the Woolsacks and the Queen 's Learned Council on the outside of the Woolsacks next the Earls The Masters of the Chancery sate two of the same side and two on the other side next the Bishops The Clerk of the Parliament and the Clerk of the Crown sate on the lower Woolsack and had a Table before them And the Clerk of the Parliament had his Clerks under him who kneeled behind the Woolsack and wrote thereon All those Peers as appears by the Journal of the Upper House A. 8. Regin Eliz. the 2. day of Feb. being Wednesday which follows after in its due place who are before mentioned had their Mantles Hoods and Surcoats being of Crimson Velvet or of Scarlet furred with Meniver their Arms put out on the right side and the Duke of Norfolk had four Bars of Meniver The Marquess of Winchester and the Earls three And the Viscounts and the Barons two Henry Earl of Southampton and the Lord Dacres of the North were as I conceive at this time both under Age and in ward to her Majesty and if they were present as many times such were admitted upon such Solemn days as these then doubtless they did either stand besides the upper part of the rail at the higher end of the Parliament House or else were admitted to kneel at the upper end of the said House near the Chair of State for no Peer is called to sit as a Member of that great Council or to have his free voice until he have accomplished his full Age unless by the special grace of the Prince and that very rarely unless they be near upon the Age of twenty at the least The Sons and Heirs apparent of Peers that sit in the House stand on ordinary days without the upper Rail These Animadversions being thus premised touching the places and Robes of the Peers now follows the coming up of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons into the Upper House which being not found in the Original Journal Book of the same I have suppli'd with some additions out of the Original Journal Book of the House of Commons A. primo Regin Eliz. and with it the Speech of Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper at large out of a Copy thereof I had by me The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons remained sitting in their own House till notice was brought them by ..... according to the Ancient Custom and usage that her Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the residue were set in the Upper House expecting their repair thither whereupon they went up immediately unto the said House and being set in as many as conveniently could and standing below the Rail or Bar at the nether end of the said House Sir Nicolas Bacon Lord Keeper after he had first privately in the presence of them all conferred with her Majesty went and stood behind the Cloth of Estate on the right hand and there spake as followeth viz. MY Lords and Masters all The Queen 's most excellent Majesty our Natural and most Gracious Sovereign Lady having as you know Summoned hither her High Court of Parliament hath commanded me to open and declare the chief Causes and Considerations that moved her Highness thereunto And here my Lords I wish not without great cause there were in me ability to do it in such order and sort as is beseeming for her Majesties honour and the understanding of this presence and as the great weightiness and worthiness of the Matter doth require it to be done The remembrance whereof and the number of my imperfections to the well performing of it doth indeed plainly to speak breed in me such Fear and Dread that as from a man abashed and well nigh astonied you are to hear all that I shall say therein True it is that some Comfort and Encouragement I take through the hope I have conceived by that I have seen and heard of your gentle sufferance by others whereof I look upon equal cause equally with others to be partaker and the rather for that I am sure good will shall not want in me to do my uttermost And also because I mean to occupie as small a time as the greatness of such a cause will suffer thinking that to be the meetest Medicine to cure your tedious hearing and mine imperfect and disordered speaking Summarily to say the immediate cause of this Summons and Assembly be Consultations Advice and Contentation For although divers things that are to be done here in Parliament might by means be reformed without Parliament yet the Queen's Majesty seeking in her Consultation of importance Contentation by assent and surety by Advice and therein reposing her self not a little in your Fidelities Wisdoms and Discretions meaneth not at this time to make any Resolutions in any matter of weight before it shall be by you sufficiently and fully debated examined and considered Now the Matters and causes whereupon you are to Consult are chiefly and principally three points Of those the first is of well making of Laws for the according and uniting of these people of the Realm into an uniform order of Religion to the Honour and Glory of God the establishing of the Church and Tranquillity of the Realm The second for the Reforming and removing of all Enormities and Mischiefs that might hurt or hinder the Civil Orders and Policies of this Realm the third and last is advisedly and deeply to weigh and consider the Estate and Condition of this Realm and the Losses and Decays that have happened of late to the Imperial Crown thereof and therefore to advise the best remedies to supply and relieve the same For the first the Queen's Majesty having God before her Eyes and being neither unmindful of Precepts and Divine Councils meaneth and intendeth in this Conference first and chiesly there should be sought the advancement of God's honour and Glory as the sure and infallible foundation whereupon the Policies of every good Common-Wealth are to be erected and knit and as the straight line whereby it is wholly to be directed and governed and as the chief Pillar and Buttress wherewith it is continually to be sustained and maintained And like as the well and perfect doing of this cannot but make good success in all the rest so the remiss and loose dealing in this cannot but make the rest full of imperfections and doubtfulness which must needs bring with them continual Change and alteration things much to be eschewed in all good Governances and most of all in matters of Faith and Religion which of their natures be and ought to be most Stable Wherefore her Highness willeth and most earnestly requireth you all first and principally for the Duty you bear unto God whose cause this is and then for the Service you owe to her Majesty and your Country whose Weal it concerneth universally and for the Love you ought to bear to your selves whom it toucheth one by one particularly That in this Consultation you with
at all named with the Committees of the Lords in all the aforesaid Journal Books may doubtless be conceived to have happened through the Clerk's negligence For in the very next ensuing Session of Parliament in An. 5. Regin Eliz. they are seldom omitted prout on Tuesday the 26th day of January on Saturday the 30th day of the same Month as also on Saturday the 20th day of March then next following The Bill for Restitution of Robert Rudston was read secunda vice and again tertia vice conclusa The Bill also to revive a Statute made A. 23. H. 8. against the Conveyance of Horses Geldings and Mares into Scotland was read tertia vice conclusa and the Bill touching the Duke of Norfolk was read secunda vice Commiss ' ad ingrossandum Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being for the restitution in blood of the Lord John Grey the second for restitution in blood of Sir J. Gates Knight and the third for restitution in blood of Sir James Croft Knight were each of them returned conclus ' the fourth was touching the changing of Gavelkind Land of the Lands of Thomas Brown and George Brown the fifth for the Incorporation of Trinity Colledge n. Cambridge and the last for assurance of Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy On Saturday the fourth day of March the Bill to change the nature of Gavelkind Land of the Lands of Thomas Brown and George Brown was read the first time The Bill touching Tanners and Sellers of Tanned Leather was read the first time and the Bill for Shoemakers and Curriers was read the second time and both of them Committed to the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Shrewsbury the Bishop of London the Bishop of Carlile the Lord Rich and the Lord Willoughby Dominus Thesaurar ' continuavit presens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox ' hora nona Nota That that there appeareth no Commission or other Authority in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House by which the Lord Treasurer supplied the Lord Keeper's place but most probable it is that either the Commission it self is negligently omitted by Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the said House or else that the said Lord Treasurer did continue it only upon her Majesties Verbal Authority and Command as did the Lord Treasurer in the like Case in the Session of Parliament A. 18. Regin Eliz. on Saturday the third day of March. On Munday the 6th of March the Bill for the Ratification of the Marriage between the Duke of Norfolk and the Lady Margaret now his Wife and for the assurance of certain Lands for her Joynture was read tertia vice conclusa The Bill also for the restitution in blood of Harry Howard c. younger Brother to the Duke of Norfolk was read prima vice The Bill also for the Explanation of the restitution of the Lord Cardinal Pool was committed to the Archbishop of York the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Carlile the Lord Rich the Lord Willoughby and the Lord Hastings of Loughborough but no mention is made of the reading thereof which was doubtless omitted through the great Negligence of Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Upper House for this Bill was read prima vice on Munday the 27th of February foregoing and was Committed to the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench and the Queen's Attorny to consider of it as is probable and to make report thereof unto the Lords which being done this day and the Bill thereupon as may likewise be gathered read the second time it was Committed to the Lords abovenamed and on the morrow following it was read tertia vice and Passed the House and on Wednesday the 8th of this instant March following was sent down to the House of Commons by Mr. Lewes and Mr. Vaughan On Tuesday the 7th day of March the Bill for the explanation of the Repeal of the Attainder of the late Lord Cardinal Pool was read tertia vice conclusa The Bill also for the assurance of Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy and the Bill for the Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge were each of them read prima vice The Bill lastly for explaining the Statute made against ingrossing of Dead Victuals and the Bill that Gerson Wroth born in Germany shall be reputed the Queen's natural born Subject were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Wednesday the 8th day of March the Bill for the explanation of the Statute against ingrossing of Dead Victuals and the Bill for the true Answering of the Queen's Majesties Revenues were each of them read prima vice Four other Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for the changing of the nature of Gavelkind Lands of Thomas Brown and George Brown and another for the assurance of Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy were each of them read secunda vice but no mention made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons on the day next foregoing The Bill touching the Duke of Norfolk and that concerning Cardinal Pool were sent to the House of Commons by Mr. Lewis Mr. Vaughan On Thursday the 9th of March the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy de Chiche was read tertia vice conclusa dissentientibus Episcopo London Meneven ' Abbat ' de Westm ' the Bill for Gerson Wroth was read tertia vice conclusa and the Bill for exchange of the nature of Gavelkind Lands of the two Browns was read also tertia vice conclusa dissentient ' Duce Norfolciae Quatuor Comitibus tribus Baronibus The Bill lastly for the true Answering of the Queen's Majesties Revenues was read secunda vice Commissa ad ingrossand On Fryday the 10th day of March the Bill for the Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge and the Bill for the true Answering of the Queen's Majesties Revenue were each of them read tertia vice conclusa and sent down to the House of Commons The Bill lastly for the explanation of the Statute against ingrossing of Dead Victuals was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either referr'd to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been sent from the House of Commons Tuesday the 7th day of this instant March foregoing v. a like Commitment on Munday 13th day of Feb. foregoing On Saturday the 11th day of March a Proviso to be annexed to the Bill of Treason was read prima secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Munday the 13th day of March a Proviso to be annexed to the Bill of Treasons was read tertia vice
communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa A Bill containing certain Provisoes to be annexed to the Bill of First-fruits and Tenths was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand The Bill lastly for the restoring of the Supremacy of the Imperial Crown of this Realm and repealing divers Statutes made to the contrary was read the second time and Committed unto the Marquess of Winchester the Lord Treasurer of England the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Westmerland the Earl of Shewsbury the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Pembrook Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Exeter the Bishop of Carlile the Lord Clinton Admiral the Lord Morley the Lord Rich the Lord Willoughby and the Lord North. On Wednesday the 15th day of March a Bill containing six Provisoes to be annexed to the Bill of First-fruits and Tenths was read tertia vice conclusa Dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Eboracen ' Episcopo Winton ' Episcopo Wigorn ' Episcop ' Landaven ' Episcop ' Coven ' Episcop ' Exon ' Episcopo Cestren ' Episcopo Carliolen ' ac Abbat ' de Westm. Nota that the Bill having Passed the Upper House before on the 4th day of January last past was then opposed by all the Spiritual Lords there present as now also upon the passing of those Provisoes and Amendments which had been added unto it in the House of Commons amongst which Spiritual Lords the Abbot of Westminster did yet sit in Parliament and gave his free voice by which manner of alteration of the Form of Ecclesiastical Government we may observe with what mildness and wisdom this pious Princess Queen Elizabeth took it in hand far differing from those furious and bloody Enterprizes and Confusions practised in the Reign of her Sister Mary and it is to be noted that this Abbot of Westm ' with five other Abbots and Abbesses were all who were at this time lest in England and were deprived of their Promotions at the end of the Parliament with fourteen Popish Bishops amongst which were all these here named except the Bishop of Landaffe in An. Dom. 1559. and others were Consecrated in the places of the said Bishops where it is further to be noted that of 9400 Ecclesiastical persons settled in their several Promotions but 177 left their Livings to continue in their Romish Idolatry A Bill being agreed upon by the Lords to be annexed to the Bill of Supremacy was read 1 a. vice On Thursday the 16th day of March to which day the Parliament had been first continued nothing was done save only the continuance of Parliament by the Lord Keeper usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Fryday the 17th day of March the Bill for certain Provisoes and Amendments to be put in the Bill of Supremacy was read the second time commissa ad ingrossand On Saturday the 18th day of March the Bill for the restoring of the Supremacy to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and repealing divers Acts of Parliament made to the contrary with certain Provisoes added thereunto by the Lords and sundry other Amendments was read the third time conclus ' dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Eboracen ' Comite Salop Vicecomite Monutacuto Episcopo London ' Episcopo Winton ' Episcopo Wigorn ' Episcopo Landaven ' Episcopo Coven ' Episcopo Exon ' Episcopo Cestren ' Episcopo Carliol ' Abbas de Westm ' Et predicta Billa est Commissa Attornato Solicitatori Reginae in Domum Communem deferend Here also we may still note the great Lenity and mercy of this great Queen who suffered so many Heretical and obstinately Popish Bishops to hold their Sees to have free voices in Parliament besides the Abbot of Westm ' who all thus opposed the just power and Authority which the Princes of this Realm have under God himself within their Dominions and which our Ancient Kings under the darkest times of Popery did easily discern and not improbably aim at as we may see frequently specified in the Ancient and most Authentick Records of this Kingdom viz. Rotulorum Patentium a. 3. Regis Johannis numero 8. 28. Rot. Pat. a. 5. Reg. Joh. num 15. Rot. Pat. a. 10. Reg. Joh. num 3 ubi continetur salvus conductus pro Simone de Langeton Romanae sedis Cardinale ad tractand ' cum certis Episcopis modo cum applicuerit securitatem faciat quod in hoc adventu suo malum Regi vel regno suo non quaerent Rot. Pat. a. 22. H. 3. num 2. num 3. Rot. Pat. a. 25. H. 3. num 2. num 5. Rot. Pat. a. 28. H. 3. num 6. Rot. Pat. a. 33. H. 3. num 4. Rot. Pat. a. 34. H. 3. indors num 1. Rot. Pat. a. 39. H. 3. indors num 14. Rot. Pat. a. 42. H. 3. num 35. Rot. Pat. a. 45. H. 3. num 27. Rot. Pat. a. 48. H. 3. num 31. Rot. Pat. a. 51. H. 3. num 27. Rot. Pat. a. 8. E. primi 3 Rot. Pat. a. 9. E. 1. 2 in quibus continentur inhibitiones aliae literae Regis missae Joh. Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi ac clero Angliae in consiliis apud London Lambeth convocatis ne quid in eisdem attentarent in praejudicium Regis Coronae aut dignitatis suae Rot. Pat. a. 31. E. 1. 7. Rot. Romae a. 34. 35. E. 1. 4. 8. 9 rot pat a. 35. E. 1. 3. Rot. Scotiae a. 23. 24. E. 1. 6. Rot. Romae a. 1. 2. 3. E. 2. 5. 20. 22 24 25. 27. Rot. Romae a. 4. 5 6 7 8 9 10. E. 2. 14. 15. indors ejusdem Rotuli 1. Rot. Romae a. 11. 12 13 14. E. 2. 1. indors ' ejusdem Rotuli 2. Rot. Romae a. 15 16 17 18. E. 2. 23. 24. 30. Rot. Pat. a. 3. E. 2. in Scedula 11. 17. ibid. Rot. Pat. a. 11. E. 2. parte secunda Rot. Pat. a. 15. E. 2. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 16. E. 2. parte prima sub initio Rotuli Rot. Pat. a. 19. E. 2. parte prima Rot. Romae a. 1. E. 3. 5. 6. 8. Rot. Rom. a. 4. E. 3. 2. 6. Rot. Romae a. 7. a. 8. E. 3. 6. 9. Rot. Romae a. 9. a. 10. E. 3. 3. 4. 14. Rot. Romae a. 19 E. 3. 3. Rot. Romae a. 17. E. 3. 1. 3. 6. Rot. Romae a. 20. E. 3. 1. 3. Rot. Franciae a. 17. E. 3. 6. a. 28. E. 3. 2. Ubi memorabile hoc continetur quod Rex E. 3. Misit quam plures Nobiles ad tractandum de pace cum Rege Franciae coram Papa non ut coram Judice sed ut privata persona tractatore mediatore communi non in forma nec figura Ju dicij sed extrajudicialitèr amicabilitèr Rot. Pat. a. 2. E. 3. parte secunda Rot. Pat. a. 3. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat. a. 3. E. 3. parte secunda Rot. Pat. a. 4. E. 3. parte prima Rot. Pat.
to the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against the ingrossing of Dead Victuals which had formerly passed the House of Commons and been sent up from thence to their Lordships engrossed in Parchment on Tuesday the 7 th day of this Instant March foregoing and so remained still the Bill of the same House did cause the said Proviso to be written in Parchment and annexed it to the Bill shewing the line and the place of the line where the Proviso should be put in and then their Lordships subscribed or endorsed under the superscription or indorsement of the House of Commons in the same Bill à ceste Bille avecque une provision annexe les Seigneurs sont assentus And so the Bill was delivered to the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor as aforesaid to be carried to the House of Commons But if the Lords had added any amendments to the foresaid Bill those ought to have been sent down to the House of Commons written in Paper Ut vide on Thursday the 16. day of February foregoing The Parliament continued and nothing done till Tuesday the 4. day of April and then the Bill that the Queens Majesty upon the avoidance of any Arch-Bishoprick or Bishoprick may exchange the temporal possessions thereof with Parsonages impropriate c. was read the first time And then the Parliament continued till the next day at nine of the Clock on which day were several Proxies both ordinary and extraordinary entred On Wednesday the 5. day of April the Bill for Leases to be made by spiritual persons was committed to the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Carlisse the Lord Rich the Lord North the Lord Hastings de Loughborrow and the Abbot of Westminster ☞ Nota that this Bill had its second reading on Thursday the 23. of March foregoing and was not committed until this day of which there want not other Presidents during her Majesties Reign as on Monday the 13. day of February foregoing and on Thursday the 6. day of this Instant April ensuing The Bill whereby the Queens Majesty upon avoidance of any Arch-Bishoprick or Bishoprick may resume the temporal possessions thereof into her hands recompensing the value thereof with Parsonages impropriate c. was read the second time And then the Parliament continued till Thursday the 6. day of April on which day the Bill whereby the Queens Majesty upon the avoidance of any Archbishoprick may resume the Temporalties thereof recompencing the just value thereof with Parsonages impropriate c. was Order'd to be ingrossed ☞ Nota This Bill was read the second time yesterday and was not Ordered to be ingrossed until this day of which nature there want not other Presidents during her Majesties Reign where a Bill being read secunda vice on one day was referr'd to Committees on another ensuing Prout vide on April the 5. immediately foregoing But at this day it is the constant rule and observation of the Upper House that no Bill be either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees but upon that very day on which it is read And then the Parliament continued till next day at nine of the Clock The Bill giving Authority to the Queens Highness upon the avoidance of any Arch-Bishoprick or Bishoprick to take into her hands the temporal possessions thereof recompensing the same with Parsonages impropriate was read tertia vice conclusa dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Ehoracen Episcopis Londin Wigorn. Coven Exon. Cestren Carleol Abbat de Westm. And it was delivered to the Queens Sollicitor and Mr. Vaughan to be carried to the House of Commons And then the Parliament by several continuances continued and nothing done till Friday the 14. day of April on which day four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill against the deceitful using of Linnen the second that Craftsmen in Kent and Sussex shall inhabit in Towns near the Sea-Coasts and the third being to revive the Act of Parliament made Anno 5 Ed. 6. for keeping of Holydays and Fasting-days were each of them read prima vice And the fourth and last was the Bill for restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same vid. touching this Bill on Saturday the 29 day of this Instant April ensuing And then the Parliament continued till next day at nine of the Clock And the Bill against deceitful using of Linnen-Cloth The Bill that Craftsmen in Kent and Sussex shall inhabit near the Sea Coasts And the Bill to revive the Act of Parliament made An. 5 Ed. 6. for keeping of Holydays and Fasting-days were each of them read secunda vice but no mention is made that they were Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons on yesterday foregoing The Bill lastly restoring the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual to the Crown and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same was read prima vice vide touching this Bill on Saturday the 29. day of this Instant April ensuing The Parliament continued till Monday the 17. of April And then the Bill against the deceitful using of Linnen-Cloth was read tertia vice conclusa dissentiente Com. Arundel And the Bill for the restitution in blood of Henry Howard and Katherine Wise unto the Lord Berkeley communi omnium Procerum assensu suit conclusa The Bill that Craftsmen in Kent and Sussex shall inhabit in Towns near the Sea-Coasts was read tertia vice rejecta The Bill lastly for restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual and abolishing of Foreign Power repugnant to the same was read secunda vice commissa Duci Norfolc Comiti Arundel Comiti Salop Comiti Wigorn. Comiti Rutland Comiti Sussex Comiti Bedford Vicecomiti Mountacute Episcopo Londin Episcopo Elien Episcopo Carleol Domino Admirallo Camerario ac Domino Rich Domino Hastings de Loughborrow ac Domino St. John de Blestoe vide concerning this Bill on Saturday the 29. day of this Instant April ensuing The Parliament by several continuances continued till Tuesday the 25. day of April at nine of the Clock in the Morning and then nine Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was the Bill for Shipping in English Bottoms and the third and fourth touching Frizes called Pagaments and concerning the buying and selling of Horses within a certain time were each of them read prima vice The fifth was touching the Uniformity of Common-Prayer and Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments The sixth was touching Hexam and Hexamshire in the County of Northumberland The seventh to revive an Act made for killing of Rookes and Crowes The eighth was to make good Leases Grants of Offices and Copyholds made by Nicholas Ridley late Bishop of
was Prorogued on Saturday the 10 th day of April then next following together with the Solemn and Royal manner of her Majesties passing to the House of Lords on either of the said Days are for the most part transcribed out of several Anonymous Memorials thereof I had in my Custody being doubtless the very Original Draughts or Autographs set down by some observant Member of one of the Houses or by some other person then present in the Upper House for it was written in a hand of that time and much interlined The Parliament was Summoned to begin at Westminster on Monday the 11 th day of Jan. An. 5 Regin Eliz. An. D. 1562. upon which day Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England with divers other Lords repaired to the Parliament Chamber commonly called the UpperHouse and then and there in presence of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses Summoned to the same Parliament the Lord Keeper declared that the Queens Majesty by reason of the evil disposition of her Health could not be present this 11 th day of January and that she hath therefore been pleased to Prorogue the same until to Morrow being the 12 th day of the same And to this purpose a Writ Patent under the Great Seal of England whereby the said Parliament was Prorogued unto the 12. day of this Instant Jan. was read publickly by the Clerk of the Upper House in these words following Elizabeth Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei desensor c. praedilectis sidelibus nostris Praelatis Magnatióus Proceribus Regni nostri Angliae dilectis sidelibus nostris Militibus Civibus Burgen dicti Regni nostri ad Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii undecimo die instantis mensis Jan. inchoand tenend convocatis electis vestrum cuilibet salutem Cum nos pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem dicti Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernent dictum Parliamentum nostrum ad diem locum praedict teneri ordinaverimus Ac vobis per separalia Brevia nostra apud Civitatem die praedict interesse mandaverimus ad tract and. consentiend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro tune ibidem proponcrentur tractarentur Quibusdam tamen certis de causis considerationibus nos ad tempus specialiter movent dictum Parliamentum nostrum usque duodecimum diem hujus instantis Mensis Jan. duximus prorogand it a quod nec vos nec aliquis vestrum ad dictum undecimum diem Jan. apud Civitatem praedictam comparere teneamini seu arctemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum inde erga nos penitus exonerari Mandantes tenore praesentium firmiter injungendo praecipientes vohis cuilibet vestrum ac omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quod ad dictum duodecimum dicm Januarii apud praedictam Civitatem Westmonasterii personaliter compareatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compareat intersit ad tractand faciend agend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro de communi concilio dicti Regni nostri favente Deo contigerint ordinari Teste me ipsâ apud Westmonasterium nono die Januarii anno Regni nostri quinto This day although the Parliament began not nor any Peers sate in the Upper House but the Lord Keeper and some others of either House met only in the Parliament Chamber to Prorogue the Parliament unto the 12. day of this Instant Month as aforesaid were divers Proxies returned from many of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal who in their absence did constitute others to give their Voices for them Nota That the Duke of Norfolk was Constituted the sole or joint Proctor of four several Peers and Francis Earl of Bedford was nominated the sole or joint Proctor of seven several Lords whereof one was Thomas Archbishop of York and another of them was William Bishop of Exeter By which it doth appear not only that a Spiritual Lord did Constitute a Temporal which at this day is altogether forborn as also for a Temporal Lord to Constitute a Spiritual which was but rarely used during this Queens Reign but likewise that any Peer of the Upper House by the ancient and undoubted usages and Custom of the same is capable of as many Proxies as shall be sent unto him On Tuesday the 12. day of January the Parliament held according to the Prorogation on yesterday foregoing and about eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon the Queens Majesty took her Horse at the Hall Door and proceeded in manner as followeth First All Gentlemen two and two then Esquires Knights and Bannerets and Lords being no Barons or under Age. Then the Trumpeters sounding Then the Queens Serjeant M r Carus in his Circot-Hood and Mantle unlined of Scarlet Then M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney and M r Russell Sollicitor Then Anthony Browne Justice of the Common Pleas and M r Weston of the Kings Bench. Then the Barons of the Exchequer Then M r Corbett and M r Whidon two Justiees of the Kings Bench. Then Sir Thomas Saunders Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Sir James Dyer Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Then Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls in his Gown and Sir Robert Catlin Chief Justice of the Kings Bench and these Justices and Barons of the Exchequer in their Scarlet Mantles Hood and Circot edged with Miniver the Mantle shorter than the Circot by a foot Then Knights Counsellors in their Gowns as Sir Anthony Cooke Sir Richard Sackvile Sir William Peeters and Sir Ambrose Cane Then Sir William Cecill Chief Secretary and Sir Edward Rogers Comptroller Then William Howard bearing the Queens Cloak and Hat Then Barons in all forty but there in number 30. a. St. John of Bletso Hunsdon Hastings of Loughborough Chandois North Effingham but now as the Lord Chamberlain Darcy of Chicke Paget Sheffield Willoughby Rich Wharton Evers Cromwell St. John Mordaunt Borough Wentworth Windsor Vaux Sands Mountegle Darcy of Menell Ogle Mountjoy Lumley Latimer Scroope Grey of Wilton Stafford Cobham Dacres of the North Dacres of the South Morley Barkley Strange Zouch Audeley Clinton but now Lord Admiral and Bargaveny their Mantles Hoods and Circot furr'd and two Rows of Miniver on their right Shoulder Then proceeded the Bishops all that were there present were but twenty two as Glocester and St. Asaph Chester Carlisle and Peterborough Norwich and Exeter Lichfield and Coventry Bath and Wells Rochester and St. Davids Salisbury and Lincoln Bangor and Worcester Ely and Hereford Landaffe Chichester and Winchester Durham and London their Robes of Scarlet lined and a Hood down their back of Miniver Then the Viscounts their Robes as the Barons but that they had two Rows and an half of Miniver as the Viscount of Bindon absent Viscount
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
notwithstanding all the disbursements of these her great Charges yet she was as I right well know very hardly brought to and perswaded to call this Parliament in which she should be driven to require any aid or by any means to charge her Subjects if by any other means it might have been holpen and so her Majesty her self Commanded to be declared And I for my part and so do others very well know for the Commons little think or consider what a trouble want is to her whereby she is forced to ask of them which surely is against her nature but that she is thereunto forced for the surety of this Realm And for that the nether House cannot being so many together but of necessity must have one to be a Mouth Aider or Instructer unto them for the opening of matters which is called the Speaker Therefore go and Assemble your selves together and Elect one a discreet wise and learned Man to be your Speaker and on Friday next the Queens Majesty appointeth to repair hither again for to receive the Presentment of him accordingly The manner of her Majesties coming to the Upper House with the Lord Keepers Speech being supplied out of that written Copy or Anonymous Memorial I had by me as aforesaid now follow the Names of the Receivers and Tryors of Petitions out of the Original Journal-Book it self of the Upper House Then the Clerk of the Parliament read in French the Names of such as should receive hear and try the Petitions for England France Scotland Ireland Gascoigne and Guyen c. which were as followeth Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland viz. Sir Robert Catlin Chief Justice of the Kings Bench Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Anthony Browne Knight Sir Richard Read Knight and Doctor Huicke And such as will prefer any Petitions are to deliver them in six days next ensuing Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles viz. Sir James Dyer Knight Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Saunders Knight Chief Baron Justice Weston M r John Vaughan and Doctor Yale And such as will prefer any Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland viz. The Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Marquess of Winchester Treasurer of England the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Pembroke the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Clinton Admiral of England the Lord Rich all these together or four of the Prelates and Lords calling to them the Keeper of the Great Seal and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeant when need shall require shall hold their places in the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries and parts beyond the Sea viz. The Archbishop of York the Marquess of Northampton the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Oxon the Lord Howard the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Abergaveny the Lord Wentworth the Lord Willoughby and the Lord North all they together or four of the Prelates and Lords aforesaid calling to them the Queens Serjeant Attorney and Sollicitor when need shall require shall hold their place in the Treasurers Chamber These Names of the Receivers and Tryors of Petitions foregoing being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House there should follow out of the same the Adjournment or Continuance of the Parliament by the Queens Majesty or the Lord Keeper by her Commandment but the same being wholly omitted through the negligence of Francis Spilman Clerk of the same it is in part supplied out of that before-mentioned memorial Copy of this present days passages following Then the Lord Keeper Adjourned the Parliament till Friday next and then the Queen returned to her Chamber and shifted her and so did all the Lords and then waited on her to the Water side where she took her Boat and departed to Whiteball from whence she came and they till Friday at their pleasures upon which ensuing Friday her Majesty came again to the Upper House but the manner and form thereof being wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and only found in the foresaid Anonymous Memorials I had by me is therefore inserted out of the same in manner and form following On Friday the 15 th day of Jan. 1562. the Queens Majesty at her Privy-Stairs took Boat and went by Water to the Parliament-House about two of the Clock the Lords and Heralds waiting on her to the Landing place on the back side of the Parliament and so brought her to her Privy-Chamber where she shifted her and put on her Robes and the Lords theirs as the first day and then she repaired to her Seat and the Lords to theirs with their Serjeants and Gentlemen-Ushers before her the Lord Marquess of Northampton bearing the Cap of Estate the Duke of Norsolk the Rod of the Marshalsie and the Earl of Northumberland the Sword the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and the Baron of Hunsdon sustained her Mantle from her Arms And her Train was born by the Lord Chamberlain Vice-Chamberlain and M r Ashley Master of the Jewel-House and the Lord Keeper standing at the back of the Rail on the right and the Lord Treasurer on the left And because this is the first Session of the Second Parliament of her Majesty I thought it worth the labour to cause the presence of her Majesty and the Lords spiritual and Temporal to be inserted directly according unto the Copy thereof in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper-House Die Veneris 15 to Januar. Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur praesentes fuerunt Pr. Regina Pr. Archiepiscopus Cantuar. Pr. Archiepiscopus Eboracen Pr. Episcopus London Pr. Episcopus Dunelmen Pr. Episcopus Winton Pr. Episcopus Cicestren Episcopus Landaph Pr. Episcopus Hereford Pr. Episcopus Elien Pr. Episcopus Wigorn. Pr. Episcopus Bangoren Pr. Episcopus Lincoln Pr. Episcopus Sarum Pr. Episcopus Meneven Pr. Episcopus Rofsen Pr. Episcopus Bathon Wellen. Pr. Episcopus Coven Lichfeild Pr. Episcopus Exon. Pr. Episcopus Norwicen Pr. Episcopus Petriburgen Episcopus Carliolen Pr. Episcopus Cestren Pr. Episcopus Assaven Pr. Episcopus Gloucestren Nota That this is the very express manner and form by which the presence of her Majesty the Lord Keeper and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal is set down and marked out upon this present Friday being the first day of this her Highnesses Second Session of her Parliament and at the beginning of every Lords name that was present are the Letters Pr. prefixed by which it appeareth and may certainly be concluded that all they before whose names those Letters are not set down and entred were then absent which hath been the constant course
Queens Majesty and this Parliament in your Opinion by building a Fort named the fear of God might take Order and live surely in time to come And in the fourth part made four Petitions the first for free access to her Person and Upper House the second for well taking your meaning and the third and fourth for free Liberty of Speech and Persons Now for the Answering of them her Majesty hath Commanded me to say That for the first part she commendeth much those Godly Virtues that you opened to be in her and also those beautiful budding benefits which you declared to come from her and doubteth not the rather by this your remembring of them but they shall be on her part hereafter performed for which she thanketh you thinking all things well bestowed when they are well remembred In the second part you declare certain Monsters which trouble this Region and would be redressed the Remedy whereof you declared in your third part wherein she desireth you to travel for the bringing of it to pass And for the fourth part being your Petitions which be also four for the first being for free access to her Person she granteth it not doubting of your discretion to use it as rath as may be not out of time nor yet without they be matters of great importance For the second that if you mistake their meanings that they may notwithstanding redress the same without prejudice to them this also she granteth although unneedful for that she trusteth you will not offend therein And for the third to have free Speech she granteth also so that it be reverently used And to the last point for them and theirs to be free without disturbance she is pleased therewith howbeit great regard would be therein had not thereby to avoid or delay their Creditors but to be well used according to the meaning of the first grant thereof Now a word or two more I would advise you to make your Laws as few and as plain as may be for many be burthenous and doubtful to understand and so accordingly to make them as brief as the matter will suffer and thirdly that you proceed to the great and weighty matters first and then to others of smaller importance and that so speedily as can be whereby this Assembly may be again at their Liberties and so end Then the Speaker and nether House did their Reverence and departed and the Queen returned into her Privy-Chamber and shifted her and the Lords likewise and then she repaired to her Barge and so to Whitehall unto which place the Sword was born the Officers of Arms waited to and fro On Monday the 18 th day of January three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the punishment of Clipping and washing of the Queens Majesties Coin and other Moneys Currant within the Realm was read the first time Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum hora Nona On Tuesday the 19 th day of January four Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being for the good Order and Government of the Garrison of Barwick was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand and the second being the Bill for punishment of Clipping and washing of the Queens Majesties Coin was read tertia vice commissa Archiepiscopo Ebor. Duci Norfolciae Marchion Northampton Episcopo Hereford Domino Wentworth Domino Willoughby Domino Hastings de Loughborough On Wednesday the 20 th day of January the Bill touching the Government of the Garrison of Barwick was read tertia vice conclns and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and the Queens Attorney On Thursday the 21 th day of January two Bills had each of them one reading of which one was the Bill to repeal a Branch of a Statute made Anno primo Edwardi 6 ti touching the Conveying of Horses out of the Realm and being read tertia vice was concluded and sent down to the House of Commons On Saturday the 23 th day of January the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled but nothing was done save only the Parliament continued by the Lord Keeper in usual Form usque in diem Martis prox hora nona On Tuesday the 26 th day of January the Bill for fulling and thicking of Caps was read prima vice commissa to the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Exeter the Lord Wentworth the Lord Willoughby and the Lord Shandois And the Bill also against forging of Evidences and Writings was upon the first reading Committed to the Archbishop of York the Duke of Norfolk the Marquess of Northampton the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Clinton the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich the Lord Willoughby the Lord Hastings of Loughborough the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and the Queens Sollicitor Nota That this last mentioned Bill touching the forging of Evidences c. was not only committed upon the first reading which is not usual till after the second but committed also to the Judges being but Assistants of the Upper House and to the Queens Sollicitor being but a meer Attendant upon the same jointly with the Lords the only proper and undoubted Members of that great Council which is to be observed because of latter days neither the said Assistants nor Attendants are ever appointed joint Committees with the Lords as here but only Commanded by the House to attend upon the Committee and thereby to give such advice as shall be required of them which is no greater respect yielded them at a Committee than in the House it self sitting the Parliament and were they still admitted to be Committees as they usually were in all these first Parliaments of the Queen yet could no inconvenience ensue thereby because at a Committee things are only prepared and made ready for the House in which and no where else they ought to be concluded and expedited The Bill lastly for Repeal of a Statute made an 1 Ed. 6. touching conveying of Horses out of the Realm was concluded and sent down to the House of Commons Here the House was doubtless continued until Thursday next the 28 th day of this Instant January because this being Hillary Term the ensuing Wednesday being the 27 th day of the same Month was Star-Chamber day on which the House seldom sits and this may be observed very usual not only in this Journal but in the Original Journal-Books of the Upper-House of all her Majesties time in whose Reign the Star-Chamber-Days were first certainly appointed to be on Wednesdays and Fridays True it is that in former times when Star-Chamber-Days were uncertain then it is hard to guess when the House sat not by reason of them
vice Et nota that the same Bill was read the day following tertiâ vice conclus On Wednesday the 7. day of April Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the one was for Orders for Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements and another for Retailers of Worsted Wools in Norwich and the County of Norfolk with a Proviso added by the Commons Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam à Meridie On the aforesaid Wednesday in the Afternoon the Bill touching Orders for Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements was read primâ vice On Thursday the 8. day of April Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill to take away the Misdemeanors of Purveyors and Takers was read primâ vice The Bill for divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants of Husbandry and Apprentices was read tertiâ vice conclus and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and D r Yale Two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons the one that Sanctuary shall not be allowed to defraud any due Debt And the other was for the Paving of Kentish Town near Southwark The Proviso annex'd by the Commons to the Bill for Retailers of Worsted-Woolls in Norwich and the County of Norfolk was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus The Proviso annex'd by the Commons to the Bill for the maintenance of Tillage And also one other Proviso annex'd to the same Bill by the Lords were each of them read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice On Friday the 9. day of April the Bill for Tillage was given to M r Attorney and M r Martin to be carried to the House of Commons The Bill touching Orders of Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements was read secundâ vice Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons conclus of which one was touching divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants of Husbandry and Apprentices And the second for the maintenance of Tillage And the third for the due Execution of the Writ de Excommunicato capiendo with a Proviso annex'd by the Commons and divers Amendments quae primâ secundâ vice lect sunt eadem Provis tertiâ vice lect a est conclus The Bill to take away the misdemeanors of Purveyors and Takers was read the second time and committed to Justice Southcot Quod nota The Bill for the destruction of Rooks Coughs and other Vermine was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons which said Bill was on the day following in the Afternoon read primâ vice On Saturday the 10 th day of April the Bill for the reviving of a Statute made Anno xxiii o Hen. 8. touching the making of Goals with a Proviso thereunto annex'd by the Commons which said Proviso was read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice conclus The Bill for the Queens Majesties most free and General Pardon was read primâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Nota That this Bill for the general Pardon was concluded after the first reading whereas to all other Bills three readings are required before they can be passed The Bill also for Reformation of divers misdemeanors in Purveyors was read tertiâ vice with certain Amendments conclusa And then following the ordinary form the Parliament was continued in manner and order accustomed viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam primam à Mcridie In the Afternoon the Bill for destruction of Rooks and Coughs and other Vermin And the Bill touching buying and selling of course Woolls to make Cottons c. were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus Two Bills were returned from the House of Commons conclus One to take away the misdemeanors of Purveyors and Takers and the other touching Orders for Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements Nota That in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House next after the setting down or entring of the two Bills aforesaid to have been returned up to the Lords from the House of Commons there followeth immediately the entrance of the Prorogation of this Session of Parliament which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the said Upper House For the Queens Majesty her self with the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal was present in her Robes and gave her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed Although no presence of any of the Lords or her Majesty be at all marked in the said Original Journal-Book And therefore I have caused the solemn and stately manner of the Queens coming to the Upper House with the several Interlocutory Speeches of the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Lord Keeper to be inserted at large out of a written Copy or Anonymous memorial thereof I had by me being doubtless the very Original Draught set down by some Member of one of the two Houses or at least by some other observant person then present while the said Speeches passed in the Upper House for it is written in a hand and language of that very time and in many places amended and interlined About three of the Clock this present Saturday in the Afternoon the Queens Majesty came by Water from Whitehall and landed on the backside of the Parliament Chamber and so the Earl of Northumberland bearing the Sword afore her the Dutchess of Norfolk the Train she proceeded up into her Privy-Chamber and there Apparell'd her self in her Parliament Robes during which time the Lords likewise put on their Robes and took their Places On the Upper Sack sate the Lord Keeper till the Queen came and then he went to his place at the Rail on the right hand to the Cloth of Estate On the Wooll-sack on the North-side sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer the two Chief Justices Sir John Mason and Serjeant Carus M r Ruswell the Queens Sollicitor and Doctor Yale On the Sack on the South-side sate Sir William Cecill Secretary Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Justice Weston Serjeant Southcott M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney and Doctor Lewes On the nether Sack sate M r Spilman Clerk of the Parliament M r Powle Deputy and joint Patentee with M r Martin Clerk of the Crown M r Heming and some Clerks of the Signet Dister and Permiter before which nether Sack stood a little Table Then the Queens Majesty being Apparell'd in her Parliament Robes with a Caul on her Head came forth and proceeded up and took the Seat the Duke of Norfolk as Earl Marshal with his gilt Rod before her with the Marquess of Northampton bearing the Cap of Maintenance and stood on her right hand and the Earl of Northumberland the Sword on her left hand the
Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae fidei defensor c. Sexto in quem diem praesens hoc Parliamentum Prorogatum fuerat convenerunt Domini tam spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Marchio Winton Thesaurarius Comes Suffex Comes Huntington Episcopus London Episcopus Roffen Dominus Clinton Admirallus Dominus Howard Camerarius Dominus Cobham Dominus Hunsdon Qui cum convenissent una cum populi atque Burgensium ut vocant satis magna frequentia praedictus Archiepiscopus Cantuarien paucis verbis declaravit conventum Procerum populi quem Parliamentum vocant in hunc diem destinatum à dicta domina Regina ccrtis quibusdam de causis considerationibus illam ad id specialiter moven differri in tricesimum diem Aprilis prox futurum atque ut tam proceribus quam populo palam fieret Regiam Majestatem ita constituisse Literas Commissorias dict Dominae Reginae Francisco Spilman Armig Clerico Parliamenti publicè clarâ voce legendas in manus tradidii Earum autem Tenor sequitur in haec verba Elizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei defensor c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Matheo Cantuarien Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac Charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Willielmo Marchioni Winton Thesaurario Angliae ncc non charissimis consanguineis suis Thomae Comiti Sussex Henrico Comiti Huntingdon Reverendis in Christo patribus Edmundo Episcopo London Edmundo Episcopo Roffen ac etiam praedilectis fidelibus consiliariis suis Edwardo Domino Clinton magno Admirallo suo Angliae Willielmo Domino Howard de Essingham Domino Camerario suo ac praedilectis sidelibus suis Willielmo Domino Cobham Gardiano sive Custodi quinque portuum suorum ac Henrico Domino Hunsdon salutem Cum nuper pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernen praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitat nostram Westmonasterii duodecimo die Januarii Anno regni nostri Quinto inchoari teneri ordinaverimus à quo die idem Parliamentum nostrum tunc ibidem tent continuat fuerat usque decimum diem Aprilis tunc prox sequen ac post diversas Prorogationes idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in instantem Quintum diem Octobris Prorogatum ibidemque tunc tenend prosequend Sciatis tamen quod certis urgentibus causis considerationibus nos specialiter moven idem Parliamentum nostrum ulterius Prorogand duximus de sidelitate igitur prudentiâ circumspectione vestris plurimum considentes de avisamento assensu Concilii nostri assignavimus vos tres vestrum dantes vobis novem octo septem sex quinque quatuor tribus vestrum tenore praesentium plenam potestatem facultatem authoritatem hoc instan die Jovis ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum nomine nostro ad in tricesimum Aprilis prox futur usque praedictam Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii Prorogand continuand ibidemque tunc tenend prosequend ideo vobis mandamus quod circa praemissa diligenter intendatis ea in formâ praedicta effect ualiter expleatis Damus autem universis singulis Archiepiscopis Ducibus Magnatibus Comitibus Vice-Comitibus Episcopis Baronibus Militibus Civibus Burgen ac omnibus ahis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum conventur tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis quod vobis in praenissis faciend pareant obediant intendant prout decet In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium Quinto die Octobris Anno Regni nostri Sexto The like Commission bearing date 30. die Aprilis An. 7 Eliz. was directed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norsolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Derby Thomas Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntingdon the Earl of Pembroke the Earl of Warwick and the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Cobham Warden of the Cinque-Ports the Lord Wentworth and the Lord Hunsdon Authorizing them 17 16 15 14 13 c. or three of them to Prorogue and continue the Parliament ut supra in the other Commissions mutatis mutandis unto the 4 th day of October next coming Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium 30 die Aprilis Anno Regni nostri Septimo On which 30 th day of April the Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Derby the Earl of Sussex the Earls of Huntingdon Pembroke and Warwick the Bishop of London the Lord Admiral the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Cobham the Lord Wentworth and the Lord Hunsdon did meet in the Parliament Chamber and in due and accustomed Form did Adjourn the Parliament unto the 4 th day of October according to the said Commission last specified and caused the said Commission to be publickly read by Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Parliament in hearing of the Commons then also present according to antient Custom in that behalf On the 4 th day of October Anno Regni Reginae Eliz. Septimo The like Commission ut supra bearing date the said 4 th day of October directed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Sussex Chief Justice of all Forrests c. on this side Trent Ambrose Earl of Warwick Master of the Ordnance the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Rochester Edward Lord Clinton great Admiral of England William Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain Thomas Lord Wentworth and Henry Lord Hunsdon authorizing them 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 and 3. ut antea mutatis mutandis to Prorogue and continue the same Parliament in Septimum diem Februarii prox futurum Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium 4 die Octobris Anno Regni nostri Septimo Which Commission was read by the Clerk of the Parliament in the Parliament Chamber in presence of ten of the Commissioners and of the Commons Memorandum quod hodie septimo die Februarii Anno Regni Eliz. Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae sidei defensor c. Octavo in quem diem praesens hoc Parliamentum Prorogatum suer at convenerunt Domini tam spirituales quam temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur viz. Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Nicolaus Bacon Miles Custos magni Sigilli Marchio Winton Thesaurar Dux Norfolc Comes Marescallus Marchio North Comes Sussex Comes Warwick Episcopus London Episcopus Roffen Dominus Clinton Admirallus Dominus Howard Camerarius Dominus Wentworth Dominus de Hunsdon Qui cum convenissent unà cum populi atque Burgen ut vocant satis magnâ frequentiâ praedictus Nicolaus Bacon
Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli paucis verbis declaravit conventum Procerum populi quem Parliamentum vocant in hunc diem destinatum à dictâ Dominâ Reginâ certis quibusdam de causis considerationibus illam ad id specialiter moven differri in 30 diem Septembris prox futur These foregoing Prorogations of this present Session of Parliament being thus at large or abstractedly transcribed now follows in Order the Assembling and Meeting of both Houses in their several places on Monday the 30 th day of September to which day it had been last Prorogued so that either House going on where they last left there was no Meeting in the Upper House at all of both Houses nor the Queen came not in Person as she used to do when a new Parliament began nor hath it ever been used in latter times upon a meer Prorogation but yet on Wednesday the second day of October following by reason of the Choice of a new Speaker in the House of Commons which was occasioned by the Death of the former the Queens Majesty came in her accustomed Royalty as at the beginning of a Parliament is usual and there admitted of their new Speaker presented unto her whom they had Chosen but the day before by vertue of her Majesties Commission all which in due Form and Order follows On Monday the 30. day of September to which day this present Session of Parliament had been last Prorogued there Assembled in the Upper House according to the usual form and course as also the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons did in their own proper place Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England the Lord Archbishop of York the Lord Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Marquess of Northampton with divers Earls Viscounts Bishops and Barons the particular setting down of whose names is purposely omitted here although it were the first day of their Assembling together because they are at large set down on the second day of October following being Wednesday when by reason of her Majesties coming in Person to the Upper House the presence of the Lords was somewhat greater than upon this instant Monday Hodiè retornatum fuit Breve quo Edwardus Dominus Stafford ad praesens Parliament summonitus fuit qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae locum salvo semper jure superioris sedentis Consimile pro Henrico Domino Paget Consimile pro Rogero Domino North. Consimile pro Roberto Comite Leicestriae Consimile pro Henrico Comite Westmorl This day Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold Sir Francis Knolles Knight her Highness Vice-Chamberlain Sir William Cecill Knight her Highness Principal Secretary and Sir Ambrose Cave Knight Chancellor of her Highness Dutchy of Lancaster four Chief Members of the House of Commons and divers others of that Assembly to the number of twenty persons being sent up to the Lords from that House upon some urgent and weighty occasions desired to be admitted into the Upper House there to make known to their Lordships somewhat wherein they should require their advice and need their assistance upon which being admitted the said M r Comptroller assisted with the Personages and Company aforesaid did in comely order and discreet modesty make manifest and known unto the said Lords that Thomas Williams Esquire their late Speà ker in the last Session of this Parliament in the fifth Year of the Queens Majesty that now is was bereft from them by Death which had been openly and manifestly made known and testified unto them for remedy of which defection they humbly prayed their Lordships advice after which the Lord Keeper first requiring the said Personages a while to withdraw themselves and then commending the Order of the matter to the Lords sitting in consultation for the same it was by them all upon considerate advice therein had thought fit to signifie unto the said Commons by the Personages aforesaid that they thought it expedient and good the said Lord Keeper the Lord Treasurer of England the Duke his Grace of Norfolk and the Lord Marquess of Northampton with the four forecited Personages of the said House of Commons being also of her Highness most Honourable Privy-Council should in the name of both of the Assemblies with all humbleness and due celerity make intimation of their said Estate and the Petition thereupon depending unto her said Highness to which advice the said House of Commons upon knowledge had of the same wholly assented Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Martis primum Octobris On Tuesday the first day of October the Bill for the making void of fraudulent Gifts and Alienations was read primâ vice The Queen having been moved as it seemeth the day past about the Death of the former Speaker and the Choice of a new one in the House of Commons by those eight Right Honourable Personages who were then and there named to move her Highness in it did give Order that this present Tuesday both the Lords and Commons should Assemble and meet together in the Parliament Chamber there to receive her Majesties Answer Where being Assembled the Lord Keeper shewed forth a Commission from her Highness under the great Seal of England which was directed unto him only the tenor whereof is set down at large in the Journal of the House of Commons de An. isto 8 Regin Eliz. to which House it properly belonged viz. That in respect Thomas Williams Esq the former Speaker was dead therefore the Lord Keeper was for her Majesty and in her Name to will and Command the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the said House of Commons to resort unto their accustomed place and there to Elect and chuse amongst themselves one able and sufficient person to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament yet to come And after they should have made their Election that then three or four of them for and in all their names should signifie the same unto her Majesty and thereupon her Highness would further signifie her pleasure unto them what day and time they should present him so Elected before her as it had been used formerly in like Cases to be done There was this day no other Bill or other business agitated in the Upper House for immediately upon the reading of the last above-mentioned Commission the Continuance of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the said House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque diem Mercurii secundum diem Octobris On Wednesday the second day of October it seemeth there was no meeting of the Lords nor any thing done in the Forenoon neither is any mention made in the foregoing continuance of this Parliament by the Lord Keeper to what Hour of this Wednesday it was continued
which is usual in other continuations of it But the reason why they met not till the Afternoon seemeth to be because then the Queens Majesty her self came thither to whom Richard Onslow Esq her Majesties Sollicitor having been Chosen Speaker for the House of Commons the day past was presented and admitted by her in manner and form as followeth About three of the Clock in the Afternoon this present Wednesday the second day of October the Queens Majesty took her Barge and Landed on the back-side of the Parliament-Chamber and so the Earl of Northumberland bearing the Sword the Lady Strainge her Trayn with the Lords in their daily Apparel and the Heralds attending on her she proceeded up into the Privy-Chamber to prepare her self during which time the Lords and Justices put on their Parliament Robes and took their places in manner and form following In which it is to be noted that no part of this days passages already set down is found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is either transcribed out of a certain Anonymous memorial I had by me in which the presentment of the Speaker this day is somewhat exactly set down or was supplied by my self upon the comparing of several things together Now follow the Names of the Lords and others as aforesaid First on the Form on the North-side together with the Upper Form at the nether end sate the Bishops as followeth Younge Archbishop of York Grindall Bishop of London Pilkington Bishop of Durham Sands Bishop of Winchester Birkley Bishop of Bath and Wells Bett. Bishop of Carlisle Barlow Bishop of Chichester Alleo Bishop of Exeter Gest. Bishop of Rochester Skamler Bishop of Peterburgh Horne Bishop of Worcester Bullingham Bishop of Lincoln Bentam Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield Denham Bishop of Chester Scorie Bishop of Hereford Davies Bishop of S t Davids Parkhurst Bishop of Norwich Cheyney Bishop of Gloucester Nota That these names with those that follow being transcribed in a different manner from all others in the residue of the Journals of the Queens time were so found with the Names of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal added to them in that before-mentioned Anonymous memorial of this present Wednesdays passages being the second day of October and were therefore transcribed out of it as is aforesaid rather than out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House although the Series of them that were present set down there did serve well to rectifie those foregoing and these also that next ensue At the foremost Form on the South-side sate these Peers viz. William Paulet Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshall of England William Parre Marquess of Northampton Thomas Peircie Earl of Northumberland Charles Nevill Earl of Westmorland George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury William Sommerset alias Plantagenet Earl of Worcester Thomas Ratcliff Earl of Sussex Henry Haistings Earl of Huntingdon Edward Seymor Earl of Hartford Robert Sutton alias Dudley Earl of Leicester and Master of the Horse Anthony Brown Viscount Mountague Nota That Edward de Vere Earl of Oxford Lord Great Chamberlain of England Edward Mannors Earl of Rutland William Bowrchier Earl of Bath and Henry Wriotheisly Earl of South-hampton were at this time under Age and in Ward to the Queen and therefore they were not admitted to take their places in the Uppermost House but if they were present did either stand besides the upper part of the Rail at the higher end of the said House or were admitted to kneel at the upper end of the same House near the Chair of State at this time and upon like solemn days for no Peer is admitted to have his free Voice or sit as a Member of that Great Council untill he have accomplished his full Age unless by the special Grace of the Prince At the Form at their back and the nether Form at the nether end sate these Peers Fynes Lord Clinton as Lord Admiral sate first amongst the Barons Howard Lord Effingham as Lord Chamberlain of her Majesties Houshold sate second Nevill Lord of Burgaveny sate in his due place of preheminence and so the rest that follow unless such as were misplaced by the Clerks error which is too frequent Zouch Lord Zouch Standley Lord Strange Birkley Lord Birkley Parker Lord Morley Brooke Lord Cobham Stafford Lord Stafford Gray Lord Gray of Wilton Sutton Lord Dudley Lumley Lord Lumley Blunt Lord Mountjoy Darcy Lord Darcy of Mevill Standley Lord Mounteagle Sands Lord Sands Vaux Lord Vaux Windsor Lord Windsor Wentworth Lord Wentworth Burrough Lord Borough Mordant Lord Mordant Cromwell Lord Cromwell Evers Lord Evers Willoughby Lord Willoughby Sheffeild Lord Sheffeild Paget Lord Paget Darcy de Chiche Dominus Darcy North Lord North of Carthelige Bridges Lord Shandois Haistings Lord Haistings of Loughborough Carey Lord Carey of Hunsdon S t John Lord S t John of Bletsoe Nota That Dutchet Lord Audley and the Lord Dacres of the North were under Age. All which Peers abovesaid had their Mantles Hood and Circots furred with Miniver their Arms put on the right side and the Duke of Norfolk had Bars of Miniver the Marquess of Winchester and Northampton had three Bars of Miniver the Earls likewise the Viscounts two and the Barons two Item On the upper Sack of Wooll sate the Lord Keeper till the Queen came and then went to his place at the Rail On the Woolsack on the Northside sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer the Queens two Chief Justices M r Corbet Weston and Southcote Justices of both Benches on the Woolsack on the Southside sate Sir William Cecill the Queens Principal Secretary Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Sanders Chief Baron Baron Whiddon ..... Carus the Queens Serjeant ..... Gerrard the Queens Attorney and on the nether Sack sate M r Vaughan and Yale Masters of the Chancery M r Spilman Clerk of the Parliament M r Martin Clerk of the Crown and M r Peile his Joint Patentee And behind them kneeled Smith Clerk of the Council and Jones Clerk of the Signet Permiter and Dister Then the Queens Majesty being Apparelled in her Parliament Robes with a Caul on her Head came forth and took her Seat the Marquess of Northampton carrying the Cap of Maintenance and after stood on her right hand the Duke of Norfolk carrying his Marshals Rod and on her left hand the Earl of Northumberland with the Sword the Heralds also and Serjeants at Arms being before her her Majesties Mantle was born up on either side from her Shoulders by the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord of Hunsdon who also stood still by her for the assisting thereof when she stood up her Train was born by the Lady Strange assisted by Sir Francis Knolles Vice-Chamberlain at the left hand of the Queen and on the South-side kneeled the Ladies and at the Rail at the Queens back on the right hand stood the Lord Keeper and on the left hand the Lord Treasurer Then the Queen
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
comfortable words and commanded the Parliament to be dissolved Nota That this business had many and long Agitations in the House of Commons who were especially violent in that latter branch of it touching the Declaration of a Successor as see more at large on Monday the 25 th day of November foregoing and lastly I have thought good to give a short touch that all the foregoing passages of this Afternoon touching her Majesties Presence Royal Assent Speech and Dissolving the Parliament were thus Orderly set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and have here received little Alterations THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS The Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster An. 13 Reg. Eliz. A. D. 1571 which began there on Monday the 2 d day of April and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Tuesday the 29 th day of May ensuing THIS Journal of the Upper House continuing about the space of two Months was very carelesly entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House by the Clerk thereof who as it seems was Anthony Mason Esq succeeding about this time in the said Office of Clerk of the Upper House unto Francis Spilman Esq who had formerly supplied that place But yet by means of a Copious Journal I had by me of the Passages of the House of Commons in this Parliament taken by some Anonymous Member thereof and also of some Copies I had of the Speeches of Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper at the beginning and conclusion of this said Parliament this ensuing Journal is much enlarged And therefore to avoid confusion whatsoever is here inserted out of the said private Journal is particularly distinguished from that which is taken out of the above-mentioned Journal-Book of the Upper House by some Animadversions or Expression thereof both before and after the inserting of it Neither doth the Original Journal-Book it self of the Upper House want some matter of variety besides the ordinary Reading Committing and passing of Bills in respect that Sir Robert Catlyn Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was appointed by her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal to supply the Lord Keepers place upon occasion of his sickness during some part of this said Parliament in the first entry whereof is set down out of the foresaid Anonymous Journal of the House of Commons her Majesties coming to the Upper House with the Order and manner of it the substance also of which is found though somewhat more briefly set down in the Original Journal-Book of the same House On Monday the second day of April the Parliament beginning according to the Writs of Summons sent forth her Majesty about eleven of the Clock came towards Westminster in the antient accustomed most honourable Passage having first riding before her the Gentlemen Sworn to attend her Person the Batchellors Knights after them the Knights of the Bath then the Barons of the Exchequer and Judges of either Bench with the Master of the Rolls her Majesties Attorney General and Sollicitor General whom followed in Order the Bishops and after them the Earls then the Archbishop of Canterbury The Hat of Maintenance was Carried by the Marquess of Northampton and the Sword by the Earl of Sussex The place of the Lord Steward for that day was supplied by the Lord Clinton Lord Admiral of England the Lord Great Chamberlain was the Earl of Oxenford And the Earl Marshal by Deputation from the Duke of Norfolk was the Earl of Worcester Her Majesty sate in her Coach in her Imperial Robes and a Wreath or Coronet of Gold set with rich Pearl and Stones over her Head her Coach drawn by two Palfries covered with Crimson Velvet drawn out imbossed and imbroidered very richly Next after her Chariot followed the Earl of Leicester in respect of his Office of the Master of the Horse leading her Majesties spare Horse And then forty seven Ladies and Women of Honour The Guard in their rich Coats going on every side of them The Trumpeters before the first sounding and the Heralds riding and keeping their rooms and places Orderly In Westminster Church the Bishop of Lincoln Preached before her Majesty whose Sermon-being done her Majesty came from the Church the Lords all on foot in order as afore and over her Head a rich Canopy was carried all the way She being entred into the Upper House of Parliament and there sate in Princely and seemly sort under a high and rich Cloth of Estate her Robe was supported by the Earl of Oxenford the Earl of Sussex kneeling holding the Sword on the left hand and the Earl of Huntingdon holding the Hat of Estate and the Lords all in their Rooms on each side of the Chamber that is to say the Lords Spiritual on the right hand and the Lords Temporal on the left Nota That whereas the presence of these Lords ought here according to the usual course to have been inserted out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House it must of necessity be omitted in respect that through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time as it should seem Clerk of the said House there are none of the said Lords noted to have been present yet it may be probably guessed who they were by those who attended on Wednesday of this instant April ensuing Quod vide The Judges and her Learned Councel being at the Woollsacks in the midst of the Chamber and at her Highness Feet at each side of her kneeling one of the Grooms or Gentlemen of the Chamber their Faces towards her the Knights Citizens and Burgesses all standing below the Bar her Majesty then stood up in her Regal Seat and with a Princely Grace and singular good Countenance after a long stay spake a few words to this effect or thus Mr right Loving Lords and you our right faithful and Obedient Subjects we in the name of God for his Service and for the safety of this State are now here Assembled to his Glory I hope and pray that it may be to your Comfort and the common quiet of our yours and all ours for ever And then looking on the right side of her towards Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England standing a little beside the Cloth of Estate and somewhat back and lower from the same she willed him to shew the cause of the Parliament who thereupon spake as followeth THE Queens most Excellent Majesty our most Dread and Gracious Soveraign hath Commanded me to declare unto you the Causes of your Calling and Assembly at this time which I mean to do as briefly as I can led thereunto as one very loth to be tedious to her Majesty and also because to wise men and well-disposed as I judge you be a few words do suffice The Causes be chiefly two The one to establish or dissolve Laws as best shall serve for the Governance of the Realm
Two Committees for two several Bills made one Committee for both Bills p. 607 Common Prayer vide Uniformity Conference to be had before a Bill passed either House be rejected by the other p. 272 273. 388. Vide the Table to the Journal of the House of Commons Contribution of two shillings in the pound made by the Lords towards the Queens extraordinary charge in defence of the Realm p. 387. Contribution made by them for relief of such poor Souldiers as went begging in the Streets of London p. 462. An Order that such Lords as were absent the whole Session should pay double to what others did who constantly attended the service of the House and those that came but seldom to the House a third part more p. 463 464 Convocation-days the House of Lords either sit not or do little business on them p. 67 Crown a Bill restoring to it the ancient jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual c. p. 28 D. ABill for Denization of Peregrine Berty and Katharine Dutchess of Suffolk his Wife p. 145. of William Watson p. 148 Dissolve vide Commissions Doctors of the Civil Law made Joint-Committees with the Lords p. 145 E. EGerton Sir Thomas made Lord Keeper 38 Eliz. p. 522. His Speech to the Parliament 39 and 40 Eliz. p. 524. Q. Elizabeth enter'd on the Government Nov. 17. ann Dom. 1558. p. 1. and within nine weeks summons a Parliament viz. Jan 23. ibid. A Bill in that Parliament to make her inherit able to the late Q. Anne her Mother p. 19. she is averse from declaring a Successor p. 107. 127 128. Her sharp Speech to the Parliament in ann 8 and 9. for their Petition to that purpose p. 116. She remitteth the third payment of a Subsidy to take the Parliament off from urging her to declare a Successor p. 131. Her Pious Speech at the end of the Session 27. of her Reign p. 328. In the Parliament 28 and 29 of her Reign called upon the discovery of Babingtons conspiracy she appeared not in person but gave Commission to three Lords to supply her place with the title of Lords Lieutenants p. 377 378. Both Houses petition her to execute the sentence upon Mary Queen of Scots with her Answer thereto p. 380 381 382. Her Speech at the end of the Parliament in 35 of her Reign p. 466. Her great success against the Spaniard set forth in a Speech by the Lord Keeper p. 599. Jewels given to her Physicians to poyson her p. 599 G. GArgrave Sir Thomas chosen Speaker to the Commons in the Parliament holden 1 Eliz. p. 15. and 40. The manner of his disabling himself to the House first and then to the Queen ibid. His Petitions of course on behalf of the House of Commons p. 16. His Speech at the conclusion of the Session p. 31 Gavelkind what and in what places it obtaineth p. 272. A Bill to enable the owners of Gavelkind Lands in the County of Kent to alter the said Custom p. 533 Gentleman-Usher of the House claims right to bring such persons before the Upper House as are accused of breach of priviledge and sayes it does not belong to the Serjeant at Arms. p. 603. He is sent for an ordinary servant of the Queens committed to the Fleet for debt upon Execution and for him that arrested him p. 605. 607. This not to injure the Serjeant at Arms in his pretensions to that office p. 607 Grace Vide Bills and Acts. H. HAtton Sir Christopher made Chancellor 29 Eliz. upon the death of Sir Thomas Bromley p. 419 Herald at Arms in ordinary to the Queen not to have priviledge from Arrest on account of the Session of Parliament p. 608. 611 Hexamshire a Bill to annex it to the County of Northumberland and its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction to the Bishoprick of Durham 8 9 Eliz. p. 103. but not passed into an Act till 14 Eliz. p. 200 Horses a Bill against conveying them into Scotland 1 Eliz. being a revival of an Act made 23 H. 8. p. 21 22 Lord Hunsdon's place in Parliament between the Lord Chandois and the Lord S t John of Bletso p. 530. 543 I. INgrossing of a Bill what p. 18. Vide Bills Injunctions to stop proceeding at Law in Parliament time p. 21 Judges who are but assistants to the Upper House made Joint Committees with the Lords p. 67. 71. 99. and so in every Parliament till 39 40 Eliz. p. 142. 527. but only to consider of some ordinary Bill and which concerned matter of Law for they were never of such Committees as were to have Conference with the Commons p. 423. They have leave from the Lord Chancellor or Keeper to sit covered in the House but are always uncovered at a Committee p. 527 K. KEeper vide Chancellor Kentish-Street in Southwark a Bill for the paving of it 8 and 9 Eliz. p. 112 L. THE River Lee a Bill to bring it to the North-side of London 13 Eliz. p. 150 Low-Country Wars a voluntary contribution of both Houses towards the maintaining of them p. 387 M. MArry see the word in the Table to the Journal of the House of Commons the Queen Petition'd by the House of Lords to marry with her Answer p. 105. 107. The advice and consent of the Parliament often required for the marrying of the Kings of England p. 117 119. Earl Marshal his place in Parliament is betwixt the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward p. 535 Queen Mary died Nov. 17. 1558. in the sixth year of her Reign p. 1 Mary Queen of Scots Vide the Table to the Commons Journal Mason Anthony Esq Clerk of the Upper House 13 Eliz. p. 137. He is succeeded by Thomas Smith Esquire in the Parliament 39 40 Eliz. p. 522 Melcomb Regis Vide Weymouth Messages sent from the House of Commons to the Upper House are received by the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords at the Bar whither they are to go and meet those that come from the Commons p. 539 540 Mises not to be paid by the Shires of Wales and County Palatine of Chester when Subsidies are paid nor the contrary p. 20 Monopolies Petition'd against in 39 40 Eliz. which the Queen judges an invasion of her Prerogative ibid. N. A Bill of Naturalization of Gerson Wroth a German p. 22. of William Sidney and his Wife and of Sir John Wingfield and his Lady p. 462. of Justice Dormer and George Sheppy p. 464. of Samuel Saltingstal p. 488 Newgate the Keeper of it committed to the Fleet for not obeying an Order of the Lords for the bringing of one that was Prisoner there upon Execution and was Servant to a Peer p. 608 Duke of Norfolk a Bill for the confirmation of his marriage with the Lady Margaret his Wife 1 Eliz p. 22. and for the assurance of certain Lands for her Jointure p. 25 Earl of Nottingham his place in Parliament betwixt the Earl of Lincoln and Lord Viscount Bindon p. 543 O. OBjections against a
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
all the Earls Summoned to this Parliament differed nothing from that by which the Duke of Norfolk was Summoned The words of the Writs that were directed to any Bishop this Parliament were Verbatim the same with the Archbishops only differing in the Style which is set down before their Christian Names being added in these words Reverendo in Christo Patri instead of these words inserted into the Writs directed to the Archbishops viz. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri The Writs to the Viscounts and Barons are thus directed viz. Dilecto fideli suo Anthonio Vicecomiti c. and then all the rest agreeing with the aforesaid Writ set down as directed to the Duke of Norfolk The Writs by which the Judges are Summoned are directed thus Dilecto Fideli suo c. and differ from the Peers Writs in these words tractare Consilium suum impendere but not ordinare and the same Style is inserted in the Writs directed to the Queen's Council and the rest who are to attend in the Upper House The Parliament being Summoned to begin as appeareth by the foregoing Writ set down as directed to the Duke of Norfolk on the 23th day of January it was upon the said day farther Prorogued in manner and form following Memorandum where the Queen's Majesty by her first Writ Summoned the Parliament to be begun and holden at Westminster the 23. day of January as by the same Writ bearing Date at Westminster the 5th day of December in the first year of her Reign it more plainly appeareth Her Highness upon certain great and weighty Causes and considerations her Majesty especially moving by the advice of her Privy-Council and of her Justices of both her Benches and other of her Council Learned did Prorogue and Adjourn this said Parliament until Wednesday now next following being the 25th day of this instant Month by vertue of her Writ Patent Signed with her own Hand Sealed with her Great Seal bearing Date the 21th day of this present Month whereupon at this said 23th day of January the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal with divers others her Lords and Counsellors repaired to the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House and there in the presence of the whole Assembly of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal the Knights Citizens and Burgesses Summoned to the same Parliament did open and declare that the Queens Majesty whose preservation in Health giveth safety and surety to the whole Publick Wealth not feeling her self in good Disposition of Body nor unmindful of the Peril that by her too much boldness by coming abroad might ensue sent for the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lords and others of her Highness Council unto whom she declared her Estate and the fear she had to adventure going to Parliament this said prefixed day being the 23th day of January requesting them to signifie her Estate unto the Assembly and that by virtue of the said Writ of Prorogation she had Prorogued her said Parliament from the first said Summoned day until the 25th day of the same Month. All which matters being notified to the said Assembly according to her Highness request and pleasure the said Writ for the said Prorogation in the presence of that Assembly was there then read by the Clerk of the Upper House publickly and openly the Tenor whereof ensueth Verbatim ELizabetha Dei Gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor c. praedilectis fidelibus nostris Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus Regni nostri Angliae ac dilectis fidelibus nostris Militibus Civibus Burgensibus dicti Regni nostri ad Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterij 23. die instantis Mensis Januarij inchoand ' tenend ' convocat ' elect ' eorum cuilibet Salutem Cum nos pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem dicti Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernen ' dictum Parliamentum nostrum ad diem locum praedictum teneri ordinaverimus ac vobis per seperalia brevia nostra apud Civitatem diem praedict ' interesse Mandaverimus ad tractand ' assentiend ' concludend ' super his quae in dicto Parliamento nostro tunc ibidem proponerentur tractarentur Quibusdam tamen certis de causis considerationibus nos ad hoc specialitèr movend ' dictum Parliamentum nostrum usque 25 diem hujus instantis Mensis Januarij duximus prorogand ' it a quod nec vos nec aliquis vestrum ad dictum 23. diem Januarij apud Civitatem praedictam comparere teneamini seu arctemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum inde erga nos penitùs exonerari Mandantès tenore presentium firmiter injungendo precipientes vobis Cuilibet vestrum ac omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quod ad dictum 25. diem Januarij apud praedictam Civitatem Westmonasterij personalitèr compareatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compareat intersit ad tractand ' faciend ' agend ' concludend ' super his quae in dicto Parliamento nestro de Communi concilio dicti Regni nostri savente domino contigerit ordinari Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium 21. Januarij Anno Regni nostri primo This day also although the Parliament begun not nor any Peers sate in the Upper House but the Lord Keeper and some others of either house met only in the Parliament Chamber to Prorogue the Parliament until the 25th day of this instant Month as aforesaid were divers Proxies returned from many of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal who in their absence did Constitute others of the said Upper House to give their voices for them And because no Lord could be absent without Licence from her Majesty first obtained during this Parliament it will not be impertinent amongst other matters of Course to set down the form of the said Licenses which were as followeth RIght Trusty and Wel-beloved We Greet you well Whereas we are informed that by reason of Sickness you are not able to make your repair hither to this our Sessions of Parliament to be holden at Westminster We have thought good by these our Letters to dispense with you for your absence and do License you to remain still at home for this time So nevertheless that you send up your Proxie to some such Personage as may for you and in your name give his voice assent or denial to such matters as shall be Treated and Concluded upon in our said Parliament and these our Letters Patents shall be your Warrant in this behalf Given under our Signet at our Palace at Westminster the first day of January in the first year of our Reign Upon the obtaining and receipt of this aforesaid Licence from her Majesty granted to every absent Lord in particular they sent their several Proxies of which the first that was returned this day was the Proxie of
can be made of it in the Upper House or that be called for the House must of necessity be set and be in agitation of Business and then the Course is if any thing come to the Question the Clerk of the Parliament or his Deputy is to search the Journal Book to see whether such Lords as give their Voices for others that be absent be indeed nominated and appointed their Proctors This same day were many other Proxies both usual and extraordinary returned of which and of the nature and forms of Proxies more shall be presently said after the setting down of the return of the said Proxies inserted at the beginning of the Original Journal Book of this first Parliament of the Queen in manner and form as followeth Eodem die viz. 23. die Januarij Introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Johannis Domini Mordant in quibus procuratores suos constituit Henricum Comitem Arundel et Franciscum Comitem Bedford Vacat Eodem die introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Thomae Tresham prioris Sti. Johannis Jerusalem in Anglia qui procuratorem suum constituit Nicholaum Archiepiscop ' Eboracen Eodem die introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Willielmi Domini Paget qui procuratores suos constituit Henricum Comitem Arundel Franciscum Comitem Bedford Eodem die introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Cuthberti Episcopi Dunelmen ' qui procuratorem suum constituit Archiepiscopum Eboracen Eodem die Introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Johannis Comitis Bathon ' qui procuratorem suum constituit Henricum Comitem Rutland Eodem die Introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Georgij Domini Zouch qui procuratorem suum constituit Franciscum Comitem Bedford Eodem die Introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Henrici Domini Aburgavenae qui procuratorem suum constituit Franciscum Comitem Bedford Eodem die Introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Thomae Episcopi Ely in quibus procuratores suos Constituit Nicholaum Archiepiscopum Eboracen ' Episcopos Cestren ' et Lincoln And Note that the Christian Names of these two Bishops are omitted in the original Entrance Introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Willielmi Domini Burgh in quibus procuratorem suum constituit Edwardum Dominum Clinton Admirallum Angliae Introductae sunt Literae Procuratoriae Edwardi Domini Windsor ' in quibus procuratorem suum constituit Edwardum Dominum Clinton Admirallum Angliae Introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Willielmi Domini Euers in quibus procuratorem suum constituit Edwardum Dominum Clinton Admirallum Angliae Introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Gilberti Episcopi Bathen ' Wellen ' qui procuratores suos constituit Nicholaum Archiepiscopum Eboracen ' Edmund ' London ' et Davidem ' Petreburgen ' Episcopos Introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Henrici Episcopi Meneven ' in quibus procuratores suos constituit Nicholaum Archiepiscopum Eboracen ' ac Davidem ' Petreburgen ' Episcopos The Proxies introducted this day and entred in the beginning of the Original Journal Book of the Upper House as the constant use is are referred by me always to those days on which they were entred to have been returned unless it be in such Journals where the day of the return is not entred as in the Original Journal Book A. 39. Regin Eliz. from which time to this day the same Course hath been observed And because I have desired to make up a work somewhat exact and perfect of the Journals of the Reign of this most Gracious Queen and once for all to make some Animadversions upon all matters of form in this Journal of her Majesties first Parliament that so all other may be referred unto it therefore I shall now add a little touching the nature kinds and use of Proxies as I have set downbefore touching the Writs of Summons A Proxie therefore is no more than the constituting of some one or more by an absent Lord to give his Voice in the Upper House when any difference of Opinion and Division of the House shall happen for otherways if no such Division fall out it never cometh to be questioned or known to whom such Proxies are directed nor is there any the least use of them save only to shew prove and continue the Right which the Lords of the Upper House have both to be Summoned and to give their Voices in the same House either in their Persons or by their Proxies And when the Voices of that House are to be divided then the Clerk of the same if he be present or his Deputy gives notice of such Proxies as have been introducted and delivered unto him and to whom they are directed that they may give them accordingly And as many Proxies as any Peer hath so many voices he hath besides his own and if there be two or three Proxies constituted by one absent Lord as is frequent then always the first named in the same is to give the Voice if he be present and if absent then the second et sic de reliquis It is plain by that ancient Manuscript Intituled Modus tenendi Parliamentum of which I have a Copy both in French and Latin Cap. de inchoatione Parl. that if a Peer neither came to the Parliament nor sent a Proxie upon his Writ of Summons he forfeited 100 l. if an Earl 100 Marks if a Baron which was after qualified viz. Rotulo Parliamenti A. 31. H. 6. Num. 46. And a Duke for such default was fined 100 l. an Earl 100 Marks and a Baron 40 l. And it is plain that Anciently the Lords Spiritual and Temporal were often absent without the King's Licence and did then only send the Expression of the Cause of their said absence in their said Proxies as did the Abbot of Selby A. 26. Edw. 3. as appears ex Registro ejusdem 〈◊〉 ' alledging only this reason Quia impedimentis variis et arduis Negotiis concernentibus reformationem status Domùs nostrae simus multipliciter impediti c. and so likewise in A. 36. H. 8. the Cause of the Abbot of Shrewsburies absence is thus expressed in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House A. codem 20. die Parliamenti relatum est Quod Abbas Salop ' gravi infirmitate detinetur quod hîc interesse nequit ideo constituit procuratores suos Episcopam Coventr ' et Eitch ' et Comitem Salopiae conjunctim et divisim but always then the Proxies were directed to the King and did in truth contain in them as well supplication for his Pardon of their absence as a Constitution of their Proctors as doth plainly appear by this Proxie following of the Abbots of Thorney which I have the rather inserted at large because the very Original it self under Seal remaineth with me amongst many other pretious Originals in my Library EXcellentissimo Principi et Domino suo singularissimo Domino Henrico Dei Gratià Regi Angliae et Franciae ac Domino Hiberniae suus humillimus et Devotus Robertus Dei patientia
Presence of her Majesty the Lord Keeper and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal is not at all marked in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House although this entrance following of the said day be there thus Recorded viz. Die Mercurij 25. die Januarij proceres tain Spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur presentes fuerunt But before this Title there is nothing specified touching the presence of her Majesty or of any of the Lords for the Letters which should be set at the beginning of the names of such Peers as this day attended her Majesty in the Upper House are not at all prefixed to any of them which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House Yet most certain it is that her Majesty Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper the Duke of Norfolk and divers other Peers were present but the direct manner of the ranking of them in respect of the negligent omission of setting the Pr. as aforesaid at the beginning of every Lords name that was present could not be orderly and and directly entred in his place although this was the first day of this first Parliament of her Majesty nor on Saturday the 28th day of this instant January being the second day of the same because by like negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House there is no presence of any Lords there set down in the Original Journal Book of the same House nor any mention of the Speakers presentment by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons and therefore of necessity it could not be supplied until the third day of this foresaid first Parliament of her Majesty being Monday the 30th day of this instant January on which day the names of all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being entred the Letters Pr. are prefixed before the name of the Lord Keeper and of such Peers as were then present as see at large on the said Monday next ensuing and therefore that President there so expresly Transcribed may serve as a Pattern for all the residue that follow in all the Journals of the Upper House during her Majesties Reign in which there are no other names inserted but of such Lords as were marked to be present unless it be upon Thursday the 21th day of March following in the afternoon in this present Journal and on Fryday the 15th day of January in the Session of Parliament A. 5. of her Majesty in the Journal of the Upper House And although the names of her Majesty and the Lords that attended could not be exactly set down yet it will not be impertinent in the next place to insert the manner of their sitting in the said House which being not at all mentioned in the aforesaid Original Journal Book of the same A. 1. Reg. Eliz. I have therefore partly supplied it according to 3 other Presidents in these ensuing Journals on which the first was on Thursday the 12th of Jan. in the Session of Parliament A. 5. Reg. Eliz. the second on Wednesday the 2d day of Octob. pomerid ' in the second and last Session of that Parliament being held in A. 8. Reg. 〈◊〉 and the third on Monday the 2d day of Apr. in the Parliament A. 13. Regin praedict ' all which do follow in the several Journals of the Upper House Annis praesatis and it is partly supplied also out the Printed Statute A. 31. H. 8. C. 10. and partly out of that elaborate written Treatise intituled Modus tenendi Parliament ' apud Anglos first confusedly gathered by Wil. Bowyer Esq as I conceive and now lately digested into a Methodical Treatise and enlarged by H. Essing Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House viz. in A. 1630. L. 1. C. 3. de loco modo sedendi Sect. 3. of the manner of sitting in Parliament at this day Her Majesty sate in the Chair of Estate and when she stood up her Mantle was assisted and born up from her Arms by two Noblemen or others of Eminent Rank thereunto appointed The Two Seats on the right and left-hand of the Chair of Estate were void in respect that the first was Anciently for the King of Scots when he used to come to our Parliaments and the other on the left hand is for the Prince the immediate Heir of the Crown On the Form on the right side of the Chair of Estate which stands on the North-side of the Upper House sate the Spiritual Lords the Archbishop of York beginning the Form and the Abbot of Westminster ending it Who was the last Abbot that ever sate in the said House in England since this first Parliament of her Majesty But at this day the two Archbishops sit upon one Form by themselves and then the other Bishops in order upon two Forms on the right hand of the State the Bishop of London sits first the Bishop of Durham second and the Bishop of Winchester hath the third place and then all other Bishops according to the Antiquity of their Consecrations On the left side of the Chair of Estate which is on the South-side of the Upper House upon the foremost Form sate all the Temporal Lords above the degree of Barons The Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England beginning that Form and the Viscount Bindon ending it The Barons sate on the second Form on the left hand of the State and it should seem at this Parliament as it fell out also in the next Sessions following in A. 5. Regin Eliz. on Tuesday the 12th day of January that one Form held them all so as the Lord Clinton Lord Admiral of England began the said Form by reason of his Office and the Lord St. John of Bletsoe ended it But at this day the number of Peers being much encreased divers of the Barons do sit upon other Forms Places Cross-ways at the lower end of the House Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper because he was under the degree of a Baron as also her Majesties chief Secretary being but a Knight were to have been placed at the uppermost part of the sack in the midst of the said House upon one Form by the fore recited Statute A. 3. H. 8. Cap. 10. But at this present Parliament as also at this day during her Majesties being present the Lord Keeper stood behind the Cloth of Estate on the right-hand and when her Majesty was absent then his Lordship sate on the first Woolsack which is placed athwart the House the Seal and Mace by him On the Woolsack on the North-side of the House and of the right-hand of the Estate sate the two Chief Justices and divers other Judges On the Woolsack on the left-hand of the Estate and on the South-side of the House sate the Master of the Rolls the Lord Chief Baron the Queen 's Learned Council and others And note That all these may properly besaid to sit on the Inner-side of
Queens Mantle born over her Arms by the Lord Admiral and Lord of Hunsdon her Train born by the Dutchess of Norfolk assisted by the Lord Chamberlain and M r Astley Master of the Jewel-House and so her Majesty being placed the Duke of Norfolk the Lord Admiral and the Lord Hunsdon took their places and from time to time as her Majesty stood up her Mantle over her Arms was assisted up with the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and Sir Francis Knowles Vice-Chamberlain Then all being placed M r Williams the Speaker was brought in between Sir Edward Rogers Comptroller and Sir Ambrose Cave Chancellor of the Dutchy and after one obeysance made proceeded down to the Wall and from thence came up to the Rail in the way making three Obeysances and after he was up at the Rail he made three Obeysances and then began his Oration as followeth THis it is most Excellent and Vertuous Princess c. As nature giveth to every reasonable Creature to speak so it is a grace to be well learned and I presenting the Mouth of such a Body as cannot speak for it self and in the presence of your Majesties Person and Nobles must most humbly desire and crave of your Highness to bear with my imperfections This Common-Wealth hath been by Gods Providence first instituted and since by Mans Policy continued wherein Justice and good Counsel is most to be preferred for Antient Law-makers and Authors of good Laws be worthy to be praised and had in perpetual remembrance and such are the Laws that we have made in this Common-Wealth as in mine Opinion do excel and pass all other humane Laws Amongst divers Authors of good Laws we have set forth unto us to the end they should not be forgotten three Queens the first Palestina the Queen Reigning before the Deluge who made Laws as well concerning Peace as War The second was Ceres the Queen which made Laws concerning evil doers And the third was Marc. Wife of Bathilacus Mother to Stillicus the King who enacted Laws for the maintenance and preservation of the good and well-doers And since that time Etheldred a King in this Realm Established Laws and set in most beaten high and cross ways a Cross and therein a Hand with a Ring of Gold pointing to the most usual way which also stood untaken away or diminished during his Life And so you are the fourth Queen Establisher of good Laws our most dread Soveraign Lady for your time as happy as any of the three which happiness for the present I let slip and desire as all our hearts do that some happy Marriage to your contentation might shortly be brought to pass your Majesty findings this Realm out of Order and full of Abuses have continually had a special care to reform the said Abuses and for the more expelling thereof have Congregated together this Assembly whereby partly to your Contentation for Reformation of the same to its old pristine Estate and for Money and Peace is all that chiefly we have done for which purposes we have agreed upon and made certain Laws which until your Majesty have granted your Royal Assent and so given Life thereunto cannot be called Laws And herein requiring of your Majesty three Petitions two for the Commons and one for my self the first for such Laws as they have made being as yet without Life and so no Laws that it would please your Majesty to grant your Royal Assent unto them Secondly that your Highness would accept their doings in good part that the imperfections of their Labours by your acceptance may be supplied for as appeareth in sundry Histories the persons of those Princes and Subjects have long continued which have well used themselves one toward th' other which without neglecting of my duty I cannot in your presence so let slip for as it appeareth in divers Histories the Noble Alexander having presented unto him by one of his poor Souldiers the Head of one of his Enemies he not forgetting the Service of his Souldier although herein he had done but his Duty gave unto him a Cup of Gold which first the Souldier refused but after that Alexander had Commanded it to be filled with Wine and delivered him he received it whereby appeareth the Noble and Liberal Heart of the said Alexander Also Xenophon writing of the Life of Cyrus who being liberal of Gifts having vanquished Craesus and he marvelled at his liberality said it were better to keep it by him than so liberally to depart from it unto whom Cyrus answered That his Treasure was innumerable and appointed Craesus a day to see the same and thereupon took Order that his Subjects should before that time bring in their Treasure which being innumerable and more than Cyrus by any other means could have given Craesus much wondred thereat Cyrus said thou causest me to take of my Subjects and retain the same but what need I to take when they so frankly will bring it unto me and so as occasion serveth ready continually to supply my want therefore how can I be but rich having such Subjects but if they by my means or any other were poor then were I poor also Which two worthy Examples of Alexander and Cyrus your Majesty hath not forgotten to ensue but with the like zeal have hitherto always used us and now especially at this present by your most gracious and free Pardon for the which and all other they by me their Mouth do most humbly thank you knowledging such and so much love and zeal of their parts towards your Majesty as ever any Subjects did bear towards their Prince and Governour And in token thereof with one Assent do offer to your Highness one Subsidy and two Fifteens most humbly beseeching your Majesty to accept it not in recompence of your benefits but as a Token of their Duty as the poor Widdows Farthing was accepted as appeareth in the Scripture Thirdly That it may also like your Majesty to accept my humble thanks in allowing and admitting me being unworthy of this place and bearing with my unworthy service and last of all my unfitting words uplandish and rude Speech beseeching God to incline your Majesties Heart to Marriage and that he will so bless and send such good success thereunto that we may see the Fruits and Children that may come thereof so that you and they may prosperously and as long time Reign over us as ever did any Kings or Princes which God for his Mercies sake grant unto us And so he ended making his Obeysance Then the Queen called the Lord Keeper unto her Commanding him in her Name to Answer him as she then declared unto him which followeth M r Speaker The Queens Majesty hath heard how humbly and discreetly you have declared the Proceedings and for Answer hath Commanded me that I should utter three or four things the first for her Royal Assent to the Acts made at this Parliament Secondly How comfortably and also thankfully her Majesty
same so that the referring of a Bill to Committees is scarce discoverable in respect that the name only of one of them is for the most part mentioned yet the manner of the Burgesses taking the Oath of Supremacy which was never in use before this Session of Parliament it having been enjoined by Statute in the first year of her Majesties Reign together with the manner of the Election and Presentment of the Speaker is very Methodically and Orderly entered And lastly whereas there is mention made in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons aforesaid that the Speaker with the whole House did exhibit their Petition to the Queens Majesty on Thursday 23. day of January in the Afternoon touching her Marriage and the Limitation of the Succession of the Crown which said Petition is there omitted I have therefore caused it to be inserted at large out of a Copy thereof I had by me which I gather by all concurring circumstances to be the very same which is only generally remembred in the said Original Journal-Books as aforesaid The second Parliament of the most Noble Princess Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England c. begun at Westminster on Monday the 11. day of January in the fifth Year of her Gracious Reign By her Highness Commission directed to the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Steward the Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk c. to Prorogue the same Parliament until the 12. day of the same Month viz. the Morrow following And the Knights and Burgesses being sent for to come unto the Lords in the Upper House without any appearance of their names taken then by the Lord Steward and Lord Treasurer the Lord Keeper shewed in few words that the Queens Majesty was somewhat sick of a Stitch wherefore she had sent her Writ for the Prorogation until the Morrow which was done accordingly And on the Morrow being the 12. day of January about ten of the Clock the Queens Majesty with the Lords and Bishops in Parliament Robes did ride from the Palace to Westminster-Church and there heard a Sermon during which the Earl of Arundel being Lord Steward repaired unto Whitehall and there Recorded the Appearance of the Knights and Burgesses at which time also as may very well be collected by comparing this instant days passages with those of Thursday the third day of October in the Journal of the House of Commons de an 8 9 Regin Eliz. following the said Lord Steward did doubtless either in his own person or by his Deputies administer the Oath of Supremacy according to the Statute de an 1 Eliz. Cap. 1. to such Knights Citizens and Burgesses as were at this time present and appeared And after the Queen coming from the Church and being set in her Royal Seat in the Upper House and the Commons standing at the lower end of the Chamber The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal with great Eloquence declared this Parliament to be called for Religion Discipline and Aid to the State in defence of Enemies with Excellent Dilation of those Causes And in the end willed the Commons to repair to their House and there to chuse a discreet grave and wise man to be their Speaker and to present him to the Queens Majesty on Friday next in the Afternoon immediately the Commons resorted to their Common House where after they were set M r Comptroller standing up rehearsed the Lord Keepers Oration for the Election of a Speaker and said that in his Opinion M r Thomas Williams Esq one of the Fellows of the Inner-Temple being grave learned and wise was very meet to that Office whereupon the whole House with one intire Voice cried M r Williams M r Williams And then M r Williams standing up and reverently disabling himself required the House to proceed to a new Election unto whom M r Secretary Cecill Answering that the House had gravely considered of him and therefore required him to take the place and he approaching was led and set in the Chair by M r Comptroller and it was agreed by the House to meet all there again on Friday next at one of the Clock in the Afternoon to present M r Speaker to the Queens Majesty On Friday the 15 th of January in the Afternoon M r Speaker with the rest of the House of Commons went before the Queen in her Royal Seat where M r Speaker most humbly disabled himself requiring that a new Election might be made to the which the Queens Majesty confirming the same Election by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper M r Speaker made an Excellent Oration and in the end made the accustomed Petitions which being granted the Lord Keeper willed him with the rest to resort to the House of Commons there to deliberate upon matters necessary which being done The Bill for increase of Woods in Champain Grounds and saving of Bark of Timber to be felled was read the first time On Saturday the 16. day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one was touching Servants to serve their Masters And the other to put down an Iron-Mill near Guilford and were each of them read the first time A motion was this day made by a Burgess at length for the Succession of the Crown of which see more on Thursday the 28 th day of this Instant January ensuing January the 17 th day Sunday On Monday the 18 th day of January Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one and the first reading of which the second was the Bill for the assurance of the Mannors of Whiteacre and Whiteacre Burgh to Richard Bertie and Katherine Duchess of Suffolk his Wife from Walter Herenden being a Feoffee in Trust. Certain Arguments were this day had in the House by divers wise Personages for motion to be made for the Queens Marriage and Succession of the Crown On Tuesday the 19 th day of January the Bill for allowance to Sheriffs upon their Accompts for Justices Diets was read the first time M r Speaker with the Counsel and twenty four more of the House were appointed to meet this Afternoon to draw Articles of Petition for the Queens Marriage and Succession Vide Concerning this business on Thursday the 28. day of this Instant January following M r Comptroller is nominated one of them For that it seemed to the House being very full that they were a greater number than were returned therefore the names were immediately called and as they were called they departed out of the House and in the end ten or eleven remained who said they were returned and would bring Warrants thereof On Wednesday the 20. day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for allowance to Sheriffs upon their Accompts for Justices Diets was read the second time and as it should seem Committed to M r Sackvill and others see a like
Constituted the sole and joint Proxy of eight several Temporal Lords who with six others as is aforesaid were absent this Session of Parliament from which as also from other Presidents of former and later times it may easily be gathered that any Member of the Upper House by the antient usage and custom of the same is capable of as many Proxies as shall be directed unto him although there was an Order made in the said House to the contrary A. D. 1626. That no Lord or Member whatsoever of the Upper House should for the time to come be capable of above two Proxies at the most which said Order was occasioned in respect that George Duke of Buckingham Favorite of the King Deceased and of King Charles being guilty of many Crimes did to strengthen himself by Voices not only procure divers persons to be made Members of that House but also engrossed to himself near upon twenty several Proxies Vide one other Extraordinary Proxy on Saturday the 9 th day of November and another on Sunday December the first following This Forenoon also these twenty Lords under written were appointed to repair in the Afternoon to the Queens Majesty viz. The Archbishop of York The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Westmoreland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Huntingdon The Earl of Warwick Viscount Bindon Viscount Mountague The Bishop of London The Bishop of Durham The Bishop of Winchester The Lord Cobham The Lord Rich. The Lord Wentworth The Lord Pagett The Lord Sheffeild The Lord Hastings of Loughborough The Lord Hunsdon The business about which these Lords repaired to the Queen is not in the Original Journal-Book it self of the Upper House but it may be guested it was concerning those two great businesses of the Queens Marriage and the Declaration of the next Heir and Successor after the Queens Decease to the Crown which business bred so much distast afterwards between her Majesty and her Subjects in this Session so that as afterwards the Lords did Petition the Queen about it so now it should seem these Lords repaired unto her either to desire leave to prefer that Petition and that they might confer with the House of Commons about it or else to know of her Majesty a fitting time when they might repair unto her with their said Petition and so receive Answer unto it But what the Queen replied at this time is hard to be conjectured only it followeth at large that on Tuesday the 5 th day of November the Members of both Houses for that end appointed repaired to her Majesty in the Afternoon but whether they then offered up their Petitions unto her Majesty or whether the House of Commons did at this Session of Parliament prefer any Petition at all concerning those two great matters aforesaid is hard to be determined No mention is made in the Original Journal-Book of continuing the Parliament which seemeth to have happened by the Clerks negligence On Wednesday the 23 th day of October the Bill to repeal a branch of a Statute made Anno 23 Hen. 8. touching the prices of Barrels and Kilderkins was read primâ vice An Act declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of the Archbishops and Bishops of the Realm to be good lawful and perfect was brought from the House of Commons Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox On Thursday the 24 th day of October the Archbishop of York the Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal did Assemble in the Parliament-Chamber where nothing was done but only the continuance of the Parliament until Friday next at ten of the Clock On Friday the 25 th day of October the Lord Treasurer signified to all the Lords that the Queens Highness considering the decay of his Memory and Hearing being Griefs accompanying Hoary Hairs and Old Age and understanding the Lord Keepers slow amendment intended to supply both their said defects by Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Kings Bench and shewed forth her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal of England which the Clerk by Commandment openly read in haec verba ELizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Trusty and well Beloved Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Pleas to be holden before us Greeting Where our right trusty and well-beloved Councellor Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England is at this present sore visited with sickness that he is not able to travel to the Upper House of this our present Parliament holden at Westminster nor there to supply the room and place in the said Upper House amongst the Lords Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled as to the Office of the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England hath been accustomed We minding the same place and room to be supplied in all things as appertaineth have named and appointed you from day to day and time to time hereafter during our pleasure to use and occupy the place and room of the said Lord Keeper in our said Upper House of Parliament amongst the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal there Assembled and there to do and execute in all things from day to day and time to time as the said Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England should and might do if he were there present using and supplying the same place Wherefore we will and Command you the said Sir Robert Catlin to attend unto and about the Executing of the premisses with effect And these our Letters Patents shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge for the same in every behalf In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our Self at Westminster the 25 th day of October in the Eighth Year of Our Reign Martin The Bill to repeal a branch of a Statute made in the 23 th Year of Henry 8. touching prices of Barrels and Kilderkins was read tertiâ vice and by common consent of all the Lords concluded Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati proximum On Saturday the 26 th day of October the Bill declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of the Archbishops and Bishops of this Realm to be good lawful and perfect was read primâ vice Memorandum The Lords after deliberate Consultation and advice taken how to proceed in the great matters of Succession and Marriage before moved by the House of Commons did this present day send Serjeant Carus and M r Attorney down unto them to signifie that they would a chosen number should be sent up unto them for their knowledge to be had of the same Vide concerning this business on Wednesday the 30 th day of October now next ensuing as also on Tuesday the 5 th day of November following Dominus
Seigneurs sont assentus and so the Bill was delivered to Mr. Attorny and Mr. Vaughan as aforesaid to be carried to the House of Commons together with the Bill whereby the Queen's Majesty is made inheritable to the late Queen Ann her Highnesse's Mother But if the Lords had added any new Proviso to the foresaid Subsidy-Bill that ought to have been sent down to the House of Commons written in Parchment ut vid. March 23. Thursday postea On Munday the 20th day of February The Bill of the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage which by common consent was concluded upon the third reading was delivered to Mr. Solicitor and Mr. Martin Clerk of the Crown to be carried to the House of Commons with certain Amendments to be put thereunto On Tuesday the 21th day of February two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Subsidy and the second to restore the Queen in blood to the late Queen Ann her Highnesse's Mother were each of them return'd exped ' The Bill also for the restitution of the First-fruits and Tenths and Rents reserved Nomine Decimae and of Parsonages impropriate to the Imperial Crown of this Realm was returned from the House of Commons with five Provisoes added thereunto by the said Commons and certain Amendments to be reformed therein which said Provisoes were written in Parchment and the Amendments in Paper Whereas J. Broxham brought an Assize against the Lord Willoughby of Parham to be Tryed at the Assizes and Sessions now next to be holden at Lincoln at the Complaint and Petition of the said Lord Willoughby in respect of his necessary attendance at the Parliament whereby he cannot attend with his Learned Council at the Assizes the rather for that some of his Council are also Burgesses and attend the Parliament it is Ordered and Decreed by the Lords that an Injunction presently be awarded out of the Chancery to the said John Broxham his Counsellors and Solicitors commanding them and every of them upon pain of 500 l. that none of them in any wise proceed in and to the Tryal of the said Assize at this Assizes now next to be holden at Lincoln On Wednesday the 22th day of Feb. the Bill for the Restitution in blood of Sir James Crofte was read prima vice On Fryday the 24th day of February the Bill for the restitution in Blood of Sir Henry Gate was read three times and the like Bill for Sir James Crofte was read Secunda tertia vice and both sent down to the House of Commons by Mr. Solicitor and the Clerk of the Crown The manner whereof vide on Saturday the 4th of this instant Feb. foregoing On Saturday the 25th day of February the Bill for the Restitution in blood of the Lord John Gray was twice read and after that the Bill against Conveyance of Horses into Scotland was read the first time the said Bill for the Lord Gray was read the third time and Passed and sent to the House of Commons by Mr. Attorny and Mr. Solicitor which was done in honour of him On Munday the 27th of February the Bill whereby certain Offences be made Treason with a Request that a Proviso therein contained be put out and another devised by the House of Commons to be put in the stead thereof The Bill for the restoring the Supremacy to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and Repealing divers Acts of Parliament made to the contrary and the Bill for the restitution of the Lord Cardinal Pool were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons the manner of which see on Saturday the 11th day of this Instant Feb. foregoing And the said Bill touching Cardinal Pool was read prima vice and committed to the Chief Justice and the Queen's Attorney vid. March 3. postea The Bill lastly against Conveyance of Horses into Scotland was read Secunda vice Commissa ad ingrossandum On Tuesday the 28th day of February the Bill for the restoring of the Supremacy to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and the Bill for the explanation of the attainder of the Lord Cardinal Pool were each of them read secunda vice but there is no mention made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons on the day immediately foregoing On the first day of March the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords met but nothing was done save only the Parliament continued the entrance whereof is thus erroneously set down in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House through the Clerks negligence viz. Dominus Cancellarius mistaken for Custos magni Sigilli continuavit presens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Thursday the second day of March the Bill of Recognition of the Queen's Highnesse's Title to the Imperial Crown of this Realm the Bill of Subsidy for Tonnage and Poundage the Bill touching Tanners and Sellers of Tann'd Leather and the Bill touching Shoemakers and Curriers were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons The Bill lastly touching the Duke of Norfolk and the Bill for the restitution of Robert Rudston were each of them read the first time On Fryday the third day of March the Bill for Treasons which had been Read the second time on Fryday the 10th day and the third time on Saturday the 11th day of February foregoing and then sent down to the House of Commons although it be there omitted as matter of no great moment and from them sent back again to their Lordships on Munday the 27th day of the same Month with a request that a Proviso therein contained might be put out and another by them inserted was Committed to the Earl of Sussex the Bishop of Chichester the Bishop of Carlile the Lord Rich and the Lord Hastings of Loughborrough to confer therein with certain of the House of Commons touching a Proviso to be put into the same by which the Lords did express their great desire to keep Correspondency with the House of Commons who had commended the inserting of the above-mentioned Proviso unto them Nota also that whereas the Judges are in most of the Journals of her Majesties Reign although they be but Attendants of the Upper House named joynt Committees with the Lords in ordinary Bills or else are named as Attendants upon them in matters of greatConsequence yet in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House A. isto primo Regin Eliz. there is no mention made of them as joynt Committees or as Attendants upon their said Lordships save only that on Munday the 27th day of February foregoing a Bill upon the first reading is said to have been Committed to the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench and the Queen's Attorny which may rather be called a Reference than a Commitment as see on Saturday the 4th day of February preceding and therefore that they are not
The Bill to revive a Fair at Lynn Regis in Norfolk which three last mentioned Bills were each of them read prima voce The Bill to make a Chappel in Caermarthenshire to be a Parish Church The Bill to restore in Blood the Sons and Daughters of Ed. Lewkenor Esq The Bill touching the Marriage of the Duke of Norfolk The Bill for making Ecclesiastical Laws by 32. persons The Bill for the Assizes and Sessions to be kept at Stafford And the Bill for the allowance of Sheriffs upon their Accounts On Tuesday the 21 th day of March A Proviso and certain amendments annexe I by the Commons to the Duke of Norfolks Bill were read Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the sirst being the Bill to revive a Fair at Lynn Regis 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 sent from the Commons Yesterday Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords being set the Bill for ratification of the marriage between the Duke of Norfolk and the Lady Margaret now his Wise and for the assurance of certain Lands for her Jointure with a new Proviso added by the Commons conclusa est being read tertia vice dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Eboracen Episcopis Londin Winton Landaven Cestren Carleol Abbate de Westm. The Bill for restitution in blood of the Sons and Daughters of Ed. Lewkenor Esq was read prima secunda tertia vice conclus ☞ Quod nota That this Bill was read thrice at one time The Bill for the making of a Chappel in Caermarthenshire to be a Parish Church The Bill that the Queens Highness may make Ordinances and Rules in Collegiate Churches Corporations and Schools The Bill for Assizes and Sessions to be kept in the Town of Stafford And the Bill for the assurance of Lands parcel of the Bishoprick of Winchester to divers Patentees of King Edm. the Sixth 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 sent from the House of Commons on the two days foregoing Vide consimilit on Wednesday the 15 th day of February foregoing On Wednesday the 22 th day of March six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading and the Bill for the Assurance of Lands late parcel of the Bishoprick of Winchester to divers Patentees of King Ed. VI. being the 6 th was read tertia vice conclusa dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Eboracen Marchion Winton Episcopis Londin Winton Wigorn. Landaven Coven Exon. Cestren Carleol Dominis Stafford Dadley North Abbate de Westm. The Bill for restitution of the sirst-Fruits and Tenths and Rents reserved Nomine Decimae and of Parsonages Impropriate to the Imperial Crown of this Realm was returned from the House of Commons conclus The Bill for restoring the Supremacy to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and for repeal of divers Acts of Parliament made to the contrary with a new Proviso annexed by the Commons was read prima secunda tertia vice conclusa dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Eboracen Episcopis Londin Winton Landaven Coven Exon. Cestren Carleol Abbate de Westmonast Here also we may note the perverse obstinacy of these Popish Clergy-men who having before opposed in vain the passing of the Bill on Saturday the 18 th day of this Instant March foregoing do here likewise do their uttermost to stop even the Proviso which was added unto it by the House of Commons And yet how just and equal this Bill was see my Animadversion upon the said 18 th day of March when the said Bill passed The Bill to continue the Act last made against Rebellious Assemblies was committed to the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Bedford the Lord Rich and the Lord North. The Bill lastly for Admitting and Consecrating of Archbishops and Bishops and concerning Tanners and selling of Tann'd Leather were each of them read prima vice Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the reviving of a Statute made an 23 Hen. 8. touching the conveying of Horses Geldings and Mares into Scotland The second that carrying of Leather Tallow or Raw Hides out of the Realm for Merchandize should be Felony was read prima secunda vice The third touching Leases to be made by spiritual persons was read prima vice And the last for revoking divers Licenses granted for divers things prohibited by the Law of the Realm The Bill for Admitting and Consecrating of Archbishops was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because it had been sent from the House of Commons The Bill lastly for the Assizes to be holden in the Town of Stafford was delivered to the Queen's Attorney and Sollicitor to be carried into the House of Commons On Thursday the Bill for the Assizes to be holden in the Town of Stafford was returned from the House of Commons concluja The Bill touching Tanners and selling of Tann'd Leather was read tertia vice conclusa with certain amendments to be put to it after which it was deliverd to the Queen's Attorney and Sollicitor in Domum Communem deferenda Et postea introduct à Domo Communi conclus The Bill for the Admitting and Consecrating of Archbishops and Bishops was read tertia vice conclus And the Bill that carrying Leather Tallow or Raw Hides out of the Realm shall be Felony was read tertia vice conclus dissentiente Domino Lumley The Bill touching Leases to be made by Spiritual persons was read secunda vice The Bill lastly for the Explanation of the Statute against the Ingrossing of dead Victuals with a Proviso added thereunto by the Lords was read tertia vice conclusa and sent by the Queen's Attorney and Sollicitor to the House of Commons In which Bills sending down because both the manner of writing the said Proviso and the subscription of the Lords under it do differ from all ordinary proceedings if the Bill had passed the Upper House without a Proviso therefore I have caused the whole manner and form thereof to be added to a like president in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons an 39 40 Regin Eliz. Decemb. the 20 th Tuesday although there be no mention thereof made in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House on this aforesaid present Thursday the 23 th day of March but because it is difficult to conjecture the express manner of the Lord's Proceedings at this time therefore I can only apply the imitation of that president to this present occasion by probability The Lords having added a Proviso
Majesties coming to the Upper House The manner of calling the Names of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in former times did much differ from that which is used at this day as appears by the Parliament Rolls in the Tower for in an 7 R. 2. the Knights and Burgesses were called by name in presence of the King which shews they staid without till then And in an 2 H. 4. an 4 H. 4. they were called by name in the Chancery at Westminster-Hall before the Chancellor and the Steward of the Kings House And in an 13 H. 4. the said Knights and Burgesses were called at the Door of the Painted Chamber in presence of the Steward of the Kings House as the manner is Only one President differs from all the latter which is found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House de Anno 33 H. 8. where the Duke of Suffolk Lord Steward commanded the Clerk of the Parliament to read the Names of the Commons unto which every one answered they being all in the Upper House below the Bar and then the King came But at this day they are called by their names by the Clerk of the Crown in presence of the Lord Steward in the Court of Requests and now since the first Year of Queen Eliz. and from the fifth the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons as hath been before observed do take the Oath of Supremacy and since the seventh of King James they take the Oath of Allegiance also which the Lord Steward administers to some and appoints certain of them his Deputies to give the same unto the rest 7 Jac. cap. 6. These passages touching the Antient and Modern calling of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being not at all touched in the Original Journal-Book of the same House but supplied from other Authority now follows the residue of this days passages out of the foresaid Journal-Book with some Additions Upon the already named 25 th day of January her Majesty came to the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House and being there set and attended by Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal in their Parliament Robes the House of Commons had notice thereof and repaired thither And being as many as conveniently could let in and silence made the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal after an Excellent Oration by him made containing the urgent causes for the Calling of this Parliament declared the Queens pleasure to be that the Commons should repair to their accustomed place and there to chuse their Speaker Whereupon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses departing to their own House did there take their several places and most remaining silent or speaking very submissively M r Treasurer of the Queens House standing up uncovered did first put the House in remembrance of the Lord Keepers late Speech and of his Declaration of her Majesties pleasure that they should chuse a Speaker and therefore in humble Obedience to her Majesties said pleasure seeing others remain silent he thought it his Duty to take that occasion to commend to their Choice Sir Thomas Gargrave Knight one of the Honourable Council in the North Parts a worthy Member of the House and Learned in the Laws of this Realm By which Commendations of his of the aforesaid worthy Member of the House to their Consideration he said he did not intend to debar any other there present from uttering their free opinions and nominating any other whom they thought to be more fitting and therefore desired them to make known their opinions who thereupon did with one consent and voice allow and approve of M r Treasurers nomination and Elected the said Sir Thomas Gargrave to be the Prolocutor or Speaker of the said House The said Sir Thomas Gargrave being thus Elected Speaker after a good pause made stood up uncovered and having in all humility disabled himself as being unfurnisht with that Experience and other qualities which were required for the undertaking and undergoing of so great a Charge did conclude with an humble Request to the House to proceed to the New Election of some other more able and worthy Member amongst them But the House still calling upon him to take his place of M r Speaker the before-mentioned M r Treasurer and M r Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold as may very well be gathered did rise from their places and going unto the said Sir Thomas Gargrave unto the place where he sate did each of them take him one by the right Arm and the other by the left and led him to the Chair at the upper end of the House of Commons and there placed him where having sate a while covered he arose and so standing bare-headed he returned his humble Thanks unto the whole House for their good opinion of him promising his best and uttermost endeavour for the faithful discharge of that weighty place to which they had Elected him And soon after M r Treasurer and M r Comptroller repaired to the Queen to know her Highnesses pleasure when M r Speaker should be presented to her Majesty for Confirmation of this Election and soon after they returned shewing her pleasure was that to be done on Saturday next at one of the Clock in the Afternoon Here it shall not be amiss to add somewhat touching the Election of the Speaker which because I find it ready penn'd to my hand in that elaborate MS. Intituled Modus tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos Written by my kind Friend Henry Elsinge Esq Clerk of the Upper House this present Year 1630. Libr. 1. cap. 7. § 1. 2. Therefore I shall without any great alteration here add it in the next place and first touching the Antiquity of the Speaker it is most likely that he began to be when the House of Commons first sate For it may clearly be gathered ex Lib. Sancti Albani fol. 207. in Bibliotheca Cottoniana that in the Parliament de an 44 H. 3. The House of Commons had then a Speaker For there Pope Alexander labouring to have Adomar the Elect Bishop of Winchester recalled from banishment the Answer of the Parliament was as followeth viz. Si Dominus Rex Regni majores hoc vellent communitas tamen ipsius ingressum in Angliam jam nullatenus sustineret Which is Signed and Sealed by all the Lords and by Petrus de Mountefortivice communitatis which shews plainly that he was thire Speaker for the very same words did Sir John Tiptofte their Speaker Sign and Seal to the Entaile of the Crown Parl. an 7 8 H. 4. But it is true that the first Speaker who is directly named in Record was in the Parliament Rolls in the Tower de an 51 E. 3. N. 87. The last day of the Parliament saith the Records Sir Thomas Hungerford Knight Speaker declared to the Lords that he had moved the King to Pardon all such as were unjustly Convicted in the Last Parliament And that
25 th day of February last past as also on Saturday the 18 th day Monday the 20 th day on Tuesday the 21 th day and on Wednesday the 22 th day of March preceeding Et vide etiam a Note touching this business in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House on Saturday the 29 th day of April foregoing The Bill for Garbling of Feathers Forsings and Flocks was read the third time and passed the House And lastly the Bill that the Queen by Commission may restore spiritual persons deprived was read the first time On Friday the 28 th day of April the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Lord Dacres of the South was read the second time Henry Clifford Gent. Burgess for Bedwyn was Licensed for his Affairs to be absent The Provisoes in the Bill for Suppression of Abbies Priories c. was read the first and second time On Saturday the 29. day of April the Bill for Watermen on the Thames to have Harque-buts c. was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Uniting of Abbies Priories Nunneries Hospitals and Chauntries founded since the Reign of Queen Mary to be annexed to the Crown was read the third time and passed the House upon the Question and was sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain The Bill lastly to restore such persons to their Benefices as were unlawfully deprived was read the second time and was thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed April the 30. Sunday On Munday the first day of May the Bill for the Restitution of the Brothers and Sister of the Duke of Norfolks The Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Lord Dacres of the South The Bill that Timber Trees in divers places shall not be felled for Cole to make Iron And the Bill that the Inhabitants of Dorking Coxall and Dedham Westbarford c. may make Woollen Cloths there were each of them read the third time and passed the House The Bill lastly that Watermen of the Thames shall have and shoot in Harque-buts c. was read and upon the Question and Division of the House dashed by the difference of ten Voices viz. with the Bill fifty two and against the Bill sixty two On Tuesday the second day of May the Bill that the Queen by Commission may restore such spiritual persons as have been unlawfully deprived was read the third time and passed the House and was sent up to the Lords by M r Sadler and others with the four other Bills which last passed The Bill lastly for the continuance of divers Acts was brought from the Lords On Wednesday the third day of May three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for carriage of Corn over Sea when Wheat is 10 s Barley 3 s 8 d Beans and Rye at 6 s and Oats at 3 s 4 d the Quarter was read the third time and passed the House On Friday the 5 th day of May the Bill for continuance of certain Acts was read the third time and passed the House and was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary On Saturday the 6 th day of May the Bill touching Abbies c. was brought from the Lords to be reformed with three Provisoes of their Lordships And the Bill for preservation of Fry of Fish was likewise brought down from the Lords to be amended May the 7 th Sunday On Monday the 8 th of May the Provisoes in the Bill for preservation of the Fry and Spawn of Fish were read the second and third time and passed the House In the Afternoon the Queens Majesty sitting in her Royal Seat the Lords and Commons attending M r Speaker made a Learned Oration Exhibiting the Bill for the Subsidy and the Bill of Tonnage and Poundage and required the Queens Assent might be given to such Bills as had passed both the Houses which Oration being praised and Answered by the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Royal Assent was given to forty two Acts and by the Queens Pleasure this Parliament was Dissolved § Henry the VI. 6 Martii An. 31. called a Parliament at Reading 8 Martii Thorpe was Chosen Speaker from thence the Parliament was Adjourned to Westminster till 25. Apr. where it continued till 2. July and then Prorogued till 12. Nov. to Reading again Adjourned till 12. February after till 14. at Westm. During these Adjournments and Prorogations Richard Duke of York having got the Ascendant of the King prepared Habiliments of War at the Palace of the Bishop of Durham Thorpe being Speaker by Command of the King took the Arms whereupon in Michaelmas Term the Duke brought his Action of Trespass in the Exchequer against Thorpe and upon Tryal that Term recovered a thousand pound Damages and ten pound for Costs of Suit and thereupon Thorpe was Committed to the Prison of the Fleet in Execution After all this the Parliament met 14. Feb. and the Duke of York having got a Commission to hold and dissolve the Parliament laboured to keep Thorpe in Prison whom he mortally hated as being faithful to King Henry and having gained his point in the Lords House afterwards the Commons gave up their Speaker which was no sooner done and another Chosen but the Duke by the Assent of the Lords and Commons and after Confirmed by Commission from the King was made Protector of the Realm Thorpe having paid the Debt fled to the Kings Party and after was taken at Nottingham Field from thence sent to Newgate then to the Marshalsey and at last Beheaded at Haryingay Park in Middlesex THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Session of Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 5 Regin Eliz. An. D. 1562. which began there after one Prorogation of the same on Tuesday the 12 th of January and then and there continued until the Prorogation thereof upon Saturday the 10 th day of April An. D. 1563. THIS Session in An. 5 Regin Eliz. making but one and the same Parliament with that Session next ensuing in an 8 Reginae ejusdem is replenished with some extraordinary matter besides the accustomed and usual passages of reading committing and expediting of Bills For not only the pompous and solemn manner of her Majestics repairing to the Lords House is set down but the several Speeches also of that Eloquent Orator and wise Statist Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper are supplied at large together with such Interlocutory Speeches as passed in the House of Peers from Thomas Williams Esq the Speaker or Prolocutor of the House of Commons which said several Speeches being not found in the Original Journal-Book of either House are therefore supplied out of several written Copies or Anonymous Memorials of them I had by me especially the latter passages and Speeches both when the Speaker was presented on Friday the 15 th day of January and when this Session of Parliament
Divine Service may be translated into the Welch Tongue was read the third time and passed the House The Bill touching Worsted Woolls and the Bill against Servants imbezelling their Masters Goods were brought from the Lords by M r Serjeant Carus Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill that the Inhabitants of Norfolk and Suffolk may sell again course Woolls was read the first time And the Proviso also from the Lords to the Bill for Deer and Hawks was read the first time Five Bills also had each of them one reading of which one being for Killing of Crows was committed as it should seem to Mr. Ashley Another to avoid Nets for Fishing in the Thames was read the second time and committed to Mr. Cure And the last touching the Assize of Barrels was upon the second reading committed to Mr. Grafton and others not named On Monday the 29 th day of March the Proviso to the Bill for Stealing of Deer c. was read the first time and three other Bills being of no great moment were each of them read the second time of which one was the Bill for encrease of Tillage The Bill de Excommunicato capiendo and the Bill for the making of Goals were brought from the Lords by Mr. Attorney Post Meridiem In the Afternoon four Bills had each of them their first reading of which the last was the Bill touching Tanners Shoomakers and other Artificers occupying Leather On Tuesday the 30 th day of March the Bill to continue the Act for making of Goals was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the Lords The Bill also for the School-House at Guildford was read the fourth time and passed the House Nota That here a Bill was read the fourth time before it passed the House having had its third reading on Thursday the 25 th day of this instant March foregoing of which though there want not other Presidents yet it is rare and worth the observation Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary and others of which one was the last mentioned Bill touching the School-House at Guildford The Master of the Rolls with other Committees in the Cause of Forgery suspected upon Pledal declared great and vehement suspicion to be in Pledall and where Pledall by the Committees was Commanded not to speak with the person of Monkton Farley he notwithstanding sent for him and spake with him in the night which person is likewise suspected whereupon Pledall said he did not remember any such Commandment and thereupon Order was taken that the Committees should put their doings in this Case in Writing and send them to the House this Afternoon and that they should be read to Pledall and he to Answer them either by word or writing Vide touching this matter on Saturday the 10 th day of April ensuing Post Meridiem In the Afternoon two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being that the Lord Chancellor may direct Commissions to the Bishop for increase of the Living of Ministers c. was read the first time On Wednesday the last day of March the Proviso to the Bill against Stealing of Fish Deer and Hawks was read the third time and passed And the Bill that Sweet-Wines bought by Strangers shall be brought to Southampton was read the third time and passed On Thursday the first day of April Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the second touching Enrollments of Deeds in Lancaster And the last for the relief of the Poor were each of them read the third time and passed Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for sale of course Woolls in Norfolk and Suffolk was read the second time but neither Committed nor Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords On Friday the 2 d day of April the Bill for Artificers Labourers c. was read the second time and Ordered to be engrossed On Saturday the 3 d day of April Four Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain of which one was the Bill for the relief of the Poor The Bill for the Assignment of forty thousand twenty seven pound four shillings and two pence half penny to the Queens Houshold with three Provisoes from this House was read the third time and passed and sent to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller Post Meridiem In the Afternoon three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for taking and destroying of Crows Rooks c. was read the first time On Monday the 5 th day of April Mr. Serjeant Carus and Mr. Sollicitor brought from the Lords the Bill for Wales The Bill touching Tanners Curriers and Shomakers was read the third time and passed and sent to the Lords by Mr. Secretary together with the Bill for Restitution in Blood of William Iseley The Bill to avoid fraudulent Gifts by any Convicted of Premunire was read the third time and dashed by the division of the House viz. against the Bill eighty nine and with the Bill sixty three Post Meridiem A Proviso to the Bill for Wales was read the first second and third time and thereupon passed the House The Bill to revive the Statute against Servants imbezelling their Masters Goods was read the third time and passed the House The Bill lastly that Cloathiers for every Cloth of Woollen or thirty Kersies shall make a piece of Linnen-Cloth of twenty Yards long was read the second time and as it should seem committed to Mr. Norton and others not named On Tuesday the 6 th day of April the Bill to avoid fraudulent Gifts and the Bill against Servants embezelling their Masters Goods were sent up to the Lords by Sir Anthony Coke Three Bills also had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first being the Bill touching Artificers Servants of Husbandry Labourers and Apprentices was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the Order of Bankrupts and their Goods Chattels Lands and Tenements was read the third time and passed the House On Wednesday the 7 th day of April Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that the Alneager of Lancaster shall Seal the Cloaths there made was read the third time and passed the House and was with two others sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary Post Meridiem In the Afternoon three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for encrease of Tillage and reedifying of decayed Houses of Husbandry was read the third time and passed the House On Thursday the 8 th day of April the Bill touching Hat-makers and Felt-makers to buy Spanish Wooll And the Bill to avoid the dressed Flax brought out of Flanders were
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
and Declaration of her next Successor in default of the Issue of her own Body Which having been moved in the first Session of this Parliament in An. 5 Regin Eliz. and been then well accepted by her Majesty gave her now much distast being again too earnestly and plainly pressed by them as her Highness did fully intimate upon the last day of this present Session before the Dissolution thereof in which also it is to be noted that Seymour Eque being still Clerk of the House of Commons although this were the last Parliament in which he served the passages thereof are recorded in the Original Journal-Book of the said House far more imperfectly and briefly than in the ensuing Parliaments of her Majesties Reign when Fulk On slow Esq succeeded him in the said place There were finally between that Session in An. 5 Regin Eliz. and this now following in An. 8 Regin ejusdem six several Prorogations of which the first was had on Saturday the 10 th day of April in the Afternoon when the said first Session in the fifth Year of her Majesty ended and by it the said Parliament was Prorogued unto the second day of October next ensuing and on the said second day of October in respect that the Plague and Pestilence was very rife in London and Westminster it was further Prorogued unto the fifth day of October which should happen to be in the Year of our Lord 1564. which fell out to be in An. 6 Regin Eliz. and on the said fifth day of October in Anno praedicto it was further Prorogued unto the 30 th day of April next ensuing which fell out to be in Anno 7 Regin Eliz. An. Dom. 1565. And on the 30 th day of April in Anno praedicto it was further Prorogued unto the 4 th day of October then next ensuing which fell out to be in the same Year And on the said 4 th day of October in Anno praedicto it was again Prorogued unto the 7 th day of Feb. next ensuing which fell out to be in the eighth Year of her Majesties Reign And on the 7 th day of February in Anno praedicto it was lastly Prorogued unto the 30 th day of September being Monday in Anno supra memorato Regin Eliz. Annoque Dom. 1566. in which it is to be noted that Thomas Williams Esq the Speaker of the said House of Commons in the first Session of this Parliament in Anno 5 Regin Eliz. was not present at any of the said five Prorogations except at the first only as is specially set down in the Original Journal-Book of that House de An. isto 5 Eliz. praesato although it should seem he were then living and died not until after the said fifth Prorogation and before the said sixth and last after which this present Session in An. 8 Regin Eliz. began on the foresaid 30 th day of September in manner and form following On Monday the 30 th and last day of September this Session of Parliament in An. 8 Reginae Eliz. held according to the sixth Prorogation thereof on the 7 th day of February foregoing whereupon both the Lords and Commons did each of them assemble and meet in their several Houses as at any other ordinary time without Pomp or Solemnity this being as hath been observed no new Parliament but only the last Session of that Parliament which had been first begun at Westminster on Tuesday the 12 th day of January in An. 5 Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1563. and continued by many several Prorogations unto this present Monday being the last day of September as aforesaid But as soon as the Knights Citizens and Burgesses had Assembled themselves in the House of Commons and neither unmindful of the weighty Charge committed unto them nor letting slip the opportunity of the time offered had begun to make entry as it were to treat of that they had in hand they immediately found their defect and want of their Mouth and Speaker Thomas William Esq lately from them by Death bereft which was there openly and manifestly made known unto them by Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold For remedy of which defect they fell to Consultation what was most meet to be done in that so needful unexpected and unexperimented Cause In which Deliberation it was thought good and wholly agreed upon that the said Sir Edward Rogers Knight a chief Member of that Assembly and Fellowship accompanied with Sir Francis Knolles Knight her Highness Vice-Chamberlain Sir William Cecill Knight her Majesties Chief Secretary Sir Ambrose Cave K t Chancellor of her Highness Dutchy of Lancaster four chief Members of that Assembly and Fellowship and divers others to the number of twelve persons should as sent from and with the mind of the whole House make their relation of this so happened unto the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and unto all the foresaid Lords at that time likewise being in their Court in mindful attendance to their Charge And therewith also in humble wise should request them to have their Aid and Conjunction both for the intimation of the matter unto the Queens Highness and also for knowledge of her Gracious good Pleasure and Will therein all which matter and Petition the said M r Comptroller assisted with the Personages and Company as aforesaid appointed did in comely order and discreet modesty make manifest and known unto the said Lords After which the Lord Keeper first requiring the said Personages a while to withdraw themselves then commended the Order of the matter unto the said Lords sitting in Consultation for the same by whom upon considered advice therein had it was by them all thought seeming to signifie unto the said Commons by the Personages aforesaid sent that they thought it expedient and good the said Lord Keeper the Lord Treasurer of England the Duke his Grace of Norsolk and the Lord Marquess of Northampton Accompanied with the four before-recited Personages of the said Commons House being all of her Highness most Honourable Privy-Council should in the name of both the Assemblies with all humbleness and due celerity make intimation of their said Estate and the Petition thereupon depending unto her said Highness To which advice the said Commons upon knowledge had of the same wholly assented And then it was agreed that the House should meet again on the Morrow following at nine of the Clock On Tuesday the first day of October the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the House of Commons being Assembled together in their own House about nine of the Clock in the Forenoon report was made unto them by Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold as is most probable in respect that he was the Chief Privy-Councellor of the House that her Majesty had been moved according to the former Order for her Licence to chuse a Speaker and that they should receive Answer thereof this day in the Upper House and thereupon as soon as they
Saturday last continued The Bill for the reviving of a Statute made an 8 Eliz. for the Town of Shrewsbury was returned from the House of Commons conclusa The Bill against delays in Judgment in the Common Law was read secunda vice but there is no mention made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent from the House of Commons on Saturday the 28 th day of this instant June immediately foregoing In the Parliament Chamber where the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled the day abovesaid in an 14 Regin Eliz. c. Whereas upon Complaint and Declaration made to the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal by Henry Lord Cromwell a Lord of the Parliament that in a Case between one James Tavernor against the said Lord Cromwell depending in the Court of Chancery for not obeying to an Injunction given in the said Court of Chancery in the absence of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal at the Suit of the said Tavernor the person of the said Lord Cromwell was by the Sheriff of the County of Norfolk attached by virtue of a Writ of Attachment proceeding out of the said Court of Chancery contrary to the antient priviledge and immunity time out of memory unto the Lords of Parliament and Peers of this Realm in such case used and allowed as on the behalf of the said Lord Cromwell was declared and affirmed wherein the said Lord Cromwell as a Lord of Parliament prayed remedy Forasmuch as upon deliberate Examination of this Case in the said Parliament Chamber in the presence of the Judges and other of the Queens Majesties Learned Council there attendant in Parliament and upon Declaration of the opinions of the said Judges and Learned Council there hath been no matter directly produced or declared whereby it did appear or seem to the said Lords of Parliament there Assembled that by the Common Law or Custom of the Realm or by any Statute Law or by any President of the said Court of Chancery it is warranted that the person of any Lord having place and voice in Parliament in the like case in the said Court of Chancery before this time hath been Attached so as the awarding of the said Attachment at the Suit of the said Tavernor against the said Lord Cromwell for any thing as yet declared to the said Lords appeareth to be derogatory and prejudicial to the antient priviledge claimed to belong to the Lords of this Realm Therefore it is the day and year aforesaid Ordered by consent of all the said Lords in Parliament there Assembled that the person of the said Lord Cromwell be from henceforth discharged of and from the said Attachment Provided nevertheless and so is the mind of the said Lords in Parliament plainly by them with one assent declared That if at any time during this Parliament or hereafter in any other Parliament there shall be shewed sufficient matter that by the Queens Prerogative or by the Common Law or Custom of this Realm or by any Statute Law or sufficient Presidents the person of any of the Lords of Parliament in such Case as this Case of the Lord Cromwell is ought to be attached or attachable then and from thenceforth it is by this order intended that to take place which so shall be shewed and warranted as above is said This Order or any thing therein to the contrary notwithstanding In the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House is no entrance of any continuance of the Parliament which seemeth to have been omitted through the negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the same House although it may very easily be gathered that the Parliament was continued unto some hour in the Afternoon of this present day and most probable it is that it was continued by the Lord Keeper because it appeareth without all question that he was present in the Afternoon Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Queens Majesty as may easily be gathered was present with the Lord Keeper and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal but their names through the great negligence of the above-named Anthony Mason Esq are not at all noted with the mark of being present neither are any of the passages of this Afternoon there entred saving only the Adjournment of the Parliament although it be most certain that her Majesty being present this Afternoon did put an end to this Session of Parliament by giving her Royal Assent to thirteen publick Acts and four private But yet there passed no Bill of her Majesties free and general pardon to the Subject nor of any Subsidies from them to her Majesty and the reason of it is plain because this Session of Parliament although some Statutes did of course pass in it was doubtless convocated chiefly for that great business touching the Scottish Queen of which there are divers passages in this proceeding Journal which see on Monday the 12 th day and on Wednesday the 28 th day of May on Tuesday the 10 th day and on Thursday the 26 th day of this instant June foregoing And therefore now lastly as touching the manner of her Majesties giving her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed in respect that it is matter of form and seldom differeth it is therefore supplied omitting that only which concerns the Bills of Subsidy and Pardon out of a draught thereof set down in the end of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the Parliament de an 39 Regin Eliz. although it be omitted in that of this present Session of Parliament To every publick Act that passed after that it had been read the Clerk of the Upper House standing up did openly pronounce her Majesties Allowance in these French words following La Roigne le veult To every private Act that passed the said Clerk read the Queens Answer in these French words following Soit fait come il est desiré These two last Answers to the publick and private Acts that pass are to be written by the said Clerk at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty doth forbear to allow the Clerk of the Parliament read in these French words following La Roigne s'advisera The several Acts being thus passed the next matter that followed was the Adjournment of the Parliament which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the manner and form following Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in festum omnium Sanctorum proximum futurum By the Entrance of which Adjournment it doth plainly appear that her Majesty was present in respect that it is said that the Lord Keeper Adjourned the Parliament ex mandato Dominae Reginae And it is also worthy the observation that as the greatest part of the passages of this foregoing Monday on which this Session of Parliament ended are through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House
r Hen. Killegrew M r William Gerrard M r Dalton and M r Peacock Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 26 th day of June following On Tuesday the 13 th day of May the Bill for the Almeshouse of Plymouth in the County of Devon was read the second time and committed unto M r Edward Stanhope and M r Robert Snagg and by them in certain points amended and returned again Five Bills also of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was against fraudulent Conveyances and secret Estates of Lands and the second for Christs Hospital On Wednesday the 14 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill that Tenants and Defendants in Actions may pray a Tales de circumstantibus as well as Plaintiffs and Defendants was read the first time and delivered to M r Fleetwood to be augmented for the Counties Palatine The Bill lastly for Explanation of a Statute made that the Lands and Goods of Tellors and Receivors should be liable to the payment of their Debts was read the second time and committed unto Sir Walter Mildmay M r Wilbraham M r Fanshawe M r Norton M r Sampoole and M r Robert Snagg who were appointed to meet at three of the Clock at Sir Walter Mildmay's House On Thursday the 15 th day of May M r Attorney General and M r Sollicitor were sent from the Lords to require M r Speaker that a convenient number of this House should attend upon their Honours in the Council-Chamber for Conference and signified that they had good liking of the first Committees for that purpose on Monday last Whereunto the House being moved by M r Speaker fully assented And upon the repair of the said Committees to the Lords and their return to this House again it was declared by M r Treasurer that the said Lords had appointed to meet in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Star-Chamber willing them to attend them there for further direction and a Plot to be devised for their manner of proceeding in the matter concerning the Queen of Scots Vide de ista materia on Thursday the 26 th day of June ensuing The Bill for the due Execution of the Statute for Weights and Measures and reformation of the abuses of the Clerk of the Market was read the first time On Friday the 16 th day of May A Motion being made whether it were convenient that this House and the Lords should join in Petition to move the Queens Majesty for the Execution of the Duke of Norfolk who was afterwards Beheaded on the Tower-Hill on the 10 th day of June following or that the common opinion of this House touching necessary Execution to be done upon him were meet to be signified unto her Highness as their general Resolution And upon the Question all the House thought that the general resolution was meetest to be signified unto her Majesty but not by way of Petition or direction of this House Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against fraudulent Conveyances and secret Estates of Lands was read the second time and committed unto Sir Hen. Gates Sir Nichol. Arnold M r Recorder M r Mounson M r Fenner M r Edward Stanhoppe M r Snagg who were appointed to meet in Lincolns-Inn-Hall this Afternoon at two of the Clock and to return the Bill to Morrow On Saturday the 17 th day of May Five Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the last being the Bill that Patrons shall not lose their Presentations by lapse without notice when the Incumbents take another Benefice was read the first time Upon sundry Motions made by divers of this House it was Ordered that Arthur Hall Esq for sundry lewd Speeches used as well in this House as also abroad elsewhere shall have warning by the Serjeant to be here upon Monday next and at the Bar to answer to such things as he shall then and there be charged with And it was further Ordered that all such persons as have noted his words in writing either in this House or abroad do forthwith assemble in the Chamber above and put the same words in writing and afterwards deliver them to M r Speaker to the end he may charge the said Hall on Monday next On which said day see more concerning this matter On Monday the 19 th day of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill for the Repeal of a former Statute made for the Town of Shrewsbury was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Explanation of 32 H. 8. for Recoveries was read the second time and committed unto the Master of the Wardrobe Sir Nicholas Arnold M r Attorney of the Court of Wards M r French M r Bowreman and M r Snagg Wednesday next was appointed unto Lodwicke Grevill Esq to make his appearance in this Court at the same hour he should have appeared this present day The Bill concerning Presentations by Law was read the second time and Ordered to be considered of by M r Tho. Browne M r Doctor Yale M r Wolley M r French M r Baber M r Jeoffrey M r Gates and M r Bowreman who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Middle Temple Church M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords a Bill touching Vagabonds and for relief of the Poor The Bill concerning Rites and Ceremonies was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed M r Doctor Yale and M r Doctor Huick brought from the Lords a Bill against the Forging of Foreign Coin not currant within this Realm Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against the deceits of Under-Collectors of the Tenths and Subsidies of the Clergy was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed M r Attorney of the Court of Wards in the name of all the Committees in the great cause whose names see on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May foregoing made report unto the House of their Conference therein had with the Lords which being done after sundry Speeches it was upon the Question resolved by the House for the better safety and preservation of the Queens Majesties Person and the present State to make choice of proceeding against the Scottish Queen in the highest degree of Treason and therein to touch her as well in Life as in Title and Dignity and that of necessity with all possible speed by the whole Voice of the House But upon what occasions or motives the House grounded this their advice and resolution doth not appear in the Original Journal-Book of the same But most probable it is that they were the same which remain in written Copies in
of this days Passages as also the greatest part of the business of this ensuing Parliament out of the said Original Journal-Book of the same This day Arthur Hall Esq being brought by the Serjeant to the Bar and Charged by the House with seven several Articles humbly submitted himself to the House and confessed his folly as well touching the said Articles as also his other fond and unadvised Speech at the Bar and was upon the question remitted with a good Exhortation given him by M r Speaker at large Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 17 th day of this instant May foregoing The Bill for the Jurors of Middlesex was committed unto M r Robert Wroth M r Newdigate M r Dalton M r Cromwell and M r Gent. On Tuesday the 20 th day of May the Bill for the Assurance of Lands late of Sir William and Sir Thomas Woodhouse Knights deceased was read the first time and referred unto Sir John Thynne Sir Robert Wingfield M r Moore M r Grimston M r Norton and M r Snagg to confer with the Parties and their Friends touching their Assents to the proceeding of the Bill Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Town of Shrewsbury was read the third time and passed the House The Proviso to the Bill of Decem tales was twice read and the Bill and Proviso were Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for Rites and Ceremonies was read the third time and referred to be considered by M r Treasurer Sir Thomas Scott M r Attorney of the Dutchy and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Star-Chamber On Wednesday the 21 th day of May the Bill between Chatterton and Chatterton was read and committed unto Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Hen. Gates Sir George Penruddocke Sir Hen. Wallop and M r Cromwell who were appointed to meet here to Morrow Morning at six of the Clock The Bill for the Earl of Kent was read the first time Francis Harrington Esq being one of this House was appointed by the Queens Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council to repair forthwith to the Town of Stamford or thereabouts for her Majesties Service as by his Commission for taking of Post-Horses bearing date the 20 th day of this Month doth and may appear which M r Speaker Commanded to be set down and noted accordingly The Bill for the Earl of Kent was committed unto M r Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. Popham Mr. Bedell Mr. Sandes Mr. Fenner Mr. Dalton Mr. Shute and Mr. Matthew Dale and the opinion of the House was to leave out the general clause contained in the said Bill The Bill for Tales de Circumstantibus was read the third time and passed the House and was sent up unto the Lords with two other Bills of no great moment by Mr. Treasurer and others with further Order from this House to make Declaration unto the Lords of the Choice made by this House upon Monday last in the great Cause And also to desire to understand their Lordships liking of the same Choice and further to pray their good advice and pleasure for further proceeding therein Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching Presentations by lapse was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Treasurer and the residue returning from the Lords Mr. Treasurer made report of their Message done to the Lords and declared that the Lords had resolved in the great cause amongst themselves much to the like effect with the former Choice made by this House And that their Lordships for the better and more speedy proceeding therein do pray present Conference with the former Committees of this House who are by the House appointed to attend their Lordships presently for that purpose And further Commission also was granted to the said Committees to impart unto the Lords Committees the Opinion of this House to be that for her Majesties better safety present Execution be done upon the Duke And the rather by reason of the tract of time which of necessity must arise by occasion of proceeding against the Queen of Scots by way of Charging her in proper Person and hearing of her Personal Answer And further that this Opinion of this House shall be delivered to the Lords of the Upper House in the name of all this House either by the said Lords Committees or else by some of this House if the said Lords Committees shall so advise and think good Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 26 th day of June ensuing Three Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against Hunting and Killing of Conies was upon the first reading rejected On Thursday the 22 th day of May Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the true making of Callivers Daggs c. was upon the first reading committed unto Mr. Treasurer Sir Maurice Berkeley Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Henry Wallop and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Star-Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for Weekes against Dennis c. was committed unto Sir John Thinne Sir Henry Gates Sir Hen. Wallopp Sir Geo. Turpin and Mr. Moore and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Star-Chamber The Bill against Vagabonds and for relief of the Poor was read the second time and referred to be considered by Sir Henry Gates Mr. Serjeant Lovelace Mr. Yelverton and others who were appointed to meet in this House to Morrow at six of the Clock in the Morning Upon Declaration made unto this House by Mr. Speaker from the Queens Majesty that her Highness Pleasure is that from henceforth no Bills concerning Religion shall be preferred or received into this House unless the same should be first considered and liked by the Clergy And further that her Majesties Pleasure is to see the two last Bills read in this House touching Rites and Ceremonies It is Ordered by the House that the same Bills shall be delivered unto her Majesty by all the Privy-Council that are of this House Mr. Heneage and Mr. Doctor Wilson Master of the Requests or by any four of them The Bill to avoid the multitude of Rogues and Vagabonds was read the first time Upon the reading of the Bill Exhibited by Weekes against Dennis it was Commanded by the House to be set down and Entred that in all matters preferred and offered to this Court between any private persons and wherein the Bill shall by Order of this House be thought good to be committed those Committees shall make their Reports thereof unto this House in the presence of both the Parties and of their Learned Councel Three Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being
her Majesty for the Duke having had his Tryal by them of that House their consent and liking in the matter is thereby sufficiently manifested already M r Attorney and M r Sollicitor declared unto this House from the Lords that their Lordships do desire that those Committees which were appointed to meet with them this Afternoon may have Authority from this House to make Choice of a number of themselves to Accompany the Lords unto the Queens Majesty for the reporting and maintaining of such reasons as upon their said Conference shall be first propounded and yielded amongst them touching the great cause This Court was Adjourned until Wednesday next and upon sundry Motions it was resolved that all such of this House as shall think good to exhibit or prefer any reasons or causes to enforce the matter of the Dukes Execution may in the mean time of the next Session deliver them in writing to M r Speaker at their Choices and pleasures to the end that this Court may further proceed to the manner and order of sig nifying the same Petition to her Majesty accordingly On Wednesday the 28 th day of May It was signified unto this House by M r Speaker that the Queens Majesties pleasure was that all they of this House being of the Committees in the great Cause and appointed by them out of themselves to come to her Highness Presence shall all attend at the Court this present day at eight of the Clock in the Forenoon for the same purpose accordingly which Message was so delivered unto M r Speaker now in the House by one of this House sent unto him from M r Treasurer But to what end or purpose the said M r Treasurer with other Members of the House were appointed to attend upon her Majesty doth not appear or can at all be gathered by the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons but it was doubtless to agitate and treat of the great business touching the Scottish Queen and it is very probable that the Members of the said House did at this time offer up their Petition and Reasons to her Majesty for the speedy Execution of the said Queen all which I have thought good to insert in this place out of a written Copy thereof I had by me although they are there falsly referred to the Parliament foregoing which was in An. 13 Regin Eliz. as were also other reasons there contained which are referred unto Monday the 19 th day of this instant May foregoing An humble Pētition to her Majesty and the Reasons gathered out of the Civil Law by certain appointed by Authority in Parliament to prove that it standeth not only with Justice but also with the Queens Majesties Honour and Safety to proceed Criminally against the pretended Scottish Queen WE your Majesties most humble and faithful Subjects Assembled in Parliament for preservation of your Royal Person and Estate do highly acknowledge the great goodness of God that hath Chosen and appointed such a Soveraign to Reign over us as never Subjects by any Record ever had a better and therefore our hearty Prayers are daily and ever shall be to Almighty God long to preserve your most Excellent Majesty in all and most perfect Felicity that ever Creature had or might have upon Earth And whereas the highest and chiefest States are ever more envied of all such as be the worst and greatest disturbers of Gods Monarchy and his Anointed Jurisdiction we cannot but with a care of mind and force of our Bodies seek to redress what soever shall be thought hurtful to your Majesties safe quietness and most blessed Government A Queen of late time and yet through her own Acts now justly no Queen a nigh Kinswoman of your Majesties and yet a very unnatural Sister Lady Mary Steward late Queen of Scots being driven through violence and force of others to take Harbour in your Majesties Realm for the Safeguard of her Life hath not only had your Majesties most Gracious Protection but also was saved within her own Realm by your Majesties Authority from Execution of Death for her most horrible and unnatural doings there known throughout Europe to her perpetual infamy and shame for ever And albeit upon her first coming your Highness might both by Law and Justice have dealt with her judicially for her attempts made by writing and otherwise against the Crown and Dignity and to the Disherison of your most Royal Person for ever Yet your Majesty in Consideration of her long dangerous troubles in her own Realm and in hope that such great Adversities would have been good Lessons for her Amendment hereafter hath not used her in any such manner as she hath deserved But rather forgetting or forgiving after a sort her former doings hath dealt with her like a good and natural Sister All which notwithstanding this unnatural Lady being born out of kind as it should seem hath altogether forgotten God and all goodness abusing her self as it appeareth most Treasonably against your Majesties Person and State and seeking and devising by all means possible not only to deprive your Majesty of all Earthly Dignities and Livings but also of your natural Life which thing is found by evident Proofs and by the Judges of your Realm declared to be most horrible and most wicked Treason that ever was wrought against any Prince For which her doings her Majesty minding to touch her in Honour esteemeth her a Person unworthy of any hope or Title Preheminence or Dignity within this your Land and therefore not seeking to deal with her according to her desert is only contented to have her disabled as a person not capable of Princely Honour And thus your Majesty using this course thinketh it the meetest way to establish your self and to quiet your Dominions hereafter taking away hereby the hope of such as do depend upon the pretended Title and weakning the whole strength of that Faction And for further assurance of your Majesties quietness your Highness doth not mislike to have grievous pains of High Treason laid upon all such as shall attempt and maintain her pretended Title by any manner of way Thus as evil men shall be kept back from intermedling in the maintenance of a Title so may your Majesties true and faithful Subjects be much emboldened to deal against this pretended Queen and her Adherents when your Subjects shall see a Law set down for your avail and your Enemies shall want Forces and wax weak thereby and your true Subjects greatly hardened for all offences Moreover if the said pretended Queen shall hereafter make any attempt of Treason the Law so to run that she shall suffer pains of Death without further trouble of Parliament And if any shall enterprise to deliver her out of Prison after her disablement either in your Majesties Life or after the same to be Convicted immediately of High Treason and her self assenting thereunto to be likewise adjudged as a Traitor in Law In all which proceedings your Majesty thinketh to
Afternoon and to make report and to return the Bill to Morrow Morning Further day was given for the Earl of Kent and the Lord Compton with their Learned Councel to Morrow at eight of the Clock in the Forenoon On Wednesday the 25 th day of June my Lord of Kent appearing in the House it was signified that the Queens Majesties Pleasure is that for this time the matter between him and the Lord Compton be deferred for that the said Lord Compton is presently appointed to attend upon the Duke Memorancy to Dover as by Letters from the Lord Burleigh directed unto M r Speaker and containing her Highness said Pleasure in that behalf amongst other things appeareth The Bill for Continuation of certain Statutes was read the first time and committed unto Mr. Atkins M r Dale M r Beamond M r Greenfeild M r March M r Cardinall M r Layton and Mr. Honywood who were appointed to meet here to Morrow Morning at six of the Clock The Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots was read the third time and passed the House and the Proviso to the same Bill had also its third reading Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the Severance of the Sheriffs of the Counties of Bed and Bucks was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Three Bills also had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which one was touching the inordinate length of Kersies and another for the Town of Stafford On Thursday the 26 th day of June the Bill for marking of Tanned Leather was twice read Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others of which one was the Bill touching Lands within the County of the City of Exeter and another against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots Touching which Bill and business of the said Queen see on Monday the 12 th day Thursday the 15 th day Monday the 19 th day Wednesday the 21 th day Friday the 23 th and on Wednesday the 28 th day of May preceeding as also on Thursday the 5 th day Friday the 6 th day Tuesday the 10 th day Tuesday the 24 th day and on Wednesday the 25 th day of this instant June The Bill for Hemp and Cordage was twice read Mr. Serjeant Manwood Mr. Marsh Mr. Grice Mr. Hastings Mr. Grimston Mr. Norton Mr. Barrey Mr. Atkins Mr. Thomas Browne Mr. Honywood Mr. Shute Mr. Burie and Mr. Greenfeild were appointed to have Conference with the Lords touching the Bill of Continuation of Statutes And the Bill touching Sea-Marks and the Bill for the Severance of the Sheriffs of Bedf. and Bucks were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Doctor Wilson and the said other Committees Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Lewes did bring from the Lords the Bill touching Recoveries passed in this House before with a Branch of Repeal of the Statute of 32 H. 8. added by the Lords The Bill against delays in Judgment was read the third time and the Proviso twice read and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Serjeant Barham brought from the Lords the former Bill touching Sea-Marks with allowance of the Amendments Mr. Serjeant Barham and Mr. Attorney General did bring from the Lords the Bill for Continuation of Statutes with allowance of the Amendments On Friday the 27 th day of June the Bill touching Sea-Marks was read the third time The Bill for Continuation of certain Statutes was twice read with all the Additions and the Provisoes were each of them thrice read The Bill for Recoveries by Collusion suffered by Tenants for term of life and the Bill for the Continuation of Statutes with another Bill also of no great moment were each of them sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer Mr. Doctor Wilson and others Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Huick did bring from the Lords the Bill for the Explanation of the Statute against Fugitives with Additions by them made and request for Expedition and reading thereof Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Addition to the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against Fugitives was thrice read and passed The Proviso for the Dutchy of Lancaster made by this House unto the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against Fugitives was thrice read and passed upon the Question On Saturday the 28 th day of June The Proviso touching the Dutchy of Lancaster in the Bill for the Explanation of the Statute against Fugitives was by Order of this House withdrawn and a new one added and thrice read and pass'd for that the former wanted sufficient penning to carry the meaning of this House Post Meridiem The Bill for the Explanation of the Statute against Fugitives with the Provisoes and Amendments and also the Bill concerning the Free Grammar-School at Tunbridge in the County of Kent were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy and others Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Huick did bring from the Lords the Bill touching Grants made unto Hospitals Mr. Doctor Lewes brought word from the Lords that their Lordships did desire present Conference with some of this House in the Bill concerning the length of Kersies for which purpose were sent Sir Rowland Hayward Mr. Grimston Mr. Gresham Mr. Norton Mr. Langley Mr. Brownell Mr. Fleet Mr. Appleby Mr. Chester and Mr. Sekerson The Bill for Hospitals was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Hugh Pawlett Sir Maurice Berkley Sir Owen Hopton and Sir Henry Gate The Bill against delays in Judgment at the Common Law passed after many Arguments and was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy and others with special Commendations from this House Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Huick brought from the Lords the Bill for the Statute made for the Town of Shrewsbury with a Proviso The Proviso to the Bill for Shrewsbury was read three times On Monday the 30 th day of June the Bill for Shrewsbury was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others It was this day Ordered by this House upon the Question that touching the Bill passed in this House for the School of Tunbridge and Andrew Fisher these words following shall be set down viz. Memorandum That the Bill concerning Tunbridge-School and Andrew Fisher in which Bill one Deed made in the name of Henry Fisher is supposed to be forged was committed to the Right Honourable Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Scott c. who have certified to this House that they found great untruth and impudency in the said Andrew Fisher And that for very vehement presumptions they think very Evil of the Deed. Nevertheless upon Fishers Submission they have been contented to withdraw out of the Bill all words that touched him in infamy And so the Bill penned passed this House with assent on both sides as well to help Tunbridge-School as others that had bought Land of the said Andrews Father bonâ fide And the said Committeés have
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
another Bill against Moor-burning in the Counties of Northumberland Cumberland Westmerland and Durham with an amendment added unto it by the Lords were upon the third reading sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rolls and Doctor Ford. Three Bills also had each of them one reading being brought from the House of Commons of which the first was for redress of erroneous Judgments in the Court called the Kings-Bench Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon at which time the Lords Assembling themselves two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being against Glass-Houses and making of Glass by Aliens born was read the first time This Afternoon also the Lords having heard the Councel of both Parties touching the Bill Intituled An Act to make a Fine levied by Peter Heam and Johan his Wife and Tredolias Leza and Anne his Wife during the minority of the said Johan and Anne to be void against the said Anne for a more speedy end of the said cause with the consent of the said Parties committed the matter to the hearing of certain of the Lords which should be named by the Parties themselves The Plaintiff Anne did chuse the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Arundell the Bishop of Salisbury and the Lord North and M r Vinion the Defendant chose the Lord Steward the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of Exeter and the Lord Buckhurst And further Ordered that the said Lords should end the matter between the Parties if they could and if they could not then to certifie the State of the matter as they found it to the whole House And the Lord Chief Justice and the Lord Chief Baron were appointed to attend the Lords On Tuesday the 23 th day of February Six Bill s of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the furtherance of Justice was read prima vice Two Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was concerning the Jointure of the Countess of Huntington On Wednesday the 24 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the better assurance of her Majesties Letters Patents granted for the better foundation of the Hospital called Sherborn-House was read prima vice Commissa Archiepiscopo Eboracen Episcopo London Domino Darcy Domino Evers the Lord Chief Baron and Justice Gawdy On Thursday the 25 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of her Majesties Letters Patents to the Masters Fellows and Scholars of Clare-Hall in Cambridge was read secunda vice but no mention is made whether it was Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees On Saturday the 27 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued the Bill for following of Hue and Cry was read secunda vice and committed to one Earl three Lords the Lord Chief Baron and one Judge Where still Nota the Judges are joint Committees with the Lords One Bill also touching Plymouth-Haven was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons And three other Bills of no great moment the first concerning Rochester-Bridge was read secunda vice On Monday the first day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for returning of sufficient Jurors for the better expediting of Trials was read tertia vice and concluded The Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Rodes were appointed Committees to hear the matter between M r Vinion and M r Tredolias Leza and his Wife and Commission given to the said Committees to end the matter between the Parties if they could and if they could not then the Parties with their Councel to be before the Lords at this House upon Thursday next Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests c. was read secunda vice with certain Amendments and a Proviso added by the Lords On Wednesday the third day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Monday foregoing Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests c. with the Amendments and Provisoes added by the Lords was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjcant Rodes and the Queens Attorney Two Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill for the repairing and maintenance of the Sea-Banks and Sea-Works on the Sea-Coast in the County of Norf. Committees were appointed to hear the matter between the Lord Willoughby and M r Heronden who were chosen by the Parties themselves viz. the Earl of Kent and the Lord Zouch for the Lord Willoughby and Viscount Mountague and the Lord Cobham for M r Heronden And the Lords further Ordered that the said Lords Committees should end the matter between the said Parties if they could Committees lastly were this day Chosen to examine the Record touching passing Amendments of Amendments moved by the House of Commons viz. the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Suff. Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Hunsdon the Lord Buckhurst the Master of the Rolls and M r Attorney about the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day to which the House of Commons had added Amendments upon Amendments The Precedents they named were the Bills for Treasons and bringing in of Bulls Acts passed in Anno 13 o of the Queen Nota That this Bill concerning the Sabbath as hath been before observed was long in passing the two Houses and much debated betwixt them being committed and Amendments upon Amendments added unto it which as appeareth in this place was the cause of some Disputation between the Lords and the said Commons Of the other several Passages of this Bill Vide on Monday the 7 th day Tuesday the 8 th day Wednesday the 9 th day Monday the 14 th day and on Saturday the 19 th day of December foregoing As also on Thursday the 4 th day Saturday the 6 th day and on Saturday the 13 th day of this instant March following Nota also That the Master of the Rolls and the Queens Attorney being no Members of the Upper House are here made joint-Committees with the Lords On Thursday the 4 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands in the Counties of Norsolk Suff. Lincoln and Warwick unto the Lord Willoughby of Willoughby
perfected in some places in matter of form and yet the Titles of the aforesaid three daies are set down in three blank Pages On Monday the 31 th day of October her Majesties Person was again represented by those aforesaid three Lords Commissioners constituted by her Majesties Letters Patents on Saturday the 29 th day of this instant October foregoing These being set in the Upper House with divers other Lords in their Parliamentary Robes the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and repaired thither with John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Speaker who was according to the usual course presented unto the said Lords Commissioners and by them admitted who answered to these his three Petitions of course made in the name of the House of Commons for liberty of Access for freedom of Speech and freedom from Arrests and Suits and lastly for Pardon for himself that the said House of Commons and himself should enjoy and use all such priviledges and freedoms as had in the like case been enjoyed by any others in the times of her Majesties most noble Progenitors Whereupon the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses with their Speaker departed to their own House Nota That there is not any word of all this presentment of the Speaker in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons but only the very Title of the day is thus set down in a blank Page thereof Lunae xxxj Octobris 1586. and the whole matter ensuing by the great negligence of M r Fulk Onslow at this time Clerk of the House of Commons is wholly omitted which also happened in the setting down of the three foregoing days of this Journal upon the two first of which the Parliament had been further Prorogued and upon the third received its beginning in all which the Titles only of the days are set down in the upper part of three several blank Pages as is beforesaid with intention doutless at first to have inserted the passages of each day and therefore it is the more strange that it was never perfected and argueth the greater neglect because the said M r Onslow did live many years in the place of Clerk of the House of Commons after the Dissolution of this Parliament by which means if these foregoing day had not been supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House this other Journal of the House of Commons had remained very imperfect and unuseful And yet at the end of the aforesaid blank Page or bottom thereof in which the Title of this present Monday the 31 th day of October is inserted there followeth the reading of one Bill which is usually done after the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons do return from the Upper House with their Speaker newly admitted upon their presentment of him which said Bill read at this time upon their return is entred in manner and form following viz. The Bill touching Inrollments the first reading After the reading of this Bill the House did without all question Adjourn it self unto Thursday the third day of November ensuing although there be no mention thereof in this said Journal-Book of the House of Commons which must as all other defects be imputed to the former neglect And yet this Adjournment may be collected not only by a like Adjournment of the Lords unto Friday the 4 th day of November aforesaid and by other Adjournments very frequent in the House of Commons during this first meeting of the present Parliament but also out of the very Entrance of the said Thursday following which is on the very next Page after the Entrance of the before mentioned Bill which is never used to be done if any other days passages should have intervened between And therefore it would not be amiss now once for all to observe the cause and ground why the House of Commons did so often at this first meeting of this Parliament Adjourn it self contrary to the usual practice both of former and latter times which was no other than the handling of that great and unusual business touching the Scotish Queen and leaving or forbearing to treat of other ordinary matters usual in the House For by this means it happened that the Original Letters and other proofs produced against the said Scotish Queen for the discovery of her being guilty of the Teason plotted by Ballard Babington and others being all first laid open and urged before the Lords in the Upper House and not at large discussed in the House of Commons till they had been derived unto them from the said Upper House by several Committees It was the only means and cause that the said House of Commons did for want of matter and imployment so often Adjourn it self Whereas usually at other times the passing of Bills with the matter of Subsidy and publick grievances being first debated in the said House and from them derived to the Lords their Lordships are often necessitated in the beginning of each Parliament for want of like imployment to Adjourn themselves On Thursday the third day of November to which day the Parliament had been on Monday the 31 th day of October foregoing last adjourned M r Speaker shewed unto the House that he received Commandment from my Lord Chancellor from her Majesty to signifie unto them that her Highness was sorry this House was troubled the last sitting thereof with the matter touching the chusing and returning of the Knights for the County of Norfolk a thing in truth impertinent for this House to deal withal and only belonging to the Charge and Office of the Lord Chancellor from whence the Writs for the same Elections issued out and are thither returnable again And also that her Majesty had appointed the said Lord Chancellor to confer therein with the Judges And so thereupon examining the said Returns and the Sheriff touching the matter and circumstances of his proceedings in the said Elections to set down such course for making the true Return as to Justice and Right shall therein appertain Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Orford-Haven had its first reading and the second being the Bill touching Inrollments had its second reading One of the House offering to speak to this Bill M r Vice-Chamberlain stood up and shewed unto this House that having matter of most great importance to deliver unto this House from her Majesty he was so bold with their good favours for this time to interrupt the Speech intended to the said Bill by the Gentleman that offered to speak to the said Bill and so then shewed that her Majesty thinking that all those of this House which were lately in the higher House when the Lord Chancellor declared the cause of her Highnesses summoning of this Parliament could not hear the same and also that many of the Members of this House now here present were not then come up or returned commanded him to deliver unto
had done in the matter which the rest of the Committees thought not convenient first in respect they were satisfied therein by divers of their Committees and also for that they thought it prejudicial to the priviledge of the House to have the same determined by others than such as were Members thereof And though they thought very reverently of the said Lord Chancellor and Judges and thought them competent Judges in their places yet in this case they took them not for Judges in Parliament in this House And there upon required that if it were so thought good to the House Mr. Farmer and Mr. Gresham might take their Oaths and be allowed of by force of the first Writ as allowed by the censure of this House and not as allowed of by the said Lord Chancellor and Judges Which was agreed unto by the whole House and ordered to be entred accordingly This Case before set down touching the Election of the Knights for the County of Norfolk containeth in it many curious and very useful points The Case was singly this The Sheriff of Norfolk receives a Writ touching the Election of two Knights for that County but two days before the next County-day in which he is bound by Law to see it executed By reason of this shortness of time he could neither summon many Freeholders nor make due Proclamation in the County any one day before the said Election The Sheriff notwithstanding on the said County-day proceeds to the Execution of the said Writ and Mr. Farmer and Mr. Gresham are duly chosen according to all points and circumstances in such like case required there being not only a great appearance of Freeholders but divers also of the eminentest Gentlemen of the said County who after they had given their Voices to the said Election did also set their Hands and Seals to the Indenture of the same in that case usual After this a second and new Writ is delivered to the said Sheriff for a new Election to be made which is in all points executed without any the least colour of misfesance and by it Mr. Heydon and Mr. Gresham being one of the two first that had been before Elected were chosen and the Indenture of their said Election together with the Writ were delivered in unto the Clerk of the Crown together with the Writ and Indenture of the former Election After which the Lord Chancellor and the Judges meeting about it do resolve That the first Writ was well executed the first Election good and the second absolutely void and of this their resolution do give the House of Commons notice In which case these points following were resolved by the whole Body of the said House First That the said first Writ was duly executed and the Election good and the second Election absolutely void Secondly That it was a most perillous Precedent that after two Knights of a County were duly Elected any new Writ should issue out for a second Election without order of the House of Commons it self Thirdly That the discussing and adjudging of this and such like differences only belonged to the said House Fourthly That though the Lord Chancellor and Judges were competent Judges in their proper Courts yet they were not in Parliament Fifthly That it should be entred in the very Journal-Book of the House that the said first Election was approved to be good and the said Knights then chosen had been received and allowed as Members of the House not out of any respect the said House had or gave to the Resolution of the Lord Chancellor and Judges therein passed but meerly by reason of the resolution of the House it self by which the said Election had been approved Sixthly and lastly That there should no Message be sent to the Lord Chancellor not so much as to know what he had done therein because it was conceived to be a matter derogatory to the Power and Priviledge of the said House Concerning all or the most of which particulars see more upon Friday the 11 th day of this instant November ensuing Sir Christopher Hatton her Majesties Vicechamberlain presently as it seemeth after the discussing of the former Election fell upon the debating of the great Cause touching the Scottish Queen and shewed That the Committees of the Lords in the great Cause and also the Committees of this House in the same Cause had Conference together yesterday in the Afternoon and resolved upon a Petition unto her Majesty in the Name of both Houses to be exhibited as afterwards it was on Saturday the 12 th day of this instant November unto her Highnes by the Lord Chancellor in the Name of the Lords of the higher House and by Mr. Speaker in the Name of this House as the joynt Petition of both Houses for Proclamation and Execution of the Sentence of the Lords and others the late Commissions at Fotheringhay in the proceedings there against Mary called the Queen of Scots And that because the said Committees of both Houses thought the said Petition would be too long if it should comprehend the whole course and manner of the said proceedings yet they thought it necessary that in both Houses the whole course of the same proceedings should be signified and read this present day to the end each Member of both the said Houses might understand the whole matter and manner of the same course of proceedings to their full satisfactions And that then afterwards also the same uniform Petition likewise be read in both the said Houses with reservation nevertheless and liberty to both the same Houses and to every Member of the same House to shew and infer to the said Lord Chancellor for the Lords and to Mr. Speaker for this House any other reasons whatsoever besides those contained in the said Petition which they shall think meet to be remembred to her Majesty for the better furtherance of obtaining their humble Suit at her Majesties hands contained in the said Petition And shewed further That the said Committee of the Lords willed the said Committees of this House that the Lords now sitting this Forenoon in the higher House might hear from this House this Forenoon also of the liking or acceptation of this House in the said form and course of proceeding in the said Petition Which thing himself after a long time spent in the reading of part of the said Record of the said proceeding in the said Commission at Fotheringhay and foreseeing also that the finisting of the reading thereof would require so much more time as was very like could not well be done before the Lords should rise moved That one or two of this House might in the mean time of reading the residue of the said Record of the said Course of proceedings repair to their Lordships and signifie unto them the same from this House to know their Lordships pleasure for some other time for the Committees of this House to intimate unto their Lordships the good liking of this House conceived of the
in the end passed upon the Question and upon the division of the House with the advantage of thirty three voices viz. with the Yea one hundred ninety five and with the No one hundred and twelve M r Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships intituled An Act against the deceitful Stretching and Taintering of Northern Cloaths and did shew that their Lordships have also passed the same Bill in the Upper House with some Amendments added by their Lordships to the same Bill and so did deliver the Bill to M r Speaker The said M r Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring from their Lordships a Bill lately passed in this House and sent up unto their Lordships intituled An Act for the reviving continuance explanation perfecting and repealing of divers Statutes and did shew that their Lordships have in like manner passed the same Bill with some Amendments and a Proviso and so delivered in the Bill and Proviso to M r Speaker On Monday the 6 th day of February two Bills had each of them one Reading of which the first being the Bill for reformation of retailing Brokers and Pawn-takers was read the first time M r Boyes one of the Committees in the two Bills the one against carrying of Corn out of the Realm and the other to restrain the lading of Corn in some Ports shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees with some Amendments in one of the same Bills and so delivered in the same Bills into this House M r Francis Bacon one of the Committees in the Bill lately passed in the Upper House by the Lords and sent down to this House against the decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and their Amendments to the same Bill which Amendments being read to the House were very well liked of by the whole House Thomas Bashfield was present at the Bar and charged with a contempt against the priviledge of this House in disturbing by way of an Appearance of Robert Sherry a Member of this House returned a Burgess for the Town of Ludlow in the County of Salop and was for his said contempt then committed to the Serjeants Ward there to remain during the Pleasure of this House and was on the next day after discharged of his Imprisonment paying his Fees and taking the Oath of Supremacy Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Comptroller and others of which the last was the Bill for the Conrfimation of the Joynture of Mary Lady Verney wife of Sir Edmund Verney Knight The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House for establishing of the Lands given by John Bedfords Will to the perpetual repair and amendments of the Highways at Aylesbury in the County of Bucks according to the said Will being three times read the same Amendments were assented unto and the Proviso likewise passed upon the question M r Doctor Carew and M r D r Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships for the further continuance and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners made in the thirty fifth year of the Queens Majesties Reign that now is and did shew that their Lordships have in like Case passed the same Bill in the Upper House with some Amendments and so delivered in the said Bill to M r Speaker The Bill for the Amendments of the High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surry and Kent was read the third time and passed upon the question The Amendments of the Committees of this House in the Bill lately passed by the Lords against the decay of Towns and Houses of Husbandry and sent down by their Lordships into this House being three times read were assented unto by this House upon the question accordingly Whereupon the said Bill and Amendments being read for the third reading and put to the question for the passing the said Bill and Amendments in that form were passed by this House upon the same question M r Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords two Bills of which the first was the Bill for the draining and recovery of certain overflown Grounds in the County of Norfolk and delivered the same Bill to M r Speaker On Tuesday the 7 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William Pope to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his debts was read the second time and committed to Mr. Comptroller Mr. Lewkenor Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Oglethorpe Mr. Boyes with divers others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Court of Wards The Amendments and Proviso of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House intituled An Act for the reviving continuance explanation perf cting and repealing of divers Statutes being thrice read the Amendments were assented unto and the Proviso was passed upon the question The Bill lately passed in this House intituled An Act for the amendment of Highways in Sussex Surry and Kent The Bill for the establishing the Lands given by John Bedford's Will to the perpetual repair and amendments of the Highways at Aylesbury in the County of Buckingham with one other of no great moment were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor and others The Bill for the better measuring of seven Miles from the Town of Great-Yarmouth according to a Statute made in the 31 th Year of King Edward the Third was read the third time and dashed upon the Question by the division of the House with the difference of eighteen Voices viz. with the No a hundred and eight and with the Yea ninetv M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Carew did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do desire a Conference of a convenient number of the Members of this House with twenty of their Lordships this Afternoon in the Chamber next the Upper House touching the Bill lately passed in this House Intituled An Act against the excess of Apparel Whereupon it was Ordered that the former Committees of this House in the same Bill who were appointed on Thursday the 19 th day of January foregoing shall attend their Lordships accordingly Post Meridiem The Bill for reformation of retailing Brokers and Pawn-Takers was read the second time and thereupon committed unto M r George Moore M r Hart M r Recorder of London M r Lewkenor M r Wiseman M r Ludlow Sir John Leviston M r Crompton M r Conisby M r Lidley M r Johnson and M r Doctor Parkins who were appointed to meet to Morrow
Morning in the Committee Chamber The Amendments and Proviso of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House and sent up unto their Lordships Intituled An Act for the recovery of three hundred thousand Acres more or less of waste Marish and Watery grounds in the Isle of Ely and in the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk and Suffolk were read three times The Provisoes of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships Intituled An Act concerning the draining and recovery from the Water of certain overflown grounds in the County of Norfolk were three times read in which time of the last reading of these Provisoes Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer came to the House and then presently told Mr. Speaker and the residue of this House that her Majesty commanded him to signifie unto Mr. Speaker and to the residue of this House that her Majesties express pleasure was that the said two Bills concerning the draining of Marish and Fenny grounds should not be any more read in this House The Amendments and Proviso of the Lords to the Bill lately passed in this House and sent up unto their Lordships Intituled An Act against the deceitful stretching and taintering of Northern Cloth being three times read the said Amendments were assented unto and the said Proviso passed upon the Question The Bill Intituled An Act for the reviving continuance explanation perfecting and repealing of divers Statutes was sent up unto their Lordships by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others Mr. Comptroller one of the Committees of this House for Conference with the Committees of the Lords this Afternoon concerning the Bill lately passed in this House and sent up unto their Lordships Intituled An Act against the Excess of Apparel c. shewed their meeting with the said Committees of the Lords and that their Lordships have no good liking of the said Bill for sundry imperfections in the same not answerable to her Majesties Proclamation touching the degrees and qualities of persons And that their Lordships shewing themselves very courteously and kindly towards the said Committees of this House could have been well pleased to have proceeding with a more convenient Bill for the said purpose if the expected shortness of the Parliament could so have permitted Whereupon the House resolved not to deal any further touching that matter this Parliament The said Mr. Comptroller then also further shewed that he and other the Committees of this House in the Bill Intituled An Act for the enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of Debts and Legacies and in the Bill for establishing the Jointure to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esq and for the better enabling the said William Pope to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts who had been appointed in the beginning of this present day shewed the meeting of the Committees and their some small Amendments in both the same Bills and so delivered in both the said Bills which Bills being each of them read severally for the third reading the said Amendments being likewise three times read the said Bills were thereupon passed upon the Question accordingly The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords to the Bill lately passed in this House Intituled An Act for the further continuance and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners being three times read the Amendments were assented unto and the Proviso passed upon the Question accordingly The Amendments of the Committees in the Bill for the better Execution of Judgments being twice read the same were upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 8 th day of February the Bill Intituled An Act for the establishing a Jointure to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William Pope to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts The Bill Intituled An Act for the enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of Debts and Legacies The Bill Intituled An Act against deceitful stretching and taintering of Northern Cloth The Bill intituled An Act for the further continuing and Explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners made in the thirty fifth year of the Queens Majesties Reign that now is were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others The Bill for reformation of abuses in Wine-Casks was read the third time and dashed upon the Question The Bill for the better Execution of Judgments was read the third time and passed upon the Question Mr. Wingfield moved for the ordinary proceeding of this House in the usual course of Parliament to be permitted concerning the two Bills lately passed in this House concerning sundry surrounded grounds in sundry Counties of this Realm and sent up from this House unto the Lords and there in like manner passed with their Lordships in the Upper House with some Amendments and some Provisoes sent down again by their Lordships unto this House the further proceeding of this House in which Bill was yesterday restrained by a Message delivered from her Majesty by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer unto Mr. Speaker and this whole House Mr. Doctor Carew and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships Intituled An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns notwithstanding any default in payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown And did shew that the same Bill hath likewise passed with their Lordships with some Amendments and a Proviso and so delivered in the same Bill to M r Speaker M r Serjeant Drew M r Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill Intituled An Act for the Queens Majesties most Gracious general and free Pardon Post Meridiem The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships from this House Intituled An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns notwithstanding any default of payment or their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown being three times read the said Amendments were assented unto and the said Provisoes were passed upon the Question The Amendments of the Committees of this House in the Bill that lately passed in the Upper House and was sent down by their Lordships to this House Intituled An Act for reformation of Retailing Brokers and Pawn-Takers being three times read the said Amendments were assented unto and the Bill likewise passed upon the Question On Thursday the 9 th day of February the Bill Intituled An Act for Reformation of Retailing Brokers and other Pawn-Takers The Bill Intituled An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees
Temporal Lords not because as I suppose they were all returned first but because of their Ecclesiastical dignities and in respect that the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury one of their Order is the first Peer of the Realm Whence also their names are usually first set down in the Journal-Book where the presence of all the Lords is noted each day when they sit as long as the Parliament continueth Then follow the Proxies of the Temporal Lords in such order as they are here set down Rogeri Comitis Rutland which as the rest is put in the Genitive Case in relation to those first words Literae procuratoriae in hoc Parliamento sunt allatae qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Edwardi Comitis Bedford qui procuratorem suum constituit Oliverum Dominum S t John de Bletsoe Caroli Domini Mount joy qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum Hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Gulielmi Comitis Bathon ' qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum Hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Edwardi Domini Morley qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum Hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Anthonii Vicecomitis Mountague qui procuratorem suum constituit Thomam Dominum Buckhurst magnum Thesaurarium Angliae Gulielmi Domini Sandes qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Edwardi Domini Stafford qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Georgii Comitis Huntington qui procuratorem suum constituit Edwardum Comitem Wigorn ' Thomae Vicecomitis Bindon qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Domini Lumley qui procuratorem suum constituit Thomam Dominum Darcy de Chiche Johannis Domini Darcy qui procuratorem suum constituit Gilbertum Comitem Salop. Henrici Comitis Kanciae qui procuratorem suum constituit Gilbertum Comitem Salop. Edwardi Comitis Oxon qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Thomae Domini Burleigh qui procuratorem suum constituit Henricum Comitem Northumberland Nota That in respect that this present Parliament was the last of her Majesties Reign and these Proxies are entred after a different manner from most of those in the Queens time which are before set down they are all of them therefore Transcribed both ordinary and extraordinary out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of which the Ordinary I call those when a Spiritual Lord constituteth two Proctors and a Temporal Lord one and those Extraordinary when a Temporal Lord constituteth more than one Proctor and a Spiritual Lord but one or more than two Nota also that the Earl of Nottingham had eight several Proxies sent unto him this Parliament by which it is plain that by the Ancient Custom and usages of the Upper House every Member thereof is capable of as many Proxies as shall be sent unto him although the said Custom be at this day altered by an Order made in the said House upon the day of in Anno 2. Regis Caroli Anno Dom. 1626. upon the ingrossing of many Letters procuratory by George Duke of Bucks that no Lords Spiritual or Temporal should be capable of above two of the said Proxies The above-mentioned Proxies being set down in manner and form as aforesaid now followeth in the next place the beginning of the Parliament it self and the manner of her Majesties coming to the same On Tuesday the 27 th day of October and the first day of this present Parliament about three of the Clock in the Afternoon the Queen went by Land to Westminster Church riding in a Chariot made all open only like a Canopy at the Top being of Cloth of Silver or Tissue with divers Lords and others in their degree being Marshalled by the Heralds where having heard a Sermon she went into the Upper House and being there set the Lords Spiritual and Temporal took their several places whose names are Transcribed out of the Original Journal of the Upper House in manner and form following Johannes Archiepiscopus Cantuarien ' Thomas Egerton Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Matchio Winton Comites Comes Sussex Magnus Mareschallus Comes Nottingham Magnus Admirallus Angliae Magnus seneschallus Hospitii Reginae Comes Northumbr Comes Salop. Comes Darbiae Comes Wigorn ' Comes Cumbriae Comes Pembrooke Comes Hertford Comes Lincoln Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Dunelmen Episcopus Wintonien Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Coventr ' Litchfield Episcopus Wigorn. Episcopus Bathon ' Wellen. Episcopus Meneven Episcopus Lincoln Episcopus Asaphen Episcopus Cestren Episcopus Cicestren Episcopus Exon. Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Elien Episcopus Petriburgen Barones Dominus Zouch Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Dudley Dominus Lumley Dominus Stourton Dominus Windsor Dominus Mordant Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby de Parham Dominus Sheffield Dominus Darcie de Chiche Dominus Chandots Dominus S t John de Bletsoe Dominus Compton Dominus Norreys Dominus Howard de Walden These names being thus inserted out of the Original Journal-Book now follow some other passages of this day with the summ of the Lord Keepers Speech out of a private Journal of the House of Commons The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice that her Majesty with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal and others were set in the Upper House hasted thither but before they came the door of the House was shut and notwithstanding any means that was made by them was still kept shut until the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech the substance or chief scope of which said Speech was as followeth He used perswasion of thankfulness and of obedience and also shewed her Majesties desire of dissolution of this Parliament before Christmas He shewed unto us the necessity we stand in and the means to prevent it the necessity the Wars between Spain and England the means Treasure c. His advice was that Laws in force might be revised and explained and no new Laws made Our Enemies he said were Enemies to God the Queen and the peace of this Kingdom conspired to overthrow Religion to reduce us to a Tyrannical servitude These Enemies he named to be the Bishop of Rome and the King of Spain Our state being thus he summoned us to be provident by reason we deal with a provident Enemy and confident because God hath ever and I hope will ever bless the Queen with successful fortune He shewed how apparent his providence was by the means and course he taketh for our instruction And secondly the success we had against him by Gods strong Arm of defence in Anno 1588. and divers other times since You see to what effect the Queens support of the French Kings Estate hath
conclude their Conference about the Bill concerning Letters Patents and Conveyances c. another meeting was then appointed for them this Morning M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Carew were therefore sent unto them to let them know that their Lordships were ready presently to meet Unto which Message the House of Commons returned Answer that they would make their repair to their Lordships forthwith for that purpose Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant December ensuing The Bill for the perfecting the Joynture of the Lady Bridget Countess of Sussex Wife of Robert Earl of Sussex was read secundâ vice but no mention was made either of the Commitment or Engrossing thereof the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing The Bill concerning the Joynture of the Countess of Bedford was returned to the House by the Earl of Worcester first of the Committees who were appointed on Friday the 4 th day of this instant December foregoing with a Proviso and certain Amendments thought meet to be added together with a Petition of the Lady Russell against the said Bill The Lords that were appointed Committees for the Bill touching Letters Patents c. went forth to the outward Chamber to have Conference with those of the House of Commons appointed Committees for the same Bill but nothing concluded touching the Amendments because the said Committees had no power to conclude and therefore after long debate the Bill was brought back to the House and the relation thereof referr'd to be made by M r Attorney and the same deferred till the Afternoon sitting by reason the day was spent Domimus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam tertiam post Meridiem hujus diei About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers Lords having assembled themselves five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first concerning the draining and recovery from the Water of certain Overflown-Grounds in the County of Norfolk The second for Reformation of Abuses committed in buying and selling of Spices and other Merchandizes and the third to prevent Perjury and Subornation of Perjury and unnecessary expences in suits of Law were each of them read secundà vice But no mention is made either of their Commitment or Engrossing the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing The Proviso that was pretended to be added to the Bill for the Maintenance of the Navy encrease of Mariners c. was this day twice read in like sort as the Amendments of the said Bill had been before and thereupon the Bill was appointed to be forthwith engrossed The Bill for the maintenance of the Navy encrease of Mariners c. was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons together with the Bill concerning Captains Souldiers c. by D r Carew and D r Hone. The Amendments and Proviso in the Bill concerning the Countess of Bedfords Joynture were twice read and likewise the Lady Russells Petition was read Whereupon it was appointed that the Proviso should be ingrossed in Parchment and the Amendments in Paper The Committees in the Bill for the observation of Orders in the Exchequer who were nominated on Thursday the 10 th day of this instant December foregoing were appointed forthwith to meet in the little Chamber near the Parliament Presence to consider of a Proviso drawn by the Lord Chief Justice and the rest of the Judges by direction of the Committees which Proviso having been considered of accordingly was brought into the House and presently twice read And thereupon the said Proviso was commanded to be ingrossed The Bill for the assuring the Patronage of the Vicaridge of Rotherston in the County of Chester and a Scholars room in the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxon of the Foundation of King Hen. 8 th by the Dean and Chapter of the said Cathedral Church to Thomas Venables Esquire and his Heirs for ever was read secundâ vice But no mention is made either of the Commitment or Engrossing the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing Relation was made by M r Attorney of the Conference with the Committees of the House of Commons touching Amendments of the Bill of Letters Patents c. Whereupon because the Committees of both Houses were not agreed it was thought good they should meet again upon Monday Morning being the 14 th day of this instant December and should have Authority to agree touching the setting down and penning of the said Amendments and reducing of them to a certainty together with the Committees of the House of Commons coming with the like Authority that afterwards the same might be presented to the Judgment of the House This Motion was sent down by D r Carew and D r Hone and was accepted Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant December ensuing On Monday the 14 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer set down and established by vertue of her Majesties Privy Seal was read tertia vice And the Proviso thought meet by the Committees to be added was also read the third time The Bill for the Assurance of certain Mannors and Lands for part of a Jointure to Lucy Countess of Bedford And the Provisoes and Amendments presented by the Committees to be added were also read the third time both which Bills were sent to the House of Commons for their consideration of the several Provisoes and Amendments by the hands of D r Swale and the Clerk of the Crown Four Bills also had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Grant of four entire Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read secundâ vice But no mention is made either of the Commitment or ingrossing thereof the supposed cause or reason of which omission see more at large on Monday the 23 th day of November foregoing Vide also concerning this Bill on Tuesday the 15 th day of this instant December immediately following Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of the Charter of King Edward the Sixth of the three Hospitals of Christ Bridewell and S t Thomas the Apostle to the Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of London was read primâ vice The Bill to confirm the Assurance of the Mannors or Farms of Sagebury aliàs Sadgebury and Obden and other Hereditaments to Samuel Sands Esq and John Harris Gent ' and their Heirs And the Bill for the Amendment of certain imperfections of a Statute made in the Eighth Year of her Majesties Reign concerning the true making of Hats
some imputation of slander to be offered unto her Majesty I mean by the Gentleman that first mentioned Tinn which was M r Martin for that being one of the principal commodities of this Kingdom and being in Cornwall it hath ever so long as there were any belonged to the Dukes of Cornwall and they had special Patents of Priviledge It pleased her Majesty freely to bestow upon me that priviledge And that Patent being word for word the very same the Duke's is and because by reason of mine Office of Lord Warden of the Stannary I can sufficiently inform this House of the State thereof I will make bold to deliver it unto you When the Tinn is taken out of the Mine and melted and refined then is every piece containing one hundred weight sealed with the Duke's Seal Now I will tell you that before the granting of my Patent whether Tinn were but of seventeen shillings and so upward to fifty shillings a hundred yet the Poor Workmen never had above two shillings the week finding themselves But since my Patent whosoever will work may and buy Tinn at what price soever they have four shillings a week truly paid There is no Poor that will work there but may and have that wages Notwithstanding if all others may be repealed I will give my consent as freely to the cancelling of this as any Member of this House Sir Francis Hastings said It is a special honour to this Assembly to give freedom of speech to all And howsoever some have been heretofore troubled yet I joy to see so great reformation that we may speak quietly and be heard peaceably Every man hath not like sence or judgment neither is every mans memory alike I wish that if any Gentleman that speaks of this or any other subject as injurious shall let fall any word amiss or unpleasing that it may be attributed rather to hastiness than want of duty This Speech proceeded in respect of Sir Walter Raleighs Speech as also of the great silence after it M r Snigg wisht a Committee to devise a course Sir Robert Wroth wisht a Committee in which a course might be devised how her Majesty might know our griefs M r Downland said As I would be no lett or over vehement in any thing so I am not sottish or senseless of the common grievance of the Common-Wealth If we proceed by way of Petition we can have no more gracious Answer than we had the last Parliament to our Petitions But since that Parliament we have no reformation And the reason why I think no reformation hath been had is because I never heard the cry against Monopolies greater and more vehement M r Johnson said M r Speaker I 'le be very short and say only thus much I would we were all so happy that her gracious self had heard but the fifth part of that that every one of us hath heard this day I think verily in my Soul and Conscience we should not be more desirous in having those Monopolies called in than she would be earnest therein her self The Bill aforesaid for Explanation of the Common Law touching Letters Patents was after the foregoing several long Arguments Ordered upon the question to be committed unto all the Privy Council and Learned Councel of this House Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Stafford Sir Edward Hobbie Sir George Moore Sir Robert Wroth and others And the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Sir Francis Hastings who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in this House at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Saturday the 21 th day of November Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for levying of Fines with Proclamations of Lands within the County of the City of Chester and the second to reform the abuse of Tainters had each of them their first reading M r Francis Moore made Report of the meeting of the Committees of the Bill touching Sir Edward Seymour who were appointed on Tuesday the 17 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the Amendments in the same and brought in the Bill Thus far out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons Now follows one passage of this day touching the Priviledge of the House out of the often before-cited private Journal of the said House Sir Edward Hobbie said A Gentleman a good Member of this House Sir John Gray was served with a Subpoena in the Chancery ad respondendum the 30 th of November ad sectam Roberti Atkins if no Order be taken herein for my own part I think both the House and the Priviledges thereof will grow in contempt I wish the Serjeant may be sent for and the Party and that some exemplary punishment may be shewed M r Doyley said M r Speaker we spend much time which is precious in disputing of Priviledges and other matters of small importance for my own part I think fit no time should be spent herein but that a Writ of Priviledge may be granted M r Johnson said M r Speaker our own lenity is the cause of this contempt and till some special punishment be shewed I think it will not be otherwise Thus far out of the aforesaid private Journal Now follows the residue of the Passages of this Forenoon out of the Original Journal-Book it self The Bill against Taintering of Woollen Cloths was read the second time and committed unto the former Committees in the Bill for Cloths and Clothworkers and Ordered that Merchants and Drapers do attend the Committees and be heard therein as appertains And Sir Edward Stafford M r Fulk Grevill and M r Barkley were added to the former Committees The Amendments in the Bill touching Sir Edward Seymour Knight Deceased and Edward Seymour Esq were twice read and Ordered with the Bill to be ingrossed The Bill for the making of an Haven or Key on the North part of Severn was read the second time and committed unto the Knights and Burgesses for the Counties of Devon Cornwall Somerset and South-Wales all the Queens Learned Councel the Batons of the Cinque Ports and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for the Assurance of the Jointure of 〈◊〉 Countess of Bedford was read the second time and committed unto all the Queens Learned Councel being Members of this House Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Hobbie and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday next in the Middle-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer set down and established by vertue of her Majesties Privy Seal was read the second time and committed unto the former Committees in the first Bill and unto all the Privy Council and Learned Councel of her Majesty being Members of this House Masters Attornies of the Dutchy and Court of Wards M r Francis
was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill that the Land of Edward Lucas Gentleman shall be lyable to the payment of certain Legacies was read the second time and committed unto Sir John Cutts Sir John Cotton M r Attorney of the Wards and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Court of Wards at two of the Clock Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Assurance of the Joynture of Rachell Wife of Edward Nevill of Birling in the County of Kent was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Serjeant Yelverton and M r D r Swale coming from their Lordships declared that their Lordships are ready for Conference according to the former appointment in the Bill concerning Letters Patents as also touching a Paper delivered unto their Lordships containing an Information against M r Belgrave a Member of this House in the Court of Star-Chamber It is Ordered that the Copy of Information exhibited into the Star-Chamber against M r Belgrave a Member of this House which was sent down from the Lords unto this House this day shall be forthwith examined with the Record and amended where it shall differ and be certified under the Clerks hand of the Star-Chamber to be a true Copy Vide concerning this business of M r Belgrave on Thursday the third day Monday the 7 th day Tuesday the 8 th day and on Thursday the 10 th day of this instant Decem ber foregoing as also on December the 16 th Wednesday ensuing Four Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary Cecill and others of which one was the Bill for recovering of certain surrounded Grounds in the County of Norfolk c. M r Browne a Committee in the Bill touching repairing of the Bridges near Carlisle brought in the Bill with some Amendments The Amendments in the Bill touching the repairing of the Bridges near Carlisle were twice read and the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed The Additions in the Bill touching the Assize of Fuel were twice read and with the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for relief of Souldiers and Mariners was read the second time and committed unto M r Secretary Cecill Sir Francis Hastings and others who were appointed to meet at the time and place before appointed for relief of the poor Thus far of these foregoing passages out of the Original Journal-Book or the House of Commons Now follow some remembrances of that which was agitated at a certain Committee of both Houses in the Painted Chamber this Forenoon out of a Private Journal The Lords Committees who were appointed to have Conference with the Committees of the House of Commons in the Bill touching Letters Patents c. being set in the Painted Chamber Mr. Secretary Cecill with the residue of the Committees of the said House repaired unto them where M r Secretary going to the Upper end of the Table spake to this effect That if their Lordships had already concluded what to do in the Bill for Patents then they had no Commission to proceed and if they had altered the Bill in any Point with Amendments they also had no Commission But if their Lordships had done neither but only were desirous to be resolved of any doubt which they in their wisdoms conceived and would willingly thereabout confer with them they would most willingly accomplish their Lordships desire for they had sufficient warrant from the House The Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer after a little whispering with the Lords together answered That he would not have us preoccupate their judgments with a Speech both strange improper and preposterous with other words c. M r Secretary said He could not answer his Lordship nor the rest without Order from the other Committees And therefore prayed they might confer together which was granted So they went forth into an outward room and there conferred what Speech or Answer to make and so after they returned again and Mr. Secretary said My Lords We of the Lower House are very sorry your Lordships should any way conceive otherwise than well of our Speech and good intent Your Lordships termed our Speech for so I may say because I spake in the name and behalf of the Committees strange improper and preposterous My Lords I think it not strange for it is not unknown of your Lordships that we be all Members of one Body and as we cannot be without your Lordships so your Lordships cannot be without us And when we are desirous it pleaseth your Lordships out of your favour to vouchsafe us a Conference so when you be willing it pleaseth us out of the desire we have to be observant to yield thereunto Neither have your Lordships been more forward to gratify us with your favours than we of the Lower House have been willing to further your Honours desires with our best furtherance And therefore my Lords it is no strange thing to have a Conference neither our Speech strange because it tended to draw us to some particular point of Conference For the Epithet improper I am to tell your Lordships that I delivered no more than I was commanded nor no less than I was required And therefore by your Lordships favour no Cause it should deserve the title of impropriety And I take it by your Lordships favour it was not preposterous for my Lords the first matter we took should be handled was the doubts which we imagined your Lordships had conceived of the Bill and if your Lordships had ought else conceived I thought fit to shew your Lordships that we then came without Commission So my Lords I hope I have made it appear that the Speech was neither strange improper nor preposterous But we of the Lower House who be here Committees do beseech your Lordships that you would not conceive otherwise of us than we deserve And your Lordships shall find us ever ready in all dutiful Service as coadjuting Members of one United Body the House of Parliament So after withdrawing of themselves a little from the Table the Lords hummed and whispered and at length calling us The Lord Treasurer said The Lords were satisfied with our Answer and very glad they found us so conformable by which they doubted not but we should well agree for the Conference whereby the Bill might have the better passage M r Secretary Answered That he was very glad their Lordships did conceive aright of them And that the Committees because they were many and would not be troublesome with multiplicity of Speech had chosen for their Speakers to satisfie their Honours M r Bacon M r Serjeant Harris M r Francis Moore M r Henry Mountague M r Philipps and M r Boice So the Lords called M r Attorney General for them who having spoken a while on the one side and been Answered by Serjeant Harris on the other side the
House as shall be sent from this House unto the Lords with the Bill for Confirmation of the Subsidy of the Clergy may by direction of this House recommend unto their Lordships the Bill against transportation of Iron Ordnance with request of their Lordships good furtherance to the passage of the same The Amendments and Provisoes in the Bill touching Confirmation of Grants made to her Majesty and of Letters Patents from her Majesty to others were read the third time and passed upon the question Sir Robert Wroth moved that an Order may be set down how the Collection made in this House for relief of the poor may be distributed Whereupon it is Ordered that the Souldiers now remaining about the City of London shall be relieved out of the money Collected of the Members of this House in such sort as to the Officers thereunto appointed shall be thought fit The Officers appointed for the distribution of the Collection are Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Fettiplace Mr. Wade Sir Francis Darcie Mr. Trevor and Mr. Brown And that they join with the Officers in like case appointed by the Lords Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Explanation of a certain branch of An Act made in the twenty eighth year of her Majesty touching Recusants was read the second time and committed but no time or place appointed for the meeting Mr. Belgrave moved That whereas an Information hath been Exhibited into the Court of Star Chamber in the name of Mr. Attorney General against him upon suggestion that he should offer abuse unto this House humbly prayed that he may be Ordered and censored by this House if it shall so fall out and seem sit unto this House upon further Examination to be had therein Vide plus post Meridiem Mr. Secretary Cecill declared her Majesties Pleasure to be that her Highness purposeth God willing to Dissolve this Assembly of Parliament to Morrow Post Meridiem The Bill for the changing of the Sirname of the Wallers into the Sirname of the Debdens was read the second time Mr. Serjeant Telverion and Mr. Doctor Hone did bring from the Lords a Bill Intituled An Act for reformation of deceits in Auditors and their Clerks in making untrue particulars And also they do declare that whereas the Lords have received some Bills from this House which their Lordships do think to expedite and shall need perhaps some small Amendments therefore they do desire that this House may sit somewhat longer than they purposed before for the final perfecting and consummating of the same The Bill for reformation of Deceits in Auditors and their Clerks in making untrue particulars was read twice and committed unto M r Secretary Cecill Mr. Comptroller Sir Walter Raleigh and others who were appointed to consider presently in the Court of Wards upon the said Bill And after some short space of time and Conference therein had it was after their return into this House thought meet the said Committees should confer with the Lords therein and afterwards report the same unto this House The Bill touching Brewers c. was read the second time and committed to the Burgesses of Southwark The Bill touching unlawful sized Bread and the Bill touching buyers of Butter and Cheese were each of them read the second time and committed to the former Committees The Bill also against using of false Dice was read the first time M r Attorney General and M r D r Hone did bring from the Lords a Bill that before passed this House intituled An Act touching the draining of certain surrounded Grounds in the Counties of Huntington Cambridge Lincoln Northampton Suffolk and Norfolk amended and with some additions of more Counties viz. Sussex Essex Kent and the Bishoprick of Durham The Amendments in the Bill touching surrounded Grounds were thrice read and Ordered upon the question to be inserted into the same and so the Bill passed The draught of an Order touching Mr. Belgrave was once read and committed to be considered of presently in the Committee Chamber by Sir Edward Stafford Mr. Henry Mountague Mr. Brown Mr. Doyley Sir Francis Darcie Sir John Cotton and Sir John Grey The Draught of an Order considered of and brought in by the Committees was read and Ordered by the House upon the question to be entred as the Act of the House viz. Whereas one George Belgrave in the County of Leicester Esquire a Member of this House hath made complaint of an Information exhibited against him into the Court of Star-Chamber pretending an abuse in the highest matters as are those wich do concern the most Honourable and High Court of Parliament and hath appealed unto this House for that the Information was filed sedente Curiâ And whereas the House did refer to the Committees for Returns and Priviledges the Examination of the Cause alledged in the Information and the substance thereof having been related unto this House This House thereupon did upon the question again moved and largely debated pronounce and declare the said George Belgrave to be free in their Judgements from any abuse offered to this House and that he is not to be molested for any such imputation And have resolved that this shall be entred as An Act of this House Vide de istâ materiâ Dec. 3. Dec. 7. Dec. 8. Dec. 10. Dec. 11. antea The Bill to restrain Butchers in and about the City of London from buying c. And the Bill touching Practitioners in Physick were each of them read the second time and committed as afore to the former Committees for Brewers The Bill touching the shipping of Coals near Newcastle was read the second time and committed with the rest to the former Committees but no mention of time or place The Bill for redress of abuses in taking of Pawns and the appointing of a Lumbard was read the second time and committed as abovesaid To Morrow at eight of the Clock in the Morning those that were nominated by this House to distribute the Money collected for the relief of the Poor and likewise those appointed by the Lords are appointed to be at the Sessions House in the Old Bayly to take Order for the said distribution Upon a motion made by Mr. Fettiplace the names of such as have not paid towards the relief of the Poor and maimed Souldiers were read which were about forty four On Friday the 18 th day of December as the Speaker was coming to the House in the Morning the Pardon was delivered unto him which he took and delivered unto the House which they sent back again because it was not brought according to course The Collection for the Clerk of twelve pence a piece according to Mr. Wingfield's motion yesterday was made and amounted to about twenty five pound Mr. Bowyer Secretary to the Lord Treasurer sitting in the Middle of the House on the left side as you come in next to Mr. Skipwith of Lincolns Inn swooned upon a suddain
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
satisfied with her Tryal and Attainder Assembled a Parliament 28 29 Eliz. on purpose to commit to them the Examination of those proceedings against her p. 375. and 393. Both Houses consent that the Sentence pronounced against her was just p. 379. And they Petition the Queen that the Sentence may be Executed p. 380 381 382. M r Speaker at the presenting the Petition gives sundry reasons why Execution of the Sentence should be done p. 400 401. The Queens Answer to the Petition p. 402. Religion the Queens Person and Peace of the Realm not to be secured without such Execution p. 403 404 405 406. She is Executed 8 Feb. 29 Eliz. p. 382 Measures Vide Weight Melcomb Regis a Bill for the Fortification of it p. 45. It is incorporated into one Burrough with Weymouth by the Queens Letters Patents but so that they chuse four Burgesses p. 554 Ministry several abuses therein comprized in sixteen heads proposed by the Commons to the Lords to have reformed 27 Eliz. with the Lords Answer p. 357 ... 360 Money a Bill against the transportation of it out of the Realm spoken unto p. 643. Germany and France held the Standard therein as well as we but not so the Dutch ibid. Several Statutes that no strangers should bring Commodities into this Realm but he should bring so much money ibid. Monopolies reckoned to be grievous to the subject in 39 40 Eliz. p. 554. What a Monopoly is p. 644. Several kinds thereof ibid. and p. 645. 649. They are generally grievous to the generality of the subjects ibid. and p. 646. A precedent wherein Letters Patents of Monopoly were cancelled in Parliament c. p. 645. How numerous in 43 Eliz. p. 648. 650. A witty Speech of Secretary Cecil's intimating the Queens resolution to revoke most of them and suspend the rest p. 652 653. How the House resented this resolution p. 654. The Queen will not accept of thanks from the House till she have put her resolution in practice ibid. Upon their giving thanks she makes a most gracious and kind Speech unto them p. 658 659. A Conference between the two Houses about the Bill touching Letters Patents of Monopoly p. 679 N. NAmes Vide Calling Naturalization Vide the Table to the Journal of the House of Lords Henry Nevil an Accomplice with the Traytor Doctor Parry the particulars of their Treason p. 356 Newport Vide Dunkirk Newtown in the County of Southampton returned no Burgesses till 43 Eliz. p. 626 Norfolk a remarkable case as to Flection of Knights for that County p. 396 397 Duke of Norfolk a general Resolution of the House that he ought to be Executed 14 Eliz. p. 207. But they did not think sit to Petition the Queen to that purpose p. 220 O. OAth Vide Supremacy and Calling An Officer according to the Common Law shall forfeit his Office for Non-attendance p. 640 Ognel's Case p. 487 Onflow Richard being the Queens Solicitor General chosen Speaker in the Parl. 8 9 Eliz. p. 121 Onslow Fulk made Clerk of the Parliament in 13 Eliz. p. 155. Being sick of an Ague he Petitions the House to permit his Servant to execute the place as his Deputy which is granted p. 623 Iron Ordnance a Bill against the transportation of them in 43 Eliz. well spoken to p. 670. They were of four sorts ibid. How injurious such transportation is to the Common-wealth p. 671. They come within the Statute of 2 E. 6. against transporting Gunmetal though Guns were not then made of Iron ibid. and p. 672. The House resolve to proceed in order to hinder such transportation both by Petition to the Queen and by Bill p. 677. The Bill past the Commons p. 686. but not the Lords p. 688. Whereupon a 〈◊〉 is made that M r Speaker will at the end 〈◊〉 Session mention the grievance to the Queen 〈◊〉 Speaker promises be will but sayes not one 〈◊〉 of it p. ult Ostend how much it concerns England in whose hand it is p. 623 An Outlawed Member Voted to enjoy the priviledge of the House p. 48. Another continued in the House p. 294. Whether a person Outlawed upon Judgment can be elected or stand for a Member several Speeches pro and contra p. 479 480 481 482. The same Question further debated p. 514 515 516. He is reputed a Member and yet not allowed priviledge and why p. 518 P. PAinters and Stainers two Companies in the time of E. 3. but made one in E. 4. p. 681 Pardon Bills of general Pardon granted by the Prince pass commonly upon the first reading p. 595 Parliament the Common Council of the Realm p. 432. The highest Court. p. 434. Both Houses of Parliament at first sate together and how they came to separate p. 515. 655. They are not properly distinct or divided Houses ibid. The Counsels and Debates of Parliament ought not to be divulged p. 653 Doctor Parry a Member of the House committed to the Serjeant at Arms for contempt because he gave his negative voice against a Bill directly and would not show his Reasons to the House though he pretended to have reasons for it p. 341. He is received again into the House at the Queens Motion and upon his own Submission p. 342. but is afterwards committed to the Tower for High-Treason whereupon he is disabled from being a Member of the House p. 352. A Motion in the House for a Law to be made for his Execution after his Conviction proportion'd to his extraordinary Treason p. 355. The particulars of the Charge against him p. 356 Passing a Bill Vide Bill Patents of priviledge reputed a grievance 39 40 Eliz. p. 554. Letters Patents Vide Monopoly Penal Statutes reckon'd too numerous in 39 Eliz. p. 553. They ought not to be perpetual but to alter as times alter p. 622 A Bill to prevent Perjury spoken to p. 641 A Bill that Plaintiffs shall pay the Defendants their Costs by lying in Prison for want of Bail if the Action pass against the Plaintiff p. 585. not passed but reserved till another Parliament p. 590 Plasterers how called anciently p. 680. They were first incorporated in 16 H. 7. by the King who granted them his Letter to the then Lord Mayor to make them Freemen ibid. They ought not to work in Oyl-Colours ibid. and p. 681. but may use six kind of Colours with Size ibid. Pleddals Case p. 89. 91 Plumsted-Marsh a Bill for the Inning of it p. 87. 134 c. A Bill against Pluralities of Benefices with many Speeches pro and contra p. 639 640 Policies of Assurance amongst Merchants a Bill touching them with a Speech thereupon p. 669 John Popham Esq the Queens Solicitor General chosen Speaker 23 Eliz. p. 281 Poor to be relieved out of Impropriations and other Church Livings a Bill for that purpose but rejected p. 561 Popery the principal root of all the conspiracies against the Queen p. 394 395 Popish Vide the Table to the Journal of the House of Lords