met together and agreed upon the setting down of such further Amendments in the said Bill as were liked of both by the Committees of the Lords and also by the Committees of this House And thereupon the said Amendments and the Proviso also being twice read the said Proviso was Ordered to be ingrossed M r Treasurer one of the Committees in the Bill against Abuses in Elections of Scholars and Presentations to Benefices shewed that the Committees have met together and considered of the said Bill and have devised some Amendments to be made of the same which Amendments being then opened to the House and read and liked well of and also an Addition to the same Bill offered by M r Wroth being likewise open and read to the House and liked well of he moved that Congerence might be prayed of the Lords touching the same Amendments and Addition for the better passing of the said Bill Whereunto this House assented accordingly M r Serjeant Puckering and M r Doctor Awberry do bring from the Lords a Bill concerning the Almeshouse of Lamborn in the County of Berks with further Message from the Lords That their Lordships desire that M r Speaker would put this House in remembrance to have care of speedy expediting the Bills they have in hand the rather for that this Parliament draweth near unto an end and to shew them withal that her Majesty is very desirous that this Parliament should end before Easter if it might be without lett or hindrance to the passing of those good Laws that they are in hand with for the good of the Common-Wealth and wisheth very earnestly it might end upon Wednesday next And their Lordships do likewise desire that this House would have care of the good Laws passed with their Lordships and sent down to this House and especially that concerning Horses Armour and Weapons which as they did recommend unto this House from themselves so do they now in like sort recommend the same from her Majesty by her Highness special direction And that their Lordships do further pray that if this House have any Bills ready they would send them unto their Lordships who will deal in the same very willingly having now leisure Three Bills which passed this House this present day two of which were one for repeal of certain Statutes and the other for the Naturalizing of Joice Lambert were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others with Commission further to pray Conference with their Lordships touching the said Amendments and Addition to the said Bill against Abuses of Elections of Scholars and Presentations to Benefices The Bill for relief of the City of Lincoln was read the third time and after many Arguments both with the Bill and against the Bill passed upon the question with the difference of fifty three persons upon the division of the House viz. with the Bill a hundred and eighteen and against the Bill sixty five persons Which difference being reported to the House the Bill was afterwards according to the antient Orders of this House in such Cases carried out and brought in again by M r Vice-Chamberlain with the Bill in his hand followed and attended on by all the Members of this House then present as well those that had first before given their Voices against the passing of the said Bill as those that had given their Voices with the passing of the same M r Treasurer and the residue returning from the Lords he shewed that they had conferred with their Lordships touching the said Amendments and Addition to the said Bill against the Abuses in Election of Scholars and Presentations to Benefices And that their Lordships do like very well of the same And do further wish that this House in their said Amendments would have a further Consideration also for notice to be given in some Cases to the Patrons of Benefices which may happen to become void in some sort by reason of some part of the Law intended in the said Bill and referred them therein further for the better Explanation thereof unto Mr. Morrice one other of the said Committees unto whom then the said Bill was thereupon delivered to be provided for likewise in that point accord ingly Upon a Motion made by Mr. Francis Hastings for the setting at liberty of Thomas Drury Gentleman lately Committed by this House to the Serjeants Custody the said Thomas Drury was presently brought to the Bar and discharged by Mr. Speaker in the name of the whole House paying his Fees Vide concerning this business upon Friday the 21 th day of February preceeding and upon Friday the 7 th day Tuesday the 18 th day and on Wednesday the 19 th day of March last past Upon a Motion made by Mr. Markham on the behalf of Mr. Aylmer that with the good favour and liking of this ..... But what should here follow is wholly omitted by the negligence of Mr. Fulk Onslow Clerk of the House of Commons although it should seem that this Motion made by Mr. Markham was in the behalf of Mr. Aylmer against Mr. Puleston touching the invalidity of his Election for Knight of the County of Denbigh in Wales Of all which matters see on Wednesday the 12 th day Monday the 17 th day and on Wednesday the 19 th day of February foregoing On Saturday the 22 th day of March Mr. Palmer one of the Committees in the Bill touching the gaging of Casks and other Foreign Vessels bringeth in the Bill with some Amendments and Provisoes The same Amendments and Provisoes being twice read the Bill was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was that Children of Aliens shall pay Strangers Customs Mr. Cromwell one of the Committees in the Bill for Continuation and perfecting of divers Statutes bringeth in the Bill with some Additions and shewing the same
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
the thing we fear for if the thing be otherwise and our necessity greater the former doings are no Rules to us And so Precedents as they are not to be rejected so they ought not to be Eternal For the poverty of our Country we have no reason to think it poor our sumptuousess in Apparel in Plate and in all things argueth our riches And our dearth of every thing amongst us sheweth plenty of Money But it is said our Countries are poor and we must respect them that sent us hither Why so we must also remember who sent for us hither This Cause is hard for there is necessity against necessity danger against danger and inward discontent against outward Forces The poor are grieved by being overcharged this must be helped by increasing our own Burthen for otherwise the weak feet will complain of too heavy a body that is to be feared If the feet knew their strength as we know their oppression they would not bear as they do But to answer them it sufficeth that the time requireth it And in a Prince power will command To satisfy them they cannot think we overcharge them when we charge our selves with them and above them But if nothing will satisfy them our doings are sufficient to bind them If the multitudes of Parliaments be remembred heretofore many Subsidies now in one Parliament cannot seem burthensome The more Laws we make the less liberty we have to our selves And now one word for my self if my Speech hath offended excuse me I will not often trouble you hereafter M r Speaker said I do not desire to be thought arrogant for the thing which I will speak shall be out of duty belonging to my place Because I see many Speeches grow upon mistaking and one Speech mistaken to cause another mistaking sic undam gignere undam and so a great deal of time lost in words hereafter I will be bold if any man mistake in the point of a Bill to tell him of it before his Speech proceed for this Question of conferring with the Lords has taken up so much time only by mistaking for 't is granted by the House to have a General Conference They that should confer had need be authorized and instructed what to confer upon for he that hath but delegatam Potestatem will think nothing Promissum that is not Commissum and 't is certain non utile est ubi nulla est curatio morbi Therefore understand what is needful to confer upon The question upon the Return of the Burgess of Southwark and for mending a Return in an Indenture were referred unto M r Speaker to inform the Lord Keeper thereof No Return can be amended in this House For the Writ and Return are in Chancery and must be amended there And in the Chancery this is the Rule if the Sirname or the proper name of a party be mistaken in the Return the Lord Keeper will not amend it for such tender consideration is had of the free Election by the Corporations as no Information shall be credited against the Return but the Lord Keeper will first make out a Writ reciting the mistaking in the former Return and then they by the same Writ shall have Authority to make a new Election Thus far out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal On Wednesday the 7 th day of March Sir Edward Hobby moving the Cause of M r Fitzherbert his bringing up unto this House by a Writ of Habeas Corpus cum Causa from the Lord Keeper showeth That he hath moved the Lord Keeper touching the said Writ and that his Lordship thinketh best in regard of the Ancient Liberties and Priviledges of this House that a Serjeant at Armes be sent by Order of this House for the said M r Fitzherbert at his own Charge by reason whereof he may be brought hither to this House without peril of further being Arrested by the way and the state of this Cause to be considered of and examined when he shall be come hither Which was thereupon well liked and allowed by this House Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second concerning the lawful deprivation of Edward Bonner late Bishop of London was read the second time John Legg Prisoner at the Bar Servant to the Earl of Northumberland as he saith after a good Exhortation given him by M r Speaker and the Oath of Supremacy pronounced by him at the Bar is upon his humble Submission and craving of Pardon set at liberty of his Imprisonment by the Order of this House paying his Fees Vide on Saturday March the third foregoing The Bill for Confirmation of the Jointure of the Lady Margaret Countess of Cumberland had its third reading and thereupon it was moved by some that it might now pass the House and be sent up also to their Lordships but others took Exceptions thereat because the Bill had not been as yet spoken unto Whereupon because it could not now be committed after the third reading it was by the Order of the House agreed that it should be spoken unto to Morrow and afterwards pass the House or be dashed as the Case it self should require The Bill for Naturalizing of William Sidney and Peregrine Wingfield was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others M r Serjeant Snagg and M r Serjeant Fleetwood do bring the Lords two Bills the one Intituled an Act against Counterfeiting of Councellors or principal Officers hands and the other Intituled an Act to confirm the sale of the Lands of M r Raven Gentleman made unto Lisse Cave Thomas Andrewes and Edward Hisserigg Esquires towards the payment of a Debt due unto her Majesty M r Vice-Chamberlain shewed that he and the rest of the Committees for Conference with the Lords did attend their Lordships yesterday in the Afternoon at the time and place appointed according to the Commission of this House and having there received from their Lordships further Advertizement of the imminent great dangers of this Realm and State more than their Lordships had imparted unto them in the last former Conference of this House with their said Lordships before they did thereupon move their Lordships for their good favour in giving time to this House to consult upon the said dangers and the remedies for the same until to Morrow in the Afternoon Their Lordships thereupon were so pleased to do albeit they rather desired the same might have been done sooner And so reciting at large the particularities of the said Advertizement and whereof some happened since the last former Conference Moved this House to grow to some resolution of matter to be prepared ready to be offered unto their Lordships to Morrow in the Afternoon according unto the promise of himself and the residue of the said Committees of this House unto their Lordships yesterday It was in the end after sundry Speeches of divers grave Members of this House tending to divers forms of provision of Treasure some by way of
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
Puckering deceasing in A. D. 1596. the Custody of the Great Seal was committed unto Sir Tho. Egerton then her Majesties Attorney General who at this present and many years after supplied that place Neither finally doth this ensuing Journal want either matter of rarity in respect of the Lord La Ware 's right setling in his former place which had been for a while discontinued or matter of very good Precedent in respect of some Questions that arose betwixt the two Houses touching the manner and form of the Lord Keeper's delivering the Answer of the Lords to such Members of the House of Commons as should at any time be sent up unto their Lordships with any Message or Bill Before the particular Relation of each days passages in this present Parliament be inserted out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House the extraordinary and unusual Proxies entred also at the beginning thereof which had been returned and delivered in unto the Clerk of the said House during the continuance of the same are here in the next place to be transcribed and set down all of them together and cannot be so orderly digested and referred to each day on which they were returned as formerly they have been For whereas before this Parliament Henry Spilman and Anthony Mason Esquires who had been successively Clerks of the said Upper House did usually enter the said Proxies at the beginning of each Journal upon the days on which they were introducted or returned Now Thomas Smith Esquire succeeding the said Anthony Mason did only generally enter them at the beginning of this present Journal as had been formerly accustomed without any distinct setting down the several days on which they had been introducted delivered unto him Which course having been also since followed unto this present year 1629. the said Proxies can be no more referred to their proper days but must be once for all generally set down in this present Journal and in divers others ensuing before the beginning of the said Journal in manner and form following Literae procuratoriae in hoc Parliamento sunt allatae Archiepiscopi Eboracen ' Matthaei c. qui Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuarien ' Richardum Episcopum London ' Tobiam Episcopum Dunelmen ' Richardum Episcopum Cestren ' conjunctim divisim Nota That whereas there is an c. after the word Matthaei in the Proxy foregoing it seemeth that these words are left out viz. absentis ex licentia Dominae Reginae and so if nothing had been omitted the said Proxy as may very probably be conjectured should have been thus inserted Archiepiscopi Eboracen ' Matthaei absentis ex licentia Dominae Reginae qui Procuratores c. as is before set down Nota also That these Proxies are all entred in the Genitive Case and must therefore be severally referred to those foregoing words viz. Literae Procuratoriae in hoc Parliamento sunt allatae Tobiae Episcopi Dunelmen ' qui Procuratores suos constituit Richardum Episcopum London ' Johannem Episcopum Wintonien ' Herbertum Episcopum Hereforden ' conjunctim divisim Johannis Episcopi Carliolen ' qui Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuarien ' Willielmi Episcopi Asaphen ' qui Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuarien ' Richardum Episcopum London ' Johannem Episcopum Bathon ' Wellen ' conjunctim divisim Willielmi Episcopi Lincoln ' qui Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuarien ' Herberti Episcopi Hereforden ' qui suos Procuratores constituit Episcopos Roffen ' Coventr ' Litchfield ' Norwicen ' Antonii Episcopi Meneven ' qui Procuratores suos constituit Episcopos Wigorn ' Bathon ' Wellen ' Norwicen ' Note that the Bishops Proxies are set before the Proxies of the Temporal Lords not because as I suppose they were all returned first but because of their Ecclesiastical Dignity and in respect that the Archbishop of Canterbury one of their Order is the first Peer of the Realm Whence also their names are usually first set down in the Journal-Book where the presence of the Lords is noted each day when they sit as long as the Parliament continueth There were also nine Temporal Lords which this Parliament sent their Proxies but in respect that according to the common use each of them constituted but one Proctor apiece they are omitted as not worthy the observation Only the last of them being the Lord Willoughbies Proxy of Eresby I thought good to have inserted because some exotick Titles are given him it it viz. Peregrini Domini Willoughby Beake Eresby qui suum Procuratorem constituit Edwardum Dominum Zouch Nota That all the foregoing Proxies which were sent from the Bishops were extraordinary or unusual Proxies in which a Spiritual Lord did constitute but one Proctor or more than two whereas usually the Bishops do constitute two Proctors apiece and the Temporal Lords but one And now the aforesaid Proxies being thus inserted the particular relation of some Passages of each day during the continuance of this Parliament are in the next place transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and some part also now at the very beginning out of a certain fragmentary and imperfect Journal of the House of Commons taken at this Parliament by a Member of the same On Monday the 24 th day of October the Parliament began and her Majesty with the greatest part of the Nobility and others in great state and comely manner came from her Palace of Whitehall towards Westminster Church about one of the Clock in the Afternoon riding in a Chariot open all covered over head Canopy-wise with Cloth of Tissue or Cloth of Silver Where after she had heard a Sermon she went on foot to the Parliament House The Lords Spiritual and Temporal present this day in the Upper House with her Majesty are set down in the Journal-Book to be these Johannes Archiepiscopus Cantuarien ' Thomas Egerton Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Marchio Winton ' Comites Comes Sussex Magnus Marescallus Comes Nottingham Magnus Senescallus Comes Northumbr ' Comes Salop ' Comes Kantiae Comes Wigorn ' Comes Cumberland Comes Bedford Comes Hartford Comes Lincolniae Vice-Comes Bindon Episcopi Episcopus London ' Episcopus Winton ' Episcopus Roffen ' Episcopus Covent ' Litchf Episcopus Gloucestren ' Episcopus Peterburgen ' Episcopus Hereford Episcopus Wigorn ' Episcopus Bathon ' Wellen ' Episcopus Meneven ' Episcopus Norwicen ' Episcopus Lincoln ' Episcopus Landaven ' Episcopus Cestren ' Episcopus Cicestren ' Barones Dominus Hunsdon Camerar ' Dominus Zouch Dominus Berkley Dominus Morley Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Scroope Dominus Dudley Dominus Lumley Dominus Darcy de Menell Dominus Sands Dominus Windsor Dominus Cromwell Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby de Parham Dominus Sheffield Dominus
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
said Election may take their remedy against the Sheriffs All which being recited unto the House by Mr. Speaker it was Ordered thereupon that Sir Edward Hobby and the said Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy should be sent by this House unto the said Lord Keeper with the said Message touching the said Subpoena and the party that served the same Subpoena should be discharged and the said four Burgesses for Weymouth and Melcomb Regis continued accordingly Mr. Wingfield reneweth in some parts a Motion of Mr. Francis Moore delivered yesterday in this House touching sundry enormities growing by Patents of Priviledge and Monopolies and the abuses of them together with some Speeches therein then had by Mr. Secretary and Mr. Sollicitor making some reply Mr. Nathaniel Bacon seconded the said Mr. Wingfield which done Sir Francis Hastings moved for a Committee to take particular Informations of the abuses of the said Patents of priviledge the better to be instructed in the courses of the same for the more ready preparation to further means for redress to be had therein but it was then no further proceeded in by reason the day was far spent Vide concerning this business on Wednesday the 9 th day Thursday the 10 th day and Wednesday the 16 th day of this instant November ensuing as also on Wednesday the 14 th day of December following where it was agitated by the House but nothing concluded in it only the Speaker moving her Majesty about it the last day of this Parliament she promised Reformation therein On Wednesday the 9 th day of November Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to suppress multitude of Maulsters was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Hubberd the Burgesses of York Hull Worcester and Gloucester and M r Nathaniel Bacon and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir Robert Wroth who with the rest was appointed to meet at two of the Clock in the Middle-Temple Hall Vide Jan. 12. Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Amendment of Weavers and Spinners Wages was read the first time Sir Edward Hobbie shewed that himself and Mr. Brograve Attorney of the Dutchy have according to the direction of this House unto them been with the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and in the name of this whole House did require his Lordship to revoke two Writs of Subpoena which were served upon Mr. Thomas Knivett a Member of this House since the beginning of this Sessions of Parliament and that his Lordship thereupon demanded of them whether they were appointed by any advised consideration of this House to deliver their Message unto him with the word Require in such manner as they had done or no and that they Answered his Lordship Yea. And that his Lordship then said that as he thought very reverently and honourably of this House and of the Liberties and Priviledges of the same so to revoke the said Subpoena in that sort was to restrain her Majesty in her greatest Power which is Justice in the place wherein he serveth under her And that he said he would be further advised before his giving Answer to this House as the House was advised to send unto him the said Message Vide concerning this business on Saturday the 5 th day and on Thursday the 8 th day of this instant November foregoing But what further proceeding ensued touching the serving of the said Subpoena is not found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons but it 's likely the Lord Keeper did further satisfie the House After this Report made the House but upon what occasion is not set down began to name Committees touching Monopolies and Patents of priviledge of which Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Barker Mr. Lawrence Hide and some nine others being appointed Mr. Secretary Cecill moved the House that the day being now far spent and the business in agitation of great weight the nominating of the said Committees might be deferred till the day following and that then also it might be discussed and set down touching what matters the said Committee should treat Whereupon upon the Question it was deferred accordingly Vide plus concerning this matter on Tuesday the 8 th day of this instant November foregoing On Thursday the 10 th day of November the Bill for the establishing of the Town Lands of Wanting in the County of Berks to the relief of the Poor amendments of High-ways and maintaining of a School-Master within the Town of Wanting aforesaid was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Comptroller the Knights for the County of Berks Mr. Henry Nevill Sir Humphrey Foster M r Sollicitor Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Oglethorpe Mr. Lawrence Hide Mr. 〈◊〉 Mr. Tasbrough and Mr. Oldsworth and the Bill was delivered unto M r Francis Moore who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Saturday next at two of the Clock this Afternoon in this House Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for re-edifying the Town of Langsord Estover in the County of Somerset was upon the second reading committed unto the Knights for the County of Somerset Sir Francis Hastings and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir Francis Hastings who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill for taking away Clergy from certain Offenders was sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller M r Chancellor and others in the mean time whereof and before they were gone into the Upper House they met M r Doctor Stanhop by the way with a Message to this House and so returned back to this House till the said Message was delivered by the said Mr. Doctor Stanhop who coming from the Lords said he had a private Message from their Lordships to Mr. Speaker and so speaking unto the Speaker and departing again Mr. Speaker did thereupon tell this House that the Lord Keeper did send privately unto him from the Lords to know whether this House had expedited any Bill to send unto their Lordships The Bill for Amendment of Weavers and Spinners Wages was read the second time and upon the question committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir William Moore Mr. Martin the Burgesses of Nottingham and Derby Mr. Nathaniel Bacon and others and the Bill with a Note of the Committees names was delivered to Sir William Moore who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon at the Guild-Hall Mr. Walgrave moved touching the abuses of Licences for Marriages granted by Ecclesiastical persons and prayeth consideration may be had for reformation thereof by this House Mr. Davies reneweth the motion touching Monopolies and the abuses of Patents of Priviledge Whereupon after sundry other Speeches of other Members of this
No one hundred and one and with the Yea seventy two Two Bills were sent sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by the Chancellor and others together with a third being for the Explanation of a Statute in Quinto of her Majesty concerning Labourers M r Wiseman one of the Committees in the Bill for bringing in of Foreign Cards for Wooll who were appointed on Thursday the 8 th of this instant December foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and that eleven only of them did meet and six of them liked very well of the Bill and the other five not And so delivered in the said Bill referring the same to the further consideration of this House M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Stanhop do bring from the Lords two Bills lately passed in this House and now also passed with their Lordships with some Additions and Amendments the one of them being for electing of Hospitals for abiding and working Houses for the Poor and the other for the establishing of the Hospital of Queen Elizabeth in Bristol and for the relief of the Poor and Orphans there The Bill for the granting of six Fifteenths and Tenths and three intire Subsidies unto her Majesty had the second reading and was Ordered to be ingrossed Vide concerning this Bill of the Subsidy on Wednesday the 7 th of this instant December foregoing Edward Legg Esquire one of the Burgesses for the Borough of Wiggon in the County of Lancaster was licensed for his necessary business to depart and left with Mr. Fulk Onslow Clerk of the House three shillings six pence for the Poor and the Minister On Monday the 12 th day of December the Bill for redress of Abuses and Deceits used in Painting was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. George Moore Mr. Fettiplace Sir William Cornwallis Mr. Recorder of London and others and the Bill was delivered to the said Sir William Cornwallis who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for confirmation of Letters Patents granted to the Merchant Adventurers of the City of Exeter was upon the second reading committed unto the Knights and Citizens for London the Burgesses of York Lynn and Newcastle M r Serjeant Heyle and others and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to the said M r Heyle who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill against the buying of Armour brought from beyond the Seas was read the second time and rejected upon the several questions for the Committing and Ingrossing The Bill for provision of a Preacher in the Tower of London was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy Council being Members of this House M r Henry Hubbard M r Lieutenant of the Tower M r Recorder of London and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Chancellor of the Exchequer who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill also for the building of a Bridge over the River of Wye was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Robert Wroth M r Herbert Crosse M r Serieant Williams and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir John Scudamore who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Sir Edward Hobbie one of the Committees for Priviledge and Returns who were appointed on Saturday the 5 th day of November foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees in sundry Cases both of priviledge and Returns Whereupon it was Ordered that the Clerk of this House should make search for Precedents against Wednesday next for further consideration then to be thereupon had by this House in the Cases opened by the said Sir Edward Hobby unto this House by Order of the residue of the said Committees The Bill for the Lord Thomas Howard was upon the second reading committed unto M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Winch Mr. Sollicitor and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next in the Afternoon in the Treasury Chamber between the hours of four and five of the Clock Mr. Secretary one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Tellors and Receivers who had been appointed on Wednesday the 5 th day of November foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and their agreement in writing concerning certain Objections against some part of the said Bill to the Number of fifteen which being read to the House by the Clerk it was Ordered that Conference should be had with the Lords for a Committee of both Houses to be had touching the said Objections Whereupon the said Mr. Secretary with some others of this House were then presently sent to the Lords to move for the said Conference Who returning afterwards again to this House brought word that their Lordships did very honorably and kindly accept the said Message and advice of the said Conference and had appointed twenty four of themselves to confer with a convenient Number of this House to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon between one and two of the Clock in the Great Council Chamber at the Court. Whereupon it was agreed that all the said former Committees together with Mr. Hext Mr. George Cooke Mr. Finch Mr. Winch Mr. Henry Hubbard Mr. Edward Mountague and others added unto them should attend their Lordships at the said time and place and that the five Serjeants at Law being Members of this House should each of them jointly endeavour to defend and maintain the reasons of the said fifteen Objections equally to be proportioned to their several charges And it was further agreed by this House and so signified unto them by Mr. Speaker that any other the Members of this House might in the mean time gather any other Objections against any parts of the said Bill besides the said fifteen Objections or of any of them and signifie the same unto this House to Morrow sitting the Court. The Bill lastly for the relief of the Poor was read the third time and passed upon the question On Tuesday the 13 th day of December six Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the true making of Daggers Swords and Rapiers and of the Blades of every of them was read the second time and rejected upon the several questions for the committing and engrossing The Amendments in the Bill for Bristol were thrice read and passed upon the question The Bill for the recovery of certain Waste Marish and Watery Grounds in the Isle of Ely and the Counties of Cambridge and Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk and Suffolk was read the third time and passed upon the question The Bill for the relief of the Poor which passed this House yesterday and the Bill for the recovering of
in the end passed upon the Question and upon the division of the House with the advantage of thirty three voices viz. with the Yea one hundred ninety five and with the No one hundred and twelve M r Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships intituled An Act against the deceitful Stretching and Taintering of Northern Cloaths and did shew that their Lordships have also passed the same Bill in the Upper House with some Amendments added by their Lordships to the same Bill and so did deliver the Bill to M r Speaker The said M r Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring from their Lordships a Bill lately passed in this House and sent up unto their Lordships intituled An Act for the reviving continuance explanation perfecting and repealing of divers Statutes and did shew that their Lordships have in like manner passed the same Bill with some Amendments and a Proviso and so delivered in the Bill and Proviso to M r Speaker On Monday the 6 th day of February two Bills had each of them one Reading of which the first being the Bill for reformation of retailing Brokers and Pawn-takers was read the first time M r Boyes one of the Committees in the two Bills the one against carrying of Corn out of the Realm and the other to restrain the lading of Corn in some Ports shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees with some Amendments in one of the same Bills and so delivered in the same Bills into this House M r Francis Bacon one of the Committees in the Bill lately passed in the Upper House by the Lords and sent down to this House against the decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and their Amendments to the same Bill which Amendments being read to the House were very well liked of by the whole House Thomas Bashfield was present at the Bar and charged with a contempt against the priviledge of this House in disturbing by way of an Appearance of Robert Sherry a Member of this House returned a Burgess for the Town of Ludlow in the County of Salop and was for his said contempt then committed to the Serjeants Ward there to remain during the Pleasure of this House and was on the next day after discharged of his Imprisonment paying his Fees and taking the Oath of Supremacy Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Comptroller and others of which the last was the Bill for the Conrfimation of the Joynture of Mary Lady Verney wife of Sir Edmund Verney Knight The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House for establishing of the Lands given by John Bedfords Will to the perpetual repair and amendments of the Highways at Aylesbury in the County of Bucks according to the said Will being three times read the same Amendments were assented unto and the Proviso likewise passed upon the question M r Doctor Carew and M r D r Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships for the further continuance and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners made in the thirty fifth year of the Queens Majesties Reign that now is and did shew that their Lordships have in like Case passed the same Bill in the Upper House with some Amendments and so delivered in the said Bill to M r Speaker The Bill for the Amendments of the High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surry and Kent was read the third time and passed upon the question The Amendments of the Committees of this House in the Bill lately passed by the Lords against the decay of Towns and Houses of Husbandry and sent down by their Lordships into this House being three times read were assented unto by this House upon the question accordingly Whereupon the said Bill and Amendments being read for the third reading and put to the question for the passing the said Bill and Amendments in that form were passed by this House upon the same question M r Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords two Bills of which the first was the Bill for the draining and recovery of certain overflown Grounds in the County of Norfolk and delivered the same Bill to M r Speaker On Tuesday the 7 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William Pope to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his debts was read the second time and committed to Mr. Comptroller Mr. Lewkenor Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Oglethorpe Mr. Boyes with divers others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Court of Wards The Amendments and Proviso of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House intituled An Act for the reviving continuance explanation perf cting and repealing of divers Statutes being thrice read the Amendments were assented unto and the Proviso was passed upon the question The Bill lately passed in this House intituled An Act for the amendment of Highways in Sussex Surry and Kent The Bill for the establishing the Lands given by John Bedford's Will to the perpetual repair and amendments of the Highways at Aylesbury in the County of Buckingham with one other of no great moment were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor and others The Bill for the better measuring of seven Miles from the Town of Great-Yarmouth according to a Statute made in the 31 th Year of King Edward the Third was read the third time and dashed upon the Question by the division of the House with the difference of eighteen Voices viz. with the No a hundred and eight and with the Yea ninetv M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Carew did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do desire a Conference of a convenient number of the Members of this House with twenty of their Lordships this Afternoon in the Chamber next the Upper House touching the Bill lately passed in this House Intituled An Act against the excess of Apparel Whereupon it was Ordered that the former Committees of this House in the same Bill who were appointed on Thursday the 19 th day of January foregoing shall attend their Lordships accordingly Post Meridiem The Bill for reformation of retailing Brokers and Pawn-Takers was read the second time and thereupon committed unto M r George Moore M r Hart M r Recorder of London M r Lewkenor M r Wiseman M r Ludlow Sir John Leviston M r Crompton M r Conisby M r Lidley M r Johnson and M r Doctor Parkins who were appointed to meet to Morrow
Temporal Lords not because as I suppose they were all returned first but because of their Ecclesiastical dignities and in respect that the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury one of their Order is the first Peer of the Realm Whence also their names are usually first set down in the Journal-Book where the presence of all the Lords is noted each day when they sit as long as the Parliament continueth Then follow the Proxies of the Temporal Lords in such order as they are here set down Rogeri Comitis Rutland which as the rest is put in the Genitive Case in relation to those first words Literae procuratoriae in hoc Parliamento sunt allatae qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Edwardi Comitis Bedford qui procuratorem suum constituit Oliverum Dominum S t John de Bletsoe Caroli Domini Mount joy qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum Hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Gulielmi Comitis Bathon ' qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum Hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Edwardi Domini Morley qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum Hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Anthonii Vicecomitis Mountague qui procuratorem suum constituit Thomam Dominum Buckhurst magnum Thesaurarium Angliae Gulielmi Domini Sandes qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Edwardi Domini Stafford qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Georgii Comitis Huntington qui procuratorem suum constituit Edwardum Comitem Wigorn ' Thomae Vicecomitis Bindon qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Domini Lumley qui procuratorem suum constituit Thomam Dominum Darcy de Chiche Johannis Domini Darcy qui procuratorem suum constituit Gilbertum Comitem Salop. Henrici Comitis Kanciae qui procuratorem suum constituit Gilbertum Comitem Salop. Edwardi Comitis Oxon qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Thomae Domini Burleigh qui procuratorem suum constituit Henricum Comitem Northumberland Nota That in respect that this present Parliament was the last of her Majesties Reign and these Proxies are entred after a different manner from most of those in the Queens time which are before set down they are all of them therefore Transcribed both ordinary and extraordinary out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of which the Ordinary I call those when a Spiritual Lord constituteth two Proctors and a Temporal Lord one and those Extraordinary when a Temporal Lord constituteth more than one Proctor and a Spiritual Lord but one or more than two Nota also that the Earl of Nottingham had eight several Proxies sent unto him this Parliament by which it is plain that by the Ancient Custom and usages of the Upper House every Member thereof is capable of as many Proxies as shall be sent unto him although the said Custom be at this day altered by an Order made in the said House upon the day of in Anno 2. Regis Caroli Anno Dom. 1626. upon the ingrossing of many Letters procuratory by George Duke of Bucks that no Lords Spiritual or Temporal should be capable of above two of the said Proxies The above-mentioned Proxies being set down in manner and form as aforesaid now followeth in the next place the beginning of the Parliament it self and the manner of her Majesties coming to the same On Tuesday the 27 th day of October and the first day of this present Parliament about three of the Clock in the Afternoon the Queen went by Land to Westminster Church riding in a Chariot made all open only like a Canopy at the Top being of Cloth of Silver or Tissue with divers Lords and others in their degree being Marshalled by the Heralds where having heard a Sermon she went into the Upper House and being there set the Lords Spiritual and Temporal took their several places whose names are Transcribed out of the Original Journal of the Upper House in manner and form following Johannes Archiepiscopus Cantuarien ' Thomas Egerton Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Matchio Winton Comites Comes Sussex Magnus Mareschallus Comes Nottingham Magnus Admirallus Angliae Magnus seneschallus Hospitii Reginae Comes Northumbr Comes Salop. Comes Darbiae Comes Wigorn ' Comes Cumbriae Comes Pembrooke Comes Hertford Comes Lincoln Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Dunelmen Episcopus Wintonien Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Coventr ' Litchfield Episcopus Wigorn. Episcopus Bathon ' Wellen. Episcopus Meneven Episcopus Lincoln Episcopus Asaphen Episcopus Cestren Episcopus Cicestren Episcopus Exon. Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Elien Episcopus Petriburgen Barones Dominus Zouch Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Dudley Dominus Lumley Dominus Stourton Dominus Windsor Dominus Mordant Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby de Parham Dominus Sheffield Dominus Darcie de Chiche Dominus Chandots Dominus S t John de Bletsoe Dominus Compton Dominus Norreys Dominus Howard de Walden These names being thus inserted out of the Original Journal-Book now follow some other passages of this day with the summ of the Lord Keepers Speech out of a private Journal of the House of Commons The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice that her Majesty with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal and others were set in the Upper House hasted thither but before they came the door of the House was shut and notwithstanding any means that was made by them was still kept shut until the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech the substance or chief scope of which said Speech was as followeth He used perswasion of thankfulness and of obedience and also shewed her Majesties desire of dissolution of this Parliament before Christmas He shewed unto us the necessity we stand in and the means to prevent it the necessity the Wars between Spain and England the means Treasure c. His advice was that Laws in force might be revised and explained and no new Laws made Our Enemies he said were Enemies to God the Queen and the peace of this Kingdom conspired to overthrow Religion to reduce us to a Tyrannical servitude These Enemies he named to be the Bishop of Rome and the King of Spain Our state being thus he summoned us to be provident by reason we deal with a provident Enemy and confident because God hath ever and I hope will ever bless the Queen with successful fortune He shewed how apparent his providence was by the means and course he taketh for our instruction And secondly the success we had against him by Gods strong Arm of defence in Anno 1588. and divers other times since You see to what effect the Queens support of the French Kings Estate hath
knowledge of this Motion and to give Order that Tolkerne should be sent for at whose Suit the Arrest was made And withal that such Precedents as the Clerk of the Parliament could shew should be looked out and made known to the House Vide plus concerning this matter on Monday the 23 th day of this instant November following On Saturday the 14 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing by occasion of sending for the aforesaid Tolkerne request was made by M r Conisbie Gentleman Usher to the House and signified by the Mouth of the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward That for as much as the bringing of any person before the Lords upon breach of the Priviledge of the House did appertain as the said M r Conisbie supposed and alledged to his place though in the last Parliament by some mistaking as he thought the Serjeant at Arms was imployed therein That therefore their Lordships would be pleased to confirm and settle such Order as he might at this time and from henceforth have the Right of his place in that behalf Whose request being considered of by the Lords it was thought meet that the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Worcester the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch and the Lord Cobham should at their next meeting upon any other occasion take notice of such Precedents as could be produced therein either for the Gentleman-Usher or for the Serjeant at Arms and thereof to make Report to the House whereupon their Lordships would proceed to the deciding of the question between them Vide concerning this business on Tuesday the first day of December next following The meeting of the Committees about the Bill concerning Musters Souldiers c. who were nominated on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant November foregoing and appointed to meet this Afternoon was upon Motion to the House by some of the Committees deserr'd until Monday next being the 16 th day of this instant November by eight of the Clock in the Morning A Motion was made by the Lord Keeper that the Gentleman-Usher might be sent to such Lords as are absent from the Parliament and have not sent their Proxies to admonish them thereof Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for suppressing the multitude of Ale-Houses and Tippling-Houses was read secundâ vice and committed to the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Hartford the Earl of Lincoln the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Chester the Bishop of Exeter the Bishop of Ely the Lord Zouch the Lord Cobham the Lord Rich the Lord Sheffield the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John of Bletsoe and the Lord Compton and the Lord Chief Justice of England M r Justice Gawdy M r Baron Savile and M r Serjeant Yelverton were appointed to attend their Lordships The third Bill also being for the avoiding of unnecessary delayes of Executions upon Judgment in Debt was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Pembrook the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of S t Asaph the Lord Cobham the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John of Bletsoe and M r Justice Gawdy M r Baron Savile and M r Serjeant Yelverton were appointed to attend their Lordships The Lord Zouch renewed his former motion concerning the Arrest of William Hogan her Majesties Ordinary servant at the suit of John Tolkerne Whereupon the Clerk of the Parliament was required to shew forth all such Precedents as he had found touching the Arrests of any Persons priviledged by Parliament having received directions from the Lords for that purpose as is before Recorded of which sort out of the Journal-Book remaining in his custody there were to be found only these four hereunder mentioned and no more 1. Anno 27. Reginae Fliz. die Martis primo die Decembris of James Diggs servant to my Lords Grace of Canterbury 2. Anno 27. Reginae Eliz. die Lunae 7. Die Decembris of Robert Finneis servant to the Lord Viscount Binden 3. Item in the last Parliament of 39 Eliz. 26. die Novembris of Edward Barston servant to the Lord Chandois and 8. die Decembris of John York the Lord Arch-Bishops servant 4. Item Anno 14. Reginae die ultimo Junii It appeareth that the Lord Cromwel made complaint unto the Parliament of an Attachment served upon his Person and that his Lordship was by Order of the Parliament discharged of the Attachment but whether this Attachment was served in the time of the Parliament it doth not certainly appear Which said Precedents being accordingly presented to the Lord Keeper the same were presently read together with certain Observations out of a Book written by Richard Crompton Esquire Intituled the Authority and Jurisdiction of the Queens Courts concerning the proceedings of the House in the like case of George Ferrers Gent. an ordinary servant to King Henry 8. about the thirty fourth year of his Reign This being done albeit sundry Motions were thereupon made by divers of the Lords for a present proceeding in this matter nevertheless because the said Tolkerne having been formerly sent for could not yet be found and also in respect there was less appearance of the Lords this day than at other times and this matter concerning the priviledge of the House was of great importance and therefore required a more full Assembly Stay was made of any further proceeding until Thursday next being the 19 th day of this instant November And in the mean time it was Ordered that Tolkerne should again be sent for to appear before the Lords in the House that day by nine of the Clock in the Morning Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 23 th day of this Instant November following On Monday the 16 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for reuniting Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning was read secundâ vice Motion was made by the Lord Sheffield upon reading of this Bill that Thomas Crompton Son of Thomas Crompton Esquire deceased with Henry Best Francis Jackson and others whom it may concern should be heard in the House whether they or any of them could pretend any right or Interest in these Lands in respect of a Grant heretofore made thereof by her Majesty to the said Thomas Crompton Which Motion was well approved by the House and Ordered that the Gentleman Usher should move the said parties to appear before their Lordships in the House for that purpose upon Saturday next the 21. day of this Instant November by eight of the Clock in the Morning and to bring them such persons as are interested in the Conveyance of those Lands Vide December 7 th Monday postea Memorandum That the
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
conclude their Conference about the Bill concerning Letters Patents and Conveyances c. another meeting was then appointed for them this Morning M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Carew were therefore sent unto them to let them know that their Lordships were ready presently to meet Unto which Message the House of Commons returned Answer that they would make their repair to their Lordships forthwith for that purpose Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant December ensuing The Bill for the perfecting the Joynture of the Lady Bridget Countess of Sussex Wife of Robert Earl of Sussex was read secundâ vice but no mention was made either of the Commitment or Engrossing thereof the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing The Bill concerning the Joynture of the Countess of Bedford was returned to the House by the Earl of Worcester first of the Committees who were appointed on Friday the 4 th day of this instant December foregoing with a Proviso and certain Amendments thought meet to be added together with a Petition of the Lady Russell against the said Bill The Lords that were appointed Committees for the Bill touching Letters Patents c. went forth to the outward Chamber to have Conference with those of the House of Commons appointed Committees for the same Bill but nothing concluded touching the Amendments because the said Committees had no power to conclude and therefore after long debate the Bill was brought back to the House and the relation thereof referr'd to be made by M r Attorney and the same deferred till the Afternoon sitting by reason the day was spent Domimus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam tertiam post Meridiem hujus diei About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers Lords having assembled themselves five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first concerning the draining and recovery from the Water of certain Overflown-Grounds in the County of Norfolk The second for Reformation of Abuses committed in buying and selling of Spices and other Merchandizes and the third to prevent Perjury and Subornation of Perjury and unnecessary expences in suits of Law were each of them read secundà vice But no mention is made either of their Commitment or Engrossing the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing The Proviso that was pretended to be added to the Bill for the Maintenance of the Navy encrease of Mariners c. was this day twice read in like sort as the Amendments of the said Bill had been before and thereupon the Bill was appointed to be forthwith engrossed The Bill for the maintenance of the Navy encrease of Mariners c. was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons together with the Bill concerning Captains Souldiers c. by D r Carew and D r Hone. The Amendments and Proviso in the Bill concerning the Countess of Bedfords Joynture were twice read and likewise the Lady Russells Petition was read Whereupon it was appointed that the Proviso should be ingrossed in Parchment and the Amendments in Paper The Committees in the Bill for the observation of Orders in the Exchequer who were nominated on Thursday the 10 th day of this instant December foregoing were appointed forthwith to meet in the little Chamber near the Parliament Presence to consider of a Proviso drawn by the Lord Chief Justice and the rest of the Judges by direction of the Committees which Proviso having been considered of accordingly was brought into the House and presently twice read And thereupon the said Proviso was commanded to be ingrossed The Bill for the assuring the Patronage of the Vicaridge of Rotherston in the County of Chester and a Scholars room in the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxon of the Foundation of King Hen. 8 th by the Dean and Chapter of the said Cathedral Church to Thomas Venables Esquire and his Heirs for ever was read secundâ vice But no mention is made either of the Commitment or Engrossing the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing Relation was made by M r Attorney of the Conference with the Committees of the House of Commons touching Amendments of the Bill of Letters Patents c. Whereupon because the Committees of both Houses were not agreed it was thought good they should meet again upon Monday Morning being the 14 th day of this instant December and should have Authority to agree touching the setting down and penning of the said Amendments and reducing of them to a certainty together with the Committees of the House of Commons coming with the like Authority that afterwards the same might be presented to the Judgment of the House This Motion was sent down by D r Carew and D r Hone and was accepted Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant December ensuing On Monday the 14 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer set down and established by vertue of her Majesties Privy Seal was read tertia vice And the Proviso thought meet by the Committees to be added was also read the third time The Bill for the Assurance of certain Mannors and Lands for part of a Jointure to Lucy Countess of Bedford And the Provisoes and Amendments presented by the Committees to be added were also read the third time both which Bills were sent to the House of Commons for their consideration of the several Provisoes and Amendments by the hands of D r Swale and the Clerk of the Crown Four Bills also had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Grant of four entire Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read secundâ vice But no mention is made either of the Commitment or ingrossing thereof the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing Vide also concerning this Bill on Tuesday the 15 th day of this instant December immediately following Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of the Charter of King Edward the Sixth of the three Hospitals of Christ Bridewell and S t Thomas the Apostle to the Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of London was read primâ vice The Bill to confirm the Assurance of the Mannors or Farms of Sagebury aliàs Sadgebury and Obden and other Hereditaments to Samuel Sands Esq and John Harris Gent ' and their Heirs And the Bill for the Amendment of certain imperfections of a Statute made in the Eighth Year of her Majesties Reign concerning the true making of Hats
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
Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for the continuance of divers Statutes and for repeal of some others And the fifth to redress the misimployment of Lands Goods and stock of money heretofore given to charitable uses were each of them read secundâ vice but there is no mention made either of their commitment or ingrossing the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Secretary Cecill Sir Walter Raleigh and others of which the first being the Bill for ending and appeasing of all Controversies matters and debates between Francis Kettlebie of the one part and Andrew Kettlebie and Jane his Wife of the other part and the second being for the recovery of many thousand Acres of Marish and other grounds subject commonly to surrounding within the Isle of Ely and Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk and Suffolk were each of them read primâ vice And also the fifth being the Bill for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners was read primâ vice A Message was delivered from the House of Commons by M r Comptroller and others that the said House was not satisfied concerning the Proviso added by the Lords to the Bill Intituled An Act for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer and therefore desired Conference with some of their Lordships about the same The Conference was yielded unto and appointed to be this Afternoon in the Outward Chamber The Bill Entituled An Act for Reformation of deceits of certain Auditors c. being returned to the House with certain Provisoes and Amendments the Bill with the same was forthwith twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Upon Conference with the House of Commons concerning the Bill for Confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty c. It was agreed by the Committees of both Houses that certain Provisoes and Amendments should be added to the said Bill which being returned to the House were presently twice read and so commanded to be ingrossed And thereupon the Bill it self with the said Provisoes and Amendments was read the third time and sent to the House of Commons for their consideration of the same by M r Attorney General and D r Stanhop Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam post meridiem instantis diei About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords Assembling Eleven Bills had each of them one reading of which the Bill for the recovery of many thousand Acres of Marish Grounds subject commonly to surrounding within the Isle of Ely c. The 6 th being for the redress of certain Abuses and Deceits used in Painting The 7 th concerning matters of Assurances among Merchants And the 8 th being the Bill for Assize of Fuel were each of them read secundâ vice Upon the meeting this Afternoon of those of the House of Commons appointed to confer with the Lords Committees in the Bill intituled An Act for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer c. who were appointed on Thursday the 10 th day of this instant Decem. foregoing concerning a Proviso added by the Lords to that Bill after some debates of the Committees on both parts thereupon those of the House of Commons did signify that the said House would allow of the said Proviso so as the same might be in some certain point amended Whereupon a question grew between them Whether the said Amendment of the Proviso should be made in the Upper House upon notice given thereof by the Committees and so be sent down again or else be made in the House of Commons which doubt being reported by the Lords Committees by Order and Appointment of the House It was agreed by the common consent that the Amendments should be made in the House of Commons and sent up in Paper and to be here inserted in the body of the Proviso Which Order was by the Lords Committees signified to the Committees of the House of Commons and they thereunto assented Whereas it hath been accustomed in former Parliaments that towards the end of a Parliament a Collection should be made amongst the Lords for the Poor and it was this day moved by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury that the like Collection might be made at this time It was upon this Motion Ordered by the House that there should be such a Collection made accordingly And that the Lord Bishop of Chester the Lord Bishop of Peterborough the Lord Zouch and the Lord Rich should be Collectors of the same and after such rates as have been usually given and bestowed by the Lords for the said Charitable purpose in former Parliaments and they to take Order for the distribution of it On Thursday the 17 th day of December the Bill for the relief of the Poor was read secundà vice It was Ordered that Edward Comber of the Middle-Temple should be presently sent for and brought before the Lords in the House for that contrary to the Priviledge of this Court he hath caused one Thomas Gerrard Gentleman to be Arrested And it was likewise Ordered that such Persons as made the Arrest or did assist the same shall likewise be sent for by the Serjeant at Armes to answer their doings therein The Bill for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners was read secundâ vice Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Assurance of certain Mannors and Lands for part of a Joynture to Lucy Countess of Bedford was returned expedited Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Reformation of Deceits and Frauds of certain Auditours and their Clerks in making deceitful and untrue Particulars was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by D r Carew and D r Hone. The Bill was brought back from the House of Commons intituled An Act for confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of Letters Patents made by her Highness to others expedit Nota That there was much dispute and some difference between the two Houses touching this Bill after that it had been sent up from the House of Commons to the Lords and sent down again from their Lordships to the House of Commons with divers Amendments as see on Thursday the 19 th day of November and on Monday the 23 th day of the same Month last past as also on Monday the 7 th day Tuesday the 8 th day Wednesday the 9 th day Thursday the 10 th day and Friday the 11 th day of this instant December foregoing The Bill for Confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy was returned from the House of Commons expedited The Bill concerning the Assize of Fuel
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
hard for amongst many other ways there is one plain evident and easie and that is where offences do abound in any Country contrary to the Laws which the Justices should so reform and there be nothing done by them for the Reformation of those offences I do not see but this makes a full charge of their uncarefulness and negligence whereby they are well worthy upon Certificate made as is aforesaid to be removed of all Governance to their perpetual ignominy and to the Commendation of all those that remain as good Officers And besides to set forth other pains upon them as by Law may be justified if this were once or twice done I doubt not but the Examples following of the doing of it would cause greater diligence to be used in the Execution of Laws than now there is And the better to understand which be those Justices that do offend why might there not be order taken that the name of every Justice that hath not prosecuted any Offender for any offence committed contrary to any Law which by the Commission that he is in he is authorized to see punished might be entred into some Rolls and also how often and how many of those kind of offences he hath also prosecuted for a declaration of his diligence whereby it might appear when such Visitation should come who hath been careful and who hath been negligent to the end that the slothful drowzy Drones might be severed from the diligent and careful Bees And like as I could wish this to be done concerning Offices of mean degree so do I desire that the same course might be taken with the great and greatest for so it should be Equable But if there be nothing done therein but things left as they have been then must you look to have your Laws Executed as they have been if not worse for words will not reform these matters as I have seen by proof And this is the sum of what I have to say at this time concerning the Execution of Laws This Speech of the Lord Keepers being thus transcribed out of the before-mentioned Copy thereof now follows the manner of her Majesties giving her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed as it is set down in the end of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in an 39 Reg. Eliz. although it be omitted in that of this present Parliament The Title of the Bill of Subsidy being read after the publick and private Acts the Clerk of the said House standing up did read the Queens Answer in manner and form following La Roigne remercie ses Loyaulx subjects accepte lour benevolence ainst le veult The said Clerk having read the Queens acceptance and thanks for the Subsidy given as aforesaid did then upon the reading of the Title of her Majesties Pardon pronounce in these French words following the thanks of the Lords and Commons for the same Les Prelats Seigneurs Communes en ce present Parliament Assembles au nom de touts vos autres subjects remercient tres humblement vostre Majesty prient à Dieu qu' il vous done santé bone vie longe To every one of the publick Acts allowed by the Queen the Clerk of the Parliament read 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 passed 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 reads these French words following viz. La Roigne s' advisera Her Majesty finally having given her Royal Assent to twenty eight publick Acts and thirteen private Dissolved the Parliament which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper-House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae Dissolvit praesens Parliamentum THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Commons in the Parliament bolden 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 present Journal of the House of Commons de an 13 Regin Eliz. is not only plentifully stored with all usual Passages touching the Orders and Priviledges of the House but is most worthy to be had in Eternal Remembrance in respect of the long agitation and judicious debatement of matters of Religion and Ecclesiastical Government for the Reformation of which the said House did express a great deal of earnest zeal and care although all in the issue came to nothing out of that old Principle inculcated into her Majesty by some politick Head and misapplyed by her viz. that nothing must be innovated in matters of Religion All which matters with those also less extraordinary are more largely set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons than was usual in the former Journals of her Majesties Reign by reason that Fulk Onslow Esq did as may be guessed succeed in the place of Clerk of the said House unto ..... Seymour Esq somewhat before the beginning of this Parliament Which said Journal is also much perfected out of an imperfect Journal of the same House I had by me taken by some Anonymous Member of the said House at this Parliament in which to avoid confusion whatsoever is here inserted out of the said imperfect Journal is distinguished by some Animadversion The third Parliament of Queen Elizabeth held in the Thirteenth Year of her Majesties most happy and prosperous Reign begun at the City of Westminster upon Monday the second day of April and during the time that her Majesty was at the Sermon at Westminster Church whither she had repaired about ten of the Clock in the Forenoon of the said Monday the Lord Clinton High Admiral of England accompanied with divers of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council that is to say Sir Francis Knolles K t Treasurer of her Highness most Honourable Houshold Sir James Crofts K t Comptroller of the same Sir Ralph Sadler K t Chancellor of her Majesties Dutchy of Lancaster Sir Walter Mildmay K t Chancellor of her Highness Court of Exchequer and Sir Thomas Smith Knight repaired into the Lower House of Parliament And there in the presence and hearing of a great number of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the same Parliament Assembled the said Lord Clinton signified that the Queens Majesty had called and appointed him to be the Steward of her Highness most Honourable Houshold to continue during her Majesties pleasure which being likewise affirmed and testified by the said other of her Highness most Honourable Privy-Council the said Lord Steward then further declared that he did then and there name Constitute
no notice but by relation of his Death as her Majesty hath And her Majesty hath the more certain notice for that her self had made Sir Robert Bell Lord Chief Baron and so his place of Speaker void as some thought although some others thought that the Chief Baron may be Speaker and she had since his Death made a new Chief Baron viz. Nota That this Argument doth very solidly and fully prove that the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons ought not at this time to have joined with the Upper House in Petitioning the Queen for liberty to chuse a new Speaker in respect that her Majesty could not but take notice of it as well as themselves and the rather at this present because she had first made Sir Robert Bell Knight their former Speaker Chief Baron of the Exchequer by which many supposed his place of Speaker was void in the said Commons House because he was to be called by Writ as a necessary attendant of the Upper House and lastly because her Majesty had now afterwards also upon his Death made another Chief Baron in his room by all which it appeared most plainly as is before urged that her Majesty could not but know as well as themselves that the said place of Speaker was void But whether M r Fulk Onslow the now Clerk of the House of Commons did conceive these reasons in his own mind and so by communicating them unto others of the said House and finding them to concur in the same opinion did thereupon Enter them in the Journal-Book of this Parliament or whether others of the House did first conceive it themselves and utter it to him in private in the said House yet certainly it having not been openly spoken in the House as appears by his own setting of it down but privately muttered it ought to have been Entred as a private opinion and not as any part of the Journal and to have been distinguished by being written in some other different hand from that in which the rest of the Journal was set down or the like But yet notwithstanding all those foresaid reasons already set down it was at last agreed by the greater number of the few Voices that the said Precedent should be followed which had before passed in the eighth year of her Highness Reign And accordingly were appointed the said M r Treasurer and Sir James Crofts Knight Comptroller of her Majesties most honourable Houshold and Thomas Wilson Esquire one of her Highnesses Principal Secretaries with a convenient number of others of the House to go to the Upper House to make Petition to the Lords for their Mediation to her Majesty for Licence to chuse a Speaker the place being void first by the making of the said Sir Robert Bell to be Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and lastly by his Death which Message being by the said persons executed accordingly and they brought Answer again to the House from the Lords that their Lordships had appointed all the Lords of the Privy-Council with the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Arundell and the Bishop of London to make that Suit to her Majesty and required to have four of this House being of her Majesties Privy-Council to join therein with them according to the said Precedent whereupon forasmuch as it appeared to this House that the Lords in appointing their number had varied from the said Precedent it was moved that likewise the number appointed by this House might also be altered that in precedent it might remain a thing Arbitratory to the House and that so five of this House being of the Privy-Council should be added to the Lords and the rather because it was then affirmed of some that the cause why only four of the Council being of this House were appointed in the said eighth year was for that the Lords number was then but four and for that also there were at that time but four of the Council in this House The now Lord Treasurer then being the one only Principal Secretary to her Majesty but at last the said Precedent was precisely urged and followed and the said M r Treasurer M r Comptroller and Sir Francis Walsingham Knight one of her Majesties two Principal Secretaries and Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Chancellor of her Highness Court of Exchequer were appointed by this House to join with the said Lords in the said Suit to her Majesty and Order was then also given that this House should also daily assemble to continue the Session and attend the Answer of her Highnesses Pleasure therein On Tuesday the 17 th day of January some number of this House Assembled this day to attend for the causes aforesaid On Wednesday the 18 th day of January the Right Honourable the Earl of Lincoln Lord Steward of the Queens Majesties most honourable Houshold came into this House and before him divers Knights Citizens and Burgesses returned into this House did openly receive and pronounce the Oath according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided and he did also then and there signify and declare the right Honourable M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Secretary Wilson and M r Chancellor of the Exchequer to be his Deputies during this Session of Parliament that before them or any of them all such persons as should during this Session be returned to be of this House might openly receive and pronounce the said Oath accordingly which Deputation they did then execute This matter of the Lord Stewards Ministring the Oath of Supremacy unto such Members of the House of Commons as were newly Elected and returned to this new Session of Parliament being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons now follows the whole manner of the proceeding of her Majesty in giving Authority by her Commission under the Great Seal unto the House of Commons to Elect a new Speaker and of their receiving the said Authority out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Lords in respect that the same is but shortly and imperfectly set down in the Original Journal-Book of the said House of Commons This foresaid Wednesday Morning the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being mindful of the great business of the Election of a new Speaker which they had treated of on Monday foregoing being the 16 th day of this instant January repaired to the Upper House commonly called the Parliament Chamber where being Assembled with the Lords those noble Personages and others who had been appointed to repair unto the Queen on Monday foregoing signified her Majesties Pleasure unto all the Lords and Commons there present concerning the Choice of a new Speaker by the Members of the House of Commons And thereupon the Lord Chancellor shewed forth a Commission under the Broad Seal of England which he Commanded the Clerk openly to read the the tenor whereof was as followeth ELizabeth c. To our Right Trusty and
of this instant December by eight of the Clock in the Morning Upon delivery of which Message to the House of Commons they assented accordingly to the Motion made in that behalf Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant December ensuing Upon a Motion sent this day from the House of Commons by Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Hobbie and others signifying that they desired Conference with some of their Lordships for certain matters concerning the Honour of both Houses the Lords hereafter named were Selected and Chosen to confer thereabout with such as should be nominated and sent by the House of Commons and the time and place of meeting appointed upon Thursday next being the 10 th day of this instant December by eight of the Clock in the Morning at the Outward Chamber near the Parliament Presence which was signified to Sir Walter Raleigh and the rest in Answer of their Message The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Worcester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham and the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch the Lord La Ware the Lord Cobham and the Lord Howard of Walden This day the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees in the Bill concerning Andrew and Francis Kettlebie whose names see before on Tuesday the 24 th day of November made Report to the House that the said Committees did desire and had endeavoured to make some agreement betwixt the parties by procuring the Wife of Andrew Kettlebie to accept of reasonable Conditions for her Estate which they held to be a better course than that the Bill should proceed absolutely without any help for the said Wife But forasmuch as the said Committees could not prevail therein with her who utterly refused all composition they therefore returned the Bill again to the House without alteration in such sort as they received the same Thereupon Order was given for ingrossing thereof The matter concerning the Arrest of Robert Treswel Sommerset one of the Heralds was referred to her Majesties Commissioners for those Causes that concern the Lord Marshalls Office and the parties that were sent for to be discharged Vide on Thursday the third day of this instand December foregoing The Lord Burleigh not able to attend for want of health signified by the Lord Keeper On Wednesday the 9 th day of December M r ..... being of Councel with the Lady Fane was heard in the House what he could say in her behalf against the Bill of Edward Nevill and Sir Henry Nevill his Son Whereupon the Lords finding no Cause why the proceeding of the said Bill should be longer stayed or forborn Order was presently given for the third reading thereof The Bill for the enabling of Edward Nevill of Berling in the County of Kent and Sir Henry Nevill Knight his Son and Heir apparent to dispose of certain Copyhold Lands was read tertiâ vice Upon the third reading of which said Bill and before the putting thereof to the question whether it should pass or no the Lady Fane yielded her consent to the passing of the same being thereunto perswaded by sundry of the Lords Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 7 th day of this instant December foregoing The Bill to avoid the double payment of Debts was read secundà vice but no mention is made either of the Commitment or ingrossing thereof the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 d day of November foregoing The Lord Treasurer made Report that the Committees in the Bill concerning Letters Patents and Conveyances c. could not proceed to any certain Conference with those that were sent from the House of Commons for that purpose in respect of some doubts that were conceived whether the Proviso offered to be annexed thereunto were necessary or no. And thereupon M r Attorney General was required to deliver his opinion in that behalf Which being done by him accordingly to this effect That he thought the said Proviso to be needless and unnecessary and the Judges also concurring with him in that opinion Nevertheless upon a motion made by the Lord Bishop of London that the Councel learned of the Earl of Shrewsbury and M r Holcroft whom the said Proviso did concern in particular might be heard in the House as they desired touching the same it was thought meet and agreeable to the honour and dignity of the House that they should be so heard To which end their Councel were appointed to give their Attendance to Morrow the 10 th day of this instant December by eight of the Clock in the Morning And moreover for the better satisfaction of the House of Commons for the present M r Serjeant Yelverton M r D r Carew and M r D r Stanhop were sent unto them with this Message to signify their Lordships desire to have proceeded to Conference with them this Morning about the said Bill as was yesterday appointed And that the Lords were the more willing to give furtherance to the expediting of the said Bill in regard the same was especially recommended unto their Lordships from the said House But forasmuch as they found not themselves sufficiently prepared for this Conference by reason of doubts that were not yet cleared unto them they desired the said Conference might be respited till Friday Morning next by eight of the Clock at the outward Chamber near the Parliament presence Unto which Motion the House of Commons willingly assented Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day of this Instant December following On Thursday the 10 th day of December the Bill for the establishing the remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Kettlebie Esquire upon Francis Kettlebie was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by D r Stanhop and D r Hone. Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to avoid double payment of Debts was read tertiâ vice and expedited The Bill concerning Resumptions c. which was committed on Tuesday the 8 th day of this instand December foregoing although the mention thereof as being of little moment is there purposely omitted was this day delivered to the Lord Treasurer one of the Committees The Councel learned as well on the behalf of the Earl of Shrewsbury as of Tho. Holcroft Henry Candish and William Candish Esquires were heard at large in the House as was yesterday appointed And thereupon M r Attorney was required to deliver his opinion again of the said Provisoes offered on either part Which being done by him accordingly in more particular and ample manner than before and having withal delivered his resolution to sundry questions propounded unto him by divers of the Lords concerning the said Cause it was Ordered as followeth Upon debate in the House concerning the several Provisoes offered by the Earl of Shrewsbury and