Proxies there was but that one set down in the Page before-going which made two Proctors all the rest naming three or but one all which see afterwards on the 22.24.27 days of February and on the 7. and 28. days of March Where also it may be noted That John Archbishop of Canterbury had this Parliament five Proxies Now follows next in order to be set down the continuing of this Parliament which in the original Journal-book it self followed immediately upon the names of the Lords foregoing being present this afternoon So that the substance of the Lord Keeper's Speech foregoing and this also that follows at the presentment of the Speaker was supplied by my self out of a very exact Journal which I had of the Passages of the Lower House this present Parliament conceiving those Speeches in all my Journals ought more fitly to be referred to the Passages of the Upper House than of the House of Commons Dominus Custos Magni Sigill ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox futur On Thursday Feb. 22. the Queens Majesty her self came about three of the clock in the afternoon accompanied with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal there being present this day the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir John Puckering Kt. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Marquiss of Winchester twelve Earls two Viscounts fifteen Bishops and twenty three Barons being for the most part the very same that are by name set down to have been present on Munday last The Queen and the Lords being thus sat the House of Commons having notice thereof Edw. Cooke the Queens Sollicitor chosen and presented immediately came up with Edward Coke Esq the Queens Sollicitor into the Upper House whom they had chosen for their Speaker who being led up to the Bar at the nether end of the said House between two of the most eminent Personages of the Lower House as soon as silence was made and the rest of the House of Commons had placed themselves below the Bar he spake as followeth The Speaker's Speech YOur Majesties most loving Subjects the Knights and Burgesses of the Lower House have nominated me your Graces poor Servant and Subject to be their Speaker This their Nomination hath hitherto proceeded that they present me to speak before your Majesty yet this their Nomination is onely a Nomination yet and no Election until your Majestie giveth allowance and approbation For as in the Heavens a Star is but opacum corpus until it hath received light from the Sun so stand I corpus opacum a mute body until your high bright shining wisdom hath looked upon me and allowed me How great a Charge this is The Speaker disables himself to be the Mouth of such a Body as your House of Commons represent to utter that is spoken Grandia Regni my small experience being a poor professor of the Law can tell but how unable I am to undergo this Office my present Speech doth tell that of a number of this House I am most unfit for amongst them are many grave many learned many deep wise men and those of ripe Judgments but I an untimely Fruit not ripe nay bud a but not scarce fully blossomed so as I fear your Majesty will say Neglecta fruge liguntur folia amongst so many fair fruits you have plucked a shaking leaf If I may be so bold to remember a Speech used the last Parliament in your Majesties own mouth Many come hither ad consulendum qui neseiunt quid sit consulendum a just reprehension to many as to my self also an untimely fruit my years and judgment ill befitting the gravity of this place But howsoever I know my self the meanest and inferiour unto all that ever were before me in this place yet in faithfulness of service and dutifulness of love I think not my self inferiour to any that ever were before me And amidst my many imperfections yet this is my comfort I never knew any in this place but if your Majesty gave him favour God who also called them to this place gave them also the blessing to discharge it The Lord Keeper having received Instructions from the Queen answered him Mr. Sollicitor HER Graces most Excellent Majesty hath willed me to signifie unto you that she hath ever well conceived of you since she first heard of you which will appear when her Highness selected you from others to serve her self but by this your modest wise and well-composed Speech you give her Majesty further occasion to conceive of you above that she ever thought was in you by endeavouring to deject and abase your self and your desert you have made known and discovered your worthiness and sufficiency to discharge the place you are called to And whereas you account your self corpus opacum her Majesty by the influence of her Vertue and Wisdom 〈◊〉 is commanded and aâ—â—â—â—â—ed by the Qs. order doth enlighten you and not onely alloweth and approveth you but much than keth the Lower House and commendeth their discretions in making such a Choise and electing so fit a man Wherefore Mr. Speaker proceed in your Office and go forward to your Commendation as you have begun The Lord Keepers Speech being ended the Speaker began a new Speech COnsidering the great and wonderful Blessings The second Speech of the Speaker besides the long Peaece we have enjoyed under your Graces most happy and victorious Reign and remembring withal the Wisdom and Justice your Grace hath reigned over us with we have cause to praise God that ever you were given us and the hazard that your Majesty hath adventured and the charge that you have born for us and our safety ought to make us ready to lay down our Lives and all our Living to do you service After this he related the great Attempts of her Majesties Enemies against us especially the Pope and the King of Spain adhering unto him how wonderfully were we delivered in 88 and what a favour therein God manifested unto her Majesty His Speech 〈…〉 after this tended wholly to shew out of the Histories of England and the old State how the Kings of England ever since Henry the third's time have maintained themselves to be Supream Head over all Causes in their own Dominions and recited the Laws that were made in his and other Kings times for maintaining their own Supremacy and excluding the Pope He drew down his Proofs by Statute in every Kings time since Hen. 3. 〈…〉 unto Edw. 6. This ended he came to speak of the Laws that were so great and so many already that they were fitly to be termed Elephaentinae Leges Wherefore to make more Laws it might seem superfluous Too great a multiplicity of our Laws and to him that might ask Quid Causa ut Crescunt tot magna volumina Legis it may be answered In promptu Causa est Crescit in orbe
being still to be performed by infinite Charge her Majesty notwithstanding hears of nothing more unwillingly than of Aids and Subsidies to be received from her People though what she doth receive she doth carefully bestow and infinitely more of her own The Taxations at this day howsoever they seem are nothing so great as heretofore in the Reigns of former Kings they have been In the times of Edw. 3. and the two next before him and those three which succeeded next after him the payments of the Commons then did far exceed any that have been since her Majesties Reign which is of Record in the Histories of those times to be seen but never cause so great to employ great sums of money as now Now therefore you are to consider how to provide needful and convenient Aid in some measure to maintain and support her Majesties Charge which at present she is at and is to continue at for the defence of the Realm He cannot be well advised which in this case will not be forward to contribute and bestow whatsoever he hath for if with the Common-wealth it goes not well well it cannot be with any private or particular person That being in danger he that would seek then to lay up Treasure and inrich himself should be like to him that would busie himself to beautifie his house when the City wherein he dwelleth is on fire or to him that decketh up his Cabin when the Ship wherein he saileth is ready to sink To spare in that case is to spare for those which seek to devour all and to give is to give to our selves Her Majesties part being onely carefully to bestow what is delivered into her hands wherein men performing their duties there is no cause at all to fear for the War is just it is in defence of the Religion of God of our most gracious Soveraign of our Native Country of our Wives Children Liberties Lands Lives and whatsoever we have Wherefore not mistrusting your forwardness that I may not offend in too much enlarging this point as a poor Remembrancer to her Majesty I shortly say to your Lordships Quod justum necessarium est nothing can be more just than this War nothing ought to seem more necessary than carefully to provide due Maintenance for the same And to you of the House of Commons that you may orderly proceed and wisely consult of these weighty Causes delivered unto you her Majesties pleasure is You should according to your accustomed manner go down to the Lower House and there make choice of some grave learned and wise man amongst you to be your Speaker who shall be for understanding sufficient and for discretion fit as your mouth to signifie your minds and to make your Petitions known unto her Highness and him upon Thursday next to present in this place The Lord Burgh was absent being the Lord Deputy of Ireland The Lord De-la-ware was absent because he made question of his place intending to make suit to the Parliament concerning the same Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox futur viz. 27º diem Octobris On Thursday Octob. 27. the Queens Majesty the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Thomas Edgerton Kt. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Marquiss of Winton the Earl of Sussex great Mareschal the Earl of Nottingham Mag. Seneschall six Earls one Viscount thirteen Bishops the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain and twenty two other Barons present Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Serj. Yelverton chosen Speaker being chosen Speaker of the Lower House was by divers Knights Citizens and Burgesses brought into the Upper House and by the hands of Sir William Knolls Controuler of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer presented to her Majesty who by a Speech full of Gravity and Modesty signifying the accomplishment of the duty of the House in making an Election but he excusing himself by pretence of many disabilities and imperfections Excuses himself and wishing earnestly that he were of sufficiency to perform the duty of that Place made humble suit to her Majesty that he might be discharged and that the Lower House might proceed to a new Election Which Excuse was not allowed by her Majesty Is allowed commended by the Queen as the Lord Keeper delivered by answer and the Choice of the said Mr. Yelverton being by her Majesty very well approved and his Sufficiency much commended He then proceeded in another Speech according to the manner to undertake that Charge and Place and to present unto her Majesty on the behalf of the Lower House certain humble Petitions viz. For Access unto her Majesty Petitions for the House in the usual form For the using and enjoying of such Liberties and Priviledges as in former times had been granted and allowed by her Majesties Progenitors and her self Whereunto her Majesty making answer by the Lord Keeper did yield her gracious assent Which are granted with admonition that the said Liberties and Priviledges should be discreetly and wisely used as was meet Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem quintum mensis Novembris On Saturday 5 Novembris introductum est Breve Thomae Dom. Grey de Wilton quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur Nov. 5. admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento loco salvo jure alieno The Petition of the Lord De-la-ware presented to this House for restitution of the same place in the Parliament which his Ancestors had in the Rank and Order of the Barons and referred to Committees viz. to the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury Lord Bishop of London Lord Bishop of Winton Lord Zouche Lord Stafford Lord Windsor Lord Sheffield Lord North Lord St. John of Bletsoe Lord Buckhurst Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Lord Chief Baron and Edward Coke Esq the Queens Atturney who appointed to meet at the Council-chamber at the Court at Whitehall on Sunday Nov. 6. at two of the clock in the afternoon Munday Nov. 7. An Act for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants secunda vice lect and committed to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Admiral three Earls three Bishops three Barons the Lord Chief Justice of England Mr. Baron Ewens and Mr. Atturney General to attend their Lordships and appointed to meet at the little Council-chamber in Whitehall to morrow at four a clock in the afternoon Introductum est Breve Com. Derby quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur c. On Thursday Nov. 10. the Lord Treasurer made Report to the House what had been done by the Committees upon the Petition of the Lord De-la-ware and how it was resolved by them upon hearing and debating the matter with certain learned Counsel in the
goodness towards him He returns his thanks in conceiving him able and worthy for the execution of a Place of that great Charge and Trust and promising his care and readiness with all diligence to undergo the same he did offer up unto her Majestie divers Petitions in the name and on the behalf of the House of Commons First Petitions the Queen in behalf of the Commons That during the continuance of this Sessions themselves and their necessary Attendants and Servants might be freed from all Suits and Arrests Secondly That they might have free access to her Majestie upon all urgent and important occasions Thirdly That they might have free liberty of speech in the said House to debate and dispute of such matters and things as should be there proposed And lastly he petitioned her Majestie on his own behalf that if any thing should be mistaken or unwillingly omitted by himself that she would be graciously pleased to pass by and pardon the same To which Speech the Lord Chancellor The Queen allows of them by commandment from the Queen shortly replied That her Majestie was graciously pleased to grant all his Petitions and that he the said Speaker and the House of Commons should use and enjoy all such Liberties and Priviledges as others in like cases before them had been accustomed to use and enjoy in the times of her Majesties most noble Progenitors withal admonishing them not to extend the said Priviledges unto any irreverent and mis-beseeming Speeches or unnecessary Accesses to her Majestie After which Speeches ended the Lord Chancellor by command from the Queen continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox hora nona On Saturday Feb. 8. to which the Parliament was continued were present the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Chancellor the Lord Treasurer the Marquiss of Winton the Earl of Derby great Steward six Earls twelve Bishops and eighteen Barons more An Act concerning Captains and Souldiers prima vice lect Two Bills read about the Souldiery and Husbandry An Act for maintainance of Husbandry and for increase of Tillage prima vice lect Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox hora nona February the ninth Sunday On Munday Feb. 10. were four Bills read whereof the last being a Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers secunda vice lect commissa Domino Thesaurario Marchioni Winton six other Earls three Bishops eleven Barons Serjeant Puckering nostro Atturnato Nota That here meer Attendants of the Upper House Observation of the Collector of this Journal and no Members of it are made joynt Committees with the Lords which is very usually done in the Parliaments foregoing in the Reign of this Queen where also the Judges being but meer Assistants of the said House are often nominated Committees also Whereas in the last Parliaments of her Majesties Reign viz. in Anno 39 Anno 43. and in the latter times of King James and our present Soveraign his Son these are seldom or never nominated as Committees but onely as Assistants to the Committees to give their advice if it shall be required and not otherwise And although the Clerk of the Parliament might at some times mistake and erre in setting such down for Committees as were onely commanded to be attendant upon or assistant unto the said Committees yet that he should so often mistake in so many Parliaments and the rather because such Committees are frequently named divers times in sundry of the several Sessions it is most unlikely and improbable Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Veneris prox hora nona On Friday Feb. 14. an Act for the more speedy payment of Dismes and Tenths primae vice lect Memorandum The Lords Committees brought in the Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers with Amendments And by reason of divers defects in the same Bill they had framed a new Bill which new Bill by consent of all the Lords was received and prima vice lect An Act touching Constats of original Conveyances made by the Queens Majestie Bill about Original Conveyances Bill about Writs of Errour read and committed secunda vice lect An Act to save discontinuance of Writs of Errour upon Errours in the Courts of Exchequer secunda vice lect commissa Archiepisc Cant. Ebor. Dom. Senescallo three Earls three Bishops six Barons Magistro Rott Servient Shuttleworth nostr Attur Solicitor Nota here also as in the Page before going such as are no Members of the Upper House are made joynt Committees with the Lords Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Robis Parliamentaribus induti introdxerunt Dominum Talbott cumque ad locum suum perduxerunt praeeunte Gartira Principale Rege Armorum qui etiam tunica Armorum indutus erat Because the dayly continuing of the Parliament in these words Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum c. is but matter of form it is henceforth omitted unless somewhat extraordinary fall out in respect of the person or manner of continuing of it On Saturday Feb. 15. three Bill were read whereof two of them the first being an Act for maintainance of Houses Three Bills read two committed viz. for Tillage and Husbandry and against Horse-stealing for Husbandry and Tillage and the second being an Act against Horse-stealing were secunda vice lect tunc commissa Domino Thesaurario 4 Comitibus 2 Episcop 8 Baronibus Justiciario Gawdy Servienti Puckering Solicitatori Reginae Nota That here also one Assistant of the Upper House and two Attendants upon it are made joynt Committees with the Lords February the 16th Sunday On Munday Feb. 17. four Bills were read whereof the first was an Act for Reformation of Excess in Apparel Bill against Excess in Apparel read committed secunda vice lect commissa Domino Thesaurario 3 Comitibus 2 Episcop 6 Baronibus Servienti Shuttleworth Solicitatori Reginae On Tuesday the 18th of February four Bills were read whereof the first was an Act providing Remedy against discontinuance in Writs of Errour in the Exchequer and Kings-bench tertia vice lect conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Shuttleworth and Doctor Awbry and three other Bills Die Jovis xx o Feb. were four Bills read the first a Bill for having Horse Armour and Weapons prima vice lect and three other Bills Die Sabbati xxij o Feb. were three Bills read whereof the last was an Act concerning Captains and Souldiers tertia vice lect conclus and together with the two Bills aforesaid sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Puckering and Doctor Ford. Three Bills were also sent from the House of Commons viz. an Act concerning Informers and two others of no great moment Feb. 23. Sunday On Munday Feb. 24. four Bills were read whereof one of them being a Bill for Writs upon Proclamation upon Exigents to be currant within the County Palatine
the Lords being thus sate An. 1592. and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons as many as conveniently could be let in about two of the clock in the afternoon Sir John Puckering Lord Keeper of the Great Seal by command from the Queen spake to this effect The Lord Keeper's Speech THat though the assembling of Parliaments hath antiently been and still were for the Enacting of Laws and Reforming of Abuses and Grievances of the Subjects within the Realm The Lord Keepers Speech 〈◊〉 to direct the â—â—sâ—â—â—â—s in this Session yet at this time the Queens Majesty was desirous to have the Advice of all her loving people concerning the Defence and Preservation of her Self her Realms and Subjects from the Power and Oppression of a forreign Enemy Then he declared that this Enemy was the King of Spain and that his malice was increased by his loss and shame received in 88. That his resolution still was to invade this Kingdome The Spaniards Design of Reveenge discovered did plainly appear by his building and getting together many Ships of less bulk which would be fitter for service in our Seas than those greater Galliasses and Gallions had been in 88. That he desired some nearer place from whence to invade England and therefore at this time was labouring to plant himself in Britain a part of France And his Designes laid open That he had raised Factions in Scotland and Conspiracies against the King there finding him an enemy to his ambitious desires And therefore we her Majesties Subjects said he must with all dutiful consideration think what is fit for us to do Exâ—… them to raise Moneys and with all willingness yield part of our own for the defence of others and assistance of her Majesty in such an unsupportable charge Were the cause between Friend and Friend how much would we do for the relief of one another but the cause is now between our Soveraign and our selves seeing there is so much difference in the parties how much more forward ought we to be The Aid formerly granted to her Majesty in these like cases is so ill answer'd 〈…〉 Supplies paied and with such slackness performed as that the third of that which was granted cometh not to her Majesty A great shew a rich grant and a long sum seems to be made but little it is hard to be gotten and the sum not great which is paid and 〈…〉 Her Majesty thinks this to be for that the wealthier sort of men turn this charge upon the weaker and upon those of worst ability so that one dischargeth himself and th' other is not able to satisfie that he is charged withal these things should be reformed by such as are Commissioners in this service Wherefore it is her Majesties pleasure 〈…〉 the time be not spent in devising and enacting new Laws the number of which are so great already as it rather burtheneth than easeth the Subject but the principal cause of this Parliament is that her Majesty might consult with her Subjects for the better withstanding those intended Invasions which are now greater than ever before were heard of And where heretofore it hath been used that many have delighted themselves in long Orations full of verbosity and vain ostentations more than in speaking things of substance the time that is precious would not be thus spent This Session cannot be long the Spring-time is fit that Gentlemen should repair to their Countreys the Justices of Assize also to go their Circuits so the good hours would not be lost in idle Speeches but the little time we have should be bestowed wholly on such business as is needful to be considered of and Thursday next is appointed the day to present the Speaker Assoon as the Lord Keeper's Speech was ended Receivers of Petitions named the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland and Wales and Scotland Sir Francis Popham Lord Chief-Justice of the Kings-Bench John Clinch one of the Justices of the said Bench Dr. Awbery Dr. Ford and they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Peryam Lord Chief-Baron Tho. Walmesley one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Doctor Cary Doctor Stanhop and they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver them within six days next ensuing Triers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquiss of Winchester the Earl of Darby Lord Steward of the Queens Houshold the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Lord Howard of Effingham Earl Marshal and Lord Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton all these or four of them calling to them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles the Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincolne the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley the Lord Buckhurst all these or any four of them Although the usual Custome in the Original Journal-books is to place all Proxies upon what days soever returnable before the beginning of the Journal it self yet I have conceived it more methodical to place all such Returns in those days upon which they were delivered to the Clerk of the Parliament and always upon the day on which the first Return was to make some short Observations of that if it be unusual and extraordinary and so to refer the view of the residue to their proper days On this instant Monday therefore being the Nineteenth day of February and the first day of the Parliament was returned only this one usual Proxie Decimonono die Februarii introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Edwardi Episcopi Norwicensis in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Episcopum Lond. Richardum Episcopum Peterburgen Nota This is one of those Proxies I call an usual or ordinary Proxie when a Spiritual Lord maketh but two Proctors and a Temporal Lord but one and those of their own Order but when a Temporal Lord nominateth a Spiritual Lord for his Proctor or nominateth more than one Proctor and when a Spiritual Lord nominateth a Temporal Lord for his Proctor or but one Proctor or more than two these I call unusual and extraordinay Proxies And therefore at this very time of nine Temporal Lords that sent their Proxies but one named two Lords of which see afterwards on Munday March 5. all the rest naming but one Indeed of six Spiritual Lords which sent their
Law brought before the said Committees by the said Lord That the Place which he claimed in the Order and Rank of the Barons was due unto him viz. next after the Lord Willoughby of Ersby which Report being made to the House and the Voices of all the Lords being demanded the Opinions of the Committees was allowed by the consent of all the Lords the Lord Willoughby onely excepted And the Lord Keeper was desired to acquaint her Majesty with the Determination of the House and to know her pleasure concerning the same The Lord Treasurer made a Motion to the House The Treasurers Motion about the Journal-book that forasmuch as the Journal-books kept heretofore by the Clerk of the Parliament seemed to have some Errours in them in misplacing the Lords so as it was doubted how the same might be of true Record That it would please their Lordships to take order that the said Books that should from henceforth be kept by the Clerk of the Parliament may be viewed and perused every Parliament by certain Lords of the House to be appointed for that purpose and the List of the names of the Lords in their order to be subscribed by them taking unto them for their better information the King at Arms and that this Order might begin this present Parliament On Saturday Nov. 12. the Bill for taking away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders A Bill against the benefit of Clergy for such as take away women against their wills against a Statute made Anno 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of women against their wills was read secunda vice On Munday Nov. 14. the Lord Treasurer moved the House that such Lords as were absent from the Farliament and had not sent their Proxies and such others as had made their appearance at the beginning of the Parliament and have since neglected their attendance may be admonished to reform the same Upon the same day upon the Petition of the Lord De-la ware exhibited to her Majesty concerning his place in the Order of the Barons of the Parliament and with her Majesties commandment and direction presented unto the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in this present Parliament the fifth of this instant November and referred the same day upon the reading unto Committees as is recorded in the Session of the same day the said Committees having at the time and place appointed assembled themselves and advisedly considered of the said Petition and of all Arguments that were brought and alleadged both for the Petition and against it did resolve and determine That in their opinions the said Petition of the said Lord De-la-ware was just and that the Place which he sought was due unto him viz. to have his place betwixt the Lord Willoughby of Ersby and the Lord Berkley being the same place which his great Grandfather had held before as appeareth by Record Of which Resolution and Determination Report having been made by the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer first of the Committees the tenth of this instant November in the Session of the same day as before is recorded and the same being allowed and approved of by the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal then present in the House it was thought meet and ordered That her Majesty should be acquainted by the Lord Keeper with the Opinion and Resolution of this House Which having been performed by his Lordship her Majesty having allowed of the proceedings of this House and of the determination of the Question touching the place of the said Lord De-la-ware as hath been declared to this House by the Lord Keeper it was and is agreed and ordered by her Majesty and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal That the Lord De-la-ware should be brought into the House and placed in the room and order before mentioned to have place and voice betwixt the Lord Willoughby and Lord Berkley which was accordingly done this day The Lord De-la ware was brought in his Parliament-robes unto the place aforesaid by the Lord Zouch supplying the place of the Lord Willoughby and by the Lord Berkley in their Robes Garter the King of Arms attending them and doing his service according to his Office On Tuesday Nov. 15. an Act for the taking away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders against a Statute made 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of women against their wills unlawfully together with the Proviso annexed unto it by the consent of the House was read On Saturday Nov. 19. the absence of the Lord Marquiss of Winton and the Earl of Huntingdon severally excused by two of the Temporal Lords and the like Excuse delivered by the Bishop of Norwich for the Bishop of Chichester's absence Report was made by the Lord Keeper that the Earl of Essex received not his Writ of Summons until the 17th of this month through the negligence of the Messenger to whom the same was delivered and now his Lordship wanting health to give his attendance desired to be excused for his absence the Earls of Worcester and Southampton testifying of his sickness Introduct est Breve Richardi Dom. Eure quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissus est ad locum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento salvo jure alieno On Munday Nov. 21. a Bill for the confirmation of the deprivation of divers Bishops in the beginning of her Majesties Reign was read On Tuesday Nov. 22. a Bill formerly sent to the Commons with a Proviso from this House thereto added concerning taking away of Clergy from Offenders that take away women against their wills unlawfully expedited The Committees upon the Bill of Tellers and Receivers meeting at the little Chamber near the Chamber of the Parliament-presence and conferring on the Bill and the Provisoes that were thought on and came in question amongst them by reason of sundry doubts that were moved did refer the Bill to her Majesties Atturney-General to be reviewed On Thursday Nov. 24. an Act for the better explanation and execution of the Act made in the thirteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign concerning tellers and Receivers prima vice lect This Bill was renewed by Mr. Atturney-General by the appointment of the Committees to whom the former Bill was referred as is mentioned in a Note in the last Session and brought instead of the former Bill On Saturday Nov. 26. an Act for the explanation and execution of an Act in the thirteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign concerning Tellers Receivers c. secunda vice lect and commanded to be ingrossed A Serjeant at Arms to be sent for one Winwood A Serjeant at Arms sent to take a City-Serjeant into custody and one Stevenson a Serjeant at Mace of London who arrested Edward Barston the Lord Chandois servant contrary to the Priviledge of the House The Bill for repeal of a Statute made 23 of her Majesties Reign entituled An Act for the increase of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation was brought into the House by the Committees
with an Amendment thought fit to be put into the Bill the Amendment thrice read and appointed to be fixed in the Schedule of the Bill On Munday Nov. 28. the Bill that was sent from the Lower House with this Title viz. an Act for the repeal of a Statute made in the 23 year of her Majesties Reign entituled An Act for the increase of Marriners and maintenance of Navigation was after the third reading returned again to the said House for their consideration and allowance as well of another Title thought more fit by the Committees to be given thereto viz. an Act for the increase of Mariners and for maintenance of Navigation repealing a former Act made 23 of her Majesties Reign bearing the same Title as also of some Amendment in the body of the Bill added by the Committees sent by Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Carew On Thursday Decem. 1. Decemb. 1. the Parties that arrested the Lord Chandois servant viz. Wood and Stevenson with two others brought into the House by the Serjeant at Arms and upon some notice taken of the matter Mr. Justice Owens and Mr. Serjeant Drew were appointed to examine the same and make Report thereof to the Lords The Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain took his place this day as Baron of Hunsdon betwixt the Lord Chandois and Lord St. John of Bletsoe This day an Act concerning the School at Sownocke tertia vice lect and sent to the Commons House On Saturday Decemb. 3. An Act for the increase of Mariners and for maintenance of Navigation repealing a former Act made 23 of her Majesties Reign bearing the same Title which Act was sent to the Lower House from hence for their consideration and allowance of this Title and some Amendments in the body of the Bill Upon the Report of Mr. Justice Owens and Mr. Serjeant Drew unto whom the Examination of the matter was committed concerning the Arrest of my Lord Chandois servant by one Stevenson a Serjeant in London at the Suit of one William Wood being found and judged to have wilfully offended therein against the Priviledge of the House were committed and sent to the Prison of the Fleet there to be kept close Prisoners until further directions from the Lords And whereas and were this day brought into the House before the Lords L. Chandois serâ—ant Barston released out of Prison as supposed partakers in the same offence they upon examination being found not to have wilfully committed any fault therein were dismissed and order given by the Lords for the discharge of Edward Barston out of the Prison of the Counter Munday Decemb. 5. an Act for the better and safer recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common-Pleas read secunda vice and referred to the same Committees as before with the addition of the two Lords Chief Justices and Mr. Atturney-General The absence of the Earl of Essex the Lord Viscount Byndon the Earl of Cumberland the Lord Scroope the Lord Willoughby of Ersby and the Lord Bishop of Rochester were excused by the Lord Rich the Lord Chandois the Lord Wharton the Lord Zouche and the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells Order was given for the release of Stevenson the Serjeant who arrested my Lord Chandois his servant On Tuesday Decemb. 6. an Act for erecting of houses of correction and punishment of Wanderers prima vice lecta On Wednesday Decemb. 7. an Act for the confirmation of the Joynture of Dame Christian the Lady Sandies secunda vice lect and commanded to be ingrossed On Thursday Decemb. 8. an Act for the erecting of houses of correction and for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars secunda vice lect and referred to the Committees for the former Bill and the same time and place appointed for their meeting And also authority was given to the Committees to call such of the Lower House unto them at this meeting as they should finde cause to confer withal for the better perfecting of the Bill An Act for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for the enjoying the Rectory and Personage of South-Moulton according to an Agreement secunda vice lect upon which reading it was ordered That all Parties whom this Bill may concern either on the part of Mr. Hatch or against him shall be heard openly in the House upon Munday next by their Counsel learn'd and all specialties concerning the same then to be produced to the end that it may be considered whether it shall be convenient to pass this Act or not Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney-General being appointed by the Lords to inform themselves against that time whether any thing be contained in the Bill that may prejudice the Poor Knights of Windsor and to make Report thereof accordingly on the part of the said poor Knights An Act for the establishing of the possession of Henry Vpton Kt. deceased and for payment of his Debts read secunda vice A Motion made by some of the Lords and agreed to by the House that there should be respit of some days taken before the third reading for any such Party or Parties as the Bill concerneth and namely any of the Wentworths to come to the House and alleadge if they finde cause why the Bill should not proceed the next Tuesday assign'd for this purpose William Cole the Knight-Marshal's man that arrested James Yorke the Lord Archbishop's servant was brought before the Lords by the Serjeant at Arms and being found upon his Examination before the Lords wilfully to have offended therein against the Priviledge of the House was Committed to the Fleet there to remain until their Lordships should give further directions for his enlargement On Friday Decemb. 9. an Act for the establishing of the Hospital of Queen Elizabeth in Bristol Bill to establish Q. Eliz. Hospital in Bristol and for relief of Orphans and Poor there read secunda vice Upon this reading some Amendments were thought fit by the House to be added which were presently drawn and agreed by the House and also twice read and commanded to be ingrossed On Saturday Decemb. 10. an Act that the Lord Montjoy may dispose of his lands whereof he is Tenant in tail as other Tenants in tail by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm may do a private Statute made to the contrary 27 Hen. 8. not withstanding secunda vice lect Upon the Motion of the Lord Marquiss of Winchester it was ordered that the Cause shall be heard openly in the House on Munday-morning by the Counsel learn'd on both sides An Act for the better recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common-Pleas returned and allowed by the House of Commons without any alteration expedited On Munday Decemb. 12. a Motion and Request made by the Lower House and delivered by Mr. Secretary Cecill accompanied with many others for a Conference to be had concerning the Bill entituled An Act concerning Tellers Receivers c. and assented unto Whereupon the Committees formerly named upon this Bill were appointed
with others viz. the Lord Treasurer Lord Admiral four Earls five Bishops Lord Chamberlain and twelve Barons the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas the Lord Chief Baron Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney-General to attend the Lords the meeting to be at the great Council-chamber at Whitehall to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon The Counsel on both parts for the Lord Marquiss of Winchester and the Lord Montjoy were admitted to publick hearing in the House and thereupon no just cause being found to hinder or to stay the proceeding of the Bill the same was commanded to be read the third time and so was expedited On Tuesday Decemb. 13. an Act against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers read tertia vice and return'd to the Lower House for their consideration of some Amendments An Act giving power and liberty to Sir John Spencer Knight Dame Mary his Wife and Robert Spencer Esq their Son to alienate certain Mannors and lands in the Counties of Dorset and Bedford read tertia vice and thereupon two Letters from the Lord Spencer to the Lord Chamberlain signifying his consent to the Bill were read On Wednesday Decemb. 14. order was given for release of William Wood out of the Fleet at whose suit Edward Barston the Lord Chandois servant was arrested so as he make satisfaction to the said Barston of such charges as he was at by means of the said Arrest The like Order was made for the enlargement of William Cole that arrested John Yorke the Archbishops servant paying onely the Fees of the Fleet. On Thursday Decemb. 15. an Act for explanation of the Statute made Anno 5 Reginae concerning Labourers A Bill returned because the Amendments went ingrossed in Parchment which should have been in Paper returned from the Lower House with some Exceptions to the Schedule affixed because the Amendment was ingrossed in Parchment which according to the custom of the House should have been in Paper Certain Articles were presented in writing by the Lower House touching their Opinions and Objections concerning the Bill of Tellers c. which were delivered to Mr. Atturney to the end he might confer with the Judges upon the same and make Report to their Lordships The Bill concerning Mr. Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward c. return'd into the House by the Lord Treasurer the first of the Committees And forasmuch as it seemed to the Committees that there were in the Bill certain points that could not be well reformed a Motion was made to the House upon agreement among the Committees That the proceeding in this Bill might cease and that another course might be taken by way of Composition betwixt the Dean and Chapter of Windsor and Arthur Hatch for which purpose a Bill was brought ready drawn by Mr. Atturney-General containing a form of Composition betwixt them to be ratified if it should be thought good by Parliament On Friday Decemb. 16. a Bill for the grant of three Subsidies six Fifteenths and Tenths read the third time and expedited On Saturday Decemb. 17. an Act to preserve the property of stolen Horses in the true Owners and to reform the abuses of Vouchers in the sale of Horses in Fairs and Markets read prima vice An Act for the repressing of Offences that are in the nature of Stealth and are not Felonies by the Laws of the Realm prima vice lect On Munday Decemb. 19. certain Amendments were offered to the House by the Committees on the second reading concerning Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward the said Amendments being twice read whereupon both the Bill and the said Amendments were commanded to be forthwith ingrossed which was accordingly done and presently read the third time and sent to the Lower House by Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp The Amendments in the Bill concerning Labourers formerly ingrossed in Parchment whereat some exception was taken by the Lower House and for that cause returned without their allowance to the Lords was now commanded to be written in Paper On Tuesday Decemb. 20. the Bill for erecting of houses of Correction Bill for houses of Correction and for punishment of vagabond Rogues c. was read tertia vice Dominue Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in xi o die Januar. prox sequen hora octava Wednesday Jan. 11. January 11. the Earl of Essex having been created Earl-Marshal the 18th of December last by her Majesties Letters-Patents took his place according to the said Office viz. next the Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England and before the Earl of Nottingham great Steward Thursday Jan. 12. the Bill entituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm Bill for increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm return'd to the House by the Committees A Motion made by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury first of the Committees that a Conference might be had with a competent number of chosen persons of the Lower House for the better perfecting of the Bill whereupon Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp were addressed to the Lower House with a Message to that effect and the time and place of meeting desired to be at the great Council-chamber at Whitehall to morrow by two of the clock in the afternoon Certain select Committees chosen by the Lower House concerning that Bill for the increase of People c. were sent to the Lords signifying their allowance of the time and place appointed for meeting about that Bill but desired that in the mean time they might have delivered unto them in writing such Objections of their Lordships as they do make unto the Bill to the end they might be more ready to deliver their Opinions and Resolutions at the meeting The Lords having considered of this Motion thought it unfit and not agreeable to the Order of this House to deliver the same in writing and therefore agreed that answer should be made That if upon verbal Conference they should remain unsatisfied touching the said Exceptions then they should have the same delivered unto them in writing for their further consideration thereof which Answer was presently notified to the said select Committees And in the mean season the Judges were required to set down the Objections in writing that they might be in readiness for the said Committees of the Lower House if upon the verbal Conference before-mentioned they should not be satisfied An Act for establishing the Bishoprick of Norwich and the possessions of the same against a concealed Title made thereunto read secunda vice and upon this reading it was ordered by the Lords That all Parties whom this Bill may concern should be openly heard in the House upon Saturday next in the morning to the end that it might be consider'd whether the same may justly pass without prejudice to the said Parties George Lester to be warned then to attend On Friday Jan. 13.
an Act concerning a Lease of great yearly Value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham read prima vice Kirkham and Ambrose Willoughby Esq to be warned to attend the Lords on Munday-morning next at which time it is appointed the said Bill shall be read the second time An Act concerning the draining and recovery from the water certain overflown Grounds in the County of Norfolk An Act for draining of Lands secunda vice lect and referred to the same Committees upon the Bill formerly read of that kind concerning 300000 Acres c. with addition of the Lord St. John and Mr. Atturney to attend appointed to meet c. and such Parties as the same may concern to be warned to attend On Saturday Jan. 14. certain Objections unto a Bill entituled An Act for the increase of People c. were set down in writing by Mr. Atturney-General and brought into the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees and the same sent to the Lower House for their consideration thereof according to a Promise made by their Lordships to the select Committees of the Lower House at the meeting yesterday about the Bill delivered by Mr. Atturney and Dr. Stanhopp Certain Knights and Burgesses of the Lower House were sent to their Lordships to desire a Conference with a competent number of that House concerning the Amendments and Provisoe added to the Bill entituled An Act for erecting of houses of Correction and punishing of Rogues Vagabonds c. whereupon choice was made of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Bishop of Winchester and two Barons being part of the number formerly appointed upon the Bill the two Chief Justices and the Chief Baron Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney-General to attend them and the same presently signified to the same Knights and Burgesses but with this caution That whatsoever had been mended or added by their Lordships could not now be altered by the Orders of the House howbeit to yield the Lower House satisfaction of the reasons that moved their Lordships to make those Amendments they assented to a Conference the meeting appointed to be in the outward Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament on Munday-morning at eight of the clock The Earl of Essex not able to attend for want of health certified by the Lord North. The Bishop of Landaff absent by reason of sickness signified by the Bishop of Chester On Munday Jan. 16. Report was made by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury That upon meeting of such of the Lords of the Higher House as were appointed this day to confer with certain select Knights and Burgesses of the Lower House concerning the Amendments and Provisoes added by their Lordships to a Bill entituled An Act for erecting houses of Correction c. the said Knights and Burgesses do hold themselves satisfied upon the Reasons alleadged by their Lordships in some part of the said Amendments but not in all Kirkham was called into the House before their Lordships and after he had been heard what he was able to say on his own behalf the same Bill was read a second time viz. An Act concerning a Lease of great yearly Value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham and commanded to be ingrossed A Motion made that a Proviso should be added to the Bill concerning the Bishoprick of Norwich which Proviso was presently drawn in the House by Mr. Atturney-General and thereupon read And for the more expedition in the proceeding of the Bill it was thought meet that the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Marshal Lord Admiral Bishop of London Lord Chamberlain and Lord Cobham should confer with a competent number of the Lower House about the said Proviso Whereupon Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney were sent to the Lower House to signifie the same unto them who presently assented to a meeting and made their repair to their Lordships forthwith An Act for enlarging the Statute made for following of Hue and Cry in 27 Reginae in some sort to relieve the Inhabitants of the small hundred of Beyvershe alias Benhurst in cases where they are in no ways voluntarily in default and yet they are or shall be charged by the same Statute and by two ancient Statutes the one made 13 Edw. 1. and the other 28 Edw. 3. for repressing Robberies On Tuesday Jan. 17. a Proviso drawn by Mr. Atturney by commandment of the House to be added to the Bill for establishing of the Bishoprick of Norwich c. was twice read and commanded to be ingrossed and then both the Bill and Proviso read the third time and returned to the Lower House for their consideration on the Proviso An Act for some better staying of Corn within this Land to give liberty to English Subjects sometimes to buy Wheat c. and to sell the same again in the same kind for the better relief of the Common-wealth tertia vice lect and rejected On Wednesday Jan. 18. the Lord Keeper signified to the House That the Parties that followed the Bill for the Hospital of Warwick are not provided of their Counsel learned whereupon the House assigned them a new day viz. Friday morning next An Act for avoiding of bringing of Pins into this Realm made and wrought in forraign parts beyond the Seas secunda vice lect and rejected The Amendments agreed upon by the Committees upon the Bill of Tillage appointed to be brought into the House to morrow-morning by the Lord Chief Justice of England An Act for the better furnishing and supply of able Chyrurgeons in and to the Land and Sea-service for her Majestie and the Realm secuuda vice lect A Bill about Chirurgeons for Sea-service The Lord Buckhurst signified that upon a Letter written unto him by the Lord Marquess of Winchester notifying his present sickness whereby he was not able to give his attendance as yet the said Lord Buckhurst according to the request of the said Lord Marquess having moved her Majesty therein it pleased her Majesty to hold him excused until his recovery and commanded that he should then give his attendance On Thursday Jan. 19. Answer was returned in writing from the Lower House and delivered by certain Knights and Burgesses sent for that purpose unto the Objections taken by their Lordships to some points of the Bill intituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm which Objections were formerly delivered unto them in writing upon their request made to their Lordships Certain selected persons of the Lower House viz. Sir William Knolles and Sir Edward Hobby Kts with divers others coming from the said Lower House delivered a Message Complaint of the Commons of an Innovation by their Lordships signifying that the Knights and Burgesses desired to receive satisfaction from their Lordships concerning an Innovation as the said Knights and Burgesses supposed very lately begun in the Upper House
Committees and some Amendments they had made in the said Bill and so delivered in the Bill and Amendments to the House The Bill for building and erecting of a bridge over the River of Wye at Wilton upon Wye neer the Town of Ross in the County of Hereford was read the third time and passed upon the Question Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp did bring from the Lords a Bill passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships entituled An Act for the establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esq and for the better enabling William Pope aforesaid to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts And another for the confirmation of the Joynture of the Lady Verney Wife of Sir Edmond Verney Knight which Bill their Lordships have also passed with some Amendments Sunday Feb. 5. On Munday Feb. 6. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the reformation of retailing and Pawn-takers was read the first time Mr. Boyes one of the Committees in the two Bills the one against carrying Corn out of the Realm and the other to restrain the lading of Corn in some Ports shewed the meeting of the Committees and that they had made some Amendments in one of the same Bills and so delivered the said Bills into the House Mr. Francis Bacon Bill against the decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry one of the Committees in the Bill late passed in the Upper House by the Lords and sent down to this House against the decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry shewed the meeting of the Committees and their Amendments in the said Bill which being read to the House were very well liked of by the whole House On Tuesday Feb. 7. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill for establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William to sell certain Lands for payment of his Debts was read the second time and committed to Mr. Controuler Mr. Lukenor Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Oglethorpe and the Knights and Burgesses of London and twenty four others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Court of Wards The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords in a Bill lately passed in this House entituled An Act for the reviving continuing and repealing of divers Statutes being thrice read the Amendments were assented unto and the Provisoes were passed upon the Question On Wednesday Feb. 8. the Bill entituled An Act for the establishing of a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts and the Bill entituled An Act for the enabling Edmond Moleneux Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of Debts and Legacies and the Bill entituled An Act against the deceitful stretching of Northern Cloath and the Bill entituled An Act for the further continuing and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners made thirty five Reginae were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for the reformation of abuses in Wine-casks was read the third time and dashed upon the Question The Bill for the better execution of Judgments was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Thursday Feb. 9. the Bill entituled An Act for reformation of Retailing-Brokers and other Pawn-takers the Bill entituled An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assignees notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown and a Bill entituled An Act for the better execution of Judgments were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for the Queens Majesties most gracious Pardon was once read and passed upon the Question Nota That whereas to the passing of other Bills three several readings are required here the Bill for her Majesties most gracious Pardon passed upon the first reading Mr. Serjeant Drewe and Dr. Carewe brought from the Lords the Bill entituled An Act for the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths and did shew that their Lordships in like manner have passed the said Bill and so delivered the same to Mr. Speaker to the end that he might carry the same up to the Upper House to be presented by him unto her Majesty in the name of the whole House Post Meridiem The Queens Majesty came to the Upper House soon after three of the clock of which the House of Commons having notice repaired thither with Christopher Yelverton Serjeant at Law their Speaker who having in the name of the whole House presented her Majesty with the Bill of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths amongst other things desired her Majesties Royal assent to such Laws as had passed the two Houses He was answered according to her Majesties command by the Lord Keeper That she thankfully accepted of the said Gift of her loving Subjects and very well allowed of the said Speakers pains and Speech Then Mr. Smith the Clerk of the Upper House The Qu. passeth 24 publick Acts and 19 private Acts and refuses 48 Acts that had passed both Houses and then dissolves this Parl. having read the Titles of all the Acts her Majesty gave her Royal assent to twenty four publick Acts and nineteen private and refused fourty eight which had passed both the Houses After which Sir Thomas Edgerton Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England by her Majesties commandment dissolved this present Parliament An exact Journal of the Passages of the Vpper House of Parliament 43 Eliz. holden at Westminster anno 43 Eliz. Reginae annoque Dom. 1601. which began on Tuesday 27 Octob. and there continued until 19 Decemb. next insuing ON Tuesday Octob. 27. Oct. 27. the Parliament held according to the Summons that had been sent forth The Qu. comes to the House of Peers and the Queens Majesty was personally present in the Upper House about three of the clock in the afternoon her Majesty came accompanied with the Lord Keeper of the great Seal and divers of the Nobility and Bishops There were present all sitting in their Parliament-Robes according to their several places these Noble Personages following Lift of the Peers then present The Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Tho. Edgerton Lord Leeper of the great Seal The Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer of England The Marquiss of Winchester The Earl of Sussex Earl Marshal of England The Earl of Nottingham Lord High-Admiral of England and Lord Steward of her Majesties Houshold The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Derby The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Cumberland The Earl of Hertford The Earl of Lincoln BISHOPS The Bishop of London The Bishop of
Durham The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield The Bishop of Worcester The Bishop of Bath and Wells The Bishop of St. Davids The Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of St. Assaph The Bishop of Chester The Bishop of Chichester The Bishop of Exeter The Bishop of Salisbury The Bishop of Ely The Bishop of Peterborough BARONS The Lord Zouche The Lord Cobham The Lord Stafford The Lord Grey de Wilton The Lord Dudley The Lord Lumley The Lord Sturton The Lord Windsore The Lord Mordant The Lord Wharton The Lord Rich. The L. Willoughby of Parham The Lord Sheffield The Lord Darcy of Chichester The Lord Chandois The Lord St. John of Bletsoe The Lord Compton The Lord Norreys The Lord Howard of Walden Sir Thomas Edgerton Kt. Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England made a Speech to this effect An. 1601. HE used strong perswasions both to Thankfulness and Obedience Lord Keeper's Speech and also shewed her Majesty desired the Parliament might end before Christmas He shewed the necessity we stand in and the means to prevent it the necessity of the Wars between Spain and England the means and treasure we had to oppose His advice was that Laws in force might be revised and explained and no new Laws made The causes of the Wars he laid down to be that they were Enemies to God the Queen and the Peace of this Kingdom that they conspired to overthrow Religion and to reduce us to a tyrannical Servitude These two Enemies he named to be the Bishop of Rome and the King of Spain Our Estate standing thus he advised us to be provident by reason we deal with circumspect Enemies and said he was confident of good success because God hath ever and he hoped ever would bless the Queen with successful fortune He shewed how apparent his providence was for by experience and judgment his tortering he giveth the means and courses he taketh for our instructions And secondly the success we had against him by Gods strong arm of defence in Anno 1588 and divers others times since You see to what effect the Queens support of the French Kings Estate hath brought him to even made him one of the greatest Princes in Europe yet when her Majesties Forces there left him how again he was fain to ransome a servile Peace at the hands of our Enemies the Spaniards with dishonourable and servile Conditions For the Low Countries how by her aid from a confused Government and Estate she brought them to an unity in Council and defended them with such success in her Attempts against the greatest power of the Spaniards tyrannical designes which have so much galled him that how many desperate practices have been both devised consented unto and set on foot by the late King his Father I need not shew you nor trouble you with Arguments for proof thereof being confessed by them that should have been Actors themselves thereof but De mortuis nil nisi bonum I would be loath to speak ill of the dead much more to slander the dead I have seen her Majesty wear at her Girdle the price of her own bloud I mean Jewels that have been given to her Physicians to have done that unto her which God will ever keep her from but she hath worn them rather in triumph than for the price that hath not been valuable Receivers of Petitions for England Receivers of Petitions Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Kt. Lord Chief Justice Francis Gawdy one of the Justices of the Kings-bench George Kingsmell one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edm. Anderson Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Periam Kt. Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesly one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Swale and Dr. Hene Triers of Petitions of England Ireland Wales and Scotland Triers of Petitions The Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquiss of Winchester the Earl of Sussex Lord Marshal of England the Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and Steward of the Queens house the Earl of Hertford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche and the Lord Cobham All these or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the great Seal and the Lord Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants at their leisures to meet and hold their place in the Chamberlain's chamber Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles The Earl of Oxford High Chamberlain of England the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord De-la-ware the Lord Lumley the Lord Burleigh All these or any four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Atturney and Sollicitor to hold their place when their leisure did serve them to meet in the Treasurer's chamber Then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament which is set down in the Original Journal-book in these words Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliament usq in diem Veneris prox futur viz. 30 diem Octob. On Friday Octob. 30. about one of the clock in the afternoon her Majesty came by water to the Upper House and being apparelled in her Royal Robes and placed in her Chair of Estate divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being present the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons who had attended at the door with John Crooke Esq Recorder of London John Crooke Esq Recorder of London presented as Speaker their Speaker elect the full space of half an hour were at last as many as could be conveniently let in And the said Speaker was led up to the bar at the lower end of the said House by Sir William Knolls Kt. Controuler of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer and presented to her Majesty to whom after he had made three low Reverences he spake in effect as followeth Most sacred and mighty Soveraign UPon your commandment His Speech your Majesties most dutiful and loving Commons the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Lower House have chosen me your Majesties most humble servant a Member of the same House to be their Speaker but my self finding the weakness of my self and my ability too weak to undergo so great a burthen do most humbly beseech your sacred Majesty to continue your most gracious favour towards me and not to lay this Charge so unsupportable upon my unworthy and unable self And that it would please you to command your Commons to make a new Election of another more able and more sufficient to discharge the great Service to be
before the Lords in the House on Saturday next by nine of the clock in the morning On Saturday Nov. 21. to which day the Parliament had been last continued three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for assurance of Lands was read tertia vice Upon the reading of which Bill sundry Objections were made against some points of the same by the Lord Bishop of London and divers other Lords insomuch that the House was divided Whether it should be put to the question for the passing thereof or no many of the Lords affecting well the said Bill and wishing that any defect therein might rather be reformed than by the Question to put it to the hazard to be rejected Upon which it was thought meet to propound another Question viz. Whether the said Bill having been referred to Committees at the second reading and by them returned with some Amendments and thereupon appointed to be ingrossed may now after the ingrossing thereof and third reading be committed again or no Which being accordingly put to the question and the number both of the affirmative part and negative part falling out to be equal upon the accompting of them by the Lord Bishop of London and by Lord Grey 〈…〉 appointed by the Lords for that purpose it was adjâ—â—â—â—d that the Voices of the negative part which were against the 〈◊〉 committing of the Bill should prevail following therein the usual rule of Law whereof the Lord Keeper made mention that where the numbers of the affirmative and negative are equal Smper presumetur pro negante and after that the Bill it self being put to the question Whether it should pass or no was by the major part denied and refused Excuses were made for the absence of divers Lords by reason of sickness or other reasonable occasions The Marquiss of Winchester the Earl of Nottingham and the Earl of Hertford signified by some of their Servants to the Lord Keeper the Earl of Cumberland and the Lord Scroope signified by the Lord Wharton the Lord Rich by the Lord Zouche the Lord Mordant by the Lord Sturton the Lord Bishop of Coventry by the Bishop of Meneven and the Bishop of Chester by the Bishop of Bangor A Motion was made by the Lord Keeper and approved of by the Lords That the ancient course of the house may be observed hereafter in certifying the Excuses of such Lords as should happen to be absent from the House upon reasonable occasions which ought to be done by one of the Peers and not by other information Thomas Crompton Henry Best and Francis Jackson made their appearance in the House and being demanded whether the Bill concerning Eye and Dunsden might lawfully pass without their prejudice they answered That it might so do and they could take now exceptions to it On Munday Nov. 23. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for reuniting Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Suning was read tertia vice and so sent down to the House of Commons by Dr. Stanhopp and Mr. Hone. The Bill to avoid divers Misdemeanours in lewd and idle persons was read secunda vice The Bill for confirmation of Grants made to the Queen and of Letters-Patents made by her Highness to others was read secunda vice and committed to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and others who were appointed to meet at the great Council-chamber and the Bill was delivered to the Archbishop The Bill for increase of Horses of service within this Realm was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Nottingham and others and the Bill was delivered unto him being the first of the Committees The meeting of the Committees for the suppressing of the multitude of Ale-houses and for avoiding of unnecessary delays of Exeutions upon Judgments for Debt was upon a Motion of the Lord Treasurer appointed to be upon Thursday next at the little chamber neer the Parliament-presence before the House sit for that the Committees could not conveniently meet at the times formerly appointed for the same The Under-Sheriff of the County of Surrey that arrested William Hogan was brought into the House to answer for the same The Vnder-Sheriff sent to the Fleet for arresting Hogan and by Order of the House committed to the Prison of the Fleet. On Tuesday Nov. 24. to which day this Parliament had been last continued three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the establishing of the remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Ketleby Esq upon Francis Ketleby was read secunda vice and committed unto the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Lincoln the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Bishop of Worcester the Lord Cobham the Lord Chandois and the Lord Howard of Walden and the Bill was delivered to the said Lord Howard who with the rest were appointed to meet on Saturday next in the afternoon at the Chamber of the Parliament-presence This day the wife of Andrew Ketleby made her appearance in the House on the behalf of her husband and her self excusing his not coming by reason of his great age and infirmities and withal prayed their Counsel learned might be heard whereupon it was ordered That both their Counsel and the Counsel of Francis Ketleby should be heard upon Thursday next in the morning On Thursday Nov. 26. to which day the Parliament had been last continued one Bill being for the more peaceable government of the Parties of Cumberland Northumberland and Westmoreland and Bishoprick of Durham was read the second time and committed but in respect the manner of committing Bills all this Parliament was the same and that the Judges and her Majesties learned Counsel were appointed always to attend the Lords Committees and never made joynt Committees with them therefore the names of the said Committees are for the most part omitted as a thing not worth the observation It was ordered by the House upon the humble Petition of William Hone Under-Sheriff of the County of Surrey That he should be set at liberty out of the Fleet whither he had been committed for arresting one William Hogan her Majesties servant The Counsel learned of Andrew Ketleby Esq and Francis Ketleby were heard in the House and thereupon the Committees of the said Bill were appointed to meet on Saturday in the afternoon at the Chamber of Parliament-presence and the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Grey and the Lord Windsor were added to the said Committees and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas to attend them with the others formerly appointed And the Bill was delivered to the Lord Howard of Walden Dominus Custos Magnis Sigilli continuavit c. On Tuesday Decem. 1. Decemb. 1. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second was the Bill for confirmation of the last Will and Testament of George Lord Cobham deceased On Wednesday Decemb. 2. three Bills had each of them one reading Bill to avoid
Sunday in Fair or open Market that this should be Void and she and the Goods forfeited to the Queens Use for that is a Contract At which all the House Laughed Mr. Bacon said Bacons Speech for Repealing superfluous Laws May it please you Mr. Speaker not out of Ostentation to this House but in Reverence I do speak it That I do much wonder to see the House so continually divided and to agree upon nothing to see many Laws here so well framed and Offences provided against and yet to have no better Success and Entertainment I do think every man in his particular bound to help the Common-wealth the best he may and better it is to venture a mans Credit by Speaking than to stretch a mans Conscience by Silence and to endeavor to make that good in Nature which is possible in Effect Laws be like Pills all gilt over which if they be easily and well swallowed down are neither bitter in digestion nor hurtful in the body every man knows that Time is the true Controuler of Laws and therefore there having been a great alteration of Time since the Repeal of a number of Laws I know and do assure my self there are many more than I know Laws both needless and dangerous I could therefore wish that as usually every Parliament there is a Committee selected for the Continuance of divers Statutes so the House would be pleased also that there might be a Committee for the Repeal of divers Statutes and of diverse superfluous Branches of Statutes And that every particular Member of the House would give Information to the Committees what Statutes he thinketh fitting to be Repealed or what Branch to be Superfluous lest as he said pluat super nos laqueas The more Laws we make the more Snares we lay to entrap our selves Upon which Motion a Committee was granted to meet on Friday On Saturday November 7. An Act That the Marquesse of Winchester may dispose of his Lands whereof he is Tenant in Tayle as other Tenants in Tayle may do by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm was read the first time and the Pedigree hereafter set down was then produced to the House Robert Willoughby Lord Brook 1. Dorothy 2. Wife Edward Willoughby Blaunch the First Daughter Marryed to Francis Dawtery Elizabeth the 2 d. Daughter Marryed Sir Fulke Grevill and had Issue Fulke Grevill Esquire Anne 1. Daughter Charles Lord Montjoy James Lord Montjoy Charles Ld. Montjoy Elizabeth 2. Daughter 1. Sir John Pawlet Lord Marquess of Winchester William Lord Marquess of Winchester William now L Marquess 1. The Lady Denny had Issue two Daughters 2. The Lady Katharine 2 d. Daughter had Issue 4 Sons 2 Daughters 3. The Lady Elizabeth was Marryed to Sir William Courtney Sir William Courtney had Issue 3 Sons and 6 Daughters Mary Marryed to the Ld. Cromwel had Issue 2 Sons 1 Daughter ore Sn'r and had Issue 2 Sons 1 Daughter had Issue 1 Son George Cromwel 1 Daughter and had Issue 7 Children There was this day a Page brought to the Bar A Page is brought before the House for that Yester-day Sir Francis Hastings had caused him to be Committed For that as he went down the stairs the Page offer'd to throng him Whereupon he held him till the Speaker came out of the House who did commit him to the Serjeant's Custody till this day to know the Pleasure of the House what they would do therein But this day upon Sir Francis Hasting's intreaty speaking very earnestly for him and of his innocency and unwillingness to do that Fact as also upon the Pages Submission upon his Knees at the Bar he was discharged It was moved That because his Hair was very Long he might be carried to a Barber and close cut before his Discharge But that was thought very unfit for the Gravity of the House to take notice of so light a fault so after a sharp and threatning Admonition given him by the Speaker he was Discharged Sir Edward Hobby moved the House That for as much as the antient Custom of the Parliament had been that not only themselves but their Servants should be free from all Arrests yet notwithstanding a servant of Mr. William Cook a member of this House was Arrested by one Baker a Serjeant at the suit of another upon a Bond in which indeed he is but Surety as may appear unto you by this Letter so the Letter was Read the Contents whereof was as aforesaid with this Clause in the end From the most Loathsome and the unfortunate Hole in the Prison of Newgate I humbly c. Upon which Motion as also upon Declaration of a Precedent in the 35 of Henry the Eighth That the Sheriffs of London were Committed to the Tower for Arresting George Ferrars a Member of this House It was generally agreed That the Serjeant of this House should be presently sent with his Mace for the said Prisoner his Keeper and also should command the said Baker the Serjeant and the procurater of the Arrest to attend the Court on Monday morning so after the Serjeant had been away about an hour and an half he brought the Prisoner and his Keeper to the Bar who Affirmed the whole matter as aforesaid And the Keeper was Commanded to deliver his Prisoner to the Serjeant which he did by taking him by the Hand and so delivered his Prisoner to the Serjeant And the House commanded the Keeper to take no Fees and so the Prisoner was quite discharged But Sir Robert Wroth moved to know Whether Mr. Cook would Affirm that man to be his Servant who stood up and said He was one of his most necessary Servants for in truth quoth he he is my Taylor And thereupon the Serjeant was sent for him as aforesaid An Act for the better Setling of Watches was Read and committed and the Committees to meet at the midle Temple-Hall on Thursday in the afternoon Mr. Henshaw moved the House That the immediate Land-Lord of every such Night-Walker should be bound for the good Behaviour of him to the Queens Use which the House would by no means hear of An Act to avoid and prevent divers Lewd Misdemeanors in base and idle Persons was Read and Committed to the Committees in the Bill for Night-walkers to meet on Thursday after-noon in the midle Temple-hall An Act against Drunkards A Bill against going to an Ale-house if within Two Miles of ones own House and haunters of Ale-houses the Effect whereof is That if any man do go to an Ale-house within two miles of his own House he shall Forfeit so much as he is in the Subsidy Mr. Glascock spake to this Bill and Informed the House That it was a common and usual thing in Lancashire and those Parts for Gentlemen as they go a Hawking to go and take a Repast at an Ale-House Mr. Glascock Opposes it Yea men sometimes of 500. Marks a Year But Mr. Speaker I hope these
in hoc bello Apostolica Authoritate à nobis Administrandum ut verum fatear possem sacillime convitia quod nobis objiciunt in ipsos retundere voluptatem quam maledicendo sumpsere illam male audiendo amittere Caeterum novimus ut debiles inermes Muliercola ad convitia fugere Sed hiis praetermissis ad objecta solida veritate ex Christiana Modestate respondere Imprimis Commoneamini nos velle subditos praetensos Reginae Angliae ab obedientia debita per dei legem servitute abducere ad nos aggregare Quod maximâ ex parte à veritate alienum est Neminem enim persuadere conamur ut debitam servitutem secundum dei Legem deneget suo Principi Sed hene nostis ante multos Annos ipsam Elizabetham for so said Mr. Secretary he bluntly called her that same Elizabeth privatam esse Regno subditosque omnes absolutos esse à Juramento Fidelitatis per supremum Pontificem cui Regnans in excelsis Bex Regum omnimodum potestatem tradidit ut evellat distruat plantet aedificet ita ut ipsos Reges temporales si ad spirituale aedificiem expediret eósque ad depositionem à Regno privat quod factum esse in Regnis Angliae Hiberniae à pluribus Pontificibus supremis viz. Pio quinto Gregorio decimo tertio nunc Clemento octavo omnibus notum est quorum Diplomata extant apud nos Catholicis Loquor non protervis Haereticis qui à Fide Romanae Ecclesiae declinaverunt nam cum Caeci sunt Caecorum Duces sundamenta veritatis prorsus ignorant etiam in hoc dissentire à nobis non mirum est Sed nostri fratres Catholici in simplicitate fidei Romanae ambulentes Ecclesia Catholica consentientes quod est columna fundamentum veritatis omnia ista facile percipiant Ergo restat quod Hiberni qui vobis adherent nil adversus legem Dei fidelitatem debitam imò secundum divina praecepta obedientiam quam supremo Pontifici debent cooperentur Secundo asseritis nos Hispanos blanditiis fictitiis adulationibus Hibernos demulcire atque multa beneficia in illos exhibere quod in nostram aversissimam est natura sed hoc m o in principio facere ut simplicium animos ad nos convertentes in posterum credulitatem circa illos exercentes sanguinolentam naturam nostram ostendemus Proh Deum immortalem quis non miretur acerbam indicibilem credulitatem audaciámque vestram in his verbis ostensam Quis est enim qui non novit crudelitatem maximam quam vos Angli adversus miseros Hibernicos exercivistis exercere non desistitis vos inquam ab ipsorum animis fidem Catholicam quam coluerunt Patris eorum in quo salus aeterna consistit auferre conamini crudeliores profectò Vrsis Leonibus qui tantum temporalem vitam auferent vos tamen aeternam spiritualem Quis temporalia omnia istius florentissimi Regni demolitus est nisi Anglus videte hoc confundamini Nos vero Patriam dulcissimam foelicissimam Hispaniam omnibus scilicet bonis refertam vicem Catholicorum dolentes relinquimus eorum Clamoribus incitati qui Coelum Terrámque attingunt aures supremi Pontificis Regis nostri Philippi pulsantes misericordia moti Ad vos Milites Argentum Aurum Arma liberali manu tandem mittere decreverunt non ut erga vos Hiberni Catholici crudelitatem ut isti singunt exercerunt sed ut foeliciter vos à Diaboli faucibus ereptos à Tyrannide liberos ad pristinam vestram ingenuitatem redigant ut libere positis fidem Catholicam profiteri Ergo dilectissimi in Christo postquam jam quod per tot ante annos desiderio desiderastis praecibus lacrimis efflagitastis impetrastis jamjam Supremus Pontifex Vicarius Christi in Terris vobis imperat ut Arma in Defensionem vestrae fidei sumatis vos omnes moveo horior atque contestor Omnes in quam ad quos istae Litterae pervenerint ut quam citissime in vestra fuerit potestate ad nos cum Amicis Armis conveniatis Qui hoc fecerit nos paratos inveniet Arma nostra ceteráque possidemus ipsis communicabimus Qui aliter enim spretis nostris Conciliis saluberrimis secerit in salibra Anglorum obedientia permanserit tanquam Haereticum Hostem Ecclesiae invisum usque ad necem prosequimur Doryum de Laguia After the Parliament at the end of Hillary-Term next following the Lord Keeper by her Majesties express Command made a Speech in the Star-chamber on the 13th of February all these Personages being present viz. Sir Thomas Egerton Lord Keeper of the great Seal The Archbishop of Canterbury The Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer of England The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Worcester Sir William Knolls Controuler of her Majesties Houshold The Bishop of London Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice of England Mr. Secretary Herbert Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir _____ Peryam Lord Chief Baron Mr. Baron Clarke Mr. Baron Savelle Mr. Justice Fenner Mr. Justice Kingsmell Mr. Justice Warberton After a silence made and some few Motions made by Mr. Atturney-General and the Queens Counsel and some others the Cryer of the Court again made silence and the Lord Keeper putting off his Hat and then putting it on again spake to this effect My Lords I Am by her Majesties commandment to deliver unto you her gracious pleasure The Lord Keeper's Speech in the Star-chamber and those things which out of her Princely wisdom and care she hath thought fit to be made known I scarce know how to enter into this matter and I am sorry that now in speaking I shall lay open the looseness of the times neither are her Majesties Proclamations regarded neither her Councils Letters respected neither her late-made Statutes and Decrees obeyed nor put in so due execution as they ought These things deserve to have a more round and strict course than have been used and we deserve not so gracious a Pardon as it hath pleased her most gracious Majesty out of her meer goodness lately to bestow upon us but this onely to divers persons and offences of those which live in degree of private men But I am to speak of Offences of Mayors Justices of Assize A Charge for the keeping of Lent strictly and men of that condition The time of Lent and abstinence from Flesh if it be not duely observed what Dearth and Penury will not almost ensue And therefore was the time of Lent well placed even in the Spring and the beginning of the increase of Beasts Her Majesties express command is That it be strictly observed and that with this caution That where fault shall be found that there extremity shall be inflicted and that no
ac vobis per seperalia Brevia nostra apud Civitat diem praedict interesse mandaverimus ad tractandum consentiendum concludendum super hiis in dicto Parliamento nostro tunc ibidem proponerentur tractarentur quibusdam tamen certis de causis considerationibus nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus dictum Parliamentum nostrum usque ad quartam diem Februarii prox futur duximus prorogandum Ita quod nec vos nec aliquis vestrum ad dictum duodecimum diem Novembris apud Civitatem praed comparere teneamini seu autemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum nos penitus openerari Mandanies tenore presentium firmiter injungendo precipientes vobis cuilibet vestrum ac omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quod ad dictum quartam diem Februarii apud praedictum Civitate Westmonaster personaliter compereatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compereat intersit ad tractand faciend agend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro de Communi consilio dicti Regni nostri favente Domino contingerint ordinari In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras sieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsam apud Westm quinto decimo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo Per ipsam Reginam Ha. Gerrarde And according to this Prorogation the Parliament held on the fourth day of February following when the Queen's Majesty in her accustomed state and order came to the Upper House accompanied by Sir Christopher Hatton Knight then Lord Chancellor of England and divers of the Nobility of which the Journal-book maketh mention in manner and form following On Tuesday the fourth of February Feb. 4. The Q. comes to the House of Lords in the 31th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to which day the Parliament had been last prorogued and accordingly now held the Queen's Majestie was personally present in Parliament but the Journal-book doth not mention the names of such Lords as were then present The Queen being set under her Cloath of Estate and the Lords placed in their several ranks and order and as many of the House of Commons as conveniently could being let in and standing before the Bar Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor of England Heads of the L. Chancellor Hatton's Speech in a well-framed and discreet Speech did there declare unto them at large the Queens gracious disposition to Peace and her great wisdom in preserving the same and singular government of the Realm Next he shewed the great benefit which this Kingdom enjoyeth by her Government and remembred the great Conquest over the Spanish late wonderful Army or Fleet on the Seas viz. Anno Dom. 1588. He further declared how much the King of Spain remained bent against this Kingdom And lastly shewed that the cause of calling this Parliament to be that by the consent of the most grave and wise persons now called together out of all parts of the Realm preparation may as far forth as by councel of man is possible to be made and provided that Arms Souldiers and Moneys may be in readiness and an Armie prepared and furnished against all Events The Lord Chancellor's Speech being ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the Names of the Receivers and Triers of Petitions in French according to the usual form which were these Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Chief Justice Committees or Receivers and Triers of Petitions Sir Gilbert Gerrard Kt. Master of the Rolls Sir Robert Shute one of the Justices of the Kings-bench Dr. Aubery and Dr. Ford. Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Chief Baron Francis Windham one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Clarke and Dr. Cary. Triers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Darby the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Sussex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral the Lord Cobham and the Lord Gray of Wilton Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and for other Countries on the other side the Seas and the Islands The Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembrooke the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and Lord Buckhurst During this Parliament upon several days seven Temporal Lords sent their Proxies so did five Spiritual Lords Et norandum That all the said Spiritual Lords excepting one did every one constitute two several Proctors and the fifth being John Bishop of Carlisle whose Proxie was returned February the fifth made onely one viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury his Proctor It likewise seldom happeneth that any Bishop doth nominate fewer than three or two Proctors nor any Temporal Lord more than one Nota That the Lord Burleigh had this Parliament four Proxies sent unto him viz. one from the Lord Dacres one from the Earl of Warwick one from Viscount Mountacute and one from the Lord Lumley Ipsa Regina continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox hora secunda post meridiem On Thursday February 6. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Queens Majestie was personally present coming to the said Parliament in her accustomed state and order about three of the clock in the afternoon it being the time appointed for the House of Commons to present their Speaker who they had been authorized to chuse on Tuesday last when the Parliament first began And thereupon accordingly the Queen and Lords being set and the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being let into the Upper House two of the most eminent persons of the said House did lead up to the Bar of the Upper House George Snagg Serjeant at Law Geo. Snagg their Speaker presented to the Queen Excuses himself who was chosen the Speaker of the said House of Commons who being placed at the said Bar and silence being made did in a modest and discreet Speech disable himself by reason of his many imperfections and humbly desired her Majestie to discharge him of that great Place and to nominate some other more able and sufficient Member of the same House Whereupon the Lord Chancellor by commandment from the Queen The Queen approves of him did let him know That her Majestie did very well allow of his Choice and thereupon encouraged him willingly and cheerfully to undertake and execute that Charge and Place to which he had been by the free and unanimous consent of the House of Commons elected and chosen Upon which Speech of the Lord Chancellor's the said Speaker according to the usual course and form rendering all humble thankfulness to the Queens Majestie for her underserved
malum The malice of our Arch-enemy the Devil though it was always great yet never greater than now and that Dolus and Malum being crept in so far amongst men it was necessary that sharp Ordinances should be provided to prevent them and all care to be used for her Majesties preservation Now am I to make unto your Majesty three Petitions in the names of your Commons First That liberty of Speech and freedom from Arrests according to the ancient custom of Parliament be granted to your Subjects That we may have access to your Royal Person to present those things which shall be considered of amongst us And lastly That your Majesty will give us your Royal Assent to the things that are agreed upon And for my self I humbly beseech your Majesty if any speech shall fall from me or Behaviour found in me not decent and unsit That it may not be imputed blame upon the House but laid upon me and pardoned in me To this Speech the Lord Keeper having received new Instructions from the Queen he replied HE commended the Speaker greatly for his Speech Lord Keeper's Reply and he added some Examples for the Kings Supremacy in Henry the second 's time and Kings before the Conquest As for the Deliverance we received from our Enemies and the Peace we enjoyed he said the Queen would have the praise of all those to be attributed to God onely To the Commendations given to her self she said Well might we have a wiser Prince but never should they have one that more regarded them and in Justice would carry an evener stroke without acceptation of Persons and such a Princess she wished they might always have Yo your three Demands the Queen answereth Liberty of Speech is granted you but how far this is to be thought on there be two things of most necessity and those two do most harm which are Wit and Speech the one exercised in Invention the other is uttering things invented Priviledge of Speech is granted A good caution about liberty of speaking in the House but you must know what Priviledge you have not to speak every one what he listeth or what cometh in his brain to utter but your Priviledge is to say Yea or No. Wherefore Mr. Speaker her Majesties pleasure is That if you perceive any idle heads which will not stick to hazard their own Estates which will meddle with reforming of the Church and transforming of the Common-wealth and do exhibit any Bills to such purpose That you receive them not until they be viewed and considered of by those whom it is fitter should consider of such things and can better judge of them To your Persons all Priviledge is granted As also about priviledge of their persons with this Caveat That under colour of this Priviledge no mans ill doings or not performing of duties be cover'd and protected The last free Access is also 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 After this Speech was ended the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament in manner and form following Dominus Custos Magni Sigill ex mandat Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox futur This day was returned the Proxie of John Bishop of Carlisle by which he constituted John Archbishop of Canterbury John Bishop of London and Matthew Bishop of Durham his Proctors quod nota On Saturday Feb. 24. a Bill for restraining and punishing vagrant and seditious persons who under fained pretence of Conscience and Religion corrupt and seduce the Queens Subjects prima vice lect Eodem die Returnat est Breve quod Richardus Wigorn. Episcopus praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur idem Episcopus ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento locum admissus est salvo cuiquam jure suo Dominus Custos magni Sigill continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae hora nona This day was returned the Proxie of John Archbishop of York by which he constituted onely one Proctor viz. John Archbishop of Canterbury quod nota Feb. 25. Sunday On Munday Feb. 26. Returnatum est Breve quo Edwardum Dom. Cromwel praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alienae The Writ returned whereby Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury was summoned The several Writs returned whereby George Bishop of Landaff William Lord Compton and Edward Earl of Worcester were summoned It seemeth by the Journal-book that nothing else was done this day but the Parliament continued in usual form As on Thursday the 22th of February and on Saturday the 24th day of the same month two extraordinary Proxies were returned from two Spiritual Lords the first constituting three Proctors and the other but one for the most ordinary use of the Bishops is to constitute two Proctors So also on the 27th of February being Tuesday though the Lords did not sit yet was one unusual Proxie returned from another Spiritual Lord who constituted but one Proctor to give his voice in Parliament in his absence whereas it is before often observed no Temporal Lord nominateth usually above one Proctor and no Spiritual Lord fewer than two This said Proxie is thus entered in the Journal-book of the 35 year of the Queen at the beginning of it 27º Februarii introductae sunt Littera Procuratoriae Thomae Wintoniensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem On Wednesday Feb. 28. two several Writs were returned whereby John Bishop of Bath and Wells and Matthew Bishop of Durham were summoned to come to this Parliament who accordingly took their places Also this morning two Bills had each of them one reading Nota That because the dayly continuing of the Parliament in these words Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum c. being but matter of course is omitted in all the Journal afterwards unless something extraordinary and unusual doth happen in respect of the Person time or manner On Thursday March 1. March 1. two Bills were each of them once read On Saturday March 3. to which day the Parliament had on Thursday been continued four Bills had each of them one reading March 4. Sunday On Munday March 5. three Bills were read and the second upon the second reading was committed to be ingrossed Nota This day also was returned a Proxie for a Temporal Lord by which he constituted two Proctors which because it is extraordinary and unusual I desired to have it inserted and the rather because of eight other Temporal Lords none of them constituted above one Proctor according to the ordinary practice both in these times and since The said Proxie before mentioned is thus entered in the beginning of the original Journal-book of this Upper House of Parliament Quint. Marcii
introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Henrici Comitis Huntingdon in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Gulielmum Dominum Burleigh Thesaurarium Angliae Robertum Comitem Essex Vicecomitem Hereford Dominum Ferrers de Chartley. On Tuesday March 6. there was one Bill read once On Wednesday March 7. Breve returnatum est quo Johannes Salisburien Episc praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliament locum salvo jure alieno The same morning there were four Bills read each of them once A Bill for restraining Popish Recusants to certain places of abode the fourth being a Bill for restraining Popish Recusants to some certain places of abode There was also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons an Act for the naturalizing and making free of William Sidney eldest son of Robert Sidney Kt. Governour of Vlushing and Dame Barbara his wife and of Peregrine Wingfield son and heir of Sir John Wingfield Kt. and Dame Susan Countess of Kent his wife And note this day also was one extraordinary Proxie return'd from a Spiritual Lord who constituted but one Proctor whereas usually no such Lord constituteth fewer than two which Proxie is thus entered in the beginning of the Journal-book of this Parliament 7º Marcii introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Mathei Dunelmensis Episc in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Cantuariensem Episcopum On Thursday March 8. were three Bills each of them once read whereof the first was an Act for explanation and confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Kt. convicted of High-Treason Not long after this Bill had been committed to ingrossing according to a certain Order formerly made by the Lords Francis Englefield Esq appeared before them with one of his learned Counsel who were commanded to declare what they could alleadge why an Act for explanation and confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Kt. attainted of High-Treason should not pass And upon Allegations made by the learned Counsel the Lords commanded they should set them down in Writing and deliver them to the Atturney-General and that on Friday they should attend on the Judges and the Queens learned Counsel at Serjeants-Inne and shew such Deeds of Conveyance as they made mention of before the Lords that the said Lords upon answer of the Judges and learned Counsel might proceed upon the said Bill as it should seem best to their Lordships On Saturday March 10. to which day the Parliament had been last continued after the reading of one private Bill prima vice the Lords gave in Commandment to Mr. Atturney-General to bring on Munday certain Depositions remaining in the Exchequer concerning the Case of Sir Francis Englefield after they had first heard the opinion of the Judges which was delivered by the Lord Chief Justice of England March 11. Sunday On Munday March 12. two Bills had each of them one reading On Tuesday March 13. two Bills being each of them once read the Lords at the Bishop of Worcester's motion A Collection in the House of Peers for poor Souldiers condescended to a Contribution for the relief of such poor Souldiers as went begging in the streets of London viz. That every Earl should give Forty shillings every Bishop Thirty shillings and every Baron Twenty shillings and appointed the said Bishop and the Lord Norris Collectors thereof and committed the bestowing thereof to the Earl of Essex and Lord Willoughby of Eresby On Thursday March 15. to which day the Parliament had been last continued were four Bills each of them once read On Friday March 16. were two Bills each of them once read And then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament in the usual form to the Munday following On Munday March 19. one Bill onely upon its second reading was committed to be ingrossed On Tuesday March 20. the Bill touching Sir Francis Englefield's Lands had its third reading and was concluded Four Bills also more were this forenoon sent up to the Lords from the Commons On Thursday March 22. two Bills had each of them one reading On Saturday March 24. to which day the Parliament had been last continued was one Act concluded after the third reading and four other Bills brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof one was an Act concerning the lawful deprivation of Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London March 25. Sunday An. 1593. On Munday March 26. were three Bills each of them once read Subsidy-bill read granted by the Temporaity whereof the first was an Act for the grant of three entire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty which had passed the House of Commons and was sent up to the Lords on Saturday last This morning also two other Bills were sent up to the Lords from the said Commons On Tuesday March 27. three Bills had each of them one reading On Wednesday March 28. three Bills were read secunda vice and one Bill tertia vice Five other Bills were also sent up to the Lords from the Commons Nota This day was an unusual Proxie returned from one of the Bishops absent at this time from the Parliament as divers other Peers by the License of her Majesty in which Proxie he constituted but one Proctor whereas it is the usual custome for every Spiritual Lord to nominate two at the least and every Temporal Lord but one This Proxie is thus entered in the beginning of the original Journal-book of this Parliament 28º Die Marcii introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Thomae Cicestrensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Archiepisc Cantuariensem On Thursday March 29. seven Bills had each of them one reading On Fryday March 30. five Bills were read whereof the first was the Bill of Subsidy granted by the Temporalty Subsidy granted by the Clergy passed and the last the Bill of Subsidy granted by the Clergy both which at this time upon their several third readings passed the Lords House On Saturday March 31. were five Bills read April 1. April 1. Sunday On Munday April 2. one Bill was read and six Bills of like consequence were sent up to the Lords from the Commons On Tuesday April 3. were four Bills once read On Wednesday April 4. one Bill was read prima secundae vice On Thursday April 5. three Bills of no great moment upon their third reading passed the House and were expedited This morning also this Order was agreed on amongst the Lords An Order about the Contribution for mustred Souldiers viz. Whereas the Lords of Parliament both Spiritual and Temporal assembled in the Parliament chamber at Westminster have with one uniform consent both in their own Names and the rest of the Lords absent ordered That there shall be a charitable Relief and Contribution made towards the relief and
help of a number of Souldiers that are seen in the time of this Parliament maimed and so hurt in the Wars of France the Low Countries and on the Seas for the service of the Queens Majesty and of the Realm and for that purpose have allowed that every Archbishop Marquiss Earl and Viscount should pay towards the Contribution the sum of 40 s. every Bishop 30 s. and every Baron 20 s. For collection whereof there hath been appointed the Queens Majesties Almoner the Bishop of Worcester to collect the same of Bishops the Lord Norris to collect the sums payable by the Lords Temporal which hath been diligently done and received by them for all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal that have been present and that have attended to their great charge on the service of the Realm in this Parliament And considering the number of the Souldiers be very many to be relieved therewith notwithstanding the Knights and Burgesses of the Commons House have yielded very good and large Contributions according to their degrees for the better relief of the said maimed Souldiers It is by the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal that have given their chargeable attendance here and have charitably and honourably yielded to this Contribution thought meet and so it is ordered and decreed by them with common and free consent That all the Lords of Parliament that have been altogether absent in this Sessions The absent Peers to pay a double proportion for the relief of the indigent and maimed Souldiers by Order of the House and that shall not have contributed to this charitable Relief before the end of this Sessions shall be required by Letters to be sent to them by the Lords that had their Procurations for their absence or by Letters from the Lord Keeper of the great Seal required and charged to make payment to be made according to their degrees and vocation double the sums of money paid by the Lords that have been here present and continued their attendance that is to say every Earl that hath been absent 4 l. the Archbishop of York to pay as much and every Bishop also to pay 3 l. and every Baron 40 s. And for such as have been here present sometimes and yet very seldom but have been absent most part it is thought meet That every such Lord Spiritual and Temporal shall according to their degrees pay a third part more than the Lords that have been present All which sums of money they shall cause to be delivered to the hands of the Lord Keeper of the great Seal to be afterwards by such Spiritual Lords of Parliament as are chosen for that purpose distributed to the maimed Souldiers as shall be found to have most need thereof The Commons having taken the same method The like whereof the Commons assembled in this Parliament have ordered for all the Members of that House that are absent and have not paid to contribute in double manner which Order is thought very just considering the Lords and others that have been absent and have been at no charge to come up and give their attendance may very reasonably and with a great saving to their charges contribute to this Order And if any Lord Spiritual or Temporal shall refuse or shall forbear thus to do which is hoped in Honour none will do there shall be ordinary means used to levy the same On Friday April 6. Four Bills were each of them once read Eight Bills were this Morning sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the last was an Act to make void the Spiritual Livings of those that have forsaken the Realm and do cleave to the Pope and his Religion On Saturday April 7. two Bills only were each of them once read April 8. Sunday On Munday April 9. were Three Bills each of them read secunda tertia vice and so expedited Also eight Bills this Morning were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof one was read prima secunda vice and another read prima vice This Morning finally whereas a Bill entituled an Act touching Power and Repeal of certain uses of a Deed Tripartite therein mentioned of and in certain Mannors Lands and Tenements of Anthony Coke of Rumford in the County of Essex Esquire hath been heretofore three times read and assented unto by the Lords in which Bill there is no Saving to the Queens Majesty or any other person or persons of their lawful estates or titles there was a Saving drawn for her Majesty and all others which was offer'd to this House And some question and ambiguity did grow whether the Saving should be now added to the Bill and in the end it was Resolv'd the same should be added to the Bill for that it is usual and requisite to have such Savings in every Bill and for that there was nothing in the Saving contrary to any matter in the Bill and that her Majesties Right and all others be saved thereby And nevertheless upon weighty Considerations the Lords have ordered that this shall not hereafter be drawn to make any president Then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament till the Morrow following on which it ended which said Continuance is entred in the Original Journal-book in Manner and Form following Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Martis hora octava On Tuesday April 10. In the Morning were two Bills read whereof the first was an Act for Naturalizing of certain Englishmens Children born beyond the Seas tertia vice lect expedit And the second was an Act for the Queens most gracious and free Pardon which was read only once and then passed the House Nota That the Bill or Act for the Queens general Pardon passeth each House upon the first reading whereas other Bills cannot be expedited without being thrice read both by the Lords and Commons The Queens Majesty came not till the Afternoon and therefore in this place through the negligence of the Clerk the continuing of the Parliament until some hour in the Afternoon is omitted which should have been inserted Between 5 and 6 a Clock in the Afternoon this present Tuesday being the 10 of April the Queens Majesty The Queen comes to Dissolve the Parliament accompanied with her Officers and dayly Attendance came to the Upper-House and assoon as her Majesty with her Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the rest that have place there were set the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice thereof came up with their Speaker bringing with them the Bill of the Subsidy The Speaker being placed at the Bar of the Upper-house and as many of the Commons as could conveniently be let in after humble Reverence to her Majesty spake as followeth The Speakers Speech to the Queen THe High Court of Parliament most High and Mighty Prince is the greatest and most antient Court within this Your Realm for before the Conquest
by the Lord Keeper in the name and behalf of the House to such Knights and Burgesses as come from the Lower House the said Knights and Burgesses are to receive the same standing towards the lower end of the House and the Lord Keeper is to deliver the same with his head covered and all the Lords are to keep their places And thereupon the Lower House was satisfied and the same form was afterwards kept accordingly On Friday Jan. 20. The Answer in writing that came yesterday from the Lower House to the Objections taken by their Lordships to some points of the Bill intituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm was by the Order of the House referred and delivered unto the Lords Committees formerly appointed upon that Bill who were required to consider thereof and make their Report of their Opinions concerning the same On Saturday Jan. 21. the Bill for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others in the War read secunda vice On Munday Jan. 23. a Bill for establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth read prima vice On Tuesday Jan. 24. the Bill intituled An Act for the relieving of Clothiers concerning the weight of short broad and coloured Clothes to be made in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury first of the Committees who made report that upon hearing of both parties and upon due consideration of the reasons and allegations by them alleadged the Committees thought there could not be any further proceedings in the same whereupon a new Bill was presented bearing this Title viz. An Act touching the making of short broad course coloured Clothes in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex which was read prima vice Debated in the House whether Amendments upon a Bill being brought into the House by Committees may afterwards be contradicted or spoken against by any of the Committees A Doubt propouded and reâ—â—â—â—ed The doubt was left for the present unresolved but afterwards cleared and ruled Affirmatively On Wednesday Jan. 25. an Act that no person robbing of a House in the Day-time although no person be therein shall be admitted to have the benefit of his Clergie secunda vice lect An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patents their Heirs and Assignes notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown secunda vice lect and referred to Committees viz. the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury Lord Treasurer Lord Marshal and others appointed to meet c. the Lord Chief-Justice the Lord Chief-Baron and Mr. Atturney-General to attend them Sir Moyle Finch to be heard by his Counsel learned openly in the House to morrow-morning concerning this Bill Notice given to the House by the Lord Treasurer that the Committees upon the Bill concerning Tellers Receivers c. had a meeting with a select number of the Lower House to confer upon the Objections and Answers touching that Bill yesterday in the Afternoon according to the order taken Jan. 23. But forasmuch as the said number of the Lower House at the meeting affirmed that they had no authority to undertake the debating of the said Objections and Answers otherwise than to speak as they should see cause as private men and desired that the Answers might be communicated to the Lower House in writing the Lords therefore sent down the said Answers to the Lower House by the hands of Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhop On Thursday Jan. 26. an Act for enabling Edmond Molineux to sell Lands for the payment of his Debts c. was returned to the House by the Lord Marshal second of the Committees And forasmuch as the same could not be determined by the said Committees by reason of some of the Kindred of the said Edmond Molineux who opposed themselves against the Bill a motion was therefore made that the Cause might be ended by some arbitrary course whereupon the Parties on both sides were called into the House and moved to that purpose unto which they assented and made choice of the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of London and the Lord Montjoy who were appointed to meet that afternoon c. An Act to reform Deceits and breaches of Trust touching Lands given to charitable uses returned to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury with some amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added which were twice read and thereupon Commandment given that the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso ingrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading The Bill intituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury first of the Committees And because it seemed to all the Committes appointed for this Bill together with the Judges that notwithstanding the Conference with several selected persons of the Lower House that this Bill could not proceed Order was given to the Judges but especially to the Lord Chief-Justice to draw a new Bill whereupon this new Bill following was brought into the House An Act against decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry prima vice lect Excuse made by the Lord Admiral for the Earl of Hertford's absence for want of health The like by the Lord Chandois for the Lord de la Ware The Lord Marshal signified to the House that the Lord Mordant and the Lord Sheffield had leave of her Majesty for their absence On Friday Jan. 27. the Lord Treasurer took his place this day as Baron of Burleigh between the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Compton The Lord Admiral his place as Earl of Nottingham between the Earl of Lincoln and the Lord Viscount Byndon The Lord Chamberlain his place as Baron of Hunsdon between the Lord Chandois and the Lord St. John of Bletsoe On Saturday Jan. 28. the Bill for the lawful making of Bays in the Counties of Essex and Suffolk was read tertia vice On Munday Jan. 30. an Act for Retailing-brokers and other Pawn-takers returned to the House by the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury first of the Committees and because there was found many defects therein so that they thought the same unfit to be proceeded in they therefore together with the said Bill presented a new Bill intituled as the former which was read prima vice On Tuesday Jan. 31. a Motion from the lower House by Sir John Forscue and others that some new time might be appointed for conference about the Act intituled An Act for reforming sundry abuses committed by Souidiers c. in regard they had appointed some other meeting this Afternoon for the preparing of a Bill of Accomptants in readiness to proceed their Lordships having considered of the Motion made answer by the Lord Keeper that they wished for some good consideration that the appointed time viz. this Afternoon might hold for this Conference supposing that if it please the
Committees of the Lower House to come the sooner this Afternoon for this purpose they might well enough perform both the one and the other On Wednesday Feb. 1. the Bill intituled Feb. 1. An Act for the reviving continuance explanation and repealing of divers Statutes returned to the House by the Lord Chief Justice with some amendments which were presently twice read and thereupon Commandment given to be prepared ready in writing in Paper for a third reading It is agreed that a Conference shall be had with some of the Lower House about this Bill upon Friday Morning next On Friday Feb. 3. a Proviso in the Bill for recovering 300000 Acres more or less of waste Marsh and watry Ground this day twice read and the Amendments And thereupon Commandment given the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso ingrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading Report made by the Lord Treasurer what the substance of the Conference was between their Lordships and certain select Committees of the Lower House concerning the Bill for reviving continuing and repealing of divers Statutes and the same referred to the Lord Chief-Justice and other Justices for their further consideration On Saturday Feb. 4. an Act for reformation of Retailing-brokers and other Pawn-takers read tertia vice An Act against the deceitful stretching and Taintering of Northern Cloaths tertiavice lect An Act for the reviving continuance explanation perfecting and repealing of divers Statutes tertia vice lect The three Bills above-mentioned sent to the Lower House of which the two latter were returned for their consideration of certain Amendments and Proviso's added by their Lordships The Proviso thought meet by the Committees on the Bill concerning the draining and recovery of certain over flown Grounds in the County of Norfolk twice read and commanded to be engrossed A Motion by the Lord Buckhurst that the County of Sussex might be added to the general Bill of surrounded Grounds The like Motion by the Lord North and others for the Counties of Somerset and Essex whereto the House assented and the said three Counties were accordingly added to the rest On Munday Feb. 6. hora secunda post Meridiem the Proviso added by the Lower House to the Bill for the confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sandis read tertia vice and thereupon the Bill expedited On Tuesday a Message from their Lordships to the Lower House delivered by Serjeant Drew and Dr. Carew for a Conference concerning a Bill against excess of Apparel with a competent number of the said House The time and place being desired to be at Two of the clock this Afternoon at the great Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament On Wednesday Feb. 8. the Bill for amendment of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent was read tertia vice and expedited On Thursday Feb. 9. at Three of the clock in the Afternoon They are dissolved Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae tunc dissolvit presens Parliamentum A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in Parliament holden at Westminster in Anno 39 Eliz. Reginae annoque Dom. 1597. begun there on Munday the 24 of Octob and Dissolved Febr. 9. Anno 40. ejusdem Reginae THe Ninth Parliament of our Soveraign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen 1597. Oct. 24. The Parliament assembles defender of the Faith c. began at Westminster upon Munday Octob. 24 in the 39th year of her Majesties Reign upon which day many of the Knights of the Shires Citizens of the Cities Burgesses of Burroughs and Barons of the Cinque-Ports did then make their appearance at Westminster being returned into the said Parliament for the same Shires Cities Burroughs and Ports before the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward of her Majesties most honourable Houshold Chuseth Serj. Yelverton for their Speaker and having authority to chuse their Speaker they made choice of Mr. Serjeant Yelverton to be their Speaker On Thursday Octob. 27. the House being set and before Mr. Speaker went up unto her Majesty in the Upper House Chancellor of the Exchequer moves that none may hereafter enter the House with Spurs on and pay the Serjeant his fees Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer moved and admonished that none of this House should after this present day enter into the House with their Spurs on for offending of others and withal that none do come into this House before they have paid the Serjeant's Fees due unto him according to the accustomed usage of this House in that case After which Mr. Speaker The Commens go to the Lords House with the greatest number of this House went towards the Upper House there to attend her Majesties pleasure and afterwards being admitted the said Mr. Serjeant Yelverton was presented before her Majesty and allowed of by her Speaker approved they return to the Lower House according to the usual form in that case accustomed And so returning to this House he was Speaker and took his place and sat in the Chair And then and there signified to this House that whereas in former times the Order was to have a Bill read before they did rise A caution given that no Bill could be read this day as was usual the same could not be so done at this time because her Majesty had in the Upper House adjourned this Parliament until Saturday next come seven-night being the fifth day of November next coming at eight of the clock in the Forenoon of the same day till which time he said all the Members of this House might depart and take their ease and so then every man went his way On Saturday Novemb. 5. the House met about eight of the clock in the Morning Which proved a mistake of the Speakers having through a mere mistake and errour of the Speaker and themselves conceived their House to have been adjourned by the Lord Keeper the first day of this Parliament unto this present day The Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Engrossers read the first time Mr. Finch shewing sundry great and horrible abuses committed by Vagrant and Idle persons offensive both to God and the world and further shewing the extream miserable estate of the Godly and honest sort of the poor Subjects of this Realm moved for a Committee of this House to be selected for redress thereof The Bill for the taking away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders against a Satute made 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of Women again their wills Bill against those that take away Women against their will was read prima vice Sunday Novemb. 6. On Munday Novemb. 7. four Bills had each of them one reading the last being the Bill against Forestallers c. was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Francis Bacon the Citizens for London York Coventry Bristol and Gloucester Mr. Nathaniel
Tellers and Receivers c. was upon the second reading committed to all the Privy Counsellors of this House all the Serjeants at Law being of this House Sir Oliver Lambert Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Tasborough Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Controuler Mr. George Moore and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer-chamber to morrow in the afternoon Dr. Muffet one of the Burgesses of Wilton being licensed to depart left 2 s. 6 d. with the Clerk of the House for the Poor and the Minister On Tuesday Decemb. 6. five Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill for establishing an Award made between Edward Cotton Gent. and Thomas Harvey Yeoman was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Serjeant Harries Mr. Henry Warner Mr. Edward Lukener Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Amendments in the Bill for the Lord Montjoy being twice read the Lord Marquiss of Winchester and the Lord Montjoy with their learned Counsel were heard at the bar of this House before the said Bill and Amendments were put to the Question for ingrossing and after their departure the said Bill and Amendments was upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday Decemb. 7. five Bills had each of them one reading of which Bill against lewd wandring pretended Souldiers and Mariners the last being the Bill against lewd wandring persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Moore Mr. George Moore and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill also against stealers of Corn and Fruit was upon the first and second reading committed to the former Committees in the Bill against lewd persons c. The Bill against stretching and taintering of Northern Cloath was read the second time and ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for suppressing the multitude of Maultsters was read the second time and committed to the Burgesses of York Mr. Winch Mr. Yelverton Mr. Lukenor and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill for increase of people for the strength and defence of the Realm had its first reading Bill for increase of people Post Meridiem The Bill for granting unto her Majesty six Fifteens and Tenths Subsidy-bill and three entire Subsidies was read the first time On Thursday Decemb. 8. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the better staying of Corn within the Realm was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. George Moore Mr. Wiseman Mr. Edmund Bacon Mr. Colefield Mr. Berkby and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill against the bringing in of forreign Cards for Wooll was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Serjeant Harries Mr. Serjeant Heale the Knights and Burgesses for London Mr. Hubberd and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill concerning Fustians was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees The Bill for the increase of people for the strength and service of this Realm was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy Counsellors being of this House Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Mountague Sir Thomas Cecill Mr. Pelham and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Three other Bills had each of them one reading of which Bill to alter the nature of Gavil-kind the first being the Bill to alter the nature of Gavil-kind was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Proviso in the Bill concerning the Town-lands of Wanting was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Friday Decemb. 9. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the retaining well ordering and governing of Mariners and Sea-men was upon the second reading committed unto all the Burgesses of the Port-Towns the Burgesses for York the Knights and Citizens for London Dr. Cesar Mr. Whally and others who were appointed to meet on Munday next in the afternoon in Middle-Temple-hall The Bill for establishing of good order in Grammar-schools was read the second time and upon the several Questions for committing and ingrossing was rejected Six other Bills had each of them one reading Bill to confirm the Statute-Merchant the last being a Bill for the confirmation of Statutes-Merchant acknowledged in the City of Lincoln and Town corporate of Nottingham was upon the second reading ordered to be ingrossed Seven Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others of which one was the Bill concerning Fustians and another for the repairing of Stains-bridge and Egham-cawsey The Bill for Tillage and Husbandry was read the first time The Amendments in the Bill for the recovery of certain waste marish and watery Grounds in the Isle of Ely and the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincoln Norfolk and Suffolk being twice read the Bill upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for the Lord Marquiss of Winchester upon the second reading was committed unto Mr. Wingfield Dr. Cesar Mr. Maynard Mr. Henry Mountague Mr. Francis Moore and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Saturday Decemb. 10. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill against the decay of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex and Surrey was read the first time The Amendments in the Bill against stealing of Corn and Fruit was twice read and the Bill thereupon ordered to be ingrossed Three other Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the well ordering of such as do practise the Science of Chirurgery was read the second time and after the doubtfulness of the Question three several times put it was upon the division of the House dashed with the difference of 29 Voices viz. with the No 102 and with the Yea 72. Two Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others together with a third being for the explanation of the Statute made 5 Reginae concerning Labourers Mr. Wiseman one of the Committees in the Bill against bringing in of forreign Cards for Wooll shewed the meetings of the Committees and that eleven of the Committees did onely meet and six of them do well like of the Bill and five do not and so deliver'd in the said Bill and referred the further consideration thereof to the House Mr. Serjeant Drewe and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords two Bills lately passed in this House and now also passed with their Lordships with some Additions and Amendments the one of them being for erecting of Hospitals or Abiding and Working-houses for the Poor and the other for the establishing of
appointed by your Majesty and your Subjects And I beseech your most excellent Majesty not to interpret my denial herein to proceed from any unwillingness to perform all devoted dutiful service but rather out of your Majesties clemency and goodness to interpret the same to proceed from that inward fear and trembling which hath ever possessed me when heretofore with most gracious audience it hath pleased your Majesty to license me to speak before you For I know and must acknowledge that under God even through your Majesties great bounty and favour I am that I am And therefore none of your Majesties most dutiful Subjects more bound to be ready and being ready to perform even the least of your Majesties commandments I therefore do most humbly beseech your Majesty that in regard the service of so great a Prince and flourishing Kingdom may the better and more effectually be effected to command your dutiful and loving Commons the Knights citizens and Burgesses of the Lower House to proceed to a new Election On Tuesday Nov. 5. Nov. 5. were two Bills read of which the first being for assurance of Land and the second for the restraint of the excessive and superfluous use of Coaches within the Realm of England Bill against excessive and superfluous use of Coaches were each of them read prima vice Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliament usq in diem Sabbati 7 Novemb. hora decima On Saturday Nov. 7. the Bill for assurance of Lands was read secunda vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Cumberland the Earl of Lincoln the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Durham the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Rich and the Lord Howard of Walder and the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas the Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Atturney-General were appointed to attend their Lordships On Tuesday Nov. 10. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for preservation of Phesants and Partridges was read secunda vice and committed to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Derby the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Cumberland the Earl of Pembrooke the Earl of Lincoln the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Ely the Lord Zouche the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Mordant the Lord Rich the Lord Sheifield the Lord Chandois the Lord Compton the Lord Howard of Walden and the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas and the Lord Chief Baron to attend the Lords And the Bill was delivered to the Archbishop of Canterbury On Thursday Nov. 12. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill concerning Musters Souldiers and other things was read secunda vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham six other Earls eight Bishops the Lord Zouche the Lord Cobham and eight other Barons and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Mr. Justice Walmesly Mr. Justice Warberton Mr. Serjeant Yelverton and Mr. Atturney-General were appointed to attend the Lords On Saturday Nov. 14. to which day the Parliament had been last continued request was made by Mr. Connisby Gent. Usher to the House and signified by the mouth of the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward That forasmuch as the bringing of any person before the Lords upon the breach of the Priviledge of the House did appertain as the said Mr. Connisby supposed and alleadged to his place though in the last Parliament by some mistake the Serjeant at Arms was employed therein that therefore their Lordships would be pleased to confirm and settle such Order as he might at this time and henceforth have the right of his place in that behalf Whose Request being considered 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 Zouche and the Lord Cobham should at their next meeting upon any other occasion take notice of such Presidents 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 Sunday Nov. 15. On Munday Nov. 16. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for reuniting Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning was read secunda vice Dominus Custos Magni Sigill continuavit praesens Parliament usq ad diem Jovis viz. 19 Novemb. On Thursday Nov. 19. the Bill for the breed and increase of Horses of Service within the Realm was read prima vice Bill for increase of Horses of service Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was to avoid and prevent divers Misdemeanours in lewd and idle persons and the other was for the confirmation of Grants made to her Majesty and of Letters-Patents made by her Majesty to others The Lord Mordant being not able to attend for want of health certified so much to the House by the Lord Compton This day William Hogan was brought into the House from the Fleet One of the Qu. servants complains of an Arrest who having made relation of his Arrest and the time when and of the parties that arrested him declaring that he was arrested by the Under-Sheriff of Surrey and others upon the Saturday before the beginning of his Parliament and that it was known unto the said Under-Sheriff that he was her Majesties servant in Ordinary and that he thought Tolkerne who was the Creditor was not privy to the Arrest contrary to the Priviledge of that Court upon the Offer and Petition of the said William Hogan it was ordered That the said William Hogan should enter into sufficient Bond to abide the Order and Judgment of the Earl of Cumberland He is ordered to give Bond to abide Judgment c. the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Zouche for such satisfaction to be made of the Debt of 50 l. and any Costs and Charges as by the said Lords should be thought fit the Bond to be taken to the said Lords and thereupon to be discharged out of Prison and Execution And likewise that the Warden of the Fleet should be free from any trouble or damage or molestation for discharge of the said William Hogan It was likewise ordered by the Court Those who arrested him to appear at the Lords Bar. That the Under-Sheriff and any others that did arrest or assist the Arrest of the said William Hogan shall be sent for to appear
triyling Suits in Law of which the first was to avoid trifling Suits in Law in her Majesties Courts at Westminster On Thursday Decemb. 3. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second was the Bill for enabling Edward Nevil of Burling in the County of Kent and Sir William Nevil his son to sell certain Lands On Friday Decemb. 4. the Bill against Drunkards and common Haunters of Ale-houses and Taverns the Bill for levying of Fines with Proclamations of Lands within the County of the City of Chester the Bill for enabling of Edward Nevil of Berlin in the County of Kent Esq c. and the Bill for confirmation of Letters-Patents made by Edw. 6. to Sir Edward Seignior Kt. were each of them read secunda vice On Saturday Decemb. 5. the Bill for maintenance of the Navy increase of Mariners and for avoiding the scarcity of Victuals was read prima vice Report was made to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees concerning Musters Souldiers c. That the said Committees having oftentimes met and conferred about the said Bill did finde so many imperfections in the same as it could not conveniently be mended and therefore thought it meet to draw a new Bill which he presented to the House The Bill entituled An Act for the more peaceable government of the Parties of Cumberland c. was returned to the House with certain Amendments which Amendments were presently twice read and thereupon the Bill commanded to be ingrossed On Munday Decemb. 7. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the more peaceable government of the Parties of Cumberland c. was read tertia vice and sent down to the House of Commons by Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp The Bill to avoid the double payment of Debts was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Controuler Sir Edward Hobby and others Four other Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the confirmation as well of all Grants made to the Queen and of all resumptions made by her Highness of the possessions of any Archbishoprick or Bishoprick as of Letters-Patents made by her Majesty to others was read prima vice The Bill for confirmation of Grants made to the Queen and of Letters-Patents made by her Highness to others was this day returned to the House with certain Amendments by the Lord Treasurer the first of the Committees This day Sir William Knowls Sir Edward Hobby Knights and divers others of the House of Commons delivered a Message from the said House desiring a Conference with some of their Lordships concerning the uniting of Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning Upon the delivery of which Message after the said Sir William Knowls and the rest had a little withdrawn and then upon propounding this Motion to this House the Lords having assented thereunto Answer was made by the Lord Keeper sitting in his place and the the rest of the Lords also keeping their places unto the said Sir William Knowls and the rest That the Lords had yielded to the Conference and had appointed the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche and the Lord Cobham to meet with some select persons of the House of Commons for that purpose to morrow by eight a clock in the morning at the Utter chamber neer the Parliament-presence On Tuesday Decemb. 8. six Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers and other in the Queens service in the Wars was read secunda vice and committed to the Committees formerly appointed for the first Bill of that kind with addition of the Lord Windsor and the said Committee to meet upon the said Bill upon the first opportunity of meeting on any other Bill and the said Bill was delivered to the Earl of Nottingham the third of the Committees Nota NOTA. That here this Bill was delivered unto the Earl of Nottingham being the third of the Committees of whom the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Treasurer were the two first Whereas on Munday Nov. 23. a Bill being committed upon the second reading was delivered unto the Archbishop the first of the Committees And on Thursday Nov. 26. upon the commitment also of a Bill in the like manner the Bill was delivered unto the Lord Howard of Walden being the Puisne Baron or last of the Committees by which it is plain that in the Upper House as well as in the House of Commons after any Bill is committed upon the second reading it may be delivered indifferently to any of the said Committees A Proviso was offered by the Earl of Worcester on the behalf of the Earl of Shrewsbury to be annexed unto the Bill entituled An Act for the consirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of Letters-Patents made by her Highness to others which Proviso together with the Amendments in the said Bill were read presently And forasmuch as the Lords desired a speedy proceeding in the said Bill they sent Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp to the House of Commons to move them that some meet persons of that House might joyn in Conference with the Lords being to the number of twenty or thereabouts concerning the Proviso and Amendments aforesaid and that the meeting about the same might be at the outward Chamber neer to the Parliament-presence to morrow by eight of the clock in the morning Upon delivery of which Message to the House of Commons they assented accordingly to the Motion made on that behalf Upon a Motion sent this day from the House of Commons by Sir Walter Rawleigh Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Hobby and others signifying That they desired Conference with some of their Lordships for certain matters concerning the honour of both Houses the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Worcester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham and the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche the Lord De-la-ware the Lord Cohham and the Lord Howard of Walden were appointed to meet on Thursday next by eight a clock in the morning at the outward chamber neer the Parliament-presence which was signified to Sir VValter Rawleigh and the rest in answer of their Message On VVednesday Decemb. 9. the Counsel of the Lady Fane was heard in the House what he could say on her behalf against the Bill of Edward Nevil and Sir Henry Nevil his son whereupon the Lords finding no cause why the proceeding on that Bill should be any longer staid Order was given for the third reading thereof The Bill for the enabling of Edward Nevil Esq and Sir Henry Nevil his son and heir apparent to dispose of certain Copyhold-lands was read tertia vice upon the third reading of which Bill and before
the putting thereof to the Question whether it should pass or no the Lady Fane yielded her consent to the passing of the same being thereunto perswaded by sundry of the Lords The Bill to avoid the double payment of Debts was read secunda vice The Lord Treasurer made Report That the Committees in the Bill concerning Letters-Patents c. could not proceed to any certain Conference with those that were sent from the House of Commons for that purpose in respect of some doubts that were conceived whether the Proviso offered to be annexed thereunto were necessary or no. And thereupon Mr. Atturney-General was required to deliver his Opinion on that behalf which being done by him accordingly to this effect That he thought the said Proviso needless and unnecessary and the Judges also concurring with him in that opinion nevertheless upon a Motion made by the Lord Bishop of London that the Counsel learned of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Mr. Holcroft whom the said Proviso did concern in particular might be heard in the House as they desired touching the same it was thought meet and agreeable to the honour and equity of the House that they should be so heard to which end their Counsel were appointed to give their attendance to morrow by eight in the morning And moreover for the better satisfaction of the House of Commons for the present Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp were sent unto them with this Message to signifie their Lordships desire to have proceeded to Conference with them this morning about the said Bill as was yesterday appointed and that the Lords were the more willing to give furtherance to the expediting of the said Bill in regard the same was especially recommended unto their Lordships from the said House but forasmuch as they found not themselves sufficiently prepared for this Conference by reason of some doubts that were not yet cleared unto them they desired the said Conference might be respited until Friday morning next at eight of the clock at the outward chamber neer the Parliament-presence unto which Motion the House of Commons willingly consented On Thursday Decemb. 10. the Bill for the establishing of the remainder of certain lands of Andrew Ketleby Esq upon Francis Ketleby was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons by Dr. Stanhopp and Dr. Hone. Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to avoid double payment of Debts was read tertia vice and expedited The Bill concerning Resumptions c. was this day delivered to the Lord Treasurer one of the Committees The Counsel learned as well on the behalf of the Earl of Shrewsbury as on the behalf of Thomas Holcrost Henry Candish and William Candish Esquires were heard at large in the House and thereupon Mr. Atturney was required to deliver again his Opinion concerning the said Provisoes offered on either part which being done accordingly in more ample and particular manner than he had done before and having also delivered his Resolution to sundry Questions propounded to him by divers of the Lords concerning the said Cause it was ordered as followeth Upon Debate in the House concerning several Provisoes offered by the Earl of Shrewsbury and Thomas Holcroft Henry Candish and William Candish Esquires to be annexed to the Bill entituled An Act for confirmation of Grants made unto the Queens Majesty and of Letters Patents made by her Highness to others it was at last agreed That the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas calling unto them the rest of the Judges and Mr. Atturney-General should draw some new Provisoes such as they should think indifferent for all parties and meet to be annexed to the said Bill and should present the same to the Lords to morrow in the morning before their Conference with the House of Commons concerning the said Bill The Lord Keeper signified unto their Lordships that he received command from her Majesty to let them understand her pleasure to be that the Parliament should end on Thursday the 17. or Friday the 18. of this instant Decem. at the furthest to the end that their Lordships may repair home to their Countries against Christmas and therefore she required them to employ and spend that time that remaineth in matters concerning the Publick and not in private causes Memorandum The Commons desire a Conference with the Lords about a Bill preferred in the Star-chamber against a Member of their House Quod dicto decimo Decembris those of the House of Commons that were appointed to confer with some of the Lords upon the Message lately sent from the said House signifying their desire of Conference for some matters touching the honour of both Houses did make known to the Lords the Committees nominated for that purpose That the occasion of such their Message was for that as they were informed Mr. Atturney-General had preferred a Bill into the Star-chamber against one Belgrave a Member of the House of Commons for and concerning some matter of Misdemeanour pretended to be done towards the Earl of Huntington a Lord of the Upper House and therefore they desired this mutual Conference letting their Lordships understand That to the preferring of the said Bill they conceived just exceptions might be taken by them for two respects first that Belgrave being a Member of the House of Commons was thereby vexed and molested during his service in time of Parliament contrary to the honour and priviledge of the House saying that no Member of that House ought by any such means in time of his service to be distracted either in body or minde The other because in the said Bill They reflect on the Att. Gen. for preferring the said Bill because he had formerly been their Speaker and so ought to be tender of their Priviledge and Honour preferred by Mr. Atturney-General who had been heretofore Speaker of that House and therefore as they thought ought to have more regard to the honour and liberty of the same Certain words and clauses were inserted which were taken to be prejudicial and derogatory to the honour of the said House And therefore they desired that the Lords would peruse and consider of the said Bill Whereupon the said Bill being offered to be read and forasmuch as it appeared that it was not an authentical Bill testified by the hand of the Clerk of the Star-chamber as it had been meet the Lords thought it not fit though otherwise they were willing to have it read nor agreeable to the proceedings of such a Court that the said Bill or Scroul shall be received to reading And therefore with a Message to that effect were pleased to send it down again to the House of Commons by Mr. Serjeant Yelverton and Dr. Hone who finding the House risen before they came brought the said Bill back again On Friday Decemb. 11. the Bill concerning Gaptains Souldiers and other in the Queens
service in the Wars was returned to the House by the Lord Steward with certain Amendments and a Proviso thought meet by the Committees which Amendments and Proviso were presently twice read and thereupon the Bill commanded to be ingrossed The Bill for the maintenance of the Navy increase of Mariners c. was returned to the House by the Lord Treasurer the first of the Committees with certain Amendments which Amendments were presently twice read Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the two last were one for assurance of the Parsonage and Vicarage of Rotherston in the County of Chester and a Scholars Room in the Cathedral-church of Christ in Oxford of the foundation of King Hen. 8. by the Dean and Chapter of the said Cathedral-church to Thomas Venables Esq and his Heirs for ever and the other for the augmentation of the Joynture of Rachel Wife of Edward Nevil in the County of Kent Esquire both which Bills were read prima vice On Saturday Decemb. 12. eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Secretary Cecil Mr. Secretary Herbert and others which were each of them read prima vice of which the first was for reformation of abuses in Sheriffs and other their inferiour Officers for not duely executing Writs of Proclamation upon Exigents according to the Stat. 31 Reginae and the second was for prohibiting Fairs and Markets to be holden on the Sunday Bill to prevent holding Fairs and Markets on Sundays Subsidy-bill Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the the first being the Bill for the grant of four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Teuths granted by the Temporalty was read prima vice The Lords and those of the House of Commons not having time yesterday to conclude their Conference about the Bill concerning Letters-Patents and Conveyances c. another meeting was appointed for them this morning Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Carewe were therefore sent unto them to let them know that their Lordships were ready presently to meet Upon which Message the House of Commons returned answer That they would make their repair to their Lordships forthwith for that purpose The Bill for the perfecting of the Joynture of the Lady Bridget Countess of Sussex Wife of Robert Earl of Sussex was read secunda vice The Bill concerning the Joynture of the Countess of Bedford was returned to the House by the Earl of Worcester the first of the Committees with a Proviso and certain Amendments thought sit to be added together with a Petition of the Lady Russel against the said Bill The Lords that were appointed Committees for the Bill touching Letters-Patents c. went forth to the outward chamber to have conference with those of the House of Commons appointed Committees for the same Bill but nothing concluded touching the Amendments because the said Committees had no power to conclude and therefore after long debate the Bill was brought back to the House and the relation thereof referred to be made by Mr. Atturney and the same deferred till the afternoon sitting by reason the day was spent Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliament usque ad horam tertiam post meridiem hujus diei About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers Lords having assembled themselves five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first concerning the draining and recovery from water of certain over-flown Grounds in the County of Norfolk the second for reformation of abuses committed in buying and selling of Spices and other Merchandizes and the third to prevent Perjury and subornation of Perjury and unnecessary expences in Suits of Law were each of them read secunda vice The Proviso that was presented to be added to the Bill for the maintenance of the Navy and increase of Mariners c. was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons together with the Bill concerning Captains Souldiers c. by Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp The Amendments and Proviso in the Bill concerning the Countess of Bedford's Joynture were twice read and likewise the Lady Russel's Petition was read whereupon it was appointed that the Proviso should be ingrossed in Parchment and the Amendments in Paper The Committees in the Bill for the observation of Rules in the Exchequer were appointed to meet forthwith in the little chamber neer the Parliament-presence to consider of a Proviso drawn by the Lord Chief Justice and the rest of the Judges by direction of the Committees which Proviso having been considered of accordingly was brought into the House and presently twice read and thereupon the said Proviso was commanded to be ingrossed On Munday Decemb. 14. to which day the Parliament was last continued the Bill for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer set down and established by vertue of her Majesties Privy-Seal was read tertia vice and the Proviso thought fit by the Committees to be added was also read the third time The Bill for assurance of certain Mannors and Lands for part of a Joynture to Lucy Countess of Bedford and the Provisoes and Amendments presented by the Committees to be added to the Bill were also read the third time both which Bills were sent to the House of Commons for their consideration of the several Provisoes and Amendments by Dr. Swale and the Clerk of the Crown Four Bills more had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the grant of four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read secunda vice Two Bills more were also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill for the confirmation of the Charter of Edw. 6. of the three Hospitals of Christ Bridewel and St. Thomas the Apostle to the Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of London was read prima vice The Bill to confirm the assurance of the Mannors or Farms of Sagebury alias Sadgbury and Obden and other Hereditaments to Samuel Sandis Esq and John Harris Gent. and their Heirs and the Bill for the Amendment of certain imperfections of a Statute made 8 Reginae concerning the true making of Hats were each of them read secunda vice The Paper or Scroul concerning Belgrave was this day returned from the House of Commons subscribed by the Clerk of the Council in the Star-chamber and excuse made by them for not sending the same at the first Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliament usque ad horam secundam post meridiem hujus instantis diei About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers Lords assembling six Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for augmentation of the Joynture of Rachel Wife of Edward Nevil of Berling in the County of Kent was read secunda vice The Bill concerning the erecting of a Harbour and Key in the north part of
Devon Bill to erect a Harbour and Key c. was returned to the House by the Lord Steward with one Amendment which was presently twice read The Bill for prohibiting Fairs and Markets to be kept on the Sunday was read secunday vice and committed Upon the Motion of the Earl of Worcester it was ordered by the House That William Crayford prisoner in the Fleet should come to make his humble submission before the Lords in the said House to morrow by nine of the clock in the morning The Counsel as well of the Company of Plaisterers as Painters were appointed to be heard in this House to morrow in the afternoon On Tuesday Decemb. 15. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being for the erecting and making of a Harbour and Key on the north part of Devon in the River of Severn for the safeguard of men and shipping and for the publick good of the Common-wealth was read tertia vice and sent down to the House of Commons for their consideration of an Amendment sent down by Dr. Stanhopp Dr. Swale and Dr. Hone. The Bill for the grant of four entire Subsidies eight Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertia vice and expedited The Bill for naturalizing certain persons born beyond the Seas was read secunda vice The Bill for confirmation of the Subsidy of the Clergy Subsidy of the Clergy confirmed was read prima secunda tertia vice Memorandum That at the second and third reading of the said Subsidy-bill the body of the Grant was omitted to be read according to the accustomed manner and onely the preface and confirmation of the Grant were read and the Bill was sent to the House of Commons by Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Dr. Stanhopp and Dr. Hone. Upon the humble Petition of William Crayford lately committed to the Prison of the Fleet and upon his humble submission and acknowledgment of his offence he was by order of the Court set at liberty Vide concerning this matter on Decemb. 19. following Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam post meridiem hujus diei About which time the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords assembling the Bill for naturalizing certain persons born beyond the Seas was read tertia vice and expedited Eight Bills were brought up to the House of Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for continuance of divers Statutes and for repeal of some others and the second being against the transportation of Ordnance Bill against the transportation of Guns c. Guns Metal Iron-Ore and Iron-shot were each of them read prima vice On Wednesday Decemb. 16. the Bill for the re-edifying repairing and maintaining of two bridges on the River of Edon neer the City of Carlisle in the County of Cumberland was read prima secunda vice Seven other Bills had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for continuance of divers Statutes and for the repeal of some others and the fifth to redress the misemployment of lands goods and stocks of money heretofore given to charitable uses were each of them read secunda vice Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Secretary Cecil Sir Walter Rawleigh and others of which the first being the Bill for the ending and appeasing of all differences and debates between Francis Ketleby of the one part and Andrew Ketleby and Jane his Wife of the other part and the second being for the recovery of many thousand acres of marish grounds subject commonly to surrounding with water within the Isle of Ely and Counties of Cambridge and Suffolk Huntington Northampton Lincoln and Norfolk were each of them read prima vice As also the fifth being the Bill for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners was read prima vice A Message was delivered from the House of Commons by Mr. Controuler and others That the said House was not satisfied concerning the Proviso added by the Lords to the Bill entituled An Act for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer and therefore desired a Conference with some of their Lordships about the same The Conference was yielded unto and appointed to be this afternoon at the outward chamber The Bill entituled An Act for the reformation of Deceits of certain Auditors c. was returned to the House with certain Amendments the Bill with the same Amendments was forthwith twice read and ordered to be ingrossed Upon Conference with the House of Commons concerning the Bill for confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty c. it was agreed by the Committees of both Houses That certain Amendments and Provisoes should be added to the said Bill which were returned to the House and presently twice read and so commanded to be ingrossed And thereupon the Bill it self with the said Amendments and Provisoes were read the third time and sent to the House of Commons for their Consideration of the same by Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam post meridiem hujus diei About which time the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords assembling together eleven Bills had each of them one reading of which the fifth being the Bill for the recovery of many thousand acres of marish grounds subject commonly to surrounding within the Isle of Ely c. the sixth being for redress of certain abuses and deceits used in painting Bill about ensurance amongst Merchants the seventh concerning matters of assurance amongst Merchants and the eighth being for the assize of Fewel were each of them read secunda vice Upon the meeting this afternoon with those of the House of Commons appointed to confer with the Lords Committees in the Bill entituled An Act for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer c. concerning a Proviso added by the Lords to that Bill after some debate by the Committees on both parts thereupon they of the House of Commons did signifie That the said House would allow of the said Proviso so as the same might in some certain points be amended Whereupon question grew between them Whether the said Amendment of the said Proviso should be made in the Upper House upon notice given thereof by the Committees and so be sent down again or else be made in the House of Commons which doubt being reported by the Lords Committees by order and appointment of the House it was agreed by common consent That the Amendments should be made in the House of Commons and sent up in Paper and to be inserted in the body of the Proviso which Order was by the Lords Committees signified to the Committees of the House of Commons and they thereunto assented Whereas it hath been accustomed in former Parliaments that towards the end of the Parliament a Collection should be
Court and the said Crayford having been heard in the presence of William Vaughan what he could say concerning the said Information wherein he protested that he was guiltless and that his said Son had not in any sort received such direction from him as was informed It was therefore by the Court thought meet and so ordered That the examination and determining of the Controversies and Suits depending between the said Crayford and Vaughan should be referred to the Earl of Worcester the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Cobham and that they the said Crayford and Vaughan should enter into good and sufficient Bonds each to other to stand to observe and perform such Award and Arbitrament as the said Lords shall make and set down between them On Saturday Decemb. 19. a Motion was made in the House for the avoiding of all further Controversies between William Crayford and William Vaughan Gent. That forasmuch as each of them took mutual exceptions one to the other touching the Bonds whereinto they had entered by order of the Court the said William Crayford alleadging that it sufficed not for William Vaughan alone to be bound because his Heirs or some other claiming by and from him might trouble and molest him and that the said Vaughan is insufficient And the said William Vaughan alleadging that if the said William Crayford were bound alone his Sons and Heirs might trouble and molest the said Vaughan without hazard of the Bond some further order might thereupon be taken It is therefore this day ordered by the Court That the said William Crayford and his eldest Son Edward Crayford shall enter into sufficient Bond unto the said William Vaughan without hazard of the Bond for themselves and their Heirs that they and every of them shall stand to the Award of the Earl of Worcester the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Cobham or any two of them And that also the said William Vaughan shall enter into the like Bond with a sufficient Surety for himself and his Heirs to stand to the said Award of the Lords before-mentioned or any two of them so as the said Award be made before the Feast of Easter next following And moreover it is ordered by the Court That if they or either of them shall refuse to enter into Bond according to the said Order that the Lord Keeper notwithstanding the ending of the Parliament and though it be after the same shall commit them or either of them to close Prison for refusing there to remain until the party refusing be conformable to the said Order Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam post meridiem hujus instantis diei About which hour in the afternoon The Qu. comes to the House the Queens Majesty was personally present being accompanied with the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Thomas Egerton Kt. Lord Keeper of the great Seal the Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer of England and with divers other Lords Spiritual and Temporal but what was there done is not mentioned in the Original Journal-book of the Upper House and therefore is supplied out of a very laborious and copious Journal of the House of Commons taken by Hayward Townsend Esq a Member thereof at this Parliament Her Majesty with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal being set in the Upper House in their Parliament-Robes between two and three of the clock this afternoon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired thither with John Crooke Esq their Speaker who being placed at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House after he had made three Reverences to her Majesty sitting under a rich Cloath of Estate spake to the effect following THat Laws were not first made with humane Pen The Speaker's Speech but by divine Ordinance that Politick Laws were made according to the evil condition of men and that all Laws serves not at all times no more than one Medicine for all Diseases and said if he were asked what was the first and chiefest thing to be considered of he would say Religion for Religion is all in all for Religion breeds Devotion Devotion breeds Zeal and Piety to God which breedeth Obedience and Duty to the Prince and Obedience to the Laws breedeth Faithfulness Honesty and Love the three necessary and onely things to be wished and observed in a well-govern'd Commonwealth And that her Majesty by planting true Religion had laid such a foundation upon which all those Vertues were planted and builded that they could not easily be rooted up or extirpated and therefore acknowledged that we ought and do acknowledge that we will praise God and her Majesty for it And then he descended to speak of Governments and Laws of Nations amongst which principally and above all he preferr'd the Laws of this Land which he said were so many and so wise that there was almost no offence but was met with in a Law notwithstanding her Majesty being desirous for the good of her Land to call a Parliament for redress of some Laws and for making of new Her dutiful and loyal Subjects having considered of them have made some new and amended some old which they humbly desire may be made Laws by her Royal Assent which giveth life unto them And so after thanks given for the Pardon by which we dread your Justice and admire your Mercy and a Prayer unto her Majesty That she would accept as the testimony of our Loves and Duties offered unto her with a free heart and willing spirit four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths to be collected of our Lands and Livelihoods in speaking whereof he mistook and said Four entire Fifteenths and eight Subsidies which he was advised of by some of the Counsel that stood neer unto him and so he spake it right and craving pardon for his offence if either he had forgotten himself either in word or action he ended his Speech The L. Keeper returns the Queens Answer To which the Lord Keeper answered thus in effect AS touching her Majesties proceeding in the Laws for her Royal Assent that should be as God directed her sacred spirit Secondly For your presentation of four Subsidies and eight Fifteens and Tenths And thirdly Your humble thank-fulness for them and your self I will deliver her Majesties Commandment with what brevity I may that I be not tedious to my most gracious Soveraign First She saith your proceeding in the matter of her Prerogative she is perswaded that Subjects did never more dutifully do it and that she understood you did but obiter touch her Prerogative and no otherwise but by humble Petition and therefore the thanks that a Prince may give to her Subjects she willingly yieldeth But she now well perceiveth that private respects are privately masked under publick pretences Secondly Touching the presentation of your Subsidies she specially regardeth two things both the persons and
avoid Idleness and for setting the Poor on Work Which Bill is in manner of a Monopoly for there be certain named in it who undertake to keep Fifty Thousand Poor on Work in making Pins Wool-Cards Needles c. A Bill for Reformation of Abuses in Buying and Selling of Spices and other Merchandises was brought from the Committee and Ordered to be Ingrossed A Bill for the Enlargment of a Jointure to Rachel Wife of Edward Nevill of Burling in the County of Kent Esquire A Bill for the Perfecting of the Jointure of the Lady Bridget Countess of Sussex Wife of the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Sussex Read and Committed A Bill for the Confirmation of the Sale of certain Lands sold by Lewis Lord Mordant c. Read and Committed to the former Committees Mr. Edward Mountague said Mr. Speaker Mr. Mountague's Charitable Motion I will make a Charitable Motion which I hope will tend to a Charitable End and briefly it is this That no private Bill may Pass in this House but the Procurers to give something to the Poor Mr. Secretary Cecil said My Motion is stirred up Secretary Cecil seconds it with some Alteration with the like Charitable Affection which first moved the Gentleman that last spake only I disagree from him in the Manner We see the Streets full of Souldiers some Maimed some Poor but all Distressed Our ordinary begging Poor are all Provided for and Statutes made for their Maintenance I would only move thus much to the House That this Contribution proceeding out of our Charity might be only imployed to the Relief of them who have ventured their Lives to defend Us. The House said it was a good motion and so generally agreed unto it Mr. Richard Messenger said Mr. Messenger for the same I would but move the House only that they which have already had any Bill passed this House this Parliament may also be Contributary as well as they which are to come Mr. Mountague said Mr. Mountague particularizes the Sums Because I offered to the Consideration of this House this motion first I will presume also more particularly to deliver my Opinion I think for every private Bill for Sale of Lands Ten Pounds a reasonable Benevolence and for every Estate for Life or for Jointure Five Pounds Mr. Ravenscroft said I would only move to know whether this should remain as a perpetual or temporary Order for this Parliament Mr. Secretary Cecil said The House only means it for this present and all said I I I. And so the Order was entred accordingly Mr. Dannet Mr. Dannet's Speech and Motion against the Pirates of Dunkirk and Newport a Burgess for Yarmouth said Mr. Speaker the Duty that I owe to my Sovereign and Country makes me bold to crave your Patience to hear me The Matter that I shall speak of is twofold The First concerneth the honour of the Queen The Second the safety of our Country Two very high points for me to handle and require a more Eloquent Discourse than I am able to make I will use no Circumstance or with superfluous Matter abuse the time which is precious but to the Matter I have been of the Parliament Five or Six times and I have alwayes observed by this House and I would willingly be resolved by the Honourable about the Chair that all the Wars of Her Majesty are offensive and I do not hear the contrary How then comes it that such a Number of Her Majesty's Subjects be Spoiled Robbed Beaten Wounded themselves taken and used with such extream Torture Racked Carried away Imprisoned Ransomed Fined and some times Executed and all this time no Wars But give me leave to say for these Ten Years I am sure the Subjects of this Land on the Sea-Coasts have undergone these Tyrannies And by whom Even by two base Towns Dunkirk and Newport Dunkirk began with Two Ships and are now increased almost to Twenty they be at home at Supper and the next Day here with us I must needs confess that the great Charge that I know the Lord Admiral is at Continually by lying ready to take these Pirates is much but send to take them they straight Fly home If our Ships return they are straight here again I dare boldly say they have done England more hurt since they began than all France either in the time of Hen. 8. Edw. 6. or Queen Mary If it be so that these Two base Towns shall so affront the Power of this Land I see no Reason they should be suffered For it is a great Dishonour both to the Queen and the Kingdom I have heard many say That the Navy of England is the Walls of the Kingdom and yet we suffer our Ships still to be Destroyed some to be Burnt some to be Sunk before our Faces We may compare our Sea-men to Sheep Feeding upon a Fair Mountain in the midst whereof stands a Grove full of Wolves Why Mr. Speaker we are so plagued with them that they are so bold as now and then to take our Harvest-Men tardy by Ambuscadoes I speak it with Grief and it was Reported unto me by a Scottish-Man that Duke Albertus and the Infanta should openly publish That they would pull down so many of the Walls of England that they would easily make an Entry and it had been better for Sea-Coast-Men to have given the Queen an Hundred Subsidies that they had been long since Suppressed My humble Motion is That it would please the House to enter into Consideration of these things For the Honour Good and Safety both of the Queen and Kingdom ' Mr. Peake said Mr. Peake I must needs shew unto this House upon so good an occasion offered how grievously the Town of Sandwich for which I serve is vexed and almost undone insomuch as that in that Town there is neither Owner Master nor Mariner that hath not felt it Her Majesty is continually at Charges but what insueth or cometh of it I never yet knew In the County of Kent at Shooters-Hill Gads-Hill Barram-Down c. if there should be several Roberies Committed and the Justices look nothing to it it would be taken in ill part Every day Men come home their Goods and al they have is taken away yea their very Apparel And if the Ships might be also carried away they would do it This would be Amended and looked unto we have need to Cherish this Subject For I think him to be the best and most necessary Member of the Common-Wealth I mean the Navigator Mr. Martin said Mr. Martin I like not these Extravagant Speeches in the Manner though I mislike them not in the Matter they are like to Men whose Houses being on Fire forgetting themselves run out into the Streets like Mad-Men for Help That that Cottage of Dunkirk the Flourishing Estate whereof is a dishonour to our Nation should so much offend us when we never offer to oppress them is a Marvail I think there is no
Bellgrave I ever took him and so still do to be a man of very good Carriage To condemn him I do not mean but I humbly Pray that a course for his Honour may be taken and the matter so handled that the Honour of the Person may be saved the Gentleman freed from further Offence and this Cause ended with good conclusion Mr. Dale said Id possimus quod Jure possimus and therefore resting in doubt herein the safest course is a Conference Mr. Tate said It is not good to utter suddain Thoughts in great matters Our Dispute may seem to have this end either to Incur the danger of our Priviledges by not regarding this Cause or to pry too neer into Her Majesties Prerogative by Examining Informations exhibited into the Star-Chamber wherefore I think we ought to be Petitioners not verbum Petitioners or at least to shew our Griess to the Lords And if by an Order from them as was alledged this Information was put in methinks in Reason a Conference were good to Examine the Cause and inform this House truly thereof Mr. Skipwith the Pensioner Mr. Skipwith for Belgrave said If I knew or did think there were any Wrong done to the Earl of Huntington I would rather be a Petitioner for this Gentleman unto him than I would be a Protector of him against him I know Mr. Belgrave wrote his Letter to my Lord and that it pleased his Honour to answer him and that he offered to follow his Honour in that sort as is fitting for a Gentleman of his Worth and rather His Honour than any mans in England This I take it may satisfy the House for Answer to the first part of the Information which containeth a Dishonour offered to the Earl For the Second which is Deceiving of the Burgesses I do assure this House they were both willing and worthy to be deceived I know they had given their Voices and desired Mr. Bellgrave to undertake it For the Wrong to this Court I hope this Court hath wisdom enough to Right it self without any Course in the Star-Chamber yet by your Favours I may say thus much That if we should Punish him for coming Indirectly to this Place we should Punish three parts of the House for none ought to be Chosen but those that be resident and sworn Burgesses of the Town Sir Robert Wroth said Sir Robert Wroth brings a precedent This matter needs not so much Dispute In the last Year of Queen Mary in the Case between Pleadal and Pleadal it pleased the Lords of the Star-Chamber Sedente Parliamento to bind the one at the Suit of the other to appear 12 days after the Parliament and this was adjudged to be an Infringment of the Lberties of this House Mr. Davis said The Information savours more of Wit than Malice and therefore I think that upon Conference with the Lords the matter may be brought to a good end I therefore humbly pray it may be put to the Question and that the Bill may be sent for out of the Star-Chamber Mr. Cary said As I take it Mr. Speaker the Course hath been that if the House hath been desirous to see any Record you Mr Speaker should send a Warrant to the Lord-Keeper to grant forth a Certiorari to have the Record brought into this House And upon view thereof perhaps this matter of Dispute would have an end Sir Francis Hastings offer'd to speak again in this matter Sir France Hastings Speakes Again Mr. Bacon interrupts him And they contend a while with reproaches but Mr. Bacon interrupted him and told him It was against the Course of the House To which he Answered He was old enough to know when and how often to speak To which Mr. Bacon Answered It was no matter for that but he needed not to be so Hot in an ill Cause To which Sir Francis replied In several matters of Debate a man may speak often so I take it is the Order He pointing to Mr. Bacon talkes of Heat If I be so hot as he Was Yesterday then put me out of doores The only thing that I would say is this I wish a Conference may be had with the Lords because the matter may be brought to some friendly end For God knows what may lie in the Deck after the Parliament and I suspect it the more because the Information is filed and no Process sued out Mr. Greenvil said I wish that in our Conference A Conference agreed by the Lords we do not neglect our Privileges and that we may be a means of Mediation So Mr. Comptroller and others were sent to desire a Conference which was agreed unto by the Lords and the time appointed to be on Thursday Morning at Eight of the Clock Mr. Speaker said I am to certifie you from the Lords of a great disorder committed by the Pages and Servants as well of the Lords themselves as of your Servants So that not only Abuse is offer'd but Weapons and Blood drawn For remedy whereof the Lords have given strict Commandment That their Servants keep peaceable and quiet Order and that neither their Pages Attendants nor Servants do stand upon the Stairs or neerer the House than the Stair-foot They desire that every Member of the House would do the like to their Servants and so expresly to Charge and Command them And I would move you That you would be pleased the Serjeant might go forth and signify so much from you unto the Company without and all said I I I. Mr. Wiseman said The disorder Mr. Speaker speaks of is now grown so great that they have their Passes and Repasses and men dare not go down the Staires without a Conductor So the Serjeant went and delivered the Message and the Abuse was well Reformed The Bill for Assuring of a Joynture to the Countess of Sussex Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Dr. Cary and Dr. Stanhop came from the Lords and Serjeant Yelverton signified the Lords Desire of a Conference in the Bill for Patents made by the Queen and Grants to her c. Which the Lords did the more Respect because it was recommended to them from the House the time appointed to Morrow Morning at Eight of the Clock the Number 20. So after they went out it was agreed They should meet with a convenient Number and then they were called in again according to the Ceremony of the House and the Houses resolution deliver'd to them Mr. Serj. Harrts said Mr. Speaker The Ancient Use hath been always to double or treble the Number The last Committee were about Sixty I think by reason they were Committees and are best informed that they should attend the Lords And so it was agreed His conceipt was Sell the great Bell to buy the little Bell a Clapper In the afternoon in the House the Bill for Fustians was to be debated but by reason the Devonshire-Men made a Faction against it after small Dispute it was put to the Question whether it
That for this offer of three Subsidies her Majesty most graciously in all kindness thanketh her Subjects but except it were freely and willingly given she did not accept of it for her Majesty never accepteth any thing that is not freely given That if the Coffers of her Majesties Treasure were not empty or if the Revenues of the Crown and other Princely Ornaments could suffice to supply her Wants and the Charges of the Realm in the word of a Prince she doth pronounce it she would not now have charged her Subjects nor accepted of this they gave her The Lord Keeper's Speech being ended after some time of intermission the Queen being sat in her Chair of State used a Princely Speech unto the Houses of which the greatest part was to the effect and purpose following THis Kingdom hath had many wise The Qu. speaks her self noble and victorious Princes I will not compare with any of them in Wisdom Fortitude or any other Vertues but saving the duty of a Childe that is not to compare with his Father in Love Care Sincerity and Justice I will compare with any Prince that ever you had or shall have It may be thought simplicity in me that all this time of my Reign I have not sought to advance my Territories and enlarge my Dominions for opportunity hath served me to do it I acknowledge my womanhood and weakness in that respect but though it hath been not hard to obtain yet I doubted how to keep the things so obtained that hath onely held me from such attempts And I must say my minde was never to invade my Neighbours or to usurp over any I am contented to reign over mine own and to rule as a just Prince Yet the King of Spain doth challenge me to be the Quarreller and the beginner of all these Wars in which he doth me the greatest wrong that can be for my Conscience doth not accuse my thoughts wherein I have done him the least injury but I am perswaded in my Conscience if he knew what I know he himself would be sorry for the wrong that he hath done me I fear not all his Threatnings his great Preparations and mighty Forces do not stir me for though he come against me with a greater power than ever was his Invincible Navy I doubt not God assisting me upon whom I always trust but that I shall be able to defeat and overthrow him I have great advantage against him for my Cause is just I heard say when he attempted his last Invasion some upon the Sea-coast forsook their Towns and flew up higher into the Country and left all naked and exposed to his entrance But I swear unto you by God The Q. swears by God the will punish Cowards if I knew those persons or of any that shall do so hereafter I will make them know and feel what it is to be so fearful in so urgent a Cause The Subsidies you give me I accept thank-fully if you give me your good wills with them but if the necessity of the time and your preservations did not require it I would refuse them But let me tell you that the sum is not so much but that it is needful for a Prince to have so much always lying in her Coffers for your defence in time of need and not to be driven to get it when we should use it You that be Lieutenants and Gentlemen of Command in your Countries I require you to take care that the People be well armed and in readiness upon all occasions You that be Judges and Justices of the Peace I command and straightly charge you that you see the Laws to be duely executed and that you make them living Laws when we have put life into them Thus with most gracious thanks to both Houses the Princely Speech ended Then were the Titles of all the Acts read in due order and first the Bill of Subsidies to which the Clerk of the Parliament standing up did read the Queens Answer in manner and form following La Royne remercie ses loyaule Subjects accept leur benevolence ainsi le veult The Clerk of the Parliament having read the Queen's acceptance and thanks for the Subsidies given as aforesaid did then upon the reading of the Pardon pronounce in these French words following the Thanks of the Lords and Commons for the same Les Prelates Seigneurs Communes en se present Parliament assembles au nome de touts vous autres Subjects remercient tres-humblement vostre Majesty prient a Dieu que il vout done en sante bonne vie longue Nota here to the Subsidy-bill because it is the meer gift of the Subject the Queen's consent is not required for the passing of it but as it is joyned with her thankful acceptance nor to the Bill of Pardon because it is originally her free gift no other circumstance is required than that the thankful acceptance thereof by the Lords and Commons be likewise expressed it being but once read in either House before it comes thus at last to be expedited Now to all other Bills either private or publick the Queen 's express consent though in different words is always requisite as followeth The Bills of Subsidies and Pardon being passed in manner and form as aforesaid then were the Publick Acts read to every one of which allowed by the Queen the Clerk of the Parliament reads in French these words following Le Royne le veult To every Private Act that passeth the Clerk of Parliament reads the Queens Answer in these French words following Soit fait come il est desiré These two last Answers to the Publick and Private Acts that pass are to be written by the Clerk of Parliament at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty forbears to allow the Clerk of the Parliament reads in French these words following Le Roynes advisera After which ended the Dissolution of the Parliament followed in these words Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex Mandato Diminae Reginae tune praesentis dissolvit praesens Parliamentum A Journal of the Parliamentary Proceedings in the Lower House Anno xxxv o Eliz. Annoque Dom. 1592. very laboriously collected Being chiefly called for Consultation and Preparation against the ambitious Designes of the King of Spain in which some unusual Distastes happened between her Majesty and the House by reason of their intermeddling with her Majesties Successor to the Crown which she had forbidden This Session begun on Munday February 19. 1592. and ended April 9. 1593. MVnday Feb. 19. Feb. 19. The Parl. meet This day the Knights and Burgesses met and at this day appeared after that their Names were declared to the Clerk of the Crown and there entred into his book they entred into the House The House being set the Earl of Darby High-Steward for this Parliament came into the House to take their Oaths Sir Thomas Henage gave him instructions what order he should use
First that all should remove into the Court of Requests There the Lord High-Steward sitting at the door called the Knights and Burgesses of every County according to the letters of their names in the Alphabet Alphabetically every one answered as he was called and having answered departed thence up to the Parliament-house-door and there took the Oath of Supremacy given him by one of the Queens Majesties Privy Counsellors His Oath taken The Members are sworn then he entered again and took his place as Knight or Burgess of the House The Fee for entering his name into the Serjeants book is 2 s. the Rewards to the Door-keepers being 3 s. and 8 d. the Fee for returning the Indenture 2 s. This done there was no further proceeding in any matter till two of the clock in the afternoon about which time the Nobility came and were set in the Upper House The Qu. comes to the House of Lords the Queen came privately by water After her Majesties coming and the Lords being all sat the Lower House had intelligence thereof and went to attend in the Upper House below the Bar being well repleated with those that had gotten in before privately The door was shut upon us until the Lord Keeper had gone a good step in his Oration The Lower house finding themselves discontented at this because of custome the way ought to have been opened murmured so loud that the noise came to her Majesties ears who presently commanded the doors to be set open which was done and by that time the Lord Keeper was upon these words following The former part of his Oration seemed to set forth matter of form onely as the manner of Parliaments their Antiquities c. The Lord Keeper's Speech HE set forth the great malice of the King of Spain which he had towards this Realm and that he shewed by sundry instances His last Invasion intended Heads of the Lord Keeper's Speech Vide Journal of the House of Lords his Forces then addressed out of the Low Countries for that purpose to have been conducted by the Duke of Parma The high and mighty Ships that he then prepared and sent for that purpose which because he found not fit for our Seas and such a purpose he is building Ships of a lesser bulk Spaniards preparations by Sea after another fashion some like French Ships some like the Shipping of England and many he hath gotten out of the Low Countries He is now for the better invading of England planting himself in Britain Plants himself in Britany a Country of more facility to offend us than the Low Countries there he hath fortified himself in the most strong Holds in that Country In Scotland he hath of late wrought most of the Nobility to conspire against their King to give landing to his Forces there Corrupts the Scots against their King to assist him to invade England and to assist him in his Invasion and a great part of the Nobility in Scotland are combined in this Conspiracy and they have received great sums of money for their service herein And to assure the King of Spain of their Assistance To which they consent they have signed and sent their Promises sealed unto that King These Conspiracies the King of Scots was brought hardly to believe but that her Majesty advertised him thereof having received intelligence thereof as she hath of all things done and intended in those parts The King of Scotland informed of their practices by the Queen And that the King might better advise thereupon her Majesty hath sent one of her Noblemen into Scotland and that King hath assured her Majesty with all his ability and endeavour to prevent the Spaniard whose purpose is on the North part to assault us by Land and on the South side to invade us by Sea which is the most dangerous practice that could be devised against us And now the Rage of the Enemy being such his Forces joyned with other Princes his adherency is great the charge of her Majesty for the defence of her Realm both with Forees by Sea and Armies by Land hath been such that hath both spent the Contribution of her Subjects by Subsidies and what otherwise they have offered her and also consumed her Treasure yea caused her to sell part of her Highness Crown-lands And it is not to be marvelled how all this is consumed but rather to be thought how her Majesty could be able to maintain and defend this her Realm against so many Realms conspired against us Wherefore we her Majesties Subjects must with all dutiful consideration think what is sit for us to do and with all willingness yield part of our own for the defence of others and assistance of her Majesty And therefore he wished that care might be had for advancing of the Subsidies from the wealthier and better sort and concluded with a desire that the greatest part of the time might be spent by material short Speeches in advising and providing for the defence of the Kingdom against the forraign Enemy After which Speech ended her Majesty calling the Lord Keeper unto her by whose commandment he gave the Lower House authority to chuse their Speaker and to present him on Thursday following the 22th day of February unto which day he adjourn'd the Parliament Upon this Adjournment the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons departed into the Lower House and there chose Edward Cooke Esq the Queen's Sollicitor to be their Speaker who after a discreet and modest excuse of himself was notwithstanding called to the Chair and placed in it After the Ceremony ended the House of Commons likewise departed for this day On Thursday Feb. 22. the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons met about one of the clock in the afternoon and about three the same day having notice that the Queens Majesty and the Lords were sat in the Upper House expecting them and their Speaker they repaired thither and as many as could getting in the Speaker was placed at the Bar where having with all humility excused himself and confessing that in the said House there were many more experienced Members thereof and better enabled for that service To which Speech the Lord Keeper having Instructions from the Queen answered That her Majesty did very well allow of himself to the Place to which he was chosen and did also commend the House of Commons for so discreet and fit a Choice Upon which Speech the Speaker accepting of the said Charge with all humble acknowledgment of her Majesties grace and favour towards him did in the conclusion thereof make these Petitions of course for the House of Commons and in their Names That they might have free liberty of Speech and freedom from Suits and Arrests of themselves and their followers and that they might have Access to her Majesties Royal Person upon all urgent and important occasions petitioning also for himself that if any thing were