Proxies there was but that one set down in the Page before-going which made two Proctors all the rest naming three or but one all which see afterwards on the 22.24.27 days of February and on the 7. and 28. days of March Where also it may be noted That John Archbishop of Canterbury had this Parliament five Proxies Now follows next in order to be set down the continuing of this Parliament which in the original Journal-book it self followed immediately upon the names of the Lords foregoing being present this afternoon So that the substance of the Lord Keeper's Speech foregoing and this also that follows at the presentment of the Speaker was supplied by my self out of a very exact Journal which I had of the Passages of the Lower House this present Parliament conceiving those Speeches in all my Journals ought more fitly to be referred to the Passages of the Upper House than of the House of Commons Dominus Custos Magni Sigill ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox futur On Thursday Feb. 22. the Queens Majesty her self came about three of the clock in the afternoon accompanied with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal there being present this day the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir John Puckering Kt. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Marquiss of Winchester twelve Earls two Viscounts fifteen Bishops and twenty three Barons being for the most part the very same that are by name set down to have been present on Munday last The Queen and the Lords being thus sat the House of Commons having notice thereof Edw. Cooke the Queens Sollicitor chosen and presented immediately came up with Edward Coke Esq the Queens Sollicitor into the Upper House whom they had chosen for their Speaker who being led up to the Bar at the nether end of the said House between two of the most eminent Personages of the Lower House as soon as silence was made and the rest of the House of Commons had placed themselves below the Bar he spake as followeth The Speaker's Speech YOur Majesties most loving Subjects the Knights and Burgesses of the Lower House have nominated me your Graces poor Servant and Subject to be their Speaker This their Nomination hath hitherto proceeded that they present me to speak before your Majesty yet this their Nomination is onely a Nomination yet and no Election until your Majestie giveth allowance and approbation For as in the Heavens a Star is but opacum corpus until it hath received light from the Sun so stand I corpus opacum a mute body until your high bright shining wisdom hath looked upon me and allowed me How great a Charge this is The Speaker disables himself to be the Mouth of such a Body as your House of Commons represent to utter that is spoken Grandia Regni my small experience being a poor professor of the Law can tell but how unable I am to undergo this Office my present Speech doth tell that of a number of this House I am most unfit for amongst them are many grave many learned many deep wise men and those of ripe Judgments but I an untimely Fruit not ripe nay bud a but not scarce fully blossomed so as I fear your Majesty will say Neglecta fruge liguntur folia amongst so many fair fruits you have plucked a shaking leaf If I may be so bold to remember a Speech used the last Parliament in your Majesties own mouth Many come hither ad consulendum qui neseiunt quid sit consulendum a just reprehension to many as to my self also an untimely fruit my years and judgment ill befitting the gravity of this place But howsoever I know my self the meanest and inferiour unto all that ever were before me in this place yet in faithfulness of service and dutifulness of love I think not my self inferiour to any that ever were before me And amidst my many imperfections yet this is my comfort I never knew any in this place but if your Majesty gave him favour God who also called them to this place gave them also the blessing to discharge it The Lord Keeper having received Instructions from the Queen answered him Mr. Sollicitor HER Graces most Excellent Majesty hath willed me to signifie unto you that she hath ever well conceived of you since she first heard of you which will appear when her Highness selected you from others to serve her self but by this your modest wise and well-composed Speech you give her Majesty further occasion to conceive of you above that she ever thought was in you by endeavouring to deject and abase your self and your desert you have made known and discovered your worthiness and sufficiency to discharge the place you are called to And whereas you account your self corpus opacum her Majesty by the influence of her Vertue and Wisdom 〈◊〉 is commanded and aâ—â—â—â—â—ed by the Qs. order doth enlighten you and not onely alloweth and approveth you but much than keth the Lower House and commendeth their discretions in making such a Choise and electing so fit a man Wherefore Mr. Speaker proceed in your Office and go forward to your Commendation as you have begun The Lord Keepers Speech being ended the Speaker began a new Speech COnsidering the great and wonderful Blessings The second Speech of the Speaker besides the long Peaece we have enjoyed under your Graces most happy and victorious Reign and remembring withal the Wisdom and Justice your Grace hath reigned over us with we have cause to praise God that ever you were given us and the hazard that your Majesty hath adventured and the charge that you have born for us and our safety ought to make us ready to lay down our Lives and all our Living to do you service After this he related the great Attempts of her Majesties Enemies against us especially the Pope and the King of Spain adhering unto him how wonderfully were we delivered in 88 and what a favour therein God manifested unto her Majesty His Speech 〈…〉 after this tended wholly to shew out of the Histories of England and the old State how the Kings of England ever since Henry the third's time have maintained themselves to be Supream Head over all Causes in their own Dominions and recited the Laws that were made in his and other Kings times for maintaining their own Supremacy and excluding the Pope He drew down his Proofs by Statute in every Kings time since Hen. 3. 〈…〉 unto Edw. 6. This ended he came to speak of the Laws that were so great and so many already that they were fitly to be termed Elephaentinae Leges Wherefore to make more Laws it might seem superfluous Too great a multiplicity of our Laws and to him that might ask Quid Causa ut Crescunt tot magna volumina Legis it may be answered In promptu Causa est Crescit in orbe
being still to be performed by infinite Charge her Majesty notwithstanding hears of nothing more unwillingly than of Aids and Subsidies to be received from her People though what she doth receive she doth carefully bestow and infinitely more of her own The Taxations at this day howsoever they seem are nothing so great as heretofore in the Reigns of former Kings they have been In the times of Edw. 3. and the two next before him and those three which succeeded next after him the payments of the Commons then did far exceed any that have been since her Majesties Reign which is of Record in the Histories of those times to be seen but never cause so great to employ great sums of money as now Now therefore you are to consider how to provide needful and convenient Aid in some measure to maintain and support her Majesties Charge which at present she is at and is to continue at for the defence of the Realm He cannot be well advised which in this case will not be forward to contribute and bestow whatsoever he hath for if with the Common-wealth it goes not well well it cannot be with any private or particular person That being in danger he that would seek then to lay up Treasure and inrich himself should be like to him that would busie himself to beautifie his house when the City wherein he dwelleth is on fire or to him that decketh up his Cabin when the Ship wherein he saileth is ready to sink To spare in that case is to spare for those which seek to devour all and to give is to give to our selves Her Majesties part being onely carefully to bestow what is delivered into her hands wherein men performing their duties there is no cause at all to fear for the War is just it is in defence of the Religion of God of our most gracious Soveraign of our Native Country of our Wives Children Liberties Lands Lives and whatsoever we have Wherefore not mistrusting your forwardness that I may not offend in too much enlarging this point as a poor Remembrancer to her Majesty I shortly say to your Lordships Quod justum necessarium est nothing can be more just than this War nothing ought to seem more necessary than carefully to provide due Maintenance for the same And to you of the House of Commons that you may orderly proceed and wisely consult of these weighty Causes delivered unto you her Majesties pleasure is You should according to your accustomed manner go down to the Lower House and there make choice of some grave learned and wise man amongst you to be your Speaker who shall be for understanding sufficient and for discretion fit as your mouth to signifie your minds and to make your Petitions known unto her Highness and him upon Thursday next to present in this place The Lord Burgh was absent being the Lord Deputy of Ireland The Lord De-la-ware was absent because he made question of his place intending to make suit to the Parliament concerning the same Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox futur viz. 27º diem Octobris On Thursday Octob. 27. the Queens Majesty the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Thomas Edgerton Kt. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer the Marquiss of Winton the Earl of Sussex great Mareschal the Earl of Nottingham Mag. Seneschall six Earls one Viscount thirteen Bishops the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain and twenty two other Barons present Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Serj. Yelverton chosen Speaker being chosen Speaker of the Lower House was by divers Knights Citizens and Burgesses brought into the Upper House and by the hands of Sir William Knolls Controuler of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer presented to her Majesty who by a Speech full of Gravity and Modesty signifying the accomplishment of the duty of the House in making an Election but he excusing himself by pretence of many disabilities and imperfections Excuses himself and wishing earnestly that he were of sufficiency to perform the duty of that Place made humble suit to her Majesty that he might be discharged and that the Lower House might proceed to a new Election Which Excuse was not allowed by her Majesty Is allowed commended by the Queen as the Lord Keeper delivered by answer and the Choice of the said Mr. Yelverton being by her Majesty very well approved and his Sufficiency much commended He then proceeded in another Speech according to the manner to undertake that Charge and Place and to present unto her Majesty on the behalf of the Lower House certain humble Petitions viz. For Access unto her Majesty Petitions for the House in the usual form For the using and enjoying of such Liberties and Priviledges as in former times had been granted and allowed by her Majesties Progenitors and her self Whereunto her Majesty making answer by the Lord Keeper did yield her gracious assent Which are granted with admonition that the said Liberties and Priviledges should be discreetly and wisely used as was meet Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem quintum mensis Novembris On Saturday 5 Novembris introductum est Breve Thomae Dom. Grey de Wilton quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur Nov. 5. admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento loco salvo jure alieno The Petition of the Lord De-la-ware presented to this House for restitution of the same place in the Parliament which his Ancestors had in the Rank and Order of the Barons and referred to Committees viz. to the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury Lord Bishop of London Lord Bishop of Winton Lord Zouche Lord Stafford Lord Windsor Lord Sheffield Lord North Lord St. John of Bletsoe Lord Buckhurst Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Lord Chief Baron and Edward Coke Esq the Queens Atturney who appointed to meet at the Council-chamber at the Court at Whitehall on Sunday Nov. 6. at two of the clock in the afternoon Munday Nov. 7. An Act for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants secunda vice lect and committed to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Lord Admiral three Earls three Bishops three Barons the Lord Chief Justice of England Mr. Baron Ewens and Mr. Atturney General to attend their Lordships and appointed to meet at the little Council-chamber in Whitehall to morrow at four a clock in the afternoon Introductum est Breve Com. Derby quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur c. On Thursday Nov. 10. the Lord Treasurer made Report to the House what had been done by the Committees upon the Petition of the Lord De-la-ware and how it was resolved by them upon hearing and debating the matter with certain learned Counsel in the
each of them one Reading of which the third being a Bill for repeal of certain Statutes Bill for repeal of certain Statutes past was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Amendments made by the Lords in the Bill for the relief of Thomas Haeselrigg Esquire and in the Bill for the better recovery of Costs and Damages against common Informers before passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships and the Proviso added by the Lords to the said last-recited Bill were three times read and the same Proviso and Amendments were then passed upon the Question accordingly On Saturday March 22. Mr. Palmer one of the Committees in the Bill touching Gaging of Casks and of other Forreign Vessels bringeth in the Bill with some Amendments and Provisoes being twice read the Bill was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed Four Bills were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others of which the two first were one for the Relief of the City of Lincoln and the other against the abuse in Elections of Scholars and Presentations to Benefices with the Amendments and a Proviso March 23. Sunday On Munday March 24. Mr. Anderson being licensed to depart about her Majesties service two Bills had each of them one reading whereof the first being the Bill concerning Glass-houses was brought in by Mr. De la bar one of the Committees in such sort as it was delivered unto them and thereupon being twice read was after sundry Speeches and division of the House ordered to be ingrossed viz. with the Yeas forty three and with the Noes thirty five On Tuesday An 1589. March 25. it was ordered upon the Question That both the learned Counsel of the Earl of Warwick and also the learned Counsel of George Ognell do attend this House to morrow-morning The Bill for maintenance of houses of Husbandry and Tillage was upon the second reading committed unto the Privy Counsellors of this House Mr. Wroth Mr. Cromwel and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon at two of the clock in the Exchequer-chamber On Wednesday March 26. the Bill concerning Aliens Children was read the second time The Bill also for Strangers retailing of forraign Wares was amended by the Committee which Amendments being brought in by them with the Bill were now twice read although it be mistaken in the Original Journal-book that the Bill it self had its second reading The House was this day called over The House called over and the Defaulters noted and the Defaulters noted upon a Motion this day made by Sir John Parrot by her Majesties pleasure upon some intelligence given to her Highness of the small number of the Members of this House presently attending the service of the same the one half at least being supposed to be absent On Thursday March 27. the Bill against secret Outlawries had its second and third reading and passed upon the Question Dr. Cary and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords the Bill for the relief of the City of Lincoln with some Amendments of their Lordships unto the same with further advertisement from their Lordships that their Lordships do suspend their proceeding on the Bill for continuance and perfecting of certain Statutes sent from the House of Commons to their Lordships until their Lordships do hear from this House of the proceedings of this House in the Bill for the maintenance of Houses of Husbandry and Tillage On Friday March 28. the Amendments of the Lords in the Bill touching forcible Entries and also the Amendments of this House being all thrice read are agreed upon the Question in this House to be passed accordingly The Bill against such as steal or imbezzle the Goods Chattels or Treasure of her Majesty being put in trust with the same was read the first time Also the Bill that Aliens Children shall pay Strangers Customes was read the third time and a Proviso added unto it thrice read the Bill and Proviso upon the Question and Division of the House dashed with the Yeas sixty four and the Noes seventy four On Saturday March 29. Dr. Stanhopp and Mr. Powle do bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed this House for the continuation and perfecting of certain Statutes with a Schedule unto the same added and annexed by their Lordships and the same Schedule being thrice read passed upon the Question The Bill for the relief of the City of Lincoln being perfected according to the Amendments of the Lords and the Bill also for continuance of Statutes with the Schedule to the same were sent up to the Lords by the Master of the Wardrope and others Dr. Cary and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords two Bills viz. the Act of her Majesties gracious and free Pardon and the Act of the four Fifteenths and Tenths and two intire Subsidies which had before passed this House The Bill of the Queens Majesties most gracious and free Pardon being once read passed thereupon which Bill so passed was presently sent up unto the Lords by Mr. Fortescue and others After which Acts passed her Majesty having given her assent unto the passing of sixteen publick Acts and eight private Acts being all the Acts that passed this present Parliament Parl. dissolved Sir Christopher Hatton Kt. Lord Chancellor by her Majesties Commandment dissolved this Parliament An exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the Vpper House of Parliament 35 Eliz. holden at Westminster Anno xxxv o Reginae Eliz. Anno Dom. 1592. which begun there on Munday the 19th of February and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Tuesday the 9th of April Anno Dom. 1593. THE Summons for this Parliament being returnable upon this Munday February 19 it held accordingly Feb. 19. 1592. The Queen goes to the House of Lords The Queen coming privately by Water accompanied with Sir John Puckering Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and many of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal there being present this day these Peers and others ensuing The Names of the Peers there sitting Archiepisc Cant. Johannes Puckering Miles Dom. Custos mag Sigill Dom. Burleigh Dom. Thesaurar Angliae Marchio Wintoniae COMITES Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerarius Angliae Comes Derby Magnus Seneschallus Comes Northumbriae Comes Salopiae Comes Kanciae Comes Wignor Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Comes Huntingdon Comes Bathon Comes Pembrooke Comes Hartford Comes Essex Comes Lincoln Vicecomes Bindon EPISCOPI Episc London Episc Dunelmen Episc Asaphen Episc Cestren Episc Covent Litch Episc Lincoln Episc Peterburgh Episc Heref. Episc Cicestrens Episc Bangor Episc Wignor Episc Landaven Episc Salopiae Episc Bathon Wells BARONES Dom. Howard Mag. Maresch Admir Dom. Hunsdon Camerarius Reginae Dom. Strange Dom. Morley Dom. Stafford Dom. Grey Dom. Scroope Dom. Montjoy Dom. Sands Dom. Windsor Dom. Cromwel Dom. Wharton Dom. Rich. Dom. Willoughby Dom. Sheffield Dom. North. Dom. Shandois Dom. St. John Dom. Buckhurst Dom. De-la-ware Dom. Compton Dom. Norris The Queen and
help of a number of Souldiers that are seen in the time of this Parliament maimed and so hurt in the Wars of France the Low Countries and on the Seas for the service of the Queens Majesty and of the Realm and for that purpose have allowed that every Archbishop Marquiss Earl and Viscount should pay towards the Contribution the sum of 40 s. every Bishop 30 s. and every Baron 20 s. For collection whereof there hath been appointed the Queens Majesties Almoner the Bishop of Worcester to collect the same of Bishops the Lord Norris to collect the sums payable by the Lords Temporal which hath been diligently done and received by them for all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal that have been present and that have attended to their great charge on the service of the Realm in this Parliament And considering the number of the Souldiers be very many to be relieved therewith notwithstanding the Knights and Burgesses of the Commons House have yielded very good and large Contributions according to their degrees for the better relief of the said maimed Souldiers It is by the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal that have given their chargeable attendance here and have charitably and honourably yielded to this Contribution thought meet and so it is ordered and decreed by them with common and free consent That all the Lords of Parliament that have been altogether absent in this Sessions The absent Peers to pay a double proportion for the relief of the indigent and maimed Souldiers by Order of the House and that shall not have contributed to this charitable Relief before the end of this Sessions shall be required by Letters to be sent to them by the Lords that had their Procurations for their absence or by Letters from the Lord Keeper of the great Seal required and charged to make payment to be made according to their degrees and vocation double the sums of money paid by the Lords that have been here present and continued their attendance that is to say every Earl that hath been absent 4 l. the Archbishop of York to pay as much and every Bishop also to pay 3 l. and every Baron 40 s. And for such as have been here present sometimes and yet very seldom but have been absent most part it is thought meet That every such Lord Spiritual and Temporal shall according to their degrees pay a third part more than the Lords that have been present All which sums of money they shall cause to be delivered to the hands of the Lord Keeper of the great Seal to be afterwards by such Spiritual Lords of Parliament as are chosen for that purpose distributed to the maimed Souldiers as shall be found to have most need thereof The Commons having taken the same method The like whereof the Commons assembled in this Parliament have ordered for all the Members of that House that are absent and have not paid to contribute in double manner which Order is thought very just considering the Lords and others that have been absent and have been at no charge to come up and give their attendance may very reasonably and with a great saving to their charges contribute to this Order And if any Lord Spiritual or Temporal shall refuse or shall forbear thus to do which is hoped in Honour none will do there shall be ordinary means used to levy the same On Friday April 6. Four Bills were each of them once read Eight Bills were this Morning sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the last was an Act to make void the Spiritual Livings of those that have forsaken the Realm and do cleave to the Pope and his Religion On Saturday April 7. two Bills only were each of them once read April 8. Sunday On Munday April 9. were Three Bills each of them read secunda tertia vice and so expedited Also eight Bills this Morning were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof one was read prima secunda vice and another read prima vice This Morning finally whereas a Bill entituled an Act touching Power and Repeal of certain uses of a Deed Tripartite therein mentioned of and in certain Mannors Lands and Tenements of Anthony Coke of Rumford in the County of Essex Esquire hath been heretofore three times read and assented unto by the Lords in which Bill there is no Saving to the Queens Majesty or any other person or persons of their lawful estates or titles there was a Saving drawn for her Majesty and all others which was offer'd to this House And some question and ambiguity did grow whether the Saving should be now added to the Bill and in the end it was Resolv'd the same should be added to the Bill for that it is usual and requisite to have such Savings in every Bill and for that there was nothing in the Saving contrary to any matter in the Bill and that her Majesties Right and all others be saved thereby And nevertheless upon weighty Considerations the Lords have ordered that this shall not hereafter be drawn to make any president Then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament till the Morrow following on which it ended which said Continuance is entred in the Original Journal-book in Manner and Form following Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Martis hora octava On Tuesday April 10. In the Morning were two Bills read whereof the first was an Act for Naturalizing of certain Englishmens Children born beyond the Seas tertia vice lect expedit And the second was an Act for the Queens most gracious and free Pardon which was read only once and then passed the House Nota That the Bill or Act for the Queens general Pardon passeth each House upon the first reading whereas other Bills cannot be expedited without being thrice read both by the Lords and Commons The Queens Majesty came not till the Afternoon and therefore in this place through the negligence of the Clerk the continuing of the Parliament until some hour in the Afternoon is omitted which should have been inserted Between 5 and 6 a Clock in the Afternoon this present Tuesday being the 10 of April the Queens Majesty The Queen comes to Dissolve the Parliament accompanied with her Officers and dayly Attendance came to the Upper-House and assoon as her Majesty with her Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the rest that have place there were set the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice thereof came up with their Speaker bringing with them the Bill of the Subsidy The Speaker being placed at the Bar of the Upper-house and as many of the Commons as could conveniently be let in after humble Reverence to her Majesty spake as followeth The Speakers Speech to the Queen THe High Court of Parliament most High and Mighty Prince is the greatest and most antient Court within this Your Realm for before the Conquest
unwittingly miscarried by himself the same might not light upon the House but upon himself and be pardoned in him To which last Speech of the Speakers the Lord Keeper also by commandment from the Queen replied That her Majesty did well allow thereof and for his Petitions which concern'd both the House and himself her Highness was willing that they should enjoy all their ancient and lawful Priviledges but with this caution That she did not allow that any man should speak unreverently or scandalously either of the Church or State And then the Lord Keeper by the Queens commandment continued the Parliament until Saturday following being Feb. 24. Nota That the aforesaid Speeches are set down more at large in the Journal of the Paslages of the Upper House of this Parliament to which they do more properly belong And on Friday the House met not Saturday Feb. 24. the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons did meet in the Lower House about nine of the clock but by the Clerk of the Parliament it was signified that the Speaker had been ill at ease the night past and could not without peril of further sickness adventure to come abroad wherefore he craved in his name leave of the House to be absent that day This day Mr. Peter Wentworth and Sir Henry Bromley delivered a Petition unto the Lord Leeper A Petition delivered to the Lord Keeper by Mr. Wentworth c. for intailing the Succession to the Crown The Queen offended at it causes them to be confined therein desiring the Lords of the Upper House to be Suppliants with them of the Lower House unto her Majesty for entailing the Succession to the Crown whereof a Bill was ready drawn by them Her Majesty was highly displeased therewith after she knew thereof as a matter contrary to her former straight Commandment and charged the Council to call the Parties before them Sir Thomas Henage presently sent for them and after speech with them commanded them to forbear coming to the Parliament and not to go out from their several Lodgings About this matter A Committee appointed for this thing but few come to it in the beginning of the Parliament was a Committee appointed to be had of many wise grave and antient Parliament-men as were of the House but at this time few met at the place appointed at least such men as were expected It was appointed at this time to Mr. Stevens to peruse the penning of the Petition that should have been delivered to that House and to have provided a Speech upon the delivery of it but this office by reason of other occasions he could not attend What other things were done in that Conference were as I heard confessed unto some of the Privy Council Their Secrets discovered by some of them to the Privy Council by some of those Parties that were present at the Conference All that were except those before-named went free and were never called in question The day after being Sunday and Feb. 25. and the House sat not yet the aforesaid Mr. Wentworth Sir Henry Bromeley and some others were called before the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Lord Buckhurst and Sir Thomas Henage who intreated them very favourably and with good Speeches but so highly was her Majesty offended that they must needs commit them Wentworth and Bromeley 〈◊〉 and so they told them Whereupon Mr. Peter Wentworth was sent Prisoner to the Tower Sir Henry Bromeley and one Mr. Richard Stevens to whom Sir Henry Bromely had imparted the matter were sent to the Fleet as also Mr. Welche the other Knight for Wercestershire On Munday Feb. 26. after the Letany was read which is the first thing done when the Speaker is set in his Chair was read an Act entituled An Act for continuing her Majesties Subjects in more due Obedience This Bill contained all these Particulars following 1. The Party so indicted and convicted A Penal Act. shall forfeit all his Goods and Chattels which he hath in his own right or in the right of his Wife 2. He shall forfeit two parts of his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments if he be born under her Highness Allegiance and of the age of sixteen years 3. A Feme Covert shall lose her Dowry or Joynture which she might have by her Baron 4. If a man match with an Inheritrix being a Recusant he shall lose two parts of those Lands to the Queen and neither of them shall administrate to any man 5. Such Party being a Recusant shall be disabled to make any Purchase or Sale of Lands 6. He shall be disabled to take or make any Lease either to the use of himself or to the use of his Wife 7. A Recusant shall forfeit for keeping any such Recusant person in his house either Servant or Stranger 10 l. every month being at one time so long in his house or at several times in his yard 8. He shall be barred to bear any Office in the Land or to practise as Counsellor Doctor Sollicitor Proctor Atturney or Advocate to the Law 9. He shall have his Children taken from him if they be above the age of seven years and to be disposed of by the Lords of the Council or the Ordinary or the Judges of Assizes and their maintenance to be raised out of the third part of such Recusants Livings 10. He shall be disenabled to make any sale of any of his Goods or Chattels 11. If he be a Copyholder he shall forfeit his Copyhold during his life whereof two parts is to go to the Queen and the third to the Lord of the Mannor 12. If any person be indicted for Recusancy of malice he shall have the remedy against the party at the Common Law 13. If any person having been a Recusant shall at any time recant he shall make his submission in the Parish-Church where he dwelleth acknowledging the Queens proceedings to be just and detest the Church of Rome which he shall also do in open Court before the Judges of Assize 14. If any such person after his Recantation fall into relapse he shall lose the benefit of the former Recantation for ever 15. Lastly there is a Proviso That those that have already bought any Lands of any that now are or shall be indicted for a Recusant the Bargain shall be as good and stand in effect as if this had never been made This Bill upon a Committee received all these Alterations following whereupon it came as a new Bill again The first Article omitted altogether being thought too hard The Penal Bill amended The third That the women are to lose but two parts of Dowry or Joynture after her Husbands death The Husband not being a Recusant to forfeit no part of his Land for his Wives Recusancy The fifth All Sales made by Recusants since 2º Eliz. of Lands whereof he taketh the profits or which Conveyauce is to his use or upon any Trust or confidence to be void
read March 1. an Act was read against Strangers born to sell forreign Wares by retail no Stranger born to do it except he hath served seven years with an Englishman in the same Trade Serjeant Yelverton HE spake concerning the Priviledges of this House Yelverton The Burgess of Misteard in Cornwall being elected the Town refused to deliver up their Indenture to the Sheriff but the Party elected made his Indenture and delivered it to the Clerk of the Crown who filed it with the rest of the Indentures returned by the Sheriff the Sheriff having indorsed it upon his Writ but this Indenture was never executed by the Sheriff nor return'd and yet this Return was held as it should seem by the Committees to be good Sir Edward Hobby THe Party outlawed is not out of his wits therefore capable Sir Edward Hobby and then he is a man able to be chosen and Idoneus to be a Burgess onely a difference may be made where the Outlawry is for a Cause Criminal and a Cause Personal as in this Cause Is this disability greater then a man outlawed may not be a Burgess as well as an Atturney to a man or as an Executor And I think it will stand with the Priviledge of the House to deliver him though he were outlawed Mr. Finch HE said he could not tell which to hold Mr. Finch or on which side to speak The book of 20 Hen. 7. doth prove that there were elected such as were attainted and that disability was taken against them The Writ to chuse a Burgess is not legalem hominem as in all places but Idoneum therefore we ought not to be so strict as if he were to be challenged upon a Jury At the Common Law Outlawries was onely for Causes Criminal as for Treason or Felony but these Outlawries in Personal Causes onely by the Statute 11 Hen. 4. not so great a difficulty as that at the Common Law On the other side utlegatus ne villen cannot be a Champion which is as a Judge to decide then à Fortiori he can be no Judge in this House Outlawry is an Attainder therefore the Party so stained is no competent Judge The great Charter is all Tryals ought to be per legales homines parum suorum the outlawed man is not of the number of Parium and so not to be a Judge Vide 8 Ed. 3. utlegatus ne puit estre c. On Friday March 2. the old Question touching an outlawed man to be a Burgess was again spoken unto Mr. Tanfield HE held Mr. Tanfield that a Person outlawed might be a Burgess He made an Exception where the difference of a Burgess grew upon matter before the Election and where after If the Exception grew after then a Burgess elected must not be out of the House If Exception be taken to this Election and this Outlawry now alleadged to disenable him the Statute of 23 Hen 6 cap. 15. will disenable most of this House for they ought to be Burgesses resident Now if this be a good Election then it follows that the Party elected is to have his Priviledge And although the Common Law doth disenable the Party yet the Priviledge of the House being urged that prevaileth over the Law Sir William Moore FIrst Sir Will. Moore he shewed that her Majesty had more cause to have Subsidies than had Hen. 8. Edw. 6. or Queen Mary for Hen. 8. Wars continued not though they were violent In his time the Wars were impulsive not defensive he had the suppression of all the Abbeys a matter of great Riches unto him he had a Benevolence and then a Subsidy paid within three months to Sir Geo. Peckham Edw. 6. had Chauntries and all the Church-plate for relief paid him Queen Mary had a Relief paid her which she never repaid But her Majesty that now is hath been a continual Defence of her own Realms and her Neighbours France and the Low Countries yet hath she repaid the Loans and hath had no such helps Sir George Carey I Speak for the Subsidy Sir Geo. Carey first answering one that hath said we must regard them and their Estates for whom we be here saying he regarded and came for them as was meet and they will more thank us for taking something from them than if we should abandon them and leave them and all that they have to the spoil of the Enemy which will be if with Forces we provide not to withstand them for eminent dangers hangs over our SPEAKERs and are intended to us this Summer The Spaniards already have sent 7000 Pistols of gold into Scotland to corrupt the Nobility and to the King 20000 Crowns now lately were dispatched out of France into Scotland for the levying of 3000 men which the Scotish Lords have promised and the King of Spain will levy 30000 men and give them all Pay Her Majesty is resolved to send Sir Francis Drake to Sea to encounter them with a great Navy wherefore this our Danger is to be prevented and these her Majesties infinite Charges supplied by us Sir Walter Rawleigh HE spake of the Subsidy not onely as he protested Sir Walter Rawleigh to please the Queen to whom he is infinitely bound above his desert but for the necessity he both saw and knew He very well discovered the great strength of the King of Spain and to shew his mightiness he told how he possessed all the world and also that his malice and ill purpose was evident to this Realm He shewed how on every side he had beleaguered us In Denmark that King being young he hath corrupted the Council and Nobility so as it was very likely he would speed himself of Shipping from thence in the Marine-Towns of the Low Countries and in Norway he hath laid in great store of Shipping in France he hath the Parliament-Towns at his command in Britain he hath all the best Havens and in Scotland he hath so corrupted the Nobility that he had promised them Forces to assist the Papists that they were ready to joyn with any forreign Forces that would make them strong to be by themselves and to resist others for as he thought there were not six Gentlemen of that Country to be of one Religion In his own Country there is all possible preparing and he is coming with sixty Gallies besides other Shipping with purpose if he goes forward and hath good success we must then have no Ships if he invade us riding at Anchor but all will be little enough to withstand him At his coming he fully resolveth to get Plimouth or at least to possess some of the Havens this Summer within our Land and Plimouth is in most danger for no Ordnance can be carried thither to remove him the passages will not give leave Now the way to defeat him was this To send a Royal Army and supplant him in Britany and to possess our selves there and to send a strong Navy to Sea and
Committees in the Bill concerning Coopers brought in the Bill again as not dealt in by the Committee for lack of convenient time The Bill for restraint of new buildings converting of great houses into several Tenements and for restraint of Inmates and Inclosures neer unto the Cities of London and Westminster with one Amendment to the said Bill was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer Sir John Woolley and others with a Remembrance to move their Lordships for sending down of the Bill for grant of three entire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty to the end Mr. Speaker may this afternoon present the same unto her Majesty according to the former accustomed usage of this House Mr. Serjeant Owen Mr. Atturney-General and Mr. Powle brought down from the Lords an Act entituled An Act for the Queens most gracious general and free Pardon Divers other Bills were this day read This Afternoon the Parliament was dissolved 39 Eliz. A Journal of such things as passed in the Vpper House of Parliament in the Parliament that held Anno xxxix o Eliz. Reginae and began October 24. in the same year and ended February 9. following ANno Dom. 1597. Regni Eliz. Reginae 39. die Lunae 24. Mensis Octob. Inchoatum est Parliament Westmonasterii in Domo consuet quo die Regina diversi Domini tam Spiritual quam Temporal viz. Archiepiscopus Cant. Tho. Egerton Miles Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Marchio Winton Comes Sussex Magnus Marescall Comes Nottingham Magnus Scenescall eight other Earls one Viscount fifteen Bishops and twenty three Barons were present whose Name are particularly set down in the Journal-book Dicto 24. die Octob. viz. primo die hujus Parliamenti Oct. 24. introduct est Breve quo Archiepiscopus Ebor. praesenti Parliamento interesse summonibatur admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi locum salvo jure alieno Consimilima Brevia introduct sunt 4 Comitibus 10 Episcopis 5 Baronibus The Lord Keeper by the Queens commandment delivered to both Houses the Causes that moved her majesty to summons this Parliament The Lord Keeper's Speech THE Queens most excellent Majesty Lord Keeper's Speech my most gracious and dread Soveraign hath commanded me to declare unto you my Lords and others here present the Causes which have moved her Highness to summons this Parliament at this time which before I can express I must confess truely that the Royal presence of her Majesty the view of your Lordships and this honourable Assembly together with the consideration of the weightiness of the service and of my own weakness doth much appale me and cause me to fear Wherefore if either through fear I forget or through the many wants and imperfections which I have I fail to perform that duty which is required I do most humbly crave pardon of her Majesty and beseech your Lordships to bear with me The great Princely Care which her Highness now hath An. 1597. as heretofore she hath ever had to preserve her Kingdoms in Peace and safe from all forreign Attempts hath caused her at this present to assemble this honourable and great Council of her Realm to advise of the best and most needful means whereby to continue this her peaceable and happy Government and to withstand the malice of her mighty and implacable Enemy which hitherto by the space of many years through her provident and Princely wisdom hath been performed to the great and inestimable benefit of her Subjects as that the simplest amongst them could not but see and the wisest but admire their happiness therein the whole Realm enjoying Peace in all security when our Neighbour-Countries have been torn in pieces and tormented with cruel and bloody Wars This her Majesty is pleased to ascribe to the mighty power and infinite mercy of the Almighty And therefore it shall well become us all most thank-fully upon the knees of our hearts to acknowledge no less unto his holy Name who of his infinite goodness still preserve her Highness and send her many years more over us in all happiness to reign In this her blessed Government her Highness chief care and regard of all hath been of the honour and service of the Almighty God that true Religion might be planted and entertained in the hearts of her People through all the parts of her Realms and as well in that behalf as for the peace and benefit of her Subjects she hath from time to time established many good Laws to meet with the Disorders and to punish the offences of wicked and ungodly men that continuing in their bad ways they may not be hardened and go forward in their wickedness for Mora in peccato dat incrementum sceleri And whereas the number of the Laws already made are very great some also of them being obsolete andworn out of use others idle and vain serving to no purpose some again over-heavy and too severe for the offence others too loose and slack for the faults they are to punish and many of them so full of difficulties to be understood that they cause many controversies and much trouble amongst the Subjects You are to enter into a due consideration of the said Laws and where you finde superfluity to prune and cut off where defect to supply and were ambiguity to explain that they be not burthen-some but profitable to the Common-wealth Which being a service of importance and very needful to be required yet as nothing is to be regarded if due means be not had to withstand the malice and force of those professed Enemies which seeks the destruction of the whole State This before all and above all is to be thought of and with most endeavour and care to be provided for for in vain are Laws made and to little purpose will they serve be they never so good if such prevail as go about to make a Conquest of the Kingdom and destruction of the People Wars heretofore were wont to be made either out of Ambition to enlarge Deminions or out of Revenge to requite Injuries but this against us is not so In this the holy Religion of God is sought to be rooted out the whole Realm to be subdued and the precious life of her excellent Majesty to be taken away which hitherto by the powerful hand and great goodness of the Almighty have been preserved maugre the Devil the Pope the Spanish Tyrant and all the misohievous designes of all her Enemies Wherefore it is high time that this be looked into and that no way be left unsought nor means unused that may serve for defence thereof Her Majesty hath not spared to disburse a mass of Treasure and to sell her Land for the maintenance of her Armies by Sea and Land whereby with such small helps as from her Subjects hath been yielded she hath defended and kept safe her Dominions from all such forcible attempts as have been made which
by the Lord Keeper in the name and behalf of the House to such Knights and Burgesses as come from the Lower House the said Knights and Burgesses are to receive the same standing towards the lower end of the House and the Lord Keeper is to deliver the same with his head covered and all the Lords are to keep their places And thereupon the Lower House was satisfied and the same form was afterwards kept accordingly On Friday Jan. 20. The Answer in writing that came yesterday from the Lower House to the Objections taken by their Lordships to some points of the Bill intituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm was by the Order of the House referred and delivered unto the Lords Committees formerly appointed upon that Bill who were required to consider thereof and make their Report of their Opinions concerning the same On Saturday Jan. 21. the Bill for reforming of sundry abuses committed by Souldiers and others in the War read secunda vice On Munday Jan. 23. a Bill for establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth read prima vice On Tuesday Jan. 24. the Bill intituled An Act for the relieving of Clothiers concerning the weight of short broad and coloured Clothes to be made in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury first of the Committees who made report that upon hearing of both parties and upon due consideration of the reasons and allegations by them alleadged the Committees thought there could not be any further proceedings in the same whereupon a new Bill was presented bearing this Title viz. An Act touching the making of short broad course coloured Clothes in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex which was read prima vice Debated in the House whether Amendments upon a Bill being brought into the House by Committees may afterwards be contradicted or spoken against by any of the Committees A Doubt propouded and reâ—â—â—â—ed The doubt was left for the present unresolved but afterwards cleared and ruled Affirmatively On Wednesday Jan. 25. an Act that no person robbing of a House in the Day-time although no person be therein shall be admitted to have the benefit of his Clergie secunda vice lect An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patents their Heirs and Assignes notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown secunda vice lect and referred to Committees viz. the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury Lord Treasurer Lord Marshal and others appointed to meet c. the Lord Chief-Justice the Lord Chief-Baron and Mr. Atturney-General to attend them Sir Moyle Finch to be heard by his Counsel learned openly in the House to morrow-morning concerning this Bill Notice given to the House by the Lord Treasurer that the Committees upon the Bill concerning Tellers Receivers c. had a meeting with a select number of the Lower House to confer upon the Objections and Answers touching that Bill yesterday in the Afternoon according to the order taken Jan. 23. But forasmuch as the said number of the Lower House at the meeting affirmed that they had no authority to undertake the debating of the said Objections and Answers otherwise than to speak as they should see cause as private men and desired that the Answers might be communicated to the Lower House in writing the Lords therefore sent down the said Answers to the Lower House by the hands of Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhop On Thursday Jan. 26. an Act for enabling Edmond Molineux to sell Lands for the payment of his Debts c. was returned to the House by the Lord Marshal second of the Committees And forasmuch as the same could not be determined by the said Committees by reason of some of the Kindred of the said Edmond Molineux who opposed themselves against the Bill a motion was therefore made that the Cause might be ended by some arbitrary course whereupon the Parties on both sides were called into the House and moved to that purpose unto which they assented and made choice of the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of London and the Lord Montjoy who were appointed to meet that afternoon c. An Act to reform Deceits and breaches of Trust touching Lands given to charitable uses returned to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury with some amendments and a Proviso thought meet to be added which were twice read and thereupon Commandment given that the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso ingrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading The Bill intituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm returned to the House by the Earl of Shrewsbury first of the Committees And because it seemed to all the Committes appointed for this Bill together with the Judges that notwithstanding the Conference with several selected persons of the Lower House that this Bill could not proceed Order was given to the Judges but especially to the Lord Chief-Justice to draw a new Bill whereupon this new Bill following was brought into the House An Act against decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry prima vice lect Excuse made by the Lord Admiral for the Earl of Hertford's absence for want of health The like by the Lord Chandois for the Lord de la Ware The Lord Marshal signified to the House that the Lord Mordant and the Lord Sheffield had leave of her Majesty for their absence On Friday Jan. 27. the Lord Treasurer took his place this day as Baron of Burleigh between the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Compton The Lord Admiral his place as Earl of Nottingham between the Earl of Lincoln and the Lord Viscount Byndon The Lord Chamberlain his place as Baron of Hunsdon between the Lord Chandois and the Lord St. John of Bletsoe On Saturday Jan. 28. the Bill for the lawful making of Bays in the Counties of Essex and Suffolk was read tertia vice On Munday Jan. 30. an Act for Retailing-brokers and other Pawn-takers returned to the House by the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury first of the Committees and because there was found many defects therein so that they thought the same unfit to be proceeded in they therefore together with the said Bill presented a new Bill intituled as the former which was read prima vice On Tuesday Jan. 31. a Motion from the lower House by Sir John Forscue and others that some new time might be appointed for conference about the Act intituled An Act for reforming sundry abuses committed by Souidiers c. in regard they had appointed some other meeting this Afternoon for the preparing of a Bill of Accomptants in readiness to proceed their Lordships having considered of the Motion made answer by the Lord Keeper that they wished for some good consideration that the appointed time viz. this Afternoon might hold for this Conference supposing that if it please the
Committees and some Amendments they had made in the said Bill and so delivered in the Bill and Amendments to the House The Bill for building and erecting of a bridge over the River of Wye at Wilton upon Wye neer the Town of Ross in the County of Hereford was read the third time and passed upon the Question Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp did bring from the Lords a Bill passed in this House and sent up to their Lordships entituled An Act for the establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esq and for the better enabling William Pope aforesaid to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts And another for the confirmation of the Joynture of the Lady Verney Wife of Sir Edmond Verney Knight which Bill their Lordships have also passed with some Amendments Sunday Feb. 5. On Munday Feb. 6. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the reformation of retailing and Pawn-takers was read the first time Mr. Boyes one of the Committees in the two Bills the one against carrying Corn out of the Realm and the other to restrain the lading of Corn in some Ports shewed the meeting of the Committees and that they had made some Amendments in one of the same Bills and so delivered the said Bills into the House Mr. Francis Bacon Bill against the decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry one of the Committees in the Bill late passed in the Upper House by the Lords and sent down to this House against the decaying of Towns and houses of Husbandry shewed the meeting of the Committees and their Amendments in the said Bill which being read to the House were very well liked of by the whole House On Tuesday Feb. 7. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill for establishing a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William to sell certain Lands for payment of his Debts was read the second time and committed to Mr. Controuler Mr. Lukenor Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Oglethorpe and the Knights and Burgesses of London and twenty four others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Court of Wards The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords in a Bill lately passed in this House entituled An Act for the reviving continuing and repealing of divers Statutes being thrice read the Amendments were assented unto and the Provisoes were passed upon the Question On Wednesday Feb. 8. the Bill entituled An Act for the establishing of a Joynture to Anne Lady Wentworth now Wife of William Pope Esquire and for the better enabling of the said William to sell certain of his Lands for the payment of his Debts and the Bill entituled An Act for the enabling Edmond Moleneux Esquire to sell Lands for the payment of Debts and Legacies and the Bill entituled An Act against the deceitful stretching of Northern Cloath and the Bill entituled An Act for the further continuing and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners made thirty five Reginae were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for the reformation of abuses in Wine-casks was read the third time and dashed upon the Question The Bill for the better execution of Judgments was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Thursday Feb. 9. the Bill entituled An Act for reformation of Retailing-Brokers and other Pawn-takers the Bill entituled An Act that Lessees may enjoy their Leases against all Patentees their Heirs and Assignees notwithstanding any default of payment of their Rents during the time that the Reversion or Inheritance remained in the Crown and a Bill entituled An Act for the better execution of Judgments were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Controuler and others The Bill for the Queens Majesties most gracious Pardon was once read and passed upon the Question Nota That whereas to the passing of other Bills three several readings are required here the Bill for her Majesties most gracious Pardon passed upon the first reading Mr. Serjeant Drewe and Dr. Carewe brought from the Lords the Bill entituled An Act for the grant of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths and did shew that their Lordships in like manner have passed the said Bill and so delivered the same to Mr. Speaker to the end that he might carry the same up to the Upper House to be presented by him unto her Majesty in the name of the whole House Post Meridiem The Queens Majesty came to the Upper House soon after three of the clock of which the House of Commons having notice repaired thither with Christopher Yelverton Serjeant at Law their Speaker who having in the name of the whole House presented her Majesty with the Bill of three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths amongst other things desired her Majesties Royal assent to such Laws as had passed the two Houses He was answered according to her Majesties command by the Lord Keeper That she thankfully accepted of the said Gift of her loving Subjects and very well allowed of the said Speakers pains and Speech Then Mr. Smith the Clerk of the Upper House The Qu. passeth 24 publick Acts and 19 private Acts and refuses 48 Acts that had passed both Houses and then dissolves this Parl. having read the Titles of all the Acts her Majesty gave her Royal assent to twenty four publick Acts and nineteen private and refused fourty eight which had passed both the Houses After which Sir Thomas Edgerton Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England by her Majesties commandment dissolved this present Parliament An exact Journal of the Passages of the Vpper House of Parliament 43 Eliz. holden at Westminster anno 43 Eliz. Reginae annoque Dom. 1601. which began on Tuesday 27 Octob. and there continued until 19 Decemb. next insuing ON Tuesday Octob. 27. Oct. 27. the Parliament held according to the Summons that had been sent forth The Qu. comes to the House of Peers and the Queens Majesty was personally present in the Upper House about three of the clock in the afternoon her Majesty came accompanied with the Lord Keeper of the great Seal and divers of the Nobility and Bishops There were present all sitting in their Parliament-Robes according to their several places these Noble Personages following Lift of the Peers then present The Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Tho. Edgerton Lord Leeper of the great Seal The Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer of England The Marquiss of Winchester The Earl of Sussex Earl Marshal of England The Earl of Nottingham Lord High-Admiral of England and Lord Steward of her Majesties Houshold The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Derby The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Cumberland The Earl of Hertford The Earl of Lincoln BISHOPS The Bishop of London The Bishop of
Durham The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield The Bishop of Worcester The Bishop of Bath and Wells The Bishop of St. Davids The Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of St. Assaph The Bishop of Chester The Bishop of Chichester The Bishop of Exeter The Bishop of Salisbury The Bishop of Ely The Bishop of Peterborough BARONS The Lord Zouche The Lord Cobham The Lord Stafford The Lord Grey de Wilton The Lord Dudley The Lord Lumley The Lord Sturton The Lord Windsore The Lord Mordant The Lord Wharton The Lord Rich. The L. Willoughby of Parham The Lord Sheffield The Lord Darcy of Chichester The Lord Chandois The Lord St. John of Bletsoe The Lord Compton The Lord Norreys The Lord Howard of Walden Sir Thomas Edgerton Kt. Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England made a Speech to this effect An. 1601. HE used strong perswasions both to Thankfulness and Obedience Lord Keeper's Speech and also shewed her Majesty desired the Parliament might end before Christmas He shewed the necessity we stand in and the means to prevent it the necessity of the Wars between Spain and England the means and treasure we had to oppose His advice was that Laws in force might be revised and explained and no new Laws made The causes of the Wars he laid down to be that they were Enemies to God the Queen and the Peace of this Kingdom that they conspired to overthrow Religion and to reduce us to a tyrannical Servitude These two Enemies he named to be the Bishop of Rome and the King of Spain Our Estate standing thus he advised us to be provident by reason we deal with circumspect Enemies and said he was confident of good success because God hath ever and he hoped ever would bless the Queen with successful fortune He shewed how apparent his providence was for by experience and judgment his tortering he giveth the means and courses he taketh for our instructions And secondly the success we had against him by Gods strong arm of defence in Anno 1588 and divers others times since You see to what effect the Queens support of the French Kings Estate hath brought him to even made him one of the greatest Princes in Europe yet when her Majesties Forces there left him how again he was fain to ransome a servile Peace at the hands of our Enemies the Spaniards with dishonourable and servile Conditions For the Low Countries how by her aid from a confused Government and Estate she brought them to an unity in Council and defended them with such success in her Attempts against the greatest power of the Spaniards tyrannical designes which have so much galled him that how many desperate practices have been both devised consented unto and set on foot by the late King his Father I need not shew you nor trouble you with Arguments for proof thereof being confessed by them that should have been Actors themselves thereof but De mortuis nil nisi bonum I would be loath to speak ill of the dead much more to slander the dead I have seen her Majesty wear at her Girdle the price of her own bloud I mean Jewels that have been given to her Physicians to have done that unto her which God will ever keep her from but she hath worn them rather in triumph than for the price that hath not been valuable Receivers of Petitions for England Receivers of Petitions Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Kt. Lord Chief Justice Francis Gawdy one of the Justices of the Kings-bench George Kingsmell one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edm. Anderson Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Periam Kt. Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesly one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Swale and Dr. Hene Triers of Petitions of England Ireland Wales and Scotland Triers of Petitions The Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquiss of Winchester the Earl of Sussex Lord Marshal of England the Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and Steward of the Queens house the Earl of Hertford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche and the Lord Cobham All these or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the great Seal and the Lord Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants at their leisures to meet and hold their place in the Chamberlain's chamber Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles The Earl of Oxford High Chamberlain of England the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord De-la-ware the Lord Lumley the Lord Burleigh All these or any four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Atturney and Sollicitor to hold their place when their leisure did serve them to meet in the Treasurer's chamber Then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament which is set down in the Original Journal-book in these words Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliament usq in diem Veneris prox futur viz. 30 diem Octob. On Friday Octob. 30. about one of the clock in the afternoon her Majesty came by water to the Upper House and being apparelled in her Royal Robes and placed in her Chair of Estate divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being present the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons who had attended at the door with John Crooke Esq Recorder of London John Crooke Esq Recorder of London presented as Speaker their Speaker elect the full space of half an hour were at last as many as could be conveniently let in And the said Speaker was led up to the bar at the lower end of the said House by Sir William Knolls Kt. Controuler of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer and presented to her Majesty to whom after he had made three low Reverences he spake in effect as followeth Most sacred and mighty Soveraign UPon your commandment His Speech your Majesties most dutiful and loving Commons the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Lower House have chosen me your Majesties most humble servant a Member of the same House to be their Speaker but my self finding the weakness of my self and my ability too weak to undergo so great a burthen do most humbly beseech your sacred Majesty to continue your most gracious favour towards me and not to lay this Charge so unsupportable upon my unworthy and unable self And that it would please you to command your Commons to make a new Election of another more able and more sufficient to discharge the great Service to be
after the Sermon was done at Westminster which would be ended by Ten of the Clock And that was affirmed to be the Antient Course On Tuesday Novemb. 17. A Bill was read for the Enabling of Edward Nevill of Berling in the County of Kent Esq and Sir Edward Nevil his Son and Heir apparent to Sell certain Coppy-hold Lands A Bill for the true payment of Tythes to the Parsons and Vicars of all Parishes within the Walls of the City of Norwich An Act against the unlawful Hunting and Stealing of Deer in the Night time A Bill to prevent Perjury Bill to prevent Perjury and subornation c. and Subornation of Perjury and to prevent unnecessary Suits in Law the Effect of which Bill is for Removing of Suits by Habeas Corpus or Certiorari before one Juror Sworn out of the petty Courts to Westminster I delivered this Bill viz. Mr. Heword Townssend the Collector of this Journal at the delivery whereof I said Mr. Speaker I take every man to be bound in Conscience to remove a little mischief from the Common-Wealth before it take Head and grow to a great inconveniency This Mischief is ordinary and general therefore though but small yet to be considered of and provided against And if a Heathen Philosopher could Admonish us Obstare principiis I see no reason That men Indued with Christianity should be of the least hurt growing in his Country either regardless or respectless For which purpose a Gentleman well experienced having found this grief common to the poorer sort like a good Subject tendering all the parts of this Common-wealth intreated me at my coming into this House this morning to offer unto your considerations this Bill It is Intituled An Act c. the Effect whereof is c. which if it please you to entertain with that willingness it is offer'd I doubt not but this inconvenience will be quickly Redressed So I Offered the Bill and prayed it might be Read A Bill for the Confirmation of Letters Pattents made by King Edward the sixth to Sir Edward Seymor Knight A Bill for strengthning an Act made by King Henry 8. for the maintenance of the Poor in St. Bartholomews London A Bill about St. Bartholomew Hospital according to a Covenant made by the said King was Read the second time And after a Speech made by Sir Stephen Some Alderman of London it was committed he alleadged Sir Stephen Some speaks to it That by the Foundation of the Hospital there were only One Hundred Poor maintained and by the Gifts of other Benefactors since One Hundred more besides Six Hundred which are there now in Cure of divers Diseases And the Good that comes by this as well as other Hospitals in London is very apparent For there are of Poor people besides the certain Number of Hospitallers the best part of Three Thousand daily in Cure Sir Edward Hobby said Sir Edward Hobby's consideration about the same I find this Bill to be put into this House to the end that some Contention touching the Limits of the Parish next adjoyning to St. Bartholmews may be adjusted I am ever jealous of private Bills of this Nature and dare not shew my self hasty in Assenting to Pass any without Commitment lest we might Infring the Liberties of some other Parish adjoyning Therefore I Pray it may be committed and the Parties on both sides Called before the Committees A Bill to Redress Adultery was Offer'd to the Speakers hands The Substance of the Bill was A Bill against Adultery That if a Woman or Man or both were Convicted of Adultery He should lose his Tenancy by Courtesy and she her Tenancy in Dower Read the first time Serjeant Harries stept up to this Bill Serjeant Harri Objects and said Mr. Speaker by the scope of this Bill the Determination of this Fact must be by two or three blind Witnesses in the Ecclesiastical Court which is no Reason that Judges Ecclesiastical should Determine of Lay-mens Inheritances Besides there is another gross fault in the Bill For if they be both Poor and have nothing but Goods they Forfeit nothing Now if a man be taken in Adultery he shall not be Punished because there is nothing of what he should be Tenant by the Courtesy But if the Woman be taken she is to lose the Third of the Goods or if it be in the City The House rejects it by Custome she loseth the half which is Jus inequale and not to be admitted in this House Then all the House Cryed Away with it Then the Speaker put it to the Question Whether it should be Read the second time And the House gave a very great No. On Wednesday Novemb. 18. The Bill concerning Cloth-workers was Committed and the time of Meeting appointed on Munday next in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-Hall The Bill for Reforming the Abuses in Silk-Weavers A Bill for Reforming Abuses in Embroderers A Bill for the Repealing of certain Statutes made 5. Edward 6. and 2. 3. Phil. Marie touching the making of Cloth and for the Reforming of Abuses in Making of Cloth in the County of Somerset was committed to the Committee for Cloth-workers The Bill for Solicitors A Bill about Solicitors brought in by Mr. Jones the Effect whereof is That no person whatsoever shall Solicit other than those that will do the same without Fee or Reward also a Proviso that Utter-Barresters may Solicit in all Courts whatsoever the like for Attornies the like for them which may maintain any Suit by Law the like for Corporations that they may make a Sollicitor Also a Proviso that no Mechanick Trader may be a Sollicitor viz. Broker Scrivener Miller Smith c. and limited to continue to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament A Bill against Trifling Suits A Bill against Taincoring of Cloth brought in by Mr. Boyse The Bill touching Confirmation of Patents brought in by Mr. Francis Moore A Bill for Reformation of Abuses in making of Cloth Read Sir George Moor opposes the too great punishment and desires it may be Committed To which Sir George Moore stood up and said This Statute forbiddeth Clothiers to use Tayntors The first Offence Twenty Pounds the second Pillory too infamous a Punishment for so necessary a Member It pleased the Lords of her Majesties most Honourable Privy Council to direct their Letters to the Justices of the Peace in the Shire where I dwell for the Suppressing of Tayntors We sent our Warrants out to the Cloth-workers appointing them to attend us at a certain Day and Place Upon Examination of the Matter before us We found by those Reasons they alleadged that Cloth could not be made serviceable without Tayntors And though they Taintred it never so little it would stretch a little in breadth at least a quarter of a yard in length for which small fault being not voluntary methinks the punishment aforesaid is too too grievous I think it
in hoc bello Apostolica Authoritate à nobis Administrandum ut verum fatear possem sacillime convitia quod nobis objiciunt in ipsos retundere voluptatem quam maledicendo sumpsere illam male audiendo amittere Caeterum novimus ut debiles inermes Muliercola ad convitia fugere Sed hiis praetermissis ad objecta solida veritate ex Christiana Modestate respondere Imprimis Commoneamini nos velle subditos praetensos Reginae Angliae ab obedientia debita per dei legem servitute abducere ad nos aggregare Quod maximâ ex parte à veritate alienum est Neminem enim persuadere conamur ut debitam servitutem secundum dei Legem deneget suo Principi Sed hene nostis ante multos Annos ipsam Elizabetham for so said Mr. Secretary he bluntly called her that same Elizabeth privatam esse Regno subditosque omnes absolutos esse à Juramento Fidelitatis per supremum Pontificem cui Regnans in excelsis Bex Regum omnimodum potestatem tradidit ut evellat distruat plantet aedificet ita ut ipsos Reges temporales si ad spirituale aedificiem expediret eósque ad depositionem à Regno privat quod factum esse in Regnis Angliae Hiberniae à pluribus Pontificibus supremis viz. Pio quinto Gregorio decimo tertio nunc Clemento octavo omnibus notum est quorum Diplomata extant apud nos Catholicis Loquor non protervis Haereticis qui à Fide Romanae Ecclesiae declinaverunt nam cum Caeci sunt Caecorum Duces sundamenta veritatis prorsus ignorant etiam in hoc dissentire à nobis non mirum est Sed nostri fratres Catholici in simplicitate fidei Romanae ambulentes Ecclesia Catholica consentientes quod est columna fundamentum veritatis omnia ista facile percipiant Ergo restat quod Hiberni qui vobis adherent nil adversus legem Dei fidelitatem debitam imò secundum divina praecepta obedientiam quam supremo Pontifici debent cooperentur Secundo asseritis nos Hispanos blanditiis fictitiis adulationibus Hibernos demulcire atque multa beneficia in illos exhibere quod in nostram aversissimam est natura sed hoc m o in principio facere ut simplicium animos ad nos convertentes in posterum credulitatem circa illos exercentes sanguinolentam naturam nostram ostendemus Proh Deum immortalem quis non miretur acerbam indicibilem credulitatem audaciámque vestram in his verbis ostensam Quis est enim qui non novit crudelitatem maximam quam vos Angli adversus miseros Hibernicos exercivistis exercere non desistitis vos inquam ab ipsorum animis fidem Catholicam quam coluerunt Patris eorum in quo salus aeterna consistit auferre conamini crudeliores profectò Vrsis Leonibus qui tantum temporalem vitam auferent vos tamen aeternam spiritualem Quis temporalia omnia istius florentissimi Regni demolitus est nisi Anglus videte hoc confundamini Nos vero Patriam dulcissimam foelicissimam Hispaniam omnibus scilicet bonis refertam vicem Catholicorum dolentes relinquimus eorum Clamoribus incitati qui Coelum Terrámque attingunt aures supremi Pontificis Regis nostri Philippi pulsantes misericordia moti Ad vos Milites Argentum Aurum Arma liberali manu tandem mittere decreverunt non ut erga vos Hiberni Catholici crudelitatem ut isti singunt exercerunt sed ut foeliciter vos à Diaboli faucibus ereptos à Tyrannide liberos ad pristinam vestram ingenuitatem redigant ut libere positis fidem Catholicam profiteri Ergo dilectissimi in Christo postquam jam quod per tot ante annos desiderio desiderastis praecibus lacrimis efflagitastis impetrastis jamjam Supremus Pontifex Vicarius Christi in Terris vobis imperat ut Arma in Defensionem vestrae fidei sumatis vos omnes moveo horior atque contestor Omnes in quam ad quos istae Litterae pervenerint ut quam citissime in vestra fuerit potestate ad nos cum Amicis Armis conveniatis Qui hoc fecerit nos paratos inveniet Arma nostra ceteráque possidemus ipsis communicabimus Qui aliter enim spretis nostris Conciliis saluberrimis secerit in salibra Anglorum obedientia permanserit tanquam Haereticum Hostem Ecclesiae invisum usque ad necem prosequimur Doryum de Laguia After the Parliament at the end of Hillary-Term next following the Lord Keeper by her Majesties express Command made a Speech in the Star-chamber on the 13th of February all these Personages being present viz. Sir Thomas Egerton Lord Keeper of the great Seal The Archbishop of Canterbury The Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer of England The Earl of Shrewsbury The Earl of Worcester Sir William Knolls Controuler of her Majesties Houshold The Bishop of London Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice of England Mr. Secretary Herbert Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir _____ Peryam Lord Chief Baron Mr. Baron Clarke Mr. Baron Savelle Mr. Justice Fenner Mr. Justice Kingsmell Mr. Justice Warberton After a silence made and some few Motions made by Mr. Atturney-General and the Queens Counsel and some others the Cryer of the Court again made silence and the Lord Keeper putting off his Hat and then putting it on again spake to this effect My Lords I Am by her Majesties commandment to deliver unto you her gracious pleasure The Lord Keeper's Speech in the Star-chamber and those things which out of her Princely wisdom and care she hath thought fit to be made known I scarce know how to enter into this matter and I am sorry that now in speaking I shall lay open the looseness of the times neither are her Majesties Proclamations regarded neither her Councils Letters respected neither her late-made Statutes and Decrees obeyed nor put in so due execution as they ought These things deserve to have a more round and strict course than have been used and we deserve not so gracious a Pardon as it hath pleased her most gracious Majesty out of her meer goodness lately to bestow upon us but this onely to divers persons and offences of those which live in degree of private men But I am to speak of Offences of Mayors Justices of Assize A Charge for the keeping of Lent strictly and men of that condition The time of Lent and abstinence from Flesh if it be not duely observed what Dearth and Penury will not almost ensue And therefore was the time of Lent well placed even in the Spring and the beginning of the increase of Beasts Her Majesties express command is That it be strictly observed and that with this caution That where fault shall be found that there extremity shall be inflicted and that no
ac vobis per seperalia Brevia nostra apud Civitat diem praedict interesse mandaverimus ad tractandum consentiendum concludendum super hiis in dicto Parliamento nostro tunc ibidem proponerentur tractarentur quibusdam tamen certis de causis considerationibus nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus dictum Parliamentum nostrum usque ad quartam diem Februarii prox futur duximus prorogandum Ita quod nec vos nec aliquis vestrum ad dictum duodecimum diem Novembris apud Civitatem praed comparere teneamini seu autemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum nos penitus openerari Mandanies tenore presentium firmiter injungendo precipientes vobis cuilibet vestrum ac omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quod ad dictum quartam diem Februarii apud praedictum Civitate Westmonaster personaliter compereatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compereat intersit ad tractand faciend agend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro de Communi consilio dicti Regni nostri favente Domino contingerint ordinari In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras sieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsam apud Westm quinto decimo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo Per ipsam Reginam Ha. Gerrarde And according to this Prorogation the Parliament held on the fourth day of February following when the Queen's Majesty in her accustomed state and order came to the Upper House accompanied by Sir Christopher Hatton Knight then Lord Chancellor of England and divers of the Nobility of which the Journal-book maketh mention in manner and form following On Tuesday the fourth of February Feb. 4. The Q. comes to the House of Lords in the 31th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to which day the Parliament had been last prorogued and accordingly now held the Queen's Majestie was personally present in Parliament but the Journal-book doth not mention the names of such Lords as were then present The Queen being set under her Cloath of Estate and the Lords placed in their several ranks and order and as many of the House of Commons as conveniently could being let in and standing before the Bar Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor of England Heads of the L. Chancellor Hatton's Speech in a well-framed and discreet Speech did there declare unto them at large the Queens gracious disposition to Peace and her great wisdom in preserving the same and singular government of the Realm Next he shewed the great benefit which this Kingdom enjoyeth by her Government and remembred the great Conquest over the Spanish late wonderful Army or Fleet on the Seas viz. Anno Dom. 1588. He further declared how much the King of Spain remained bent against this Kingdom And lastly shewed that the cause of calling this Parliament to be that by the consent of the most grave and wise persons now called together out of all parts of the Realm preparation may as far forth as by councel of man is possible to be made and provided that Arms Souldiers and Moneys may be in readiness and an Armie prepared and furnished against all Events The Lord Chancellor's Speech being ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the Names of the Receivers and Triers of Petitions in French according to the usual form which were these Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Chief Justice Committees or Receivers and Triers of Petitions Sir Gilbert Gerrard Kt. Master of the Rolls Sir Robert Shute one of the Justices of the Kings-bench Dr. Aubery and Dr. Ford. Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Chief Baron Francis Windham one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Dr. Clarke and Dr. Cary. Triers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Darby the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Sussex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral the Lord Cobham and the Lord Gray of Wilton Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and for other Countries on the other side the Seas and the Islands The Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembrooke the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and Lord Buckhurst During this Parliament upon several days seven Temporal Lords sent their Proxies so did five Spiritual Lords Et norandum That all the said Spiritual Lords excepting one did every one constitute two several Proctors and the fifth being John Bishop of Carlisle whose Proxie was returned February the fifth made onely one viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury his Proctor It likewise seldom happeneth that any Bishop doth nominate fewer than three or two Proctors nor any Temporal Lord more than one Nota That the Lord Burleigh had this Parliament four Proxies sent unto him viz. one from the Lord Dacres one from the Earl of Warwick one from Viscount Mountacute and one from the Lord Lumley Ipsa Regina continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox hora secunda post meridiem On Thursday February 6. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Queens Majestie was personally present coming to the said Parliament in her accustomed state and order about three of the clock in the afternoon it being the time appointed for the House of Commons to present their Speaker who they had been authorized to chuse on Tuesday last when the Parliament first began And thereupon accordingly the Queen and Lords being set and the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons being let into the Upper House two of the most eminent persons of the said House did lead up to the Bar of the Upper House George Snagg Serjeant at Law Geo. Snagg their Speaker presented to the Queen Excuses himself who was chosen the Speaker of the said House of Commons who being placed at the said Bar and silence being made did in a modest and discreet Speech disable himself by reason of his many imperfections and humbly desired her Majestie to discharge him of that great Place and to nominate some other more able and sufficient Member of the same House Whereupon the Lord Chancellor by commandment from the Queen The Queen approves of him did let him know That her Majestie did very well allow of his Choice and thereupon encouraged him willingly and cheerfully to undertake and execute that Charge and Place to which he had been by the free and unanimous consent of the House of Commons elected and chosen Upon which Speech of the Lord Chancellor's the said Speaker according to the usual course and form rendering all humble thankfulness to the Queens Majestie for her underserved
goodness towards him He returns his thanks in conceiving him able and worthy for the execution of a Place of that great Charge and Trust and promising his care and readiness with all diligence to undergo the same he did offer up unto her Majestie divers Petitions in the name and on the behalf of the House of Commons First Petitions the Queen in behalf of the Commons That during the continuance of this Sessions themselves and their necessary Attendants and Servants might be freed from all Suits and Arrests Secondly That they might have free access to her Majestie upon all urgent and important occasions Thirdly That they might have free liberty of speech in the said House to debate and dispute of such matters and things as should be there proposed And lastly he petitioned her Majestie on his own behalf that if any thing should be mistaken or unwillingly omitted by himself that she would be graciously pleased to pass by and pardon the same To which Speech the Lord Chancellor The Queen allows of them by commandment from the Queen shortly replied That her Majestie was graciously pleased to grant all his Petitions and that he the said Speaker and the House of Commons should use and enjoy all such Liberties and Priviledges as others in like cases before them had been accustomed to use and enjoy in the times of her Majesties most noble Progenitors withal admonishing them not to extend the said Priviledges unto any irreverent and mis-beseeming Speeches or unnecessary Accesses to her Majestie After which Speeches ended the Lord Chancellor by command from the Queen continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox hora nona On Saturday Feb. 8. to which the Parliament was continued were present the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Chancellor the Lord Treasurer the Marquiss of Winton the Earl of Derby great Steward six Earls twelve Bishops and eighteen Barons more An Act concerning Captains and Souldiers prima vice lect Two Bills read about the Souldiery and Husbandry An Act for maintainance of Husbandry and for increase of Tillage prima vice lect Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox hora nona February the ninth Sunday On Munday Feb. 10. were four Bills read whereof the last being a Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers secunda vice lect commissa Domino Thesaurario Marchioni Winton six other Earls three Bishops eleven Barons Serjeant Puckering nostro Atturnato Nota That here meer Attendants of the Upper House Observation of the Collector of this Journal and no Members of it are made joynt Committees with the Lords which is very usually done in the Parliaments foregoing in the Reign of this Queen where also the Judges being but meer Assistants of the said House are often nominated Committees also Whereas in the last Parliaments of her Majesties Reign viz. in Anno 39 Anno 43. and in the latter times of King James and our present Soveraign his Son these are seldom or never nominated as Committees but onely as Assistants to the Committees to give their advice if it shall be required and not otherwise And although the Clerk of the Parliament might at some times mistake and erre in setting such down for Committees as were onely commanded to be attendant upon or assistant unto the said Committees yet that he should so often mistake in so many Parliaments and the rather because such Committees are frequently named divers times in sundry of the several Sessions it is most unlikely and improbable Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Veneris prox hora nona On Friday Feb. 14. an Act for the more speedy payment of Dismes and Tenths primae vice lect Memorandum The Lords Committees brought in the Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers with Amendments And by reason of divers defects in the same Bill they had framed a new Bill which new Bill by consent of all the Lords was received and prima vice lect An Act touching Constats of original Conveyances made by the Queens Majestie Bill about Original Conveyances Bill about Writs of Errour read and committed secunda vice lect An Act to save discontinuance of Writs of Errour upon Errours in the Courts of Exchequer secunda vice lect commissa Archiepisc Cant. Ebor. Dom. Senescallo three Earls three Bishops six Barons Magistro Rott Servient Shuttleworth nostr Attur Solicitor Nota here also as in the Page before going such as are no Members of the Upper House are made joynt Committees with the Lords Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Robis Parliamentaribus induti introdxerunt Dominum Talbott cumque ad locum suum perduxerunt praeeunte Gartira Principale Rege Armorum qui etiam tunica Armorum indutus erat Because the dayly continuing of the Parliament in these words Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum c. is but matter of form it is henceforth omitted unless somewhat extraordinary fall out in respect of the person or manner of continuing of it On Saturday Feb. 15. three Bill were read whereof two of them the first being an Act for maintainance of Houses Three Bills read two committed viz. for Tillage and Husbandry and against Horse-stealing for Husbandry and Tillage and the second being an Act against Horse-stealing were secunda vice lect tunc commissa Domino Thesaurario 4 Comitibus 2 Episcop 8 Baronibus Justiciario Gawdy Servienti Puckering Solicitatori Reginae Nota That here also one Assistant of the Upper House and two Attendants upon it are made joynt Committees with the Lords February the 16th Sunday On Munday Feb. 17. four Bills were read whereof the first was an Act for Reformation of Excess in Apparel Bill against Excess in Apparel read committed secunda vice lect commissa Domino Thesaurario 3 Comitibus 2 Episcop 6 Baronibus Servienti Shuttleworth Solicitatori Reginae On Tuesday the 18th of February four Bills were read whereof the first was an Act providing Remedy against discontinuance in Writs of Errour in the Exchequer and Kings-bench tertia vice lect conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Shuttleworth and Doctor Awbry and three other Bills Die Jovis xx o Feb. were four Bills read the first a Bill for having Horse Armour and Weapons prima vice lect and three other Bills Die Sabbati xxij o Feb. were three Bills read whereof the last was an Act concerning Captains and Souldiers tertia vice lect conclus and together with the two Bills aforesaid sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Puckering and Doctor Ford. Three Bills were also sent from the House of Commons viz. an Act concerning Informers and two others of no great moment Feb. 23. Sunday On Munday Feb. 24. four Bills were read whereof one of them being a Bill for Writs upon Proclamation upon Exigents to be currant within the County Palatine
of Durham secunda vice lect commissa Justiciario Gawdy quod nota On Tuesday Feb. 25. two Bills were read whereof the first was an Act concerning Informers prima secunda vice lect conclus Bill about Informers and so expedited An Act for the abridgment of Proclamations upon Fines to be levied at the Common Law secunda vice lect wherein the Lords finding some imperfections sent down Serjeant Shuttleworth and Doctor Clarke to the House of Commons Lords desire a Conference to pray a Conference with some of that House which being granted the Lords for Committees were Lord Treasurer Lord Steward Bishop of Winton the Lord Cobham and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas to attend the Lords Nota Observation That here one of the Judges is particularly nominated to attend upon the Lords Committees which may further prove that in all the former places where the Judges or the Queens learned Counsel are named as Committees it is no errour or mistake of the Clerk So that hence the difference may very well be gathered to be this That where a Committee of the Lords was formerly used to be selected out to meet with another Committee of the House of Commons here neither the Judges being but Assistants nor the Queens learned Counsel being but Attendants of and upon the House were ever nominated or appointed as joynt Committees with the Lords because the very Members of either House onely are then admitted to partake of such matters of weight and secrecy as they do there commonly confer upon But when the Lords amongst themselves do appoint a Committee to consider of some ordinary Bill that is to pass their House and especially if the Bill do concern matter of Law here it hath been anciently used and may still without any prejudice to the honour of that House be continued that the Kings learned Counsel but especially the Judges may be nominated as Committees alone or as joynt Committees with the Lords for in regard that nothing can be absolutely concluded at a Committee but all matters shall still depend on the resolution of the House and so no inconvenience shall ensue thereupon After the Committees of both Houses had met the Lords Committees proceeded to the amendments of the Bill and afterwards this present day the Bill and Amendments received their second reading and passed the House and were sent down to the House of Commons to be amended by them by Doctor Carewe and Master Solicitor It appeareth by the Journal-book that the House of Commons having yielded to a Conference did presently chuse Committees and sent them up to the Upper House Two other Bills had each of them one reading and one Bill was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons all being of no great moment On Thursday Feb. 27. were two Bills read whereof the first being an Act for Reformation of Excess of Apparel Two Bills read was secunda vice lect commiss ad unum Comit. 4 Baron On Saturday March 1. March 1. were two Bills read of no great moment This forenoon also the Lords Committees return'd the Bill for the having Horses Two Bills read Armour and Weapons signifying that they could get no meeting but of so small a number as their Lordships would not deal in it The whole House presently proceeded to the Question Whether it should be ingrossed or no Upon which Question the Lords with one consent agreed it should be ingrossed March 2. Sunday On Munday March 3. two Bills were read whereof one of them concerning the sale of Tho. Hanford's Lands towards the payment of his Debts and another of no great moment had been sent up to the Lords this morning from the Commons On Tuesday March 4. two Bills were read whereof the latter was a Bill for Sale of Tho. Hanford's Lands c. secunda vice lect Whereupon the Lords ordered that as well the said Thomas Hanford as those that followed the Bill should be warned to be before them with their learned Counsel at the next sitting of the Court which shall be on Thursday next at nine a clock Two Bills of no great moment were this forenoon also sent up to the Lords House from the House of Commons On Thursday March 6. the Amendments of the Bill for maintainance of Husbandry were prima secunda vice lect commiss ad ingross Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading And one Bill concerning the preservation of Orford-haven was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Saturday March 8. were three Bills each of them once read of no great moment March 9. Sunday On Munday March 10. four Bills whereof the last being a Bill for an Assurance to be made of the Joynture of Anne Bill to assure the Joynture of Anne Nevill Wife of Henry Nevill Esq secunda tertia vice lect communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus Memorandum That before the third reading and the passing of the Act of the Joynture of the Wife of Henry Nevil by which all former Conveyances made by the said Henry Nevil of the Mannors of Waighfield and Wadhurst c. in the County of Sussex were made frustrate and void The Lords ordered That the said former Conveyance should by the Parties to the same be brought into this House and delivered to the Clerk of the Parliament sealed up to the end that if it shall please her Majesty to give her Royal assent unto the said Act that then the said Indentures and Conveyances should be forthwith cancelled But if it shall not please her Majesty to give her Royal assent that then the said Indentures and Conveyances should safely be redelivered to the said Parties unseen of any and uncancelled And to this all the Parties agreed as well before the Lords the Committees as before the whole House Memorandum That according to the said Order the Deeds mentioned therein were cancelled the 12th day of May Anno Regni Reginae Elizabethae tricesimo primo On Tuesday the 11th of March was one Bill read of no great moment Subsidy-Bill brought from the Commons And two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first was an Act of four Fifteens and Tenths and two entire Subsidies granted by the Temporalty and another of no great moment On Thursday the 13th of March the Amendments of the Bill for having of Horses Arms and Weapons prima secundae vice lect commiss ad ingross The Amendments also and a new Proviso annexed unto the Bill against Informers secunda tertia vice lect communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus and one other Bill of no great moment read prima vice On Friday March 14. the Bill of Subsidie was once read And the Bill for the Provision for Orford-Haven lect est conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Shuttleworth and Mr. Powell
Subsidy-Bill read On Saturday March 15. were six Bills read whereof one being an Act against erecting and maintaining of Cottages Bill against Cottages tertia vice lect conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Dr. Clarke Another Bill being an Act for the confirmation of the Subsidies of the Clergie prima secunda vice lect commiss ad ingross Sunday March 16. On Munday the 17th of March were four Bills read whereof the first was the Bill of the Subsidie Subsidy-Bill assented to being tertia vice lect communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus There were also sent up to the Lords this sorenoon six Bills of no great moment On Tuesday March 18. were seven Bills read whereof one being an Act that the Children of Aliens shall pay Strangers Customs tertia vice lect conclus and sent with the former to the House of Commons by Dr. Clarke and Dr. Carewe There were also this morning brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons four Bills which were of so little moment as two of them were not mentioned in the Journal-Book On Wednesday March 19. were three Bills read of no great concernment On Thursday the 20th of March were two Bills read of no great moment And the same forenoon one other Bill of small consequence brought from the Commons On Friday March 21. were four Bills read whereof the first being an Act concerning the Hospital of Lamborn tertia vice lect conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serj. Puckering and three other Bills of no great moment There were also sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons this forenoon three Bills of no great moment On Saturday March 22. were four Bills of no great concernment brought from the House of Commons Bill for maintainance of the School at Tunbridge And the Lords having this forenoon given three readings to the Bill for the better Assurance of Lands and Tenements for the maintainance of the Free Grammar-School of Tunbridge in the County of Kent did send the said Bill with those new Amendments to be passed also in the House of Commons the Bill it self having before passed that House and had been sent up from them to the Lords on Munday last March 23. Sunday On Munday March 24. three Bills of no great moment and the Amendments of the fourth were read And five Bills of as little consequence were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons Memorandum quod Christopherus Wray Miles Capital Justiciar de Banco Reg. secum adduxit in Parliamento in Camera Parliamenti intra Dominos Breve de Errore Billam de Regina indorsat ac Rotnl in quibus continebantur placit processis in quibus supponebatur error ibid. reliquit transcript totius Recordi cum Clerico Parliamenti simul cum praedicto Breve de Errore in Parliamento On Tuesday March 25. An. 1589. 25. three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of no great moment and other Bills of as small consequence read in the House whereof one was read twice and the other thrice No mention is made of the continuance or adjournment of the Parliament being omitted by the Clerks negligence On Wednesday March 26. three Bills were read whereof the first being an Act to avoid secret Outlawries of her Majesties Subjects Bill to avid secret Outlawries For relief of Jurors tertia vice lect and sent to the Commons by Dr. Carewe And the last being an Act for the relief of Jurors read secunda tertia vice and rejected An Act also of no great moment was this forenoon sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Thursday the 27th of March nothing was done but the Parliament continued to the hour accustomed On Friday March 28. three Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof the first was an Act for the explanation or declaration of the Statute of 8 Hen. 6. concerning forcible Entries Bill concerning forcible Entries the Indictments thereupon found expedit and two other Bills of no great moment An Act also for naturalizing Joyce the Daughter Ralph Elkin Gent. and Wife of Richard Lambert Merchant Bill for Naturalization born beyond the Seas read thrice expedit Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinam dimid horae ante septimam On Saturday March 29. a Bill for continuance of divers Statutes tertia vice lect and sent to the House of Commons by Dr. Stanhopp and Mr. Powell Here by the negligence of the Clerk the Lords Spiritual that were present are omitted but the Lords Temporal that attended the Queen are thus named who was there personally present this day at the dissolving the Parliament Lords Temporal present at the Dissolution of this Parliament Sir Christopher Hatton Miles Dominus Cancellarius Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaur Angliae Marchio Winton Comes Darby Magnus Senescallus Comes Northumberland Comes Kane Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Comes Hundingdon Comes Bathon Comes Pembrooke Comes Hartford Comes Essex Barones Dominus Howard Admirall Dominus Hunsdon Camer Dominus Willoughby Dominus Morley Dominus Cobham Dominus Talbott Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey Dominus Darcy Dominus Sands Dominus Windsor Dominus Wentworth Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby Dominus Northe Dominus St. John Dominus Buckhurst Dominus De-la-ware Dominus Norris These being thus set and the Commons House with their Speaker and as many as conveniently could being let in the said Speaker Bills presented to the Queen for Royal Assent according to the usual form presenting her Majesty with the Bill of two Subsidies and four Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty desired her Highness graciously to accept thereof as the free Testimony of the faithful and loyal Respect of her Subjects and withal desiring her Majesty to give her gracious consent to such Acts as had been prepared and expedited by the two Houses of Parliament To the Bill of Subsidies the Queen answered Queen passes the Subsidy Le Royne remercee ses loyaule Subjects accept leur benevolence ainsi le veult The Clerk of the Parliament having read this former Answer of the Queens acceptance of the Bill of Subsidie did then read in these French words following the thanks of the Lords and Commons for her Majesties most free and gracious Pardon Les Prelats Seigneurs Communs in ce present Parliament assembles Lords and Commons return thanks in French au nom de touts vos autres Subjects remercient tres-humblement vostre Majestie prient a Dieu que il vous donne en bonne vie longue To every publick Act allowed by the Queen the Clerk of the Parliament read in French these words following La Royne le veult To every private Act that passed Soit fait comme 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 head of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty did forbear to allow the Clerk of the Parliament did read in French these words Le Royne se advisera After which ended the Dissolution of the Parliament followed in these words They are dissolved Dominus Cancellarius ex mandato Dominae Reginae tunc praesentis dissolvit praesens Parliamentum A Journal of the House of Commons in the Parliament held at Westminster Anno 31 Reginae Eliz. Annoque Dom. 1588. begun the 4th of February and ended on the 29th of March 1589. ON Tuesday Feb. 4. the Parliament did begin Feb. 4. 1588. and the House of Commons had authority to chuse their Speaker and they chose George Snagg Serjeant at Law House of Com. assembled Serj. Snagg chosen Speaker for their Speaker who having modestly disabled himself was notwithstanding allowed of by the House and thereupon placed by two of the most eminent Personages thereof in the Chair On Wednesday Feb. 5. the House sat not because their Speaker was not yet presented to her Majesty On Thursday Feb. 6. the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice about two of the clock this afternoon that her Majesty with the Lords Spiritual and Temporal were already come into the Upper House expecting their attendance repaired thither with George Snagg Serjeant at Law their Speaker and presented him unto her Majesty Presented to the Queen Disables himself Is allowed to be Speaker by the Queen who notwithstanding his humble disabling and excusing of himself her Majesty did by the mouth of the Lord Chancellor signifie her allowance of him and afterwards also in like manner answered to his Petitions of course made in the name of the House of Commons for freedom of Access liberty of Speech freedom from Arrests and Suits and lastly in his own name for pardon for himself and that the said House of Commons and himself should enjoy and use all such Priviledges and Freedoms as had in the like case been enjoyed by any others in the times of her Majesties most noble Progenitors Whereupon the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses with their Speaker departed to their own House And then was read the Bill for reformation of deceitful Practices used in reversal of Fines at the Common Law Bill against deceitful practices in Law On Friday Feb. 7. the Bill touching Informers and Informations upon penal Statutes was read the first time This day the House was called over House called over and all those that did then sit in the House and were present at the calling of the same did thereupon severally answer to their names and departed out of the House as they were called On Saturday Feb. 8. the Bill to avoid the Abuses grown by Forestalling Bill to avoid Forestalling c. Ingrossing and Regrating was read prima vice Also the Bill touching Informers and Informations upon Penal Statutes was read the second time and committed to all the prime Counsel of this House Mr. Recorder of London Sir William Moore Mr. Grafton and others who were appointed to meet in the Star-chamber at two of the clock in the afternoon February 9. Sunday On Munday Feb. 10. the Bill touching the benefit of Clergie in some cases of Offenders Bill touching benefit of Clergy was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Cromwel Mr. Secretary Woolley and others who were appointed to meet in the Star-chamber on Wednesday next at two of the clock in the afternoon A Bill was brought in that Lands intailed and Copyhold-lands may be liable to the payment of Debts and read the first time and after sundry Arguments rejected upon the Question On Tuesday Feb. 11. a Bill touching the pursuit of Hue and Cry Bill touching Hue and Cry was read the first time The Committees touching Informers and Informations which should have met this afternoon are deferred until Friday next in the afternoon Mr. Speaker moved the House on the behalf of Mr. Fulke Onslow the Clerk of the same That having of late been long sick and yet somewhat recovered albeit but weak still and sickly and enjoying his Office by Letters-Patents of the grant of her Majesty to exercise the same by himself or his sufficient Deputy or Deputies it might please this House in his absence if it shall happen in regard of his health and necessary ease to withdraw himself from the exercise of his Office in this House in his own person to vouchsafe therein the attendance of his own Clerks or Servants such of them as before their intermedling therein within this House shall first have taken the Oath usually administred unto all the Members of this House And thereupon it was so granted and assented unto by the whole House accordingly On Wednesday Feb. 12. two Bills of no great moment had each of them a reading Bill touching Orford-Haven in Suff. of which the first was a Bill touching Orford-Haven in the County of Suffolk Also two other Bills of no great moment had each of them a reading of which the second being a Bill to avoid the Abuses grown in Forestalling Regrating and Ingrossing was read the second time and after many Arguments had upon the same was committed unto Sir Valentine Dale Master of Requests Mr. Recorder of London Sir Edward Dymmocke and others who were appointed to meet on Munday next in the afternoon at two of the clock in the Star-chamber On Thursday Feb. 13. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to reform Disorders of common Innes and other Victualling-houses Bill concerning Disorders in Innes c. was read the second time and after many Speeches and Arguments committed unto Sir Valentine Dale Master of Requests Mr. Francis Hastings Mr. Coke and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in Serjeants-Inne-hall in Chancery-lane The Bill touching Orford-haven was read the second time and after some Speeches committed unto Mr. Arthur Hopton Mr. Anthony Wingfield Mr. Recorder Mr. Grimston Mr. Robinson and others who were appointed to meet upon this day sevennight at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Friday Feb. 14. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching Exactions upon the Subjects of this Realm by the Officers of the Exchequer was read the first time which said Bill was brought into the House by Sir Edward Hobby who alleadged that the said Exaction did nothing tend to any further profit or commodity of her Majesty Two other Bills also had each of them one reading whereof the second being the Bill for abridging of Proclamations upon Fines to be levied was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Morice Mr. Broughton Sir Henry Knivit and others who were appointed to meet in Serjeants-Inne-hall in Fleet-street
brought in by Mr. Coke one of the Committees and the reasons of the said Amendments were shewed by him The Bill concerning the Poor of Hartlepool is deferred to be considered of by the Committees on Munday next in the afternoon and Mr. Vicechamberlain and Sir John Parrot are added to the former Committees The Paper-book of the Bill touching Process and Pleadings in the Court of Exchequer is delivered to the Serjeant of this House to be by him delivered over this present afternoon to the Committees for Search and Conference March 2. Sunday On Munday March the third upon many Speeches used by Mr. Grafton touching a Report to be made to this House by the Committees touching the Examination of the Returns of one of the Batons of the Port of New Rumney in the County of Kent not yet certified into this House by or from the Clerk of the Crown Mr. Cromwel one of the said Committees sheweth That the said Committees had met about the same according to the Commission of this House and so shewing his own opinion it was after sundry other Speeches resolved upon the Question That he that was chosen by the said Town should be received into this House as a Member thereof which was done accordingly The Bill for the true payment of the Debts of Thomas Hanford was read the third time and passed upon the Question Which Bill being passed the Bill also for abridgment of Proclamations upon Fines sent down before to this House from the Lords with some Amendments and being amended accordingly were sent to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others which Mr. Treasurer moved before he went that the Lords be desired by this House That Mr. Sollicitor being return'd a Member of this House might come into this House and give his attendance in the same which was assented unto and required that he would move the Lords and the said Mr. Sollicitor also to that end accordingly Richard Leveson Esq returned into this House one of the Knights for the County of Salop for his occasion of business is licensed to depart On Tuesday March 4. the Amendments of the Bill touching Writs of Covenant c. and a Proviso added thereunto were both twice read and upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills did both pass upon the third reading of which Bill against common Informers c. the first was against common Informers and the second against the Denial for the assurance of the Joynture of Anne the Wife of Henry Nevil Esq in which there were these several Amendments incerted viz. in one place this word but put out and this word and put in and in another place this word like put out and this word good put in and after this word effect and no other as if this Act had never been made were clean put out And in another place after this word title this word and is put out and these words claim and demand are put in All which Amendments being thrice read in the end after some Speeches had the Bill was passed upon the Question which said Bill with another were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vicechamberlain and others On Wednesday March 5. the Bill concerning Richard Southwell was read prima vice Bill about Dover-haven Also the Bill for the maintenance of the Peer of Dover was read the second time and after sundry Speeches committed unto all the Privy Council being of this House Mr. Mills Mr. Alford Sir Edward Hobby and others who were appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers Bill against Forestallers Regrators c. was read the first time and upon further examination read again and upon the division of the House thereupon upon the Question after the same division with the yielding of the negative Voices ordered to be committed unto all the Privy Council being of the House Mr. John Hare Mr. George Moore Sir William Moore Mr. Grimston Mr. Cromwel and others who were appointed to meet on Friday next at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Thursday March 6. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being a Bill touching Cordwayners and the third concerning Curriers they were both committed unto Mr. Alford Sir William Moore Mr. Grafton Mr. Thomas Knivit and others the Bills being then also read the second time who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next in the afternoon at Guild-hall Mr. Doctor Awbury and Dr. Cary do bring word from the Lords That their Lordships desire that the Committee of this House which were with their Lordships the last day may now be sent to their Lordships for that now their Lordships have charge from her Majesty to make their Answer And thereupon the names of the Committees being read they were presently sent unto the Lords And the Bill for the maintenance of the Haven at Orford was then also sent up to their Lordships by Mr. Vicechamberlain and the residue of the said Committees Whereupon Mr. Treasurer then one of the Committees touching gaging of Casks c. having shewed their meeting about the same yesterday moved for another time of conference about the same and that being appointed upon Saturday next at Guild-hall in the afternoon it was ordered That the Brewers and such others as shall think good may then and there be heard before the Committees what they can say On Friday March 7. four Bills had each of them a reading whereof the third being a Bill for the relief of Thomas Hasilrigg was read the first time and thereupon it was ordered upon a motion That Mr. Thomas Drury should come into the House and be heard who was brought in and heard The Amendments in the Bill touching the Free Grammar-School in Tunbridge in the County of Kent was twice read and Andrew Fisher Gent. after the reading of the same being brought into the House did presently give his assent unto the said Bill and then the Bill upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill against Forestalling ingrossing and regrating committed the fifth of March instant was this day delivered unto Sir George Barney one of the Committees in the same Bill On Saturday March 8. Mr. Speaker shewed unto the House her Majesties great and inestimable care towards her loving Subjects Speaker acquaints the House of the Queen's care about the abuses of the Purveyors c. yea more than of her own self or than any of them have of themselves And as to the parts of the present humble Petition of this House unto her Highness in the grievance by the Purveyors and in the Court of Exchequer it pleased her Majesty to tell them That for the one to wit the Abuses of Purveyors her Highness of her own Princely care towards her Subjects had given order unto the late Lord Steward deceased to address her Letters-Patents to all the Shires
the Lords being thus sate An. 1592. and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons as many as conveniently could be let in about two of the clock in the afternoon Sir John Puckering Lord Keeper of the Great Seal by command from the Queen spake to this effect The Lord Keeper's Speech THat though the assembling of Parliaments hath antiently been and still were for the Enacting of Laws and Reforming of Abuses and Grievances of the Subjects within the Realm The Lord Keepers Speech 〈◊〉 to direct the â—â—sâ—â—â—â—s in this Session yet at this time the Queens Majesty was desirous to have the Advice of all her loving people concerning the Defence and Preservation of her Self her Realms and Subjects from the Power and Oppression of a forreign Enemy Then he declared that this Enemy was the King of Spain and that his malice was increased by his loss and shame received in 88. That his resolution still was to invade this Kingdome The Spaniards Design of Reveenge discovered did plainly appear by his building and getting together many Ships of less bulk which would be fitter for service in our Seas than those greater Galliasses and Gallions had been in 88. That he desired some nearer place from whence to invade England and therefore at this time was labouring to plant himself in Britain a part of France And his Designes laid open That he had raised Factions in Scotland and Conspiracies against the King there finding him an enemy to his ambitious desires And therefore we her Majesties Subjects said he must with all dutiful consideration think what is fit for us to do Exâ—… them to raise Moneys and with all willingness yield part of our own for the defence of others and assistance of her Majesty in such an unsupportable charge Were the cause between Friend and Friend how much would we do for the relief of one another but the cause is now between our Soveraign and our selves seeing there is so much difference in the parties how much more forward ought we to be The Aid formerly granted to her Majesty in these like cases is so ill answer'd 〈…〉 Supplies paied and with such slackness performed as that the third of that which was granted cometh not to her Majesty A great shew a rich grant and a long sum seems to be made but little it is hard to be gotten and the sum not great which is paid and 〈…〉 Her Majesty thinks this to be for that the wealthier sort of men turn this charge upon the weaker and upon those of worst ability so that one dischargeth himself and th' other is not able to satisfie that he is charged withal these things should be reformed by such as are Commissioners in this service Wherefore it is her Majesties pleasure 〈…〉 the time be not spent in devising and enacting new Laws the number of which are so great already as it rather burtheneth than easeth the Subject but the principal cause of this Parliament is that her Majesty might consult with her Subjects for the better withstanding those intended Invasions which are now greater than ever before were heard of And where heretofore it hath been used that many have delighted themselves in long Orations full of verbosity and vain ostentations more than in speaking things of substance the time that is precious would not be thus spent This Session cannot be long the Spring-time is fit that Gentlemen should repair to their Countreys the Justices of Assize also to go their Circuits so the good hours would not be lost in idle Speeches but the little time we have should be bestowed wholly on such business as is needful to be considered of and Thursday next is appointed the day to present the Speaker Assoon as the Lord Keeper's Speech was ended Receivers of Petitions named the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland and Wales and Scotland Sir Francis Popham Lord Chief-Justice of the Kings-Bench John Clinch one of the Justices of the said Bench Dr. Awbery Dr. Ford and they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Peryam Lord Chief-Baron Tho. Walmesley one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Doctor Cary Doctor Stanhop and they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver them within six days next ensuing Triers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquiss of Winchester the Earl of Darby Lord Steward of the Queens Houshold the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Lord Howard of Effingham Earl Marshal and Lord Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton all these or four of them calling to them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles the Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincolne the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley the Lord Buckhurst all these or any four of them Although the usual Custome in the Original Journal-books is to place all Proxies upon what days soever returnable before the beginning of the Journal it self yet I have conceived it more methodical to place all such Returns in those days upon which they were delivered to the Clerk of the Parliament and always upon the day on which the first Return was to make some short Observations of that if it be unusual and extraordinary and so to refer the view of the residue to their proper days On this instant Monday therefore being the Nineteenth day of February and the first day of the Parliament was returned only this one usual Proxie Decimonono die Februarii introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Edwardi Episcopi Norwicensis in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Episcopum Lond. Richardum Episcopum Peterburgen Nota This is one of those Proxies I call an usual or ordinary Proxie when a Spiritual Lord maketh but two Proctors and a Temporal Lord but one and those of their own Order but when a Temporal Lord nominateth a Spiritual Lord for his Proctor or nominateth more than one Proctor and when a Spiritual Lord nominateth a Temporal Lord for his Proctor or but one Proctor or more than two these I call unusual and extraordinay Proxies And therefore at this very time of nine Temporal Lords that sent their Proxies but one named two Lords of which see afterwards on Munday March 5. all the rest naming but one Indeed of six Spiritual Lords which sent their
introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Henrici Comitis Huntingdon in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Gulielmum Dominum Burleigh Thesaurarium Angliae Robertum Comitem Essex Vicecomitem Hereford Dominum Ferrers de Chartley. On Tuesday March 6. there was one Bill read once On Wednesday March 7. Breve returnatum est quo Johannes Salisburien Episc praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliament locum salvo jure alieno The same morning there were four Bills read each of them once A Bill for restraining Popish Recusants to certain places of abode the fourth being a Bill for restraining Popish Recusants to some certain places of abode There was also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons an Act for the naturalizing and making free of William Sidney eldest son of Robert Sidney Kt. Governour of Vlushing and Dame Barbara his wife and of Peregrine Wingfield son and heir of Sir John Wingfield Kt. and Dame Susan Countess of Kent his wife And note this day also was one extraordinary Proxie return'd from a Spiritual Lord who constituted but one Proctor whereas usually no such Lord constituteth fewer than two which Proxie is thus entered in the beginning of the Journal-book of this Parliament 7º Marcii introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Mathei Dunelmensis Episc in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Cantuariensem Episcopum On Thursday March 8. were three Bills each of them once read whereof the first was an Act for explanation and confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Kt. convicted of High-Treason Not long after this Bill had been committed to ingrossing according to a certain Order formerly made by the Lords Francis Englefield Esq appeared before them with one of his learned Counsel who were commanded to declare what they could alleadge why an Act for explanation and confirmation of the Queens Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late Sir Francis Englefield's Kt. attainted of High-Treason should not pass And upon Allegations made by the learned Counsel the Lords commanded they should set them down in Writing and deliver them to the Atturney-General and that on Friday they should attend on the Judges and the Queens learned Counsel at Serjeants-Inne and shew such Deeds of Conveyance as they made mention of before the Lords that the said Lords upon answer of the Judges and learned Counsel might proceed upon the said Bill as it should seem best to their Lordships On Saturday March 10. to which day the Parliament had been last continued after the reading of one private Bill prima vice the Lords gave in Commandment to Mr. Atturney-General to bring on Munday certain Depositions remaining in the Exchequer concerning the Case of Sir Francis Englefield after they had first heard the opinion of the Judges which was delivered by the Lord Chief Justice of England March 11. Sunday On Munday March 12. two Bills had each of them one reading On Tuesday March 13. two Bills being each of them once read the Lords at the Bishop of Worcester's motion A Collection in the House of Peers for poor Souldiers condescended to a Contribution for the relief of such poor Souldiers as went begging in the streets of London viz. That every Earl should give Forty shillings every Bishop Thirty shillings and every Baron Twenty shillings and appointed the said Bishop and the Lord Norris Collectors thereof and committed the bestowing thereof to the Earl of Essex and Lord Willoughby of Eresby On Thursday March 15. to which day the Parliament had been last continued were four Bills each of them once read On Friday March 16. were two Bills each of them once read And then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament in the usual form to the Munday following On Munday March 19. one Bill onely upon its second reading was committed to be ingrossed On Tuesday March 20. the Bill touching Sir Francis Englefield's Lands had its third reading and was concluded Four Bills also more were this forenoon sent up to the Lords from the Commons On Thursday March 22. two Bills had each of them one reading On Saturday March 24. to which day the Parliament had been last continued was one Act concluded after the third reading and four other Bills brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons whereof one was an Act concerning the lawful deprivation of Edmond Bonner late Bishop of London March 25. Sunday An. 1593. On Munday March 26. were three Bills each of them once read Subsidy-bill read granted by the Temporaity whereof the first was an Act for the grant of three entire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty which had passed the House of Commons and was sent up to the Lords on Saturday last This morning also two other Bills were sent up to the Lords from the said Commons On Tuesday March 27. three Bills had each of them one reading On Wednesday March 28. three Bills were read secunda vice and one Bill tertia vice Five other Bills were also sent up to the Lords from the Commons Nota This day was an unusual Proxie returned from one of the Bishops absent at this time from the Parliament as divers other Peers by the License of her Majesty in which Proxie he constituted but one Proctor whereas it is the usual custome for every Spiritual Lord to nominate two at the least and every Temporal Lord but one This Proxie is thus entered in the beginning of the original Journal-book of this Parliament 28º Die Marcii introductae sunt Litterae Procuratoriae Thomae Cicestrensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Archiepisc Cantuariensem On Thursday March 29. seven Bills had each of them one reading On Fryday March 30. five Bills were read whereof the first was the Bill of Subsidy granted by the Temporalty Subsidy granted by the Clergy passed and the last the Bill of Subsidy granted by the Clergy both which at this time upon their several third readings passed the Lords House On Saturday March 31. were five Bills read April 1. April 1. Sunday On Munday April 2. one Bill was read and six Bills of like consequence were sent up to the Lords from the Commons On Tuesday April 3. were four Bills once read On Wednesday April 4. one Bill was read prima secundae vice On Thursday April 5. three Bills of no great moment upon their third reading passed the House and were expedited This morning also this Order was agreed on amongst the Lords An Order about the Contribution for mustred Souldiers viz. Whereas the Lords of Parliament both Spiritual and Temporal assembled in the Parliament chamber at Westminster have with one uniform consent both in their own Names and the rest of the Lords absent ordered That there shall be a charitable Relief and Contribution made towards the relief and
in the high places of the West-Saxons we read of a Parliament holden and since the Conquest they have been holden by all your Royal Predecessors Kings of England and Queens of England In the times of the West-Saxons a Parliament was held by the Noble Queen Ina by these words I Ina Queen of the West-Saxons The Antiquity of Parliaments in this Island have caused all my Fatherhood Aldermen and wise Commons with the Godly-men of my Kingdome to consult of weighty matters c. Which words do plainly shew the parts of this Court still observed to this day For in Queen Ina is Your Majesties most Royal Person represented The Fatherhood in antient time were those whom we call Bishops and still we call them Reverend Fathers an antient and free part of our State By Aldermen was meant your Noblemen for so honourable was the word Alderman in antient time that the Nobility only were called Aldermen By wisest Commons is signified your Knights and Burgesses and so is your Majesties Writ De discretioribus magis sufficientibus By Godliest men is meant your Convocation-house it consisteth of such as are devoted to Religion and as godliest men do consult of weightiest matters so is your Highness Writ at this day Pro quibusdam arduis urgentissimis negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Ecclesiae tangentibus Your Highness Wisdome and exceeding Judgment with all careful Providence needed not our Councels yet so urgent Causes there were of this Parliament so importunate Considerations as that we may say for we cannot judge if ever Parliament was so Needful as now or ever so Honourable as this If I may be bold to say it I must presume to say that which hath been often said but what is well said cannot be too often spoken This sweet Council of ours I would compare to that sweet Commonwealth of the little Bees Sic enim parvis componere magna solebam The little Bees have but one Governour whom they all serve he is their King Quia latrea habet latiora he is placed in the midst of their habitations ut in tutissima turri they forage abroad sucking honey from every flower to bring to their King Ignavum Fucos pecus à Principibus arcent the Drones they drive out of their Hives non habentes aculeos and whoso assails their King in him immittunt aculeos tamen Rex ipse est sine aculeo Your Majesty is that Princely Governour and Noble Queen whom we all serve being protected under the shadow of your wings we live and wish you may ever sit upon your Throne over us and whosoever shall not say Amen for them we pray ut convertantur nè pereant ut confundantur nè noceant Vnder your happy Government we live upon Honey we suck upon every sweet Flower but where the Bee sucketh Honey there also the Spider draweth Poyson some such there be but such Drones and Dore-Bees we will expel the Hive and serve your Majesty and withstand any Enemy that shall assault You our Lands or Goods Our lives are prostrate at your feet to be commanded yea and thanked be God and honour be to your Majesty for it such is the power and force of your Subjects that of their own strengths they are able to encounter your greatest Enemies and though we be such yet have we a Prince that is Sine aculeo so full of that Clemency is your Majesty I come now to your Laws The Laws we have conferred upon this Session of so honourable a Parliament are of two natures the one such as have life but are ready to die except your Majesty breathe life into them again the other are Laws that never had life but being void of life do come to your Majesty to seek life The first sort are those Laws that had continuance until this Parliament and are now to receive new life or are to die for ever The other that I term capable of life are those which are newly made but have no essence until your Majesty giveth them life Two Laws there are but I must give the honour where it is due for they come from the noble wise Lords of the Vpper House the most honourable and beneficial Laws that could be desired the one a Confirmation of all Letters-Patents from your Majesties most noble Father of all Ecclesiastical Livings which that King of most renowned Memory took from those superstitious Monasteries and Priories and translated them to the erecting of many foundations of Cathedral Churches and Colledges thereby greatly furthering the maintenance of Learning and true Religion The other Law to suppress the obstinant Recusate and the dangerous Sectary both very pernicious to your Royal Government Lastly your most loving and obedient Subjects the Commons of the Lower House most humbly and with dutiful thanks stand bound unto your gracious goodness for your general and large Pardon granted unto them wherein many great Offences are pardoned but it extendeth onely to Offences done before the Parliament I have many ways since the beginning of this Parliament by ignorance and insufficiency to perform that which I should have done offended your Majesty I most humbly crave to be partaker of your most gracious Pardon The Lord Keeper then received Instructions from the Queen and afterwards replied unto the Speaker The former part of this Speech was an Answer almost verbatim to the Speaker's Oration very excellently and exactly done and those things which followed were to this or the like purpose The Lord Keeper HE said The Lord Keeper replies That her Majesty most graciously did accept of the Service and Devotions of this Parliament commending them that they had employed their time so well and spent it on necessary Affairs save onely that in some things they had spent more time than needed but she perceived some men did it more for their satisfaction than the necessity of the thing deserved She misliked also that such irreverence was shewed towards Privy-Counsellors who were not to be accounted as common Knights and Burgesses of the House Gently rebukes them for some Miscarriages that are Counsellors but during the Parliament whereas the other are standing Counsellors and for their wisdom and great service are called to the Council of State Then he said That the Queens Majesty had heard that some men in the case of great necessity and grant of Aid had seemed to regard their Country and made their necessity more than it was forgetting the urgent necessity of the time and dangers that were now eminent That her Majesty would not have the People feared with Reports of great dangers Gives them Cautions but rather to be encouraged with boldness against the Enemies of the State And therefore that she straightly charged and commanded that the mustred Companies in every County should be supplied if they were decayed and that their Provisions of Armour and Ammunition should be better than heretofore it hath been used
That for this offer of three Subsidies her Majesty most graciously in all kindness thanketh her Subjects but except it were freely and willingly given she did not accept of it for her Majesty never accepteth any thing that is not freely given That if the Coffers of her Majesties Treasure were not empty or if the Revenues of the Crown and other Princely Ornaments could suffice to supply her Wants and the Charges of the Realm in the word of a Prince she doth pronounce it she would not now have charged her Subjects nor accepted of this they gave her The Lord Keeper's Speech being ended after some time of intermission the Queen being sat in her Chair of State used a Princely Speech unto the Houses of which the greatest part was to the effect and purpose following THis Kingdom hath had many wise The Qu. speaks her self noble and victorious Princes I will not compare with any of them in Wisdom Fortitude or any other Vertues but saving the duty of a Childe that is not to compare with his Father in Love Care Sincerity and Justice I will compare with any Prince that ever you had or shall have It may be thought simplicity in me that all this time of my Reign I have not sought to advance my Territories and enlarge my Dominions for opportunity hath served me to do it I acknowledge my womanhood and weakness in that respect but though it hath been not hard to obtain yet I doubted how to keep the things so obtained that hath onely held me from such attempts And I must say my minde was never to invade my Neighbours or to usurp over any I am contented to reign over mine own and to rule as a just Prince Yet the King of Spain doth challenge me to be the Quarreller and the beginner of all these Wars in which he doth me the greatest wrong that can be for my Conscience doth not accuse my thoughts wherein I have done him the least injury but I am perswaded in my Conscience if he knew what I know he himself would be sorry for the wrong that he hath done me I fear not all his Threatnings his great Preparations and mighty Forces do not stir me for though he come against me with a greater power than ever was his Invincible Navy I doubt not God assisting me upon whom I always trust but that I shall be able to defeat and overthrow him I have great advantage against him for my Cause is just I heard say when he attempted his last Invasion some upon the Sea-coast forsook their Towns and flew up higher into the Country and left all naked and exposed to his entrance But I swear unto you by God The Q. swears by God the will punish Cowards if I knew those persons or of any that shall do so hereafter I will make them know and feel what it is to be so fearful in so urgent a Cause The Subsidies you give me I accept thank-fully if you give me your good wills with them but if the necessity of the time and your preservations did not require it I would refuse them But let me tell you that the sum is not so much but that it is needful for a Prince to have so much always lying in her Coffers for your defence in time of need and not to be driven to get it when we should use it You that be Lieutenants and Gentlemen of Command in your Countries I require you to take care that the People be well armed and in readiness upon all occasions You that be Judges and Justices of the Peace I command and straightly charge you that you see the Laws to be duely executed and that you make them living Laws when we have put life into them Thus with most gracious thanks to both Houses the Princely Speech ended Then were the Titles of all the Acts read in due order and first the Bill of Subsidies to which the Clerk of the Parliament standing up did read the Queens Answer in manner and form following La Royne remercie ses loyaule Subjects accept leur benevolence ainsi le veult The Clerk of the Parliament having read the Queen's acceptance and thanks for the Subsidies given as aforesaid did then upon the reading of the Pardon pronounce in these French words following the Thanks of the Lords and Commons for the same Les Prelates Seigneurs Communes en se present Parliament assembles au nome de touts vous autres Subjects remercient tres-humblement vostre Majesty prient a Dieu que il vout done en sante bonne vie longue Nota here to the Subsidy-bill because it is the meer gift of the Subject the Queen's consent is not required for the passing of it but as it is joyned with her thankful acceptance nor to the Bill of Pardon because it is originally her free gift no other circumstance is required than that the thankful acceptance thereof by the Lords and Commons be likewise expressed it being but once read in either House before it comes thus at last to be expedited Now to all other Bills either private or publick the Queen 's express consent though in different words is always requisite as followeth The Bills of Subsidies and Pardon being passed in manner and form as aforesaid then were the Publick Acts read to every one of which allowed by the Queen the Clerk of the Parliament reads in French these words following Le Royne le veult To every Private Act that passeth the Clerk of Parliament reads the Queens Answer in these French words following Soit fait come il est desiré These two last Answers to the Publick and Private Acts that pass are to be written by the Clerk of Parliament at the end of every Act. To such Acts as her Majesty forbears to allow the Clerk of the Parliament reads in French these words following Le Roynes advisera After which ended the Dissolution of the Parliament followed in these words Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex Mandato Diminae Reginae tune praesentis dissolvit praesens Parliamentum A Journal of the Parliamentary Proceedings in the Lower House Anno xxxv o Eliz. Annoque Dom. 1592. very laboriously collected Being chiefly called for Consultation and Preparation against the ambitious Designes of the King of Spain in which some unusual Distastes happened between her Majesty and the House by reason of their intermeddling with her Majesties Successor to the Crown which she had forbidden This Session begun on Munday February 19. 1592. and ended April 9. 1593. MVnday Feb. 19. Feb. 19. The Parl. meet This day the Knights and Burgesses met and at this day appeared after that their Names were declared to the Clerk of the Crown and there entred into his book they entred into the House The House being set the Earl of Darby High-Steward for this Parliament came into the House to take their Oaths Sir Thomas Henage gave him instructions what order he should use
First that all should remove into the Court of Requests There the Lord High-Steward sitting at the door called the Knights and Burgesses of every County according to the letters of their names in the Alphabet Alphabetically every one answered as he was called and having answered departed thence up to the Parliament-house-door and there took the Oath of Supremacy given him by one of the Queens Majesties Privy Counsellors His Oath taken The Members are sworn then he entered again and took his place as Knight or Burgess of the House The Fee for entering his name into the Serjeants book is 2 s. the Rewards to the Door-keepers being 3 s. and 8 d. the Fee for returning the Indenture 2 s. This done there was no further proceeding in any matter till two of the clock in the afternoon about which time the Nobility came and were set in the Upper House The Qu. comes to the House of Lords the Queen came privately by water After her Majesties coming and the Lords being all sat the Lower House had intelligence thereof and went to attend in the Upper House below the Bar being well repleated with those that had gotten in before privately The door was shut upon us until the Lord Keeper had gone a good step in his Oration The Lower house finding themselves discontented at this because of custome the way ought to have been opened murmured so loud that the noise came to her Majesties ears who presently commanded the doors to be set open which was done and by that time the Lord Keeper was upon these words following The former part of his Oration seemed to set forth matter of form onely as the manner of Parliaments their Antiquities c. The Lord Keeper's Speech HE set forth the great malice of the King of Spain which he had towards this Realm and that he shewed by sundry instances His last Invasion intended Heads of the Lord Keeper's Speech Vide Journal of the House of Lords his Forces then addressed out of the Low Countries for that purpose to have been conducted by the Duke of Parma The high and mighty Ships that he then prepared and sent for that purpose which because he found not fit for our Seas and such a purpose he is building Ships of a lesser bulk Spaniards preparations by Sea after another fashion some like French Ships some like the Shipping of England and many he hath gotten out of the Low Countries He is now for the better invading of England planting himself in Britain Plants himself in Britany a Country of more facility to offend us than the Low Countries there he hath fortified himself in the most strong Holds in that Country In Scotland he hath of late wrought most of the Nobility to conspire against their King to give landing to his Forces there Corrupts the Scots against their King to assist him to invade England and to assist him in his Invasion and a great part of the Nobility in Scotland are combined in this Conspiracy and they have received great sums of money for their service herein And to assure the King of Spain of their Assistance To which they consent they have signed and sent their Promises sealed unto that King These Conspiracies the King of Scots was brought hardly to believe but that her Majesty advertised him thereof having received intelligence thereof as she hath of all things done and intended in those parts The King of Scotland informed of their practices by the Queen And that the King might better advise thereupon her Majesty hath sent one of her Noblemen into Scotland and that King hath assured her Majesty with all his ability and endeavour to prevent the Spaniard whose purpose is on the North part to assault us by Land and on the South side to invade us by Sea which is the most dangerous practice that could be devised against us And now the Rage of the Enemy being such his Forces joyned with other Princes his adherency is great the charge of her Majesty for the defence of her Realm both with Forees by Sea and Armies by Land hath been such that hath both spent the Contribution of her Subjects by Subsidies and what otherwise they have offered her and also consumed her Treasure yea caused her to sell part of her Highness Crown-lands And it is not to be marvelled how all this is consumed but rather to be thought how her Majesty could be able to maintain and defend this her Realm against so many Realms conspired against us Wherefore we her Majesties Subjects must with all dutiful consideration think what is sit for us to do and with all willingness yield part of our own for the defence of others and assistance of her Majesty And therefore he wished that care might be had for advancing of the Subsidies from the wealthier and better sort and concluded with a desire that the greatest part of the time might be spent by material short Speeches in advising and providing for the defence of the Kingdom against the forraign Enemy After which Speech ended her Majesty calling the Lord Keeper unto her by whose commandment he gave the Lower House authority to chuse their Speaker and to present him on Thursday following the 22th day of February unto which day he adjourn'd the Parliament Upon this Adjournment the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons departed into the Lower House and there chose Edward Cooke Esq the Queen's Sollicitor to be their Speaker who after a discreet and modest excuse of himself was notwithstanding called to the Chair and placed in it After the Ceremony ended the House of Commons likewise departed for this day On Thursday Feb. 22. the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons met about one of the clock in the afternoon and about three the same day having notice that the Queens Majesty and the Lords were sat in the Upper House expecting them and their Speaker they repaired thither and as many as could getting in the Speaker was placed at the Bar where having with all humility excused himself and confessing that in the said House there were many more experienced Members thereof and better enabled for that service To which Speech the Lord Keeper having Instructions from the Queen answered That her Majesty did very well allow of himself to the Place to which he was chosen and did also commend the House of Commons for so discreet and fit a Choice Upon which Speech the Speaker accepting of the said Charge with all humble acknowledgment of her Majesties grace and favour towards him did in the conclusion thereof make these Petitions of course for the House of Commons and in their Names That they might have free liberty of Speech and freedom from Suits and Arrests of themselves and their followers and that they might have Access to her Majesties Royal Person upon all urgent and important occasions petitioning also for himself that if any thing were
as to the Queen as for two parts of the Profits to be answered her and so all Sales hereafter to be made by any Recusant convicted the Sale being bona side The sixth They shall be disabled to be Justices of the Peace Mayors or Sheriffs The ninth Children being ten years until they be sixteen to be disposed at the appointment of four Privy Counsellors the Justices of Assize the Bishop of the Diocess Justice of the Peace And if the third part of the Land suffice not for maintenance the rest to be levied of the Parents Goods The eleventh Recusants that be Copyholders to forfeit two parts to the Lord of the Mannor if the Lord be no Recusant and if he be then to the Queen The thirteenth Protesting that he doth not come to Church under colour of any Dispensation or other allowance from the Pope but for Conscience and Religion Sir Robert Cecill AS I remember Cecill's Speech I have been of this House these five Parliaments and I have not determined to say any thing in these Assemblies further than my Cogitations should concur with my Conscience in saying bare I and No. Give me leave I pray you to rehearse an old Saying and it is in Latine Nec te Collaudes nec te Vituperes ipse For me to do the one were exceeding Arrogancy and to do the other I confess I hope you will pardon me The occasion of this Parliament which I take to be by that which we received from the honourable and learned Speech of the Lord Keeper as of and from her Majesty to us in the Higher House is for the cause of Religion and the maintenance thereof amongst us the preservation of her Majesties most Royal Person and the good of this Realm our Country All which because they be things of most dear and nearest price and at this present in exceeding great and eminent danger it is behoveful to consult of most speedy remedies which in parcels should proceed from the most wise heads The Enemy to these is the King of Spain whose malice and ambition is such that together with the Pope that Antichrist of Rome for I may well couple them together the one being always accompanied with Envy and Prosperity the other with unsatiable desire makes them by all means seek the subversion of this State But concerning the first the Cause of God and his Religion which her Majesty professed before she came on this Royal Seat which she hath defended and maintained and for which cause God hath so blessed her Government ever since her coming to the Crown yea while the Crown was scarce warm on her head she abolished the Authority of Rome and did set up God's Truth amongst us and to her great Renown made this little Land to be a Sanctuary for all the persecuted Saints of God whereby the People perceived her Magnanimity Zeal and Judgment Magnanimity in understanding so great an Enterprize Zeal in professing the same not of shew but in sincerity Judgment in defending it and preventing all the Popes designes He set forth his Bulls and Missives against her Majesty thereby most unnaturally depriving her of her most natural Right Duty and Loyalty which her Subjects should owe unto her c. Here he touched the many dangers which her Majesty had been in which as it caused him to fear to think so it did cause him to tremble to speak concerning the danger of our Country and so the loss of our Lives Liberties Wives Children and all other Priviledges Let me not trouble you with things passed so long and perhaps beyond my reach but of things passed of late years and since 88 when as we were so secure and never thought the King of Spain would have set up his Rest for England then sent he his Navy termed Invincible and had almost been upon the backs of us before we were aware yea we were so slack in Provision that it was too late to make resistance had not God preserved us his attempt against us by seeking to win the Low Countries and to obtain Ireland which being but trifles and partly devices which I mean not to trouble you with He hath now of late gone about to win France wherein he hath greatly prevailed as in Lorain and in other parts as you have heard but especially in Britain having most part of the Port-towns in his possession whither he still sends Supplies dayly and re-enforceth them every four or five months which Port is always open and his men and forces never wanting This Province he especially desireth for it lieth most fitly to annoy us whither he may send Forces continually and there have his Navy ready to annoy us the which he could not otherwise so easily do unless he had the Wind in a bag Besides having this Province he will keep us from Traffique to Rochel and Bourdeaux as he doth in the Streights from Tripoly and St. Jean de luze and so hinder us from carrying forth or bringing in into this Land any Commodities whereby this Realm might be inriched and her Majesties Impost ever increased being one of the greatest Revenues of her Crown He hath also gone about with them of Stode and the King of Poland one of his own Faction and who by reason he cannot do in that Kingdom what he listeth he may easily command him to impede or hinder our Traffique in those Eastern parts which if he could bring to pass you see how hurtful it would be to this Land But to descend yet more lower and into these latter Actions he hath seen it is but a folly to endeavour to make a wooden-bridge to pass into England therefore he hath found out a more sure way and stronger passage unto it by Land and that by Scotland which though it be not talked of at the Exchange nor preached of at Paul's Cross yet it is most true and in Scotland as common as the High-way that he hath procured to him many of the Nobility there It is true he hath sent thither no Navy and if he had endeavoured it her Majesty would not have suffered him yet do she what she can some paltry Fly-boat may escape her Majesties good Ships and carry Gold enough in her to make them Traytors and stir them to Sedition These things her Majesty understood before and advertised that King thereof but he not so well conceiving thereof hath by the effect proved the other true And unless I be deceived the last Letter that came from thence the other night sheweth that King is gone to make a Road into the North and to bring Back the Lord Bothwell and the Lord Huntley The King of Spain's malice thus dayly increaseth against us and seeketh also to stir up Sedition amongst us by his Instruments the number also of Papists dayly increaseth or at leastwise be more manifested My advice is That you would consult which ways to withstand such eminent dangers which the greater they be the sooner they
abuses of the Bishops in every one of them He delivering the Bill made this his request That if the House thought good to receive it that then they might be Suitors unto her Majesty to have it allowed The Bill being delivered by Mr. Morris his hand unto Mr. Speaker Mr. Dalton of Lincolns-Inne stood up and spake with much earnestness against it saying IT is hard for me upon a sudden to answer a long premeditated Speech but as I am able I will say and shew what I think of the Bill exhibited It pretends great things in shew things tending to the hindrance of God's Service to the derogation of her Majesties Prerogative to the overthrowing of our Laws and violating of our Liberties things great in shew but no such things to be found in matter spoke against It is easie to make of a Mole-hill a Mountain in words so by a well compiled Speech to make a great and dangerous thing of nothing nay indeed a thing needless for that the State hitherto hath always stood upon this Government And so shewed how the Ecclesiastical Government was distinct from the Temporal The Reasons he gave were few or none onely his great mislike was that having received straight Commandment from her Majesty not to meddle with things concerning the Church and State of this Realm therefore in his opinion the Bill ought to be suppressed Mr. Speaker IN favour and in free love above my merits and deserts you have elected me to do all my best service and to be faithful to you This Bill delivered to me is long and containeth important matters of great weight and such matters as cannot be expressed in few words It hath many parts and if you put me presently to open it I cannot do it as I should for indeed it is a matter far above my ordinary practice and so I cannot so readily understand it and to deliver a thing before I conceive it I cannot Wherefore if it would please you to give me leave to consider of it I do profess I will be faithful and will keep it with all secrecy Hereupon it was put to the question Whether it should be committed to the Speaker onely or to the Privy Council and him But it was held to be against the Order of the House that a Bill should be committed before it was read Therefore upon a Motion made by Mr. Wroth it was agreed that Mr. Speaker should keep it This afternoon at two of the clock Mr. Speaker was sent for unto Court where the Queens Majesty her self gave him commandment what to deliver unto the House On Wednesday Feb. 28. after Prayers the Bill for Recusants was read This morning Mr. Morris was sent for to Court and from thence he was committed unto Sir John Fortesoue's keeping This Bill against Recusants was opened and read by Mr. Speaker who made fourteen divided parts of the same Mr. Speaker YEsterday a great Member of this House after a Speech used and his Reasons laid forth delivered two Bills unto me which Bills though not being read yet were diversly spoken of They being long and the matters grave and of great importance and the day being almost spent I desired further time to consider of the parts of the Bill I humbly thank this honourable House time was granted me freely it being almost twelve of the clock I have perused and read both of the Bills I have them about me and they have been continually with me ever since they were delivered to me never any man saw them nor ever any mans eye more than my own ever saw one word of them A little after I had perused the Bills I was sent for by a special Messenger from her Majesty Coming in her Royal presence I was commanded to deliver these words from her most excellent Majesty unto the body of the Realm for so she termed this House The matter I have to speak is great yea it is the greatest matter I ever had to deal in wherefore I pray God direct mentem linguam hanc I must be short for her Majesties words were not many and I may perhaps fail in the delivery of them for though my Auditors be great yet who is so impudent that the presence of such a Majesty would not appale him and it did greatly fear me when I did see none of these honourable persons in her presence who were present at the holding of the matter in this House yet so God in his providence had appointed it that even in this while came in some of the persons here present who if I fail in delivering what was given me in charge can report it unto you and I glad am that there are witnesses with me in this action what was my faithful service for the House I protest a greater comfort never befel me than that this my Integrity and faithful Promise to this House is not violated for her Majesty in her most gracious wisdom before my coming determined not to press me in this neither indeed did she require the Bill of me for this onely she required of me What were the things spoken of by the House which points I onely delivered as they that heard me can tell The Message delivered me from her Majesty The Speaker 〈…〉 Message to the Commons consisteth of three things First the end for which the Parliament was called Secondly the Speech which her Majesty used by my Lord Keeper Thirdly what her Pleasure and Commandment now is For the first it is in me and my power I speak now in her Majesties person to call Parliaments and it is in my power to end and determine the same it is in my power to assent or dissent to any thing done in Parliament The calling of this Parliament was onely that the Majesty of God might be more religiously served and those that neglect this service might be compelled by some sharper means to a more due obedience and more true service of God than there hath been hitherto used And further that the safety of her Majesties Person and of this Realm might be by all means provided for against our great Enemies the Pope and the King of Spain Her Majesties most excellent Pleasure being then delivered unto us by the Lord Keeper it was not meant we should meddle with matters of State or in Causes Ecclesiastical for so her Majesty termed them She wondered that any would be of so high commandment to attempt I use her own words a thing contrary to that which she had so expresly forbidden wherefore with this she was highly displeased And because the words then spoken by my Lord Keeper are not now perhaps well remembred or some be now here that were not there her Majesties present Charge and express Commandment is That no Bills touching matters of State or Reformation in Causes Ecclesiastical be exhibited And upon my Allegiance I am commanded if any such Bill be exhibited not to read it On Thursday March 1. after Prayers
upon the Question was ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Wreth one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Brewers shewed the meeting and travel of the Committees and their Amendments of the said Bill and prayed the reading of the said Amendments which being read and ordered by the House to be inserted into the said Bill and also twice read upon the Question the Bill was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for explanation of a branch of a Statute made in the 23 year of her Majesties Reign entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience with some Amendments to the same was read the second time upon which divers Speeches in the House passed before the said Bill was committed some of them being of very good moment which because they are omitted in the original Journal-book it self is therefore supplied out of the Anonymon-Journal mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following Sir Thomas Cecill Dr. Lewyn Mr. Sands Sir Thomas Henage Sir Edward Dymmocke and some others spake diversly to this Bill touching the explanation of a branch of the Statute made Anno 23 Reginae for reducing disloyal Subjects to their Obedience as is aforesaid Sir Walter Rawleigh Sir Walter Rawleigh said In his conceit the Brownists are worthy to be rooted out of a Common-wealth but what danger may grow unto our selves if this Law passes it were fit to be considered For it is to be feared that men not guilty will be included in it and that Law is hard that taketh Life or sendeth into Banishment where mens intentions shall be judged by a Jury and they shall be Judges what another man meant But that Law that is against a Fact that is just and punish the Fact as severely as you will If two or three thousand Brownists meet at the Sea side at whose charge shall they be transported or whither will you send them I am sorry for it I am afraid there is neer twenty thousand of them in England and when they are gone who shall maintain their Wives and Children Divers other Bills were this day read On Thursday April 5. the Bill for the true assizing and marking of Timber was read the second time and committed to Mr. George Moore Mr. Dalton Mr. Wroth Sir John Hart and others and the Bill was delivered unto Sir John Hart who with the rest were appointed to meet to morrow at two of the clock in the afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber Mr. Serjeant Owen and Mr. Powle brought in from the Lords an Act for explanation of the Statute made 34 Hen. 8. as well touching Grants made to his Majesty as for confirmation of the speedy Letters-Patents made by his Highness to others and did pray from their Lordships the speedy execution of the same Mr. Vicechamberlain one of the Committees with the Committees of the Lords in the Bill for reviving continuing explanation and perfecting of certain Statutes sheweth the meeting and conference with the Committees of the Lords and that their Lordships have thought good to adde some small Amendments to the said Bill and a Proviso also for her Majesties Prerogative in point of transportation of Corn as the like whereof was in the Statute of the 13 of her Reign Nota That the business so much before agitated touching Mr. Fitz-herbert received this day the final resolution of this House as is plainly set down in the often-before-cited Anonymon-Journal more particularly mentioned in the beginning of this present Journal although it be wholly omitted in the original Journal-book which said Case was singly thus Thomas Fitz-herbert being elected a Burgess of the Parliament two hours after his election and before the return of the Writ to the Sheriff with an Indenture of his Election the said Sheriff arresteth him upon a Capias utlegatum after Judgment at the Queens suit as may be collected out of the reasons given of their said resolution and then his Indenture was returned unto the Sheriff Upon all which matters there grew two Questions First whether the said Mr. Herbert were a Member of the House and secondly admitting he was Whether he ought to have priviledge Which said matter having been much formerly debated on the 1 2 17. and 30. days of March last as also on the 3. instant received now at last the Judgment of the House which is inserted out of the aforesaid Anonymon-Journal-book Divers Bills were this day read On Friday April 6. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for restraint of new buildings converting of great houses into several Tenements and for restraint of Inmates and Inclosures in and neer unto the Cities of London and Westminster was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy Counsellors of this House the Knights and Burgesses of London Mr. Francis Bacon and others and the Bill was delivered unto Mr. Wroth one of the said Committees who with the rest were appointed to meet this afternoon at two of the clock in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill concerning Devonshire Kersies was read the third time and passed upon the Question Divers other Bills were this day read On Saturday April 7. the Bill concerning Coopers was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Serjeant Harries Mr. Dalton Mr. Wroth and others and the Bill was delivered unto Sir John Hart one of the said Committees who with the rest were appointed to meet at two of the clock this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber The Bill for naturalizing of Justice Dormer and George Sheppie was upon the second reading ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Finch one of the Committees in the Bill for the avoiding of deceits used in the making and selling of the 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 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 passed upon the Question Divers other Bills were likewise this day read April 8. Sunday On Munday April 9. Westlen Webben Beer-brewer and John Lightbonne Serjeant at Mace Prisoners at the bar after admonition given them by Mr. Speaker were discharged of their Imprisonment paying their Fees Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees in the Bill for explanation of a Statute made 34 Hen. 8. as well touching Grants made to his Majesty as for confirmation of Letters-Patents made by his Majesty to others shewed the meeting of the Committees and that they had considered of some small Amendments and shewed further that four several Provisoes were offered to them one by Mr. Adams one by Tipper one by and one by Daws and so offered in both the Bills the Amendments and the said four Provisoes leaving the same to the further consideration of the House Divers other Bills were read this day April 9. Sir John Hart one of the
Law brought before the said Committees by the said Lord That the Place which he claimed in the Order and Rank of the Barons was due unto him viz. next after the Lord Willoughby of Ersby which Report being made to the House and the Voices of all the Lords being demanded the Opinions of the Committees was allowed by the consent of all the Lords the Lord Willoughby onely excepted And the Lord Keeper was desired to acquaint her Majesty with the Determination of the House and to know her pleasure concerning the same The Lord Treasurer made a Motion to the House The Treasurers Motion about the Journal-book that forasmuch as the Journal-books kept heretofore by the Clerk of the Parliament seemed to have some Errours in them in misplacing the Lords so as it was doubted how the same might be of true Record That it would please their Lordships to take order that the said Books that should from henceforth be kept by the Clerk of the Parliament may be viewed and perused every Parliament by certain Lords of the House to be appointed for that purpose and the List of the names of the Lords in their order to be subscribed by them taking unto them for their better information the King at Arms and that this Order might begin this present Parliament On Saturday Nov. 12. the Bill for taking away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders A Bill against the benefit of Clergy for such as take away women against their wills against a Statute made Anno 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of women against their wills was read secunda vice On Munday Nov. 14. the Lord Treasurer moved the House that such Lords as were absent from the Farliament and had not sent their Proxies and such others as had made their appearance at the beginning of the Parliament and have since neglected their attendance may be admonished to reform the same Upon the same day upon the Petition of the Lord De-la ware exhibited to her Majesty concerning his place in the Order of the Barons of the Parliament and with her Majesties commandment and direction presented unto the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in this present Parliament the fifth of this instant November and referred the same day upon the reading unto Committees as is recorded in the Session of the same day the said Committees having at the time and place appointed assembled themselves and advisedly considered of the said Petition and of all Arguments that were brought and alleadged both for the Petition and against it did resolve and determine That in their opinions the said Petition of the said Lord De-la-ware was just and that the Place which he sought was due unto him viz. to have his place betwixt the Lord Willoughby of Ersby and the Lord Berkley being the same place which his great Grandfather had held before as appeareth by Record Of which Resolution and Determination Report having been made by the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer first of the Committees the tenth of this instant November in the Session of the same day as before is recorded and the same being allowed and approved of by the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal then present in the House it was thought meet and ordered That her Majesty should be acquainted by the Lord Keeper with the Opinion and Resolution of this House Which having been performed by his Lordship her Majesty having allowed of the proceedings of this House and of the determination of the Question touching the place of the said Lord De-la-ware as hath been declared to this House by the Lord Keeper it was and is agreed and ordered by her Majesty and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal That the Lord De-la-ware should be brought into the House and placed in the room and order before mentioned to have place and voice betwixt the Lord Willoughby and Lord Berkley which was accordingly done this day The Lord De-la ware was brought in his Parliament-robes unto the place aforesaid by the Lord Zouch supplying the place of the Lord Willoughby and by the Lord Berkley in their Robes Garter the King of Arms attending them and doing his service according to his Office On Tuesday Nov. 15. an Act for the taking away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders against a Statute made 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of women against their wills unlawfully together with the Proviso annexed unto it by the consent of the House was read On Saturday Nov. 19. the absence of the Lord Marquiss of Winton and the Earl of Huntingdon severally excused by two of the Temporal Lords and the like Excuse delivered by the Bishop of Norwich for the Bishop of Chichester's absence Report was made by the Lord Keeper that the Earl of Essex received not his Writ of Summons until the 17th of this month through the negligence of the Messenger to whom the same was delivered and now his Lordship wanting health to give his attendance desired to be excused for his absence the Earls of Worcester and Southampton testifying of his sickness Introduct est Breve Richardi Dom. Eure quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissus est ad locum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento salvo jure alieno On Munday Nov. 21. a Bill for the confirmation of the deprivation of divers Bishops in the beginning of her Majesties Reign was read On Tuesday Nov. 22. a Bill formerly sent to the Commons with a Proviso from this House thereto added concerning taking away of Clergy from Offenders that take away women against their wills unlawfully expedited The Committees upon the Bill of Tellers and Receivers meeting at the little Chamber near the Chamber of the Parliament-presence and conferring on the Bill and the Provisoes that were thought on and came in question amongst them by reason of sundry doubts that were moved did refer the Bill to her Majesties Atturney-General to be reviewed On Thursday Nov. 24. an Act for the better explanation and execution of the Act made in the thirteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign concerning tellers and Receivers prima vice lect This Bill was renewed by Mr. Atturney-General by the appointment of the Committees to whom the former Bill was referred as is mentioned in a Note in the last Session and brought instead of the former Bill On Saturday Nov. 26. an Act for the explanation and execution of an Act in the thirteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign concerning Tellers Receivers c. secunda vice lect and commanded to be ingrossed A Serjeant at Arms to be sent for one Winwood A Serjeant at Arms sent to take a City-Serjeant into custody and one Stevenson a Serjeant at Mace of London who arrested Edward Barston the Lord Chandois servant contrary to the Priviledge of the House The Bill for repeal of a Statute made 23 of her Majesties Reign entituled An Act for the increase of Mariners and maintenance of Navigation was brought into the House by the Committees
with an Amendment thought fit to be put into the Bill the Amendment thrice read and appointed to be fixed in the Schedule of the Bill On Munday Nov. 28. the Bill that was sent from the Lower House with this Title viz. an Act for the repeal of a Statute made in the 23 year of her Majesties Reign entituled An Act for the increase of Marriners and maintenance of Navigation was after the third reading returned again to the said House for their consideration and allowance as well of another Title thought more fit by the Committees to be given thereto viz. an Act for the increase of Mariners and for maintenance of Navigation repealing a former Act made 23 of her Majesties Reign bearing the same Title as also of some Amendment in the body of the Bill added by the Committees sent by Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Carew On Thursday Decem. 1. Decemb. 1. the Parties that arrested the Lord Chandois servant viz. Wood and Stevenson with two others brought into the House by the Serjeant at Arms and upon some notice taken of the matter Mr. Justice Owens and Mr. Serjeant Drew were appointed to examine the same and make Report thereof to the Lords The Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain took his place this day as Baron of Hunsdon betwixt the Lord Chandois and Lord St. John of Bletsoe This day an Act concerning the School at Sownocke tertia vice lect and sent to the Commons House On Saturday Decemb. 3. An Act for the increase of Mariners and for maintenance of Navigation repealing a former Act made 23 of her Majesties Reign bearing the same Title which Act was sent to the Lower House from hence for their consideration and allowance of this Title and some Amendments in the body of the Bill Upon the Report of Mr. Justice Owens and Mr. Serjeant Drew unto whom the Examination of the matter was committed concerning the Arrest of my Lord Chandois servant by one Stevenson a Serjeant in London at the Suit of one William Wood being found and judged to have wilfully offended therein against the Priviledge of the House were committed and sent to the Prison of the Fleet there to be kept close Prisoners until further directions from the Lords And whereas and were this day brought into the House before the Lords L. Chandois serâ—ant Barston released out of Prison as supposed partakers in the same offence they upon examination being found not to have wilfully committed any fault therein were dismissed and order given by the Lords for the discharge of Edward Barston out of the Prison of the Counter Munday Decemb. 5. an Act for the better and safer recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common-Pleas read secunda vice and referred to the same Committees as before with the addition of the two Lords Chief Justices and Mr. Atturney-General The absence of the Earl of Essex the Lord Viscount Byndon the Earl of Cumberland the Lord Scroope the Lord Willoughby of Ersby and the Lord Bishop of Rochester were excused by the Lord Rich the Lord Chandois the Lord Wharton the Lord Zouche and the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells Order was given for the release of Stevenson the Serjeant who arrested my Lord Chandois his servant On Tuesday Decemb. 6. an Act for erecting of houses of correction and punishment of Wanderers prima vice lecta On Wednesday Decemb. 7. an Act for the confirmation of the Joynture of Dame Christian the Lady Sandies secunda vice lect and commanded to be ingrossed On Thursday Decemb. 8. an Act for the erecting of houses of correction and for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars secunda vice lect and referred to the Committees for the former Bill and the same time and place appointed for their meeting And also authority was given to the Committees to call such of the Lower House unto them at this meeting as they should finde cause to confer withal for the better perfecting of the Bill An Act for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for the enjoying the Rectory and Personage of South-Moulton according to an Agreement secunda vice lect upon which reading it was ordered That all Parties whom this Bill may concern either on the part of Mr. Hatch or against him shall be heard openly in the House upon Munday next by their Counsel learn'd and all specialties concerning the same then to be produced to the end that it may be considered whether it shall be convenient to pass this Act or not Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney-General being appointed by the Lords to inform themselves against that time whether any thing be contained in the Bill that may prejudice the Poor Knights of Windsor and to make Report thereof accordingly on the part of the said poor Knights An Act for the establishing of the possession of Henry Vpton Kt. deceased and for payment of his Debts read secunda vice A Motion made by some of the Lords and agreed to by the House that there should be respit of some days taken before the third reading for any such Party or Parties as the Bill concerneth and namely any of the Wentworths to come to the House and alleadge if they finde cause why the Bill should not proceed the next Tuesday assign'd for this purpose William Cole the Knight-Marshal's man that arrested James Yorke the Lord Archbishop's servant was brought before the Lords by the Serjeant at Arms and being found upon his Examination before the Lords wilfully to have offended therein against the Priviledge of the House was Committed to the Fleet there to remain until their Lordships should give further directions for his enlargement On Friday Decemb. 9. an Act for the establishing of the Hospital of Queen Elizabeth in Bristol Bill to establish Q. Eliz. Hospital in Bristol and for relief of Orphans and Poor there read secunda vice Upon this reading some Amendments were thought fit by the House to be added which were presently drawn and agreed by the House and also twice read and commanded to be ingrossed On Saturday Decemb. 10. an Act that the Lord Montjoy may dispose of his lands whereof he is Tenant in tail as other Tenants in tail by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm may do a private Statute made to the contrary 27 Hen. 8. not withstanding secunda vice lect Upon the Motion of the Lord Marquiss of Winchester it was ordered that the Cause shall be heard openly in the House on Munday-morning by the Counsel learn'd on both sides An Act for the better recording of Fines to be levied in the Court of Common-Pleas returned and allowed by the House of Commons without any alteration expedited On Munday Decemb. 12. a Motion and Request made by the Lower House and delivered by Mr. Secretary Cecill accompanied with many others for a Conference to be had concerning the Bill entituled An Act concerning Tellers Receivers c. and assented unto Whereupon the Committees formerly named upon this Bill were appointed
an Act concerning a Lease of great yearly Value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham read prima vice Kirkham and Ambrose Willoughby Esq to be warned to attend the Lords on Munday-morning next at which time it is appointed the said Bill shall be read the second time An Act concerning the draining and recovery from the water certain overflown Grounds in the County of Norfolk An Act for draining of Lands secunda vice lect and referred to the same Committees upon the Bill formerly read of that kind concerning 300000 Acres c. with addition of the Lord St. John and Mr. Atturney to attend appointed to meet c. and such Parties as the same may concern to be warned to attend On Saturday Jan. 14. certain Objections unto a Bill entituled An Act for the increase of People c. were set down in writing by Mr. Atturney-General and brought into the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees and the same sent to the Lower House for their consideration thereof according to a Promise made by their Lordships to the select Committees of the Lower House at the meeting yesterday about the Bill delivered by Mr. Atturney and Dr. Stanhopp Certain Knights and Burgesses of the Lower House were sent to their Lordships to desire a Conference with a competent number of that House concerning the Amendments and Provisoe added to the Bill entituled An Act for erecting of houses of Correction and punishing of Rogues Vagabonds c. whereupon choice was made of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Admiral the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Bishop of Winchester and two Barons being part of the number formerly appointed upon the Bill the two Chief Justices and the Chief Baron Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney-General to attend them and the same presently signified to the same Knights and Burgesses but with this caution That whatsoever had been mended or added by their Lordships could not now be altered by the Orders of the House howbeit to yield the Lower House satisfaction of the reasons that moved their Lordships to make those Amendments they assented to a Conference the meeting appointed to be in the outward Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament on Munday-morning at eight of the clock The Earl of Essex not able to attend for want of health certified by the Lord North. The Bishop of Landaff absent by reason of sickness signified by the Bishop of Chester On Munday Jan. 16. Report was made by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury That upon meeting of such of the Lords of the Higher House as were appointed this day to confer with certain select Knights and Burgesses of the Lower House concerning the Amendments and Provisoes added by their Lordships to a Bill entituled An Act for erecting houses of Correction c. the said Knights and Burgesses do hold themselves satisfied upon the Reasons alleadged by their Lordships in some part of the said Amendments but not in all Kirkham was called into the House before their Lordships and after he had been heard what he was able to say on his own behalf the same Bill was read a second time viz. An Act concerning a Lease of great yearly Value procured to be passed from her Majesty by William Kirkham and commanded to be ingrossed A Motion made that a Proviso should be added to the Bill concerning the Bishoprick of Norwich which Proviso was presently drawn in the House by Mr. Atturney-General and thereupon read And for the more expedition in the proceeding of the Bill it was thought meet that the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Marshal Lord Admiral Bishop of London Lord Chamberlain and Lord Cobham should confer with a competent number of the Lower House about the said Proviso Whereupon Mr. Serjeant Drew and Mr. Atturney were sent to the Lower House to signifie the same unto them who presently assented to a meeting and made their repair to their Lordships forthwith An Act for enlarging the Statute made for following of Hue and Cry in 27 Reginae in some sort to relieve the Inhabitants of the small hundred of Beyvershe alias Benhurst in cases where they are in no ways voluntarily in default and yet they are or shall be charged by the same Statute and by two ancient Statutes the one made 13 Edw. 1. and the other 28 Edw. 3. for repressing Robberies On Tuesday Jan. 17. a Proviso drawn by Mr. Atturney by commandment of the House to be added to the Bill for establishing of the Bishoprick of Norwich c. was twice read and commanded to be ingrossed and then both the Bill and Proviso read the third time and returned to the Lower House for their consideration on the Proviso An Act for some better staying of Corn within this Land to give liberty to English Subjects sometimes to buy Wheat c. and to sell the same again in the same kind for the better relief of the Common-wealth tertia vice lect and rejected On Wednesday Jan. 18. the Lord Keeper signified to the House That the Parties that followed the Bill for the Hospital of Warwick are not provided of their Counsel learned whereupon the House assigned them a new day viz. Friday morning next An Act for avoiding of bringing of Pins into this Realm made and wrought in forraign parts beyond the Seas secunda vice lect and rejected The Amendments agreed upon by the Committees upon the Bill of Tillage appointed to be brought into the House to morrow-morning by the Lord Chief Justice of England An Act for the better furnishing and supply of able Chyrurgeons in and to the Land and Sea-service for her Majestie and the Realm secuuda vice lect A Bill about Chirurgeons for Sea-service The Lord Buckhurst signified that upon a Letter written unto him by the Lord Marquess of Winchester notifying his present sickness whereby he was not able to give his attendance as yet the said Lord Buckhurst according to the request of the said Lord Marquess having moved her Majesty therein it pleased her Majesty to hold him excused until his recovery and commanded that he should then give his attendance On Thursday Jan. 19. Answer was returned in writing from the Lower House and delivered by certain Knights and Burgesses sent for that purpose unto the Objections taken by their Lordships to some points of the Bill intituled An Act for the increase of People for the service and defence of the Realm which Objections were formerly delivered unto them in writing upon their request made to their Lordships Certain selected persons of the Lower House viz. Sir William Knolles and Sir Edward Hobby Kts with divers others coming from the said Lower House delivered a Message Complaint of the Commons of an Innovation by their Lordships signifying that the Knights and Burgesses desired to receive satisfaction from their Lordships concerning an Innovation as the said Knights and Burgesses supposed very lately begun in the Upper House
Committees of the Lower House to come the sooner this Afternoon for this purpose they might well enough perform both the one and the other On Wednesday Feb. 1. the Bill intituled Feb. 1. An Act for the reviving continuance explanation and repealing of divers Statutes returned to the House by the Lord Chief Justice with some amendments which were presently twice read and thereupon Commandment given to be prepared ready in writing in Paper for a third reading It is agreed that a Conference shall be had with some of the Lower House about this Bill upon Friday Morning next On Friday Feb. 3. a Proviso in the Bill for recovering 300000 Acres more or less of waste Marsh and watry Ground this day twice read and the Amendments And thereupon Commandment given the said Amendments should be written in Paper and the Proviso ingrossed in Parchment ready for a third reading Report made by the Lord Treasurer what the substance of the Conference was between their Lordships and certain select Committees of the Lower House concerning the Bill for reviving continuing and repealing of divers Statutes and the same referred to the Lord Chief-Justice and other Justices for their further consideration On Saturday Feb. 4. an Act for reformation of Retailing-brokers and other Pawn-takers read tertia vice An Act against the deceitful stretching and Taintering of Northern Cloaths tertiavice lect An Act for the reviving continuance explanation perfecting and repealing of divers Statutes tertia vice lect The three Bills above-mentioned sent to the Lower House of which the two latter were returned for their consideration of certain Amendments and Proviso's added by their Lordships The Proviso thought meet by the Committees on the Bill concerning the draining and recovery of certain over flown Grounds in the County of Norfolk twice read and commanded to be engrossed A Motion by the Lord Buckhurst that the County of Sussex might be added to the general Bill of surrounded Grounds The like Motion by the Lord North and others for the Counties of Somerset and Essex whereto the House assented and the said three Counties were accordingly added to the rest On Munday Feb. 6. hora secunda post Meridiem the Proviso added by the Lower House to the Bill for the confirmation of the Joynture of Christian Lady Sandis read tertia vice and thereupon the Bill expedited On Tuesday a Message from their Lordships to the Lower House delivered by Serjeant Drew and Dr. Carew for a Conference concerning a Bill against excess of Apparel with a competent number of the said House The time and place being desired to be at Two of the clock this Afternoon at the great Chamber of the Upper House of Parliament On Wednesday Feb. 8. the Bill for amendment of High-ways in the Counties of Sussex Surrey and Kent was read tertia vice and expedited On Thursday Feb. 9. at Three of the clock in the Afternoon They are dissolved Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae tunc dissolvit presens Parliamentum A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in Parliament holden at Westminster in Anno 39 Eliz. Reginae annoque Dom. 1597. begun there on Munday the 24 of Octob and Dissolved Febr. 9. Anno 40. ejusdem Reginae THe Ninth Parliament of our Soveraign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen 1597. Oct. 24. The Parliament assembles defender of the Faith c. began at Westminster upon Munday Octob. 24 in the 39th year of her Majesties Reign upon which day many of the Knights of the Shires Citizens of the Cities Burgesses of Burroughs and Barons of the Cinque-Ports did then make their appearance at Westminster being returned into the said Parliament for the same Shires Cities Burroughs and Ports before the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward of her Majesties most honourable Houshold Chuseth Serj. Yelverton for their Speaker and having authority to chuse their Speaker they made choice of Mr. Serjeant Yelverton to be their Speaker On Thursday Octob. 27. the House being set and before Mr. Speaker went up unto her Majesty in the Upper House Chancellor of the Exchequer moves that none may hereafter enter the House with Spurs on and pay the Serjeant his fees Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer moved and admonished that none of this House should after this present day enter into the House with their Spurs on for offending of others and withal that none do come into this House before they have paid the Serjeant's Fees due unto him according to the accustomed usage of this House in that case After which Mr. Speaker The Commens go to the Lords House with the greatest number of this House went towards the Upper House there to attend her Majesties pleasure and afterwards being admitted the said Mr. Serjeant Yelverton was presented before her Majesty and allowed of by her Speaker approved they return to the Lower House according to the usual form in that case accustomed And so returning to this House he was Speaker and took his place and sat in the Chair And then and there signified to this House that whereas in former times the Order was to have a Bill read before they did rise A caution given that no Bill could be read this day as was usual the same could not be so done at this time because her Majesty had in the Upper House adjourned this Parliament until Saturday next come seven-night being the fifth day of November next coming at eight of the clock in the Forenoon of the same day till which time he said all the Members of this House might depart and take their ease and so then every man went his way On Saturday Novemb. 5. the House met about eight of the clock in the Morning Which proved a mistake of the Speakers having through a mere mistake and errour of the Speaker and themselves conceived their House to have been adjourned by the Lord Keeper the first day of this Parliament unto this present day The Bill against Forestallers Regrators and Engrossers read the first time Mr. Finch shewing sundry great and horrible abuses committed by Vagrant and Idle persons offensive both to God and the world and further shewing the extream miserable estate of the Godly and honest sort of the poor Subjects of this Realm moved for a Committee of this House to be selected for redress thereof The Bill for the taking away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders against a Satute made 3 Hen. 7. concerning the taking away of Women again their wills Bill against those that take away Women against their will was read prima vice Sunday Novemb. 6. On Munday Novemb. 7. four Bills had each of them one reading the last being the Bill against Forestallers c. was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Francis Bacon the Citizens for London York Coventry Bristol and Gloucester Mr. Nathaniel
residue of the Members of this House according to the ancient Orders in such cases used Mr. Speaker did thereupon move That in regard of the pretiousness of the present time the Parliament being so neer an end it might please this House in yielding and assenting to the due allowance of the right of the said Order in the said course thereof The usual Ceremony dispensed withal for this time in the ceremony of bringing in this Bill the execution of the same may be at this time omitted in regard of the shortness of the same time and was thereupon so assented unto and ordered accordingly upon the Question The Bill for Husbandry and Tillage was read the third time and passed upon the Question and after many Arguments was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Secretary and others Sunday Decemb. 18. On Munday Decemb. 19. the Amendments in the Bill concerning the confirmation and establishment of the deprivation of divers Bishops in the beginning of her Majesties Reign being thrice read the Bill with the Amendments passed upon the Question Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against lewd and wandering persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners was read the third time and referred after sundry Speeches to Sir Robert Wroth and others to go up presently into the Committee-chamber of this House to amend some parts of the said Bill according to some of the said Motions Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords a Bill passed with their Lordships entituled An Act for the confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergie and shewed that their Lordships do recommend the same to this House for the speedy expedition of the same Bill in this House The Bill for confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy prima vice lect Mr. Atturney-General and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords a Bill lately passed with their Lordships with the good assent and agreement of the Parties entituled An Act of Parliament for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for enjoying the Rectory and Parsonage of South-Moulton in the County of Devon for certain years reserving the usual Rent On Tuesday Decemb. 20. the Bill for confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy was read the second time and passed upon the Question Mr. Recorder of London one of the Committees in the Bill against lewd and wandering persons pretending themselves to be Souldiers or Mariners shewed That they had mended the said Bill in some parts thereof which Amendments being twice read to the House and before any allowance for the third reading of them sundry Members of this House did argue to the parts of the said Bill and Amendments both with and against it After which Committees were appointed in the said Bill against wandering Souldiers and Mariners and also in the Bill concerning Leassees and Patentees against the next sitting of this Court and to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple hall who were as followeth Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Brodgrave Atturney of the Dutchie Sir George Carewe Mr. Hunt and others together with all other Committees in all other Bills formerly committed by this House and not as yet expedited all which are to meet at the aforesaid time and place concerning such Bills as are committed unto them This day this Court was adjoured until the 11th of January next coming The House adjourned to the next month at eight of the clock in the morning by her Majesties commandment and so likewise the Upper House Upon which 11 of January Jan. 11. being Wednesday the House met again and without any other 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 the House and sent up to their Lordships and again returned by them with the said Amendments and Provisoes being entituled An Act for erecting of houses of Correction for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars The Amendments and Proviso of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House for the relief of the Poor was this day read in this House for the first reading of the said Amendments and Proviso The Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for enjoying the Rectory and Parsonage of South-Moulton in the County of Devon for certain years reserving the usual Rent was read the first time The Bill concerning the Highway-lands of Alisbury in the County of Bucks was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Lee the Burgesses of Alisbury Mr. Boyer and others who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Inner-Temple-hall The Amendments and Proviso in the Bill to prevent double payment of Debts upon Shop-books was deferred until to morrow to be considered of for perfecting of the same above in the Committee-chamber of this House Lastly the Bill for taking away the benefit of Clergy from Robbers of houses in the day-time though no person be therein was read the first time On Thursday Jan. 12. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the due execution of Ordinances made in Corporations was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Philips Mr. Serjeant Warberton Mr. Finch Mr. Wingfield Mr. Pelham and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon at Serjeants-Inne in Chancery-lane The Bill for the Hundred of Beynersh alias Beynerst in the County of Berks was read the second time and upon the Question it was ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments this day made by some of the Member of this House above in the Committee-chamber in the Bill to prevent double payment of Debts upon Shop-books were twice read and upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments and Provisoes of the Lords in the Bill lately passed in this House entituled An Act for erecting of houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars being twice read for the second and third reading of the same Amendments and Provisoes were together with the said Bill after sundry Speeches first had referred to the further consideration and examination of Sir Walter Rawleigh Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Lukenor Mr. Wingfield Sir Edward Hobby Sir William Cornwallis Mr. Hext Mr. Robert Wroth and Mr. Serjeant Harries who were appointed to meet this afternoon together with the other Committees against wandering Souldiers and Mariners at Serjeants-Inne in Chancery-lane The Bill to reform Deceits and breaches of Trusts touching Lands given to charitable uses was read the first time On Friday Jan. 13. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill concerning Garret de Malmes and John Hunger Merchants strangers was upon the
second reading committed to the Knights and Burgesses of London Mr. Tho. Smyth Sir Walter Rawleigh Mr. Oldsworth and others who were appointed to meet on Munday in the afternoon at Serjeants-Inne in Chancery-lane Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the suppressing of unlawful and unsized bread was upon the second reading committed unto the Knights and Citizens of London Mr. Edward Hubbert the Burgesses of Chester Worcester Oxford Bristol Winchester and Cambridge Serjeant Harries and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon at Serjeants Inne in Chancery-lane Mr. John Acton one of the Burgesses for Droyt in the County of Worcester is for his special businesses licensed by Mr. Speaker to depart On Saturday Jan. 14. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to avoid Deceit and breaches of Trust touching Lands given to charitable uses was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Serjeant Harries the Knights and Burgesses for London Mr. Miles Sands and others who were appointed to meet upon Munday next in the afternoon at Serjeants-Inne in Chancery-lane The Bill for Arthur Hatch her Majesties Ward for enjoying the Rectory and Parsonage of South-Moulton in the County of Devon for certain years reserving the usual Rent was read the third time and passed upon the Question Sir Walter Rawleigh renewing the Motion for Conference to be prayed with the Lords concerning their Lordships Amendments and Provisoes in the Bill concerning erecting houses of Correction and Punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars for the better reconciling of them with the Bill now begun against wandering Souldiers and Mariners it was thereupon thought convenient by the House that the said Sir Walter Rawleigh accompanied with a convenient number of this House should presently repair to the Upper House to move for the said Conference accordingly Which Conference the Lords granted and appointed six of themselves to meet with a convenient number of this House upon Munday next at eight a clock in the morning in the second chamber of the Upper House Sunday Jan. 15. On Munday Jan. 16. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for explanation of and addition to an Act made 5. Reginae for maintenance of the Navy was read prima vice Sir Edward Hobby moved That the Serjeant of the House be commanded to call on Leicester to appear in this House for serving a Subpoena on Sir Henry Norris and also to warn one Stevens Two Bills more had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill concerning the Hospital of Warwick was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Tuesday Jan. 17. four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the assurance of the Joynture of Joyce the wife of John Thornbrigge was read the second time and upon the several Questions for committing and ingrossing was rejected The Bill for the reforming of sundry Abuses in the garbling of Spices and Drugs was read the second time and rejected upon the several Questions for the committing and ingrossing thereof Mr. Serjeants Drewe and Dr. Stanhopp brought from the Lords a Bill concerning a Lease of great value procured to be passed from her Majesty to William Kirkham Junior which Bill their Lordships have passed and do desire the speedy executing thereof in this House the same Bill greatly importing her Majesty whereupon the Bill was presently read in the House prima vice On Wednesday Jan. 18. eight Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill for the reviewing continuance and explanation of an Act for the necessary relief of Mariners and Souldiers was read the first time and the last being the Bill to tax all Lands and Goods for the payment of the Subsidies in the same Parish where it lieth was read the first time and rejected upon the Question for a second reading The Committees in the Bill for restraining the excessive making of Mault and the Committees in the Bill to restrain Deceits in breaches of Trust were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Exchequer-chamber On Thursday Jan. 19. the Bill for reuniting the Mannor of Parrisgarden in the County of Surrey was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Brodgrave Atturney of the Dutchie Mr. Newton Mr. Wiseman Mr. Serjeant Williams Mr. Edmond Boyer and Mr. Francis Moore and others and the Bill with the Committees Names were delivered unto Mr. Edmond Boyer who with the rest were appointed to meet to morrow in the afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall The Bill for the repealing of a branch of a Statute made 34 Hen. 8. entituled The Ordinance for Wales was read the second time and not being spoken against by any was ordered to be ingrossed On Friday Jan. 20. the Bill for the sale of the Lands and Goods of John Sharpe to pay his Debts was upon the second reading committed to Sir John Hart Mr. Henry Hubbard Mr. Nevil Mr. Thomas Smith Mr. Southerton Mr. Colebrand and others and the Bill with the Committees Names were delivered unto Mr. Southerton who with the rest were appointed to meet this afternoon in Middle-Temple-hall The Bill that Thomas Culpepper and John Culpepper may dispose of their Lands whereof they are Tenants in Tail as other Tenants in tail may do was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Barker Mr. Serjeant Williams Mr. Serjeant Harries and others and the Bill and Committees Names were delivered to Mr. Serjeant Williams who were appointed to meet this afternoon in the Middle-Temple-hall On Saturday Jan. 21. two Bills had each of them their first reading of which the last was against carrying of Corn or Grain out of the Realm at certain times Mr. Francis Goodwyn one of the Committees in the Bill concerning the Highway-lands of Alisbury in the County of Bucks brought in the Bill with some Amendments which being twice read the Bill was upon the Question ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Waldgrave one of the Committees in the Bill to prohibit the carrying of Herrings beyond the Seas shewed their meeting and their Amendments of the Bill the Bill being twice read upon the Question it was ordered to be ingrossed Sunday Jan. 22. On Munday Jan. 23. three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being a Bill for explanation of a Saving in a Stat. made 27 Reginae entituled An Act for the better foundation and relief of the Poor of the Hospital of Eastbridge in the County of kent was read the second time and rejected upon the several Questions of the Committing and ingrossing Sir John Hart one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Garret de Malmes and John Younger Merchants strangers shewed the meeting and travail of the Committees and their making of a new Bill for sundry considerations then opened by him and so delivered in to the House both the old Bill and
appointed by your Majesty and your Subjects And I beseech your most excellent Majesty not to interpret my denial herein to proceed from any unwillingness to perform all devoted dutiful service but rather out of your Majesties clemency and goodness to interpret the same to proceed from that inward fear and trembling which hath ever possessed me when heretofore with most gracious audience it hath pleased your Majesty to license me to speak before you For I know and must acknowledge that under God even through your Majesties great bounty and favour I am that I am And therefore none of your Majesties most dutiful Subjects more bound to be ready and being ready to perform even the least of your Majesties commandments I therefore do most humbly beseech your Majesty that in regard the service of so great a Prince and flourishing Kingdom may the better and more effectually be effected to command your dutiful and loving Commons the Knights citizens and Burgesses of the Lower House to proceed to a new Election On Tuesday Nov. 5. Nov. 5. were two Bills read of which the first being for assurance of Land and the second for the restraint of the excessive and superfluous use of Coaches within the Realm of England Bill against excessive and superfluous use of Coaches were each of them read prima vice Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliament usq in diem Sabbati 7 Novemb. hora decima On Saturday Nov. 7. the Bill for assurance of Lands was read secunda vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Cumberland the Earl of Lincoln the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Durham the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Rich and the Lord Howard of Walder and the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas the Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Atturney-General were appointed to attend their Lordships On Tuesday Nov. 10. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for preservation of Phesants and Partridges was read secunda vice and committed to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Derby the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Cumberland the Earl of Pembrooke the Earl of Lincoln the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Ely the Lord Zouche the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Mordant the Lord Rich the Lord Sheifield the Lord Chandois the Lord Compton the Lord Howard of Walden and the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas and the Lord Chief Baron to attend the Lords And the Bill was delivered to the Archbishop of Canterbury On Thursday Nov. 12. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill concerning Musters Souldiers and other things was read secunda vice and committed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham six other Earls eight Bishops the Lord Zouche the Lord Cobham and eight other Barons and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Mr. Justice Walmesly Mr. Justice Warberton Mr. Serjeant Yelverton and Mr. Atturney-General were appointed to attend the Lords On Saturday Nov. 14. to which day the Parliament had been last continued request was made by Mr. Connisby Gent. Usher to the House and signified by the mouth of the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward That forasmuch as the bringing of any person before the Lords upon the breach of the Priviledge of the House did appertain as the said Mr. Connisby supposed and alleadged to his place though in the last Parliament by some mistake the Serjeant at Arms was employed therein that therefore their Lordships would be pleased to confirm and settle such Order as he might at this time and henceforth have the right of his place in that behalf Whose Request being considered by the Lords it was thought meet That the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham the Earl of Worcester the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche and the Lord Cobham should at their next meeting upon any other occasion take notice of such Presidents as could be produced therein either for the Gentleman-Usher or for the Serjeant at Arms and thereof to make Report to the House Whereupon their Lordships would proceed to the deciding of the Question between them Sunday Nov. 15. On Munday Nov. 16. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for reuniting Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning was read secunda vice Dominus Custos Magni Sigill continuavit praesens Parliament usq ad diem Jovis viz. 19 Novemb. On Thursday Nov. 19. the Bill for the breed and increase of Horses of Service within the Realm was read prima vice Bill for increase of Horses of service Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the second was to avoid and prevent divers Misdemeanours in lewd and idle persons and the other was for the confirmation of Grants made to her Majesty and of Letters-Patents made by her Majesty to others The Lord Mordant being not able to attend for want of health certified so much to the House by the Lord Compton This day William Hogan was brought into the House from the Fleet One of the Qu. servants complains of an Arrest who having made relation of his Arrest and the time when and of the parties that arrested him declaring that he was arrested by the Under-Sheriff of Surrey and others upon the Saturday before the beginning of his Parliament and that it was known unto the said Under-Sheriff that he was her Majesties servant in Ordinary and that he thought Tolkerne who was the Creditor was not privy to the Arrest contrary to the Priviledge of that Court upon the Offer and Petition of the said William Hogan it was ordered That the said William Hogan should enter into sufficient Bond to abide the Order and Judgment of the Earl of Cumberland He is ordered to give Bond to abide Judgment c. the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Zouche for such satisfaction to be made of the Debt of 50 l. and any Costs and Charges as by the said Lords should be thought fit the Bond to be taken to the said Lords and thereupon to be discharged out of Prison and Execution And likewise that the Warden of the Fleet should be free from any trouble or damage or molestation for discharge of the said William Hogan It was likewise ordered by the Court Those who arrested him to appear at the Lords Bar. That the Under-Sheriff and any others that did arrest or assist the Arrest of the said William Hogan shall be sent for to appear
the putting thereof to the Question whether it should pass or no the Lady Fane yielded her consent to the passing of the same being thereunto perswaded by sundry of the Lords The Bill to avoid the double payment of Debts was read secunda vice The Lord Treasurer made Report That the Committees in the Bill concerning Letters-Patents c. could not proceed to any certain Conference with those that were sent from the House of Commons for that purpose in respect of some doubts that were conceived whether the Proviso offered to be annexed thereunto were necessary or no. And thereupon Mr. Atturney-General was required to deliver his Opinion on that behalf which being done by him accordingly to this effect That he thought the said Proviso needless and unnecessary and the Judges also concurring with him in that opinion nevertheless upon a Motion made by the Lord Bishop of London that the Counsel learned of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Mr. Holcroft whom the said Proviso did concern in particular might be heard in the House as they desired touching the same it was thought meet and agreeable to the honour and equity of the House that they should be so heard to which end their Counsel were appointed to give their attendance to morrow by eight in the morning And moreover for the better satisfaction of the House of Commons for the present Mr. Serjeant Yelverton Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp were sent unto them with this Message to signifie their Lordships desire to have proceeded to Conference with them this morning about the said Bill as was yesterday appointed and that the Lords were the more willing to give furtherance to the expediting of the said Bill in regard the same was especially recommended unto their Lordships from the said House but forasmuch as they found not themselves sufficiently prepared for this Conference by reason of some doubts that were not yet cleared unto them they desired the said Conference might be respited until Friday morning next at eight of the clock at the outward chamber neer the Parliament-presence unto which Motion the House of Commons willingly consented On Thursday Decemb. 10. the Bill for the establishing of the remainder of certain lands of Andrew Ketleby Esq upon Francis Ketleby was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons by Dr. Stanhopp and Dr. Hone. Two other Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to avoid double payment of Debts was read tertia vice and expedited The Bill concerning Resumptions c. was this day delivered to the Lord Treasurer one of the Committees The Counsel learned as well on the behalf of the Earl of Shrewsbury as on the behalf of Thomas Holcrost Henry Candish and William Candish Esquires were heard at large in the House and thereupon Mr. Atturney was required to deliver again his Opinion concerning the said Provisoes offered on either part which being done accordingly in more ample and particular manner than he had done before and having also delivered his Resolution to sundry Questions propounded to him by divers of the Lords concerning the said Cause it was ordered as followeth Upon Debate in the House concerning several Provisoes offered by the Earl of Shrewsbury and Thomas Holcroft Henry Candish and William Candish Esquires to be annexed to the Bill entituled An Act for confirmation of Grants made unto the Queens Majesty and of Letters Patents made by her Highness to others it was at last agreed That the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesties Bench and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas calling unto them the rest of the Judges and Mr. Atturney-General should draw some new Provisoes such as they should think indifferent for all parties and meet to be annexed to the said Bill and should present the same to the Lords to morrow in the morning before their Conference with the House of Commons concerning the said Bill The Lord Keeper signified unto their Lordships that he received command from her Majesty to let them understand her pleasure to be that the Parliament should end on Thursday the 17. or Friday the 18. of this instant Decem. at the furthest to the end that their Lordships may repair home to their Countries against Christmas and therefore she required them to employ and spend that time that remaineth in matters concerning the Publick and not in private causes Memorandum The Commons desire a Conference with the Lords about a Bill preferred in the Star-chamber against a Member of their House Quod dicto decimo Decembris those of the House of Commons that were appointed to confer with some of the Lords upon the Message lately sent from the said House signifying their desire of Conference for some matters touching the honour of both Houses did make known to the Lords the Committees nominated for that purpose That the occasion of such their Message was for that as they were informed Mr. Atturney-General had preferred a Bill into the Star-chamber against one Belgrave a Member of the House of Commons for and concerning some matter of Misdemeanour pretended to be done towards the Earl of Huntington a Lord of the Upper House and therefore they desired this mutual Conference letting their Lordships understand That to the preferring of the said Bill they conceived just exceptions might be taken by them for two respects first that Belgrave being a Member of the House of Commons was thereby vexed and molested during his service in time of Parliament contrary to the honour and priviledge of the House saying that no Member of that House ought by any such means in time of his service to be distracted either in body or minde The other because in the said Bill They reflect on the Att. Gen. for preferring the said Bill because he had formerly been their Speaker and so ought to be tender of their Priviledge and Honour preferred by Mr. Atturney-General who had been heretofore Speaker of that House and therefore as they thought ought to have more regard to the honour and liberty of the same Certain words and clauses were inserted which were taken to be prejudicial and derogatory to the honour of the said House And therefore they desired that the Lords would peruse and consider of the said Bill Whereupon the said Bill being offered to be read and forasmuch as it appeared that it was not an authentical Bill testified by the hand of the Clerk of the Star-chamber as it had been meet the Lords thought it not fit though otherwise they were willing to have it read nor agreeable to the proceedings of such a Court that the said Bill or Scroul shall be received to reading And therefore with a Message to that effect were pleased to send it down again to the House of Commons by Mr. Serjeant Yelverton and Dr. Hone who finding the House risen before they came brought the said Bill back again On Friday Decemb. 11. the Bill concerning Gaptains Souldiers and other in the Queens
Court and the said Crayford having been heard in the presence of William Vaughan what he could say concerning the said Information wherein he protested that he was guiltless and that his said Son had not in any sort received such direction from him as was informed It was therefore by the Court thought meet and so ordered That the examination and determining of the Controversies and Suits depending between the said Crayford and Vaughan should be referred to the Earl of Worcester the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Cobham and that they the said Crayford and Vaughan should enter into good and sufficient Bonds each to other to stand to observe and perform such Award and Arbitrament as the said Lords shall make and set down between them On Saturday Decemb. 19. a Motion was made in the House for the avoiding of all further Controversies between William Crayford and William Vaughan Gent. That forasmuch as each of them took mutual exceptions one to the other touching the Bonds whereinto they had entered by order of the Court the said William Crayford alleadging that it sufficed not for William Vaughan alone to be bound because his Heirs or some other claiming by and from him might trouble and molest him and that the said Vaughan is insufficient And the said William Vaughan alleadging that if the said William Crayford were bound alone his Sons and Heirs might trouble and molest the said Vaughan without hazard of the Bond some further order might thereupon be taken It is therefore this day ordered by the Court That the said William Crayford and his eldest Son Edward Crayford shall enter into sufficient Bond unto the said William Vaughan without hazard of the Bond for themselves and their Heirs that they and every of them shall stand to the Award of the Earl of Worcester the Lord Bishop of London and the Lord Cobham or any two of them And that also the said William Vaughan shall enter into the like Bond with a sufficient Surety for himself and his Heirs to stand to the said Award of the Lords before-mentioned or any two of them so as the said Award be made before the Feast of Easter next following And moreover it is ordered by the Court That if they or either of them shall refuse to enter into Bond according to the said Order that the Lord Keeper notwithstanding the ending of the Parliament and though it be after the same shall commit them or either of them to close Prison for refusing there to remain until the party refusing be conformable to the said Order Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque ad horam secundam post meridiem hujus instantis diei About which hour in the afternoon The Qu. comes to the House the Queens Majesty was personally present being accompanied with the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Thomas Egerton Kt. Lord Keeper of the great Seal the Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasurer of England and with divers other Lords Spiritual and Temporal but what was there done is not mentioned in the Original Journal-book of the Upper House and therefore is supplied out of a very laborious and copious Journal of the House of Commons taken by Hayward Townsend Esq a Member thereof at this Parliament Her Majesty with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal being set in the Upper House in their Parliament-Robes between two and three of the clock this afternoon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired thither with John Crooke Esq their Speaker who being placed at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House after he had made three Reverences to her Majesty sitting under a rich Cloath of Estate spake to the effect following THat Laws were not first made with humane Pen The Speaker's Speech but by divine Ordinance that Politick Laws were made according to the evil condition of men and that all Laws serves not at all times no more than one Medicine for all Diseases and said if he were asked what was the first and chiefest thing to be considered of he would say Religion for Religion is all in all for Religion breeds Devotion Devotion breeds Zeal and Piety to God which breedeth Obedience and Duty to the Prince and Obedience to the Laws breedeth Faithfulness Honesty and Love the three necessary and onely things to be wished and observed in a well-govern'd Commonwealth And that her Majesty by planting true Religion had laid such a foundation upon which all those Vertues were planted and builded that they could not easily be rooted up or extirpated and therefore acknowledged that we ought and do acknowledge that we will praise God and her Majesty for it And then he descended to speak of Governments and Laws of Nations amongst which principally and above all he preferr'd the Laws of this Land which he said were so many and so wise that there was almost no offence but was met with in a Law notwithstanding her Majesty being desirous for the good of her Land to call a Parliament for redress of some Laws and for making of new Her dutiful and loyal Subjects having considered of them have made some new and amended some old which they humbly desire may be made Laws by her Royal Assent which giveth life unto them And so after thanks given for the Pardon by which we dread your Justice and admire your Mercy and a Prayer unto her Majesty That she would accept as the testimony of our Loves and Duties offered unto her with a free heart and willing spirit four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths to be collected of our Lands and Livelihoods in speaking whereof he mistook and said Four entire Fifteenths and eight Subsidies which he was advised of by some of the Counsel that stood neer unto him and so he spake it right and craving pardon for his offence if either he had forgotten himself either in word or action he ended his Speech The L. Keeper returns the Queens Answer To which the Lord Keeper answered thus in effect AS touching her Majesties proceeding in the Laws for her Royal Assent that should be as God directed her sacred spirit Secondly For your presentation of four Subsidies and eight Fifteens and Tenths And thirdly Your humble thank-fulness for them and your self I will deliver her Majesties Commandment with what brevity I may that I be not tedious to my most gracious Soveraign First She saith your proceeding in the matter of her Prerogative she is perswaded that Subjects did never more dutifully do it and that she understood you did but obiter touch her Prerogative and no otherwise but by humble Petition and therefore the thanks that a Prince may give to her Subjects she willingly yieldeth But she now well perceiveth that private respects are privately masked under publick pretences Secondly Touching the presentation of your Subsidies she specially regardeth two things both the persons and
Speech the Council sate silent a while and afterward Mr. Controuler stood up again and asked the House of their consent The House Votes for him and opinions to his Motion Whereupon every man cryed I I I. Then Mr. Recorder stood up in his place and briefly shewed unto us his insufficiency and disability his willingness to serve but his weakness to perform his thankfulness for their desire but the smalness of his own desert The Recorder Excuses himself And so laying open his own Infirmities both for shortness of Memory and want of Wisdome and Experience for the undertaking of so great a burthen he humbly prayed that they would choose a man who for his Sufficiency were more able and for his Abilities were more sufficient to supply that place So sitting down and the House a little while quiet They Chuse him Mr. Controuler asked If they agreed as before and all Answered I I I. Then Mr. Controuler and Sir John Stanhop rose up and Sir John Stanhop on the right hand and Mr. Controuler on the left He is Lead to the Chair lead him to the Speakers Seat where standing without any sitting down as yet he pawsing a while spake again in effect as Followeth Your honourable Choice of me without any my desert Speaks to the House stops me from pleading either Insuficiency or Disability lest I should shew and make my weakness more apparent to disapprove the Sensure and good allowance of the Honourable Assembly of this House But however it hath pleased you to inable me in this sort This I dare and can assure you that you might have chosen many more worthy but none more ready to shew his utmost indeavor in this service Which Choice seeing it hath proceeded out of your Favour undeserved on my part I shall indeavor as God shall enable me to shew my self for this Assembly most careful and to every particular Member most respective and thankful VVhereupon he sate down and put on his Hat And after a little sitting and pawse Sir William Knowls Controuler rose up and said It was her Majesties pleasure that we should be ready to present our Speaker on Friday next at two of the Clock in the afternoon So for that day every man departed Fryday Octo. 30. About one of the Clock the Speaker Octob. 30. and all the House were ready in the Lower House sitting and talking privately and then Word was brought that her Majesty was come by Water to the Upper House so the Privy Council and the Speaker with the whole House went to the Upper House door and there staid a long half hour before such time as they were let in After being come in the Upper House was sate and the Queen under the State the Speaker standing at the Bar below made three Reverences which done he made a Speech to her Majesty to the effect following Most Sacred and mighty Soveraign The Speakers Speech to the Queen upon your Majesties Command 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 my self finding the weakness of my self and my abilities too weak to undergo so great a burden do most humbly beseech your most sacred Majesty to continue your most gracious favor toward 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 sufficient to discharge the great service to be appointed by your Majesty and your Subjects And I besceech your most Excellent Majesty not to interpret my denyal herein to proceed from my 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 possessed me when heretofore with most gratious Audience it hath pleased your Majesty to Licence me to speak before you For I know and must acknowledge that under God even through your Majesties great bounty and favour I am that I am And therefore none of your Majesties most dutiful Subjects more bound to be ready and being ready to perform the least of your Majesties Commands I do therefore most humbly beseech your Majesty that in regard the service of so great a Prince and flourishing Kingdom may the better and more successively be effected to command your dutiful and loving Commons the Knights Citizens and Burgessess of the Lower House to proceed to a new Election Then after he had made three Reverences the Queen called the Lord Keeper to whom she spake something in private And after that the Lord Keeper spake in effect as followeth Mr. Speaker The Lord Keeper Answers by the Queens Command Her Majesty with gratious Attention having heard your wise and grave Excuse for your discharge commanded me to say unto you That even your eloquent Speech in excuse of your self is a great Motive and a Reason very perswasive both to ratify and approve of the Choice of her loving Commons the Knights Citizens and Burgesses as also to commend their wise and discreet Choise of your self in her gratious Sensure both for Sufficiency well Able and for your fidelity and service well Approved of and therefore her Majesty taketh this Choice of yours for bonum omen a sign of good and happy Success when the beginning is taken in hand with so great Wisdom and Discretion Her Majesty therfore Commanded me to say unto you That she well liketh of your Election and therefore she Ratifieth it with her Royal Assent and Consent Then Mr. Speaker making three low Reverences Answered in this sort Most sacred and most puissant queen seeing it hath pleased your to command my service by consenting to the free Election of your dutiful and loyal Subjects the Knights The Speakers second Speech Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons of me to be their Speaker I most humbly beseech your Majesty to give me leave to shew unto you the dutiful thoughts and earnest affections of your loyal subjects to do your Majesty all service and to defend your Sacred and Royal Person both with their Lives Goods against c. And so made a vehement invective against the Tyranny of the King of Spain the Popes ambition and the Rebells in Ireland which he said were like a Snake cut in pieces which did crawl and creep to joyn themselves together again And lastly with prayers to continue the prosperous Estate and Peace of this Land which had been defended as he said by the mighty Arm of our Dread and Sacred Queen To which she answered openly her self No but by the mighty hand of God Mr. Speaker Then he proceeded to the last part to beseech her Majesty for freedom of Speech to every particular member For accesse to here Person
liberty of Priviledg to all the Members of this House and their Servant And lastly if any mistaking of any Message delivered unto him from the Commons should happen that her Majesty would be pleased to attribute that to his weakness in delivery or understanding and not to the House As also any forgetfulness through want of memory or that things were not so judicially handled or expressed by him as they were deliver'd by the House To which after the Queen had spoken to the Lord Keeper again the Lord Keeper spake in effect as followeth Mr. Speaker her Majesty doth greatly commend The Lord-Keeper replies by the Queens Order and like of your grave Speech well divided and well contrived the first proceeding from a sound Invention and the other from a setled Judgment and Experience You have well and well indeed weighed the state of this Kingdome well observ'd the greatness of our puissant and great Empire the King of Spain the continual and excessive charges of the Wars of Ireland which if they be well weighed do not only shew the prudence of our gratious Soveraign in defending of us but also the greatness of the charge continually bestowed by her Majesty even out of her own Revenues to protect us and the exposing of her Majesties self to continual troubles and toilesome Cares for the benefit and safety of her Subjects Wherefore Mr. Speaker it behoveth us to think and say as was deliver'd by a great man lately in a Concilio ad Clerum opus est subsidio ne fiai exitum or as I think excedium Touching your other Requests First For freedom of Speech her Majesty willingly Consenteth thereunto with this caution That the matter be not spent in Idle and Vain matters Painting out the same with Froth and Volubility of words And her Majesty Commandeth That you suffer not any Speeches made for Contention or Contradiction-sake maintained only by a Tempest of words whereby the Speakers may seem to get some reputed Credit by imboldning themselves to maintain Contradiction and on purpose to trouble the House with vain and long Orations to hinder the Proceedings in more weighty and greater Importance Touching Access to her Person she most willingly granteth the same desiring she may not be troubled unless urgent and matters of great Consequence compel you thereunto For this hath been held for a wise Maxime In troubling great Estates you must trouble seldome For Liberty unto your selves and servants her Majesty hath Commanded me to say unto you all That she ever intendeth to preserve the Liberty of the House and granteth Liberty to the meanest Follower of the meanest Member of this House But her Majesties Pleasure is you should not maintain and keep with you notorious Persons either for Life or Behaviour As desperate Debtors who never come abroad fearing her Laws but at these times Petty Foggers and Vipers of the Common Wealth prouling and common Solicitors that sets Dissention between man and man and men of the like Condition to these These her Majesty earnestly desireth a Law may be made against as also that no Member of this Parliament would entertain or bolster up any man on the like Humor or Quality on pain of her Highnesses Displeasure For the Excuse of the House and your self Her Majesty Commandeth me to say That your Sufficiency hath so often times been approved before her That She doubteth not of the Sufficient Discharge of the Place you shall serve in Wherein she willeth you to have a special Eye and Regard not to make new and idle Laws and trouble the House with them But rather to look to the Abridging and Repealing of diverse obsolete and superfluous Statutes As also First To take in hand Matters of greatest Moment and Consequence In doing thus Mr. Speaker you shall fulfil her Majesties Commandment do your Country good and satisfy Her Majesties Expectation Which being said the Speaker made three Reverences to the Queen Then the Lord Keeper said For certain great and weighty Causes Her Highness's Pleasure is the Parliament shall be Adjourned until Friday next Which Speech was taken to be an Adjournment of the Lower House but it was not so meant wherefore the Lower House sate the next day being Saturday morning So after some room made the Queen came through the Commons to go into the Painted-Chamber who graciously offering her Hand to the Speaker he kissed it but not one word she spake unto him neither as she went through the Commons few said God bless your Majesty as they were wont in all great Assemblies And the throng being great and little room to pass she moved her Hand to have more room whereupon one of the Gentlemen Ushers said openly Back Masters make room And one answered stoutly behind If you will Hang us we can make no more room which the Queen seemed not to hear though she heaved up her Head and looked that way towards him that spake After she went to White-Hall by Water Saturday Octob. 31. I was not there thinking the House had not sare till Thursday but I heard there was a motion made for the maintenance of the Priviledges of the House and to have a Committee for it which was appointed on Thursday at one of the Clock in the Afternoon And two Bills were Read one against Drunkenness another that no Bishop nor Arch-Bishop may make any Lease in Remainder or Reversion until within three Years before the expiration of the former Lease This Day the Prayer was brought into the House which was appointed every Morning to be Read during the sitting of this Parliament amongst other Prayers by a Minister appointed for that purpose The COPY of the PRAYER OH Eternal Almighty and ever Living GOD A Prayer to be used Every Morning in the House of Commons which hast made the Eye and therefore seest which hath framed the Heart and therefore understandest from whose only Throne all Wisdome cometh Look down upon us that call upon Thee bow down thine Ear and hear us open thine Eyes and behold us which in the Name of thy Son and our Saviour do lift up our Hearts unto Thee Forgive us O Lord forgive us all that we have done amiss in Thought Word or Deed. Forgive us our negligences forgive us our unthankfulness make us mindful of thy Benefits and thankful for all thy Mercies Thou that seest the Hearts and searchest the Reins and beholdest the utmost parts of the World try and examine our Hearts and guide us in thy ways knit our Hearts unto Thee that we may fear thy Name Let us ever fear this Glorious and Fearful Name The Lord our God Let all that despise Thee feel thy Judgments Let all Men know it is a fearful thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God Let thy Mercies always prevent us and compass us about In all our Ways Words and Works let us set Thee always before our Eyes Remove from us all vanity and hypocrisy Let thy Truth always
House cried I I I. No quoth the Secretary you must stand at the Bar. And the House cried No No No. Then Mr. Secretary desired it might be put to the Question Whether he should speak or No And so it was and not Twenty said No. Then it was put to the Question Whether he should speak at the Bar or No And Mr. Brown the Lawyer stood up and said Mr. Speaker Par in Parem non habet Imperium we are all Members of one Body and One cannot Judg of Another So being put to the Question there were not above twelve I I I that he should stand at the Bar. Whereupon Mr. Martyn standing in his Seat shewed the Cause of his Speech to have been only for the Order of the House and not out of any Perswasive meaning that he had For he protested he neither knew the Man nor the Matter On Thursday Decemb. the Tenth A Bill for the Denization of certain Persons viz. Josepho Lupo and others was Read And because the said Josepho Lupo had neither Father nor Mother English the House respited the Bill A Bill for the Weavers was put to the Question and Committed the time and place of Meeting to be this Afternoon in the Exchequer-Chamber The Bill for the Assize for Wood was Ordered to be Ingrossed The Bill touching the taking away Gavel-kind-Custom in Kent was Read A Bill about Gavel-kind c. And Mr. Francis Moore said He thought the Bill a very Idle and frivolous Bill and Injurious For Mr. Moore against Repealing it if a man take a Wife by the Custome she shall have a Moyety but now if we make it go according to the Common Law she shall have but a Third part So if the Father committed a Felony and be Hanged the Son shall not lose his Inheritance because the Custom is The Father to the Bough and the Son to the Plough which at the Common Law he should lose Mr. Serj. Harris said I think this Bill a very good Bill Serj. Harris to have it Repealed for it defeats a Custom which was first devised for a Punishment and Plague upon the Country For when the Conquerour came in the Reason of this Custom was To make a Decay of the great Houses of the Old English for if a man of 800. l. Per Annum had eight Children now it must be divided into eight Parts And then if they had Children it must be subdivided again usque in non quantum where if it had gone to one as by the Common Law it would still have Flourished Mr. Boys amongst many Reasons shewed Mr. Boy 's of a contrary mind It would in Kent be a great loss to the Queen in her Subsidy for by reason of these Subdivisions there were many Ten-Pound men And whosoever knows the state of our Country shall find more under Ten Pound men than above come to the Queen and now if these being divided into several hands should now go according to the Common Law this would make the Queen a great Loser This Bill being put to the Question The Bill is Rejected the Noes were the greater yet the I I I would needs go forth and upon division it appeared the I I I were but 67. and the Noes 138. and so the the Bill was Rejected The Bill for suppressing Ale-houses A Bill to Suppress Tipling-Houses and Tippling-houses was Read Mr. Francis Moore offered a Proviso to the House Mr. Moore and shewed That he was of Councel and had a standing Fee from the Corporation of Vintners in London And shewed That they were an Ancient Corporation and had ever used by force of divers Charters of Kings of this Realm to sell Wine and now by this Bill all was inhibited And therefore Pray'd the Provise might be received which was received M. Johnson said Mr. Johnson against it If this Bill should Pass it would breed a great Confusion of Government for by this Law the Justices of the County may enter into the Liberties of any Corporation and License Sale of Wine and Beer Besides he must be Licensed by four Justices perhaps there be not four Justices in a Corporation Admitting Power were not given to the Foreign Justices now when these four Justices have enabled him by this Law they have no Power by this Law upon his misbehaviour to put him down and so very Insufficient and impossible to be Mended Sir Robert Wroth said Sir Rob. Wroth against it The Bill is That no Man shall c. but he must be allowed in the Quarter-Sessions by four Justices And what pain and Charge this will be to a poor man to go with some of his Neighbours 20 or 30 miles for a License And what a monstrous Trouble to all the Justices I refer it to your considerations The Speaker certified a Message from the Lords Sir Edward Hobby said We attended the Lords this morning touching the Information against Mr. Belgrave and in the end concluded That forasmuch as it concerneth Their as well as Our Privileges they desire some time to Consult and then will send us word of their Resolutions Doctor Stanhop and Doctor Hone brought a Bill from the Lords Intituled An Act for the Stablishment of the Remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Ketleby Esquire to Francis Ketleby And so they departed Mr. Spicer said If I should not agree to the Substance of the Bill I were no good Commonwealths-man And if I should agree to the Form I should scarce think my self a good Christian for I may justly say of this Bill Nihil est ubi error non est Mr. Laurence Hide moved That in respect it came from the Lords we would give it a Commitment Mr. Serjeant Harris said If this Bill should pass as was well said we all should lose the Liberties of our Corporations And Her Majesties Justices at the Sessions Serj. Harris against it should be troubled with Brables of Ale-Houses The Statute of Ed. 6. hath had Approbation these half Hundred Years and I wish we may not Repeal a good Law to make a worse Mr. Richard Brown said Mr. Brown against it Wines heretofore have been at Ten Pound a Tun and the Laws are That Wines should be sold at Two Pence the Quart and Her Majesty Receiveth One Thousand Six Hundred Pounds a Year Custom for them If now this Statute should stand that Four Justices should License the sale of Wines this would be a wrong to divers Licenses which are made by Pattentees of her Majesty and a beggaring of all Vintners And he that now keeps an Inn if he pleases not the Justices he shall be turned out And withal there is a Clause of disability which is most grievous Sir Robert Wroth said It seemes the House doth distast this Bill and I doubt of the Passing of it I would but move the House to remember That it is an Ancient Custom that for Reverence sake to the Lords of the Upper-House we only
I mean upon the Motion the Gentlemen made yesterday to say something therein both for your satisfaction and performance of my duty and therefore this matter shall need no further to be moved With which the House rested well satisfied and so rose But it is to be noted That the Speaker said not one word in his Speech to her Majesty touching the matter which was greatly murmured at and spoken against amongst the Burgesses that the House should be so abused but nothing was done therein In the Afternoon About one of the clock divers Gentlemen met together in the House whither the Speaker came and after the Privy-Counsellors where after sitting some half an hour at past two they went up to the Upper House and staid there at the Gallery-door about half an hour and at length the door was opened And the Lords of the Upper House being all sat and her Majesty under a rich Cloath of Estate The Q. 〈…〉 the Speaker went to the usual place at the bar where after three Reverences made and the like done in their times by all the Commons the Speaker said to this effect THat Laws were not first made with humane Pen The Speakers Speech but by divine Ordinance that Politick Laws were made according to the evil conditions of men and that all Laws served not for all times no more than one Medicine for all Diseases If he were asked what was the first and chiefest thing to be considered of he would have said Religion If what is the second Religion If what is the third Religion So Religion is all in all for Religion breeds Devotion Devotion breeds Zeal and Piety to God which breedeth Obedience and Duty to the Prince and Observance of the Laws which breeds Faithfulness Honesty and Love three necessary and onely things to be wished and observed in a well-govern'd Commonwealth And that her Majesty by planting true Religion had laid such a foundation upon which all these three Vertues were so planted and builded that they could not easily be rooted up and extirpated and therefore we did acknowledge we ought and do acknowledge we will praise God and her Majesty for it And then he descended to speak of Governments and Laws of Nations amongst and above all which he principally preferr'd the Laws of this Realm which he said were so many and so wise that there was almost no offence but it was met with in a Law Notwithstanding her Majesty being desirous for the good of her Realm to call a Parliament for redress of some Laws and for making some new Her dutiful and loving Subjects having considered of them have made some new and amended some old which they most humbly desire may be made Laws by her most Royal Assent which giveth life unto them And so after thanks given for the Pardon by which we dread your Justice and admire your Mercy and a Prayer That she would accept as a testimony of our Loves and Duties offered unto her with a free heart and willing spirit four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteenths and Tenths to be collected of our Lands and Livelihoods in speaking whereof he mistook and said Four entire Fifteenths and eight Subsidies but he was remembred by some of the Counsel that stood neer about him and so spake right as aforesaid And also pardon craved for his offences if either he had forgotten himself in words or action he ended To which the Lord Keeper answered thus in effect First AS touching her Majesties proceeding in the Laws for her Royal Assent The L. Keepers Speech in answer that should be as God should direct her sacred spirit Secondly For your presentation of four entire Subsidies and eight Fifteens and Tenths And thirdly Your humble thank-fulness for the pardon for them and your self I will deliver her Majesties Commandment with what brevity I may that I be not tedious to my most gracious Soveraign First She saith touching your proceeding in the matter of her Prerogative that she is perswaded Subjects did never more dutifully and that she understood you did but obiter touch her Prerogative and not otherwise but by humble Petition and therefore that thanks that a Prince may give to her Subjects she willingly yieldeth But she now well perceiveth that private respects are privately masked under publick pretences Secondly Touching the presentation of your Subsidies she specially regardeth two things both the persons and the manner For the first he fell into commendations of the Commonalty for the second the manner which was speedy not by perswasion or perswasive inducements but freely and of duty with great contentment In the thing which we have granted her Majesty greatly commendeth your confidence and judgments and though it be not proportionable to her occasions yet she most thank fully receiveth the same as a loving and thank-ful Prince And said that no Prince was ever more unwilling to exact or receive any thing from the Subject than she our most gracious Soveraign for we all know she never was a greedy Grasper nor straight-handed keeper And therefore she commanded me to say That you had done and so she taketh it dutifully plentifully and thank-fully For your self Mr. Speaker her Majesty commanded me to say That you have proceeded with such wisdom and discretion that it is much to your commendation and that none before had deserved more And so he ended after an Admonition given to the Justices of Peace That they would not deserve the Epethites of prowling Justices Justices of Quarrels who counted Champerty good Chevesance suing Justices who did suck and consume the Wealth and Good of the Commonwealth and also to those who do lie if not all the year yet at least three quarters of the year at London After this Speech ended the Clerk of the Crown read the Titles of several Acts. To the general Acts which were allowed the Clerk of the Parliament answered Le Roygne le veult To the private Acts to be passed Soit come il est desiré To the general Acts not passed Le Roygne s'adviserá And so to the other To the Subsidies and Pardon as in the last Parliament Which done The Lord Keeper said Parl. dissolved It is her Majesties pleasure that this Parliament shall be dissolved and she giveth license to all Knights Citizens and Burgesses to depart at their pleasure And so God save the Queen And all the Commons said aloud AMEN Nomina Militum Comitat. Civium Civitatum Burgensium Villar sive Burgorum ac Baronum quinque Portuum veniend ad Parliamentum summonit apud Civitatem Westm septimo die Octobris Anno Regni Eliz. Reginae 43o. 1601. Bedfordshire Com. Bedford Oliverus St. John Ar. Edwardus Radcliffe Miles Villa Bedford Humfridus Winch Ar. Thomas Fanshawe Ar. Buckinghamshire Com. Buckingham Francis Fortescue Ar. Alexander Hamden Ar. Villa Buckingham Christopherus Hatton Ar. Robertus Newdegate Ar. Burgus Wiccombe Richard Blunt Ar. Henry Fleetwood Ar. Burgus de Alisbbury Johannes Lilly Ar.
before the Lords in the House on Saturday next by nine of the clock in the morning On Saturday Nov. 21. to which day the Parliament had been last continued three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for assurance of Lands was read tertia vice Upon the reading of which Bill sundry Objections were made against some points of the same by the Lord Bishop of London and divers other Lords insomuch that the House was divided Whether it should be put to the question for the passing thereof or no many of the Lords affecting well the said Bill and wishing that any defect therein might rather be reformed than by the Question to put it to the hazard to be rejected Upon which it was thought meet to propound another Question viz. Whether the said Bill having been referred to Committees at the second reading and by them returned with some Amendments and thereupon appointed to be ingrossed may now after the ingrossing thereof and third reading be committed again or no Which being accordingly put to the question and the number both of the affirmative part and negative part falling out to be equal upon the accompting of them by the Lord Bishop of London and by Lord Grey 〈…〉 appointed by the Lords for that purpose it was adjâ—â—â—â—d that the Voices of the negative part which were against the 〈◊〉 committing of the Bill should prevail following therein the usual rule of Law whereof the Lord Keeper made mention that where the numbers of the affirmative and negative are equal Smper presumetur pro negante and after that the Bill it self being put to the question Whether it should pass or no was by the major part denied and refused Excuses were made for the absence of divers Lords by reason of sickness or other reasonable occasions The Marquiss of Winchester the Earl of Nottingham and the Earl of Hertford signified by some of their Servants to the Lord Keeper the Earl of Cumberland and the Lord Scroope signified by the Lord Wharton the Lord Rich by the Lord Zouche the Lord Mordant by the Lord Sturton the Lord Bishop of Coventry by the Bishop of Meneven and the Bishop of Chester by the Bishop of Bangor A Motion was made by the Lord Keeper and approved of by the Lords That the ancient course of the house may be observed hereafter in certifying the Excuses of such Lords as should happen to be absent from the House upon reasonable occasions which ought to be done by one of the Peers and not by other information Thomas Crompton Henry Best and Francis Jackson made their appearance in the House and being demanded whether the Bill concerning Eye and Dunsden might lawfully pass without their prejudice they answered That it might so do and they could take now exceptions to it On Munday Nov. 23. to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Bill for reuniting Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Suning was read tertia vice and so sent down to the House of Commons by Dr. Stanhopp and Mr. Hone. The Bill to avoid divers Misdemeanours in lewd and idle persons was read secunda vice The Bill for confirmation of Grants made to the Queen and of Letters-Patents made by her Highness to others was read secunda vice and committed to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and others who were appointed to meet at the great Council-chamber and the Bill was delivered to the Archbishop The Bill for increase of Horses of service within this Realm was read secunda vice and committed to the Earl of Nottingham and others and the Bill was delivered unto him being the first of the Committees The meeting of the Committees for the suppressing of the multitude of Ale-houses and for avoiding of unnecessary delays of Exeutions upon Judgments for Debt was upon a Motion of the Lord Treasurer appointed to be upon Thursday next at the little chamber neer the Parliament-presence before the House sit for that the Committees could not conveniently meet at the times formerly appointed for the same The Under-Sheriff of the County of Surrey that arrested William Hogan was brought into the House to answer for the same The Vnder-Sheriff sent to the Fleet for arresting Hogan and by Order of the House committed to the Prison of the Fleet. On Tuesday Nov. 24. to which day this Parliament had been last continued three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the establishing of the remainder of certain Lands of Andrew Ketleby Esq upon Francis Ketleby was read secunda vice and committed unto the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Lincoln the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Bishop of Worcester the Lord Cobham the Lord Chandois and the Lord Howard of Walden and the Bill was delivered to the said Lord Howard who with the rest were appointed to meet on Saturday next in the afternoon at the Chamber of the Parliament-presence This day the wife of Andrew Ketleby made her appearance in the House on the behalf of her husband and her self excusing his not coming by reason of his great age and infirmities and withal prayed their Counsel learned might be heard whereupon it was ordered That both their Counsel and the Counsel of Francis Ketleby should be heard upon Thursday next in the morning On Thursday Nov. 26. to which day the Parliament had been last continued one Bill being for the more peaceable government of the Parties of Cumberland Northumberland and Westmoreland and Bishoprick of Durham was read the second time and committed but in respect the manner of committing Bills all this Parliament was the same and that the Judges and her Majesties learned Counsel were appointed always to attend the Lords Committees and never made joynt Committees with them therefore the names of the said Committees are for the most part omitted as a thing not worth the observation It was ordered by the House upon the humble Petition of William Hone Under-Sheriff of the County of Surrey That he should be set at liberty out of the Fleet whither he had been committed for arresting one William Hogan her Majesties servant The Counsel learned of Andrew Ketleby Esq and Francis Ketleby were heard in the House and thereupon the Committees of the said Bill were appointed to meet on Saturday in the afternoon at the Chamber of Parliament-presence and the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Grey and the Lord Windsor were added to the said Committees and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas to attend them with the others formerly appointed And the Bill was delivered to the Lord Howard of Walden Dominus Custos Magnis Sigilli continuavit c. On Tuesday Decem. 1. Decemb. 1. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second was the Bill for confirmation of the last Will and Testament of George Lord Cobham deceased On Wednesday Decemb. 2. three Bills had each of them one reading Bill to avoid
triyling Suits in Law of which the first was to avoid trifling Suits in Law in her Majesties Courts at Westminster On Thursday Decemb. 3. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second was the Bill for enabling Edward Nevil of Burling in the County of Kent and Sir William Nevil his son to sell certain Lands On Friday Decemb. 4. the Bill against Drunkards and common Haunters of Ale-houses and Taverns the Bill for levying of Fines with Proclamations of Lands within the County of the City of Chester the Bill for enabling of Edward Nevil of Berlin in the County of Kent Esq c. and the Bill for confirmation of Letters-Patents made by Edw. 6. to Sir Edward Seignior Kt. were each of them read secunda vice On Saturday Decemb. 5. the Bill for maintenance of the Navy increase of Mariners and for avoiding the scarcity of Victuals was read prima vice Report was made to the House by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the first of the Committees concerning Musters Souldiers c. That the said Committees having oftentimes met and conferred about the said Bill did finde so many imperfections in the same as it could not conveniently be mended and therefore thought it meet to draw a new Bill which he presented to the House The Bill entituled An Act for the more peaceable government of the Parties of Cumberland c. was returned to the House with certain Amendments which Amendments were presently twice read and thereupon the Bill commanded to be ingrossed On Munday Decemb. 7. two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the more peaceable government of the Parties of Cumberland c. was read tertia vice and sent down to the House of Commons by Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp The Bill to avoid the double payment of Debts was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Controuler Sir Edward Hobby and others Four other Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the confirmation as well of all Grants made to the Queen and of all resumptions made by her Highness of the possessions of any Archbishoprick or Bishoprick as of Letters-Patents made by her Majesty to others was read prima vice The Bill for confirmation of Grants made to the Queen and of Letters-Patents made by her Highness to others was this day returned to the House with certain Amendments by the Lord Treasurer the first of the Committees This day Sir William Knowls Sir Edward Hobby Knights and divers others of the House of Commons delivered a Message from the said House desiring a Conference with some of their Lordships concerning the uniting of Eye and Dunsden to the Mannor of Sunning Upon the delivery of which Message after the said Sir William Knowls and the rest had a little withdrawn and then upon propounding this Motion to this House the Lords having assented thereunto Answer was made by the Lord Keeper sitting in his place and the the rest of the Lords also keeping their places unto the said Sir William Knowls and the rest That the Lords had yielded to the Conference and had appointed the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward the Lord Bishop of London the Lord Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche and the Lord Cobham to meet with some select persons of the House of Commons for that purpose to morrow by eight a clock in the morning at the Utter chamber neer the Parliament-presence On Tuesday Decemb. 8. six Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers and other in the Queens service in the Wars was read secunda vice and committed to the Committees formerly appointed for the first Bill of that kind with addition of the Lord Windsor and the said Committee to meet upon the said Bill upon the first opportunity of meeting on any other Bill and the said Bill was delivered to the Earl of Nottingham the third of the Committees Nota NOTA. That here this Bill was delivered unto the Earl of Nottingham being the third of the Committees of whom the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Treasurer were the two first Whereas on Munday Nov. 23. a Bill being committed upon the second reading was delivered unto the Archbishop the first of the Committees And on Thursday Nov. 26. upon the commitment also of a Bill in the like manner the Bill was delivered unto the Lord Howard of Walden being the Puisne Baron or last of the Committees by which it is plain that in the Upper House as well as in the House of Commons after any Bill is committed upon the second reading it may be delivered indifferently to any of the said Committees A Proviso was offered by the Earl of Worcester on the behalf of the Earl of Shrewsbury to be annexed unto the Bill entituled An Act for the consirmation of Grants made to the Queens Majesty and of Letters-Patents made by her Highness to others which Proviso together with the Amendments in the said Bill were read presently And forasmuch as the Lords desired a speedy proceeding in the said Bill they sent Dr. Carewe and Dr. Stanhopp to the House of Commons to move them that some meet persons of that House might joyn in Conference with the Lords being to the number of twenty or thereabouts concerning the Proviso and Amendments aforesaid and that the meeting about the same might be at the outward Chamber neer to the Parliament-presence to morrow by eight of the clock in the morning Upon delivery of which Message to the House of Commons they assented accordingly to the Motion made on that behalf Upon a Motion sent this day from the House of Commons by Sir Walter Rawleigh Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Hobby and others signifying That they desired Conference with some of their Lordships for certain matters concerning the honour of both Houses the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Worcester the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham and the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouche the Lord De-la-ware the Lord Cohham and the Lord Howard of Walden were appointed to meet on Thursday next by eight a clock in the morning at the outward chamber neer the Parliament-presence which was signified to Sir VValter Rawleigh and the rest in answer of their Message On VVednesday Decemb. 9. the Counsel of the Lady Fane was heard in the House what he could say on her behalf against the Bill of Edward Nevil and Sir Henry Nevil his son whereupon the Lords finding no cause why the proceeding on that Bill should be any longer staid Order was given for the third reading thereof The Bill for the enabling of Edward Nevil Esq and Sir Henry Nevil his son and heir apparent to dispose of certain Copyhold-lands was read tertia vice upon the third reading of which Bill and before
by your Lordships Favour no cause it should deserve the Title of Improper And I take it by your Lordships Favours it was not Preposterous For the First Matter we took should be handled was the Doubts which we Imagined your Lordships had conceived of the Bill And if your Lordships had ought else conceived I thought fit to shew your Lordships that we then came without Commission So my Lords I hope I have made it appear That the Speech was neither strange improper or preposterous But We of the Lower-House who be here Committees do beseech your Lordships that you would not conceive otherwise of Us than we deserve And your Lordships shall find Us ever ready in all Dutiful Service as coadjuting Members of one United Body the House of Parliament So after withdrawing themselves a little from the Table the Lords Whispered together and at length calling Us the Lord Treasurer said The Lords were satisfied with our Answer 〈…〉 and were very glad they found Us so Conformable by which they doubted not but we should well agree for the Conference whereby the Bill might have the better Passage Mr. Secretary Cecil answered That he was very glad their Lordships did conceive aright of them and that the Committees because they were many and would not be troublesome to them with multiplicity of Speeches had chosen for their Speakers to Satisfie their Lordships Mr. Bacon Mr. Bacon c. to manage the Conference Mr. Serjeant Harris Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Henry Mountague and Mr. Boys So the Lords called Mr. Attorney General to them who began to make Objections and Mr. Bacon answering Mr. Attorney again Objected and Mr. Serjeant Harris before he had fully ended began to answer To which Mr. Attorney said Nay Good Mr. Serjeant Leap not over the Stile before you come at it Hear me out I pray you and conceive me aright So when he had done Mr. Serjeant Answered I beseech your Lordships to hear me and that I may answer without check or Controul which I little Respect because it is as light as Mr. Attorney's Arguments And so he proceeded to answer So the Conference brake up untill the next Morning at which time the Lords said They would send us word when they were ready In the Afternoon A Bill for the Relief of Theophilus Adams Touching certain Obligations supposed to be made void by a Proviso contained in the Statute 39. Reginae cap. 22. Intituled An Act for the Establishment of the Bishoprick of Norwich and the Possessions of the same against a certain pretended concealed Title made thereunto A Bill for Reformation of Abuses in Selling and Buying of Spices and other Merchandizes A Bill that no Fair or Market should be kept on Sundayes On Saturday Decemb. 12. A Bill to confirm the Assurance of the Mannors and Farmes of Sagebury aliàs Sadgbery and Obden and other Hereditaments to Samuel Sands Esq and John Harris Gentleman and their Heirs being Ingrossed was put to the Question and was Passed A Bill for Redress of certain Abuses used in Painting A Bill about Painters and Plaisterers was moved by Sir George Moore and some others that this Bill might be let slip and the Cause referred to the Lord Mayor of London because it concerned a Controversy between the Painters and Plaisterers To which Mr. Davis Answered That the last Parliament this Bill should have Passed this House but it was referred as now desired and Bonds made by the Plaisterers for performance of the Orders made by the Lord Mayor yet all will do no Good wherefore Mr. Speaker I think it good it should be put to the Question Sir Stephen Somes stood up and desired That my Lord-Mayor might not be troubled with them but that it might be put to the Question and it seemed likely to go against the Painters But I stood up as it was putting to the Question and shewed That in the Statute of 25. Ed. 3. cap. 3. Plaisterers were not then so called but Dawbers and Mudd-Wall-Makers who had for their Wages by the day Three-Pence 〈…〉 and his Knave Three-Half-Pence so was his Labourer called they continued so until King Hen. 7th's time who brought into England with him out of France certain Men that used Plaister of Paris about the Kings Ceilings and Walls whose Statute-Labourers these Dawbers were Those Statute-Labourers learned in short time the Use of Plaister of Parts and did it for the King and increased to be many then sueing to the King for his Favor to Incorporate them who fulfill'd their desire and Incorporated them by the Name of Gipsarii which was for Clay or Mudd aliàs Morter-makers Anno 16 Hen. 7. Being no Free-Men for all their Incorporation they obtained the Kings Favourable Letters to Sir William Remington then Lord Mayor of London and the Aldermen to allow them Free-men Which was granted At which time came in Four of them and paid Ten Shillings a piece for their Freedom and in Three Years after that manner came in the Number of Twenty but they paid Four Pounds a piece for Their Freedom They Renewed their Patent in King Hen. 8's time and called themselves Plaisterers aliàs Morter-makers for the Use of Loame and Lime They made an humble Petition and Supplication after this to Sir John Munday then Lord Mayor and the Aldermen to grant them Orders for the better Rule and Government of their Company in these words We the good Folkes of Plaisterers in London of Plaister and Loame of the said City for the Redress of certain Abuses of Lath-Plaister and Loame wrought in the said Crafts c. And then had allowed unto them Search for their Company for the Use of Lath Loame and Lime In all their Incorporations at no time they had any words for Colours neither yet in their Ordnances For all they were Incorporated by the name of Plaisterers yet all King Hen. 8's time they were called Dawbers as appeareth in the accompts of the Chamber of London paid to such and such Dawbers for so many Days so much and to their Labourers so much The Plaisterers never laid any Colours in the Kings Houses nor in the Sherifs of London but this Year they wore no Livery or Cloathing the Seventeenth of King Hen. 8. They have been suffered to lay Ale-house Colours as Red-lead and Oaker and such like and so now they intrude themselves into all Colours Thus they take not only their own Work but Painting also and leave nothing to do for the Painter Painters and Stainers were two several Companies in King Edw. 3. time One for Posts and all Timber-work to Paint And the other for Painting and Staining of Cloth of great continuance both Companies were joyned into one by their own Consent and by the Consent of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City The Nineteenth Year of Edw. 4. The Painters had Orders allowed them for the Use of Oyl and Colours especially named in Hen. 4's time from the Lord Mayor and City
Painters can not work without Colours their only mixture being Oyl and Size which the Plaisterers do now Usurp and Intrude into Painters have her Majesty's Letters Patents Dated Anno 24. Reginae forbidding any Artificer the Use of Colours and Oyl or Size after the manner of Painting but such as hath been or shall be an Apprentice with a Painter Seven Years at the least And where the Plaisterers do Object That the Painters do Abridge other Companies of their Colours That is most apparently untrue For Gold-smiths use Colours but not after the manner of Painting and work without Oyl or Size by enamelling Leather-sellers Colour their Leather but not after the manner of Painting but work without Oyl or Size Book-binders use Colours but neither with Oyl or Size So Cutlers use Varnishing and Gilding So Glasiers use Colours with nealing in the Oven Brick-layers use Colours but neither with Oyl nor Size and Joyners likewise do use Varnish Workmanship and Skill is the Gift of God and not one in ten proveth a Workman yet it is requisite that all such as have been brought up all the days of their life in a Trade and cannot attain to that Excellency of Skill that is required should live by the baser part of their Science when they can not attain to the better which is in working in Oyl and Size those flat Posts and Windows c. If Plaisterers be suffer'd to Paint Workmanship in Painting will decay for no Workman will keep an Apprentice Four or five Years to Practice and not able to get a Penny unless he might now and then get somewhat towards his Meat and Drink in laying of Oyl-Colours as on Posts c. Experience teacheth us now That amongst the Number of There Hundred there are not now Twelve sufficient Workmen in the City of London yet one of these Francis De Miter such was his Poverty was fain for his Releif to Wife and Children to wear upon the Lord Mayors Day a Blew Gown and a Red Cap and to carry a Torch he being Fifty Years Old One man will lay and Paint more Colours in a day than ten men can grind which grinding of Colours should be the Relief of such as cannot Attain to Workmanship and that is taken away by the Plaisterers and the poor men the Painters their Wives and Children go a Begging for want of Work Besides Painting of Cloth is decayed and not One Hundred Yards of new Painted Cloth made here in a Year by reason of so much painted Flanders pieces brought from thence So that the Painters have nothing to live on but laying of Oyl-Colours on Posts Windows c. It is a curious Art and requireth a good Eye and a stedfast Hand which the infirmity of Age decayeth quickly and then Painters go a begging Plaisterers take mony generally from the highest Personage to the lowest or meanest Cottage whose Walls must needs be made Painters take money but of a few for their delight Painters give to the Plaisterers six kind of Colours commonly used as the Bill importeth to be laid with Size and not with Oyl And for every Twenty Shillings earned with Oyl-Colours there is Ten Pound earned with Size-Colours they being every mans money These Walls The Bill passed thus Curiously Painted in former Ages the Arms so Artificially Drawn the Imagery so perfectly done do Witness our Fore-fathers Care in Cherishing this Art of Painting So I think the Bill is very reasonable and fit to pass And so it did Mr. Attorney General and Doctor Cary came from the Lords shewed Their Lordships were ready for a Conference touching the Bill concerning Patents and that they had given power to their Committees fully and finally to determine the same and desired that our Committees might come with the like Power which was granted but a great Number cried No No. A Bill for Reformation of Abuses in Buying and Selling of Spices and other Merchandizes This Bill was called the Garbling Bill It was put to the Question for the passage and the House was divided And the I I I were Ninety Five and the Noes Forty One So the Bill passed There was a Question in the House upon the Bill for the Relief of Souldiers Whether the Old Levy of Two Pence a Parish should stand or Six Pence a Parish To which Secretary Cecil moves for the poor Souldiers Mr. Secretary Cecil said The Law for the Relief of Souldiers I take to be both just and Honourable and that Misery which proceeds from Obedience Worthy to be Pitied and Relieved for their Obedience hath shewed it self even by Sacrificing their Bloods for our Goods and there is liker to be a continuance than a decay of their Miseries I dare boldly say it there is never a Souldier Relieved with such a Contribution as his Misery requireth and his Service hath deserved And therefore I think Six Pence a Parish at the least So they went to the Conference and the House sent up these Bills viz. 1. The Bill against Fairs and Markets on Sundays 2. The Bill to prevent Perjury and Subornation c. 3. The Bill to prevent Abuses in Sherifs and other Officers 4. The Bill concerning making of Hats 5. The Bill for Garbling of Spices 6. The Bill for Redress of Abuses in Painting 7. The Bill for making a Harbour or Key on the North side of Devon 8. The Bill for Assurance of certain Lands to Sandes and Harris And Mr. Secretary Cecil was intreated to deliver them unto the Lords The Bill for the Redress of Abuses and mis-employment of Goods and Lands given to Charitable Uses was Read the first time Mr. Solicitor General Fleming Moved That although the Order of the House was A Bill should not be Read twice in one morning yet in respect that this was a Bill of great Consequence he Prayed That it would please the House it might be Read again And it accordingly was And so it was by Order presently Committed Mr. Snigg said I would humbly pray the House that the Bill of Clothing which hath at length taken and laid open the Theft of England which we have so long followed with Hue and Cry I mean the Tayntor may be Read It Robs God of his Honour and us of our Clothing Mr. Browne said And I humbly present unto this House the natural Born Child of us all I mean the Bill against Transportation of Ordnance which is Amended and a Proviso added with Licence c. And I humbly pray the Amendments may be Read And the Bill put to the Question And so they were after a little Dispute and Ordered to be Ingrossed The Bill for Maimed Souldiers was Read To which Mr. Roger Owen spake shewing that he was commanded by all the Justices of the Peace for Salop to Deliver unto the House the poor Estate of the County and therefore prayed a Proviso might be added to exempt that County But it was replied to him That he went about to Deck up his