as being born in England were each of them read the third time and passed the House and were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain On Wednesday the 8 th day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Leases to be made by Spiritual persons was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bishop of Worcester in proper person required the Copy of a Bill exhibited against his Bishoprick and a day to make Answer in writing or otherwise The Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield made the like Petition The Bishop of Winchester at this time was Richard Pate and the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield was Ralph Banes whose stiff opposition against the Reformation of Religion perfected this Parliament as also the free Liberty they had to defend their own Causes either in person or by their Counsel do argue as in them and divers other Bishops at this time much boldness and perverseness so in her Majesty incomparable Lenity and Moderation who so impartially and patiently suffered their opposition and gave way to their Allegations that so they might be fully convicted upon indifferent hearing It was Ordered that the Bishop of Worcester shall have the Copy and make his Answer upon Saturday next and the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield on Monday next after And it is likewise granted that the other parties shall then and there have their Counsel to hear the Bishops On Thursday the 9 th day of March four Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was the Bill for the Assurance of the Jointure of the Dutchess of Norfolk The Bill to assure certain Lands late of the Bishoprick of Winchester to the Queen and certain Patentees of King Edward the VI. was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been formerly sent down from the Lords On Friday the 10 th day of March the Bill touching Colledges and Chantries surrendred to King Henry VIII was read the first time The Bill for Restitution in Blood of Robert Rudston And the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Edward Lewkenors Sons and Daughter were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been formerly sent down from the Lords The Bill against destruction of Fry of Salmons Eels and other Fish And the Bill for dwelling of Cloathiers in Barford Dedding Coxal and Bocking in Essex were each of them read the first time And the Proviso devised by the Lords in the Bill of Treasons had its second reading The Bill for the Answering of the Revenues to the Queen with the Incorporation of Trinity-Hall were brought from the Lords by M r Sollicitor Rowland Lakin Burgess for Wenlock was Licensed to be absent for his business at the Assizes On Saturday the 11 th day of March the Bill to confirm Leases and Grants made by D r Ridley late Bishop of London was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bishop of Worcester with his Counsel declared that Hooper was not lawful Bishop by reason of the Appeal of Bishop Heath And so the Grant not good and prayed the House to consider of it Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 8. day of this instant March foregoing On Monday the 13 th day of March three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the punishment of seditious words and rumours was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the Lords The Bishop of London in proper person required a Copy of a Bill put in for Confirmation of Leases granted by Doctor Ridley Usurper of the Bishoprick as he saith which Copy was granted unto him with addition that the House doth intend to take his Title in the Bishoprick as it is And to make his Answer by words on Wednesday next peremptory at nine of the Clock The Bishop of London at this time was Edmund Bonner whose stiff opposition against the Reformation of Religion perfected this Parliament as also the free Liberty he had here to defend his own Cause either in Person or by his Counsel doth argue as in him and divers others Popish Bishops at this time much boldness and perverseness so in her Majesty incomparable lenity and moderation who so impartially and patiently suffered their oppositions and gave way to their Allegations that so they might be fully convicted upon indifferent hearing The Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield with his Counsel declared that for the Fine Levied M r Fisher hath no cause to complain To the which M r Fisher's Counsel alledged that the Fine was made by compulsion Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 8 th day of this instant March foregoing Thomas Church one of the Citizens for Hereford for his Affairs was Licensed to be absent On Tuesday the 14 th day of March the Bill for Liberties of Hexham and Hexhamshire and the Bill for Craftsmen to dwell near the Sea in Kent were each of them read the second time The Bill also for carrying of Leather and Tallow over the Sea to be made Felony was read the second time Articles being devised for the punishment of the Bishop of Winchester and others for Cancelling of Records It was Ordered that a Bill should be thereof drawn by M r Keilway On Wednesday the 15 th day of March three Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was the Bill to restore deprived Bishops The Bill for Cloathiers to dwell in Bocking Coxal c. was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Two other Bills also had each of them their second reading of which was one Bill for the Jointure and Marriage of the Dutchess of Norfolk The Bishop of London in his proper person shewing the untruth of the Bill as he takes it did conclude that the Commissioners for his Deprivation did not according to their Commission And yet by his Appeal as also by his Letters Patents from Queen Mary he standeth still Bishop and the Grants made by Doctor Ridley void Vide touching this matter on Monday the 13 th day of this instant March foregoing The Bill lastly for Restitution in Blood of the Sons and Daughter of Edward Lewkenor was read the third time and passed the House On Thursday the 16 th day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to make lawful the Deprivations of Bishops and Spiritual persons was read the first time The Bill for the Assurance of the Lands late parcel of the Bishoprick of
Grey Marquess Dorset and Frances his Wife the Eldest Daughter and Coheir of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk by Mary the French Queen being the youngest Daughter of Henry the Seventh and especially seeing that the Queen of Scots having Married the Lord Darley whom she had Created Duke of Albany and had by him Issue a Son born before the beginning of this Session of Parliament who afterwards was Monarch of Great Britain and duly considering also that the Scottish Queen had during the Life of the French King her Husband by his means pretended a right to the Kingdom of England before the Queen her self in respect of the Popes Authority and that some also did not stick to set a broach the Title of the Lady Elianor being the younger Sister and Coheir with the Countess of Hartford Married to the Earl of Cumberland therefore I say all these said premisses being duly weighed by both the said Houses of Parliament it made them to be more earnest in Petitioning her Majesty at this time to the same effect although it seemeth that the Petition delivered at this time was chiefly preferred in the name of the Lords of the Upper House as that other Petition had formerly been preferred in the Name of the Commons in the first Session of this Parliament in An. 5 Regin Eliz. whence it hath come to pass that neither of these Petitions being set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of Commons in either of these two Sessions of Parliament the times of their delivery have been exceedingly confounded together in all such several Copies as I have perused of them in which as also in Sir Robert Cotton's first Volume of the Journals of Parliament of the Queens time which are very imperfect and fragmentary they are erroneously Entred to have been both delivered in An. 1563. in which Year as also in part of the Year 1562. the Session in An. 5 Regin Eliz. was continued Post Meridiem The Archbishop of York the Lord Treasurer and the other Lords whose names are mentioned in the former part of this day with Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold and Sir William Cecill Knight her Majesties Principal Secretary and divers other Members of the House of Commons repaired to her Majesty this Afternoon being at her Palace of Whitehall to receive Answer from her Highness touching those two great businesses of her Marriage and the Declaration of her Successor as appeareth plainly by the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons fol. 266. a. where the report of her Majesties Answer is set down which she gave this Afternoon although there be no mention at all thereof in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House And that this was the cause and ground of their attending upon her Majesty at this time appeareth also plainly by a certain Manuscript Memorial or Diary kept and set down by Sir William Cecill her Highness Principal Secretary and afterwards Lord Treasurer of England of the passages of the greatest part of her Majesties Reign in which the words are as followeth Nov. 5. The Queen had before her thirty Lords and thirty of the Commons of the Parliament to receive her Answer concerning the Petition for the Succession and for Marriage But whether the Lords preferred their said Petition this Afternoon or whether they had supplicated her Majesty any time before doth not any where certainly appear neither can I possibly gather further than by conjecture and so it is most probable that though her Majesty had notice before what their Petition was yet it was not preferred till this Afternoon For but on Saturday Morning foregoing which was the second day of this instant November it is plain that the Committees of the House of Commons as appeareth by the Original Journal-Book of the same House on Thursday the 31 th day of October fol. 264. b. on which day the said meeting of the Committees was appointed did then meet to consider and agree upon such reasons as they should shew to the Committees of the Lords whereby they might induce her Majesty both to encline to Marriage and to declare a Successor And however Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal be not nominated in either of the Original Journal-Books of the Upper House and House of Commons to have been present with the before-mentioned Lords and others yet it is plain that if the said Petition was preferred this Afternoon or whensoever else it was delivered from his mouth as may be gathered from the very Petition it self ensuing and is so also expresly set down by M r Camden in Annal Regin Eliz. edit Lugdun Batav A. D. 1625. pag. 99. and though he had abstained a while about this time from the Upper House by reason of his infirmity of the Gout yet he was now in the way of amendment and recovery repairing again to the said House on Saturday the 9. day of this instant November ensuing and therefore might very well meet the before-mentioned Lords and other the selected Members of the House of Commons at the Court this Afternoon So then it being most probable that the Lords did both prefer their Petition this Afternoon to her Majesty touching those two great matters of the Marriage and Succession and also received her Majesties Answer Therefore the said Petition doth here first ensue which the Lord Keeper pronounced in these or the like words following MOST humbly beseecheth your Excellent Majesty your Faithful Loving and Obedient Subjects all your Lords both Spiritual and Temporal Assembled in Parliament in your Upper House to be so much their good Lady and Soveraign as according to your accustomed benignity to grant a Gracious and Favourable Hearing to their Petitions and Suits which with all Humbleness and Obedience they are come hither to present to your Majesty by my Mouth in matters very nearly and dearly touching your most Royal Person the Imperial Crown of this your Realm and Universal Weal of the same which Suits for that they tend to the surety and preservation of these three things your Person Crown and Realm the Dearest Jewel that my Lords have in the Earth therefore they think themselves for divers respects greatly bound to make these Petitions as first by their Duty to God then by their Allegiance to your Highness and lastly by the Faith they ought to bear to their natural Country And like as most Gracious Soveraign by these Bonds they should have been bound to make the like Petition upon like occasion to any Prince that it should have pleased God to have appointed to Reign over them so they think themselves doubly bound to make the same to your Majesty considering that besides the Bond before-mentioned they stand also bound so to do by the great and manifold benefits they have and do receive daily at your Highness hands which shortly to speak be as great as the Fruits of Peace common quiet and Justice can give and this
Bill by the Lords denied to be given in writing to the Commons till Conference first had p. 536 Onslow Richard chosen Speaker in the Parliament held 8 9 Eliz. his Speeches to the Queen at his Confirmation p. 97 98. at the Dissolution of that Parliament p. 114 115 P. THE Painters having presented a Bill against the Plaisterers which passed not the Upper House it is Ordered by that House that their complaint shall be heard and adjudged by the Lord Mayor Recorder c. p. 617 Pardon Vide Bills Parliament which is the first and last day thereof or of a particular Session p. 9. The manner of the Sovereign and Peers sitting in Parliament p. 10. 59. 96. the manner of setting down the presence of the Peers in the Journal Book p. 62 Passing of Bills Vide Bills Patents of priviledge petition'd against in the Parliament 39 40 Eliz. which the Queen construes to be a violation of her Prerogative p. 547 Peers to be of age before they sit in the House p. 11. 96. how attired p. 11. Vide Parliament Popish Bishops suffered to sit in the Parliament 1 Eliz. but turn'd out of their Sees at the end of the Session p. 23. How they opposed divers Bills ibid. and p. 28. 30. a dispute betwixt them and some English men come from Geneva p. 53 Presence of the Peers how marked p. 62 111. Priviledge Vide Attach The solemn Procession of the Queen and House of Lords at the opening of the Parliament 5 Eliz. p. 58. and 13 Eliz. p. 136 Prorogation Vide Writ The Sovereign after a Prorogation comes not to the Parliament with that solemnity as is usual at the first meeting p. 95. After the end of a Prorogation a new Session beginneth p. 318 Provisoes when added by the Lords unto Bills sent up to them from the Commons are written in Parchment p. 26 Proxie the form of the Licence from the Queen to a Peer to make one p. 3. a Peer ordinarily does not make one without such licence p. 270. The form of making a Proxy and entring it in the Journal-Book p. 4. and 8. The nature and use of a Proxy and the form of returning them p. 5. What an absent Peer used to forfeit if he constituted no Proxy p. 6. The form of making a Proxy without licence from the Sovereign ibid. The form of revoking a Proxy p. 7. How many Proxies one Peer is capable of receiving p. 8 9. 58. 101. 196. 598. where as also p. 314. is mentioned an Order of the Lords 2 Car. 1. that from thenceforth no Lord should be capable of above two Proxies A Commoner can constitute no Proxy and why p. 9. A spiritual Lord does not now appoint a Temporal Lord for his Proxy nor on the contrary but formerly they did p. 58. 378. A Temporal Lord usually constitutes but one Proxy and a Spiritual two p. 101. Yet a Spiritual Lord sometimes appoints but one sometimes three p. 196. 460 461. and also a Temporal sometimes two ibid. Proxies are appointed after a Prorogation as well as at the beginning of a Parliament p. 268. They may be delivered into the hands of the Clerk as well before the Parliament begin as after p. 311. Why Bishops Proxies are entred before those of the Temporal Lords p. 523. 598. In the former part of the Queens Reign they were entred in the Journal Book with express mention of the several dayes on which they were returned but in the latter part thereof and since only generally p. 597 Serjeant Puckering Lord Keeper in 35 Eliz. p. 456. His Speech to the Parliament held that year p. 457 458. He dies in 38 Eliz. Anno Domini 1596. p. 522 R. REading Vide Bills Receivors and Tryors of Petitions in the House of Lords the manner of entring them in the Journal Book p. 14 15 A Bill for Recognition of the Queens Title to the Crown of England p. 18 Restitution in bloud of Sir James Crost a Bill for it p. 21. of Sir Henry Gate ibid. of John Lord Grey ibid. of Robert Rudston ibid. of Henry Howard p. 22. of the Sons and Daughters of Edward Lewkenor p. 25. of Katherine Wife to the Lord Berkely and of her Sisters p. 27. 54 55. of Gregory Fynes ibid. of Lord Dacres of the South p. 55. of Ann Thomas Thomas Isely Thomas Diggs Thomas Brook William Cromer Cutbert Vaughan c. p. 68. of Arch-bishop Cranmer's and Lord Husseys Children p. 69. of Sir Ralph Chamberlain John Harleston and William West ibid. and p. 70. of Sir Peter Carew and Edward Turner p. 70. of Sir Thomas Wyats Children p. 146. of Henry Brereton Esq p. 147. of John Lord Stourton his Brothers and Sisters p. 230. Vid. p. 261 262. the Bills dashed p. 264 265. of Henry Lord Norris of Ricaut p. 231. of Anthony Mayney ibid. and 273. of Thomas Howard Son of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk p. 317. of Sir Thomas Parrot p. 510 S. A Saving requisite in every Bill p. 464 Queens Serjeants though but Attendants on the House made Committees p. 99. 108. Though they are to attend upon the Upper House as Councellors yet they have no voice there but may in the House of Commons if Members thereof p. 249 Serjeant at Arms whether to be employed to take into custody those that are accused of breach of priviledge of the Upper House or whether the Gentleman Usher p. 603. He is ordered to bring before the House a Lords Servant committed upon an Arrest to Newgate as also him that Arrested him for breach of Priviledge p. 607. This not to injure the Gentleman Usher's pretensions to that right ibid. Under Sheriff of Surrey committed to Prison for aiding the Arrest of an ordinary Servant of the Queen in Parliament time p. 606 Thomas Smith Esq made Clerk of the House of Lords 39 Eliz. p. 522 Queens Solicitour made a Joint-Committee with the Lords p. 142. Being chosen a Member of the House of Commons he is demanded of them to attend there but denied by the Lords p. 424 Spain's design against England set out in a Speech by the Lord Keeper p. 599. See the word in the Table to the Journal to the House of Commons Spilman Francis Clerk of the House of Lords in the Parliament 1 Eliz. p. 14. continued in that place in the Parliaments held 5 Eliz. and 8 9 Eliz. but in 13 Eliz. succeeded by Anthony Mason p. 136 Spiritual Lords why their Names are set down in the Journal Book before those of the Temporal p. 598 Star-Chamber dayes the Lords seldom sate on them p. 67 Bills of Subsidy sent from the Commons seldom alter'd by the Lords p. 69. Subsidies granted by the Clergy always ingrossed in Latin but the confirmation thereof in Parliament is in English p. 229. The Subsidy of the Clergy should be sent to the Commons in a Skin of Parchment under the Sovereigns band and seal p. 688. The body of the Grant of the Subsidies of the
them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the County Palatine of Durham and the Isle of Ely was upon the second reading committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Northumberland the Bishop of London and others Dominus Thesaurarius in absentia Domini Custodis magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox hora nona Nota That there appeareth no Commission or other Authority in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House by which the Lord Treasurer supplied the Lord Keepers place but most probable it is that either the Commission it self is negligently omitted by Anthony Mason Esquire at this time Clerk of the same House or that the Lord Treasurer did continue it only upon her Majesties verbal Authority and Command as it is very likely the Lord Chief Justice did supply the Lord Keeper's place on Thursday the 5 th day of June in the first Session of this very Parliament in Anno 14 Reginae Eliz. And it is certain that Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal growing at this time after which he did not long live both Aged and Sickly gave occasion to her Majesty by reason of his weakness to Authorize others more frequently to supply his place than it is otherwise likely she would have done Vide Consimil Mar. 4. in An. 1 Eliz. On Monday the 5 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching the Lord Viscount Bindou and Henry Howard his Son was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was for the assurance of certain Lands to Sir John Rivers Knight and another for the perpetual maintenance of Rochester-Bridge Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 6 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for setting the poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness was read the second time but no mention made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the House of Commons The Bill for the true Tanning and Currying of Leather was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching Viscount Bindon and Henry Howard his Son was read tertiâ vice Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was for the repairing of Chepstow-Bridge and the third was the Bill for Reformation of the Jeofails Two Bills finally had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill whereby certain Authority was given to the Justices of the Queens Majesties Parks Forests and Chases was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem prox hora nona On Wednesday the 7 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the restitution in Blood of John Lord Stourton his Brother and Sisters was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by D r Yale and D r Barkley Four other Bills also had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill whereby certain Authority was given to the Justices of the Queens Parks Forests and Chases was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Yale and M r Powle Clerk of the Crown Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of the which one was for the Confirmation of Letters Patents with certain Amendments and another for avoiding of sraudulent Gifts by the late Rebels in the North. The Bill lastly for the Trial of Nisi prius in the County of Middlesex was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the House of Commons Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ nonâ On Thursday the 8 th day of March Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for maintenance of the Colleges in the Universities of Winchester and Eaton and the second against buying and selling of Rooms and Places in Colleges and Schools were each of them read primâ vice Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for setting the poor on work and for the avoiding of Idleness was read tertia vice conclusa with a Proviso added by the Lords and certain Amendments and sent to the House of Commons by D r Vaughan and D r Yale Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem About which hour the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling Ten Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the Toleration of certain Cloths in Com. Wilts Somers and Dors. the fifth for Reformation of Disorders in common Informers the sixth for the payment of Tythes in the Town of Reading in like sort as it is in the City of London the seventh touching Benefices Impropriate the eighth for reformation of Abuses in Goldsmiths and the last being the Bill for the reformation of Jeofailes were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because they had been formerly sent from the House of Commons Four Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was for the making of certain Denizens and another for avoiding fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances made by the late Rebels in the North. On Friday the 9 th of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fifth being the Bill for the repairing and amending of Highways and Bridges near unto Oxford and the sixth and last being the Bill that the Plaintiff shall be sworn upon his Bill as the Defendant is sworn upon his Answer was read secundâ vice but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Hospital at Leicester was returned conclusa Four Bills of no great moment lastly had each of them
Heyle Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Doctor James Mr. Doctor Parkins Mr. Doctor Crompton Mr. Stephenson Sir William Moore and others and the Attorneyes of the Dutchies and Courts of Wards and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Sollicitor who with the rest was appointed to meet on Monday next at the Middle-Temple at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Mr. Finch shewing some griefs of Ministers in some Cases by Colour of a Statute made in the first year of Her Majesties Reign Intituled An Act for Conformity of Common-Prayer and Service in the Church and of the Administration of Sacraments and of a Statute made in the thirteenth year of her said Majesties Reign Intituled An Act to reform certain disorders touching Ministers of the Church and wishing an Explanation in the one and a mitigation in the other offereth a Bill unto this House for that purpose Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Attorney General do bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed this House Intituled An Act for establishing the Town Lands of Wanting in the County of Berks to the relief of the Poor Amendment of High-ways and maintaining of a School within the said Town shewing that their Lordships have passed the said Bill in the Upper House and have added a Proviso in the same Bill The Bill that Lessees 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 and others and the Bill was delivered with the Committees names to Mr. Comptroller who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber and the Parties to bring their Councel to the Committees On Monday the 5 th day of December Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and Beggars was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Proviso in the Bill for draining of certain surrounded grounds in the County of Norfolk was twice read and the Bill and Proviso were Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Recorder of London one of the Committees in the Bill for the Lord Mountjoy who were appointed on Saturday the 24 th day of November foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and so delivered in the Bill to the House Six Bills were this Morning sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the principal were one concerning the Lands of Sir Henry Unton and another to give power and liberty to Sir John Spencer Mary his Wife and Robert their Son to alienate certain Mannors and Lands in the County of Somerset Mr. Henry Hubbard one of the Committees in the Bill concerning the Lands of the Bishoprick of Norwich who were appointed on Wednesday the 30 th day of November foregoing shewed the meetings and travel of the Committees and delivering in the Bill it was after sundry Speeches committed to the former Committees and Mr. Brograve the Attorney of the Dutchy the Attorney of the Court of Wards and Sir William Cornwallis were added unto them and appointed to meet this day at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the former place viz. the Exchequer Chamber and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to the said Sir William Cornwallis Mr. Doctor Parkins one of the Committees in the Bill to prevent double payments of Debts upon Shop-Books who were appointed on Friday the second day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and their adding of a Proviso and some Amendments to the Bill and so delivered in the Bill To Morrow Morning is appointed for the Learned Councel of the Lord Mountjoy to be heard in this House Mr. Francis Bacon one of the Committees in the Bill for tillage and building of Houses who were appointed on Saturday the 26 th day of November foregoing shewed at large the meeting and travel of the Committees and their framing of two new Bills and delivereth both the old Bill and the new Bill into the House The Bill concerning Tellors Receivors c. was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy-Council being of this House Sir Oliver Lambert Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Tasborough Mr. Francis Bacon and others And the Bill and Committees names were delivered to the said Mr. Comptroller who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Bird Master of Nevill's Hospital in the County of York who was appointed to be heard this day with his Councel on Saturday the third day of this instant December foregoing was called to the Bar and heard who shewed that he could get none to be of Councel with him Whereupon being demanded whom he would retain of his Councel and Answering that he would have Mr. Godfrey It was then agreed that Mr. Godfrey should be assigned of his Councel and further day given to hear his Councel in this House upon Wednesday next being the 7 th day of this instant December following At which time the said Mr. Bird's Councel being heard it should seem that the said Bill touching Nevills Hospital which had been read the third time never passed the House Mr. Doctor Muffet one of the Burgesses for Wilton being Licensed to depart left two shillings and six pence with Mr. Fulk Onslow Clerk of this House for the Poor and the Minister but nothing for the said Clerk himself Mr. John Wingfield one of the Burgesses for Peterborough in the County of Northampton is for his necessary businesses Licensed to depart and left with the Clerk five shillings for the Poor and Minister Mr. Thomas Hinson one of the Burgesses for Barnstable in the County of Devon was this day Licensed for his necessary business to depart and left with the Clerk five shillings for the Poor and two shillings and six pence for the Minister On Tuesday the 6 th day of December Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for establishing an Award made between Edward Cotten Gentleman and Thomas Harvey Yeoman was upon the second reading committed unto M r Serjeant Harris M r Henry Warner and others and the Bill was deliver'd to the said M r Warner who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Temple-Hall The Amendments in the Bill for the Lord Mountjoy being twice read the Lord Marquess of Winchester and the Lord Mountjoy with their Learned Councel were heard at the Bar in this House before such time as the said Bill and Amendments were put to the Question for ingrossing and after their departure out of the House the said Bill with the Amendments was upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed Sir Hugh Portman Knight one of the Knights returned into this present
knowledge of this Motion and to give Order that Tolkerne should be sent for at whose Suit the Arrest was made And withal that such Precedents as the Clerk of the Parliament could shew should be looked out and made known to the House Vide plus concerning this matter on Monday the 23 th day of this instant November following On Saturday the 14 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing by occasion of sending for the aforesaid Tolkerne request was made by M r Conisbie Gentleman Usher to the House and signified by the Mouth of the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward That for as much as the bringing of any person before the Lords upon breach of the Priviledge of the House did appertain as the said M r Conisbie supposed and alledged to his place though in the last Parliament by some mistaking as he thought the Serjeant at Arms was imployed therein That therefore their Lordships would be pleased to confirm and settle such Order as he might at this time and from henceforth have the Right of his place in that behalf Whose request being considered of by the Lords it was thought meet that the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Worcester the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch and the Lord Cobham should at their next meeting upon any other occasion take notice of such Precedents as could be produced therein either for the Gentleman-Usher or for the Serjeant at Arms and thereof to make Report to the House whereupon their Lordships would proceed to the deciding of the question between them Vide concerning this business on Tuesday the first day of December next following The meeting of the Committees about the Bill concerning Musters Souldiers c. who were nominated on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant November foregoing and appointed to meet this Afternoon was upon Motion to the House by some of the Committees deserr'd until Monday next being the 16 th day of this instant November by eight of the Clock in the Morning A Motion was made by the Lord Keeper that the Gentleman-Usher might be sent to such Lords as are absent from the Parliament and have not sent their Proxies to admonish them thereof Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for suppressing the multitude of Ale-Houses and Tippling-Houses was read secundâ vice and committed to the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Hartford the Earl of Lincoln the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Chester the Bishop of Exeter the Bishop of Ely the Lord Zouch the Lord Cobham the Lord Rich the Lord Sheffield the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John of Bletsoe and the Lord Compton and the Lord Chief Justice of England M r Justice Gawdy M r Baron Savile and M r Serjeant Yelverton were appointed to attend their Lordships The third Bill also being for the avoiding of unnecessary delayes of Executions upon Judgment in Debt was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Pembrook the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of S t Asaph the Lord Cobham the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John of Bletsoe and M r Justice Gawdy M r Baron Savile and M r Serjeant Yelverton were appointed to attend their Lordships The Lord Zouch renewed his former motion concerning the Arrest of William Hogan her Majesties Ordinary servant at the suit of John Tolkerne Whereupon the Clerk of the Parliament was required to shew forth all such Precedents as he had found touching the Arrests of any Persons priviledged by Parliament having received directions from the Lords for that purpose as is before Recorded of which sort out of the Journal-Book remaining in his custody there were to be found only these four hereunder mentioned and no more 1. Anno 27. Reginae Fliz. die Martis primo die Decembris of James Diggs servant to my Lords Grace of Canterbury 2. Anno 27. Reginae Eliz. die Lunae 7. Die Decembris of Robert Finneis servant to the Lord Viscount Binden 3. Item in the last Parliament of 39 Eliz. 26. die Novembris of Edward Barston servant to the Lord Chandois and 8. die Decembris of John York the Lord Arch-Bishops servant 4. Item Anno 14. Reginae die ultimo Junii It appeareth that the Lord Cromwel made complaint unto the Parliament of an Attachment served upon his Person and that his Lordship was by Order of the Parliament discharged of the Attachment but whether this Attachment was served in the time of the Parliament it doth not certainly appear Which said Precedents being accordingly presented to the Lord Keeper the same were presently read together with certain Observations out of a Book written by Richard Crompton Esquire Intituled the Authority and Jurisdiction of the Queens Courts concerning the proceedings of the House in the like case of George Ferrers Gent. an ordinary servant to King Henry 8. about the thirty fourth year of his Reign This being done albeit sundry Motions were thereupon made by divers of the Lords for a present proceeding in this matter nevertheless because the said Tolkerne having been formerly sent for could not yet be found and also in respect there was less appearance of the Lords this day than at other times and this matter concerning the priviledge of the House was of great importance and therefore required a more full Assembly Stay was made of any further proceeding until Thursday next being the 19 th day of this instant November And in the mean time it was Ordered that Tolkerne should again be sent for to appear before the Lords in the House that day by nine of the Clock in the Morning Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 23 th day of this Instant November following On Monday the 16 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for reuniting Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning was read secundâ vice Motion was made by the Lord Sheffield upon reading of this Bill that Thomas Crompton Son of Thomas Crompton Esquire deceased with Henry Best Francis Jackson and others whom it may concern should be heard in the House whether they or any of them could pretend any right or Interest in these Lands in respect of a Grant heretofore made thereof by her Majesty to the said Thomas Crompton Which Motion was well approved by the House and Ordered that the Gentleman Usher should move the said parties to appear before their Lordships in the House for that purpose upon Saturday next the 21. day of this Instant November by eight of the Clock in the Morning and to bring them such persons as are interested in the Conveyance of those Lands Vide December 7 th Monday postea Memorandum That the
brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Comptroller M r Secretary Cecill Sir John Fortescue M r Secretary Herbert and others which being for reformation of deceits and frauds of certain Auditors and their Clerks in making deceitful and untrue particulars was read primâ vice Upon Complaint made to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury of great disorders committed by certain Pages and others belonging to some of their Lordships or to some of the House of Commons in offering violence to divers persons and particularly to his Lordships Bargeman but especially to one George Percivall a Servant to the Lord Bishop of Peterborough who was abused and beaten as was informed by one of Sir John Harrington's Servants named ..... It was Ordered by the Court that the Committees under-named shall call the said Percivall and ..... before them upon Monday next being the 7 th day of this instant December at the Parliament Chamber and upon Examination of the matter shall inflict such punishment on the Offender as they shall find Cause And it is likewise Ordered that the Lord Keeper shall conser with the Speaker of the House of Commons for some course to be considered of and taken for reformation of like abuses hereafter Committees to examine the abuses offered by Sir John Harrington's Servant to a Servant of the Lord Bishop of Peterborough the Earl of Lincoln the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Zouch On Monday the 7 th day of December Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the more peaceable Government of the parts of Cumberland Northumberland Westmerland the Bishoprick of Durham was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop The Bill to avoid double payment of Debts was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Comptroller Sir Edward Hobbie and others Four Bills also had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for Confirmation as well of all Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of all Resumptions made by her Highness of the Possessions of any Arch-Bishoprick or Bishoprick as of Letters Patents made by her Majesty to others was read primâ vice The Bill for Reformation of Grants made to the Queen and by 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 Vide concerning this Bill on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant December following Memorandum That upon a Motion made this 7 th day of December to the House by the Lord Zouch that the Lady Fane by her Letters to Sir Anthony Mildmay had signified that she had not given her consent to the passing of the Bill concerning the enabling of Edward Nevill and Sir Henry Nevill his Son to dispose of certain Copy-hold Lands c. as was mentioned in the said Bill the said Sir Anthony Mildmay was called before their Lordships who produced the said Letter and the same was read in the House And thereupon it was Ordered that any further proceeding in the Bill should be respited until Wednesday next by ten of the Clock in the Forenoon at what time the Lady Fane might be heard what she could say against the same if she would then be present Vide concerning this business on Wednesday the 9 th day of this instant December ensuing This day Sir William Knolles Sir Edward Hobbie Knights with divers others of the House of Commons delivered a Message from the Knights and Burgesses of the said House desiring Conference with some of their Lordships about the Bill concerning the uniting of Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning Upon delivery of which Message after the said Sir William Knolles and the rest had a little withdrawn themselves and then upon propounding of this Motion to the House the Lords had assented thereunto Answer was made by the Lord Keeper sitting in his place and the rest of the Lords also keeping their places unto the said Sir William Knolls c. that the Lords had yielded to the Conference and had appointed certain Committees under-named to meet with some select persons of the House of Commons for that purpose viz. the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch and the Lord Cobham appointed to meet at the Outer Chamber near the Parliament Presence to Morrow the 8 th day of this instant December by eight of the Clock in the Morning Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 16 th day and on Saturday the 21 th day of November foregoing On Tuesday the 8 th day of December Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers and other the Queens Services in the Wars was read secunda vice and committed to the Committees formerly appointed for the first Bill of that kind whose names see before on Thursday the 12 th day of November with addition of the Lord Windsor and the said Committees to meet about the said Bill upon the first opportunity of meeting about any other Bill and the Bill was delivered to the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward the third of the Committees Nota That here this Bill was delivered to the Earl of Nottingham being the third of the Committees of whom the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Treasurer were the two first Whereas on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing a Bill being committed upon the second reading was delivered unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees And on Thursday the 26 th day of the same Month upon the Commitment also of a Bill in the like manner it was delivered unto the Lord Howard of Walden being the puisne Baron or last of the Committees By which it is plain that as well in the Upper House 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 in the behalf of the Earl of Shrewsbury to be annex'd unto the Bill Intituled An Act for Confirmation 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 returned Yesterday to the House by the Committees were presently read And forasmuch as the Lords desired a speedy proceeding in this Bill they sent D r Carew and D r Stanhop to the House of Commons to move them that some meet persons of that House might join 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 near the Parliament Presence to Morrow the 9 th day
of this instant December by eight of the Clock in the Morning Upon delivery of which Message to the House of Commons they assented accordingly to the Motion made in that behalf Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant December ensuing Upon a Motion sent this day from the House of Commons by Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Hobbie and others signifying that they desired Conference with some of their Lordships for certain matters concerning the Honour of both Houses the Lords hereafter named were Selected and Chosen to confer thereabout with such as should be nominated and sent by the House of Commons and the time and place of meeting appointed upon Thursday next being the 10 th day of this instant December by eight of the Clock in the Morning at the Outward Chamber near the Parliament Presence which was signified to Sir Walter Raleigh and the rest in Answer of their Message The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Worcester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham and the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch the Lord La Ware the Lord Cobham and the Lord Howard of Walden This day the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees in the Bill concerning Andrew and Francis Kettlebie whose names see before on Tuesday the 24 th day of November made Report to the House that the said Committees did desire and had endeavoured to make some agreement betwixt the parties by procuring the Wife of Andrew Kettlebie to accept of reasonable Conditions for her Estate which they held to be a better course than that the Bill should proceed absolutely without any help for the said Wife But forasmuch as the said Committees could not prevail therein with her who utterly refused all composition they therefore returned the Bill again to the House without alteration in such sort as they received the same Thereupon Order was given for ingrossing thereof The matter concerning the Arrest of Robert Treswel Sommerset one of the Heralds was referred to her Majesties Commissioners for those Causes that concern the Lord Marshalls Office and the parties that were sent for to be discharged Vide on Thursday the third day of this instand December foregoing The Lord Burleigh not able to attend for want of health signified by the Lord Keeper On Wednesday the 9 th day of December M r ..... being of Councel with the Lady Fane was heard in the House what he could say in her behalf against the Bill of Edward Nevill and Sir Henry Nevill his Son Whereupon the Lords finding no Cause why the proceeding of the said Bill should be longer stayed or forborn Order was presently given for the third reading thereof The Bill for the enabling of Edward Nevill of Berling in the County of Kent and Sir Henry Nevill Knight his Son and Heir apparent to dispose of certain Copyhold Lands was read tertiâ vice Upon the third reading of which said Bill and before the putting thereof to the question whether it should pass or no the Lady Fane yielded her consent to the passing of the same being thereunto perswaded by sundry of the Lords Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 7 th day of this instant December foregoing The Bill to avoid the double payment of Debts was read secundà vice but no mention is made either of the Commitment or ingrossing thereof the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 d day of November foregoing The Lord Treasurer made Report that the Committees in the Bill concerning Letters Patents and Conveyances c. could not proceed to any certain Conference with those that were sent from the House of Commons for that purpose in respect of some doubts that were conceived whether the Proviso offered to be annexed thereunto were necessary or no. And thereupon M r Attorney General was required to deliver his opinion in that behalf Which being done by him accordingly to this effect That he thought the said Proviso to be needless and unnecessary and the Judges also concurring with him in that opinion Nevertheless upon a motion made by the Lord Bishop of London that the Councel learned of the Earl of Shrewsbury and M r Holcroft whom the said Proviso did concern in particular might be heard in the House as they desired touching the same it was thought meet and agreeable to the honour and dignity of the House that they should be so heard To which end their Councel were appointed to give their Attendance to Morrow the 10 th day of this instant December by eight of the Clock in the Morning And moreover for the better satisfaction of the House of Commons for the present M r Serjeant Yelverton M r D r Carew and M r D r Stanhop were sent unto them with this Message to signify their Lordships desire to have proceeded to Conference with them this Morning about the said Bill as was yesterday appointed And that the Lords were the more willing to give furtherance to the expediting of the said Bill in regard the same was especially recommended unto their Lordships from the said House But forasmuch as they found not themselves sufficiently prepared for this Conference by reason of doubts that were not yet cleared unto them they desired the said Conference might be respited till Friday Morning next by eight of the Clock at the outward Chamber near the Parliament presence Unto which Motion the House of Commons willingly assented Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day of this Instant December following On Thursday the 10 th day of December the Bill for the establishing the remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Kettlebie Esquire upon Francis Kettlebie was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by D r Stanhop and D r Hone. Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to avoid double payment of Debts was read tertiâ vice and expedited The Bill concerning Resumptions c. which was committed on Tuesday the 8 th day of this instand December foregoing although the mention thereof as being of little moment is there purposely omitted was this day delivered to the Lord Treasurer one of the Committees The Councel learned as well on the behalf of the Earl of Shrewsbury as of Tho. Holcroft Henry Candish and William Candish Esquires were heard at large in the House as was yesterday appointed And thereupon M r Attorney was required to deliver his opinion again of the said Provisoes offered on either part Which being done by him accordingly in more particular and ample manner than before and having withal delivered his resolution to sundry questions propounded unto him by divers of the Lords concerning the said Cause it was Ordered as followeth Upon debate in the House concerning the several Provisoes offered by the Earl of Shrewsbury and
Seas Succeeded to all the Realms and Dominions of Mary her Sister excepting Callais and those other inestimable places in France which had been most dishonourably and vainly lost in the time and towards the end of the Reign of the said Queen and finding also the Innocent Blood of Gods Saints shed for the Witness of the Truth to have stained the former Government with the just Brand and Stigma of persecuting and Tyrannical And that her Realms and Dominions were much impoverished and weakened whilst in the mean time her Enemies every where abroad were encreased not only in Number but in Strength and Power She therefore in the very entrance of her Reign well considering and foreseeing that the surest and safest way to Establish the Truth to abolish all Foreign and usurped Authority to repair the breaches and weaknesses of her said Realms and Dominions to strengthen her Kingdoms with Shipping and Munition and to revive the decayed Trade thereof was by the common advice and Council and with the Publick assent of the Body of her Realm did Summons herfirst Parliament to begin on Monday the 23th day of January having before made and appointed that wise and able Statesman Sir Nicolas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England In the setting down of this Journal of the upper House in An. 1. Reg. Eliz. An. Dom. 1558. Summoned to begin at the day and place aforesaid I have caused to be Transcribed many things at large out of the original Journal Book Some things also of Form I have added to it which are in the very Original it self omitted in this regard only because they were but matters of Course and not much material yet I was much desirous both in this Journal of the Upper House and in that also of the House of Commons in this first year of the Queen to supply once for all the whole matter of Form that so I might the better omit it in the following Journals and have ready recourse hither unto it being all framed into one Structure or Body In this Journal of this first year is set down the ground form and return of the Writs of Summons with their usual and common differences the Commission for Prorogation and the form of Proroging the Parliament to a surther day The manner of the beginning of the Parliament with the Sitting of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal The places of Peers under age and of Noblemens Sons their Fathers living and the difference The whole form Verbatim of the Receivers and Tryers of Petitions And lastly for what or by whose Licence the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal may absent themselves from the Parliament House and send their Proxies the forms of Proxies the cause of a Vacat the several observations upon the return of such usual or unusual Proxies as were this Parliament returned the returns of which are set down at large out of the Original Journal Book it self with divers other things of the like nature and are digested as the following Passages of this first Parliament of Queen Eliz. into an orderly and exact Journal Before the Writs for the Summoning of this Parliament were sent forth the Queens Majesty did send her Warrant to Sir Nicolas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England commanding him speedily to cause the said Writs to be made as in like cases had been formerly accustomed the usual Form of which Warrant being by Bill Signed is as followeth Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our right Trusty and right Wel-beloved Nicolas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England Greeting Whereas we by our Council for certain great and urgent Causes concerning us the good Estate and Common-wealth of this our Realm and of the Church of England and for the good Order and continuance of the same have appointed and Ordained a Parliament to be holden at our City of Westminster the sirst day of April next coming in which case divers and sundry Writs are to be directed forth under our Great Seal of England as well for the Prelates Bishops and Nobility of this our Realm as also for the Election of Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the several Counties Cities and Burroughs Towns of the same to be present at the said Parliament at the day and place aforesaid Whereupon We Will and Command you forthwith upon the receipt hereof and by Warrant of the same to cause such and so many Writs to be made and Sealed under our Great Seal for the accomplishing of the same as in like Cases hath been heretofore used and accustomed And this Bill Signed with our own hand shall be as well unto you as to every such Clerk and Clerks as shall make and pass the same a sufficient Warrant or Discharge in that behalf given Upon this Warrant the Lord Keeper sends out the said Writs of Summons returnable the 23th day of January being Monday and bearing Date at Westminster the 5th day of December in the first year of the Queen the form of which Writ is as followeth Elizabetha Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor c. Clarissimo Consanguineo suo Thomae Duci Norfolciae c. Salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Consilij nostri pro quibusdam ardius urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quodd am Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterij vicessimo tertio die Januarij proximè futuro teneri ordinaverimus ibidem vobiscum cum Prelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeancia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo Mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quâcunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractatur ' vestrumque consilium impensur ' hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem Defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedict ' expeditionemque negotiorum dictorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste me ipsà apud Westmonasterium quinto Die Decembris Anno Regni nostri primo The Writ to the Archbishop of York for the See of Canterbury was now void by the Death of Cardinal Pool was after this Form ensuing Elizabetha Dei Gratia c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Nicholao Archiepiscopo Eboracen ' c. And so to the end as it is in the Duke of Norfolks Writ unless perhaps after the word Mandamus the words following are in fide dilectione quibus nobis tenemini c. instead of these words to the Temporal Lords Sub fide Ligeancia quibus nobis tenemini The Writs that were directed to the two Marquesses of Winchester and Northampton and to
Mountague and Viscount Hereford present Then the Earls but nineteen present the Earl of Hertford the Earl of Pembroke Bedford Southampton Warwick Bath Huntington Sussex Cumberland Rutland Worcester Darby Shrewsbury Westmoreland Northumberland Oxford and Arundel their Robes of Scarlet with their Rows of Miniver Then the Marquess of Winchester but now as Lord Treasurer and the Marquess of Northampton the Duke of Norfolk went as Earl Marshal Then the Lord Keepers Serjeant and Seal and after Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in his Gown Here Clarenceux and Norroy Then the Queens Serjeant at Arms and after Garter Then the Duke of Norfolk with the gilt Rod as Marshal the Lord Treasurer with the Cap of Estate and the Earl of Worcester with the Sword Then the Queens Majesty on Horseback a little behind the Lord Chamberlain and Vice-Chamberlain her Grace Apparelled in her Mantle opened before furr'd with Ermines and her Kirtle of Crimson Velvet close before and close Sleeves but the Hands turned up with Ermines and a Hood hanging low round about her Neck of Ermins Over all a rich Coller set with Stones and other Jewels and on her Head a rich Caul And the next after Her the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse leading the spare Horse And after all other Ladies two and two in their Ordinary Apparel By side the Queen went her Footmen and along on either side of her went the Pensioners with their Axes after the Ladies followed the Captain of the Guard Sir William St. Loe and after him the Guard In which Order Her Majesty proceeded to the North Door of the Church of Westminster where the Dean there and the Dean of the Chappel met her and the whole Chappel in Copes and S t Edwards Staff with the Inlet in the top was delivered unto her her Arm for the bearing thereof assisted by the Baron of Hunsdon the Canopy born over her by Charles Howard Esq Sir George Howard Sir Richard Blunt Sir Ed. Warner Sir John Perrott and Sir William Fitz-Williams Knights her Graces Train born up and assisted for the weight thereof from her Arms by the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and Sir Francis Knowles Vice-Chamberlain and so orderly proceeded to the Travers beside the Table of Administration Although other Princes have used to be placed in the Quire till the Offering but not now because there was neither Communion nor Offering and so she being placed all the Lords sate down on Forms besides the Travers the Spiritualty on the North side and the Temporalty on the South side the Sword and the Cap of Estate laid down on the Table Then the Quire sung the English Procession which ended M r Noell Dean of Pauls began his Sermon and first made his Prayer orderly for the Queens Majesty and the Universal Church and especially for that Honourable Assembly of three Estates there present that they might make such Laws as should be to Gods Glory and the good of the Realm The Sermon being ended and a Psalm sung her Majesty and the rest orderly on foot proceeded out of the South Door where she delivered the Dean the Scepter and so proceeded into the Parliament Chamber where the Queen stayed a while in her Privy Chamber till all the Lords and others were placed and then her Highness came forth and went and fate her down in her Royal Place and Chair of Estate the Sword and Cap of Maintenance born before her and when she stood up her Mantle was assisted and born up from her Arms by the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and Sir Francis Knowles Vice-Chamberlain The Lord Keeper sate alone upon the uppermost Sack until the Queen was sate and then went and stood without the Rail on the right hand the Cloth of Estate and the Lord Treasurer holding the Cap of Estate on the right hand before the Queen Garter standing by him and on the left hand standing the Earl of Worcester with the Sword and by him the Lord Chamberlain The Duke of Norfolk began the first Form and the Viscount Mountague for that the Viscount Bindon was not there ended it The Lord Clinton the Lord Admiral began the Form behind that of Barons and the Lord St. John of Bletsoe ended it The Archbishop of Canterbury began the Bishops Form and the Bishop of Glocester ended the same On the Woolsack on the right hand and Northside sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer Chief Justices Sir William Peter Anthony Browne Corbett Weston and M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney On the Sack on the left hand and Southside sate Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Edward Saunders Chief Baron Justice Widdon Serjeant Carus and M r Russell the Queens Sollicitor and at their Backs sate Sir Richard Read Doctor Yale and Doctor Vaughan On the other Sack sate Doctor Huicke Spilman Clerk of the Parliament and M r Martin Clerk of the Crown and behind them kneeled M r 〈◊〉 Allen Dyeter Nicasius Cliffe and Permitter At the side hand of the Queen sate on the ground three or four Ladies and no more and at the back of the Rail behind the Cloth of Estate kneeled the Earls of Oxford and Rutland under Age the Earl of Desmond the Lord Roos the Lord Herbert of Cardiffe and divers other Noblemens Sons and Heirs Nota That these foregoing passages touching the solemn manner of her Majesties coming to the Upper House are not at all found in the Original Journal-Book of the same but are transcribed out of a written Copy or memorial of them I had by me as doth also the Lord Keepers Speech follow out of the same in the next place The Queens Majesty being set as aforesaid under the Cloth of Estate the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the same repaired to the Upper House and being as many as conveniently could let in she Commanded Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper to open the cause of Calling and Assembling this Parliament who thereupon spake as followeth My Lords and others of this Honourable Assembly YOU shall understand that my most Dread and Sovereign Lady the Queens Majesty here present hath Commanded me to declare the occasion of this Assembly which I am not able but unmeet to do as it ought to be done among such a noble wise and discreet Company Howbeit knowing the Experience of her Majesty bearing with such as do their good wills and your Honours Patience in bearing with me in the like afore this time it encourageth me the better herein not doubting of the like at this present Therefore my Lords the occasion is that necessary matters be provided for propounded and scanned and after agreed upon and ended which afterwards shall remain and continue which matters in my Judgment may well be divided into two parts one touching Religion for the setting forth of Gods Honour and Glory and the other concerning Policy for the Common-Wealth as
as well of the said Francis as of the Bishop of Durham whom it concerned should on Saturday then next following be heard what could on either side be said in furtherance or disallowance of the same The Bill also for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Monday the 22 th day of February two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was secunda vice lect but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because it had been formerly sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Tuesday the 23 th day of February the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and Doctor Huicke Nota That this Bill of Subsidy after it had passed the Upper House was not by them altered or amended in any thing but only sent back again unto the House of Commons to whom it did most properly belong and is on the last day of the Parliament or Session of Parliament to be brought up by the Speaker of the said House as it was at this time on Saturday the 10 th day of April ensuing and presented unto her Majesty by Thomas Williams Esq Prolocutor of the said House at this present Session before she gave her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed On Thursday the 25 th day of February the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was read the first time On Saturday the 27 th day of February the Bill for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bill declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Chancellor to be one were each of them read prima vice Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty and the second against carrying over Sheep Skins and Pelts over the Seas not being Staple Ware were each of them returned conclus This day according to the Order formerly taken Sir Francis Jobson with his Counsel came before the Lords and by them declared ..... And no more is set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and by the negligence of the Clerk the matter is so left abruptly but it doth plainly appear that it was touching the Assurance of certain Lands which concerned the Bishop of Durham ut videas on Saturday the 20 th of this Instant February foregoing On Monday the first day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Sons and Daughters of the late Lord Hussey was read prima vice A Proviso to be annex'd to the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all Estates and Subjects within her Dominions was read primâ secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Tuesday the 2 d day of March Ten Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Province of Canterbury and the second against such as sell Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under two hundred pound Lands or Fees were each of them read prima vice The Bill also for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterbury was read secunda tertia vice conclus and was with the Bill for the Children of the Lord Hussey which had likewise this day passed the House upon the third reading sent to the House of Commons by Sir Richard Read and Serjeant Carus On Wednesday the 3 d day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was read tertia vice with certain Provisions thereunto annexed by the Lords which were thrice severally read conclus A Proviso annexed by the House of Commons to the Bill against forging of false Deeds was read prima secunda tertia vice commissa Domino Rich Domino Willoughby Primario Justiciario Banci Regii Justiciario Browne Quod Nota Because no Bill or Proviso is usually committed after the third reading On Thursday the 4 th day of March The Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlain Knight and John Haleston Esq The Bill against such as sell Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under two hundred pound Lands or Fees The Bill for the punishments of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians And the Bill for uniting of Churches within the City of Winchester were each of them read secunda vice but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords The Bill also for Restitution in Blood of William West and the Bill for the Town of Southampton were each of them read the first time and thereupon committed to Justice Southcote Serjeant Carus and the Queens Attorney Nota That these two Bills last mentioned were not only committed after the first reading which is not usual till the second but also committed to meer Assistants which are not Members of the House and therefore in both respects the President is more rare and remarkable vide consimile on Tuesday the 26 th day of Jan. foregoing On Saturday the 6 th day of March The Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy And the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Edward Turner were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus commis Servienti Carus Ricardo Read in Domum Communem deferend Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the bill for avoiding of divers Foreign Wares made by Handy-crafts-men beyond the Seas and the second touching Badgers of Corn and Drovers of Cattle to be Licensed Three Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the further punishment of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians was read tertia vice conclusa dissentiente Comite Arundel On Monday the 8 th day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against such as shall sell any Wares for Apparel without ready money c. The Bill declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper
to be ingrossed Post Meridiem In the Afternoon twelve Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for restitution in Blood of Edward Turner And the second for restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlain and John Hurleston had each of them their second reading but neither committed nor ordered to be ingrossed because they had been formerly sent from the Lords John Eire Esquire one of the Knights of the County of Wilts for his Affairs is Licensed to be absent On Monday the 8 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that S t Katherines Church shall be a Parish Church And the Second for the repairing and mending of High-ways were read the third time and passed the House and were sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller M r Attorney brought from the Lords three Bills of which one was the Bill for Denizens Children The Bill also against the unlawful taking of Fish Deer or Hawks was read the third time and passed Post Meridiem In the Afternoon eight Bills had each of them one reading of which one was the Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy Richard Parrott Gent. Burgess for Sandwich for his Sickness was Licensed to be absent On Tuesday the 9. day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords Four other Bills also were each of them read the third time of which one being the Bill for restitution in Blood of Anne Thomas Another for restitution in Blood of Edward Turner And a third for restitution in Blood of Thomas Cranmer and Margaret Children of the Archbishop Cranmer did each of them pass the House Post Meridiem In the Afternoon eight Bills had each of them one reading of which the fifth being the Bill for the paving of Kentish-street near Southwark was read the second time and as it should seem committed to M r Graston and others not named Vide consimile on Thursday the 21. day of January foregoing Long Arguments were this day had in the House upon the Bill for having Wednesday to be a Fish-Day Vide touching this business on Thursday the 11. day of this instant March following On Wednesday the 10. day of March the Bill for restitution in Blood of William and Edward Iseley The Bill for restitution in Blood of Thomas Cobham The Bill to make Denizens the Children of John Fitz-Williams and others And the Bill for the restitution in Blood of the Heirs of the Lord Hussey were each of them read the third time and passed the House The Bill that Merchants shall not marry Strangers beyond the Seas was read the first time The Bill that the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal hath the like Power as the Lord Chancellor And the Bill for the restitution in Blood of the Daughters of Thomas Iseley were each of them read the third time and passed M r Sollicitor brought from the Lords the Bill for the restitution in Blood of Sir Peter Carew and William West Long Arguments upon the Bill for having the Wednesday to be a Fish-Day were continued till the Morrow after On Thursday the 11. day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy was read the third time and passed and was sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary together with the Lord Keepers Bill and the Bill for Fish Deer and Hawks Long Arguments were had upon the Bill for encrease of the Navy whether the Wednesday shall be a Fish-Day and upon the Question the House was divided and to have it a Fish-Day were a hundred fifty nine and not to have it a Fish-Day were ninety six And immediately after upon the qualification of that day the greater number agreed to the qualification Vide touching this matter on Tuesday the 9. day and on Wednesday the 10. day of this instant March foregoing George Cope Burgess of Ludgersall in Wilts for his affairs at the Assizes hath Licence to be absent On Friday the 12. day of March the Bill touching Consecration of Bishops was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Four other Bills also had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for the Inning of Plumsted-Marsh now surrounded was read the third time and passed the House On Saturday the 13 th day of March the Bill for the restitution in Blood of Leonard Diggs and Thomas Diggs and the Bill for restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlain Knight and John Hurleston were each of them read the third time and passed The Bill against Conjurations was brought from the Lords by M r Sollicitor Post Meridiem In the Afternoon six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for increase of Woods and Champian Grounds was read the second time and as it should seem committed to M r Marsh and others not named On Monday the 15 th day of March the Bill against fulling of Caps in Mills was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either committed or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords George Lee Esq one of the Burgesses for Rippon in Yorkshire and Elice Price one of the Knights for Merionethshire in Wales for their affairs were Licensed to be absent Three Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain of which one was the Bill for Inning of Plumsted-Marsh The Provisoes added to the Bill for increase of Navigation were read the third time and passed M r Serjeant Carus and M r Attorney brought from the Lords the Bill for Enrolment of Bargains in Lancaster with a Proviso in Exeter Bill On Tuesday the 16 th day of March the Bill for the Enrolment of Writings Indented at Lancaster Chester and Duresm and a Proviso added to the Bill of Exeter were each of them read the first time The Bill for the Navy and the Bill for restitution in Blood of M r West were sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary and the Bill for Southampton and the Bill for Bowyers were sent from the Lords by M r Comptroller Post Meridiem In the Afternoon six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for unlading of Malmesies and Sweet Wines at South-hampton was read the first time On Wednesday the 17 th day of March the Proviso to the Bill of Exeter was read the third time and passed M r Sackvil declared from the Queens Majesty that she would take Order to make allowance for Justices Diets and that Commissioners should be sent to enquire of Vicountels
Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox October the 27 th Sunday On Monday the 28. day of October Sir Robert Catlyn Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench supplying the place of the Lord Keeper at this time sick of the Gout as is before-mentioned with divers other Lords Spiritual and Temporal met in the Upper House but nothing appeareth to have been done in the Original Journal of the same House only the continuance of the Parliament unto Wednesday next following On Wednesday the 30. day of October Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of Archbishops and Bishops of this Realm to be good lawful and perfect was read secundâ vice The Lords whose names are here next after written were appointed to have Conference with a setled number of the House of Commons touching Petition to be made to the Queens Highness as well for the Succession as for her Marriage viz. The Archbishop of York The Lord Treasurer The Duke of Norfolk The Marquess of Northampton The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Westmorland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Huntingdon The Earl of Warwick The Earl of Bedford The Earl of Pembroke The Earl of Leicester Viscount Mountague Viscount Bindon The Bishop of London The Bishop of Durham The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Worcester The Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield The Lord Admiral The Lord Chamberlain The Lord Morley The Lord Cobham The Lord Grey The Lord Wentworth The Lord Windsor The Lord Rich. The Lord Sheffeild The Lord Paget The Lord North. The Lord Haistings of Loughborough The Lord Hunsdon It should seem that the Lords had intended at first to have appointed but thirty of themselves to have joined with the House of Commons about the foresaid Treaty or Conference to be had between them touching the said great matters of Succession and Marriage however it fell out afterwards as appeareth by the names above set down that they appointed more for it appeareth plainly by the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although there be no mention at all of it in that of the Upper House that the Lords did this day send down word unto the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Carus and M r Attorney that they had Chosen thirty of themselves to consult and confer with a Select Committee of the said House touching the foresaid great business touching which see more on Tuesday the 5 th day of November following Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox On Thursday the 31 th day of October the Bill for declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of the Archbishops and Bishops of this Realm to be good lawful and perfect Commissa est to the Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Justice Southcote and Attorney General The Bill for annexing of Hexamshire to the County of Northumberland was read secundâ vice The House of Commons appointed Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold Sir Francis Knolles her Majesties Vice-Chamberlian Sir William Cecill her Highness Chief Secretary Sir Ambrose Cave Knight Chancellor of her Dutchy of Lancaster Sir William Peeter Sir Ralph Sadler Sir Walter Mildmay Knights all of her Highness Privy-Council and divers other Members of the House of Commons to have Conference with the Lords aforenamed whose names see on yesterday foregoing touching those two great matters of the Succession and Marriage to be dealt in by Petition to her Majesty As see more at large upon to Morrow ensuing in the Afternoon Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Martis 5 die Novembris prox On Tuesday the 5 th day of November the Bill for the annexing of Hexamshire unto the County of Northumberland and the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the same unto the See of the Bishoprick of Durham was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa The Nobles under-named were appointed to wait on the Queens Highness this Afternoon with thirty of the House of Commons by her Highness special Commandment The Archbishop of York The Lord Treasurer The Duke of Norsolk The Marquess of Northampton The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Westmerland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Huntingdon The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Warwick The Earl of Bedford The Earl of Pembroke The Earl of Leicester Viscount Mountague Viscount Bindon The Bishop of London The Bishop of Duresm The Lord Clinton Lord Admiral The Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain The Lord Morley The Lord Lumley The Lord Rich. The Lord Sheffeild The Lord Paget The Lord North. The Lord Haistings of Loughborough and The Lord Hunsdon Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliament usque in diem Crastinum hora consueta But there is no mention at all in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to what end or purpose the Lords above-mentioned with those thirty Members of the House of Commons repaired to her Majesty which doubtless fell out by the great negligence in a matter of so great weight of Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Upper House and therefore I have thought fitting and necessary to supply it at large partly out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and partly out of other several Manuscript Memorials I had by me all which in their proper place I have particularly vouched It is therefore in the first place to be noted as fit matter of preparation to that which follows that these two great matters touching her Majesties Marriage and the Declaration of a certain Successor were agitated in the House of Commons in the first Session of this present Parliament in An. 5 Regin Eliz. and thereupon the greatest part of the said House with Thomas Williams their Speaker did prefer a Petition to her Majesty upon Thursday the 28 th day of January in the said fifth Year of her Majesties Reign by her Allowance in which having humbly supplicated her Majesty to Marry or in default of Issue of her own Body to declare a certain Successor they received a gracious Answer But now the same Parliament reassembling again to this second Session thereof in the eighth year of the Reign of the Queen and finding nothing to have been acted by her Majesty in either kind but that she remained still a Virgin without all likelyhood of Marriage and that the Succession of the Crown depended upon great uncertainties some holding the Queen of Scots to have best Right others the Countess of Lenox being the Daughter of Margaret of England by Archibald Douglass Earl of Anguisse her Second Husband and others also argued very strongly for Catherine Countess of Hartford being the Daughter and Coheir of Henry
stood up her Train born by the Lady Strange assisted by the Lord Chamberlain and Vice-Chamberlain At the left hand of the Queen and Southside kneeled the Ladies and behind the Queen at the Rail stood the Lord Keeper on the right hand the Lord Treasurer on the left hand with divers young Lords and Peers Eldest Sons Then all being placed M r Onslow the Speaker was brought in between Sir Francis Knolles Vice-Chamberlain and Sir Ambrose Cave Chancellor of the Dutchy and after Reverence done proceeded down to the Wall and from thence came up to the Rail in the way making three Reverences and standing there made other three like Reverences and then began his Oration as followeth MOST Excellent and Vertuous Princess c. Where I have been Elected by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of this your nether House to be their Mouth or Speaker and thereunto appointed and allowed by your Majesty to supply the same room to the bewraying of my wants specially that thereby I shall be forced utterly to discover the barrenness of my learning before this Noble Assembly which not a little grieveth me and would gladly be excused considering the true saying How there is no difference between a wise Man and a Fool if they may keep silence which I require But again considering your Majesties Clemency taking in good part the good will of the party for want of ability which putteth me in remembrance and good hope perswading me that you will not take your said Clemency from me contrary to your Nature Again when I consider my Office as Speaker it is no great matter being but a Mouth to utter things appointed me to speak unto you and not otherwise which consisteth only in Speaking and not in any other Knowledge whereby I gather how it is necessary I speak simply and plainly according to the truth and trust reposed in me And thus considering whose Mouth I am which chose me to speak for them being the Knights Citizens and Burgesses who were not also by the Commons chosen for their Eloquence but for their Wisdom and discretion by this means being fit men to whom the Commons have committed the care and charge of themselves Wives and Children Lands and Goods and so in their behalf to foresee and take order for all things necessary Thus they being Chosen by the plain Commons it is necessary they Elect a plain Speaker fit for the plain matter and therefore well provided at first to have such a one as should use plain words and not either so fine that they cannot be understood or else so Eloquent that now and then they miss the Cushion But now upon occasion of beholding your Grace and this Noble Assembly I consider the manifold and great benefits which God suddenly hath sent unto this Country for although God hath granted the benefit of Creation and Conservation with many other Commodities to other Nations of the World yet this our Native Country he hath blessed not only with the like but also with much more fruitfulness than any other of which great and inestimable benefit of Gods preferment which appeareth better by the want that others have of the same I am occasioned now to speak the rather to move and stir up our hearts to give most hearty thanks to God for the same Now to speak of Government by Succession Election Religion or Policy First if the Body should want a Head it were a great Monster so it is likewise if it have many Heads as if upon every several Member were a Head And to speak of one Head although in the Body be divers Members which be made of Flesh Bones Sinews and Joints yet the one Head thereof governeth wisely the same which if it should want we should be worse than wild Beasts without a Shepherd and so worthily be called a Monstrous Beast Again If the Body should be Governed by many Heads then the same would soon come to destruction by reason of the Controversy amongst them who would never agree but be destroyed without any Foreign Invasion therefore God seeth it is needful that the people have a King and therefore a King is granted them and so therefore the best Government is to be ruled by one King and not many who may maintain and cherish the good and Godly and punish the Ungodly and Offenders As for Government by Election in that is great variance partiality strifes and part-takings As for Examples amongst the rest take out one which is called the most Holy as that of the Pope and weigh how holily and quietly it is done called indeed holy and quiet but utterly unholy and unquiet with great part-takings and strifes Now touching Religion To see the Divine Providence of God how that many Nations be Governed by one Prince which were impossible but that God Ordereth it so by whom the Order of Regiment is appointed and that in his Scriptures wherefore the Subjects ought to obey the same yea although they were evil and much more those that be good So God hath here appointed us not a Heathen or unbelieving Prince as he might but a Faithful and one of his own Children to govern us his Children in which Government the Prince serveth God two ways as a Man and as a King In that he is a Man he ought to live and serve God as one of his good Creatures And in that he is a King and so Gods special Creature he ought to make Laws whereby God may be truly worshipped and that his Subjects might do no injury one to another and specially to make quietness amongst the Ministers of the Church to extinguish and put away all hurtful and unprofitable Ceremonies in any Case contrary to Gods word in which point we have in your Majesties behalf great thanks to give unto God in setting forth unto us the Liberty of Gods word whereof before we were bereaved and that you have reformed the State of the corrupt Church now drawing Souls out of dangerous errors which afore by that Corruption they were led and brought unto And concerning Policy God hath Committed to your Highness two Swords the one of which may be called the Sword of War to punish outward Enemies withal and the other the Sword of Justice to Correct offending Subjects in which point of Policy your Majesty is not behind your Progenitors for although at your Entrance you found this Realm in War and ungarnished with Munition and that with such store as never was before yet you have dislodged our antient Enemies which were planted and placed even upon the Walls of this Realm And concerning Policy in Laws as Bones Sinews and Joints be the force of a Natural Body so are good Laws the strength of a Common-Wealth And your Laws be consisting of two points the Common Laws and the Statutes And for the Common Law it is so grounded on Gods Laws and Natures that three several Nations governing here have all allowed the same which is not inferior
3. declares Ad omnem notitiam volumus pervenire quod de assensu Magnatum fidelium nostrorum words comprehensive of a Parliament precedent and future Authorities in the like Case considered acceptabimus ducere in uxorem legitimam Alianoram filiam nobilis viri P. Comitis Provinciae c. he having had once a purpose to Marry the King of Scots younger Sister Proposuit Rex sayes the Historian ducere in uxorem Regis Scotiae Sororem indignantibus Comitibus Baronibus suis universis non enim ut dixerunt decebat quod Rex duceret filiam natu minorem cum Hubertus Justiciarius meaning Hubert de Burgo natu majorem haberet sibi matrimonio copulatam 5. Edward the Second pro solempnitate sponsalium Coronationis Consulted with his Parliament in his first Year 6. And An. 5 E. 3. the Chancellor declaring the reasons of the Assembly of the Parliament amongst others tells them that it was to consult and resolve whether the King should proceed with France for recovery of his Seignories en voie de amiable trete per aliance de mariage ou de guerre 7. In the 23 d Year of H. 6. that great Favourite William de la Pole Marquess of Suffolk then Chancellor by the Kings Command informs the Parliament that the Marriage with Margaret the Sicilian Kings Daughter was Contracted for inducing the Peace made with France against which the Lords as being made without their advice made Protestation and caused it to be entred upon the Parliament Roll but it appears the Commons agreed to it by the Petition which they put up to the King whereby they recommended by the Chancellors Interest his Services and Actions praying his Grace to accept him to his gracious favour and good acceptance and that he was a great instrument of the intended Peace and Marriage which the Commons well liked of though the Lords did not 8. The Lords Spiritual Temporal and Commons tell the King that they had considered how that the pretended Marriage between E. 4. and Elizabetl Gray was made of great presumption without the knowledge and assent of the Lords of this Land 9. And in the Parliament 1 H. 7. the Commons by Thomas Lovell their Speaker did Petition the King to Marry Elizabeth Edward the Fourths Daughter which he at their request back'd by the Lords agreed to do the Memorial of which is thus recorded in the Parliament Roll. Memorand quod decimo die Decembris Anno praesenti Communes Regni Angliae in pleno Parliamento coram Domino Rege comparentes per Thomam Lovell Prolocutorem suum Regiae Celsitudini bumillime supplicabant eandem Celsitudinem assectuose requirentes co considerato quod authoritate Parliamenti stabilitum est inactitatum quod baereditates Regnorum Angliae Franciae cum praeeminentia potestate Regali sint restent remaneant permaneant in persona ejusdem Domini Regis haeredum de corpore suo legitimè exeuntium eadem Regalis sublimitas vellet sibi il lam praeclaram Dominam Elizabetham Regis Edwardi Quarti siliam in Uxorem Conthoralem assumere unde per Dei gratiam sobolium propagatio de stirpe Regum à multis speratarum in totius Regni consolationem consequeretur Quare Domini Spirituales Temporales in eodem Parliamento existentes à sedibus suis surgentes ante Regem in Regali solio residentem stantes capitibus suis inclinatis eandem requestam fecerunt voce divisa quibus idem Rex respondebat ore preprio se juxta eorum desideria requestas procedere fuisse contentum 10. Anno Domini 1530. Anno 21 H. 8. the Parliament sent a Declaration or Letter to the Pope touching the Marriage and Divorce of that King from Queen Katherine telling him that Causa Regiae Majestatis nostra cujusque propria est à Capite in membra derivata dolor ad omnes atque injuria ex aequo pertinet and that if his Holiness did not give his consent nostri nobis curam esse relictam aliunde nobis remedia conquiramus that is in plain English if the Pope would not do it they would which indeed afterwards they did To which Pope Clement the Seventh sent an Answer directed thus Venerabilibus fratribus Archiepiscopis Episcopis ac dilectis filiis Abbatibus Nobilibusque viris Ducibus Marchionibus Comitibus Baronibus Militibus ac Doctoribus Parliamenti Regni Angliae 11. The Marriage of King Philip and Queen Mary it is true was treated on before yet nothing could absolutely be concluded till the whole Treaty and Articles of Marriage were solemnly and solidly debated in Parliament which being agreed to they confirm and establish them by a Law 12. We your Majesties most humble Subjects cannot forbear but with all humbleness most thankfully to set before the same our most lowly thanks for three special matters proceeding from your Majesty to our benefit joy and comfort in this present Assembly First For the more Princely consideration had of us in the forbearing at this time some portion of that which according to the greatness and necessity of your Affairs we of Duty meant and intended to have yielded unto your Majesty Secondly For the most comfortable assurance and promise by your Majesty made and declared unto us that for our Weal and Surety your Majesty would Marry as soon as God should give you opportunity to accomplish the same whereof we have received infinite comfort and shall pray to Almighty God to further and prosper all your Majesties Actions tending thereunto that we your most natural Subjects may speedily see some noble Issue of your Body to continue perpetually by Descent the Succession of this Imperial Crown Thirdly For the great hope and comfort we have conceived by the means of your Majesties most Honourable Speech uttered and declared unto us of your most Gracious and Princely Disposition and determination when time thereunto shall serve conveniently with the Surety of your Majesties Person and the Weal and Tranquillity of your Realm to have due regard to the further establishing of the Succession of your Imperial Crown Quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbetur THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS The Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Commons in the Session of Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 8 Reg. Eliz. A. D. 1566. which began there after divers Prorogations of the same on Monday the 30 th of September and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Thursday the 2 d day of Jan. An. 9 Reg. ejusdem THIS Journal of the House of Commons in this present Session of Parliament de An. 8 Regin Eliz. is not only replenished with excellent matter touching the usual Orders and Liberties of the House but also enriched with the unusual Election of a new Speaker and with the extraordinary agitation of those two great businesses touching her Majesties Marriage
blank or void place was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent from the Lords on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant May foregoing The Bill for the preservation of Timber and Fuel within twelve Miles of London and Subburbs of the same was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Essex the Lord Abergavenny the Lord S t John of Bletsoe and the Lord Compton The Bill for the assurance of certain Lands according to the meaning of Sir Thomas Woodhouse for the benefit of certain Infants was read secunda vice The Bill for repeal of a Statute made for the Town of Shrewsbury an 8 Reginae Eliz. was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Essex and others The Bill also touching Presentations to Benefices by lapse was read the second time and committed unto the Archbishop of York the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Hartford the Bishop of Worcester the Lord Cromwell the Lord Ewers Justice Southcott and Justice Wray The Bill for keeping of the Assizes and Sessions in the Town of Stafford and the Bill for annexing the Sheriffwicks of Huntingtonshire and Cambridgshire were each of them read secunda vice Commisse ad ingrossand The Bill lastly touching Sea-Marks and that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas was read prima vice and committed to the Earl of Suffolk the Earl of Leicester the Lord Burlcigh the Lord Darey de Chich. the Lord Cheyney the Lord Norris Serjeant Barham and Doctor Lewes Nota That this is not committed only upon the first reading but also a Serjeant and a Doctor who are but Attendants upon the Upper House are here made joint Committees with the Lords On Friday the 30 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for inserting of the name of the Mannor of Havering at Bowre in a blank and void place of certain Letters Patents of the late King Edward the Sixth made unto certain persons of certain Lands and Tenements in West-ham in the County of Essex was read the third time and passed the House On Saturday the 31 th of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for renewing of a Statute made for the keeping of the Assises and Sessions within the Town of Stafford was read tertia vice conclusa And the fourth and last being the Bill against corrupt Presentations was read secunda vice commissa to the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Sussex the Lord Chandois and the former Lords nominated on Saturday the 17 th day of this instant May foregoing where this Bill was then read the second time and then committed On Monday the second day of June Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands and Tenements according to the meaning of Sir Thomas Woodhouse for the benefit of certain Infants was read tertia vice conclusa On Tuesday the third day of June Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to renew a Statute made an 1 o of the Queens Reign inhibiting the transporting of Leather or Raw-Hides out of the Realm was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Wednesday the 4 th day of June the Bill touching a Statute made an 1 mo of the Queens Reign inhibiting the transporting of Leather or Raw-Hides was read tertia vice conclusa and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Barham and Doctor Huick Four Provisoes annexed by the Commons to the Bill for Vagabonds with certain other Amendments in the said Bill were read secunda tertia vice conclusa communi Procerum assensu Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for avoiding of Recoveries suffered by Collusion of Tenants for term of life and such others was read prima vice The Bill touching Mary the late Scottish Queen was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for avoiding of Recoveries suffered by Collusion of Tenants was committed to the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Sussex and others but there is no mention made whether this Bill was at all read of which see a like President on Wednesday the 28 th day of May foregoing On Thursday the 5 th day of June the Bill touching Mary the Daughter and Heir of James the Fifth late King of Scots was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Barham and the Queens Attorney Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill against such as shall conspire or practise the enlargement of any Prisoner committed for High-Treason and the third for annexing of Hexham and Hexhamshire to the County of Northumberland were each of them returned conclusae The Bill for the better and further assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of the Free Grammar-School at Tunbridge in the County of Kent was read prima vice and committed to the Archbishop of York the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Hartford the Bishop of Chichester the Bishop of Rochester the Lord de la Ware the Lord Norris the Master of the Rolls and Justice Southcott Vide concerning this Bill on Monday the 9 th day Tuesday the 10 th day and on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant June following The Bill that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas and touching Sea-Marks was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus primarius Justiciarius Banci Regis continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem Nota That this continuance of the Parliament with some others that follow by the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was not without some express Authority given him by her Majesty but through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House it doth not appear in the Original Journal-Book of the same whether the said Authority were given by Commission or otherwise About which hour in the Afternoon four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the true making of Hand-Guns Callivers c. and the last for Partition of certain Lands between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfeild K t and their Heirs were each of them read prima vice Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regis continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Friday the 6 th day of June Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the
would with the same mind speak it again Commit Yea but you might have uttered it in better terms why did you not so Went. Would you have me to have done as you of her Majesties Privy-Council do to utter a weighty matter in such terms as she should not have understood to have made a fault then it would have done her Majesty no good and my intent was to do her good Commit You have Answered us Went. Then I praise God for it and as I made a Courtesie another spake these words Commit M r Wentworth will never acknowledge himself to make a fault nor say that he is sorry for any thing that he doth speak you shall hear none of these things come out of his mouth Went. M r Seckford I will never confess that to be a fault to love the Queens Majesty whilst I live neither will I be sorry for giving her Majesty warning to avoid danger while the breath is in my Body if you do think it a fault to love her Majesty or to be sorry that her Majesty should have warning to avoid her danger say so for I cannot speak for your self M r Secksord This Examination of M r Wentworth being thus transcribed out of that Copy I had of it now follows the next days passages out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and it is not here to be over-passed that the said M r Wentworth was by the Queens special favour restored again to his Liberty and place in the House on Monday the 12 th day of March ensuing On Thursday the 9 th day of February it was Ordered by this House upon a Motion that John Lord Russell Son and Heir Apparent of the Right Honourable the Earl of Bedford being a Burgess for the Borough of Birtport in the County of Dorset shall continue a Member of this House according to the like former President in the like Case had heretofore of the said new Earl his Father This day M r Treasurer in the name of all the Committees yesterday appointed for the Examination of Peter Wentworth Burgess for Tregony declared that all the said Committees did meet Yesterday in the Afternoon in the Star-Chamber according to their Commission and there Examining the said Peter Wentworth touching the violent and wicked words Yesterday pronounced by him in this House touching the Queens Majesty made a Collection of the same words which words so Collected the said Peter Wentworth did acknowledge and confess And then did the said M r Treasurer read unto the House the said Note of Collection which being read he declared further that the said Peter Wentworth being Examined what he could say for the extenuating of his said fault and offence could neither say any thing at all to that purpose neither yet did charge any other person as Author of his said Speech but did take all the burthen thereof unto himself and so the said M r Treasurer thereupon moved for his punishment and Imprisonment in the Tower as the House should think good and consider of whereupon after sundry Disputations and Speeches it was Ordered upon the Question that the said Peter Wentworth should be committed close Prisoner to the Tower for his said offence there to remain until such time as this House should have further Consideration of him And thereupon immediately the said Peter Wentworth being brought to the Bar by the Serjeant received his said Judgment accordingly by the Mouth of M r Speaker in form above-recited And so M r Lieutenant of the Tower was presently charged with the Custody of the said Peter Wentworth But the said Peter Wentworth was shortly by the Queens special Favour restored again to his Liberty and place in the House Ut vide on Monday the 12 th day of March following M r Moor M r Norton M r Yelverton and M r Fenner were appointed to draw a Bill against stealing away of Mens Children by colour of privy Contracts It was resolved by this House that any person being a Member of the same and being either in service of Ambassage or else in Execution or visited with sickness shall not in any wise be amoved from their place in this House nor any other to be during such time of service Execution or sickness Elected Vide consimile January the 19 th Thursday in Anno 23 Reginae Eliz. M r Seckford Master of the Requests Sir Nicholas Arnold M r Atkins and M r Marsh were appointed to confer together touching the number of Knights and Burgesses of the Parliament Three Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the last was the Bill for assurances of Lands and Tenements in antient Demesn and for preservation of the Lords Seignories On Friday the 10 th day of February upon a Motion made by M r Dalton in the behalf of the Lord Russell supposing he should not be continued a Member of this House it is nevertheless generally resolved by this House that he may not be discharged of the same upon present notice whereof given unto him by the Serjeant the said Lord Russell came into this House accordingly Nota That this Lord Russell was Son and Heir Apparent of Francis the second Earl of Bedford of this Sirname who having no place in the Upper House might very well be admitted a Member of the House of Commons and the Precedents of this kind have been so frequent in all the Parliaments of latter times since Queen Elizabeths Death as there shall need no vouching of them And it lies also in the favour of the Prince to make such Heirs Apparent of Earldoms Members of the Upper House by Summoning them thither by Writ but then they take not place there as the Sons of Earls but according to the Antiquity of their Fathers Baronies Two Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the second was the Bill touching Bastardy M r Chancellor of the Exchequer declaring the great charges of the Queens Majesty many and sundry ways since her Entry to the Crown as well in Foreign as Domestical occasions for the benefit and peaceable Government of the State and Common-Wealth and the great and imminent necessity of present provision to be had and made for the continuance of the same did after many great and weighty reasons shewed move for a Subsidy which Speech in respect that it is but thus abstractedly set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and containeth in it matter of very good moment I have thought good to supply it at large out of a Copy thereof I had by me being as followeth That in the beginning of this our meeting such matters as be of importance may be thought on in time I am bold with your favours to move you of one that in my opinion is both of moment and of necessity To the end if you likewise find the same to be so you may commit it further to the
House of Commons by two Doctors Nota That though this Bill were upon Wednesday last past being the 9 th day of this instant December referred to Committees yet no mention is made in the Original Journal-Book when it was again returned or brought into the House by the said Committees by whom it is most probable that these amendments were added unto it and for the passing of which the said Bill was at this time sent down to the House of Commons having formerly passed that House and been sent up from thence to the Lords before the aforesaid new amendments had been added by them on Monday last past being the 7 th day of this instant December The Bill touching the Lord Dacres and the Lord Norris was read prima vice Memorand That upon the Petition of the Lord Norris the Lords Ordered that he and the Lord Dacres with their Council should be heard upon Saturday next to Answer the said Bills Memorand That touching the former Order Entred primo die Decembris concerning James Diggs for that there wanted words for the discharge of the Bond and Sureties of the said James Diggs This day the Lords Ordered that the appearance of the said James Diggs by rendring himself in the Exchequer was and should be a sufficient discharge of his Sureties and their Bonds and that the Bonds should be redelivered and that this Order should be added to the former Order Memorand That where the said James Diggs exhibited to the Court a Bill of complaint in form of supplication against Sir Roger Manwood Knight Lord Chief Baron the Lords having heard the Parties and the Witnesses of M r Diggs and deliberately considered the Contents thereof with one consent agreed and adjudged that the said complaint was untrue and unjustifiable against the Lord Chief Baron And further Ordered that the said James Diggs by humble submission and open recognition should confess and acknowledge his fault And that the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Lumley the Lord North and the Lord S t John of Bletsoe the Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Gawdy should peruse and consider the said recognition whether it were made in due form and that then it should be Entred on Record Vide touching this matter on Tuesday the first day of this instant December foregoing On Tuesday the 15 th day of December four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for confirmation of her Majesties Letters Patents granted to Queens-Colleà ge in Oxford was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum This day James Diggs Gent. did according to their Lordships Order made yesterday humbly submit himself in manner and form following as it stands Entred upon Record in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament The humble Submission of James Diggs unto the High Court of Parliament as well for his contempt unto the said Court as unto Sir Roger Manwood Lord Chief Baron by his untrue and unadvised Speeches in his Bill of complaint Whereas I James Diggs did of late exhibite a Bill of complaint unto your honourable Lordships in this High Court of Parliament against the said Lord Chief Baron wherein amongst other things is contained as followeth that is to say That the said Lord Chief Baron doth still continue an obstinate intention to frustrate your Lordships honourable Order taken for the discharging of the great Bonds of the said James Diggs his Sureties boldly saying that the same your Lordships honourable Order should be undone or brought about again as by the said Bill of complaint doth appear And whereas also it pleased your most honourable Lordships upon the humble Petition of me the said James Diggs to call before your honourable Lordships that Witness which I the said James Diggs did avow for the proof of the Allegations before rehearsed in the said Bill of Complaint against the said Lord Chief Baron which Witness being heard and examined at large touching the said Allegations with the circumstances of the same openly before your honourable Lordships in this High Court of Parliament it hath plainly and evidently appeared that there was no such obstinate intention in the said Lord Chief Baron nor that he did utter the said words or Speeches above-mentioned Whereupon it hath pleased your honourable Lordships to Order that I the said James Diggs should before your Lordships openly in this honourable Court of Parliament recognize my fault for this my untrue and unadvised complaint against him Wherefore I the said James Diggs being now heartily sorry for my said untrue and unadvised complaint in the Speeches aforesaid exhibited against the Lord Chief Baron do openly before your Lordships in this most High Court of Parliament consess and acknowledge my said offence in my said unadvised and untrue complaint made against the said Lord Chief Baron And do here before your Lordships heartily pray and desire the said Lord Chief Baron to remit and forget my said offence in my untrue and unadvised complaint made against him and withal do most humbly beseech all your Lordships to pardon my contempt and offence committed to this most High Court in exhibiting unto your Lordships of the said unadvised and untrue complaint Vide the former proceedings of this case of James Diggs Gentleman on Tuesday the first day and on Monday the 14 th day of this instant December foregoing Nota also That there is no continuance or adjournment of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor in usual form entred in the Original Journal-Book which seemeth to have happened through the negligence of the Clerk of the Parment but it is easie to be conjectured the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto nine of the Clock in the forenoon of Wednesday next following On Wednesday the 16 th day of December two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against scandalous Libelling was read secundâ vice and committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Archbishop of York the Lord Treasurer and others the Master of the Rolls the two Chief Justices the Queens Serjeant and Attorney Nota That here not only the Judges which are but Assistants to the Lords but also the Queens Council which are but meer Attendants upon the upper House are made joynt Committees with the Lords On Thursday the 17 th day of December the Bill for restitution in blood of Thomas Howard Son of Thomas Howard late Dake of Norfolk was read primâ vice And the same Bill was again read secundà tertiâ vice and by all the Lords concluded and sent to the House of Commons by two Doctors being Masters of the Chancery Nota The speedy passing of this Bill by vouchsasing of it three readings at one time each after other did express the special desire of the Lords to pass this Bill with as much honour as lay in them to do Eight other Bills of no great moment
the Bill for one Subsidy granted by the Clergy was read tertiâ vice and the Bill touching Oxford Haven was read secundâ tertiâ vice On Tuesday the 14 th day of March the Bill for confirmation of the Sale of Edward Fishers Lands made towards satisfaction of his Debts Charges and Incumbrances was brought from the House of Commons and read primâ vice Vide plus concerning this matter on the day following The Bill for Confirmation of the Attainder of Thomas late Lord Paget and others was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa expedita dissentiente Domino Darcy who is sometimes called the Lord Darcy of Meinel Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading being the last reading and thereupon passed of which the second being the Bill for the more speedy and due execution of certain branches of the Statute made in the 23 d year of the Queens Majesties Reign intituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience was expedited communi omnium Procerum assensu dissentiente solummodò Comite Rutland Which two Bills aforesaid were sent down to the House of Commons by the Queens Attorney and Doctor Carew Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first being an Act of one Subsidy granted by the Clergy was returned expedited and the other was the Bill for the payment of the Debts and Legacies of Sir Gerrard Croker Knight deceased and of John Croker Esq his Son On Wednesday the 15 th day of March the Bill for the payment of the Debts and Legacies of Sir Gerrard Croker Knight and of the Debts of John Croker Esq his Son was read primâ vice Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first being a Bill touching Errours in Records of Attainders of High Treason was read primâ vice commissa and the second being a Bill for repealing of a Statute made in the 23 d year of the Queens Majesties Reign touching the bringing in Fish into this Realm was read primâ vice commissa The Bill for the confirmation of the Seal of Edward Fishers Lands made towards the satisfaction of his Debts Charges and Incumbrances was read secundâ vice Whereupon the Lords ordered that Edward Fisher now in the Fleet should be brought before them to morrow at nine of the Clock and that he should bring his learned Counsel with him And that the Parties who follow the said Bill should have like warning to be there with their learned Counsel Nota That this very Bill or some other to the same purpose had divers readings and was often debated in the Parliament both in the Upper House and in the House of Commons but passed not And there it seemeth that the same or a new Bill to the like purpose was now again offered unto the House Vide the first reading of it upon Tuesday immediately foregoing The Lords Committees made Report unto the whole House that upon divers Conferences had with the Committees of the Lower House touching their Request made to the Lords to joyn with them in Petition to her Majesty about a Benevolence or Contribution which they of the House of Commons thought good to offer unto her Majesty the said Lords Committees thought it not fit for divers reasons to joyn with the House of Commons herein Which reasons when the whole House had heard and considered their Lordships did resolve that the House of Commons should be left to themselves and their Lordships would take such order therein for themselves as to them should seem convenient Vide plus concerning this matter on Saturday the 11 th day of this instant March foregoing On Thursday the 16 th day of March the Committees in the Bill for the repealing of a Statute made in the three and twentieth year of the Queens Majesties Reign touching the bringing in of Fish into this Realm according to the Lords appointment delivered their opinions and reasons by the Lord Chief Baron touching the said Bill which when the Lords had heard and considered they ordered that the said Bill for the Repeal of the said Statute should be rejected This day was chosen a new Committee to resolve upon somewhat touching the Contribution viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury the Archbishop of York the Lord Steward the Earl of Kent the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Hartford and the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winton and the Bishop of Salop the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Morley the Lord Cobham the Lord Gray the Lord Stafford the Lord Stourton the Lord Cromwell the Lord North the Lord Delaware and the Lord Norris The Lords Committees last named upon Conference had betwixt them in respect of the great Charges that her Majesty hath sustained heretofore and that her Highness shall be enforced hereafter to be at for the defence of this Realm and other her Majesties Dominions did resolve amongst themselves freely to give to her Majesty two shillings in the pound after the rate of the valuation of the Subsidy of the Temporality granted in this present Session of Parliament to be paid unto such persons and at such time as it shall please her Majesty to appoint Which being after openly declared to the whole House the Temporal Lords in as much as the Lords Spiritual had made former offer of Contribution unto her Majesty did all together with one consent most willingly ratifie the said resolution both touching the Sum and the payment thereof and ordered that this their free gift should be entred upon Record And that such of the Lords of her Majesties Privy Council as were there present should signifie the same to her Highness in all their Names On Friday the 17 th day of March a Bill touching Errours in Records of High Treason was read secundâ tertiâ vice conclusa On Saturday the 18 th day of March the Bill for the confirmation of the Sale of Edward Fishers Lands made towards the satisfaction of his Debts Charges and Incumbrances with certain amendments in a Schedule added unto the said Bill was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa tradita Doctori Barkley Doctori Carew in Domum Communem deserend ' Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 14 th day and on Wednesday the 15 th day of this instant March foregoing Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being a Bill touching Exemplifications and Constats of Original Conveyances made to the Queens Majesty was read primâ vice On Monday the 20 th day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading whereof the second being a Bill for the limitation of time touching Writs of Errour upon Fines and Recoveries was read secundâ vice Six Bills of no great moment were this day lastly brought
Hospitality And therefore whereas these two meetings are placed in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons very incongruously in two distinct and several Journals as if they had been two distinct and several Sessions they are here rightly placed together and so the passages of the said second meeting do now follow in due course and order On Wednesday the 15 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been Adjourned by the Lords Commissioners aforesaid on Friday the 2 d day of December foregoing the two Houses met in their several places without any pomp or Solemnity this being as hath been before observed neither new Parliament nor new Session but a mere new meeting of either House upon the said Adjournment of the former meeting thereof which began on the 29 th day of October being Saturday in Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. as is aforesaid The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being set M r Serjeant Puckering then Speaker thereof informed the House that M r Fulk Onslow Clerk of the Parliament was so weakned by Sickness that he could not at this present exercise his place Therefore he had appointed M r William Onslow his Knisman a Member of this House here present to supply it and therefore asked their allowance which they very willingly granted The same time M r Cromwell moved the House for that at their Petition her Majesty had done Justice upon the Scottish Queen to the greater Safeguard of her Majesties Person and the whole Realm he thought it fit that her Majesty might receive from them their humble thanks which motion was well liked but at this time it proceeded no further Two Bills had each of them one reading whereof the first was touching Fines and Recoveries before the Justices of the Common Pleas and the second for limitation of time touching Writs of Error growing by fraud The same day M r Vice-Chamberlain commanded as he said by her Majesty moved the House for that this Parliament was not expected to hold at this time many of the Nobility being Lieutenants in their Countries and others principal Members of this House were absent by occasion whereof those great weighty causes for which this Parliament is called cannot have such deep consultation as is fit Therefore he thought it convenient to have an Adjournment and therefore to move the Lords of the Upper House for the liking thereof Which motion being well liked M r Vice-Chamberlain and a convenient number of the House so many as would without nomination did attend him to the Lords who upon his return from the Lords made report that they having considered of the motion found the same want and therefore yielded to an Adjournment of the Parliament until Wednesday next being the 22 d day of this instant Month of February if this House would condescend unto it Unto which Adjournment this House also yielded which consent M r Vice-Chamberlain did there presently signifie to the Lords and upon his return the House brake up On Wednesday the 22 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last adjourned upon Wednesday the 15 th day of this instant February foregoing the House again sitting the Right Honourable Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Vice-Chamberlain to her Majesty and one of her Majesties most Honourable Privy Council used this Speech in effect to the House viz. That it was her Majesties pleasure to have dangers disclosed and to have the House know that she thanked God for the goodness of the House that she wished the Session mistaken for Meeting to be short that men of Government might go home for matter of Government hospitality and defence and to take another time for making of Laws saving such as be now of necessity The dangers which her Majesty meaneth proceed of ancient malice and are to be prepared for and God called upon for aid The principal heads of the dangers The Catholicks abroad the Pope the King of Spain the Princes of the League the Papists at home and their Ministers The principal root hereof The Council of Trent which agreed to extirp Christian Religion which they term Heresie whereunto divers Princes assented and bound themselves in solemn manner Pope Pius Quint us sent her Excommunication against her Majesty Dr. Mourton and Mendoza a Spanish Ambassadour bestirred them a Northern Rebellion was bred the Pope and the rest practised for the Scottish Queen and she being acquainted proceeds by her means Pope Paulus the Thirteenth proceeds and sends Jesuits and Seminaries to England and Ireland and they proceed to inveagle the Subjects and disswade them from obedience Visko beginneth a Rebellion in Ireland James Fitz-Morris furthereth the Execution thereof Doctor Sanders and Desmond stir new Rebellion there and wrote into England c. Parry was moved to kill her Majesty and perswaded it was meritorious Pope Sixtus the Fifth imitateth the other Popes to execute their former devices and writeth to the Cardinal of Lorain and Guise that he will overthrow the Gospel which Mr. Vice-Chamberlain honourably termed the glorious Gospel and therefore moved them to join with the Princes of the League and to practise to win the King of Scots and to set up the Scottish Queen in England and made his reckoning of the Cantons that be Popish the Switzers the Duke of Savoy the Duke of Ferrara King of Spain and King of France A chief Instrument to work this was one Carew called also Father Henry He was sent into Germany and over Italy and France wrote to the Scottish Queen that the Powers will join to overthrow England and make known the effect of his labour to the Pope Invasion should have been made into England and Ireland the last year and not unlike to be attempted this year The Pope excommunicateth the King of Navar The Pope accounteth not of Popish preaching and perswasions that way but nevertheless moveth all to use the word and for maintenance thereof spareth his Treasure otherwise and withdraweth maintenance from Jesuits Seminaries and divers others Letters were found with the Scottish Queen which prove all these to be true If we serve Almighty God in sincerity of heart we need not to fear It is to be remembred that the King of Spain sought to recover some part of his Fathers credit by using our Treasure and force to get S t Quintines but he soon made his advantage of it and regarded not our Territories in France but suffered the loss of Calice and all our Territories and after the death of Queen Mary what he could Her Majesty sought for his good will sending the Lord Mountague the Lord Cobham Sir Thomas Chamberlain Knight M r Maun and others and they were but hardly used some of them were offered great indignity and M r Mauns Son forced by strength to do a kind of Penance He comforted the Queens Enemies he giveth colour of Wars he chargeth the Queen that her Subjects have aided his Rebels in the Low Countries with
who accordingly were admitted to their several places Two Bills also this Morning of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill for the better Assurance and Confirmation of the Jointure of the Lady Margaret Countess of Cumberland which was read prima vice On Thursday the first day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Assurance of certain Lands sold to Liste Cave and others was read primâ vice On Saturday the third day of March to which day the Parliament had been continued on Thursday foregoing Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being against Counterfeiting of Councellors and principal Officers hands was read primâ vice On Monday the 5 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being against Counterfeiting of Councellors and principal Officers hands was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossand 5 Martii introductae sunt literae procuratoriae Henrici Comitis Huntingdon in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Gulielmum Dominum Burleigh The saurarium Angliae Robertum Comitem Essex Vicecomitem Hereford ' Dominum Ferrers de Chartly Quod nota On Tuesday the 6 th day of March the Bill for the Assurance of Land sold to Lisle Cave was read tertiâ vice On Wednesday the 7 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued Retornatum est breve quo Johannes Salisburien ' Episcopus praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno There was also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons a Bill for the Naturalizing and making free of William Sidney Son of Sir Robert Sidney Knight Governor of Flushing and Dame Barbara his Wife and of Peregrine Wingfield Son and Heir of Sir John Wingfield Knight and Dame Susan Countess of Kent his Wife And this day also was one extraordinary or unusual Proxy returned from a spiritual Lord who constituted but one Proctor whereas usually no such Lord constituteth fewer than two which said Proxy is thus Entred in the begining of the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament 7 Martii introductae sunt literae procuratoriae Matthaei Dunelmensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Cantuariensem Episcopum On Thursday the 8 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill for Explanation and Confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Knight Attainted of High Treason Not long after this Bill upon the second reading had been committed to ingrossing according to a certainOrder formerly made by the Lords Francis Englefield Esquire appeared before them with one of the Learned Councel who were commanded to declare why an Act for Explanation and Confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Knight Attainted of High Treason should not pass And upon Allegations made by the said Learned Councel the Lords Commanded that they should set them down in writing and deliver them to the Attorney General and that on Friday they should attend on the Judges and the Queens Learned Councel at Serjeants-Inn and shew such Deeds of Conveyance as they made mention of before the Lords That the said Lords upon Answer of the Judges and Learned Councel might proceed in the said Bill as it should seem best to their Lordships On Saturday the 10 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for Naturalizing and making free of William Sidney the eldest Son of Sir Robert Sidney K t c. being read primâ vice the Lords gave in Commandment to M r Attorney General to bring on Monday certain Depositions remaining in the Exchequer concerning the Cause of Sir Francis Englefield after they had first heard the Opinion of the Judges which was delivered to the Lord Chief Justice of England On Monday the 12 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for restraining of Popish Recusants to some certain places of aboad was read tertia vice conclusa On Tuesday the 13 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning the Lands of Henry Lord Abergavenny deceased was read tertiâ vice conclusa The Lords at the Bishop of Worcesters Motion condescended to a Contribution for relief of such poor Souldiers as went begging in the Streets of London viz. That every Earl should give forty shillings every Bishop thirty shillings and every Baron twenty shillings And appointed the said Bishop and Lord Norris Collectors thereof and committed the bestowing thereof to the Earl of Essex and the Lord Willoughby of Eresby On Thursday the 15 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Lord Harowden was read primâ vice On Friday the 16 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment of which the first being against persons Outlawed and such as will not pay their Debts and Duties was read tertia vice conclusa And then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament in the usual form to Monday following On Monday the 19 th day of March the Bill touching the Lord Harowden was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum On Tuesday the 20 th day of March the Bill touching Sir Francis Englefield's Lands had its third reading and was concluded Four Bills were also this Forenoon sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second touching the sale of certain Mannors Lands and Tenements from Valentine Knightley Esq c. was read prima vice On Thursday the 22 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second concerning the Assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to Read Stafford Esquire and Mabell his Wife and to the Heirs of the said Read was read secunda vice On Saturday the 24 th day of March the Bill touching the Lord Harowden was upon the third reading concluded Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was concerning the lawful deprivation of Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London On Monday the 26 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been
Petition by her Commandment and direction it was sent unto the Lords into the Upper House by Sir Robert Cecill then her Majesties Secretary and endorsed on the back side thus in his own hand Her Majesty hath commanded me to signifie unto your Lordships that upon the humble Suit of the Lord de la Ware she is pleased this Petition be considered and determined in the House Robert Cecill Which Petition being this 5 th day of November sent unto the House was there read as followeth To the Queens most Excellent Majesty BEseecheth your most Excellent Majesty your most humble Subject Thomas le Ware K r That whereas Thomas sometimes Lord Le Ware Ancestor and great Grandfather of your said Subject whose Heir Male he is That is to say your Subject is Son and Heir to William who was Son and Heir to George who was Brother and Heir to Thomas who was Son and Heir to the said Thomas your Subject's great Grandfather in the third year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth your Noble Father by Writ of Summons of Parliament of the said King Henry the Eighth came to the Parliament then holden at Westminster in the said third year and so continually the said Thomas the great Grandfather and his Heirs Males Ancestors of your Suppliant in many other Parliaments holden as well in the time of the said King Henry the Eighth as in the time of your Noble Brother King Edward the Sixth and in the time of your Dear Sister Queen Mary have come in their proper persons by their Writs and Commandment until the Parliament holden at Westminster in the first and second years of King Philip and Queen Mary which was after the Death of the said Thomas your Suppliants great Grandfather and of Thomas his Son that had not any Issue of his Body and of the said George who died in the Life of his Brother Thomas the said William Father of your Suppliant being the Son and Heir of the said George and Heir Male to his said great Grandfather to which Parliament he was not summoned for that he stood by Act of Parliament holden before at Westminster in the third year of the said Edward the Sixth disabled to claim and enjoy the dignity of the Seigniory of the Lord La Ware during his Life and the said William being now dead your said Suppliant is come to this present Parliament in his proper person by your Writ and Commandment May it please your most gracious Majesty to consider the Premisles and thereupon to Grant and Ordain by advice of your most wise Council in this present Parliament Assembled That your said Suppliant may have his place in this present Parliament in your presence as his Ancestors Lords La Ware have had in the said Parliament before this time This Petition being read it was referr'd to these Committees following viz. The Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Winton the Lord Zouch the Lord Stafford the Lord Windsor the Lord Shefsield the Lord North the Lord S t John of Bletso the Lord Buckhurst Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Perriam Lord Chief Baron and Edward Coke the Queens Attorney who were appointed to meet at the Council-Chamber in Whitehall on Sunday the 6 th day of November at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Where what they did and what Judgment the Lords and the whole House gave in this Case followeth afterwards on Thursday the 10 th of this instant November and on Monday the 14 th day of the same On Monday the 7 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Admiral the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Earl of Worcester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Zouch the Lord North and the Lord Buckhurst the Lord Chief Justice of England M r Baron Evans and M r Attorney General to attend the Lords appointed to meet at the Little Council-Chamber at Whitehall to Morrow being the 8 th day of November at four of the Clock in the Afternoon See more of this on Monday the 14 th of November following Nota That here upon the Commitment of an ordinary Bill the Judges are said to be appointed to attend the Committee of the Lords and are not nominated as Joint-Committees with them which is usually to be seen in every former Parliament almost of her Majesties Reign and therefore it should seem that either the Lords of the Upper House themselves did alter and abolish the said ancient Priviledges which the Judges had of being constituted Joint-Committees with them in respect that they were no Members of but only Assistants unto the said Upper House or else that Thomas Smith Esquire now Clerk of the said House was more careful and diligent in the distinct and exact setting down that the said Judges were not nominated as Joint-Committees but only to attend such Lords Committees as were appointed by the said House which Anthony Mason Esquire his Predecessor in the said place had for the most part neglected to distinguish And yet the said M r Mason may in some sort be justly excused of any universal or continual carelessness in this kind in respect that where the Lords Committees were appointed either to treat with the Committees of the House of Commons or by themselves about any matter of weight there the Judges and her Majesties Learned Councel are always set down as appointed to attend the said Lords Committees But when an ordinary Bill only was committed upon the second reading and especially if it concerned matter of Law there the Judges for the most part and sometimes also the Queens Learned Councel were nominated as Joint-Committees with them But whatsoever the usage hath been in former times most certain it is that not only in this present Parliament but in all that have been since unto this present year 1629. the said Judges being Assistants unto and the King 's Learned Councel being Attendants upon the said Upper House have never been nominated as Joint-Committees with their Lordships but have always been appointed to attend them And which may make it seem the more strange Whereas the Judges have liberty in the said Upper House it self upon leave given them by the Lord Keeper or the Lord Chancellor for the time being to cover their heads at a Committee they are now always accustomed to sit bare and uncovered which said course finally was constantly observed during all the continuance of this present Parliament as may appear not only by the instance foregoing but by those many other Committees which followed on Thursday the 24 th day of this instant November on
Knolles M r Secretary Herbert and others of which the fifth was the Bill for the enabling of Edward Nevill of Berling in the County of Kent and Sir Henry Nevill Knight his Son and Heir Apparent to dispose of certain Copyhold Lands parcel of the Mannor of Rothersield in the County of Sussex and of the Mannor of Ailesby and Felding in the County of Warwick And the sixth being the Bill to avoid trifling and frivolous Suits of Law in her Majesties Courts of Westminster was read primâ vice Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the Higher Court of Parliament were this day informed that one William Vaughan Servant to the Earl of Shrewsbury was of late Arrested contrary to the priviledge of the said Court by the procurement of one William Crayford of Mongcham in Kent and committed to the Prison of Newgate where he yet remaineth It was therefore Ordered by the said Court that a Serjeant at Arms shall be sent to the Keeper of that Prison and require him in their Lordships names to bring the said William Vaughan before the Lords in his Company into the Upper House of Parliament to Morrow being the second day of this Instant December by nine of the Clock in the Morning and that the said Serjeant at Arms shall also bring before the Lords at the time and place prefixed the said William Crayford together with such other Persons as did either Arrest or assist the Arresting of the said William Vaughan Vide on Saturday the 19 th day of the Month following Memorandum that the Serjeant at Arms was this day sent for the parties above mentioned in like sort as the Gentleman-Usher had been formerly sent for others And forasmuch as the Committees that were appointed on Saturday the 14 th day of November foregoing to decide the question between them in that behalf had not yet performed the same It was therefore Commanded by the House that a remembrance should be made that the sending for any parties before the Lords at this time or heretofore by the Gentleman-Usher or Serjeant at Arms should not be prejudicial to either of their rights until the said Committees should have convenient time to consider of and decide this question betwixt them Vide November the 14 th Saturday foregoing Upon a Motion made to the House by the Lord Treasurer it was agreed that the Committees in the two several Bills the one concerning Musters and Souldiers who were appointed on Thursday the 12 th day of November foregoing and the other for confirmation of Letters Patents who were appointed on Monday the twenty third day of November foregoing should joyn in one Committee for both Bills Nota That although it be ordinary for a Committee upon some new occasion to be encreased in the number or for divers Bills to be referred to one and the same Committee yet I conceive this Precedent here immediately foregoing to be very rare and exotick in respect that two several Committees appointed at several times in two several Bills are united together and made as one Committee to both the said Bills On Wednesday the second day of December three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to avoid trifling and frivolous suits in Law in her Majesties Courts at Westminster and the second being the Bill for the Denization of certain persons were each of them read secundâ vice and committed Nota That here were two several bills read secundâ vice but no mention made either of their Commitment or Ingrossing The supposed Cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23. day of November foregoing The Bill concerning the suppressing of the multitude of Ale-Houses c. was returned to the House by the Lord Treasurer with certain Amendments William Crayford by whose procurement and assistance William Vaughan the Earl of Shrewsburys servant was Arrested and committed to Newgate and one Millington an Attorney the said Crayfords Master as also the Under-sheriff of Middlesex and another Person that was Bayliff with Crayford in Arresting the said Willam Vaughan all which persons having been heard particularly by the Lords and the said Millington the Under-sheriff and Crayfords fellow Bayliff protesting that they knew not the said Vaughan to be a man priviledged by the Parliament at the time of the Arrest It was Ordered that the said Millington the Under-sheriff and the said Bayliff should be dismissed for that Cause But forasmuch as by the confession of the Under-sheriff it doth plainly appear to the Lords that the said Crayford had very maliciously and upon unnecessary suits that did not concern himself prosecuted the serving and laying of sundry Executions upon William Vaughan it was thought meet and so Ordered that he should be committed to the Prison of the Fleet And because also the Keeper of Newgate having seen their Lordships Order by the hands of the Serjeant at Arms for the bringing of the said Vaughan did not perform the same pretending he could not with his safety remove him out of Prison being in Execution he was in like sort committed to the Fleet for neglecting the said Order And for the Prisoner William Vaughan the Lords resolved to enter into some further consideration for the bringing of him before them into the House And thereupon their resolution concerning the same was respited until some other time Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 19 th day of this instant December following On Thursday the 3 d day of December two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for enabling of Edward Nevil of Berling in the County of Kent and Sir Henry Nevil Knight his Son and Heir apparent to dispose of certain Copyhold Lands parcel of the Mannor of Rotherfield in the County of Sussex and of the Mannor of Aylesby and Felding in the County of Warwick was read primâ vice The Amendments of the Bill against the multitude of Ale-Houses and Tipling-Houses were this day twice read And thereupon the Bill Ordered to be Ingrossed Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Assurance of certain Mannors and Lands for part of a Jointure to Lucy Countess of Bedford was read primâ vice Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill against Drunkards and Common Haunters of Alehouses and Taverns was read primâ vice The Lords were this day informed by the Earl of Worcester of an Arrest made of the person of Robert Treswell Somerset one of her Majesties Heralds at Arms in Ordinary at the Suit of one Margery Fitchet of London Whereupon it was Ordered by the Court that the Serjeant at Arms should be sent for the said Margaret Fitchet and for William Smith and William Lane that made the Arrest and should bring them before the Lords into the Upper House to Morrow being the 4 th day of this instant December
was read tertiâ vice expedit Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam post meridiem hujus instantis diei About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords assembling Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the strengthening of the Grants made for the Maintenance and Government of the House of the Poor called S t Bartholomews Hospital of the Foundation of King Hen. the Eighth was read secundâ vice The Bill for the 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 Northampton Lincoln Norfolk and Suffolk was read iertiâ vice expedit Upon the third reading of this Bill it was moved by the House that certain Additions might be put in the Title of the Bill and Amendments in some part of the body thereof and the Lord Chief Justice and M r Attorney 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 M r Attorney and M r D r Hone who returned presently from the House of Commons with their allowance of the said Amendments and Addition in the Title of of the Counties of Essex Sussex Kent and the County Palatine of Durham Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to make the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of Edward Lucas Gentleman deceased Executor of the last Will and Testament of John Flowerden Esquire deceased lyable c. was read secundâ vice but no mention is made either of the Commitment or Engrossing thereof the reason or cause of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 d day of November foregoing 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 near the Parliament Presence On Friday the 18 th day of December Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Queens Majesties most Gracious General and free Pardon was read primâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Stanhop 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 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 Lords of the Upper House have thought it meet and convenient that some course might be taken for reformation of any such wrong as may be found truly complained of and fit to be remedied and for the setling of some good agreement and Order for the said Painters and Plaisterers so as each sort of them might exercise their Trade conveniently without impeaching one the other It is therefore Ordered by the Court of the Upper House of Parliament that the said complaint and cause of the said Painters which proceeded not in Parliament shall be referr'd 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 the hearing of the said Cause the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas M r Justice Gawdie M r Baron Clark and M r Attorney General or any four three or two of them shall assist and give their help for the making and establishing some good Order and Agreement And that the said parties complainant and also the Company of the Plaisterers shall observe and keep such Order as by the said Mayor the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas M r Justice Gawdie M r Baron Clark M r Attorney General M r Recorder of London or any six five four or three of them whereof the Lord Mayor and the Lord Chief Justice of England or Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas to be two shall be set down and prescribed Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 14 th day of this instant December foregoing Memorandum that whereas William Crayford of Mongham in the County of Kent Gentleman was this day brought before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal 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 Gentleman Servant to the Earl of Shrewesbury 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 referr'd 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 Arbitrement as the said Lords shall make and set down between them Vide concerning this Matter on Saturday the 19 th day of this instant December immediately following On Saturday the 19 th day of December a Motion was made in the House for avoiding of all further controversy between William Crayford and William Vaughan Gentlemen That forasmuch as each of them took mutual Exception one to the other touching the Bonds whereinto they formerly entred by Order of the Court the said William Crayford alledging that it sufficed not 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 alledging that if William Craysord were bound alone his Sons or Heirs might molest and trouble the said Vaughan without hazard of the Bond some further Order might thereupon be taken It was therefore this day Ordered by the Court that the said William Crayford and
thought 〈◊〉 E AN Earls Son may be a Member of the 〈◊〉 of Commons 〈◊〉 Ecclesiastical Vide Religion 〈◊〉 A Member Elected and returned for two 〈◊〉 may chuse for which he will serve p. 80. 〈◊〉 passim 〈◊〉 Elections Resolved that the House of Commons the only competent Judges which are daly 〈◊〉 which not p. 396 397 398. 〈◊〉 a message from the Queen that the Lord Chancellor ought to examine and judge of Returns and that it was a thing not belonging to the House of Commons p. 392 Queen Elizabeth Vide the word in the 〈◊〉 the Journal of the House of Lords Reasons why in Conscience she should have a care of 〈◊〉 person argned in 14 Eliz. p. 211 212. Her excellent Government commemorated in a Speech by the Chancellour of the Exchequer p. 244 245 246. the like p. 285 --- 288. Her most gracious Speech unto the House when they presented themselves before her in a full body to return her thanks for recalling sundry Letters Patents of Monopoly p. 659 660. She invites them all to come to 〈◊〉 her hand at the end of the Session p. 〈◊〉 Court of Exchequer a Bill concerning 〈◊〉 and process there p. 642 F. FAir Vide Market A Fast Day appointed by the House without acquainting the Queen with it p. 282 283. 〈◊〉 is highly offended at it upon which the 〈◊〉 make their Submission and desire her 〈◊〉 p. 283 284. Fees to be paid by each Member on several 〈◊〉 how much p. 468 Felony a Member indicted thereof to contin 〈◊〉 Member until convicted p. 〈◊〉 M r Fitzherbert an Outlaw chosen a Member his case p. 479 480 481. several Speeches thereupon p. 514 515 516. He is taken for 〈◊〉 Member and yet ought not to have 〈◊〉 and why p. 〈◊〉 Forests A Bill for the enlargement of the Authority of the Justices thereof sent from 〈◊〉 Lords dashed by the Commons with a Conference thereupon at large p. 255 256 257 M r Fox that writ the Book of Martyrs his 〈◊〉 redeemed out of Prison by money collected in the Parliament p. 661 French Ambassador it is thought dangerous to permit him Audience of the Queen her self and why p. 406 G. SIR Tho. Gargrave chosen Speaker 1 Eliz. Vide the Table to the Journal of the House of Lords Gavelkind injurious to great Families and the policy of the Conquerours beginning that custom p. 676. By that Custom the Son shall not lose his Inheritance though the Father be Executed for Felony ibid. A Bill to take away the Custom dashed ibid. Grammar Schools a Bill to establish good Orders in them rejected p. 570 Guildford School an Annuity setled upon it p. 89 H. ARthur Hall a Member of Parliament committed to the Tower for six Months cut off from being a Member and fined five hundred Marks for publishing a Book derogatory to the Authority of the House with the Case at large p. 295 296 297 298. He bringeth a Writ against the Burrough of Grantham for his Wages for serving in several Parliaments as a Burgess thereof but upon their Appeal to the House of Commons he remitteth the same p. 407. 417 418 Hartlond-Port in Devon a Bill for the finishing of it p. 132 Harwich in Essex returned no Burgess before 43 Eliz. p. 628 Herrings the inconvenience of transporting too great a number of them p. 562 Hexamshire a Bill that it shall be of the County of Northumberland and parcel of the Bishoprick of Durham p. 134 Hospitality a Bill for the maintenance of it rejected upon the second reading p. 591 I. A Bill that Impropriations should go to the relief of the poor twice read but rejected p. 561 A Bill against Inclosures ingeniously spoken to by the Member that brought it in p. 551 Bills to be Indorsed in their lower part p. 342. under the Contents of the Act. p. 562 563 Informers a Bill for the better recovery of costs and damages against them p. 445. 450 Bills not Ingrossed by the Commons when sent from the Lords p. 47. 186. Vide the word Bill in the Table to the Journal of the House of Lords Inhibition Vide Priviledge Journals of Parliament their use p. 403 Ireland invaded by the Spaniard in 43 Eliz. under pretence of maintaining the Catholick Cause p. 623 624 Jury no Member to be put upon a Jury p. 560 Justices of Peace wittily described and reflected upon on occasion of a Bill against common swearing wherein the penalty was to be inflicted by the Justice p. 661. Basket-Justices who p. 664. The Exposition of the Justices upon the Statute of 39 Eliz. of Rogues not thought fit to be enacted in 43 Eliz. and why p. 670 K. A Bill that S t Katherines shall be a Parish Church p. 87 A Bill that Kentish-street in Southwark shall be paved p. 91. 133 Knights formerly had M r instead of Sir prefixed to their names p. 131 Knights of the Shire both according to the Writ and Statute ought to be commorant within the County p. 625 L. LAws adjudged too numerous p. 473 Letany Vide Prayers Liberty of the House thought to be infringed by the Queen p. 175. Vide Speech The Commons reckon'd it a breach of Liberty to have a Conference demanded by the Lords concerning a Bill under debate in the Lower House p. 261 262. Three particulars that are breaches of Liberty p. 263 Licences for absence on special occasions granted by the Speaker passim A Bill against Licences for Marriage c. granted by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury with sundry Arguments thereupon p. 167. No Member to depart without Licence upon pain of forfeiting his Wages c. p. 309 Limitation of Succession the Queen Petition'd for it p. 82. A Petition to the same purpose again debated but not presented p. 124. 127. for the Queen sent her Inhibition p. 128. which yet she revokes p. 130 London at what rate the Citizens thereof were assessed in the Subsidies granted 31 Eliz. p. 496 M. MArish and Fenny grounds in Norfolk c. two Bills for the draining of them being just a passing the Queen sends to signifie her pleasure to be that those two Bills shall not be any further proceeded in p. 594 Market-Day a Bill in 43 Eliz. that they shall not be on a Sunday p. 668 The Queen Petition'd to Marry 1 Eliz. p. 45. Her Answer p. 46. Petition'd a second time 5 Eliz. p. 81. Her Answer p. 75. A Petition to the same purpose debated a third time but not presented p. 124. 127. Petition'd a fourth time 18 Eliz. p. 265 Marriage-Licences great abuses thereof complain'd of in 39 40 Eliz. p. 555 Mary Queen of Scots Voted to be proceeded against in the highest degree of Treason with several reasons of that Vote in 14 Eliz. p. 207 208 209 210. A Petition to the Queen to proceed Criminally against her p. 215. Several Reasons to urge the granting of that Petition p. 216 217 218. An Act passed against her p. 224. The Queen not
and Dunsden might lawfully pass without their prejudice they Answered that it might so do and that they could take no exceptions at it Vide Dec. 7 th Monday postea Hodie introduction est breve Francisci Domini Norris qui praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissus est ad praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno On Monday the 23 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for reuniting Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by M r Doctor Stanhop and M r Hone. The Bill to avoid and prevent divers misdemeanors in lewd and idle persons was read secundâ vice Nota That there is no mention at all in the Original Journal-Book of the referring of this Bill unto Committees upon the second reading thereof nor yet that it was Ordered to be ingrossed By which it may seem that either the omission of it did happen by the negligence of Thomas Smith Esquire now Clerk of the Upper House who did forget to set down the referring of it to Committees if it were at all committed or else that it being not committed was engrossed of Course And it is the rather probable that this happened not by any omission of the said Clerk in respect that divers other Bills at this Parliament are set down in the Original Journal-Book of the said Upper House to have been read the second time without any further mention either of the Commitment or ingrossing as on Wednesday the 2 d day Friday the 4 th day Wednesday the 9 th day Saturday the 12 th day Monday the 14 th day and on Wednesday the 16 th day of December next ensuing The Bill for Confirmation of Grants made to the Queen and of Letters Patents made by her Highness to others was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and others who were appointed to meet at the great Council Chamber And the Bill was delivered to the said Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees The Bill for encrease and breed of Horses of service within this Realm was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward and others And the Bill was delivered unto him being the first of the Committees Vide November 26 th Thursday The meeting of the Committees upon the Bills concerning the suppressing of the multitude of Alehouses and for the avoiding of unnecessary delays of Executions upon Judgments in Debt who were appointed on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant November foregoing was upon a Motion of the Lord Treasurer appointed to be upon Thursday next at the little Chamber near the Parliament presence before the House sit for that the Committees could not conveniently meet at the times formerly appointed for the same The Under-Sheriff of the County of Surry that Arrested William Hogan was brought into the House to Answer for the same and by Order of the House committed to the Prison of the Fleet. Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 12 th day Saturday the 14 th day Monday the 16 th day and on Thursday the 19 th day of this instant November foregoing as also on Thursday the 26 th day of the same Month following On Tuesday the 24 th day of November Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the establishing of the remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Kettlebie was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Earl of Worcester the Lord Cobham the Lord Chandois and the Lord Howard of Walden And the Bill was delivered unto the said Lord Howard who with the rest was appointed to meet on Saturday next by two of the Clock in the Afternoon at the Chamber of Parliament Presence This day the Wife of Andrew Kettlebie made her appearance in the House in the behalf of her Husband and her Self excusing his not coming by reason of his great Age and Infirmities And withal prayed that their Councel Learned might be heard Whereupon it was Ordered that both their Councel and the Councel of Francis Kettlebie should be heard in the House upon Thursday next being the 26 th of this instant November in the Morning On Thursday the 26 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing one Bill being for the more peaceable Government of the parts of Cumberland Northumberland Westmerland and the Bishoprick of Durham was read the second time and committed But in respect that the manner of committing Bills during all this Parliament was the same and that the Judges and her Majesties Learned Councel were always appointed to attend the Lords Committees and never made Joint-Committees with them as is at large observed in the next precedent Parliament therefore the names of the said Committees are for the most part omitted It was Ordered by the House upon the humble Petition of William Hone Under-Sheriff of the County of Surrey that he should be enlarged and set at liberty out of the Prison of the Fleet whither he was lately committed for Arresting William Hogan her Majesties Servant Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 23 th day of this instant November foregoing The Councel of Andrew Kettlebie Esq and Francis Kettlebie were heard in the House And thereupon the Committees of the said Bill were appointed to meet upon Saturday next by two of the Clock in the Afternoon at the Chamber of Parliament Presence And the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Grey and the Lord Windsor were added unto the said Committees And the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas to attend with the others formerly appointed And the Bill was delivered to the Lord Howard of Walden Nota That here the Bill was delivered to the Lord Howard of Walden being the puisne Baron of the Committees and on Monday the 23 th day of this instant November foregoing two several Bills being committed the one of them was delivered to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other to the Earl of Nottingham who were each of them the first or chief of either of the said Committees By which it is plain that as well in the Upper House 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 Vide also concerning this matter on Tuesday Dec. 8 th ensuing And so the Parliament continued until Tuesday the first day of December On which day two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of all Leases made and to be made according to the true intent of the last Will and Testament of George Lord Cobham Deceased was read primâ vice Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William