Commonwealth 9. And lastly ever to be held an Infamous person III. And in the Parliament 19 Jacobi Sir John Bennet Knight one of the Members of the House having been accused for Corruption in receiving divers Bribes in the execution of his judicial place of Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury All which was proved to the full satisfaction of the House Ordered by the Commons House of Parliament 1. That a Warrant should issue under Mr. Speakers hand directed to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex for the safe keeping of the said Sir John Bennet until they shall receive other directions from the Lords to whom the Commons had resolved to prefer an Impeachment against him 2. That he be put out and no longer to continue a Member thereof 3. That a Warrant be made for a Writ for a new choice for the Vniversity of Oxford IV. In the same Parliament the Commons House of Parliament for that Sir Robert Floyd had been a projector of a Patent for a Monopoly being a general grievance both in the original creation and in the execution Resolved una voce That the said Sir Robert Floyd was a person unworthy to continue a Member of this House and adjudged him presently to be put out V. Anno 3 Car. 1. Mr. John Barbour a Lawyer and Recorder of the City of Wells for subscribing a Warrant for the quartering of Souldiers though he pleaded fear yet because he would rather not lose his Place than do Justice he was thought unfit to make Laws that violates the Laws his fault being aggravated by his profession he had done well to have remembred 11 R. 2. when Belknap amongst other Judges gave his Opinion for fear unwilling to lose his Cushion when he came home he could not sleep but said I deserve three H. H. H. a Hurdle a Halter and a Hangman 1 H. 4. a Law was made that fear much less Ambition or Avarice should be no good Plea there being no hope of a Coward This may serve as an Almanack for the Meridian of England This Example will prove more and try more than 20 points of Doctrine it will strike fear circumspecta agatis Mr. Barbour was called in to answer for himself and after withdrew and Ordered 1. That Mr. Barbour be suspended the House and sequestred till the pleasure of the House be known 2. That a Committee examine the Cause and that no motion be made till that be done 3. And the Order was signified to Mr. Barbour by the Serjeant §3 Some Presidents for punishing persons that were no Members of the House for contempts à nd misdemeanors I. ANno 4 E. 6. Criketost for confederating in the escape of one Floud was committed to the Tower and afterwards discharged paying his Fees II. Complaint was made by Sir Herbert Croft of Bryan Tash a Yeoman of his Majesties Guard for keeping out of the doors of the Vpper House and Sir Herbert himself and some others of the Commons offering to come in he repulsed them and shut the door upon them with these uncivil and contemptible terms Goodman Burgess you come not here The Question moved in this was that for so great contempt whether the House of it self should proceed to punish or Address themselves to the proper Officcr the Lord Chamberlain Captain of the Guard c. And so was left for this day A President of the like contempt by a Gentleman-Usher remembred to have been questioned in this House in a Parliament in her Majesties time This day the contempt of the Yeoman of the Guard was again remembred and propounded as meet to be left to the examination and report of the Committee for Returns and Priviledges But herein an Honourable person and a special Member of the House interposed his advice that there might be some moderate course taken with respect to his Majesties Service and to the eminent and honourable Officers whom it might concern which induced the House thus far to be pleased that the Offender the next day should appear and answer his contempt at the Bar with caution and on purpose which the House did then utter that if he seemed to understand his own offence and be sorry for it and would submit himself to the pleasure and mercy of the House praying pardon and favour they would remit and discharge him and the Serjeant was commanded to attend the said Order for his appearance Bryan Tash a Yeoman of the Guard for his contempt to the House being in the custody of the Serjeant and brought to the Bar upon his submission and confession of his fault Mr. Speaker pronounced his pardon and dismission paying the ordinary Fees to the Clerk and Serjeant and in the name of the House gave him advice and warning for his better care and carriage hereafter upon any the like occasions in the course of his Service and Attendance III. Anno 18 Jac. The Commons House of Parliament adjudged Sir Francis Mitchell a Lawyer to be prisoner in the Tower for his many misdemeanors in and about the procuring of a Patent concerning the Forfeitures of Recognizances and of Alehouse-keepers and further ordered that a Serjeant at Arms should forthwith take him into his custody and that at two of the clock that Afternoon should carry him on foot through London-streets unto the Tower there to be delivered to the Lieutenant After which the Commons impeached him before the Lords who having examined his arbitrary acts great crimes and intollerable villanies by Imprisonments and the ruine of many Families all proved as may be seen in the Lords Journal The Lords agreed of the Sentence of Sir Francis Mitchell sent a Message unto the House of Commons that the Lords have proceeded against Sir Francis Mitchell upon the complaint of the Commons and they have found him guilty of many exerbitant offences and are ready to give Judgment against him if they with their Speaker will come to demand it Answered They will come accordingly with all convenient speed In the mean time the Lords put on their Robes The Commons being come and the Speaker at the Bar after low obeysance he said There was heretofore related unto your Lordships by the House of Commons a complaint of many griivances against Sir Giles Mompesson and Sir Francis Mitchell for many offences committed by them committed against the King and the Commonwealth your Lordships have proceeded with Mompesson and given Judgment also against him understanding you are ready to pronounce Judgment also against the said Sir Francis Mitchell I the Speaker in the name of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament do demand and pray that Judgment be given against him the said Sir Francis Mitchell according to his demerits The Lord Chief Justice pronounced the Judgment in haec verba Mr. Speaker the Lords Spiritual and Temporal have taken into due consideration the great care and
it for that they being but stipendary men were loth to do it for fear belike to lose their Stipends Whereupon his Lordship sent for them by an Officer and willed them to omit those Expositions in the Forenoon and yet his Lordship hath since taken order for the erecting of three Sermons in the most remote Places of the City from the Cathedral Church and his Lordship hath erected many Lectures in several Places in the Countrey 2. As touching the Images in the Church what was done is done without his knowledge It is meant by St. Peter's Church that his Lordship never saw that Church till one Evening as he came by and being often before informed of much Cost done upon that Church he went in and kneeled down to his Prayers as his use is and when he rose up perceiving that they had bestowed very great Cost and not seeing or knowing at all of any Image set up there he said God's Blessing on their hearts that had bestowed so much Cost on God's House 3. As touching Prayer to the East he never enjoyned it nor heard of it till now 4. For the 4th part of his Complaint he perceiveth That he hath been sifted for the whole course of his Life That this Peck was sent to his Lordship by the Justices of the Peace for an Assembly late at night in his House his Catechizing being but a colour to draw them thither That this Peck had infected the Parish with strange Opinions as not to kneel when they came to Church that the Name of Jesus is no more than a common Name and that it is Superstition to bow down at the Name of Jesus His Lordship further affirmed That this Peck had been formerly convicted for non-Conformity Annis 1615 1617. and for Symony and Conventicles in his Neighbour's house as appears by the Acts of the Register Fatetur And that Anno 1622. he was taken in his House with 22 of his Neighbours at a Conventicle That he was now bound over by a Justice and so brought to his Lordship and his Sentence against Peck was only That he should confess his Fault The others mentioned in this part of the Charge were punished for their Opinions also making no difference between an Ale-house and the Church till the Preacher be in the Pulpit His Lordship said He much confessed his fault that in the Penance he enjoyned them he caused them to confess their Errors omitting their resort to Conventicles which he did at their own earnest suit 5. His Lordship absolutely denied That he improved any Fees and affirmed he hath not any of those Fees that are complained of only the Fee for Institution which he took as his Predecessors did if therein he hath committed any Error Erravimus cum Patribus and denied that he ever had seen that Table of Fees which is spoken of by the Commons 6. His Lordship affirmed That he had registred all the Institutions This was the Effect of the Lord Bishop's Answer which being ended The Prince his Highness told his Lordship That he had not answered touching the Paraphrase of the Catechism taken away by him Whereupon his Lordship replied That the Preachers used to choose a Text of the Creed c. and to ask the Child some one Question and then to debate very long upon it and never descend to the capacity of the Child That his Lordship did not forbid the Explanation but willed that it might be Catechistically Thus ended the Lord Bishop of Norwich his Answer to the said Complaint It is this day Ordered that in respect of the Streightness of time that the Complaint of the Commons against the Lord Bishop of Norwich shall be referred unto the High Commission to be Exammined by them and they to make Report thereof to the House And then the House will judge thereof XIII Timothy Pinckney who had Petitioned the Lords 21 Jac. to be relieved for a Debt owing to him and others from Sir John Kineday and that Barne Elmes should be Sold for that purpose which the Lords then ordered And appointed a Commission to Issue out of Chancery directed to certain Judges to examine the pretences of the Creditors and see them satisfied he Complains now of the Bishop of Lincoln late Lord Keeper for refusing to grant out such a Commission and slighting the Order The Committee had taken the Depositions of three Persons who had been first Sworn in the House The Lords took into consideration this contempt of their Order heard the Depositions read and appointed Sir Charles Caesar and Sir Robert Rich to go and Examine one Kelwood who was also present when the said Lord Keeper refused to obey the said Order and Minister an Oath unto him to tell what he knows of any notice given to the Lord Keeper of the said Order and who was present March the Second Upon Sir Charles Caesar and Sir Robert Rich their Report of their Examination of George Kellwood touching the Bishop of Lincoln not obeying the Order in the business of Pinckney the Lords Order that the Deposition after they had heard it read and the Depositions of the other three Persons formerly taken to be sent to the Bishop of Lincoln who was to return an Answer under his hand that day following March the 16 th The Bishop of Lincoln sent his Answer to Pinckney's Complaint according to the order of March the 2 d. in Writing to this essect First in general denyed he should have Spoken any thing in contempt of their Lord ships Order in Parliament 21 Jac. having always in his heart born such a reverence to them for non Arbitramur quenquam dicere quod non sentiat and for the particulars as he remembers it being two years since that there had been a mistake in the Clerks entering it according to the sence of the House and Pinckney had then concealed from their Lord-ships a former Refference by the Parliament and the King himself to the Lord Keeper the Master of the Rolls and some Judges who had made a Decree in it And admit all were true that is complained yet he had ommitted the time of the Complaint of a verbal contempt near two years being past and two sittings of Parliament wherein he had been silent Verbal Injuries according to the Civil Law must be complained of within the year aliter remissae censentur Contempts must be pressed the next Term or sitting of the Court against which they are committed Scandalous words against the King must be Complained of within three Months Words of High Treason are by the Laws confined to be Complained of within 6 Months All Informations against any Penal Law made or to be made must come within the compass of one year unless it be Ex parte Regis who hath a year longer And it is impossible for any Man to give an Account of every phrase he shall use Twenty Months after the words
discharging of a Priest Newton killed one he compounded for 100 l. One Allenson a Batchellor of Divinity made one Hanton his Executor within 10 days he granted Sequestration of the Testator's Goods Dr. Cradock sent them that took away his Will opened his Desk and took 6 or 7 Bags and having threatned them the Doctor made 4 Sequestrators the Bishop saith he would seize the Goods of Gilbert Hanton to the use of the Bishop of Durham he came as Justice of Peace and committed Hanton to the Constable to be forth-coming the Doctor broke open another Desk and took 30 s. in money he made his Warrant and sent Hanton to the Gaol he laid a Fine upon him of 50 l. John Widowes came to Hanton and mediateth to the Doctor for his Son's Imprisonment he would give his Son 22 l. which he doth the Sessions indicted him by the Oath of D. Soame because they thought the Fine too unreasonable but the Doctor said that the Lord of Durham would be angry with him One Clement gave the Doctor 50 l. and a Mare to have an Administration granted As he was a Commissioner he took of one Conyers 20 l. of another 59 l. and of two others 10 l. a piece for Adultery of another 8 l. As a Justice of Peace for not sending one to the Gaol 100 l. For Recusancy of one Tempest for a Murther 100 l. For Adultery before the Party could free himself 20 l. Mr. Alford The Oath Ex Officio in this manner one having no Sermon went to another and he made him pay 23 s. for the Oath and for the same offence and he going to another Parish imprisoned him Sir Edward Cook No man speaks against the Jurisdiction but the corruption of Spiritual Courts Qui tollit abusum confirmat usum For the Oath Ex Officio there is an Act of Parliament that they may give it and Lay-men may give it in some cases not in all And herein the ancient Common Law agreeth with the Canon Law in the 32 vel 31 Ed. 3. there was a complaint against Fees 2 H. 4. there was a Law to reduce them to their ancient Fees for now they exceeded For Cardinal Wolsey of his devotion and charity took for probate of my Lord Compton's Will 100 marks hence came the Law of 21 H. 8. We have good Laws but they are like Swords shut up in their sheaths Sir Edward Bonstead he hath a Petition of the Ministers of Northamptonshire the people have been ready to rise against the abuses in the Ecclesiastical Courts Mr. Brook That the Convocation is not a part of the Higher House neither the Bishops any part of the Higher House but are there as they have Temporal Baronies Mr. P ym I would not have us send up to the Lords yet till we have examined them for their guiltiness must be stamped here before they go up to the Lords Mr. Noy 8 H. 6. the Clergy and Bishops are not to be arrested going to the Convocation-house we cannot judge them but complain of them Mr. Sherwin It is a complaint and we must examine him so that our complaint be certain and not without great deliberation handled that it may not be otherwise proved Sir Nathaniel Rich. That if the Lords will not punish those that we complain of we will enter into Judgment our selves which is our ancient course The House would not send for the accused Doctors because they were of the Convocation 1. To avoid offence to them of that Assembly 2. Because of the Stat. of 8 H. 6. which is thus Forasmuch as the Prelates and Clergy of the Realm of England called to the Convocation and their Servants and Familiars that come with them to such Convocation often times and commonly be arrested molested and inquieted our said Soveraign Lord the King willing graciously in this behalf to provide for the security and quietness of the said Prelates and Clergy at the supplication of the same Prelates and Clergy and of the assent of Great men and Commons aforesaid hath ordained and statuted that all the Clergy from henceforth to be called to the Convocation by the Kings Writ and their Servants and Familiars shall for ever hereafter fully use and enjoy such liberty or defence in coming tarrying and going as the Great men and Commonalty of the Realm of England called or to be called to the Kings Parliament do enjoy and were wont to enjoy or in time to come ought to enjoy VI. The Commons House of Parliament in Confirmation of a former Declaration therein made concerning the stay of all Suits Payments and other Proceedings grounded upon any Patent or Commission condemned in the said House as a general Grievance or Inconvenience to the Subject until further Order and Direction given therein hath this day again upon the Question Resolved it to be fit that none of the Patents Commissions or other things condemned in this House for general Grievances or Inconveniences to the Subject shall be put in execution until the next access to Parliament VII It is thought fit by the Commons House of Parliament that all Suits Payments and other Proceedings grounded upon any Patent or Commission condemned in the said House as a general Grievance or Inconvenience to the Subject should stay till further Order and Direction to be given therein VIII It is this day Ordered by the Commons House of Parliament that the Serjeant at Arms attending this House shall attach the Body of John Churchill one of the Deputy-Registers of the Chancery and him shall take into his custody and bring him to this House upon Monday morning next at 8 of the Clock and the said Serjeant is in the mean time to keep him so as none be suffered to speak with him but in the hearing of the Serjeant IX To the Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons in this present Parliament Assembled The humble Petition of the Mayor Bayliffs and Burgesses of the Town of Northampton THat whereas your Petitioners have been and still are every way conformable to the Kings Majesties Laws Ecclesiastical yet have they for these many years been subject to the great grievances of John Lamb Doctor of the Laws Chancellor to the Bishop of Peterborough who not only scandalizeth the Town in general as factious rebellious and refractory to his Majesties Laws but also countenanceth the lewdest fellows in the Town in their opposing of the Governours and Government and by himself and his Surrogates Registers Proctors and Apparitors and others whom he useth as Spies up and down the Town and Country citeth men and women to his Courts upon small or no just occasion but only to enrich himself and his Followers keeping two Courts every fortnight for the most part and carrying them away from the usual place where they were wont to be kept as being most convenient unto other small Towns far remote so that his Majesties
deos ignoro caeteros In Praef. ad Covarru opera Nota. Dr. Sibthorp The Speaker's Order upon the Petition Lamb Doctor in the Civil Law Journ Dom. Com. 21 Jac. 10 Martii The Case of Mr. Steward a Scotchman elected to be a Member of Parliament but rejected because a Denizen Veneris 28 Maii. Journ Dom. Com. 21 22 Jac Regis Veneris 7 Aprilis The Case of the Lady Darcy against the Bishop of Lincoln Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England The Lady and another were Grantees of an Heir by the Court of Wards Then presented a Clerk to the Bishop of Lincoln but refused who presented another The Lady sues for a Writ of Quare impedit The Cursitor denies it by Order of the Bishop being Lord Keeper Whereupon she complains to the Commons who refer it to a Committee Debates in the Committee Proposals by D. Grant whom the Bishop and Lord Keeper had presented The Lord Keeper's Answer and Excuse The Lady will stand and fall by Judgement of the House Considerations in the Committee Who delivered no Opinion leaving all to the House Debates in the House by several Members thereof Nota. The Debate goes off Journ Dom. Com. 21 22. Jac. Regis Veneris 7 Maii 1624. The Case of the Bishop of Norwich impeached by the Commons The first head of his Charge The second head * Vide Rot. Parl. 17 E. 3. n. 59 60 Vide Pult. Stat. 35 E. 1. fo 92. Fox vol. 1. f. 501 Rot Par. 21 E. 3 n. 1. 63. The Stat. of Provisors 25 E. 3. Rast. f. 98 Rot. Par. 38 E. 3 Rot. Par. 47 E. 3 n. 30. Rot. Parl. 3. R. 2. n. 37. Rast. Stat. 16. R. 2. cap. 5. Item The King at the prayers of the Commons shewing to him by Petition how that Priests become very scant after the Pestilence to the great grievance and oppression of the People hath spoken to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other Bishops being in the arliament to set thereupon a Covenable remedy which Archbishops and Bishops at the motion of the King and of the great men said in the same Parliament that they have thereupon ordained in certain that is to say That the pain of Parish-Priests by any manner of colour receiving above 6 Marks and other yearly singing and not intending the Cure of Sauls taking above 5 Marks without the Bishop's dispensation and suspension of their Office if they within the Month make not restitution to the use of the Church in which they sing of that that they have above received And the pain of People of holy Church giving above 6 Marks or 5 Marks to Parish-Priests or other yearly singing as afore is said is to pay the double of that that they do excessively pay to be converted to the use of Alms at the Arbitrement of the Diocesan of the Place and all manner of Priests intending their proper Service as yearly singing shall serve the Parishes and be attending to the Cure of Souls as he by the Ordinaries of the Place or by them to whom he attaineth shall be required upon pain of suspension of their Office which they shall incur upon the deed if they within the 20 days after that they shall be required be not obedient to such requests And that no Priest passing from one Diocess to another shall be received there to sing Divine Service unless he shew to the Diocesan of the Place Letters commendatory of the Bishop in whose Diocess he last before dwelled Wherefore the King by the Assent of the Great Men and Commons hath ordained That if any secular man of the Realm pay any more than Five Marks to any Priest yearly in Money or in other things to the Value or if he pay to such Priest retained to abide at his Table above 2 Marks for his Gown and his other Necessaries his Table accounted to 40 s. and thereof be attained he shall pay to the King fully as much as he paid to the said Priest Rast. Stat. de Anno 36 E. 3. fol. 118. cap. 8. The 3d. head The 4th head Die Sabbathi viz. 8 die Maii 1624. Jour Dom. Proc. Message from the Lower House by Sir Coke and others Die Mercurii 19 Maii. The Lords appoint a day for Conference with the Commons The Archbishop of Canterbury reports the heads of the Conference Authorities for the Power and Right of the Commons to meddle in this Cause Their Charge against the Bishop under six Heads Preachers Images Prayer towards the East Catechizing and singing Psalms Nota. Extortion Institutions not entred The 1st head concerning Preachers The 2d head touching Images The 3d. head concerning Prayer towards the East The 4th head touching Catechizing and singing Psalms The 5th head touching Extortion The 6th head touching non-Registring of Institutions The Conclusion of the Commons The Bishop stood up and Answered the Charge of the Commons His Introduction His Lordships answer to the first head Preachers His answer to the second head Images His answer to third head Prayer towards the East His Answer to the 4th head Catechizing and singing Psalms His Answer to the 5th head Extortion His Answer to the 6th head non-Registring Institutions The Conclusion of his Answer The Lords for want of time refer the Commons Complaint to the High-Commission Court to examine And after report to the House Which will then judge thereof Journ Dom. Proc. 1 2 Car. 1. 10 Mart. The Proceedings of the Lords against the Bishop of Lincoln late Lord Keeper for refusing to obey their Order Sir Ch. Caesar and Sir Robert Rich report the Examination of Kellwood The Lords order that the Bishop shall answer under his Hand The Bishop sends his Answer The Bishop's Answer referred to a Committee 17 Martii The Committee report And give their opinion that the Bishop ought to acknowledge his error and offence to be forry and ask pardon And so ordered by the House Die Jovis 23 Martii The Bishop pursuant to all which obeys Nota. His Contempt in a former Parliament censured in this Journ Dom. Proc. 3 Car. 1. Die Martis 27 Maii. The Case of Ensign Reynde for Misdemeanour and Contempt against the Parliament and the Ld. Say Die Veneris 30 Maii The Serjeant at Arms ordered to take him Die Martis 30 Junii Witnesses sworn against Reynde Who prove the insolent and opprobrious Speeches spoken by Reynde Reynde hides his Head The Duke of Buckingham promises he will cause him to be sent for Die Mercurii 4 Junii The Captain affirmed he had not seen Reynde Is commanded to bring him to the House when he finds him Or inform the House Die Lunae 9 Junii The Lords proceed to censure Reynde But the Duke inform'd the House he was found Journ Dom. Proc. die Mercurii 11 Junii The Duke excuseth himself because Reynde shifts his Lodging Die Jovis 12 Junii 1628. The Lords give Sentence against Reynde The Sentence Never to bear Arms. Imprisonment during pleasure To stand under the Pillory in
our most Christian King in His blessed and famous Purposes and Proceedings to the establishing both of true Christian Religion in this His Church of England and Ireland and of a Christian Policy in the civil State of the same c. and after they granted the Subsidies It is far from my thoughts to delight in raking into the misfortunes of any much less of great men but in all Ages it hath been allowed to publish the Memoirs of ill men to the intent to deter Posterity from acting and committing such Crimes and Offences which we find were severely punished both by God and Men. And whoever will take the pains to run over the ancient Historians and Records of the Kingdom will find that the Troubles in Richard the 1st's time the Barons Wars the Confusions in E. 2 d's time the woful Distractions in the Reign of R. 2. and H. 6. had their source and rise from one grand Cause the extravigant and insufferable Dominion and Power of Minions or Favourites with their Partisans which K. James rightly calls Pests and Vipers of a Common-wealth who notwithstanding their spetious glosses and pretences of Loyalty to the Crown rather then suffer themselves to be questioned and punished by Law for their Arbitrary and Illegal Acts Resolved to run the hazard of and see the ruine and destruction both of Prince and People My Lord Bacon after he was Sentenced in Parliament meeting with Sir Lionel Cranfield after Earl of Middlesex whom King James had then newly made Lord Treasurer My Lord Bacon having first congratulated his advancement to so Eminent a Place of Honour and Trust told him between jest and earnest That he would recommend to his Lordship and in him to all other great Officers of the Crown one considerable Rule to be carefully observed which was to Remember A Parliament will come I do not believe that his Lordship had the Spirit of Divination But certain it is that two years after in the Parliament 21. and 22. of that King the Commons Impeached the Earl for what and what the Judgement was thereupon hear the Record Messuage sent to the Commons by Mr. Serjeant Crew and Mr. Attorney General viz. That the Lords are now ready to give Judgment against the Lord Treasurer if they with their Speaker will come and demand the same Answered They will attend presently The Lords being all in their Robes the Lord Treasurer was brought to the Bar by the Gentleman Usher and the Serjeant at Arms his Lordship made low obeysance and kneeled until the Lord Keeper willed him to stand up The Commons with their Speaker came and the Serjeant attendant on the Speaker presently put down his Mace The Speaker in their Name to this Effect viz. The Knights Citizens and Burgesses in this Parliament assembled heretofore transmitted unto Your Lordships several Offences against the Right Honourable Lionel Earl of Middlesex Lord High Treasurer of England for Bribery Extortion Oppressions and other grievous Misdemeanours committed by his Lordship And now the Commons by me their Speaker demand Judgment against him for the same The Lord Keeper Answered The High-Court of Parliament doth adjudge 1. That Lionel Earl of Middlesex now Lord Treasurer of England shall lose all his Offices which he holds in this Kingdom and shall be made for ever uncapable of any Office Place or Imployment in the State and Commonwealth 2. And that he shall be Imprisoned in the Tower of London during the Kings pleasure 3. And that he shall pay unto our Sovereign Lord the King the Fine of 50000 l. 4. And that he shall never sit in Parliament more 5. And that he shall never come within the Verge of the Court. Ordered That the Kings Councel draw a Bill and present the same to the House to make the Lands of the Earl of Middlesex liable unto his Debts unto the Fine to the King unto Accompts to the King hereafter and to Restitution to such whom he had wronged as shall be allowed of by the House So that the familiar saying of my Lord Coke is very remarkable That no Subject though never so Potent and Subtile ever confronted or justled with the Law of England but the same Law in the end infallibly broke his Neck THE CASE OF George Ferrers Esq IN the Lent Season whilst the Parliament yet continued one George Ferrers Gent. Servant to the King being elect a Burgess for the Town of Plimouth in the County of Devon in going to the Parliament-house was Arrested in London by a Process out of the Kings-Bench at the Suit of one White for the sum of two hundred Marks or thereabouts wherein he was late aforecondemned as a Surety for the Debt of one Welden of Salisbury which Arrest being signified by Sir Thomas Moyle Kt. then Speaker of the Parliament and to the Knights and Burgesses there order was taken that the Serjeant of the Parliament called S. J. should forthwith repair to the Compter in Breadstreet whither the said Ferrers was carried and there to demand delivery of the Prisoner The Serjeant as he had in charge went to the Compter and declared to the Clerks there what he had in commandment But they and other Officers of the City were so far from obeying the said Commandment as after many stout words they forcibly resisted the said Serjeant whereof ensued a Fray within the Compter-gates between the said Ferrers and the said Officers not without hurt of either part so that the Serjeant was driven to defend himself with his Mace of Armes and had the Crown thereof broken by bearing off a stroke and his Man strucken down During this Brawl the Sheriffs of London called Rowland Hill and H. Suckley came thither to whom the Serjeant complained of this injury and required of them the delivery of the said Burgess as afore but they bearing with their Officers made little account either of his Complaint or of his Message rejecting the same contemptuously with much proud language So as the Serjeant was forced to return without the Prisoner and finding the Speaker and all the Knights and Burgesses set in their places declared unto them the whole Cause as it fell out who took the same in so ill part that They all together of whom there was not a few as well of the Kings Privy-Councel as also of his Privy-Chamber would sit no longer without their Burgess but rose up wholly and repaired to the Vpper House where the whole case was declared by the mouth of the Speaker before Sir T. Audley Kt. then Lord Chancellor of England and all the Lords and Judges there assembled who judging the Contempt to be very great referred the punishment thereof to the Order of the Common House They returning to their places again upon new debate of the Case took order that their Serjeant should eftsoon repair to the Sheriffs of London and require delivery of the
Warrant from this House to be directed and signed by Mr. Speaker for that purpose Which done and the said Mr. Hall had away by the Serjeant it was agreed upon a motion made by the Speaker that the whole course and form of the said proceedings and Judgment of this House against the said Mr. Hall should be afterwards orderly digested and set down in due form to be first read in this House and then so entred by the Clerk as the residue of the Orders and proceedings of this House in other Cases are used to be done And so it was afterwards drawn into form read unto the House aud entred by the Clerk accordingly in haec verba viz. Whereas it was informed unto this House upon Saturday being the fourth day of this present February That Arthur Hall of Grantham in the County of Lincoln Esquire had sithence the last Session of this Parliament set forth in print and published a Book dedicated unto Sir Henry Knyvet Knight a good Member of this House without his privity liking or allowance in part tending greatly to the slander and reproach not only of Sir Robert Bell Knight deceased late Speaker of this Parliament and of sundry particular Members of this House but also of the proceeding of this House in the same last Session of Parliament in a Cause that concerned the said Arthur Hall and one Smalley his man and that there was also contained a long discourse tending to the diminishment of the ancient Authority of this House and that thereupon by Order of this House the said Arthur Hall was sent for by the Serjeant of this House to appear on Monday following which he did accordingly whereupon being called to the Bar and charged by the Speaker with the Information given against him he confessed the making and setting forth thereof whereupon the said Arthur Hall being sequestred the House did presently appoint divers Committees to take a more particular Examination of the said Cause and of all such as had been doers therein which Examination being finished by the said Committees they informed this House that they had charged the said Arthur Hall with Contempt against this House the said last Session in that being enjoyned by this House to appear there at a time by this House prefixed departed out of the Town in contempt of the Court and afterwards testified and asserted the same his wilful contempt by an unseemly Letter addressed by him to this House and charged him also with publishing the Conferences of this House abroad out of the House and that also in print in manner of a Libel with a counterfeit name of the Author and without any name of the Printer in which Book or Libel was contained matter of reproach and infamy to sundry good Members of this House in particular and of the whole state of the House in general reproaching and embasing what in him lay the Power and Authority of this House and untruly reporting the Orders of this House affirming amongst other great reproaches that he knew of his own knowledge that this House had judged and proceeded untruly and further charged him that he had therein also injuriously impeached the memory of the late Speaker deceased affirming that the Orders of this House were not by him truly delivered or set down but altered and changed And not herewith satisfied hath in some part thereof contained a false and slanderous discourse against the Antiquity and Authority of the Commons House or Third Estate of the Parliament wherein he hath falsly sought as much as in him is to impugn deface blemish and diminish the Power Antiquity and Authority of this House and the Interest that it hath always and in all ages had to the great impeachment of the ancient order and government of this Realm the rights of this House and the form of making Laws And that since his being before the Lords of the Councel for his said offence and after he had received rebuke of them for the same and had offered some form of submission in that behalf he had eftsoons again published the said Book and that upon his Examination in this House he had denied the having of any more then one of the said Books yet it was proved he had 12. or 13. of them and 6. of them since the time he was called before the Lords of the Councel and that he had by his Letters given order to have of those Books printed which was done accordingly and that he had caused one of the said Books sithence this Session of Parliament to be sent to Sir Randal Brewerton Kt. Unto all which as the said Arthur Hall could make no denial or sufficient Answer so the said Committees setting forth the nature and qualities of the said Offences in their several degrees moved in the end that the said Arthur Hall might be called into the House to answer unto those Points before the whole House and so thereupon to proceed to some speedy end perswading therewithal a due consideration to be had of spending the time as much as might be in such Matters of the Realm for which this Parliament was chiefly called Whereupon after divers other Motions and Speeches had in the said Matter the said Printer was brought to the Bar and being examined avowed that Arthur Hall after he had been before the Lords of the Councel came to him and told him that he had answered the Matter for the said Books before the Councel and that therefore the said Printer might deliver the said Books abroad affirming also that whereas the said Henry Bynnyman the Printer sithence this Session of Parliament and since his last committing wishing unto the said Arthur Hall that all the said Books had been burned before he meddled with them that Arthur Hall should say to him again he would not so for 100 l. And then he being sequestred Arthur Hall was brought to the Bar where after some mean reverence by him done though not in such humble and lowly wise as the state of one in that place to be charged and accused required whereof being admonished by the Speaker and further by him charged as well with the said parts collected out of the said Book as with other his Misdemeanours and Contempts aforesaid he in some sort submitted himself to the House acknowledging in part the Matters wherewith he was charged and in some other parts denied the same but not making any good defence in the Matter but acknowledging in part his Errors imputing it for the most part to his misprision and that in other parts the Matters were gathered otherwise than he meant and thereupon he prayed pardon of the House and that done was sequestred After which upon sundry Motions and Arguments had touching the nature and quality of his Faults and of some proportionable forms of such punishment for such grievous Offences it was upon the Question Resolved and Ordered by the whole House without
pains taken by the Commons to inform their Lordships of the great Complaints and the qualities and natures thereof presented unto them against the said Sir Francis Mitchell and others whereof their Lordships being well prepared by them to the true understanding of the same and thereupon have proceeded to the perfect discovery thereof by examination of divers Witnesses upon Oath do find thereby Sir Francis Mitchell clearly guilty of many great crimes and offences against his Majesty and the Commonwealth and have tesolved at this time to proceed to Judgment against him for the same And therefore the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this great and high Court of Parliament do award and adjudge 1. That the said Sir Francis shall stand and be from henceforth degraded of the Order of Knighthood with reservation of the dignity of his now Wife and Children and the ceremony of degradation to be performed by direction of this Court to the Earl Marshals Court 2. That he shall be imprisoned during the Kings pleasure in Finsbury Gaol in the same Chamber there which he provided for others the Tower where he now remaineth being a Prison too worthy for him 3. That he shall undergo a Fine of 1000 l. 4. That he shall be disabled to hold or receive any Office under the King or for the Common-wealth IV. Anno 18 Jac. The Commons after a Conference with the Lords referred the Bailment of Matthias Fowles George Geldard and other Prisoners who had been infamous Agents for Mompesson and Mitchell and by them transmitted to the Lords the Parliament being to be adjourned for some time the opinion of the Commons was that the Gaol was the best Bail for them V. Anno 20 Jac. Dr. Harris Minister of Blechingley who had misbehaved himself by Preaching and otherwise with respect to Election of Members of Parliament there and being complained of in the House and referred to a Committee the Committee was clearly satisfied that it was a high and great Offence they are of opinion he should be called to the Bar as a Delinquent to be admonished and to confess his fault there and in the Countrey and in the Pulpit of the Parish-Church on Sunday seven-night before the Sermon The Doctor was brought to the Bar and kneeled the House agreed with the Committee and Mr. Speaker pronounced Judgment upon him accordingly VI. Anno 3 Car. 1. Mr. Burgesse a Minister in Oxfordshire who had abused his Function in the duty of Catechizing by making an Interlude full of blasphemous Speeches and also in a Sermon which was made only to traduce the Puritans was sent for by a Messenger being brought to the Committee refused to answer for which he was committed 1. To the Tower 2. After petitioned for his deliverance and humbly submitted whereupon he was delivered out of the Tower VII In the same Parliament Sir William Wray Mr. Langton Mr. John Trelawnie and Mr. Edward Trelawnie being Deputy-Lievtenants of the County of Cornwall assumed to themselves a power to make whom they only pleased Knights of the Shire defamed Sir John Elliot and Mr. Corriton who stood to be chosen sent up and down the Countrey Letters for the Trained-bands to appear at the day of Election menaced the Countrey under the title of his Majesties pleasure It was Ordered 1. That Mr. Langton and Mr. John Trelawnie be committed to the Tower for their Offence done to the House there to remain during the pleasure of the House and that they make a submissive acknowledgment of their Offences 2. And Sir William Wray and Mr. Edward Trelawnie be committed to the Serjeant and so to remain till they make their Recognition in the House After all which the Question was whether the Gentlemen should make the Recognition at the Assizes in Cornwall or no And it was Ordered That the Recognition and Submission should be made in the Countrey and a Committee was appointed to draw the Recognition and they were sent to the Tower The four Gentlemen were called in to the Bar and the Speaker pronounced the Judgment upon them all that while they kneeled VIII Anno 3 Car. 1. Sir Thomas Wentworth reporteth the Business concerning the Toll granted to Levet for Bridges in Yorkshire to him and his Heirs to be holden in Soccage of East-Greenwich at 20 s. Rent with power to seize Goods c. No Grant hereof till 10 Jac. nor any fruit thereof till 15 Jac. the Bridge anciently in good repair some particularly bound to repair it This Patent adjudged by the Committee a Grievance to the Subject both in the original Creation and Execution Upon Question so adjudged here Ordered upon Question That Levet that hath peremptorily exercised a Patent here condemned the last Session for taking Toll at Bridges in Yorkshire shall be sent for by the Serjeant at Arms attending upon this House IX Anno 4 Car. 1. Mr. Rolls a Merchant and a Member of the House informed the House that his Goods were seized by the Customers for refusing to pay the Customs by them demanded although he told them he would pay what was adjudged to be due by Law It was ordered that the Officers of the Custom-house should be sent for X. Sir John Elliot reported from the Committee for the Examination of the Merchants business That the Committee finding Acton Sheriff of London in prevarications and contradictions in his Examination which being conceived to be a contempt to the House he desires he might be sent for to answer his contempt Mr. Goodwyn The Sheriff acknowledgeth his error and humbly desireth so much favour that he may once again be called before the Committee and if he give not full content by his answer he will refer himself to the wisdom and justice of the House Sir Walter Earl seconded this motion so did Alderman Moulson Secretary Cook Chancellor of the Dutchy and some others but this offence being declared to be so great and gross and that the Committee had given him so many times to recollect himself and he being so great an Officer of so great a City had all the favour that might be and yet rejected the same and carried himself in a very scornful manner Wherefore it was ordered he should be sent for unto the House as a Delinquent to morrow morning Sheriff Acton was called to the Bar as a Delinquent upon his knees and said If he hath erred it was through want of memory or through ignorance for he intended not the least dislike or distaste to any Member of the House and withdraws Mr. Long. I shall move that he be sent to the Tower Mr. Littleton You see the affronts by Books by Preaching by Rumours by being served with Process these scorns are daily put upon us that we are become but a meer scare-crow the neglect of our duty is the cause of this it is high time to remedy this or it is in
the Writ divers proposals made but at last resolved to present it to the House without any Opinion of theirs touching the Offence and Error of the Lord Keeper was directed to report the whole Narrative to the House Mr. Brook said he had never any person in admiration for advantage had read the Law there is a Market overt of the Law the Common Pleas and the Chancery the Shop of Justice the Chancery First No doubt it 's a great fault to deny an original Writ in the Chancery but not so much as to deny a Fine in the Common Pleas just Excuse and the offer of Amendments doth much extenuate the Offence which is but singular the Lord Keeper might do this to vindicate his Right from the Vsurpation of the Court of Wards it cannot stand with the Gravity of this House to transmit it a man for one single offence this will be admonition enough to him that it hath been thus agitated in this House Sir James Parrot argued the offence of the Lord Keeper in the denial of an original Writ some Excuses are alledged First done within a short time after he came in ignorantia Juris in a Judge Another Excuse offered a Contention between two Courts this rather aggravates than extenuates his offence being his own Case he ought not to have stayed Justice this thought a sole fault yet a great fault But he thinks it not a sole fault He is informed that there are more Faults of the like kind objected to the Lord Keeper Proposed To have that examined then it will be a sole fault two other Petitions before the Committees before the Lord Keeper of Mrs. ' Thomas and Sir Francis Fuliambe to have these two fully heard tomorrow and then to grow to a Resolution of this in the mean time to have the Cursitor examined about the other whether another Quare impedit or Ne admittas was not denied Sir Thomas Hobby moved to begin in order with the parts of the Reports First To the Writ that which is amiss in the Inheritance and then to consider of the Faults to have the Bill read Mr. Price alledged no corruption nor ill intention appears in the Lord Keeper a difference between things evil in themselves and evil by success the Lord Keeper came young to his Place and from a strange speculation and found this President therefore to have some course taken to right the Lady and to limit that vast Court Mr. Sollicitor thinks the Answer of the Lord Keeper's very fair and satisfactory if it be rightly understood and so the Debate went off XII Sir Edward Cook reports from the Committee of Grievances a Complaint against the Bishop of Norwich the charge is great and strange consisting of four parts First the City of Norwich having 34 Parishes he sent for the Preachers of the City and told them they had preaching enough and the morning preaching needless wished them to cease the Mornings Exercise this aggravated by divers Circumstances a Letter written to him by the Metropolitan about the Kings pleasure for preaching after this his Inhibition the Cathedral Church the Elbow of the City not above 2000 can hear yet all to come thither above 20000 people in Norwich The second There came up Images and Crucifixes counted Laymens Books and the Lord Bishop blessed those that set up those Ornaments a Dove in the Font fluttering over the water to sanctifie it Rot. Parl. 18 E. 3. num 32 33 34. the Commons dealt with the Provisors they complained they had not Spiritual food for Cardinals put into Churches Shoemakers and Taylors 50 E. 3. called bonum Parliamentum a complaint of the Popes usurpation not feeding the Flock Rome called the Sinful City and that all the Ill that hath befaln this Kingdom hath come from thence 17 R. 2. num 22. 11. H. 4. and a great many more Presidents so that this complaint is proper for this place The third was Extortion by orders of the Archbishop and by their own Canons the Iees set down these very much exceeded 4. Old Institutions now registred which is very dangerous for disherisons They have not heard his defence 40 E 3 inter Brevia a complaint against the Bishop of Hereford for Non-residency not lying within his Diocess all Bishops ought to be Resident unless they be in the Kings Service where the People are not taught the King hath but half Subjects the readiest way to make Rebellions The Committee thought it worthy to be transmitted up to the Lords Resolved upon Question without a Negative That this matter shall be transmitted up to the Lords Sir Edward Cook to do it and a Message to be sent to the Lords for a Conference about it The Commons desire their Lordships for a Conference touching some Accusations against the Lord Bishop of Norwich unto which his Lordship hath not yet been heard Humbly leaving the time and place to their Lordship The Lords appointed the 15 th of this Month to confer with the Commons touching their Complaint against the Lord Bishop of Norwich being returned the Lord Arch Bishop of Canterbury reparted the same to the House to this effect viz. That the Commons had received of Complaint exhibited by the Citizens of Norwich against the said Lord Bishop and to shew that it was ordinary for the Commons to complain of the Governours of the Church divers Records of Parliament were cited viz. Anno 25 E. 3. 17 R. 2. and 11 H. 4. all which were cited to satisfie tacite objectionis for their medling with a cause of this nature That the charge against the Lord Bishop consisted of six parts 1. That he inhibited or dishartned Preachers on the Sabath day in the Forenoon 2. That Images were set up in the Church and one of the Hoey Ghost fluttering over the Font and a Marble Tomb pulled down and Images set down in the room and the Bishop blessed them that did it 3. That he punished those that Prayed not toward the East 4. That he punished a Minister for Chatechising his Family and Singing of Psalmes 5. That he used Extortion many ways 6. That he did not enter Institutions to the prejudice of Patrons For the first it was said that there was 34. Churches in Norwich and in those Parishes 30 or 40000 People That the Lord Bishop sent for the Preachers by Apparitor and told them there was no need of Preaching on Sunday in the Forenoon except in the Cathedral Church where 2 or 3000 only could hear many dwelling three quarters of a Mile off and many being old and not able for their Age to come so far That this Inhibition was when the King had commanded more Preaching That his Lordship connived at Recusants All which was to the disheartning of good Professors It may be objected his Lordship allowed of Catechizing ergo no Preaching
Spoken Lubricum tantum linguae non est ad judicium trahendum say the Civilians And that his Heart did never conceive the least Derogation of any Order of that most Honourable House on the bare intimation of any one Peer that sitteth in the same One passage in his Answer was That Kellwood and especially Kennedy a Man Condemned to Death in Scotland for Forgery are Persons Infamed and their Credits to be Examined before they be admitted as Witnessess against a Peer of the Realm and a Lord Keeper of the Great Seal as he then was At the end of the Paper was Written Recepi 5. Expedii 9 Martii 1625. John Lincoln This Answer was referred to the Committee for Petitions to consider what 's fit to be done for the clearing of the aspersion laid by the Bishop on the Lords Sub-Committees appointed for the Journal Book and what for the relief of Pinckney for those had certified it to be a true Order Notwithstanding he said it was mistaken by the Clerk and had not obeyed it The Committee Report they find two defects in this Answer 1. That he doth not clearly acknowledge his Contempt in not obeying the Order 2. His Aspersing the Lords Sub-Committees by saying it was a mistaken Order when they had certified it a true one Their Opinion is That the Sub Committee be cleared and the Bishop acknowledge it a true Order and signifie to the House that he is sorry he was so mistaken and thereby given just offence to the House and to the Lords of the Sub-Committee then Acknowledge his Error and ask their pardon so Ordered May it please your most Honourable Lordships YOur Lordships having resolved the order touching Pinkney of the 28 of May 1624. To be an Order of that Most Honourable House truly and justly entered I do most willingly accknowledge as much and am very sorry that through a weak memory and information of some parties interessed who pretendded to have serached the Clerks Book the 29 of May 1624. And to have found there at that day no ground at all for any such Order I have had in my thoughts some scruples to the contrary to the offending of the most Honourable House or any one of the Lords of the Sub-Committee who as I now understand have Subscribed the said Order And I do Humbly desire your most Honourable Lordships in General and those Noble Lords in Particular to Pardon the Errour I have herein committed and I shall pray unto God to bless and prosper your most Honourable Lordships John Lincoln Which Acknowledgment their Lordships all accepted in full satisfaction from the said Lord Bishop XIV Ordered Ensign Reynde to be sent for and brought up as a Prisoner before the Lords to answer a high Contempt against the Parliament The Witnesses who have informed thereof are to be required to attend when Reynde comes Ordered the Serjeant at Arms to make such and so many Deputies for the apprehension of Henry Reynde as the Lord Say shall appoint and his Captain to be warned to bring him hither by a day These men were sworn touching the Information against Henry Reynde Ensign-Bearer to the Souldiers at Banbury viz. George Phillips Obadiah Lord. John Hayns John Hele. And being examined did testifie the insolent and opprobrious Speeches spoken by the said Ensign Reynde against a Peer of the Realm and his contempt of this High Court of Parliament The Lords considering that the said Reynde was by Order of this House sent for by the Serjeant the 27th of May and could not be found but yet came early one Morning to the Clerks Office to understand whether any other cause of Complaint was against him save the Information of those opprobrious Speeches and instantly departed and ever since hides his head Their Lordships Order Elvenston his Captain to be sent for to be here to morrow Morning And the Duke of Buckingham did declare his opinion that the said Reynde deserved a severe censure and promised to the House to lay all the Ports for him and if he can be found or shall ever come into the Army he will cause him to be sent to receive such censure as shall be agreed on against him Captain Elvenston being called before the Lords did affirm that he had not seen his Ensign Henry Reynde this Fortnight and thinks he is not in Town He was commanded to bring him to the House whensoever he shall find him and so soon as he shall understand where he is to inform the House thereof The Lords taking into consideration that Henry Reynde will not be found and Resolving to proceed to a censure against him for his Ignominious Speeches of the Parliament and of the Lord Say they first voted and adjudged him unworthy to bear Arms hereafter or to be accompted a Souldier Then their Lordships propounded divers other parts of a Censure against him but the Duke of Buckingham coming in before the Conclusion thereof his Grace told their Lordships that the said Reynde is now found Whereupon it was Ordered the said Reynde to be brought hither to morrow Morning The Duke of Buckingham excused himself for not bringing of Reynde to his answer according to his promise for that he shifts his Lodging every night but promised again to do his best to bring him to morrow Morning Ordered If Reynde do not appear here to morrow Morning then to proceed against him in the censure The Lords were put in mind of their Order yesterday if Reynde were not brought this Morning to proceed to sentence against him notwithstanding Whereupon the Duke of Buckingham signified unto their Lordships with what care and industry he had endeavoured to bring the said Reynde before their Lordships but he is so apprehensive of their censure which he deserves that he cannot be found Yet his Grace said he doubted not but to bring him to morrow Morning and desired their Lordships to proceed notwithstanding now in their sentence against him and with the more severity because he had so often deceived his Grace The sentence of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled against Henry Reynde Ensign-bearer to the Band of Soldiers Billetted in Banbury for the Ignominious Speeches uttered by the said Reynde against the said Lord Say and Seal And for his contempt of this High Court of Parliament which sentence was this day pronounced against him by the Lord Keeper viz. 1. He the said Henry Reynde is never to bear Arms hereafter but is accompted unworthy to be a Souldier 2. He is to be Imprisoned during pleasure 3. He is to stand under the Pillory with Papers on his Head shewing his Offence at Cheapside London and at Banbury 4. That he is to be Fined at 200 l. unto the King 5. He is to ask forgiveness here of all the Lords of Parliament in general and of the Lord
Pope and in the same manner it was charged the Knights of the Shire and the Commons to assemble in the Chamber depeint to treat conclude and assent amongst them upon the same business and to give their Answer lour assent en dit Parlement 20. In the Parliament 18. E. 3. The King by his Chancellor prayed and charged the Prelates Earls Barons and Commons that they would consider touching the Articles of Truce between the King and France and that they would mettre leid le Conseil give their Aid and Counsel for the Salvation of the Rights and Honour of the King de eux meismes and of themselves 21. Sir Bartholomew Burghurst the Kings Chamberlain declared in Parliament That there was a Treaty of Peace between the King and the French and good hope of a final Accord but the King would not conclude sanz assent des Grantz ses Communs Whereupon the Chamberlain required and demanded on the behalf of the King whether they would assenter accorder to the intended Peace To which the Commons d'unassent d'unaccord Answered that what Issue the King and Grantz should take in the said Treaty should be agreeable to them Upon which Answer the Chamberlain said to the Commons Then you will assent to the Treaty of Peace perpetual if it may be had to which the Commons Answered Entierment unement oil oil yes yes And thereupon it was commanded that Master Michel de Northburgh Gardeyne of the Privy-Seal and Sire John de Swinley Notair Papal should make an Instrument publick thereof 22. Anno 43 E. 3. The Chancellor in his Oration before the King Lords and Commons thus expresseth himself Sires the King in all his great business which concerned himself and his Kingdom de tout temps hath acted and done by the counsel and advice of his Grandz and Commons of his Realm which he hath found in all his Affairs Bons Loyalz good and faithful for which he thanketh them de grant euer volunte and that it was not unknown to them that the King had taken upon him the Claim and Right to the Realm of France per lavis conseil de ses Grantz Communes by the advice and counsel of his great Men and Commons 23. 7 R. 2. The King called a Parliament to consider of a Peace between him his Kingdom Lands Dominions and Subjects ex una parte magnificum principem Robert of Scotland and his Lands Dominions and Subjects of the other part mediante consilio assensu Praelatorum procerum magnatum Communitatis Regni Angliae by the counsel and assent of the Prelates Peers and great Men and Commons of the Kingdom of England I will pass over the rest of the several Authorities in this King's Reign and so of H. 4. except this one 24. In the Parliament 9. H. 4. in that great Record called Indompnitié des Seigneurs Commune◠the King by the advice and assent of the Lords willed granted and declared that in that and all future Parliaments it should be lawful for the Lords to debate and commune amongst themselves de Lestate du Roiaume la remedie a ce busoignable of the state of the Kingdom and the necessary Remedies and it should be lawful likewise for the Commons on their part to commune in the same manner 25. Anno 3 H. 5. The Chancellor at the Re-assembly of the Parliament declares the King being present the causes of their calling which was that Peace had been offered him by his adversary of France the which without the assent and good Counsel of the Estates of his Realm he would not conclude And that the King of the Romans desiring Peace and Vnity in the Church Vniversal and also between the Christian Realms was come over hither with Propositions which he had not yet declared to the King but in a short time would shew them Upon the which the King would take the Advice de son tressage Conseil of his most wise Counsel 26. Anno 4 H. 5. The League and Alliance between the King and Sigismund the Emperour and King of the Romans was ratified and confirmed upon due and solemn Treaty thereof by the common consent and assent of all the Archbishops Bishops Dukes Earls Barons toute autres Estates Espiritualz Temporalz and other Estates Spiritual and Temporal and also of the Commons of this Realm in the said Parliament assembled 27. Anno 9. H. 5. A Peace being concluded between Henry King of England and Charles the French King it was mutually agreed that the Articles thereof be ratified and confirmed per tres Status of both Kingdoms which being approved concluded accepted and allowed of by the three Estates in France videlicet Praelator cleri necnon Procerum Nobilium ac etiam civium Burgensium civitatuum villarum Communitatum dicti Regni The Articles was after mature deliberation confirmed per tres Status Regni Angliae vid per Praelatos clerum nobiles magnates necnon Communitates Regni ad Parliamentum apud West qui quantum ad eos singulos eum pertinet obsequituros impleturos promiserunt 28. Anno 9 H. 6. It was ordained by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons That the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester and my Lord Cardinal and others of the Kings Bloud and of his Counsel may treat of Peace with the Dauphin of France notwithstanding the Act formerly made to the contrary which was That the King of England H. 5. or the French King should not enter or make any Treaty of Peace or of Accord with Charles the Dauphin without the assent of the three Estates of both Realms 29 Anno 23. H. 6. Whereas by the Articles of Peace made between H. 5. and Charles the 6 th of France it was agreed there should be no Treaty or Accord made with the Dauphin of France without the assent of the three Estates of both Realms which Articles were afterwards Enacted and Authorized here by Parliament It was Enacted by the assent of the Lords and Commons that that Article should be void eryt cassed adnulled and of none Force and none to be impeacht for advising and acting in the said Peace 30. The Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England declared the causes of the Summons of the Parliament the King present and amongst others that between the Ambassadors of King H. and the French King There was an appointment de personali conventione of a personal meeting between the two Kings in partibus transmarinis which if it should happen ut speratur to provide not only for the safe and secure preservation of the person of the King as well in his Conduct ad dict as partes transmarinas as in his being there but also for the safe and sure conservation of the Peace within the Kingdom and other his Dominions during his absence out of the Realm and
Majesties Command inrolled in the Courts of Chancery Kings-Bench Common-Pleas and Exchequer and likewise entered among the Remembrances of the Court of Star-Chamber And according to the said agréement of the said Justices and Barons Judgment was given by the Barons of the Exchequer That the said John Hampden should be charged with the said Sum so assessed on him And whereas some other Actions and Process depend and have depended in the said Court of Exchequer and in some other Courts against other persons for the like kind of Charge grounded upon the said Writs commonly called Ship-Writs All which Writs and Proceedings as aforesaid were utterly against the Law of the Land Be it therefore Declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the said Charge imposed upon the Subjects for the providing of Ships commonly called Ship-meony and the said extrajudicial Opinion of the said Justices and Barons and the said Writs and every of them and the said Agreement or Opinion of the greater part of the said Justices and Barons and the said Judgement given against the said John Hampden were and are contrary to and against the Laws and Statutes of this Realm the right of Propeety the Liberty of the Subjects former Resolutions in Parliamrnt and the Petition of Right made in the the third year of the Reign of His Majesty that now is And it is further Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the particulars prayed or desired in the said Petition of Right shall from henceforth be put in Execution accordingly and shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed as in the same Petition they are prayed and expressed And that all and every the Records and Remembrances of all and every the Judgments Inrollments Entry and Proceedings as aforesaid and and every the Proceedings whatsoever upon or by pretext or colour of any of the said Writs commonly called Ship-Writs and all and every the Dependents on any of them shall be deemed and adjudged to all Intents Constructions and Purposes to be utterly void and disanulled and that all and every the said Judgment Inrollments Entries Proceedings and Dependents of what kind soever shall be vacated and cancelled in such Manner and Form as Records use to be that are vacated FINIS By reason of the hast and throng of the Press the Reader is desired to correct those Errata in the Book pa. 85. ommons r. Commons pa 119 in Mar. for Witnesses r. Members pa. 137. for § 4 r. § 5 p. 185. in Mar. for Sir Cooke r. Sir Edward Cooke Errata in the Appendix pa. 3. l. 19. proditoriae r. proditorie n. 29. in Mar. H 5 r. H. 6. n. 35. the next p. l. 15. Archeipis r. Archiepo l. 19. Universitatis r. Vniversitas p. 29. l. 4. for sive r. sine l. 13. praedica vistis r. praedicavistis p. 30. l. 15. tacites r. tacite The Antient Right of the Commons of England Asserted or a Discourse proving by Records and the best Historians that the Commons of England were ever an Essential Part of Parliament By William Petyt of the Inner-Temple Esq JANI ANGLORUM Facies Nova Or several Monuments of Antiquity touching the Great Councils of the Kingdom and the Court of Kings immediate Tenants and Officers from the first of William the first to the forty ninth of Henry the Third Reviv'd and Clear'd Wherein The sense of the Common-Council of the Kingdom mentioned in King John's Charter and of the Laws Ecclesiastical or Civil concerning Clergy-men's Voting in Capital Cases is submitted to the Judgment of the Learned Apud Foxum vol. 2. col 3. 4 The Bishop of Winchester's Letter to the Duke of Somerset Protector to E. 6. Plutatchus lib. cum Principibus Philosophos debere disputare Qui semper corrumpunt principes Reges ac Tyrannos nempe Delatores Criminatores Adulatores ab omnibus exiguntur puniunturque ut qui non in unum Calicem lethale venenum mittant sed in fontem publicitus scatentem quo vident omnes uti Quemadmodum non uno supplicio dignus est qui fontem publicum unde bibant omnes veneno infecit ita nocentissimus est qui principis animum pravis infecerit opinionibus quae mox in tot hominum permiciem redundent Nam si capite plectitur qui principis monetam vitiarit quanto dignior est eo supplicio qui principis ingenium corruperit Osorius lib. 5. de Regis institutione Occurrit alia adulatorum turba prudentiae nomine commendata qui utse in gratiam Regum iusinuent illis persuadent eos esse supra leges post aliqua Nunquam in Regnis Civitatibus homines scelerati defuerunt nec hodie desunt qui principes erroribus turbulentis iuficiant quibus illi quidem annumerandi sunt qui cum se jure consultos existimari velint Regibus persuadent illos omnino solutos esse legibus Observ. 1. Cardan lib. de utilitate ex adversis capiend◠cap. de Principis Incommodis p. 288. Observ. 2. Rot. Parl. 32. H 8. Act 60. The Attainder of the L. Cromwel A dangerous Boast of any one Minister Actus Parl. An 3 and 4. E. 6. no. 31. An Act touching the Fine and Ransome of the Duke of Somerset A remarkable Instance how Dangerous it is for one single Minister to have a Monopoly of the King Observ. 3. Apud Foxum vol. 2 d. Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester his Letter to the D. of Somerset Protector to E. 6. Coke 4. Inst so 89. Ld. Herbert Hist. of H. 8. fo Rast. Stat. 31. H. 8. cap. 8. Observ. 4. Rastal's 3 and 4. E. 6. cap 5 Coke 3. Inst. fo 12. Rastals Stat. 7. Ed. 6. cap. 12. Out of a Paper in the hands of my good Friend Mr. John Rawley a Worthy Citizen of London Nephew and Executor to Dr. Rawley first and last Chaplain to the L. Bacon My Lord Bacons Memento Ex Journali Domus Procerum Annis 21 and 22. Jacobi Regis 14 Maii 16 24 This Bill after pass'd unto a Law Cromptons Jurisdiction of Courts p. 7 8 9 10 11. 34 H. 8. An. Dom. 1542. Breach of Priviledge Ferrers arrested going to the Parl. house The Serjeant of the Parliament sent to the Compter for him And demands the Prisoner But the Officers deny him And assault the Serjeant Breaks the Crown of the Mace strikes down his Man Complains of it to the Sheriffs and demands the Prisoner Who contemptuously reject the same The Serjeant returns and acquaints the House Who highly resent it It was ordinary for either House upon emergent occasions to give an account to each other as in the time of R. 2. H. 6. H. 8. E. 6. Queen Mary the great Officers of State as the Chancellor Treasurer c. went down to the House of Commons to give them particular accounts The Ld. Chancellor in
Parliament offers the Commons a Writ to deliver their Burgess but they refuse it as being clear of opinion that all their Commandments Acts were to be done and executed by their Serjeant without Writ The Sheriffs ordered to appear and bring with them the Clerks of the Compter And accordingly they did Who are charged by the Speaker Being not admitted to any Councel The Sheriffs committed to the Tower The Clerk to Little Ease and the Serjeants to Newgate All at last delivered upon the humble suit of the Mayor and other their Friends The King takes notice of the proceedings The King in the presence of the Chancellor Judges with whom he had consulted before of this matter commends and approves the proccedings of the Commons Here the King from the mouth of the Lord Chancellor declares the ancient priviledg of the Commons even for their menial Servants and gives an instance in the Cook of the Temple The King Head and the Lords and Commons Members of the High Court of Parliament in which he stands highest in his Royal Estate The Court of Parliament Nota All Acts and Processes coming out of any inferiour Court must cease and give place to the Highest Sir Edward Mountague Chief Justice of England who we cannot believe to be misconusant of the ancient proceedings in Parliament and of the Priviledge of the House of Commons together with the rest of the Judges by Reasons which wanted not Authorities confirmed what the King had said Journal Dom. Com. 4. Ed. VI. Journ Dom. Com. 14 Eliz. 17 Maii Anno Dom. 1571. Misdemeanors of a Member of the House of Commons for sundry lewd speeches as well in the House as abroad Ordered that those who heard them to put them in writing and deliver them to the Speaker Mond 19 Febr Mr. Hall appears and is cleared Humbly confesseth his folly And is remitted by the House Journal Dom. Comm. Anno 18. Eliz. 16. Feb. A. D 1575. Breach of Priviledge Confederacy and Contempt Friday 18. Feb. Munday 27. Feb. Smalley to be brought to the House by the Mace and not by Writ Tuesday 28. Feb. Smalley brought to the Bar was presently delivered out of Execution Wednesday 7. March post Meridiem Mr. Hall Smalley's Master withdraws Smalley adjudged guilty of a Contempt against the House for fraudulently procuring himself to be arrested Kirtleton in confederacy with him Smalley to be committed to the Tower for his Misdemeanor and Contempt The like Judgment for Kirtleton Both to be brought into the House to receive their Judgements Mr. Hall's privity in the Matter to be referred to a further Debate Saturday 10 March The Speaker pronounced Judgement upon Smalley Saturd 4. Feb. An. 23. Eliz. Journ Dom. Com. Mr. Hall's Charge for writing a Book derogatory to the Authority Power and State of the Commons House of Parliament Mr. Hall ordered to be sent for by the Serjeant at Arms Two Knights Members of the House to assist the Serjeant A Commission to a Committee to send for the Printer and to examine the Matter To report to the House and to take order for Hall's Apprehension And if any Member should see him to stay him and bring him to the House Munday 6 Feb. Mr. Secretary Wilson reports the Examination of Hall's Case from the Committee Hall appears and was called to the Bar where he was charged by the Speaker with his Offence The Printer brought to the Bar. And Shirland who was examined And Wells who was also examined A Committee appointed to examine further the whole Matter M. Hall brought to the Bar again and committed to the Serjeant to attend the Committee Bynnyman Wells and Shirland ordered likewise to attend the Committee Dalton also ordered to attend Tuesd. 14 Feb. Another Report from the Committee against Hall of new Contempts and Crimes added to his former Mr. Hall chargeth the House with Injustice Nota. The Printer brought to the Bar again and re-examined Mr. Hall at the Bar and recharged by Mr. Speaker Submits refuseth to answer acknowledgeth his Error prays pardon and is sequestred Sundry motions for a proportionable punishment Resolved nemine contradicente Hall to be committed to Prison And that Prison to be the Tower There to remain for six months And from thence till he made a retractation of his Book To be fined to the Queen And that Fine to be 500 Marks To be severed and cut off from being a Member of the House And the Speaker to issue a Warrant for a new Writ His Book and slanderous Libel to be adjudged utterly false and erroneous And that to be publickly testified and affirmed by Order of the House Hall brought to the Bar to receive his Judgment which Mr. Speaker delivered accordingly The Proceedings against Hall drawn up read and agreed to by the House Rot. Pat. 48 H. 3. m. 6. dorso Forma pacis inter Regem Barones The Articles of Peace à Domino Rege Domino Edwardo Praelatis Proceribus omnibus Communitate tota regni Angliae communiter concorditer approbat were sealed by the Bishops of Lincoln and Ely Earl of Norf. Earl of Oxon. Humphrey Bohun William de Monte Canisio Major London in Parliamento London mense Junii Anno Dom. 1264. de consensu voluntate praecepto Domini Regis necnon Praelatorum Baronum ac etiam Communitatis tunc ibidem praesentium And not only so but that Record tells us Quod quaedam ordinatio facta in Parliamento London habito circa festum Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistae prox ' praeteritum pro pace Regni conservanda Pultons Stat. 24 H. 8. c. 12. It is unanimously declared adjudged and confirmed That the King his noble Progenitors and the Nobility and Commons of the said Realm at divers and sundry Parliaments as well in the time of King E. 1. R. 2. H. 4. and other noble Kings of this Realm made sundry Ordinances Laws Statutes and Provisions for the entire and sure conservation of the Prerogative Liberties and Preheminences of the said Imperial Crown of this Realm and of the Jurisdiction Spiritual and Temporal of the same to keep it from the annoyance as well from the See of Rome as from the Authority of other Foreign Potentates attempting the diminution and violation thereof as often and from time to time as any such annoyance and attempt might be known or espied Ex vetusto MS. Staeturorum penes Johan ' Peachy de Interior ' Templo Armig. King Edw. 2. and the whole Parliament in the 15. year of his Reign when the Ordinances which had been made before that time by certain Prelates Earls and Barons by the consent of that King la Comunante de la terre were repealed because in many things they restrained the Power Royal too much yet in the Act of Repeal there is a salvo semper jure Regni sive Parliamenti for they unanimously agree and provide Mes les choses que sont establer pur le
constructions and purposes as well concerning marriage heretofore made by any of the Ecclesiastical or Spiritual persons aforesaid as also such which hereafter shall be duly and lawfully had celebrate and made betwixt the persons which by the Laws of God may lawfully marry Lastly Knighton one of our best and most exactest Historians tells posterity the ancient ends of calling Parliaments in the Speeches made by Tho. de Woodstock Duke of Gloucester the Kings Uncle and Tho. de Arundel Bishop of Ely to King Richard 2d at Eltham in the 12th year of his Reign in the name of the whole Parliament then sitting at Westminster wherein the said Delegates do put that King in mind Quod ex antiquo Statuto Consuetudine laudabili approbata c. saith the Historian That by ancient Statute and Custom laudable and approved which no man could deny the King may once in the year convene his Lords and Commons to his Court of Parliament as to the highest Court of the whole Realm In qua omnis equitas relucere deberet absque qualibet scrupulositate vel nota tanquam Sol in ascensu meridiei ubi pauperes divites pro refrigerio tranquilitatis pacis repulsione injuriarum refugium infallibile querere possent ac etiam Errata Regni reformare de statu gubernatione Regis Regni cum sapientiori Concilio tractare ut Inimici Regis Regni intrinseci hostes extrinseci destruantur repellantur qualiter quoque onera incumbentia Regi Regno levius ad Ediam Communitatis suportari poterunt In which Court say they all equity ought to shine forth without the least Cloud or shadow like the Sun in his Meridian glory where poor and rich refreshed with peace and ease of their oppressions may always find infallible and sure refuge and succour the grievances of the Kingdom redress'd and the state of the King and government of the Realm debated with wiser Counsels the Domestick and Foreign Enemies of the King and Kingdom destroyed and repelled and to consider how the charges and burthens of both may be sustained with more ease to the people Saturday the 18. of March A further Order against Mr. Hall Hall's Retractation to be referred to a certain Committee The Committee to Report Hall's Retractation at the next Session of Parliament Anno 27 Eliz. Jour Dom. Com. Saturday 12 December Contempt in a Member The Serjeant to give warning to Mr. Hall tu attend the House Monday the 21 November Anno 29 Eliz. An. Dom. 1586 Mr. Markham's Complaint against Mr. Hall That he being for ever disabled to be a Member of the House had notwithstanding brought his Writ against the Inhabitants of Grantham for his Wages Who pray the advice and order of the House Friday the 2d of December Referred to a Committee With directions if they think good to move the Lord Chancellor to stay the granting of further Process against the Burrough Tuesday the 21. of March The Ld. Chancellor at the request of the Committee stays further Process against Grantham Mr. Hall frankly remits his Wages to the Burrough of Grantham Ex Journ Dom. Com. Judgment The like President An. 3 Car. 1. Vid. Journ Dom. Com. Journ Dom. Proc. Com. The Bishop of Bristol's Case Ex Journ Dom. Proc. Com. 7 Jac. The Case of Dr. Cowell Men despise and reproach those things whereof they are ignorant It is a desperate and dangerous matter for Civilians and Canonists I speak what I know and not without just cause to write either of our Common Laws of England which they profess not or against them which they know not But their Pages are so full of palpable Errors and gross Mistakings as these new Authors are out of our Charity and their Books out of our Judgment cast away unanswered Coke lib. 10. Lectori Blackwood's Case Jour Dom. Com. Nota. E contra Vide the ancient Rights of the Commons of England asserted or a discourse proving by Records and the best Historians that the Commons of England were ever an essential part of Parliament The Power of Kings in particular of the Kings of England learnedly asserted by Sir Robert Filmer Kt. fol. 1. Printed An. Dom. 1680. King James's first Speech to his first Parliament in England Pulton's Stat. 1 Jac. cap. 2. fol. 1157. King Charles the I. Declaration to all his loving Subjects published with the Advice of his Privy Councel Exact Collections of Declarations pag. 28 29. Journ Dom. Com. Dr. Manwaring's Case Juratores praesentant quod Richardus Empson nuper de London miles nuper Consiliarius excellentissimi Principis Henrici nuper Regis Angl. 17. die Maii Anno Regni dicti nuper Regis 12. diversis vicibus antea postea apud London in Parochia sanctae Brigettae in Warda de Farrington extra Deum prae oculis non habens sed ut filius diabolicus subtiliter imaginans honorem dignitatem prosperitatem dicti nuper Regis ac prosperitatem Regni sui Angliae minime valere sed ut ipse magis singulares favores dicti nuper Regis adhiberet unde magnat fieri potuisset ac totum Regnum Angliae secundum ejus voluntatem gubernaret falso deceptivè proditoriè legem Angliae subvertens diversos ligeos ipsius nuper Regis ex sua falsa covina subtili ingenio contra communem legem Regni Angliae Anderson's 1. Rep. fol. 156. Vide Rushworth ' s Collections fo Judgment against the Doctor Journ Dom. Procerum The Doctor 's Submission Ex Agupeto Diacono Assentatores à Regibus tanquam pestis vitandi 12. nam non utilia consulunt sed quae placent 22. 31. sic Diogenes rogatus quaenam bellua perniciosissime morderet ex feris inquitobtrectator ex cicuribus vero adulator The Lords order the Bishop of London to suspend the Doctor Journ Dom. Proc. die Sabbathi 18 die April 16 Car. 1 21 April 1640. 27 April 1640 28 April 1640. Journ Dom. Com. 3 Car. 1. Dr. Mountague's Case * The Dr. Writ and Published several Tenents tending to Arminianism and Popery * Lord Brook friend to Sir Phillip Sidney in his Alaham. Had done a contempt to the Commons and distrubed the Nation 1 Car. Voted 2 Car. resolved by that Parliament that he had Sowen Sedition And endeavoured to reconcile us to Rome Articles against Mountague Campanella de Monar Hispan Jour Dom. Com. Anno. 27 Eliz. Dr. Parry's Case Journ Dom. Com. 18 Jac. Sir Giles Mompesson's Case Journ Dom. Proc. 18 Jac. The Lords Judgment againw him * Journ Dom. Com. 19 Jac. Sir John Bennet ' s Case Illos extollimus qui fraudibus ac dolis divites facti sunt eos patres legum Justitiae fontes sapientiaeque thesauros appellantes O inconcussa Dei justitia quamdiu haec pateris ab horum igitur scholis in quibus non sat scio an de veritatis inventione an potius de lucri spe major sit disceptatio prodeunt Judices
Praesides atque Ministri manibus tenacibus oculis impudicis effrenata libidine lapideis cordibus ficta gravitate lingua melliflua sed dentibus virulentis breviter auri insatiabili fame Cardan libro de utilitate ex adversis capienda Cap. de Temporum Magistratuum pravitate p. 649. Journ Dom. Com. 19 Jac. Sir Robert Floid's Case Turned out for being a Monopolist Journ Dom. Com. 3 Car. 1. Mr. John Barbour's Case The Order of the Commons against Barbour Journ Dom. Com. 4 E. 6. Criketost's Case Journ Dom. Com. 1 Jac. Complaint that a Yeoman of the Guard who kept the door of the Lobby of the Upper House against several of the Members of the House of Commons 22 Marti 1603 Tash brought to the Bar submits and is pardoned paying Fees Journ Dom. Com. 18. Jac. Sir Francis Mitchell's Case Committed to the Tower Carried on foot through London-streets After impeached by the Commons before the Lords Journ Dom. Proc. 18 Jac. The Lords send to the Commons That they are ready to give Judgment against Mitchell if they would come and demand it The Commons by their Speaker demand Judgment against Sir Francis Mitchell The Lord Chief Justice pronounceth the Judgment The Judgment of the Lords against Sir Francis Mitchell There was a Clause in Patents of Monopolies whereby power was given to imprison and hundreds were committed by colour thereof to Finsbury Gaol and the Fleet. Journ Dom. Proc. 18 Jac. Fowles Geldard and others committed Journ Dom. Com. 20 Jac. Dr. Harris's Case To recant in the Pulpit Journ Dom. Com. 3 Car. 1. Mr. Burgesse a Minister his Case Journ Dom. Com. The Case of Sir William Wray M. Langton Mr. John Trelawnie and Mr. Edward Trelawnie The Judgment of the Commons The Commons House of Parliament adjudge them To make submission in the Countrey at the Assizes Journ Dom. Com. 3. Car. 1. Levet for executing a Patent in time of Prorogation which was adjudged a Grievance by the House in the last Session ordered to be sent for by the Serjeant at Arms. Journ Dom. Com. 4. Car. 1. The Parliament prorogued Journ Dom. Com. 4 Car. 1. The Officers of the Custom-house Journ Dom. Com. 4 Car. 1. The Case of Acton Sheriff of London for contempt in prevaricating in his Testimony Ordered to be sent for Tuesd. 10 Feb. Appears and called to the Bar. His Crime with others aggravated Sentenced to the Tower Journ Dom. Com. 4 Car. 26 Jan. The Case of Lewis Journ Dom. Com. 18 Jac. The Case of the Mayor of Winchelsey Judgment against the Mayor Journ Dom. Com. 20 Jac. The Case of the Mayor of Arundel for Misdemeanour Judgment To pay the Charge to be set down by 3 Members Jouâ—n Dom. Com 21 Jac. The Case of Ingry the under Sheriff of Cambridgeshire Judgment To make a submission at the Sessions Journ Dom. Com. 3 4 Car. 1. Tuesd. Apr. 29. The Case of the Sheriffs of York and others touching the Election of Sir Thomas Savile Nota. Nota. Nota. Sir Robert Philips The Sheriff to pay the charges of the Witnesses to be set down by four Witnesses Committment of Davenport to the Tower for misinforming the House of Commons as a Witness Anno primo Regis Jacobi Num. 42. penes Joh. Brown Ar. Cler. Parliamentor Nota. Anno 3 Car. 1. Pult. Stat. fol. 1433. 34 E. 1. No Tallage or Aid to be laid or levied without Authority of Parliament 1 E. 3. 6. 11 R. 2. 9. 1 R. 3. 2. 9 H. 3. 29. 28 E. 3. 3. 37 E. 3. 18. 38 E 3. 8. 42 E. 3. 3. 17 R. 2. 6. Quartering Souldiers against Law 25 E. 3. 9. 9 H. 3. 29. 25 E. 3. â—4 28 E. 3. â—3 Nota. Martial Law in time of Peace against the Laws and Statutes of England Nota. Nota. Here the good King condemns the Law and Doctrine of Dr. Cowell Blackwood Manwaring Fulbeck Sibthorpe Alablaster Filmer and their Transcribers and Disciples Journ Dom. Com. Parl. 1 Jac. Mercurii 23 Maii A. D. 1603 A Bill is delivered to the Speaker going to the House purporting a Declaration of Treason by a Magistrate of the Land who Gives an Account of it to the House Who forbear to read it at that time The King sends for the Bill The House expected an Accompt thereof from Mr. Speaker and after demands it Questions handled thereupon To cease with a caution care of the priviledge of the House To be Registred as the Judgment of the House that no Speaker should deliver a Bill whereof the House was possessed without leave The Speakers excuse Motions by several Members No Bill of which the House is possessed to be delivered without notice and leave of the House Jur. Dom. Com. Die venris 27. February 4 Jac. A. D. 1606. A Message from the King The Union of England and Scotland That the Writ called them to Consul de arduis Regi Their attendance a great duty Departure a greater contempt than a Noblemans Adviseth no Lawyer or other of Note to depart Would assist the House for their stay or recalling Motions and Debates upon the Message Mr. Speaker's motions Others move 3 Questions made 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question Resolves Order Veneris 27. February The Union of England and Scotland Die Martis 3. Martii Mr. Hide departs without License and is sent for Resolved that other Letters be writ to other Members who were Lawyers The form of the Letter Jurn Dom. Com. 27. Jac. Vereris 27. Maii. Order that a Committee take into consideration misinformations given to the King concerning the proceedings of the House of Commons Jour Par. Dom. Com. 18. 19. Jac. 15. Martii The Case of Dr. Lamley Chancellor to the Bishop of Peterburrough and Dr. Cradock a Divine Chancellor to the Bishop of Durham Dr. Lamely accused for Extortion and other Misdemeanours Dr. Cradock accused for Briberies and other Misdemeanours Kelway Fo. 184. Rastall's Stat. 8 H. 6. c. 1. Journ Dom. Com. 19 Jac. Sabbathi 2 die Junii Confirmation of the Order concerning all Patents adjudged Grievances Journ Dom. Com. Lunae 26 Martii Concerning all Patents adjudged Grievance Journ Dom. Com. Sabbathi 17 Martii Order pro Churchill March 21. Sr. Robert Phillip's Reports from the Committee appointed to examine Keeling and Churchill who informed them of many Corruptions against the Lord Chancellor April 25. A Committee for regulating the Chancery and to consider of Churchill's false Orders and the Faults of the rest of the Registers Sir Dudley Diggs saith that Churchill was Register Councellor and Judge referred to the Committee Anno 19 Jac. A Copy of the Petition remaining with William Goulds borough Esq Clerk of the House of Commons The Complaint of the Mayor Bayliffs and Burgesses of Northampton against Dr. Lamb Chancellor to the Bishop of Peterborough Nota est Cyclopum vivendi ratio quibus illa crudelis vox in Tragoedia attribuitur non ulla Numina expavesco Coelitum sed victimas uni deorum maximo ventri offero