as well of the said Francis as of the Bishop of Durham whom it concerned should on Saturday then next following be heard what could on either side be said in furtherance or disallowance of the same The Bill also for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Monday the 22 th day of February two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was secunda vice lect but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because it had been formerly sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Tuesday the 23 th day of February the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and Doctor Huicke Nota That this Bill of Subsidy after it had passed the Upper House was not by them altered or amended in any thing but only sent back again unto the House of Commons to whom it did most properly belong and is on the last day of the Parliament or Session of Parliament to be brought up by the Speaker of the said House as it was at this time on Saturday the 10 th day of April ensuing and presented unto her Majesty by Thomas Williams Esq Prolocutor of the said House at this present Session before she gave her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed On Thursday the 25 th day of February the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was read the first time On Saturday the 27 th day of February the Bill for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bill declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Chancellor to be one were each of them read prima vice Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty and the second against carrying over Sheep Skins and Pelts over the Seas not being Staple Ware were each of them returned conclus This day according to the Order formerly taken Sir Francis Jobson with his Counsel came before the Lords and by them declared ..... And no more is set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and by the negligence of the Clerk the matter is so left abruptly but it doth plainly appear that it was touching the Assurance of certain Lands which concerned the Bishop of Durham ut videas on Saturday the 20 th of this Instant February foregoing On Monday the first day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Sons and Daughters of the late Lord Hussey was read prima vice A Proviso to be annex'd to the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all Estates and Subjects within her Dominions was read primâ secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Tuesday the 2 d day of March Ten Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Province of Canterbury and the second against such as sell Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under two hundred pound Lands or Fees were each of them read prima vice The Bill also for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterbury was read secunda tertia vice conclus and was with the Bill for the Children of the Lord Hussey which had likewise this day passed the House upon the third reading sent to the House of Commons by Sir Richard Read and Serjeant Carus On Wednesday the 3 d day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was read tertia vice with certain Provisions thereunto annexed by the Lords which were thrice severally read conclus A Proviso annexed by the House of Commons to the Bill against forging of false Deeds was read prima secunda tertia vice commissa Domino Rich Domino Willoughby Primario Justiciario Banci Regii Justiciario Browne Quod Nota Because no Bill or Proviso is usually committed after the third reading On Thursday the 4 th day of March The Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlain Knight and John Haleston Esq The Bill against such as sell Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under two hundred pound Lands or Fees The Bill for the punishments of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians And the Bill for uniting of Churches within the City of Winchester were each of them read secunda vice but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords The Bill also for Restitution in Blood of William West and the Bill for the Town of Southampton were each of them read the first time and thereupon committed to Justice Southcote Serjeant Carus and the Queens Attorney Nota That these two Bills last mentioned were not only committed after the first reading which is not usual till the second but also committed to meer Assistants which are not Members of the House and therefore in both respects the President is more rare and remarkable vide consimile on Tuesday the 26 th day of Jan. foregoing On Saturday the 6 th day of March The Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy And the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Edward Turner were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus commis Servienti Carus Ricardo Read in Domum Communem deferend Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the bill for avoiding of divers Foreign Wares made by Handy-crafts-men beyond the Seas and the second touching Badgers of Corn and Drovers of Cattle to be Licensed Three Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the further punishment of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians was read tertia vice conclusa dissentiente Comite Arundel On Monday the 8 th day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against such as shall sell any Wares for Apparel without ready money c. The Bill declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper
against Simony the third for the severance of Sheriffs in the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham the fourth for the erection of a Grammar-School and writing-School in the Borough of Southwark and the last for the making of William Watson a free Denizen Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal meeting Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Erection of a Grammar-School and Writing-School in the Borough of Southwark was read primâ vice The Bill to restrain the Oppression of common Promoters was sent to the House of Commons by M r Attorney and Doctor Huick Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem proximum horâ Octavâ On Wednesday the 23 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching Priests disguising themselves was read the first time Ten Bills were brought from the House of Commons the first to License the Earl of Leicester to found an Hospital the second whereby certain offences be made Treasons the third against fraudulent gifts to the intent to defeat Dilapidations the fourth for the paving of the Town of Ipswich the fifth whereby the Queens Majesties Servants in Ordinary of her Houshold and Chamber shall not be returned on Juries the sixth against the bringing in of Foreign Wares forbidden the seventh for the continuance of Sheriffs of sundry Counties the eighth for the bringing in of Bow-staves into the Realm the ninth for Ministers of the Church to be sound in Religion and the tenth for paving of a street without Aldgate Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem Nota That here the Lord Chief Justice did continue the Parliament unto the Afternoon by Virtue of that Authority which was given unto him by her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal of England and set down at large on Monday the 9 th day of April foregoing On the said 23 th day of May in the Afternoon Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the paving of a Street without Aldgate the fourth for the bringing in of Bowes-staves into the Realm and the sixth for the paving of the Town of Ipswich were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either referred to the Committees or ordered to be ingrossed in respect that they had been sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons this present Wednesday in the Forenoon of which see a like President on Wednesday the 16 th day of this instant May foregoing The last also of the said seven Bills touching Priests disguising themselves in strange Apparel was read the second time commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus Capitalis Justiciarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem proximum horâ Octavâ On Thursday the 24 th day of May Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the maintenance of the Navy and for encrease of Tillage and the second for incorporating and uniting of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis in Com. Dorset were each of them read secundâ vice commissae ad ingrossand Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons the first being the Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion the second touching order for Bankrupts the third for the Commission of Sewers the fourth for the appointing of two Sheriffs for the two Counties of Huntington and Cambridge the fifth for the restitution in Blood of Sir Thomas Wyat's Children the sixth that no Hay or Plate shall cross the Seas the seventh for speedy Tryal to be had upon Issues in the Counties of Salop. and Hereford and the last was the Bill for the Tryal of Felons in the twelve Shires of Wales Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal being Assembled Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Incorporation of both Universities and the second for the Tryal of Felons in the twelve Counties of Wales were each of them read primâ vice The Bill for coming to Church and the Bill for severance of Sheriffs in the Counties of Bucks and Bedford were delivered to Doctor Yale and Doctor Vaughan to be carried to the House of Commons Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the speedy Tryal to be had upon Issues in the Counties of Salop and Hereford was read prima vice commissa Justiciario Harper Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons the first to restrain the oppression of common Promoters the second for the restitution in Blood of Henry Brereton Esquire and the third for John Tirrell Esq The Bill for the paving of the Town of Ipswich was read tertiâ vice conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Friday the 25 th day of May Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first was for the Incorporation of both Universities the second for the Incorporation and uniting of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis in Com. Dorset and the third for increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy they had each of them their third reading and passed upon the question And were sent to the Commons by M r Attorney and Doctor Vaughan Five Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill whereby the Queens Majesties Ordinary Servants of Houshold and Chamber shall not be returned on Juries was read tertiâ vice reject Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion was returned conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lords met but nothing was done save only the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper usque in diem proximum horâ Octavâ On Saturday the 26 th day of May Three Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill that no Purveyor shall take Grain Corn or Victual within five Miles of Cambridge and Oxford was returned with certain Amendments and so the Bill was concluded Two Bill also were brought from the House of Commons of which the first
ensuing The Session of Parliament held in the 18 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Wednesday the 18 th day of February Anno Domini 1575. and was Prorogued on Thursday the 15 th day of March ensuing The Session of Parliament held in the 23. year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 16 th day of January Anno Domini 1580. and was Dissolved on Friday the 19 th day of April Anno Domini 1583. The Parliament held in the 27 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 23. day of November Anno Domini 1584. and was Dissolved on Wednesday the 14 th day of September An. Domini 1586. Anno 28 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 28 th and 29 th years of Queen Elizabeth began on Saturday the 29 th day of October Anno Domini 1586. and was Dissolved on Thursday the 23. of March Anno 29 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 31. year of Queen Elizabeth began on Tuesday the 4 th day of February Anno Domini 1588. and was Dissolved on Saturday the 29 th day of March Anno Domini 1589. The Parliament held in the 35 th year of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 19 th day of November Anno Domini 1592. and was Dissolved on Tuesday the 10 th day of April Anno Domini 1593. The Parliament held in the 39. and 40. years of Queen Elizabeth began on Monday the 24. day of October Anno Domini 1597. and was Dissolved on Thursday the 9 th day of February An. 40 Regin ejusdem The Parliament held in the 43. and 44 th years of Queen Elizabeth began on Tuesday the 27 th day of October Anno Domini 1601. and was Dissolved on Saturday the 19 th day of December ensuing Anno 44. Regin ejusdem The Names of the Lord Keeper Lord Chancellor or others who supplied their places as Speakers of the House of Lords during all the Reign of Queen ELIZABETH as also all the Names of all the Clerks of the said House of Parliament together with the Names of the several Speakers of the House of Commons and Clerks of the same House during all the Parliaments of the said Queens Reign The several Years of her Majesties Reign in which the said Parliaments or Sessions of Parliament were held The Names of the Lord Keeper Lord Chancellor c. and of the Clerks of the House of Lords The Names of the Speakers of the House of Commons and of the Clerks of the same House IN the Parliament held in the first Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England whose place was supplied Mar. 4. by the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England Sir Thomas Gargrave Knight Speaker  Francis Spilman Esquire Clerk of the Upper House ..... Seimour Gent. Clerk of the House of Commons In the Session of Parliament held in the fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper Thomas Williams Esq Speaker The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the ninth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes during his being sick of the Gout First by the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England after by Sir Robert Catlin Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Richard Onslow Esq the Queens Sollicitor  The same Clerk who either died or surrendred his place before the next Parl. began in An. 13 Reg. Eliz. The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes during his sickness by Sir Robert Catlin K t Lord Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench. Christopher Wray Serjeant at Law Speaker  Anthony Mason aliàs Wilkes succeeded Francis Spilman in the place of the Clerk of the House of Lords Fulk Onslow Gent. Clerk of the House of Commons In the Session of Parliament held in the fourteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied in his absence for divers days by Sir Robert Catlin K t Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. Robert Bell Esq Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the eighteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper and his place supplied for divers dayes in his absence by the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England The same Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Session of Parliament held in the twenty third Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor John Popham Esq the Queens Sollicitor Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the twenty seventh Year of Qucen Elizabeth The same Lord Chancellor John Puckering Serjeant at Law Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the twenty eighth and twenty ninth Years of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Chancellor and his place supplied for divers dayes during his sickness by Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. John Puckering Serjeant at Law Speaker again  The same Clerk The same Clerk from Oct. 29. to Dec. 2. 1589. And the same Clerks Kinsman W. Onslow Gent. from Febr. 15. to March 23. ensuing In the Parliament held in the thirty first Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor George Snagg Serjeant at Law Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirty fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Edward Coke Esq the Queens Sollicitor Speaker  The same Clerk The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the thirty ninth and fortieth Years of Queen Elizabeth Sir Thomas Egerton Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Christopher Yelverton Serjeant at Law Speaker  Thomas Smith Esq succeeded Clerk of the Upper House to Anthony Mason alids Wilkes The same Clerk In the Parliament held in the 43 44 Years of Queen Elizabeth The same Lord Keeper J. Croke Esq Recorder of London The same Clerk The same Clerk THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A o 1 o Regin Eliz. A. D. 1558 1559. The Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster A o 1 o Regin Eliz. Anno Dom. 1558. beginning there after one Prorogation of the same on Wednesday the 25 th of January and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Monday the 8 th day of May Anno Dom. 1559. QUeen Mary Deceased on Thursday the 17 th day of November in the year of our Lord 1558. and the Parliament then Assembled in the 6th and last year of her Reign thereby immediately Dissolving the thrice Excellent and Prudent Princess Queen Elizabeth according to her right and Hereditary Title without any opposition or difficulty King Philip being then very happily absent beyond the
Mountague and Viscount Hereford present Then the Earls but nineteen present the Earl of Hertford the Earl of Pembroke Bedford Southampton Warwick Bath Huntington Sussex Cumberland Rutland Worcester Darby Shrewsbury Westmoreland Northumberland Oxford and Arundel their Robes of Scarlet with their Rows of Miniver Then the Marquess of Winchester but now as Lord Treasurer and the Marquess of Northampton the Duke of Norfolk went as Earl Marshal Then the Lord Keepers Serjeant and Seal and after Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in his Gown Here Clarenceux and Norroy Then the Queens Serjeant at Arms and after Garter Then the Duke of Norfolk with the gilt Rod as Marshal the Lord Treasurer with the Cap of Estate and the Earl of Worcester with the Sword Then the Queens Majesty on Horseback a little behind the Lord Chamberlain and Vice-Chamberlain her Grace Apparelled in her Mantle opened before furr'd with Ermines and her Kirtle of Crimson Velvet close before and close Sleeves but the Hands turned up with Ermines and a Hood hanging low round about her Neck of Ermins Over all a rich Coller set with Stones and other Jewels and on her Head a rich Caul And the next after Her the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse leading the spare Horse And after all other Ladies two and two in their Ordinary Apparel By side the Queen went her Footmen and along on either side of her went the Pensioners with their Axes after the Ladies followed the Captain of the Guard Sir William St. Loe and after him the Guard In which Order Her Majesty proceeded to the North Door of the Church of Westminster where the Dean there and the Dean of the Chappel met her and the whole Chappel in Copes and S t Edwards Staff with the Inlet in the top was delivered unto her her Arm for the bearing thereof assisted by the Baron of Hunsdon the Canopy born over her by Charles Howard Esq Sir George Howard Sir Richard Blunt Sir Ed. Warner Sir John Perrott and Sir William Fitz-Williams Knights her Graces Train born up and assisted for the weight thereof from her Arms by the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and Sir Francis Knowles Vice-Chamberlain and so orderly proceeded to the Travers beside the Table of Administration Although other Princes have used to be placed in the Quire till the Offering but not now because there was neither Communion nor Offering and so she being placed all the Lords sate down on Forms besides the Travers the Spiritualty on the North side and the Temporalty on the South side the Sword and the Cap of Estate laid down on the Table Then the Quire sung the English Procession which ended M r Noell Dean of Pauls began his Sermon and first made his Prayer orderly for the Queens Majesty and the Universal Church and especially for that Honourable Assembly of three Estates there present that they might make such Laws as should be to Gods Glory and the good of the Realm The Sermon being ended and a Psalm sung her Majesty and the rest orderly on foot proceeded out of the South Door where she delivered the Dean the Scepter and so proceeded into the Parliament Chamber where the Queen stayed a while in her Privy Chamber till all the Lords and others were placed and then her Highness came forth and went and fate her down in her Royal Place and Chair of Estate the Sword and Cap of Maintenance born before her and when she stood up her Mantle was assisted and born up from her Arms by the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and Sir Francis Knowles Vice-Chamberlain The Lord Keeper sate alone upon the uppermost Sack until the Queen was sate and then went and stood without the Rail on the right hand the Cloth of Estate and the Lord Treasurer holding the Cap of Estate on the right hand before the Queen Garter standing by him and on the left hand standing the Earl of Worcester with the Sword and by him the Lord Chamberlain The Duke of Norfolk began the first Form and the Viscount Mountague for that the Viscount Bindon was not there ended it The Lord Clinton the Lord Admiral began the Form behind that of Barons and the Lord St. John of Bletsoe ended it The Archbishop of Canterbury began the Bishops Form and the Bishop of Glocester ended the same On the Woolsack on the right hand and Northside sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer Chief Justices Sir William Peter Anthony Browne Corbett Weston and M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney On the Sack on the left hand and Southside sate Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Edward Saunders Chief Baron Justice Widdon Serjeant Carus and M r Russell the Queens Sollicitor and at their Backs sate Sir Richard Read Doctor Yale and Doctor Vaughan On the other Sack sate Doctor Huicke Spilman Clerk of the Parliament and M r Martin Clerk of the Crown and behind them kneeled M r ãâã Allen Dyeter Nicasius Cliffe and Permitter At the side hand of the Queen sate on the ground three or four Ladies and no more and at the back of the Rail behind the Cloth of Estate kneeled the Earls of Oxford and Rutland under Age the Earl of Desmond the Lord Roos the Lord Herbert of Cardiffe and divers other Noblemens Sons and Heirs Nota That these foregoing passages touching the solemn manner of her Majesties coming to the Upper House are not at all found in the Original Journal-Book of the same but are transcribed out of a written Copy or memorial of them I had by me as doth also the Lord Keepers Speech follow out of the same in the next place The Queens Majesty being set as aforesaid under the Cloth of Estate the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the same repaired to the Upper House and being as many as conveniently could let in she Commanded Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper to open the cause of Calling and Assembling this Parliament who thereupon spake as followeth My Lords and others of this Honourable Assembly YOU shall understand that my most Dread and Sovereign Lady the Queens Majesty here present hath Commanded me to declare the occasion of this Assembly which I am not able but unmeet to do as it ought to be done among such a noble wise and discreet Company Howbeit knowing the Experience of her Majesty bearing with such as do their good wills and your Honours Patience in bearing with me in the like afore this time it encourageth me the better herein not doubting of the like at this present Therefore my Lords the occasion is that necessary matters be provided for propounded and scanned and after agreed upon and ended which afterwards shall remain and continue which matters in my Judgment may well be divided into two parts one touching Religion for the setting forth of Gods Honour and Glory and the other concerning Policy for the Common-Wealth as
vice Et nota that the same Bill was read the day following tertiâ vice conclus On Wednesday the 7. day of April Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the one was for Orders for Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements and another for Retailers of Worsted Wools in Norwich and the County of Norfolk with a Proviso added by the Commons Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam à Meridie On the aforesaid Wednesday in the Afternoon the Bill touching Orders for Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements was read primâ vice On Thursday the 8. day of April Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill to take away the Misdemeanors of Purveyors and Takers was read primâ vice The Bill for divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants of Husbandry and Apprentices was read tertiâ vice conclus and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and D r Yale Two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons the one that Sanctuary shall not be allowed to defraud any due Debt And the other was for the Paving of Kentish Town near Southwark The Proviso annex'd by the Commons to the Bill for Retailers of Worsted-Woolls in Norwich and the County of Norfolk was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus The Proviso annex'd by the Commons to the Bill for the maintenance of Tillage And also one other Proviso annex'd to the same Bill by the Lords were each of them read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice On Friday the 9. day of April the Bill for Tillage was given to M r Attorney and M r Martin to be carried to the House of Commons The Bill touching Orders of Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements was read secundâ vice Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons conclus of which one was touching divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants of Husbandry and Apprentices And the second for the maintenance of Tillage And the third for the due Execution of the Writ de Excommunicato capiendo with a Proviso annex'd by the Commons and divers Amendments quae primâ secundâ vice lect sunt eadem Provis tertiâ vice lect a est conclus The Bill to take away the misdemeanors of Purveyors and Takers was read the second time and committed to Justice Southcot Quod nota The Bill for the destruction of Rooks Coughs and other Vermine was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons which said Bill was on the day following in the Afternoon read primâ vice On Saturday the 10 th day of April the Bill for the reviving of a Statute made Anno xxiii o Hen. 8. touching the making of Goals with a Proviso thereunto annex'd by the Commons which said Proviso was read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice conclus The Bill for the Queens Majesties most free and General Pardon was read primâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Nota That this Bill for the general Pardon was concluded after the first reading whereas to all other Bills three readings are required before they can be passed The Bill also for Reformation of divers misdemeanors in Purveyors was read tertiâ vice with certain Amendments conclusa And then following the ordinary form the Parliament was continued in manner and order accustomed viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam primam à Mcridie In the Afternoon the Bill for destruction of Rooks and Coughs and other Vermin And the Bill touching buying and selling of course Woolls to make Cottons c. were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus Two Bills were returned from the House of Commons conclus One to take away the misdemeanors of Purveyors and Takers and the other touching Orders for Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements Nota That in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House next after the setting down or entring of the two Bills aforesaid to have been returned up to the Lords from the House of Commons there followeth immediately the entrance of the Prorogation of this Session of Parliament which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the said Upper House For the Queens Majesty her self with the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal was present in her Robes and gave her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed Although no presence of any of the Lords or her Majesty be at all marked in the said Original Journal-Book And therefore I have caused the solemn and stately manner of the Queens coming to the Upper House with the several Interlocutory Speeches of the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Lord Keeper to be inserted at large out of a written Copy or Anonymous memorial thereof I had by me being doubtless the very Original Draught set down by some Member of one of the two Houses or at least by some other observant person then present while the said Speeches passed in the Upper House for it is written in a hand and language of that very time and in many places amended and interlined About three of the Clock this present Saturday in the Afternoon the Queens Majesty came by Water from Whitehall and landed on the backside of the Parliament Chamber and so the Earl of Northumberland bearing the Sword afore her the Dutchess of Norfolk the Train she proceeded up into her Privy-Chamber and there Apparell'd her self in her Parliament Robes during which time the Lords likewise put on their Robes and took their Places On the Upper Sack sate the Lord Keeper till the Queen came and then he went to his place at the Rail on the right hand to the Cloth of Estate On the Wooll-sack on the North-side sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer the two Chief Justices Sir John Mason and Serjeant Carus M r Ruswell the Queens Sollicitor and Doctor Yale On the Sack on the South-side sate Sir William Cecill Secretary Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Justice Weston Serjeant Southcott M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney and Doctor Lewes On the nether Sack sate M r Spilman Clerk of the Parliament M r Powle Deputy and joint Patentee with M r Martin Clerk of the Crown M r Heming and some Clerks of the Signet Dister and Permiter before which nether Sack stood a little Table Then the Queens Majesty being Apparell'd in her Parliament Robes with a Caul on her Head came forth and proceeded up and took the Seat the Duke of Norfolk as Earl Marshal with his gilt Rod before her with the Marquess of Northampton bearing the Cap of Maintenance and stood on her right hand and the Earl of Northumberland the Sword on her left hand the
was the Bill for the Incorporation and uniting of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis in Com. Dorset and the second for the Town of Southampton The Bill touching Licences and Dispensations was committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury and others and to Doctor Lewis and Doctor Huick The Bill lastly for limitation of the Fees of Councellors and others towards the Law was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords Assembling Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second touching the Limitation of Fees of Councellors and others towards the Law was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Lewis and Doctor Vaughan Four Bills were brought from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill against Fugitives over the Seas the second for Incorporation of both Universities with a new Proviso added by the House of Commons and certain Amendments which were thrice read and assented unto the third for reviving and continuance of Statutes and the last touching corrupt Presentations The Bill touching severance of Sheriffs of sundry Counties was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or ordered to be ingrossed in regard it had been sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons on Wednesday the 23 th day of this instant Month of May preceeding of which see a like President on Wednesday the 16 th day of the same Month foregoing The Bill against Fugitives was sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Lewis and Doctor Yale with the latter Proviso put out and all other Amendments Three Bills were brought from the House of Commons the first against Fugitives over the Seas and the second for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox horâ nonâ May the 27 th Sunday On Monday the 28 th day of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was the Bill for John Tirrell Esq and the second for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy Two Bills were sent at several times unto the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being for the bringing in of the River of Lee to the North-side of the City of London was returned with a new Proviso and certain Amendments added by them of the House of Commons And the second also for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Berkeley and the Lady Katherine his Wife was returned with certain Amendments and a Proviso added thereunto Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers Lords meeting the Bill for the bringing in of the River of Lee to the North-side of the City of London was read tertiâ vice with certain Provisoes and Amendments added thereunto by the House of Commons and Assented unto by the Lords Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Tuesday the 29 th day of May the Bill touching the Queens Majesties most Gracious General and free Pardon was read primâ vice conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords Assembling Six Bills were brought from the House of Commons of which the first being for the continuance of the severance of Sheriffs in sundry Counties and the second to make the Lands Goods and Chattels of Tellors c. liable to the payment of their Debts were each of them returned conclusae The Bill of the Queens Majesties general and free Pardon was returned conclusa Note that Robert Bowyer Esq who succeeded Sir Thomas Smith in the place of Clerk of the Upper House in An. 6 Jacobi Regis in his Abridgment of the Journals of the said House during the Queens Reign hath in this place upon the sending up of the aforesaid Bill of Pardon left this Animadversion following viz. It seemeth the Clerks negligence that the sending of this Bill to the Lower House is not set down in the Journal-Book also by entrance of the returning thereof it seemeth that the same was sent single alone by special Messengers and not with the other six Bills Nota also That all the following passages of this Afternoon excepting the entrance only of the Dissolution of the Parliament are all transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and the Speech of Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper was transcribed out of a Copy thereof which I had by me as was also the manner of her Majesties passing the several Acts supplied by my self according to the ordinary use of a former President thereof None of all which passages excepting that only touching the entrance of the Dissolution of the said Parliament are at all found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House But do now come to be supplied out of those other above-mentioned Manuscript Monuments and in the first place out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons in manner and form following About four of the Clock in the Afternoon the Queens Majestie being sat in her Royal Seat in the Upper House M r Speaker made his Oration presented unto her Majesty the Book of the Subsidy and in the name of the whole House gave her Majesty most humble thanks for her Highness general and free Pardon and prayed her Majesties Royal Assent unto such Acts and Laws as had passed both the Houses in this Session This being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons fol. 39. a. now follows the Answer of Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal at large which he made unto the Speakers Speech being transcribed out of a Copy I had by me M r Speaker The Queens Majesty hath heard and doth very well understand how discreetly and wisely you have declared the Proceedings of this Session in the Nether House for Answer whereof and for the better signification of what her Majesties opinion is both of Parliament men and Parliament matters this is to let you understand her Majesty hath Commanded me to say unto you that like as the greatest number of them of the Lower House have in the proceedings of this Sessions shewed themselves modest discreet and dutiful as becomes good and loving Subjects and meet for the places that they be called unto So there be certain of them although not many in number who in the proceeding of this Session have shewed themselves audacious arrogant and presumptuous calling her Majesties Grants
because they had been sent from the Lords On Tuesday the 22 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for John Tirrell Esq was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Yale brought from the Lords two Bills one against the untrue Demeanours of Tellors Receivors Treasurers and Collectors and another for Treasons newly written and truly examined by the former Book thereof lately passed this House to the end the same may likewise be Examined by this House and so then pass accordingly M r Doctor Vaughan and M r Doctor Yale did pray from the Lords that this House would send unto them such Bills as are already passed this House for that their Lordships do tarry for them and thereupon five Bills were sent unto them by M r Chancellor of the Dutchy and others of which one was the Bill for the River of Welland The Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion was Ordered upon the Question to be general as to the body thereof Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill against taking of any Grain or Victual within five Miles compass of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge was read the first time M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Haick brought from the Lords a Bill against the Oppression of common Promoters Four Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against fraudulent gifts and Conveyances for defeating of Dilapidations and the third for Sewers were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been sent from the Lords On Wednesday the 23 th day of May Five Bills of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was the Bill for the paving of the street without Aldgate The Bill that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas was read the second time but neither ingrossed nor committed because it had been sent from the Lords Two Bills also had each of them their third reading of which the second was the Bill for the removing of the Grammar-School from Laughton to Gainsborough All these Bills which passed this Day were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others M r Attorney General and M r Richard Read did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships prayed Conference with some of this House touching the Bill for preservation of Timber and Woods the Bill against Vagabonds and the Bill for continuance of Statutes Whereupon were sent unto them the former Committees in the Bill for coming to the Church and receiving the Communion whose names see on Saturday the 21 th day of April foregoing Three Bills lastly had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the second was the Bill for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Sir Thomas Wyat Knight Post Meridiem In the Afternoon six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Jointure of the Lady Berkley and the fifth against taking of any Grain or Victual within five Miles compass of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge were each of them read the second time but neither Ordered to be ingrossed nor referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords On Thursday the 24 th day of May the Bill against the untrue Demeanors of Tellors Receivors Treasurers and Collectors was read the second time but neither Ordered to be ingrossed nor referred to Committees Vide consimile May the 22 th Tuesday foregoing The Bill for Sewers was read the third time and a Proviso added to the said Bill was thrice read whereupon the Bill passed the House The Bill also against Bankrupts and the Bill that no Hoyes nor Plate shall cross the Seas were each of them read the third time and passed the House All the Bills which last passed the House were sent to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others The Bill for the reviving and continuance of Statutes was read the third time M r Serjeam Barham and M r Doctor Huick did bring from the Lords a Bill for bringing the River of Lee to the North-side of the City of London M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Yale did bring word that the Lords pray present Conference with three or four of this House touching the amendments of the Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion and thereupon were sent M r Treasurer and others The Bill for not paying for Wares sold for Apparel without ready money was upon the Question Ordered to be rejected and not to be revived or any longer continued The Bill for carrying out of Leather beyond the Seas was likewise upon the Question Ordered to be rejected or discontinued Post Meridiem In the Afternoon two Bills of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Henry Brereton Esq The Bill for maintenance of Tillage was upon the Question Ordered to be revived and continued in such sort as in the Bill for the reviving and continuance of Statutes is contained The Proviso to the Bill against Regrators Forestallers and Ingrossers mentioned in the said Bill of Reviver was read the third time and passed the House An Addition to the old former Statute for preservation of Woods was read the second time Mr. Doctor Yale and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords two Bills the one for coming to Church and receiving the Communion and the other for the severance of the Sheriffs in the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham with some amendments and did also require that six of this House may presently confer with the Lords touching the Bill against Bankrupts The Bill for reviving and continuance of certain Statutes was passed upon the Question with some Additions and some Substractions On Friday the 25 th day of May Mr. Treasurer Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Scott Sir Henry Morrice Mr. Serjeant Manwood Mr. Mounson Mr. Norton Mr. Alford Mr. Cromwell Mr. Thomas Snagg Mr. Bedle Mr. Nicholas S t Leger and Mr. Sands were appointed to have Conference with the Lords touching the Bill against Fugitives The Bill against taking of any Grain or Victuals within five Miles of the City of London was read the third time and passed the House Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords three Bills one for the Incorporation of both the Universities another for the Incorporation of Weymouth and Melcomb Regis in the County of Dorset and another for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy with recommendations from the Lords of the Bill against taking of any Grain or Victual within five Miles
blank or void place was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent from the Lords on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant May foregoing The Bill for the preservation of Timber and Fuel within twelve Miles of London and Subburbs of the same was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Essex the Lord Abergavenny the Lord S t John of Bletsoe and the Lord Compton The Bill for the assurance of certain Lands according to the meaning of Sir Thomas Woodhouse for the benefit of certain Infants was read secunda vice The Bill for repeal of a Statute made for the Town of Shrewsbury an 8 Reginae Eliz. was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Essex and others The Bill also touching Presentations to Benefices by lapse was read the second time and committed unto the Archbishop of York the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Hartford the Bishop of Worcester the Lord Cromwell the Lord Ewers Justice Southcott and Justice Wray The Bill for keeping of the Assizes and Sessions in the Town of Stafford and the Bill for annexing the Sheriffwicks of Huntingtonshire and Cambridgshire were each of them read secunda vice Commisse ad ingrossand The Bill lastly touching Sea-Marks and that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas was read prima vice and committed to the Earl of Suffolk the Earl of Leicester the Lord Burlcigh the Lord Darey de Chich. the Lord Cheyney the Lord Norris Serjeant Barham and Doctor Lewes Nota That this is not committed only upon the first reading but also a Serjeant and a Doctor who are but Attendants upon the Upper House are here made joint Committees with the Lords On Friday the 30 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for inserting of the name of the Mannor of Havering at Bowre in a blank and void place of certain Letters Patents of the late King Edward the Sixth made unto certain persons of certain Lands and Tenements in West-ham in the County of Essex was read the third time and passed the House On Saturday the 31 th of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for renewing of a Statute made for the keeping of the Assises and Sessions within the Town of Stafford was read tertia vice conclusa And the fourth and last being the Bill against corrupt Presentations was read secunda vice commissa to the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Sussex the Lord Chandois and the former Lords nominated on Saturday the 17 th day of this instant May foregoing where this Bill was then read the second time and then committed On Monday the second day of June Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands and Tenements according to the meaning of Sir Thomas Woodhouse for the benefit of certain Infants was read tertia vice conclusa On Tuesday the third day of June Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to renew a Statute made an 1 o of the Queens Reign inhibiting the transporting of Leather or Raw-Hides out of the Realm was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Wednesday the 4 th day of June the Bill touching a Statute made an 1 mo of the Queens Reign inhibiting the transporting of Leather or Raw-Hides was read tertia vice conclusa and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Barham and Doctor Huick Four Provisoes annexed by the Commons to the Bill for Vagabonds with certain other Amendments in the said Bill were read secunda tertia vice conclusa communi Procerum assensu Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for avoiding of Recoveries suffered by Collusion of Tenants for term of life and such others was read prima vice The Bill touching Mary the late Scottish Queen was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for avoiding of Recoveries suffered by Collusion of Tenants was committed to the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Sussex and others but there is no mention made whether this Bill was at all read of which see a like President on Wednesday the 28 th day of May foregoing On Thursday the 5 th day of June the Bill touching Mary the Daughter and Heir of James the Fifth late King of Scots was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Barham and the Queens Attorney Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill against such as shall conspire or practise the enlargement of any Prisoner committed for High-Treason and the third for annexing of Hexham and Hexhamshire to the County of Northumberland were each of them returned conclusae The Bill for the better and further assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of the Free Grammar-School at Tunbridge in the County of Kent was read prima vice and committed to the Archbishop of York the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Hartford the Bishop of Chichester the Bishop of Rochester the Lord de la Ware the Lord Norris the Master of the Rolls and Justice Southcott Vide concerning this Bill on Monday the 9 th day Tuesday the 10 th day and on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant June following The Bill that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas and touching Sea-Marks was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus primarius Justiciarius Banci Regis continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem Nota That this continuance of the Parliament with some others that follow by the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was not without some express Authority given him by her Majesty but through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House it doth not appear in the Original Journal-Book of the same whether the said Authority were given by Commission or otherwise About which hour in the Afternoon four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the true making of Hand-Guns Callivers c. and the last for Partition of certain Lands between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfeild K t and their Heirs were each of them read prima vice Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regis continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Friday the 6 th day of June Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the
the Bill for one Subsidy granted by the Clergy was read tertiâ vice and the Bill touching Oxford Haven was read secundâ tertiâ vice On Tuesday the 14 th day of March the Bill for confirmation of the Sale of Edward Fishers Lands made towards satisfaction of his Debts Charges and Incumbrances was brought from the House of Commons and read primâ vice Vide plus concerning this matter on the day following The Bill for Confirmation of the Attainder of Thomas late Lord Paget and others was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa expedita dissentiente Domino Darcy who is sometimes called the Lord Darcy of Meinel Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading being the last reading and thereupon passed of which the second being the Bill for the more speedy and due execution of certain branches of the Statute made in the 23 d year of the Queens Majesties Reign intituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience was expedited communi omnium Procerum assensu dissentiente solummodò Comite Rutland Which two Bills aforesaid were sent down to the House of Commons by the Queens Attorney and Doctor Carew Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first being an Act of one Subsidy granted by the Clergy was returned expedited and the other was the Bill for the payment of the Debts and Legacies of Sir Gerrard Croker Knight deceased and of John Croker Esq his Son On Wednesday the 15 th day of March the Bill for the payment of the Debts and Legacies of Sir Gerrard Croker Knight and of the Debts of John Croker Esq his Son was read primâ vice Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first being a Bill touching Errours in Records of Attainders of High Treason was read primâ vice commissa and the second being a Bill for repealing of a Statute made in the 23 d year of the Queens Majesties Reign touching the bringing in Fish into this Realm was read primâ vice commissa The Bill for the confirmation of the Seal of Edward Fishers Lands made towards the satisfaction of his Debts Charges and Incumbrances was read secundâ vice Whereupon the Lords ordered that Edward Fisher now in the Fleet should be brought before them to morrow at nine of the Clock and that he should bring his learned Counsel with him And that the Parties who follow the said Bill should have like warning to be there with their learned Counsel Nota That this very Bill or some other to the same purpose had divers readings and was often debated in the Parliament both in the Upper House and in the House of Commons but passed not And there it seemeth that the same or a new Bill to the like purpose was now again offered unto the House Vide the first reading of it upon Tuesday immediately foregoing The Lords Committees made Report unto the whole House that upon divers Conferences had with the Committees of the Lower House touching their Request made to the Lords to joyn with them in Petition to her Majesty about a Benevolence or Contribution which they of the House of Commons thought good to offer unto her Majesty the said Lords Committees thought it not fit for divers reasons to joyn with the House of Commons herein Which reasons when the whole House had heard and considered their Lordships did resolve that the House of Commons should be left to themselves and their Lordships would take such order therein for themselves as to them should seem convenient Vide plus concerning this matter on Saturday the 11 th day of this instant March foregoing On Thursday the 16 th day of March the Committees in the Bill for the repealing of a Statute made in the three and twentieth year of the Queens Majesties Reign touching the bringing in of Fish into this Realm according to the Lords appointment delivered their opinions and reasons by the Lord Chief Baron touching the said Bill which when the Lords had heard and considered they ordered that the said Bill for the Repeal of the said Statute should be rejected This day was chosen a new Committee to resolve upon somewhat touching the Contribution viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury the Archbishop of York the Lord Steward the Earl of Kent the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Hartford and the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winton and the Bishop of Salop the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Morley the Lord Cobham the Lord Gray the Lord Stafford the Lord Stourton the Lord Cromwell the Lord North the Lord Delaware and the Lord Norris The Lords Committees last named upon Conference had betwixt them in respect of the great Charges that her Majesty hath sustained heretofore and that her Highness shall be enforced hereafter to be at for the defence of this Realm and other her Majesties Dominions did resolve amongst themselves freely to give to her Majesty two shillings in the pound after the rate of the valuation of the Subsidy of the Temporality granted in this present Session of Parliament to be paid unto such persons and at such time as it shall please her Majesty to appoint Which being after openly declared to the whole House the Temporal Lords in as much as the Lords Spiritual had made former offer of Contribution unto her Majesty did all together with one consent most willingly ratifie the said resolution both touching the Sum and the payment thereof and ordered that this their free gift should be entred upon Record And that such of the Lords of her Majesties Privy Council as were there present should signifie the same to her Highness in all their Names On Friday the 17 th day of March a Bill touching Errours in Records of High Treason was read secundâ tertiâ vice conclusa On Saturday the 18 th day of March the Bill for the confirmation of the Sale of Edward Fishers Lands made towards the satisfaction of his Debts Charges and Incumbrances with certain amendments in a Schedule added unto the said Bill was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa tradita Doctori Barkley Doctori Carew in Domum Communem deserend ' Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 14 th day and on Wednesday the 15 th day of this instant March foregoing Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being a Bill touching Exemplifications and Constats of Original Conveyances made to the Queens Majesty was read primâ vice On Monday the 20 th day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading whereof the second being a Bill for the limitation of time touching Writs of Errour upon Fines and Recoveries was read secundâ vice Six Bills of no great moment were this day lastly brought
the same title as also of some Amendments in the Body of the Bill added by the Committees whose names see on Thursday the 24 th day of this instant November foregoing by M r Attorney General and D r Carew The Bill touching the School of Seavenoake was brought in by the Committees who were appointed to meet on Monday the 21 th day of this instant November foregoing although their names and the Commitment of the said Bill upon the second reading be there purposely omitted as matter of small consequence without alteration and commanded to be ingrossed On Thursday the first day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing The Bill concerning the School of Seavenoake was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r D r Stanhop The Bill for the establishing the Town Lands of Wanting c. was brought in by the Committees who were appointed on Saturday the 26 th day of this instant November foregoing although their names and the Commitment of the said Bill upon the second reading be there purposely omitted as matter of small consequence with a Proviso by them thought fit to be added thereunto which Proviso was twice read The Parties that Arrested the Lord Chandois Servant Edward Barston viz. William Wood and one Stephenson a Serjeant with two others were brought into the House by the Serjeant at Arms and upon some notice taken of the matter M r Justice Owen and M r Serjeant Drew were appointed to examine the same and to make report thereof to the Lords Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 26 th day of this instant November foregoing The Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain took his place this day as Baron of Hunsdon betwixt the Lord Chandois and the Lord S r John of Bletso On Saturday the third day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing the Bill for the establishing of the Town Lands of Wanting in the County of Berks was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Attorney for their consideration of a Proviso thought fit to be added by the Committees Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the encrease of Mariners and for maintenance of the Navigation repealing a former Act made in the twenty third year of her Majesties Reign bearing the same title which said Bill was sent from the Lords to the House of Commons for their consideration and allowance of the title and some Amendments in the Body of the Bill A second being the Bill for erecting of Hospitals or abiding and working Houses for the Poor was read primâ vice Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the better and safer Recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common Pleas was read primâ vice Upon the Report of M r Justice Owen and M r Serjeant Drew unto whom the Examination of the matter was committed concerning the Arresting of Edward Barston Servant to the Lord Chandois by one Stephenson a Serjeant of London at the Suit of one William Wood these two being found and judged to have willfully 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 direction should be given by the Lords of Parliament And whereas the two others were this day brought into the House before the Lords and supposed to be partakers of the same offence they upon Examination being found not to have wilfully committed any fault therein were dismissed and Order given accordingly by the Lords for their discharge in that behalf And also for the discharge of Edward Barston out of the Prison of the Counter Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 25 th day of November foregoing and on Thursday the first day of this instant December last past as also on Monday the 5 th day of this said December following as also on Wednesday the 14 th day of the same Month. On Monday the 5 th day of December to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Six Bills of no great moment were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for erecting Houses of Correction and Punishment of Rogues and Sturdy Beggars And the second being the Bill to restrain Brewers to keep two Coopers and no more was read primâ vice The Bill for the Confirmation of the Jointure of Christian Lady Sands was read primâ vice Four other Bills also of no great moment were read secundâ vice and thereupon Committed The absence of the Earl of Essex Lord Viscount Bindon Earl of Cumberland Lord Scroope Lord Willoughby of Eresby Bishop of Rochester excused by the Lord Rich. Lord Chandois Lord Wharton Lord Zouch Bishop of Bath and Wells This day Order was given for the Release of Stephenson the Serjeant that arrested the Lord Chandois his Servant Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 26 th day of November last past as also on Thursday the 1. day and on Saturday the 3. day of this instant December foregoing On Tuesday the 6 th day of December Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one Reading of which the first being the Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars was read secunda vice The Committees in the Bill Entituled An Act for the better and safe Recording of Fines to be levyed in the Court of Common Pleas who were appointed yesterday although their names and the Commitment of the said Bill upon the second reading be there purposely omitted as a matter of small consequence returned the same to the House with some Amendments which Amendments were twice read and the Bill commanded to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 7 th day of December Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of the Jointure of Christian Lady Sandes was read secunda vice and commanded to be ingrossed and the second being the Bill for the better and safer Recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common-Pleas was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by M r Attorney and D r Stanhop Hodie retornatum fuit breve Thomae Domini Howard de Walden On Thursday the 8 th day of December Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of his Debts and Legacies was read prima vice And the second being the Bill for confirmation of the Jointure of Christian Lady Sandes was read tertiâ vice and
second being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted by the Queens Majesty to the Mayor c. of the City of Lincoln in the thirty ninth year of her Reign for the taking the acknowledgment of Statutes Merchants was upon the second reading committed unto the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Chester the Lord Zouch the Lord Windsor the Lord Wharton the Lord Rich and M r Justice Clinch to attend their Lordships The Bill concerning Garret de Malynes and John Hunger Merchants Strangers was read tertiâ vice Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the first day and on Friday the third day of this Instant February foregoing The Proviso added in the House of Commons concerning the Joynture of Christian Lady Sands was this day twice read The Proviso thought meet by the Committees in the Bill concerning the draining and recovery from the Water of certain overflowen grounds in the County of Norfolk was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed A Motion was made by the Lord Buckhurst that the County of Sussex might be added to the general Bill of surrounded Grounds The like motion was made by the Lord North and others for the Counties of Somerset and Essex whereunto the House assented And the said three Counties were accordingly added to the rest On Monday the 6 th day of February the Bill for the confirmation of Letters Patents granted by the Queens Majesty to the Mayor c. of the City of Lincoln c. was returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the first of the Committees with some Amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added The Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns was returned to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees with a Proviso thought necessary to be added Excuse was made by the Earl Marshal for the absence of the Earl of Sussex in regard of his unhealthiness The like excuse was made by the Bishop of Rochester for the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was for the more speedy payment of the Queens Majesties debts c. and the second against the Excess of Apparel The Bill for the explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners c. The Bill for the recovering of three hundred thousand Acres of Marsh-grounds more or less with one other of no great moment were each of them read tertiâ vice and passed the House and were sent down to the House of Commons by D r Carew and D r Stanhop Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in secundam horam post-meridian At which time the Amendments and Proviso added by the Committees to the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted to the Mayor c. of the City of Lincoln c. were twice read The Proviso also added by the House of Commons to the Bill for Confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sandes was read the third time and thereupon the Bill was expedited Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the more speedy paying of the Queens Majesties debts and for the better explanation of the Act made Anno 13 o of the Queen intituled An Act to make the Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels of Tellors Receivors c. liable to the payment of their Debts was read secundâ vice Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 7 th day of February Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against the Excess of Apparel was upon the second reading committed unto the Earl Marshal the Lord Admiral the Earl of Northumberland and others Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William Knolles Sir John Forteseue and others of which the second being the Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry was sent back with some Amendments which were presently twice read The Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assigns notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rent during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown was returned with some Amendments by the Lord Chief Justice with a Proviso thought meet to be added Which Proviso and Amendments were once read A Message was sent to the House of Commons from their Lordships by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Carew for a Conference concerning the Bill against excess of Apparel with a competent number of the said House and the time and place was desired to be this Afternoon by two of the Clock in the great Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam postmeridianam At which time the Amendments in the Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry were read secundâ vice The Amendments and Provisoes thought meet to be added to the Bill concerning Patentees were read the second time and thereupon commandment was given that the said Proviso should be ingrossed in Parchment and the Amendments written in Paper ready for the third reading The Bill for Amendments of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent was read secundâ vice The Bill for reviving continuance Explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes was returned with their allowance of the Amendments and Proviso added by their Lordships Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum On Wednesday the 8 th day of February the Amendments in the Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry were read the third time as they were ingrossed in the Bill And thereupon the same Bill with the Amendments were expedited The Bill also for Amendments of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent was read tertiâ vice and expedited The Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees c. notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown was returned to the House of Commons by Doctor Carew and Doctor Stanhop for their considerations of the said Amendments and Provisoes No continuance of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Book of the Upper House which seemeth to have happened by the Error of Thomas Smith Esquire at this time Clerk of the same On Thursday the 9 th day of February Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the further continuance and Explanation of an Act made in the thirty fifth year of the Queens Majesties Reign that now is was returned with the
brought him even made him one of the greatest Princes in Europe when her Majesties Forces there left him how again he was fain to Ransom a servile Peace at our enemies the Spaniards hands with dishonourable and servile Conditions For the Low-Countries how by her aid from a confused Government and State she brought them to an Unity in Counsel and defended them with such success in her Attempts against the greatest power of the Spaniards Tyrannical designs which have so much gauled him that how many desperate practices have been both devised consented to and set on foot by commandment of the late King his Father I need not shew you neither trouble you with Arguments for proof thereof being confessed by them that should have been Authors themselves But de mortuis nil nisi bonum I would be loth to speak of the dead much more to slander the dead I have seen her Majesty wear at her Girdle the price of her blood I mean Jewels which have been given to her Physicians to have done that unto her which I hope God will ever keep from her but she hath rather worn them in Triumph than for the price which hath not been greatly valuable Then he fell to perswade us because new occasions were offered of consultations to be provident in provision of means for our own defence and safety seeing the King of Spain means to make England miserable by beginning with Ireland neither doth he begin with the Rebels but even with the Territory of the Queen her self He shewed that Treasure must be our means for Treasure is the sinews of War Nota That the substance of this Speech is only here inserted as it was afterwards repeated in the said House upon Tuesday the third day of November which next ensued by Sir Robert Cecill her Majesties principal Secretary who had done it to satisfy divers Members of the same who could not get into the Upper House to hear it this first day of the Parliament as is aforesaid Now follow the Names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions out of the Original Journal-Book of the said House As soon as the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech and that such of her Majesties Privy-Council and others of the House of Commons as had privately got in and heard it were departed down to their own House Thomas Smith Esq Clerk of the Upper House read the Names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Knight Lord Chief Justice Francis Gawdy one of the Justices of the Kings Bench George Kingsmell one of the Justices of the Common Pleas D r Carew and D r Stanhop Receivors of Petitions for Gascoign and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir William Perriam Knight Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesley one of the Justices of the Common Pleas D r Swale and D r Howard They who will deliver Petitions to deliver them within six dayes Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess 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 Hartford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch 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 also the Queens Serjeants at their leisure to meet and hold their place at the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoign and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of 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 Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Le Ware the Lord Lumley and the Lord Burleigh All these or four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor when their leisure did serve them to meet and hold their place in the Treasurers Chamber Then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament which is set down in the Original Journal-Book in manner and form following Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Veneris proximè futurum viz. 30 m diem Octobris Nota That although there be some short mention made of the Presentment of the Speaker of the House of Commons in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House yet because it is very imperfectly and briefly Entred there I have therefore supplied it somewhat largely out of a private Journal of the House of Commons On Friday the 30 th day of October about one of the Clock in the Afternoon her Majesty came by Water to the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House and being Apparelled in her Royal Robes and placed in her Chair of State divers also of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being present the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons who had attended at the Door of the said House with John Crooke Esq Recorder of London their Speaker Elect the full space of half an hour were at last as many as conveniently could let in and the said Speaker was led up to the Bar or Rayl at the lower end of the same House by the hands of Sir William Knolles Knight Comptroller 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 Sovereign Upon your Majesties Commandment your most dutiful and loving Commons the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Lower House have chosen me your Majesties most humble Servant being a Member of the same House to be their Speaker but finding the weakness of my self and my ability too weak to undergo so great a burthen I 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 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 Licence me to speak before you For I know and must acknowledge that
Order After which ended and her Majesties Assent thereunto then the Dissolution of the Parliament followed by the Lord Keeper which is entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in these words following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae Dissolvit hoc praesens Parliamentum THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 43 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1601. which began there on Tuesday the 27 th Day of October and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Saturday the 19 th Day of December ensuing Anno 44 Reginae ejusdem THIS large and copious Journal containeth in it not only a number of excellent Passages concerning the Orders and Priviledge of the House of Commons which are usually found in other Journals of the same House but also much matter touching the publick State and that great grievance of the Realm by reason of Patents of Priviledge or Monopolies in the abdication or censure of which her Majesty most graciously concurr'd with her Subjects In which also a great number of Speeches and other Passages which were not found in the Original Journal-Book of the said House are supplied out of a Journal of the same House taken at this Parliament by one of the Members thereof But yet to avoid confusion whatsoever is here inserted out of the said private Journal is particularly distinguished from that which is taken out of the above-mentioned Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons by some Animadversion or expression thereof both before and after the inserting of it The tenth Parliament of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith c. begun at Westminster upon Tuesday being the 27 th day of October in the forty third year of her Majesties Reign upon which day many of the Knights for the Shires Citizens for Cities Burgesses for Boroughs and Barons for Ports returned into the same Parliament did make their appearance at Westminster aforesaid before the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral and Lord Steward of her Highnesses most Honourable Houshold and did then and there take the Oath according to the Statute in that behalf made and provided tendred by the said Earl or by his Deputies who were Sir William Knolls Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold Sir John Stanhop her Highness Vice-Chamberlain Sir Robert Cecill Principal Secretary and John Herbert Esq second Secretary After which all the said Lord Steward's Deputies and some others of the House of Commons having gotten into the Upper House and her Majesty with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being set the greatest part of the residue of the Members of the said House of Commons had notice thereof about four of the Clock in the Afternoon being at that time still suting in the said House and expecting her Majesties Pleasure to be sent for up unto the said Upper House according to the antient usage and custom of former Parliaments And thereupon the said residue repaired immediately unto the Door of the said House but could not be let in the Door being still kept shut and so returned back again unto their own House much discontented Shortly after which time the Right Honourable Sir William Knolls one of the Deputies aforesaid came down into the said House of Commons and so being there set with the said residue for some little space of time M r Richard Lieffe one of the Barons returned into this present Parliament for the Port of Hastings in the County of Sussex stood up and shewing unto the said Comptroller the wrong done unto the greatest part of the Members of this House in their not being suffered to come into the said Upper House to hear her Majesties Pleasure signified by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England humbly desired the said Comptroller to be a means that the effect thereof might be imparted unto some of the Members of this House for their better satisfactions Which as his Honour did think very reasonable and meet to be done at convenient time so did he impute the said fault wholly to the Gentleman-Usher of the said Upper House Which done and the residue of the said Deputies being shortly after come into the said House of Commons and there sitting the said M r Comptroller after some pause stood up and shewing unto this House that his place was to break the silence of this House for that time and putting the House in mind to make Choice of a Speaker according to her Majesties Pleasure given unto them in that behalf shewed that in his opinion he thinketh M r John Crooke Recorder of London returned one of the Knights for the City of London into this present Parliament to be a very fit able and sufficient Man to supply the whole Charge of the said Office of Speaker being a Gentleman very Religious very Judicious of a good Conscience and well furnished with all other good parts yet leaveth nevertheless the further consideration thereof to this House and so did sit again Which done and no one contrary Voice at all being delivered the said M r Crooke after some large Pause first taken stood up and very Learnedly and Eloquently endeavoured to disable himself at large for the burthen of that charge alledging his great defects both of Nature and of Art fit to supply that place and shewing all full Complements for the same to abound in many other Learned and grave Members of this House in the end prayed most humbly that they would accept of his due excuse and be pleased to proceed to a new Election and did then sit down again Whereupon the said M r Comptroller did stand up and said that hearing no negative Voice he took it for a due Election and demanding the further opinion of this House therein they all Answered Yea and gave their Assents Whereupon the said M r Comptroller and the Right Honourable Sir John Stanhop her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain immediately went to the said M r John Crooke and did set him in the Chair which done the said M r Crooke after some little pause did stand up and yielding unto this whole House most humble thanks for their great good opinion of him and loving favour towards him and praying them to accept of his willing mind and readiness and to bear with his unableness and wants in the service of this House referr'd himself to their good favours And then the said M r Comptroller signified further unto this House that her Majesties Pleasure was that the Members of this House having made choice of their Speaker should present him unto her Highness upon Friday next following in the Afternoon And so then every man departed and went his way On Friday the 30 th day of October about one of the Clock in the Afternoon the Knights Citizens and
Bill by the Lords denied to be given in writing to the Commons till Conference first had p. 536 Onslow Richard chosen Speaker in the Parliament held 8 9 Eliz. his Speeches to the Queen at his Confirmation p. 97 98. at the Dissolution of that Parliament p. 114 115 P. THE Painters having presented a Bill against the Plaisterers which passed not the Upper House it is Ordered by that House that their complaint shall be heard and adjudged by the Lord Mayor Recorder c. p. 617 Pardon Vide Bills Parliament which is the first and last day thereof or of a particular Session p. 9. The manner of the Sovereign and Peers sitting in Parliament p. 10. 59. 96. the manner of setting down the presence of the Peers in the Journal Book p. 62 Passing of Bills Vide Bills Patents of priviledge petition'd against in the Parliament 39 40 Eliz. which the Queen construes to be a violation of her Prerogative p. 547 Peers to be of age before they sit in the House p. 11. 96. how attired p. 11. Vide Parliament Popish Bishops suffered to sit in the Parliament 1 Eliz. but turn'd out of their Sees at the end of the Session p. 23. How they opposed divers Bills ibid. and p. 28. 30. a dispute betwixt them and some English men come from Geneva p. 53 Presence of the Peers how marked p. 62 111. Priviledge Vide Attach The solemn Procession of the Queen and House of Lords at the opening of the Parliament 5 Eliz. p. 58. and 13 Eliz. p. 136 Prorogation Vide Writ The Sovereign after a Prorogation comes not to the Parliament with that solemnity as is usual at the first meeting p. 95. After the end of a Prorogation a new Session beginneth p. 318 Provisoes when added by the Lords unto Bills sent up to them from the Commons are written in Parchment p. 26 Proxie the form of the Licence from the Queen to a Peer to make one p. 3. a Peer ordinarily does not make one without such licence p. 270. The form of making a Proxy and entring it in the Journal-Book p. 4. and 8. The nature and use of a Proxy and the form of returning them p. 5. What an absent Peer used to forfeit if he constituted no Proxy p. 6. The form of making a Proxy without licence from the Sovereign ibid. The form of revoking a Proxy p. 7. How many Proxies one Peer is capable of receiving p. 8 9. 58. 101. 196. 598. where as also p. 314. is mentioned an Order of the Lords 2 Car. 1. that from thenceforth no Lord should be capable of above two Proxies A Commoner can constitute no Proxy and why p. 9. A spiritual Lord does not now appoint a Temporal Lord for his Proxy nor on the contrary but formerly they did p. 58. 378. A Temporal Lord usually constitutes but one Proxy and a Spiritual two p. 101. Yet a Spiritual Lord sometimes appoints but one sometimes three p. 196. 460 461. and also a Temporal sometimes two ibid. Proxies are appointed after a Prorogation as well as at the beginning of a Parliament p. 268. They may be delivered into the hands of the Clerk as well before the Parliament begin as after p. 311. Why Bishops Proxies are entred before those of the Temporal Lords p. 523. 598. In the former part of the Queens Reign they were entred in the Journal Book with express mention of the several dayes on which they were returned but in the latter part thereof and since only generally p. 597 Serjeant Puckering Lord Keeper in 35 Eliz. p. 456. His Speech to the Parliament held that year p. 457 458. He dies in 38 Eliz. Anno Domini 1596. p. 522 R. REading Vide Bills Receivors and Tryors of Petitions in the House of Lords the manner of entring them in the Journal Book p. 14 15 A Bill for Recognition of the Queens Title to the Crown of England p. 18 Restitution in bloud of Sir James Crost a Bill for it p. 21. of Sir Henry Gate ibid. of John Lord Grey ibid. of Robert Rudston ibid. of Henry Howard p. 22. of the Sons and Daughters of Edward Lewkenor p. 25. of Katherine Wife to the Lord Berkely and of her Sisters p. 27. 54 55. of Gregory Fynes ibid. of Lord Dacres of the South p. 55. of Ann Thomas Thomas Isely Thomas Diggs Thomas Brook William Cromer Cutbert Vaughan c. p. 68. of Arch-bishop Cranmer's and Lord Husseys Children p. 69. of Sir Ralph Chamberlain John Harleston and William West ibid. and p. 70. of Sir Peter Carew and Edward Turner p. 70. of Sir Thomas Wyats Children p. 146. of Henry Brereton Esq p. 147. of John Lord Stourton his Brothers and Sisters p. 230. Vid. p. 261 262. the Bills dashed p. 264 265. of Henry Lord Norris of Ricaut p. 231. of Anthony Mayney ibid. and 273. of Thomas Howard Son of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk p. 317. of Sir Thomas Parrot p. 510 S. A Saving requisite in every Bill p. 464 Queens Serjeants though but Attendants on the House made Committees p. 99. 108. Though they are to attend upon the Upper House as Councellors yet they have no voice there but may in the House of Commons if Members thereof p. 249 Serjeant at Arms whether to be employed to take into custody those that are accused of breach of priviledge of the Upper House or whether the Gentleman Usher p. 603. He is ordered to bring before the House a Lords Servant committed upon an Arrest to Newgate as also him that Arrested him for breach of Priviledge p. 607. This not to injure the Gentleman Usher's pretensions to that right ibid. Under Sheriff of Surrey committed to Prison for aiding the Arrest of an ordinary Servant of the Queen in Parliament time p. 606 Thomas Smith Esq made Clerk of the House of Lords 39 Eliz. p. 522 Queens Solicitour made a Joint-Committee with the Lords p. 142. Being chosen a Member of the House of Commons he is demanded of them to attend there but denied by the Lords p. 424 Spain's design against England set out in a Speech by the Lord Keeper p. 599. See the word in the Table to the Journal to the House of Commons Spilman Francis Clerk of the House of Lords in the Parliament 1 Eliz. p. 14. continued in that place in the Parliaments held 5 Eliz. and 8 9 Eliz. but in 13 Eliz. succeeded by Anthony Mason p. 136 Spiritual Lords why their Names are set down in the Journal Book before those of the Temporal p. 598 Star-Chamber dayes the Lords seldom sate on them p. 67 Bills of Subsidy sent from the Commons seldom alter'd by the Lords p. 69. Subsidies granted by the Clergy always ingrossed in Latin but the confirmation thereof in Parliament is in English p. 229. The Subsidy of the Clergy should be sent to the Commons in a Skin of Parchment under the Sovereigns band and seal p. 688. The body of the Grant of the Subsidies of the
Presence of her Majesty the Lord Keeper and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal is not at all marked in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House although this entrance following of the said day be there thus Recorded viz. Die Mercurij 25. die Januarij proceres tain Spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur presentes fuerunt But before this Title there is nothing specified touching the presence of her Majesty or of any of the Lords for the Letters which should be set at the beginning of the names of such Peers as this day attended her Majesty in the Upper House are not at all prefixed to any of them which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House Yet most certain it is that her Majesty Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper the Duke of Norfolk and divers other Peers were present but the direct manner of the ranking of them in respect of the negligent omission of setting the Pr. as aforesaid at the beginning of every Lords name that was present could not be orderly and and directly entred in his place although this was the first day of this first Parliament of her Majesty nor on Saturday the 28th day of this instant January being the second day of the same because by like negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House there is no presence of any Lords there set down in the Original Journal Book of the same House nor any mention of the Speakers presentment by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons and therefore of necessity it could not be supplied until the third day of this foresaid first Parliament of her Majesty being Monday the 30th day of this instant January on which day the names of all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being entred the Letters Pr. are prefixed before the name of the Lord Keeper and of such Peers as were then present as see at large on the said Monday next ensuing and therefore that President there so expresly Transcribed may serve as a Pattern for all the residue that follow in all the Journals of the Upper House during her Majesties Reign in which there are no other names inserted but of such Lords as were marked to be present unless it be upon Thursday the 21th day of March following in the afternoon in this present Journal and on Fryday the 15th day of January in the Session of Parliament A. 5. of her Majesty in the Journal of the Upper House And although the names of her Majesty and the Lords that attended could not be exactly set down yet it will not be impertinent in the next place to insert the manner of their sitting in the said House which being not at all mentioned in the aforesaid Original Journal Book of the same A. 1. Reg. Eliz. I have therefore partly supplied it according to 3 other Presidents in these ensuing Journals on which the first was on Thursday the 12th of Jan. in the Session of Parliament A. 5. Reg. Eliz. the second on Wednesday the 2d day of Octob. pomerid ' in the second and last Session of that Parliament being held in A. 8. Reg. ãâã and the third on Monday the 2d day of Apr. in the Parliament A. 13. Regin praedict ' all which do follow in the several Journals of the Upper House Annis praesatis and it is partly supplied also out the Printed Statute A. 31. H. 8. C. 10. and partly out of that elaborate written Treatise intituled Modus tenendi Parliament ' apud Anglos first confusedly gathered by Wil. Bowyer Esq as I conceive and now lately digested into a Methodical Treatise and enlarged by H. Essing Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House viz. in A. 1630. L. 1. C. 3. de loco modo sedendi Sect. 3. of the manner of sitting in Parliament at this day Her Majesty sate in the Chair of Estate and when she stood up her Mantle was assisted and born up from her Arms by two Noblemen or others of Eminent Rank thereunto appointed The Two Seats on the right and left-hand of the Chair of Estate were void in respect that the first was Anciently for the King of Scots when he used to come to our Parliaments and the other on the left hand is for the Prince the immediate Heir of the Crown On the Form on the right side of the Chair of Estate which stands on the North-side of the Upper House sate the Spiritual Lords the Archbishop of York beginning the Form and the Abbot of Westminster ending it Who was the last Abbot that ever sate in the said House in England since this first Parliament of her Majesty But at this day the two Archbishops sit upon one Form by themselves and then the other Bishops in order upon two Forms on the right hand of the State the Bishop of London sits first the Bishop of Durham second and the Bishop of Winchester hath the third place and then all other Bishops according to the Antiquity of their Consecrations On the left side of the Chair of Estate which is on the South-side of the Upper House upon the foremost Form sate all the Temporal Lords above the degree of Barons The Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England beginning that Form and the Viscount Bindon ending it The Barons sate on the second Form on the left hand of the State and it should seem at this Parliament as it fell out also in the next Sessions following in A. 5. Regin Eliz. on Tuesday the 12th day of January that one Form held them all so as the Lord Clinton Lord Admiral of England began the said Form by reason of his Office and the Lord St. John of Bletsoe ended it But at this day the number of Peers being much encreased divers of the Barons do sit upon other Forms Places Cross-ways at the lower end of the House Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper because he was under the degree of a Baron as also her Majesties chief Secretary being but a Knight were to have been placed at the uppermost part of the sack in the midst of the said House upon one Form by the fore recited Statute A. 3. H. 8. Cap. 10. But at this present Parliament as also at this day during her Majesties being present the Lord Keeper stood behind the Cloth of Estate on the right-hand and when her Majesty was absent then his Lordship sate on the first Woolsack which is placed athwart the House the Seal and Mace by him On the Woolsack on the North-side of the House and of the right-hand of the Estate sate the two Chief Justices and divers other Judges On the Woolsack on the left-hand of the Estate and on the South-side of the House sate the Master of the Rolls the Lord Chief Baron the Queen 's Learned Council and others And note That all these may properly besaid to sit on the Inner-side of
your things you observe such Order that matters of the greatest Moment and most Material to the State be chiefly and first set forth so as they be not hindred by particular and private Bills to this purpose That when those great Matters be past this Assembly may sooner take end and men be licensed to take their ease I have said The Speaker being thus allowed he returned to the House of Commons with the Serjeant of the House bearing the Mace before him and the Queen's Majesty and the Lords rose and departed On Monday the 30th day of January were divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal present as is plainly set down in the entrance of the names in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Upper House standing at the Table near the lower Woolsack did there read a certain Bill written in Paper and Intituled An Act for the restitution of the first Fruits and Tenths and Rents reserved Nomine Decimae and of Parsonages Impropriate to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and after he had so read it which was accounted the first reading thereof then he delivered the same kneeling unto Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal together with a Brief of the Bill The Lord Keeper read the Title of the Bill and then reported the effect of the same unto the House out of the Brief And then concluded with these words viz. This is the first time of the reading of this Bill And there is no mention made in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House that this Bill was at all spoken unto upon this reading neither is it indeed usual although there have not wanted Presidents thereof prout A. 1. H. 8. 11. Die Parliamenti Billa de actionibus brought from the Commons Lecta prima vice Domini disputando censuerunt reformandum quod Regia Majestas haberet 3. vel 4 Annos pars vero contra partem nisi unum Annum And a Bill hath been rejected upon the first reading prout Anno 3. Edw. 6. 14. Nova Billa pro jurisdictione Episcoporum Rejected and a Committee appointed to draw a new Bill of which also there want not divers other Presidents in most of the other Journals during her Majesties Reign but most true it is that usually a Bill is seldom rejected till the second reading for then it is most proper to be spoken unto and when it hath received either a longer or shorter disputation in the House then the proceedings eommonly are either to order it to be engrossed or refer it to Committees or to reject it which course holdeth only in Bills that come newly into either House For if a Bill having passed one of the two Houses be sont unto the other it is never ordered to be ingrossed because it comes from thence ready ingrossed in Parchment and seldom referred to Committees or rejected there want not also divers Presidents when a Bill hath been disputed after the third reading and sometimes recommitted and sometimes rejected Of all which the Examples and Presidents are so frequent in all the insuing Journals of this Queen as also in those foregoing of H. 8. Ed. 6. and Queen Mary as there is not need to make any large Citation of them Neither do there want in their several places fit and due references whereby to refer the several Presidents of this nature contained in one and the same Journal from one to another Which things being thus premised and observed now follow some Animadversions or Presidents touching the Commission of Bills and further proceedings in them upon the first reading Bills also have been Committed upon the first reading prout An. 6. H. 8. 14. Feb. recepta est Billa in papyro concernens apparatum lecta est prima vice deliberata Magistro Pigot reformanda Anno Primo Ed. 6. 21. Novembris allata est à Communi domo Billa for benefices Common Preachers and residence quae prima vice lecta est commissa Archiepis Cantuarien ' Episcopo Elien Episcopo Dunolmen ' Episcopo Roffen ' Episcopo Lincoln ' Marchioni Northampton Domino St. John Comiti Arundel Domino Admirallo Domino Wentworth and in A. 5. Edw. 6. 16. Feb. Hodie prima vice lecta est Billa to avoid regrating forestalling c. commissa est Magistro Hales Magistro Molineux Magistro Saunders Solicitatori Reginae And there are very many Presidents that Bills have been committed upon the first reading in the times of Hen. 8. and Ed. 6. as may appear by the Committees of those times The like Presidents are to be found in most of the Journals of her Majesty prout A. 8. Eliz. Oct. 3. The Bill for the better Executing of Statutes c. codem An. 5. Octob. touching Fines and Recoveries An. 13. Eliz. 20. Aprilis against fraudulent Conveyances c. An. 14. Eliz. 12. Maij for preservation of Woods eodem An. die for the punishment of Vagabonds and so in many other Parliaments of this Queen's time of which because they are so frequently obvious it would be unnecessary to make further repetition And although there be no mention made in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House that the Lords and Members of the same were this day called yet there is no great doubt to be made thereof and therefore I have caused it to be inserted and applied unto this time in manner and form following Francis Spilman the Clerk did on this third day of the Parliament call every Lord in the House by his Name that so it might be seen who were present beginning with the lowest Baron and ascending to the highest Peer where also the Proxies and other Excuses of the absent Lords were Registred But it may be Collected by the Parliament Rolls Annis 37. 38. 40. 43. 45. 47. 50. Ed. 3. that the Lords names were called the first day and the Commons also in the Upper House before the King 's coming which Order in respect of the time is held still with the Commons whose Names are usually called at this day in the Court of Requests the first day of the Parliament Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit presens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora Octava On Tuesday the 31th day of Jan. the former Bill for the restitution and annexation of the first Fruits and Tenths to the Imperial Crown of the Queen's Majesty was read the Second time Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the House having read the said Bill for the Restitution and Annexation of the First-fruits c. standing at the Table near the nether Woolsack did then deliver the same without any Brief Kneeling to the Lord Keeper who thereupon read the Title thereof to the House and said This is the second Reading and so the Bill was Ordered to be Ingrossed which is no more than to Transcribe the Bill sairly out of the Paper in which it was written into Parchment More
at all named with the Committees of the Lords in all the aforesaid Journal Books may doubtless be conceived to have happened through the Clerk's negligence For in the very next ensuing Session of Parliament in An. 5. Regin Eliz. they are seldom omitted prout on Tuesday the 26th day of January on Saturday the 30th day of the same Month as also on Saturday the 20th day of March then next following The Bill for Restitution of Robert Rudston was read secunda vice and again tertia vice conclusa The Bill also to revive a Statute made A. 23. H. 8. against the Conveyance of Horses Geldings and Mares into Scotland was read tertia vice conclusa and the Bill touching the Duke of Norfolk was read secunda vice Commiss ' ad ingrossandum Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being for the restitution in blood of the Lord John Grey the second for restitution in blood of Sir J. Gates Knight and the third for restitution in blood of Sir James Croft Knight were each of them returned conclus ' the fourth was touching the changing of Gavelkind Land of the Lands of Thomas Brown and George Brown the fifth for the Incorporation of Trinity Colledge n. Cambridge and the last for assurance of Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy On Saturday the fourth day of March the Bill to change the nature of Gavelkind Land of the Lands of Thomas Brown and George Brown was read the first time The Bill touching Tanners and Sellers of Tanned Leather was read the first time and the Bill for Shoemakers and Curriers was read the second time and both of them Committed to the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Shrewsbury the Bishop of London the Bishop of Carlile the Lord Rich and the Lord Willoughby Dominus Thesaurar ' continuavit presens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox ' hora nona Nota That that there appeareth no Commission or other Authority in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House by which the Lord Treasurer supplied the Lord Keeper's place but most probable it is that either the Commission it self is negligently omitted by Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the said House or else that the said Lord Treasurer did continue it only upon her Majesties Verbal Authority and Command as did the Lord Treasurer in the like Case in the Session of Parliament A. 18. Regin Eliz. on Saturday the third day of March. On Munday the 6th of March the Bill for the Ratification of the Marriage between the Duke of Norfolk and the Lady Margaret now his Wife and for the assurance of certain Lands for her Joynture was read tertia vice conclusa The Bill also for the restitution in blood of Harry Howard c. younger Brother to the Duke of Norfolk was read prima vice The Bill also for the Explanation of the restitution of the Lord Cardinal Pool was committed to the Archbishop of York the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Carlile the Lord Rich the Lord Willoughby and the Lord Hastings of Loughborough but no mention is made of the reading thereof which was doubtless omitted through the great Negligence of Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Upper House for this Bill was read prima vice on Munday the 27th of February foregoing and was Committed to the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench and the Queen's Attorny to consider of it as is probable and to make report thereof unto the Lords which being done this day and the Bill thereupon as may likewise be gathered read the second time it was Committed to the Lords abovenamed and on the morrow following it was read tertia vice and Passed the House and on Wednesday the 8th of this instant March following was sent down to the House of Commons by Mr. Lewes and Mr. Vaughan On Tuesday the 7th day of March the Bill for the explanation of the Repeal of the Attainder of the late Lord Cardinal Pool was read tertia vice conclusa The Bill also for the assurance of Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy and the Bill for the Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge were each of them read prima vice The Bill lastly for explaining the Statute made against ingrossing of Dead Victuals and the Bill that Gerson Wroth born in Germany shall be reputed the Queen's natural born Subject were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Wednesday the 8th day of March the Bill for the explanation of the Statute against ingrossing of Dead Victuals and the Bill for the true Answering of the Queen's Majesties Revenues were each of them read prima vice Four other Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for the changing of the nature of Gavelkind Lands of Thomas Brown and George Brown and another for the assurance of Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy were each of them read secunda vice but no mention made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons on the day next foregoing The Bill touching the Duke of Norfolk and that concerning Cardinal Pool were sent to the House of Commons by Mr. Lewis Mr. Vaughan On Thursday the 9th of March the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich and the Lord Darcy de Chiche was read tertia vice conclusa dissentientibus Episcopo London Meneven ' Abbat ' de Westm ' the Bill for Gerson Wroth was read tertia vice conclusa and the Bill for exchange of the nature of Gavelkind Lands of the two Browns was read also tertia vice conclusa dissentient ' Duce Norfolciae Quatuor Comitibus tribus Baronibus The Bill lastly for the true Answering of the Queen's Majesties Revenues was read secunda vice Commissa ad ingrossand On Fryday the 10th day of March the Bill for the Incorporation of Trinity-Hall in Cambridge and the Bill for the true Answering of the Queen's Majesties Revenue were each of them read tertia vice conclusa and sent down to the House of Commons The Bill lastly for the explanation of the Statute against ingrossing of Dead Victuals was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either referr'd to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been sent from the House of Commons Tuesday the 7th day of this instant March foregoing v. a like Commitment on Munday 13th day of Feb. foregoing On Saturday the 11th day of March a Proviso to be annexed to the Bill of Treason was read prima secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Munday the 13th day of March a Proviso to be annexed to the Bill of Treasons was read tertia vice
to the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against the ingrossing of Dead Victuals which had formerly passed the House of Commons and been sent up from thence to their Lordships engrossed in Parchment on Tuesday the 7 th day of this Instant March foregoing and so remained still the Bill of the same House did cause the said Proviso to be written in Parchment and annexed it to the Bill shewing the line and the place of the line where the Proviso should be put in and then their Lordships subscribed or endorsed under the superscription or indorsement of the House of Commons in the same Bill à ceste Bille avecque une provision annexe les Seigneurs sont assentus And so the Bill was delivered to the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor as aforesaid to be carried to the House of Commons But if the Lords had added any amendments to the foresaid Bill those ought to have been sent down to the House of Commons written in Paper Ut vide on Thursday the 16. day of February foregoing The Parliament continued and nothing done till Tuesday the 4. day of April and then the Bill that the Queens Majesty upon the avoidance of any Arch-Bishoprick or Bishoprick may exchange the temporal possessions thereof with Parsonages impropriate c. was read the first time And then the Parliament continued till the next day at nine of the Clock on which day were several Proxies both ordinary and extraordinary entred On Wednesday the 5. day of April the Bill for Leases to be made by spiritual persons was committed to the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Carlisse the Lord Rich the Lord North the Lord Hastings de Loughborrow and the Abbot of Westminster â Nota that this Bill had its second reading on Thursday the 23. of March foregoing and was not committed until this day of which there want not other Presidents during her Majesties Reign as on Monday the 13. day of February foregoing and on Thursday the 6. day of this Instant April ensuing The Bill whereby the Queens Majesty upon avoidance of any Arch-Bishoprick or Bishoprick may resume the temporal possessions thereof into her hands recompensing the value thereof with Parsonages impropriate c. was read the second time And then the Parliament continued till Thursday the 6. day of April on which day the Bill whereby the Queens Majesty upon the avoidance of any Archbishoprick may resume the Temporalties thereof recompencing the just value thereof with Parsonages impropriate c. was Order'd to be ingrossed â Nota This Bill was read the second time yesterday and was not Ordered to be ingrossed until this day of which nature there want not other Presidents during her Majesties Reign where a Bill being read secunda vice on one day was referr'd to Committees on another ensuing Prout vide on April the 5. immediately foregoing But at this day it is the constant rule and observation of the Upper House that no Bill be either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees but upon that very day on which it is read And then the Parliament continued till next day at nine of the Clock The Bill giving Authority to the Queens Highness upon the avoidance of any Arch-Bishoprick or Bishoprick to take into her hands the temporal possessions thereof recompensing the same with Parsonages impropriate was read tertia vice conclusa dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Ehoracen Episcopis Londin Wigorn. Coven Exon. Cestren Carleol Abbat de Westm. And it was delivered to the Queens Sollicitor and Mr. Vaughan to be carried to the House of Commons And then the Parliament by several continuances continued and nothing done till Friday the 14. day of April on which day four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill against the deceitful using of Linnen the second that Craftsmen in Kent and Sussex shall inhabit in Towns near the Sea-Coasts and the third being to revive the Act of Parliament made Anno 5 Ed. 6. for keeping of Holydays and Fasting-days were each of them read prima vice And the fourth and last was the Bill for restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same vid. touching this Bill on Saturday the 29 day of this Instant April ensuing And then the Parliament continued till next day at nine of the Clock And the Bill against deceitful using of Linnen-Cloth The Bill that Craftsmen in Kent and Sussex shall inhabit near the Sea Coasts And the Bill to revive the Act of Parliament made An. 5 Ed. 6. for keeping of Holydays and Fasting-days were each of them read secunda vice but no mention is made that they were Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons on yesterday foregoing The Bill lastly restoring the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual to the Crown and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same was read prima vice vide touching this Bill on Saturday the 29. day of this Instant April ensuing The Parliament continued till Monday the 17. of April And then the Bill against the deceitful using of Linnen-Cloth was read tertia vice conclusa dissentiente Com. Arundel And the Bill for the restitution in blood of Henry Howard and Katherine Wise unto the Lord Berkeley communi omnium Procerum assensu suit conclusa The Bill that Craftsmen in Kent and Sussex shall inhabit in Towns near the Sea-Coasts was read tertia vice rejecta The Bill lastly for restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual and abolishing of Foreign Power repugnant to the same was read secunda vice commissa Duci Norfolc Comiti Arundel Comiti Salop Comiti Wigorn. Comiti Rutland Comiti Sussex Comiti Bedford Vicecomiti Mountacute Episcopo Londin Episcopo Elien Episcopo Carleol Domino Admirallo Camerario ac Domino Rich Domino Hastings de Loughborrow ac Domino St. John de Blestoe vide concerning this Bill on Saturday the 29. day of this Instant April ensuing The Parliament by several continuances continued till Tuesday the 25. day of April at nine of the Clock in the Morning and then nine Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was the Bill for Shipping in English Bottoms and the third and fourth touching Frizes called Pagaments and concerning the buying and selling of Horses within a certain time were each of them read prima vice The fifth was touching the Uniformity of Common-Prayer and Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments The sixth was touching Hexam and Hexamshire in the County of Northumberland The seventh to revive an Act made for killing of Rookes and Crowes The eighth was to make good Leases Grants of Offices and Copyholds made by Nicholas Ridley late Bishop of
having given it a second reading did notwithstanding that it had passed the House of Commons refer it to divers Committees there named who did it seems add divers Provisoes thereunto containing the substance of a new Bill to be annexed to the old Bill and which with it made but one Act or Statute and had its first reading on Wednesday the 15. day and its second reading on Thursday the 16. day of the same Month and on Saturday the 18. day thereof Also both the old Bill sent up from the House of Commons and the Provisoes and Amendments annexed unto it in nature of a new Bill were tertia vice lect and passed the Lords notwithstanding the malitious opposition of divers Popish Bishops although this Bill did upon the matter declare no more than the Antient Kings of this Realm had always aimed at which said new Provisoes and Amendments being in the nature of a new Bill were the same day sent down to the House of Commons with their old Bill where the said Provisoes and Alterations added by the Lords had their first reading on Monday the 20. day their second on Tuesday the 21. day and their third on Wednesday the 22. day of the aforesaid March preceding and the said old Bill touching the Supremacy with those new provisions and alterations annexed to it and now passed also by the House of Commons were the same Forenoon returned up again unto their Lordships with a new Proviso added by the said Commons thereunto which said new Proviso was then read also prima secunda tertia vice and passed in the Upper House But whether the many new Additions and Alterations in this foregoing Bill had made some confusion in it or that the House of Commons disliked that their Bill formerly passed with them had received so much reformation in the Upper House or for what other cause I know not most certain it is that they had no desire the said former Bill should be made a perpetual Law by her Majesties Royal Assent and thereupon they framed a new Bill to the like purpose in which I suppose they included also the substance of all the Additions Provisoes and Amendments which the Lords had annexed to their former Bill which had its first reading in the House of Commons as appears by the Original Journal Book of the same House fol. 207. a. on Monday the 19. day of this Instant April being thus intituled much differing from the title thereof here annexed or after added before the Printed Statute viz. The Bill to avoid the usurped power claimed by any Foreign Potentate in this Realm and for the Oath to be taken by spiritual and temporal Officers After which it had its second reading on Wednesday the 12. day and its third reading on Thursday the 13. day of the same Month where also it is entred with this new title viz. The Bill for restoring the spiritual Jurisdiction to the Imperial Crown of the Realm and abolishing Foreign Power And in the inner Margent of the said Journal Book fol. 203. a. over against the beginning of the said title is written Judicium Assent which sheweth that upon the said third reading it passed the House after which on the next day following being Friday it was with three other Bills sent up to the Lords And on Saturday the 15. day of the said April it was read prima vice in the Upper House And on Monday the 17. day thereof next ensuing it was read there secunda vice and thereupon committed to divers Peers as the former Bill in this great and important cause had been before referr'd to Committees on Monday the 13 th day of March preceding although it had been sent up from the Commons and had passed their House in such manner and form as the present Bill had been passed by them And as to that said former Bill so to this also as it is easie to be gathered did the Lords Committees make some addition although but of one new Proviso which was read prima secunda vice on Tuesday the 25 th day of this Instant April after which both the Bill it self and that new Proviso had their third reading and passed the Upper House on Wednesday the 26 th day of the same Month and the said Bill with the said new Proviso written in Parchment were at the same time sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Weston and the Queens Attorney where the said new Proviso added by the Lords was passed and the Bill returned again from them unto their Lordships on Friday the 28 th day of this Instant April with another new Proviso added by them although through the great negligence of ..... Scymour Esq now Clerk of the same House there be no mention at all of the sending down of the said Proviso passing it or adding of the new Proviso but only of the returning the same to the Lords Apr. 27. in the Original Journal Book of the same House To ãâã new Proviso also it should seem the ãâã gave three readings this present day and so passed it And it is probable that it happened only through the error of Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Upper House that the said Proviso is set down to have been read only tertia vice this Instant Saturday the 29 th day of April The Bill also limiting the times for laying on Land Merchandizes from beyond the Sea and touching the Custom of Sweet Wines and the Bill for the continuance of certain Statutes were each of them read prima vice The Bill touching Hexham and Hexhamshire in the County of Northumberland and the Bill whereby the use or practice of Inchantments Witchcrafts and Sorceries is made Felony were each of them read secunda vice Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first Bill set down in the Original Journal Book to have been brought up as aforesaid is thus intituled viz. An Act for Uniformity of Common-Prayer and Service in the Church and the Administration of the Sacraments conclus which doubtless was so entred through the negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House For it is plain that no such Bill was remaining at this time in the House of Commons and that only two other Bills the one to annex to the Crown certain Religious Houses c. and the other touching the Garbling of Feathers c. were sent up by Mr. Vicechamberlain as is there set down fol. 213. a. which two Bills are also set down in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House For this Bill touching the Unity of Service in the Church c. was passed in the House of Commons upon the third reading on Thursday the 20 th of this Instant April foregoing as appears by the Original Journal Book of the same fol. 210. a. and was from thence sent up to the Lords on Tuesday the 25 th day and was read prima vice
on Wednesday the 26 th and secunda vice on Thursday the 27 th of this foresaid April preceding and lastly it had its third reading and passed the House on Friday the 28 th day of the same Month although it were opposed by the Archbishop of York the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Shrewsbury Viscount Mountague the Bishop of London the Bishop of Ely the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Landaff the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield the Bishop of Exeter the Bishop of Chester the Bishop of Carlile the Lord Morley the Lord Stafford the Lord Dudly the Lord Wharton the Lord Rich and the Lord North. In which may there still be observed the obstinacy and boldness of the Popish Bishops who opposed all things that tended but to the least reformation of Idolatry and Superstition or abolishing the usurped authority of the Bishop of Rome it seemeth that the Abbot of Westminster was now absent because his negative voice which was never wanting is not here mentioned Of the temporal Lords the most setled to Popery seem to have been the Viscount Mountague and Earl of Shrewsbury but as for the Marquess of Winchester and these other six Barons they are seldom mentioned to have opposed either the Act for restoring the Supremacy or any other touching Ecclesiastical matters except this only concerning the Book of Common-Prayer the reformation of which being so little differing from the old form as that it hath given and yet doth give occasion of offence and stumbling to many weak ones amongst us it is the more to be marvelled at that so many should oppose it and the rather also because most of the Papists of England did come to our Church and heard Divine Service ordinarily till the eleventh Year of the Queen when the Bull of Pope Pius Quintus enforced not only their wilful and obstinate separation but drew on and necessitated many of those Laws which were afterwards made against them an 13. an 23. an 27 Reg. Eliz. The Bill lastly to continue the Act last made against Rebellious Assemblies was read tertia vice conclusa and delivered to M r Vaughan and the Clerk of the Crown to be carried to the House of Commons The Parliament continued until Monday the first of May at nine of the Clock in the Forenoon Then the Bill for the preservation of Spawn and Fry of Fish The Bill limiting the times of laying on Land Merchandizes from beyond the Seas and touching Custom for Sweet Wines And the Bill for the continuation of certain Statutes were each of them read the second time The Bill lastly to make good Leases Grants of Offices and Copyhold Lands made by Nicholas Ridley late Bishop of London was read tertia vice rejecta Then the Parliament continued till two of the Clock in the Afternoon of the same day about which hour the Lord Keeper with divers other Lords Assembling one Bill of no great moment was read primavice which was for the Garbling of Feathers and Flocks to be sold in Beds and Cushions Then the Parliament continued till next day at nine of the Clock in the Forenoon at which time the Bill for Garbling of Feathers was read the second time Two Bills also had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which one being the Bill for laying on Land Merchandize from beyond the Seas and touching Custom for Sweet Wines was sent down to the House of Commons by Weston Serjeant at Law and the Clerk of the Crown The Bill lastly to annex to the Crown certain Religious Houses c. was read prima vice Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the third being the Bill that the Queens Majesty by Commission may examine the Causes of deprivation of spiritual persons and restore them again And the fifth for continuing the making of Woollen Cloaths in divers Towns in the County of Essex were each of them read prima vice And the sixth and last was the Bill that Timber shall not be felled to make Coals for burning of Iron Then the Parliament continued till Wednesday the 3 d of May at nine of the Clock in the Forenoon at which time five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill that Timber shall not be felled to make Coals for burning of Iron The second for continuing the making of Woollen Cloths in divers Towns in the County of Essex The third that the Queens Majesty by Commission may examine the deprivation of spiritual persons and restore them again And the last being the Bill to annex to the Crown certain Religious Houses and to reform certain abuses in Chantries were each of them read secunda vice The Parliament continued till Friday May the 5 th at eight of the Clock in the Morning And then the Bill that Timber shall not be felled to make Coals for the burning of Iron The Bill for continuing the making of Woollen Cloth in divers Towns in the County of Essex And the Bill that the Queens Majesty by Commission may examine the Causes of deprivation of spiritual persons and restore them again were each of them read tertia vice conclusae The Bill lastly to annex to the Crown certain Religious Houses and to reform certain abuses in Chantries was read tertia vice una cum tribus provisionibus eidem Billae annexis per Dominos quae prima secunda tertia vice lectae erant conclus dissentientibus Archiepiscopo Eboracen Episcopis Londin Elien Wigorn. Landaven Coven Exon. Cestren Carleol Abbate de Westm. ac Vicecomite Mountagne commiss Magistro Weston Servienti ad Legem Attornato Reginae in Domum Communent deferend Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the continuance of certain Statutes with a Proviso added thereunto by the Commons to which the Lords would not agree but sent it down again to be passed by them leaving out the Proviso And the second being the Bill for limiting the times for the laying on Land Merchandize from beyond the Seas and touching Customs for Sweet Wines was returned conclus Then the Parliament continued till the next day at nine of the Clock at which time the Bill for the preservation of the Spawn and Fry of Fish was read tertiâ vice conclus communi omnium Procerum assensu dissentiente Episcopo Elien and it was delivered to Sir Richard Read and the Clerk of the Crown in Domum Communem deferend The Bill also that Timber shall not be felled to make Coals for burning of Iron The Bill for the continuance of certain Statutes And the Bill to annex to the Crown certain Religious Houses and to reform certain abuses in Chantries were returned from the House of Commons conclus On Monday the 8 th day of May the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal met
of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Chancellor to be all one And the Bill touching the true fulling and thicking of Caps were each of them read the third time and concluded Et unà cum aliâ Billa For the making Denizens of certain Children born beyond the Seas commissae sunt Attorn Dom. Reginae Doctori Huick in Dom. Communem deferend Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill against such as shall sell any Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under three thousand pound Lands or Fees was returned conclus And the last was the Bill that the Hospital Church of St. Katherine near the Tower of London shall be a Parish Church and for the erecting of a School Two Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Inchantments Sorceries and Witchcraft was read the first time On Tuesday the 9 th day of March Nine Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir PeterCarew Knight And the second against Inchantments Sorceries Witchcrafts c. were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be engrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been formerly sent to the Lords from the House of Commons The sixth being the Bill for the uniting and annexing of Churches was read primâ vice commissa Justiciario Southcot ut in duos libros redigatur On Wednesday the 10 th day of March the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of William West And the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Sir William Carew Knight were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus Eight other Bills had each of them one reading of which the three last the one for Badgers of Corn and Drovers of Cattle to be Licensed Another touching the Lord Viscount Bindon And the third for the relief of the Poor were each of them read secunda vice On Thursday the 11 th day of March the Bill for avoiding of divers Foreign Wares made by Handy-crafts-men beyond the Seas The Bill against fond and phantastical Prophecies And the Bill for the punishment of the vice of Buggery were each of them read tertia vice conclusae commissae sunt Attornato Dominae Reginae Doctori Yale in Domum Communem deferend Six other Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Forgers of false Deeds and Writings and the third being the Bill for Badgers of Corn and Drovers of Cattle to be Licensed were each of them read tertia vice conclus Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy and the second declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Chancellor to be one were each of them returned conclus On Saturday the 13 th day of March the Bill touching the Town of Southampton was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand The Bill touching the Boyers of Westminster was read prima secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum The Bill also for Confirmation of divers Liberties granted by Letters Patents to the City of Exeter was read tertiâ vice And a Proviso added thereunto by the Lords being read prima secunda tertia vice the Bill was concluded Commun omnium procerum assensu On Monday the 15 th day of March Seven Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill that the Hospital of St. Katherines near the Tower of London shall be a Parish Church and for the erecting of a School was read primâ vice and committed to the Bishop of London Quod nota For Bills are not usually committed until the second reading vide tamen consimile on Tuesday the 26 th day of January foregoing The fourth also being the Bill for the Enrolment of Bargains and Sales in the Queens Majesties Courts of Record in Lancaster Chester and Durham was read tertiâ vice commissa Servienti Carus Attornato Dominae Reginae unà cum Bill Civitat Exon. in Domum Communem deferend Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlaine Knight and John Harleston Esq And the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Anne Thomas Daughter and Heir of William Thomas Esq were each of them returned conclus On Tuesday 16. day of March the Bill for the relief of the Poor The Bill for uniting of Churches in Cities and Towns Corporate The Bill for the Boyers of London Westminster and Southwark And the Bill for the Confirmation of a Grant made by Letters Patents to the Town of Southampton touching the bringing of Malmesies and Sweet Wines by Merchant Strangers were each of them read tertiâ vice conclusae The Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions which had been before here passed and concluded in the Upper House and sent down by them to the House of Commons and from the Commons sent back again to the Lords with certain Provisoes and Amendments added thereunto The said Bill needed no new reading but the said Provisoes and Amendments which had been added since it had passed the Upper House were now read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice all at once and so passed The Bills for Southampton and the Boyers of Westminster were sent down to the House of Commons by M r Sollicitor and D r Yale and from thence were returned two other Bills which had passed the Upper House the one for sundry politick Constitutions for the encrease of the Navy and the other for the Restitution in Blood of William West On Wednesday the 17 th day of March the Bill for Assignment for the Queens Houshold was read tertiâ vice and with the Bill for uniting of Churches in Towns Corporate and for relief of the Poor was sent from the Lords to the House of Commons The Bill for allowance to be made to the Sheriffs being called for the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal declared to the Lords that the Queen would her self take Order therein which her pleasure and determination she willed him to signifie unto them on her behalf On Thursday the 18. day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill against Filing Washing and Clipping of Coins was read the second time and committed to be ingrossed The Bill concerning Viscount Bindon and the Bill for Tillage were Ordered this day to be ingrossed On Saturday the 20. day of March the Bill touching peculiar Jurisdictions was upon the second reading committed
to the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Bangor the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Wentworth the Lord Rich the Lord Willoughby and the two Chief Justices Nota That here the Judges who are but Assistants unto the Upper House are made joint Committees with the Lords vide a like President on Tuesday the 26. of January foregoing Four other Bills had each of them their third reading and passed and were sent to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Carus and the Queens Sollicitor of which one was for the preservation of the Woods in Sussex and another for the punishment of Clipping filing rounding or washing of the Coin of this Realm or any other Coin currant within this Realm Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was against fond and phantastick Prophecies The second against Conjurations Enchantments and Witchcrafts And the third for the punishment of the vice of Buggery On Monday the 22. day of March Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the punishment of such persons as shall procure and commit wilful Perjury and the Bill touching Fines and Recoveries with Voucher where the Original Writ is imbezilled or lacking were each of them read the first time and committed to the Queens Learned Counsel On Tuesday the 23. day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the punishment of unlawful taking of Fish Deer and Hawks was read the second time On Wednesday the 24. day of March the Bill for the maintenance of the Navy with certain Provisoes added thereunto by the Lords was read tertiâ vice conclusa and committed to Serjeant Carus and the Queens Attorney to be carried to the House of Commons The Bill also against unlawful Contracts and Bargains upon Usury was read tertiâ vice and rejected On Thursday the 25. day of March Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for punishment of such persons as shall commit wilful Perjury was read the second time A Proviso to be annex'd to the Bill for Stealing of Hawks Deer or Conies was read prima secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum On Friday the 26. day of March the Bill for reviving of a Statute made An. 23 H. 8. touching the making of Goals was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Saturday the 27. day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the punishment of unlawful taking of Fish Deer or Hawks was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus On Monday the 29. day of March Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the punishment of such persons as shall procure or commit any wilful Perjury And the second for the due Execution of the Writ de Excommunicato capiendo were each of them read the third time communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus and committed to the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor to be carried to the House of Commons The Bill for Plumsted-Marsh was committed to the Lord Chief Justice Quod nota On Tuesday the 30. of March Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof six having been formerly ent down from the Lords were now returned expedited The seventh and eighth being for the translating of the Bible and other Divine Service into the Welch Tongue and that Chancellors Commissaries and Officials in Ecclesiastical Courts shall be Graduates of one University were each of them prima vice Two Bills were brought from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill touching an Annuity granted to the finding of a School in Guildford was primâ vice lect The Bill lastly to fill up Juries de Circumstantibus lacking in Wales was tertiâ vice lect conclusa On Wednesday the 31. day of March four Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that Chancellors Commissaries and Officials in Ecclesiastical Courts shall be Graduates of one University And the second for translating the Bible and other Divine Service into the Welch Tongue were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons on the day foregoing On Thursday the first day of April the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled in the House but nothing was done save only the Parliament continued by the Lord Keeper in Form following Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox hora nona On Saturday the 3 d day of April Three Bills were brought from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for relief of the Poor with divers Amendments added by the House of Commons and two Provisoes And the second for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted to the Town of Southampton touching the bringing in of Wines by Merchant Strangers with a Proviso added by the Commons The Bill touching the Annuity granted for the finding of a School at Guildford was read tertiâ vice conclus Hodiè introduct est à domo Communi Billa touching an Assignment of the Queens Majesties Houshold with certain Provisoes thereunto added by the Commons quae primâ secunda tertia vice lect conclus sunt The Bill lastly for the Annexing of the County of Dorset to the Jurisdiction of the Bishoprick of Salisbury was read prima vice On Monday the 5. day of April the Bill for the translating of the Bible and other Divine Service into the Welch Tongue was read the third time and a Proviso added thereunto by the Lords was also thrice read conclus commissa Servienti Carus in Domum Communem deferend The Bill for the relief of the Poor was read tertiâ vice conclus On Tuesday the 6. day of April Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the translating of the Bible into the Welch Tongue with three others was returned conclus And the fifth being the Bill touching Curriers Shoo-makers and other Artificers occupying the working of Leather was read prima vice The Proviso added by the Lords to the Bill for the Town of Southampton was read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice conclus commissa Attornato Sollicitatori Dominae Regin in Domum Communem deferend Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam à Meridie On the aforesaid Tuesday in the Afternoon the Bill touching Tanners Curriers Shoomakers and other Artificers occupying the working of Leather was read secundâ
President on the day following A motion was made by a Burgess for a Subsidy The Queens Serjeant and Attorney brought a Bill from the Lords touching the Garrison of Barwick An Excellent Declaration was this day made by M r Secretary Cecill of the great Charges defrayed by the Queens Majesty and of the Causes of the Wars in France for not keeping the Edict there made by the Parliament and also touching the Charges at Barwicke and New-haven the Provision of Armour and the Navy the Cavillation of the French for Callice concluding to consider for the Aid The Bill lastly for the Government of the Garrison and Souldiers of Barwick was read the first time On Thursday the 21. day of January For that it is said that M r Elrington hath interest in the Iron-Mill in the Town of Shere in Surrey whereas the Bill is to put down the same It was resolved that M r Speaker should direct his Letter to him in the name of the House to come and shew if he will for saving his Estate therein Vide touching this business on Saturday the 30. day of this Instant January ensuing The Bill against breaking of Ponds and Stealing of Fish and Conies was read the first time A like Letter was sent also to the Heir of Walter Herenden for the Lands claimed by M r Barty and the Duchess of Suffolk The Bill to revive divers Acts to be Felony M r Sidney By which manner of Entring the Title of the said Bill it may plainly be collected that the Bill it self had at this time its second reading and was thereupon committed to M r Sidney aforesaid to whom it seemeth the Bill was delivered and others whose names are omitted The Queens Serjeant and others brought a Bill from the Lords touching the Repeal of a branch for conveying of Horses which Bill was presently read the first time On Friday the 22 th day of January M r Elrington Owner of the Iron-Mill in Shere for the suppressing of which a Bill was put into this House desired a Copy of the Bill and a day to Answer with his learned Counsel two in number and to bring his Answer on Friday next Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against carrying of Horses out of the Realm was secundâ vice lect but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent down from the Lords And the last being the Bill for the Government of the Garrison and Souldiers of Barwick was read the second time and as it should seem was committed to M r Fitz-Chamberlain mistaken for M r Vice-Chamberlain and others Vide a like President on Thursday the 21 th day of this instant January foregoing For that Burgesses be returned of divers Boroughs not lately returned in the Chancery viz. the Burgess of Tregony S t Jermynes and Maws in Cornwall the Borough of Minked in Somersetshire the Borough of Tamworth in Stafford and the Borough of Stankbridge in Southampton M r Speaker declared to the House that the Lord Steward agreed they should resort into the House and with convenient speed to shew Letters Patents why they be returned into this Parliament Nota That it was very common and ordinary in former times to avoid the Charges of their Burgesses allowance in time of Parliament when the Town grew into any poverty or decay that the Boroughs did either get Licence of the Sovereign for the time being to be discharged from such Election and Attendance or did by degrees discontinue it themselves but of later times the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons for the most part bearing their own Charges many of those Borough-Towns who had discontinued their former priviledge by not sending did again recontinue it as these Towns here both during her Majesties Reign and afterwards in the Reign of King James her Successor On Saturday the 23 th day of January Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for levying of Fines in the County Palatine of Durham was read the second time and Ordered to be engrossed The Bill to repeal the branch for carrying of Horses out of the Realm was read the third time and passed upon the Question Three other Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to avoid Aliens not being Denizens nor being here for Religion nor Conscience sake was upon the second reading rejected and the Bill torn On Monday the 25 th day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Oak-Timber preservation of Bark was read the second time and thereupon rejected and torn Certain Articles in writing were objected by the Burgesses of Barwick against the Bill of Barwick which was sent down by the Lords For that Lewes Mountgomery Esq is returned Burgess for Northampton and also for Dorchester and doth appear for Northampton a new Writ de Burgens eligendo was required for Dorchester The Queens Council with twenty four of the Shires and fix of Wales were appointed on Wednesday next to meet in the Star-Chamber for Order to be taken concerning the Subsidy On Tuesday the 26 th day of January Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill that Apothecaries and their Stuff shall be under the search of the Colledge of Physicians was read the first time A Petition devised by the Committees who were appointed on Tuesday the 19 th day of this instant January foregoing although their names be wholly omitted through the Clerks negligence to be made to the Queens Majesty by M r Speaker for limitation of Succession was read by M r Norton one of the Committees And thereupon the Queens Privy-Council were required to move her Majesty that M r Speaker with the whole House may exhibit to her Highness that Petition and to certifie her Highness pleasure Vide touching this business on Thursday the 28 th day of this instant January ensuing in Pomeridiano The Bill touching carrying of Horses out of the Realm was sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller with a request to the Lords to further the Petition of this House to the Queens Majesty touching Marriage and Succession which was well allowed of by the Lords Vide on Thursday the 28 th day of this instant January following For that Francis Walsinghaw returned Burgess for Linn in Dorsetshire and for Banbury in Oxfordshire doth appear for Linne a new Writ de Burgens eligend was required for Banbury On Wednesday the 27 th day of January the Bill touching Curriers to buy Tann'd-Leather to work and sell it was read the second time and as it should seem was committed to Mr. Crosts and others not named Vide a like President on Thursday the 21 th day of this instant January foregoing Mr. Comptroller with
Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the new Bill against Clipping Washing and Filing of Coins was read the first time On Thursday the 25. day of February Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the third for punishment of Clipping and Washing of money And the fifth for such as lend their Goods for Apparel were each of them upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed And the last being the Bill against forging of false Deeds with Provisoes from this House was read the third time and passed Post Meridiem In the Afternoon six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Anne Thomas was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords William Undale Esq Burgess for the Town of Southampton was for his necessary affairs Licensed to be absent On Friday the 26 th day of February the Bill for dressed Flax and the Bill touching Originals of Fines imbezelled were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Four other Bills also had each of them one reading of which one was the Bill that S t Katherines Church shall be a Parish Church and a School Erected The Bill for Clipping and Washing of money and the Bill against Sale of Wares for Apparel to persons under Land or Fees c. were each of them read the third time and passed the House And the last being for having Grigg Mills between Plime and Dart in Devonshire was upon the third reading dashed by the division of the House viz. with the Bill forty seven and against the Bill eighty four On Saturday the 27 th day of February Sir Robert Wingfeild one of the Knights for the County of Suffolk for his affairs at the Assizes was Licensed to be absent The Bill for further punishment of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians and the Bill for allowance to Sheriffs for Justices Dyets were each of them read the third time and passed the House Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary with the Bill of the Subsidy amended of which one was touching the punishment of Vagabonds and another for Clipping and washing of money Three Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill to add de circumstantibus to the Juries in Wales and Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Chester was read the third time and passed the House On Monday the first day of March Two Bills had each of them their first reading of which the second being against Purveyors was as it should seem referr'd to M r Vice-Chamberlain to consider of it Arguments being had in the House to the Proviso for Hunting of Conies that eat other mens Corn was as it seemeth referr'd to M r Vice-Chamberlain and others not named Griffin Curtis Esq Burgess for the Burrough of Ludgersall in Wilts for his Affairs at the Assizes was Licensed to depart John Cheney Esq one of the Knights for the County of Berks hath also Licence for his Affairs On Tuesday the 2 d day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching Badgers of Corn was read the third time and passed the House M r D r Read and M r D r Huick brought from the Lords the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Children of the Lord Hussey And the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Children of Archbishop Cranmer Long Arguments being had to the Bill for the encrease of the Navy and Fish-Days and a Proviso brought in by M r Secretary the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 3 d day of March the Bill for the Orders and Wages of Servants of Husbandry and Artificers was read the first time and as it should seem committed to M r Crofts to consider of it On Thursday the 4 th day of March Sir Thomas Gargrave Knight one of the Knights for the County of York for great Affairs with the rest of the Council in the North parts was Licensed to depart M r Richard Baker and ..... Leonard Esq with their Council learned required that a Proviso may be for them put to the Bill for the restitution in Blood of the Sons of Henry Iseley Attainted of Treason William and Edward Iseley with their learned Council require that considering the Bill doth restore them towards the Lands but to such Title as they had before that that State may continue unto them Vide touching this matter on the day following The Queens Serjeant and M r Attorney brought from the Lords two Bills of which one being the Bill touching the Oath with four Provisoes added by the Lords the same Provisoes were read the first and second time Post Meridiem In the Afternoon Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill that S t Katherines shall be a Parish Church and a School there was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrost Seven other Bills had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill that the Bible and Book of Service may be in the Welch Tongue And another that Sanctuary shall not serve for Debt were each of them read the second time and Ordered to be ingrost On Friday the 5 th day of March Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for avoiding of divers Foreign Wares made by Artificers beyond the Seas was read the third time and passed the House The Parties on both sides for M r Isely's Bill require that it might proceed in form for they be both agreed that M r Isely after this Bill pass shall release to M r Richard Baker and M r Leonard all their right title interest and demand in such Lands as the said Baker and Leonard severally have late Sir Henry Iseley's Father to the said William and Edward Iseley Vide touching this business on the day foregoing The Bill lastly for restitution in Blood of William and Edward Iseley And the Bill for restitution in Blood of Thomas Brook alias Cobham and others were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords On Saturday the 6 th day of March the Bill for the punishment of Perjury and false Witnesses was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The three Bills last past of which one was for avoiding of Foreign Wares were sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary with twelve more The Queens Serjeant brought from the Lords the Bill of Subsidy of the Clergy And the Bill for restitution in Blood of Ed. Turner The Bill also for continuance of Statutes for the mending of High-ways was read the second time and Ordered
to be ingrossed Post Meridiem In the Afternoon twelve Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for restitution in Blood of Edward Turner And the second for restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlain and John Hurleston had each of them their second reading but neither committed nor ordered to be ingrossed because they had been formerly sent from the Lords John Eire Esquire one of the Knights of the County of Wilts for his Affairs is Licensed to be absent On Monday the 8 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that S t Katherines Church shall be a Parish Church And the Second for the repairing and mending of High-ways were read the third time and passed the House and were sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller M r Attorney brought from the Lords three Bills of which one was the Bill for Denizens Children The Bill also against the unlawful taking of Fish Deer or Hawks was read the third time and passed Post Meridiem In the Afternoon eight Bills had each of them one reading of which one was the Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy Richard Parrott Gent. Burgess for Sandwich for his Sickness was Licensed to be absent On Tuesday the 9. day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords Four other Bills also were each of them read the third time of which one being the Bill for restitution in Blood of Anne Thomas Another for restitution in Blood of Edward Turner And a third for restitution in Blood of Thomas Cranmer and Margaret Children of the Archbishop Cranmer did each of them pass the House Post Meridiem In the Afternoon eight Bills had each of them one reading of which the fifth being the Bill for the paving of Kentish-street near Southwark was read the second time and as it should seem committed to M r Graston and others not named Vide consimile on Thursday the 21. day of January foregoing Long Arguments were this day had in the House upon the Bill for having Wednesday to be a Fish-Day Vide touching this business on Thursday the 11. day of this instant March following On Wednesday the 10. day of March the Bill for restitution in Blood of William and Edward Iseley The Bill for restitution in Blood of Thomas Cobham The Bill to make Denizens the Children of John Fitz-Williams and others And the Bill for the restitution in Blood of the Heirs of the Lord Hussey were each of them read the third time and passed the House The Bill that Merchants shall not marry Strangers beyond the Seas was read the first time The Bill that the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal hath the like Power as the Lord Chancellor And the Bill for the restitution in Blood of the Daughters of Thomas Iseley were each of them read the third time and passed M r Sollicitor brought from the Lords the Bill for the restitution in Blood of Sir Peter Carew and William West Long Arguments upon the Bill for having the Wednesday to be a Fish-Day were continued till the Morrow after On Thursday the 11. day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy was read the third time and passed and was sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary together with the Lord Keepers Bill and the Bill for Fish Deer and Hawks Long Arguments were had upon the Bill for encrease of the Navy whether the Wednesday shall be a Fish-Day and upon the Question the House was divided and to have it a Fish-Day were a hundred fifty nine and not to have it a Fish-Day were ninety six And immediately after upon the qualification of that day the greater number agreed to the qualification Vide touching this matter on Tuesday the 9. day and on Wednesday the 10. day of this instant March foregoing George Cope Burgess of Ludgersall in Wilts for his affairs at the Assizes hath Licence to be absent On Friday the 12. day of March the Bill touching Consecration of Bishops was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Four other Bills also had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for the Inning of Plumsted-Marsh now surrounded was read the third time and passed the House On Saturday the 13 th day of March the Bill for the restitution in Blood of Leonard Diggs and Thomas Diggs and the Bill for restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlain Knight and John Hurleston were each of them read the third time and passed The Bill against Conjurations was brought from the Lords by M r Sollicitor Post Meridiem In the Afternoon six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for increase of Woods and Champian Grounds was read the second time and as it should seem committed to M r Marsh and others not named On Monday the 15 th day of March the Bill against fulling of Caps in Mills was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either committed or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords George Lee Esq one of the Burgesses for Rippon in Yorkshire and Elice Price one of the Knights for Merionethshire in Wales for their affairs were Licensed to be absent Three Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain of which one was the Bill for Inning of Plumsted-Marsh The Provisoes added to the Bill for increase of Navigation were read the third time and passed M r Serjeant Carus and M r Attorney brought from the Lords the Bill for Enrolment of Bargains in Lancaster with a Proviso in Exeter Bill On Tuesday the 16 th day of March the Bill for the Enrolment of Writings Indented at Lancaster Chester and Duresm and a Proviso added to the Bill of Exeter were each of them read the first time The Bill for the Navy and the Bill for restitution in Blood of M r West were sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary and the Bill for Southampton and the Bill for Bowyers were sent from the Lords by M r Comptroller Post Meridiem In the Afternoon six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for unlading of Malmesies and Sweet Wines at South-hampton was read the first time On Wednesday the 17 th day of March the Proviso to the Bill of Exeter was read the third time and passed M r Sackvil declared from the Queens Majesty that she would take Order to make allowance for Justices Diets and that Commissioners should be sent to enquire of Vicountels
that may be levied and the rest Order should be taken for the discharge thereof Michael Poultney Esquire Burgess for Lichfeild Robert Buckstones Burgess for Horsam in Sussex and Henry Green Citizen for the City of Hereford were for their several affairs Licensed to be absent On Thursday the 18 th day of March the Proviso to the Bill of Bowyers was read the third time and passed the House The Bill against phantastical Prophecies The Bill for punishment of Witchcrafts And the Bill against wilful Perjury were each of them read the third time and passed Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the uniting of Churches by the Bishop so that the value be not above 24 l of the Churches united with two others were each of them read the first time On Friday the 19 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for punishment of Invocations of evil Spirits And the last That Fines or Recoveries with Voucher though the Original be imbezelled shall be good were each of them read the third time and passed the House On Saturday the 20 th day of March the Bill for continuance of Statutes to endure for ever was read the second time and as it should seem committed to M r Clare and others not named And the Bill against Bankrupts being read also the second time was as may be gathered committed to M r Mersh and others not named Vide consimile on Thursday the 21 th day of January foregoing M r Serjeant Carus and M r Sollicitor brought from the Lords the Bill against Washing and Clipping of money The Bill touching Leases made by Viscount Bindon and his Wife with two others Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain of which one was for the punishment of Witchcraft and another touching Fines and Recoveries with Voucher c. with two others of no great moment and immediately the Bill that Clipping or Washing of money shall be Treason The Bill for preservation of Woods in Sussex were each of them read the first time John Gardner Gent. Burgess for Dorchester in Dorset was for his affairs Licensed to be absent Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the relief of the poor And the Bill for the uniting of Parish Churches in Cities and Corporate Towns to the value of 24 l were each of them read the second time John Darrington Esq one of the Knights for the County of Huntington is for his affairs Licensed to be absent On Monday the 22 th day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that Clipping and Washing of Monies shall be Treason was read the second time but not committed nor ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords It was Ordered that William Gerrard a necessary Witness for M r Pledal as he saith may be served by the Serjeant to attend Mr. Haddon at the rising of the House one of the Committees with the Master of the Rolls Mr. Recorder and Sir William Arnold and Mr. Norton discharged of this Examination Vide plus on Saturday the 10 th day of April ensuing Post Meridiem In the Afternoon four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the paving of Kentish-street was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed John Dorrington Esq Knight for Huntington Humphrey Quarnby Burgess for Nottingham William Dawtrye Knight for Suffex Simon Thellwall Knight for Denbigh for their several necessary affairs were Licensed to be absent Three Bills lastly had each of them their first reading of which the first was the Bill touching Demurrers in Law On Tuesday the 23 th day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that Clipping and Washing of money shall be Felony was read the third time and passed the House The Bill for encrease of Tillage was brought from the Lords by M r Serjeant Carus Post Meridiem In the Afternoon Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching Leases to be made by the Lord Thomas Howard Viscount Bindon and his Wife And the second that Henry Howard Esq shall not discontinue Lands that shall descend were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords On Wednesday the 24 th day of March Two Bills had each of them their second reading of which the latter being the Bill for Assignment of forty thousand twenty seven pound four shillings and two pence half penny to the Expences of the Queens Houshold which Bill notwithstanding that it had passed the Upper House and been sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons on Wednesday the 17 th day of this instant March foregoing yet it was committed or at least referred to M r Vice-Chamberlain being an Officer of her Majesties said Houshold to be further considered of and was lastly passed in the House of Commons upon the third reading on Saturday the third day of April ensuing and was then immediately returned back to the Lords by M r Comptroller Two Bills were each of them read the third time of which one being the Bill for Fulling of Caps by foot and hand was dashed upon the Question Morris William Knight for the County of Carnarvon for his weighty affairs was Licensed to be absent On Thursday the 25 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that the Lord Abergavenny may make Leases for twenty Years or three Lives And the second that Henry Howard Esq shall not discontinue Lands descending to him were each of them read the third time and passed And the third being the Bill for the Annuity of six pound thirteen shillings and four pence out of Wandlesworth in Surrey being the Archbishop of Yorks Lands to the School of Guildford was read the third time but it should seem the House did desire to consider further of this Bill and thereupon passed it not at this time but gave it a fourth reading on Tuesday the 30 th day of this instant March ensuing and then it passed the House Post Meridiem In the Afternoon four Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for payment of Alneagers Fees for Sealing Cloaths in Lancashire was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Friday the 26 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being that the Lord Howard and the Lady Elizabeth his Wife may make Leases c. was read the third time and passed On Saturday the 27 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that the Bible and the
each of them read the third time and passed the House and were with two others sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary The Bill for destruction of Crows Rooks c. and other such Vermine was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill also for paving of Kentish-street near Southwark And the Bill that Sanctuary shall not be allowable for Debt were each of them read the third time and passed the House and were sent to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Post Meridiem In the Afternoon a Proviso to the Bill for repairing of Goals and a Proviso to the Bill de Excommunicato capiendo were each of them read the first and second time On Friday the 9 th day of April the Proviso added to the Bill de Excommunicat capiend was read the third time and passed the House The Bill also for destruction of Rooks Crows and Coughs and such other Vermine was read the third time and passed the House and immediately sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain The new Bill for uniting of Churches in Boroughs or Towns being under the value of twenty Marks was read the first time And the Proviso lastly of this House to the Bill for repairing of Goals was read the third time and passed On Saturday the 10 th day of April It was Ordered that M r Pleddall shall have the Copies of such Examinations and Writings as have been certified into this House by the Master of the Rolls and other Committees and also that M r Francis Newdigate may have like Copies And that such Evidence as M r Pleddall hath delivered to the Committees hands may remain under their Seals and M r Pleddall's Seal in the keeping of the Officer of the Rolls that useth to keep the Evidences there Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 22 th day and on Tuesday the 30 th day of March foregoing The Bill for repairing of Goals was sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain The Queens Majesties free and general Pardon Signed with her Graces Hand was brought from the Lords by M r Attorney and M r Sollicitor and immediately read the third time and passed Nota That this Bill touching her Majesties Pardon passed upon the first reading whereas other Bills do never pass till after the third A Proviso sent down to the House of Commons from the Lords touching the Bill of Bankrupts And the addition to the Bill concerning Purveyors were read the first second and third time and passed the House In the Afternoon about three of the Clock the Queens Majesty sitting in her Royal Seat M r Speaker made an Excellent Oration rehearsing divers Laws made by divers Queens of this Realm and requiring the Queen to Assent to the Acts past both Houses and presented to her Majesty the Book of Subsidy and the Book of the general Pardon with most humble thanks for the same And the Lord Keeper by the Queens Commandment gave great thanks unto the Nobility and Commons and earnestly required them severally in their Countries to look that the Laws might be Executed And touching the Succession the Queen Commanded the Lord Keeper to declare her Highness device thereof the effect and conclusion whereof was that for the great weight of the matter her Majesty minded to take further advice Vide plus concerning this matter of Succession on Thursday the 28. day of January and on Tuesday the 16. day of February foregoing Then were the several Titles of the Acts read and thirty one publick Statutes and seventeen private were made Laws by her Majesties Royal Assent And then this Parliament was Prorogued until the second day of October next At which second day of October for that the Plague was great in London and Westminster The Queens Majesties Letters Patents of Commission were directed to the Lord Treasurer of England and other Bishops and Lords of the Upper House to Prorogue this Parliament unto the fifth day of October 1564. which was done accordingly in the presence of the said Lords and a few of the House of Commons Mr. Speaker not being there At which fifth day of October this Parliament was further Prorogued by the Queens Majesties Commission Patent unto the 30. day of April the next ensuing M r Speaker not being there At which 30. day of April It was then further Prorogued unto the 4. day of October then next following M r Speaker not being there At which fourth day of October Anno Domini 1565. Anno Septimo Reginae Elizabeth It was then further Prorogued unto the 7. day of February then next following M r Speaker not being there At which 7. day of Feb. 1565. Anno Elizabethae Reginae Octavo It was then further Prorogued unto the 30. day of Sept. then next following THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Lords in the Session of Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 8 Regin Eliz. A. D. 1566. which began there after divers Prorogations of the same on Monday the 30 th of September and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Thursday the 2 d day of Jan. Ann. 9 Regin ejusdem THIS Parliament de An. 8 Regin Eliz. being in Law but one and the same with that held in an 5 Reginae ejusdem An. Dom. 1563. although not Assembled till about three Years after was in the mean time never Dissolved but only Prorogued from time to time by six several Prorogations whereof the two first falling out in the said fifth Year of the Queen are there mentioned as most properly belonging to the first Session of this Parliament although the latter of them be entred at large in the Journal-Book de an 8 Regin Eliz. and the four last of the said fix Prorogations do all here follow before the beginning of this Journal of Parliament of the passages of the Upper House being full of excellent and rare matter as necessary matter of preparation unto it being in Law as hath been observed but the second Session of that former Parliament Assembled in An. 5 Regin Eliz. predictae whereof those two former Prorogations as they do at large appear in the end of the Journal of the Upper House of that fifth year of the Queen were the first of them from Saturday the 10 th day of April on which day that said first Session of this Parliament ended in that fifth year aforesaid to the second day of October next ensuing de an 5. Reginae ejusdem and the second Prorogation of those foresaid two former was from the said second day of October in the said fifth Year of the Queen to the 5 th day of October which should be in an 6 Regin Eliz. An. Dom. 1564. upon which foresaid 5 th day of October in an 6 Regin supradictae Annoque Dom. 1564. Prorogatum fuit ulterius praedictum Parliamentum modo forma sequentibus Memorandum quod quinto die Octobris Anno Regni Elizabethae
Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli paucis verbis declaravit conventum Procerum populi quem Parliamentum vocant in hunc diem destinatum à dictâ Dominâ Reginâ certis quibusdam de causis considerationibus illam ad id specialiter moven differri in 30 diem Septembris prox futur These foregoing Prorogations of this present Session of Parliament being thus at large or abstractedly transcribed now follows in Order the Assembling and Meeting of both Houses in their several places on Monday the 30 th day of September to which day it had been last Prorogued so that either House going on where they last left there was no Meeting in the Upper House at all of both Houses nor the Queen came not in Person as she used to do when a new Parliament began nor hath it ever been used in latter times upon a meer Prorogation but yet on Wednesday the second day of October following by reason of the Choice of a new Speaker in the House of Commons which was occasioned by the Death of the former the Queens Majesty came in her accustomed Royalty as at the beginning of a Parliament is usual and there admitted of their new Speaker presented unto her whom they had Chosen but the day before by vertue of her Majesties Commission all which in due Form and Order follows On Monday the 30. day of September to which day this present Session of Parliament had been last Prorogued there Assembled in the Upper House according to the usual form and course as also the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons did in their own proper place Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England the Lord Archbishop of York the Lord Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Marquess of Northampton with divers Earls Viscounts Bishops and Barons the particular setting down of whose names is purposely omitted here although it were the first day of their Assembling together because they are at large set down on the second day of October following being Wednesday when by reason of her Majesties coming in Person to the Upper House the presence of the Lords was somewhat greater than upon this instant Monday Hodiè retornatum fuit Breve quo Edwardus Dominus Stafford ad praesens Parliament summonitus fuit qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae locum salvo semper jure superioris sedentis Consimile pro Henrico Domino Paget Consimile pro Rogero Domino North. Consimile pro Roberto Comite Leicestriae Consimile pro Henrico Comite Westmorl This day Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold Sir Francis Knolles Knight her Highness Vice-Chamberlain Sir William Cecill Knight her Highness Principal Secretary and Sir Ambrose Cave Knight Chancellor of her Highness Dutchy of Lancaster four Chief Members of the House of Commons and divers others of that Assembly to the number of twenty persons being sent up to the Lords from that House upon some urgent and weighty occasions desired to be admitted into the Upper House there to make known to their Lordships somewhat wherein they should require their advice and need their assistance upon which being admitted the said M r Comptroller assisted with the Personages and Company aforesaid did in comely order and discreet modesty make manifest and known unto the said Lords that Thomas Williams Esquire their late Speà ker in the last Session of this Parliament in the fifth Year of the Queens Majesty that now is was bereft from them by Death which had been openly and manifestly made known and testified unto them for remedy of which defection they humbly prayed their Lordships advice after which the Lord Keeper first requiring the said Personages a while to withdraw themselves and then commending the Order of the matter to the Lords sitting in consultation for the same it was by them all upon considerate advice therein had thought fit to signifie unto the said Commons by the Personages aforesaid that they thought it expedient and good the said Lord Keeper the Lord Treasurer of England the Duke his Grace of Norfolk and the Lord Marquess of Northampton with the four forecited Personages of the said House of Commons being also of her Highness most Honourable Privy-Council should in the name of both of the Assemblies with all humbleness and due celerity make intimation of their said Estate and the Petition thereupon depending unto her said Highness to which advice the said House of Commons upon knowledge had of the same wholly assented Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Martis primum Octobris On Tuesday the first day of October the Bill for the making void of fraudulent Gifts and Alienations was read primâ vice The Queen having been moved as it seemeth the day past about the Death of the former Speaker and the Choice of a new one in the House of Commons by those eight Right Honourable Personages who were then and there named to move her Highness in it did give Order that this present Tuesday both the Lords and Commons should Assemble and meet together in the Parliament Chamber there to receive her Majesties Answer Where being Assembled the Lord Keeper shewed forth a Commission from her Highness under the great Seal of England which was directed unto him only the tenor whereof is set down at large in the Journal of the House of Commons de An. isto 8 Regin Eliz. to which House it properly belonged viz. That in respect Thomas Williams Esq the former Speaker was dead therefore the Lord Keeper was for her Majesty and in her Name to will and Command the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the said House of Commons to resort unto their accustomed place and there to Elect and chuse amongst themselves one able and sufficient person to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament yet to come And after they should have made their Election that then three or four of them for and in all their names should signifie the same unto her Majesty and thereupon her Highness would further signifie her pleasure unto them what day and time they should present him so Elected before her as it had been used formerly in like Cases to be done There was this day no other Bill or other business agitated in the Upper House for immediately upon the reading of the last above-mentioned Commission the Continuance of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the said House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque diem Mercurii secundum diem Octobris On Wednesday the second day of October it seemeth there was no meeting of the Lords nor any thing done in the Forenoon neither is any mention made in the foregoing continuance of this Parliament by the Lord Keeper to what Hour of this Wednesday it was continued
be not very usual yet there want not Presidents of the same nature as I was assured by Henry Elsing Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House upon Friday the 16 th day of April 1630. and that especially in former times as of King Edward the third and others the Lord Keepers place was during his absence for the most part supplied by vertue of the Kings verbal Command and seldom by Commission October the 6 th Sunday On Monday the 7 th day of October An Act to make void fraudulent Gifts Bargains and Alienations made for the deceiving of Creditors was read primâ vice and committed to Justice Dyer Quod nota The Lord Treasurer continued the Parliament until the next day at nine of the Clock On Tuesday the 8 th day of October the Bill that no man killing any person by misfortune at twelve score or longer mark shall therefore forfeit his Lands Tenements or Goods was read primâ vice Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliament usque in diem Jovis prox horâ nonâ On Thursday the 10 th day of October Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill that no man killing any person at twelvescore prick or longer mark shall forfeit his Goods or Chattels in which Bill for that it toucheth the Queens Prerogative it was thought not convenient to proceed further without her Highness pleasure first known in the same Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox hora nona and so every sitting day until Friday the 25 th day of October exclusivè the Parliament was continued in this Form by the Lord Treasurer except Monday the 21 th day and Tuesday the 22 th day of October on both which days the House did sit and Bills were read but in the Original Journal-Book is no mention of continuing the Court by any person which seemeth to have happened by negligence of the Clerk and after the said 25 th day of October on which Sir Robert Catlin Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was appointed by her Majesties Commission to supply the place of the Lord Keeper during his Sickness it was continued until Saturday the 9 th day of November ensuing when Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal repaired again to the Upper House and there continued his place till the Dissolution of this present Session of Parliament On Saturday the 12 th day of October Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against fraudulent Gifts of Goods and Chattels and also a remedy for Creditors against Bankrupts was Committed to the Lord Chief Justice Dyer and Justice Southcote to be by them considered against the next meeting Quod nota October the 13 th Sunday On Monday the 14 th day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued by the Lord Treasurer Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the taking away of Clergy from Pick-Purses and Cut-Purses was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossand On Tuesday the 15 th day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued by the Lord Treasurer Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the two first the one being the Bill to take away the benefit of the Clergy from certain Offenders for some Felonies for which by the Common Law they could not be denied it was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa And the other being a Bill for the Confirmation of Fines and Recoveries notwithstanding the fault of the Original Writ majore Procerum numero assentientium conclusa est And the said two Bills so concluded were committed unto the Queens Attorney and M r Martin to be carried down to the House of Commons On Wednesday the 16. day of October the Lords did meet in the Parliament Chamber and nothing done but the Parliament continued by the Lord Treasurer in usual Form until Thursday the 17. day of October On Thursday the 17. day of October Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to Naturalize John Stafford born beyond the Seas was primâ vice lect and the third being against fraudulent Gifts of Goods and Chattels and also a remedy against Bankrupts was by the consent of all the Lords concluded On Saturday the 19. day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing by the Lord Treasurer the Bill for the punishment of the negligence and false return of Writs by under-Sheriffs and Bayliffs was by common consent of the Lords concluded and with two other Bills before concluded was sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and the Attorney General On Monday the 21. day of October the Bill for annexing of Hexhamshire to the County of Northumberland was read primâ vice Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons viz. One to take the benefit of Clergy from certain Offendors returned exped And another to repeal a branch of a Statute made Anno 23 Hen. 8. touching prices of Barrells and Kilderkins On Tuesday the 22. day of October to which day the Parliament had been last continued two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the annexing of Hexhamshire to the County of Northumberland was read secundâ vice and committed to the Archbishop of York the Earl of Northumberland the Earls of Westmoreland and Bedford the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Carlisle the Lord Evers the Lord Rich and the Lord North and to Justice Welsh and Serjeant Carus Nota That here a Judge being but an Assistant and a Serjeant being but an Attendant upon the Upper House are made Joint-Committees with the Lords Ut vide plus on Thursday the third day of this instant October foregoing Nota also That an Extraordinary Proxy is Entered in the beginning of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have been introduced this day being as followeth viz. 22 die Octobris introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Cuthberti Domini Ogle in quibus Procuratores constituit Franciscum Comitem Bedford Johannem Dominum Lumley This I call an Extraordinary Proxy in respect that a Temporal Lord did Constitute two Proctors whereas usually they nominate but one and the Spiritual Lords for the most part two and this Proxy of the Lord Ogle's may the rather seem unusual in respect that of sixteen Temporal Lords who were absent by her Majesties Licence from this Session of Parliament there was but one more viz. Francis Earl of Bedford ut vide on Saturday the 9. day of November following who Constituted above one Proxy It is also worth the noting that Robert Earl of Leicester being at this time a Favorite was
there to do in such manner and form as though no such Commission had been directed and made any clause Sentence or matter in our said Letters Patents of commission or any other thing to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding and these presents shall be your Warrant and discharge for the same In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our Self at Westminster the 8 th day of November in the Eighth Year of Our Reign There are no other passages of this day set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House after the publick reading of the foregoing Commission by which the Lord Keeper was resetled in his former place in the said House saving the Entrance of the Continuation of the Parliament in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque diem Lunae prox xi die Novembris November the 10 th Sunday On Monday the 11 th day of November Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to restrain the Carriage of the Woolls of the growth of Pembroke Carmarthen and Cardigan-shires out of the Counties where they grow was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Nota That the daily continuance of the Parliament entred in these words Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum c. being now hereafter performed in the residue of this Journal according to the ordinary use by the Lord Keeper only is for the most part omitted On Tuesday the 12 th day of November the Bill for the Lady Cobham's Jointure was read secundâ vice On Wednesday the 13 th day of November the Bill for the Lady Cobham's Jointure was read tertiâ vice quae communi omnium Procerum consensu conclusa est postea cum Billà to restrain the Carriage of Woolls of the growth of Pembroke c. was delivered to Serjeant Carus and Doctor Huick to be carried to the House of Commons Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents made for the Hospital of S t Bartholomew in Gloucester was read primâ vice On Thursday the 14 th day of November Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the avoiding of penal Laws was read primâ vice On Saturday the 16 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the better Execution of penal Laws was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Bishop of Worcester Viscount Mountague the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Willoughby the Lord Loughborough the Lord Hunsdon and to the Lord Chief Baron Justice Welch and the Attorney General Two Bills lastly were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill that in divers Counties there shall be but one Sheriss in one County was read primâ vice On Monday the 18 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill to avoid excess in Apparel was read primâ vice On Tuesday the 19 th day of November Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to avoid excess in Apparel was read secundà vice and committed unto the Marquess of Northampton the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Leicester Viscount Mountague the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winton the Bishop of Hereford the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Lumley the Lord Sheffeild the Lord Pagett the Lord Hunsdon Justice Welch and Justice Southcot And the third being the Bill to enable the Town of Woollmarsh in the County of Surrey to use Cloth-making was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa On Wednesday the 20 th day of November Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the avoiding of worngful vexation upon the Writ of Latitat was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossand Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox horâ nonâ At which time the Lords Spiritual and Temporal did meet and nothing done but the Parliament continued by the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England until Saturday the 23 th day of November On Saturday the 23 th day of November Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of Letters Patents made for the Hospital of S t Bartholomew in Gloucester was read tertiâ vice and by common consent of the Lords concluded The Bill also for avoiding of worngful vexation upon the Writ of Latitat was read tertiâ vice which by common consent of the Lords was concluded and by Serjeant Carus and R. R. sent down to the House of Commons On Monday the 25 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the more expedition of the Administration of Justice in the Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Durham communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa est On Tuesday the 26 th day of November the Bill for the Assurance of a Jointure to the Lady Mary Wife to Edward Lord Stafford was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum consensa conclusa The said Bill for the Lady Staffords Jointure and the Bill for the more speedy expedition of the Administration of Justice in the Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Durham were delivered to Serjeant Carus and M r Vaughan in Domum Communem deferend On Wednesday the 27 th day of November and likewise on Thursday the 28 th day of the same Month the Lords did meet and nothing done save only the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper in Ordinary Form unto Monday the second day of December following On Monday the 2 d day of December Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the erection of a Free School at Denbigh in Wales was read primâ vice Six Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the repeal of a Statute made Anno 7 Edw. 6. for the prices of Wines sold by retail was read primâ vice And the third being the Bill declaring the manner of making and Consecrating of the Archbishops and Bishops of this Realm to be good lawful and perfect returned cum provisione annex was read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice
Patents were each of them read secundâ vice The Bill lastly touching Cloth-Workers and Cloths ready wrought to be Shipped over the Seas was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa In the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House is no entrance or mention made of the continuance of the Parliament But it appeareth that the House did sit in the Afternoon for without entrance of the presence of any Lord in particular it appeareth that in the Afternoon two Bills were read viz. The Bill for the Almeshouse at Plymouth And the Bill for the Provision of Grain were each of them read primâ vice On Monday the 23 th day of December the Bill for the Confirmation of Fines and Recoveries notwithstanding the default of the Original Writs was read primâ vice cum additione provisione annex cum quâdam reformatione eidem annex Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one being the Bill for Sea-Marks and Mariners And another against carrying over the Sea Rams Lambs or Sheep being alive were read each of them primâ vice The Bill lastly concerning Tonnage of Wares brought from beyond the Seas was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam in Pomeridiano About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal meeting the Bill concerning Sea-Marks and Mariners And the Bill against the carrying over the Sea Rams Lambs or Sheep alive were each of them read secundâ tertiâ vice and thereupon concluded Two Bills also were sent from the Lords to the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill of her Majesties Free and General Pardon The Bill for making of Salt within her Majesties Dominions and the Bill for keeping a Market in the Mannor of Battell in Sussex upon Thursday were each of them read primâ secundâ vice Two Bills lastly had each of them their first reading of which the second was the Bill for the Inning of Plumstead-Marsh On Tuesday the 24 th day of December the Bill touching the transporting of Tann'd Leather made of Sheep-Skins and the Bill for Inning of Plumstead-Marsh being surrounded were each of them read secundâ tertiâ vice and thereupon concluded Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for keeping the Market in the Mannor of Battell in Sussex upon Thursday was read tertiâ vice conclusa The Bill finally for continuance of certain Statutes was read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice Quod nota that it had three readings together Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad diem Lunae tricesimum diem Decembris On Monday the 30 th day of December the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal met but nothing was done save only the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper unto Thursday the 2 d day of January following upon which day in the Afternoon the Parliament was Dissolved On Thursday the 2 d day of January the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal were present although through the negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House it doth not certainly appear who they were in the Original Journal-Book of the same House but no Bill as it seemeth was read or any thing else done but only the Parliament continued by the Lord Keeper which is there Entred in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam primam in Pomeridiano Nota That it appears in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons that after the Parliament had been continued as aforesaid Doctor Huick was sent down to the said House from the Lord Keeper to give them notice thereof Nota also That in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House there is no mention made of any thing that was done or of any Speech used nor touching the Dissolution of this present Session of Parliament but only that her Majesty was there present with divers Lords both Spiritual and Temporal and therefore I have supplyed the whole Proceedings of this Afternoon at large out of a very Copious and Elaborate Anonymous Memorial thereof I had by me which also I have in some places supplyed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although it be so little and short as it may rather be called matter of Confirmation than Enlargement in which also it shall lastly suffice to touch briefly that I have always observed contrary to the ordinary course to insert all such Speeches and other passages as largely as by any good Authority I might into the Journal of the Upper House in which House they were agitated and uttered and to the Journal of which House they do most properly belong and do only for Order sake add some short expressions thereof in the Journals of the House of Commons The said Passages of this Afternoon do now next ensue out of the above-mentioned Manuscript Memorial The Queens Majesty between two or three of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present Thursday being the second day of January in the ninth year of her Reign came by Water from Whitehall and Landed on the backside of the Parliament-Chamber And so the Earl of Westmorland bearing the Sword afore her the Lady Strange the Train with the Lords in their daily Apparel and Heralds attending on her she proceeded up into the Privy-Chamber to prepare her self in her Parliament-Robes during which time the Lords and Justices put on their Parliament-Robes and took their places And upon the upper Woollsack sate the Lord Keeper till the Queen came and then went to his place at the Rail on the right hand of the Cloth of State On the Woollsack on the Northside sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer the two Chief Justices and Richard Read under and M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney On the Sack on the Southside sate Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Justice Brown Justice Welsh and Serjeant Carus On the Westside sate Vaughan and Talc Masters of the Chancery M r Spilman Clerk of the Parliament M r Powle Deputy and Joint-Patentec with M r Martin Clerk of the Crown afore which Sack stood a little Table Then the Queens Majesty being Apparelled in her Parliament-Robes with a Caul on her Head came forth and proceeded up and took her Seat the Marquess of Northampton carrying the Cap of Maintenance and stood on her right hand and the Earl of Westmorland the Sword at her left hand with the Heralds and Serjeants at Arms before her the Queens Mantle born up on either side from her Arms by the Earl of Leicester and the Lord of Hunsdon who always stood still by her for the assisting thereof when she
had notice that divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal with Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England were Assembled in the Upper House and expected their repair thither they presently went up unto the Lords where the Lord Keeper shewed forth a Commission from her Majesty under the Great Seal of England directed unto him which he Commanded the Clerk openly to read Which said Commission as also the greatest part of the foregoing days passages are transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and inserted here as into the due and proper place Which very things were in part also mentioned in the Original Book of the House of Commons with the passages of this present Tuesday although in both I have not omitted to supply some things my self which might easily be gathered by the comparing of several things together The Tenor of the said Commission ensueth verbatim ELizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our right Trusty and right well Beloved Chancellor Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of our Great Seal of England Greeting Where in the beginning of this present Parliament holden at Westminster the 12 th day of January in the fifth Year of our Reign the Knights Citizens and Burgesses being Assembled in the same Year in the same Parliament were Commanded by us to go to their accustomed place and there to chuse among themselves one to be their Speaker according to their accustomed manner whereupon the same Knights Citizens and Burgesses did Elect and chuse one Thomas Williams Esq to be their Speaker and the same their Election did afterwards certifie unto us which we did allow and ratifie since which time this our present Parliament hath been continued by divers Prorogations until the 30. of September in this present eighth Year of our Reign at which day the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and also the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses being Assembled for this present Parliament at Westminster in their accustomed places the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses have declared unto us that the said Thomas Williams since the last Session of this present Parliament is dead And thereupon have made their humble Suit and Petition unto us that they might have Licence and Commandment from us to proceed to elect among themselves one other to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament yet to come Wherefore We having certain and perfect knowledge that the said Thomas Williams is dead as they have alledged and considering their humble Petition and Request very meet and necessary to be granted have appointed and Constituted you and by these Presents We do Will Command Constitute and Appoint you for us and in our Name to call the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses before you and other the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled in this our present Parliament in the Higher House of our Parliament at Westminster and there for us and in our Name to Will and Command the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses to resort to their accustomed place and there to Elect and chuse amongst themselves one sufficient and able person to be their Speaker for the rest of this present Parliament to come And after they have so made their Election that then three or four of them for and in all their names shall signifie the same unto us And thereupon we will further signifie our pleasure unto them what day and time they shall present the person Elected before us as heretofore hath been in like cases accustomed to be done wherefore our Will and Pleasure is that you do diligently attend about the doing of the premises and execute the same with effect In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters of Commission to be Sealed with our Great Seal of England Witness our Self at Westminster the first day of October in the Eighth Year of our Reign The residue of this Days Passages follows out of the Journal of the House of Commons As soon as the said Commission had been read the Knights Citizens and Burgesses and Barons of the House of Commons departed into their own House where Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold declared unto them that for as much as Richard Onslow Esq her Majesties Sollicitor General was a Member of their said House being Elected a Burgess for the Borough of ..... in the County of Sussex they would use some means to have him restored unto them who as yet attended in the Upper House to join with them in their Election of a Speaker And thereupon notice thereof being given to the Lords of the Upper House upon Consultation had amongst them the said M r Onslow was sent down with the Queens Serjeant at Law M r Carus and M r Attorney General to shew for himself why he should not be a Member of this House who alledging many weighty reasons as well for his Office of Sollicitor as for his Writ of Attendance in the Upper House was nevertheless adjudged to be a Member of this House And thereupon proceeding to the Election M r Comptroller nominated M r Onslow to be Speaker who humbly disabled himself as well for non-ability of substance meet for that place as also for his Oath made to the Queens Majesty and required them to proceed to a new Election upon whose Arguments the House was divided and the number to have him Speaker was eighty two and the contrary was sixty And immediately M r Comptroller and M r Vice-Chamberlain brought him from his place to the Chair and there set him down On Wednesday the second day of October between three and four of the Clock in the Afternoon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons repaired to the Upper House having notice that her Majesty with the Lords and divers others were already set in the said House expecting their coming where Richard Onslow Esq their Speaker Elect was led up to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said House between Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold and Sir Francis Knolles Knight her Highness Vice-Chamberlain and so presented unto her Majesty where having disabled himself in many respects he was notwithstanding allowed by her Majesty by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper After which having desired free access to her Highness and pardon for himself if he should in any thing unwittingly fail or mistake the Lord Keeper by her Majesties Commandment declared her full Assent to the said particulars And thereupon the said Speaker being now compleatly and perfectly invested in his place departed back with the residue of the House of Commons unto their own House where according to the usual Form one Bill had its first reading viz. The Bill how Sanctuary-persons shall be compellable for payment of their Debts Nota That the Passages of this Afternoon containing in them the manner of the Presentment and Allowance of
comfortable words and commanded the Parliament to be dissolved Nota That this business had many and long Agitations in the House of Commons who were especially violent in that latter branch of it touching the Declaration of a Successor as see more at large on Monday the 25 th day of November foregoing and lastly I have thought good to give a short touch that all the foregoing passages of this Afternoon touching her Majesties Presence Royal Assent Speech and Dissolving the Parliament were thus Orderly set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and have here received little Alterations THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS The Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster An. 13 Reg. Eliz. A. D. 1571 which began there on Monday the 2 d day of April and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Tuesday the 29 th day of May ensuing THIS Journal of the Upper House continuing about the space of two Months was very carelesly entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House by the Clerk thereof who as it seems was Anthony Mason Esq succeeding about this time in the said Office of Clerk of the Upper House unto Francis Spilman Esq who had formerly supplied that place But yet by means of a Copious Journal I had by me of the Passages of the House of Commons in this Parliament taken by some Anonymous Member thereof and also of some Copies I had of the Speeches of Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper at the beginning and conclusion of this said Parliament this ensuing Journal is much enlarged And therefore to avoid confusion whatsoever is here inserted out of the said private Journal is particularly distinguished from that which is taken out of the above-mentioned Journal-Book of the Upper House by some Animadversions or Expression thereof both before and after the inserting of it Neither doth the Original Journal-Book it self of the Upper House want some matter of variety besides the ordinary Reading Committing and passing of Bills in respect that Sir Robert Catlyn Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was appointed by her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal to supply the Lord Keepers place upon occasion of his sickness during some part of this said Parliament in the first entry whereof is set down out of the foresaid Anonymous Journal of the House of Commons her Majesties coming to the Upper House with the Order and manner of it the substance also of which is found though somewhat more briefly set down in the Original Journal-Book of the same House On Monday the second day of April the Parliament beginning according to the Writs of Summons sent forth her Majesty about eleven of the Clock came towards Westminster in the antient accustomed most honourable Passage having first riding before her the Gentlemen Sworn to attend her Person the Batchellors Knights after them the Knights of the Bath then the Barons of the Exchequer and Judges of either Bench with the Master of the Rolls her Majesties Attorney General and Sollicitor General whom followed in Order the Bishops and after them the Earls then the Archbishop of Canterbury The Hat of Maintenance was Carried by the Marquess of Northampton and the Sword by the Earl of Sussex The place of the Lord Steward for that day was supplied by the Lord Clinton Lord Admiral of England the Lord Great Chamberlain was the Earl of Oxenford And the Earl Marshal by Deputation from the Duke of Norfolk was the Earl of Worcester Her Majesty sate in her Coach in her Imperial Robes and a Wreath or Coronet of Gold set with rich Pearl and Stones over her Head her Coach drawn by two Palfries covered with Crimson Velvet drawn out imbossed and imbroidered very richly Next after her Chariot followed the Earl of Leicester in respect of his Office of the Master of the Horse leading her Majesties spare Horse And then forty seven Ladies and Women of Honour The Guard in their rich Coats going on every side of them The Trumpeters before the first sounding and the Heralds riding and keeping their rooms and places Orderly In Westminster Church the Bishop of Lincoln Preached before her Majesty whose Sermon-being done her Majesty came from the Church the Lords all on foot in order as afore and over her Head a rich Canopy was carried all the way She being entred into the Upper House of Parliament and there sate in Princely and seemly sort under a high and rich Cloth of Estate her Robe was supported by the Earl of Oxenford the Earl of Sussex kneeling holding the Sword on the left hand and the Earl of Huntingdon holding the Hat of Estate and the Lords all in their Rooms on each side of the Chamber that is to say the Lords Spiritual on the right hand and the Lords Temporal on the left Nota That whereas the presence of these Lords ought here according to the usual course to have been inserted out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House it must of necessity be omitted in respect that through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time as it should seem Clerk of the said House there are none of the said Lords noted to have been present yet it may be probably guessed who they were by those who attended on Wednesday of this instant April ensuing Quod vide The Judges and her Learned Councel being at the Woollsacks in the midst of the Chamber and at her Highness Feet at each side of her kneeling one of the Grooms or Gentlemen of the Chamber their Faces towards her the Knights Citizens and Burgesses all standing below the Bar her Majesty then stood up in her Regal Seat and with a Princely Grace and singular good Countenance after a long stay spake a few words to this effect or thus Mr right Loving Lords and you our right faithful and Obedient Subjects we in the name of God for his Service and for the safety of this State are now here Assembled to his Glory I hope and pray that it may be to your Comfort and the common quiet of our yours and all ours for ever And then looking on the right side of her towards Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England standing a little beside the Cloth of Estate and somewhat back and lower from the same she willed him to shew the cause of the Parliament who thereupon spake as followeth THE Queens most Excellent Majesty our most Dread and Gracious Soveraign hath Commanded me to declare unto you the Causes of your Calling and Assembly at this time which I mean to do as briefly as I can led thereunto as one very loth to be tedious to her Majesty and also because to wise men and well-disposed as I judge you be a few words do suffice The Causes be chiefly two The one to establish or dissolve Laws as best shall serve for the Governance of the Realm
Hereford the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Burleigh the Lord Cobham the Lord Lumley the Lord Hastings of Loughborough and Serjeant Barham Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Thursday the 10 th day of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the appointing of two several Sheriffs for the Counties of Cambridge and Huntington was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum And the last that no Purveyors shall take any Corn Grain or Victuals within five Miles of Cambridge and Oxford was read primâ vice Nota That Cambridge is here ranked before Oxford in the title of this Bill Nine Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the third being the Bill against the bringing in and putting in Execution of Bulls c. from the See of Rome was returned as it seemeth not expedited for the Journal-Book doth not set it down conclus as in like Cases is usual The Earl of Sussex the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Winchester the Bishop of Ely the Lord Burleigh and the Lord Wentworth were appointed to confer with certain of the House of Commons about the Bill of Tellors c. The Bill for increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy was referred to Committees of which two were Viscount Hereford and Viscount Mountague but no mention is made of the reading of it of which nature see a like President on Saturday the 21 th day of April foregoing Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati horâ Octavâ On Saturday the 12 th day of May the Bill for two Fifteenths and Tenths and one Subsidy granted by the Laity was read primâ vice Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill to restrain the Oppression of Common Promoters and another for the maintenance of Navigation Four Bills also had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for Restitution in Bloud of the Children of Sir Thomas Wyatt Knight was read tertiâ vice conclusa The Bill lastly against the bringing in of Bulls c. was committed to the Lords that were in the Committee for the Bill of Treasons who were appointed on Saturday the 5 th day of this instant May foregoing to confer therein in certain points with certain of the House of Commons Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox horâ Octavâ May the 13 th Sunday On Monday the 14 th day of May Nine Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for one Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Laity was read secundâ vice Vide May 16. postea The reason why no Commitment And the last for Orders for Bankrupts was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum Three Bills which passed this day with the Bill for Restitution in Bloud of the Children of Sir Thomas Wyatt Knight were sent to the House of Commons by M r Sollicitor and Doctor Lewis The Bill for respite of Homage was referred to Committees but no mention made of the reading of it of which see a like President on Saturday the 21 th day of April foregoing Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Tuesday the 15 th day of May Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for one Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Laity was read secundâ vice conclusa Five Bills were brought to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was for the Confirmation of the Attainder of Charles Earl of Westmerland and Thomas Earl of Northumberland and others with a Proviso and Amendments And another was the Bill for the Town of Lestwithiell in the County of Cornwall The Bill lastly against Simony was read secundâ vice and committed to the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Ely the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Burleigh the Lord Shandois the Lord Hastings and the Lord Hunsdon And to the same Committees was likewise committed the Bill against corrupt Presentations Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Wednesday the 16 th day of May Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill touching Orders for Bankrupts was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Yale and Doctor Huick The Proviso and Amendments required by the House of Commons to be put in the Bill for Confirmation of the Attainder of the Earls of Westmerland and Northumberland c. were thrice read and the Lords gave their Assent thereunto The Amendments likewise in the Bill for Constats and Exemplifications of Letters Patents being thrice read the Lords also gave their Assents Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal meeting thirteen Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third touching Dilapidations the fifth for Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy and the twelfth that no Hay or Plate shall cross the Seas were each of them read the second time and ordered to be ingrossed And of the said Bills the second being to License the Earl of Leicester to Erect an Hospital the fourth for the making of the River of Welland Navigable the eighth for the maintenance of Navigation and the tenth for the continuance of making of Caps were each of them read secundâ vice but no mention is made that they were either ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees of which there can be but two Reasons the first that the Lords deferred the committing or ingrossing thereof until some other time as fell out before in the Bill touching the Commission of Sewers which being read secundâ vice on Friday the 2 d day of April foregoing was referred to a Committee the day following although sometimes it may be omitted likewise through the negligence of the Clerk of the Upper House or else another reason there may be that such Bills having passed the House of Commons and being sent up to the Lords fairly ingrossed in Parchment can be no more ingrossed neither do the Lords ordinarily refer such Bills to Committees unless there be very great Cause in respect that each House holding correspondency with other they do not willingly submit that to the agitation of a private Committee which hath been
allowed and approved by the wisdom of a whole House There may also lastly a third reason be assigned in some extraordinary Cases as this where Bills of Grace viz. for the Restitution in Blood of any and such like were sent to the House from her Majesty fairly ingrossed in Parchment and Signed with her Hand which for the most part do pass the House without any stop or question On Thursday the 17 th day of May to which day the Parliament had been last continued by the Lord Keeper on the day foregoing Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first touching Morrice Rodney Esq the second for the Town of Lestwithiell in the County of Cornwall and the last to discharge Sheriffs of the Dyets of the Justices of Assize were each of them read the second time but no mention was made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees of which see the reason at large discussed on the day foregoing fitly suiting to this present occasion Three Bills also of the aforesaid six had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Henry Brercton Esquire and the second to License the Earl of Leicester to found an Hospital Seven Bills of no great moment were brought from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill whereby certain offences are made Treason was returned conclusa with requests that it might be fair written again which the Lords performed accordingly on Tuesday the 21 th day of this instant May ensuing Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for coming to Church and receiving the Communion was read tertiâ vice conclusa dissentientibus Comitibus Wigorn. Southampton Dominis Windsor Vaux Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal meeting six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy was read the second time and referred to the Committees of which two were Viscount Hereford and Viscount Mountague The Bill also for the Town of Bristol was read the second time but there is no mention made that it was referred to Committees or ordered to be ingrossed because it had been sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons on Tuesday the first day of this instant May foregoing of which see a like President on Wednesday the 16 th day of the same Month immediately preceeding Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati hora nona On Saturday the 19 th day of May Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for avoiding of delays upon Vouchers in real actions was read primâ vice and was thereupon committed to the Lord Dier Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas and other the Justices to consider thereof and the fifth being the Bill touching the Town of Southampton was read tertiâ vice conclusa with certain Corrections and Amendments thereunto added by the Lords Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the preservation of Timber and Wood was read primâ vice The Bill for Southampton the Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy and Fugitives over the Seas were delivered to Doctor Lewis and Doctor Yale to be carried to the House of Commons Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords meeting Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill to restrain the oppression of common Promoters and the last for the avoiding of Perjury in Clerks Convict were each of them read secundâ vice but no mention is made that they were ordered to be ingrossed or referred to the Committees because they had been formerly sent unto the Lords from the House of Commons on Saturday the 12 th day and on Tuesday the 15 th day of this instant May foregoing of which see a like President on Wednesday the 16 th day of the said Month of May preceeding Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox horâ nonâ May the 20 th Sunday On Monday the 21 th day of May Eight Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against Vagabonds and for relief of the Poor was read secundâ vice but no mention is made that it was either ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent up unto the Lords from the House of Commons on Saturday the 19 th day of this instant Month of May preceeding although it be there omitted The second of the said eight Bills being for the preservation of Wood was read the second time and committed unto divers Lords and unto the Queens Sollicitor The Bill for Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy was returned by the Lords from the House of Commons conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal meeting Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Commutation of Penance in Clerks Convict was read secundâ vice commissa unto the Earl of Hereford Viscount Hereford the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Worcester Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem proximum horâ Octavâ On Tuesday the 22 th day of May the Bill to make the Lands and Tenements of Tellors c. liable to the payment of their Debts was read tertiâ vice conclusa missa in Domum Communem by Doctor Lewis and Doctor Yale together with the Bill of Treasons newly written out and examined by six of the Lords according to the request of the House of Commons on Thursday the 17 th day of this instant May foregoing viz. the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Salisbury and the Bishop of S t Davids Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to restrain the oppression of common Promoters was read tertiâ vice conclusa with certain Amendments added thereunto Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill to make the River of Welland Navigable the second
and some Motions touching the severance or uniting of the Bills it was Ordered that the Bill be read again upon Thursday next The Bill concerning coming to Church and receiving of the Communion was read the first time Sir John S t Leger moved the House for his Mans Priviledge and it was committed to M r Recorder M r Bedoll and M r Dalton and they to meet this Afternoon at M r Recorders and make report to Morrow On Tuesday the 10 th day of April M r Speaker recited a Commandment from the Queens Majesty to spend little time in Motions and to avoid long Speeches The reason whereof being omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons it is therefore supplied out of that often before-cited elaborate Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following That this Advertisement grew of somewhat spoken by M r Bell the 7 th day of this instant April concerning Licences granted by her Majesty to do certain matters contrary to the Statutes wherein he seemed as was said to speak against her Prerogative but surely so orderly did he utter what he spake as those who were touched might be angry but justly to blame him might not be This Advertisement being thus transcribed out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal now follows the residue of this days passages out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons it self in form following Sir Owen Hopton moved for the Commission of Motions and Petitions to have the Council added unto them and also a greater number of others and delivered a Paper of Notes of the Motions made Upon a Motion made for M r Garnons who is reported to stand Excommunicate it is Ordered that he shall Answer it in the House Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching Monasteries was read the first time M r Treasurer made report of the Committees doings for the Subsidy whose names see on Saturday the 7 th day of this instant April foregoing and brought in Articles which were well liked and thereupon the same Commissioners were appointed to proceed with the drawing of the Book Two Bills also had each of them their first reading of which the first was the Bill for the validity of Burgesses not resiant Touching matters of Religion M r Mounson brought report that the Bishops pray to have the Lords moved by this House to assign a Committee to confer with this House And thereupon it was Ordered presently that the same Commissioners do immediately go to the Lords with this Message to know their pleasure for appointing some to confer about the Book for Doctrine M r Treasurer returned report that the Lord Keeper hath Answered he will open it to the Lords Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Cloth-workers was read the first time And the third being the Bill B. had its first reading Vide Maii 17. postea what Bill B. meaneth Sir Richard Read and M r Doctor Yale did bring an Answer to the Message viz. that the Lords have appointed twenty of themselves whereof ten of the Clergy and ten of the Temporalty to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Star-Chamber And thereupon were added by the House to the former Commissioners the Master of the Rolls Sir Henry Norrice Sir William Buts M r Austley M r Serjeant Manwood M r Stooks M r Fleetwood M r Carleton M r Eglenby M r Yelverton M r Dalton and M r Robert Snagg which meeting was about matters of Religion Vide abunde Maii 17. postea On Wednesday the 11 th day of April the Bill for Lestwithiell was read the first time M r Fleetwood brought in a Bill against Rogues The Bill against fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances was read the second time and was delivered to certain of the House to amend presently upon a Motion made by M r Dalton to have it to extend to the defrauding of Heriots Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Sewers was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed And the Bill D. had its first reading Vide Maii 17. post what Bill D. meaneth M r Seckford Master of the Requests prayed longer time to consider of the Bill of fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances and that the Committees may be Sir John White M r Seckford Master of the Requests M r Serjeant Manwood Geoffry Loveland M r Mounson M r Bell M r Fleetwood M r Thomas Snagg M r Barber and M r Dalton to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Temple Church The Bill for not returning persons of the Queens Majesties Houshold on Juries was read the first time The Bill for Bristol was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Whereupon followed divers longSpeeches and Arguments touching the same Bill which being omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons are here supplied out of that often before-cited Anonymous Journal of the same House more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following viz. M r Comptroller first moved that before some Committees were appointed both parties might be heard and the Controversy appeased M r Fleetwood argued that there might appear rashness or indiscretion in them who should now reverse what of late they had done but leaving to speak thereof he entred into a good Discourse of the Prerogative which might thereby be touched if they should endeavour to overthrow her Majesties Letters Patents to whom by Law there is power given to Incorporate any Town and she is Sworn to preserve her Prerogative he vouched the Clerk of the Parliaments Book to be that no man might talk of the Statute of Wills c. but that the King first gave Licence for that his Prerogative in the Wards was hereby touched He shewed likewise the Statute of Ed. 1. Ed. 3. and H. 4. with a saving of the Prerogative In King Edward the Sixths time Licence was sued for to the Lord Protector to talk of matters of Prerogative he remembred the Book of 2 Edw. 6. for the Parliament of Ireland called by the Chief Judge as is for him lawful where it was questioned what by Parliament might be done whether they might depart with any of the Kings Towns Forts or Piers it was agreed they might not and so he concluded that to talk thereof for as much as her Majesties Letters Patents and Prerogative were touched Rege non consulto was perillous He also made mention of the Statute which authorizeth all Merchants to Traffick by Sea Nisi publice prohibentur he saith others were prohibited M r Young of Bristol in the behalf of the Commons reasoned to this effect First Shewed the loss to the Queen of her Custom then the private Monopoly wrought and occasioned by the
mischief it may be to me and inconvenient also to utter the same I will not speak thereof but dutifully neither do I see any thing that is amiss at this present what was done a hundred years since I may safely tell and thus it was A Duke of this Realm wrote his Letters to a City which I know to this effect whereby he did signify that a Parliament was to be Summoned in short time and that for great causes he was to crave aid of all his Friends and reckoning them amongst the rest he wished them of four under-nominated to chuse two the Letter under the Dukes Seal is still preserved but hear you the Answer he was written to with due humbleness that they were prohibited by Law they might chuse none of them I will venture a little nearer In Queen Maries time a Council of this Realm not the Queens Privy-Council did write to a Town to chuse a Bishops Brother and a great Bishops Brother it was indeed whom they assured to be a good Catholick man and willed them to chuse to the like of him some other fit man The Council was Answered with Law And if all Towns in England had done the like in their Choice the Crown had not been so wronged and the Realm so robbed with such ease at that Parliament and truth banished as it was what hath been may be there is no impossibility It will be said I mistake it is not meant but that Towns shall be at liberty to chuse whom they list I say that Liberty is the loss of Liberty for when by Law they may do what they will they may not well deny what shall be required It is too truly said Rogando cogit qui rogat potentior And I have known one that to avoid a great mans displeasure that dwelt near him that was desirous as he knew to buy his Land did upon small occasion bind himself not to alienate his Land from his true Heirs this being known I mean that he was bound as aforesaid the great man was contented to let him keep his own quietly which otherwise he would not have done Surely Law is the only Fortress of the inferior sort of People and contrary to the Law the greater sort will not desire or expect anything Though now at this present God be praised we need not to fear the greatness of any man Justice is so well administred Yet hereafter whatsoever hath been we may fear either for maintenance of Faction or maintenance of Mischief Again I say it may be what heretofore was possibly again may be We stand and have stood of late upon the notorious manifestation of the Authority of Parliament except withal you keep the ancient usage of the same and withal endeavour the freedom thereof in effect you do nothing if I guess aright It is further said that in some Towns there are not men of discretion fit they be not the wiser said the Gentleman that spoke before for being Burgesses I can never be perswaded but that either the Lord whose the Town is be the Town never so little or the Steward if it be the Queens or some good Gentleman of the Country adjoinant will either assign them who know the Town and can be content to be free among them and to serve by their appointment for their Country and for them or else for some reasonable Fee such as be of their Learned Councel and who know them and the Country will deal for them I mean it not so strictly that those who should be chosen should of necessity be dwellers in the Town but to be either of the Town or towards the Town Borderers and near Neighbours at the least and to this effect I would the Bill were framed I stand too long hereon and abundance of matter occasioneth confusion this is all It was meant at the first and first Constitution of Parliament that men of every quarter and of all sorts should come to this Court that they should be freely chosen This in every Age hitherto hath seemed best to alter without cause is not convenient to give every Town liberty may offer in time inconvenience None so fit for every Country as those who know the same To chuse of their own it is a Liberty to lose their Liberty I think it a bad Commodity call it as you please by such kind of release in easing men of their Wealths or of some good part of their Living beshrow our Charity And in like sort and in like reason it seems to me this Law is inferred out of the Preface of the same For thus it is penned Forasmuch as some Towns are decayed and have not of their own therefore let every Town do what they list Of a particular Proposition to make a general conclusion it is against our Rules and nothing as saith the Philosopher is more absurd than non causam pro causà Some Towns cannot send fit men it standeth very strongly if you seek to help let the Plaister be fit for the sore let not the Salve be stretched too far lest the whole and sound flesh by the broad spreading of the Salve do either smart fret or fester The Medicine which healeth the sick man may be poyson for the whole and sound man All Citizens and Burgesses should not be thought alike and yet all provided for as there is due cause let there be therefore convenient consideration how to heal how to hurt And I could wish according to the weight of the matter it might be rather staid on than thus abruptly over-ruled and while we fly Scylla we fall not into Charybdis while we say that Boroughs cannot send to this High Court so fit men as be convenient that by altering the ancient usage which is the only Warrant and sole stay of freedom in Parliament it may happily be said we have no Parliament now within this Realm nor Liberty at all for any such here to be holden M r Bell in Answer of this did collect the substance of what had been said and in a long Discourse shewed that it was necessary all places should be provided for and not Boroughs only being but one of the Members of the Common-Wealth and that some of them have neither Wealth to provide fit men nor themselves any in any sort convenient He thought not amiss if in respect of those manifest wants convenient supply should be but without the Warrant of Parliament such alteration might not be He then thought it not amiss to be advised And for the objection of the danger which may ensue by reason of the Letters of Noblemen he could not he said but think it convenient to prevent the same and therefore wished that there might be the penalty of forty pound upon every Borough that should make such Election at the Nomination of any Nobleman M r Alford reasoned to this effect That above all things necessary care ought to be for the chusing and having of fit men to supply the place
compass of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge like as their Lordships had done on their parts upon like request of this House in the said Bill concerning Tillage and the Navy Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Huick brought word that the Lords pray Conference with some of this House at two of the Clock this Afternoon touching the Bill for the twelve Shires of Wales and also present report of the Committees of this House touching the Bill against Bankrupts My Lord Deputy of Ireland Mr. Comptroller Sir Nicholas Arnold Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy Sir Henry Jones Sir George Blunt Mr. William Gerrard and Mr. Bassett were appointed to attend upon the Lords touching the Bill of the twelve Shires of Wales The Bill against the taking of any Grain or Victual within five Miles compass of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge being a Bill sent from the Lords and specially recommended from them having at the third reading thereof an Addition or amendment in paper upon the Question affiled unto it the said Addition or amendment then having been but once read the Bill was put to the Question and the House thereupon divided and afterwards the error aforesaid being found it was after sundry motions Ordered upon another Question that the said Addition or amendment being three times read the Bill should go to the Question again which being so done the Bill afterwards passed upon the division of the House accordingly Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the maintenance of the Havens of Plymouth and Dartmouth c. was read the third time and passed the House Sir Thomas Smith Sir William Pawlet Sir Francis Hastings Mr. Heneage Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Stokes Mr. Thomas Browne Mr. Hussy Mr. John Hastings Mr. Thomas Snagg Mr. Strickland and Mr. S t John were appointed to have Conference with the Lords touching the Bill against corrupt Presentations The Bill for the Incorporation of the Towns of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis and the Bill for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy were each of them twice read Mr. Comptroller Sir Christopher Haydon Sir Thomas Russell Sir William Pawlet Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Henry Gate Mr. Baynton Mr. Grice Mr. Strickland Mr. Seckerson Mr. Cleere Mr. John Horsey Mr. Stanhop Mr. Hasset Mr. Edgcomb and Mr. Laton were appointed to ..... And here the whole matter breaks off abruptly in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons through the negligence of Fulk Onslow Esq Clerk of the same but it is most probable that these Committees were nominated in the Bill last before-mentioned upon the first and second reading thereof On Saturday the 26 th day of May the Bill for the River of Lee was read the first time and referred to be considered of by M r Comptroller of the Dutchy M r Wilson the Master of Requests Sir Henry Gate Sir John White M r Moore M r Holstock M r Grimston M r Baghe M r Robert North M r Henry Cock M r Dacre M r Norton M r Humberston and M r Bowyer The Bill against the untrue Demeanors of Tellors Receivors Treasurers and Collectors was read the third time and referred to be considered of by M r Treasurer M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Humphrey Gilbert M r Heneage M r Recorder of London Mr. Sampoole Mr. Humberston Mr. Bedle Mr. Norton Mr. Ireby and Mr. Thomas Brown The Bill for Incorporating of both the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge was twice read Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Huick brought from the Lords one Bill touching the limitation reviving and continuing of Statutes The Bills which lastly passed in this House were sent to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others The Bill for the Incorporating of the Towns of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis was read the third time and passed the House Post Meridiem In the Afternoon Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords one Bill touching the limitation of Fees for Councellors and others towards the Law which was specially recommended from the Queens Majesty Mr. Doctor Yale and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords the said former Bill Indorsed for that the same was delivered without Indorsement Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Yale did desire from the Lords that six of this House be presently sent unto them of those which did yesterday confer with their Lordships touching the Bill against Fugitives Four Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy was read the third time and passed upon the Question May the 27 th Sunday On Monday the 28 th day of May the Bill for the Jointure of the Lady Berkley was read the third time and passed the House The Provisoes to the Bill for the River of Lee were thrice read and passed with the Bill upon the Question and sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy and others The Proviso to the Bill for the Jointure of the Lady Berkley was thrice read and passed with the Bill upon the Question and sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others Sir Richard Read and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords the Bill for John Tirrell Esquire with certain amendments Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Huick brought word that the Lords desire to have six of this House to confer with them presently touching the severance of the Sheriffs in the Counties of Surrey and Sussex Whereupon Mr. Thomas Brown M r Moor M r Palmer M r Comper M r Morley and M r Bowyer were appointed and sent to them accordingly M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Yale did desire from the Lords to know the mind of this House whether this House can be contented to leave Surrey and Sussex out of the Bill for severance of Sheriffs if there Lordships shall so think meet which being opened to the House it was upon the Question Ordered that they shall be left out if the Lords so will All the Privy-Council being Members of this House Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Thomas Scott Sir Thomas Lucy Sir Humphrey Gilbert M r Recorder of London M r Mounson M r Yelverton and M r Robert North were upon some Speeches uttered to this House that some of the Members of this House should take money for their Voices appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Star-Chamber and to Examine what persons being Members of this House have taken any Fees or Rewards for their Voices in the furtherance or hinderance of any Bills offered in this House and then afterwards to make report of the particularities thereof unto this House accordingly Vide the residue of this business on the next day following Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for shooting in Hand-Guns and Harquebuses was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Huick brought from the Lords the Bill
without a Head thus do therefore it resteth that you according to your antient Order of your selves chuse some wise and discreet man who after he hath been by you chosen and presented and that presentation by the Queens Majesty allowed shall then be your Speaker and Day is given c. This Speech being thus transcribed out of the Copy I had of it as is aforesaid now follow the names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House which the Clerk of the same readeth in French as soon as the Lord Keepers Speech is ended and which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Sir William Cordell Knight Master of the Rolls Sir John Widdon Knight one of the Justices of the ----- Sir Richard Read K t one of the Justices of the ----- and D r Huick and they that will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six dayes next ensuing Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir James Dyer Knight Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Sanders Knight Lord Chief Baron Richard Weston one of the Justices of the ----- John Southcott one of the Justices of the ----- Doctor Lewis Doctor Yale and Doctor Vaughan and they that will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Oxford the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Ely the Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain of the Queens House the Lord Windsor and the Lord North. All these or four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Islands beyond the Seas The Archbishop of York the Earl of Lincoln Lord Admiral of England the Earl of Leicester the Earl of Essex the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Burleigh Principal Secretary the Lord Wentworth the Lord Buckhurst All they or four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants Attorney and Sollicitor when need shall require shall hold their place in the Treasurer's Chamber Hodiè retornatum est breve Dom. Reginae quo Henricus Compton de Compton Chevalier praesenti Parliamento interesse summonitus est qui praesens admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo cuique jure suo And two other Writs were returned in like manner by which Henry Cheyney of Toddington and Henry Lord Norris of Ricott were Summoned to be present this Parliament who were accordingly admitted to their due places saving to all others their right Nota That there is no entrance in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of any Continuance or Adjournment of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the said House There were also divers Proxies returned on this present Thursday being the 8 th day of May but whether before or after the Continuance of the Parliament appeareth not in which two Spiritual Lords Constituted each of them two Proctors apiece according to the usual and frequent manner and are therefore omitted but four other Bishops nominating either three Proctors apiece or but one which is somewhat extraordinary therefore they are here inserted Die 8 o Maij introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Hugonis Episcopi Landaven in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Nicolaum Wigorn. Richardum Meneven Nicolaum Bangoren Episcopos Eodem die introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Jacobi Dunelmensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Edmundum Archiepiscopum Ebor. Eodem die introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Johannis Herefordensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Matthaeum Cantuariensem Archiepiscopum Edwin London Nicolaum Wigorn. Episcopos Eodem die introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Thomae Assavensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Robertum Wintonien Nicolaum Wigorn. ac Nicolaum Bangoren Episcopos Now although it be most usual for the Spiritual Lords to name two Proctors yet here four of six varied from it three of them exceeding that number and the other nominating but one It is likewise as usual for the Temporal Lords to Constitute but one Proctor and it is an Action worthy observation where they nominate more for in this very Parliament of fifteen Temporal Lords that sent Proxies but one nominated two Proctors which see afterwards on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May following and all the rest Constituted but one Proctor apiece which being trivial and ordinary are omitted Nota Also that the Earl of Leicester had this Parliament eight Proxies sent unto him viz. from George Earl of Shrewsbury Edward Earl of Darby Henry Lord Scroop Edward Lord Dudley Anthony Viscount Mountacute Gregory Lord Dacres William Lord Sands and Edward Earl of Lincoln all which seem to have been returned on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May in such order as they are here set down Nota That the Lord Burleigh also Principal Secretary to her Majesty had six Proxies sent unto him this Parliament viz. from John Marquess of Winchester Henry Lord Hunsdon Thomas Lord Buckhurst John Lord Latimer Edward Earl of Lincoln who made also the Earl of Leicester his joint Proctor with him and Robert Lord Rich. These also are set down in the Journal-Book to have been returned the 12 th day of May in such order as they are here set down but now by a late Order made in the Upper House an 2 do Caroli Regis no Lord is capable of above two Proxies Nota That in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House it doth not appear at all whether her Majesty or any of the Lords were present on Saturday following being the tenth day of this instant May it appearing plainly that neither House sate on Friday the 9 th day of the same nor what was done thereon and therefore the Passages of the same are supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons On Saturday the 10 th day of May in the Afternoon her Majesty being come to the Upper House with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being there also set and the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the House of Commons having notice repaired thither with Robert Bell of the Middle-Temple London Esq their Speaker Elect who was led up unto the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House by two of the most Eminent Personages of the Commons and presented to her Majesty whom she allowed and Confirmed
in the said place of Prolocutor or Speaker notwithstanding his Excuse made and disabling himself according to the usual form After which the said Speaker being now fully and absolutely invested in his said place did after his humble thanks rendred to her Majesty in the Conclusion of his Speech make certain Petitions of course in the behalf of himself and the House of Commons viz. for the free access to her Majesty freedom of Speech and freedom from Arrests and Suits during the Continuance of the Parliament and for Pardon for himself if he should in any thing unwittingly mistake or offend All which being graciously allowed by her Majesty she arose and departed Nota That there is no entrance in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of the Continuance or Adjournment of the Parliament which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq now Clerk of the same For it is plain the Lords did sit again on Monday following in the Forenoon to some hour of which it is most likely it was continued and the passages whereof as also of all the other days on which the said House sate do now in order follow out of the aforesaid Original Journal-Book of the same May the 11 th Sunday On Monday the 12 th of May to which day the Parliament had been last continued as is most likely the presence of the Lords is first noted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House which were as followeth their Names only being altered into English The Archbishop of Canterbury The Archbishop of York Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England The Marquess of Winchester Comites The Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England The Earl of Kent The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Rutland The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Warwick The Earl of Pembroke The Earl of Hartford The Earl of Leicester The Earl of Essex Viscount Bindon Episcopi The Bishop of London The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Ely The Bishop of Worcester The Bishop of S t Davids The Bishop of Salisbury The Bishop of Bath and Wells The Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield The Bishop of Peterborough The Bishop of Norwich The Bishop of Chester The Bishop of Bangor The Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of Exeter The Bishop of Rochester Barones The Lord Howard of Effingham Chamberlain to the Queen The Lord Burleigh Secretary to the Queen The Lord Abergaveny The Lord Strange The Lord Dacres The Lord Stafford The Lord Grey of Wilton The Lord Mountjoy The Lord Darcy The Lord Mounteagle The Lord Sands The Lord Windsor The Lord Wentworth The Lord Burrough The Lord S t John of Basing The Lord Cromwell The Lord Evers The Lord Wharton The Lord Willoughby of Parham The Lord Pagett The Lord Darcy of Chich. The Lord North. The Lord Chandois The Lord S t John of Bletsoe The Lord Buckhurst The Lord De la Ware The Lord Compton The Lord Cheyney The Lord Norris This day also by Order and Consent of the whole House were appointed to confer with such number of the House of Commons as should please the said House to appoint for the more speedy and better direction of them in the great matter touching the Queen of Scots these Lords undernamed viz. The Archbishop of Canterbury The Archbishop of York The Earl of Oxford The Earl of Kent The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Warwick The Earl of Bedford The Earl of Leicester The Earl of Essex The Bishop of London The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Ely The Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of Rochester The Lord Chamberlain The Lord Burleigh The Lord Grey The Lord Windsor The Lord Wentworth The Lord North and the Lord Chandois Who were appointed to meet in the Star-Chamber at eight of the Clock in the Morning the next day Vide on Wednesday May the 28 th ensuing The Bill for preservation of Wood and Timber was read prima vice Commissa Archiepiscopo Cantuar. Comiti Lincoln Comiti Sussex Comiti Leicester Episcopo Elien Episcopo Wigorn. Episcopo Meneven Domino Howard Domino Camerario Domino Burleigh Domino Windsor Domino Wentworth Domino Pagett Domino Chandois Domino Buckhurst Justiciario Southcott Justic. Weston The Bill for punishment of Vagabonds and for relief of the poor was read prima vice Commissa Archiepiscopo Cantuar. Comiti Huntington Comiti Rutland Comiti Pembroke Comiti Hertford Episcopo London Episcopo Wigorn. Episcopo Meneven Episcopo Bangor Domino Grey Domino S t John Domino Evers Domino S t John de Bletsoe Justiciario Harper Christophero Wray Servienti ad Legem Nota That here a Bill is not only committed upon the first reading but a Judge who is but a meer Assistant unto the Upper House and a Serjeant who is but a meen Attendant thereon are made joint Committees with the Lords as in the Bill foregoing Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hurâ Octavâ This day also was brought in the Proxy of Edward Earl of Lincoln into the Upper House and as it seemeth the Proxies of fourteen other Temporal Lords viz. One Marquess two Earls one Viscount and ten Barons But there is no mention made in the Original Journal-Book whether they were returned before or after the Continuance of the Parliament according to the usual form as aforesaid which was in the Afternoon of this present Monday where each Temporal Lord nominateth one Proctor and therefore were admitted but the Earl of Lincoln nominating two Proctors which is somewhat extraordinary is transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book as followeth 12 th Maij introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Edwardi Comitis Lincoln in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Robertum Comitem Leicester Willielmum Dominum Burleigh On Tuesday the 13 th day of May to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill against corrupt Presentations was read Primâ vice Nota Because the daily continuing of the Parliament in these words Dominus Custos magni Sigilli c. is but matter of course it is afterwards through the whole Journal-Book omitted unless something extraordinary fall out either in respect of the person time or manner of continuing of it On Wednesday the 14 th day of May to which day the Parliament had been last continued on the day next foregoing divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled but nothing was done save only the Continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper to the day next following at eight of the Clock On Thursday the 15 th day of May to which day the Parliament had been yesterday continued the Bill for the punishment of Vagabonds and relief of the Poor was read secunda vice but there is no mention made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees of which doubtless there can be no other reason seeing it was not sent up
Bill against flying with long-winged Hawks under certain degrees was read prima vice Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regii continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crast. hora nona On Saturday the 7 th day of June Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the true making proving and marking of Callivers Muskets Hand-Guns Dags and other small Ordnance was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Hartford the Earl of Leicester the Earl of Essex the Lord Grey the Lord Evers the Lord North the Lord Chandois and the Lord Norris and to Justice Harper And the fourth and last being the Bill touching Hawks and preservation of Game was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Hartford the Lord Darcy the Lord Chandois the Lord S t John de Bletsoe the Lord Compton the Lord Cheyney and Justice Wray Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regii continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae proxim hora nona On Monday the 9 th day of June Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill that the inhabitants of the City of Winchester and of the Liberty of Soke adjoining to the same may use the Trade of Cloth-making and take Apprentices was read prima vice Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them their second reading of which the second being the Bill for the Partition of certain Lands between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfeild Knight and their Heirs was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the House of Commons The Bill lastly being for the School of Tunbridge was committed unto the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Hartford the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Wentworth the Lord Norris being doubtless brought in this day by the Committees nominated on Wednesday the 4 th of this instant June foregoing but it was not at all now read but had its second reading with a new Proviso added unto it on the Morrow following and on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant June and was committed the third time upon the third reading Vide a like President on Wednesday the 28 th day of May foregoing Dominus Primarius Justiciarius Banci Regii continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hora nona On Tuesday the 10 th day of June Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the severance of the Sheriffwick of Cambridgeshire and Huntingtonshire and the second for the punishment of such as shall rebelliously take or detain from the Queens Majesty any Castles Fortresses c. were each of them returned conclus The Bill for the better and further assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of a Free Grammar-School at Tunbridge in the County of Kent was read secunda vice with a new Proviso added thereunto by the Lords which was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Upon request made by the House of Commons to have Conference with some of the Lords to be appointed by the House touching the great Bill of the Queen of Scots were appointed these Lords following viz. The Archbishop of York The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Sussex The Earl of Bedford The Earl of Leicester The Earl of Essex The Bishop of London The Bishop of Winchester The Lord Burleigh The Lord Grey The Lord Wentworth The Lord Chandois and The Lord North. But no Judges were nominated because they were to confer with the House of Commons Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 12 th day and on Wednesday the 28 th day of May foregoing Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem prox hora nona Nota That as it did not appear before on Thursday the 5 th day of this instant June so neither is it expressed here by what Authority the Lord Keeper is re-authorised to exercise the same again which hapned through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House The Presidents are familiar in other Journals of this Queens Reign where this Authority hath been given to the Lord Chief Justice or some other to supply the Lord Keeper's place by Commission under the Great Seal and that the readmittance of the Lord Keeper to the Executing of his said place again was by like Commission but here it is possible that either were at this time here Executed by some other Authority On Wednesday the 11 th day of June Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching Sea-Marks and the reviving of a Statute that no Hoy or Plate shall cross the Seas was read tertia vice conclusa Three Bills were sent from the Lords to the House of Commons by Doctor Vaughan and Doctor Huick of which one was the Bill for continuance of Statutes The Bill to revive a Statute made an 1. of the Queens Majesties Reign inhibiting the transporting out of the Realm of Leather Tallow and Raw-Hides was returned from the House of Commons conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in vicesimum quartum diem Junii prox hora nona mané On Tuesday the 24 th day of June Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that Wooll and Yarn may be bought and sold in the Markets and Fairs to be kept in the Borough of New Woodstock in the County of Oxon was read prima vice Three Bills also were sent to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for Partition to be made between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfield Knight and their Heirs On Wednesday the 25 th day of June Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the avoiding of Recoveries suffered by Collusions of Tenants for Term of life and such others was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because it had been sent formerly from the House of Commons The Bill for the Inning of Plumsted-Marsh in the County of Kent being surrounded was returned from the House of Commons conclusa On Thursday the 26 th day of June The Bill for the assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to the maintenance of a Sermon to be had in the Church of S t Paul in London every Holyday in the Afternoon for ever was read secunda vice but no mention that it was committed or Ordered
Saturday last continued The Bill for the reviving of a Statute made an 8 Eliz. for the Town of Shrewsbury was returned from the House of Commons conclusa The Bill against delays in Judgment in the Common Law was read secunda vice but there is no mention made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent from the House of Commons on Saturday the 28 th day of this instant June immediately foregoing In the Parliament Chamber where the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled the day abovesaid in an 14 Regin Eliz. c. Whereas upon Complaint and Declaration made to the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal by Henry Lord Cromwell a Lord of the Parliament that in a Case between one James Tavernor against the said Lord Cromwell depending in the Court of Chancery for not obeying to an Injunction given in the said Court of Chancery in the absence of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal at the Suit of the said Tavernor the person of the said Lord Cromwell was by the Sheriff of the County of Norfolk attached by virtue of a Writ of Attachment proceeding out of the said Court of Chancery contrary to the antient priviledge and immunity time out of memory unto the Lords of Parliament and Peers of this Realm in such case used and allowed as on the behalf of the said Lord Cromwell was declared and affirmed wherein the said Lord Cromwell as a Lord of Parliament prayed remedy Forasmuch as upon deliberate Examination of this Case in the said Parliament Chamber in the presence of the Judges and other of the Queens Majesties Learned Council there attendant in Parliament and upon Declaration of the opinions of the said Judges and Learned Council there hath been no matter directly produced or declared whereby it did appear or seem to the said Lords of Parliament there Assembled that by the Common Law or Custom of the Realm or by any Statute Law or by any President of the said Court of Chancery it is warranted that the person of any Lord having place and voice in Parliament in the like case in the said Court of Chancery before this time hath been Attached so as the awarding of the said Attachment at the Suit of the said Tavernor against the said Lord Cromwell for any thing as yet declared to the said Lords appeareth to be derogatory and prejudicial to the antient priviledge claimed to belong to the Lords of this Realm Therefore it is the day and year aforesaid Ordered by consent of all the said Lords in Parliament there Assembled that the person of the said Lord Cromwell be from henceforth discharged of and from the said Attachment Provided nevertheless and so is the mind of the said Lords in Parliament plainly by them with one assent declared That if at any time during this Parliament or hereafter in any other Parliament there shall be shewed sufficient matter that by the Queens Prerogative or by the Common Law or Custom of this Realm or by any Statute Law or sufficient Presidents the person of any of the Lords of Parliament in such Case as this Case of the Lord Cromwell is ought to be attached or attachable then and from thenceforth it is by this order intended that to take place which so shall be shewed and warranted as above is said This Order or any thing therein to the contrary notwithstanding In the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House is no entrance of any continuance of the Parliament which seemeth to have been omitted through the negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the same House although it may very easily be gathered that the Parliament was continued unto some hour in the Afternoon of this present day and most probable it is that it was continued by the Lord Keeper because it appeareth without all question that he was present in the Afternoon Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Queens Majesty as may easily be gathered was present with the Lord Keeper and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal but their names through the great negligence of the above-named Anthony Mason Esq are not at all noted with the mark of being present neither are any of the passages of this Afternoon there entred saving only the Adjournment of the Parliament although it be most certain that her Majesty being present this Afternoon did put an end to this Session of Parliament by giving her Royal Assent to thirteen publick Acts and four private But yet there passed no Bill of her Majesties free and general pardon to the Subject nor of any Subsidies from them to her Majesty and the reason of it is plain because this Session of Parliament although some Statutes did of course pass in it was doubtless convocated chiefly for that great business touching the Scottish Queen of which there are divers passages in this proceeding Journal which see on Monday the 12 th day and on Wednesday the 28 th day of May on Tuesday the 10 th day and on Thursday the 26 th day of this instant June foregoing And therefore now lastly as touching the manner of her Majesties giving her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed in respect that it is matter of form and seldom differeth it is therefore supplied omitting that only which concerns the Bills of Subsidy and Pardon out of a draught thereof set down in the end of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the Parliament de an 39 Regin Eliz. although it be omitted in that of this present Session of Parliament To every publick Act that passed after that it had been read the Clerk of the Upper House standing up did openly pronounce her Majesties Allowance in these French words following La Roigne le veult To every private Act that passed the said Clerk read the Queens Answer in these French words following Soit fait come il est desiré These two last Answers to the publick and private Acts that pass are to be written by the said Clerk at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty doth forbear to allow the Clerk of the Parliament read in these French words following La Roigne s'advisera The several Acts being thus passed the next matter that followed was the Adjournment of the Parliament which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the manner and form following Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae adjournavit praesens Parliamentum usque in festum omnium Sanctorum proximum futurum By the Entrance of which Adjournment it doth plainly appear that her Majesty was present in respect that it is said that the Lord Keeper Adjourned the Parliament ex mandato Dominae Reginae And it is also worthy the observation that as the greatest part of the passages of this foregoing Monday on which this Session of Parliament ended are through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the Upper House
Afternoon and to make report and to return the Bill to Morrow Morning Further day was given for the Earl of Kent and the Lord Compton with their Learned Councel to Morrow at eight of the Clock in the Forenoon On Wednesday the 25 th day of June my Lord of Kent appearing in the House it was signified that the Queens Majesties Pleasure is that for this time the matter between him and the Lord Compton be deferred for that the said Lord Compton is presently appointed to attend upon the Duke Memorancy to Dover as by Letters from the Lord Burleigh directed unto M r Speaker and containing her Highness said Pleasure in that behalf amongst other things appeareth The Bill for Continuation of certain Statutes was read the first time and committed unto Mr. Atkins M r Dale M r Beamond M r Greenfeild M r March M r Cardinall M r Layton and Mr. Honywood who were appointed to meet here to Morrow Morning at six of the Clock The Bill against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots was read the third time and passed the House and the Proviso to the same Bill had also its third reading Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the Severance of the Sheriffs of the Counties of Bed and Bucks was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Three Bills also had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which one was touching the inordinate length of Kersies and another for the Town of Stafford On Thursday the 26 th day of June the Bill for marking of Tanned Leather was twice read Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others of which one was the Bill touching Lands within the County of the City of Exeter and another against Mary commonly called the Queen of Scots Touching which Bill and business of the said Queen see on Monday the 12 th day Thursday the 15 th day Monday the 19 th day Wednesday the 21 th day Friday the 23 th and on Wednesday the 28 th day of May preceeding as also on Thursday the 5 th day Friday the 6 th day Tuesday the 10 th day Tuesday the 24 th day and on Wednesday the 25 th day of this instant June The Bill for Hemp and Cordage was twice read Mr. Serjeant Manwood Mr. Marsh Mr. Grice Mr. Hastings Mr. Grimston Mr. Norton Mr. Barrey Mr. Atkins Mr. Thomas Browne Mr. Honywood Mr. Shute Mr. Burie and Mr. Greenfeild were appointed to have Conference with the Lords touching the Bill of Continuation of Statutes And the Bill touching Sea-Marks and the Bill for the Severance of the Sheriffs of Bedf. and Bucks were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Doctor Wilson and the said other Committees Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Lewes did bring from the Lords the Bill touching Recoveries passed in this House before with a Branch of Repeal of the Statute of 32 H. 8. added by the Lords The Bill against delays in Judgment was read the third time and the Proviso twice read and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Serjeant Barham brought from the Lords the former Bill touching Sea-Marks with allowance of the Amendments Mr. Serjeant Barham and Mr. Attorney General did bring from the Lords the Bill for Continuation of Statutes with allowance of the Amendments On Friday the 27 th day of June the Bill touching Sea-Marks was read the third time The Bill for Continuation of certain Statutes was twice read with all the Additions and the Provisoes were each of them thrice read The Bill for Recoveries by Collusion suffered by Tenants for term of life and the Bill for the Continuation of Statutes with another Bill also of no great moment were each of them sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer Mr. Doctor Wilson and others Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Huick did bring from the Lords the Bill for the Explanation of the Statute against Fugitives with Additions by them made and request for Expedition and reading thereof Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Addition to the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against Fugitives was thrice read and passed The Proviso for the Dutchy of Lancaster made by this House unto the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against Fugitives was thrice read and passed upon the Question On Saturday the 28 th day of June The Proviso touching the Dutchy of Lancaster in the Bill for the Explanation of the Statute against Fugitives was by Order of this House withdrawn and a new one added and thrice read and pass'd for that the former wanted sufficient penning to carry the meaning of this House Post Meridiem The Bill for the Explanation of the Statute against Fugitives with the Provisoes and Amendments and also the Bill concerning the Free Grammar-School at Tunbridge in the County of Kent were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy and others Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Huick did bring from the Lords the Bill touching Grants made unto Hospitals Mr. Doctor Lewes brought word from the Lords that their Lordships did desire present Conference with some of this House in the Bill concerning the length of Kersies for which purpose were sent Sir Rowland Hayward Mr. Grimston Mr. Gresham Mr. Norton Mr. Langley Mr. Brownell Mr. Fleet Mr. Appleby Mr. Chester and Mr. Sekerson The Bill for Hospitals was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Hugh Pawlett Sir Maurice Berkley Sir Owen Hopton and Sir Henry Gate The Bill against delays in Judgment at the Common Law passed after many Arguments and was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy and others with special Commendations from this House Mr. Doctor Lewes and Mr. Doctor Huick brought from the Lords the Bill for the Statute made for the Town of Shrewsbury with a Proviso The Proviso to the Bill for Shrewsbury was read three times On Monday the 30 th day of June the Bill for Shrewsbury was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others It was this day Ordered by this House upon the Question that touching the Bill passed in this House for the School of Tunbridge and Andrew Fisher these words following shall be set down viz. Memorandum That the Bill concerning Tunbridge-School and Andrew Fisher in which Bill one Deed made in the name of Henry Fisher is supposed to be forged was committed to the Right Honourable Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Scott c. who have certified to this House that they found great untruth and impudency in the said Andrew Fisher And that for very vehement presumptions they think very Evil of the Deed. Nevertheless upon Fishers Submission they have been contented to withdraw out of the Bill all words that touched him in infamy And so the Bill penned passed this House with assent on both sides as well to help Tunbridge-School as others that had bought Land of the said Andrews Father bonâ fide And the said Committeés have
further reported that the same matter coming also in Question in the UpperHouse before Committees there at the Suit of Henry Brother to the said Andrew the Committees of the higher House have for great Causes agreed in opinion with the Committees of this House concerning the Deed. Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 28 th day of May preceeding as also on Tuesday the third day Wednesday the fourth day and on Friday the sixth day of this instant June foregoing The Bill lastly for relief of Sir William Harper Knight was read the third time But what further passed this day in the House of Commons doth not at all appear in the Original Journal-Book of the same House but is negligently omitted by Fulk Onslow Esq at this time Clerk thereof Yet it is most probable that here ended the whole or at least the greatest part of this Forenoons Passages And then this Sessions of Parliament being Adjourned in the Afternoon by Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Ex mandato Dominae Reginae as the words of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House are it should seem the said Mr. Onslow did omit to make any remembrance or mention thereof although this Adjournment did add an end to this present Session her Majesty giving her Royal Assent to thirteen publick Acts and four private And the reason why so few Statutes received Life as also that neither the Bill for her Majesties general Pardon nor any Bill of Subsidy passed the Houses at this Sessions was in respect that it was chiefly called for Consultation and deliberation touching the dangers of her Majesty and the Realm by reason of the Scottish Queen against whom the House of Commons did proceed with great earnestness advising her Majesty to proceed to her final Execution although the said advice took not effect nor was pursued by her Majesty until the twenty eighth Year of her Reign THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS An Exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster An. 18 Reginae Eliz. A. D. 1575 which began there on Wednesday the 8 th Day of February after divers Prorogations of the same and there continued until the Prorogation thereof on Thursday the 15 th Day of March next ensuing THE Journal of this present Session although there were no Solemnity at the beginning thereof as of a new Parliament yet wanted there not the Return and Entrance of divers Proxies as well extraordinary as ordinary and although through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esquire at this time Clerk of the Upper House there appeareth little other matter to have been agitated therein than the reading committing and expediting of Bills yet it is plain by the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons that there was some Entrance by both Houses upon the reformation of divers Abuses in the Ecclesiastical Government and some difference between the said Houses about the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Heirs of the Lord Stourton sent down from the Lords to the Commons Besides this foresaid Journal is not a little enlarged and beautified by the inserting of the Speech at large of Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal out of a Copy thereof I had by me which is the rather worth the noting in respect that it was doubtless the last Speech he ever made in Parliament for before the third Session of this present Parliament which was held five Years after the Adjournment of this present Session he died viz. in the two and twentieth Year of her Majesty Anno Domini 1579. and so Sir Thomas Bromley Knight succeeded Lord Chancellor before the said Session in Anno 23 Reginae ejusdem which was the third and last Session of this instant Parliament The first Session whereof was held in Anno 14 Reginae praedictae by which means this was the longest Parliament continuing about eleven Years of any during her Majesties Reign and was not Dissolved until the five and twentieth Year of her said Reign containing also in it three several Sessions whereas no other consisted of above two at the most Memorand quod die Mercurii octavo die Februarii Anno Regni excellentissimae ac metuendissimae Dominae nostrae Dom. Eliz. Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae Fidei Defensatricis c. Decimo octavo quo die post varias ac diversas Prorogationes praesens haec Sessio Parliamenti tenta habita fuit apud Westmonasterium Domini tam Temporales quam Spirituales quorum nomina subsequuntur praesentes fuerunt The Queen was not present because as it hath been observed this was no new Parliament but the Lords met of Course Nicolaus Bacon Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli Dominus Burleigh Thesaurarius Angliae Comites Comes Lincoln Admirallus Comes Sussex Dominus Camerarius Hospitii Reginae Comes Northumbr Comes Kanc. Comes Darb. Comes Wigorn. Comes Rutland Comes Huntingdon Comes Warwick Comes Southampton Comes Bedford Comes Pembroke Comes Hartford Comes Leicester Comes Essex Vice-Comes Mountague Vice-Comes Bindon Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Winton Episcopus Hereford Episcopus Elien Episcopus Meneven Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Covent Litchf Episcopus Cestren Episcopus Bangoren Episcopus Cicestren Episcopus Oxon. Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Assaven Barones Dominus Abergavenny Dominus Audley Dominus Dacres Dominus Stafford Dominus Gray de Wilton Dominus Dudley Dominus Lumley Dominus Darcy Dominus Wentworth Dominus Mordant Dominus Cramwell Dominus Evers Dominus Rich. Dominus Pagett Dominus Howard Dominus North. Dominus Shandois Dominus Hunsdon Dominus S t John de Beltso Dominus Buckhurst Dominus de la Ware Dominus Compton Dominus Cheyney Dominus Norris Which are all the Names noted in the Original Journal-Book of this eighteenth Year of the Queen to have been present this Wednesday the 8 th of February These Lords being thus set they fell to their ordinary business without any manner of solemnity this being as hath been said no new Parliament but only the second Session of that Parliament which began in Anno 14 Reginae Elizabethae Two Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was the Bill for the reformation of the excess in Apparel Hodie returnatum fuit breve quo Henricus Comes Northumbriae praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alteno The like several Writs returned the Earl of Kent and Charles Lord Howard Lord Audley William Bishop of S t Asaph and Henry Earl of Darby Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum hord octavâ Although this were but a second session of a former Parliament as hath been said yet were divers Proxies sent and returned of which there being no mention upon what day they were introduced I have caused two
one reading of which the first being the Bill for the payment of Tythes in the Town of Reading as in the City of London and the last for repairing of the Gaol of S t Edmonds-Bury and of Brandon-Bride in Com. Suff. were each of them read tertiâ vice conclusa On Saturday the 10 th day of March Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for setting the Poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness and another was for a Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy Nine Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Hospital of S r Crosse near Winchester was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Barkley and M r Powle Clerk of the Crown and another being a Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Henry Norris Knight Lord Norris of Ricot was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the House of Commons About which hour the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Explanation of the Statute against the defeating of Dilapidations and against Leases to be made of Spiritual Promotions and the second for remedy against the Plaintiff for false Complaint were each of them read secundâ vice but no mention is made whether they were Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of an Arbitrement to be made by certain Persons between Richard Hudleston Esquire and Dame Elizabeth Weynman his Wife on the one part and Francis Weynman Gent. on the other part was read primâ vice Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for reformation of abuses in Goldsmiths was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossand and the second being the Bill for preservation of Feasants and Partridges was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Lewes and M r Vaughan On Monday the 12 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of an Arbitrement to be made by certain Persons between Richard Hudleston Esquire and Dame Elizabeth Weynman on the one part and Francis Weynman Gent. on the other part was read secundâ vice but no mention is made that it was Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent from the House of Commons on Saturday the 10 th of this instant March foregoing The Bill also for restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayney was read primâ secundâ vice which as it should seem was in honour of the said Anthony Mayney Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was for the maintenance of Colleges in the Universities of Winchester and Eaton and another for the repairing and amending of Bridges and High-ways near unto the City of Oxford Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem Nota That here the Lord Keeper continueth again the Parliament which had been performed by the Lord Treasurer from Saturday the third day of this instant March foregoing until this present Monday the 12 th day of the same but whether the one or the other were by her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal or by any other Authority appeareth not in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but seemeth to have been omitted through the negligence of Anthony Mason Esquire at this time Clerk of the same About which foresaid hour in the Afternoon the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to take away Clergy from Offenders in Rape or Burglary and an Order for the delivery of Clerks Convict without Purgation with certain amendments and a Proviso was read tertiâ vice conclusa As also the Bill for restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayncy Esquire An Act to redress Disorders in common Informers was sent to the Lords from the House of Commons The Bill lastly for Toleration of certain Clothiers in the Counties of Wilts Somerset and Gloucester was read tertiâ vice conclusa Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ octavâ Vide touching the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Treasurer on Saturday the third day of this instant March foregoing On Tuesday the 13 th day of March Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for annexing of Gate-side to the Town of New-Castle and the seventh being for the Confirmation of an Arbitrement to be made by certain Persons between Richard Hudleston Esquire and Dame Elizabeth his Wife on the one part and Francis Weynman Gentleman on the other part with a Proviso and certain Amendments were each of them read tertiâ vice conclusae and sent to the House of Commons by her Majesties Attorney General M r Barkley and M r Powle The Bill for Restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayney Esquire with a Proviso added by the House of Commons was sent from thence to the Lords The Bill lastly for reformation of Jeofailes was read tertiâ vice conclusa commissa Magistro Vaughan Magistro Powle in Domum Communem deferend Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem Vide concerning this continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper on Monday the 12 th day of this instant March foregoing About which hour in the Afternoon the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the restitution in Blood of John Lord Stourton with a new Proviso added by the said House After which three other Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was concerning Offices found in Counties Palatines and the last for reformation of Jeofailes On Wednesday the 14 th day of March the Bill for reformation of excess in Apparel was read secundâ vice but no mention of committing or ingrossing because it had been sent from the Lords About which hour the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second being the Bill for the Queens Majesties most gracious
House of Commons Whereupon the Speaker moved the said House to appoint some to amend those things which the Lords had yielded to have reformed that so the Bill might pass but the whole House a very few excepted said they would hear no more of it and so it stayed without any further proceeding because it appeared the House of Commons did not think their Objections sufficiently answered by the Lords This foregoing proceeding of the two Houses in the above-mentioned Bill touching Authority to be given to the Justices of her Majesties Forests c. being transcribed out of the Copy thereof I had by me now follows the next days Passages out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons On Friday the 9 th day of March the Bill for restitution in Blood of the Lord Norris was twice read The Bill for re-edifying of the Town of Cringleford near unto the City of Norwich was read the third time and passed the House and was sent up to the Lords with the Bill for the Hospital in the Town of Leicester by M r Treasurer and others The Bill touching Suffolk Cloths and Essex Cloths was read the first time and committed unto M r Secretary Smith M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Nicholas Arnold and others to have Conference touching the double searching of Cloths generally now presently in the Committee-Chamber The Bill for Confirmation of the Subsidy of the Clergy was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the Lords M r Chancellor of the Exchequer touching the Petition for reformation of Discipline in the Church did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships having moved the Queens Majesty touching the said Petition her Highness answered their Lordships that her Majesty before the Parliament had a care to provide in that case of her own disposition and at the beginning of this Session her Highness had Conference therein with some of the Bishops and gave them in Charge to see due reformation thereof wherein as her Majesty thinketh they will have good consideration according unto her pleasure and express Commandment in that behalf So did her Highness most graciously and honourably declare further that if the said Bishops should neglect or omit their Duties therein then her Majesty by her Supream Power and Authority over the Church of England would speedily see such good redress therein as might satisfie the expectation of her loving Subjects to their good contentation which Message and Report was most thankfully and joyfully received by the whole House with one accord And immediately thereupon John Crook Esquire one of the Knights for the County of Buckingham took occasion in most humble and dutiful wise to make a Motion unto the House for another Petition to be moved to the Lords for perswading of her Majesty for Marriage Vide concerning Church-Discipline on Wednesday the 29 th day of February preceeding and on Friday the second day of this instant March foregoing and touching the Queens Marriage on Monday the 12 th day of the same Month of March ensuing The new Bill also for the Lady Wainman was read the first time Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the Lord Viscount Howard of Bindon was twice read Six other Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for restitution in Blood of Henry Lord Norris another for Confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy and a third for Preservation of Pheasants and Partridges were each of them read the third time and passed the House On Saturday the 10 th day of March Two Bills had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was for repressing of Murders and Felonies in the Counties of Northumberland and Cumberland Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill for setting the Poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness and another for preservation of Pheasants and Partridges The Bill against excess in Apparel was read the second time and committed unto all the Privy-Council being of this House M r Captain of the Guard M r Treasurer of the Chamber the Masters of Requests and others who were appointed to meet at the Exchequer-Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon M r Doctor Barkley and M r Powle did bring from the Lords a Bill for the Hospital of S t Cross with special commendation for expediting thereof and Declaration of the assent of the Parties given in that behalf before their Lordships Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Lady Wainman was read the third time and passed the House M r Serjeant Barham and M r Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords two Bills with Amendments and Provisoes which before passed the House viz. the Bill for repairing and amending of the Bridges and High-ways near Oxford and the Bill for maintenance of Colledges in the Universities and of Eaton and Winchester The Bill against Arthur Hall Esquire Edward Smalley and Matthew Kirtleton his Servant was read the first time Edward Smalley Servant unto Arthur Hall Esq appearing in this House this day at the Bar it was pronounced unto him by M r Speaker in the name and by the appointment and order of this House for Execution of the former Judgment of this House awarded against him That he the said Edward Smalley shall be forthwith committed Prisoner from this House to the Tower of London and there remain for one whole Month next ensuing from this present day and further after the same Month expired until such time as good and sufficient assurance shall be had and made for payment of 100 l of good and lawful money of England to be paid unto William Hewet Administrator of the goods Chattels and Debts of Melchisedech Malory Gent. deceased upon the first day of the next Term according to the former Order in that behalf by this House made and set down and also forty Shillings for the Serjeants Fees the notice of which assurance for the true payment of the said hundred pounds in form aforesaid to be certified unto M r Lieutenant of the Tower by M r Recorder of London before any delivery or setting at liberty of the said Edward Smalley to be in any wise had or made at any time after the Expiration of the said Month as is aforesaid and that he shall not be delivered out of Prison before such notice certified whether the same be before the said first day of the next Term or after Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 16 th day Monday the 20 th day Wednesday the 22 th day Monday the 27 th day and on Tuesday the 28 th day of February preceeding as also on Wednesday the 7 th day of this instant March foregoing
Popham M r Stanhope M r Colbie and M r Broughton The Bill against abusing of Licences to transport forbidden Wares was delivered to M r Comptroller Post Meridiem In the Afternoon five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching Inquisitions and Offices to be taken within the Counties Pallatine and the third being the Bill touching Wharfs and Keyes were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords The former Committees for the Bill of Apparel who were appointed on Saturday the 10 th day of this instant March foregoing were sent up to the Lords for Conference as well in that Bill as in the Bill for preservation of Pheasants and Partridges Thus far out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons that which follows touching the proceeding of the Committees in the Bill for restitution in Blood of the Heirs of the Lord Stourton is inserted out of that large Memorial or written Discourse of the whole Carriage of that business I had by me being prout sequitur The Committees reading deliberately the Bill and the whole Contents thereof partly upon causes alledged in the House and partly upon causes remembred among themselves took the saving in the Bill not to be sufficient but added a Proviso unto it the special point whereof was to bar the Lord Stourton that he should not take advantage of any error that might happen to be in any Fine Recovery or other Conveyance passed by his Father or his Ancestors but he should be in that respect as though his Blood were not restored in which State he can bring no Writ of Error The occasion of which Proviso grew chiefly for that the Lords had within few days before dashed a Bill that passed in the House of Commons for the helping of such Errors whereupon they thought it dangerous to give that scope to any man that should be restored in Blood and therefore they added such a Proviso both to this Bill and to another Bill of the like tenor that did concern one Anthony Mayny of Kent Esquire During the time of this Conference of the Committees the Lord Stourton being informed how his Case was Ordered in the House of Commons came to the place where the Committees sate and desired that himself and his Councel might be heard which they allowed him of their own discretion without the privity of the House his Councel laboured to shew to the Committees that the saving already in the Bill was sufficient so as they then needed no addition of any other Proviso but being answered to all that he said he could not much reply but seemed to be satisfied After which the Committees having agreed upon a Proviso repaired unto the House and made a report thereof but the Lord Stourton nothing contented therewithal procured immediately a Message from the Lords to the House of Commons in his favour which Message being more fully set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons than in that written Memorial or Discourse of this said cause I had by me out of which the foregoing proceedings are transcribed I have thought it better to supply it out of the same in manner and form following viz. M r Serjeant Barham and M r Doctor Vaughan did bring from the Lords four Bills viz. for restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayney Esquire the Bill for reformation of abuses in Goldsmiths the Bill to give Costs and Charges to the Defendant that shall be wrongfully vexed by slanderous and untrue Suits and the Bill for relief of Vicars with a Message also from their Lordships that the Committees of this House appointed for Conference with their Lordships in the Bill of Apparel may also have Commission from this House to shew unto their Lordships the reasons which did move this House to deal so hardly in the Bill which being signed by her Majesty passed their Lordships for the restitution in Blood of the Lord Stourton being a Nobleman and seeking but the same course and form of restitution which other Noblemen in like cases have done and had heretofore which Message being opened unto the House was not well liked of but thought perillous and prejudicial to the Liberties of this House Whereupon it was resolved by this House that no such reason should be rendred nor any of this House to be appointed unto any such Commission Vide plus concerning this business on Wednesday the 14 th day of this instant March ensuing Two Bills lastly had each of them their first reading of which the first was the Bill for restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayney Esq On Tuesday the 13 th day of March the Bill for restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayney Esq was twice read and a Proviso to the same Bill was read three times M r Sollicitor and M r Powle did bring from the Lords a Bill for the annexing of Gateside to New-Castle and withal a Message from their Lordships to desire Conference with such of this House as this House shall appoint touching Conference with their Lordships for the Bill of the Lord Stourton which their Lordships do hear hath had offers of Provisoes or some other thing to the stay of the proceeding of the said Bill Whereupon the said M r Sollicitor and M r Powle being called into this House received Answer that by the resolution of this House according to the antient Liberties and Priviledges of this House Conference is to be required by that Court which at the time of the Conference demanded shall be possessed of the Bill and not of any other Court And further that this House being now possessed of the Bill and minding to add some amendment to the said Bill will if they see cause and think meet pray Conference therein with their Lordships themselves and else not Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 14 th day of this instant March ensuing Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being being the Bill against the excess of Apparel was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed M r Attorney General and M r Sollicitor did bring from the Lords the Bill of the Queens Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon M r Treasurer Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Secretary Walsingham Mr. Captain of the Guards Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Henry Gate Mr. Snagg Mr. Grimsditch and divers others were appointed to confer in the Bill touching Wharfs and Keyes in the Chequer-Chamber immediately after Dinner this present day Mr. Serjeant Barham and Mr. Powle did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships did desire to have the former Committees in the Bill for Leather to confer with their Lordships presently touching the same Bill whereof they specially pray that Mr. Marsh may be one whereupon the said
Committees were sent presently and the Bill of restitution in Blood of Anthony Mayney Esquire was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and the said others The Bill against the abuses of Goldsmiths was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the Lords on the day immediately foregoing Mr. Doctor Barkley and Mr. Powle did bring from the Lords the Bill touching the Confirmation of an Arbitrement to be made between Richard Hudleston Esquire and Dame Isabell Wainman on the one part and Francis Wainman Gentleman on the other part Mr. Treasurer Mr. Secretary Smith Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Treasurer of the Chamber the Master of the Jewel-House Sir Rowland Hayward and others were appointed to meet this Afternoon at three of the Clock and to hear the Learned Councel of the Goldsmiths Mr. Doctor Vaughan and Mr. Doctor Yale did bring from the Lords the Bill of Jeofails with some Amendments The Bill for restitution in Blood of the Lord Stourton was read the third time and two Provisoes twice read and passed the House Vide concerning this business of the Lord Stourton in fine diei sequentis The Bill also against excess in Apparel was read the third time and passed the House Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the Lord Stourton and the Bill against excess in Apparel were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller and others Vide concerning the business of the Lord Stourton on Wednesday the 14 th day of this instant March ensuing Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for relief of Vicars and Curates was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Sampoole Mr. Cromwell Mr. Savile Mr. Boyer Mr. S t John Mr. Broughton and others who were appointed to meet at this House to Morrow in the Morning at six of the Clock The Bill touching unjust and slanderous Suits was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been sent from the Lords on Monday the 12 th day of this instant March foregoing The Bill touching unjust and slanderous Suits and the Bill for the annexing of the Town of Gateside to New-Castle were read the first time M r Justice Mounson and Mr. Serjeant Barham did bring word from the Lords that whereas their Lordships have made divers requests for Conference with some of this House touching the Bill for the Lord Stourton and the Bill for Mr. Mayney their restitutions in Blood and as yet have received no Answer thereof of this House at all Their further desire now is that a further Committee be appointed for this House to meet with their Lordships in the Parliament Chamber to Morrow next before eight of the Clock for that purpose whereupon were chosen after sundry Motions and Speeches All the Privy-Council being of this House Mr. Captain of the Guard and the former Committees whose names see on Monday the 12 th day of this instant March foregoing and Mr. Diggs whereunto were added also Mr. Treasurer of the Chamber Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Henry Gate Sir Henry Ratcliffe Sir James Harrington Sir Edward Bainton Mr. Atkins Mr. Birkenhed Mr. Cromwell and Mr. Alford Vide concerning this business on Wednesday the 14 th day of this instant March ensuing On Wednesday the 14 th day of March the Queens Majesties general and free Pardon was once read Sir John Thynne Sir Henry Knivett and Mr. Topelysse were added to the Bills yesterday last appointed Which said former Committees with these now newly added were doubtless appointed to have Conference with a Committee of the Lords this Morning touching their Proviso added unto the Bill for the restitution in Blood of the Heirs of the Lord Stourton which had been sent down to the House of Commons from the Lords on Wednesday the 7 th day of this instant March foregoing but the Issue of this Conference through the great negligence of Fulk Onslow Esquire at this time Clerk of the House of Commons is wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the same House and therefore in respect it is of very good use and moment for the Declaration and Justification of the Liberties of the said House I have caused it to be inserted at large out of that often before-mentioned written Memorial or Discourse I had by me of the whole proceedings of this business in manner and form following The before-mentioned Committees or the greater part of them between eight and nine of the Clock this Morning as is very probable repaired unto the Parliament Chamber or Upper House Door and there gave attendance sending in word by the Usher of that House of their being there The Lords after a great pause came forth at last into the outward Chamber the number of them were many and the persons of the principal Noblemen of that House after they had taken their places at a long Table and used some Conference amongst themselves they called for those of the House of Commons to whom the Lord Treasurer in the name of all the rest present and absent said in effect as followeth THat the Lords of the Upper House could not but greatly mislike the dealing of the House of Commons in the Lord Stourton's Bill especially for that they had passed the Bill with a Proviso annexed notwithstanding their sundry Messages sent unto them in his favour And lastly one Message to have Conference with them for resolution of such doubts as were moved wherein they took themselves greatly touched in honor and thought that the House of Commons did not use that reverence towards them which they ought to do the cause he said besides was such as they saw no reason why the House of Commons should proceed in that Order for the Bill being signed by her Majesty he said none might presume to alter or add any thing to it without the assent of her Majesty which they for their parts durst not do and for proof hereof he shewed the Committees sundry Provisoes in King Henry the Eighths time annexed to the like Bills signed by the King inferring thereby that none might pass otherwise Moreover he said that by the opinion of the Judges which were in the Upper House the saving already in the Bill was so sufficient that there needed not any addition of such Proviso as the House of Commons had annexed and therefore required to know what reasons did lead them to proceed in this Order This and some large Speeches being uttered to this end the Committees answered that their Commission was only to hear what their Lordships would say they would return and make report to the House and so attend again upon them with Answer When this was reported to the House of Commons it moved them all greatly and gave them occasion
and working of Wax was read the second time and committed unto M r Comptroller M r Edgecombe M r Lieutenant M r Recorder and Mr. Cromwell to consider presently in the Committee Chamber Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer brought in the Bill for Sheriffs with some Amendments and Additions and also a new Bill touching the return of Jurors which all were read Post Meridiem The House being called and some returned into the places of others Deceased since the last Session of this present Parliament and yet some of them supposed to be living some in place of others sick and diseased and some in place of others imployed in the Queens Majesties Service it is Ordered that all the said returns of this Session be Examined and the Orders and Precedents of this House in like Cases formerly used be also considered by some of this House and thereupon report to be made to this whole House of the state of the said Returns and Precedents to the end further order may be taken therein accordingly Whereupon were appointed for that purpose M r Treasurer M r Chancellor of the Dutchy M r Treasurer of the Chamber Sir Thomas Shirley Sir Edward Horsey Sir William Moore Sir Henry Gate Sir John Hibbott M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Diggs M r Cromwell and M r Poole William Boreman Esq one of the Burgess for the Town of Wells was Licensed by Mr. Speaker to be absent for his necessary Affairs at the next Assizes in the County of Somerset On Saturday the 25 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Explanation of the Statute of 32 H. 8. for Limitation of prescription was read the third time and passed upon the Question Tuesday next in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber is appointed for the Committees to meet together to examine the returns and defaults appearing upon the calling of the House The Bill for the better fortifying of the Borders and Frontiers towards Scotland was read the second time and after many Arguments committed unto all the Privy-Council being Members of this House M r Treasurer of the Chamber M r Knight Marshal Sir Thomas Cecil Sir Henry Lea Sir Henry Knivett and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Monday the 27 th day of February Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching the Examination of Witnesses in Towns Corporate was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The two Bills which passed yesterday were now sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller and others The Bill touching Leases of Tenants in Tail was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Sandes M r Amerdeth M r Cromwell M r Edward Stanhope and M r Shirley who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for the City of Carliol was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Comptroller Mr. Knight Marshal Sir Henry Knivett Sir John Dawney Sir Edward Horsey Sir Robert Stapleton Sir Henry Gate and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Serjeant Anderson and Mr. Dr. Barkeley did bring from the Lords word that their Lordships have appointed to meet with the Committees of this House at the Court in the Council Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon touching the Bill of disobedient Subjects It is Ordered thereupon for this time that the former Committees with some others now added and no more shall attend the Lords to Morrow in the Afternoon according to the Message brought from their Lordships in the Bill for Religion The Bill for the punishment of Hereticks called the Family of Love was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Comptroller Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Secretary Wilson and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon It was Ordered that the House should be called again upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Tuesday the 28 th day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill touching Clothes called Tauntons and Bridgewaters was read the third time and Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Doctor Barkley and Mr. Doctor Ford did bring from the Lords a Bill touching the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Compton The Bill against Moor-burning was read the second time The Bill touching Examination of Witnesses in Corporate Towns and these words viz. without Commission or Warrant from some of her Majesties Courts or Councels and these words or nisi prius are upon the Question Ordered to be put into the Bill and the word heretofore already in the Bill was upon the division of the House after the doubtfulness of the Question Ordered to remain in the Bill by the advantage of the number of nine persons and the Bill so amended was passed upon the Question On Wednesday the first day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for granting one Subsidy two Fifteenths and Tenths was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Thursday the second day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Mayor Bailiffs and Commonalty of the City of Coventry was read the third time and passed upon the Question Five Bills were sent up to the Lords by all the Privy-Council being of this House and others of which one was the Bill touching Limitation of prescription in a Formedon in the Descender and another against the false packing of Hops Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against the Corporation of the Merchant Adventurers being Freemen of the City of London was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Secretary Wilson Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower the Master of the Jewel-House M r Dale Master of the Requests and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon And further that the said Committees shall have Authority to hear such proofs on both parts as shall make request to come before them touching the contents of the said Bill On Friday the third day of March the Additions and Amendments in the Bill touching Tinners and Spaliers were twice read and the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the preservation of
data Doctori Barkeley servienti Rodes in domum communem deferend ' The Bill to make a Fine levied by Peter Heame and Johan his Wife and John Tredolias alias Leha and Anne his Wife during the Minority of the said Johan and Anne to be void against the said Anne was put to the question and was rejected by the most Voices for the Preamble of the Bill was scandalous and no proof made thereof Nota That this Bill preferred by Anne the Wife of the above-named Tredolias to reverse a Fine levied by her during her Non-age by Authority of Parliament because it seemeth being at this time of full Age she could not otherwise do it by ordinary course of Law was very deliberately and advisedly proceeded in by the Lords who having given it the first reading upon Thursday the 17 th day of December and the second reading upon Saturday the 20 th day of February foregoing did before any further proceeding in it on Monday next following being the two and twentieth day of the said February foregoing refer the same to certain Lords being chosen Committees therein by the said Anne on the one part who was the Plaintiff and M r ãâã on the other who was the Defendant and to whose use it seemeth the said Fine had been levied after which the said Lords Committees having not ended the said difference it was again committed on Monday the first day of March foregoing to the Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Rodes to hear it and to make some conclusion thereof which being not effected it was again on Thursday following being the 4 th day of this instant March referred to the said M r of the Rolls and the Serjeant aforesaid who still endeavouring without any effect to make any accord between the said Parties it was now at last upon the foresaid Monday the 22 th day of this instant March put to the Question in the Upper House and there the said Bill preferred by the said Anne to be relieved in Parliament contrary to her own Fine was rejected where it may be seen how tender their Lordships were to relieve any Party contrary to the course of the common Law For the Case appeareth singly to be this Baron and Feme levy a Fine the Wife being under Age then the Husband dies as John Tredolias Leza or Leha did here the Wife being of full Age and she sues in Parliament to be relieved for at Common Law if an Infant levy a fine and then die or becomes of full Age before it be reversed the Fine stands good as if it had been levied by one of full Age as was delivered in the Common-Pleas per totam Curiam in the Lady Caesars Case then Wife of Sir Julius Caesar Knight Master of the Rolls which is entred in termino Trinitatis Anno 21 Jacobi Regis Rotulo 1971. On Tuesday the 23 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning the Water-Bailiff was read secunda vice but not mentioned to be either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed Four Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Explanation of a Statute made Anno 13. of the Queens Majesties Reign intituled An Act to reform sundry disorders touching Ministers of the Church was read prima vice On Wednesday the 24 th day of March The Bill against Rogues Idle and Vagrant Persons was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed and the reason hereof may be that this Bill having passed the House of Commons and being sent up to the House of Lords fairly ingrossed in Parchment can be no more ingrossed neither do the Lords ordinarily refer such Bills to Committees unless there be very great cause in respect that each House holding correspondency with other they do not willingly submit that to the agitation of a private Committee which hath been allowed and approved by the wisdom of a whole House There may also be two other reasons besides the Clerks negligence who may sometimes omit it why a Bill upon the second reading is so left without any mention made of the committing or ingrossing as where the referring of it to Committees is deferred till some other day as it fell out in the Parliament de Anno 13 Reginae Eliz. when the Bill touching the Commission of Sewers being read secunda vice on Friday the 20 th day of April was referred to Committees on the day following being Saturday the 21 th day of the same Month. The third and last reason finally why a Bill may be mentioned to be read secunda vice without any further Order taken in it as aforesaid may be assigned in some extraordinary Cases as where Bills of Grace viz. for the restitution in Blood of any and such like are sent to the House from her Majesty fairly ingrossed in Parchment and Signed with her hand which for the most part do pass the House without any stop or question But it is to be noted that in later times the committing of a Bill upon the second reading is always when it is so read and is never deferred until another day Three Bills also of no great moment were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was an Act for the Incorporation of the Hospital of Christ in the Town of Sherbourn Nota That no continuance of the Parliament is Entred this day in the Original Journal-Book which seemeth to have happened through the negligence of the Clerk of the Parliament On Friday the 26 th day of March to which day it seemeth the Parliament had been on Wednesday last continued Introductum suit breve quo Richardus Petriburgen Episcopus praesenti Parliamento summonebatur interesse qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae in Parliamento sedendi locum salvo cuiquam jure suo The Amendments for the Bill touching the Incorporation of Christs Hospital in the Town of Sherbourn were read tertia vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusae Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill for the reviving continuance and explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes Six Bills lastly were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being for the naturalizing of certain Englishmens Children born beyond the Seas was read prima secunda tertia vice expedita And the second being the Bill for the safe keeping of the Armour of obstinate Recusants was read prima secunda tertia vice and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle Nota That the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. maketh mention of some amendments added to this Bill
by the Lords before it was thus immediately returned a thing very observable and extraordinary within a short time after the Lords themselves had received it It appeareth also in the said Journal-Book that one Bill more concerning the good Government of the City of Westminster was sent up with certain amendments to the Lords from the House of Commons and that two other Bills whereof this very Bill concerning the City of Westminster was one and the Bill for the keeping of the County-Court at Morpeth and the Town of Anwicke in the County of Northumberland was the other had been this day sent down to the House of Commons from the Lords by Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle who thereupon did presently read them prima secunda tertia vice as the Lords it should seem led by their Example did the two Bills above-mentioned this same Morning afterwards and with some small alteration sent them up to the Lords All which matter is by the negligence of M r Mason at this time Clerk of the Upper House omitted in the said Original Journal-Book of that House and supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons pag. 166 167. Collected by M r Fulk Onslow at this time Clerk of the said House On Saturday the 27 th day of March the Bill for the maintenance of the Pier and Cobb of Lime-Regis in the County of Dorsett was read tertia vice conclusa The Petition also of the Lord Marquess of Winchester against M r Oughtred concerning certain Accompts by him to be made was this day read before the Lords Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 29 th day of this instant March following On Monday the 29 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued a Proviso to the Bill concerning the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis added by the Lords was read tertia vice and then sent down to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle M r Oughtred appeared before the Lords The Lord Chancellor by the advice and consent of the said Lords asked the said Oughtred whether he meant to take the benefit of a Release heretofore mentioned The said Oughtred ãâã before the said Lords that he would ãâã advantage of any Release concerning ãâã sum of twelve thousand pound and more ãâã further that the said Release extended ãâã the said sum but to other accompts before ãâã time of his Executorship The Lord Chancellor demanded further of the said Oughtred ãâã would be contented that his said Speeches should be entred by the Clerk in the Journals of the House The said Oughtred Answered that he was very well pleased therewith Whereupon the Lord Chancellor Commanded that his said Speeches should be Registred Nota That this matter was formerly debated on Tuesday the 7 th day of March in the last Parliament de Anno 23 Reginae Eliz. and before also in this present Parliament on Tuesday the 9 th day of February last past and on Tuesday the 4 th day and on Saturday the 27 th day of this instant March foregoing and Committees were likewise appointed about it on the foresaid 9 th day of February being Tuesday Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem About which hour the Lords meeting the Bill for the Queens Majesties most Gracious general and free Pardon lecta est quae commum omnium Proccrum assensu conclusa est data Servienti Rodes in Domum Communem deferend ' unà cum subsidio Temporalitatis Nota That the general Pardon passeth here upon the first reading There was also brought from the House of Commons two Bills of which the first was the Bill for the preservation of the Pier or Cobb of Lime Regis in the County of Dorset and the second being an Act for the preservation of Pheasants and Partridges with amendments was rejected for that they of the House of Commons had with their amendments taken away the principal intent of the Bill This Afternoon her Majesty Accompanied with the two Archbishops of Canterbury and York Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Lord Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Oxford and divers other Lords Spiritual and Temporal were personally present in the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House who being all set in their Parliamentary Robes and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice thereof repaired thither with John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Speaker who being placed at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House after his humble reverence made and some expressions of his thankfulness to her Majesty he proceeded according to the usual course to desire her Majesty to give Life to such Laws by adding her Gracious Allowance unto them as had passed either House and remained as yet but as a dead Letter and withal gave her Majesty knowledge of the free gift of the House of Commons of one Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths To which Speech of the said Prolocutors the Lord Chancellor by her Majesties commandment answered That she did graciously accept of the said gift of her Commons and was come thither to give her Royal assent to divers of those Laws which had passed the two Houses Then were the Titles of all the Acts read and first the Bill of Subsidy to which the Clerk of the Parliament standing up did read the Queens Majesties Answer in manner and form following La Royne remercie ses loyaulx Subjects accepte leur benevolence ainsi le veult The Clerk of the Parliament having read the Queens acceptance and thanks for the Subsidy 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 Parliment assembles au nom de touts vous autres Subjects remercient treshumblement vostre Majesty prient a Dieu que il vous done en sante bone vie longue Nota That her Majesties Answer to these two Acts of the Subsidy and Pardon do differ from all the rest to any other Bills because in the first is expressed her Majesties thanks to the Subjects and in the second the Subjects humble acknowledgment of her said Majesties Pardon as an act of her own free grace and goodness To every publick Act allowed by the Queen the Clerk of the Parliament reads in these French words following La Royne le veult To every private Act that passeth the said Clerk of the Parliament reads the Queens Answer in these French words following Soit fait come il est desire These two last Answers to the publick and private Acts that pass are to be written by the Clerk of the Parliament at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty doth forbear
were indorsed in the upper or higher part of the same which the said M r Treasurer and the rest at this time sent up to the Upper House with the aforesaid three Bills did accordingly impart to their Lordships Vide plus de ista materia on Monday the 21 th day of this instant December following The Bill for Hue and Cry was read the second time during the absence of M r Treasurer and the rest as aforesaid The reading of which Bill being ended M r Treasurer and the residue returning from the Lords brought word that he the said M r Treasurer imparted unto their Lordships the Request of this House for Conference with their Lordships both for the Bill touching the Sabbath de qua Billa vide on Wednesday the 17 th day of March ensuing and also for the Petitions of the griefs of this House unto both which the Lords said they would by and by send their Answer Vide concerning Petitions on Thursday the 25 th day of February ensuing M r Vice-Chamberlain declared unto this House That her Majesty graciously considering the great pains and careful travel of this House in the Service and Affairs of the Realm hath determined upon Monday next to adjourn the Court of Parliament until some other convenient time after Christmas that such Gentlemen and other Members of this House may the more conveniently repair home to their houses in the mean time for their better ease and recreation And so moved further That as before that time of Adjournment being upon Monday next there can nothing of great moment possibly be prepared to passing so he wished that the same short time may be imployed in the speeding of such Bills as are nearest to the passing and mentioned some of those which came unto us from the Lords and that the residue may rest in the same case of furtherance in the mean time as now they are in M r Serjeant Gawdy and M r Doctor Ford did bring from the Lords again the Bill for the restitution in blood of the Lord Thomas Howard amended in the indorsement viz. indorsed under the Bill and the former indorsement above razed out The Bill for restitution in blood of the Lord Thomas Howard was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others and also the Bill for paving of the Town of Newark upon Trent the Bill for the Town of Caernarvon and the Bill for fraudulent Conveyances all which came from their Lordships before not rightly indorsed were sent up to their Lordships to have the same indorsements reformed and amended as that in the Bill for the Lord Thomas Howard was before amended The Bill for the true answering of the Debts of Edward Fisher was read the first time Vide on Monday the 22. day of February ensuing M r Richard Lewkenor one of the Committees in the Bill to avoid partial Juries and Tryals in the name of himself and the residue of the same Committees brought in the old Bill and also a new Bill praying that the same new Bill may be read accordingly The Bill for reformation of Errours in Fines and Common Recoveries in the twelve Shires of Wales was upon the second reading committed unto M r Sollicitor Sir William Herbert M r Penruddock M r David Williams and others who were appointed to meet upon Thursday next in the Afternoon in Lincolns-Inn-Hall After which the Bill for continuance and explanation of divers Statutes had its second reading M r Serjeant Gawdy and M r Doctor Barkeley did bring from the Lords the Bill touching the Sabhath day with Message from their Lordships that they can find by no Precedent that they can now add any thing at all upon our Conference to their former Additions inserted into the said Bill and do think withal that those things we desire are already provided for in their said Additions as the Bill now standeth and do therefore pray that being so good a Bill as this is they will have care it do not miscarry and so departed Whereupon it was then thought good to reserve the Bill in state as it was till it may be further considered of by view of the Precedents of this House in like cases And Sir Thomas Heneage M r Sollicitor M r Recorder Sir William Moore M r Cromwell and M r Sandes were appointed to search the Precedents of this House for that purpose in the mean time of the next sitting of this Court after the said Adjournment Vide plus de ista materia on Wednesday the 17 th day of February ensuing The Bill for the preservation of Grain was ordered upon the Question to be discontinued and divers others of no great moment as touching Ecclesrastical Livings Maintenance of the Navy and the like were continued until the end of this Adjournment which was now drawing on on Monday next being the 21 th day of December And the Committees appointed for the continuance of them were these following viz. M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Heneage Sir Thomas Cecil Sir William Moore M r Sollicitor M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Richard Knightley M r Francis Hastings Sir Nicholas Woodroofe M r Dannet M r Haymond M r Cromwell M r Owen M r Rawleigh M r Grafton Sir Francis Drake M r Doctor Hammond M r Wolley M r Grice Sir Henry Nevill Sir John Peter Sir William Drury Sir Robert Conestable Sir Robert Germin Sir Henry Cock who were appointed to meet on Thursday after Christmas-day in the Afternoon at two of the Clock at Ely place After M r Vice Chamberlain's late former Speeches delivered unto this House of her Majesties good and grateful acceptation of the earnest and dutiful care and proceedings of this House in providing for the safety of her most Royal Person and of her Highnesses said most loving and favourable regard of adjourning this Court of Parliament for some such convenient time as during which the greater part of the Members of this House may at their pleasure repair home to their dwellings as well for their better recreations and ease as for their further dealing in their own private affairs it was moved by Mr. Speaker That some due form or course of yielding unto her Majesty most humble and dutiful thanks for the same her said Highnesses most honourable and gracious acceptation and consideration in the name and behalf of this whole House in most loyal humble dutiful and obedient manner may be considered of and devised Whereupon after a few Speeches resolved and prayed that the same should and might be done most fitly and conveniently by those honourable Personages Members of this House which are of her Majesties most honourable Privy Council who being then present did very willingly and honourably undertake to execute the same most faithfully and effectually On Monday the 21 th day of December three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the true payment of
Sir Francis Drake and others and the Bill was deliverd to M r Prowze who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall It was ordered upon a motion this day by M r Recorder of London that a Warrant for a Writ of Priviledge be awarded for setting at liberty of John Pepler now prisoner for debt in the Counter in London servant unto Sir Philip Sidney a Member of this House A new Proviso and certain amendments now newly added to the Bill for maintenance of the Hospital of Eastbridge in Canterbury were three times read and all passed upon the question The Bill for keeping the County Court at Morpeth for the County of Northumberland was upon the second reading committed unto M r Treasurer M r Comptroller Sir Thomas Heneage and others and the Bill was delivered to the said M r Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Court The amendments in the Bill against Idle and Incontinent life and for the punishment of Rogues and Vagabonds and the Proviso for Southwark were twice read the said Proviso was committed and the Bill in the mean time order ed to be ingrossed M r Doctor Barkley and M r Doctor Carey did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do desire that a Committee of this House may be appointed to have conference with their Lordships this Afternoon touching the Bill for the breadth of Cloaths lately sent from this House unto their Lordships Whereupon the former Committees of this House in the same Bill are appointed for that purpose accordingly Three Bills of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others whereof the last was touching certain Assurances of the Bishop of Exeter and the Dean and Chapter of the same On Tuesday the 16 th day of March four Bill of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the establishment of the Company of Curriers of London had its first reading and the fourth touching the taking of Apprentices was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Moore M r Sollicitor M r Recorder and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in Lincolns-Inn Hall The Bill for the true using and making of Malt was upon the second reading committed unto M r Treasurer M r John Hare Sir William Moore and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Cromwell one of the Committees touching Devonshire Kersies called Dozens brought in the Bill with some amendments Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against the abuse of Corn and Grain had its third reading and certain amendments which had been added unto it after they were twice read were ingrossed Four Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Treasurer and others of which the last was the Bill concerning the Water-Bayliff The amendments and additions to the Bill that the Lands Tenements c. of Tellors Receivors c. shall be lyable to the payment of their debts were twice read and the additions ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills were sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons of which the last was for the Incorporation of the Hospital of Christ in the Town of Sherburn and the first for the Grant of a Subsidy of the Clergy with the confirmation of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury which said Bill is mentioned in the Original Journal Book of the Upper House to have passed this day but not to have been sent down to the House of Commons The Bill that Recusants shall not have Armour Weapons or shot in their Custody was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privie Council Sir Henry Cock Sir John Higham M r Atturney of the Wards and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer The Bill for the maintenance of Forts Bulwarks c. near to the Town of Southampton had its second reading and was rejected upon the question Post Meridiem Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading whereof the second being a new Bill for the true answering of Tythes had its first reading and the third being the Bill for the establishment of an Award made between the Lord Rich and Sir Tho. Barrington Knight was read the third time and committed unto M r Audeley M r Atie M r Wiseman and M r Grafton who were appointed to meet to morrow Morning in the Exchequer Court On Wednesday the 17 th day of March The Bill touching Slanderous Books and Libels was read the first time and upon the question rejected The Bill for keeping of the County Court at Morpeth for the County of Northumberland was brought in again by M r Treasurer one of the Committees who reported to the House that the Committees thought good in the Bill after the word Morpeth in the 31 th line of the same Bill to have these words or Alnwick inserted and put in by the Lords The Amendments and Schedule in the Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster were twice read and committed to M r Treasurer M r Recorder M r Cromwell M r Grafton and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Court The Bill touching Apprentices was brought in again by M r Attorney of the Wards one of the Committees who reported that he attended for the residue of the Committees yesterday at the place and time appointed but that none of them came thither The Bill against Idle and Incontinent Life and and for the punishment of Rogues and Vagabonds was read the third time and two Provisoes added unto it were twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed Whereupon the said Bill and the Proviso passed upon the Question Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Powle did bring from the Lords a Bill for the paving of the Town of New Windsor and a Message from their Lordships for present Conference with some of this House touching the Bill against fraudulent Conveyances c. before passed from this House unto them with further Message from their Lordships that their Lordships have sent sundry Bills to this House which are not returned unto them again and therefore think that those Bills have not that ordinary course of reading and expedition which were requisite and therefore do pray better speed in those Bills that are nearest and readiest to the course of passing and then to deal with other Bills as their course shall require Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Morrice Mr. Attorney of the Wards Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Grafton and Mr. Alford were appointed presently to repair to the Lords for Conference
in the Bill against covenous and fraudulent Conveyances And the Bill passed this House against the abuse of Corn and Grain was sent up to their Lordships by the said Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and others And the Bill likewise for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day fair written in Parchment according to the former Amendments and Additions therein of both Houses with desire that the same new written Bill may be Examined by the former old Bill and the Amendments and Additions therein of both Houses according to the former Agreement of both the same Houses in that behalf and so then to be passed in both Houses accordingly Vide on Thursday the third day Saturday the 5 th day Monday the 7 th day Thursday the 10 th day Saturday the 12 th day and on Saturday the 19 th day of December foregoing as also on Monday the 22 th day and on Tuesday the 23 th day of February preceding The Bill for increase of Pheasants and Partridges was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Sir William Moore and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Amendments and Additions in the Bill for the preservation of Grain and Game were read and committed to Sir John Higham Mr. William Staughton Mr. Audeley Mr. Topcliffe and others who were added to the former Committees for increase of Pheasants and Partridges and made with them as it seemeth one Committee for both the foresaid Bills being to meet as for the former this Afternoon in the same place The Amendments in the Bill that Parsonages Impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses were twice read and were Ordered to be inserted in the Bill which being so done the same Amendment ingrossed was read and also passed upon the question Sir Christopher Hatton her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain returning from the Lords shewed that he and the residue of the Committes of this House appointed to have Conference with their Lordships in the same Bill and that their Lordships will presently send down the same Bill to this House with some Amendments as their said Lordships do think meet And shewed further that he and the residue moved their Lordships touching the foresaid new written Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day and that thereupon their Lordships and the Committees of this House did examine the said new written Bill with the said old former Bill and the Amendments and Additions of the same Bill the said whole new Bill being read and found to agree without alteration or want of any one word moved that the said new written Bill may be passed presently which was thereupon so done accordingly Vide de ista materia on the day foregoing The Bill that was first read this day and which was upon the reading thereof rejected viz. the Bill touching slanderous Books and Libels was by Mr. Speakers Commandment delivered by the Clerk of the Parliament unto him in the Afternoon of the same day before the siting of the House and was he said delivered over by him to Mr. Attorney General with whom it seemeth it still remained Post Meridiem M r Wiseman one of the Committees in the Bill for the establishing of an Award made between the Lord Rich and Sir Thomas Barrington Knight brought in the Bill with an amendment of the alteration of one word only Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Incorporation of the Hospital of Christ in the Town of Sherburn was upon the second reading committed unto M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Recorder Sir Drew Drury and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Recorder who with the rest was appointed to meet to morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Court On Thursday the 18 th day of March Seven Bill of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill that Lands Tenements c. of Tellors Receivors c. Shall be lyable to the payment of their debts was read the third time and the amendment and Schedule annexed was also read the third time and the Bill and all passed upon the question And another being the Bill for the Inning of Erith and Plumstead-Marsh was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Treasurer M r Vice-Chamberlain and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Treasurer one of the Committees in the Bill for the true making of Malt remembred the Committees to meet in the Exchequer Chamber this Afternoon The Bill for the better Execution of the Statute of the thirteenth of her Majesty for reformation of certain disorders in Ministers of the Church was read the first time Four Bills of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was the Bill That the Lands Tenements c. of Tellors Receivors c. may be lyable c. And the last was the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day Which said Bills were sent up by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others Mr. Serjeant Rodes and Mr. Doctor Barkley did bring from the Lords three Bills viz. the Bill touching the breadth of Wollen-Cloths with some Amendments which Bill before passed this House The Bill against fraudulent means used to defeat Wardships Liveries and Primer seisins and the third was a Bill for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Hunsdon with report touching that Bill that Robert Elrington and Alice his Wife were present before the Lords and gave their consent to the passing of the Bill Nota That the second of the said Bills is omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House through the negligence of the Clerk The Bill for preservation of Woods near the Town of Crambrooke in Kent was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Philip Sidney Sir Henry Nevill and others who were appointed to meet upon Saturday in the Afternoon in the open Exchequer Court Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching the Curriers of London was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Philip Sidney Sir Henry Nevill Mr. Rotheram and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir William Moore one of the said Committees who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon in the open Exchequer Court The Amendments and Schedule in the Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster were three times read and so passed upon the question On Friday the 19 th day of March the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Hunsdon was read the second time Mr. Elrington and Alice his Wife being brought to the Bar did there give their open assents to the passing of the said Bill Sir William Moore one
for the Execution of the Statute of the thirteenth of the Queens Majesty for reformation of certain disorders in the Ministers of the Church was read the third time and after many Arguments passed upon the question On Tuesday the 23 th day of March Mr. Attorney of the Wards one of the Committees in the Bill to provide remedy against fraudulent means used to defeat Wardships Liveries and primer seisins brought in the same Bill again which had this day its first reading Mr. Morrice one of the Committees in the Bill for perfecting of Assurances brought in the same And also the Bill against Covenous and fraudulent Conveyances and also a new Bill The Amendments in the Bill touching the taking of Apprentices were twice read and Committeed to the former Committees and to Mr. Williams Mr. Hare Mr. Cromwell Mr. Wroth Mr. Cole and Mr. Prowze and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Wroth who with the rest was appointed to meetu pon Thursday next in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill against defeating of Wardships Liveries and primer Scisins Shewed that the Committees have travailed and for some things by them thought requisite to be amended do think if this House shall so like That some of the same Committees may pray Conference with the Lords therein Whereupon it was agreed that the said former Committees or some convenient number of them may so do And then Four Bills of no great Moment were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others of which the last was the Bill for the Paving of the Town of New-Windsor in the County of Berks. Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for incorporation of the Hospital of Christ in the Town of Sherborn neer Durham was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Amendments in the Bill for disarming of Recusants were twice read and the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed Upon further Arguments and Motions had touching the proceeding in the Bill for the Inning of Erith and Plumstead Marsh it was agreed that M r Smith M r Baptist M r Youngue and Roger James be warned by the Serjeant of this House to be here to morrow Morning that upon some Conference to be had with them by this House the said Bill may the better proceed to the passing On Wednesday the Twenty fourth day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the true payment of the Debts of Philip Bassett Esquire was upon the second reading Committed unto M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Chancellor Sir Richard Knghtley M r Digby and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Vice-Chamberlain all these to meet to morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber And the second being the Bill for suppressing of Pirates and Piracy was upon the second reading Committed unto M r Treasurer Sir Drew Drewrie Sir Nicholas Woodruff M r Richard Brown M r Docter Fletcher and others who were appointed to meet on Saturday next in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Amendments and Additions in the Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and Common recoveries in the twelve Shires of Wales and Counties Palatine were read Three times and passed accordingly M r Serjeant Rodes and M r Doctor Barkely did bring from the Lords word that their Lordships do presently desire Conference with some of this House touching the Bill for Continuance of Statutes The Bill for the incorporation of the Hospital of Christ in the Town of Sherborn near Durham with two others of no great moment were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others who were also appointed to attend the Lords in the Conference touching the Bill for continuance of Statutes according to their Lordships requests M r Vice-Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees in the Bill against frauds used in defeating of Wardships Liveries and primer Seisins shewed that they have met and travailed in the same Bill and have thought good to make a new Bill but yet nevertheless not meaning to impeach the old Bill coming from the Lords and that the said new Bill he said he thought was not so sufficiently considered of by the said Committees but that it requireth further consideration amongst them praying notwithstanding a present reading of the said Bill Which was thereupon so read accordingly M r Grafton one of the Committees in the Bill for preservation of Woods near Crambrook in Kent brought in the Bill again Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the true payment of Tythes was read the Third time and after many long Arguments dashed upon the Question M r Chancellor of the Exchequer returning from the Lords shewed that this morning as he came to this House he found M r Baptist M r Customer Smith and the Sollicitor of Jacob Seal who were all of them agreed to such Conditions of recompence and consideration to be had towards the said Jacob as that the Bill may with their liking be read to the passing whereupon the Amendments ..... same ..... But that which should here follow is through the negligence of the Clerk wholly omitted yet it may seem as may be Collected out of a former passage of this business on Tuesday the 23 d day of this instant March foregoing that this Bill here mentioned by Sir Walter Mildmay Chancellor of the Exchequer was the Bill touching the Inning of Erith and Plumstead Marsh and that the Amendments of the same Bill which had been formerly thrice read on Saturday the 20 th day of this instant March did at this time pass the House M r Treasurer and the residue returning from the Lords M r Treasurer shewed that the cause for which their Lordships desired conference was that in respect of the great experienced benefit grown to increase of the Navy and Mariners of this Realm by the late Law for eating of Fish upon Wednesdays their Lordships wished a Provision to be made for the eating of Fish and no flesh at all hereafter upon the Wednesday in all places of this Realm Twenty five miles distant from the Sea and also in the Cities of London York and Bristol and in all places of this Realm within five miles of the said Cities Whereunto he said as he and the residue could say nothing because they knew not the pleasure of this House therein so he said he thought their Lordships Additions in the Bill passed this House unto the Lords for the good Government of the City of Westminster did seek too much to abridge the Dean of Westminster being the Lord of the said Borough in his Liberty and Jurisdiction of his own House and Servants and of the Prebendaries and other Churchmen and their Servants being all under his own peculiar government And
also that he thought their Lordships could likewise help the same again with some Amendment to the Amendments of this House in the same Bill to be sent down hither and assented unto by this House On Thursday the 25 th day of March Thomas Patrick being brought to the Bar for serving a Subpoena upon M r Cook a Member of this House during the time of this present Session of Parliament in the behalf and at the Suit of Margery Dike was ordered upon his Submission to deliver a Copy of the Bill to M r Cook gratis to give him Twenty Shillings for the Charge of his answer and to pay the Serjeants Fees Roger Vanconge a Dutchman and Merchant Stanger being this day brought by the Serjeant to the Bar for Arresting of John Werrall Servant unto Thomas Powell Esq a Member of this House for Debt and carrying him into the Counter of Woodstreet in London And the said John Werrall being also brought to this House it was after several Examinations had by this House as well of the said Roger Vanconge as of the said John Werrall at last after many long Motions and Arguments upon the circumstances falling out in the said Examinations resolved after the doubtfulness of the greater Number of Voices upon the Question by the Division of the House That the said John Werrall should not have priviledge of this House but should first openly in the House take Oath against the Supremacy of the Bishop of Rome and then be remanded to the said Prison of the Counter again in state as he was before which was so done accordingly for that it did manifestly appear unto this House as well by the Confession of the same Werrall as also by the confession and by a Letter of his own subscribed with his own hand and so confessed by himself directed to one Dakings that fraudulently and Covenously he procured himself to be received into the Service of the said M r Powell this Parliament time to escape from Arrests to the delaying and defeating of his Creditors upon which dividing of the House there were with the Yea or I eighty five Voices and with the No but sixty nine M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill touching Wards and Liveries brought in the Bill again with some Amendments and referred the same Amendments to the further reading of the Bill which Bill was then read accordingly and the Amendments twice read and the Bill was Ordered to be Ingrossed M r Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees in the Bill touching draining of Fenns brought in the Bill again as a Bill thought good by the same Committees to be reserved till the next Parliament and to be left in the House for that purpose On Friday the 26 th day of March the Amendments and Additions in the Bill for preservation of Woods near unto the Town of Crambrook in the County of Kent was upon the second reading Ordered to be committed again to the former Committees The Bill for naturalizing of certain English mens Children born beyond the Seas was upon the third reading passed M r Wroth one of the Committees in the Bill for the increase of Pheasants and Partridges brought in the Bill again with some Amendments and the same Amendments being twice read the Bill was again after sundry speeches and Arguments committed to the former Committeees M r Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle did bring from the Lords two Bills of which one was the Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster M r Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees in the Bill for the true payment of the Debts of Philip Bassett Esquire brought in the Bill again as a Bill agreed by them to be reserved until the next Parliament Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading and were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill with the Amendments for the keeping of the County Court at Morpeth and the Town of Alnwick in the County of Northumberland and another Bill being for the safe keeping of obstinate Recusants Armour was sent back again unto the said House from their Lordships who gave it presently three readings by Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle The Bill touching Wardships and Liveries was read the third time and dashed upon the question there being but seventy five Voices for it and ninety five against it The Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster with the Amendments according to the last Additions was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others M r William Stoughton one of the Committees in the Bill against Excessive Fees and taxations in the Eclesiastical Courts brought in the Bill again On Saturday the 27 th day of March after the Letany was read and the prayers ended Mr. Speaker signified unto the House that her Majesties Commandment was that this House do not sit this present day but do assemble here again on Monday next in the Forenoon at which time they shall then know her Majesties further pleasure On Monday the 29 th day of March M r Serjeant Rodes and Mr. Doctor Barkeley did bring from the Lords the Bill for the maintenance of the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis in the County of Dorset with some Amendments The Bill for increase of Pheasants and Partridges was twice read and the Amendments thereof thrice and then it was put to the Question whether or no the said Bill with the Amendments should pass And it was found that there were one hundred and thirteen Voices for the passing of the Bill and but seventy five against it The Amendments and Schedule in the Bill for the maintenance of the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis were thrice read and so passed accordingly upon the Question The Amendments also in the Bill for the safe keeping of the Armour of obstinate Recusants were thrice read and passed upon the Question Post Meridiem Three Bills of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Treasurer and others of which the first was the Bill touching the Armour of obstinate Recusants and is omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but the other two touching Pheasants and Partridges with their Amendments and touching the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis are there set down to have been sent up as aforesaid M r Serjeant Gawdy and M r Serjeant Rodes did bring down from the Lords to the House of Commons the Bill of Subsidy which is omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and the Bill for her Majesties Gracious general and free Pardon which being once read passed upon the Question accordingly Her Majesty with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being set in the Upper House about ..... of the Clock this Afternoon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired thither with
and touched with his said misbehaviours delivered in their Motions and Speeches that as for their own particular they could be pleased upon his consession of his said offences and his due submission thereupon to remit the same so in regard of the publick injury by him done to the whole House they referred the further consideration thereof to the same House It should seem that these speeches and misdemeanours of Thomas Drurie Gentleman were accasioned by a certain Bill which passed the House against him upon Monday the 17 th day of this instant March foregoing for the relief of Thomas Haselrigg Esquire of which matter see on Friday the 21. day of February preceeding and upon Friday the 7 th day and on Tuesday the 18 th day of this instant March last past and upon Friday the 21. day of this said Month. Which very Bill also having been this day read secunda tertia vice in the Upper House and having had also its first reading before with the Lords was by them concluded and sent down to the House of Commons and now brought to them whilest it should seem they were in agitation of these misdemeanours of the said Thomas Drurie by M r Doctor Ford and M r Doctor Stanhop with some amendments but the sending down of the said Bill is omitted in the original Journal-Book of the said House On Thursday the 20 th day of March two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes was upon the second reading committed unto M r Morrice M r Hare M r Wroth and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Wroth who with the rest was appointed to meet in Serjeants-Inn Hall in Fleetstreet this present day at two of the Clock this Afternoon The amendments in the Bill for the relief of the City of Lincoln being twice read the Bill was upon the question ordered to be ingrossed The amendments in the Bill for the relief of George Ognell Esquire were twice read and after many arguments was deferred from the question of ingrossing till my Lord of Warwick's Council be further heard which was first apponited to have been done to Morrow at two of the Clock but upon a further Motion of M r Sutton alledging my Lord of Warwick not to be in Town is deferred till Monday next at 10. of the Clock M r Doctor Stanhop and M r Powle do bring word from the Lords that touching the Bill lately passed this House against secret Outlawries and sent up unto their Lordships they have considered thereof with some advice of the Judges and do pray that some six of this House do meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Chamber of the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas at Serjeants-Inn in Fleetstreet that thereupon some such good course may be taken as the same Bill may be made to become a Law And thereupon were then nominated for that purpose M r Alford M r John Hare M r Harris M r White M r Shirley M r Grafton M r Cromwell and appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon at the said Serjeants-Inn in the Chamber there of the said Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill against the erecting and maintenance of Cottages shewed that the Committees have met together and considered of the same Bill and in their own opinions have thought good that some things in the same Bill were very meet to be put out of the same and some other things to be put in And also a proviso fit to be added to the same and shewed how and wherein And moved further that some of this House may be sent to the Lords to pray conference which their Lordships touching the said amendments and Proviso for the passage of the said Bill Whereupon M r Vice-Chamberlain and sundry other of the former Committees were presently sent to their Lordships to move for Conference and the Bill lately expedited and passed in this House against discontinuances in Writs of Error in the Court of Exchequer and the Kings Bench was then sent up by them unto their Lordships Vide de ista materia in fine hujus diei Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against abuses in election of Scholars and Presentations to Benefices had its first reading and then read also again for the second reading of the same and was committed unto M r Treasurer M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Secretary Wolley the Master of the Wardrobe Sir Philip Butler and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Sir Edward Hobby M r Shirley M r Francis Moor and M r Morrice for the Exchequer matter It should seem that these were appointed to consider of the Bill referred before upon Friday the 14 th day of February touching certain Exactions imposed upon the Subject by certain Officers of the Exchequer which is the more plain because Sir Edward Hobby who then preferred it and obtained the first reading thereof is here named in the first place now again to consider of it which it seems was occasioned by the stopping of this Bill and another touching Purveyors by reason of her Majesties dislike and the entring of the House again upon the treating of them after her Highness had been fully satisfied with their clear and honest intentions therein Concerning which matters see more on Saturday the 15 th day on Monday the 17 th day and on Thursday the 27 th day of February foregoing as also on Tuesday the 4 th day Thursday the 6 th day Saturday the 8 th day Monday the 17 th day and on Tuesday the 18 th day of this instant March last past M r Vice-Chamberlain and the residue returning from the Lords he shewed that they have had Conference together with a Committee of the Lords and that their Lordships after some long and effectual Arguments used by them for maintenance of all the parts of the said Bill in sort as the same Bill now is without any great cause or necessity of such amendments as this House doth require in the same Their Lordships yet nevertheless were pleased to gratifie the House in yielding to assent unto their request of the same amendments wishing withal that this House in the same their amendments would have consideration of such Cottages as might happen to be erected for the burning of Lime or making of Brick during the time only of such burning of Lime or making of Tyles and Bricks On Friday the 21 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the repeal of certain Statutes was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Vice-Chamberlain M r
last continued Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the grant of three entire Subsidies and fix Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read primâ vice which said Bill had already passed the House of Commons and had been sent up from them to the Lords on Saturday last This Morning also two Bills of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was the Bill concerning the restraining of Popish Recusants to certain places of aboad c. On Tuesday the 27 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being for the Assurance of certain Lands and Tenements to Read Stafford and Mabell his Wife was read tertia vice expedit On Wednesday the 28 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being for the grant of three entire Subsidies and Fifteenths c. was read secunda vice Five Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was for restitution in blood of Sir Thomas Parrot K t and was read primâ vice This day finally was one unusual or extraordinary Proxy returned from one of the Bishops absent at this time from the Parliament as divers other Peers by the Licence of her Majesty in which said Proxy he constituted but one Proctor whereas the Ordinary Custom is for every Spiritual Lord to nominate two Proctors at the least and every Temporal Lord but one This Proxy is thus Entred in the beginning of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House viz. 28 Martii introductae sunt Literae Procuratoriae Thomae Cicestrensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Cantuariensem Episcopum On Thursday the 29 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for restitution in blood of Sir Thomas Parrot K t was read secunda tertia vice expedit On Friday the 30 th day of March Five Bills had each of them one reading of which the first was the Bill for the grant of three entire Subsidies c. granted by the Temporalty And the last was the Bill of Subsidy granted by the Clergy Both which Bills at this time upon their several third readings passed the House On Saturday the 31 th day of March Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill prohibiting Strangers born to sell by way of retail Foreign Wares brought into this Realm was read secunda tertia vice and rejected On Monday the second day of April to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for Explanation of a Statute made in the thirty third year of Henry the Eighth touching Grants made to his Majesty and Confirmation of Letters Patents was read secunda vice Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was for bringing in of fresh Water into the Town of Stonehouse in the County of Devon On Tuesday the third day of April Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for the maintenance of the Navigation of England was read secunda vice On Wednesday the 4 th day of April the Bill for Explanation of the Statute made in the thirty fourth year of Henry the Eighth for confirmation of Letters Patents made by his Highness to others was read primâ secundâ vice On Thursday the 5 th day of April Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents to the Mayors Sheriffs Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Lincoln was read tertiâ vice conclusa This Morning also this Order following was agreed on amongst the Lords viz. WHereas the Lords of Parliament both Spiritual and Temporal assembled in the Parliament Chamber here at Westminster have with one uniform consent both in their own names and the rest of the Lords now absent Ordered that there shall be a charitable relief and contribution made towards the Aid and help of a number of Souldiers that are seen in the time of this Parliament maimed and sore hurt in the Wars of France and Low Countries and on the Seas for the service of the Queens Majesty and the Realm and for that purpose have allowed that every Archbishop Marquess Earl and Viscount should pay toward their Contribution the sum of forty shilings every Bishop thirty shillings and every Baron twenty shillings for Collection whereof there hath been appointed the Queens Majesties Almoner and the Bishop of Worcester to collect the sums of Bishops and the Lord Norris to collect the sums payable by the Lords Temporal which hath been diligently done and received by them from 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 to be relieved therewith being very many notwithstanding the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons have yielded very good and large Contributions according to their Degrees Yet for the better relief of the said maimed Souldiers It is by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal that have given their 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 and that shall not have Contributed to this charitable use of relief before the end of this Sessions shall be required by Letters to be sent to them by the Lords that had their Procuration for their absence or by Letters from the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal required and charged to Cause payments to be made according to their Degrees and Vocations the double of the sums of money paid by the Lords that have been here present and continued their Attendance That is to say that every Earl that hath been absent shall pay four pound the Archbishop of York to pay as much And every Bishop also absent to pay three pound and every Baron forty shillings And for such as have been here present and continued their Attendance at some times though very seldom having been absent for the more 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 constantly 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
two thousand weight of strange Coin Now whereas it is so much urged to be against that Charity which is commended to us by Moses towards the Stranger let Moses tell us who is that Stranger even the Fatherless and Widow Wherefore from them we must not reap too clean but cast out some handfuls for them to gather up when we gather our Vintage or when we gather our Corn we must not gather too clean But shall we be put out to gleaning and give our Fields to them That were beyond Charity Wherefore let Moses be expounded by the same Spirit The Apostle saith That he that provideth not for his Family is worse than an Infidel Let us then have an Eye to our Country and our poor Country-men You be here as Patres Patriae you be here as amongst the Romans the Patres conscripti I beseech you have respect unto this City upon whose flourishing Estate the whole Realm dependeth Sir Walter Raleigh spake next and said Whereas it is pretended That for Strangers it is against Charity against Honour against profit to expel them in my opinion it is no matter of Charity to relieve them For first such as fly hither have forsaken their own King and Religion is no pretext for them for we have no Dutchmen here but such as came from those Princes where the Gospel is Preached and here they live disliking our Church For Honour It is Honour to use Strangers as we be used amongst Strangers And it is a lightness in a Common-Wealth yea a baseness in a Nation to give a liberty to another Na which we cannot receive again In Antwerp where our intercourse was most we were never suffered to have a Taylor or a Shoemaker to dwell there Nay at Millain where there are three hundred pound English men they cannot have so much as a Barber amongst them And for Profit they are all of the House of Almoigne who pay nothing yet eat out our profits and supplant our own Nation Custom indeed they pay paying fifteen pence where we pay twelve pence but they are discharged of Subsidies The nature of the Dutchman is to fly to no man but for his profit and they will obey no man long now under Spain now under Mounfort now under the Prince of Orange but under no Governour long The Dutchman by his Policy hath gotten Trading with all the World into his hands yea he is now entring into the Trade of Scarborough Fishing and the Fishing of the New-found Lands which is the stay of the West-Countries They are the people that maintain the King of Spain in his Greatness Were it not for them he were never able to make out such Armies and Navies by Sea it cost her Majesty sixteen thousand pound a year the maintaining of these Countries and yet for all this they Arm her Enemies against her Therefore I see no reason that so much respect should be given unto them And so to conclude in the whole cause I see no matter of Honour no matter of Charity no Profit in relieving them Sir Robert Cecill spake next and said When I first heard this Bill read I promised my self silence for it speaks of Trades wherein I have no skill But upon so great dispute as it hath received on both sides and that very throughly and wisely my understanding is cleared and I see that now which I saw not before What the word Retailing meant I understood not before but now it is brought to a matter of Charity to relieve Strangers and especially such as do not grieve our Eyes This hath brought great Honour to our Kingdom for it is accounted the refuge of distressed Nations for our Arms have been open unto them to cast themselves into our Bosoms But yet our Charity unto them must not hinder or injure our selves Now as the Bill is it is not sufficient for this purpose And if it be put to a Question it must either be dashed or put to ingrossing And for my own Conscience if the Question be now made I am not resolved to give my Voice It were not for the gravity of the House nor the credit of the Committees to have it rejected upon the sudden and as it is now it is not fit to pass in my conceit I see the Citizens themselves will be well assenting unto the reforming of the same for M r Recorder yesterday speaking with Zeal for the City yet with good regard thought the Bill might receive great moderation And thereupon the House was well pleased to stay the Bill and commit it again to the former Committees to whom were further added Sir Robert Cecill Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Henry Knivet M r Wroth and others who were appointed to meet with the former Committees who had been nominated on Tuesday the 6 th day of this instant March foregoing this Afternoon at two of the Clock in this House Now followeth the next days Passages and some others ensuing out of the Original Journal-Book On Saturday the 24 th day of March the Bill touching Clapboards and Casks was twice read and committed unto the Committees that follow viz. M r Treasurer M r Wroth M r Francis Bacon M r Finch and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill and Committees names touching the Lands late Sir Francis Englefields Knight Attainted of High Treason who had been nominated on Thursday the 22 th day of this instant March foregoing were delivered to M r Vice-Chamberlain The Bill for relief of maimed Souldiers and Mariners was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees whose names see before on Monday the 12 th day of this instant March foregoing and Sir Robert Cecill M r Richard Brown M r Hubberd and others were added unto them and appointed to meet on Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Sir Robert Cecill Vicle plus March 28. M r Speaker being moved by M r Edgecombe to read the private Bill for the Town of Stonchouse and offering to have the Bill read first which came from the Lords touching Popish Recusants being a publick Bill and remembred from her Majesty It was upon the further arguing of Sir Edward Dymock put to the question of the House whether the same Bill for the Town of Stonchouse should be read or no and upon the Question made was Ordered no. Four Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others of which one was the Bill for Subsidy and the other touching the Sale of the Gray-Fryers in Cambridge M r Serjeant Owen and M r Doctor Stamhop do bring from the Lords a Bill intituled An Act to give liberty to the Lord Harrowden to sell certain Lands for the payment of his debts The Bill for restraining of Popish Recusants to some
certain places of aboad with the Amendments were first twice read and the Bill and Proviso upon the third reading passed upon the Question Sir Walter Raleigh one of the Committees in the Bill against Aliens retailing of Foreign Wares shewed the travels of the Committees and offereth unto the House the Bill with a Proviso And the Proviso being twice read the Bill and Proviso upon the Question were Committed again to the former Comittees and the Bill was delivered to M r Dalton one of the said Committees who were appointed to meet at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present day in the Exchequer Chamber On Monday the 26 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last concerning Spinners and Weavers was upon the second reading committed unto M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir William Knowles Sir Moyle Finch Sir Francis Hastings and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir William Knowles who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer M r Speaker shewed that he had received a Bill Signed by her Majesty for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Thomas Parrot Knight Son and Heir of Sir John Parrot Knight deceased lately attainted of High Treason Whereupon The Bill for Restitution in Blood of Sir Thomas Parrot Son and Heir of Sir John Parrot Knight deceased Attainted of High Treason was twice read M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Lands late Sir Francis Englefields Knight attainted of High Treason who had been appointed on Thursday the 22 th day of this instant March foregoing shewed that he and the residue of the Committees in the same Bill have met together and for certain things considered therein by them touching some Misprisions and imperfections both in sence and in writing have thought good that the said Committees of this House might upon a Motion to be made unto the Lords for Conference touching the said Misprisions and Imperfections have Conference with their Lordships therein for that the same Bill came from their Lordships Which upon that motion was assented unto by the whole House accordingly And immediately after the Bill for restraining Popish Recusants to some certain places of aboad lately passed with some amendments in this House which before came from the Lords and the Bill also for Confirmation of the Joynture of the Lady Margaret Countess of cumberland which likewise lately passed in this House and did also before come from the Lords were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain and others with Order furthermore of this House to move their Lordships for the said Conference touching the said Misprisions and Imperfections in the Bill touching the said Lands lately the said Sir Francis Englefields The Bill for the bringing of fresh water to the Town of Stonehouse was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Francis Drake M r Edgecombe Sir Thomas Conisby M r Dalton and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for the Haven of Plymouth and the Bill for the Inning of Plimpton Marsh were each of them read the second time and committed to the former Committees in the Bill for the Town of Stonehouse to meet at the same time and place and the Bills were both of them delivered to Sir Francis Drake one of the said Committees The Bill concerning the Lands of Henry late Lord Burgavenny had its third reading and the amendments were also read the third time and the Bill with the Amendments passed upon the Question The Bill touching the Assize of Fuel was upon the second reading committed unto M r Humphrey Conisbie M r Fanshaw M r Wroth and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Fanshaw who with the rest was appointed to meet this present day at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Serjeant Owen and M r Doctor Ford do bring word from the Lords that their Lordships according to the request of this House have assented unto the Conference demanded touching the said Bill concerning the Lands late Sir Francis Englefields lately Attainted of High Treason and that their Lordships have appointed the time to be to Morrow Morning at eight of the Clock at the accustomed place The Bill to give liberty to the Lord Harowden to sell certain Lands for the payment of his debts had its first reading M r Serjeant Owen and M r Doctor Ford do bring word from the Lords that touching the amendments of this House in the Bill which first passed in the Upper House and was afterwards sent down unto this House for restraining of Popish Recusants to some certain places of aboad and then passed in the House with some Amendments and sent unto their Lordships this present day their Lordships do desire that these Committees of this House which are appointed to have Conference with their Lordships to Morrow touching the said Bill concerning the Lands late Sir Francis Englefields may also have Authority from this House at the same time and place to have Conference likewise with their Lordships touching the said Amendments of this House in the said Bill for restraining Popish Recusants to some certain places of aboad Which afterwards upon the Return of that Message made unto that House by M r Speaker was assented unto by the whole House accordingly and so signified also unto the said Mr. Serjeant Owen and Mr. Doctor Ford. On Tuesday the 27 th day of March Mr. Fuller one of the Committees in the Bill for repealing of a branch of a Statute made in quarto quinto Phil. Mar. intituled An Act touching the making of Woollen Cloath shewed the Travel of the Committees in the same Whereupon after some other speeches then moving the House the said Bill was recommitted to the former Committees who had been appointed on Wednesday the 14 th day of this Instant March foregoing to meet again this Afternoon The Bill touching the true and lawful Assizing of Bread was read the second time and upon the doubtfulness of the Voices whether it should be Ingrossed or no was upon the Question by the division of the House rejected with the difference of twenty seven Voices viz. with the Yea sixty five and with the No ninety two The Bill to make void the Spiritual Living of those that have forsaken the Realm and do cleave unto the Pope and his Religion was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill against Strangers retailing of Foreign Wares was read the third time and after many long Speeches both with the Bill and against the Bill passed upon the Question by the division of the House with the difference of fourscore Voices viz. with the Yea a hundred sixty two and with the No eighty two Vide concerning this business on Tuesday the 6 th day on Tuesday the 20 th day Wednesday the
Barrowists and Brownists without peril of intrapping honest and loyal Subjects Which in the end after sundry Speeches both with the Motion and against it it was presently upon the Question assented unto and Ordered that M r Vice-Chamberlain accompanied with a convenient number of the Members of this House should presently repair to the Lords to move the said Conference accordingly Which so being done the said M r Vice-Chamberlain shewed that their Lordships had willingly assented unto the said Conference and did appoint for that purpose the time to be at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the accustomed place Which done it was Ordered that the former Committees who were appointed on Wednesday the 4 th day of this instant April foregoing should then and there attend their Lordships And the Bill was delivered to M r Vice-Chamberlain Wesselen Weblen Beer-Brewer and John Lightburn Serjeant at Mace being present at the Bar and charged by M r Speaker very deeply and amply with their great contempt against the Authority and Jurisdiction of this most High Court of Parliament in Arresting of M r Francis Neale one of the Members of this Honourable Assembly to the great prejudice and derogation of the antient and usual Liberties and Priviledges of this House They the said Weblen and Lightburn humbly submitted themselves and pretended by Ignorance to extenuate their faults Which done and they being sequestred after some Speeches and debates touching the punishment of the said Weblen and Lightburn some one way and some another it was in the end resolved upon the Question that they should be committed Prisoners to the Tower by Order of this House there to remain during the pleasure of this House And then afterwards the said Weblen and Lightburn being brought in again to the Bar M r Speaker remembring again unto them the hainousness of their offence pronounced unto them the said Judgment of this House and gave charge unto the Serjeant of this House to deliver the said Weblen and Lightburn unto M r Lieutenant of the Tower according to the said Order and Judgment of this House against them Vide in principio diei praecedentis On Saturday the 7 th day of April the Bill concerning Coopers was upon the second reading committed unto M r Serjeant Harris M r Dalton M r Wroth and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir John Hart one of the same Committees who with the rest was appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for Naturalizing of Justin Dormer and George Sheppy was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed M r Finch one of the Committees in the Bill for the avoiding of deceit used in making and selling of twice laid Cordage and for the better preserving of the Navy of this Realm shewed the meeting of the Committees and some few Amendments to the Bill praying the reading of the same Amendments which being read and allowed by the House the said Amendments were twice read and the Bill and the said Amendments also read the third time and passed upon the Question accordingly Sir John Hart one of the Committees in the Bill for the true assizing and marking of Timber appointed on Thursday the 5 th day of this instant April foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and their opinion of nothing fit to be done without much inconvenience in the said Bill at all and so delivereth in the said Bill again to the House The Bill for the Explanation of the Statute made in the thirty fourth year of King Henry the Eighth as well touching Grants made to his Majesty as for Confirmation of Letters Patents made by his Highness to others was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy-Council M r Amersham M r Attorney of the Dutchy Sir Francis Drake Sir Walter Raleigh and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer together with the Committees Names who with the rest was appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Tasborough moveth the reading of the Amendments of the Bill for the ease of Jurors returned upon Tryal which Amendments being twice read the Bill was upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill for Explanation of a branch of a Statute made in the twenty third year of her Majesties Reign Intituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience with some Additions to the same who had been appointed on Wednesday the 4 th day of this instant April foregoing shewed the meeting with the Lords in Conference and withal the very honourable and grateful acception and allowance of their Lordships unto all the reasons of this House offered unto their Lordships by the said Committees of this House and so concluding shewed that such Additions Substractions and Alterations have been made as by the good liking as well of the said Committees of the Lords as by the more part of the said Committees of this House was thought fit and so moved that the same Additions Substractions and Alterations might be read to the House for the further liking of this House in the same at their pleasures Which being so read accordingly it was after sundry contrary Arguments Ordered that some of the former Committees of this House should presently have further consideration thereof in the Committee Chamber of this House which was thereupon so done accordingly Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 4 th day of this instant April foregoing M r Serjeant Owen and M r Doctor Ford do bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed this House for M r Anthony Cooke with a saving now added by their Lordships And the Bill also for the Relief of Souldiers and Mariners likewise lately passed this House with some Additions now also added to the same by their Lordships The saving in the Bill for M r Anthony Cooke lately sent down to this House from the Lords was three times read and so passed upon the Question The additions in the Bill for the relief of Souldiers and Mariners lately sent down to this House by the Lords were three times read and upon the Question passed and were ordered to be inserted into the same Bill The Bill concerning Brewers and the Brewing of Beer and Ale was read the third time and passed upon the Qestion The Bill for maintenance of Cloth-making in the Town of Crambrook in the County of Kent was read the second time and Ordered not to be committed The Bill for naturalizing of Justin Dormer and George Sheppy had its third reading and passed upon the Question The Bill for Explanation of a Branch of a Statute made the 23 th of her Majesties Reign intituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience with some Additions to the same was read the third time And all the Additions and Amendments of this House to the same Bill
foregoing The Bill for the establishing of the Bishoprick of Norwich and the Possessions of the same against a certain concealed title made thereunto was read secunda vice 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 being the 14 th day of this instant January to the end it might be considered whether the same may justly pass without prejudice to the said parties and George Lester then to be warned to attend Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 14 th day of December foregoing as also on Saturday the 14 th day Monday the 16 th day and Tuesday the 17 th day of this instant January following Another Bill also of no great moment touching Clothiers was read secunda vice and referr'd to Committees Vide plus de ista materia die sequente Certain Amendments were offered unto the House by the Committees upon the Bill Intituled An Act for the Naturalizing of certain Englishmens Children and others born beyond the Seas Which Amendments were presently twice read And thereupon both the Bill and the Amendments were read the third time and returned unto the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r D r Carew On Friday the 13 th day of January the Bill concerning a Lease of great yearly value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham was read primâ vice The said Kirkham and Ambrose Willoughby Esq are to be warned to attend the Lords on Monday Morning next being the 16 th day of this instant February at which time it is appointed that the said Bill shall be read the second time Vide touching this matter on Monday the 16 th day and Tuesday the 17 th day of this instant January following The Bill against deceitful stretching and tentering of Northern Cloth was read secundâ vice and committed to the Earl of Shrewsbury Viscount Bindon the Bishop of London the Bishop of Bath and Wells and the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Zouch and the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Chief Baron M r Justice Owen and M r Baron Evers to attend their Lordships Vide concerning this attendance of the Judges on Monday the 7 th day of November foregoing The same Committees time and place appointed upon the Bill for the relieving of Clothiers concerning the weight of short broad and coloured Cloths c. the former Committees being part of this number having not had time to perfect the same who had been appointed yesterday Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to preserve the property of stoln Horses in the true Owners of Vouchers in sale of Horses in Fairs and Markets was read tertia vice and refused The Bill concerning the recovery and draining from the water certain overflown grounds in the County of Norfolk was read secundâ vice and referr'd to the same Committees upon the Bill formerly read of that kind concerning three hundred thousand Acres c. whose names see before on Wednesday the 11 th day of this instant January foregoing with Addition of the Lord S t John and M r Attorney to attend appointed to meet at the same time and place c. And such parties as the same may concern to be warned to attend also On Saturday the 14 th day of January certain Objections unto the Bill Intituled An Act for the increase of people c. were set down in writing by M r Attorney General and brought into the House by the Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees And the same was sent to the House of Commons for their consideration thereof according to a Proviso made by their Lordships to the Select Committees of the House of Commons at the meeting yesterday about that Bill by Mr. Attorney General and Dr. Stanhop Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant January foregoing as also on Friday the 20th day of the same Month following Upon Motion made by the Lord Archbishop that the Committees for the Bill of Tillage had not time to perfect the same at the meeting formerly Assigned It was Ordered by the House that the said Committees should meet again about it at the great Council Chamber c. The like Motion was made touching the Bill of Broakers and Pawn takers and the like Order Certain Knights and Burgesses of the House of Commons sent to the Lords to desire a Conference with a competent number of that House concerning the Amendments and Provisoes added to the Bill Intituled An Act for erecting of Houses of Corrections and punishment of Bogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars Whereupon choice was made of the Lord Archbishop the Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Bishop of Winchester being part of the number formerly appointed upon that Bill the three Chief Justices Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Attorney to attend And the same presently signified to the said Knights and Burgesses but with this caution That whatsoever had been amended or added by their Lordships could not now be altered by the Orders of the House Howbeit to yield the House of Commons satisfaction of the reasons that moved their Lordships to make those Amendments they assented to the Conference and the meeting was appointed to be in the outward Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament on Monday the sixteenth day of this instant January following by eight of the Clock in the Morning On which said Monday see more of this matter The Bill for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties services concerning the Wars was read primâ vice The Councel Learned as well on the part of the Bishop of Norwich and his Tenants as on the part and behalf of George Lester were heard openly in the House but for the present no further Order or proceeding therein Vide touching this business on Tuesday the 20 th day of December last past and on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant January foregoing as also on Monday the 16 th day and Tuesday the 17 th day of the same Month next ensuing The Earl of Essex not able to attend for want of health was certified by the Lord North. The Bishop of Landaff absent by reason of sickness signified by the Bishop of Chester On Monday the 16 th day of January to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of Statutes Merchant acknowledged in the City of Lincoln and the Town corporate of Nottingham was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Treasurer of England the Earl of Essex Earl Marshal the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Chester the Lord
Trust touching Lands given to Charitable uses was returned to the House by the Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees 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 engrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading Upon a Motion by the Earl Marshal that the Committees in the Bill against lewd and wandring persons who were appointed Yesterday had not convenient time this Morning to perfect the said Bill according to the Order of the House agreed upon Yesterday their Lordships appointed the said Committees to meet again about the same to Morrow Morning before the House sit The Bill entituled An Act for the encrease of people for the service and defence of the Realm was returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury the first of the Committees And because it seemed to all the Committees appointed for this Bill together with the Judges that notwithstanding the Conference with divers selected persons of the House of Commons this Bill could not proceed Order was given to the Judges and especially to the Lord Chief Justice to draw a new Bill Whereupon this new Bill following was brought into the House The Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry was read primâ vice The Bill against carrying of Pelts c. was returned into the House by the Earl Marshal Excuse was made by the Lord Admiral for the Earl of Hereford's absence for want of health The like excuse by the Lord Chandois for the Lord La Ware The Earl Marshal signified unto the House that the Lord Mordant and the Lord Sheffeild have leave of her Majesty for their absence On Friday the 27 th day of January Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to prohibit the carrying of Herrings beyond the Seas was read secundâ vice but no mention that it was committed The Bill against decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry was read secundâ vice Certain Amendments upon this Bill were drawn by the Lord Chief Justice and being allowed by the House were also twice read and thereupon the Bill with the said Amendments was commanded presently to be engrossed The Bill touching the making of short broad course coloured Cloths in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex was upon the second reading committed unto the Earl of Shrewsbury Lord Viscount Bindon the Lord Bishop of London the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain the Lord Zouch the Lord Wharton the Lord Darcie of Chich and the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Chief Justice of England the Lord Chief Baron M r Justice Owen and M r Baron Evers to attend their Lordships Two Bills lastly had each of them their third reading of which the first being the Bill to reform deceits and breaches of Trust touching Lands given to charitable uses with some Amendments was returned to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Stanhop for their consideration of the said Amendments The Lord Treasurer took his place this day as Baron of Burleigh between the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Compton The Lord Admiral took his place as Earl of Nottingham between the Earl of Lincoln and the Lord Viscount Bindon And the Lord Chamberlain his place as Baron of Hunsdon between the Lord Chandois and the Lord S t John of Bletso On Saturday the 28 th day of January the Bill for the lawful making of Bayes c. The Bill to restrain the excessive making of Malt and one other of no great moment were each of them read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Drew and Doctor Carew The Bill for establishing a Jointure to Anne Lady Wentworth was read secunda vice and committed unto the Earl of Essex Lord Marshal the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Norwich the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Zouch the Lord Cobham the Lord Sandes the Lord Chandois and the Lord Compton and M r Baron Clerke and M r Baron Evers or either of them to attend their Lordships The Bill lastly for confirmation of Statutes Merchants acknowledged in the Town Corporate of Newcastle upon Tine was read secundâ vice But no mention is made in the Original Journal-Book that this Bill was committed for at the next sitting viz. Die Lunae 30 o die Januarii the same Bill was read tertiâ vice and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Carew and Doctor Stanhop On Monday the 30 th day of January to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for retailing Broakers and other Pawn-takers was returned to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees And because the Committees found many defects therein so that they thought the same unfit to proceed they therefore together with the said Bill presented a new Bill intituled as the former which was read primâ vice The Bill touching the making of short broad course coloured Cloths which was committed on Friday the 27 th day of this instant January foregoing was returned to the House by the first of the Committees and therewithal because the same was by the said Committees thought defective a new Bill of the same title was likewise presented Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of Statutes Merchant acknowledged in the Town Corporate of Newcastle upon Tine was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by D r Carew and D r Stanhop Seven Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the fourth being the Bill against lewd and wandering persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners was returned with the allowance of an Amendment which was added by the Lords Sir Robert Cecill and other Knights and Burgesses that brought the seven Bills last mentioned and moved the House for a Conference concerning the Bill sent from their Lordships Intituled An Act for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars to which Conference the Lords assented and the time and place appointed to Morrow in the Afternoon at the Great Council Chamber at the Court at Whitehall and the same Committees that were formerly appointed on Monday the 16 th day of this instant January foregoing and the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Rutland the Lord Zouch and the Lord Cobham were added unto them The Bill Intituled An Act for the enabling of Edmund Mollineux Esq to sell the Lands c. was returned to the House by the Earl of Rutland the first of the Committees or Arbitrators with Amendments which
only commit a great error in omitting to read some one Bill or other according to the usual Custom but was also much mistaken in informing the House that it had been Adjourned and so now stood Adjourned by those words which the Lord Keeper had spoken in the Upper House for his Lordship at this time as appears plainly by the Original Journal-Book of that House did only continue the Parliament and not Adjourn it which words although spoken by the Queens Commandment being personally present do only concern the said Upper House and reach not at all unto the House of Commons as was directly declared by the Lord Keeper himself in the next Parliament ensuing in An. 43 Regin Eliz. after that M r John Crooke M r Recorder of London their Speaker upon his allowance in and return from the said Upper House on Friday the 30 th day of October in An. eodem had by a like mistake misinformed the House that it was Adjourned and so caused it to rise without the reading of any Bill And therefore here once for all I have caused the true differences as I conceive in this kind to be here inserted viz. If the Lord Keeper by the Queens Commandment being personally present had either prolonged or Adjourned the Parliament or that her Majesty with her own Mouth had pronounced the said words or had caused the same to have been done by a Commission under the Great Seal in her absence in all these Cases it had reached alike both unto the Upper House and unto the House of Commons But if the Queens Majesty had with her own Mouth continued the Parliament as she did here command the Lord Keeper to do it yet this had only concerned the Upper House so that the Lords could not have met again until the day to which the said Parliament had been continued but the said House of Commons whom the said continuance concerned not might have met each day without intermission and have agitated such businesses and have given reading to such Bills as offered themselves And lastly If the Lord Keeper or Lord Chancellor for the time being do at any time Adjourn or continue the Parliament to a further day as of course he doth one of them for longer or shorter time every day the Upper House riseth and that he doth it not by Command or Commission from the Soveraign for the time being but do it of course as is aforesaid this concerns only the Upper House and the House of Commons are neither bound to take notice of it nor to surcease any of their daily Proceedings upon it On Saturday the 5 th day of November the House met about eight of the Clock in the Morning having through a meer mistake and error of the Speaker and themselves conceived their House to have been Adjourned by the Lord Keeper the first day of the Parliament unto this present Saturday as is more largely declared in fine diei praecedentis Nota also that some part of the Passages of this present Saturday following are transcribed out of the before-recited fragmentary and imperfect Journal M r Speaker this Morning according to the usual course brought in a Prayer to be used in the House during this Parliament which was as followeth OEternal God Lord of Heaven and Earth the great and mighty Councellor We thy poor Servants Assembled before thee in this Honourable Senate humbly acknowledge our great and manifold sins and imperfections and thereby our unworthiness to receive any grace and assistance from thee Yet most merciful Father since by thy providence we are called from all parts of the Land to this famous Council of Parliament to advise of those things which concern thy Glory the good of thy Church the prosperity of our Prince and the Weal of her people we most intirely beseech thee that pardoning all our sins in the Blood of thy Son Jesus Christ it would please thee by the brightness of thy Spirit to expel darkness and vanity from our minds and partiality from our Speeches and grant unto us such wisdom and integrity of heart as becometh the Servants of Jesus Christ the Subjects of a gracious Prince and Members of this Honourable House Let not us O Lord who are met together for the publick good of the whole Land be more careless and remiss than we use to be in our own private Causes Give Grace we beseech thee that every one of us may labour to shew a good Conscience to thy Majesty a good Zeal to thy word and a loyal heart to our Prince and a Christian Love to our Country and Common-Wealth O Lord so unite and conjoin the hearts of her Excellent Majesty and this whole Assembly as they may be a threefold Cord not easily broken giving strength to such godly I aws as be already Enacted that they may be the better Executed and Enacting such as are further requisite for the bridling of the wicked and the encouragement unto the godly and well affected Subjects That so thy great blessing may be continued towards us and thy grievous Judgments turned from us And that only for Christ Jesus sake our most glorious and only Mediator and Advocate to whom with thy blessed Majesty and the Holy Ghost be given all Honour and Praise Power and Dominion from this time forth for evermore Amen M r Francis Bacon spake first after that one Bill mentioned in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons had been read the first time viz. the Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers and made a Motion against Inclosures and Depopulation of Towns and Houses of Husbandry and Tillage And to this purpose he brought in as he termed it two Bills not drawn with a polished pen but with a polished heart free from affection and affectation And because former Laws are Medicines of our understanding he said that he had perused the Preambles of former Statutes and by them did see the inconveniencies of this matter being then scarce out of the shell to be now full ripened And he said that the over-flowing of the people here makes a shrinking and abate elsewhere And that these two mischiefs though they be exceeding great yet they seem the less because Qui mala cum multis patimur leviora videntur And though it may be thought ill and very prejudicial to Lords that have inclosed great grounds and pulled down even whole Towns and converted them to Sheep-Pastures yet considering the increase of people and the benefit of the Common-Wealth I doubt not but every man will deem the revival of former Moth-eaten Laws in this point a praise-worthy thing For in matters of Policy ill is not to be thought ill which bringeth forth good For Inclosure of grounds brings depopulation which brings first Idleness secondly decay of Tillage thirdly subversion of Houses and decay of Charity and charges to the Poor fourthly impoverishing the state of the Realm A Law for the taking away of such inconveniences is not to
Town of Northampton Mr. Edward Mountague Sir Edward Hobbie and others And the Bill was delivered to Sir Thomas Cecill All which were appointed to meet at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this day at Sir Thomas Cecill's House Sir Edward Hobby one of the Committees for the Information of Grants lately moved in this House in Ecclesiastical Causes moved for a new day of meeting Whereupon Monday next in the Afternoon was appointed for the same and to be in this House Nota That although her Majesty had formerly been exceeding unwilling and opposite to all manner of Innovations in Ecclesiastical Government yet understanding at this Parliament of divers gross and great abuses therein she had on Monday the 14 th day of this instant November foregoing not only given leave and liberty to the House of Commons to treat thereof but also had encouraged them to proceed in the reformation thereof by a Message brought unto the said House by Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer Whereupon the aforesaid Committee here mentioned by Sir Edward Hobby was appointed Touching whose further proceedings in the said matter see on Monday the 21 th and on Tuesday the 22 th day of this instant November ensuing The Bill for keeping of Horses from stealing was upon the second reading committed unto M r Hubberd Sir Robert Wroth M r Maynard M r Portington Sir William Brereton M r Henry Nevill M r Pennington and others And the Bill and Committees names were delivered to M r Hubberd who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Amendments in the Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers were twice read and the Bill was committed to the former Committees who were appointed to meet on Monday the 7 th day of this instant November foregoing And there were added unto them M r Hext Sir Robert Wroth M r Francis Moore M r Litton M r Henry Maynard Sir George Carew M r Henry Hubberd all Barons of Ports and Sir Nicholas Parker who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall And the Bill was delivered to M r Francis Moore and M r Lawrence Hide The Proviso which came from the Lords in the Bill from taking Clergy from certain Offendors and lately passed in this House and sent up unto their Lordships was three times read and passed upon the question M r Hext one of the Committees in the Bill for the Town of Langford Estover who were appointed on Thursday the 10 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and many Causes wherefore he thinketh the Bill very unmeet to have any passing in this House Whereupon none offering to speak for the said Bill the same was rejected upon the question for ingrossing The Bill for repeal of a Statute of the twenty third of the Queens Majesty Intituled An Act for encrease of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation had its first reading And after some Speeches both with the Bill and against it it was in the end passed upon the question Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer shewed unto the House that this Afternoon being appointed for two Commitments the one touching Monopolies and Patents of Priviledge and the other for the true Answering of the Tenths and Subsidies from the Clergy to her Majesty in both which himself is a Committee amongst others and that himself and M r Secretary Cecill are specially commanded to wait upon her Highness this Afternoon and therefore cannot attend the said Commitments and so moving for a new day of meeting wished the same to be upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Which albeit it was well liked of and yielded unto by some yet was it over-ruled by number of Voices That as concerning the said Monopolies and Patents of Priviledge the said Commitments should be continued to be held in the Afternoon of this present day in this House Vide plus touching this business on Tuesday the 8 th day of this instant November foregoing On Thursday the 17 th day of November Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last concerning the Lands and Debts of Sir Henry Unton Knight deceased had its first reading M r Thomas Jewks is added to the former Committees for Examination of Priviledges and Returns who were appointed on Saturday the 5 th day of this instant November foregoing and are to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill also for erecting of Houses of Correction and the punishment of Rogues and Sturdy Beggars was read the first time On Friday the 18 th day of November Twelve Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for erecting of Hospitals or abiding or Working-Houses for the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto Sir John Hart M r Recorder of London M r Tasbrough all the Readers of the Middle-Temple M r Boyce M r Henry Bellasis and others And the Bill was delivered with the Committees names to the said M r Boyce who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Middle-Temple Hall M r Francis Moore one of the Committees in the Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers who were appointed on Monday the 17 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed that the Committees have withdrawn out of the said Bill those points that concerned Corn Grain and other Victuals and have framed a new Bill for that purpose Intituled An Act to make void Contracts upon Ingrossing of Corn Grain or Victual which had its first reading And the old Bill for as much thereof as was not withdrawn was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed Sir Francis Hastings M r Francis Bacon and M r Secretary moved touching the further preparing of the Bills for the re-edifying of Houses and encrease of Tillage Whereupon after some other Speeches it was resolved that the Committees therein should meet again for the same this Afternoon in this House The Bill against dying of Cloths with black Wood alias Logwood was upon the second reading committed unto the Citizens for London York Coventry Canterbury Bristol the Burgesses of Hull and Redding M r Finch and others And the Bill was delivered to Sir John Hart who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Guild Hall upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon M r Sherley one of the Committees for continuance of Statutes who were appointed on Friday the 11 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed that the greater number of the residue of the Committees being Yesterday imployed in sundry other Committees could not be present at the same Committee and so prayed another day of meeting Whereupon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon was appointed at the former place viz. the Inner-Temple Hall The Bill to restrain the carrying of Worsted-Yarn
Heyle Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Doctor James Mr. Doctor Parkins Mr. Doctor Crompton Mr. Stephenson Sir William Moore and others and the Attorneyes of the Dutchies and Courts of Wards and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Sollicitor who with the rest was appointed to meet on Monday next at the Middle-Temple at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Mr. Finch shewing some griefs of Ministers in some Cases by Colour of a Statute made in the first year of Her Majesties Reign Intituled An Act for Conformity of Common-Prayer and Service in the Church and of the Administration of Sacraments and of a Statute made in the thirteenth year of her said Majesties Reign Intituled An Act to reform certain disorders touching Ministers of the Church and wishing an Explanation in the one and a mitigation in the other offereth a Bill unto this House for that purpose Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Attorney General do bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed this House Intituled An Act for establishing the Town Lands of Wanting in the County of Berks to the relief of the Poor Amendment of High-ways and maintaining of a School within the said Town shewing that their Lordships have passed the said Bill in the Upper House and have added a Proviso in the same Bill The Bill that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against Patentees in some certain Cases was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Francis Hastings Sir Thomas Hungerford Mr. Sollicitor Sir Thomas Hobby and others and the Bill was delivered with the Committees names to Mr. Comptroller who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber and the Parties to bring their Councel to the Committees On Monday the 5 th day of December Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and Beggars was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Proviso in the Bill for draining of certain surrounded grounds in the County of Norfolk was twice read and the Bill and Proviso were Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Recorder of London one of the Committees in the Bill for the Lord Mountjoy who were appointed on Saturday the 24 th day of November foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and so delivered in the Bill to the House Six Bills were this Morning sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the principal were one concerning the Lands of Sir Henry Unton and another to give power and liberty to Sir John Spencer Mary his Wife and Robert their Son to alienate certain Mannors and Lands in the County of Somerset Mr. Henry Hubbard one of the Committees in the Bill concerning the Lands of the Bishoprick of Norwich who were appointed on Wednesday the 30 th day of November foregoing shewed the meetings and travel of the Committees and delivering in the Bill it was after sundry Speeches committed to the former Committees and Mr. Brograve the Attorney of the Dutchy the Attorney of the Court of Wards and Sir William Cornwallis were added unto them and appointed to meet this day at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the former place viz. the Exchequer Chamber and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to the said Sir William Cornwallis Mr. Doctor Parkins one of the Committees in the Bill to prevent double payments of Debts upon Shop-Books who were appointed on Friday the second day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and their adding of a Proviso and some Amendments to the Bill and so delivered in the Bill To Morrow Morning is appointed for the Learned Councel of the Lord Mountjoy to be heard in this House Mr. Francis Bacon one of the Committees in the Bill for tillage and building of Houses who were appointed on Saturday the 26 th day of November foregoing shewed at large the meeting and travel of the Committees and their framing of two new Bills and delivereth both the old Bill and the new Bill into the House The Bill concerning Tellors Receivors c. was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy-Council being of this House Sir Oliver Lambert Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Tasborough Mr. Francis Bacon and others And the Bill and Committees names were delivered to the said Mr. Comptroller who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Bird Master of Nevill's Hospital in the County of York who was appointed to be heard this day with his Councel on Saturday the third day of this instant December foregoing was called to the Bar and heard who shewed that he could get none to be of Councel with him Whereupon being demanded whom he would retain of his Councel and Answering that he would have Mr. Godfrey It was then agreed that Mr. Godfrey should be assigned of his Councel and further day given to hear his Councel in this House upon Wednesday next being the 7 th day of this instant December following At which time the said Mr. Bird's Councel being heard it should seem that the said Bill touching Nevills Hospital which had been read the third time never passed the House Mr. Doctor Muffet one of the Burgesses for Wilton being Licensed to depart left two shillings and six pence with Mr. Fulk Onslow Clerk of this House for the Poor and the Minister but nothing for the said Clerk himself Mr. John Wingfield one of the Burgesses for Peterborough in the County of Northampton is for his necessary businesses Licensed to depart and left with the Clerk five shillings for the Poor and Minister Mr. Thomas Hinson one of the Burgesses for Barnstable in the County of Devon was this day Licensed for his necessary business to depart and left with the Clerk five shillings for the Poor and two shillings and six pence for the Minister On Tuesday the 6 th day of December Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for establishing an Award made between Edward Cotten Gentleman and Thomas Harvey Yeoman was upon the second reading committed unto M r Serjeant Harris M r Henry Warner and others and the Bill was deliver'd to the said M r Warner who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Temple-Hall The Amendments in the Bill for the Lord Mountjoy being twice read the Lord Marquess of Winchester and the Lord Mountjoy with their Learned Councel were heard at the Bar in this House before such time as the said Bill and Amendments were put to the Question for ingrossing and after their departure out of the House the said Bill with the Amendments was upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed Sir Hugh Portman Knight one of the Knights returned into this present
Clerk of the House of Commons though it may be not improbably gathered that their Lordships did rest very well satisfied with this Message of the said House of Commons and did impute the said mistakes to be the inexperience of the said Thomas Smith Esquire their new Clerk who had this Parliament succeeded unto Anthony Mason Esq formerly Clerk of the Upper House Which may the rather be conjectured because there was another Precedent this very Parliament upon Thursday the 24 th day of November foregoing in which the Lords upon a like mistake of the said Clerk did very honourably acknowledge the said error and caused it to be amended The next thing finally that ensueth upon relation of the aforesaid great business is the Adjournment of the Parliament which is entred in these very words following This day this Court was Adjourned until the 11 th day of January next coming at eight of the Clock in the Morning by her Majesties Commandment and so likewise the Upper House Upon which said 11 th day of January being Wednesday the House according to the aforesaid Adjournment upon Tuesday the 20 th day of December last past met again and without any further Ceremony proceeded in such ordinary Bills and businesses as had been left unperfected in the former meeting the first of which that is expressed in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons was the giving of the first reading unto the Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords added unto the Bill lately passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships and again returned from them with the said Amendments and Provisoes being Intituled An Act for the erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House Intituled An Act for the relief of the Poor were likewise this day read in the House for the first reading of the same Amendments and Provisoes The Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for the injoying of the Rectory and Parsonage of South-Molton in the County of Devon for certain Years reserving the usual Rent was read the first time The Bill concerning the High-way Lands of Ailesbury in the County of Buckingham was upon the second reading committed unto M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Recorder of Lendon M r Lea the Burgestes of Aylesbury M r Boyer and others who were appointed to meet in the Inner-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this day M r Hext one of the Committees in the Bill against wandring Souldiers and Mariners and in the Bill concerning Lessees and Patentees shewed that for lack of meeting of the Committees to a convenient number they had done nothing in those Bills and so prayed another time for their meeting Whereupon the former Committees who had been nominated on Saturday the third day and on Wednesday the 7 th day of December foregoing were appointed to meet to Morrow at Serjeants-Inn Hall in Chancery-lane at two of the Clock in the Afternoon for the said Bill against wandring Souldiers and Mariners and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to M r Hext one of the said Committees and the further course of the said Bill concerning Lessees and Patentees to be deferred to be further considered of by the former Committees in the same The Bill for Limitation of time for bringing of Formedons in the Deseender and Writs of Error was upon the second reading committed unto M r Serjeants Heyle Harris and Walberton M r Attorneys of the Dutchy and Court of Wards M r Sands Sir Edward Hobby and divers others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon at two of the Clock at Serjeants-Inn Hall in Chancery-lane The Bill for Costs to be awarded in a Prohibition was upon the second reading committed to the former Committees to meet at the former day and place and Mr. Doctor James Mr. Doctor Bennit Mr. Doctor Caesar Mr. Doctor Parkings Mr. Doctor Crompton and others were added unto them for this Bill The Amendments and Proviso of the Committees in the Bill to prevent double payments of Debts upon Shop-Books was deferred till to Morrow to be further considered of for the perfecting of the same above in the Committees Chamber for this House The Bill lastly for taking away of Clergy from Robbers of Houses in the day time though no person be therein was read the first time On Thursday the 12 th day of January Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the due execution of Ordinances made by Corporations was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Philips Mr. Serjeant Walberton and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon at two of the Clock at Serjeants-Inn in Chancery-Lane The Bill to restrain the excessive making of Mault was read the second time and committed to the former Committees which had been in two other Bills before framed to this purpose whereof the first had its second reading and was committed upon Wednesday the 9 th day of November foregoing and then as it seems being rejected by the Committees a new Bill was to that purpose by them framed which had its second reading on Wednesday the 7 th day of December foregoing and was thereupon committed to the former Committees and some others who as may very plainly be gathered disliking the said new Bill framed yet a third Bill more to the like effect which was this present Thursday read the second time and committed to all the former Committees in the two other Bills whose names because they are in the former Commitments but in part set down are now at last in this place inserted at large in respect that the said Bill touching Maultsters was so often altered which is not usual the names of which Committees were as followeth viz. Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Hubberd Mr. Liere the Burgesses of York Hull Worcester and Gloucester Mr. Bembridge Mr. Henry Yelverton Mr. Wallis Mr. Oglethorp Mr. John Caswell Sir Henry Norris Mr. Henry Vaughan Mr. Green Sir Henry North Mr. George Rotheram Mr. William Ford Mr. Miles Sandes Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Stevenson Mr. Michael Stanhop Mr. Swaine Mr. Little Mr. Fulk Grevill Mr. Peake Mr. Litten Mr. Nathaniel Bacon the Burgesses of Norwich and Cambridge Warwick Coventry and Tewxbury Sir Thomas Hobby Mr. Winch Mr. Yelverton the Knights and Burgesses of Bedford Sir William Brereton Mr. Austen Mr. Henry Hubberd Mr. Serjeant Walberton Sir Francis Knolles Mr. Edward Lewkenor Mr. Stoughton Mr. Stringer Doctor Bennit Mr. Smith and Sir John Tracy and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Mr. Hubberd one of the said Committees who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon at Serjeants-Inn in Chancery-lane M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring word from the Lords that whereas there did pass a Bill in this
rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill for Reformation of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Grevill Sir Robert Wroth Sir Walter Raleigh Mr. Henry Nevill Sir George Carcy Mr. Brograve Attorney of the Dutchy and divers others and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Sir Walter Raleigh who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed in this House Intituled An Act to reform deceits and breaches of trust touching Lands given to Charitable uses and did shew that their Lordships have likewise passed the same Bill with a Proviso and some Amendments The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords to the Bill lately passed in this House Intituled An Act to reform deceits and breaches of trust touching Lands given to Charitable uses being three times read the said Amendments were assented unto by this House and the said Proviso passed upon the Question accordingly The Bill concerning the Highway Lands of the Town of Aylesbury in the Country of Buckingham was read the third time and upon some Motions by some Members of this House was Ordered to be respited from being put to the Question till to Morrow that the Councel of the other sides may be here M r Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed in this House Intituled An Act against lewd and wandring persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers and Mariners And did shew in like manner that their Lordships had passed the same Bill with some Amendments The Amendments of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House Intituled An Act against lewd and wandring persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers and Mariners being three times read the same Amendments were upon the question assented unto accordingly The Committees of this House in the Bill from the Lords Intituled An Act for the better Explanation and Execution of an Act made in the thirteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign Capito quarto concerning Tellors Receivors c. who were appointed on Wednesday the 18 th day of this instant January foregoing were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock and have further consideration and Conference amongst themselves touching the proceeding in the same Bill On Saturday the 28 th day of January the Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars was read the second time and committed unto some Members of this House to be considered of in the Committee Chamber of this House The Bill for Confirmation of the Jointure of Mary Lady Verney Wife of Sir Edmund Verney K t was read the second time and passed upon the Question Goodale one of the adverse Parties to the Bill concerning the Highway Lands of the Town of Aylesbury being present in this House and praying some words to be inserted into the said Bill which being upon due and deliberate consideration of this House admitted to be inserted accordingly and three times read the Bill was put to the question and passed thereupon accordingly Mr. Pembridg one of the Committees in the Bill for reviving continuing and explanation of An Act for the necessary relief of Mariners and Souldiers who were appointed on Thursday the 26 th day of this instant January foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and some their Amendments to the Bill and so delivered in the Bill to the House The Bill for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars was read the third time and passed with an Amendment of this House in the last line of the same Bill viz. by inserting these words end of the between the first word the and the word first in the same line Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Doctor Cary did bring from the Lords a Bill passed with their Lordships intituled An Act against the decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry and another Bill which lately passed in this House and was sent up to their Lordships intituled An Act for the lawful making of Bayes within the Counties of Fssex and Suffolk which Bill is also passed with their Lordships with a Proviso added to the same by their Lordships which said Proviso being three times read was passed upon the question The Bill against the decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry had its first reading On Monday the 30 th day of January the Bill concerning Garret de Malynes and John Hunger Merchant Strangers was read the second time There were seven Bills this Morning sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Secretary and others of which the first was the Bill for Punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars the second for the lawful making of Bayes And the third was the Bill to reform deceits and breaches of trust touching Lands given to Charitable uses with order also to move their Lordships for Conference some time after this present day with their Lordships concerning the Bill lately passed with their Lordships and sent down by them unto this House intituled An Act to reform sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used to her Majesties services concerning the Wars M r Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees for Conference amongst themselves concerning the Bill intituled An Act for the better Explanation and Execution of the Act made in the 13 th year of the Queens Majesties Reign Cap. quart concerning Tellors and Receivors c. shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and their not liking to pass the same Bill in this House in manner and form as the same was passed with the Lords in regard of many inconveniencies appearing in the same Bill which were then opened by him at large And shewed further that they thought good to frame a new Bill in that Cause with a better and more reasonable form and so delivered in the same Bill which was thereupon presently read for the first reading accordingly M r Snagg one of the Committees in the Bill that the Plaintiffs shall pay the Defendants Costs lying in Prison for want of Bail who were appointed on Friday the 27 th day of this instant January foregoing and in the Bill to avoid deceits in Measures and Weights shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees with their Amendments to the said Bill to avoid deceits in Measures and Weights and their opinion of reserving the said other Bill till another Parliament and so delivered in both the said Bills into the said House M r Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill intituled An Act for the Confirmation of Statutes Merchants acknowledged in the Town Corporate of Newcastle upon Tyne The Bill against the decaying of
upon Tyne was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Recorder of London M r Tanfield M r Wiseman M r Snagg M r Finch M r Lea M r Francis Moore M r Boyes M r Hide and M r John Shirley were added to the former Committees in the Bill for the better Execution of Judgment who were appointed on Wednesday the 25 th day of this instant January foregoing and were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Middle-Temple On Friday the third day of February the Bill to restrain the Lading of Corn in some Ports was upon the second reading committed unto M r Colebrand M r Hext Sir Thomas Mounson M r Arnold the Burgesses of Port Towns M r Shirley and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill also for the restraint of carrying of Corn out of the Realm was read the second time and committed to the last former Committees and the same time and place appointed for meeting and both the said Bills and Committees names were delivered to M r Colebrand The Bill against the excess of Apparel was read the third time and passed upon the Question M r Serjeant Drew and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill Intituled An Act for the reformation of the abuses touching Wine-Casks with special recommendation for the speedy proceeding in the same Bill and did further bring word from their Lordships that whereas their Lordships received a Bill from this House Intituled An Act for the reviving continuance and explanation of divers Statutes which Bill as their Lordships do wish good success unto so their Lordships do in that respect pray present Conference of some convenient number of this House with six of their Lordships Whereupon Mr. Shirley Mr. Snagg Mr. Duport Mr. Francis Moore Mr. George Crooke Mr. Finch Mr. Oldsworth Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Wiseman Mr. Boyes Mr. Tasborough Mr. Colebrand Mr. George Moore Sir Francis Hastings and Mr. Serjeant Lewkenor were presently appointed for that purpose accordingly Four Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir Francis Hastings and others of which the first was the Bill for Confirmation of Statutes Merchants acknowledged in the Town Corporate of Newcastle upon Tyne And the second was for the renewing continuance and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners Mr. Secretary one of the Committees in the Bill for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others used in her Majesties Services concerning the Wars who were appointed on Friday the 27 th day of January foregoing shewed that he and the other of the Committees of this House have attended the Committees of their Lordships in that Bill accordingly And that they found their Lordships very honourably inclined to hear the further minds and opinions of this House touching any the parts or points of the said Bill for their Lordships better satisfactions concerning the same And so moving for another meeting of the said Committees of this House to consider and confer touching the said Bill amongst themselves in the mean time the Committees names were thereupon read by the Clerk and the time of their meeting set down to be to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Francis Bacon one of the Committees in the Bill lately passed in the Upper House and sent down by the Lords to this House Intituled An Act against the decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry shewed the meeting of the Committees and that the more part of them being imployed in the Committee of a Bill for the more speedy payment of the Queens Majesties Debts who were appointed on Tuesday the 31 th day of January foregoing And in the Bill for the better explanation of the Act made in the thirteenth year of her Majesties Reign Intituled An Act to make the Lands Tenements Goods and Chattles of Tellors Receivors c. liable to the payment of their Debts they would proceed in the said other Bill and so moved for another meeting for that purpose Whereupon it was Ordered the same should be at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present day in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships Intituled An Act for the establishing of the Lands given by John Bedfords Will to the perpetual repair and Amendments of the Highways at Aylesbury in the County of Buckingham according to the said Will And did shew that their Lordships had likewise passed the same Bill in the Upper House with some Amendments and with a Proviso annexed unto the same by their Lordships and so did deliver the said Bill to Mr. Speaker Sir Francis Hastings and others returning from the Lords he shewed the delivering of the Bills unto their Lordships which were sent up unto them by himself and others the Members of this House The Bill for Reformation of abuses in Wine-Casks was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Robert Wroth the Knights and Burgesses of London Mr. Snagg Mr. Wiseman Mr. Thomas Smith the Burgesses of York Mr. Peirson Mr. Hext Mr. Stevenson Mr. George Moore and Mr. Lilley and the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Mr. Hext who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Morning at eight of the Clock in the Committee Chamber On Saturday the 4 th day of February Mr. John Shirley one of the Committees in the Bill for the better Execution of Judgment who were appointed on Wednesday the 25 th day of January foregoing shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and some their Amendments in the Bill and so delivered in the Bill The Bill for erecting and building of a Bridge over the River of Wye at Wilton upon Wye near the Town of Rosse in the County of Hereford was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships intituled An Act for establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of William Pope aforesaid to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts and another for the confirmation of the Jointure of the Lady Verney wife of Sir Edmund Verney Knight which Bill their Lordships have also passed with some Amendments The Bill for the more speedy payment of the Queens Majesties Debts and for the better explanation of the Act made in the 13. year of the Queen intituled An Act to make the Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels of Tellors Receivours c. lyable to the payment of their debts was read the third time and after very many Speeches and Arguments both with the Bill and against the Bill was
in the end passed upon the Question and upon the division of the House with the advantage of thirty three voices viz. with the Yea one hundred ninety five and with the No one hundred and twelve M r Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships intituled An Act against the deceitful Stretching and Taintering of Northern Cloaths and did shew that their Lordships have also passed the same Bill in the Upper House with some Amendments added by their Lordships to the same Bill and so did deliver the Bill to M r Speaker The said M r Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring from their Lordships a Bill lately passed in this House and sent up unto their Lordships intituled An Act for the reviving continuance explanation perfecting and repealing of divers Statutes and did shew that their Lordships have in like manner passed the same Bill with some Amendments and a Proviso and so delivered in the Bill and Proviso to M r Speaker On Monday the 6 th day of February two Bills had each of them one Reading of which the first being the Bill for reformation of retailing Brokers and Pawn-takers was read the first time M r Boyes one of the Committees in the two Bills the one against carrying of Corn out of the Realm and the other to restrain the lading of Corn in some Ports shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees with some Amendments in one of the same Bills and so delivered in the same Bills into this House M r Francis Bacon one of the Committees in the Bill lately passed in the Upper House by the Lords and sent down to this House against the decaying of Towns and Houses of Husbandry shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and their Amendments to the same Bill which Amendments being read to the House were very well liked of by the whole House Thomas Bashfield was present at the Bar and charged with a contempt against the priviledge of this House in disturbing by way of an Appearance of Robert Sherry a Member of this House returned a Burgess for the Town of Ludlow in the County of Salop and was for his said contempt then committed to the Serjeants Ward there to remain during the Pleasure of this House and was on the next day after discharged of his Imprisonment paying his Fees and taking the Oath of Supremacy Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by M r Comptroller and others of which the last was the Bill for the Conrfimation of the Joynture of Mary Lady Verney wife of Sir Edmund Verney Knight The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House for establishing of the Lands given by John Bedfords Will to the perpetual repair and amendments of the Highways at Aylesbury in the County of Bucks according to the said Will being three times read the same Amendments were assented unto and the Proviso likewise passed upon the question M r Doctor Carew and M r D r Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill lately passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships for the further continuance and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners made in the thirty fifth year of the Queens Majesties Reign that now is and did shew that their Lordships have in like Case passed the same Bill in the Upper House with some Amendments and so delivered in the said Bill to M r Speaker The Bill for the Amendments of the High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surry and Kent was read the third time and passed upon the question The Amendments of the Committees of this House in the Bill lately passed by the Lords against the decay of Towns and Houses of Husbandry and sent down by their Lordships into this House being three times read were assented unto by this House upon the question accordingly Whereupon the said Bill and Amendments being read for the third reading and put to the question for the passing the said Bill and Amendments in that form were passed by this House upon the same question M r Doctor Carew and M r Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords two Bills of which the first was the Bill for the draining and recovery of certain overflown Grounds in the County of Norfolk and delivered the same Bill to M r Speaker On Tuesday the 7 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William Pope to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his debts was read the second time and committed to Mr. Comptroller Mr. Lewkenor Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Oglethorpe Mr. Boyes with divers others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Court of Wards The Amendments and Proviso of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House intituled An Act for the reviving continuance explanation perf cting and repealing of divers Statutes being thrice read the Amendments were assented unto and the Proviso was passed upon the question The Bill lately passed in this House intituled An Act for the amendment of Highways in Sussex Surry and Kent The Bill for the establishing the Lands given by John Bedford's Will to the perpetual repair and amendments of the Highways at Aylesbury in the County of Buckingham with one other of no great moment were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor and others The Bill for the better measuring of seven Miles from the Town of Great-Yarmouth according to a Statute made in the 31 th Year of King Edward the Third was read the third time and dashed upon the Question by the division of the House with the difference of eighteen Voices viz. with the No a hundred and eight and with the Yea ninetv M r Serjeant Drew and M r Doctor Carew did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do desire a Conference of a convenient number of the Members of this House with twenty of their Lordships this Afternoon in the Chamber next the Upper House touching the Bill lately passed in this House Intituled An Act against the excess of Apparel Whereupon it was Ordered that the former Committees of this House in the same Bill who were appointed on Thursday the 19 th day of January foregoing shall attend their Lordships accordingly Post Meridiem The Bill for reformation of retailing Brokers and Pawn-Takers was read the second time and thereupon committed unto M r George Moore M r Hart M r Recorder of London M r Lewkenor M r Wiseman M r Ludlow Sir John Leviston M r Crompton M r Conisby M r Lidley M r Johnson and M r Doctor Parkins who were appointed to meet to Morrow
Committees upon the Bill for Musters and Souldiers who were appointed to meet this Afternoon on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant November foregoing have upon a Motion to the House appointed another meeting about the same upon Thursday Morning next being the 19 th day of this instant November before the House sit Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for establishing of the Remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Kettlebie Esq upon Francis Kettlebie was read the first time Upon reading whereof it was Ordered by the Lords that Andrew Kettlebie Esq and Jane his Wife whom the Bill concerneth should be heard in the House either by themselves or by any other person or persons sufficiently deputed and appointed by them in that behalf what they could answer and alledge concerning the same And the Gentleman-Usher was appointed to give them present notice of this Order A Motion was made again by some of the Lords touching William Hogan Prisoner in the Fleet that he might be sent for out of the said Prison and brought into the House before the Lords to the end he might make relation of his Cause that thereupon such Order might be speedily taken with him as should by the Court be found meet and agreeable to the priviledge of the said Court. Upon which Motion it was debated by what course the said Hogan should be brought out of the Fleet being then in Execution whether by Warrant to be directed from the Lords to the Lord Keeper requiring him to grant forth a Writ in her Majesties name for the bringing of the said Hagan from thence or by immediate direction and order from the House to the Gentleman-Usher or Serjeant at Arms without any such Writ Which being put to the question by the Lord Keeper it was resolved and Ordered by the general consent of the House that it should be done by immediate direction and Order from the House without any such Writ as aforesaid And accordingly Ordered that the said William Hogan should be sent for and brought before the Lords by the Gentleman-Usher into the said House of Parliament upon Thursday next being the 19 th day of this instant November by nine of the Clock in the Morning Vide touching this business on Monday the 23 th day of this instant November ensuing Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis viz. 19 diem Novembris On Thursday the 19 th day of November the Bill for Breed and encrease of Horses of Service within the Realm was read primâ vice Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was to avoid and prevent divers misdemeanors in lewd and idle persons And the third was for confirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of Letters Patents made by her Highness to others Touching which Bill see at large on Thursday the 17 th day of December following The Lord Mordant not able to attend for want of Health certified by the Lord Compton This day William Hogan was brought from the Fleet into the House before the Lords who having made as he was required to do relation of his Arrest and of the time and parties that Arrested him declaring that he was Arrested by the Under-Sheriff of the County of Surrey and others assisting him upon Saturday before the beginning of the Parliament which began on the Tuesday following and that it was known to the said Under-Sheriff that he was her Majesties Ordinary Servant and moreover that he thought Tolkerne was not privy to his Arrest at that time contrary to the priviledge of that Court Upon the offer and Petition of the said William Hogan himself to pay the principal Debt of fifty Pounds it was Resolved and Ordered by the Lords that the said William Hogan should enter into sufficient to abide the Order and Judgment of the Earl of Cumberland the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Zouch for such satisfaction to be made of the debt of fifty pounds any costs and charges as by the said Lords should be thought fit the Bond to be taken to the said Lords and thereupon be discharged out of Prison and out of Execution And likewise that the Warden of the Fleet should be free from any trouble damage or molestation for discharge of the said William Hogan It was likewise Ordered by the Court 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 before the Lords in the House on Saturday next being the 21 th day of this instant November by nine of the Clock in the Morning Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 23 th day of this instant November ensuing On Saturday the 21 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Assurance of Lands was read tertiâ vice Upon the reading of which said Bill sundry Objections were made against some points of the same by the Lord Bishop of London and divers others of the Lords insomuch that the House was divided in opinion 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 be rather reformed than by the question to put it to the hazard of being rejected By which occasion it was thought meet first to propound another question viz. whether the said Bill having been referr'd to Committees at the second reading and been by them returned with some Amendments and thereupon appointed to be engrossed may now after the engrossing 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 falling out to be equal upon the accompting of them by the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Grey appointed by the Lords for that purpose it was adjudged that the Voices of the negative part which were against the new 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 semper praesumitur 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 A Motion was made by the Lord Keeper and approved by the Lords that the antient course of the House may be observed hereafter in certifying the excuses of such Lords as should be absent from the House upon reasonable occasion which ought to be done by one of their 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 that they could take no exceptions at it Vide Dec. 7 th Monday postea Hodie introduction est breve Francisci Domini Norris qui praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissus est ad praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno On Monday the 23 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing the Bill for reuniting Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning was read tertiâ vice and sent down to the House of Commons by M r Doctor Stanhop and M r Hone. The Bill to avoid and prevent divers misdemeanors in lewd and idle persons was read secundâ vice Nota That there is no mention at all in the Original Journal-Book of the referring of this Bill unto Committees upon the second reading thereof nor yet that it was Ordered to be ingrossed By which it may seem that either the omission of it did happen by the negligence of Thomas Smith Esquire now Clerk of the Upper House who did forget to set down the referring of it to Committees if it were at all committed or else that it being not committed was engrossed of Course And it is the rather probable that this happened not by any omission of the said Clerk in respect that divers other Bills at this Parliament are set down in the Original Journal-Book of the said Upper House to have been read the second time without any further mention either of the Commitment or ingrossing as on Wednesday the 2 d day Friday the 4 th day Wednesday the 9 th day Saturday the 12 th day Monday the 14 th day and on Wednesday the 16 th day of December next ensuing The Bill for Confirmation of Grants made to the Queen and of Letters Patents made by her Highness to others was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and others who were appointed to meet at the great Council Chamber And the Bill was delivered to the said Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees The Bill for encrease and breed of Horses of service within this Realm was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward and others And the Bill was delivered unto him being the first of the Committees Vide November 26 th Thursday The meeting of the Committees upon the Bills concerning the suppressing of the multitude of Alehouses and for the avoiding of unnecessary delays of Executions upon Judgments in Debt who were appointed on Saturday the 14 th day of this instant November foregoing was upon a Motion of the Lord Treasurer appointed to be upon Thursday next at the little Chamber near the Parliament presence before the House sit for that the Committees could not conveniently meet at the times formerly appointed for the same The Under-Sheriff of the County of Surry that Arrested William Hogan was brought into the House to Answer for the same and by Order of the House committed to the Prison of the Fleet. Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 12 th day Saturday the 14 th day Monday the 16 th day and on Thursday the 19 th day of this instant November foregoing as also on Thursday the 26 th day of the same Month following On Tuesday the 24 th day of November Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the establishing of the remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Kettlebie was read secundâ vice and committed unto the Earl of Worcester the Lord Cobham the Lord Chandois and the Lord Howard of Walden And the Bill was delivered unto the said Lord Howard who with the rest was appointed to meet on Saturday next by two of the Clock in the Afternoon at the Chamber of Parliament Presence This day the Wife of Andrew Kettlebie made her appearance in the House in the behalf of her Husband and her Self excusing his not coming by reason of his great Age and Infirmities And withal prayed that their Councel Learned might be heard Whereupon it was Ordered that both their Councel and the Councel of Francis Kettlebie should be heard in the House upon Thursday next being the 26 th of this instant November in the Morning On Thursday the 26 th day of November to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing one Bill being for the more peaceable Government of the parts of Cumberland Northumberland Westmerland and the Bishoprick of Durham was read the second time and committed But in respect that the manner of committing Bills during all this Parliament was the same and that the Judges and her Majesties Learned Councel were always appointed to attend the Lords Committees and never made Joint-Committees with them as is at large observed in the next precedent Parliament therefore the names of the said Committees are for the most part omitted It was Ordered by the House upon the humble Petition of William Hone Under-Sheriff of the County of Surrey that he should be enlarged and set at liberty out of the Prison of the Fleet whither he was lately committed for Arresting William Hogan her Majesties Servant Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 23 th day of this instant November foregoing The Councel of Andrew Kettlebie Esq and Francis Kettlebie were heard in the House And thereupon the Committees of the said Bill were appointed to meet upon Saturday next by two of the Clock in the Afternoon at the Chamber of Parliament Presence And the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Grey and the Lord Windsor were added unto the said Committees And the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas to attend with the others formerly appointed And the Bill was delivered to the Lord Howard of Walden Nota That here the Bill was delivered to the Lord Howard of Walden being the puisne Baron of the Committees and on Monday the 23 th day of this instant November foregoing two several Bills being committed the one of them was delivered to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other to the Earl of Nottingham who were each of them the first or chief of either of the said Committees By which it is plain that as well in the Upper House as in the House of Commons after any Bill is committed upon the second reading it may be delivered indifferently to any of the said Committees Vide also concerning this matter on Tuesday Dec. 8 th ensuing And so the Parliament continued until Tuesday the first day of December On which day two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for confirmation of all Leases made and to be made according to the true intent of the last Will and Testament of George Lord Cobham Deceased was read primâ vice Six Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Sir William
Two Committees for two several Bills made one Committee for both Bills p. 607 Common Prayer vide Uniformity Conference to be had before a Bill passed either House be rejected by the other p. 272 273. 388. Vide the Table to the Journal of the House of Commons Contribution of two shillings in the pound made by the Lords towards the Queens extraordinary charge in defence of the Realm p. 387. Contribution made by them for relief of such poor Souldiers as went begging in the Streets of London p. 462. An Order that such Lords as were absent the whole Session should pay double to what others did who constantly attended the service of the House and those that came but seldom to the House a third part more p. 463 464 Convocation-days the House of Lords either sit not or do little business on them p. 67 Crown a Bill restoring to it the ancient jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual c. p. 28 D. ABill for Denization of Peregrine Berty and Katharine Dutchess of Suffolk his Wife p. 145. of William Watson p. 148 Dissolve vide Commissions Doctors of the Civil Law made Joint-Committees with the Lords p. 145 E. EGerton Sir Thomas made Lord Keeper 38 Eliz. p. 522. His Speech to the Parliament 39 and 40 Eliz. p. 524. Q. Elizabeth enter'd on the Government Nov. 17. ann Dom. 1558. p. 1. and within nine weeks summons a Parliament viz. Jan 23. ibid. A Bill in that Parliament to make her inherit able to the late Q. Anne her Mother p. 19. she is averse from declaring a Successor p. 107. 127 128. Her sharp Speech to the Parliament in ann 8 and 9. for their Petition to that purpose p. 116. She remitteth the third payment of a Subsidy to take the Parliament off from urging her to declare a Successor p. 131. Her Pious Speech at the end of the Session 27. of her Reign p. 328. In the Parliament 28 and 29 of her Reign called upon the discovery of Babingtons conspiracy she appeared not in person but gave Commission to three Lords to supply her place with the title of Lords Lieutenants p. 377 378. Both Houses petition her to execute the sentence upon Mary Queen of Scots with her Answer thereto p. 380 381 382. Her Speech at the end of the Parliament in 35 of her Reign p. 466. Her great success against the Spaniard set forth in a Speech by the Lord Keeper p. 599. Jewels given to her Physicians to poyson her p. 599 G. GArgrave Sir Thomas chosen Speaker to the Commons in the Parliament holden 1 Eliz. p. 15. and 40. The manner of his disabling himself to the House first and then to the Queen ibid. His Petitions of course on behalf of the House of Commons p. 16. His Speech at the conclusion of the Session p. 31 Gavelkind what and in what places it obtaineth p. 272. A Bill to enable the owners of Gavelkind Lands in the County of Kent to alter the said Custom p. 533 Gentleman-Usher of the House claims right to bring such persons before the Upper House as are accused of breach of priviledge and sayes it does not belong to the Serjeant at Arms. p. 603. He is sent for an ordinary servant of the Queens committed to the Fleet for debt upon Execution and for him that arrested him p. 605. 607. This not to injure the Serjeant at Arms in his pretensions to that office p. 607 Grace Vide Bills and Acts. H. HAtton Sir Christopher made Chancellor 29 Eliz. upon the death of Sir Thomas Bromley p. 419 Herald at Arms in ordinary to the Queen not to have priviledge from Arrest on account of the Session of Parliament p. 608. 611 Hexamshire a Bill to annex it to the County of Northumberland and its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction to the Bishoprick of Durham 8 9 Eliz. p. 103. but not passed into an Act till 14 Eliz. p. 200 Horses a Bill against conveying them into Scotland 1 Eliz. being a revival of an Act made 23 H. 8. p. 21 22 Lord Hunsdon's place in Parliament between the Lord Chandois and the Lord S t John of Bletso p. 530. 543 I. INgrossing of a Bill what p. 18. Vide Bills Injunctions to stop proceeding at Law in Parliament time p. 21 Judges who are but assistants to the Upper House made Joint Committees with the Lords p. 67. 71. 99. and so in every Parliament till 39 40 Eliz. p. 142. 527. but only to consider of some ordinary Bill and which concerned matter of Law for they were never of such Committees as were to have Conference with the Commons p. 423. They have leave from the Lord Chancellor or Keeper to sit covered in the House but are always uncovered at a Committee p. 527 K. KEeper vide Chancellor Kentish-Street in Southwark a Bill for the paving of it 8 and 9 Eliz. p. 112 L. THE River Lee a Bill to bring it to the North-side of London 13 Eliz. p. 150 Low-Country Wars a voluntary contribution of both Houses towards the maintaining of them p. 387 M. MArry see the word in the Table to the Journal of the House of Commons the Queen Petition'd by the House of Lords to marry with her Answer p. 105. 107. The advice and consent of the Parliament often required for the marrying of the Kings of England p. 117 119. Earl Marshal his place in Parliament is betwixt the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward p. 535 Queen Mary died Nov. 17. 1558. in the sixth year of her Reign p. 1 Mary Queen of Scots Vide the Table to the Commons Journal Mason Anthony Esq Clerk of the Upper House 13 Eliz. p. 137. He is succeeded by Thomas Smith Esquire in the Parliament 39 40 Eliz. p. 522 Melcomb Regis Vide Weymouth Messages sent from the House of Commons to the Upper House are received by the Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords at the Bar whither they are to go and meet those that come from the Commons p. 539 540 Mises not to be paid by the Shires of Wales and County Palatine of Chester when Subsidies are paid nor the contrary p. 20 Monopolies Petition'd against in 39 40 Eliz. which the Queen judges an invasion of her Prerogative ibid. N. A Bill of Naturalization of Gerson Wroth a German p. 22. of William Sidney and his Wife and of Sir John Wingfield and his Lady p. 462. of Justice Dormer and George Sheppy p. 464. of Samuel Saltingstal p. 488 Newgate the Keeper of it committed to the Fleet for not obeying an Order of the Lords for the bringing of one that was Prisoner there upon Execution and was Servant to a Peer p. 608 Duke of Norfolk a Bill for the confirmation of his marriage with the Lady Margaret his Wife 1 Eliz p. 22. and for the assurance of certain Lands for her Jointure p. 25 Earl of Nottingham his place in Parliament betwixt the Earl of Lincoln and Lord Viscount Bindon p. 543 O. OBjections against a
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them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the County Palatine of Durham and the Isle of Ely was upon the second reading committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Earl of Northumberland the Bishop of London and others Dominus Thesaurarius in absentia Domini Custodis magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox hora nona Nota That there appeareth no Commission or other Authority in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House by which the Lord Treasurer supplied the Lord Keepers place but most probable it is that either the Commission it self is negligently omitted by Anthony Mason Esquire at this time Clerk of the same House or that the Lord Treasurer did continue it only upon her Majesties verbal Authority and Command as it is very likely the Lord Chief Justice did supply the Lord Keeper's place on Thursday the 5 th day of June in the first Session of this very Parliament in Anno 14 Reginae Eliz. And it is certain that Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal growing at this time after which he did not long live both Aged and Sickly gave occasion to her Majesty by reason of his weakness to Authorize others more frequently to supply his place than it is otherwise likely she would have done Vide Consimil Mar. 4. in An. 1 Eliz. On Monday the 5 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching the Lord Viscount Bindou and Henry Howard his Son was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was for the assurance of certain Lands to Sir John Rivers Knight and another for the perpetual maintenance of Rochester-Bridge Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 6 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for setting the poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness was read the second time but no mention made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the House of Commons The Bill for the true Tanning and Currying of Leather was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching Viscount Bindon and Henry Howard his Son was read tertiâ vice Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was for the repairing of Chepstow-Bridge and the third was the Bill for Reformation of the Jeofails Two Bills finally had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill whereby certain Authority was given to the Justices of the Queens Majesties Parks Forests and Chases was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem prox hora nona On Wednesday the 7 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the restitution in Blood of John Lord Stourton his Brother and Sisters was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by D r Yale and D r Barkley Four other Bills also had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill whereby certain Authority was given to the Justices of the Queens Parks Forests and Chases was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Yale and M r Powle Clerk of the Crown Five Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of the which one was for the Confirmation of Letters Patents with certain Amendments and another for avoiding of sraudulent Gifts by the late Rebels in the North. The Bill lastly for the Trial of Nisi prius in the County of Middlesex was read secunda vice but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the House of Commons Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ nonâ On Thursday the 8 th day of March Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for maintenance of the Colleges in the Universities of Winchester and Eaton and the second against buying and selling of Rooms and Places in Colleges and Schools were each of them read primâ vice Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for setting the poor on work and for the avoiding of Idleness was read tertia vice conclusa with a Proviso added by the Lords and certain Amendments and sent to the House of Commons by D r Vaughan and D r Yale Dominus Thesaurarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post meridiem About which hour the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling Ten Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the Toleration of certain Cloths in Com. Wilts Somers and Dors. the fifth for Reformation of Disorders in common Informers the sixth for the payment of Tythes in the Town of Reading in like sort as it is in the City of London the seventh touching Benefices Impropriate the eighth for reformation of Abuses in Goldsmiths and the last being the Bill for the reformation of Jeofailes were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed because they had been formerly sent from the House of Commons Four Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was for the making of certain Denizens and another for avoiding fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances made by the late Rebels in the North. On Friday the 9 th of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fifth being the Bill for the repairing and amending of Highways and Bridges near unto Oxford and the sixth and last being the Bill that the Plaintiff shall be sworn upon his Bill as the Defendant is sworn upon his Answer was read secundâ vice but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been sent from the House of Commons Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Hospital at Leicester was returned conclusa Four Bills of no great moment lastly had each of them