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
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
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
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
Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Saunders Knight Lord Chief Baron Richard Weston one of the Justices of Welsh one of the Justices of D r Lewis D r Yale and D r Vaughan Triers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Clinton the Lord Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Wentworth and the Lord North. Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and for other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles The Archbishop of York the Marquess of Northampton the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Howard of Esfingham Chamberlain of the Queen the Lord Windsor the Lord Hastings of Loughborough and the Lord Carie of Hùnsdon Hodiè retornatum breve quo Edwardus Comes Oxon. praesenti huic Parliamento summonitus fuit qui admissus fuit ad suum in sedendo praeheminentiae locum salvo cuique jure suo The like Writs returned for Henry Earl of Pembroke and William Lord Sands Hodiè retornatum fuit breve quo Richardus Episcopus Carliolen praesenti buic Parliamento summonebatur qui admissus fuit ad suum in sedendo praeheminentiae locum salvo jure alieno On Wednesday the 4 th day of April in the Afternoon but at or about what hour appeareth not although it may probably be guessed that it was about three of the Clock her Majesty with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled in the Upper House whose names are marked to have been present this day in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House being as followeth Regina Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Episcopus London Episcopus Dunelmen Episcopus Winton Episcopus Hereforden Episcopus Wigorn. Episcopus Lincolnien Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Meneven Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Norwicen Episcopus Carliolen Episcopus Cestren Episcopus Assaven Episcopus Glocestren Episcopus Bangoren Episcopus Landaven Nicolaus Bacon Miles Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli Marchio Northampton Comes Arundell Comes Oxon. Comes Wigorn. Comes Sussex Comes Southampton Comes Bedford Comes Pembroke Comes Leicester Vice-Comes Hereford Vice-Comes Mountague Which are all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal sitting on the two Upper Forms noted to be present this day Nota That the Spiritual Lords are always thus placed in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House on the dexter side not in respect of their precedency but as it should seem because the Archbishop of Canterbury the chief of them is the first Peer of England and so the residue of the Clergy are placed next after him in respect of their Ecclesiastical Dignities The next that follow are the Barons who are placed in the said Journal-Book in respect of their several places and precedencies as followeth Barones Dominus Clinton Admirallus Angliae Dominus Howard Camerarius Dominus Burgavenny Dominus Strainge Dominus Dacres de Souch Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Gray de Wilton Dominus Dudley Dominus Lumley Dominus Darcie Dominus Mountegle Dominus Vauxes Dominus Windesor Dominus Wentworth Dominus Burgh Dominus Crumwell Dominus Evers Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby Dominus Paget Dominus Darcie de Chich. Dominus North. Dominus Shandois Dominus Haistings de Loughborough Dominus Hunsdon Dominus S t John de Bletsoe Dominus Buckhurst Dominus De la Ware Her Majesty and the Lords being thus set the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired to the Upper House with Christopher Wray Serjeant at Law their lately Elected Speaker whose presentation to her Majesty and allowance by her being not mentioned in the Original Journal-Book of the said House are therefore wholly transcribed out of that before-cited Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal the same also in effect being contained in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons fol. 10. a. The said Speaker being led up to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the Upper House by two of the most Honourable Personages of the House of Commons did there after three Reverences made humbly beseech her Majesty according to the usual course that albeit he could not obtain of the Commons who had Elected him to be their Speaker for such causes as he had alledged to be disbunthened of that place that so some other more fit and able might be chosen that yet her Highness would vouchsafe to have consideration of the greatness of the Service and therefore to require them eftsoons to return to the House and to make a new Choice To which his Petition the Lord Keeper by her Majesties Commandment Answered and said That as well for that her Highness had understood of him as for that the Commons had chosen him his Request could not be granted Whereupon the said Speaker being allowed he desired to be heard to say somewhat concerning the orderly Government of a Common-Weal which to be duly done he said there were three things requisite Religion Authority and Laws By Religion he said we do not only know God aright but also how to Obey the King or Queen whom God shall assign to Reign over us and that not in Temporal Causes but in Spiritual or Ecclesiastical in which wholly her Majesties Power is absolute And leaving all proofs of Divinity to the Bishops and Fathers as he said he would he prov'd the same by the practice of Princes within this Realm and first made remembrance of Lucius the first Christian King who having written to Elut herius the Pope 1300. Years past for the Roman Laws he was Answered that he had the Holy Scriptures out of the which he might draw to himself and for his Subjects Laws by his own good discretion for that he was the Vicar of Christ over the People of Brittain The Conqueror he said in the Erection of Battell-Abby granted that the Church should be free from all Episcopal Jurisdiction Henry the Third gave to Ranulph Bishop of London the Archbishoprick of Canterbury by these words Rex c. Sciatis quod dedimus Dilect nostro Ranulpho Archiepiscop Cantuarien quem instituimus Anulo Baculo The Ring he said was the sign of perfection The Staff the sign of Pastoral Rule which he could not do if these Kings had not had and used the Ecclesiastical Powers In the Reports of the Law we find that an Excommunication of a certain person came from the Pope under his Leaden Bull and was shewed in abatement of an Action brought at the Common Law which besides that it was of no force the King and Judges were of Mind that he who brought it had deserved Death so to presume on any Foreign Authority which Authority being now by Gods Grace and her Highness means abolished and the freedom of Consciences and the truth
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
ensuing The Session of Parliament held in the 18 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Wednesday the 18 th day of February Anno Domini 1575. and was Prorogued on Thursday the 15 th day of March ensuing The Session of Parliament held in the 23. year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 16 th day of January Anno Domini 1580. and was Dissolved on Friday the 19 th day of April Anno Domini 1583. The Parliament held in the 27 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 23. day of November Anno Domini 1584. and was Dissolved on Wednesday the 14 th day of September An. Domini 1586. Anno 28 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 28 th and 29 th years of Queen Elizabeth began on Saturday the 29 th day of October Anno Domini 1586. and was Dissolved on Thursday the 23. of March Anno 29 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 31. year of Queen Elizabeth began on Tuesday the 4 th day of February Anno Domini 1588. and was Dissolved on Saturday the 29 th day of March Anno Domini 1589. The Parliament held in the 35 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 19 th day of November Anno Domini 1592. and was Dissolved on Tuesday the 10 th day of April Anno Domini 1593. The Parliament held in the 39. and 40. years of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 24. day of October Anno Domini 1597. and was Dissolved on Thursday the 9 th day of February An. 40 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 43. and 44 th years of Queen Elizabeth began on Tuesday the 27 th day of October Anno Domini 1601. and was Dissolved on Saturday the 19 th day of December ensuing Anno 44. Regin ejusdem The Names of the Lord Keeper Lord Chancellor or others who supplied their places as Speakers of the House of Lords during all the Reign of Queen ELIZABETH as also all the Names of all the Clerks of the said House of Parliament together with the Names of the several Speakers of the House of Commons and Clerks of the same House during all the Parliaments of the said Queens Reign The several Years of her Majesties Reign in which the said Parliaments or Sessions of Parliament were held The Names of the Lord Keeper Lord Chancellor c. and of the Clerks of the House of Lords The Names of the Speakers of the House of Commons and of the Clerks of the same House IN the Parliament held in the first Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England whose place was supplied Mar. 4. by the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England Sir Thomas Gargrave Knight Speaker  Francis Spilman Esquire Clerk of the Upper House ..... Seimour Gent. Clerk of the House of Commons In the Session of Parliament held in the fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper Thomas Williams Esq Speaker The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the ninth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes during his being sick of the Gout First by the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England after by Sir Robert Catlin Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Richard Onslow Esq the Queens Sollicitor  The same Clerk who either died or surrendred his place before the next Parl. began in An. 13 Reg. Eliz. The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes during his sickness by Sir Robert Catlin K t Lord Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench. Christopher Wray Serjeant at Law Speaker  Anthony Mason aliàs Wilkes succeeded Francis Spilman in the place of the Clerk of the House of Lords Fulk Onslow Gent. Clerk of the House of Commons In the Session of Parliament held in the fourteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied in his absence for divers days by Sir Robert Catlin K t Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Robert Bell Esq Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the eighteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes in his absence by the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England The same Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the twenty third Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor John Popham Esq the Queens Sollicitor Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the twenty seventh Year of Qucen Elizabeth The same Lord Chancellor John Puckering Serjeant at Law Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the twenty eighth and twenty ninth Years of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Chancellor and his place supplied for divers dayes during his sickness by Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. John Puckering Serjeant at Law Speaker again  The same Clerk The same Clerk from Oct. 29. to Dec. 2. 1589. And the same Clerks Kinsman W. Onslow Gent. from Febr. 15. to March 23. ensuing In the Parliament held in the thirty first Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor George Snagg Serjeant at Law Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirty fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Edward Coke Esq the Queens Sollicitor Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirty ninth and fortieth Years of Queen Elizabeth Sir Thomas Egerton Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Christopher Yelverton Serjeant at Law Speaker  Thomas Smith Esq succeeded Clerk of the Upper House to Anthony Mason alids Wilkes The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the 43 44 Years of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper J. Croke Esq Recorder of London The same Clerk The same Clerk THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A o 1 o Regin Eliz. A. D. 1558 1559. The Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster A o 1 o Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1558. beginning there after one Prorogation of the same on Wednesday the 25 th of January and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Monday the 8 th day of May Anno Dom. 1559. QUeen Mary Deceased on Thursday the 17 th day of November in the year of our Lord 1558. and the Parliament then Assembled in the 6th and last year of her Reign thereby immediately Dissolving the thrice Excellent and Prudent Princess Queen Elizabeth according to her right and Hereditary Title without any opposition or difficulty King Philip being then very happily absent beyond the
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
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
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
as well of the said Francis as of the Bishop of Durham whom it concerned should on Saturday then next following be heard what could on either side be said in furtherance or disallowance of the same The Bill also for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Monday the 22 th day of February two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was secunda vice lect but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because it had been formerly sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Tuesday the 23 th day of February the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and Doctor Huicke Nota That this Bill of Subsidy after it had passed the Upper House was not by them altered or amended in any thing but only sent back again unto the House of Commons to whom it did most properly belong and is on the last day of the Parliament or Session of Parliament to be brought up by the Speaker of the said House as it was at this time on Saturday the 10 th day of April ensuing and presented unto her Majesty by Thomas Williams Esq Prolocutor of the said House at this present Session before she gave her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed On Thursday the 25 th day of February the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was read the first time On Saturday the 27 th day of February the Bill for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bill declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Chancellor to be one were each of them read prima vice Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty and the second against carrying over Sheep Skins and Pelts over the Seas not being Staple Ware were each of them returned conclus This day according to the Order formerly taken Sir Francis Jobson with his Counsel came before the Lords and by them declared ..... And no more is set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and by the negligence of the Clerk the matter is so left abruptly but it doth plainly appear that it was touching the Assurance of certain Lands which concerned the Bishop of Durham ut videas on Saturday the 20 th of this Instant February foregoing On Monday the first day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Sons and Daughters of the late Lord Hussey was read prima vice A Proviso to be annex'd to the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all Estates and Subjects within her Dominions was read primâ secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Tuesday the 2 d day of March Ten Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Province of Canterbury and the second against such as sell Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under two hundred pound Lands or Fees were each of them read prima vice The Bill also for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterbury was read secunda tertia vice conclus and was with the Bill for the Children of the Lord Hussey which had likewise this day passed the House upon the third reading sent to the House of Commons by Sir Richard Read and Serjeant Carus On Wednesday the 3 d day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was read tertia vice with certain Provisions thereunto annexed by the Lords which were thrice severally read conclus A Proviso annexed by the House of Commons to the Bill against forging of false Deeds was read prima secunda tertia vice commissa Domino Rich Domino Willoughby Primario Justiciario Banci Regii Justiciario Browne Quod Nota Because no Bill or Proviso is usually committed after the third reading On Thursday the 4 th day of March The Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlain Knight and John Haleston Esq The Bill against such as sell Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under two hundred pound Lands or Fees The Bill for the punishments of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians And the Bill for uniting of Churches within the City of Winchester were each of them read secunda vice but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords The Bill also for Restitution in Blood of William West and the Bill for the Town of Southampton were each of them read the first time and thereupon committed to Justice Southcote Serjeant Carus and the Queens Attorney Nota That these two Bills last mentioned were not only committed after the first reading which is not usual till the second but also committed to meer Assistants which are not Members of the House and therefore in both respects the President is more rare and remarkable vide consimile on Tuesday the 26 th day of Jan. foregoing On Saturday the 6 th day of March The Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy And the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Edward Turner were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus commis Servienti Carus Ricardo Read in Domum Communem deferend Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the bill for avoiding of divers Foreign Wares made by Handy-crafts-men beyond the Seas and the second touching Badgers of Corn and Drovers of Cattle to be Licensed Three Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the further punishment of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians was read tertia vice conclusa dissentiente Comite Arundel On Monday the 8 th day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against such as shall sell any Wares for Apparel without ready money c. The Bill declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper
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
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
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
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
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
Patents were each of them read secundâ vice The Bill lastly touching Cloth-Workers and Cloths ready wrought to be Shipped over the Seas was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa In the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House is no entrance or mention made of the continuance of the Parliament But it appeareth that the House did sit in the Afternoon for without entrance of the presence of any Lord in particular it appeareth that in the Afternoon two Bills were read viz. The Bill for the Almeshouse at Plymouth And the Bill for the Provision of Grain were each of them read primâ vice On Monday the 23 th day of December the Bill for the Confirmation of Fines and Recoveries notwithstanding the default of the Original Writs was read primâ vice cum additione provisione annex cum quâdam reformatione eidem annex Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one being the Bill for Sea-Marks and Mariners And another against carrying over the Sea Rams Lambs or Sheep being alive were read each of them primâ vice The Bill lastly concerning Tonnage of Wares brought from beyond the Seas was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam in Pomeridiano About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal meeting the Bill concerning Sea-Marks and Mariners And the Bill against the carrying over the Sea Rams Lambs or Sheep alive were each of them read secundâ tertiâ vice and thereupon concluded Two Bills also were sent from the Lords to the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill of her Majesties Free and General Pardon The Bill for making of Salt within her Majesties Dominions and the Bill for keeping a Market in the Mannor of Battell in Sussex upon Thursday were each of them read primâ secundâ vice Two Bills lastly had each of them their first reading of which the second was the Bill for the Inning of Plumstead-Marsh On Tuesday the 24 th day of December the Bill touching the transporting of Tann'd Leather made of Sheep-Skins and the Bill for Inning of Plumstead-Marsh being surrounded were each of them read secundâ tertiâ vice and thereupon concluded Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for keeping the Market in the Mannor of Battell in Sussex upon Thursday was read tertiâ vice conclusa The Bill finally for continuance of certain Statutes was read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice Quod nota that it had three readings together Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad diem Lunae tricesimum diem Decembris On Monday the 30 th day of December the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal met but nothing was done save only the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper unto Thursday the 2 d day of January following upon which day in the Afternoon the Parliament was Dissolved On Thursday the 2 d day of January the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal were present although through the negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House it doth not certainly appear who they were in the Original Journal-Book of the same House but no Bill as it seemeth was read or any thing else done but only the Parliament continued by the Lord Keeper which is there Entred in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam primam in Pomeridiano Nota That it appears in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons that after the Parliament had been continued as aforesaid Doctor Huick was sent down to the said House from the Lord Keeper to give them notice thereof Nota also That in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House there is no mention made of any thing that was done or of any Speech used nor touching the Dissolution of this present Session of Parliament but only that her Majesty was there present with divers Lords both Spiritual and Temporal and therefore I have supplyed the whole Proceedings of this Afternoon at large out of a very Copious and Elaborate Anonymous Memorial thereof I had by me which also I have in some places supplyed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although it be so little and short as it may rather be called matter of Confirmation than Enlargement in which also it shall lastly suffice to touch briefly that I have always observed contrary to the ordinary course to insert all such Speeches and other passages as largely as by any good Authority I might into the Journal of the Upper House in which House they were agitated and uttered and to the Journal of which House they do most properly belong and do only for Order sake add some short expressions thereof in the Journals of the House of Commons The said Passages of this Afternoon do now next ensue out of the above-mentioned Manuscript Memorial The Queens Majesty between two or three of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present Thursday being the second day of January in the ninth year of her Reign came by Water from Whitehall and Landed on the backside of the Parliament-Chamber And so the Earl of Westmorland bearing the Sword afore her the Lady Strange the Train with the Lords in their daily Apparel and Heralds attending on her she proceeded up into the Privy-Chamber to prepare her self in her Parliament-Robes during which time the Lords and Justices put on their Parliament-Robes and took their places And upon the upper Woollsack sate the Lord Keeper till the Queen came and then went to his place at the Rail on the right hand of the Cloth of State On the Woollsack on the Northside sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer the two Chief Justices and Richard Read under and M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney On the Sack on the Southside sate Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Justice Brown Justice Welsh and Serjeant Carus On the Westside sate Vaughan and Talc Masters of the Chancery M r Spilman Clerk of the Parliament M r Powle Deputy and Joint-Patentec with M r Martin Clerk of the Crown afore which Sack stood a little Table Then the Queens Majesty being Apparelled in her Parliament-Robes with a Caul on her Head came forth and proceeded up and took her Seat the Marquess of Northampton carrying the Cap of Maintenance and stood on her right hand and the Earl of Westmorland the Sword at her left hand with the Heralds and Serjeants at Arms before her the Queens Mantle born up on either side from her Arms by the Earl of Leicester and the Lord of Hunsdon who always stood still by her for the assisting thereof when she
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
had notice that divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal with Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England were Assembled in the Upper House and expected their repair thither they presently went up unto the Lords where the Lord Keeper shewed forth a Commission from her Majesty under the Great Seal of England directed unto him which he Commanded the Clerk openly to read Which said Commission as also the greatest part of the foregoing days passages are transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and inserted here as into the due and proper place Which very things were in part also mentioned in the Original Book of the House of Commons with the passages of this present Tuesday although in both I have not omitted to supply some things my self which might easily be gathered by the comparing of several things together The Tenor of the said Commission ensueth verbatim ELizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our right Trusty and right well Beloved Chancellor Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England Greeting Where in the beginning of this present Parliament holden at Westminster the 12 th day of January in the fifth Year of our Reign the Knights Citizens and Burgesses being Assembled in the same Year in the same Parliament were Commanded by us to go to their accustomed place and there to chuse among themselves one to be their Speaker according to their accustomed manner whereupon the same Knights Citizens and Burgesses did Elect and chuse one Thomas Williams Esq to be their Speaker and the same their Election did afterwards certifie unto us which we did allow and ratifie since which time this our present Parliament hath been continued by divers Prorogations until the 30. of September in this present eighth Year of our Reign at which day the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and also the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses being Assembled for this present Parliament at Westminster in their accustomed places the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses have declared unto us that the said Thomas Williams since the last Session of this present Parliament is dead And thereupon have made their humble Suit and Petition unto us that they might have Licence and Commandment from us to proceed to elect among themselves one other to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament yet to come Wherefore We having certain and perfect knowledge that the said Thomas Williams is dead as they have alledged and considering their humble Petition and Request very meet and necessary to be granted have appointed and Constituted you and by these Presents We do Will Command Constitute and Appoint you for us and in our Name to call the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses before you and other the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled in this our present Parliament in the Higher House of our Parliament at Westminster and there for us and in our Name to Will and Command the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses to resort to their accustomed place and there to Elect and chuse amongst themselves one sufficient and able person to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament to come And after they have so made their Election that then three or four of them for and in all their names shall signifie the same unto us And thereupon we will further signifie our pleasure unto them what day and time they shall present the person Elected before us as heretofore hath been in like cases accustomed to be done wherefore our Will and Pleasure is that you do diligently attend about the doing of the premises and execute the same with effect In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters of Commission to be Sealed with our Great Seal of England Witness our Self at Westminster the first day of October in the Eighth Year of our Reign The residue of this Days Passages follows out of the Journal of the House of Commons As soon as the said Commission had been read the Knights Citizens and Burgesses and Barons of the House of Commons departed into their own House where Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold declared unto them that for as much as Richard Onslow Esq her Majesties Sollicitor General was a Member of their said House being Elected a Burgess for the Borough of ..... in the County of Sussex they would use some means to have him restored unto them who as yet attended in the Upper House to join with them in their Election of a Speaker And thereupon notice thereof being given to the Lords of the Upper House upon Consultation had amongst them the said M r Onslow was sent down with the Queens Serjeant at Law M r Carus and M r Attorney General to shew for himself why he should not be a Member of this House who alledging many weighty reasons as well for his Office of Sollicitor as for his Writ of Attendance in the Upper House was nevertheless adjudged to be a Member of this House And thereupon proceeding to the Election M r Comptroller nominated M r Onslow to be Speaker who humbly disabled himself as well for non-ability of substance meet for that place as also for his Oath made to the Queens Majesty and required them to proceed to a new Election upon whose Arguments the House was divided and the number to have him Speaker was eighty two and the contrary was sixty And immediately M r Comptroller and M r Vice-Chamberlain brought him from his place to the Chair and there set him down On Wednesday the second day of October between three and four of the Clock in the Afternoon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons repaired to the Upper House having notice that her Majesty with the Lords and divers others were already set in the said House expecting their coming where Richard Onslow Esq their Speaker Elect was led up to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said House between Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold and Sir Francis Knolles Knight her Highness Vice-Chamberlain and so presented unto her Majesty where having disabled himself in many respects he was notwithstanding allowed by her Majesty by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper After which having desired free access to her Highness and pardon for himself if he should in any thing unwittingly fail or mistake the Lord Keeper by her Majesties Commandment declared her full Assent to the said particulars And thereupon the said Speaker being now compleatly and perfectly invested in his place departed back with the residue of the House of Commons unto their own House where according to the usual Form one Bill had its first reading viz. The Bill how Sanctuary-persons shall be compellable for payment of their Debts Nota That the Passages of this Afternoon containing in them the manner of the Presentment and Allowance of
of Gods word established we therefore ought greatly to thank God and her For Authority or the Sword whereby the Common-Wealth is stayed three things he said are requisite Men Armour and Money For Men their good wills he said were most being of it self a strong Fortress For Armor the necessity he shewed in part and how requisite Treasure was he a little declared And concluded that all three must be conjoined Men Armour and Mony Lastly for Laws the third stay of the Common-Wealth he said there must be consideration in making them and care in Executing of them in making such as by the providing for one part of the Common-Wealth the rest should not be hindred which were indeed a matter most pernicious and this he vouched out of Plato de legibus For Execution he said that since the Law of it self is but Mute set in Paper not able to do ought the Magistrate except he will be also Mute must be the Doer and then is a good Law said to be well made when it is well Executed for anima legis est executio Hereupon he said something in commendation of her Majesty who had given free course to her Laws not sending or requiring the stay of Justice by her Letters or Privy-Seals as heretofore sometime hath been by her Progenitors used Neither hath she pardoned any without the advice of such before whom the Offendors have been Arraigned and the Cause heard His Oration being ended he then made four Petitions the first that the Persons Servants and Goods of all coming to that Assembly might be free from all Arrests Secondly That for Cause of Conference they might have access to her Majesty Thirdly If any sent should not truly report or in part mistake the meaning of the House that the same should be by her Highness favourably heard And lastly That in the House all men might have free Speech This Oration being ended by direction from her Majesty and instructions given what should be said The Lord Keeper Answered thus dividing his Speech into three parts the first where he had sometimes inserted commendations of her Majesty he said her Highness would not acknowledge so great perfections to be in her but said that they should be instructions for her better proceedings in time to come The second part of his Oration he said concerning the Rule for ordering of the Common-Wealth she well liked of and wished that as he had well conceived of it and well uttered the same so he and others would endeavour the Execution thereof For his Petitions he said her Majesties Pleasure was that the first should be granted with this caution that no man should under their shadows untruly protect any others For the second he said at time convenient her Pleasure was they should come freely Touching the third part he said she could not imagine that among so many wise men it could happen but if it should her Grace would be content to remit it The fourth was such that her Majesty having Experience of late of some disorder and certain Offences which though they were not punished yet were they Offences still and so must be accompted therefore said they should do well to meddle with no matters of State but such as should be propounded unto them and to occupy themselves in other matters concerning the Common-Wealth The Presentment and Allowance of the Speaker being thus transcribed out of that often before vouched Anonymous Journal of the House of Commons in this Parliament Now follow the residue of this days passages with those also of other days ensuing out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House Hodiè returnatum est breve c. by which the Bishop of Exeter was Summoned to this Parliament who was thereupon admitted to his accustomed place The like Writs were returned whereby the Lord Paget and the Lord De la Ware were Summoned to the said Parliament who were thereupon admitted There is no entrance of the Adjournment or continuance of this Parliament which happened doubtless through the great negligence of the Clerk of the Upper House although it is most casy to conjecture that the Lord Keeper did continue the same by her Majesties Commandment unto some hour of the Afternoon following being Thursday the 5 th day of this instant April This day finally but whether before or after the rising of the Lords of the Upper House doth not appear were divers Proxies returned and delivered in unto the Clerk of the said Upper House or to some other belonging unto him of which the unusual or extraordinary Proxies were only three and those also all from Spiritual Lords which are entred in the Original Journal-Book of the said Upper House in manner and form following 4 die April Introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Hugonis Episcopi Landaven in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Nicolaum Wigorn. Richard Meneven Nicolaum Bangor Episcopos conjunctim divisim Eodem die Introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Thom. Episcopi Coventr Litchf in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Nicol. Wigorn. Johannem Salisburien Richardum Meneven Episcopos conjunctim divisim Eodem die Introductae sunt Literae Procuratoriae Richardi Episcopi Gloucestr in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Nicol. Wigorn. Johan Norwicen Willielmum Exonien Episcopos Nota That I call an extraordinary Proxy when a Bishop Constitutes one Proctor or more than two and when a Temporal Lord Constitutes more than one for of ten Temporal Lords who sent Proxies this Parliament none appointed more than a single Proctor and of seven Spiritual Lords four Constituted but two Proctors apiece Note also That the Earl of Leicester had this Parliament seven Proxies sent unto him all Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have been returned on the said 4 th day of April viz. from William Marquess of Winchester Edward Earl of Derby Henry Lord Berkely Henry Lord Scroope George Earl of Shrewsbury Edward Lord Dudley and Ambrose Earl of Warwick Vide a like President on Tuesday the 22 th day of October An. 8 Reg. Eliz. anteá On Thursday the 5 th day of April to which day the Parliament had been doubtless continued or Adjourned Yesterday although through the Clerks negligence it be not at all mentioned in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the punishment of Collectors Receivers c. for their fraudulent and unjust deceiving of the Queens Majesty in their Offices was read primâ vice The Bill for the reviving and continuance of certain Statutes was read the first time and commissa Vice-Comiti Mountague Episcopo London Episcopo Hereford Episcopo Elien Episcopo Wigorn. Domino Wentworth Domino Shandois Domino S t John de Bletsoe Domino Primario Justiciario Banci Regis Justiciario Welch Justic Southcot Nota That here a Bill was committed upon the first reading of which
and some Motions touching the severance or uniting of the Bills it was Ordered that the Bill be read again upon Thursday next The Bill concerning coming to Church and receiving of the Communion was read the first time Sir John S t Leger moved the House for his Mans Priviledge and it was committed to M r Recorder M r Bedoll and M r Dalton and they to meet this Afternoon at M r Recorders and make report to Morrow On Tuesday the 10 th day of April M r Speaker recited a Commandment from the Queens Majesty to spend little time in Motions and to avoid long Speeches The reason whereof being omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons it is therefore supplied out of that often before-cited elaborate Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following That this Advertisement grew of somewhat spoken by M r Bell the 7 th day of this instant April concerning Licences granted by her Majesty to do certain matters contrary to the Statutes wherein he seemed as was said to speak against her Prerogative but surely so orderly did he utter what he spake as those who were touched might be angry but justly to blame him might not be This Advertisement being thus transcribed out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal now follows the residue of this days passages out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons it self in form following Sir Owen Hopton moved for the Commission of Motions and Petitions to have the Council added unto them and also a greater number of others and delivered a Paper of Notes of the Motions made Upon a Motion made for M r Garnons who is reported to stand Excommunicate it is Ordered that he shall Answer it in the House Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching Monasteries was read the first time M r Treasurer made report of the Committees doings for the Subsidy whose names see on Saturday the 7 th day of this instant April foregoing and brought in Articles which were well liked and thereupon the same Commissioners were appointed to proceed with the drawing of the Book Two Bills also had each of them their first reading of which the first was the Bill for the validity of Burgesses not resiant Touching matters of Religion M r Mounson brought report that the Bishops pray to have the Lords moved by this House to assign a Committee to confer with this House And thereupon it was Ordered presently that the same Commissioners do immediately go to the Lords with this Message to know their pleasure for appointing some to confer about the Book for Doctrine M r Treasurer returned report that the Lord Keeper hath Answered he will open it to the Lords Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Cloth-workers was read the first time And the third being the Bill B. had its first reading Vide Maii 17. postea what Bill B. meaneth Sir Richard Read and M r Doctor Yale did bring an Answer to the Message viz. that the Lords have appointed twenty of themselves whereof ten of the Clergy and ten of the Temporalty to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Star-Chamber And thereupon were added by the House to the former Commissioners the Master of the Rolls Sir Henry Norrice Sir William Buts M r Austley M r Serjeant Manwood M r Stooks M r Fleetwood M r Carleton M r Eglenby M r Yelverton M r Dalton and M r Robert Snagg which meeting was about matters of Religion Vide abunde Maii 17. postea On Wednesday the 11 th day of April the Bill for Lestwithiell was read the first time M r Fleetwood brought in a Bill against Rogues The Bill against fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances was read the second time and was delivered to certain of the House to amend presently upon a Motion made by M r Dalton to have it to extend to the defrauding of Heriots Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Sewers was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed And the Bill D. had its first reading Vide Maii 17. post what Bill D. meaneth M r Seckford Master of the Requests prayed longer time to consider of the Bill of fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances and that the Committees may be Sir John White M r Seckford Master of the Requests M r Serjeant Manwood Geoffry Loveland M r Mounson M r Bell M r Fleetwood M r Thomas Snagg M r Barber and M r Dalton to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Temple Church The Bill for not returning persons of the Queens Majesties Houshold on Juries was read the first time The Bill for Bristol was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Whereupon followed divers longSpeeches and Arguments touching the same Bill which being omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons are here supplied out of that often before-cited Anonymous Journal of the same House more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following viz. M r Comptroller first moved that before some Committees were appointed both parties might be heard and the Controversy appeased M r Fleetwood argued that there might appear rashness or indiscretion in them who should now reverse what of late they had done but leaving to speak thereof he entred into a good Discourse of the Prerogative which might thereby be touched if they should endeavour to overthrow her Majesties Letters Patents to whom by Law there is power given to Incorporate any Town and she is Sworn to preserve her Prerogative he vouched the Clerk of the Parliaments Book to be that no man might talk of the Statute of Wills c. but that the King first gave Licence for that his Prerogative in the Wards was hereby touched He shewed likewise the Statute of Ed. 1. Ed. 3. and H. 4. with a saving of the Prerogative In King Edward the Sixths time Licence was sued for to the Lord Protector to talk of matters of Prerogative he remembred the Book of 2 Edw. 6. for the Parliament of Ireland called by the Chief Judge as is for him lawful where it was questioned what by Parliament might be done whether they might depart with any of the Kings Towns Forts or Piers it was agreed they might not and so he concluded that to talk thereof for as much as her Majesties Letters Patents and Prerogative were touched Rege non consulto was perillous He also made mention of the Statute which authorizeth all Merchants to Traffick by Sea Nisi publice prohibentur he saith others were prohibited M r Young of Bristol in the behalf of the Commons reasoned to this effect First Shewed the loss to the Queen of her Custom then the private Monopoly wrought and occasioned by the
because they had been sent from the Lords On Tuesday the 22 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for John Tirrell Esq was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Yale brought from the Lords two Bills one against the untrue Demeanours of Tellors Receivors Treasurers and Collectors and another for Treasons newly written and truly examined by the former Book thereof lately passed this House to the end the same may likewise be Examined by this House and so then pass accordingly M r Doctor Vaughan and M r Doctor Yale did pray from the Lords that this House would send unto them such Bills as are already passed this House for that their Lordships do tarry for them and thereupon five Bills were sent unto them by M r Chancellor of the Dutchy and others of which one was the Bill for the River of Welland The Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion was Ordered upon the Question to be general as to the body thereof Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill against taking of any Grain or Victual within five Miles compass of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge was read the first time M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Haick brought from the Lords a Bill against the Oppression of common Promoters Four Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against fraudulent gifts and Conveyances for defeating of Dilapidations and the third for Sewers were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been sent from the Lords On Wednesday the 23 th day of May Five Bills of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was the Bill for the paving of the street without Aldgate The Bill that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas was read the second time but neither ingrossed nor committed because it had been sent from the Lords Two Bills also had each of them their third reading of which the second was the Bill for the removing of the Grammar-School from Laughton to Gainsborough All these Bills which passed this Day were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others M r Attorney General and M r Richard Read did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships prayed Conference with some of this House touching the Bill for preservation of Timber and Woods the Bill against Vagabonds and the Bill for continuance of Statutes Whereupon were sent unto them the former Committees in the Bill for coming to the Church and receiving the Communion whose names see on Saturday the 21 th day of April foregoing Three Bills lastly had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the second was the Bill for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Sir Thomas Wyat Knight Post Meridiem In the Afternoon six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Jointure of the Lady Berkley and the fifth against taking of any Grain or Victual within five Miles compass of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge were each of them read the second time but neither Ordered to be ingrossed nor referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords On Thursday the 24 th day of May the Bill against the untrue Demeanors of Tellors Receivors Treasurers and Collectors was read the second time but neither Ordered to be ingrossed nor referred to Committees Vide consimile May the 22 th Tuesday foregoing The Bill for Sewers was read the third time and a Proviso added to the said Bill was thrice read whereupon the Bill passed the House The Bill also against Bankrupts and the Bill that no Hoyes nor Plate shall cross the Seas were each of them read the third time and passed the House All the Bills which last passed the House were sent to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others The Bill for the reviving and continuance of Statutes was read the third time M r Serjeam Barham and M r Doctor Huick did bring from the Lords a Bill for bringing the River of Lee to the North-side of the City of London M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Yale did bring word that the Lords pray present Conference with three or four of this House touching the amendments of the Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion and thereupon were sent M r Treasurer and others The Bill for not paying for Wares sold for Apparel without ready money was upon the Question Ordered to be rejected and not to be revived or any longer continued The Bill for carrying out of Leather beyond the Seas was likewise upon the Question Ordered to be rejected or discontinued Post Meridiem In the Afternoon two Bills of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Henry Brereton Esq The Bill for maintenance of Tillage was upon the Question Ordered to be revived and continued in such sort as in the Bill for the reviving and continuance of Statutes is contained The Proviso to the Bill against Regrators Forestallers and Ingrossers mentioned in the said Bill of Reviver was read the third time and passed the House An Addition to the old former Statute for preservation of Woods was read the second time Mr. Doctor Yale and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords two Bills the one for coming to Church and receiving the Communion and the other for the severance of the Sheriffs in the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham with some amendments and did also require that six of this House may presently confer with the Lords touching the Bill against Bankrupts The Bill for reviving and continuance of certain Statutes was passed upon the Question with some Additions and some Substractions On Friday the 25 th day of May Mr. Treasurer Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Scott Sir Henry Morrice Mr. Serjeant Manwood Mr. Mounson Mr. Norton Mr. Alford Mr. Cromwell Mr. Thomas Snagg Mr. Bedle Mr. Nicholas S t Leger and Mr. Sands were appointed to have Conference with the Lords touching the Bill against Fugitives The Bill against taking of any Grain or Victuals within five Miles of the City of London was read the third time and passed the House Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords three Bills one for the Incorporation of both the Universities another for the Incorporation of Weymouth and Melcomb Regis in the County of Dorset and another for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy with recommendations from the Lords of the Bill against taking of any Grain or Victual within five Miles
compass of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge like as their Lordships had done on their parts upon like request of this House in the said Bill concerning Tillage and the Navy Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Huick brought word that the Lords pray Conference with some of this House at two of the Clock this Afternoon touching the Bill for the twelve Shires of Wales and also present report of the Committees of this House touching the Bill against Bankrupts My Lord Deputy of Ireland Mr. Comptroller Sir Nicholas Arnold Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy Sir Henry Jones Sir George Blunt Mr. William Gerrard and Mr. Bassett were appointed to attend upon the Lords touching the Bill of the twelve Shires of Wales The Bill against the taking of any Grain or Victual within five Miles compass of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge being a Bill sent from the Lords and specially recommended from them having at the third reading thereof an Addition or amendment in paper upon the Question affiled unto it the said Addition or amendment then having been but once read the Bill was put to the Question and the House thereupon divided and afterwards the error aforesaid being found it was after sundry motions Ordered upon another Question that the said Addition or amendment being three times read the Bill should go to the Question again which being so done the Bill afterwards passed upon the division of the House accordingly Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the maintenance of the Havens of Plymouth and Dartmouth c. was read the third time and passed the House Sir Thomas Smith Sir William Pawlet Sir Francis Hastings Mr. Heneage Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Stokes Mr. Thomas Browne Mr. Hussy Mr. John Hastings Mr. Thomas Snagg Mr. Strickland and Mr. S t John were appointed to have Conference with the Lords touching the Bill against corrupt Presentations The Bill for the Incorporation of the Towns of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis and the Bill for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy were each of them twice read Mr. Comptroller Sir Christopher Haydon Sir Thomas Russell Sir William Pawlet Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Henry Gate Mr. Baynton Mr. Grice Mr. Strickland Mr. Seckerson Mr. Cleere Mr. John Horsey Mr. Stanhop Mr. Hasset Mr. Edgcomb and Mr. Laton were appointed to ..... And here the whole matter breaks off abruptly in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons through the negligence of Fulk Onslow Esq Clerk of the same but it is most probable that these Committees were nominated in the Bill last before-mentioned upon the first and second reading thereof On Saturday the 26 th day of May the Bill for the River of Lee was read the first time and referred to be considered of by M r Comptroller of the Dutchy M r Wilson the Master of Requests Sir Henry Gate Sir John White M r Moore M r Holstock M r Grimston M r Baghe M r Robert North M r Henry Cock M r Dacre M r Norton M r Humberston and M r Bowyer The Bill against the untrue Demeanors of Tellors Receivors Treasurers and Collectors was read the third time and referred to be considered of by M r Treasurer M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Humphrey Gilbert M r Heneage M r Recorder of London Mr. Sampoole Mr. Humberston Mr. Bedle Mr. Norton Mr. Ireby and Mr. Thomas Brown The Bill for Incorporating of both the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge was twice read Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Huick brought from the Lords one Bill touching the limitation reviving and continuing of Statutes The Bills which lastly passed in this House were sent to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others The Bill for the Incorporating of the Towns of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis was read the third time and passed the House Post Meridiem In the Afternoon Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords one Bill touching the limitation of Fees for Councellors and others towards the Law which was specially recommended from the Queens Majesty Mr. Doctor Yale and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords the said former Bill Indorsed for that the same was delivered without Indorsement Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Yale did desire from the Lords that six of this House be presently sent unto them of those which did yesterday confer with their Lordships touching the Bill against Fugitives Four Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy was read the third time and passed upon the Question May the 27 th Sunday On Monday the 28 th day of May the Bill for the Jointure of the Lady Berkley was read the third time and passed the House The Provisoes to the Bill for the River of Lee were thrice read and passed with the Bill upon the Question and sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy and others The Proviso to the Bill for the Jointure of the Lady Berkley was thrice read and passed with the Bill upon the Question and sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others Sir Richard Read and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords the Bill for John Tirrell Esquire with certain amendments Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Huick brought word that the Lords desire to have six of this House to confer with them presently touching the severance of the Sheriffs in the Counties of Surrey and Sussex Whereupon Mr. Thomas Brown M r Moor M r Palmer M r Comper M r Morley and M r Bowyer were appointed and sent to them accordingly M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Yale did desire from the Lords to know the mind of this House whether this House can be contented to leave Surrey and Sussex out of the Bill for severance of Sheriffs if there Lordships shall so think meet which being opened to the House it was upon the Question Ordered that they shall be left out if the Lords so will All the Privy-Council being Members of this House Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Thomas Scott Sir Thomas Lucy Sir Humphrey Gilbert M r Recorder of London M r Mounson M r Yelverton and M r Robert North were upon some Speeches uttered to this House that some of the Members of this House should take money for their Voices appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Star-Chamber and to Examine what persons being Members of this House have taken any Fees or Rewards for their Voices in the furtherance or hinderance of any Bills offered in this House and then afterwards to make report of the particularities thereof unto this House accordingly Vide the residue of this business on the next day following Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for shooting in Hand-Guns and Harquebuses was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Huick brought from the Lords the Bill
without a Head thus do therefore it resteth that you according to your antient Order of your selves chuse some wise and discreet man who after he hath been by you chosen and presented and that presentation by the Queens Majesty allowed shall then be your Speaker and Day is given c. This Speech being thus transcribed out of the Copy I had of it as is aforesaid now follow the names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House which the Clerk of the same readeth in French as soon as the Lord Keepers Speech is ended and which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Sir William Cordell Knight Master of the Rolls Sir John Widdon Knight one of the Justices of the ----- Sir Richard Read K t one of the Justices of the ----- and D r Huick and they that will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six dayes next ensuing Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir James Dyer Knight Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Sanders Knight Lord Chief Baron Richard Weston one of the Justices of the ----- John Southcott one of the Justices of the ----- Doctor Lewis Doctor Yale and Doctor Vaughan and they that will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Oxford the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Ely the Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain of the Queens House the Lord Windsor and the Lord North. All these or four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Islands beyond the Seas The Archbishop of York the Earl of Lincoln Lord Admiral of England the Earl of Leicester the Earl of Essex the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Burleigh Principal Secretary the Lord Wentworth the Lord Buckhurst All they or four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants Attorney and Sollicitor when need shall require shall hold their place in the Treasurer's Chamber Hodiè retornatum est breve Dom. Reginae quo Henricus Compton de Compton Chevalier praesenti Parliamento interesse summonitus est qui praesens admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo cuique jure suo And two other Writs were returned in like manner by which Henry Cheyney of Toddington and Henry Lord Norris of Ricott were Summoned to be present this Parliament who were accordingly admitted to their due places saving to all others their right Nota That there is no entrance in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of any Continuance or Adjournment of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the said House There were also divers Proxies returned on this present Thursday being the 8 th day of May but whether before or after the Continuance of the Parliament appeareth not in which two Spiritual Lords Constituted each of them two Proctors apiece according to the usual and frequent manner and are therefore omitted but four other Bishops nominating either three Proctors apiece or but one which is somewhat extraordinary therefore they are here inserted Die 8 o Maij introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Hugonis Episcopi Landaven in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Nicolaum Wigorn. Richardum Meneven Nicolaum Bangoren Episcopos Eodem die introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Jacobi Dunelmensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Edmundum Archiepiscopum Ebor. Eodem die introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Johannis Herefordensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Matthaeum Cantuariensem Archiepiscopum Edwin London Nicolaum Wigorn. Episcopos Eodem die introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Thomae Assavensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Robertum Wintonien Nicolaum Wigorn. ac Nicolaum Bangoren Episcopos Now although it be most usual for the Spiritual Lords to name two Proctors yet here four of six varied from it three of them exceeding that number and the other nominating but one It is likewise as usual for the Temporal Lords to Constitute but one Proctor and it is an Action worthy observation where they nominate more for in this very Parliament of fifteen Temporal Lords that sent Proxies but one nominated two Proctors which see afterwards on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May following and all the rest Constituted but one Proctor apiece which being trivial and ordinary are omitted Nota Also that the Earl of Leicester had this Parliament eight Proxies sent unto him viz. from George Earl of Shrewsbury Edward Earl of Darby Henry Lord Scroop Edward Lord Dudley Anthony Viscount Mountacute Gregory Lord Dacres William Lord Sands and Edward Earl of Lincoln all which seem to have been returned on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May in such order as they are here set down Nota That the Lord Burleigh also Principal Secretary to her Majesty had six Proxies sent unto him this Parliament viz. from John Marquess of Winchester Henry Lord Hunsdon Thomas Lord Buckhurst John Lord Latimer Edward Earl of Lincoln who made also the Earl of Leicester his joint Proctor with him and Robert Lord Rich. These also are set down in the Journal-Book to have been returned the 12 th day of May in such order as they are here set down but now by a late Order made in the Upper House an 2 do Caroli Regis no Lord is capable of above two Proxies Nota That in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House it doth not appear at all whether her Majesty or any of the Lords were present on Saturday following being the tenth day of this instant May it appearing plainly that neither House sate on Friday the 9 th day of the same nor what was done thereon and therefore the Passages of the same are supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons On Saturday the 10 th day of May in the Afternoon her Majesty being come to the Upper House with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being there also set and the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the House of Commons having notice repaired thither with Robert Bell of the Middle-Temple London Esq their Speaker Elect who was led up unto the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House by two of the most Eminent Personages of the Commons and presented to her Majesty whom she allowed and Confirmed
to be engrossed because it had been formerly sent from the House of Commons Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill touching Mary Daughter and Heir of James the Fifth late King of Scots commonly called the Queen of Scots and another for the Reformation of the inordinate length of Kersies Nine Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the better assurance of Gifts Grants c. made and to be made to and for the relief of the Poor in the Hospitals within and near unto the City of London of Christ Bridewell and S t Thomas the Apostle with a Proviso and certain amendments added by the Lords was Ordered to be ingrossed And the second being for avoiding of Recoveries suffered by Collusion of Tenants for term of life and such others was read tertia vice conclusa commissa Sollicitatori Reginae Doctori Lewes in Domum Communem deferend On Friday the 27 th day of June Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last being the Bill for the continuance of certain Statutes with certain amendments and a Schedule thereunto annexed being thrice read was concluded The Bill for the Explanation of the Statute for Fugitives over the Seas with a new Proviso added by the Lords and the Bill touching the Free-School of Tunbridge with a new Proviso were each of them read tertia vice conclus Commis Sollicitatori Reginae in Domum Communem deferend Memorand Quod hoc praesenti 27 die Junij Anno Regni Elizabethae Reginae 14. Andreas Fisher de Graies-Inne in Com. Midd. Gen. Henricus Fisher de Greves-Norton in Com. Northampton Gen. coram Domina Regina in Cancellaria sua personaliter constituti recognoverunt se debere Johanni Ryvers Civi Aldermanno de London tres mille libras legalis Monetae Angl. solvend eidem Johanni c. nisi fecerint c. The Condition of this Recognizance is such That if they above-bound Andrew Fisher and Henry Fisher and either of them and the Heirs and Assigns of them or either of them do well and truly stand to perform and accomplish and cause to be performed and accomplished all such award order and direction as shall be made and Ordained by the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Sussex Francis Earl of Bedford Robert Earl of Leicester and William Lord Burleigh or any three of them for and concerning all and singular those Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which heretofore were bargained and sold by Henry Fisher Father of the said Andrew and Henry to one Richard Smith Citizen of London and now or late in the Tenure or Occupation of John Rivers Citizen and Alderman of London or of any his Tenants or Farmors and for the right Title Inheritance and Possession of the same so that the said award order or direction be had and made in writing under the hands and Seals of them or three of them on this side and before the Nativity of our Lord next coming That this Recognizance to be void otherwise to remain and abide in his full force strength and effect Memorand That the two Brethren Recognitors in consideration that Alderman Ryvers his Cause touching the purchasing of certain Lands bona side mentioned in the said Bill Exhibited in this Parliament for the said School may remain unholpen and be excepted out of the said Bill were contented and by way of Petition have submitted themselves to abide the Order and Determination of the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Leicester and the Lord Burleigh or three of them so as the same be made on this side the Feast of the Birth of our Lord God next For the more sure performance whereof not only they acknowledged this Recognizance of three thousand pound but also of their own offer they yielded their Bodies to be Prisoners in the Queens-Bench where the Elder Brother then remained by force of an Execution at a Strangers Suit there to remain until they did bring before the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal sufficient Sureties with them to be bound by Recognizance in the said sum of three thousand pound for the same Nota That it should seem this business concerned the Free Grammar-School of Tunbridge mentioned on Monday the 9 th day Tuesday the 10 th day and on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant June foregoing in respect that certain Lands were to be purchased for it by the before-mentioned John Rivers Alderman of London and thereupon this Recognizance with the Condition thereof came to be entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House de an isto 14 Reginae Eliz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem About which hour the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and divers other Lords meeting in the absence of the Lord Keeper it doth not appear in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House that any thing was done but only the Parliament continued in manner and form following viz. Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regis continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora octava On Saturday the 28 th day of June Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal meeting The Bill for the assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of a Sermon to be had in the Church of S t Paul in London for ever was read tertia vice conclusa Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of a Sermon to be had in the Church of S t Paul in London for ever was read tertia vice conclusa The Bill for the assurance of certain Lands for the maintenance of the Poor in the Hospitals was read tertia vice conclusa with a new Proviso added thereunto by the Lords and commissa Doctori Lewis Doctori Huick in Domum Communem deferend The Bill against the excessive length of Kersies was read secunda tertia vice conclusa Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the assurance of Gifts Grants c. made for the relief of the Poor in Hospitals c. was returned conclusa The Bill for the repeal of a Statute made an 8 Reginae Eliz. for the Town of Shrewsbury was read tertia vice with a Proviso added thereunto by the Lords quae conclusa est and sent to the House of Commons by D r Lewis and D r Huick On Monday the 30 th day of June to which day the Parliament had been on
wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the same so also by a like negligence are all those many and several Prorogations buried in Silence by which this Parliament was continued without Dissolution until the next meeting thereof on Wednesday the 8 th day of February in the eighteenth year of her Majesties Reign which was the second Session of this present Parliament and held about four years after the determination of this first Session by Adjournment as aforesaid so that it is very probable that there are not less than twenty several Prorogations For between that foresaid second Session in an 18 Reginae Eliz. and the third Session of this present Parliament in an 23 Reginae ejusdem which contained not above one years space more than had intervened between the two former Sessions there passed at least twenty five Prorogations as doth plainly appear in the end of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the said Session of Parliament de an 18 Reginae praedict where they are for the most part set down either abstractedly or at large And lastly As touching the great business of the Scottish Queen so much and so long agitated in both Houses it did at this time receive no period or conclusion but in this Session of Parliament in an 14 Reginae Eliz. an Act passed both Houses against her and lastly in the Parliament de an 28 29 Reginae ejusdem she was a little before her Execution at Fortheringhay-Castle in Northamptonshire Condemned to be Worthy of Death by the Vote of both the said Houses of Parliament THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Session of Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 14 Reginae Eliz. A. D. 1572 which began there on Thursday the 8 th Day of May and then and there continued until the Adjournment thereof on Monday the 30 th and last Day of June next ensuing THIS Journal of the House of Commons containeth in it not only many good passages touching the ordinary reading committing and expediting of Bills but is plentifully stored also with the frequent agitation and discussion of that great business touching the Scottish Queen whose practices not only with Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk but also with the Foreign Enemies of her Majesty for the destruction and Invasion of the Realm are notably described which also is much enlarged out of a written Copy I had by me of such reasons as were conceived in the House of Commons for her speedy Execution and of the Petition also preferred to her Majesty to the same purpose which said Reasons and Petition being not found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons I have therefore to avoid confusion distinguished by an Annotation or Animadversion from that of the Journal it self where it hath in its due place been inserted There passed also in this said Session a Bill against the said Queen of Scots which is falsly referred in divers Copies thereof to the 23 th year of her Majesty On Thursday the 8 th day of May this first Session of the fourth Parliament of her Majesties Reign beginning at Westminster The Right Honourable the Earl of Lincoln High Admiral of England and by her Highness appointed Lord Steward for this present time came to the Lower House of Parliament accompanied with divers others of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council viz. Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Highness most Honourable Houshold Sir James Crofts Knight Comptroller of the same Sir Ralph Sadler Knight Chancellor of her Majesties Dutchy of Lancaster and Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Chancellor of her Highness Court of Exchequer And did then and there minister the Oath unto all the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons then and there Assembled The said Earl of Lincoln Constituting and Authorizing the said Sir Francis Knolles Sir James Crofts Sir Ralph Sadler and Sir Walter Mildmay to be his Deputies in and for the more speedy ministration of the said Oath according to the Statute in that behalf lately made and provided unto all such others of the said Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons as should happen afterwards to appear upon any return during this present Parliament This day Robert Bell of the Middle-Temple London Esq was Chosen Speaker for this present Parliament But whether her Majesty were this day in Person in the Upper House or by what Authority from her said Highness the said Speaker was Elected cannot possibly be gathered out of the Original Journal of the said Upper House or that of the House of Commons but elsewhere it appears the Lord Keeper gave them Authority in the end of his Speech on Thursday foregoing On Saturday the 10 th day of May M r Speaker was by the House presented to the Queens Majesty and of her Highness well accepted and allowed who after his Oration made and the Ordinary Petitions granted repaired to the House of Commons and being set in the Chair received the Oath After which according to the usual form was read The Bill concerning Bayles to be taken in the Court of Common-Pleas was read the first time On Monday the 12 th day of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the third being the Bill for Proclamations to be made in Parish Churches and Chappels before Outlawries was committed unto M r Gent M r Robert Snagg M r Fenner M r Humberston M r Flowerdue M r French and M r Boyes who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Temple Church The Lords did send Sir Richard Read and M r D r Huick to require M r Speaker and this whole House forthwith to make their repair unto their Lordships in the Upper House and upon their repair thither the Lord Keeper signified unto them that the Queens Majesties Pleasure is that twenty one of the said Upper House and forty four of this House should meet to Morrow in the Morning at eight of the Clock in the Star-Chamber then and there to consult and deliberate upon matters concerning the Queen of Scots Whereunto were appointed of this House M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Dutchy M r Chancellor of the Exchequer My Lord Deputy of Ireland Sir Maurice Berkeley Sir Hugh Pawlet Sir Thomas Scott Sir Owen Hopton Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir John Thinne Sir Hen. Gate Sir Rowland Hayward M r Doctor Wilson M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Recorder of London M r Serjeant Manwood M r Serjeant Geffry M r Mounson M r Sands M r Popham M r Yelverton M r Coleby M r Heneage M r Charles Howard M r Hatton M r Asteley M r Shute M r Hen. Knolles Sen. M r Hen. Knolles Jun. M r Peter Wentworth M r Sampole M r Norton M r William Moor. M r John Vaughan M r Tho. Randall M r John Vaughan of Caermarthen M r Greenfield Sen. M r Charles Somerset M
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
to Richard Smith was read secunda vice and committed to the Queens Sollicitor c. The Bill also for excluding of Clergy and Purgations Ecclesiastical was read prima vice commissa Justiciario Mounson Vide touching this Bill on Wednesday the 22 th day of this instant February following On the Tuesday the 21 th day of February the Bill for the repairing of Chepstow-Bridge was read the first time Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the explanation of the Statute of 31 H. 8. touching Monasteries Abbies Priories c. And the last being for the relief and reedifying of the Borough of New-Woodstock in the County of Oxford were each of them read prima vice The Bill for the avoiding of fraudulent Gifts of Lands made by the late Rebels in the North was read primâ vice The Bill lastly for reformation of Errors in Fines and common Recoveries was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Wednesday the 22 th day of February Nine Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Reformation of Errors in Fines and common Recoveries another for the assurance of certain Lands unto Christopher Hatton Esquire of the Privy-Chamber and Captain of her Majesties Guard and another for the Explanation of the Statute of 31 H. 8. touching Monasteries c. were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons on Tuesday immediately foregoing where the Bill only touching Sir Christopher Hatton is omitted as matter of no great moment The Bill lastly for excluding of Clergy and Purgations Ecclesiastical was read primâ vice commissa Comiti Northumbriae Comiti Huntington Episcopo London Episcopo Lincoln Domino Hunsdon Domino Buckhurst Justiciario Manwood Justiciario Mounson On Thursday the 23 th day of February the Bill for avoiding of fraudulent Gifts c. made by the late Rebels in the North the Bill for Rochester-Bridge and the Bill for repairing of Chepstow-Bridge were each of them read the third time and concluded and sent to the House of Commons with another Bill of no great moment by Sir Richard Read and D r Barkley Two Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the true payment of the Debts of William Isley Esquire was read the first time The Bill lastly for the assurance of certain Lands and Tenements unto Christopher Hatton Esquire was read tertiâ vice conclusa On Saturday the 15 th day day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for Reformation of Errors in Fines and common Recoveries was read secundâ vice commissa to Justice Mounson and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor to consider of it On Monday the 27 th day of February the Bill for the assurance of New-Hall in the County of Essex to Thomas Earl of Sussex was read primâ vice Four Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the two last were one against diminishing and impairing the Queens Coin and the other for repairing the Goal in S t Edmonds-Bury and of Brandon-Bridge in the County of Suff. The Bill for the assurance of certain Lands to Sir John Rivers Knight Citizen and Alderman of London was read tertiâ vice On Tuesday the 28 th day of February Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the two last being one for the assurance of the Mannor of New-Hall in Com. Essex to Thomas Earl of Sussex and the other for the appointing of Justices within Wales were each of them read secundâ vice commissae ad ingrossand On Wednesday the 29 th day of February Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the two last being one concerning Offices found within the Counties Palatines and the other for the appointing of Justices in the Shires of Wales were read tertiâ vice conclusae and sent to the House of Commons with two others by the Queens Sollicitor and D r Barkley The Bill also for a Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read the second time Three Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the assurance of the Mannor of New-Hall to Thomas Earl of Sussex was read tertiâ vice conclusa On Thursday the first day of March the Bill for a Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertiâ vice conclusa communi omnium Procerum assensu The Bill also for the Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy was read the second time commissa ad ingrossandum Nota That the Subsidy it self granted by the Clergy is always ingrossed in Latin and sent up in Parchment from the Convocation House but the Confirmation thereof by the Parliament is added unto it in English and passed in the House as other Bills are and this only it was that was Ordered to be ingrossed upon the second reading Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning Tithes within the Parish of Hallifax was read tertia vice conclusa The Bill for Hallifax and that for taking away of Clergy were sent from the Lords to the House of Commons by Sir Richard Read Knight and D r Barkeley The Bill for the Confirmation and establishment of the Hospital of Leicester was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Friday the second day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Lewes and Doctor Barkley Five Bills were brought up to the House of Lords from the House of Commons of which one was for avoiding of fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances made by the late Rebels in the North and another for Confirmation of Letters Patents Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill concerning an Hospital at Leicester was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Vaughan and Doctor Barkley On Saturday the third day of March the Bill that notice may be given to Patrons of Benefices upon the Vacation of the same in certain Cases was read tertiâ vice conclusa with certain amendments added thereunto by the Lords Five Bills also of no great moment had each of
one reading of which the first being the Bill for the payment of Tythes in the Town of Reading as in the City of London and the last for repairing of the Gaol of S t Edmonds-Bury and of Brandon-Bride in Com. Suff. were each of them read tertiâ vice conclusa On Saturday the 10 th day of March Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for setting the Poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness and another was for a Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy Nine Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Hospital of S r Crosse near Winchester was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Barkley and M r Powle Clerk of the Crown and another being a Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Henry Norris Knight Lord Norris of Ricot was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the House of Commons About which hour the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against the defeating of Dilapidations and against Leases to be made of Spiritual Promotions and the second for remedy against the Plaintiff for false Complaint were each of them read secundâ vice but no mention is made whether they were Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of an Arbitrement to be made by certain Persons between Richard Hudleston Esquire and Dame Elizabeth Weynman his Wife on the one part and Francis Weynman Gent. on the other part was read primâ vice Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for reformation of abuses in Goldsmiths was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossand and the second being the Bill for preservation of Feasants and Partridges was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Lewes and M r Vaughan On Monday the 12 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of an Arbitrement to be made by certain Persons between Richard Hudleston Esquire and Dame Elizabeth Weynman on the one part and Francis Weynman Gent. on the other part was read secundâ vice but no mention is made that it was Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent from the House of Commons on Saturday the 10 th of this instant March foregoing The Bill also for restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayney was read primâ secundâ vice which as it should seem was in honour of the said Anthony Mayney Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was for the maintenance of Colleges in the Universities of Winchester and Eaton and another for the repairing and amending of Bridges and High-ways near unto the City of Oxford Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem Nota That here the Lord Keeper continueth again the Parliament which had been performed by the Lord Treasurer from Saturday the third day of this instant March foregoing until this present Monday the 12 th day of the same but whether the one or the other were by her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal or by any other Authority appeareth not in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but seemeth to have been omitted through the negligence of Anthony Mason Esquire at this time Clerk of the same About which foresaid hour in the Afternoon the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to take away Clergy from Offenders in Rape or Burglary and an Order for the delivery of Clerks Convict without Purgation with certain amendments and a Proviso was read tertiâ vice conclusa As also the Bill for restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayncy Esquire An Act to redress Disorders in common Informers was sent to the Lords from the House of Commons The Bill lastly for Toleration of certain Clothiers in the Counties of Wilts Somerset and Gloucester was read tertiâ vice conclusa Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ octavâ Vide touching the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Treasurer on Saturday the third day of this instant March foregoing On Tuesday the 13 th day of March Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for annexing of Gate-side to the Town of New-Castle and the seventh being for the Confirmation of an Arbitrement to be made by certain Persons between Richard Hudleston Esquire and Dame Elizabeth his Wife on the one part and Francis Weynman Gentleman on the other part with a Proviso and certain Amendments were each of them read tertiâ vice conclusae and sent to the House of Commons by her Majesties Attorney General M r Barkley and M r Powle The Bill for Restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayney Esquire with a Proviso added by the House of Commons was sent from thence to the Lords The Bill lastly for reformation of Jeofailes was read tertiâ vice conclusa commissa Magistro Vaughan Magistro Powle in Domum Communem deferend Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem Vide concerning this continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper on Monday the 12 th day of this instant March foregoing About which hour in the Afternoon the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the restitution in Blood of John Lord Stourton with a new Proviso added by the said House After which three other Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was concerning Offices found in Counties Palatines and the last for reformation of Jeofailes On Wednesday the 14 th day of March the Bill for reformation of excess in Apparel was read secundâ vice but no mention of committing or ingrossing because it had been sent from the Lords About which hour the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill for the Queens Majesties most gracious
that every Knight Citizen and Burgess of this House which doth require priviledge hath used in that Case to take a corporal Oath before the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for the time being that the party for whom such Writ is prayed came up with him and was his Servant at the time of the Arrest made and that M r Hall was thereupon moved by this House that he should repair to the Lord Keeper and make Oath in form aforesaid and then to proceed to the taking of a Warrant for a Writ of priviledge for his said Servant according to the said Report of the said former precedents Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 10 th day of March ensuing On Thursday the 23 th day of February Ten Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching Presentations by Lapse was read the third time and passed the House and sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others The Bill for Cables and Cordage was read the second time and upon the question rejected Sir Richard Read and Mr. Doctor Barkley brought from the Lords four Bills of which one was the Bill for the repairing of Chepstow-Bridge and another for the perpetual maintenance of Rochester-Bridge The Bill lastly against the diminishing or impairing of Coin was read the third time and pasthe House On Friday the 24 th day of February Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for reformation of Sheriffs was read the first time and committed unto Sir Thomas Scott Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. Sampoole and others to meet this Afternoon at the Temple Church at two of the Clock The Bill that the Queens Majesty may entreat the Subjects of Foreign Princes in such sort as they shall intreat the Subjects of this Realm was read the second time and committed unto all the Privy-Council being of this House the Masters of the Requests Mr. Captain of the Guard Sir Henry Knivett and divers others to confer presently Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against Dilapidations c. was read the first time and committed to Sir Thomas Cecill Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Popham and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber Two Bills more had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Jurors of Middlesex was read the first time and committed to Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Mr. Wroth Mr. Sandes and others to confer to Morrow in the Morning in this House at seven of the Clock The Bill for Tryal of Nisi prius in the County of Middlesex was read the second time and committed to the former Committees nominated in the Bill for Jurors Three Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances made by the late Rebels in the North was read the first time On Saturday the 25 th day of February the Bill for the County Palatine of Chester was read the first time and committed unto Mr. Serjeant Lovelace Mr. Recorder of London Mr. French Mr. Norton Mr. Snagg and Mr. Townesend to meet at Serjeants-Inn at Mr. Lovelace's Chamber to Morrow in the Afternoon at three of the Clock Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents was read the second time and committed after the reading and passing of the next Bill The Bill for the repairing of the Gaol of S t Edmunds-Bury was read the third time and passed the House The Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents was committed unto all the Privy-Council being of this House Mr. Captain of the Guard Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. Serjeant Lovelace and others who were appointed to meet at Mr. Treasurers Chamber this Afternoon at two of the Clock Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill touching fraudulent Conveyances made by the late Rebels in the North Parts was read the second time and committed unto all the Privy-Council being of this House Mr. Captain of the Guard Sir Henry Knivett Sir Henry Gates Sir George Bowes and others to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock at M r Treasurers Chamber The Bill for Rogues c. was read the second time and the Provisoes or Additions to the same Bill had their first reading The Bill for Explanation of the Statute of 31 H. 8. was this day amended according to the request of the Lords in that behalf On Monday the 27 th day of February the Bill for the Subsidy c. was read the third time and passed the House of which Vide on Friday the 10 th day Thursday the 16 th day and on Monday the 20 th day of this instant February foregoing After sundry Reasons and Arguments it was resolved that Edward Smalley Servant unto Arthur Hall Esquire shall be brought hither to Morrow by the Serjeant and set at liberty by Warrant of the Mace and not by Writ Vide on Saturday the 10 th day of March ensuing Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Dr. Barkley did require from the Lords that such six of this House as are best acquainted with the Bill for Mr. Isley be sent to confer presently with their Lordships touching the same whereupon were appointed and presently sent Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Serjeant Lovelace Mr. Popham Mr. S t Leger Mr. Diggs and Mr. Baber by whom with Mr. Treasurer and divers others were sent up the Bill for the Subsidy with two others of no great moment and also the Bill for the Explanation of the Statute of 31 H. 8. with some amendments On Tuesday the 28 th day of February the Bill for the Lady Grey was read the second and third time and passed the House Four other Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being for Chepstow-Bridge and another for the perpetual maintenance of Rochester-Bridge were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been sent from the Lords on Thursday the 23 th day of this instant February foregoing The Bill against Broggers and Drovers was read the first time and committed unto Mr. Comptroller Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir William Winter Sir Rowland Hayward and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Star-Chamber The Bill for the Haberdashers was read the second time and a Proviso to the same Bill was read the first time and thereupon the Bill was committed unto Mr. Comptroller Mr. Treasurer Mr. Hastings Mr.
Committees were sent presently and the Bill of restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayney Esquire was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and the said others The Bill against the abuses of Goldsmiths 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 on the day immediately foregoing Mr. Doctor Barkley and Mr. Powle did bring from the Lords the Bill touching the Confirmation of an Arbitrement to be made between Richard Hudleston Esquire and Dame Isabell Wainman on the one part and Francis Wainman Gentleman on the other part Mr. Treasurer Mr. Secretary Smith Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Treasurer of the Chamber the Master of the Jewel-House Sir Rowland Hayward and others were appointed to meet this Afternoon at three of the Clock and to hear the Learned Councel of the Goldsmiths Mr. Doctor Vaughan and Mr. Doctor Yale did bring from the Lords the Bill of Jeofails with some Amendments The Bill for restitution in Blood of the Lord Stourton was read the third time and two Provisoes twice read and passed the House Vide concerning this business of the Lord Stourton in fine diei sequentis The Bill also against excess in Apparel was read the third time and passed the House Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the Lord Stourton and the Bill against excess in Apparel were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others Vide concerning the business of the Lord Stourton on Wednesday the 14 th day of this instant March ensuing Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for relief of Vicars and Curates was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Sampoole Mr. Cromwell Mr. Savile Mr. Boyer Mr. S t John Mr. Broughton and others who were appointed to meet at this House to Morrow in the Morning at six of the Clock The Bill touching unjust and slanderous Suits was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent from the Lords on Monday the 12 th day of this instant March foregoing The Bill touching unjust and slanderous Suits and the Bill for the annexing of the Town of Gateside to New-Castle were read the first time M r Justice Mounson and Mr. Serjeant Barham did bring word from the Lords that whereas their Lordships have made divers requests for Conference with some of this House touching the Bill for the Lord Stourton and the Bill for Mr. Mayney their restitutions in Blood and as yet have received no Answer thereof of this House at all Their further desire now is that a further Committee be appointed for this House to meet with their Lordships in the Parliament Chamber to Morrow next before eight of the Clock for that purpose whereupon were chosen after sundry Motions and Speeches All the Privy-Council being of this House Mr. Captain of the Guard and the former Committees whose names see on Monday the 12 th day of this instant March foregoing and Mr. Diggs whereunto were added also Mr. Treasurer of the Chamber Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Henry Gate Sir Henry Ratcliffe Sir James Harrington Sir Edward Bainton Mr. Atkins Mr. Birkenhed Mr. Cromwell and Mr. Alford Vide concerning this business on Wednesday the 14 th day of this instant March ensuing On Wednesday the 14 th day of March the Queens Majesties general and free Pardon was once read Sir John Thynne Sir Henry Knivett and Mr. Topelysse were added to the Bills yesterday last appointed Which said former Committees with these now newly added were doubtless appointed to have Conference with a Committee of the Lords this Morning touching their Proviso added unto the Bill for the restitution in Blood of the Heirs of the Lord Stourton which had been sent down to the House of Commons from the Lords on Wednesday the 7 th day of this instant March foregoing but the Issue of this Conference through the great negligence of Fulk Onslow Esquire at this time Clerk of the House of Commons is wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the same House and therefore in respect it is of very good use and moment for the Declaration and Justification of the Liberties of the said House I have caused it to be inserted at large out of that often before-mentioned written Memorial or Discourse I had by me of the whole proceedings of this business in manner and form following The before-mentioned Committees or the greater part of them between eight and nine of the Clock this Morning as is very probable repaired unto the Parliament Chamber or Upper House Door and there gave attendance sending in word by the Usher of that House of their being there The Lords after a great pause came forth at last into the outward Chamber the number of them were many and the persons of the principal Noblemen of that House after they had taken their places at a long Table and used some Conference amongst themselves they called for those of the House of Commons to whom the Lord Treasurer in the name of all the rest present and absent said in effect as followeth THat the Lords of the Upper House could not but greatly mislike the dealing of the House of Commons in the Lord Stourton's Bill especially for that they had passed the Bill with a Proviso annexed notwithstanding their sundry Messages sent unto them in his favour And lastly one Message to have Conference with them for resolution of such doubts as were moved wherein they took themselves greatly touched in honor and thought that the House of Commons did not use that reverence towards them which they ought to do the cause he said besides was such as they saw no reason why the House of Commons should proceed in that Order for the Bill being signed by her Majesty he said none might presume to alter or add any thing to it without the assent of her Majesty which they for their parts durst not do and for proof hereof he shewed the Committees sundry Provisoes in King Henry the Eighths time annexed to the like Bills signed by the King inferring thereby that none might pass otherwise Moreover he said that by the opinion of the Judges which were in the Upper House the saving already in the Bill was so sufficient that there needed not any addition of such Proviso as the House of Commons had annexed and therefore required to know what reasons did lead them to proceed in this Order This and some large Speeches being uttered to this end the Committees answered that their Commission was only to hear what their Lordships would say they would return and make report to the House and so attend again upon them with Answer When this was reported to the House of Commons it moved them all greatly and gave them occasion
of Burroughs and Barons of the Ports did appear and sit down in the House of Commons but the number of them was not great partly by reason of sundry former Prorogations of the same Session made so near unto the days thereof appointed and partly also for that many of the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons since the last former Sessions were changed some by Death and some by other occasions and new returned in some of their places and in some others none which now could not sit in the House till they had first taken the Oath for acknowledging the Queens Highnesses Supremacy over all Estates within her Majesties Realms and Dominions which as then was not done neither could then be done because there was then no Lord Steward at all named or appointed for that purpose according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided And being so set Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Majesties most honourable Houshold stood up and putting the House in remembrance as well of the Death of Sir Robert Bell K t late Lord Chief Baron of her Highness Exchcquer their Speaker since the last Session by reason whereof the House was then without a Speaker and could not therefore proceed in any thing as also of some course to be taken for procuring her Majesties Commandment to chuse another Speaker he declared unto them that as it was well known by often experience and usage that at the first Summons or beginning of a Parliament the Order is in that case to sit still till the House be sent for to the Upper House there to receive her Highness Commandment to chuse a Speaker so was it now uncertain what Order should be used when a Speaker dying after a former Session Prorogated a new is to be chosen in another Session ensuing holden by such Prorogation in which Case he said there were not many Precedents to his knowledge albeit yet one within our Memory which was in the eighth year of her Majesties Reign when Richard Onslow Esquire the Queens Majesties Sollicitor was chosenSpeaker in that Session de an 8 Reginae Eliz. which made but one and the same Parliament with the former Session held in Anno 5 Reginae ejusdem in which Thomas Williams Esq had been Speaker and died before the said second Session held by Prorogation in the said eighth year of the Queen he offered a Copy of that precedent but because M r Fulk Onslow the Clerk was present sitting as Clerk and had there his Original Book of notes out of which the said Copy was taken he was Commanded to read it out of his Book which was to this purpose But in respect it is omitted both in the foul Copy which Fulk Onslow now Clerk of the House of Commons took concerning the Passages of this Session of Parliament fol. 1. a. and also in the fair written or perfected Copy of the Journal of this said Session out of both which this present Journal is collected and enlarged fol. 106. b. therefore it being a Precedent useful I have supplied it out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the Parliament de Annis 8 9 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1565. in manner and form following viz. That on Monday the 30 th day of December in the eighth year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth a new Session of Parliament being holden by Prorogation at Westminster and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses according to their usual Order and Custom meeting thereupon in the House of Commons did there find that Thomas Williams Esq their late Speaker in the first Session of this Parliament holden in the fifth year of the said Queen Eliz. was dead and that the said Commons falling by that means into Consultation what course was fittest to be taken in respect that until a new Speaker was chosen no business could be Entred upon or expedited in the said House did at length all resolve as the best course to send certain of the most eminent Personages being Members of the said House up unto the Lords to desire likewise their advice and assistance in whatsoever their Lordships in that Case should think fittest to be done And thereupon their Lordships joining four Members of their House with four more of the House of Commons did advise that with all humbleness and speed they should all jointly repair to her Majesty and make intimation of their said Estate and so further desire to know her pleasure therein And her Majesty did accordingly most graciously on the next day being Tuesday the first day of October send her Commission under the Great Seal of England directed unto the Lord Keeper by which the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons were Authorized to Elect and chuse a new Speaker which accordingly they did and thereupon presented him being Richard Onslow Esquire the Queens Sollicitor on the very next day following being Wednesday the second day of October But notwithstanding this precedent some were of opinion although they did not utter it because they supposed themselves not warranted to treat of any thing much less of any dealing with the Upper House without a Speaker or without her Majesties Commandment that this was the only precedent that could be shewed in such manner of proceeding and was but an innovation and not warranted upon good grounds but rather subject to inconvenience and peril So first they thought it was a breach of Duty to the Queen that we should enter into that or any other Consultation before her Majesties Pleasure known touching a Speaker Item there was no warrant to resolve us any thing so that there was no person to take the Voices or moderate the Consultation Item those who should go on such Message could have no good warrant to deliver it in the name of the House when the House could treat of nothing Item it had some inconvenience of drawing a special Prerogative to those of the House that were of her Majesties Councel from the rest of the House Item it had greater peril of precedent to draw the Petitions of the House to her Majesty to be done by mediation of the Upper House and they thought it to stand much in duty and humility to the Queen not to presume to make such Petition or to make difference in proceeding upon a Parliament newly Summoned and a Session of Parliament held by Prorogation as it is used upon new Summons so to sit still in all humility expecting that the House should be sent for to the Upper House there to receive her Majesties Pleasure and Commandment to chuse a Speaker which her Pleasure might either be delivered by the Lord Chancellor in her Majesties Presence or in her absence by Commission as in Cases of Prorogations and such like doings is used And for that it might be doubted how her Majesty should have notice that the Speakers place was void it was to be Answered that the House it self judicially hath
Regina ac tempore cujus contrarii memoria hominum non existit in eadem usitat approbat breve de Cap. ad satisfaciendum versus cundem Tho. Gonnell pro debito damnis praedictis in placito praedicto prosequi returnari deberet antequam aligned breve de seire facias versus manucaptores praedictos in loquela illa impetrari seu prosequi deberet licet consuetudo sorma captionis recognitionum in Curia praedict a usae suerunt in sorma praedicta viz. Si contigerit cundem Thomam Gonnel in placito praedicto convinci tunc iidem Manucaptores concesserunt quilibet corum per se concessit tam debitum praedictum quà m omnia hujusmodi damna nune custag ' quae praesato Johanni Hunt in ea parte adjudicentur de terris Catallis suis cerum 〈◊〉 it sieri ad opus praedicti Johannis Hunt 〈◊〉 si consigerit praedictum Thomam Gonnell debitum damna illa praefato Johanni Hunt minimè 〈◊〉 aut si pri onae Marescal ' Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina ea occasione non reddere c. Et peturt iidem Richardus Harbert Johannes Awbery Willielmus Filian Simon Browne quod Judicium praedictum processus super 〈◊〉 praedicta de seire 〈◊〉 prosecut in Curia dict' Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina revocetur adnulletur penitus pro nullis habeatur Et super hoc Domini per 〈◊〉 Justiciariorum post longam maturam deliverationem uno consensu adjudicaverunt ..... quod judicium praedictum processus super brevia praedicta de scire sac ' prosecut ' in Curia dictae Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina revocetur adnulletur penitus pro nullis habcatur On Wednesday the 10 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Monday last continued Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents made unto the Dean and Chapter of Norwich was read prima vice Six Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for Provision to be made for the Surety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the continuance of the Realm in Peace was read prima vice On Thursday the 11 th day of March Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the last recited Bill for Surety of the Queens Royal Person c. was read secunda vice And the second being the Bill for the good Government of the City and Borough of Westminster in the County of Middlesex was read tertia vice with a Schedule and certain Amendments quae communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa dat' Doctori Barkeley Servienti Rolls in Domum Communem deferend Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon About which hour the Lords Spiritual and Temporal meeting six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill concerning the Lady Marchioness of Winchesters Jointure was read secunda vice commissa to the Master of the Rolls and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas For as much as in the matter depending now in Parliament by Writ of Error brought by John Akerode Thomas Stanfeild and divers others against Richard Whalley Defendant for reversing of certain Errors supposed by the said Plaintiff to be in the said Defendants Grandfathers form of Pleading and other things in his Recovery of the Mannor of Eringden in the County of York it hath appeared to this honourable Court by the Certificate of the Lords Chief Justices the Master of the Rolls and others being by this Honourable Court appointed Committees to hear and examine the matter privately before them that the Writ of Error and the scire facias are insufficient in Law for divers Causes opened to this Court. Therefore it is Ordered by the Lords that the same Writ of Error shall abate and the Plaintiffs to pursue their further remedy as they shall thing good On Saturday the 13 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued the Bill for Provision to be made for the Surety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the continuance of the Realm in Peace was read tertia vice quae communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa with one amendment in the 44. line that is after this word left put out so as and in place thereof put in foreseeing that This amendment was made after the third reading and before the Bill was put to the question and was delivered to Doctor Barkeley and Serjeant Rodes to be carried to the Lower House with the Bill for the better observing of the Sabbath day with request for that there are whole Sentences inserted into the said Bill for the Sabbath day and the Bill would remain a very soul Record it might be fair written again Vide concerning this Bill of the Sabbath on Wednesday the third day and on Saturday the 6 th day of this instant March foregoing Two other Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Oxford-Haven was read tertia vice expedita Four Bills lastly were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty On Monday the 15 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued prima secunda tertia vice lecta est schedula of the amendments of the Bill against Jesuits sent from the House of Commons quae communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa est with an Addition to the said Schedule added by them of the House of Commons data Doctori Barkeley Servienti Rolles in Domum Communem deferend Six several Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Consirmation of the Subsidy of six shillings in the pound granted by the Clergy was read prima vice commissa ad ingrossandum Three Bills lastly were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the renewing continuance explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon about which time the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the payment and satisfaction of the Debt of William last Lord Marquess of Winchester deceased due to the Queens Majesty was read prima vice On Tuesday the 16 th day of March Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the
were indorsed in the upper or higher part of the same which the said M r Treasurer and the rest at this time sent up to the Upper House with the aforesaid three Bills did accordingly impart to their Lordships Vide plus de ista materia on Monday the 21 th day of this instant December following The Bill for Hue and Cry was read the second time during the absence of M r Treasurer and the rest as aforesaid The reading of which Bill being ended M r Treasurer and the residue returning from the Lords brought word that he the said M r Treasurer imparted unto their Lordships the Request of this House for Conference with their Lordships both for the Bill touching the Sabbath de qua Billa vide on Wednesday the 17 th day of March ensuing and also for the Petitions of the griefs of this House unto both which the Lords said they would by and by send their Answer Vide concerning Petitions on Thursday the 25 th day of February ensuing M r Vice-Chamberlain declared unto this House That her Majesty graciously considering the great pains and careful travel of this House in the Service and Affairs of the Realm hath determined upon Monday next to adjourn the Court of Parliament until some other convenient time after Christmas that such Gentlemen and other Members of this House may the more conveniently repair home to their houses in the mean time for their better ease and recreation And so moved further That as before that time of Adjournment being upon Monday next there can nothing of great moment possibly be prepared to passing so he wished that the same short time may be imployed in the speeding of such Bills as are nearest to the passing and mentioned some of those which came unto us from the Lords and that the residue may rest in the same case of furtherance in the mean time as now they are in M r Serjeant Gawdy and M r Doctor Ford did bring from the Lords again the Bill for the restitution in blood of the Lord Thomas Howard amended in the indorsement viz. indorsed under the Bill and the former indorsement above razed out The Bill for restitution in blood of the Lord Thomas Howard was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others and also the Bill for paving of the Town of Newark upon Trent the Bill for the Town of Caernarvon and the Bill for fraudulent Conveyances all which came from their Lordships before not rightly indorsed were sent up to their Lordships to have the same indorsements reformed and amended as that in the Bill for the Lord Thomas Howard was before amended The Bill for the true answering of the Debts of Edward Fisher was read the first time Vide on Monday the 22. day of February ensuing M r Richard Lewkenor one of the Committees in the Bill to avoid partial Juries and Tryals in the name of himself and the residue of the same Committees brought in the old Bill and also a new Bill praying that the same new Bill may be read accordingly The Bill for reformation of Errours in Fines and Common Recoveries in the twelve Shires of Wales was upon the second reading committed unto M r Sollicitor Sir William Herbert M r Penruddock M r David Williams and others who were appointed to meet upon Thursday next in the Afternoon in Lincolns-Inn-Hall After which the Bill for continuance and explanation of divers Statutes had its second reading M r Serjeant Gawdy and M r Doctor Barkeley did bring from the Lords the Bill touching the Sabhath day with Message from their Lordships that they can find by no Precedent that they can now add any thing at all upon our Conference to their former Additions inserted into the said Bill and do think withal that those things we desire are already provided for in their said Additions as the Bill now standeth and do therefore pray that being so good a Bill as this is they will have care it do not miscarry and so departed Whereupon it was then thought good to reserve the Bill in state as it was till it may be further considered of by view of the Precedents of this House in like cases And Sir Thomas Heneage M r Sollicitor M r Recorder Sir William Moore M r Cromwell and M r Sandes were appointed to search the Precedents of this House for that purpose in the mean time of the next sitting of this Court after the said Adjournment Vide plus de ista materia on Wednesday the 17 th day of February ensuing The Bill for the preservation of Grain was ordered upon the Question to be discontinued and divers others of no great moment as touching Ecclesrastical Livings Maintenance of the Navy and the like were continued until the end of this Adjournment which was now drawing on on Monday next being the 21 th day of December And the Committees appointed for the continuance of them were these following viz. M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Heneage Sir Thomas Cecil Sir William Moore M r Sollicitor M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Richard Knightley M r Francis Hastings Sir Nicholas Woodroofe M r Dannet M r Haymond M r Cromwell M r Owen M r Rawleigh M r Grafton Sir Francis Drake M r Doctor Hammond M r Wolley M r Grice Sir Henry Nevill Sir John Peter Sir William Drury Sir Robert Conestable Sir Robert Germin Sir Henry Cock who were appointed to meet on Thursday after Christmas-day in the Afternoon at two of the Clock at Ely place After M r Vice Chamberlain's late former Speeches delivered unto this House of her Majesties good and grateful acceptation of the earnest and dutiful care and proceedings of this House in providing for the safety of her most Royal Person and of her Highnesses said most loving and favourable regard of adjourning this Court of Parliament for some such convenient time as during which the greater part of the Members of this House may at their pleasure repair home to their dwellings as well for their better recreations and ease as for their further dealing in their own private affairs it was moved by Mr. Speaker That some due form or course of yielding unto her Majesty most humble and dutiful thanks for the same her said Highnesses most honourable and gracious acceptation and consideration in the name and behalf of this whole House in most loyal humble dutiful and obedient manner may be considered of and devised Whereupon after a few Speeches resolved and prayed that the same should and might be done most fitly and conveniently by those honourable Personages Members of this House which are of her Majesties most honourable Privy Council who being then present did very willingly and honourably undertake to execute the same most faithfully and effectually On Monday the 21 th day of December three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the true payment of
prayer and thanksgiving accordingly The Master of the Rolls and the Lord Chief Baron did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do desire present Conference with some of this House in a matter of great importance and that their Lordships have appointed of themselves seventeen Whereupon were Chosen presently thirty four of this House viz. M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Exchequer the Lord Russell Sir Thomas Heneage M r Sollicitor M r Beale M r Wolley Sir Robert Germin Sir John Higham M r Doctor James Sir Richard Knightley Sir George Carey M r Edward Lewkenor Sir Henry Cock Sir William Moore M r Edward Barker M r Branker the Master of the Requests M r George Greenfield Sir Edward Dymock M r Skinner M r Atturney of the Wards Sir William Mallory M r Strickland M r David Williams M r Harris M r Henry Barkley Sir Thomas Shirley M r Robert Bowes M r Recorder of London M r Morrice M r William Knolles M r Faunshaw Sir Drew Drury M r Oughtred M r George Digby and Mr. Cheek who repaired then presently to the Lords accordingly Mr. Yelverton being of the Learned Councel of one of the Creditors of Edward Fisher Esquire and coming into this House for him and also some of the Creditors of the said Edward Fisher being likewise present in this House at the Bar the Bill had in their presence its second reading and further Order was then given that they be here again to Morrow in the Morning at the first sitting of this Court Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 22 th day of February ensuing Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning the assurances of Sir Thomas Lucie and others the Proviso of it having been once read had it self the third reading and passed upon the question with the foresaid Proviso The last former Committees returning from the Lords Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the said Committees declared unto the House that they attended the Lords in the Upper House according to the direction of this House to them in that behalf given and that they found the Lords not to want many of that number which was signified unto this House from them and withal that there were likewise almost as many of the Committees of this House as were by this House appointed for that purpose And that the Lord Treasurer being the chiefest of the Committees of the Lords shewed unto the said Committees of this House that their Lordships of the Upper House being of such quality and calling as they are known to be are one Member of the Parliament And also that the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of this House representing the whole Commons of this Realm are also another Member of the same Parliament and her Majesty the Head And that of these three Estates doth consist the whole Body of the Parliament able to make Laws And that none of the said two Houses without the other can in any wise make Laws And withal that therefore of ancient Courtesie and Custom both the same Houses have used mutual Conference each with other in matters of doubt happening amongst them from time to time in making and establishing of Laws and that yet notwithstanding their Lordships have heard by Speeches abroad not out of this House for they are not to take knowledge of any thing in this House that a Bill to provide remedy against fraudulent Conveyances passed with their Lordships and lately sent down from them to this House was upon a second reading thereof in this House denied to receive a Committee whereof their Lordships do greatly marvail and think it very strange not having known the like course used in this House before especially the Bill being so good and necessary for the Common-Wealth and so specially recommended from their Lordships to this House both at the first sending down thereof to this House and sithence And being as their Lordships are informed upon the reading thereof the first time nothing spoken unto at all and now lately at the second reading thereof argued unto both with the Bill and against the Bill by sundry on both sides learned in the Laws and of good account and discretion otherwise which doth greatly import the Bill very much to deserve Conference without all contradiction And further declaring that the said Bill was very well favoured and liked of her Majesty yea in so much that her Highness used to call it her own Bill that it was framed and drawn by her Highness learned Councel very maturely and advisedly digested in the Upper House with the privity and assistance of the Judges there attending considered of also in a Committee amongst their Lordships themselves and with very great deliberation passed also with them and as before specially recommended unto this House from them moved in Conclusion that this House would have such further consideration for proceeding in some convenient course in the said Bill by Conference or otherwise as may in good discretion seem requisite And not doubting but as their Lordships think many of this House have mistaken and misconceived some part of the said Bill so their Lordships upon Conference had they doubt not will resolve and satisfie them in the same And therefore they desire to be advertised of the Answer of this House therein as soon as may be conveniently Vide de ista materia in die sequenti On Tuesday the 16 th day of February a Motion was made for Mr. Kirles releasment from his Imprisonment and thereupon he was brought into this House and kneeling upon his Knees making very humble submission unto this House and acknowledging his fault alledging it also to have proceeded of ignorance and not of wilfulness and likewise having paid to the Serjeant of this House to M r Stepneth's use three pound six shillings eight pence set down by M r Morrice and M r Sands according to the former Order of this House was discharged paying his Fees after he had first taken the Oath of Supremacy Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 10 th day and on Thursday the 11 th day of this instant February foregoing Upon a Motion made by M r Doctor James that a Member of this House yesterday having given great offence unto this whole House in charging this whole House generally with matter of accusation in those things which they do offer and prefer unto this House only by way of Petitions and Motions for redress of certain griefs in dutiful and convenient manner may not so go away with those undecent forms of Speech but be further called to Question for the same M r Atkins was thereupon Licensed by the House to interpret his said Speeches in his place without being Commanded to the Bar who in very humble sort declared his intention was very sorry for his over-sight craved their good opinions and submitted himself to the good satisfaction of this
that you receive them not until they be viewed and considered by those who it is fitter should consider of such things and can better judge of them To the persons all priviledge is granted with this Caveat That under colour of this priviledge no mans ill doings or not performing of Duties be covered and protected To the last free access is granted to her Majesties Person so that it be upon urgent and weighty Causes and at times convenient and when her Majesty may be at leisure from other important Causes of the Realm Nota That these several interlocutory Speeches of the Speaker and the Lord Keeper are not found in the Original Journal-Books of the Upper House or the House of Commons but are supplied out of a very Elaborate Journal of the Passages of the said Commons House taken by some Anonymous Member thereof this Parliament and are here inserted as was also the Lord Keepers Speech upon the first day of the same upon the reasons there alledged which see at large set down upon Monday the 19 th day of this instant February foregoing in fine diei Although the usual Custom in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House is to place all Proxies upon what days soever returnable before the beginning of the Journal it self yet I have conceived it much more methodical to place all such returns in those days upon which they were delivered to the Clerk of the Parliament and always upon that day on which the first Return was to make some short observation of that if it be unusual and extraordinary and so to refer the view of the residue to their proper days On this instant Thursday therefore being the 22 th day of February and the second day on which the Upper House sat was returned only this one unusual Proxy 22 o Die Febr. introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Johannis Episcopi Carliolen ' in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archi-episcopum Cantuarien Johannem Episcopum London Matthaeum Episcopum Dunelmen ' Nota That this is one of those Proxies which I call unusual and extraordinary in respect that this Bishop of Carlisle did make or constitute three several Proctors whereas usually a Spiritual Lord nominateth but two conjunctim divisim and a Temporal Lord but one and that also of their own Order whence it is plain that these Proxies may not unfitly be stiled unusual whereby the Spiritual Lords do appoint Temporal Lords for their Proctors or but one Proctor a piece or more than two or when any Temporal Lord nominateth a Spiritual for his Proctor or constituteth more Proctors than one And therefore it is worth the observation that at this very time of nine Temporal Lords that sent their Proxies this Parliament by her Majesties Licence but one of them nominated two Proctors Which see upon Monday the first day of March ensuing all the rest constituting but one Yet the Proxies of the Spiritual Lords being six in number were all of them unusual and extraordinary which I conceive is not easily to be patterned in any other Parliaments except the first which was sent by Edmond Bishop of Norwich in which he constituted only John Bishop of London and Richard Bishop of Peterburgh his Proctors and returned on Monday the 19 th day of this instant February foregoing although it be there omitted as a thing usual and not worth the setting down at large But the other four extraordinary Proxies sent by so many several Bishops see afterwards according to their several Returns upon Saturday the 24 th day and on Tuesday the 27 th day of this instant February ensuing as also on Wednesday the 7 th day and on Wednesday the 28 th day of March next following Where also it may be noted that John Archbishop of Canterbury had this Parliament five Proxies viz. From John Bishop of Carliste John Archbishop of York Thomas Bishop of Winchester Matthew Bishop of Durham and Thomas Bishop of Chichester all which being extraordinary are at large set down in this present Journal in those several days upon which they were returned so that from this and many other Precedents of former and later Parliaments it is most plain that by the ancient Usages and Customs of the Upper House any Lord Spiritual or Temporal being a Member thereof is capable of as many single or Joint Proxies as shall be sent unto him Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox ' futur ' On Saturday the 29 th day of February the Bill for restraining and punishing Vagrant and seditious Persons who under feigned pretences of Conscience and Religion corrupt and seduce the Queens Subjects was read primâ vice Eodem die retornatum est breve quo Richardus Wigorn ' Episcopus praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur idem Episcopus ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliament ' locum admissus est salvo cuiquam jure suo This day also was one extraordinary or unusual Proxie returned from a Spiritual Lord who constituted but one Proctor whereas usually no such Lord constituteth fewer than two which said Proxie is thus entred in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament in the beginning thereof in manner and form following viz. 24. Febr. Introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Johannis Eboracensis Archi-episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Archi-episcopum Catuarien ' On Monday the 26 th day of February retornatum est breve quo Edwardus Dominus Cromwell praesenti Parliamento summonebatur interesse idem Dominus ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum admissus est salvo jure alieno The Writ was returned whereby Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury was summoned c. The several Writs were also returned whereby George Bishop of Landaff William Lord Crompton and Edward Earl of Worcester were summoned It seemed by the Journal-Book that nothing else was done but the Parliament continued according to the usual form which is entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in these words following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Mercurii proximè futurum On Tuesday the 27 th day of February although the Upper House sat not yet was there one unusual and extraordinary Proxie returned from a Spiritual Lord who constituted but one Proctor which said Proxie was privately delivered in unto the Clerk of the said House and is entred by him in the Original Journal-Book of the same House in manner and form following viz. 27. Februarii Introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Thomae Wintonien ' Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Archi-episcopum Cantuarien ' On Wednesday the 28 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued two several Writs were returned whereby John Bishop of Bath and Wells and Matthew Bishop of Durham were summoned to come to this present Parliament
Keeper having allowed and approved his Election the said Speaker having in a second Speech shortly touched her Highness happy and victorious Reign and somewhat largely proved the antientSupremacy of the Kings of England in Ecclesiastical matters did in the end of his said Speech make certain Petitions of course in the name of the House of Commons First For liberty of Speech Secondly For freedom from Arrests And thirdly For Access unto her Majesty And lastly For Pardon for himself if he should in any thing unwittingly be mistaken To which Speech the Lord Keeper having received new Instructions from her Majesty made a reply in particular to the several branches of the said Speakers Speech And to his three demands he Answered that liberty of Speech was granted in respect of the I and No but not that every one should speak what he listed And touching freedom from Arrests and Access to her Majesty he advised that they might be cautiously made use of Nota That none of these Particulars touching the Presentment of the Speaker are set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons but are abstracted out of another Journal of the same House taken by an Anonymous Member of the same during the Parliament mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal yet it appeareth plainly by the very Original Journal-Book it self Fol. 262. l. that the Prosocutor was this day presented to her Majesty where the words are as followeth viz. Jovis xxii do Febr. 92. This Day M r Speaker was presented unto her Majesty Which said words being only here a little otherwise placed for Order sake than there have a large Blank left at the end of them of somewhat above half a page with intention no doubt at the first to have inserted the whole manner of the proceeding both of this presentment and admission After the Return also of the Speaker now compleatly invested in that place with the rest of the House of Commons one Bill was read according to the usual form in that Case accustomed which is set down in the said Journal-Book in these words following viz. The Bill that a Bar at large may be pleaded in any Action of Ejectione firmae was read the first time M r Speaker immediately after the reading of this Bill and his opening of the contents of the same to this House shewed unto them from her Majesty that her Highness had Adjourned mistaken for continued the Higher House till Saturday next And also that her Majesties pleasure likewise was that this House should therefore be Adjourned till the same time which being so done accordingly this House did then rise and every man went away On Saturday the 24 th day of February the House being set and a great number of the Members of the same assembled M r Speaker not then as yet being come to the House some of the House said one to another they heard he was sick And one affirmed it to be so indeed shewing that he had been with him this Morning himself and left him sick in his Bed and his Physician and his Wife with him and some others supposing that he would shortly signify unto this House the Cause of that his absence moved that the Clerk might in the mean time proceed to saying of the Litany and Prayers Which being so done accordingly the Serjeant of this House presently after the said Prayers finished brought word from M r Speaker unto the Right Honourable Sir John Woolley Knight one of her Majesties most Honourable Privy Council and a Member of this House and then present in the same House that he had been this last Night and also was this present Forenoon so extreamly pained with a wind in his Stomach and Loosness of Body that he could not as yet without his further great peril and danger adventure into the Air at this time which otherwise most willingly he would have done And willed that the Clerk of this House might signify unto the House the said estate of his Case and in his name to desire their good favourable considerations of the same not doubting their gentle and courteous acceptance of that his so reasonable excuse as by this House hath also been in former time used in like Case towards some other his Predecessors in the place he now serveth And to shew them he trusteth in God he shall be able to attend them in this House upon the next day of sitting which will be Monday next The Effect of which Message being then signified unto this House by the said Clerk of the House all the said Members of this House being very sorry for M r Speaker his sickness rested well satisfied And so the House did rise and every man departed away Nota That this is all which is found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons touching this days business and therefore that which followeth is supplied out of that Anonymous Journal mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal touching the residue of this days passages This day M r Peter Wentworth and Sir Henry Bromley delivered a Petition unto the Lord Keeper therein desiring the Lords of the Upper House to be suppliants with them of the lower House unto her Majesty for Entailing the Succession of the Crown whereof a Bill was readily drawn by them Her Majesty was highly displeased therewith after she knew therof as a matter contrary to her former strait Commandment and charged the Council to call the parties before them Sir Thomas Heneage presently sent for them and after Speeches had with them commanded them to forbear the Parliament and not to go out from their several Lodgings The day after being Sunday and the 25 th of Febr. though the House sate not yet they were called before the Lord Treasurer the Lord Buckhurst and Sir Thomas Heneage The Lords intreated them favourably and with good Speeches But so highly was her Majesty offended that they must needs commit them and so they told them Whereupon M r Peter Wentworth was sent Prisoner unto the Tower Sir Henry Bromley and one M r Richard Stevens to whom Sir Henry Bromley had imparted the matter were sent to the Fleet as also M r Welch the other Knight for Worcestershire Vide Mar. 10. About this matter in the beginning of the Parliament was appointed a Committee to be had of many grave wise and ancient Parliament men which were of the House but at this time few met at the place appointed at least not such as were expected It was appointed also at this time to M r Stevens to peruse the penning of the Petition that should have been delivered to that House and to have provided a Speech upon the delivery of it But this Office by reason of other occasions he could not attend What other things were done or spoken in that Conference were as I heard confessed to some of the Privy-Council by some of those Parties that were present at that Conference All that were there
themselves to join in Conference with the Committee of this House and have appointed the place to be in the Chamber next to the Upper House of Parliament and the time to be to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon And thereupon the Committee of this House appointed to have conferred amongst themselves for the matter of the Subsidy this present Afternoon in this House are appointed to defer their further consultation therein until the said other Committees of this House appointed for the said general Conference with the Lords shall have further acquainted this House of their travail and treaty to be first had with the said Committees of the Lords And also the meeting of the Committees in the Bill for reducing of disloyal Subjects to their due obedience is now signified to the same Committees to be held in the Afternoon of this present day in this place On Tuesday the 6 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted to the Mayor Sheriffs Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Lincoln was read the second time Sir Edward Hobby one of the Committees for Returns and Priviledges shewed that for the Borough of Camelford in the County of Cornwall one Richard Leech was returned to the Sheriff for a Burgess by a false Return And that afterwards Sir George Carew Knight was returned Burgess by the true Return And alledging that the said Richard Leech offered to yield the place to Sir George Carew moved the Order of this House therein And thereupon M r Speaker was appointed to move the Lord Keeper in the said Case for this Order either in the allowance of the said Sir George Carew in the place of the said Richard Leech or else in awarding a new Writ for the chusing another at his Lordships pleasure And so for his Lordships Order in the Case of the Burgess returned for the Borough of Southwark in the allowance of Richard Hutton already returned or else in awarding of a new Writ for chusing of another at his Lordships pleasure And so also for his Lordships Order in altering the name of John Dudley to the name of Thomas Dudley in the Return of one of the Burgesses of Newtown in the County of Southampton or else to award a new Writ at his Lordships pleasure The Bill against Aliens born to sell by way of retail Foreign Wares brought into this Realm was upon the second reading committed unto Sir John Wolley Sir Edward Stafford Sir Robert Sidney M r Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet upon Thursday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill touching M r Read Stafford c. was upon the second reading committed unto M r Heyle Sir Edward Stafford Sir Henry Umpton Sir Thomas West and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Star Chamber M r Vice-Chamberlain putting the House in remembrance of their resolution yesterday for praying Conference with their Lordships touching the great dangers and necessary remedies to be considered of and which was then so signified unto their Lordships by the House which return from their Lordships of the time and place appointed by them for that Conference being at two of the Clock in the Afternoon this present day in the Chamber next to the Upper House of Parliament moved that it may be presently resolved in this House wherein and how far the said Committees of this House shall have Warrant to treat with the Committees of the Lords It was after many Speeches of sundry Members of this House very well delivered to divers effects and purposes resolved and agreed by the whole House upon the Question that the said Committees of the House should have Authority to confer with the said Committees of the Lords generally concerning the said dangers and remedies as occasion should serve But not in any manner of wise to conclude or resolve of any thing in the said Conference particularly without the further privity or assent of this whole House to be had in that behalf upon the report of the said Committees to be first made unto this House of their Proceedings in the said Conference to be had this present day as aforesaid Nota That there is no more found of this days Passages in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although there be almost two pages left blank by M r Fulk Onslow at this time Clerk of the said House with intention doubtless at the first to have inserted them and therefore they are very largely and fully supplied out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal very elaborately taken by some Member of the same House during this Parliament where it appeareth that after the aforesaid Speech of Sir Thomas Heneage her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain M r Oliver S t John spake next in the manner and form following M r Oliver S t John said he thought that M r Vice-Chamberlain did mistake the thing we agreed upon that we went not to confer with their Lordships in any thing that we had to deliver but to understand of things from them the Conference being offered from them and not from us Sir Walter Raleigh Answered M r S t John that he mistook M r Vice-Chamberlain and the thing agreed by the House for we agreed all to a general Conference but not in particular for the Subsidy for this we refused If we confer generally it must be of our dangers and of the remedies which must be by means if of means it must be of Money and Aid So our Conference must needs be of Subsidy or rather Aid but to agree upon this with any resolution either in the matter or substance it is not our meaning Sir Robert Cecill answered M r S t John that he mistaking M r Vice-Chamberlain did wrong him in saying he delivered the Message insufficiently or untruly and so would have the priviledge of the House and that it should be delivered by the Committees whether M r Vice-Chamberlain did report truly and if truly then M r S t John to answer it and so said Sir John Woolley The House having cleared Sir Thomas Heneage Vice-Chamberlain he said he would have no other satisfaction than to be cleared by the House And protested he thought no ill of the Gentleman but allowed him for speaking as he thought Sir Henry Umpton agreed to the Conference and was glad the last days No and this were so well concluded and moved that we might not be deprived of thanks to agree unto a treble Subsidy before we went to confer M r Frowick Grevill said There are two scruples in the House which I would gladly satisfy the one the priviledge of the House the other the poverty of the people For Precedents they are but Examples of things past Now every Example ought to be stronger than
three to have spoken striving who might speak first Then the Speaker propounds it as an Order in the House in such a Case for him to ask the parties that would speak On which side they would speak whether with him that spake next before or against him and the party that speaketh against the last speaker is to be heard first And so it was ruled Where it may seem that the Speaker did give admonishment sitting in the House as a Member thereof and not sitting in his Chair as Speaker which he never doth at any Committee although it be of the whole House After which some able Member of the House whose name is not set down spake next and said I could very well agree to the Subsidies if they were not prejudicial to the Subject in other services For Subsidies be in the valuation of every mans Lands and Goods by Records called the Queens Books and according to mens valuation of Subsidies are they at all other charges as to the Wars and in time of Muster with Horse and Armour and this charge maketh men so unwilling to be raised in the Subsidy but if these Subsidies brought in no other charge with them they would be yielded willingly But the tail and appendage of it being so great and higher than the Subsidy it self is the reason that men are so unwilling to yield it Wherefore if a greater Tax or Assessment than heretofore be desired I would wish a Proviso to be added in the Statute That by this Subsidy no man should be raised as to the defray of other charges above the rate they were put to before Sir Francis Godolphin wished the first payment might be at Midsummer for after that time the Receivors had the benefit of the money The next to be at Michaelmas for at that time men would have it in the benefit of their Corn and Commodities And so in four years and a quarter the Subsidy would be paid with more ease M r Lewes agreed to the Subsidies and desired that two things might be granted whereby the Subject should be inriched and the better inabled to pay the Subsidy That is that one liberty may be granted which is transporting of Corn and the other is for somewhat to be restrained viz. bringing in of Wines so abundantly for the vent of our Cloth amounteth not to the sum of our Vintage srugem patrem-familias vendacem non emacem est oportet And thinks it good that the Statutes made heretofore against excess in Apparel might be put in Execution M r George Moore said I am grieved to see it and I speak it with grief how perilous our Estate is and how dangerous a cause we be in We are not sick of one Disease but we labour with a plurality of Diseases To meet therefore with our threefold Diseases we ought like good Physicians to apply a threefold remedy a treble Subsidy And as the Physick is lost which is not taken in time so we must seek to minister the Medicine in good time And our Disease being a Pleurisie it is fit we did so For a skilful Physician though he see in a Pleurisie there is no remedy without letting Blood yet he will then chuse the time of letting Blood when the sign is furthest from the heart Let us let the people Blood and so prevent the danger M r Heyle said If we take care for our Posterity we had best to settle our Posterity which will not be except we prevent dangers now imminent For precedents of Subsidies they are not to be feared because before-time greater were required than ever since were granted Therefore this is no Rule that what we grant now will hereafter be required ..... In the sixth year of King John every one holding by a Knights Fee was bound to find a Knight in the Wars And for this present Law it may be Enacted that this shall be no precedent for Subsidies hereafter like as it was in the fourteenth of Edward the Third Sir Robert Cecill assented to those that had spoken for the Subsidies but to them that had spoken to the contrary he said they speak out of time And to speak to the particular parts as that our Poverty is not to be skinned over but throughly healed that discontentment is to be feared and lastly that precedents for hereafter would be avoided For the first if we be poor yet at this time it is to be considered we are in great danger and of two mischiefs we must chuse the lesser And therefore I would have this question after so much discussing banished the House For Precedents they have never been perpetual but begun and ended with the Causes and as the Causes grew so grew the Precedent In her Majesties time it is not to be feared that this Precedent will ever do us harm for her Majesty will never accept any thing that is given her unwillingly of her Subjects Nay in the Parliament the twenty seventh of her Reign she refused a benevolence offered her because she had no need of it and would not charge her people This being out of fear we have no reason to give prejudice to the best Queen or King that ever came for fear of a worse King than ever was After her Reign I never had so much as one Idea in my Head what would be our Estate then Now to end the matter long debated my desire is that the question might be made for three Subsidies payable in four years This question was made in the House and at the first they gave an I. Thus far out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal that which follows is out of the Original Journal-Book it self On Thursday the 8 th day of March M r Speaker shewed unto the House that according to the appointment of this House he hath attended the Lord Keeper touching his Lordships pleasure for the directing of a new Writ for the chusing of another Burgess for the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey instead of Richard Hutton supposed to have been unduly and undirectly Elected and also for the allowing of Sir George Carew Knight to be Burgess for the Borough of Camelford in the County of Cornwall as truly returned Burgess of the said Borough of Camelford to the Sheriff of the said County in the stead of Richard Leech alledged to have been returned to the said Sheriff by a false Return And also for changing of the name of John Dudley Esq returned a Burgess for the Borough of Newtown in the County of Southampton into the House by the name of Thomas Dudley Esquire alledged to be the same person in very deed that should have been returned and that his name was mistaken and none living known by that name of John Dudley His Lordships Answer and Resolution in the said Cases was that the said Returns of the said Burgesses of Southwark and Camelford should stand and continue according to the Returns of the same without taking notice of any matter of
Temporal Lords not because as I suppose they were all returned first but because of their Ecclesiastical dignities and in respect that the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury one of their Order is the first Peer of the Realm Whence also their names are usually first set down in the Journal-Book where the presence of all the Lords is noted each day when they sit as long as the Parliament continueth Then follow the Proxies of the Temporal Lords in such order as they are here set down Rogeri Comitis Rutland which as the rest is put in the Genitive Case in relation to those first words Literae procuratoriae in hoc Parliamento sunt allatae qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Edwardi Comitis Bedford qui procuratorem suum constituit Oliverum Dominum S t John de Bletsoe Caroli Domini Mount joy qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum Hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Gulielmi Comitis Bathon ' qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum Hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Edwardi Domini Morley qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum Hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Anthonii Vicecomitis Mountague qui procuratorem suum constituit Thomam Dominum Buckhurst magnum Thesaurarium Angliae Gulielmi Domini Sandes qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Edwardi Domini Stafford qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Georgii Comitis Huntington qui procuratorem suum constituit Edwardum Comitem Wigorn ' Thomae Vicecomitis Bindon qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Domini Lumley qui procuratorem suum constituit Thomam Dominum Darcy de Chiche Johannis Domini Darcy qui procuratorem suum constituit Gilbertum Comitem Salop. Henrici Comitis Kanciae qui procuratorem suum constituit Gilbertum Comitem Salop. Edwardi Comitis Oxon qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Thomae Domini Burleigh qui procuratorem suum constituit Henricum Comitem Northumberland Nota That in respect that this present Parliament was the last of her Majesties Reign and these Proxies are entred after a different manner from most of those in the Queens time which are before set down they are all of them therefore Transcribed both ordinary and extraordinary out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of which the Ordinary I call those when a Spiritual Lord constituteth two Proctors and a Temporal Lord one and those Extraordinary when a Temporal Lord constituteth more than one Proctor and a Spiritual Lord but one or more than two Nota also that the Earl of Nottingham had eight several Proxies sent unto him this Parliament by which it is plain that by the Ancient Custom and usages of the Upper House every Member thereof is capable of as many Proxies as shall be sent unto him although the said Custom be at this day altered by an Order made in the said House upon the day of in Anno 2. Regis Caroli Anno Dom. 1626. upon the ingrossing of many Letters procuratory by George Duke of Bucks that no Lords Spiritual or Temporal should be capable of above two of the said Proxies The above-mentioned Proxies being set down in manner and form as aforesaid now followeth in the next place the beginning of the Parliament it self and the manner of her Majesties coming to the same On Tuesday the 27 th day of October and the first day of this present Parliament about three of the Clock in the Afternoon the Queen went by Land to Westminster Church riding in a Chariot made all open only like a Canopy at the Top being of Cloth of Silver or Tissue with divers Lords and others in their degree being Marshalled by the Heralds where having heard a Sermon she went into the Upper House and being there set the Lords Spiritual and Temporal took their several places whose names are Transcribed out of the Original Journal of the Upper House in manner and form following Johannes Archiepiscopus Cantuarien ' Thomas Egerton Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Matchio Winton Comites Comes Sussex Magnus Mareschallus Comes Nottingham Magnus Admirallus Angliae Magnus seneschallus Hospitii Reginae Comes Northumbr Comes Salop. Comes Darbiae Comes Wigorn ' Comes Cumbriae Comes Pembrooke Comes Hertford Comes Lincoln Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Dunelmen Episcopus Wintonien Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Coventr ' Litchfield Episcopus Wigorn. Episcopus Bathon ' Wellen. Episcopus Meneven Episcopus Lincoln Episcopus Asaphen Episcopus Cestren Episcopus Cicestren Episcopus Exon. Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Elien Episcopus Petriburgen Barones Dominus Zouch Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Dudley Dominus Lumley Dominus Stourton Dominus Windsor Dominus Mordant Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby de Parham Dominus Sheffield Dominus Darcie de Chiche Dominus Chandots Dominus S t John de Bletsoe Dominus Compton Dominus Norreys Dominus Howard de Walden These names being thus inserted out of the Original Journal-Book now follow some other passages of this day with the summ of the Lord Keepers Speech out of a private Journal of the House of Commons The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice that her Majesty with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal and others were set in the Upper House hasted thither but before they came the door of the House was shut and notwithstanding any means that was made by them was still kept shut until the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech the substance or chief scope of which said Speech was as followeth He used perswasion of thankfulness and of obedience and also shewed her Majesties desire of dissolution of this Parliament before Christmas He shewed unto us the necessity we stand in and the means to prevent it the necessity the Wars between Spain and England the means Treasure c. His advice was that Laws in force might be revised and explained and no new Laws made Our Enemies he said were Enemies to God the Queen and the peace of this Kingdom conspired to overthrow Religion to reduce us to a Tyrannical servitude These Enemies he named to be the Bishop of Rome and the King of Spain Our state being thus he summoned us to be provident by reason we deal with a provident Enemy and confident because God hath ever and I hope will ever bless the Queen with successful fortune He shewed how apparent his providence was by the means and course he taketh for our instruction And secondly the success we had against him by Gods strong Arm of defence in Anno 1588. and divers other times since You see to what effect the Queens support of the French Kings Estate hath
knowledge of this Motion and to give Order that Tolkerne should be sent for at whose Suit the Arrest was made And withal that such Precedents as the Clerk of the Parliament could shew should be looked out and made known to the House Vide plus concerning this matter on Monday the 23 th day of this instant November following On Saturday the 14 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing by occasion of sending for the aforesaid Tolkerne request was made by M r Conisbie Gentleman Usher to the House and signified by the Mouth of the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward That for as much as the bringing of any person before the Lords upon breach of the Priviledge of the House did appertain as the said M r Conisbie supposed and alledged to his place though in the last Parliament by some mistaking as he thought the Serjeant at Arms was imployed therein That therefore their Lordships would be pleased to confirm and settle such Order as he might at this time and from henceforth have the Right of his place in that behalf Whose request being considered of by the Lords it was thought meet that the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Worcester the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch and the Lord Cobham should at their next meeting upon any other occasion take notice of such Precedents as could be produced therein either for the Gentleman-Usher or for the Serjeant at Arms and thereof to make Report to the House whereupon their Lordships would proceed to the deciding of the question between them Vide concerning this business on Tuesday the first day of December next following The meeting of the Committees about the Bill concerning Musters Souldiers c. who were nominated on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant November foregoing and appointed to meet this Afternoon was upon Motion to the House by some of the Committees deserr'd until Monday next being the 16 th day of this instant November by eight of the Clock in the Morning A Motion was made by the Lord Keeper that the Gentleman-Usher might be sent to such Lords as are absent from the Parliament and have not sent their Proxies to admonish them thereof Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for suppressing the multitude of Ale-Houses and Tippling-Houses was read secundâ vice and committed to the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Hartford the Earl of Lincoln the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Chester the Bishop of Exeter the Bishop of Ely the Lord Zouch the Lord Cobham the Lord Rich the Lord Sheffield the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John of Bletsoe and the Lord Compton and the Lord Chief Justice of England M r Justice Gawdy M r Baron Savile and M r Serjeant Yelverton were appointed to attend their Lordships The third Bill also being for the avoiding of unnecessary delayes of Executions upon Judgment in Debt was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Pembrook the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of S t Asaph the Lord Cobham the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John of Bletsoe and M r Justice Gawdy M r Baron Savile and M r Serjeant Yelverton were appointed to attend their Lordships The Lord Zouch renewed his former motion concerning the Arrest of William Hogan her Majesties Ordinary servant at the suit of John Tolkerne Whereupon the Clerk of the Parliament was required to shew forth all such Precedents as he had found touching the Arrests of any Persons priviledged by Parliament having received directions from the Lords for that purpose as is before Recorded of which sort out of the Journal-Book remaining in his custody there were to be found only these four hereunder mentioned and no more 1. Anno 27. Reginae Fliz. die Martis primo die Decembris of James Diggs servant to my Lords Grace of Canterbury 2. Anno 27. Reginae Eliz. die Lunae 7. Die Decembris of Robert Finneis servant to the Lord Viscount Binden 3. Item in the last Parliament of 39 Eliz. 26. die Novembris of Edward Barston servant to the Lord Chandois and 8. die Decembris of John York the Lord Arch-Bishops servant 4. Item Anno 14. Reginae die ultimo Junii It appeareth that the Lord Cromwel made complaint unto the Parliament of an Attachment served upon his Person and that his Lordship was by Order of the Parliament discharged of the Attachment but whether this Attachment was served in the time of the Parliament it doth not certainly appear Which said Precedents being accordingly presented to the Lord Keeper the same were presently read together with certain Observations out of a Book written by Richard Crompton Esquire Intituled the Authority and Jurisdiction of the Queens Courts concerning the proceedings of the House in the like case of George Ferrers Gent. an ordinary servant to King Henry 8. about the thirty fourth year of his Reign This being done albeit sundry Motions were thereupon made by divers of the Lords for a present proceeding in this matter nevertheless because the said Tolkerne having been formerly sent for could not yet be found and also in respect there was less appearance of the Lords this day than at other times and this matter concerning the priviledge of the House was of great importance and therefore required a more full Assembly Stay was made of any further proceeding until Thursday next being the 19 th day of this instant November And in the mean time it was Ordered that Tolkerne should again be sent for to appear before the Lords in the House that day by nine of the Clock in the Morning Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 23 th day of this Instant November following On Monday the 16 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for reuniting Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning was read secundâ vice Motion was made by the Lord Sheffield upon reading of this Bill that Thomas Crompton Son of Thomas Crompton Esquire deceased with Henry Best Francis Jackson and others whom it may concern should be heard in the House whether they or any of them could pretend any right or Interest in these Lands in respect of a Grant heretofore made thereof by her Majesty to the said Thomas Crompton Which Motion was well approved by the House and Ordered that the Gentleman Usher should move the said parties to appear before their Lordships in the House for that purpose upon Saturday next the 21. day of this Instant November by eight of the Clock in the Morning and to bring them such persons as are interested in the Conveyance of those Lands Vide December 7 th Monday postea Memorandum That the
who said that in the 27 th year of the Queen the like Motion had been made and that then by reason of the shortness of the time and suddain ending of the Parliament nothing was done therein Notwithstanding he said that now this motion being so happily made and that then by reason of the shortness of the time nothing was done he thought it fit for a Committee He was seconded again by M r Wiseman of Lincolns-Inn who was of the same mind and said That divers particular Laws of his knowledge were now both needless to be performed as also dangerous to the Subject by reason of the Penalties Whereupon the House agreed that the said Bill should be committed and Committees were nominated which are inserted out of the Orinal Journal-Book it self viz. All the Privy Council being Members of this House M r D r Caesar Master of Requests Sir Edward Hobbie M r Wiseman M r D r Crompton M r D r Perkins M r D r Dunn the Knights and Citizens for London the Knights and Citizens for Norwich Sir Walter Raleigh M r Tanfield M r Francis Bacon M r Robert Wingfield Sir Robert Wroth Sir George Moore Sir Moile Finch Sir John Harrington Sir Thomas Leighton M r Snigg M r Phillipps M r Winch Mr. Tho. Culpepper Mr. Hide Mr. Oldsworth Mr. Maynard the Lord Howard Sir Richard Knightley Sir Robert Carey the Lord Clinton Mr. Dale Mr. William Lane Mr. Michael Stanhop Mr. Warcop Sir Henry Nevil Sir Arthur George Sir Edward Hungerford Sir William Strowde Sir William Courtney Mr. John Egerton Mr. Dr. James Sir Crew Rawleigh Mr. Boyse Sir Henry Brunker and Sir Thomas Gerrard who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber upon Friday next in the Afternoon The Bill for the explanation of such Statutes as touch Leases to be made by Archbishops and Bishops was read the first time Monition was this day given by Mr. Speaker unto the Members of this House that they would forbear from henceforth to come into this House with their Spurs on in regard it is very offensive to many others of the residue of them Thus far out of the Original Book it self Others also although nothing were done therein moved to have Boots and Rapiers taken away as is set down in the above mentioned private Journal On Tuesday the 3 d day of November Upon a Motion made by Mr. Speaker on the behalf of Mr. Fulk Onslow the Clerk of this House for that it hath pleased God to visit him with an Ague That it would please this House to vouchsafe their allowance unto Cadwallader Tydder his Servant to execute the place in his absence as Deputy unto the said Mr. Onslow until it shall please God to restore him to health Which was willingly assented unto by the whole House and by Order of the whole House the said Tydder took the Oath of Supremacy Nota That there was a like precedent in the second meeting of the Parliament after an Adjournment thereof in Anno 28 29. Regin Eliz. An. Dom. 1586. when upon the like Motion of the Speaker on Wednesday the 15 th day of February William Onslow kinsman of the said Mr. Fulk Onslow being at that time a Member of the House of Commons was during his sickness allowed by the said House to exercise and supply the place of Clerk thereof as at this present time Cadwallader Tydder servant to the said Mr. Fulk Onslow was licensed to supply the same Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the better preserving the breed of Horses and to avoid the common stealing of them was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Edward Hobbie Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Walter Cope Mr. Fulk Grevil Mr. Hide and others who were appointed to meet on Monday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon And the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Sir Robert Wroth. The Bill to reform the Abuses in Inns Victualling-Houses c. was read the second time and being put to the question for committing was upon the question refused to be committed Upon a Motion made by Mr. Leife that whereas many Members of this House which could not come to the Upper House upon the first day of this Parliament the Door being kept shut to hear her Majesties pleasure signified by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper of the Causes of her Majesties calling of this Parliament they might in some sort be satisfied of the same He putteth Mr. Comptroller in mind of his Honours promise to relate the same unto them Who thereupon desired Mr. Secretary Cecil because he the said Mr. Comptroller was not there himself to make the same relation which the said Mr. Secretary doing at large The chief intent and scope thereof appeared to aim at the setting forth of two things especially the First the Danger the Kingdom stood in in respect of the power and malice of the Spaniard the Second that timely provision of Treasure might be made for the prevention Thus far out of the Original Journal-Book it self M r Secretary Cecil's Speech which followeth being spoken after that he had repeated the Lord Keepers Speech is inserted out of the beforecited private Journal of the House in manner and form following For my own advice touching the particular Counsels of this House I wish that we would not trouble our selves with any fantastick speeches or idle Bills but rather such as be for the general good both light in conception and facile in execution Now seeing it hath pleased you all hitherto with patience to hear me if with your favour I may particularize and show the grounds of the former delivered Speech touching the State of Ireland I shall be very glad both for my own discharge and for your satisfaction The King of Spain having quit himself of France by a base and servile Peace forgetteth not to follow the Objects of his Fathers Ambition England and the Low-Countries He hath made Overtures of Peace which if they might both be honourable and for the publick good I hold him neither a wise nor an honest man would impugn them He hath put an Army into Ireland the number Four thousand Souldiers under the conduct of a valiant expert and hardy Captain who chooseth rather than return into his own Country without any famous enterprize to live and dy in this service These Four thousand are three parts Natural Spaniards and of his best expert Souldiers except them of the Low-Countries Those he could not spare because of his enterprize of Ostend And how dangerous the loss of that Town would be to this Land I think there is no man of experience but can witness with me For he would easily be Master of all that Coast so that the Trade betwen England and the Low-Countries would be quite dissolved Yea he would be so dangerous a Neighbour to us that we which are now Tenants by discretion are
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
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
as aforesaid being placed at the South Door came in the House of Commons bringing in between Sir Edward Rogers Comptroller of the Queens House and Sir Francis Knolles Vice-Chamberlain M r Richard Onslow Esq the Queens Sollicitor whom they had Chosen for their Speaker and after a Reverence done proceeded after down to the Wall and from thence came up to the Rail in the way doing three Reverences and then began the said Speaker to say as followeth IF it please your Royal Majesty most Vertuous and most Excellent Princess At the humble Suit of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of your nether House of Parliament now Assembled was signified from your Majesty by the mouth of the Lord Keeper by force of your Highness Letters of Commission your pleasure and grant of free Election to the Knights Citizens and Burgesses to chuse a fit and learned man to be their Speaker instead of Thomas Williams Esq their late Speaker whom it hath pleased God to call to his Mercy For which they have Commanded me in their Names to render unto your Majesty most humble thanks And have Commanded and forced me to my great grief to signifie to your Majesty how accordingly they have proceeded to an Election and chosen and assigned me as I may say being most unworthy to speak in this place for this Parliament and for that I would not be obstinate I am forced to wound my self with their Sword which wound yet being green and ☞ new your Majesty being the perfect Physician may Cure in disallowing that which they have allowed for that without your consent it is nothing And although I being very loth to trouble your Highness have made Suit and used all ways and means to avoid it yet could I find no remedy and therefore am driven to seek remedy at your hands for though I have the experience of their uprightness wisdom and knowledge which chose me who if they would have found any fault in me I would lightly have believed them notwithstanding that we are for the most part given to think too much of our selves but in this day that they seem to enable me to this calling whereof I know my self unable I cannot credit them no more than the simple Patient grievously tormented with sickness will believe the Physician nay the whole Colledge of them if they say he hath no grief pain or sickness I therefore do not attempt this releasing of me for any ease of my self but would be glad to serve your Majesty to the uttermost of my Power in the Office of Sollicitorship whereunto I am appointed and not in this being unfit for the same and that for divers Causes For first I consider I have to deal with many well Learned the Flower and Choice of the Realm whose deep understanding my Wit cannot attain to reach unto No if they for great carefulness would often inculcate it into my dull Head to signifie the same unto your Highness yet my Memory is so slippery by Nature and Sickness that I should likely lose it by the way yet if perhaps I kept part thereof I have no other knowledge to help my self withall but a little in the Law far inferiour to divers in this House and so should want Learning and Utterance to declare their meanings as it requireth specially when I consider your Royal Majesty a Princess endowed with so many Vertues Learning and flowing Eloquence it will abash and astonish me and therefore finding these infirmities and other in me I think my self most unworthy of this place I trust therefore only in your Highness that you will disallow this Election and the rather for that by the true intent of your said Letters it may not be gathered that they should elect any of your Majesties Officers for although the words be to have their free Election yet the Law may restrain them in some measure As for Example we find in the Law that if it would please your Majesty to grant Licence to a Dean and Chapter to purchase to them and their Successors a hundred pound yearly which words be generally yet if the purchased Lands be holden in Capite this grant is void And again if you grant the Fines and Amerciaments of all your Tenants to one who after chanceth to be Sheriff of a Shire yet being a Sheriff he cannot have them So this me seemeth if it please your Highness serveth my Case Another Cause is for want of substance to maintain this my Countenance but yet your Majesties goodness in this point stoppeth my Mouth for that I have none other living but in manner by you So for all these considerations and divers others as it shall please your Majesty to consider I humbly desire your Highness to disallow this Election Commanding them to repair again together and to chuse another more fit to serve the same And so he ended and did his Reverence Then the Queen called the Keeper declaring her opinion in Answering him who returning to his place said as followeth M r Onslow The Queens Majesty hath heard and well understood this disabling your self to this Office and doth well perceive your earnest Suit to be discharged of the same and for Answer hath Commanded me to say that she doubteth not but you very well understand that when one is chosen to serve the Common-Wealth it is not in him which is called who hath appointed him thereunto Also there is an old similitude that like as it appertaineth to the head to dispose every inferior member in his place so it pertaineth to the Queens Majesty being the Head to appoint every one in the Common-Wealth This being truth and her Majesty withal remembring your Fidelity and long Experience in Parliament matters and again being chosen by so learned and expert men thinketh therefore your fitness needeth not to be disputed here and therefore they giving unto you such Faith and Credit according to an Antient Custom she cannot but do the like and also you in disabling your self have abled your self and therefore she doth allow and approve this their Election nothing doubting her opinion in your ability to serve this turn and so ended M r Onslow's Answer SEeing that it hath pleased your Majesty to ratify this Election I to the uttermost of my power shall serve your Highness and this Common-Wealth but first my humble suit is that it would please your Majesty to accept my good will and the better to discharge my Duty towards them which have Chosen me that in great matters sent from them I may have access to your Majesty at times convenient as the weight shall require Secondly If by weakness I shall mistake the effect and meaning of the matters committed to me by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses and thereby against my will misreport them that then thereby this Common-Wealth may take no detriment but that I may confer again with them the better to understand their meaning and so with more words to utter the same unto
only to be inserted being extraordinary and less usual viz. where two spiritual Lords Constituted three Proctors apiece whereas they usually nominate but two as the Temporal Lords do but one And in respect that through the negligence of Anthony Mason Esquire at this time Clerk of the Upper House there is no day set down on which the said Proxies were introduced therefore I have thought it most fit to insert them here at the end of the first days Passages of this present Session Although they be Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the said House before the beginning thereof in manner and form following Episcopus Wigorn. absens ex licentia Dominae Reginae constituit Procuratores suos Johannem Episcopum Herefordens Thomam Episcopum Coventr Litchf Thomam Episcopum Lincoln Episcopus Landaven absens ex licentia Dominae Reginae constituit Procuratores suos Edwinum Episcopum London Thomam Episcopum Coventr Litchf Willielmum Episcopum Assaven Nota That the Lord Burleigh had this Parliament four Proxies Entred in the Original Journal-Book in the same Order as they follow but no day is set down on which they were returned viz. from the Lord Vaux from the Marquess of Winchester from Viscount Mountacute and from the Lord Latimer On Thursday the 9 th day of February the Bill for Reformation of Apparel was read secunda vice and committed unto the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of London the Lord Wentworth the Lord North the Lord Hunsdon the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor Two Bill also had each of them one reading of which one was the Bill against diminishing the Queens Majesties Coin and was read the second time Nota That this foregoing Bill had now its second reading but there is no mention made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees as in the like Case is always usual unless it be in such Bills as are sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons ready ingrossed in Parchment upon their passing of them or else when they are fairly ingrossed in Parchment and sent from her Majesty to the House when they immediately concern her own Person State or Prerogative or some Subject whom out of Grace she intendeth to have restored in Blood Naturalized or the like and of this latter sort this present Bill seemeth to be because it concerneth her Majesties Coin unless perhaps the mentioning of the ingrossing or the referring thereof were omitted by the Clerks negligence which may sometimes happen A Writ in common form was returned summoning the Lord Chandois to come to Parliament On Friday the 11 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continaed the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents and other Assurances made by the Queens Majesty was read the second time and committed unto the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Essex the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Hereford the Lord Grey the Lord Lumley and the Lord Howard A Writ was directed and this day returned in common form summoning the Lord Stourton to come to Parliament The Parliament was continued in common form by the Lord Keeper until Monday next at nine of the Clock On Monday the 13 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents and other Assurances made by the Queens Majesty was read secundâ vice But it should rather seem that this was the first reading of this new Bill brought in by the Committees to whom the same was referred on Saturday the 11 th day of this instant February foregoing because it had its second reading on Wednesday the 15 th day and its third reading on Thursday the 16 th day of this instant Month foregoing The Bill for Reformation of Excess in Apparel was read prima vice Nota That the former Bill to this effect which had been referred to Committees on Thursday the 9 th day of this instant February foregoing was as it seemeth dashed by them and a new Bill brought in which had its first reading on this day its second reading on Wednesday and its third and last reading on Thursday the 16 th day of this instant February following On Wednesday the 15 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Monday last continued The Bill for coming to Church and receiving of the Communion was read the second time and committed unto the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Ely the Bishop of Chichester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Wentworth the Lord North Justice Mounson and Justice Manwood and the Queens Sollicitor Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them their second reading and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed of which the first was the Bill for reformation of excess in Apparel On Thursday the 16 th day of February the Bill for reformation of excess in Apparel and the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents were each of them read tertia vice conclusae and sent to the House of Commons by Dr. Barkley and Mr. Powle Clerk of the Crown Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Repeal of a Statute made in the eighteenth year of Henry the Sixth was read prima vice and committed to the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor to consider of On Saturday the 18 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Repeal of a Statute made an 18 H. 6. was read secunda vice and committed to the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor Nota That this Bill was committed upon the first reading on Thursday the 16 th day of this instant February foregoing to Serjeant Barham the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor by whom it should seem the Bill being brought in again without any great alteration was now recommitted upon the second reading to the two latter of them to consider further of the same according to the Order of the House Vide Febr. 22. postea The Bill for the maintenance of Rochester-Bridge which was read the first time in the beginning of this present day was now committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer of England the Earl of Lincoln Lord Admiral Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Chichester the Lord Abergavenny the Lord Cobham the Lord Buckhurst Justice Manwood and Serjeant Barham On Monday the 20 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands sold by Henry Fisher
fact therein or in the Election at all And that his Lordship would direct a Writ for chusing of another Burgess for the said Borough of Newtown in the stead of the said John Dudley And that his Lordship would in the said Writ insert the said Cause of misbehaviour so as before alledged Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Confirmation of the assurance unto certain Purchasers of Lands sold by Sir Richard Knightley Knight M r Valentine Knightley and M r Edward Knightley Esquires was upon the second reading committed unto M r Serjeant Yelverton Sir Henry Umpton M r Cradock and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill to take away the benefit of Clergy in some Cases was twice read and committed unto the former Committees in the last former Bill and M r Richard Brown Gentleman was added unto them who with the rest was appointed to meet at the same time and place as in the said last former Bill viz. to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Two other Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of the sale of the Lands of William Raven Gentleman made unto Lisle Cave and others was twice read and committed unto M r Heale M r Serjeant Yelverton Sir Henry Knivet M r Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall M r Vice-Chamberlain shewed that he and the residue of the Committees of this House for Conference with the Lords did meet together yesterday in the Afternoon according to the appointment of this House and that after many Speeches and Arguments gravely ' delivered by sundry of the said Committees the greater part of them did assent and agree unto the granting of a triple Subsidy and of six Fifteenths and Tenths to be yielded to her Majesty towards the provision against the great and imminent perils and dangers of this Realm The same triple Subsidy and six Fifteenths and Tenths to be levyed and paid in four years in a certain form which they had set down in Articles that is to say one intire Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths at one payment in the first year and one other intire Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths at one other payment in the second year and one intire Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths at two payments in the third and fourth years Which done he moved further to know the resolution of the House Whether it would please them to give liking to the said travel of the said Committees in the said Cause or that it might be their pleasures to resolve of any such other course therein as they may have Warrant to impart unto the Lords this Afternoon according to the promise of this House to the Lords Whereupon after many long and grave Speeches and Arguments by divers of the said Members of this House it was agreed by them all without any contradiction that the proportion should be a treble Subsidy and six Fifteenths and Tenths And the said Articles for the manner of payment being read by the Clerk of the House seemed for the most part to be well liked of Whereupon after some Motions to the Question M r Speaker dividing it into two several parts the one for the number of the said three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths and the other for the manner and time of levying and payment of the same three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths it was upon the same several questions severally resolved by the whole House the proportion to be a treble Subsidy and six Fifteenths and Tenths and the manner of paying and levying the same to be made in four years according to the said Articles thereof read And then were the said Committees appointed and authorized by this House to signify the said resolution of this House unto their Lordships in the Afternoon of this present day accordingly and to be reported unto their said Lordships by Sir Robert Cecill for that M r Vice-Chamberlain was then at that very instant very sharply grieved and pained with his infirmity of the Gout On Friday the 9 th day of March the Bill concerning Woollen-Cloths called Vesses c. was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Knolles Sir John Hart M r Recorder of London M r Wroth and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Sir John Harrington and Sir Thomas Wilkes are added to the former Committees in the Bill for Confirmation of Assurances unto certain Purchasors of Lands sold by Sir Richard Knightley K r M r Valentine Knightley and M r Edward Knightley Esquires appointed yesterday The Committees in the Bill touching Recusants nominated on Wednesday the 28 th day of February foregoing are appointed to meet in this House at two of the Clock this Afternoon The Committees in the Bill also for Naturalizing of Samuel Saltingstall and others nominated on Monday the sixth day of this instant March soregoing are appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill concerning Spinners and Weavers was read the first time The Bill for the Confirmation of the Joynture of the Lady Margaret Countess of Cumberland is deferred till to Morrow to be further dealt in Sir Robert Cecill reporteth at large the Message of this House yesterday by him and the residue of the Committees of this House delivered unto their Lordships and their Lordships good acceptation of the same Which done after sundry other speeches of divers Members of this House it was resolved upon the Question that the former Committees of this House for the Subsidy their names being then read by the Clerk of this House should meet in this House at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present day for the setting down of Articles for the drawing of the Bill for the granting of the Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths to be paid in four years according to the former resolution of this House therein The Bill against springing Uses and Perpetuities was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy Council being of this House all the Knights of the Shires returned unto this House M r Cradock and others who were appointed to meet in this House upon Tuesday at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Richard Hutton Gentleman one of the Burgesses returned for the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey is upon a Motion made by M r Recorder of London and also after some Report made by M r Speaker of the opinion and pleasure of the Lord Keeper in that Case adjudged upon the question to be a Member of the House
and thereupon the Oath being taken by him before M r Chancellor of the Exchequer the said Richard Hutton came into this House and took his place in the same accordingly Sir John Hart one of the Knights returned for the City of London putting the House in remembrance once of a Report lately made by some of the Committees of this House touching a Speech lately delivered by some of the Committees of the Lords touching the late Assessment of the late double Subsidy amongst others in the City of London alledging that in London there was none Assessed at above two hundred pounds and not past four such nor yet past eight at one hundred pounds shewed that the Honorable person that delivered the said Speech to the said Committees of this House had not been rightly informed in that matter And shewed further that in very deed at the last Assessment of the Subsidy within the said City of London there were two and thirty persons taxed at two hundred pounds and upwards whereof some at two hundred and twenty and some at two hundred and fifty pounds And one hundred forty and eight persons at one hundred pounds and upward whereof some at one hundred and ten some at one hundred and twenty some at one hundred and forty some at one hundred and fifty some at one hundred and sixty and some at one hundred and eighty pounds And eighty persons at three hundred pounds and some at three hundred and fifty pounds and four persons at four hundred pounds Besides sive hundred forty and four persons at fifty pounds and upwards whereof some at sixty some at seventy some at eighty and some at ninety pounds The Bill concerning the lawful deprivation of Edward Bonner late Bishop of London was upon the second reading committed unto M r Hubbert M r Heale Sir Henry Knivet M r Wroth and others who were appointed to meet in this House upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Saturday the 10 th day of March M r Wroth one of the Committees in the Bill against the stealing of Oxen Sheep and Lambs shewed that he and the residue of the Committees in the same Bill have met together and added some amendments to the same Bill and offereth both the Bill and amendments to the House Which amendments being inserted into the Bill by the Clerk of this House and the same amendments then also twice read the Bill upon the question was ordered to be Ingrossed The Bill for relief of Jurors upon Tryals between party and party was upon the second reading committed unto M r Tasborough M r Recorder of London M r Wroth and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Tasborough who with the rest was appointed to meet this day at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents unto the Mayor Sheriff Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Lincoln was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Francis Hastings M r Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-Chamber Mr. Chancellour of the Exchequer reporteth the travel of himself and the residue of the Committees for setting down of Articles for the Subsidy and shewed that they have drawn the said Articles and offereth the same to the House to be read Which being then read by the Clerk of the House and in some part thereof reformed by the assent of the whole House to wit in that Article which concerned the priviledge of the Cinque-Ports and that Article also which concerned such persons as in regard of having several habitations should be Assessed in the said Subsidies in several places upon the doubtfulness of the voices to the question twice propounded Whether the strangers resident in the Cinque-Ports shall be charged with the payment of the said Subsidies or not it was upon the division of the House adjudged that they shall not be charged with the said payments by the difference of thirty persons viz. with the Yea a hundred and eighteen and with the No a hundred forty eight in all two hundred sixty six And afterwards it was Ordered that the said Articles should be delivered to the former Committees for the Preamble to prepare the same And also the said Rates according to the said Articles to be set down in the Bill Nota That after this business touching the Cinque-Ports there followeth a Motion made by M r Wroth touching some Members of the House who had been Imprisoned in the beginning of this Parliament of which see on Sunday the 25 th day of February foregoing which remaineth very legible in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although it be crossed out The reason of which said crossing out is very hard to conjecture in regard that the said Motion was doubtless made this Morning as doth plainly appear also by the often before-cited Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal out of which it is supplied in manner and form following M r Wroth made a Motion that in respect that some Countries might complain of the Tax of these many Subsidies their Knights and Burgesses never consenting unto them nor being present at the grant And because an Instrument taking away some of its strings cannot give its pleasant sound Therefore desired that we might be humble and earnest Suitors to her Majesty that she would be pleased to set at liberty those Members of the House that were restrained To this was Answered by all the Privy Councellors that her Majesty had Committed them for Causes best known to her self and for us to press her Majesty with this Suit we should but hinder them whose good we seek And it is not to be doubted but her Majesty of her gracious disposition will shortly of her self yield to them that which we would ask for them and it will like her better to have it left unto her self than sought by us Thus far out of the said Anonymous Journal and the residue of this days Passages do follow out of the Original Journal-Book it self Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being against Counterfeiting of Councellors or Principal Officers hands was upon the second reading committed unto Sir John Wolley Sir Walter Raleigh M r George Moore and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Sir Walter Harecourt K t one of the Knights for the County of Suffolk in regard of the present extremity of his Wifes Sickness is licensed by M r Speaker to depart home into his Country James Goodwyn Gent ' one of the Burgesses returned for the City of Wells in the County of Somerset is for his necessary businesses licensed by