Mr. Dier Mr. Grafton and others who were appointed to meet on Tuesday next at Serjeants-Inne-hall in Chancery-lane at two of the clock in the afternoon The Amendments in the Bill touching Informers and Informations were twice read and upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed On Saturday Feb. 22. two Bills had each of them one reading whereof the second being for the relief of George Orgnell Esq was upon the second reading and upon the Question committed unto Sir Henry Brooke Mr. Serjeant Walmesey the Knights of the Shire for the County of Warwick and others who were appointed to meet upon Munday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Star-chamber Three Bills which had passed the House upon the third reading were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vicechamberlain Sir John Parrott and others with Commendations and request for their Lordships favourable expedition of which the two last were one touching Purveyors and the other touching Proclamations in Fines Two other Bills also had each of them one reading whereof the second being a Bill touching Mortmain was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Treasurer Sir John Parrott Sir Edw. Hobby Sir William Moore and others who were appointed to meet on Thursday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Sir Thomas Palmer one of the Knights for the County of Sussex is for his special occasions of business licens'd by Mr. Speaker to repair home into his Country Feb. 23. Sunday On Munday Feb. 24. the Bill for four Fifteenths and Tenths and two entire Subsidies Subsidy-bill read Bill about Dover-Haven had its first reading The Bill for reviving and enlarging of a Statute made in the 23th year of her Majesties Reign for repairing of Dover-Haven was read the first time Upon a Motion made touching a Conference to be had in the Commitment of the Bill for relief of George Ognell Esq and that Trussell the adverse Party being now in Execution in one of the Counters of London might be heard before the said Committees without peril of an Escape if he should be brought to Westminster it is agreed That the Committees which were appointed to have met this day in the afternoon about that matter in the Star-chamber do meet in the Guild-hall where the said Trussell may be brought before them with his Keeper without danger as 't is thought of an escape in the Execution Tuesday Feb. 25. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first Mr. Cradock offered to this House being for continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes and praying that the same might be read the same was read accordingly Mr. Davenport moved neither for making any new Laws nor for abrogating any old Laws but for due course of proceeding in Laws already established but executed he thinketh by some Ecclesiastical Governour contrary both to the purpose of the same Laws and also to the minde and meaning of the same Law-giver or maker to the great grief and hindrance and grievance of sundry of her Majesties good Subjects and so offered some particularities in writing to the effect he said of his motion praying the same might be read and committed to be further considered of and dealt in as this House should think good The Bill concerning Processes and Pleadings in the Exchequer passed this day in this House was sent up to the Lords by Sir John Parrott and others with request to be made unto their Lordships from this House for their good and favourable expediting of the Bill for reformation of certain Abuses by Purveyors lately sent unto their Lordships from this House Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching secret Outlawries was read the first time and upon further motion read again the second time and committed to Serjeant Walmsley Sir Henry Knivit Mr. Cradock Mr. Coke and others who were appointed to meet at two of the clock in the afternoon at Serjeants-Inne in Fleet-street The Bill touching Mortmain with a Note of the names of the Committees in the same were delivered to Humphry Waring Servant to Mr. Aldersey one of the Committees in the same Bill to be delivered to the said Mr. Aldersey On Wednesday Feb. 26. the Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers was read the first time and argued upon by Mr. Outred Sir Edward Dymmock and others and afterwards was committed to Mr. Cromwel Mr. Outred Mr. Serjeant Walmsley and others who were appointed to article to the said Bill and to meet this afternoon at two of the clock in the Chequer-chamber Upon a Speech used by Mr. Alford purporting that some that had spoken to the same Bill had uttered some words of rejecting the said Bill and casting it out of the House where in very deed there was no such Speech used at all by any that had spoken to the said Bill nor yet any word tending to such effect It was upon the Question resolved by the judgment of the whole House that there had been no such Speech used by any of them that did speak On Thursday Feb. 27. the Bill for four Fifteenths and Tenths and two entire Subsidies had its first reading Mr. Recorder one of the Committees in the Bill for reformation of Disorders of common Innes and other Victualling-houses shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and some causes which moved them to deal onely with that part thereof which concerneth Casks and the gaging of Vessels for Beer and Ale and so offered a new Bill for that purpose with request for good expediting thereof Mr. Apsloye moved this House touching the great inconvenience grown by the great number of Pluralities and non-Residents Bill against Pluralities and Non-Residents read and offered a Bill for reformation thereof and pray'd the same might be presently read which was so done accordingly On Friday Feb. 28. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for the maintenance of the Poor of Hartlepool was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Edw. Hobby Mr. George Cary Mr. Stubbs Mr. Beal the Burgesses of Newcastle Lime and Yarmouth and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon at two of the clock in the Exchequer-chamber and the Bill was delivered unto Sir Edward Hobby one of the Committees The Bill also touching Costs to be recovered against common Informers had its first reading and upon a further motion was read again and upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed On Saturday March 1. March 1. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Pluralities and Non-Residents was read the second time and after sundry Arguments many with the Bill and some against it was in the end committed to Mr. Treasurer Mr. Morice Mr. Beal Sir Robert Jermin Mr. Francis Hastings and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer-chamber this afternoon The Bill for Tunbridge-School with Amendments was
with others viz. the Lord Treasurer Lord Admiral four Earls five Bishops Lord Chamberlain and twelve Barons the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas the Lord Chief Baron Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney-General to attend the Lords the meeting to be at the great Council-chamber at Whitehall to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon The Counsel on both parts for the Lord Marquiss of Winchester and the Lord Montjoy were admitted to publick hearing in the House and thereupon no just cause being found to hinder or to stay the proceeding of the Bill the same was commanded to be read the third time and so was expedited On Tuesday Decemb. 13. an Act against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers read tertia vice and return'd to the Lower House for their consideration of some Amendments An Act giving power and liberty to Sir John Spencer Knight Dame Mary his Wife and Robert Spencer Esq their Son to alienate certain Mannors and lands in the Counties of Dorset and Bedford read tertia vice and thereupon two Letters from the Lord Spencer to the Lord Chamberlain signifying his consent to the Bill were read On Wednesday Decemb. 14. order was given for release of William Wood out of the Fleet at whose suit Edward Barston the Lord Chandois servant was arrested so as he make satisfaction to the said Barston of such charges as he was at by means of the said Arrest The like Order was made for the enlargement of William Cole that arrested John Yorke the Archbishops servant paying onely the Fees of the Fleet. On Thursday Decemb. 15. an Act for explanation of the Statute made Anno 5 Reginae concerning Labourers A Bill returned because the Amendments went ingrossed in Parchment which should have been in Paper returned from the Lower House with some Exceptions to the Schedule affixed because the Amendment was ingrossed in Parchment which according to the custom of the House should have been in Paper Certain Articles were presented in writing by the Lower House touching their Opinions and Objections concerning the Bill of Tellers c. which were delivered to Mr. Atturney to the end he might confer with the Judges upon the same and make Report to their Lordships The Bill concerning Mr. Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward c. return'd into the House by the Lord Treasurer the first of the Committees And forasmuch as it seemed to the Committees that there were in the Bill certain points that could not be well reformed a Motion was made to the House upon agreement among the Committees That the proceeding in this Bill might cease and that another course might be taken by way of Composition betwixt the Dean and Chapter of Windsor and Arthur Hatch for which purpose a Bill was brought ready drawn by Mr. Atturney-General containing a form of Composition betwixt them to be ratified if it should be thought good by Parliament On Friday Decemb. 16. a Bill for the grant of three Subsidies six Fifteenths and Tenths read the third time and expedited On Saturday Decemb. 17. an Act to preserve the property of stolen Horses in the true Owners and to reform the abuses of Vouchers in the sale of Horses in Fairs and Markets read prima vice An Act for the repressing of Offences that are in the nature of Stealth and are not Felonies by the Laws of the Realm prima vice lect On Munday Decemb. 19. certain Amendments were offered to the House by the Committees on the second reading concerning Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward the said Amendments being twice read whereupon both the Bill and the said Amendments were commanded to be forthwith ingrossed which was accordingly done and presently read the third time and sent to the Lower House by Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp The Amendments in the Bill concerning Labourers formerly ingrossed in Parchment whereat some exception was taken by the Lower House and for that cause returned without their allowance to the Lords was now commanded to be written in Paper On Tuesday Decemb. 20. the Bill for erecting of houses of Correction Bill for houses of Correction and for punishment of vagabond Rogues c. was read tertia vice Dominue Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in xi o die Januar. prox sequen hora octava Wednesday Jan. 11. January 11. the Earl of Essex having been created Earl-Marshal the 18th of December last by her Majesties Letters-Patents took his place according to the said Office viz. next the Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England and before the Earl of Nottingham great Steward Thursday Jan. 12. the Bill entituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm Bill for increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm return'd to the House by the Committees A Motion made by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury first of the Committees that a Conference might be had with a competent number of chosen persons of the Lower House for the better perfecting of the Bill whereupon Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp were addressed to the Lower House with a Message to that effect and the time and place of meeting desired to be at the great Council-chamber at Whitehall to morrow by two of the clock in the afternoon Certain select Committees chosen by the Lower House concerning that Bill for the increase of People c. were sent to the Lords signifying their allowance of the time and place appointed for meeting about that Bill but desired that in the mean time they might have delivered unto them in writing such Objections of their Lordships as they do make unto the Bill to the end they might be more ready to deliver their Opinions and Resolutions at the meeting The Lords having considered of this Motion thought it unfit and not agreeable to the Order of this House to deliver the same in writing and therefore agreed that answer should be made That if upon verbal Conference they should remain unsatisfied touching the said Exceptions then they should have the same delivered unto them in writing for their further consideration thereof which Answer was presently notified to the said select Committees And in the mean season the Judges were required to set down the Objections in writing that they might be in readiness for the said Committees of the Lower House if upon the verbal Conference before-mentioned they should not be satisfied An Act for establishing the Bishoprick of Norwich and the possessions of the same against a concealed Title made thereunto read secunda vice and upon this reading it was ordered by the Lords That all Parties whom this Bill may concern should be openly heard in the House upon Saturday next in the morning to the end that it might be consider'd whether the same may justly pass without prejudice to the said Parties George Lester to be warned then to attend On Friday Jan. 13.
Committees and some Amendments they had made in the said Bill and so delivered in the Bill and Amendments to the House The Bill for building and erecting of a bridge over the River of Wye at Wilton upon Wye neer the Town of Ross in the County of Hereford was read the third time and passed upon the Question Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp did bring from the Lords a Bill passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships entituled An Act for the establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esq and for the better enabling William Pope aforesaid to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts And another for the confirmation of the Joynture of the Lady Verney Wife of Sir Edmond Verney Knight which Bill their Lordships have also passed with some Amendments Sunday Feb. 5. On Munday Feb. 6. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the reformation of retailing and Pawn-takers was read the first time Mr. Boyes one of the Committees in the two Bills the one against carrying Corn out of the Realm and the other to restrain the lading of Corn in some Ports shewed the meeting of the Committees and that they had made some Amendments in one of the same Bills and so delivered the said Bills into the House Mr. Francis Bacon Bill against the decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry one of the Committees in the Bill late passed in the Upper House by the Lords and sent down to this House against the decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry shewed the meeting of the Committees and their Amendments in the said Bill which being read to the House were very well liked of by the whole House On Tuesday Feb. 7. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill for establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William to sell certain Lands for payment of his Debts was read the second time and committed to Mr. Controuler Mr. Lukenor Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Oglethorpe and the Knights and Burgesses of London and twenty four others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Court of Wards The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords in a Bill lately passed in this House entituled An Act for the reviving continuing and repealing of divers Statutes being thrice read the Amendments were assented unto and the Provisoes were passed upon the Question On Wednesday Feb. 8. the Bill entituled An Act for the establishing of a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts and the Bill entituled An Act for the enabling Edmond Moleneux Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of Debts and Legacies and the Bill entituled An Act against the deceitful stretching of Northern Cloath and the Bill entituled An Act for the further continuing and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners made thirty five Reginae were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for the reformation of abuses in Wine-casks was read the third time and dashed upon the Question The Bill for the better execution of Judgments was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Thursday Feb. 9. the Bill entituled An Act for reformation of Retailing-Brokers and other Pawn-takers the Bill entituled An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assignees notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown and a Bill entituled An Act for the better execution of Judgments were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for the Queens Majesties most gracious Pardon was once read and passed upon the Question Nota That whereas to the passing of other Bills three several readings are required here the Bill for her Majesties most gracious Pardon passed upon the first reading Mr. Serjeant Drewe and Dr. Carewe brought from the Lords the Bill entituled An Act for the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths and did shew that their Lordships in like manner have passed the said Bill and so delivered the same to Mr. Speaker to the end that he might carry the same up to the Upper House to be presented by him unto her Majesty in the name of the whole House Post Meridiem The Queens Majesty came to the Upper House soon after three of the clock of which the House of Commons having notice repaired thither with Christopher Yelverton Serjeant at Law their Speaker who having in the name of the whole House presented her Majesty with the Bill of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths amongst other things desired her Majesties Royal assent to such Laws as had passed the two Houses He was answered according to her Majesties command by the Lord Keeper That she thankfully accepted of the said Gift of her loving Subjects and very well allowed of the said Speakers pains and Speech Then Mr. Smith the Clerk of the Upper House The Qu. passeth 24 publick Acts and 19 private Acts and refuses 48 Acts that had passed both Houses and then dissolves this Parl. having read the Titles of all the Acts her Majesty gave her Royal assent to twenty four publick Acts and nineteen private and refused fourty eight which had passed both the Houses After which Sir Thomas Edgerton Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England by her Majesties commandment dissolved this present Parliament An exact Journal of the Passages of the Vpper House of Parliament 43 Eliz. holden at Westminster anno 43 Eliz. Reginae annoque Dom. 1601. which began on Tuesday 27 Octob. and there continued until 19 Decemb. next insuing ON Tuesday Octob. 27. Oct. 27. the Parliament held according to the Summons that had been sent forth The Qu. comes to the House of Peers and the Queens Majesty was personally present in the Upper House about three of the clock in the afternoon her Majesty came accompanied with the Lord Keeper of the great Seal and divers of the Nobility and Bishops There were present all sitting in their Parliament-Robes according to their several places these Noble Personages following Lift of the Peers then present The Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Tho. Edgerton Lord Leeper of the great Seal The Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer of England The Marquiss of Winchester The Earl of Sussex Earl Marshal of England The Earl of Nottingham Lord High-Admiral of England and Lord Steward of her Majesties Houshold The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Derby The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Cumberland The Earl of Hertford The Earl of Lincoln BISHOPS The Bishop of London The Bishop of
Subsidy-Bill read On Saturday March 15. were six Bills read whereof one being an Act against erecting and maintaining of Cottages Bill against Cottages tertia vice lect conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Dr. Clarke Another Bill being an Act for the confirmation of the Subsidies of the Clergie prima secunda vice lect commiss ad ingross Sunday March 16. On Munday the 17th of March were four Bills read whereof the first was the Bill of the Subsidie Subsidy-Bill assented to being tertia vice lect communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus There were also sent up to the Lords this sorenoon six Bills of no great moment On Tuesday March 18. were seven Bills read whereof one being an Act that the Children of Aliens shall pay Strangers Customs tertia vice lect conclus and sent with the former to the House of Commons by Dr. Clarke and Dr. Carewe There were also this morning brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons four Bills which were of so little moment as two of them were not mentioned in the Journal-Book On Wednesday March 19. were three Bills read of no great concernment On Thursday the 20th of March were two Bills read of no great moment And the same forenoon one other Bill of small consequence brought from the Commons On Friday March 21. were four Bills read whereof the first being an Act concerning the Hospital of Lamborn tertia vice lect conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serj. Puckering and three other Bills of no great moment There were also sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons this forenoon three Bills of no great moment On Saturday March 22. were four Bills of no great concernment brought from the House of Commons Bill for maintainance of the School at Tunbridge And the Lords having this forenoon given three readings to the Bill for the better Assurance of Lands and Tenements for the maintainance of the Free Grammar-School of Tunbridge in the County of Kent did send the said Bill with those new Amendments to be passed also in the House of Commons the Bill it self having before passed that House and had been sent up from them to the Lords on Munday last March 23. Sunday On Munday March 24. three Bills of no great moment and the Amendments of the fourth were read And five Bills of as little consequence were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons Memorandum quod Christopherus Wray Miles Capital Justiciar de Banco Reg. secum adduxit in Parliamento in Camera Parliamenti intra Dominos Breve de Errore Billam de Regina indorsat ac Rotnl in quibus continebantur placit processis in quibus supponebatur error ibid. reliquit transcript totius Recordi cum Clerico Parliamenti simul cum praedicto Breve de Errore in Parliamento On Tuesday March 25. An. 1589. 25. three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of no great moment and other Bills of as small consequence read in the House whereof one was read twice and the other thrice No mention is made of the continuance or adjournment of the Parliament being omitted by the Clerks negligence On Wednesday March 26. three Bills were read whereof the first being an Act to avoid secret Outlawries of her Majesties Subjects Bill to avid secret Outlawries For relief of Jurors tertia vice lect and sent to the Commons by Dr. Carewe And the last being an Act for the relief of Jurors read secunda tertia vice and rejected An Act also of no great moment was this forenoon sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Thursday the 27th of March nothing was done but the Parliament continued to the hour accustomed On Friday March 28. three Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first was an Act for the explanation or declaration of the Statute of 8 Hen. 6. concerning forcible Entries Bill concerning forcible Entries the Indictments thereupon found expedit and two other Bills of no great moment An Act also for naturalizing Joyce the Daughter Ralph Elkin Gent. and Wife of Richard Lambert Merchant Bill for Naturalization born beyond the Seas read thrice expedit Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinam dimid horae ante septimam On Saturday March 29. a Bill for continuance of divers Statutes tertia vice lect and sent to the House of Commons by Dr. Stanhopp and Mr. Powell Here by the negligence of the Clerk the Lords Spiritual that were present are omitted but the Lords Temporal that attended the Queen are thus named who was there personally present this day at the dissolving the Parliament Lords Temporal present at the Dissolution of this Parliament Sir Christopher Hatton Miles Dominus Cancellarius Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaur Angliae Marchio Winton Comes Darby Magnus Senescallus Comes Northumberland Comes Kane Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Comes Hundingdon Comes Bathon Comes Pembrooke Comes Hartford Comes Essex Barones Dominus Howard Admirall Dominus Hunsdon Camer Dominus Willoughby Dominus Morley Dominus Cobham Dominus Talbott Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey Dominus Darcy Dominus Sands Dominus Windsor Dominus Wentworth Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby Dominus Northe Dominus St. John Dominus Buckhurst Dominus De-la-ware Dominus Norris These being thus set and the Commons House with their Speaker and as many as conveniently could being let in the said Speaker Bills presented to the Queen for Royal Assent according to the usual form presenting her Majesty with the Bill of two Subsidies and four Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty desired her Highness graciously to accept thereof as the free Testimony of the faithful and loyal Respect of her Subjects and withal desiring her Majesty to give her gracious consent to such Acts as had been prepared and expedited by the two Houses of Parliament To the Bill of Subsidies the Queen answered Queen passes the Subsidy Le Royne remercee ses loyaule Subjects accept leur benevolence ainsi le veult The Clerk of the Parliament having read this former Answer of the Queens acceptance of the Bill of Subsidie did then read in these French words following the thanks of the Lords and Commons for her Majesties most free and gracious Pardon Les Prelats Seigneurs Communs in ce present Parliament assembles Lords and Commons return thanks in French au nom de touts vos autres Subjects remercient tres-humblement vostre Majestie prient a Dieu que il vous donne en bonne vie longue To every publick Act allowed by the Queen the Clerk of the Parliament read in French these words following La Royne le veult To every private Act that passed Soit fait comme il est desire These two last Answers to the Publick and Private
introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Henrici Comitis Huntingdon in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Gulielmum Dominum Burleigh Thesaurarium Angliae Robertum Comitem Essex Vicecomitem Hereford Dominum Ferrers de Chartley. On Tuesday March 6. there was one Bill read once On Wednesday March 7. Breve returnatum est quo Johannes Salisburien Episc praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliament locum salvo jure alieno The same morning there were four Bills read each of them once A Bill for restraining Popish Recusants to certain places of abode the fourth being a Bill for restraining Popish Recusants to some certain places of abode There was also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons an Act for the naturalizing and making free of William Sidney eldest son of Robert Sidney Kt. Governour of Vlushing and Dame Barbara his wife and of Peregrine Wingfield son and heir of Sir John Wingfield Kt. and Dame Susan Countess of Kent his wife And note this day also was one extraordinary Proxie return'd from a Spiritual Lord who constituted but one Proctor whereas usually no such Lord constituteth fewer than two which Proxie is thus entered in the beginning of the Journal-book of this Parliament 7º Marcii introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Mathei Dunelmensis Episc in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Cantuariensem Episcopum On Thursday March 8. were three Bills each of them once read whereof the first was an Act for explanation and confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Kt. convicted of High-Treason Not long after this Bill had been committed to ingrossing according to a certain Order formerly made by the Lords Francis Englefield Esq appeared before them with one of his learned Counsel who were commanded to declare what they could alleadge why an Act for explanation and confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Kt. attainted of High-Treason should not pass And upon Allegations made by the learned Counsel the Lords commanded they should set them down in Writing and deliver them to the Atturney-General and that on Friday they should attend on the Judges and the Queens learned Counsel at Serjeants-Inne and shew such Deeds of Conveyance as they made mention of before the Lords that the said Lords upon answer of the Judges and learned Counsel might proceed upon the said Bill as it should seem best to their Lordships On Saturday March 10. to which day the Parliament had been last continued after the reading of one private Bill prima vice the Lords gave in Commandment to Mr. Atturney-General to bring on Munday certain Depositions remaining in the Exchequer concerning the Case of Sir Francis Englefield after they had first heard the opinion of the Judges which was delivered by the Lord Chief Justice of England March 11. Sunday On Munday March 12. two Bills had each of them one reading On Tuesday March 13. two Bills being each of them once read the Lords at the Bishop of Worcester's motion A Collection in the House of Peers for poor Souldiers condescended to a Contribution for the relief of such poor Souldiers as went begging in the streets of London viz. That every Earl should give Forty shillings every Bishop Thirty shillings and every Baron Twenty shillings and appointed the said Bishop and the Lord Norris Collectors thereof and committed the bestowing thereof to the Earl of Essex and Lord Willoughby of Eresby On Thursday March 15. to which day the Parliament had been last continued were four Bills each of them once read On Friday March 16. were two Bills each of them once read And then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament in the usual form to the Munday following On Munday March 19. one Bill onely upon its second reading was committed to be ingrossed On Tuesday March 20. the Bill touching Sir Francis Englefield's Lands had its third reading and was concluded Four Bills also more were this forenoon sent up to the Lords from the Commons On Thursday March 22. two Bills had each of them one reading On Saturday March 24. to which day the Parliament had been last continued was one Act concluded after the third reading and four other Bills brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof one was an Act concerning the lawful deprivation of Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London March 25. Sunday An. 1593. On Munday March 26. were three Bills each of them once read Subsidy-bill read granted by the Temporaity whereof the first was an Act for the grant of three entire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty which had passed the House of Commons and was sent up to the Lords on Saturday last This morning also two other Bills were sent up to the Lords from the said Commons On Tuesday March 27. three Bills had each of them one reading On Wednesday March 28. three Bills were read secunda vice and one Bill tertia vice Five other Bills were also sent up to the Lords from the Commons Nota This day was an unusual Proxie returned from one of the Bishops absent at this time from the Parliament as divers other Peers by the License of her Majesty in which Proxie he constituted but one Proctor whereas it is the usual custome for every Spiritual Lord to nominate two at the least and every Temporal Lord but one This Proxie is thus entered in the beginning of the original Journal-book of this Parliament 28º Die Marcii introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Thomae Cicestrensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Archiepisc Cantuariensem On Thursday March 29. seven Bills had each of them one reading On Fryday March 30. five Bills were read whereof the first was the Bill of Subsidy granted by the Temporalty Subsidy granted by the Clergy passed and the last the Bill of Subsidy granted by the Clergy both which at this time upon their several third readings passed the Lords House On Saturday March 31. were five Bills read April 1. April 1. Sunday On Munday April 2. one Bill was read and six Bills of like consequence were sent up to the Lords from the Commons On Tuesday April 3. were four Bills once read On Wednesday April 4. one Bill was read prima secundae vice On Thursday April 5. three Bills of no great moment upon their third reading passed the House and were expedited This morning also this Order was agreed on amongst the Lords An Order about the Contribution for mustred Souldiers viz. Whereas the Lords of Parliament both Spiritual and Temporal assembled in the Parliament chamber at Westminster have with one uniform consent both in their own Names and the rest of the Lords absent ordered That there shall be a charitable Relief and Contribution made towards the relief and
by the Lord Keeper in the name and behalf of the House to such Knights and Burgesses as come from the Lower House the said Knights and Burgesses are to receive the same standing towards the lower end of the House and the Lord Keeper is to deliver the same with his head covered and all the Lords are to keep their places And thereupon the Lower House was satisfied and the same form was afterwards kept accordingly On Friday Jan. 20. The Answer in writing that came yesterday from the Lower House to the Objections taken by their Lordships to some points of the Bill intituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm was by the Order of the House referred and delivered unto the Lords Committees formerly appointed upon that Bill who were required to consider thereof and make their Report of their Opinions concerning the same On Saturday Jan. 21. the Bill for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others in the War read secunda vice On Munday Jan. 23. a Bill for establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth read prima vice On Tuesday Jan. 24. the Bill intituled An Act for the relieving of Clothiers concerning the weight of short broad and coloured Clothes to be made in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury first of the Committees who made report that upon hearing of both parties and upon due consideration of the reasons and allegations by them alleadged the Committees thought there could not be any further proceedings in the same whereupon a new Bill was presented bearing this Title viz. An Act touching the making of short broad course coloured Clothes in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex which was read prima vice Debated in the House whether Amendments upon a Bill being brought into the House by Committees may afterwards be contradicted or spoken against by any of the Committees A Doubt propouded and reâ—â—â—â—ed The doubt was left for the present unresolved but afterwards cleared and ruled Affirmatively On Wednesday Jan. 25. an Act that no person robbing of a House in the Day-time although no person be therein shall be admitted to have the benefit of his Clergie secunda vice lect An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patents their Heirs and Assignes notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown secunda vice lect and referred to Committees viz. the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury Lord Treasurer Lord Marshal and others appointed to meet c. the Lord Chief-Justice the Lord Chief-Baron and Mr. Atturney-General to attend them Sir Moyle Finch to be heard by his Counsel learned openly in the House to morrow-morning concerning this Bill Notice given to the House by the Lord Treasurer that the Committees upon the Bill concerning Tellers Receivers c. had a meeting with a select number of the Lower House to confer upon the Objections and Answers touching that Bill yesterday in the Afternoon according to the order taken Jan. 23. But forasmuch as the said number of the Lower House at the meeting affirmed that they had no authority to undertake the debating of the said Objections and Answers otherwise than to speak as they should see cause as private men and desired that the Answers might be communicated to the Lower House in writing the Lords therefore sent down the said Answers to the Lower House by the hands of Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhop On Thursday Jan. 26. an Act for enabling Edmond Molineux to sell Lands for the payment of his Debts c. was returned to the House by the Lord Marshal second of the Committees And forasmuch as the same could not be determined by the said Committees by reason of some of the Kindred of the said Edmond Molineux who opposed themselves against the Bill a motion was therefore made that the Cause might be ended by some arbitrary course whereupon the Parties on both sides were called into the House and moved to that purpose unto which they assented and made choice of the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of London and the Lord Montjoy who were appointed to meet that afternoon c. An Act to reform Deceits and breaches of Trust touching Lands given to charitable uses returned to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury with some amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added which were twice read and thereupon Commandment given that the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso ingrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading The Bill intituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury first of the Committees And because it seemed to all the Committes appointed for this Bill together with the Judges that notwithstanding the Conference with several selected persons of the Lower House that this Bill could not proceed Order was given to the Judges but especially to the Lord Chief-Justice to draw a new Bill whereupon this new Bill following was brought into the House An Act against decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry prima vice lect Excuse made by the Lord Admiral for the Earl of Hertford's absence for want of health The like by the Lord Chandois for the Lord de la Ware The Lord Marshal signified to the House that the Lord Mordant and the Lord Sheffield had leave of her Majesty for their absence On Friday Jan. 27. the Lord Treasurer took his place this day as Baron of Burleigh between the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Compton The Lord Admiral his place as Earl of Nottingham between the Earl of Lincoln and the Lord Viscount Byndon The Lord Chamberlain his place as Baron of Hunsdon between the Lord Chandois and the Lord St. John of Bletsoe On Saturday Jan. 28. the Bill for the lawful making of Bays in the Counties of Essex and Suffolk was read tertia vice On Munday Jan. 30. an Act for Retailing-brokers and other Pawn-takers returned to the House by the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury first of the Committees and because there was found many defects therein so that they thought the same unfit to be proceeded in they therefore together with the said Bill presented a new Bill intituled as the former which was read prima vice On Tuesday Jan. 31. a Motion from the lower House by Sir John Forscue and others that some new time might be appointed for conference about the Act intituled An Act for reforming sundry abuses committed by Souidiers c. in regard they had appointed some other meeting this Afternoon for the preparing of a Bill of Accomptants in readiness to proceed their Lordships having considered of the Motion made answer by the Lord Keeper that they wished for some good consideration that the appointed time viz. this Afternoon might hold for this Conference supposing that if it please the
c. and shewed that their Lordships did especially recommend the said Bill to this House Three other Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for erecting of Hospitals or Abiding and Working-houses for the Poor had its third reading and after many Speeches both with and against the Bill it was ordered upon the Question to be recommitted to the former Committees and the Bill with a Note of the Committees Names were delivered to Mr. Boyes The Bill against excessive Fees of Ecclesiastical Judges and of their Officers and Ministers Bill against the excessive Fees of Ecclesiastical Judges c. was this day in the afternoon delivered to Mr. Speaker On Tuesday Nov. 29. eight Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for repairing the bridges of Newport and Carlion in the County of Monmouth was upon the second reading committed unto all the Knights for all the Shires and Burgesses for all the Burroughs in Wales Monmouthshire and the Citizens for Bristal and Gloucester Mr. Serjeant Williams Mr. Pembridge and Mr. Oldsworth who were appointed to meet on Thursday next in the Exchequer-chamber at two of the clock in the afternoon The Bill for the Town of Northamp was read the third time and upon the doubtfulness of the Question twice put was dashed upon the division of the House by the difference of 53 voices viz. with the No 153 and with the Yea but 100. The Bill for Arthur Hatch was read the third time and passed upon the Question the learned Counsel on both sides heretofore having been heard as well before the Committees as before this House at the bar On Wednesday Nov. 30. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last was for the prohibiting of bringing into this Realm of any forreign Cards for Wooll The Amendments and Additions in the Bill for the erecting of houses of Correction and places of punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars being twice read upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill concerning the possessions of the Bishoprick of Norwich was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Stevenson Mr. Henry Hubberd Mr. Henry Warner the Burgesses of Norwich and Lynn Mr. Nathaniel Bacon and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Henry Warner who with the rest were appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Mr. Finch one of the Committees in the sundry former Bills for the relief of the Poor Bill for relief of the Poor shewed the meetings and travel of the said Committees in sundry of the said Bills in some of which as they have not as yet throughly proceeded so he delivereth in a new Bill for the relief of the Poor into this House On Thursday Decem. 1. Decemb. 1. two Bills were each of them read the first time of which the former was a Bill for provision of a Preacher in the Tower of London Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being for maintenance and reparation of Stains-bridge and Egham-Cawsey was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Geo. Moore Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Amersham and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon at two of the clock in the Exchequer-chamber Also four other Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill against Forestallers c. was read the third time and after sundry Speeches both with and against it it passed upon the Question Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the better execution of the Statute made 13 Reginae for the establishing of Logwood alias Blockwood Bill about Logwood for Dying in the dying of Cloath Wooll or Yarn was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Friday Decemb. 2. the Bill for the establishing of an Award made between Edmond Cotton Gent. and Thomas Harvie Yeoman read prima vice Four other Bills had each of them one reading of which Bill to prevent double payment of Book-debts the last being a Bill to prevent double payment of Debts upon Shop-books was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Jackson Mr. Maynard Mr. George Moore Sir Edward Hobby Mr. Wingfield Sir Francis Hastings and others who are appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Saturday Decemb. 3. Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the speedy punishment of certain Felons and the manner of their delivery was read the first time The Amendments in the Bill for Bristol being twice read the Bill was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for recovery of surrounded waste Marshes and watery Grounds in the Isle of Ely Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln and Norfolk was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Thomas Cecill the Knights of Norfolk Northampton Lincoln Cambridge Huntington Sussex and Bedford the Burgesses of the Burroughs in the said Shires Mr. Oxborough and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon at two of the clock in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill for the Hospital called Nevil's Hospital in the County of York had its third reading and upon a Motion to have Mr. Burde Master of the said Hospital heard before the Bill be put to the Question for the passing day was given him to be heard with his Counsel in this House upon Munday next Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Controuler and others of which the first was the Bill against Forestallers c. the second concerning Arthur Hatch and the third was for the abolishing of Logwood alias Blockwood in dying of Cloaths The Bill that Leassees may enjoy their Leases against Patentees in some certain cases was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Francis Hastings Sir Thomas Hungerford Mr. Sollicitor Sir Thomas Hobby Sir Thomas Conisby Mr. Yelverton Mr. Controuler Mr. Henry Hubberd Mr. Wiseman Sir Robert Wroth and others who were appointed to meet on Tuesday next in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber and the parties concerned to bring their Counsel before the Committees Decemb. 4. Sunday On Munday Decemb. 5. six Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for erecting of houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and Beggars was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Proviso in the Bill for draining of certain over-flown and surrounded Grounds in the County of Norfolk was twice read and the Bill and Proviso were ordered to be ingrossed Six Bills were this morning sent up to the Lords of which the two principal were one concerning the Lands of Sir Henry Hatton and the other to give power to Sir John Spencer and Dame Mary his Wife and Robert their Son to alienate certain Mannors and Lands in the County of Somerset The Bill concerning
the Queens Hospital in Bristol and for the relief of the Poor and Orphans there Sunday Decemb. 11. On Munday Decemb. 12. the Bill for redressing the abuses and deceits used in Painting upon the second reading was committed unto Mr. George Moore Mr. Fettiplace Sir William Cornwallis Mr. Recorder of London and others who were to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill for confirming the Letters-Patents granted to the Merchant-Adventurers of the City of Exeter was upon the second reading committed unto the Knights and Citizens for London the Burgesses for York Lynn and Newcastle Mr. Serjeant Heale and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill against the buying of Armour brought from beyond the Seas was read the second time and rejected upon the several Questions for the committing and ingrossing The Bill for provision of a Preacher in the Tower of London Bill for a Preacher in the Tower of London was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy Counsellors of this House Mr. Henry Hubbert Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill also for building of a bridge over the River Wye was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Herbert Crofts Mr. Serjeant Williams Mr. Robert Knowls Sir John Scudamore Mr. Creswell and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill for the Lord Thomas Howard was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Winch Mr. Sollicitor and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next in the afternoon in the Treasury-chamber The Bill for the relief of the Poor was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Tuesday Decemb. 13. six Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for the true making of Daggers Swords and Rapiers and of the blades of every of them was read the second time and rejected upon the several Questions for the committing and ingrossing The Amendments in the Bill for Bristol was thrice read and passed The Bill for the recovery of certain waste marish and watery Grounds in the Isle of Ely and the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk and Suffolk was read the third time and passed upon the Question Which Bill and also the Bill for the relief of the poor which passed the House yesterday were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for Husbandry and Tillage was read the second time and after some Amendments therein by some of the Committees in the Committee-chamber of this House the said Amendments being twice read the Bill was ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday Decemb. 14. five Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for granting of three Subsidies and six Fifteens and Tenths was read the third time and passed upon the Question Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords a Bill lately passed in this House entituled An Act for the explanation of the Statute made 1 Eliz. concerning Labourers shewing that their Lordships have likewise passed the same with some Amendments Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill for the establishing of the possessions of the Bishoprick of Norwich was read the third time and staid from being put to the Question for passing till to morrow that the Counsel of one Mr. Leicester might be heard in this House Friday next is appointed to hear the Counsel learned of and concerning the Cause of Leassees and Patentees On Thursday Decemb. 15. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the lawful making of Bayes was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Amendments in the Bill for the relieving of Cloathiers concerning the weight of short broad and colour'd Cloaths to be made in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex were twice read and ordered to be committed The Bill for better staying of Corn within the Realm passed upon the Question and upon the division of the House after many Arguments with the difference of 29 Voices viz. with the Yea 124 Observation of a Ceremony of ancient custom used in the House of Com. and with the No 85. Whereupon after a Motion that according to the ancient custom of this House all the Members of the same which did speak against the passing of the said Bill should go forth of the House to bring in the Bill into the House again together with the residue of the Members of this House which went out before with the passing of the said Bill wherein as sundry Speeches were used pro contra so at last it was resolved it should be so done and observed for orders sake accordingly And then all the Members of this House being gone forth saving Mr. Speaker and the Clerk Mr. Controuler brought in the Bill in his hand accompanied with all the Members of this House and delivered the same Bill to Mr. Speaker according to the ancient former use of this House in that behalf observed On Friday Decemb. 16. five Bills had each of them the third reading and passed upon the Question of which one was against the stretching and taintering of Northern Cloath and another against the transporting of Sheep-skins and Pelts And a little after all the said Bills were passed in the House they were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sands was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Controuler Mr. Secretary Mr. Brodgrave Atturney of the Dutchie Sir William Moore Mr. Edward Lukenor Sir Francis Hastings and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber After many Arguments in the Bill for increase of people for the service and strength of the Realm both for and against it a Motion was made That a Proviso ingrossed in Parchment might be added to the same Bill which being thrice read and the Bill and Proviso put to the Question the same did pass upon the Question and it was then ordered that the said Proviso should be inserted and written in the end of the said Bill as parcel thereof On Saturday Decemb. 17. the Bill for relief of Cloathiers concerning weight of short broad coloured Cloaths to be made within the Counties of Suffolk and Essex was read the third time and passed upon the Question and after upon the division of the House with the difference of 26 Voices viz. with Yea 105 and with the No 79 Which being done and a Motion thereupon made by some That those that did sit against the Bill might rise and go forth to fetch and bring in the Bill into this House accompanied with the
second reading committed to the Knights and Burgesses of London Mr. Tho. Smyth Sir Walter Rawleigh Mr. Oldsworth and others who were appointed to meet on Munday in the afternoon at Serjeants-Inne in Chancery-lane Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the suppressing of unlawful and unsized bread was upon the second reading committed unto the Knights and Citizens of London Mr. Edward Hubbert the Burgesses of Chester Worcester Oxford Bristol Winchester and Cambridge Serjeant Harries and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon at Serjeants Inne in Chancery-lane Mr. John Acton one of the Burgesses for Droyt in the County of Worcester is for his special businesses licensed by Mr. Speaker to depart On Saturday Jan. 14. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to avoid Deceit and breaches of Trust touching Lands given to charitable uses was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Serjeant Harries the Knights and Burgesses for London Mr. Miles Sands and others who were appointed to meet upon Munday next in the afternoon at Serjeants-Inne in Chancery-lane The Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for enjoying the Rectory and Parsonage of South-Moulton in the County of Devon for certain years reserving the usual Rent was read the third time and passed upon the Question Sir Walter Rawleigh renewing the Motion for Conference to be prayed with the Lords concerning their Lordships Amendments and Provisoes in the Bill concerning erecting houses of Correction and Punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars for the better reconciling of them with the Bill now begun against wandering Souldiers and Mariners it was thereupon thought convenient by the House that the said Sir Walter Rawleigh accompanied with a convenient number of this House should presently repair to the Upper House to move for the said Conference accordingly Which Conference the Lords granted and appointed six of themselves to meet with a convenient number of this House upon Munday next at eight a clock in the morning in the second chamber of the Upper House Sunday Jan. 15. On Munday Jan. 16. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for explanation of and addition to an Act made 5. Reginae for maintenance of the Navy was read prima vice Sir Edward Hobby moved That the Serjeant of the House be commanded to call on Leicester to appear in this House for serving a Subpoena on Sir Henry Norris and also to warn one Stevens Two Bills more had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning the Hospital of Warwick was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Tuesday Jan. 17. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the assurance of the Joynture of Joyce the wife of John Thornbrigge was read the second time and upon the several Questions for committing and ingrossing was rejected The Bill for the reforming of sundry Abuses in the garbling of Spices and Drugs was read the second time and rejected upon the several Questions for the committing and ingrossing thereof Mr. Serjeants Drewe and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords a Bill concerning a Lease of great value procured to be passed from her Majesty to William Kirkham Junior which Bill their Lordships have passed and do desire the speedy executing thereof in this House the same Bill greatly importing her Majesty whereupon the Bill was presently read in the House prima vice On Wednesday Jan. 18. eight Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill for the reviewing continuance and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Mariners and Souldiers was read the first time and the last being the Bill to tax all Lands and Goods for the payment of the Subsidies in the same Parish where it lieth was read the first time and rejected upon the Question for a second reading The Committees in the Bill for restraining the excessive making of Mault and the Committees in the Bill to restrain Deceits in breaches of Trust were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Thursday Jan. 19. the Bill for reuniting the Mannor of Parrisgarden in the County of Surrey was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Brodgrave Atturney of the Dutchie Mr. Newton Mr. Wiseman Mr. Serjeant Williams Mr. Edmond Boyer and Mr. Francis Moore and others and the Bill with the Committees Names were delivered unto Mr. Edmond Boyer who with the rest were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill for the repealing of a branch of a Statute made 34 Hen. 8. entituled The Ordinance for Wales was read the second time and not being spoken against by any was ordered to be ingrossed On Friday Jan. 20. the Bill for the sale of the Lands and Goods of John Sharpe to pay his Debts was upon the second reading committed to Sir John Hart Mr. Henry Hubbard Mr. Nevil Mr. Thomas Smith Mr. Southerton Mr. Colebrand and others and the Bill with the Committees Names were delivered unto Mr. Southerton who with the rest were appointed to meet this afternoon in Middle-Temple-hall The Bill that Thomas Culpepper and John Culpepper may dispose of their Lands whereof they are Tenants in Tail as other Tenants in tail may do was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Barker Mr. Serjeant Williams Mr. Serjeant Harries and others and the Bill and Committees Names were delivered to Mr. Serjeant Williams who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall On Saturday Jan. 21. two Bills had each of them their first reading of which the last was against carrying of Corn or Grain out of the Realm at certain times Mr. Francis Goodwyn one of the Committees in the Bill concerning the Highway-lands of Alisbury in the County of Bucks brought in the Bill with some Amendments which being twice read the Bill was upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Waldgrave one of the Committees in the Bill to prohibit the carrying of Herrings beyond the Seas shewed their meeting and their Amendments of the Bill the Bill being twice read upon the Question it was ordered to be ingrossed Sunday Jan. 22. On Munday Jan. 23. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being a Bill for explanation of a Saving in a Stat. made 27 Reginae entituled An Act for the better foundation and relief of the Poor of the Hospital of Eastbridge in the County of kent was read the second time and rejected upon the several Questions of the Committing and ingrossing Sir John Hart one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Garret de Malmes and John Younger Merchants strangers shewed the meeting and travail of the Committees and their making of a new Bill for sundry considerations then opened by him and so delivered in to the House both the old Bill and
triyling Suits in Law of which the first was to avoid trifling Suits in Law in her Majesties Courts at Westminster On Thursday Decemb. 3. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second was the Bill for enabling Edward Nevil of Burling in the County of Kent and Sir William Nevil his son to sell certain Lands On Friday Decemb. 4. the Bill against Drunkards and common Haunters of Ale-houses and Taverns the Bill for levying of Fines with Proclamations of Lands within the County of the City of Chester the Bill for enabling of Edward Nevil of Berlin in the County of Kent Esq c. and the Bill for confirmation of Letters-Patents made by Edw. 6. to Sir Edward Seignior Kt. were each of them read secunda vice On Saturday Decemb. 5. the Bill for maintenance of the Navy increase of Mariners and for avoiding the scarcity of Victuals was read prima vice Report was made to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees concerning Musters Souldiers c. That the said Committees having oftentimes met and conferred about the said Bill did finde so many imperfections in the same as it could not conveniently be mended and therefore thought it meet to draw a new Bill which he presented to the House The Bill entituled An Act for the more peaceable government of the Parties of Cumberland c. was returned to the House with certain Amendments which Amendments were presently twice read and thereupon the Bill commanded to be ingrossed On Munday Decemb. 7. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the more peaceable government of the Parties of Cumberland c. was read tertia vice and sent down to the House of Commons by Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp The Bill to avoid the double payment of Debts was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Controuler Sir Edward Hobby and others Four other Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the confirmation as well of all Grants made to the Queen and of all resumptions made by her Highness of the possessions of any Archbishoprick or Bishoprick as of Letters-Patents made by her Majesty to others was read prima vice The Bill for confirmation of Grants made to the Queen and of Letters-Patents made by her Highness to others was this day returned to the House with certain Amendments by the Lord Treasurer the first of the Committees This day Sir William Knowls Sir Edward Hobby Knights and divers others of the House of Commons delivered a Message from the said House desiring a Conference with some of their Lordships concerning the uniting of Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning Upon the delivery of which Message after the said Sir William Knowls and the rest had a little withdrawn and then upon propounding this Motion to this House the Lords having assented thereunto Answer was made by the Lord Keeper sitting in his place and the the rest of the Lords also keeping their places unto the said Sir William Knowls and the rest That the Lords had yielded to the Conference and had appointed the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche and the Lord Cobham to meet with some select persons of the House of Commons for that purpose to morrow by eight a clock in the morning at the Utter chamber neer the Parliament-presence On Tuesday Decemb. 8. six Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers and other in the Queens service in the Wars was read secunda vice and committed to the Committees formerly appointed for the first Bill of that kind with addition of the Lord Windsor and the said Committee to meet upon the said Bill upon the first opportunity of meeting on any other Bill and the said Bill was delivered to the Earl of Nottingham the third of the Committees Nota NOTA. That here this Bill was delivered unto the Earl of Nottingham being the third of the Committees of whom the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Treasurer were the two first Whereas on Munday Nov. 23. a Bill being committed upon the second reading was delivered unto the Archbishop the first of the Committees And on Thursday Nov. 26. upon the commitment also of a Bill in the like manner the Bill was delivered unto the Lord Howard of Walden being the Puisne Baron or last of the Committees by which it is plain that in the Upper House as well as in the House of Commons after any Bill is committed upon the second reading it may be delivered indifferently to any of the said Committees A Proviso was offered by the Earl of Worcester on the behalf of the Earl of Shrewsbury to be annexed unto the Bill entituled An Act for the consirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of Letters-Patents made by her Highness to others which Proviso together with the Amendments in the said Bill were read presently And forasmuch as the Lords desired a speedy proceeding in the said Bill they sent Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp to the House of Commons to move them that some meet persons of that House might joyn in Conference with the Lords being to the number of twenty or thereabouts concerning the Proviso and Amendments aforesaid and that the meeting about the same might be at the outward Chamber neer to the Parliament-presence to morrow by eight of the clock in the morning Upon delivery of which Message to the House of Commons they assented accordingly to the Motion made on that behalf Upon a Motion sent this day from the House of Commons by Sir Walter Rawleigh Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Hobby and others signifying That they desired Conference with some of their Lordships for certain matters concerning the honour of both Houses the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Worcester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham and the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche the Lord De-la-ware the Lord Cohham and the Lord Howard of Walden were appointed to meet on Thursday next by eight a clock in the morning at the outward chamber neer the Parliament-presence which was signified to Sir VValter Rawleigh and the rest in answer of their Message On VVednesday Decemb. 9. the Counsel of the Lady Fane was heard in the House what he could say on her behalf against the Bill of Edward Nevil and Sir Henry Nevil his son whereupon the Lords finding no cause why the proceeding on that Bill should be any longer staid Order was given for the third reading thereof The Bill for the enabling of Edward Nevil Esq and Sir Henry Nevil his son and heir apparent to dispose of certain Copyhold-lands was read tertia vice upon the third reading of which Bill and before
service in the Wars was returned to the House by the Lord Steward with certain Amendments and a Proviso thought meet by the Committees which Amendments and Proviso were presently twice read and thereupon the Bill commanded to be ingrossed The Bill for the maintenance of the Navy increase of Mariners c. was returned to the House by the Lord Treasurer the first of the Committees with certain Amendments which Amendments were presently twice read Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the two last were one for assurance of the Parsonage and Vicarage of Rotherston in the County of Chester and a Scholars Room in the Cathedral-church of Christ in Oxford of the foundation of King Hen. 8. by the Dean and Chapter of the said Cathedral-church to Thomas Venables Esq and his Heirs for ever and the other for the augmentation of the Joynture of Rachel Wife of Edward Nevil in the County of Kent Esquire both which Bills were read prima vice On Saturday Decemb. 12. eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Secretary Cecil Mr. Secretary Herbert and others which were each of them read prima vice of which the first was for reformation of abuses in Sheriffs and other their inferiour Officers for not duely executing Writs of Proclamation upon Exigents according to the Stat. 31 Reginae and the second was for prohibiting Fairs and Markets to be holden on the Sunday Bill to prevent holding Fairs and Markets on Sundays Subsidy-bill Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the the first being the Bill for the grant of four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Teuths granted by the Temporalty was read prima vice The Lords and those of the House of Commons not having time yesterday to conclude their Conference about the Bill concerning Letters-Patents and Conveyances c. another meeting was appointed for them this morning Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Carewe were therefore sent unto them to let them know that their Lordships were ready presently to meet Upon which Message the House of Commons returned answer That they would make their repair to their Lordships forthwith for that purpose The Bill for the perfecting of the Joynture of the Lady Bridget Countess of Sussex Wife of Robert Earl of Sussex was read secunda vice The Bill concerning the Joynture of the Countess of Bedford was returned to the House by the Earl of Worcester the first of the Committees with a Proviso and certain Amendments thought sit to be added together with a Petition of the Lady Russel against the said Bill The Lords that were appointed Committees for the Bill touching Letters-Patents c. went forth to the outward chamber to have conference with those of the House of Commons appointed Committees for the same Bill but nothing concluded touching the Amendments because the said Committees had no power to conclude and therefore after long debate the Bill was brought back to the House and the relation thereof referred to be made by Mr. Atturney and the same deferred till the afternoon sitting by reason the day was spent Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliament usque ad horam tertiam post meridiem hujus diei About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers Lords having assembled themselves five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first concerning the draining and recovery from water of certain over-flown Grounds in the County of Norfolk the second for reformation of abuses committed in buying and selling of Spices and other Merchandizes and the third to prevent Perjury and subornation of Perjury and unnecessary expences in Suits of Law were each of them read secunda vice The Proviso that was presented to be added to the Bill for the maintenance of the Navy and increase of Mariners c. was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons together with the Bill concerning Captains Souldiers c. by Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp The Amendments and Proviso in the Bill concerning the Countess of Bedford's Joynture were twice read and likewise the Lady Russel's Petition was read whereupon it was appointed that the Proviso should be ingrossed in Parchment and the Amendments in Paper The Committees in the Bill for the observation of Rules in the Exchequer were appointed to meet forthwith in the little chamber neer the Parliament-presence to consider of a Proviso drawn by the Lord Chief Justice and the rest of the Judges by direction of the Committees which Proviso having been considered of accordingly was brought into the House and presently twice read and thereupon the said Proviso was commanded to be ingrossed On Munday Decemb. 14. to which day the Parliament was last continued the Bill for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer set down and established by vertue of her Majesties Privy-Seal was read tertia vice and the Proviso thought fit by the Committees to be added was also read the third time The Bill for assurance of certain Mannors and Lands for part of a Joynture to Lucy Countess of Bedford and the Provisoes and Amendments presented by the Committees to be added to the Bill were also read the third time both which Bills were sent to the House of Commons for their consideration of the several Provisoes and Amendments by Dr. Swale and the Clerk of the Crown Four Bills more had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the grant of four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read secunda vice Two Bills more were also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill for the confirmation of the Charter of Edw. 6. of the three Hospitals of Christ Bridewel and St. Thomas the Apostle to the Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of London was read prima vice The Bill to confirm the assurance of the Mannors or Farms of Sagebury alias Sadgbury and Obden and other Hereditaments to Samuel Sandis Esq and John Harris Gent. and their Heirs and the Bill for the Amendment of certain imperfections of a Statute made 8 Reginae concerning the true making of Hats were each of them read secunda vice The Paper or Scroul concerning Belgrave was this day returned from the House of Commons subscribed by the Clerk of the Council in the Star-chamber and excuse made by them for not sending the same at the first Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliament usque ad horam secundam post meridiem hujus instantis diei About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers Lords assembling six Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for augmentation of the Joynture of Rachel Wife of Edward Nevil of Berling in the County of Kent was read secunda vice The Bill concerning the erecting of a Harbour and Key in the north part of
a Clock There was another Gentleman a Noe pulled out as well as the other was kept in and therefore it had happen'd even as before howsoever Mr. Edward Johns and Mr. Barker pulled Mr. Lyonel Ducket out Sonday Decemb. 13. On Munday Decemb. 14. there was a great Eclipse about Noon A Bill against the multiplicity of Printers A Bill against Bankrupts lewd Apprentices and evil Factors The House was divided upon the second Reading of the Bill the I I I were 35. and the Noes 45. so the Bill was not to be Read the third time being lost by ten Voices A Bill for the Cloth-workers of London Ordered to be Ingrossed A Bill for the Recovery of many Hundred Thousand Acres of drowned Grounds in the I le of Ely and in the Counties of Cambridg Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk Suffolk c. was Ordered to be Committed A Bill for the Denization of certain Persons viz. Josepho Lupo and one Questor and others c. Mr. Fettyplace shewed That Questor as he was Informed had neither Father nor Mother English and therefore not fit to be Endenizen'd Mr. Browne said This Questor is a Factor for Merchants Strangers and an Ingrosser of Fish and keeps a Ware-house here in London And now because he would Defraud the Queen of a double Subsidy being an Alien Stranger he would be Indenizen'd Sir Walter Rawleigh said I know Questor well he hath served the Queen long and done Her good service he hath been these 36. Years in England hath ever shewed himself a good Subject and for his good Service I see no Reason but he should be permitted to pass with the rest Mr. Secretary Cecil said I know this man Questor well this Testimony I am able to give of him that he is a man of good Substance and of Qualitie and of his quality I know not an honester man in England he hath done good Service both to the Queen and to the State and that to my knowledge For the matter of Custom I know her Majesty is well pleased therewith and therefore no Defrauding That he should be an Ingrosser of Fish for Strangers it may be but I think he is not I protest if I knew he were I should hate him as I do hate Monopolies It is no great matter if we put him in for the Bill may be quashed either in the Upper-House or Her Majesty may dash him out at her Pleasure The Committee that was appointed this Forenoon in Ketlebies Case in the Court of Wards is appointed to be this afternoon in the same place Because the Council who were Committees and the Cause being of great Weight Five Hundred Pounds Per Annum were to go presently to end the Conference with the Lords touching Patents for they tarried for them Mr. Francis Moore brought in the Bill for continuance of some Statutes and Repeal of some others with two Provisoes touching Dover-Haven and the longer was accepted I leave it quoth he to the Consideration of the House to take whether they list or to refuse both and here stayed whilst the Clerk of the Crown and a Doctor brought two Bills from the Lords which had past this House viz. The Exchequer-Bill without any amendment only a short Proviso added to the end the Effect whereof was That upon Order in the open Court it should be Lawful for any Officer Clerk c. to award Process and drive the Parties to Plead Quo titulo c. which was Prohibited by the Bill The second was the Bill touching the joynture of Lucy Countess of Bedford with some amendments and a Proviso Mr. Secretary Cecil said If ever there was a time to look to the Ports and Havens it is now If you remember Cecil about Dover-Haven what place is Ex opposito to Dover what Neighbours we have and how greatly that Haven doth stand us in stead I believe you would be more willing to add than to take any thing away from the maintenance thereof I wish therefore to end this Controversy that this may be the Question Whether of these two Provisoes shall be added to the Law But I think the greatest is best and largest and I should be loth to Detract any thing from that Contribution So the greater was taken Amendments in the Bill of Assurance used amongst Merchants Mr. Hackwell said I think Mr. Speaker we do not give that Favor to a Bill which lies dormant in this House as the Bill meriteth It was well said by one that Ships were the Walls of our Kingdom which if we suffer to Decay as I am certainly assured they are Decaying not only a quarter or third part but even half and as our strength Diminisheth so our Enemies increase And therfore Mr. Speaker it being for a publique Good and general Happiness to us all I wish so profitable a Bill may be Read and have good passage it is Intituled A Bill touching Souldiers Mariners and maintenance of Shipping A Bill for the Repealing of an Act made 14 Eliz. concerning lengths of Kersies was Committed A Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents to the Hospitals of St. Bartholomews Bridewell and St. Thomas the Apostle The Act for Confirmation of Statutes put to the Question and agreed to be Ingrossed Sir Edw. Hobby moved the House to have their Opinions touching the Proviso sent down from the Lords with the Exchequer-Bill which was Ingrossed in Parchment for he somewhat doubted of it and thought it ought to be in Paper for all Amendments that come from the Lords use to be in Paper and not in Parchment but agreed That it was well and according to the course of the House to be in Parchment The Bill for the Repairing and Amending two Bridges near Carlisle over the River of Eden in the County of Cumberland being Ingrossed it was Read and Passed and sent up to the Lords by Sir Edward Hobby and others And the Copy of the Information against Mr. Bellgrave under the Hand of the Clerk of the Star-Chamber The Bill concerning the Assize for Feuel Ordered to be Ingrossed and Passed Mr. Davis moved and shewed That a Servant of Mr. Hudlestons Knight for Cumberland I think being some twelve months since hurt in the Hand went unto one Mathews a Surgeon by Fleet-Bridg who for Ten Pound undertook the Cure the Man gave him a Bill of Ten Pound for the said Cure which he the said Mathews could not perform without leaving a great Scar and withal a little lameness in his hand notwithstanding he paid the Surgeon Eight Found but upon what suggestion I know not Mathews hath sued Mr Hudlestons man for the whole Ten Pound and Arrested him upon an Execution into the Counter The man told him he was Mr. Hudlestons man and that his Master was a Member of this House and a Knight of a Shire and that he was thereby privileged from Arrest and wished to be discharged But Mathews and the Serjeant said they cared not for his Master nor his
Historical Collections OR An exact Account of the PROCEEDINGS OF THE Four last Parliaments OF Q. ELIZABETH Of Famous Memory Wherein is contained The COMPLEAT JOURNALS Both of the Lords Commons Taken from the Original RECORDS of their Houses AS ALSO The more particular Behaviours of the Worthy Members during all the last notable Sessions comprehending the Motions Speeches and Arguments of the Renowned and Learned Secretary Cecill Sir Francis Bacon Sir Walter Rawleigh Sir Edw. Hobby and divers other eminent Gentlemen Together with The most considerable Passages of the History of those times Faithfully and Laboriously Collected By Heywood Townshend Esq a Member in those Parliaments The like never Extant before LONDON Printed for T. Basset W. Crooke and W. Cademan at the George in Fleetstreet at the Green Dragon without Temple-bar and at the Popes-head in the New Exchange 1680. THE PREFACE TO The Reader THE whole Reign of our Renowned Queen Elizabeth was such a Series of admirable Events such a Pattern of wise and honest Counsel and steady Conduct such an age of hellish Plots and secret Conspiracies by the Papists on the one hand and such prudent Circumspection Female Courage and Zeal and happy Deliverances on the other that no History can deserve to be more minutely described than the Affairs in her time And though many famous Pens have already travelled therein and given us a fair prospect of her actions the subtile Contrivances and open Force of her Enemies against her sacred Life Government and the true Protestant Religion and the many providences and more than humane success which blessed and crowned her days yet we never had so full an account of her last Parliaments as is comprehended in this Volume especially so curiously as the very last is collected by Mr. Townshend a worthy Member in that Session who hath so faithfully done it that it is thought very fit even after so long an Interval to appear in publick There have been many excellent persons of the greatest abilities and worth who though they had not the ambition to struggle to be chosen into the House and were well acquainted without-doors with all the most important passages within have yet often wished they might have had the liberty of sitting there but a few days onely to observe the behaviour methods and tempers of Men so assembled and be an eye-witness how things are managed and passed there Now in this Relation there is so particular and exquisite an Account that such may even satisfie their curiosity in those very Circumstances For this is not onely the Journal-Book of what is entered upon Record but in the last Session especially there are all the particular Speeches Motions Arguments nay and the very behaviour of every one in that grand Assembly and all so painted to the life that to a considering Reader it is almost the same thing as if he had been present with them all the while Here you will finde that the Grievances they laboured to have redressed were very considerable their Arguments rational and strong though finely adorned which will be easily believed when we know the famous Secretary Cecill Sir Francis Bacon Sir Walter Rawleigh and many other solid States-men were fellow-Members in this illustrious Assembly whose Speeches alone are as I should guess a sufficient Invitation to any one that has but heard of them in our English world to know how they behaved themselves in that House of Commons which that you may do I shall make no further Preamble but conduct you into the Work it self Farewel ADVERTISEMENT ☞ That long-expected Work of Dr. William Howell's now Chancellor of Lincoln entituled The General History of the World in two Volumes in Folio the first reprinted with very large Additions and the second never before printed being a most exact History is finished Printed for T. Basset W. Crooke and W. Cademan An exact and perfect Journal of the Passages in the Vpper House of Parliament 31 Eliz. holden at Westminster Anno xxxj o Reginae Eliz. Annoque Dom. 1588. which began there Feb. 4. and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof which was on March 29. Anno Dom. 1589. THE Queens Majesty soon after that her wonderful and glorious Victory which God Almighty had given her Navie over that vainly-stiled Invincible Armado sent against her Realm of England by the King of Spain Queen summons a Parliament soon after the defeat of the Spanish Invincible Armado summon'd this her High Court of Parliament to begin on Tuesday the 12th day of November that present year 1588. and in the 30th year of her Reign that so by common Advice and Councel she might prepare and provide against the inbred malice of that Prince and Nation But other occasions of great importance requiring the deferring of the said Assembly her Majestie prorogued the same to a further day in manner and form following MEmorandum The Queen prorogues the Parliament from the 12th of Nov. to the 4th day of Feb. Whereas the Queens Majestie by her Writ summoned her Parliament to begin and be holden at Westminster this present Tuesday the 12th of November 1588. her Highness for certain great and weighty Causes and Considerations her Majestie specially moving by the advice of her Privie Council and of her Justices of both her Benches and other of her Council learned did prorogue and adjourn the said Parliament until the fourth day of February next by vertue of her Writ-Patent sealed with the Great Seal and bearing date the 15th day of October last past Whereupon at this said 12th day of November the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Chancellor William Lord Burghley Lord Treasurer The Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of London and three other Barons repaired to the Parliament-chamber commonly called the Vpper 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 Highness's said Writ had prorogued the said Parliament from the said first summoned day An. 1588. until the fourth 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 gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor c. Praedelectis Fidelibus nostris Prelatis Magnatibus Proceribus Regni nostri Angliae ac dilectis fidelibus nostris Militibus Civibus Burgensibus dicti Regni nostri ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westm duodecimo die Novembris prox futurum inchoandum tenendum convocatis electis vestrum cuilibet salutem Cum nos pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum desensionem dicti Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesia Anglicana concernentibus dict Parliamentum nostrum ad diem locum praedict teneri ordinavimus
ac vobis per seperalia Brevia nostra apud Civitat diem praedict interesse mandaverimus ad tractandum consentiendum concludendum super hiis in dicto Parliamento nostro tunc ibidem proponerentur tractarentur quibusdam tamen certis de causis considerationibus nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus dictum Parliamentum nostrum usque ad quartam diem Februarii prox futur duximus prorogandum Ita quod nec vos nec aliquis vestrum ad dictum duodecimum diem Novembris apud Civitatem praed comparere teneamini seu autemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum nos penitus openerari Mandanies tenore presentium firmiter injungendo precipientes vobis cuilibet vestrum ac omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quod ad dictum quartam diem Februarii apud praedictum Civitate Westmonaster personaliter compereatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compereat intersit ad tractand faciend agend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro de Communi consilio dicti Regni nostri favente Domino contingerint ordinari In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras sieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsam apud Westm quinto decimo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo Per ipsam Reginam Ha. Gerrarde And according to this Prorogation the Parliament held on the fourth day of February following when the Queen's Majesty in her accustomed state and order came to the Upper House accompanied by Sir Christopher Hatton Knight then Lord Chancellor of England and divers of the Nobility of which the Journal-book maketh mention in manner and form following On Tuesday the fourth of February Feb. 4. The Q. comes to the House of Lords in the 31th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to which day the Parliament had been last prorogued and accordingly now held the Queen's Majestie was personally present in Parliament but the Journal-book doth not mention the names of such Lords as were then present The Queen being set under her Cloath of Estate and the Lords placed in their several ranks and order and as many of the House of Commons as conveniently could being let in and standing before the Bar Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor of England Heads of the L. Chancellor Hatton's Speech in a well-framed and discreet Speech did there declare unto them at large the Queens gracious disposition to Peace and her great wisdom in preserving the same and singular government of the Realm Next he shewed the great benefit which this Kingdom enjoyeth by her Government and remembred the great Conquest over the Spanish late wonderful Army or Fleet on the Seas viz. Anno Dom. 1588. He further declared how much the King of Spain remained bent against this Kingdom And lastly shewed that the cause of calling this Parliament to be that by the consent of the most grave and wise persons now called together out of all parts of the Realm preparation may as far forth as by councel of man is possible to be made and provided that Arms Souldiers and Moneys may be in readiness and an Armie prepared and furnished against all Events The Lord Chancellor's Speech being ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the Names of the Receivers and Triers of Petitions in French according to the usual form which were these Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Chief Justice Committees or Receivers and Triers of Petitions Sir Gilbert Gerrard Kt. Master of the Rolls Sir Robert Shute one of the Justices of the Kings-bench Dr. Aubery and Dr. Ford. Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Chief Baron Francis Windham one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Clarke and Dr. Cary. Triers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Darby the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Sussex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral the Lord Cobham and the Lord Gray of Wilton Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and for other Countries on the other side the Seas and the Islands The Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembrooke the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and Lord Buckhurst During this Parliament upon several days seven Temporal Lords sent their Proxies so did five Spiritual Lords Et norandum That all the said Spiritual Lords excepting one did every one constitute two several Proctors and the fifth being John Bishop of Carlisle whose Proxie was returned February the fifth made onely one viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury his Proctor It likewise seldom happeneth that any Bishop doth nominate fewer than three or two Proctors nor any Temporal Lord more than one Nota That the Lord Burleigh had this Parliament four Proxies sent unto him viz. one from the Lord Dacres one from the Earl of Warwick one from Viscount Mountacute and one from the Lord Lumley Ipsa Regina continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox hora secunda post meridiem On Thursday February 6. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Queens Majestie was personally present coming to the said Parliament in her accustomed state and order about three of the clock in the afternoon it being the time appointed for the House of Commons to present their Speaker who they had been authorized to chuse on Tuesday last when the Parliament first began And thereupon accordingly the Queen and Lords being set and the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being let into the Upper House two of the most eminent persons of the said House did lead up to the Bar of the Upper House George Snagg Serjeant at Law Geo. Snagg their Speaker presented to the Queen Excuses himself who was chosen the Speaker of the said House of Commons who being placed at the said Bar and silence being made did in a modest and discreet Speech disable himself by reason of his many imperfections and humbly desired her Majestie to discharge him of that great Place and to nominate some other more able and sufficient Member of the same House Whereupon the Lord Chancellor by commandment from the Queen The Queen approves of him did let him know That her Majestie did very well allow of his Choice and thereupon encouraged him willingly and cheerfully to undertake and execute that Charge and Place to which he had been by the free and unanimous consent of the House of Commons elected and chosen Upon which Speech of the Lord Chancellor's the said Speaker according to the usual course and form rendering all humble thankfulness to the Queens Majestie for her underserved
of Durham secunda vice lect commissa Justiciario Gawdy quod nota On Tuesday Feb. 25. two Bills were read whereof the first was an Act concerning Informers prima secunda vice lect conclus Bill about Informers and so expedited An Act for the abridgment of Proclamations upon Fines to be levied at the Common Law secunda vice lect wherein the Lords finding some imperfections sent down Serjeant Shuttleworth and Doctor Clarke to the House of Commons Lords desire a Conference to pray a Conference with some of that House which being granted the Lords for Committees were Lord Treasurer Lord Steward Bishop of Winton the Lord Cobham and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas to attend the Lords Nota Observation That here one of the Judges is particularly nominated to attend upon the Lords Committees which may further prove that in all the former places where the Judges or the Queens learned Counsel are named as Committees it is no errour or mistake of the Clerk So that hence the difference may very well be gathered to be this That where a Committee of the Lords was formerly used to be selected out to meet with another Committee of the House of Commons here neither the Judges being but Assistants nor the Queens learned Counsel being but Attendants of and upon the House were ever nominated or appointed as joynt Committees with the Lords because the very Members of either House onely are then admitted to partake of such matters of weight and secrecy as they do there commonly confer upon But when the Lords amongst themselves do appoint a Committee to consider of some ordinary Bill that is to pass their House and especially if the Bill do concern matter of Law here it hath been anciently used and may still without any prejudice to the honour of that House be continued that the Kings learned Counsel but especially the Judges may be nominated as Committees alone or as joynt Committees with the Lords for in regard that nothing can be absolutely concluded at a Committee but all matters shall still depend on the resolution of the House and so no inconvenience shall ensue thereupon After the Committees of both Houses had met the Lords Committees proceeded to the amendments of the Bill and afterwards this present day the Bill and Amendments received their second reading and passed the House and were sent down to the House of Commons to be amended by them by Doctor Carewe and Master Solicitor It appeareth by the Journal-book that the House of Commons having yielded to a Conference did presently chuse Committees and sent them up to the Upper House Two other Bills had each of them one reading and one Bill was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons all being of no great moment On Thursday Feb. 27. were two Bills read whereof the first being an Act for Reformation of Excess of Apparel Two Bills read was secunda vice lect commiss ad unum Comit. 4 Baron On Saturday March 1. March 1. were two Bills read of no great moment This forenoon also the Lords Committees return'd the Bill for the having Horses Two Bills read Armour and Weapons signifying that they could get no meeting but of so small a number as their Lordships would not deal in it The whole House presently proceeded to the Question Whether it should be ingrossed or no Upon which Question the Lords with one consent agreed it should be ingrossed March 2. Sunday On Munday March 3. two Bills were read whereof one of them concerning the sale of Tho. Hanford's Lands towards the payment of his Debts and another of no great moment had been sent up to the Lords this morning from the Commons On Tuesday March 4. two Bills were read whereof the latter was a Bill for Sale of Tho. Hanford's Lands c. secunda vice lect Whereupon the Lords ordered that as well the said Thomas Hanford as those that followed the Bill should be warned to be before them with their learned Counsel at the next sitting of the Court which shall be on Thursday next at nine a clock Two Bills of no great moment were this forenoon also sent up to the Lords House from the House of Commons On Thursday March 6. the Amendments of the Bill for maintainance of Husbandry were prima secunda vice lect commiss ad ingross Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading And one Bill concerning the preservation of Orford-haven was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Saturday March 8. were three Bills each of them once read of no great moment March 9. Sunday On Munday March 10. four Bills whereof the last being a Bill for an Assurance to be made of the Joynture of Anne Bill to assure the Joynture of Anne Nevill Wife of Henry Nevill Esq secunda tertia vice lect communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus Memorandum That before the third reading and the passing of the Act of the Joynture of the Wife of Henry Nevil by which all former Conveyances made by the said Henry Nevil of the Mannors of Waighfield and Wadhurst c. in the County of Sussex were made frustrate and void The Lords ordered That the said former Conveyance should by the Parties to the same be brought into this House and delivered to the Clerk of the Parliament sealed up to the end that if it shall please her Majesty to give her Royal assent unto the said Act that then the said Indentures and Conveyances should be forthwith cancelled But if it shall not please her Majesty to give her Royal assent that then the said Indentures and Conveyances should safely be redelivered to the said Parties unseen of any and uncancelled And to this all the Parties agreed as well before the Lords the Committees as before the whole House Memorandum That according to the said Order the Deeds mentioned therein were cancelled the 12th day of May Anno Regni Reginae Elizabethae tricesimo primo On Tuesday the 11th of March was one Bill read of no great moment Subsidy-Bill brought from the Commons And two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first was an Act of four Fifteens and Tenths and two entire Subsidies granted by the Temporalty and another of no great moment On Thursday the 13th of March the Amendments of the Bill for having of Horses Arms and Weapons prima secundae vice lect commiss ad ingross The Amendments also and a new Proviso annexed unto the Bill against Informers secunda tertia vice lect communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus and one other Bill of no great moment read prima vice On Friday March 14. the Bill of Subsidie was once read And the Bill for the Provision for Orford-Haven lect est conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Shuttleworth and Mr. Powell
of this Realm for the due inquiry and certificate of the misdemeanors of Purveyors in all places and of some courses thereupon to be had for convenient redress in the same And that before any order could well be taken for accomplishing that good intended effect the Spaniard upon a sudden attempt d the Invasion of this Realm by reason whereof her Majesty said the said purpose was not performed And further shewing that her Majesty having as much skill will and power to rule and govern her own Houshold as any Subject whatsoever to rule and govern theirs without the help or aid of their Neighbours so her Majesty intends being very careful of her own more great love and affection towards her dutiful and loving Subjects whose most faithful and approved good love and fidelity towards her she more esteemeth than all the Treasures of the world besides very shortly to cause a Collection to be made of all the Laws already in force touching Puveyors and also all the Constitutions of her Highness's Houshold in that case and thereupon by the advice of her Judges and learned Counsel to set down such a formal Plot for the said Redress yea and that before the end of this present Sessions as shall be as good and better for the ease of the Subjects than that this House had attempted without her privity and in which they would have bereaved her Majesty of the Honour Glory and Commendation of the same And touching the Exchequer she said it was her Chamber and so more neer unto her than the Houshold And that in the tenth year of her Reign her Majesty had caused certain Orders and Constitutions to be set down for the due and fit course of such things in the said Court as her Subjects seem to be grieved for March 9. Sunday On Munday March 10. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being concerning Writs of Covenant c. was read the third time and a Proviso for the Lord Powes and Sir Edward Herbert and their Heirs was thrice read and after many Speeches both with the Bill and against it the said Bill was dashed upon the Question On Tuesday March 11. the Bill for relief of the City of Lincoln was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. John Stubbs the Burgesses of Norwich the Burgesses of York and others who were appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Sir Edward Hobby Mr. Markham Mr. Buckley and Mr. Peter Euers were added to the Committees in the Bill for the City of Lincoln and the Bill with their Names was delivered to Sir Edw. Dymmocke one of the Committees On Wednesday March 12. five Bills had each of them one reading of which Bill against Aliens and Strangers retailing of Goods the last being against Aliens and Strangers retailing of Forraign Wares was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Vicechamberlain Mr. Controuler Sir Robert Jermin Sir William Moore and others who were appointed to meet on Friday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Thursday March 13. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching Mr. Southwell was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Secretary Woolley Mr. John Stanhopp Mr. Haydon Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet on Saturday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Amendments in the Bill for the maintenance of Dover-Haven being opened to the House and the Bill read in such sort amended was passed upon the Question after a Proviso offered for the Cinque-Ports first refused upon a former Question On Friday March 14. three Bills had each of them a reading of which the second being for the Town of Barwick was read the second time and thereupon committed to Mr. Cromwel Mr. Grimston the Burgesses of Barwick Mr. Robert Bowes and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon at two of the clock in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill touching the Children of Aliens Denizons was upon the second reading committed to divers Committees being of this House who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Saturday March 15. three Bills had each of them one reading of which Bill against Horse-stealing the third being a Bill to prevent Horse-stealing had its first reading Also the Amendments in the Bill for the relief of the City of Lincoln being twice read and the Bill also read in such sort amended the Bill upon the Question was committed to Mr. Vicechamberlain Sir John Parrot Mr. Alford the Master of the Wardrope Sir Robert Jermin and others who were appointed to meet this present day at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Amendments of the Bill for relief of Curriers being twice read was upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed March 16. Sunday On Munday March 17. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for pursuit of Hue and Cry was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Vicechamberlain Mr. Sherley Mr. Harries Mr. Wroth Sir William Fleetwood Sir William Moore and others who were appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill for pleading at large in an Ejectione firme had its first and second reading with an Amendment twice read and upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers was brought in by Mr. Treasurer one of the Committees without any thing done to it or any Report made and so likewise the Bill made for Aliens Children Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill to prevent Horse-stealing was read the second time On Tuesday March 18. the Bill for repeal of certain Statutes was brought again without any Report by Mr. Harries one of the Committee Two other Bills had each of them their third Reading of which the second was the Bill for the relief of Curriers and after some amendments added unto it being likewise read three times the Bill was upon the question and the division of the House dashed by the difference of thirty Voices viz. with the Yea Ninety and with the No one Hundred and twenty On Wednesday March 19. the Bill concerning the Glass-Houses and Glass-Furnaces was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Moore Mr. George Moore Mr. Markham and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer-chamber this afternoon On Thursday March 20. two Bills had each of them one Reading of which the second being a Bill for the continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes upon the second Reading was committed unto Mr. Morice Mr. Hare Mr. Wroth and others who were appointed to meet in Serjeants-Inne-Hall in Fleet-street this present day at two of the clock in the afternoon On Friday March 21. Four Bills had
each of them one Reading of which the third being a Bill for repeal of certain Statutes Bill for repeal of certain Statutes past was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Amendments made by the Lords in the Bill for the relief of Thomas Haeselrigg Esquire and in the Bill for the better recovery of Costs and Damages against common Informers before passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships and the Proviso added by the Lords to the said last-recited Bill were three times read and the same Proviso and Amendments were then passed upon the Question accordingly On Saturday March 22. Mr. Palmer one of the Committees in the Bill touching Gaging of Casks and of other Forreign Vessels bringeth in the Bill with some Amendments and Provisoes being twice read the Bill was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed Four Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others of which the two first were one for the Relief of the City of Lincoln and the other against the abuse in Elections of Scholars and Presentations to Benefices with the Amendments and a Proviso March 23. Sunday On Munday March 24. Mr. Anderson being licensed to depart about her Majesties service two Bills had each of them one reading whereof the first being the Bill concerning Glass-houses was brought in by Mr. De la bar one of the Committees in such sort as it was delivered unto them and thereupon being twice read was after sundry Speeches and division of the House ordered to be ingrossed viz. with the Yeas forty three and with the Noes thirty five On Tuesday An 1589. March 25. it was ordered upon the Question That both the learned Counsel of the Earl of Warwick and also the learned Counsel of George Ognell do attend this House to morrow-morning The Bill for maintenance of houses of Husbandry and Tillage was upon the second reading committed unto the Privy Counsellors of this House Mr. Wroth Mr. Cromwel and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon at two of the clock in the Exchequer-chamber On Wednesday March 26. the Bill concerning Aliens Children was read the second time The Bill also for Strangers retailing of forraign Wares was amended by the Committee which Amendments being brought in by them with the Bill were now twice read although it be mistaken in the Original Journal-book that the Bill it self had its second reading The House was this day called over The House called over and the Defaulters noted and the Defaulters noted upon a Motion this day made by Sir John Parrot by her Majesties pleasure upon some intelligence given to her Highness of the small number of the Members of this House presently attending the service of the same the one half at least being supposed to be absent On Thursday March 27. the Bill against secret Outlawries had its second and third reading and passed upon the Question Dr. Cary and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords the Bill for the relief of the City of Lincoln with some Amendments of their Lordships unto the same with further advertisement from their Lordships that their Lordships do suspend their proceeding on the Bill for continuance and perfecting of certain Statutes sent from the House of Commons to their Lordships until their Lordships do hear from this House of the proceedings of this House in the Bill for the maintenance of Houses of Husbandry and Tillage On Friday March 28. the Amendments of the Lords in the Bill touching forcible Entries and also the Amendments of this House being all thrice read are agreed upon the Question in this House to be passed accordingly The Bill against such as steal or imbezzle the Goods Chattels or Treasure of her Majesty being put in trust with the same was read the first time Also the Bill that Aliens Children shall pay Strangers Customes was read the third time and a Proviso added unto it thrice read the Bill and Proviso upon the Question and Division of the House dashed with the Yeas sixty four and the Noes seventy four On Saturday March 29. Dr. Stanhopp and Mr. Powle do bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed this House for the continuation and perfecting of certain Statutes with a Schedule unto the same added and annexed by their Lordships and the same Schedule being thrice read passed upon the Question The Bill for the relief of the City of Lincoln being perfected according to the Amendments of the Lords and the Bill also for continuance of Statutes with the Schedule to the same were sent up to the Lords by the Master of the Wardrope and others Dr. Cary and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords two Bills viz. the Act of her Majesties gracious and free Pardon and the Act of the four Fifteenths and Tenths and two intire Subsidies which had before passed this House The Bill of the Queens Majesties most gracious and free Pardon being once read passed thereupon which Bill so passed was presently sent up unto the Lords by Mr. Fortescue and others After which Acts passed her Majesty having given her assent unto the passing of sixteen publick Acts and eight private Acts being all the Acts that passed this present Parliament Parl. dissolved Sir Christopher Hatton Kt. Lord Chancellor by her Majesties Commandment dissolved this Parliament An exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the Vpper House of Parliament 35 Eliz. holden at Westminster Anno xxxv o Reginae Eliz. Anno Dom. 1592. which begun there on Munday the 19th of February and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Tuesday the 9th of April Anno Dom. 1593. THE Summons for this Parliament being returnable upon this Munday February 19 it held accordingly Feb. 19. 1592. The Queen goes to the House of Lords The Queen coming privately by Water accompanied with Sir John Puckering Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and many of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal there being present this day these Peers and others ensuing The Names of the Peers there sitting Archiepisc Cant. Johannes Puckering Miles Dom. Custos mag Sigill Dom. Burleigh Dom. Thesaurar Angliae Marchio Wintoniae COMITES Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerarius Angliae Comes Derby Magnus Seneschallus Comes Northumbriae Comes Salopiae Comes Kanciae Comes Wignor Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Comes Huntingdon Comes Bathon Comes Pembrooke Comes Hartford Comes Essex Comes Lincoln Vicecomes Bindon EPISCOPI Episc London Episc Dunelmen Episc Asaphen Episc Cestren Episc Covent Litch Episc Lincoln Episc Peterburgh Episc Heref. Episc Cicestrens Episc Bangor Episc Wignor Episc Landaven Episc Salopiae Episc Bathon Wells BARONES Dom. Howard Mag. Maresch Admir Dom. Hunsdon Camerarius Reginae Dom. Strange Dom. Morley Dom. Stafford Dom. Grey Dom. Scroope Dom. Montjoy Dom. Sands Dom. Windsor Dom. Cromwel Dom. Wharton Dom. Rich. Dom. Willoughby Dom. Sheffield Dom. North. Dom. Shandois Dom. St. John Dom. Buckhurst Dom. De-la-ware Dom. Compton Dom. Norris The Queen and
the Lords being thus sate An. 1592. and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons as many as conveniently could be let in about two of the clock in the afternoon Sir John Puckering Lord Keeper of the Great Seal by command from the Queen spake to this effect The Lord Keeper's Speech THat though the assembling of Parliaments hath antiently been and still were for the Enacting of Laws and Reforming of Abuses and Grievances of the Subjects within the Realm The Lord Keepers Speech 〈◊〉 to direct the â—â—sâ—â—â—â—s in this Session yet at this time the Queens Majesty was desirous to have the Advice of all her loving people concerning the Defence and Preservation of her Self her Realms and Subjects from the Power and Oppression of a forreign Enemy Then he declared that this Enemy was the King of Spain and that his malice was increased by his loss and shame received in 88. That his resolution still was to invade this Kingdome The Spaniards Design of Reveenge discovered did plainly appear by his building and getting together many Ships of less bulk which would be fitter for service in our Seas than those greater Galliasses and Gallions had been in 88. That he desired some nearer place from whence to invade England and therefore at this time was labouring to plant himself in Britain a part of France And his Designes laid open That he had raised Factions in Scotland and Conspiracies against the King there finding him an enemy to his ambitious desires And therefore we her Majesties Subjects said he must with all dutiful consideration think what is fit for us to do Exâ—… them to raise Moneys and with all willingness yield part of our own for the defence of others and assistance of her Majesty in such an unsupportable charge Were the cause between Friend and Friend how much would we do for the relief of one another but the cause is now between our Soveraign and our selves seeing there is so much difference in the parties how much more forward ought we to be The Aid formerly granted to her Majesty in these like cases is so ill answer'd 〈…〉 Supplies paied and with such slackness performed as that the third of that which was granted cometh not to her Majesty A great shew a rich grant and a long sum seems to be made but little it is hard to be gotten and the sum not great which is paid and 〈…〉 Her Majesty thinks this to be for that the wealthier sort of men turn this charge upon the weaker and upon those of worst ability so that one dischargeth himself and th' other is not able to satisfie that he is charged withal these things should be reformed by such as are Commissioners in this service Wherefore it is her Majesties pleasure 〈…〉 the time be not spent in devising and enacting new Laws the number of which are so great already as it rather burtheneth than easeth the Subject but the principal cause of this Parliament is that her Majesty might consult with her Subjects for the better withstanding those intended Invasions which are now greater than ever before were heard of And where heretofore it hath been used that many have delighted themselves in long Orations full of verbosity and vain ostentations more than in speaking things of substance the time that is precious would not be thus spent This Session cannot be long the Spring-time is fit that Gentlemen should repair to their Countreys the Justices of Assize also to go their Circuits so the good hours would not be lost in idle Speeches but the little time we have should be bestowed wholly on such business as is needful to be considered of and Thursday next is appointed the day to present the Speaker Assoon as the Lord Keeper's Speech was ended Receivers of Petitions named the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland and Wales and Scotland Sir Francis Popham Lord Chief-Justice of the Kings-Bench John Clinch one of the Justices of the said Bench Dr. Awbery Dr. Ford and they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Peryam Lord Chief-Baron Tho. Walmesley one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Doctor Cary Doctor Stanhop and they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver them within six days next ensuing Triers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquiss of Winchester the Earl of Darby Lord Steward of the Queens Houshold the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Lord Howard of Effingham Earl Marshal and Lord Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton all these or four of them calling to them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles the Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincolne the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley the Lord Buckhurst all these or any four of them Although the usual Custome in the Original Journal-books is to place all Proxies upon what days soever returnable before the beginning of the Journal it self yet I have conceived it more methodical to place all such Returns in those days upon which they were delivered to the Clerk of the Parliament and always upon the day on which the first Return was to make some short Observations of that if it be unusual and extraordinary and so to refer the view of the residue to their proper days On this instant Monday therefore being the Nineteenth day of February and the first day of the Parliament was returned only this one usual Proxie Decimonono die Februarii introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Edwardi Episcopi Norwicensis in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Episcopum Lond. Richardum Episcopum Peterburgen Nota This is one of those Proxies I call an usual or ordinary Proxie when a Spiritual Lord maketh but two Proctors and a Temporal Lord but one and those of their own Order but when a Temporal Lord nominateth a Spiritual Lord for his Proctor or nominateth more than one Proctor and when a Spiritual Lord nominateth a Temporal Lord for his Proctor or but one Proctor or more than two these I call unusual and extraordinay Proxies And therefore at this very time of nine Temporal Lords that sent their Proxies but one named two Lords of which see afterwards on Munday March 5. all the rest naming but one Indeed of six Spiritual Lords which sent their
Proxies there was but that one set down in the Page before-going which made two Proctors all the rest naming three or but one all which see afterwards on the 22.24.27 days of February and on the 7. and 28. days of March Where also it may be noted That John Archbishop of Canterbury had this Parliament five Proxies Now follows next in order to be set down the continuing of this Parliament which in the original Journal-book it self followed immediately upon the names of the Lords foregoing being present this afternoon So that the substance of the Lord Keeper's Speech foregoing and this also that follows at the presentment of the Speaker was supplied by my self out of a very exact Journal which I had of the Passages of the Lower House this present Parliament conceiving those Speeches in all my Journals ought more fitly to be referred to the Passages of the Upper House than of the House of Commons Dominus Custos Magni Sigill ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox futur On Thursday Feb. 22. the Queens Majesty her self came about three of the clock in the afternoon accompanied with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal there being present this day the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir John Puckering Kt. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Marquiss of Winchester twelve Earls two Viscounts fifteen Bishops and twenty three Barons being for the most part the very same that are by name set down to have been present on Munday last The Queen and the Lords being thus sat the House of Commons having notice thereof Edw. Cooke the Queens Sollicitor chosen and presented immediately came up with Edward Coke Esq the Queens Sollicitor into the Upper House whom they had chosen for their Speaker who being led up to the Bar at the nether end of the said House between two of the most eminent Personages of the Lower House as soon as silence was made and the rest of the House of Commons had placed themselves below the Bar he spake as followeth The Speaker's Speech YOur Majesties most loving Subjects the Knights and Burgesses of the Lower House have nominated me your Graces poor Servant and Subject to be their Speaker This their Nomination hath hitherto proceeded that they present me to speak before your Majesty yet this their Nomination is onely a Nomination yet and no Election until your Majestie giveth allowance and approbation For as in the Heavens a Star is but opacum corpus until it hath received light from the Sun so stand I corpus opacum a mute body until your high bright shining wisdom hath looked upon me and allowed me How great a Charge this is The Speaker disables himself to be the Mouth of such a Body as your House of Commons represent to utter that is spoken Grandia Regni my small experience being a poor professor of the Law can tell but how unable I am to undergo this Office my present Speech doth tell that of a number of this House I am most unfit for amongst them are many grave many learned many deep wise men and those of ripe Judgments but I an untimely Fruit not ripe nay bud a but not scarce fully blossomed so as I fear your Majesty will say Neglecta fruge liguntur folia amongst so many fair fruits you have plucked a shaking leaf If I may be so bold to remember a Speech used the last Parliament in your Majesties own mouth Many come hither ad consulendum qui neseiunt quid sit consulendum a just reprehension to many as to my self also an untimely fruit my years and judgment ill befitting the gravity of this place But howsoever I know my self the meanest and inferiour unto all that ever were before me in this place yet in faithfulness of service and dutifulness of love I think not my self inferiour to any that ever were before me And amidst my many imperfections yet this is my comfort I never knew any in this place but if your Majesty gave him favour God who also called them to this place gave them also the blessing to discharge it The Lord Keeper having received Instructions from the Queen answered him Mr. Sollicitor HER Graces most Excellent Majesty hath willed me to signifie unto you that she hath ever well conceived of you since she first heard of you which will appear when her Highness selected you from others to serve her self but by this your modest wise and well-composed Speech you give her Majesty further occasion to conceive of you above that she ever thought was in you by endeavouring to deject and abase your self and your desert you have made known and discovered your worthiness and sufficiency to discharge the place you are called to And whereas you account your self corpus opacum her Majesty by the influence of her Vertue and Wisdom 〈◊〉 is commanded and aâ—â—â—â—â—ed by the Qs. order doth enlighten you and not onely alloweth and approveth you but much than keth the Lower House and commendeth their discretions in making such a Choise and electing so fit a man Wherefore Mr. Speaker proceed in your Office and go forward to your Commendation as you have begun The Lord Keepers Speech being ended the Speaker began a new Speech COnsidering the great and wonderful Blessings The second Speech of the Speaker besides the long Peaece we have enjoyed under your Graces most happy and victorious Reign and remembring withal the Wisdom and Justice your Grace hath reigned over us with we have cause to praise God that ever you were given us and the hazard that your Majesty hath adventured and the charge that you have born for us and our safety ought to make us ready to lay down our Lives and all our Living to do you service After this he related the great Attempts of her Majesties Enemies against us especially the Pope and the King of Spain adhering unto him how wonderfully were we delivered in 88 and what a favour therein God manifested unto her Majesty His Speech 〈…〉 after this tended wholly to shew out of the Histories of England and the old State how the Kings of England ever since Henry the third's time have maintained themselves to be Supream Head over all Causes in their own Dominions and recited the Laws that were made in his and other Kings times for maintaining their own Supremacy and excluding the Pope He drew down his Proofs by Statute in every Kings time since Hen. 3. 〈…〉 unto Edw. 6. This ended he came to speak of the Laws that were so great and so many already that they were fitly to be termed Elephaentinae Leges Wherefore to make more Laws it might seem superfluous Too great a multiplicity of our Laws and to him that might ask Quid Causa ut Crescunt tot magna volumina Legis it may be answered In promptu Causa est Crescit in orbe
help of a number of Souldiers that are seen in the time of this Parliament maimed and so hurt in the Wars of France the Low Countries and on the Seas for the service of the Queens Majesty and of the Realm and for that purpose have allowed that every Archbishop Marquiss Earl and Viscount should pay towards the Contribution the sum of 40 s. every Bishop 30 s. and every Baron 20 s. For collection whereof there hath been appointed the Queens Majesties Almoner the Bishop of Worcester to collect the same of Bishops the Lord Norris to collect the sums payable by the Lords Temporal which hath been diligently done and received by them for all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal that have been present and that have attended to their great charge on the service of the Realm in this Parliament And considering the number of the Souldiers be very many to be relieved therewith notwithstanding the Knights and Burgesses of the Commons House have yielded very good and large Contributions according to their degrees for the better relief of the said maimed Souldiers It is by the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal that have given their chargeable attendance here and have charitably and honourably yielded to this Contribution thought meet and so it is ordered and decreed by them with common and free consent That all the Lords of Parliament that have been altogether absent in this Sessions The absent Peers to pay a double proportion for the relief of the indigent and maimed Souldiers by Order of the House and that shall not have contributed to this charitable Relief before the end of this Sessions shall be required by Letters to be sent to them by the Lords that had their Procurations for their absence or by Letters from the Lord Keeper of the great Seal required and charged to make payment to be made according to their degrees and vocation double the sums of money paid by the Lords that have been here present and continued their attendance that is to say every Earl that hath been absent 4 l. the Archbishop of York to pay as much and every Bishop also to pay 3 l. and every Baron 40 s. And for such as have been here present sometimes and yet very seldom but have been absent most part it is thought meet That every such Lord Spiritual and Temporal shall according to their degrees pay a third part more than the Lords that have been present All which sums of money they shall cause to be delivered to the hands of the Lord Keeper of the great Seal to be afterwards by such Spiritual Lords of Parliament as are chosen for that purpose distributed to the maimed Souldiers as shall be found to have most need thereof The Commons having taken the same method The like whereof the Commons assembled in this Parliament have ordered for all the Members of that House that are absent and have not paid to contribute in double manner which Order is thought very just considering the Lords and others that have been absent and have been at no charge to come up and give their attendance may very reasonably and with a great saving to their charges contribute to this Order And if any Lord Spiritual or Temporal shall refuse or shall forbear thus to do which is hoped in Honour none will do there shall be ordinary means used to levy the same On Friday April 6. Four Bills were each of them once read Eight Bills were this Morning sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the last was an Act to make void the Spiritual Livings of those that have forsaken the Realm and do cleave to the Pope and his Religion On Saturday April 7. two Bills only were each of them once read April 8. Sunday On Munday April 9. were Three Bills each of them read secunda tertia vice and so expedited Also eight Bills this Morning were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof one was read prima secunda vice and another read prima vice This Morning finally whereas a Bill entituled an Act touching Power and Repeal of certain uses of a Deed Tripartite therein mentioned of and in certain Mannors Lands and Tenements of Anthony Coke of Rumford in the County of Essex Esquire hath been heretofore three times read and assented unto by the Lords in which Bill there is no Saving to the Queens Majesty or any other person or persons of their lawful estates or titles there was a Saving drawn for her Majesty and all others which was offer'd to this House And some question and ambiguity did grow whether the Saving should be now added to the Bill and in the end it was Resolv'd the same should be added to the Bill for that it is usual and requisite to have such Savings in every Bill and for that there was nothing in the Saving contrary to any matter in the Bill and that her Majesties Right and all others be saved thereby And nevertheless upon weighty Considerations the Lords have ordered that this shall not hereafter be drawn to make any president Then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament till the Morrow following on which it ended which said Continuance is entred in the Original Journal-book in Manner and Form following Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Martis hora octava On Tuesday April 10. In the Morning were two Bills read whereof the first was an Act for Naturalizing of certain Englishmens Children born beyond the Seas tertia vice lect expedit And the second was an Act for the Queens most gracious and free Pardon which was read only once and then passed the House Nota That the Bill or Act for the Queens general Pardon passeth each House upon the first reading whereas other Bills cannot be expedited without being thrice read both by the Lords and Commons The Queens Majesty came not till the Afternoon and therefore in this place through the negligence of the Clerk the continuing of the Parliament until some hour in the Afternoon is omitted which should have been inserted Between 5 and 6 a Clock in the Afternoon this present Tuesday being the 10 of April the Queens Majesty The Queen comes to Dissolve the Parliament accompanied with her Officers and dayly Attendance came to the Upper-House and assoon as her Majesty with her Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the rest that have place there were set the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice thereof came up with their Speaker bringing with them the Bill of the Subsidy The Speaker being placed at the Bar of the Upper-house and as many of the Commons as could conveniently be let in after humble Reverence to her Majesty spake as followeth The Speakers Speech to the Queen THe High Court of Parliament most High and Mighty Prince is the greatest and most antient Court within this Your Realm for before the Conquest
unwittingly miscarried by himself the same might not light upon the House but upon himself and be pardoned in him To which last Speech of the Speakers the Lord Keeper also by commandment from the Queen replied That her Majesty did well allow thereof and for his Petitions which concern'd both the House and himself her Highness was willing that they should enjoy all their ancient and lawful Priviledges but with this caution That she did not allow that any man should speak unreverently or scandalously either of the Church or State And then the Lord Keeper by the Queens commandment continued the Parliament until Saturday following being Feb. 24. Nota That the aforesaid Speeches are set down more at large in the Journal of the Paslages of the Upper House of this Parliament to which they do more properly belong And on Friday the House met not Saturday Feb. 24. the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons did meet in the Lower House about nine of the clock but by the Clerk of the Parliament it was signified that the Speaker had been ill at ease the night past and could not without peril of further sickness adventure to come abroad wherefore he craved in his name leave of the House to be absent that day This day Mr. Peter Wentworth and Sir Henry Bromley delivered a Petition unto the Lord Leeper A Petition delivered to the Lord Keeper by Mr. Wentworth c. for intailing the Succession to the Crown The Queen offended at it causes them to be confined therein desiring the Lords of the Upper House to be Suppliants with them of the Lower House unto her Majesty for entailing the Succession to the Crown whereof a Bill was ready drawn by them Her Majesty was highly displeased therewith after she knew thereof as a matter contrary to her former straight Commandment and charged the Council to call the Parties before them Sir Thomas Henage presently sent for them and after speech with them commanded them to forbear coming to the Parliament and not to go out from their several Lodgings About this matter A Committee appointed for this thing but few come to it in the beginning of the Parliament was a Committee appointed to be had of many wise grave and antient Parliament-men as were of the House but at this time few met at the place appointed at least such men as were expected It was appointed at this time to Mr. 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 in that Conference were as I heard confessed unto some of the Privy Council Their Secrets discovered by some of them to the Privy Council by some of those Parties that were present at the Conference All that were except those before-named went free and were never called in question The day after being Sunday and Feb. 25. and the House sat not yet the aforesaid Mr. Wentworth Sir Henry Bromeley and some others were called before the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Lord Buckhurst and Sir Thomas Henage who intreated them very favourably and with good Speeches but so highly was her Majesty offended that they must needs commit them Wentworth and Bromeley 〈◊〉 and so they told them Whereupon Mr. Peter Wentworth was sent Prisoner to the Tower Sir Henry Bromeley and one Mr. Richard Stevens to whom Sir Henry Bromely had imparted the matter were sent to the Fleet as also Mr. Welche the other Knight for Wercestershire On Munday Feb. 26. after the Letany was read which is the first thing done when the Speaker is set in his Chair was read an Act entituled An Act for continuing her Majesties Subjects in more due Obedience This Bill contained all these Particulars following 1. The Party so indicted and convicted A Penal Act. shall forfeit all his Goods and Chattels which he hath in his own right or in the right of his Wife 2. He shall forfeit two parts of his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments if he be born under her Highness Allegiance and of the age of sixteen years 3. A Feme Covert shall lose her Dowry or Joynture which she might have by her Baron 4. If a man match with an Inheritrix being a Recusant he shall lose two parts of those Lands to the Queen and neither of them shall administrate to any man 5. Such Party being a Recusant shall be disabled to make any Purchase or Sale of Lands 6. He shall be disabled to take or make any Lease either to the use of himself or to the use of his Wife 7. A Recusant shall forfeit for keeping any such Recusant person in his house either Servant or Stranger 10 l. every month being at one time so long in his house or at several times in his yard 8. He shall be barred to bear any Office in the Land or to practise as Counsellor Doctor Sollicitor Proctor Atturney or Advocate to the Law 9. He shall have his Children taken from him if they be above the age of seven years and to be disposed of by the Lords of the Council or the Ordinary or the Judges of Assizes and their maintenance to be raised out of the third part of such Recusants Livings 10. He shall be disenabled to make any sale of any of his Goods or Chattels 11. If he be a Copyholder he shall forfeit his Copyhold during his life whereof two parts is to go to the Queen and the third to the Lord of the Mannor 12. If any person be indicted for Recusancy of malice he shall have the remedy against the party at the Common Law 13. If any person having been a Recusant shall at any time recant he shall make his submission in the Parish-Church where he dwelleth acknowledging the Queens proceedings to be just and detest the Church of Rome which he shall also do in open Court before the Judges of Assize 14. If any such person after his Recantation fall into relapse he shall lose the benefit of the former Recantation for ever 15. Lastly there is a Proviso That those that have already bought any Lands of any that now are or shall be indicted for a Recusant the Bargain shall be as good and stand in effect as if this had never been made This Bill upon a Committee received all these Alterations following whereupon it came as a new Bill again The first Article omitted altogether being thought too hard The Penal Bill amended The third That the women are to lose but two parts of Dowry or Joynture after her Husbands death The Husband not being a Recusant to forfeit no part of his Land for his Wives Recusancy The fifth All Sales made by Recusants since 2º Eliz. of Lands whereof he taketh the profits or which Conveyauce is to his use or upon any Trust or confidence to be void
as to the Queen as for two parts of the Profits to be answered her and so all Sales hereafter to be made by any Recusant convicted the Sale being bona side The sixth They shall be disabled to be Justices of the Peace Mayors or Sheriffs The ninth Children being ten years until they be sixteen to be disposed at the appointment of four Privy Counsellors the Justices of Assize the Bishop of the Diocess Justice of the Peace And if the third part of the Land suffice not for maintenance the rest to be levied of the Parents Goods The eleventh Recusants that be Copyholders to forfeit two parts to the Lord of the Mannor if the Lord be no Recusant and if he be then to the Queen The thirteenth Protesting that he doth not come to Church under colour of any Dispensation or other allowance from the Pope but for Conscience and Religion Sir Robert Cecill AS I remember Cecill's Speech I have been of this House these five Parliaments and I have not determined to say any thing in these Assemblies further than my Cogitations should concur with my Conscience in saying bare I and No. Give me leave I pray you to rehearse an old Saying and it is in Latine Nec te Collaudes nec te Vituperes ipse For me to do the one were exceeding Arrogancy and to do the other I confess I hope you will pardon me The occasion of this Parliament which I take to be by that which we received from the honourable and learned Speech of the Lord Keeper as of and from her Majesty to us in the Higher House is for the cause of Religion and the maintenance thereof amongst us the preservation of her Majesties most Royal Person and the good of this Realm our Country All which because they be things of most dear and nearest price and at this present in exceeding great and eminent danger it is behoveful to consult of most speedy remedies which in parcels should proceed from the most wise heads The Enemy to these is the King of Spain whose malice and ambition is such that together with the Pope that Antichrist of Rome for I may well couple them together the one being always accompanied with Envy and Prosperity the other with unsatiable desire makes them by all means seek the subversion of this State But concerning the first the Cause of God and his Religion which her Majesty professed before she came on this Royal Seat which she hath defended and maintained and for which cause God hath so blessed her Government ever since her coming to the Crown yea while the Crown was scarce warm on her head she abolished the Authority of Rome and did set up God's Truth amongst us and to her great Renown made this little Land to be a Sanctuary for all the persecuted Saints of God whereby the People perceived her Magnanimity Zeal and Judgment Magnanimity in understanding so great an Enterprize Zeal in professing the same not of shew but in sincerity Judgment in defending it and preventing all the Popes designes He set forth his Bulls and Missives against her Majesty thereby most unnaturally depriving her of her most natural Right Duty and Loyalty which her Subjects should owe unto her c. Here he touched the many dangers which her Majesty had been in which as it caused him to fear to think so it did cause him to tremble to speak concerning the danger of our Country and so the loss of our Lives Liberties Wives Children and all other Priviledges Let me not trouble you with things passed so long and perhaps beyond my reach but of things passed of late years and since 88 when as we were so secure and never thought the King of Spain would have set up his Rest for England then sent he his Navy termed Invincible and had almost been upon the backs of us before we were aware yea we were so slack in Provision that it was too late to make resistance had not God preserved us his attempt against us by seeking to win the Low Countries and to obtain Ireland which being but trifles and partly devices which I mean not to trouble you with He hath now of late gone about to win France wherein he hath greatly prevailed as in Lorain and in other parts as you have heard but especially in Britain having most part of the Port-towns in his possession whither he still sends Supplies dayly and re-enforceth them every four or five months which Port is always open and his men and forces never wanting This Province he especially desireth for it lieth most fitly to annoy us whither he may send Forces continually and there have his Navy ready to annoy us the which he could not otherwise so easily do unless he had the Wind in a bag Besides having this Province he will keep us from Traffique to Rochel and Bourdeaux as he doth in the Streights from Tripoly and St. Jean de luze and so hinder us from carrying forth or bringing in into this Land any Commodities whereby this Realm might be inriched and her Majesties Impost ever increased being one of the greatest Revenues of her Crown He hath also gone about with them of Stode and the King of Poland one of his own Faction and who by reason he cannot do in that Kingdom what he listeth he may easily command him to impede or hinder our Traffique in those Eastern parts which if he could bring to pass you see how hurtful it would be to this Land But to descend yet more lower and into these latter Actions he hath seen it is but a folly to endeavour to make a wooden-bridge to pass into England therefore he hath found out a more sure way and stronger passage unto it by Land and that by Scotland which though it be not talked of at the Exchange nor preached of at Paul's Cross yet it is most true and in Scotland as common as the High-way that he hath procured to him many of the Nobility there It is true he hath sent thither no Navy and if he had endeavoured it her Majesty would not have suffered him yet do she what she can some paltry Fly-boat may escape her Majesties good Ships and carry Gold enough in her to make them Traytors and stir them to Sedition These things her Majesty understood before and advertised that King thereof but he not so well conceiving thereof hath by the effect proved the other true And unless I be deceived the last Letter that came from thence the other night sheweth that King is gone to make a Road into the North and to bring Back the Lord Bothwell and the Lord Huntley The King of Spain's malice thus dayly increaseth against us and seeketh also to stir up Sedition amongst us by his Instruments the number also of Papists dayly increaseth or at leastwise be more manifested My advice is That you would consult which ways to withstand such eminent dangers which the greater they be the sooner they
read March 1. an Act was read against Strangers born to sell forreign Wares by retail no Stranger born to do it except he hath served seven years with an Englishman in the same Trade Serjeant Yelverton HE spake concerning the Priviledges of this House Yelverton The Burgess of Misteard in Cornwall being elected the Town refused to deliver up their Indenture to the Sheriff but the Party elected made his Indenture and delivered it to the Clerk of the Crown who filed it with the rest of the Indentures returned by the Sheriff the Sheriff having indorsed it upon his Writ but this Indenture was never executed by the Sheriff nor return'd and yet this Return was held as it should seem by the Committees to be good Sir Edward Hobby THe Party outlawed is not out of his wits therefore capable Sir Edward Hobby and then he is a man able to be chosen and Idoneus to be a Burgess onely a difference may be made where the Outlawry is for a Cause Criminal and a Cause Personal as in this Cause Is this disability greater then a man outlawed may not be a Burgess as well as an Atturney to a man or as an Executor And I think it will stand with the Priviledge of the House to deliver him though he were outlawed Mr. Finch HE said he could not tell which to hold Mr. Finch or on which side to speak The book of 20 Hen. 7. doth prove that there were elected such as were attainted and that disability was taken against them The Writ to chuse a Burgess is not legalem hominem as in all places but Idoneum therefore we ought not to be so strict as if he were to be challenged upon a Jury At the Common Law Outlawries was onely for Causes Criminal as for Treason or Felony but these Outlawries in Personal Causes onely by the Statute 11 Hen. 4. not so great a difficulty as that at the Common Law On the other side utlegatus ne villen cannot be a Champion which is as a Judge to decide then à Fortiori he can be no Judge in this House Outlawry is an Attainder therefore the Party so stained is no competent Judge The great Charter is all Tryals ought to be per legales homines parum suorum the outlawed man is not of the number of Parium and so not to be a Judge Vide 8 Ed. 3. utlegatus ne puit estre c. On Friday March 2. the old Question touching an outlawed man to be a Burgess was again spoken unto Mr. Tanfield HE held Mr. Tanfield that a Person outlawed might be a Burgess He made an Exception where the difference of a Burgess grew upon matter before the Election and where after If the Exception grew after then a Burgess elected must not be out of the House If Exception be taken to this Election and this Outlawry now alleadged to disenable him the Statute of 23 Hen 6 cap. 15. will disenable most of this House for they ought to be Burgesses resident Now if this be a good Election then it follows that the Party elected is to have his Priviledge And although the Common Law doth disenable the Party yet the Priviledge of the House being urged that prevaileth over the Law Sir William Moore FIrst Sir Will. Moore he shewed that her Majesty had more cause to have Subsidies than had Hen. 8. Edw. 6. or Queen Mary for Hen. 8. Wars continued not though they were violent In his time the Wars were impulsive not defensive he had the suppression of all the Abbeys a matter of great Riches unto him he had a Benevolence and then a Subsidy paid within three months to Sir Geo. Peckham Edw. 6. had Chauntries and all the Church-plate for relief paid him Queen Mary had a Relief paid her which she never repaid But her Majesty that now is hath been a continual Defence of her own Realms and her Neighbours France and the Low Countries yet hath she repaid the Loans and hath had no such helps Sir George Carey I Speak for the Subsidy Sir Geo. Carey first answering one that hath said we must regard them and their Estates for whom we be here saying he regarded and came for them as was meet and they will more thank us for taking something from them than if we should abandon them and leave them and all that they have to the spoil of the Enemy which will be if with Forces we provide not to withstand them for eminent dangers hangs over our SPEAKERs and are intended to us this Summer The Spaniards already have sent 7000 Pistols of gold into Scotland to corrupt the Nobility and to the King 20000 Crowns now lately were dispatched out of France into Scotland for the levying of 3000 men which the Scotish Lords have promised and the King of Spain will levy 30000 men and give them all Pay Her Majesty is resolved to send Sir Francis Drake to Sea to encounter them with a great Navy wherefore this our Danger is to be prevented and these her Majesties infinite Charges supplied by us Sir Walter Rawleigh HE spake of the Subsidy not onely as he protested Sir Walter Rawleigh to please the Queen to whom he is infinitely bound above his desert but for the necessity he both saw and knew He very well discovered the great strength of the King of Spain and to shew his mightiness he told how he possessed all the world and also that his malice and ill purpose was evident to this Realm He shewed how on every side he had beleaguered us In Denmark that King being young he hath corrupted the Council and Nobility so as it was very likely he would speed himself of Shipping from thence in the Marine-Towns of the Low Countries and in Norway he hath laid in great store of Shipping in France he hath the Parliament-Towns at his command in Britain he hath all the best Havens and in Scotland he hath so corrupted the Nobility that he had promised them Forces to assist the Papists that they were ready to joyn with any forreign Forces that would make them strong to be by themselves and to resist others for as he thought there were not six Gentlemen of that Country to be of one Religion In his own Country there is all possible preparing and he is coming with sixty Gallies besides other Shipping with purpose if he goes forward and hath good success we must then have no Ships if he invade us riding at Anchor but all will be little enough to withstand him At his coming he fully resolveth to get Plimouth or at least to possess some of the Havens this Summer within our Land and Plimouth is in most danger for no Ordnance can be carried thither to remove him the passages will not give leave Now the way to defeat him was this To send a Royal Army and supplant him in Britany and to possess our selves there and to send a strong Navy to Sea and
to lie with it upon the Cape and at Lambuck to which places comes all his Ships with Riches from all places and then they may set upon all that comes Saturday March 3. there ensued some discouse touching the Priviledges of the House Sunday March 4. Munday March 5. Mr. Beale HE desired to satisfie the House Mr. Beale by reason it was conceived by the Lords the other day that upon his Motion and by the President he shewed the House was led to deny a Conference with the Lords he acknowledged he mistook the Question appointed for there being but a Conference desired by the Lords and no confirming of what they had done he thought we might and thought fit we should confer And to this end he onely shewed the President That in the ninth year of Hen. 4. the Commons having granted a Subsidy which the Lords thought too little and they agreed to a greater and would have had the Commons to confirm that they had done This the Commons thought they could not do without prejudice to their honour Wherefore he acknowledged himself mistaken in the Question and desired if any were led by him to be satisfied for that he would have been of another opinion if he had conceived the matter as it was meant Sir Robert Cecill I Desire now I may be somewhat long Sir Rob. Cecill because I must include an Answer to three Speeches Those two honourable persons which sit above the one of them declared the true state of the Question the other what was sit we should do but my Answer shall tend onely to the other Tales that followed The first was a kind of satisfaction for a former mistaking but in the same satisfaction a new mistaking was also which was by way of information casting it into the House that the Queen should seem to demand three Subsidies Now the Queen never demanded three nor one so here is a new mistaking added to the former satisfaction The second mans Motion thus far I allow that the Councels of this House be secretly kept and that nothing be reported in Malam partem but if his meaning be that we may not impart any thing that is done here unto the Queen but that all things must be kept secret from her I am altogether against it This onely I should desire what ought to be observed that nothing ought to be reported unto her in Malam partem The third mans Motion consisted upon three points The first was News the second History the third and last a Motion His News was that mens Names were given up to the Queen this was News for I heard it not before The History was a large Report of the whole progress of this matter His Motion was that we should confer with the Lords about a Subsidy but not conclude a Subsidy with them His Motion seems contrary to his meaning or else is more than ever was meant for it was never desired of us by the Lords that we should confer with them about a Subsidy Sir Walter Rawleigh HE informed the House that he thought the Division of the House the last day Sir Walter Rawleigh to grow upon the mistaking of the Question and that some had since reported to him That had the matter been resolved that onely a general Conference was desired most of them that sat would not have been against it Wherefore he desired Mr. Speaker to put it to the question Whether they should confer with the Lords generally or no without naming a Subsidy This Motion being well liked Sir Walter Rawleigh was desired by the House to repeat it again that so it might be the better heard of them all And thereupon he said That touching the aforesaid Question which had receiv'd a No upon Saturday last he would not make it a Question again for by the Order of the House he could not but propound this for a new Question in these or the like words Whether the House would be pleased to have a general Conference with the Lords touching the great and eminent dangers of the Realm and State and the present necessary supply of Treasure to be provided speedily for the same according to the proportion of the necessity Which Question being propounded it was assented unto by all without any negative voice On Tuesday March 6. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill for confirming Letters-Patents granted to the Mayor Sheriffs Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Lincoln was read the second time Sir Edward Hobby one of the Committees for Returns and Priviledges shewed that for the Burrough of Calmesford in the County of Cornwall one Richard Leech was returned to the Sheriff for a Burgess by a false Return and that afterwards Sir George Carew Knight was returned Burgess by the true Return and alleadging that the said Richard Leech offer'd to yield the place to the said Sir George Carew he moved for the Order of this House therein And thereupon Mr. Speaker was appointed to move the Lord Keeper in the said Case for his Order either for his allowance of the said Sir George Carew in the place of the said Richard Leech or else in awarding a new Writ for chusing another at his Lordships pleasure And so for his Lordships Order in the Case of the Burgess returned for the Burrough of Southwark in the allowance of Richard Hutton already returned or else in awarding a new Writ for chusing another at his Lordships pleasure And so also for his Lordships altering the name of John Dudley to the name of Thomas Dudley in the return of one of the Burgesses of Newtown in the County of Southampton or else to award a new Writ at his Lordships pleasure Divers other Bills were read on this day On Wednesday March 7. Sir Edward Hobby moved the Case of Mr. Fitz-Herbert his bringing up unto this House by a Hab. Cor. cum causa from the Lord Keeper sheweth that he hath moved the Lord Keeper touching the said Writ and that his Lordship thinketh best in regard of the ancient priviledges of this House that a Serjeant at Arms be sent by order of this House for the said Mr. Fitz-herbert at his own charge by reason whereof he may be brought hither to this House without peril of being further arrested by the way and the state of his Cause consider'd of and examined when he shall come hither which was thereupon well liked and allowed of by this House Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second concerning the lawful deprivation of Edward Bonner late Bishop of London was read the second time On Thursday March 8. Mr. Speaker shewed unto this House that according unto the appointment of this House he hath attended the Lord Keeper touching his Lordships pleasure for the directing of a new Writ for the chusing of another Burgess for the Burrough of Southwark in the County of Surrey instead of Richard Hutton Gentleman
Bill have met and had conference together and that in sundry respects then open'd by him to the House they thought good to frame a new Bill and so offer'd the same new Bill and pray'd it might be read Divers other Bills were this day read On Saturday March 24. the Bill touching Clap-boards and Casks was twice read and committed to Mr. Treasurer Mr. Wroth Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Finch and others and the Bill was deliver'd unto Mr. Treasurer who with the rest were appointed to meet this afternoon at two of the clock in the Exchequer-chamber Mr. Thomas Fane return'd into this Parliament one of the Barons of the Port of Dover and Mr. henry Fane also return'd into the same Parliament one of the Barons for the Port of Hyeth are licens'd by Mr. Speaker for their necessary business to depart Divers other Bills were this day read March 25. Sunday An. 1593. On Munday March 26. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the last concerning Spinners and Weavers was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir William Knowls Sir Moyle Finch Sir Francis Hastings and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir William Knowls who with the rest were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Exchequer Mr. Speaker shewed That he had received a Bill signed by her Majesty for the restitution in bloud of Sir Thomas Parrott Knight son and heir of Sir John Parrott Knight deceased lately attainted of High-Treason whereupon the Bill of restitution of bloud of Sir Thomas Parrott Knight son and heir of the said Sir John Parrott attainted of High-Treason was twice read On Tuesday March 27. Mr. Fuller one of the Committees in the Bill for repealing of a branch of a Statute made 4 5 Philip. Mariae entituled An Act for making of Woollen-cloaths sheweth the travel of the Committees whereupon then after some other Speeches then moving the House the said Bill was recommitted to the former Committees who had been appointed on Wednesday the 14th of this instant March to meet again this afternoon The Bill touching the true and lawful assizing of Bread was read the second time and upon the doubtfulness of the Voices whether it should be ingrossed or no was upon the Question upon the division of the House rejected with the difference of twenty seven Voices viz. with the Yeas sixty five and with the Noes ninety two Divers other Bills were this day read March 28. being Wednesday The Bill for renewing continuing explanation perfecting and enabling of certain Statutes was twice read and committed to the former Committees and unto Mr. William Hiningham Mr. Doughty Mr. Rotherham Mr. Finch Mr. Atturney of the Dutchie the Barons of the Cinque-Ports Mr. John Hare Mr. Penrudeck and Dr. Cesar and the Bill was delivered unto Mr. Wroth one of the former Committees who with the rest were appointed to meet in this place at two of the clock in the afternoon Sir Robert Cecill one of the Committees in the Bill for the relief of poor maimed Souldiers shewed That the Committees had met together but in the effect upon sundry reasons shewed unto them by divers of them in the said Committee to contrary effects they could come to no conclusion but rather to a confusion upon the points of the matter For his own private part he said in the end That as this House had committed the Bill unto him and the residue of the said Committees so had he thought good to commit the same Bill to Prison rather than to return the same to this House in the same form or no better state than they did before receive it Divers other Bills were this day read On Thursday March 29. Mr. Broughton Mr. Atturney of the Dutchie Sir Thomas Dennis Sir Francis Godolphine were added to the former Committees in the Bill for the Haven of Plimouth and appointed to meet at two of the clock in the afternoon this present day The Bill concerning the Haven at Colchester and the paving of the said Town was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Vicechamberlain the Burgesses of Colchester Mr. Grimston and others and the Bill was delivered unto Mr. Wroth one of the said Committees who with the rest were appointed to meet at two of the clock this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Divers other Bills were this day read On Friday March 30. Mr. Broughton and Mr. Dier were appointed to attend the Lord Keeper touching the return of the Hab. Cor. cum Causa for the bringing up of the body of Thomas Fitz-herbert Esquire Vide concerning this matter on the first day the second day and the 17th day of this instant March and also on April 3. and 15. following The Amendments in the Bill for the continuation explanation and confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late of Sir Francis Englefield Knight being twice read to the House and the Bill it self and the Amendments read the third time also passed upon the Question Divers Bills more were this day read On Saturday March 31. the Bill for confirmation of Subsidies granted by the Clergy was read the first time The Clergies Subsidy confirmed and passed upon the Question The Bill touching Casks brought in with more Amendments by Mr. Wroth one of the Committees and the same Amendments being twice read the Bill upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed Divers other Bills were this day read April 1. Sunday April 1. On Munday April 2. the Bill concerning Woollen-cloaths called Devonshire Kersies was upon the second reading committed to the Knights and Burgesses of Devon Mr. Serjeant Harries Mr. George Moore and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir Thomas Denny one of the same Committees who with the rest were appointed to meet at two of the clock this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others of which the first was the Act for confirmation of the Subsidies granted by the Clergy and another touching the Lands of Sir Francis Englefield Knight Divers other Bills were this day read On Tuesday April 3. the Bill concerning Spinners and Weavers was twice read and committed to the former Committee and Mr. Wroth and the Burgesses of York and Norwich were added to them Sir Thomas Dennis one of the Committees for Devonshire Kersies shewed the meeting of the Committees and that they had in some few things amended the Bill praying the reading of the Amendments which being twice read the Bill upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed Divers other Bills were this day read On Wednesday April 4. Mr. Barker one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Spinners and Weavers shewed the meeting and travels of the Committees and their Amendments of the Bill praying the reading of the same which being read and ordered to be inserted by the House into the Bill the same Amendments were twice read and the Bill
Committees in the Bill concerning Coopers brought in the Bill again as not dealt in by the Committee for lack of convenient time The Bill for restraint of new buildings converting of great houses into several Tenements and for restraint of Inmates and Inclosures neer unto the Cities of London and Westminster with one Amendment to the said Bill was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer Sir John Woolley and others with a Remembrance to move their Lordships for sending down of the Bill for grant of three entire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty to the end Mr. Speaker may this afternoon present the same unto her Majesty according to the former accustomed usage of this House Mr. Serjeant Owen Mr. Atturney-General and Mr. Powle brought down from the Lords an Act entituled An Act for the Queens most gracious general and free Pardon Divers other Bills were this day read This Afternoon the Parliament was dissolved 39 Eliz. A Journal of such things as passed in the Vpper House of Parliament in the Parliament that held Anno xxxix o Eliz. Reginae and began October 24. in the same year and ended February 9. following ANno Dom. 1597. Regni Eliz. Reginae 39. die Lunae 24. Mensis Octob. Inchoatum est Parliament Westmonasterii in Domo consuet quo die Regina diversi Domini tam Spiritual quam Temporal viz. Archiepiscopus Cant. Tho. Egerton Miles Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Marchio Winton Comes Sussex Magnus Marescall Comes Nottingham Magnus Scenescall eight other Earls one Viscount fifteen Bishops and twenty three Barons were present whose Name are particularly set down in the Journal-book Dicto 24. die Octob. viz. primo die hujus Parliamenti Oct. 24. introduct est Breve quo Archiepiscopus Ebor. praesenti Parliamento interesse summonibatur admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi locum salvo jure alieno Consimilima Brevia introduct sunt 4 Comitibus 10 Episcopis 5 Baronibus The Lord Keeper by the Queens commandment delivered to both Houses the Causes that moved her majesty to summons this Parliament The Lord Keeper's Speech THE Queens most excellent Majesty Lord Keeper's Speech my most gracious and dread Soveraign hath commanded me to declare unto you my Lords and others here present the Causes which have moved her Highness to summons this Parliament at this time which before I can express I must confess truely that the Royal presence of her Majesty the view of your Lordships and this honourable Assembly together with the consideration of the weightiness of the service and of my own weakness doth much appale me and cause me to fear Wherefore if either through fear I forget or through the many wants and imperfections which I have I fail to perform that duty which is required I do most humbly crave pardon of her Majesty and beseech your Lordships to bear with me The great Princely Care which her Highness now hath An. 1597. as heretofore she hath ever had to preserve her Kingdoms in Peace and safe from all forreign Attempts hath caused her at this present to assemble this honourable and great Council of her Realm to advise of the best and most needful means whereby to continue this her peaceable and happy Government and to withstand the malice of her mighty and implacable Enemy which hitherto by the space of many years through her provident and Princely wisdom hath been performed to the great and inestimable benefit of her Subjects as that the simplest amongst them could not but see and the wisest but admire their happiness therein the whole Realm enjoying Peace in all security when our Neighbour-Countries have been torn in pieces and tormented with cruel and bloody Wars This her Majesty is pleased to ascribe to the mighty power and infinite mercy of the Almighty And therefore it shall well become us all most thank-fully upon the knees of our hearts to acknowledge no less unto his holy Name who of his infinite goodness still preserve her Highness and send her many years more over us in all happiness to reign In this her blessed Government her Highness chief care and regard of all hath been of the honour and service of the Almighty God that true Religion might be planted and entertained in the hearts of her People through all the parts of her Realms and as well in that behalf as for the peace and benefit of her Subjects she hath from time to time established many good Laws to meet with the Disorders and to punish the offences of wicked and ungodly men that continuing in their bad ways they may not be hardened and go forward in their wickedness for Mora in peccato dat incrementum sceleri And whereas the number of the Laws already made are very great some also of them being obsolete andworn out of use others idle and vain serving to no purpose some again over-heavy and too severe for the offence others too loose and slack for the faults they are to punish and many of them so full of difficulties to be understood that they cause many controversies and much trouble amongst the Subjects You are to enter into a due consideration of the said Laws and where you finde superfluity to prune and cut off where defect to supply and were ambiguity to explain that they be not burthen-some but profitable to the Common-wealth Which being a service of importance and very needful to be required yet as nothing is to be regarded if due means be not had to withstand the malice and force of those professed Enemies which seeks the destruction of the whole State This before all and above all is to be thought of and with most endeavour and care to be provided for for in vain are Laws made and to little purpose will they serve be they never so good if such prevail as go about to make a Conquest of the Kingdom and destruction of the People Wars heretofore were wont to be made either out of Ambition to enlarge Deminions or out of Revenge to requite Injuries but this against us is not so In this the holy Religion of God is sought to be rooted out the whole Realm to be subdued and the precious life of her excellent Majesty to be taken away which hitherto by the powerful hand and great goodness of the Almighty have been preserved maugre the Devil the Pope the Spanish Tyrant and all the misohievous designes of all her Enemies Wherefore it is high time that this be looked into and that no way be left unsought nor means unused that may serve for defence thereof Her Majesty hath not spared to disburse a mass of Treasure and to sell her Land for the maintenance of her Armies by Sea and Land whereby with such small helps as from her Subjects hath been yielded she hath defended and kept safe her Dominions from all such forcible attempts as have been made which
being still to be performed by infinite Charge her Majesty notwithstanding hears of nothing more unwillingly than of Aids and Subsidies to be received from her People though what she doth receive she doth carefully bestow and infinitely more of her own The Taxations at this day howsoever they seem are nothing so great as heretofore in the Reigns of former Kings they have been In the times of Edw. 3. and the two next before him and those three which succeeded next after him the payments of the Commons then did far exceed any that have been since her Majesties Reign which is of Record in the Histories of those times to be seen but never cause so great to employ great sums of money as now Now therefore you are to consider how to provide needful and convenient Aid in some measure to maintain and support her Majesties Charge which at present she is at and is to continue at for the defence of the Realm He cannot be well advised which in this case will not be forward to contribute and bestow whatsoever he hath for if with the Common-wealth it goes not well well it cannot be with any private or particular person That being in danger he that would seek then to lay up Treasure and inrich himself should be like to him that would busie himself to beautifie his house when the City wherein he dwelleth is on fire or to him that decketh up his Cabin when the Ship wherein he saileth is ready to sink To spare in that case is to spare for those which seek to devour all and to give is to give to our selves Her Majesties part being onely carefully to bestow what is delivered into her hands wherein men performing their duties there is no cause at all to fear for the War is just it is in defence of the Religion of God of our most gracious Soveraign of our Native Country of our Wives Children Liberties Lands Lives and whatsoever we have Wherefore not mistrusting your forwardness that I may not offend in too much enlarging this point as a poor Remembrancer to her Majesty I shortly say to your Lordships Quod justum necessarium est nothing can be more just than this War nothing ought to seem more necessary than carefully to provide due Maintenance for the same And to you of the House of Commons that you may orderly proceed and wisely consult of these weighty Causes delivered unto you her Majesties pleasure is You should according to your accustomed manner go down to the Lower House and there make choice of some grave learned and wise man amongst you to be your Speaker who shall be for understanding sufficient and for discretion fit as your mouth to signifie your minds and to make your Petitions known unto her Highness and him upon Thursday next to present in this place The Lord Burgh was absent being the Lord Deputy of Ireland The Lord De-la-ware was absent because he made question of his place intending to make suit to the Parliament concerning the same Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox futur viz. 27º diem Octobris On Thursday Octob. 27. the Queens Majesty the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Thomas Edgerton Kt. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Marquiss of Winton the Earl of Sussex great Mareschal the Earl of Nottingham Mag. Seneschall six Earls one Viscount thirteen Bishops the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain and twenty two other Barons present Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Serj. Yelverton chosen Speaker being chosen Speaker of the Lower House was by divers Knights Citizens and Burgesses brought into the Upper House and by the hands of Sir William Knolls Controuler of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer presented to her Majesty who by a Speech full of Gravity and Modesty signifying the accomplishment of the duty of the House in making an Election but he excusing himself by pretence of many disabilities and imperfections Excuses himself and wishing earnestly that he were of sufficiency to perform the duty of that Place made humble suit to her Majesty that he might be discharged and that the Lower House might proceed to a new Election Which Excuse was not allowed by her Majesty Is allowed commended by the Queen as the Lord Keeper delivered by answer and the Choice of the said Mr. Yelverton being by her Majesty very well approved and his Sufficiency much commended He then proceeded in another Speech according to the manner to undertake that Charge and Place and to present unto her Majesty on the behalf of the Lower House certain humble Petitions viz. For Access unto her Majesty Petitions for the House in the usual form For the using and enjoying of such Liberties and Priviledges as in former times had been granted and allowed by her Majesties Progenitors and her self Whereunto her Majesty making answer by the Lord Keeper did yield her gracious assent Which are granted with admonition that the said Liberties and Priviledges should be discreetly and wisely used as was meet Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem quintum mensis Novembris On Saturday 5 Novembris introductum est Breve Thomae Dom. Grey de Wilton quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur Nov. 5. admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento loco salvo jure alieno The Petition of the Lord De-la-ware presented to this House for restitution of the same place in the Parliament which his Ancestors had in the Rank and Order of the Barons and referred to Committees viz. to the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury Lord Bishop of London Lord Bishop of Winton Lord Zouche Lord Stafford Lord Windsor Lord Sheffield Lord North Lord St. John of Bletsoe Lord Buckhurst Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Lord Chief Baron and Edward Coke Esq the Queens Atturney who appointed to meet at the Council-chamber at the Court at Whitehall on Sunday Nov. 6. at two of the clock in the afternoon Munday Nov. 7. An Act for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants secunda vice lect and committed to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Admiral three Earls three Bishops three Barons the Lord Chief Justice of England Mr. Baron Ewens and Mr. Atturney General to attend their Lordships and appointed to meet at the little Council-chamber in Whitehall to morrow at four a clock in the afternoon Introductum est Breve Com. Derby quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur c. On Thursday Nov. 10. the Lord Treasurer made Report to the House what had been done by the Committees upon the Petition of the Lord De-la-ware and how it was resolved by them upon hearing and debating the matter with certain learned Counsel in the
an Act concerning a Lease of great yearly Value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham read prima vice Kirkham and Ambrose Willoughby Esq to be warned to attend the Lords on Munday-morning next at which time it is appointed the said Bill shall be read the second time An Act concerning the draining and recovery from the water certain overflown Grounds in the County of Norfolk An Act for draining of Lands secunda vice lect and referred to the same Committees upon the Bill formerly read of that kind concerning 300000 Acres c. with addition of the Lord St. John and Mr. Atturney to attend appointed to meet c. and such Parties as the same may concern to be warned to attend On Saturday Jan. 14. certain Objections unto a Bill entituled An Act for the increase of People c. were set down in writing by Mr. Atturney-General and brought into the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees and the same sent to the Lower House for their consideration thereof according to a Promise made by their Lordships to the select Committees of the Lower House at the meeting yesterday about the Bill delivered by Mr. Atturney and Dr. Stanhopp Certain Knights and Burgesses of the Lower House were sent to their Lordships to desire a Conference with a competent number of that House concerning the Amendments and Provisoe added to the Bill entituled An Act for erecting of houses of Correction and punishing of Rogues Vagabonds c. whereupon choice was made of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Bishop of Winchester and two Barons being part of the number formerly appointed upon the Bill the two Chief Justices and the Chief Baron Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney-General to attend them and the same presently signified to the same Knights and Burgesses but with this caution That whatsoever had been mended or added by their Lordships could not now be altered by the Orders of the House howbeit to yield the Lower House satisfaction of the reasons that moved their Lordships to make those Amendments they assented to a Conference the meeting appointed to be in the outward Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament on Munday-morning at eight of the clock The Earl of Essex not able to attend for want of health certified by the Lord North. The Bishop of Landaff absent by reason of sickness signified by the Bishop of Chester On Munday Jan. 16. Report was made by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury That upon meeting of such of the Lords of the Higher House as were appointed this day to confer with certain select Knights and Burgesses of the Lower House concerning the Amendments and Provisoes added by their Lordships to a Bill entituled An Act for erecting houses of Correction c. the said Knights and Burgesses do hold themselves satisfied upon the Reasons alleadged by their Lordships in some part of the said Amendments but not in all Kirkham was called into the House before their Lordships and after he had been heard what he was able to say on his own behalf the same Bill was read a second time viz. An Act concerning a Lease of great yearly Value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham and commanded to be ingrossed A Motion made that a Proviso should be added to the Bill concerning the Bishoprick of Norwich which Proviso was presently drawn in the House by Mr. Atturney-General and thereupon read And for the more expedition in the proceeding of the Bill it was thought meet that the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Marshal Lord Admiral Bishop of London Lord Chamberlain and Lord Cobham should confer with a competent number of the Lower House about the said Proviso Whereupon Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney were sent to the Lower House to signifie the same unto them who presently assented to a meeting and made their repair to their Lordships forthwith An Act for enlarging the Statute made for following of Hue and Cry in 27 Reginae in some sort to relieve the Inhabitants of the small hundred of Beyvershe alias Benhurst in cases where they are in no ways voluntarily in default and yet they are or shall be charged by the same Statute and by two ancient Statutes the one made 13 Edw. 1. and the other 28 Edw. 3. for repressing Robberies On Tuesday Jan. 17. a Proviso drawn by Mr. Atturney by commandment of the House to be added to the Bill for establishing of the Bishoprick of Norwich c. was twice read and commanded to be ingrossed and then both the Bill and Proviso read the third time and returned to the Lower House for their consideration on the Proviso An Act for some better staying of Corn within this Land to give liberty to English Subjects sometimes to buy Wheat c. and to sell the same again in the same kind for the better relief of the Common-wealth tertia vice lect and rejected On Wednesday Jan. 18. the Lord Keeper signified to the House That the Parties that followed the Bill for the Hospital of Warwick are not provided of their Counsel learned whereupon the House assigned them a new day viz. Friday morning next An Act for avoiding of bringing of Pins into this Realm made and wrought in forraign parts beyond the Seas secunda vice lect and rejected The Amendments agreed upon by the Committees upon the Bill of Tillage appointed to be brought into the House to morrow-morning by the Lord Chief Justice of England An Act for the better furnishing and supply of able Chyrurgeons in and to the Land and Sea-service for her Majestie and the Realm secuuda vice lect A Bill about Chirurgeons for Sea-service The Lord Buckhurst signified that upon a Letter written unto him by the Lord Marquess of Winchester notifying his present sickness whereby he was not able to give his attendance as yet the said Lord Buckhurst according to the request of the said Lord Marquess having moved her Majesty therein it pleased her Majesty to hold him excused until his recovery and commanded that he should then give his attendance On Thursday Jan. 19. Answer was returned in writing from the Lower House and delivered by certain Knights and Burgesses sent for that purpose unto the Objections taken by their Lordships to some points of the Bill intituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm which Objections were formerly delivered unto them in writing upon their request made to their Lordships Certain selected persons of the Lower House viz. Sir William Knolles and Sir Edward Hobby Kts with divers others coming from the said Lower House delivered a Message Complaint of the Commons of an Innovation by their Lordships signifying that the Knights and Burgesses desired to receive satisfaction from their Lordships concerning an Innovation as the said Knights and Burgesses supposed very lately begun in the Upper House
in delivering an Answer from the Lords by the mouth of the Lord Keeper in other form and manner than as was pretended by the Knights and Burgesses in former times used as they did interpret it to the prejudice and derogation of the Liberty of the Lower House For whereas on the 14th instant Sir Walter Rawleigh Kt. with divers others of the Lower House were sent to the Lords to deliver a certain Message to this House after consultation had thereupon by the Lords and after signification thereof given to the said Sir Walter Rawleigh and the rest staying in the outward room for answer that they might come in and receive the same it was thought meet that the Lord Keeper should deliver the said Answer sitting in his place and every of the Lords keeping their places and not going out to the Bar as the use and form is when the Lords receive either Bills or Message from the Lower House and as the Lords had done once or twice before by errour or not attending the Formality and Order of the House in that point This was the Exception taken by the Message delivered this day from the Knights and Burgesses of the Lower House wherein they desired to receive satisfaction Upon which Message the Lords having consulted and delivered their Opinions touching that Order and Custome of the House as it had been observed and particularly noted by some of them that were the most antient and of longest continuance in Parliament and especially by the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the most antient Parliament man of any that are at this present either of the Upper or the Lower House and likewise by the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury and by the Lord Admiral the Lord North the Lord Buckhurst and others that had been present at many Parliaments It was resolved The resolution of the Lords upon the Complaint That the Order and Usage of this House was and is that when any Bills or Messages be brought from the Lower House to be preferred to the Upper House the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords are to rise from their places and to go down to the Bar there to meet such as come from the Lower House and from them to receive in that place their Messages or Bills But contrary wise when any Answer is to be delivered by the Lord Keeper in the name and behalf of this House to such Knights and Burgesses as came from the Lower House the said Knights and Burgesses are to receive the same standing towards the lower end of the House without the Bar. And the Lord Keeper is to deliver the same sitting in his place with his head covered and all the Lords keeping their places and that whensoever it had been done otherwise the same was by errour or mistaking and therefore not to be drawn into an Example or President as it was acknowledged by the Lord Keeper this day and the rest of the Lords that the going of the said Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords from their places unto the Bar some few days before once or twice to give answer to some of the Lower House whereof the Lower House seemed to take some advantage was onely by miscognizance or rather for want of due remembrance at the present of the Order and Custome of this House whereunto their Lordships having regard rather to the dispatch of matters of importance in the House than to Formalities were not greatly intentive This to have been the ancient usage of the House and that the same ought still to be was concluded by common and general consent of the Lords both upon particular remembrance and observations of the like course and Order holden afore-time by other Lords that held the place in the House of Lord-Chancellor and Lord Keeper and also by divers reasons urged and alleadged to prove and shew that the said Order doth best stand with the dignity and gravity of the House and with the conveniency and aptness for dispatch of Affairs appertaining to the Parliament and that the contrary course is both indecent and inconvenient This being so resolved and concluded The Lords send to the Commons to come up and know their Resolutions it was agreed that Mr. Atturney-General and Mr. Serjeant Drewe should go down to the Lower House and signifie from the Lords to the Knights and Burgesses That if they would send any of that House up to the Lords to receive Answer unto their aforesaid Demand Answer should be given them Whereunto the said Knights and Burgesses returned signification of their Assent by the said Mr. Atturney-General and Mr. Serjeant Drewe And within a very little time after sent up accordingly the said persons and divers of them who before had been sent to demand satisfaction but being come into the House and having placed themselves at the lower end of the room as at other times they accustomed expecting that the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords would come from their places and meet them at the Bar to deliver them Answer When the Lord Keeper moved them to come nearer to receive Answer 39 Eliz. and when they perceived the Lords were resolved not to come from their places to the Bar they protested by the mouth of Sir William Knolls The Commons protest that they had no Commission to receive Answer in that Form and so refusing to receive any Answer departed The Question and Difference thus remaining betwixt the Houses it was afterwards upon a motion sent from the Lords to the Lower House agreed on both parts The Question continuing the Lords desire a Conference that a Conference should be had and that the aforesaid selected persons of the House or so many of them as shall be needful should meet with divers of the Lords of the Upper House being nominated by the House for that purpose in the outward great Chamber before the Chamber of Parliament-presence to debate the matter and bring it to a conclusion Which Meeting and Conference being assented unto and afterwards accordingly there performed on the 19 of Jannuary and the Question debated and the reason and observation of former times for the aforesaid Order and Custom of the House being alleadged by the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Admiral the Lord North and the Lord Buckhurst that had been present in many Parliaments and especially by the Lord Treasurer the most antient Parliament-man it was found and resolved that the Order and Custom of the House was as is before written viz. where the Dispute is determined That when any Bills or Messages are brought from the Lower House to be presented to the Upper House the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords are to rise from their places and to go down to the Bar there to meet such as come from the Lower House and from them to receive in that place their Messages or Bills But contrarywise when any Answer is to be delivered
Committees of the Lower House to come the sooner this Afternoon for this purpose they might well enough perform both the one and the other On Wednesday Feb. 1. the Bill intituled Feb. 1. An Act for the reviving continuance explanation and repealing of divers Statutes returned to the House by the Lord Chief Justice with some amendments which were presently twice read and thereupon Commandment given to be prepared ready in writing in Paper for a third reading It is agreed that a Conference shall be had with some of the Lower House about this Bill upon Friday Morning next On Friday Feb. 3. a Proviso in the Bill for recovering 300000 Acres more or less of waste Marsh and watry Ground this day twice read and the Amendments And thereupon Commandment given the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso ingrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading Report made by the Lord Treasurer what the substance of the Conference was between their Lordships and certain select Committees of the Lower House concerning the Bill for reviving continuing and repealing of divers Statutes and the same referred to the Lord Chief-Justice and other Justices for their further consideration On Saturday Feb. 4. an Act for reformation of Retailing-brokers and other Pawn-takers read tertia vice An Act against the deceitful stretching and Taintering of Northern Cloaths tertiavice lect An Act for the reviving continuance explanation perfecting and repealing of divers Statutes tertia vice lect The three Bills above-mentioned sent to the Lower House of which the two latter were returned for their consideration of certain Amendments and Proviso's added by their Lordships The Proviso thought meet by the Committees on the Bill concerning the draining and recovery of certain over flown Grounds in the County of Norfolk twice read and commanded to be engrossed A Motion by the Lord Buckhurst that the County of Sussex might be added to the general Bill of surrounded Grounds The like Motion by the Lord North and others for the Counties of Somerset and Essex whereto the House assented and the said three Counties were accordingly added to the rest On Munday Feb. 6. hora secunda post Meridiem the Proviso added by the Lower House to the Bill for the confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sandis read tertia vice and thereupon the Bill expedited On Tuesday a Message from their Lordships to the Lower House delivered by Serjeant Drew and Dr. Carew for a Conference concerning a Bill against excess of Apparel with a competent number of the said House The time and place being desired to be at Two of the clock this Afternoon at the great Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament On Wednesday Feb. 8. the Bill for amendment of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent was read tertia vice and expedited On Thursday Feb. 9. at Three of the clock in the Afternoon They are dissolved Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae tunc dissolvit presens Parliamentum A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in Parliament holden at Westminster in Anno 39 Eliz. Reginae annoque Dom. 1597. begun there on Munday the 24 of Octob and Dissolved Febr. 9. Anno 40. ejusdem Reginae THe Ninth Parliament of our Soveraign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen 1597. Oct. 24. The Parliament assembles defender of the Faith c. began at Westminster upon Munday Octob. 24 in the 39th year of her Majesties Reign upon which day many of the Knights of the Shires Citizens of the Cities Burgesses of Burroughs and Barons of the Cinque-Ports did then make their appearance at Westminster being returned into the said Parliament for the same Shires Cities Burroughs and Ports before the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward of her Majesties most honourable Houshold Chuseth Serj. Yelverton for their Speaker and having authority to chuse their Speaker they made choice of Mr. Serjeant Yelverton to be their Speaker On Thursday Octob. 27. the House being set and before Mr. Speaker went up unto her Majesty in the Upper House Chancellor of the Exchequer moves that none may hereafter enter the House with Spurs on and pay the Serjeant his fees Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer moved and admonished that none of this House should after this present day enter into the House with their Spurs on for offending of others and withal that none do come into this House before they have paid the Serjeant's Fees due unto him according to the accustomed usage of this House in that case After which Mr. Speaker The Commens go to the Lords House with the greatest number of this House went towards the Upper House there to attend her Majesties pleasure and afterwards being admitted the said Mr. Serjeant Yelverton was presented before her Majesty and allowed of by her Speaker approved they return to the Lower House according to the usual form in that case accustomed And so returning to this House he was Speaker and took his place and sat in the Chair And then and there signified to this House that whereas in former times the Order was to have a Bill read before they did rise A caution given that no Bill could be read this day as was usual the same could not be so done at this time because her Majesty had in the Upper House adjourned this Parliament until Saturday next come seven-night being the fifth day of November next coming at eight of the clock in the Forenoon of the same day till which time he said all the Members of this House might depart and take their ease and so then every man went his way On Saturday Novemb. 5. the House met about eight of the clock in the Morning Which proved a mistake of the Speakers having through a mere mistake and errour of the Speaker and themselves conceived their House to have been adjourned by the Lord Keeper the first day of this Parliament unto this present day The Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Engrossers read the first time Mr. Finch shewing sundry great and horrible abuses committed by Vagrant and Idle persons offensive both to God and the world and further shewing the extream miserable estate of the Godly and honest sort of the poor Subjects of this Realm moved for a Committee of this House to be selected for redress thereof The Bill for the taking away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders against a Satute made 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of Women again their wills Bill against those that take away Women against their will was read prima vice Sunday Novemb. 6. On Munday Novemb. 7. four Bills had each of them one reading the last being the Bill against Forestallers c. was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Francis Bacon the Citizens for London York Coventry Bristol and Gloucester Mr. Nathaniel
which are of this House Mr. Brograve Atturney of the Dutchy Sir Thomas Hobby and others who were appointed to meet on Munday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill for the better answering of her Majesties Tenths and Subsidies from the Clergy was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Recorder Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. Wingfield Sir Edward Hobby and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber and the Bill was delivered unto Mr. Sollicitor Sir Robert Wroth in the Bill to suppress the multitude of Maltsters being one of the Committee who with the rest had been appointed to meet on Wednesday last shewed the Committees have met and travail'd therein and thought good to draw a new Bill and so brought in both the old and the new Bill Sunday Novemb. 13. On Munday Novemb. 14. Mr. Laurence Hide one of the Committees in the Bill for the Town of Wanting shewed the meeting of the said Committees and some amendments made by them in some parts of the said Bill which said Amendments being twice read to the House the Bill upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed Mr. George Moore one of the Committees in the Bill touching Armour and Weapons shewed their meeting upon Saturday last and requiring to have a new day of meeting and that some of the Lawyers which are of this House being of this Committee may then attend in the same Whereupon day was given to meet again in this House upon Wednesday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon and the Committees Names being then read by the Clerk Mr. Serjeant Williams Mr. Serjeant Harris and Mr. Serjeant Heal were added unto them Mr. Francis Bacon one of the selected Committees concerning Enclosures and Tillage moved for a time to be appointed for the same selected Committees to impart their labour and travails therein to the general Committees who were appointed in the same cause upon Saturday the fifth of this instant November to the end that thereupon the same may afterwards be reported unto this House accordingly Whereupon it was ordered that they should for that purpose meet in this House to morrow at Two of the clock in the Afternoon The Bill for repressing of Robberies and touching Hue-and-crie Bill for repressing Robberies and touching Hue and Cry rejected after the second reading upon question for commitment was denied to be committed and upon another Question for the ingrossing was denied to be ingrossed and so rejected On Tuesday Novemb. 15. five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill for extirpation of Beggars was read prima vice Mr. Serjeant Drew and Dr. Stanhop brought from the Lords the Bill lately passed in this House for taking away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders against the Statute made 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of Women against their Wills unlawfully which Bill their Lordships have also passed with a Proviso thereunto annexed by their Lodships The Bill concerning the establishing of the Town-lands of Wanting in the County of Berks was read the third time and was passed upon the Question On Wednesday Novemb. 16. Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Town of Northampton was upon the second reading committed to the Knights for the County of Northampton and the Burgesses of the Town of Northampton Mr. Edward Montague Sir Edward Hobby and others who were appointed to meet at Two a clock in the Afternoon of this day at Sir Thomas Cecil's house The Bill for keeping of Horses from stealing was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Hubbert Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Maynard Mr. Porteington Sir William Brereton Mr. Henry Nevil Mr. Pennington and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Proviso which came from the Lords in the Bill for taking away the benefit of Clergie from certain Offenders in a Bill lately passed this House and sent up to the Lords was three times read and passed upon the Question On Thursday Novemb. 17. two Bills had each of them one reading of which one concerning Lands and Debts of Sir Henry Hatton Kt. deceased had its first reading The Bill also for erecting Houses of Correction Bill for erecting houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars and the punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars was read the first time On Friday Novemb. 18. twelve Bills had each of them one reading of which the last Bill for Hospitals and Work-houses being a Bill for erecting of Hospitals and Working-houses for the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Edward Hart Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Tasborough all the Readers of the Middle-Temple Mr. Boyes Mr. Henry Bellasis and others who were to meet this Afternoon at Two of the clock in the Middle-Temple hall The Bill concerning the Hospital of Warwick read the second time and committed to the Knights for Warwick-shire the Burgesses of Warwick Mr. Lindsey Sir Francis Hastings Mr. Recorder of London Dr. Cesar Mr. Fulke Grevil Sir Robert Wroth and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Saturday Novemb. 19. Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for erecting houses of Correction c. was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. George Moore Mr. Atturney of the Dutchie Mr. Atturney of the Court of Wards mr Francis Bacon Sir Thomas Cecil Sir William Moore Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet on Tuesday next in the Afternoon at the Middle-Temple-hall Sunday Novemb. 20. On Munday Novemb. 21. the Bill against Barstardie was read the second time Bill against Bastardy and committed to the former Committees in the Bill for erecting of houses of Correction c. to meet at the former time and place Also the Bill for the employment of the Poor and to restrain them from Idleness was read the second time and committed to the former Committees and to meet at the same time and place The Bill for the Lord Montjoy had its first reading The Bill concerning the Lands and Debts of Sir Henry Hatton Kt. deceased was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Controuler Sir Thomas Cecil Sir William Cornwallis Mr. Recorder and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday next at Two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Tuesday Novemb. 22. the Bill for the necessary Habitation and Relief of the Poor and Lame and Blinde in every Parish was read the second time and committed unto the former Committees for erecting houses of Correction c. The Bill for relief of Hospitals poor Prisoners and others impoverished by casual Losses was upon the second reading
Tellers and Receivers c. was upon the second reading committed to all the Privy Counsellors of this House all the Serjeants at Law being of this House Sir Oliver Lambert Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Tasborough Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Controuler Mr. George Moore and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer-chamber to morrow in the afternoon Dr. Muffet one of the Burgesses of Wilton being licensed to depart left 2 s. 6 d. with the Clerk of the House for the Poor and the Minister On Tuesday Decemb. 6. five Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill for establishing an Award made between Edward Cotton Gent. and Thomas Harvey Yeoman was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Serjeant Harries Mr. Henry Warner Mr. Edward Lukener Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Amendments in the Bill for the Lord Montjoy being twice read the Lord Marquiss of Winchester and the Lord Montjoy with their learned Counsel were heard at the bar of this House before the said Bill and Amendments were put to the Question for ingrossing and after their departure the said Bill and Amendments was upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday Decemb. 7. five Bills had each of them one reading of which Bill against lewd wandring pretended Souldiers and Mariners the last being the Bill against lewd wandring persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Moore Mr. George Moore and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill also against stealers of Corn and Fruit was upon the first and second reading committed to the former Committees in the Bill against lewd persons c. The Bill against stretching and taintering of Northern Cloath was read the second time and ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for suppressing the multitude of Maultsters was read the second time and committed to the Burgesses of York Mr. Winch Mr. Yelverton Mr. Lukenor and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill for increase of people for the strength and defence of the Realm had its first reading Bill for increase of people Post Meridiem The Bill for granting unto her Majesty six Fifteens and Tenths Subsidy-bill and three entire Subsidies was read the first time On Thursday Decemb. 8. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the better staying of Corn within the Realm was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. George Moore Mr. Wiseman Mr. Edmund Bacon Mr. Colefield Mr. Berkby and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill against the bringing in of forreign Cards for Wooll was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Serjeant Harries Mr. Serjeant Heale the Knights and Burgesses for London Mr. Hubberd and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill concerning Fustians was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees The Bill for the increase of people for the strength and service of this Realm was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy Counsellors being of this House Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Mountague Sir Thomas Cecill Mr. Pelham and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Three other Bills had each of them one reading of which Bill to alter the nature of Gavil-kind the first being the Bill to alter the nature of Gavil-kind was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Proviso in the Bill concerning the Town-lands of Wanting was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Friday Decemb. 9. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the retaining well ordering and governing of Mariners and Sea-men was upon the second reading committed unto all the Burgesses of the Port-Towns the Burgesses for York the Knights and Citizens for London Dr. Cesar Mr. Whally and others who were appointed to meet on Munday next in the afternoon in Middle-Temple-hall The Bill for establishing of good order in Grammar-schools was read the second time and upon the several Questions for committing and ingrossing was rejected Six other Bills had each of them one reading Bill to confirm the Statute-Merchant the last being a Bill for the confirmation of Statutes-Merchant acknowledged in the City of Lincoln and Town corporate of Nottingham was upon the second reading ordered to be ingrossed Seven Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others of which one was the Bill concerning Fustians and another for the repairing of Stains-bridge and Egham-cawsey The Bill for Tillage and Husbandry was read the first time The Amendments in the Bill for the recovery of certain waste marish and watery Grounds in the Isle of Ely and the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk and Suffolk being twice read the Bill upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for the Lord Marquiss of Winchester upon the second reading was committed unto Mr. Wingfield Dr. Cesar Mr. Maynard Mr. Henry Mountague Mr. Francis Moore and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Saturday Decemb. 10. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill against the decay of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex and Surrey was read the first time The Amendments in the Bill against stealing of Corn and Fruit was twice read and the Bill thereupon ordered to be ingrossed Three other Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the well ordering of such as do practise the Science of Chirurgery was read the second time and after the doubtfulness of the Question three several times put it was upon the division of the House dashed with the difference of 29 Voices viz. with the No 102 and with the Yea 72. Two Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others together with a third being for the explanation of the Statute made 5 Reginae concerning Labourers Mr. Wiseman one of the Committees in the Bill against bringing in of forreign Cards for Wooll shewed the meetings of the Committees and that eleven of the Committees did onely meet and six of them do well like of the Bill and five do not and so deliver'd in the said Bill and referred the further consideration thereof to the House Mr. Serjeant Drewe and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords two Bills lately passed in this House and now also passed with their Lordships with some Additions and Amendments the one of them being for erecting of Hospitals or Abiding and Working-houses for the Poor and the other for the establishing of
Durham The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield The Bishop of Worcester The Bishop of Bath and Wells The Bishop of St. Davids The Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of St. Assaph The Bishop of Chester The Bishop of Chichester The Bishop of Exeter The Bishop of Salisbury The Bishop of Ely The Bishop of Peterborough BARONS The Lord Zouche The Lord Cobham The Lord Stafford The Lord Grey de Wilton The Lord Dudley The Lord Lumley The Lord Sturton The Lord Windsore The Lord Mordant The Lord Wharton The Lord Rich. The L. Willoughby of Parham The Lord Sheffield The Lord Darcy of Chichester The Lord Chandois The Lord St. John of Bletsoe The Lord Compton The Lord Norreys The Lord Howard of Walden Sir Thomas Edgerton Kt. Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England made a Speech to this effect An. 1601. HE used strong perswasions both to Thankfulness and Obedience Lord Keeper's Speech and also shewed her Majesty desired the Parliament might end before Christmas He shewed the necessity we stand in and the means to prevent it the necessity of the Wars between Spain and England the means and treasure we had to oppose His advice was that Laws in force might be revised and explained and no new Laws made The causes of the Wars he laid down to be that they were Enemies to God the Queen and the Peace of this Kingdom that they conspired to overthrow Religion and to reduce us to a tyrannical Servitude These two Enemies he named to be the Bishop of Rome and the King of Spain Our Estate standing thus he advised us to be provident by reason we deal with circumspect Enemies and said he was confident of good success because God hath ever and he hoped ever would bless the Queen with successful fortune He shewed how apparent his providence was for by experience and judgment his tortering he giveth the means and courses he taketh for our instructions And secondly the success we had against him by Gods strong arm of defence in Anno 1588 and divers others times since You see to what effect the Queens support of the French Kings Estate hath brought him to even made him one of the greatest Princes in Europe yet when her Majesties Forces there left him how again he was fain to ransome a servile Peace at the hands of our Enemies the Spaniards with dishonourable and servile Conditions For the Low Countries how by her aid from a confused Government and Estate she brought them to an unity in Council and defended them with such success in her Attempts against the greatest power of the Spaniards tyrannical designes which have so much galled him that how many desperate practices have been both devised consented unto and set on foot by the late King his Father I need not shew you nor trouble you with Arguments for proof thereof being confessed by them that should have been Actors themselves thereof but De mortuis nil nisi bonum I would be loath to speak ill of the dead much more to slander the dead I have seen her Majesty wear at her Girdle the price of her own bloud I mean Jewels that have been given to her Physicians to have done that unto her which God will ever keep her from but she hath worn them rather in triumph than for the price that hath not been valuable Receivers of Petitions for England Receivers of Petitions Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Kt. Lord Chief Justice Francis Gawdy one of the Justices of the Kings-bench George Kingsmell one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edm. Anderson Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Periam Kt. Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesly one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Swale and Dr. Hene Triers of Petitions of England Ireland Wales and Scotland Triers of Petitions The Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquiss of Winchester the Earl of Sussex Lord Marshal of England the Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and Steward of the Queens house the Earl of Hertford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche and the Lord Cobham All these or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the great Seal and the Lord Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants at their leisures to meet and hold their place in the Chamberlain's chamber Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles The Earl of Oxford High Chamberlain of England the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord De-la-ware the Lord Lumley the Lord Burleigh All these or any four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Atturney and Sollicitor to hold their place when their leisure did serve them to meet in the Treasurer's chamber Then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament which is set down in the Original Journal-book in these words Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliament usq in diem Veneris prox futur viz. 30 diem Octob. On Friday Octob. 30. about one of the clock in the afternoon her Majesty came by water to the Upper House and being apparelled in her Royal Robes and placed in her Chair of Estate divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being present the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons who had attended at the door with John Crooke Esq Recorder of London John Crooke Esq Recorder of London presented as Speaker their Speaker elect the full space of half an hour were at last as many as could be conveniently let in And the said Speaker was led up to the bar at the lower end of the said House by Sir William Knolls Kt. Controuler of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer and presented to her Majesty to whom after he had made three low Reverences he spake in effect as followeth Most sacred and mighty Soveraign UPon your commandment His Speech your Majesties most dutiful and loving Commons the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Lower House have chosen me your Majesties most humble servant a Member of the same House to be their Speaker but my self finding the weakness of my self and my ability too weak to undergo so great a burthen do most humbly beseech your sacred Majesty to continue your most gracious favour towards me and not to lay this Charge so unsupportable upon my unworthy and unable self And that it would please you to command your Commons to make a new Election of another more able and more sufficient to discharge the great Service to be
Devon Bill to erect a Harbour and Key c. was returned to the House by the Lord Steward with one Amendment which was presently twice read The Bill for prohibiting Fairs and Markets to be kept on the Sunday was read secunday vice and committed Upon the Motion of the Earl of Worcester it was ordered by the House That William Crayford prisoner in the Fleet should come to make his humble submission before the Lords in the said House to morrow by nine of the clock in the morning The Counsel as well of the Company of Plaisterers as Painters were appointed to be heard in this House to morrow in the afternoon On Tuesday Decemb. 15. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being for the erecting and making of a Harbour and Key on the north part of Devon in the River of Severn for the safeguard of men and shipping and for the publick good of the Common-wealth was read tertia vice and sent down to the House of Commons for their consideration of an Amendment sent down by Dr. Stanhopp Dr. Swale and Dr. Hone. The Bill for the grant of four entire Subsidies eight Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertia vice and expedited The Bill for naturalizing certain persons born beyond the Seas was read secunda vice The Bill for confirmation of the Subsidy of the Clergy Subsidy of the Clergy confirmed was read prima secunda tertia vice Memorandum That at the second and third reading of the said Subsidy-bill the body of the Grant was omitted to be read according to the accustomed manner and onely the preface and confirmation of the Grant were read and the Bill was sent to the House of Commons by Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Dr. Stanhopp and Dr. Hone. Upon the humble Petition of William Crayford lately committed to the Prison of the Fleet and upon his humble submission and acknowledgment of his offence he was by order of the Court set at liberty Vide concerning this matter on Decemb. 19. following Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam post meridiem hujus diei About which time the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords assembling the Bill for naturalizing certain persons born beyond the Seas was read tertia vice and expedited Eight Bills were brought up to the House of Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for continuance of divers Statutes and for repeal of some others and the second being against the transportation of Ordnance Bill against the transportation of Guns c. Guns Metal Iron-Ore and Iron-shot were each of them read prima vice On Wednesday Decemb. 16. the Bill for the re-edifying repairing and maintaining of two bridges on the River of Edon neer the City of Carlisle in the County of Cumberland was read prima secunda vice Seven other Bills had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for continuance of divers Statutes and for the repeal of some others and the fifth to redress the misemployment of lands goods and stocks of money heretofore given to charitable uses were each of them read secunda vice Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Secretary Cecil Sir Walter Rawleigh and others of which the first being the Bill for the ending and appeasing of all differences and debates between Francis Ketleby of the one part and Andrew Ketleby and Jane his Wife of the other part and the second being for the recovery of many thousand acres of marish grounds subject commonly to surrounding with water within the Isle of Ely and Counties of Cambridge and Suffolk Huntington Northampton Lincoln and Norfolk were each of them read prima vice As also the fifth being the Bill for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners was read prima vice A Message was delivered from the House of Commons by Mr. Controuler and others That the said House was not satisfied concerning the Proviso added by the Lords to the Bill entituled An Act for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer and therefore desired a Conference with some of their Lordships about the same The Conference was yielded unto and appointed to be this afternoon at the outward chamber The Bill entituled An Act for the reformation of Deceits of certain Auditors c. was returned to the House with certain Amendments the Bill with the same Amendments was forthwith twice read and ordered to be ingrossed Upon Conference with the House of Commons concerning the Bill for confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty c. it was agreed by the Committees of both Houses That certain Amendments and Provisoes should be added to the said Bill which were returned to the House and presently twice read and so commanded to be ingrossed And thereupon the Bill it self with the said Amendments and Provisoes were read the third time and sent to the House of Commons for their Consideration of the same by Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam post meridiem hujus diei About which time the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords assembling together eleven Bills had each of them one reading of which the fifth being the Bill for the recovery of many thousand acres of marish grounds subject commonly to surrounding within the Isle of Ely c. the sixth being for redress of certain abuses and deceits used in painting Bill about ensurance amongst Merchants the seventh concerning matters of assurance amongst Merchants and the eighth being for the assize of Fewel were each of them read secunda vice Upon the meeting this afternoon with those of the House of Commons appointed to confer with the Lords Committees in the Bill entituled An Act for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer c. concerning a Proviso added by the Lords to that Bill after some debate by the Committees on both parts thereupon they of the House of Commons did signifie That the said House would allow of the said Proviso so as the same might in some certain points be amended Whereupon question grew between them Whether the said Amendment of the said Proviso should be made in the Upper House upon notice given thereof by the Committees and so be sent down again or else be made in the House of Commons which doubt being reported by the Lords Committees by order and appointment of the House it was agreed by common consent That the Amendments should be made in the House of Commons and sent up in Paper and to be inserted in the body of the Proviso which Order was by the Lords Committees signified to the Committees of the House of Commons and they thereunto assented Whereas it hath been accustomed in former Parliaments that towards the end of the Parliament a Collection should be
made amongst the Lords for the Poor and it was this day moved by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury that the like Collection might be made at this time it was upon this Motion ordered by the House That there should now be such a Collection made and that the Lord Bishop of Chichester the Lord Bishop of Peterborough the Lord Zouche and the Lord Rich should be Collectors of the same after such Rates as have been usually given and bestowed by the Lords for the said charitable purpose as in former Parliaments and they to take order for the distribution of it On Thursday Decemb. 17. the Bill for the relief of the Poor was read secunda vice It was ordered That Edward Thomas of the Middle-Temple should be presently sent for and brought before the Lords in the House for that contrary to the Priviledge of the House he hath caused one Thomas Gerrard Gent. to be arrested And it was likewise ordered That such persons as made the Arrest or did assist in doing the same shall likewise be sent for by the Serjeant at Arms to answer their doings therein The Bill for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners was read secunda vice Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for assurance of certain Mannors and Lands for part of a Joynture to Lucy Countess of Bedford was expedited Two other Bills had also each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for reformation of deceits and frauds in certain Auditors and their Clerks in making deceitful and untrue Particulars was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons by Dr. Carewe and Dr. Hone. The Bill was brought back from the House of Commons entituled An An for confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of Letters-Patents made by her Highness to others and expedited The Bill for confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy was returned from the House of Commons and was expedited The Bill concerning the Assize of Fewel was read tertia vice and expedited Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliament usque ad horam secundam post meridiem instantis diei About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords assembling five Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for strengthening of the Grants made for the maintenance and government of the house of the Poor called St. Bartholomew's Hospital of the foundation of King Hen. 8. was read secunda vice The Bill for recovery of many hundred thousand acres of Marshes and other Grounds subject commonly to surrounding within the Isle of Ely and Counties of Cambridge Huntington c. was read tertia vice and expedited Upon the third reading of this Bill it was moved that certain Additions might be put in the title of the Bill and Amendments in some points in the body thereof and the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Atturney-General were required to draw the same which was done presently by them and presented to the House Whereupon the said Additions and Amendments were thrice read and then sent to the House of Commons for their consideration of the same by Mr. Atturney and Dr. Hone who returned presently from the House of Commons with their allowance of the said Amendments and Addition in the title of the Counties of Sussex Essex Kent and the County Palatine of Durham Three other Bills had also each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to make the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of Edward Lucas Gent. deceased Executor of the last Will and Testament of John Flowerdew Esq deceased liable c. was read secunda vice Conference was desired by the House of Commons with some of their Lordships about the Bill sent to them this day concerning the reformation of deceits and frauds of certain Auditors c. The Conference was yielded unto and appointed to be presently at the outward chamber neer the Parliament-presence On Friday Decemb. 18. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for her Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon was read prima vice and sent to the House of Commons by Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp Memorandum That whereas a Bill hath been presented to the High Court of Parliament by the Company of the Mystery or Trade of Painters making thereby complaint against the Company of Plaisterers for and concerning certain wrongs pretended to be done to the said Painters by the Company of Plaisterers in using some part of their Trade of Painting contrary to the right of their Charter as is pretended and humbly seeking by the said Bill reformation of the said wrong Order of the House about the dispute between Painters and Plaisterers And whereas the said Bill passed not the Upper House of Parliament for just and good reasons moving the Lords of the Higher House to the contrary yet nevertheless the said Lords of the said Upper House have thought it meet and convenient that some course may be taken for reformation of any such wrong as may be found truly complained of and fit to be remedied and for setting some good agreement and order for the said Painters and Plaisterers so as each sort of them might exercise their Trade conveniently without incroaching one upon the other It is therefore ordered by the said Court of the Upper House of Parliament That the said complaint and cause of the said Painters which proceeded not in Parliament shall be referred to the Lord Mayor of London and the Recorder of London to be heard and examined adjudged and ordered as in Justice and Equity shall be found meet And that at the time or times of hearing of the said Cause the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Mr. Justice Gawdy and Mr. Baron Clarke and Mr. Atturney-General or any four three or two of them shall assist and give their help for the making and establishing of some good Order and Agreement between the said two Companies And that the said Parties Complainants and also the Company of Plaisterers shall observe and keep such Order as the said Mayor the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Mr. Justice Gawdy Mr. Baron Clarke Mr. Atturney General and Mr. Recorder of London or any six five four or three of them whereof the Lord Mayor the Lord Chief Justice of England or Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas shall be two shall be set down and prescribed Memorandum That whereas William Crayford of Mongham in the County of Kent Gent. was this day brought before the Lords in the Upper House of Parliament to answer an Information made against him That he had procured and suborned his Son William Crayford to lay sundry Executions and Outlawries on William Vaughan Gent. servant to the Earl of Shrewsbury contrary to the Priviledge of the
Court and the said Crayford having been heard in the presence of William Vaughan what he could say concerning the said Information wherein he protested that he was guiltless and that his said Son had not in any sort received such direction from him as was informed It was therefore by the Court thought meet and so ordered That the examination and determining of the Controversies and Suits depending between the said Crayford and Vaughan should be referred to the Earl of Worcester the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Cobham and that they the said Crayford and Vaughan should enter into good and sufficient Bonds each to other to stand to observe and perform such Award and Arbitrament as the said Lords shall make and set down between them On Saturday Decemb. 19. a Motion was made in the House for the avoiding of all further Controversies between William Crayford and William Vaughan Gent. That forasmuch as each of them took mutual exceptions one to the other touching the Bonds whereinto they had entered by order of the Court the said William Crayford alleadging that it sufficed not for William Vaughan alone to be bound because his Heirs or some other claiming by and from him might trouble and molest him and that the said Vaughan is insufficient And the said William Vaughan alleadging that if the said William Crayford were bound alone his Sons and Heirs might trouble and molest the said Vaughan without hazard of the Bond some further order might thereupon be taken It is therefore this day ordered by the Court That the said William Crayford and his eldest Son Edward Crayford shall 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 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 the 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 the said 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 though it be after the same shall commit them or either of them to close Prison for refusing there to remain until the party refusing be conformable to the said Order Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam post meridiem hujus instantis diei About which hour in the afternoon The Qu. comes to the House the Queens Majesty was personally present being accompanied with the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Thomas Egerton Kt. 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-book of the Upper House and therefore is supplied out of a very laborious and copious Journal of the House of Commons taken by Hayward Townsend Esq a Member thereof at this Parliament 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 this afternoon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired thither with John Crooke Esq 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 sitting under a rich Cloath of Estate spake to the effect following THat Laws were not first made with humane Pen The Speaker's Speech but by divine Ordinance that Politick Laws were made according to the evil condition of men and that all Laws serves not at all times no more than one Medicine for all Diseases and said if he were asked what was the first and chiefest thing to be considered of he would say Religion for 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 to the Laws breedeth Faithfulness Honesty and Love the three necessary and onely things to be wished and observed in a well-govern'd Commonwealth And that her Majesty by planting true Religion had laid such a foundation upon which all those Vertues were planted and builded that they could not easily be rooted up or extirpated and therefore acknowledged 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 amongst which principally and above all he 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 Laws and for making of new Her dutiful and loyal Subjects having considered of them have made some new and amended some old which they humbly desire may be made Laws by her 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 testimony of our Loves and Duties 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 which he was advised of by some of the Counsel that stood neer unto him and so he spake it right and craving pardon for his offence if either he had forgotten himself either in word or action he ended his Speech The L. Keeper returns the Queens Answer To which the Lord Keeper answered thus in effect AS touching her Majesties proceeding in the Laws for her Royal Assent that should be as God directed her sacred spirit Secondly For your presentation of four Subsidies and eight Fifteens and Tenths And thirdly Your humble thank-fulness for them and your self I will deliver her Majesties Commandment with what brevity I may that I be not tedious to my most gracious Soveraign First She saith your proceeding in the matter of her Prerogative she is perswaded that Subjects did never more dutifully do it and that she understood you did but obiter touch her Prerogative and no otherwise but by humble Petition and therefore the thanks that a Prince may give to her Subjects she willingly yieldeth But she now well perceiveth that private respects are privately masked under publick pretences Secondly Touching the presentation of your Subsidies 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 you have granted her Majesty greatly commendeth your confidence and judgments and though it be not proportionable to her occasions yet she most thank fully receiveth the same as a loving and thank-ful Prince And that no Prince was ever more unwilling to exact or receive any thing from the Subject than she our most gracious Soveraign for we all know she never was a greedy Grasper nor siraight-handed keeper And therefore she commanded me to say That you have done and so she taketh it dutifully plentifully and thank-fully For your self Mr. 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 have deserved more And so he ended after an Admonition given to the Justices of Peace That they would not deserve the Epethites of prowling Justices Justices of Quarrels who counted Champerty good Chevesance sinning Justices who did suck and consume the Good of this Commonwealth and also against all those that did lie if not all the year yet at least three quarters of the year in the City of London After these Speeches ended They are dissolved her Majesty gave her Royal Assent to nineteen Publick Acts and ten Private Acts and then the Parliament was dissolved by the Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England A perfect Journal of every days Proceedings in the House of Commons at the Parliament beginning at Westminster the xxvijth day of October Anno 1601. and in the 43. Year of the Raign of Q Eliz. and ending the xixth day of December then next following Collected by Mr. Heyward Townshend one of the Members of the said House THe first day of the Parliament The Queen goes to the Parliament in an open Chariot with a Canopy of Silver about three of the Clock in the Afternoon the Queens Majesty went by Land to westminster-Abby riding in a Chariot made all open only like a Canopy over her head being of Cloth of Silver with all the Bishops and Lords in their Parliament Robes according to their Degrees being marshalled by the Heraulds Where was made unto her a Sermon after the hearing whereof she went to the Upper-house of Parliament where being sate a while and the Knights and Burgesses of the Lower-house being sent for the door kept so that they went not all in notwithstanding some were within by some special means before and heard the Lord-keepers Speech made unto them which is after in effect delivered by Mr. Secretary Cicil Some of the Commons discontented in the Lower-house So that after the Knights and Burgesses had staid a good while it was told them That the Lord-keepers Speech was done and thereupon every man went away discontented In the mean time whilst her Majesty was at Sermon the Lord-Admiral came into the Court of Requests Admiral and there began to call the Knights and Burgesses by the Poil and also to swear them at the same time But because that course seemed too tedious he staid whilst Sir William Knowls Controuler of the household Sir John Stanhopp Vice-Chamberlain Sir Robert Cicil Principal Secretary of State and John Herbert Esquire second Secretary came who were all coming up from the Upper house together and then only the Knights and Burgesses were called After that the Lord Admiral and Mr. Secretary Cicil went up to the Upper-house but Mr. Controuler Sir John Stanhopp and Mr. Secretary Herbert went to the space before the Parliament House door where they sware all the Lower-house confusedly four at one time six at another eight at another taking their names that swore and who not and still as every man was Sworn he went into the house and to his place as best liked him VVhen all were Sworn and the Queen come to the Upper-House and the Lord-Keepers speech ended Then all the Privy Councel of the Lower-house came in thither and sate quiet a while and then putting their heads together Mr. Controuler stood up and spake to this effect That it was an Antient Custom in that House The Comptrouler speaks first that at those times some Man should break silence and I must confess at this time it belongs to my place It is needless to shew the use of this House because it s well known to all or most here All men knows that the speech of a multitude breedeth confusion and dissention It is therefore fit for us to chuse one to be our Speaker which for his experience may speak and for his sufficiency dare and can speak on all our Behalfs and Affairs Neither doth it stand with the Honor and Antient Usage of this House to speak but by one Neither is it answerable to the State of her Majesty to deliver unto her our mindes by the Tongues of a confused Multitude Then we are to fall into consideration what manner of person he shall be First A man Religious for Religion ought to be the foundation of our building and labour Then Honest Grave VVise Faithful and Secret These Vertues must concur in one Person able to supply this place Now having delivered unto you the necessity of a Speaker and his qualities I will deliver unto you my Opinion whom I think fit for the place referring it to your consideration and for my own part He Recommends the Recorder of London for their Speaker who seems to Admire at it not prejudicing the VVorth of any in this House I deem Mr. John Crook Recorder of London a most fit and worthy and able man for this Service At which words Mr. Crook put off his Hat with a kind of strange Admiration whose Sufficiency in all respcts and his Loyalty and Faithfulness to do our Common-wealth service is well known unto us and hath been often approved by his learned Speeches diverse times delivered before her Majesty I do not attribute so much to mine own Choice that I presume to assure you there is no Man here fitter for the same than he is but I only make bold to deliver my Opinion leaving the choise of him or any other to the free Election of every particular Member of this House And for the motion which hath been made touching the keeping out of the house during the time of the Lord Keepers Speech I do assure you it was not willingly done but through Ignorance of the Groom of the Chamber but if the House be desirous to hear the Effect thereof I will intreat some that were there at that time to satisfiy their desires The cause of which preclose was for that one Mr. Leigh during the time of the Commons swearing made a complaint to Mr. Controuler sitting in the House that they toook it in great disgrace that they were shut out After which
preserve us Bless our Consultations and Councels bless the Thoughts of our Hearts bless the Words of our Lips let our Meditations be acceptable in thy sight Let all be directed to the advancement of thy Glory the upholding of thy true Worship the safely of thy blessed Servant and Anointed Queen our dear and dread Soveraign and to the continuance of the Peace and good of this Land Let all prosper that love Thee confound the Councel of the Wicked break their Jaws in their Mouths that speak against thy Truth or have evil will against Her whom in thy great Mercy thou hast set over us multiply and increase her days add age after age in all peace and happiness unto her Years make her a long Nursing Mother unto thy Church a Comfort to thy People a Terror to thine and her Enemies Bless her Armies both at home and abroad bless her going out and her coming in bow down the Backs of all that rise against her continue thy Truth Grace Mercy and Peace amongst us whilst the Sun indureth And we will Offer unto Thee O Lord our God the Sacrifice of Prayer and Thanksgiving we will Praise Thee with joyful Lips our Hearts shall rejoyce in Thee we will sing of thy Salvation all the Days of our Lives and always say Thine is the Kingdom all Power and Glory for ever and ever Amen Munday November A Bill against Ale-Houses c. 2d The House sate and an Act was Read against Excess in Inns Victualling-Houses and Ale-Houses By the preclose of which every Ale-House-Keeper or Inn-Keeper was required to Observe certain Rules or to Forfeit sive Pound An Act for the Breeding of Horses for Service A Bill for breeding of Horses c. and for the avoiding of the stealing of them was put in by the Lord Chief Justice Popham Sir Edward Hobby Sir Edw. Hobby's Speech for Abridgment of Laws Penall made a Speech for the Abridging of the multiplicity of Penal Laws which he said Were the Thornes that did prick but did yield no Fruit and that they being not looked unto it bred in us an alteration of Manners and therefore the Proverb must needs be fulfilled Morum mutatio mutationem legum requirit times are not as they have been and therefore the necessity of the times requires a necessity of the Alteration of Laws and commending the proceedings of former Ages he concluded with a desire of a Commitment Which speech Seconded by Mr. Serjeant Harris was seconded by Mr. Serjeant Harris who said That Anno 27. of the Queen the like motion had been made and that then by reason of the shortness of the time and sudden ending of the Parliament nothing was done therein notwithstanding he said this motion being now so happily made in the beginning of the Parliament he thought it fit for his part to deserve a Commitment He was Seconded again Then by Mr. Wiseman by Mr. Wiseman of Lincolns-Inn who was of the same mind and said That divers particular Laws of his knowledge were now both needless to be performed as also dangerous to the Subjects by reason of the Penalties So a Commitment was granted divers Committees assigned and Fryday in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer-Chamber appointed for that Purpose The Act was Read for Explanation of Statutes for Leases made by Arch-Bishops and Bishops Mr. Speaker shewed to the House That some particular Members found themselves aggrieved That the antient Order for Putting off their Spur before they came into the Parliament-House was not observed which he prayed might be done others would have Boots and Rapiers taken away but nothing was done therein Tuesday November 3. The Act to preserve the Breed of Horses and against the Stealing of them was Read And a motion was made therein by Sir George Moore who said That he feared the Bill would not pass in that two Vouchers by this Bill must be where by a former Statute there is to be but one and that very hardly observed And besides the Law may be defrauded because a poor Man must sell a Horse and so be voucher after and then not able to answer the value So the Bill was Committed and the Committees appointed to meet in the Exchequer-Chamber to Morrow in the Afternoon The Act to restrain the Excess and Abuse used in Victualling-Houses Mr. Johnson moves for Corporal punishment against the Alehouse-Keepers and Mr. Johnson moved that bodily punishment might be inflicted on Alehouse-Keepers that should be offenders and also Provision made therein to restrain Resort to Alehouses In the same Bill Sir George Moore made a Speech against Drunkenness and desired some special Provision might be made against it For although there were Laws already against it yet they did not reach grievous enough to the offence in that kind now Committed And therefore we must not be like Spiders that always keep their old and the same Webs so allowing the same Laws which must alter with the times and touching the Authority that is given to the Justices of Assize and Justices of the Peace by this Bill That they shall assign Inns and Inn-Keepers I think that inconvenient for an Inn is a Mans Inheritance and they are set at great rates and therefore not to be taken away from any particular Man Another wish'd that there might be a reformation of Ale which is now made so strong that he offered to affirm it upon Oath that it is commonly sold for a Groat a Quart It is as strong as Wine and will Burn like Sack Mr. Glascock of Grays-Inn moved to the House and said Glascock against the suppressing of Alehouses for very good Reasons Mr. Speaker I will only liken this Bill to the Suppression of Stews and Bawdy-Houses in old time That where then all Whores and Bawds were together in one House now being suppressed every Mans House is a Bawdy-House so if you take away Alehouses and hinder them from being Drunk there it will be a ready way to make every Man Drunk at his own House at home Mr. Leigh stood up and moved Mr. Speaker that some of the House were desirous to know what the Lord Keepers Speech was Mr. Leigh 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 the Lord Keepers Speech 〈◊〉 in the Upper-House of Parliament when the Burgesses were kept out And also he complained of a Gentleman Usher that said through the Door of the Upper-House That if they were not quiet they should be set in the Stocks To which Mr. Controuler made answer That he would intreat Mr. Secretary Cicil who was there in regard he had promised to procure them the understanding of the Lord Keepers Speech to deliver the Effect thereof And also he desired the House that for any word spoken to any particular Member of this House by the Usher he would undertake particular satisfaction should be made So after a pause a while Mr. Secretary stood up and spake to to this Effect Secretary Cicil
this House much more from the general State My Meaning was mistaken and my Words misconstrued yet both in Substance agreeing with Mr. Speaker Sir Edward Stanhop said I think in the Bill for Ale it were very fit that Power were given to Lords in Leets to take the like Penalty and to inquire thereof there And withal that they keep not Victualling nor sell Ale any longer An Act for Redress of certain Abuses used in Painting which when it was offered by the Clerk to be read he being asked by Sir Edward Hobby sitting by him What Bill it was he answered A Bill of no great Moment Nota The same was for the City of London only or for a certain Compass of Miles about it Sir Francis Hastings exhibited a Bill against Blasphemous Swearing At the Committee holden the said Fifth Day of November there were these Precedents shewed Precedents That 〈…〉 of Parliament the 〈◊〉 for New Elections must go from the Speaker to prove That Warrants ought to go from the Speaker in case of Election of Knights and Burgesses in time of Parliament viz. First The Fourth of December 1584. 27. Reginae Valentine Dale Master of the Requests was returned Burgess for Chichester and also for Hydon but he chose Chichester and John Puckering Speaker directed his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to send a Writ to make a New Election in Henden which bare Date the Tenth of December six Dayes after 27 Eliz. Secondly Nota. The Twenty-First of December 1584. The Writ bearing Test the Thirteenth of February for the same Matter In which the Style of the House is The Knights Barons Citizens and Burgesses Quod nota Thirdly The Nineteenth of February 1584. when Parry being Burgess of Queenborough in Kent was attainted for Treason a Warrant was directed to the Clerk of the Crown directing to make a Writ dated the Nineteenth of February afore-said In which Warrant under the Speaker's own Hand was inserted a Reason to this Effect viz. Because the said Parry is disabled by reasen of his Attainder Fourthly The Thirtieth of November 1584. Thomas Bodithe was elected Burgess of Portsmouth and also Baron of one of the Cinque-Ports viz. Hithe but he took Portsmouth and refused the other A Warrant was directed as above-said but no Test of the Writ was there Fifthly The Twenty-Eighth of January 1584. Alexander Pymm Esquire was chosen Burgess of Taunton Being Deceased a new Warrant was directed from the Speaker to the Clerk of the Crown and the Writ bare Test the Thirtieth of January Sixthly The Third of December 1584. John Puckering being Speaker was chosen Burgess for Bedford and for Carmarden who chose Bedford And a VVarrant was directed to the Clerk of the Crown from the Speaker to make a New Writ which bare Date the Fourth of December Anno 27. Eliz. All which VVrits were signed by the Speaker John Puckering For the Matter between Dr. Aubery Doctor of the Civil-Law and Mr. William Delabar Barrister at Common-Law touching the Burgeship of Cardigan in Wales the Case stood thus Cardigan being by antient Precedents ever since 1. Eliz. a Burgess-Town and ever the Return of the Indenture hath been for Cardigan only Now this Parliament the Sheriff of the Shire favouring a Town called Aberistowe after he received the Parliament-Writ sent his VVarrant to the Bayliffs of Aberistone to chuse a Burgess c. who chose for their Burgess Dr. Aubery and returned him Burgess of Cardigan and Aberistowe and shewed in the Indenture the Election to be made by both Towns and the Indenture was signed with the Sheriff's Hand On the other side the Bayliffs of Cardigan understanding the VVrit to be come to the Sheriff took notice thereof and without VVarrant from the Sheriff made an Indenture and Election of William Delabar and sent the same in a Letter unto him Mr. Delabar sought the Sheriff and his Deputy in London to deliver the Indenture of Cardigan but not finding him delivered the same to the Clerk of the Crown paid his Fees was Sworn and admitted into the House till this present Day Now at this Committee of Privileges Dr. Aubery came to complain The Committees found upon Examination of the Matter that the County-Court was kept at Aberistowe at Cardigan Alternis vicibus and that the County-Court was to be kept at this time at Aberistowe So when they went to Conference both Aubery and Delabar were desired to depart forth And upon Consultation these Questions arose First VVhether the House have Power to Fine the Sheriff because according to the Statute he sent not his VVarrant to Cardigan Next If he be punishable by the Penalty of the Statute Also If he have pursued his Authority in making an Election in Aberistowe VVhich were left with divers other Doubts to the Discussing of the House and to the Report of Sir Edward Hobby or Mr. Solicitor Also in the 23 Reginae a VVarrant directed to the Town of Hull from the Speaker Popham now Lord Chief Justice then Speaker Sir Edward Hobby at this Committee A Saying of Sir Edward Hobby said by Aubery and Delabar being the one Civilian the other a Common Lawyer That he might say of them as the Duke of Millan said of the Thief It 's no matter whether goes first the Hang-man or the Thief The Town of Harwich in Essex and New-Town in the County of Southampton returned Burgesses this Parliament which never did before On Friday Novemb 6. An Act for the Uniting Consolidation of certain small Churches in Exeter into one Parish Church An Act for the better setting of Watches in the Night Bill for Setting of Watchmen for the Apprehending of suspected Persons was Read To which Act Sir George More spake and said Mr. Speaker I am still of Opinion That it is good to have trial of Laws before we make them perpetual for those that be Night-walkers offend God do the Common-wealth no good and sin in both In my Opinion therefore it were good to limit the continuance of this Law and that the Defects therein may be the better Examined that it be Committed An Act to prevent and avoid divers lewd Misdemeanors in Base and Idle persons Doct. James a Civilian being a Committee brought in the Act against Drunkards and common haunters of Taverns and Ale-houses An Act for the Inhabitants of Rapesdale in the County of Lancaster touching the Buying of Wools. An Act for the better keeping of the Sabbath-day called Sunday was Read A Bill to avoid Contracts on the Sunday in which Act there was a Proviso That all Contracts made on the Sunday in Fairs or Markets should be utterly Voyd and the Goods so Contracted for Forfeited to the Queens Use Mr. Glascock of Grayes-Inn stood up and spake to this Bill and said Mr. Speaker I would willingly put one Case to the House Mr. Glascockk puts a Pleasant Case To know whether it be their minds If a Man take a Wife on a
Sunday in Fair or open Market that this should be Void and she and the Goods forfeited to the Queens Use for that is a Contract At which all the House Laughed Mr. Bacon said Bacons Speech for Repealing superfluous Laws May it please you Mr. Speaker not out of Ostentation to this House but in Reverence I do speak it That I do much wonder to see the House so continually divided and to agree upon nothing to see many Laws here so well framed and Offences provided against and yet to have no better Success and Entertainment I do think every man in his particular bound to help the Common-wealth the best he may and better it is to venture a mans Credit by Speaking than to stretch a mans Conscience by Silence and to endeavor to make that good in Nature which is possible in Effect Laws be like Pills all gilt over which if they be easily and well swallowed down are neither bitter in digestion nor hurtful in the body every man knows that Time is the true Controuler of Laws and therefore there having been a great alteration of Time since the Repeal of a number of Laws I know and do assure my self there are many more than I know Laws both needless and dangerous I could therefore wish that as usually every Parliament there is a Committee selected for the Continuance of divers Statutes so the House would be pleased also that there might be a Committee for the Repeal of divers Statutes and of diverse superfluous Branches of Statutes And that every particular Member of the House would give Information to the Committees what Statutes he thinketh fitting to be Repealed or what Branch to be Superfluous lest as he said pluat super nos laqueas The more Laws we make the more Snares we lay to entrap our selves Upon which Motion a Committee was granted to meet on Friday On Saturday November 7. An Act That the Marquesse of Winchester may dispose of his Lands whereof he is Tenant in Tayle as other Tenants in Tayle may do by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm was read the first time and the Pedigree hereafter set down was then produced to the House Robert Willoughby Lord Brook 1. Dorothy 2. Wife Edward Willoughby Blaunch the First Daughter Marryed to Francis Dawtery Elizabeth the 2 d. Daughter Marryed Sir Fulke Grevill and had Issue Fulke Grevill Esquire Anne 1. Daughter Charles Lord Montjoy James Lord Montjoy Charles Ld. Montjoy Elizabeth 2. Daughter 1. Sir John Pawlet Lord Marquess of Winchester William Lord Marquess of Winchester William now L Marquess 1. The Lady Denny had Issue two Daughters 2. The Lady Katharine 2 d. Daughter had Issue 4 Sons 2 Daughters 3. The Lady Elizabeth was Marryed to Sir William Courtney Sir William Courtney had Issue 3 Sons and 6 Daughters Mary Marryed to the Ld. Cromwel had Issue 2 Sons 1 Daughter ore Sn'r and had Issue 2 Sons 1 Daughter had Issue 1 Son George Cromwel 1 Daughter and had Issue 7 Children There was this day a Page brought to the Bar A Page is brought before the House for that Yester-day Sir Francis Hastings had caused him to be Committed For that as he went down the stairs the Page offer'd to throng him Whereupon he held him till the Speaker came out of the House who did commit him to the Serjeant's Custody till this day to know the Pleasure of the House what they would do therein But this day upon Sir Francis Hasting's intreaty speaking very earnestly for him and of his innocency and unwillingness to do that Fact as also upon the Pages Submission upon his Knees at the Bar he was discharged It was moved That because his Hair was very Long he might be carried to a Barber and close cut before his Discharge But that was thought very unfit for the Gravity of the House to take notice of so light a fault so after a sharp and threatning Admonition given him by the Speaker he was Discharged Sir Edward Hobby moved the House That for as much as the antient Custom of the Parliament had been that not only themselves but their Servants should be free from all Arrests yet notwithstanding a servant of Mr. William Cook a member of this House was Arrested by one Baker a Serjeant at the suit of another upon a Bond in which indeed he is but Surety as may appear unto you by this Letter so the Letter was Read the Contents whereof was as aforesaid with this Clause in the end From the most Loathsome and the unfortunate Hole in the Prison of Newgate I humbly c. Upon which Motion as also upon Declaration of a Precedent in the 35 of Henry the Eighth That the Sheriffs of London were Committed to the Tower for Arresting George Ferrars a Member of this House It was generally agreed That the Serjeant of this House should be presently sent with his Mace for the said Prisoner his Keeper and also should command the said Baker the Serjeant and the procurater of the Arrest to attend the Court on Monday morning so after the Serjeant had been away about an hour and an half he brought the Prisoner and his Keeper to the Bar who Affirmed the whole matter as aforesaid And the Keeper was Commanded to deliver his Prisoner to the Serjeant which he did by taking him by the Hand and so delivered his Prisoner to the Serjeant And the House commanded the Keeper to take no Fees and so the Prisoner was quite discharged But Sir Robert Wroth moved to know Whether Mr. Cook would Affirm that man to be his Servant who stood up and said He was one of his most necessary Servants for in truth quoth he he is my Taylor And thereupon the Serjeant was sent for him as aforesaid An Act for the better Setling of Watches was Read and committed and the Committees to meet at the midle Temple-Hall on Thursday in the afternoon Mr. Henshaw moved the House That the immediate Land-Lord of every such Night-Walker should be bound for the good Behaviour of him to the Queens Use which the House would by no means hear of An Act to avoid and prevent divers Lewd Misdemeanors in base and idle Persons was Read and Committed to the Committees in the Bill for Night-walkers to meet on Thursday after-noon in the midle Temple-hall An Act against Drunkards A Bill against going to an Ale-house if within Two Miles of ones own House and haunters of Ale-houses the Effect whereof is That if any man do go to an Ale-house within two miles of his own House he shall Forfeit so much as he is in the Subsidy Mr. Glascock spake to this Bill and Informed the House That it was a common and usual thing in Lancashire and those Parts for Gentlemen as they go a Hawking to go and take a Repast at an Ale-House Mr. Glascock Opposes it Yea men sometimes of 500. Marks a Year But Mr. Speaker I hope these
Part of the Artificial Body but of Us the General Body when he hath his Free Voice as though he had never spoken before Then the Speaker stood up and said I will propound two Questions The First If when a man hath spoken against the Body of a Bill Speaker puts two Questions about the former Controversy he may be a Committee The Second If any Committee speak against a Bill at the Commitment yet whether he may speak again and have his free Voice Now quoth he I will propound the first Question All that will have a man that hath been against the Body of the Bill to be a Committee let them shew their Opinions by saying Yea. And not one said Yea. All that will not say No. And all said No. So he did for the second Question And not one said No but all Yea. Then he put it to the Question Whether they of London notwithstanding this Order in respect this Commitment so greatly concerned the State should be Committees And the Yeas were greater than the Noes Then he put it to the Question Whether the Two aforesaid Rules should be Entred for Orders of Record And all said Yea. On Thursday Novemb. 12. A Bill was Read for Confirming of Letters Patents made by King Edward Six to Sir Edward Seymor Knight A Bill for the Explanation of the Statutes made 3 4 5 Edv. 6. against Buyers of Butter and Cheese to sell again and against Ingrossers and Forestallers A Bill against the unlawful Hunting and Stealing of Deer in the Night-time was Read the first time A Bill for the Redressing of certain inconveniencies in a Stat. 21 Hen. 8. Cap. 13. Intituled An Act against Plurality of Benefices for taking of Farmes by Spiritual men and for Residence This Bill was drawn by Robert Eyre of Lincolns-Inn That the Proviso of that Statute might be Repealed A Bill for avoiding Frivolous Sutes in Court at Westminster To which Bill one Lashbrook an Attorney spake and shewed the Inconvenience of Scriveners being Atturnies and practising in their Names The Bill against Fraudulent Administration of Intestates Goods after Ingrosment Read and passed The Bill of VVrits of Error also Read after Ingrosment Passed VVhilst there were divers Disputes of this Bill Mr. Fleming the Queen's Solicitor took the Bill to look a word in it after he had done and laid it on the Board One Mr. Brown Clerk A Rule in the House about Bills Comptroller to the Queens Houshold stood up and said Mr. Speaker You should after a Bill is ingrossed hold it in your Hand and let no Man look into it which was confessed by all And so the Speaker took it The House was moved to send these two Bills to the Lords and they Chose Mr. Comptroller and he accompanied with divers others went with them and returned within half an hour The Bill for the Denization of certain Persons viz. Will. Millet Ann Pope George Chandlor Peter Eaton Nicholas Eaton Nicholas Taylor and others Denization of certain Persons was Read the second time and put to the Question to be Ingrossed And all said Yea and there was not one No and never Committed The Bill for Erecting of a Haven or Key on the North-part of Devon on the River of Severn The Officer that Arrested Mr. Cook 's man was brought to the Bar and upon his Submission after a sharp Exhortation was dismissed paying the Serjeant's Fees A Bill for Confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of Letters Patents made by Her Majesty to others Read Secunda Vice and then it was Committed On Friday Novemb. 13. The Bill against the Covetousness of Butchers for Buying and Ingrossing of Lambskins out of Markets and Fairs And a Bill against Pedlars Petty-Chapmen and Hawkers A Bill against Hawkers c. And a Bill for Cloath-workers And a Bill against wilfull Absence from Church on Sundays which Bill Sir Rob. Wroth preferred The Effect whereof is for the better gathering of One Shilling for every Absence which is given by the Stat. of 1 Reginae and the Statute is limited to indure the Queens Reign which was greatly whispered at and Observed in the House The Bill for matters concerning Assurance used amongst Merchants being moved for a Commitment and put to the Question there was not one No. Sir Hugh Beeston stood up in the lower end of the House and said Sir Hugh Beeston We that be here cannot hear you that are above I would it would please them that speak there to speak Louder Also I am to Certify that I am here for a Town but not in mine own Countrey Denbyshire or for any part thereof but if I should not speak something in behalf of my Country I dare not go thither again Therefore I heartily beseech you A Motion about a new Writ Mr. Speaker that the House may be Resolved what course is taken according to the Order of the House for the Election of a Knight and Burgess for they can not but find themselves greatly grieved for want of the Election but what is done I know not Mr. Secretary Cecil said Secretary Cecil reports Because I am the Reporter of the Election as also of the Proceeding I will now also Certify you that there was Order taken for the sending out of a new Warrant for the Election but what is done therein I also know not Mr. Speaker said Mr. Speaker gives Account of it I gave Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown according to the Antient Form to send forth a new Writ who answered me That the Lord Keeper desired to have the Warrant directed to him to have a new Writ and for his Warrant for Sealing thereof So that nothing is done therein in until the Pleasure of the House be known Sir Edward Hobby said There is no Court that doth not observe its Rights and follow its Privileges Sir Edward Hobby Speaks to it Much more this High Court of Parliament being the Greatest and Commander of all other Courts doth and ought to Observe the same most strictly And all the Precedents that I have seen touching this Point have ever gon to the Clerk of the Crown and no other And therefore I take it that that Course ought inviolably to be Observed Sir George Moore said Sir George Moore c. I agree with the Gentleman that last spake That Precedents ought to be Observed yet to be altered upon urgent Occasions or by necessity of time Knowing this I take it as my duty to Inform you if any alteration hath been it proceeded from imperfection of the Speaker It was well Observed by an ancient Member of this House who is now with God that no Conference with the Lords touching a Subsidy should be had yet that Rule hath been altered in late Parliaments by reason of special Causes So I do think it would be more Honour to this House to direct a Warrant to the Lord-Keeper than to an Inferiour Minister
of the Chancery Sir Francis Hastings said Sir Francis Hastings By the Leave of your Honourable Favours I will shew you that I my self was yesterday with the Lord Keeper and how honourably I heard him speak of this House That he desireth no more than to shew the Love and Duty he beareth to this House as also that himself would be our immediate Officer and would be willing and glad to receive a Warrant from us so it might be directed to him for his Discharge be it in what Terms soever we pleased And he said he doubted not but if this Honourable House knew so much they would rather choose him than any other Minister Thus much I thought fit to certify this House of which being spoken in private unto me I now deliver in publick unto you For my own Advice I think nothing can be more Honourable to this House than to have a person of so great Estate to whom we may direct our Warrant as our Minister Mr. Francis Bacon said Mr. Bacon It is far more Honourable for this House in my Opinion when our Warrant shall move the Principal Member of Justice than when it shall command a base petty or inferiour Servant to the Clerk of the Crown or the Clerk of the Petty-Bag It will be said our Warrant emanuit improvide when we shall direct our Warrant to these base Officers when we may move the great Seal of England by it even as soon as either Petty-Bag or Petty Officer Mr. Speaker said Mr. Speaker I was ever Zealous and Jealous of the Privileges and Orders of this House I was commanded by you to send forth a Warrant for the Election of a Knight and Burgesse I found a Resolution and judgment Agreed and Resolved That during the time of the Sitting of this House the Speaker for any new Election is to make a Warrant directed to the Clerk of the Crown so that in my doing thereof I hope I have done rightly Mr. Secretary Cecil said 〈…〉 I shall move unto you a Conclusion which will end this Controversy and in the mean time be a Saving unto all persons I mean not to second my former Errour for which I was excepted to That is that Mr. Speaker or any Member of this House should attend my Lord Keeper but that four of this House might be Assigned to go unto my Lord Keeper to know the cause of the Stay as also his Lordship's request unto this House And that other six may be Assigned to call before them the Clerk of the Crown the Clerk of the Petty-bag and the Clerk of this House with their Precedents and Books to see to whom this Warrant hath in former times been directed and whether the Privileges in former times have daunced a Pavan too and Pro and according to the time have been altered This to be done this afternoon and to certify the House to morrow And then We to make a Determinate Resolution To which all said It was a good Motion Mr. Holteroft a Knight for Cheshire said May it please you Mr. Speaker the County-day for Denbyshire is on Thursday next and therefore there had need be speed made or else there can be no Election this Parliament Mr. Speaker said Will 't please you to name the six Committees So the House Named Sir Edward Hobby Serjeant Harris Sir Francis Hastings and three others Mr. Speaker also said Will 't please you to Nominate the four to go to the Lord Keeper So the House 〈◊〉 Mr. Seceretary Hubbart Sir Edward Stafford Sir Edward Stanhop and Mr. Fulk Grevil On Saturday Novemb. 14. The Bill for the Confirmation of the Sale of Lands made by Leaes Lord Mordant Deceased The Bill for Amending the Statute made 8 Reginae concerning the making of Hats A Bill to enable Sir Edward Markham Knight to sell Lands was Read and committed The Committee to meet on Friday in the afternoon in the Court of Wards The Bill for the Repealing of certain Statutes for the Reforming of certain Abuses in Cloathing in the County of Somerset Mr. Johnson said Mr. Johnson informed that he is Subâ—…d Mr. Speaker I being a Member of this House I thought it my Duty to Inform you That my self and divers others are served with Subpanas I do not this either that I am loath to answer or desire to delay Justice but to Inform the House thereof by Peradventure it might be a Precedent or some prejudice to the Priviledge of this House Here is one which is now delivered into my Hand The House Cryed Read it So the Clerk Read it Edvardo Mountague Jacobo Harrington c. indorsatur Stephanus Riddlesden sequitur hoc Another was read Michaëli Hicks Thomae Lowe in Cancellaria Another Henrico Jackman Jeronimo Horsey in Scaccaria ad sectam Thomae Cornwallis Armigeri per Billam Anglicanam Another Michaëli Same 's Riccardo Same 's in Banco Reginae ad Testificandum inter Reginam Johannem Stray After the Reading of which he certified the House thus much That the Informer came to his Lodging this Morning as he was coming out of the Doors and asked for him he told him He was the Man Then quoth the Informer the Queen Greets you well What 's this quoth I A Subpoena quoth the Informer and I charge you to appear upon it according to the Contents Then I told him I was of this House and could not Attend He answered me again There it is I care not look you to it at your Peril Mr. David Waterhouse stood up and shewed David Waterhouse shews Reasons for the Allowing it That the Subpoena came out of his Office and further shewed The Necessity of Obeying it For that a Cause for want of a Witness might be lost And therefore if the Hearing be appointed at a Day certain the Client might peradventure be undone if he should not have this Subpoena ad Testificandum in due time both served and appeared unto Sir Edward Hobby alledged divers Precedents in this Point Sir Edward Hobby shews Precedents against it as the 10th of February 27 Reginae Mr. Kerle served one Roger Stepney with a Subpoena into the Star-Chamber for which he was adjudged to the Serjeant at Arms Keeping for Six Dayes and to pay Five Marks Charges And the 25th of March 27 Reginae Mr. Crook served a Member of this House with a Subpoena into the Chancery and for so doing was adjudged to give a Copy of the Bill and Twenty Shillings for Charges and was committed to the Serjeant's Keeping Mr. Wiseman said Seconded by Mr. Wiseman against it That notwithstanding the Allegation and Excuse of the Gentleman that spake in Favour of the Subpoena ad Testificandum I think it deserveth no more Favour than the other For if the Necessity of the Cause were such that he must needs be served and spared out of this House the Party ought to ask Leave of the House or at least of
to Newgate And there after a discharge gotten because he said he was a Servant to a Parliament Man he was no sooner discharged but he was strait again Arrested and carried to the Compter and there laid all Night until he sent to the Serjeant at Armes who fetched him out and kept him in his Custody And now this Day at the Bar he desired the privilege of the House he being a special Servant to a Member thereof Mr. Moore makes a Doubt Whether he could have Privilege so after he was removed out Mr. Francis Moore said I think it will grow a Question Whether he shall have privilege in that his Master is not Sworn nor here Nota Mr. Browne pleads he had as all others Fourteen days before the Meeting or Swearing of the House Where Note The Members then claimed but Fourteen Days before a Session which is now reck'ned Forty Dayes Mr. Brown said Every Parliament-Man hath privilege for himself and Servants Fourteen Days before the Parliament and this is before he is returned or Sworn much more ought we to give privilege in this Case Then was Musket that procured the Arrest brought in and being demanded the Reason How he durst meddle with any Mans Servant of the House he Answered That the said Soliciter being demanded whether he Served any Parliament-Man He Answered No. Which indeed afterwards proved untrue when they were brought Face to Face Then the Serjeant was brought in who said He was put to his Choice Whether he would tarry still at Newgate or go to the Compter Being further asked Whether he could say any more in his own Excuse He said No. So the Solicitor was brought in who justified that he was first Arrested and after Discharged and then the second time Arrested as aforesaid So they were both removed out of the House Sir Edward Hobby took hold of the Speech made by the Serjeant of his Choice to stay in Newgate or to go to the Compter as also that he was doubly Arrested and paid double Fees So after Consultation had it was put to the Question and agreed by the House That they both should pay the Solicitors Cost and Damages and be imprisoned three days in the Serjeants Custody And each of them both Musket and the Serjeant to Pay the Serjeant Attending this House his Fees and the Solicitor to Pay none and so to be Discharged A Bill for Confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of Letters-Patents made by her Majesty to others being Ingrossed was Read the Third time and without Speech or denyal Passed only Mr. â—ale of the Temple said No. Mr. Secretary Herbert said Secretary Herbert's Report from the Lord-Keeper According to Your Commandment Sir Edward Stafford and my self went to my Lord Keeper and delivered unto him That Notwithstanding some Allegations which were Alleadged on the behalf of his Lordship concerning our Resolutions about the Warrants which upon mature Deliberation we found by Precedents That they ought to go and be directed to the Clerk of the Crown His Lordship after a small Pause The Keeper's Reply to him c. Answered That he now Considered the Weightiness of divers Businesses that were now in hand The Consultation which we were likely presently to have touching the Bill of Subsidy That the Enemy the Spaniard was Landed in Ireland and the business of those Affairs of great Imports as also his own Business in the Upper-House and the short end which was like to be of this Parliament And therefore he would now not stand to make Contention or shew his further Reasons but prayed us to certify you all That he would be most ready and willing to perform the desire of this House The Bill of Petty-Theft and Patents aforesaid were sent up to the Lords by Sir John Fortescue and Mr. Secretary Hubbart The House called upon Mr. Secretary to go but he desired to be excused because he was troubled with a Cold. A Bill to restrain the Transportation of Money out of the Realm A Bill to prevent Transporting of Bulloin and to Reform certain Abuses in the Exchanges was Read Mr. Fettyplace a Burgess for London spake to this Bill and said Mr. Fettyplace speaks to that Bill It is to be thought that the Netherlander having so much use for Money is the Exporter thereof out of this Realm The French King made it a Law That no man on pain of Death should Export Money thence Germany holdeth the Standard so doth France and so do We. But the Netherlander only doth not and he only thereby gained of all Three There be good Statutes already made to this purpose both in the time of Rich. 2. Hen. 3. Hen. 4. Hen. 5. and Hen. 6. That no Stranger should bring Commodities into this Land but he should bring in so much Money c. He made a very long Speech touching the manner of Trade by Exchange in Merchants Language which I could not well Note So the Bill was committed and the Chequer-Chamber appointed the place and Friday in the afternoon the Time Mr. Henry Mountague shewed That 17. Ed. 4. Mr. Mountague for the Bill such Transportation was made Felony and never since Transportation much heard of till this Queens Days in whose time none of those Laws are in force which if they were revived and set on Foot again I think such kind of Transportation would be less used than it is One of the Burgesses of Yarmouth Moved All Officers of Ports might be certified of such Goods as be Exported and the Skipper bound in Bond to be sent to her Majesties Custom House c. Mr. Davis said Mr. Speaker Mr. Davies about Money and Barture in Trade I hold this Paradox for a true ground of Policy That if there were no Money in the World then this Kingdom were the happiest Nation in the World And the best Age was when there was only bartering of Commodities For one yard of Cloath would be better than three yards of Velvet And an Ounce of Iron for the Use of man better than a Pound of Gold A Bushel of Corn better than ten Bushels of Pepper or other Grain The fundamental Cause of this Bill was That we might not be Cozened of our Moneys who have the best Standard in the World For now the Exchange is Governd by Brokers and as it pleases them the Exchange must Rise and Fall So the Bill was Committed The Bill for Setting of Watches was Read and Committed the Place of meeting appointed the Court of Wards and Tuesday next in the afternoon the Time A Bill for the Relief of Theophilus Adams touching certain obligations reputed to be made void by the Statute of 39 Eliz. intituled An Act c. Some say this Bill was cast out of the House the last Parliament On Fryday Novemb. 20. An Act for the Assurance of the Jointure of Lucy Countess of Bedford A Bill Prohibiting Fairs to be held on Sunday by which
it is a Commendable piece of Work but Mr. Speaker methinks the Bill yeildeth too great scope of Fishing into the Sea which how Prejudiciall it may be to the Office of the Lord Admiral or to his Successors or to the Royalty of any other I know not therefore That the Bill may have the safer Passage I wish it may be Considered of at a Commitment A Bill for the Assurance of a Joynture to Lucy Countess of Bedford Committed and the meeting to be in the Exchecquer-Chamber upon Wednesday in the Afternoon at two of the Clock A Bill for the Observation of certain Orders in the Exchecquer set down under her Majesties Privy-Seal And the Bill to Enable Mr. Edmond Markham to dispose of his Lands whereof he is Tenant in Tayl as other Tenants in Tayl by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm may do The question upon the Checquer-Bill grew Whether before Commitment the Counsel of the Clerks of Mr. Osborne's Office should be had in respect of Mr. Wing feild moved The old Officers might be heard by their Councel Mr. Bacon said I did rather yeildingly accept than forwardly imbrace this labour imposed upon me I Wish the Councel may be heard because we shall have the more time of consideration what to do There is nothing so great an impediment to certainty of prevailing as hast and earnestness in prosecuting I therefore think it fit that they may have time Assigned them to proceed by Councel Mr. Martyn said Mr. Speaker Mr. Martyn Here is a new Bill sprung out of the old it hath a smooth face and I think the inward part of the Bill is answerable to the Exterior I am utterly against that they should have Councel they have had time enough already to consider of it If their Councel be now without it were good we heard them if not I hold it best to proceed to the Question Then the house cryed To the Question for Commitment and it was Committed and it was agreed that they should have their Counsel there Then the Question was When the Commitment should be some said this Afternoon others Monday but being put to the Question the House was divided and the I I I were 98 and the Noes 181. and so Monday was agreed on At the Commitment in the Afternoon touching Monopolies Sir Edward Stanhop informed the House Sir Edw. Stanhop against Patentees of the great Abuse by the Patentee for Salt in his Country that betwixt Michaelmas and Saint Andrews tide where Salt was wont before the Patent to be sold for Sixteen pence a Bushel it is now fold for Fourteen and Fifteen shillings a Bushel but after the Lord President had understood thereof he Committed the Patentee who caused it to be sold as before This Patent was granted to Sir Thomas Wilks and after to one Smith To Lynn there is every year brought at least Three Thousand weight of Salt and every weight since this Patent is inhanced Twenty shillings and where the Bushel was wont to be Eight pence it is now Sixteen pence And I dare boldly say it if this Patent were called in there might well be Three Thousand Pounds a year saved in the Ports of Lynn Boston and Hull I speak this of white Salt Mr. Francis Bacon said Mr. Fr. Bacon against the Bill but Moves to go by way of Petition The Bill is very injurious and ridiculous Injurious in that it taketh or rather sweepeth away her Majesties Prerogative and Ridiculous in that there is a Proviso That this Statute shall not extend to Grants made to Corporations That is a gull to sweeten the Bill withall it is only to make Fools Fond. All men of the Law know that a Bill which is only Expository to Expound the Common-Law doth Enact nothing neither is any Proviso good therein And therefore the Statute of 34. Hen. 8. of Wills which is but an Act expository of the Statute of 32. Hen. 8. of Wills touching Sir John Bonfords Will was adjudged void Therefore I think the Bill unfit and our proceedings to be by Petition Mr. Solicitor Fleming said Mr. Solicitor's Acount of the Queen's intentions I will briefly give you an account of all things touching these Monopolies Her Majesty in her provident care gave Charge to Mr. Atturney and my self That speedy and special course may be taken for these Patents This was in the beginning of Hillary-Term last But you all know the danger of that time and what great Affairs of importance happen'd to prevent that business Since that nothing could be done therein for want of Leisure Sir Robert Wroth said Sir Rob. Wroth. I would but Note Mr. Solicitor That you were charged to take Care in Hillary-Term last Why not before There was time enough ever since the last Parliament I speak it and I speak it boldly These Patentees are worse than ever they were And I have heard a Gentleman affirm in this House That there is a Clause of Reversion in these Patents If so what needed this stir by Quo warranto and I know not what when it is but to send for the Patents and cause a redelivery There have been diverse Patents granted since the last Parliament these are now in being viz. The Patents for Currants Iron Powder Cards Hornes Oxe Shin-bones Traine Oyle Lists of Cloath Ashes Bottles Glasses Baggs Shreds of Gloves Aniseed Vinegar Sea-Coales Steele Aqua-vitae Brushes Pots Salt Salt-Petre Lead Accedence Oyle Transportation of Leather Callamint-stone Oyle of Blubber Fumothoes or dried Pilchers in the smoak and divers others Upon Reading of the Patents aforesaid Mr. Hackwel Mr. Hackwell of Lincolns-Inn stood up and asked this Is not Bread there Bread quoth another This voice seems strange quoth a third No quoth Mr. Hackwell but if order be not taken for these Bread will be there before the next Parliament Mr. Townshend of Lincolns-Inn the Collector of this Journal seeing the disagreement of the Committees Mr. Townshend and that they could agree upon nothing made a Motion to this effect First to put them in mind of a Petition made the last Parliament which though it took no effect we should much wrong her Majesty and forget our selves if we should think to speed no better in the like Case now because there was a Commitment for this purpose and the Committees drew a Speech which was deliver'd by the Speaker word for word at the end of the Parliament But now we might hope that by the sending of our Speaker presently after such a Committee and Speech made with humble Suit not only to Repeal all Monopolies Grievous to the Subject but also that it would please Her Majesty to give us leave to make an Act that they might be of no more force validity or Effect than they are at the Common Law without the strength of her Prerogative which though we might now do and the Act being so reasonable we did assure our selves Her Majesty would not deny the passing
Think you a Penalty of Ten Shillings as is here set down will make us refrain this Iniquity I may speak of this Bill as a Painter which made a most Artificial Table of the Waves of the Sea so Lively that to the Judgment it seemed the very Sea Another Painter in the same Table Painted a Tree so Lively as it might be thought it were growing out of the Sea There grew a Question Which was the most Curious Work-manship and the Deciding of this Controversie was referred to the Judgment of a third Skilfull Painter who gave his Judgment of the Tree thus O valde bene sed hic non erat locus So may I say of this Bill It is as hard for this Penalty to restrain this Sin as it is for Religion to spring out of the Common-Law and to take Effect Aristotle saith That a Men may be Bonus Civis and yet not Bonus Vir. And though I abhor the Sin yet I deny not but the Sinner may be a good Member Moses when he saw God could but see his Back-Parts only and no Man ever saw more But these Swearers Swear by all his Parts so perfectly as if they had seen Film all over Philip King of France made a Law That the Swearer should be Drowned Another Law was made That a certain Sum should be paid presently so soon as he had Sworn or else the Swearer to lose his Head We use so much Lenity in our Law as we had as good make no Law For we give a Penalty and to be taken upon Conviction before a Justice of Peace Here 's wise stuff First Mark what a Justice of Peace is and we shall easily find a Cap in our Law A Justice of Peace is a Living Creature that for half a Dozen of Chickens will Dispence with a whele Dozen of Venal Statutes We Search and Ingross they retail These be the Basket-Justices of whom the Tale may be Justified of a Justice whom I know to whom one of his Peor Nighbours coming said Sir I am very highly Rated in the Subsidy-Book I do beseech you to help me To whom he answer'd I know thee not Not me quoth the Country-man Why He gives the Justices of the Peace in the Country a severe Lath. your Worship had my Team and mine Owen such a Day and I have been ever at your Worship's Service Have you so quoth the Justice I never remember I had any such Matter not so much as a Sheeps Tail So unless you offer Sacrifice unto these Idol-Justices of Sheep and Oxen they know you not If a Warrant come from the Lords of the Council to Levy a Hundred Men he will Levy Two Hundred And what with Chopping in and Crossing out he will gain a Hundred Pounds by the Bargain Nay if he be to send forth a Warrant upon a Mans Request to have any setch't in upon Suspicion of Felony or the like he will write you the Warrant himself and you must put Two Shillings in his Pocket as his Clerk's Fee when God knows he keeps but two or three Hindes for his better Maintenance Why we have had here Five Bills One against Swearing another for Going to Church Good Ale Drunkenness and This is as good to them as a Subsidy and Two Fifteens Only in that Point I mislike the Bill for the rest I could wish it good Passage Sir Francis Hastings Sir Francis Hastings amongst other Speeches in this Bill said That such Justices were well worthy to be looked up in an Ambry But he wished That All might not be Censured for one evil One who though he neglected both the Care of Conscience and Country which he should not do yet doubtless many did not so as being touched in Conscience to remember That our long Peace should make us carefull to please Him in doing Justice that had preserved us and was the Author of our Peace even God himself So the Bill was put to the Question and Order'd to be Ingrossed Mr. Wiseman moved the House to remember two things One that it had been an ancient Custom in Parliament sometimes to call over the House which was not yet done Mr. Wisman moves for a Parliament-Collection The Other That where heretofore a Collection had been used for the Poor That those which went out of the Town before the Parliament ended would ask Leave of the Speaker and pay his Money Sir Edward Hobby said The Gentleman that last spake Moved you but I would Remove you a little further May it please you It hath been a most Laudable Usage That some Contribution or Collection should be made amongst us in pios usus And I pray you let us not forget our Parliamental Charity Every Knight paid Ten Shillings and every Burgess Five Shillings to be thus disposed of part of the Whole to the Minister part to the Servants here and part to the Poor the rest at you disposements The last time our Charity ransomed a Prisoner for his Father 's good Desert The last time Sir Robert Wroth and Mr. Fettyplace were Collectors It rests in you either to appoint them now or choose others Mr. Fettyplace said It is true Mr. Speaker Mr. Fetty place shews how the last was disposed of I was Collector the last time and there was paid out of the Money Collected to the Minister Ten Pounds to the Serjeant Thirty Pounds to Mr. John Leveson for the Redemption of Mr. Fox's Son that made the Book of Martyrs Thirty Pounds There was Money given to Seven Prisons the two Compters Ludgate and Newgate in London to two in Southwark and one in Westminster How old the Custom is I know not but how good it is I know For my own part having one undergone that Service a ready I humbly pray that it would please you to appoint another Mr. Tate said Charity proceeding from Conscience and not from Custom breeds Obedience to God and pleaseth God and so went on and spake for a Town in his Country lately Burnt That it would please the House to contribute somewhat to the Poor's loss there Mr Roger Downs brought in the Bill for Ratlesdale with some Amendments The Bill for Assurance of a Joynture to Lucy Countess of Bedford being Ingrossed passed the House and was sent up to the Lords A Bill for the Denization of certain Persons viz. William Millet Ann Pope George Chambers Peter Eaton and Nicholas Tooley being Ingrossed passed the House and was likewise sent up to the Lords with the other The Bill for Confirmation of divers Letters-Patents made by Edw. 6. to Sir Edward Seymor Knight his Grand-Father being Ingrossed passed and was sent to the Lords The Bill for the better Observation of certain Orders in the Exchecquer Ingrossed and passed and sent up to the Lords The Bill for Avoiding of trifling Suits being Ingrossed and passed was sen to the Lords Sir Robert Wroth said Mr. Speaker The Use hath been That the general Bills should be first Read and
avoid Idleness and for setting the Poor on Work Which Bill is in manner of a Monopoly for there be certain named in it who undertake to keep Fifty Thousand Poor on Work in making Pins Wool-Cards Needles c. A Bill for Reformation of Abuses in Buying and Selling of Spices and other Merchandises was brought from the Committee and Ordered to be Ingrossed A Bill for the Enlargment of a Jointure to Rachel Wife of Edward Nevill of Burling in the County of Kent Esquire A Bill for the Perfecting of the Jointure of the Lady Bridget Countess of Sussex Wife of the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Sussex Read and Committed A Bill for the Confirmation of the Sale of certain Lands sold by Lewis Lord Mordant c. Read and Committed to the former Committees Mr. Edward Mountague said Mr. Speaker Mr. Mountague's Charitable Motion I will make a Charitable Motion which I hope will tend to a Charitable End and briefly it is this That no private Bill may Pass in this House but the Procurers to give something to the Poor Mr. Secretary Cecil said My Motion is stirred up Secretary Cecil seconds it with some Alteration with the like Charitable Affection which first moved the Gentleman that last spake only I disagree from him in the Manner We see the Streets full of Souldiers some Maimed some Poor but all Distressed Our ordinary begging Poor are all Provided for and Statutes made for their Maintenance I would only move thus much to the House That this Contribution proceeding out of our Charity might be only imployed to the Relief of them who have ventured their Lives to defend Us. The House said it was a good motion and so generally agreed unto it Mr. Richard Messenger said Mr. Messenger for the same I would but move the House only that they which have already had any Bill passed this House this Parliament may also be Contributary as well as they which are to come Mr. Mountague said Mr. Mountague particularizes the Sums Because I offered to the Consideration of this House this motion first I will presume also more particularly to deliver my Opinion I think for every private Bill for Sale of Lands Ten Pounds a reasonable Benevolence and for every Estate for Life or for Jointure Five Pounds Mr. Ravenscroft said I would only move to know whether this should remain as a perpetual or temporary Order for this Parliament Mr. Secretary Cecil said The House only means it for this present and all said I I I. And so the Order was entred accordingly Mr. Dannet Mr. Dannet's Speech and Motion against the Pirates of Dunkirk and Newport a Burgess for Yarmouth said Mr. Speaker the Duty that I owe to my Sovereign and Country makes me bold to crave your Patience to hear me The Matter that I shall speak of is twofold The First concerneth the honour of the Queen The Second the safety of our Country Two very high points for me to handle and require a more Eloquent Discourse than I am able to make I will use no Circumstance or with superfluous Matter abuse the time which is precious but to the Matter I have been of the Parliament Five or Six times and I have alwayes observed by this House and I would willingly be resolved by the Honourable about the Chair that all the Wars of Her Majesty are offensive and I do not hear the contrary How then comes it that such a Number of Her Majesty's Subjects be Spoiled Robbed Beaten Wounded themselves taken and used with such extream Torture Racked Carried away Imprisoned Ransomed Fined and some times Executed and all this time no Wars But give me leave to say for these Ten Years I am sure the Subjects of this Land on the Sea-Coasts have undergone these Tyrannies And by whom Even by two base Towns Dunkirk and Newport Dunkirk began with Two Ships and are now increased almost to Twenty they be at home at Supper and the next Day here with us I must needs confess that the great Charge that I know the Lord Admiral is at Continually by lying ready to take these Pirates is much but send to take them they straight Fly home If our Ships return they are straight here again I dare boldly say they have done England more hurt since they began than all France either in the time of Hen. 8. Edw. 6. or Queen Mary If it be so that these Two base Towns shall so affront the Power of this Land I see no Reason they should be suffered For it is a great Dishonour both to the Queen and the Kingdom I have heard many say That the Navy of England is the Walls of the Kingdom and yet we suffer our Ships still to be Destroyed some to be Burnt some to be Sunk before our Faces We may compare our Sea-men to Sheep Feeding upon a Fair Mountain in the midst whereof stands a Grove full of Wolves Why Mr. Speaker we are so plagued with them that they are so bold as now and then to take our Harvest-Men tardy by Ambuscadoes I speak it with Grief and it was Reported unto me by a Scottish-Man that Duke Albertus and the Infanta should openly publish That they would pull down so many of the Walls of England that they would easily make an Entry and it had been better for Sea-Coast-Men to have given the Queen an Hundred Subsidies that they had been long since Suppressed My humble Motion is That it would please the House to enter into Consideration of these things For the Honour Good and Safety both of the Queen and Kingdom ' Mr. Peake said Mr. Peake I must needs shew unto this House upon so good an occasion offered how grievously the Town of Sandwich for which I serve is vexed and almost undone insomuch as that in that Town there is neither Owner Master nor Mariner that hath not felt it Her Majesty is continually at Charges but what insueth or cometh of it I never yet knew In the County of Kent at Shooters-Hill Gads-Hill Barram-Down c. if there should be several Roberies Committed and the Justices look nothing to it it would be taken in ill part Every day Men come home their Goods and al they have is taken away yea their very Apparel And if the Ships might be also carried away they would do it This would be Amended and looked unto we have need to Cherish this Subject For I think him to be the best and most necessary Member of the Common-Wealth I mean the Navigator Mr. Martin said Mr. Martin I like not these Extravagant Speeches in the Manner though I mislike them not in the Matter they are like to Men whose Houses being on Fire forgetting themselves run out into the Streets like Mad-Men for Help That that Cottage of Dunkirk the Flourishing Estate whereof is a dishonour to our Nation should so much offend us when we never offer to oppress them is a Marvail I think there is no
Man but understandeth the Grief and no Man which readily knoweth the Remedy I wish that those who first propounded this Matter to the House had also laid down some Project though never so small of Remedy otherwise such cursory Motions as these cannot but be very Distasteful to the House ' Mr. Hithe said Within these Twelve Dayes one Man lost Two Hundred Pounds only by the Dunkirkers who took the same away from him Mr. Secretary Cecil said Secretary Cecil seconds the Motion My Speech shall only tend to advance the Motion of the Gentleman that spake first in this Point If we would have Remedy we are to consider two things First That it will be a Matter of Charge and Secondly That there must be a Distribution thereof For the first I leave it to you for the second it is out of my Element withal I must excuse them that have Authority to Remedy this for unless you would have a continual Charge unto Her Majesty by having Ships to lye between Us and Dunkirk it is impossible but that at sometimes these Robberies will be Committed The Business is Committed And I could very well agree to bring this Motion to some Head being a Matter in my Opinion very Considerable in a Committee Mr. Dannet And all said I I I. Mr. Dannet said I would only move the House That some Masters of Ships and Sea-men might be sent for to attend the Committee So it was agreed to be Committed And the place and time appointed for Meeting in the Exchecquer-Chamber on Saturday in the Afternoon A Bill for Levying of Fines within the County of the City of Chester Ingrossed and put to the Question passed and then sent up by Mr. Secretary Herbert and others with another Bill to the Lords Mr. Tate said I would only move the House That whereas an Information is Exhibited by the Earl of Huntington against a Member of this House Mr. Belgrave by Name into the Star-Chamber containing no matter of Substance or Note other than matter very dishonourable to this House I therefore humbly pray it may be referred to be considered of by the Committee for the Privileges of this House And all said I I I. He delivered the Information to the Speaker A Bill for the Reuniting of Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning Read the second time and Committed to certain Committees in the Committee Chamber presently A Bill for the Denization of certain Persons viz. Josepho Lopo c was Read and put to the Question and Ordered to be Ingrossed A Bill to avoid double Payment of Debts A Bill against double payment of Book-Debts Mr. Locke begins to speak falls a trembling and fits down again Mr. Bacon speaks to it was Read To this Bill Mr. Zacharias Locke began to speak but for very Fear shook so that he could not proceed but stood still a while and at length sate down Mr. Bacon speaking of this Bill said That Bills were wont to be Committed with Pleasure but now we would scarce hear them with Patience The Merchants Books he said were springing Books every Year they would increase c. Mr. Henshaw Mr. Henshaw amongst other Speeches said That it was as easy to cross a Merchants Book which a Man might see at all times as to Give the Merchant a Bond who when he had many thrust together perhaps would intreat the Gentleman to come some other time for it who if he should in the mean time Die his Executors are without remedy c. Mr. Serjeant Harris said Serj. Harris These Merchants Books are like Aarons Rod ever Budding and like Basingstoak Reckonings over Night Five Shillings Six Pence if you pay it not it is grown in the Morning to a just Noble This Debt is a Sleeping Debt and it will lull young Gentlemen into Merchants Books with the Golden Hooks of being trusted by the Merchant and his Expectancy after his Fathers Death These are Matters dangerous and I think hurtful therefore I think it a good Bill c. Mr. John Harris said Where it is said Mr. John Harris There can be no Wager of Law against a Merchants Book in London it is true But first the Merchant must Swear the Debt c. Mr. Thomas Jones said It is now my chance to Speak something Mr. Jones and that without Humming or Hawing I think this Law is a good Law Even Reckoning makes long Friends As far goes the Penny as the Penny 's Master Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subventunt Pay the Reckoning over Night and you shall not be troubled in the Morning If ready Money be Mensura Publica let every Man cut his Coat according to his Cloth When his old Suit is in the Wain let him stay till that his Money bring a new Suit in the Increase Therefore I think the Law to be good and I wish it a good Passage Mr. Hackwell of Lincolns-Inn said Mr. Hackwell I am a Man of that Rank and Condition that I never sell and seldome buy and pay ready Money and the safest course this Bill offers to me for my particular But the great Mischief that will redound by it to the Commons is that which makes me speak I am not Transported with such Vehemency but if I may be answered I will lay down the Bucklers This Bill hath a good Face but an ill Body It hath a very good Head-piece I mean the Title It is like Daniel's Image It hath a Head of Gold a Body of Silver Thighs of Brass Legs of Iron and Feet of Clay If I may pray you to put on a great deal of Patience for a little time I will make it somewhat plain We must lay down the Respects of our own Persons and put on others and their Affections for whom we speak for they speak for Us. If the Matter which was spoken of touch the Poor then think me a poor Man he that speaks must be sometimes a Lawyer sometimes a Painter sometimes a Merchant sometimes a mean Artificer Most Men desire forbearance this Bill destroys it which tends to the Gain and Good of the Creditor and Good also of the Buyer but seeking to avoid a Mischief we fall into an Inconvenience For the manner is unproportionable and unjust If the Buyer be so negligent that he will not care to see himself discharged must we needs make a Law to help his folly The Proverb is Caveat emptor If this Law goes forwards the augmentation of confidence in his ancient habilliments can not be preserved For if it be a hard Year the poor Artificer who hath Wife and Children and Houshold to maintain and lives by the Sweat of his Browes can not live for he hath not money to buy all with the Peny but perhaps he hath Credit which perhaps may help his present necessitous Estate And besides I can teach you all a Trick how for Twelve Pence you may avoid this Statute and that is File
am of Opinion That it is very fit this Transportation should be staid And I concur only with them which would have it by way of Petition and not by Bill Mr. William Hackwell of Lincolns-Inn said Mr. Hackwell I know the Authority of the worthy Councellor that last spake will ingeminate your Censures to yeild to his Objection Yet notwithstanding I beseech you to suppose him to be a man of my Condition or me to be a man of his Sort so I doubt not but our Persons being equalized the matter will soon be Decided Where he saith Transportation is necessary to aid our Friends and retain their Alliance I Answer this is the Subtilty and Covetousness of our Friends who finding the Inestimable Gain and Treasure they get by Ordnance brought from us do not only desire them for Gain but also to gain to themselves Confederates by which means Succouring our Friends we Aid our Enemies For look whatsoever we give them we deduct from our selves Now let us stop this Transportation of Ordnance and that greatly weakens their Forces by which means they will never be able to incounter us hand to hand Our Ordnance that precious Jewel of this Realm even worth all we have is familiarly sold in the Countries of our Confederates as any thing within this Land but this being stopped they will be forced to take Supply from their Ports to their Ships from their Ships to the Field and from the Field to other places Sir Francis Hastings said Sir Francis Hastings for Petitioning it How swiftly and sweetly Her Majesty apprehended our Griefs I think there is no Subject but knoweth For us then to deal in a matter so highly touching Her Prerogative we shall not only give her Majesty just Cause of Offence but just cause to Deny our Proceeding by Bill I think therefore by laying open our Griefs in a Petition it will move Her Majesty as much being a Case of this Consequence as our first Motion by Mr. Speaker hath done And therefore I am of Opinion there is no way but this for our safety Sir George Moore said Sir George Moore for Petition It is a vain thing to Dispute of the matter when the manner only is in question and as vain to lose the matter by our long Dispute of the manner The late Experience of Her Majesty's Love and Clemency towards us and Care over us striketh such an awful Regard into my Heart I wholly dislike this Proceeding by Bill and do only Approve of the former motion by way of Petition Mr. Laurence Hide said Mr. Laurence Hide is to preceed by Bill in it It is doubted by some this Bill will not Pass by reason of the suddain ending of the Parliament For that I think if we give not too much scope to private Bills This Bill would quickly Pass and I see no Reason but we may proceed by Bill and not touch Her Majesties Prerogative For Her Majesty is not more careful and watchful of Her Prerogative than the Noble Prince King Henry 8. Her Father and King Edward 6. Her Brother were Then there was no doubt nor mention made of Prerogative And therefore I think our soundest and surest Course is by way of Bill Mr. Comptroller said Mr. Comptroller plead for Petition I wish we should deal in such manner as we may have our desire And that in Duty we should proceed to speak unto the Queen by way of Petition and not by way of Bill and Contestation We must Note that Her Self and Her Prerogative will not be forced And I do not hold this Course by Bill to stand either with Respect or Duty Mr. Swale of the Temple said Mr. Swale for the Bill I would but move thus much to the House If we let slip this Law and proceed by way of Petition then there is no Law to Prohibit but the Law of 33 Hen. 8. and 2 Ed. 6. and those Laws give so small a remedy that it is no Recompence for the loss of the thing Mr. Serjeant Harris said It hath been thought Serj. Harris that the former Statutes do not reach to Ordnance made of Iron But may it please the House to Commit the Bill there shall be shewed to the Committee Four or Five Precedents and late Judgments that Iron Guns comes within these Laws Mr. Solicitor Fleming said The Gentleman that last spake Sollicitor Fleming The Bill Committed said very true For it was lately in Michael's Case in the Exchequer So it was Committed and the time appointed for Meeting to be this Afternoon in the House Mr. Belgrave said Mr. Belgrave moves his own Case Mr. Speaker modestly forbids me to speak in mine own Case that so nearly concerns me but necessity compels me to Appeal to this High Court. True it is there is an Information Exhibited against me in the Star-Chamber by the procurement of an Honourable Person of the Upper House the Earl of Huntington in the Name of Mr. Atturney-General for a Misdemeanor Committed to this Court The Substance of that Information I do Confess yet I am to be an humble Suitor to this House to understand Whether an Information is to be Exhibited this House sitting against any Member thereof And for my own part I do submit my self to abide such Censure as this House shall think in their Wisdomes convenient Sir George Moore viewing the Information said Sir George Moore desires there may be a Conference I find the words thereof to be against the High Court of Parliament which is as well the Upper-House as this House And therefore I wish there might be a Conference with the Lords therein For this House is but Part and a Member of the Parliament and therefore we solely cannot Proceed Mr. Serjeant Harris said Serjeant Harris opposes it In 36 Hen. 8. when Ferri's Case was who was a Member of this House Did we not Proceed without any Conference with the Lords Here ought to be Libera Suffragia and no man of this House to be Chosen by Friends or Mediation of any Great Man Neither ought we to be tied by any Blew-Coat in the World but as our Persons are Priviledged so should our Speech be And therefore I see no Reason to Confer with the Lords when we may proceed of our selves Sir Edward Hobby said Sir Edward Hobby for the Conference If the Case were but plain of it self I should be of the Gentlemans mind that last spake but I am given to understand and also desired to Inform the House That this Information was put into the Star-Chamber by some kind of Order from the Lords and therefore very convenient a Conference should be had Sir Francis Hastings Brother to the Earl of Huntington said Sir Francis Hastings reports the Case To enter into consideration of this Cause by report I will and otherwise I cannot I know no man but respecteth the Honourable Person himself And for this Gentleman Mr.
House cried I I I. No quoth the Secretary you must stand at the Bar. And the House cried No No No. Then Mr. Secretary desired it might be put to the Question Whether he should speak or No And so it was and not Twenty said No. Then it was put to the Question Whether he should speak at the Bar or No And Mr. Brown the Lawyer stood up and said Mr. Speaker Par in Parem non habet Imperium we are all Members of one Body and One cannot Judg of Another So being put to the Question there were not above twelve I I I that he should stand at the Bar. Whereupon Mr. Martyn standing in his Seat shewed the Cause of his Speech to have been only for the Order of the House and not out of any Perswasive meaning that he had For he protested he neither knew the Man nor the Matter On Thursday Decemb. the Tenth A Bill for the Denization of certain Persons viz. Josepho Lupo and others was Read And because the said Josepho Lupo had neither Father nor Mother English the House respited the Bill A Bill for the Weavers was put to the Question and Committed the time and place of Meeting to be this Afternoon in the Exchequer-Chamber The Bill for the Assize for Wood was Ordered to be Ingrossed The Bill touching the taking away Gavel-kind-Custom in Kent was Read A Bill about Gavel-kind c. And Mr. Francis Moore said He thought the Bill a very Idle and frivolous Bill and Injurious For Mr. Moore against Repealing it if a man take a Wife by the Custome she shall have a Moyety but now if we make it go according to the Common Law she shall have but a Third part So if the Father committed a Felony and be Hanged the Son shall not lose his Inheritance because the Custom is The Father to the Bough and the Son to the Plough which at the Common Law he should lose Mr. Serj. Harris said I think this Bill a very good Bill Serj. Harris to have it Repealed for it defeats a Custom which was first devised for a Punishment and Plague upon the Country For when the Conquerour came in the Reason of this Custom was To make a Decay of the great Houses of the Old English for if a man of 800. l. Per Annum had eight Children now it must be divided into eight Parts And then if they had Children it must be subdivided again usque in non quantum where if it had gone to one as by the Common Law it would still have Flourished Mr. Boys amongst many Reasons shewed Mr. Boy 's of a contrary mind It would in Kent be a great loss to the Queen in her Subsidy for by reason of these Subdivisions there were many Ten-Pound men And whosoever knows the state of our Country shall find more under Ten Pound men than above come to the Queen and now if these being divided into several hands should now go according to the Common Law this would make the Queen a great Loser This Bill being put to the Question The Bill is Rejected the Noes were the greater yet the I I I would needs go forth and upon division it appeared the I I I were but 67. and the Noes 138. and so the the Bill was Rejected The Bill for suppressing Ale-houses A Bill to Suppress Tipling-Houses and Tippling-houses was Read Mr. Francis Moore offered a Proviso to the House Mr. Moore and shewed That he was of Councel and had a standing Fee from the Corporation of Vintners in London And shewed That they were an Ancient Corporation and had ever used by force of divers Charters of Kings of this Realm to sell Wine and now by this Bill all was inhibited And therefore Pray'd the Provise might be received which was received M. Johnson said Mr. Johnson against it If this Bill should Pass it would breed a great Confusion of Government for by this Law the Justices of the County may enter into the Liberties of any Corporation and License Sale of Wine and Beer Besides he must be Licensed by four Justices perhaps there be not four Justices in a Corporation Admitting Power were not given to the Foreign Justices now when these four Justices have enabled him by this Law they have no Power by this Law upon his misbehaviour to put him down and so very Insufficient and impossible to be Mended Sir Robert Wroth said Sir Rob. Wroth against it The Bill is That no Man shall c. but he must be allowed in the Quarter-Sessions by four Justices And what pain and Charge this will be to a poor man to go with some of his Neighbours 20 or 30 miles for a License And what a monstrous Trouble to all the Justices I refer it to your considerations The Speaker certified a Message from the Lords Sir Edward Hobby said We attended the Lords this morning touching the Information against Mr. Belgrave and in the end concluded That forasmuch as it concerneth Their as well as Our Privileges they desire some time to Consult and then will send us word of their Resolutions Doctor Stanhop and Doctor Hone brought a Bill from the Lords Intituled An Act for the Stablishment of the Remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Ketleby Esquire to Francis Ketleby And so they departed Mr. Spicer said If I should not agree to the Substance of the Bill I were no good Commonwealths-man And if I should agree to the Form I should scarce think my self a good Christian for I may justly say of this Bill Nihil est ubi error non est Mr. Laurence Hide moved That in respect it came from the Lords we would give it a Commitment Mr. Serjeant Harris said If this Bill should pass as was well said we all should lose the Liberties of our Corporations And Her Majesties Justices at the Sessions Serj. Harris against it should be troubled with Brables of Ale-Houses The Statute of Ed. 6. hath had Approbation these half Hundred Years and I wish we may not Repeal a good Law to make a worse Mr. Richard Brown said Mr. Brown against it Wines heretofore have been at Ten Pound a Tun and the Laws are That Wines should be sold at Two Pence the Quart and Her Majesty Receiveth One Thousand Six Hundred Pounds a Year Custom for them If now this Statute should stand that Four Justices should License the sale of Wines this would be a wrong to divers Licenses which are made by Pattentees of her Majesty and a beggaring of all Vintners And he that now keeps an Inn if he pleases not the Justices he shall be turned out And withal there is a Clause of disability which is most grievous Sir Robert Wroth said It seemes the House doth distast this Bill and I doubt of the Passing of it I would but move the House to remember That it is an Ancient Custom that for Reverence sake to the Lords of the Upper-House we only
by your Lordships Favour no cause it should deserve the Title of Improper And I take it by your Lordships Favours it was not Preposterous For the First Matter we took should be handled was the Doubts which we Imagined your Lordships had conceived of the Bill And if your Lordships had ought else conceived I thought fit to shew your Lordships that we then came without Commission So my Lords I hope I have made it appear That the Speech was neither strange improper or preposterous But We of the Lower-House who be here Committees do beseech your Lordships that you would not conceive otherwise of Us than we deserve And your Lordships shall find Us ever ready in all Dutiful Service as coadjuting Members of one United Body the House of Parliament So after withdrawing themselves a little from the Table the Lords Whispered together and at length calling Us the Lord Treasurer said The Lords were satisfied with our Answer 〈…〉 and were very glad they found Us so Conformable by which they doubted not but we should well agree for the Conference whereby the Bill might have the better Passage Mr. Secretary Cecil answered That he was very glad their Lordships did conceive aright of them and that the Committees because they were many and would not be troublesome to them with multiplicity of Speeches had chosen for their Speakers to Satisfie their Lordships Mr. Bacon Mr. Bacon c. to manage the Conference Mr. Serjeant Harris Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Henry Mountague and Mr. Boys So the Lords called Mr. Attorney General to them who began to make Objections and Mr. Bacon answering Mr. Attorney again Objected and Mr. Serjeant Harris before he had fully ended began to answer To which Mr. Attorney said Nay Good Mr. Serjeant Leap not over the Stile before you come at it Hear me out I pray you and conceive me aright So when he had done Mr. Serjeant Answered I beseech your Lordships to hear me and that I may answer without check or Controul which I little Respect because it is as light as Mr. Attorney's Arguments And so he proceeded to answer So the Conference brake up untill the next Morning at which time the Lords said They would send us word when they were ready In the Afternoon A Bill for the Relief of Theophilus Adams Touching certain Obligations supposed to be made void by a Proviso contained in the Statute 39. Reginae cap. 22. Intituled An Act for the Establishment of the Bishoprick of Norwich and the Possessions of the same against a certain pretended concealed Title made thereunto A Bill for Reformation of Abuses in Selling and Buying of Spices and other Merchandizes A Bill that no Fair or Market should be kept on Sundayes On Saturday Decemb. 12. A Bill to confirm the Assurance of the Mannors and Farmes of Sagebury aliàs Sadgbery and Obden and other Hereditaments to Samuel Sands Esq and John Harris Gentleman and their Heirs being Ingrossed was put to the Question and was Passed A Bill for Redress of certain Abuses used in Painting A Bill about Painters and Plaisterers was moved by Sir George Moore and some others that this Bill might be let slip and the Cause referred to the Lord Mayor of London because it concerned a Controversy between the Painters and Plaisterers To which Mr. Davis Answered That the last Parliament this Bill should have Passed this House but it was referred as now desired and Bonds made by the Plaisterers for performance of the Orders made by the Lord Mayor yet all will do no Good wherefore Mr. Speaker I think it good it should be put to the Question Sir Stephen Somes stood up and desired That my Lord-Mayor might not be troubled with them but that it might be put to the Question and it seemed likely to go against the Painters But I stood up as it was putting to the Question and shewed That in the Statute of 25. Ed. 3. cap. 3. Plaisterers were not then so called but Dawbers and Mudd-Wall-Makers who had for their Wages by the day Three-Pence 〈…〉 and his Knave Three-Half-Pence so was his Labourer called they continued so until King Hen. 7th's time who brought into England with him out of France certain Men that used Plaister of Paris about the Kings Ceilings and Walls whose Statute-Labourers these Dawbers were Those Statute-Labourers learned in short time the Use of Plaister of Parts and did it for the King and increased to be many then sueing to the King for his Favor to Incorporate them who fulfill'd their desire and Incorporated them by the Name of Gipsarii which was for Clay or Mudd aliàs Morter-makers Anno 16 Hen. 7. Being no Free-Men for all their Incorporation they obtained the Kings Favourable Letters to Sir William Remington then Lord Mayor of London and the Aldermen to allow them Free-men Which was granted At which time came in Four of them and paid Ten Shillings a piece for their Freedom and in Three Years after that manner came in the Number of Twenty but they paid Four Pounds a piece for Their Freedom They Renewed their Patent in King Hen. 8's time and called themselves Plaisterers aliàs Morter-makers for the Use of Loame and Lime They made an humble Petition and Supplication after this to Sir John Munday then Lord Mayor and the Aldermen to grant them Orders for the better Rule and Government of their Company in these words We the good Folkes of Plaisterers in London of Plaister and Loame of the said City for the Redress of certain Abuses of Lath-Plaister and Loame wrought in the said Crafts c. And then had allowed unto them Search for their Company for the Use of Lath Loame and Lime In all their Incorporations at no time they had any words for Colours neither yet in their Ordnances For all they were Incorporated by the name of Plaisterers yet all King Hen. 8's time they were called Dawbers as appeareth in the accompts of the Chamber of London paid to such and such Dawbers for so many Days so much and to their Labourers so much The Plaisterers never laid any Colours in the Kings Houses nor in the Sherifs of London but this Year they wore no Livery or Cloathing the Seventeenth of King Hen. 8. They have been suffered to lay Ale-house Colours as Red-lead and Oaker and such like and so now they intrude themselves into all Colours Thus they take not only their own Work but Painting also and leave nothing to do for the Painter Painters and Stainers were two several Companies in King Edw. 3. time One for Posts and all Timber-work to Paint And the other for Painting and Staining of Cloth of great continuance both Companies were joyned into one by their own Consent and by the Consent of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City The Nineteenth Year of Edw. 4. The Painters had Orders allowed them for the Use of Oyl and Colours especially named in Hen. 4's time from the Lord Mayor and City
in hoc bello Apostolica Authoritate à nobis Administrandum ut verum fatear possem sacillime convitia quod nobis objiciunt in ipsos retundere voluptatem quam maledicendo sumpsere illam male audiendo amittere Caeterum novimus ut debiles inermes Muliercola ad convitia fugere Sed hiis praetermissis ad objecta solida veritate ex Christiana Modestate respondere Imprimis Commoneamini nos velle subditos praetensos Reginae Angliae ab obedientia debita per dei legem servitute abducere ad nos aggregare Quod maximâ ex parte à veritate alienum est Neminem enim persuadere conamur ut debitam servitutem secundum dei Legem deneget suo Principi Sed hene nostis ante multos Annos ipsam Elizabetham for so said Mr. Secretary he bluntly called her that same Elizabeth privatam esse Regno subditosque omnes absolutos esse à Juramento Fidelitatis per supremum Pontificem cui Regnans in excelsis Bex Regum omnimodum potestatem tradidit ut evellat distruat plantet aedificet ita ut ipsos Reges temporales si ad spirituale aedificiem expediret eósque ad depositionem à Regno privat quod factum esse in Regnis Angliae Hiberniae à pluribus Pontificibus supremis viz. Pio quinto Gregorio decimo tertio nunc Clemento octavo omnibus notum est quorum Diplomata extant apud nos Catholicis Loquor non protervis Haereticis qui à Fide Romanae Ecclesiae declinaverunt nam cum Caeci sunt Caecorum Duces sundamenta veritatis prorsus ignorant etiam in hoc dissentire à nobis non mirum est Sed nostri fratres Catholici in simplicitate fidei Romanae ambulentes Ecclesia Catholica consentientes quod est columna fundamentum veritatis omnia ista facile percipiant Ergo restat quod Hiberni qui vobis adherent nil adversus legem Dei fidelitatem debitam imò secundum divina praecepta obedientiam quam supremo Pontifici debent cooperentur Secundo asseritis nos Hispanos blanditiis fictitiis adulationibus Hibernos demulcire atque multa beneficia in illos exhibere quod in nostram aversissimam est natura sed hoc m o in principio facere ut simplicium animos ad nos convertentes in posterum credulitatem circa illos exercentes sanguinolentam naturam nostram ostendemus Proh Deum immortalem quis non miretur acerbam indicibilem credulitatem audaciámque vestram in his verbis ostensam Quis est enim qui non novit crudelitatem maximam quam vos Angli adversus miseros Hibernicos exercivistis exercere non desistitis vos inquam ab ipsorum animis fidem Catholicam quam coluerunt Patris eorum in quo salus aeterna consistit auferre conamini crudeliores profectò Vrsis Leonibus qui tantum temporalem vitam auferent vos tamen aeternam spiritualem Quis temporalia omnia istius florentissimi Regni demolitus est nisi Anglus videte hoc confundamini Nos vero Patriam dulcissimam foelicissimam Hispaniam omnibus scilicet bonis refertam vicem Catholicorum dolentes relinquimus eorum Clamoribus incitati qui Coelum Terrámque attingunt aures supremi Pontificis Regis nostri Philippi pulsantes misericordia moti Ad vos Milites Argentum Aurum Arma liberali manu tandem mittere decreverunt non ut erga vos Hiberni Catholici crudelitatem ut isti singunt exercerunt sed ut foeliciter vos à Diaboli faucibus ereptos à Tyrannide liberos ad pristinam vestram ingenuitatem redigant ut libere positis fidem Catholicam profiteri Ergo dilectissimi in Christo postquam jam quod per tot ante annos desiderio desiderastis praecibus lacrimis efflagitastis impetrastis jamjam Supremus Pontifex Vicarius Christi in Terris vobis imperat ut Arma in Defensionem vestrae fidei sumatis vos omnes moveo horior atque contestor Omnes in quam ad quos istae Litterae pervenerint ut quam citissime in vestra fuerit potestate ad nos cum Amicis Armis conveniatis Qui hoc fecerit nos paratos inveniet Arma nostra ceteráque possidemus ipsis communicabimus Qui aliter enim spretis nostris Conciliis saluberrimis secerit in salibra Anglorum obedientia permanserit tanquam Haereticum Hostem Ecclesiae invisum usque ad necem prosequimur Doryum de Laguia After the Parliament at the end of Hillary-Term next following the Lord Keeper by her Majesties express Command made a Speech in the Star-chamber on the 13th of February all these Personages being present viz. Sir Thomas Egerton Lord Keeper of the great Seal The Archbishop of Canterbury The Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer of England The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Worcester Sir William Knolls Controuler of her Majesties Houshold The Bishop of London Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice of England Mr. Secretary Herbert Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir _____ Peryam Lord Chief Baron Mr. Baron Clarke Mr. Baron Savelle Mr. Justice Fenner Mr. Justice Kingsmell Mr. Justice Warberton After a silence made and some few Motions made by Mr. Atturney-General and the Queens Counsel and some others the Cryer of the Court again made silence and the Lord Keeper putting off his Hat and then putting it on again spake to this effect My Lords I Am by her Majesties commandment to deliver unto you her gracious pleasure The Lord Keeper's Speech in the Star-chamber and those things which out of her Princely wisdom and care she hath thought fit to be made known I scarce know how to enter into this matter and I am sorry that now in speaking I shall lay open the looseness of the times neither are her Majesties Proclamations regarded neither her Councils Letters respected neither her late-made Statutes and Decrees obeyed nor put in so due execution as they ought These things deserve to have a more round and strict course than have been used and we deserve not so gracious a Pardon as it hath pleased her most gracious Majesty out of her meer goodness lately to bestow upon us but this onely to divers persons and offences of those which live in degree of private men But I am to speak of Offences of Mayors Justices of Assize A Charge for the keeping of Lent strictly and men of that condition The time of Lent and abstinence from Flesh if it be not duely observed what Dearth and Penury will not almost ensue And therefore was the time of Lent well placed even in the Spring and the beginning of the increase of Beasts Her Majesties express command is That it be strictly observed and that with this caution That where fault shall be found that there extremity shall be inflicted and that no
Alehouse-keepers Corporal punishments moved to be inflicted on them p. 181 Mr. Glascock opposes it Ibid. Aliens their children to pay strangers customs p. 10 Alisbury a bill concerning their Highway-land p. 119 Apparel a bill to reform excess in it passed p. 7 125 Armour and Weapons a bill touching them p. 105 Arrest complained of p. 134 c. Artillery where was but Iron now Brass p. 59 Assurance of Land a bill for it p. 132 143 Attendants made joynt Committees with Lords as had been usual in former Parliaments of this Queen but was not so in after-times p. 5 Attorney-General reflected on p. 141 Attorneys their number see Suits their multiplicity Inconvenient that Scriveners should act as such p. 209 Auditors a bill to prevent fraud in them and their Clerks p. 146 Award a bill to establish one p. 111 B Bastardie a bill against it p. 106 A Case put about it by Mr. Wiseman discussed p. 133 Beating the servant of a Member argued p. 259 260 Beggars a bill for their extirpation p. 105 Berwick a bill for that Town p. 26 Bill after ingrossed not to be look'd into p. 209 One returned by the Lords because sent up in Parchment when it should have been Paper p. 89 Bills not to be brought into the House obscurely p. 189 Bishops Leases a bill about them p. 186 Bishoprick the greatest in England but 2200 l. per an p. 187 Blades a bill for true making those of Daggers Swords and Rapiers p. 115 Blasphemers to be severely punish'd p. 188 An Instance of the great scandal caus'd by them Ibid. Bloud a bill for the restitution of Sir Tho. Perrot p. 73 Book-debts the bill largely debated p. 282 283 An Example of a Mercer p. 271 Bread a bill for its lawful Assize p. 74 Bridges a bill for their repairing p. 110 114 Brokers retailing a bill for them p. 97 Brownists deserve to be rooted out p. 76 A Sect too well known in England p. 320 Buildings a bill for restraint of new ones p. 77 Bullion a bill to prevent its transportation p. 226 Debated and spoken to p. 227 Burgesses two in competition p. 193 A Saying of Sir Edward Hobby concerning them Ibid. L. Burleigh the oldest Parliament-man p. 93 C Caps see Hats Captains and Souldiers p. 5 6 136 Cards for Wool a bill to prevent their importation p. 110 Case of Thomas Fitz-herbert p. 27 Cask see Clap-board Catalogue of the names of Parliament-men p. 337 Causey a bill to mend that of Egham p. 114 Cecil Sir Robert Secretary his large Speech p. 182 183 184 His saying Sir Robert Wroth had offered 100 l. per an towards the War with Spain p. 185 Chancellor Sir Christopher Hatton his Speech p. 2 CharitableVses a bill to prevent deceits and breaches of trust about them p. 97 Charter a bill to confirm that of K. Edw. 6. to the Hospitals about London p. 227 Chirurgeons A bill to provide able ones for Sea p. 93 A bill for the well ordering of them p. 114 A Case concerning a Cure p. 324 Church a bill against wilful abstaining from it debated p. 227 228 A bill for more diligent repair to it argued at large p. 273 274 275 Clap-board a bill concerning it p. 73 Clergie the benefit of it taken from them that steal away women without their consent p. 85 Cloaths a bill concerning several sorts p. 72 98 Cloath Northern a bill against stretching and Taintering p. 113 Cloathworkers a Committee for them p. 222 Coaches a bill to restrain their superfluous and excessive use p. 132 Colchester a bill concerning its Haven and Paving p. 74 Collection for poor Souldiers by the Lords p. 43 146 The like by the Commons p. 43 How disposed of p. 269 Command from the Queen to sit in the afternoons for dispatch being to sit but a week longer p. 309 Commons called over p. 15 28 Chuse their Speaker p. 15 53 Attend the Queen in the Council-chamber where the Speaker makes a Speech p. 261 Fall on their knees while the Qu. speaks p. 263 Are bidden to rise p. 264 Conveyances original by the Queen a bill p. 6 Cordwayners a bill concerning them p. 23 Corn a bill to stay it within the Realm p. 92 Correction a bill for houses to be erected p. 87 Cottages a bill against erecting and maintaining them p. 10 Counsel to attend on several occasions p. 28 139 140 Coyn a bill to prevent its transportation p. 201 Curriers a bill concerning them p. 23 Customs a bill to advance them p. 200 D Debates with some beat p. 297 Debts of Sir Henry Hatton a bill concerning them p. 106 Defaulters noted p. 28 Defeasances a bill for enrolling and exemplifying of them p. 109 Delays a bill to prevent them in Executions upon Judgments p. 135 Deprivation of Edm. Bonner late Bishop of London p. 68 And of divers other Bishops p. 85 Devon a bill for a Key in the North part in the River of Severn p. 144 Disorder in the House noted and reproved p. 301 Disms and Tenths a bill for their payment p. 6 Dominions why not enlarged p. 48 Doors of the Lords being shut complained of commanded to be opened p. 57 Their shutting excused p. 174 Dover-peer a bill for its maintenance p. 23 Spoken to by Sir Walter Rawleigh p. 309 And by Secretary Cecil p. 323 Doubt propounded and resolved p. 96 Double-Soal-Green a Highway neer London order'd to be amended p. 272 Draining certain grounds a bill for it p. 91 Drake Sir Francis resolved to be sent to Sea against the Spaniards p. 65 Dunkirk Pirates spoken against by Mr. Dannet his motion p. 280 281 It began with two Ships p. 280 Dunkirkers trouble our Fisher-men p. 58 Durham Writs upon Proclamations upon Exigents to be currant in that County Palatine p. 7 E Ecclesiastical Judges a bill against their excessive Fees p. 110 Eclipse a great one about noon p. 322 Election a Letter about a disturbance in the Election of Knights of the Shire p. 190 Embroiderers a bill to reform their abuses p. 222 Essex Earl created Earl Marshal and took his place p. 90 His rising p. 208 His matters p. 248 His going into Ireland 300000 l. spent since p. 199 Exchequer a bill touching the exactions there p. 17 A bill concerning Proces and Pleadings there p. 21 A bill for the observation of Rules there p. 143 Exeter a bill for confirming Letters Patents to the Merchant-adventurers there p. 115 A bill for uniting certain Churches into one Parish p. 193 Excuses for Lords absence to be made by Peers and not by others p. 135 Eye and Dunsden Security to the Citie for 20000 l. lent to the Queen p. 290 A bill to re-unite them to the Mannor of Sunning debated Ibid. F Family of Love see Brownists Felonies hereafter to be committed their punishment p. 108 Fifteens and Tenths see Subsidies Fish salted a bill concerning them p. 69 Fishing how prejudicial to the Lord Admiral p. 237 Fishmongers admitted
his Speech to the Queen but does not p. 334 Which caused a Murmur Ibid. It is further spoken to Ibid. Orford-Haven a bill for its preservation p. 9 Outlawries secret a bill to avoid them p. 11 P Painters and Plaisterers to be heard p. 144 Their Case debated p. 270 271 See more p. 313 314 315 Painting a bill to prevent abuses in it p. 114 A bill of no great moment p. 191 Pamphlets published by Jesuits and Seminaries p. 331 Pardon free several bills for it p. 29 49 147 335 To be craved for extravagant Speeches in the House p. 252 Thanks for the same p. 12 150 335 It passeth at once reading whereas other bills have three p. 44 Parishes of 8800 and odde not above 600 afford a competency p. 218 Paris garden a bill to re-unite the Mannor p. 121 Parliament summoned to begin Nov. 12. prorogued to Feb. 4. 1588. p. 1 Dissolved March 29. 1589. p. 29 Passed into Acts 16 publick and 8 private Bills Ibid. Began Nov. 19. 1592. p. 31 Dissolved Apr. 10. 1593. p. 50 We have no account of the number of Bills Began Octob. 24. 1597. p. 79 Dissolved Feb. 9. 1597. p. 99 Passed into Acts 24 publick and 19 private Bills p. 127 48 Bills refused that had past both Houses Began Octob. 27. 1601. p. 129 Dissolved Decem. 19. 1601. p. 333 Passed into Acts 19 publick and ten private Bills p. 151 Parliament-man priviledged and his servant for fourteen days p. 225 One of them swooneth in the House p. 332 Several Conjectures about it Ibid. Patents Committees named for them p. 103 Patents and Patentees a List of them Ibid. Pawn-takers see retailing Brokers Pedegree of the Marquess of Winchester p. 195 Pelts see Sheep-skins People a bill to increase them p. 90 Perjury a bill to prevent it p. 221 Petty Larceny its punishment p. 71 Phesants and Partridges a bill to preserve them p. 132 Pins a bill to avoid their importation p. 92 Plaintiff to pay the Defendant costs being in Prison for want of Bail if the Suit go against him p. 123 Plaisterers see Painters Pluralities a bill against them largely debated p. 218 219 220 Plymouth a bill for the Haven p. 74 Prayer a Copie of that used daily in the Commons House p. 179 Preamble to the bill of Subsidie p. 70 Precedent a notable one p. 233 Precedents that Warrants of new Election ought to go from the Speaker the Parliament sitting p. 192 Printers a bill against their multiplicity p. 322 One over Guild-hal-gate p. 217 Priviledges of Parliament canvass'd p. 254 255 Priviledge not to say what they list but Yea or No p. 37 Broken by an Arrest complained of p. 225 Privie-Counsellors irreverence to them blamed by the Queen p. 47 Probate of Wills its abuses moved against p. 104 Process a bill for its better execution p. 70 Proclamations upon Fines at Common Law to be abridg'd p. 7 Proctors all the Spiritual Lords but one had two p. 4 Protest of the Commons p. 95 Proviso for the Lard Powes and Sir Edward Herbert p. 25 Proxies ordinary and extraordinary p. 34 38 39 Purchasers a bill to assure their Lands p. 68 Purveyors a bill to reform their disorders p. 17 The Queens care about them signified by Mr. Speaker p. 24 Q QUEEN comes to the Vpper House p. 2 4 31 45 129 334 She makes a Speech her self p. 48 Swears by God she will punish Cowards Ibid. She makes another Speech p. 263 264 265 266 Quaere Whether the Speaker have a voice p. 321 The Speaker declares he hath none by custom Ibid. What was done with the money raised for the Poor p. 333 R Raleigh Sir Walter his sharp Speech and great silence after it p. 235 He complains for liberty of speech p. 302 He blushes p. 232 Rapesdale in Lancashire a bill for its Inhabitants p. 107 Recusants and Sectaries very pernicious to Government p. 46 Recusants Popish restrained to some place p. 40 A bill about them p. 61 Relief of Thomas Hasilrig Esq a bill p. 18 Of George Ognel Esq a bill p. 20 Of the Citie of Lincoln a bill p. 25 Remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Kettleby to be established on Francis Kettleby p. 135 Repeal of a branch of a Statute of 4 5 Phil. Mary p. 73 Roan made Admiral threatens England p. 58 Robbing in the day-time though none in the house not admitted to Clergie a bill p. 96 Robberies a bill to suppress them p. 105 S Sabbath-breakers Examples of Gods judgments upon them p. 274 School of Tunbridge a bill for it p. 22 Schoolmaster a bill to maintain one at Wanting p. 103 Secrets of the House misrepresented and discover'd complained of p. 18 Sectaries see Recusants Seditious persons a bill to punish them p. 38 Sergeant of London sent for on an Arrest p. 85 Sheeps skins a bill touching their transportation p. 102 Sheriffs a bill to reform abuses in them and their under-Officers p. 141 Ships one English beat twenty Spanish till they got our Guns p. 293 One of the Queen 's a petty Princes wealth p. 59 One ready laden with 36 Pieces of Ordnance p. 307 Shop-books a bill to prevent double payment of debts upon them p. 111 Silk-weavers a bill to reform their abuses p. 222 Sollicitors a Bill about them Ibid. Their Character p. 201 None to sollicit but without fee p. 222 No Mechanick trades-man to be one Ibid. Souldiers see Captains A bill to reform sundry abuses done by them in the War p. 95 A Collection for them p. 41 Absent Members of both Houses to pay double p. 43 Mr. Secretary Cecil's passionate Speech for maimed Souldiers p. 307 Spain the practices of that King against England p. 183 184 The Spanish General 's Letter to the Irish Catholicks p. 351 Speaker Sir George Snag He is presented excuses himself is approved His Thanks and Petitions allowed p. 4 5 Edward Coke Esq His excuse not allowed his Petitions granted p. 53 His Speech p. 35 He speaks again p. 36 His Speech to the Queen p. 45 Serjeant Yelverton His excuses Petitions c. p. 82 He giveth a Caution p. 101 John Crook Esquire Recorder of London His Speech p. 131 149 He gives an account of the Queens Speech p. 71 272 He makes his Speech p. 334 Speeches of many worthy Members upon several occasions p. 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Spinners a bill concerning them p. 73 Spur a Motion about an ancient custom of putting off the Spurs before entrance of Members into the House p. 181 Stanes Bridge a Bill for its reparation p. 110 Star-chamber persons present there p. 353 Statutes a bill to repeal certain of them p. 19 See p. 74 Stealing of horses a Proviso against it p. 189 A bill about stealing Oxen Sheep c. p. 69 Stealers of Corn and Fruit a bill against them p. 112 Stews their Case like that of Ale-houses p. 181 Being suppressed every house is a Bawdy-house
supposed to have been unduly and indirectly elected And also for the allowing of Sir George Carew Kt. to be Burgess for the Burrough of Camelsford in the County of Cornwall as truely returned Burgess of the said Burrough of Camelsford in the said County of Cornwall instead of Richard Leech alleadged to have been returned by the said Sheriff by a false Return made before the said other Return of the said Sir George Carew And also for changing the name of John Dudley Esq returned for the Burrough of Newtown in the County of Southampton into the name of Thomas Dudley Esq alleadged to be the same person in very deed that should have been returned and that his name was mistaken and none living known by the name of John Dudley His Lordships answer and resolution in the said Case was That the said Returns by the said Burgesses of Southwark and Camelsford should stand and continue according to the Return of the same without taking notice of any fact therein or in the Election at all And that his Lordship would direct another Writ for chusing of another Burgess for the Burrough of Newtown instead of the said John Dudley and that his Lordship would insert the said Cause of misnomer so as is before alleadged Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for confirmation of the assurance unto certain Purchasers of Lands sold by Sir Richard Knightly Kt. Valentine Knightly and Edward Knightly Esquires was upon the reading the second time committed to Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Sir Henry Vmpton Mr. Cradock and others who were appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Friday March 9. the Bill concerning Woollen-cloaths called Vesses c. was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Knowls Sir John Hart Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet on Tuesday next in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Sir John Harrington and Sir Thomas Wilks were added to the former Committees in the Bill for confirmation of certain assurances unto certain Purchasers of Land sold by Sir Richard Knightly Kt. Valentine Knightly and Edward Knightly Esquires appointed yesterday The Committees in the Bill touching Recusants nominated upon Wednesday the 28 of February before-going are appointed to meet in this House at two of the clock this afternoon The Committees also in the Bill for the naturalizing Samuel Saltingston and others nominated on the sixth of this instant March are appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall Divers Bills were this day read On Saturday March 10. Mr. Wroth one of the Committees in the Bill against stealing Oxen Sheep and Lambs shewed that he and the rest of the Committees in the same Bill have met together and added some Amendments to the same Bill and offered both the Bill and Amendments to the House which Amendments being inserted into the Bill by the Clerk of this House and the same Amendments then also twice read the Bill upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for relief of Jurors Bill for relief of Jurors upon Tryals upon Tryals between Party and Party was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Tasborough Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Wroth and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Tasborough who with the rest were appointed to meet this day at two of the clock in the afternoon at Middle-Temple-hall Divers other Bills were this day also read March 11. Sunday On Munday March 12. Mr. Lewis one of the Committees in the Bill concerning salted Fish and salted Herrings shewed That he and the rest of the Committee had taken pains in consideration of the said Bill and have added a Proviso and prayed the twice reading of the said Proviso and that the same Bill and Proviso may be ordered to be ingrossed Whereupon the said Proviso being twice read the said Bill and Proviso after some Speeches both against the said Bill and with it was upon the Question referred to the former Committees who were appointed on Munday the fifth of this instant March to be considered of in this afternoon of this present day in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill committed for the confirmation of Letters-Patents to the Mayor Sheriffs Citizens and Commonalty of Lincoln and concerning the lawful deprivation of Edward Bonner late Bishop of London are delivered to Sir Edward Dimmocke one of the Committees and also the Committees names in both the said Bills And divers Bills read On Tuesday March 13. the Bill for reducing disloyal Subjects to their obedience had its second reading Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer brought in a Preamble agreed by the major part of the Committees to be set down in the Bill for the Subsidies if this House shall think well to like of it which Preamble being read by the Clerk of this House the same was after some Speeches had pro con committed upon the Question unto Mr. Vicechamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Broughton Mr. Brown and others to be presently further considered of in the Committee-chamber of this House Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Ford brought from the Lords a Bill concerning the Lands of Henry late Lord of Abergaveny deceased with a Message also from their Lordships to desire that a Committee of selected Members of this House may be appointed to have Conference with a Committee of the Lords touching the continuance of the Statute It was resolved by the House to assent to such a Committee and that assent was also delivered in answer to the said Mr. Atturney and Dr. Ford and to attend their Lordships therein at such time and place as their Lordships should please to signifie unto this House and appoint for that purpose Divers Bills were this day read On Wednesday March 14. Sir Edward Hobby one of the Committees in the Bill touching Mr. Stafford brought in the Bill with some Amendments and opening the Effect of the said Amendments to the House the same Amendments being then also read by the Clerk it was ordered by the House that the same Amendments should be inserted into the Bill The Bill for Mr. Anthony Coke had its first reading Mr. Richard Lukenor one of the Committees in the Bill concerning the lawful deprivation of Edward Bonner late Bishop of London brought in the Bill with some Amendments and opening the contents of the same Amendments unto the House the same Amendments being then also read to the House by the Clerk it was ordered by this House that the said Amendments should be inserted in the said Bill which was done accordingly Divers other Bills were this day also read On Thursday March 15. Sir Edward Dimmocke one of the Committees in the Bill for confirmation of Letters-Patents to the Mayor Sheriffs Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Lincoln appointed on Saturday the 10th of this instant March brought in the Bill with some Amendments and opening
Bacon and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday next at the Exchequer-Chamber at two of the clock in the Afternoon and the Bill and Committees names were then delivered to Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchie The Bill for taking away of benefit of the Clergy from Offenders against the Statute made 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of Women against their wills unlawfully was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Boyes Mr. Finch Mr. Bourcher and M. Duport to go presently into the Committee-chamber of this House who taking the Bill with them and returning again very soon after they had inserted into the Bill these words viz. hereafter to be committed which words being read unto the House and not well liked of were stricken out and these words were set down therein by consent of the House viz. to be committed after the end of this present Parliament and were then twice read and so the Bill upon the question was ordered to be ingrossed On Tuesday Novemb. 8. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching the transporting of Sheep-skins and Pelts was read prima vice Also two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for due performance of the last Will and Testament of George Durant was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Edward Hobby Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Francis Maro Sir Robert Wingfield Mr. Calthrope Sir Thomas Cecil and Sir James Harrington who were appointed to meet to morrow in the Exchequer-Court at Two of the clock in the Afternoon Sir Francis Hastings moved for the abridging and reforming of the excessive number of superfluous and burthensome penal Laws which motion being seconded by Mr. Francis Bacon and others the consideration of the management thereof was committed to all the Privy-Council being Members of the House A Bill to reform the number of superfluous and burthensome penal Laws c. all the Serjeants at Law likewise being Members of this House all the Lawyers of this House Mr. George Moore Mr. Lukenor Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. Rotherham Mr. Comistie Mr. Diggs Mr. Crompton Mr. Peake Mr. Atturney of the Court of Wards Mr. Colebrand Mr. Atturney of the Dutchie Mr. Tolerby Mr. Culpepper Dr. Bennet Dr. James Dr. Perkins all the Knights of the Counties and for the City of London returned into this House Sir William Moore Sir Edward Hobby Sir Thomas Hobby and Mr. Hubbert who were appointed to meet in this House upon Thursday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon On Wednesday Novemb. 9. two Bills had each of them one reading the second being the Bill to suppress the multitude of Maltsters Bill to suppress the multitude of Maultsters was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Hubbert the Burgesses of Iork Hull Worcester and Gloucester Mr. Nathaniel Bacon and others who were appointed to meet at Two of the clock this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being for the amendment of Weavers and Spinners Wages was read prima vice The House began this day to name Committees touching Monopolies and Patents of Priviledges of which Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Barker Mr. Lawrence Hide and some nine others being appointed Mr. Secretary Cecil moved the House the day being far spent and the business in agitation of great weight the nominating of the said Committee might be deferred until the day following and that then it might be discussed and set down touching what matter the said Committee should treat Whereupon upon the question it was deferred accordingly On Thursday Novemb. 10. the Bill for the establishing of the Town-lands of Wanting in the County of Berks to the relief of the Poor amending of High-ways and maintaining of a School-master in the Town of Wanting aforesaid was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Controler the Knights for the County of Berks Mr. Henry Nevil Sir Humphry Foster Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Oglethorp Mr. Laurence Hide Mr. Little Mr. Tasborough and Mr. Oldsworth who were appointed to meet on Saturday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in this House Three other Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for re-edifying the Town of Langford Estevor in the County of Somerset was upon the second reading committed unto the Knights for the County of Somerset Sir Francis Hastings Mr. Hexte all the Burgesses of Somerset-shire Mr. Edward Philips Mr. Alexander Popham the Knights and Citizens for London Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Jerom Horsey and Dr. James who were appointed to meet on Munday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Mr. Walgrave moved touching the abuses of Licenses for Marriages granted by Ecclesiastical persons and prayed that consideration may be had for reformation thereof by this House On Friday Novemb. 11. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill concerning the Hospital of Warwick Dr. Wingfield and Dr. James do shew sundry great abuses by Licenses for Marriages without Banes granted by Registers and other inferior Officers Whereupon Sir Thomas Cecil moved for a Committee for drawing a Bill for reformation thereof whereupon were nominated Sir Thomas Cecil Mr. Fannel Mr. Finch Dr. James Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. Robert Wingfield and others who were appointed to meet to morrow at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in Grays-Inn-hall Mr. Hexte moved touching the abuses in Probates of Wills Mr. Edward Hobby moved for a Committee for continuance of several Statutes whereupon were nominated Mr. Atturney of the Dutchie Mr. Atturney of the Court of Wards Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Sollicitor Sir Edward Hobby Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Francis Bacon all the Serjeants at Law being of this House Sir William Moore and others and a note of the names of the Committees were delivered to Sir Robert Wroth who with the rest were appointed to meet on Thursday next in the Inner-Temple-hall at Two of the clock in the Afternoon On Saturday Novemb. 12. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the repeal of the Statute of the 23 of her Majesties raign Bill for increase of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation intituled An Act for the increase of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation was upon the second reading committed unto all the Burgesses of the Port-towns all the Citizens of London York Hull and Norwich the Burgesses of Carnarvan Mr. Miles Sands and others who were appointed to meet on Munday next at Two of the clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill against the counterfeiting the Hands of the Lords Bill against counterfeiting of Hands was read the second time and upon the question committed unto all the Privy-Council being Members of this House all the Serjeants at Law
deny the Bill a Commitment and so let it lye in the Deck and not put it to the Question for Ingrossing Sir George Moore said Sir George Moore against it I will be bold to give my Reason and leave the Consideration thereof unto you I wish it might be Committed for for ought I hear yet a Proviso might help all The Old Statute is The next Justice this is The Justices of the Quarter-Sessions It is intended that all Justices every Quarter-Sessions give their Attendance There have been oftentimes Letters from her Majesties Privy-Council and Orders from Her Majesty her self who looketh down with a gracious Eye upon the Meanest of Her Subjects touching these Ale-House-Keepers Therefore I wish That we do not cast it forth but give it the ordinary and due Consideration of other Bills by way of Commitment Mr. Wiseman said I am very Respectful of the Place from whence this Bill cometh if the Parliament be short as ther 's no other likely-hood and time so pretious with us that we Sit in the Afternoons and this Bill Incurable and not to be mended and the former Laws so Politique that I think we shall not make a better for my part I think it needless to be Committed but to be put to the Question For the Point that Four Justices of the Peace should License c. by this Statute though they deserve to be suppressed yet there is no Power limited of Suppression Besides there is a Statute that Badgers and Loaders shall be Licensed under Justices hands in the Quarter-Sessions I know my self that even when the Justices are going out of Town and even ready to take Horse the Clerk of the Peace will bring 40. or 50. to be signed by one and then another he straight puts to his hand because he will not stay and knows no more of the Man or the Matter than he that never read them And so would this Statute if it should go forwards be Abused Mr. Bond said Mr. Bond moves for a Proviso ' If this Act pass for a Law notwithstanding any exceptions that have been taken I humbly desire you all that one Proviso may be put in and that is That no Retainer or Servant to a Justice of Peace be admitted to be an Ale-house-Keeper Vintner or Victualler unless he shall be Chosen by a Jury of Twelve Men at the Leet or Law-day of that Burrough-Town wherein he desireth to Victual I know and speak what I know very well that more disorder and more Misrule is usually kept in the Houses of such kind of men than in all the Country besides if this stand not for a Law order may be taken for such kind of Offences The Law before alloweth two Justices I wish these Protecting Justices may not have the same Power for as some be Magistrates so they are men I know many Abuses touching Authority given to men that be Tipplers I am a Devonshire-man and I speak plainly from the Heart of him that hates Popery and defies Puritanism I add further that I am Her Majesties Subject to whose Sacred Self I acknowledge my self in all duty bound and I Pray with the Psalmist her Enemies Confundentur Mr. Speaker I know what I speak and I have Reason to speak thus by Reason of some Imputation that hath been Offer'd me by one whom in Charity I Pray God Forgive Mr. Martyn said Mr. Martyn for putting it to the Question The Gentleman that last spake it seems spake out of his Grief of mind in being galled by some Tongue-metal And I think there is no man that feeleth blowes but would be glad to be eased of them I cannot therefore blame him to purge and defend himself by this Apology But that hath led us out of the Ale-house Yet I wish that we might make a quick Return by putting it without further Disputation to the question So it was put to the Question It is Rejected whether it should be Committed and all said No No but Mr. Wingfield at which the House Laughed Then the Questions upon the continuance of Statutes were offer'd to be Read The Bill concorning Ordnance called for But the House called for the Bill concerning Ordnance yet the Clerk fell to Read the Questions but still the House cried Upon the Bill for Ordnance At length Mr. Cary stood up and said In Whom it lies to chuse what Bill shall be Read In the Roman Senate the Conful always appointed what should be read and what not So may our Speaker whose place is a Consul's place If he erre or do not his duty fitting to his place we may remove him and there have been Precedents for it But to appoint what business should be handled in my Opinion we cannot At which Speech some Hissed Mr. Wiseman said Mr. Wiseman's Opinion I Reverence Mr. Speaker in his place But I make great difference between the Old Roman Consuls and him Ours is a municipal Government and we know our own Grievances better than Mr. Speaker and therefore 't is fit that every man Alternis vicibus should have those Acts be called for he conceives most fit And all said I I I. Mr. Hackwell said I wish nothing may be done but by Consent that breeds the best Concordance My desire is Mr. Hackwel's Motion about it The Bill for Ordnance should be Read If you Mr. Speaker do not think so I humbly Pray it may be put to the Question Mr. Comptroller stood up and said Mr. Comptroller speaks against these Disorders I am sorry to see this Confusion in this House It were better we used more Silence and spake in Order Yesterday you ordered the Bill for the Continuance of Statutes should be Read now in an humor you cry Ordnance Ordnance I pray you that we first Decreed let us stick to and not do and undo upon every Idle motion Mr. Secretary Cecil said I will speak shortly Secretary Cecil Composes it because it best becomes me neither will I trouble your Patience long because the time permits it not It is a Maxim Praestat otiosum esse quam nihil agere I wish the Bill for continuance of Statutes c. may be Read and that agrees with the precedent Order of this House and more with the Gravity thereof yet because this Spirit of Contradiction may no more trouble us I beseech you let the Bill for Ordnance be Read And that 's the Houses Desire The Bill against Transportation of Iron-Ordnance Gun-metal ' and Shot was Read And Sir Robert Wroth Informed the House That a Ship is now upon the River ready to go away Laden with Thirty Six peeces of Ordnance It was put to the Question Whether the Statute concerning the Poor should be continued and all cried I I I. Mr. Secretary Cecil said Secr. Cecil about Maimed Souldiers I am sorry that I have so great Occasion to Recommend to the Houses Consideration the miserable estate of Maimed Souldiers War