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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45963	An account of the sessions of Parliament in Ireland, 1692	Ireland. Parliament.	1693 (1693)	Wing I297; ESTC R16095	11,048	30

AN ACCOUNT OF THE SESSIONS OF Parliament IN Ireland 1692. LONDON Printed for J. T. MDCXCIII AN ACCOUNT Of the SESSIONS OF Parliament IN Ireland 1692. THIS Kingdom having been ever since the Years 1665 without a Parliament to the great discouragement and Prejudice of the Protestant and English Interest here It is not to be wondred if the first Report of a Parliament graciously designed by their present Majesty's to be held the latter end of this Year employed the Thoughts and Discourses of all Protestants and filled them with desires to see so good a Design put in Execution which was expected at the Lord Lieutenant's Arrival his Excellency Landed on the twenty fifth day of August and Writs were immediately issued for a Parliament to meet on the fifth of October following Every body began then more closely to consider and Enquire as well what could be as what was likely to be done in this Parliament It was not doubted but their Majesties Occasions in this Kingdom wanted Supp●ies of Money which People were generally and chearfully disposed to comply with but the Answer of one of his Excellencies Secretaries to a Member of the House of Commons a few days before the Parliament sat was a little unaccountable that there were no other Bills designed to be tendered to the House this Session but only three viz. An Act of Recognition an Act for Confirming the Acts of Settlement and Explanation and an Act declaring all Attainders and other Acts of the late Pretended Parliament void tho' at the same time another Gentleman belonging to the Council declared that other Bills would be then also tender'd namely An Act for Confirming the Articles of Limrick the first Article of which if confirmed would make Popery an Established Religion and the sixth would deprive all Protestants of their Actions against the Papists by whom they were Plundered even while they lived in Peace with them and also Money-Bills a Member of the House of Commons then present when this was openly spoken answered that the House would consider well of those Acts before they passed them but the same Person replyed that it would be in vain to trouble themselves about it assuring them they were as well Debated already as was needful and they had nothing else to do but to pass them and added that If any Scruple was made about them there would never again be a Parliament in Ireland These and such like Discourses common in Town took off the pleasure and satisfaction People had in the hopes of an happy Issue of this Parliament On Wednesday the 5th October the Parliament being met and the Commons sent for up to the Lords house his Excellency was pleased to declare in his Speech Their Majesties Command to him of calling this Parliament immediately after his Arrival and their goodness in restoring to this Kingdom a blessing of which it had for so many years been deprived a Legally Constituted and Assembled Parliament by the long Intermission of which the English in this Kingdom had been in great danger of losing both their Religion and Liberty and invited them with many grateful arguments to pass such Laws as might settle and secure them both for the future concluding with a demand of a supply and promise of representing their services well to their Majesties The Commons being returned to their House proceeded to choose their speaker and several of the Members having been informed that his Excellency wou'd be well pleased with their Choice of Sr. Richard Levinge their Majesties Solicitor General the House soon came to a Resolution in it those that were proposed for it having before at his Excellencies desire waved their own pretensions thereto and both they and others who have since lain under the displeasure of the Government used their utmost endeavors in the House for effecting it so that Sr. Richard was chosen Speaker without those heats that had been so frequent and violent in former Parliaments in Ireland The Speaker being chosen the Members took the Oaths subscribed the Declaration appointed by the English Act then adjourned to Friday the seventh on which day his Excellency had directed them to present their Speaker they then met but were informed that his Excellency was indisposed and cou'd not come to the House of Lords an Address therefore being made to him to know his further pleasure therein he was pleased to appoint Monday the tenth for that purpose The House having received this Answer a motion was made that the Members who were returned for several places might have leave in the mean time to make their Election for which place they wou'd serve and that Warrants thereupon may Issue and several Presidents in point were urged for it but it was opposed because the Speaker thought not fit to act before his approbation to the delay of publick business almost three days On Monday the tenth the Lord Lieutenant came to the House of Lords and approved the Speaker The Commons being returned to their House an Address of thanks was Immediately voted to his Excellency for his Speech and a Committee appointed to Meet the same afternoon to prepare it and lest the time spent in preparing it shou'd be interpreted to proceed from want of Respect it was voted that the Members of the House that were of the Privy Council shou'd attend his Excellency in the afternoon and acquaint him with the said Vote and on Thursday following the Speaker attended by the whole House presented the said Address The rest of this day and of Tuesday the 11th was spent in determining the Choice of Members doubly Elected in appointing Grand Committees and in expelling a Member for betraying the Protestant and English Interest which took up some time and debate in the House On Wednesday 12th besides the House receiving Petitions about undue Returns c. the Act of Recognition being sent down from the Lords was thrice read and pass'd with a Vote that no other Bill afterward shou'd be read more than once in a day Thursday the 13th was taken up partly in receiving the Submission of the forementioned expelled Member and discharging him out of Custody and partly in debating the Priviledge of the House about Post Letters It had been first moved on the 10th but one of the Secretaries then acquainting the House that his Excellency wou'd take care to Issue an Order to the Postmaster for franking them the Debate was let fall And on the next day after the House received their Letters free having paid for them till then but this day one of the Members informed the House that the Order for it took place only from Tuesday the 11th which was looked upon to make the Priviledge precarious and wholly at the Lord Lieutenants discretion after some debate thereupon and urging Presidents of the King's Messengers carrying the Members Letters free before the erection of the Post Office It was voted for this and other Reasons in order to assert the Priviledge of the

this to be their inherent Fundamental Right and that the same was not taken away by any Act of Parliament in this Kingdom as in reason they thought none cou'd be so good Judges of the properest and easiest way of taxing the Subject as they and even since Poyning's Act those Rights of the House are found Asserted in the Journals on the bringing in of Mony Bills whereof they did not prepare the Heads and it is found to be a standing Order in the said Journals That no Bill to Tax the Subject be brought into the House without leave of the House first obtained But the House considering that their Majesties Occasions required an immediate Supply and that probably there might not be time allowed during this Session for Bills of their own preparing to be returned from England according to Form they were necessitated to consider how to reconcile these points The first Expedient thought on was this The Additional Excise Bill of the two seemed most consistent with the State of this Kingdom to be passed into an Act tho the House observed several Matters of just Exception in it as the inequality of Taxing different Liquors the Taxing of some Liquors under the notion of an Additional Duty which had not been Taxed before and continuing the former Incertainty of Measures to be relieved against which last a Petition of the Brewers had been preferred and lay upon the Table setting forth that the Kings Duty had been of late by the means of Sir James Shaen and others the then Farmers of the Revenue who were likewise Commissioners of the Excise and consequently Judges for their own Advantages levyed by them of a Gallon of 217 Cubical Inches tho for several years after the first passing the Act of Excise in this Kingdom the measures by which the King's Officers then levyed that Duty and by which the Brewers always have and are now by Law obliged to sell is a Gallon of 282 Inches proposing withal such an encrease of Duty to be made as shou'd answer the loss the Revenue might sustain by Regulation of the Measure This Petition and Complaint how reasonable soever it might be in it self was not thought fit to be taken into consideration lest it might retard the reading and passing the said Bill So that Postponing this and the other Exceptions the House thought an Expedient might be found for passing this Bill as it was by voting first an Additional Duty exactly corresponding with the said Bill in all the parts of it And these Heads so prepared being tender'd to the Lord Lieutenant and Council to be drawn into a Bill and transmitted the House might receive the Bill already sent as transmitted from England and framed on their heads And accordingly they passed the said Vote for such Additional Excise On Tuesday the 25th the House received Reports from Committees particularly concerning CivilBills as of late practiced at Assizes without any Foundation in Law upon pretence of being a more expeditious and cheap way of recovering Debts and Damages Which the House voted to be Arbitrary Illegal and a Burthen to the Subject and that an Address shou'd be presented to the Lord Lieutenant in Council to prepare a Bill which might answer what was of advantage in this practice without oppressing the Subject by giving an unlimited Power to the Judges Then by order of the day the House resolved into a Committee to consider the State of the Nation and it being proposed that the best means to settle this Kingdom in a lasting Happiness wou'd be to find out the causes of its Misery The Committee resolved on and voted among other Reasons these two following to be assigned for it First the great countenance given to the Irish Papists in the Reign of K. C. 2d and their being employ'd by the late King James Secondly the obstruction of the course of Justice by Illegal Protections granted since the defeat at the Boyne A motion was made in debate of this latter that particulars might be instanced and the persons who granted them named to the end their Majesties might know who they were that had so much abused their Authority committed to them but some scrupled it because of the great Characters they bore and the Committee soon breaking up this was deferred till its next Sitting which was on the 27th and then it was only concluded the Members being willing the Speaker shou'd resume the Chair in order to proceed on the Excise Bill to name persons at the next Sitting thereof which was appointed on the 29th and so from day to day but this Committee still gave place to that for considering the Supply no Report was ever made to the House from the said Committee but on November the 1st it was ordered to sit on the 4th and nothing to intervene Wednesday and Thursday the 26th 27th were taken up in debating other Expedients for the difficulty mention'd on Monday that then offer'd not being found to answer the Ends after several proposed some that were moved by Members who had pressed the Reading of the Bill and were suppo●ed to speak what was Agreeable to the Government took place which were to assert the Priviledges of the House by a Vote to read the Excise Bill in order to pass it and reject the Corn Bill Accordingly this Excise Bill was thus read and so successively every day till it was passed On Friday the 28th the Corn Bill according to the former Expedient was rejected and the reason given because it had not its Rise in the House of Commons The House then Resolved it self into a Committee and proceeded to consider further of Method to answer the Contents of the Corn Bill by some other Tax that their Majesties might receive the full Supply demanded It was considered that the Corn Bill wou'd have yielded no Mony until Summer 1693. and part thereof not until Michaelmas following and they thought they might by other means raise the Sum much sooner and more equally The several ways of raising Mony was throughly debated and at length the Committee unanimously agreed on a Poll Bill for several Reasons of which the following was not the least They were in hopes to have passed this Bill before the end of the Session by Adjournment till a Bill prepared according to Heads agreed on by them might have been transmitted into England and returned hither to be passed this wou'd have been an immediate Fund which with the Excise Bill wou'd have amounted to much more than the Sum required They who were for this in the House cou'd not suppose that these Proceedings wou'd have been any ways displeasing to the Government The same day three ingrossed Bills were sent down from the Lords viz. an Act for punishing Mutineers and Deserters an Act for Encouragement of Protestant Strangers and An Act for preventing Vexatious Suits Of these the Bill for encouraging Protestant Strangers c. was read in three days passed And the Bill for preventing Vexatious