Wells a new Writ was required for Wotten-Basset M r Elrington appeared this day with Mr. Serjeant Harper and Mr. Plowden being of his Learned Council who shewing great reasons that the Bill might be rejected certain Articles were delivered in by the Mayor of Guildford for maintenance of the Bill which being read the Copy thereof was awarded to Mr. Elrington Vide de ista materia on the Morrow following Giles Clinket Servant to Sir John Parrot K t of Pembroke Attached in London in a Plea of Debt at the Suit of Francis Parke had the Priviledge of the House granted On Saturday the 30 th day of January Thomas Heneage was returned Knight for the County of Lincoln and also Burgess for Boston in that County and doth appear for Lincoln whereupon a new Writ is required for Boston Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill to revive the Act touching Usury an 37 Hen. 8. was read the first time and as it should seem committed to Mr. Vice-Chamberlain to consider of it Mr. Elrington came in with the Serjeant requiring the Order of this House in what sort he should Answer the Articles whereupon the whole matter was committed to twelve of the House to hear the Parties and Proofs on both sides and thereupon to certifie this House of which number it should seem Mr. Sidney was one Vide touching this business on Thursday the 21 th day on Friday the 22 th day and on Friday the 29 th day of this instant January foregoing It was Ordered that every one of this House that cometh after the Prayer which shall begin at eight of the Clock shall pay four pence to the poor Mans Box. On Monday the first day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching the Bowyers of London was read the second time and as it should seem committed to Sir William Chester and others not named And the third being the Bill against carrying over the Sea of Pelts and Sheep-Skins not Staple Ware was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Committees in the Bill touching Barwick have had Conference with the Lords and have further day to meet again viz. on Saturday next The Bill to have de circumstantilus to the Juries in Wales and in the County Palatine of Lancaster was read the first time Mr. Comptroller with others was appointed to confer of the Priviledge of this House upon motions made for the Imprisonment of Sir Edward Warner On Wednesday the 3 d day of February the Bill to revive the Statute made for putting down of Grigg Mills was read the second time and as it should seem committed to Mr. Chichester and others not named Vide a like President on Thursday the 21 th day of January foregoing Thomas Dring Burgess of Petersfield in the County of Southampton was Licensed upon the Death of his Uncle to be absent for ten dayes Five other Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill against carrying over Sea of Pelts and Sheep Skins not Staple Ware was read the third time and passed And another being for Robbing of Ponds and Stealing of Fish and Conies to be Felony was read the third time and as it should seem committed to Mr. Comptroller and others not named Vide consimile on Tuesday the 21 th day of January foregoing On Thursday the 4 th of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill touching Badgers and Carryers of Corn was read the second time and as it should seem committed to Mr. Recorder and others not named Christopher Hillyer Burgess for Heydon in Yorkshire upon the sickness of his Wife was Licensed to be absent On Friday the 5 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for repairing of Waltersey Bank in the Isle of Ely was read the second time and as it should seem committed to Mr. North and others not named Vide consimile on Thursday the 21 th day of January foregoing Sir Henry Jones complained that all his Servants were Imprisoned and prayed Priviledge and after long Arguments for the Priviledge Commission was given to Mr. Sackvill and others to examine and certifie of the matter On Saturday the 6 th day of February the new Bill for setting up of Grigg Mills betwixt Plime and Dart was read the first time A motion was made by M r Winter that the House would have regard by some Bill to the Navy And thereupon the matter as it should seem was referr'd to the said M r Winter and others whose names through the negligence of ..... Seymour Esq at this time Clerk of the House of Commons are here as in all other places of this Journal omitted The Bill for a Subsidy of Lands and Goods and two Fifteens was read the first time On Monday the 8 th day of February the new Bill against Servants robbing their Masters and Buggery to be Felony was read the first time M r Sidney and M r Mason declared that upon Examination the Fray seemed to be begun by Sir Henry Jones his Servants Vide touching this business on Friday the 12 th day of this Instant February following On Tuesday the 9 th day of February the Bill for the Subsidy of Lands and Goods and two Fifteens and Tenths was read the second time but there is no mention made of any thing spoken to it or the referring of it to Committees or Ordering of it to be ingrossed because as may be conjectured the Subsidy Bill being commonly of a great length the Forenoon was far spent by that time it was read through and therefore the Arguments upon it were deferred till to Morrow in which much dispute growing touching the Oath of the Assessors it was again agitated in the House on Friday the 12 th day and on Saturday the 13 th of this instant February ensuing when it was Ordered to be ingrossed and was lastly on Friday the 19 th day of the same Month read the third time and passed the House On Wednesday the 10 th day of February Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Servants robbing of their Masters and touching Buggery was read the second time and Ordered to be engrossed Thomas Walwin Gent. John Rice Yeoman Owen Rice Rice ap Richard and Griffith Lewes and John ap John Servants to Sir Henry Jones Knight for Carmarthen being Attached in London in three Actions of Trespass at the several Suits of George Catchmeyde William Prime and Henry Elmely Gent. move to have a Writ of Priviledge Vide plus concerning this matter on Friday the 12 th day of this Instant February ensuing Divers Arguments were this day in the House upon the Bill of Subsidy and the Oath
the Privy-Council being Members of this House and divers others to repair unto the Lords this Forenoon which they performed immediately But their names being very negligently omitted by Mr. Seymour at this time Clerk of the House of Commons in this Original Journal-Book of the said House are therefore supplied out of that of the Upper House being as followeth Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold Sir Francis Knolles her Highness Vice-Chamberlain Sir William Cecill her Majesties Chief Secretary Sir Ambrose Cave Knight Chancellor of her Highness Dutchy of Lancaster Sir William Peeter Sir Ralph Sadler Sir Walter Mildmay Knights all of her Highness Privy-Council Sir Thomas Wroth the Master of the Rolls Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Sir Morrice Berkely Sir Peter Carew Sir John Chichester Sir Thomas Gargrave Sir Henry Nevill Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Henry Ashelie Sir John Pollard Sir John Perrott Sir Gabriel Carew Sir Thomas Gerrard Sir William Chester Sir John White Sir John Sellinger Sir John Constable Sir ..... Haistings Sir John Moor Sir John Southwrote Sir John Thinn Sir G. Turpin Sir Henry Gates Sir Robert Wingfeild Sir Henry Cheyney and Sir Arthur Champernown Knights Mr. Seckford Mr. Bell Mr. Mounson Mr. Dalton Mr. Colbie Mr. Kingsmill Mr. Mollineux Mr. Mersh Mr. Prat Mr. Norton Mr. Robert Newdigate Mr. Strickland Mr. Wray Mr. Sands Mr. Recorder Mr. William Fleetwood Mr. Mountgomery Mr. Thomas Fleetwood Mr. Heneage Mr. Bartue Mr. Alford Mr. Henry Knolles Sen. Mr. Hasset Mr. Hawtry Mr. John Haistings Mr. Ashbie of the Jewel-House Mr. Colly Mr. William Moor Mr. Hilliar Mr. Knight Marshall Mr. Robert Manners Mr. Barkham Mr. Francis Newdigate Mr. Warncomb Mr. Francis Brown Mr. Dunch Mr. Withers Mr. Robert Bowes Mr. Awberry Mr. Haddon Mr. Edward Leighton Mr. Young Mr. Charles Howard and Mr. Wilson Esquires The Names of these Committees being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House now follows the Issue of their said meeting and Conference with the Lords out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons which was that after they had returned thanks unto their Lordships for their readiness to join with them in their Suit unto her Majesty touching those two great businesses of her Marriage and the Declaration of a Successor their said Lordships Answer was that on Saturday next in the Afternoon they would confer with them the said Committees of the House of Commons in the Utter or Outward Parliament Chamber The House Adjourned it self until Monday next ensuing being the 4 th day of November and the Committees before-named were appointed to meet in the mean time on Saturday Morning to agree upon such reasons as they might offer to the Lords in the Afternoon of that day to be presented unto her Majesty to perswade and induce her to Marriage or at least to the Declaration of a Successor But what the Issue of the Conference was between the Committees of the Lords and Commons doth no where appear in the Original Journal-Books of the Upper and Commons House but it may bevery probably conjectured that upon their meeting it was agreed that the Commons should not at all at this time prefer any Petition unto her Majesty touching the said great businesses because they had already perform'd it in the first Session of this Parliament in An. 5 Regin Eliz. on Thursday the 28 th day of January in anno praedicto and that thereupon now the Lords only should sue unto her Majesty in the foresaid great matters if the said Upper House should allow thereof Which resolution as it should seem was accordingly approved and put in Execution as is very probable upon Tuesday the 5 th day of November following Ut vide ibidem On Monday the 4 th day of November to which day the House of Commons had Adjourned it self on Thursday the 31 th day of October foregoing Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the new Bill for the Alneagers Fees of Lancashire and for the length breadth and weight of Cottons Frizes and Rugs was read the first time On Tuesday the 5 th day of November Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the having of one Sheriff of one County in divers Counties was read the second time and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed The Lords sent down M r Serjeant Carus and M r Attorney to signisie unto the House that the Committees touching those two great matters of her Majesties Marriage and Declaration of a Successor whose names see on Thursday the 31 th day of October foregoing should come up unto their Lordships who immediately thereupon did so And shortly after returning from the Lords they made Declaration that their Lordships required that thirty of this House should be before the Queen in the Afternoon at the Palace with thirty of the Lords which were thereupon appointed and chosen accordingly by M r Speaker out of the foresaid Committees nominated on the 31 th day of October foregoing to attend her Majesty and to understand what her pleasure was Post Meridiem The Committees of the Lords and House of Commons attended her Majesty this Afternoon touching those two great businesses of her Marriage and Declaration of a Successor which I have supplied as a thing necessary for the understanding both of the former and future agitation of which see more largely on Monday the 25 th day of this instant November following and what her Majesties Answer was shall be needless to insert here in respect that it was openly published by M r Comptroller and M r Secretary Cecill on this ensuing Morning On Wednesday the 6 th day of November Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Cloth-Workers of London to have search was read the second time and as it should seem committed to M r Chancellor and others The Bill touching Informers for better Execution of penal Laws was read the third time and passed upon the Question M r D r Vaughan and M r Yale brought from the Lords the Bill for Hexamshire and a Proviso in the Bill for Bishops Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold and Sir William Cecill Knight her Majesties Principal Secretary read in writing notes of the Queens Majesties saying before the Lords and Committees of this House tending that her Grace had signified to both Houses by words of a Prince that she by Gods Grace would Marry and would have it therefore believed and touching limitation for Succession the perils be so great to her Person and whereof she hath felt part in her Sisters time that time will not yet suffer to treat of it Whereupon all the House was silent Vide plus concerning this matter on Monday the 25 th day of this instant November following The Proviso added to the Bill for Archbishops and Bishops was read the first time On Thursday the 7 th
and some Motions touching the severance or uniting of the Bills it was Ordered that the Bill be read again upon Thursday next The Bill concerning coming to Church and receiving of the Communion was read the first time Sir John S t Leger moved the House for his Mans Priviledge and it was committed to M r Recorder M r Bedoll and M r Dalton and they to meet this Afternoon at M r Recorders and make report to Morrow On Tuesday the 10 th day of April M r Speaker recited a Commandment from the Queens Majesty to spend little time in Motions and to avoid long Speeches The reason whereof being omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons it is therefore supplied out of that often before-cited elaborate Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following That this Advertisement grew of somewhat spoken by M r Bell the 7 th day of this instant April concerning Licences granted by her Majesty to do certain matters contrary to the Statutes wherein he seemed as was said to speak against her Prerogative but surely so orderly did he utter what he spake as those who were touched might be angry but justly to blame him might not be This Advertisement being thus transcribed out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal now follows the residue of this days passages out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons it self in form following Sir Owen Hopton moved for the Commission of Motions and Petitions to have the Council added unto them and also a greater number of others and delivered a Paper of Notes of the Motions made Upon a Motion made for M r Garnons who is reported to stand Excommunicate it is Ordered that he shall Answer it in the House Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching Monasteries was read the first time M r Treasurer made report of the Committees doings for the Subsidy whose names see on Saturday the 7 th day of this instant April foregoing and brought in Articles which were well liked and thereupon the same Commissioners were appointed to proceed with the drawing of the Book Two Bills also had each of them their first reading of which the first was the Bill for the validity of Burgesses not resiant Touching matters of Religion M r Mounson brought report that the Bishops pray to have the Lords moved by this House to assign a Committee to confer with this House And thereupon it was Ordered presently that the same Commissioners do immediately go to the Lords with this Message to know their pleasure for appointing some to confer about the Book for Doctrine M r Treasurer returned report that the Lord Keeper hath Answered he will open it to the Lords Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Cloth-workers was read the first time And the third being the Bill B. had its first reading Vide Maii 17. postea what Bill B. meaneth Sir Richard Read and M r Doctor Yale did bring an Answer to the Message viz. that the Lords have appointed twenty of themselves whereof ten of the Clergy and ten of the Temporalty to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in the Star-Chamber And thereupon were added by the House to the former Commissioners the Master of the Rolls Sir Henry Norrice Sir William Buts M r Austley M r Serjeant Manwood M r Stooks M r Fleetwood M r Carleton M r Eglenby M r Yelverton M r Dalton and M r Robert Snagg which meeting was about matters of Religion Vide abunde Maii 17. postea On Wednesday the 11 th day of April the Bill for Lestwithiell was read the first time M r Fleetwood brought in a Bill against Rogues The Bill against fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances was read the second time and was delivered to certain of the House to amend presently upon a Motion made by M r Dalton to have it to extend to the defrauding of Heriots Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Sewers was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed And the Bill D. had its first reading Vide Maii 17. post what Bill D. meaneth M r Seckford Master of the Requests prayed longer time to consider of the Bill of fraudulent Gifts and Conveyances and that the Committees may be Sir John White M r Seckford Master of the Requests M r Serjeant Manwood Geoffry Loveland M r Mounson M r Bell M r Fleetwood M r Thomas Snagg M r Barber and M r Dalton to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Temple Church The Bill for not returning persons of the Queens Majesties Houshold on Juries was read the first time The Bill for Bristol was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Whereupon followed divers longSpeeches and Arguments touching the same Bill which being omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons are here supplied out of that often before-cited Anonymous Journal of the same House more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following viz. M r Comptroller first moved that before some Committees were appointed both parties might be heard and the Controversy appeased M r Fleetwood argued that there might appear rashness or indiscretion in them who should now reverse what of late they had done but leaving to speak thereof he entred into a good Discourse of the Prerogative which might thereby be touched if they should endeavour to overthrow her Majesties Letters Patents to whom by Law there is power given to Incorporate any Town and she is Sworn to preserve her Prerogative he vouched the Clerk of the Parliaments Book to be that no man might talk of the Statute of Wills c. but that the King first gave Licence for that his Prerogative in the Wards was hereby touched He shewed likewise the Statute of Ed. 1. Ed. 3. and H. 4. with a saving of the Prerogative In King Edward the Sixths time Licence was sued for to the Lord Protector to talk of matters of Prerogative he remembred the Book of 2 Edw. 6. for the Parliament of Ireland called by the Chief Judge as is for him lawful where it was questioned what by Parliament might be done whether they might depart with any of the Kings Towns Forts or Piers it was agreed they might not and so he concluded that to talk thereof for as much as her Majesties Letters Patents and Prerogative were touched Rege non consulto was perillous He also made mention of the Statute which authorizeth all Merchants to Traffick by Sea Nisi publice prohibentur he saith others were prohibited M r Young of Bristol in the behalf of the Commons reasoned to this effect First Shewed the loss to the Queen of her Custom then the private Monopoly wrought and occasioned by the
against untrue Demeanors of Tellors Receivors Treasurers and Collectors with a new Proviso and the Bill for severance of Sheriffs in sundry Counties Surrey and Sussex being left out The Bill for Councellors Fees was read the third time M r Doctor Huick and M r Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords the Bill for the River of Lee with some Additions and Amendments Sir Walter Mildmay Sir Thomas Smith Sir John Thynne M r Wilson Master of the Requests M r Heneage M r Recorder M r Mounson M r Yelverton and M r Bembrick were appointed to meet here in the Chamber to Morrow in the Morning at seven of the Clock to consider of the Bill for Councellors Fees On Tuesday the 29 th day of May M r Serjeant Barham and M r Doctor Huick brought from the Lords the Bill of the Queens Majesties General and free Pardon The Committees for Examination of Fees or Rewards taken for Voices in the House reported That they cannot learn of any that hath sold his Voice in this House or any way dealt unlawfully or indirectly in that behalf and thereupon M r Norton declaring that he heard that some had him in suspition justified himself and was upon the question purged by the Voice of the whole House and their good opinion of him and of his honest and dutiful dealing and great pains taking in the service of this House were in very good and acceptable part declared and affirmed by the like Voice of the whole House The Bill for shooting in Hand-Guns and Harquebuses was read the third time and passed the House And the Bill also for the Queens Majesties most gracious and free Pardon was read Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for Councellors Fees the third reading being yesterday accomplished was now passed upon the Question All the Bills passed were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others After which the manner of the Conclusion of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons Verbatim as followeth About four of the Clock this Afternoon the Queens Majesty being set in her Royal Seat in the Upper House M r Speaker made his Oration presented unto her Highness the Book of the Subsidy and in the name of the whole House gave her Majesty most humble thanks for her Highness General and free Pardon And prayed her Majesties Royal Assent unto such Acts and Laws as had passed both the Houses in this Sessions Whereupon her Highness gave her Royal Assent unto forty one Acts and so Dissolved this present Parliament THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS The Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Parliament bolden at Westminster An. 14 Reginae Eliz. A. D. 1572 which began there on Thursday the 8 th Day of May and then and there continued until the Adjournment thereof on Monday the 30 th and last Day of June next ensuing THIS Session of Parliament held in An. 14 Reginae Eliz. although it lasted no long time yet it containeth in it a great deal of extraordinary matter touching the Proceeding of the House in the business of the Scottish Queen and towards the Conclusion thereof touching the Priviledge of the Members of the same and that which doth yet somewhat the more enlarge and beautifie it is the Addition of Sir Nicholas Bacon's Speech being the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal on the first day of this Session But howsoever this said Session were in it self short in Continuance yet considering the two other following Sessions which with it made but one and the same Parliament and that the longest of any in this Queens time it will not prove unworthy although the aforesaid extraordinary passages wanted of a careful and methodical setting down For the second Session being held in An. 18 Regin Eliz. and the third and last Session in An. 23 Regin ejusdem it was continued by many Adjournments and Prorogations although the House sate but a part of the time until the final Dissolution thereof upon the 19 th day of April in An. 25 Reginae praedictae after it had lasted about the space of eleven years On Thursday the 8 th day of May according to the Writ of Summons that had been sent forth dated at Greenwich the 5 th day of May in the fourteenth year of the Queen the Parliament held Nota That the Writ of Summons is set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have born date the 5 th day of May in this fourteenth year and the Parliament to have begun on the 8 th day of May in the same year of the Queen but three days after the Writ of Summons it self which is impossible and it is plain that the day of the beginning of the Parliament cannot be mistaken because according to that all the other days through the whole Journal-Book do follow in due form and order and therefore it is very probable that the date of the Writ is set down contrary to the Originals themselves which were dated the 5 th day of March and that the Clerk might mistake This is likewise very conjecturable in respect that the name of the Month being set down and perhaps abbreviated it was easily written May for March and so this incongruity is only the slip and error of the Clerk The Queens Majesty was doubtless present her self this day in the Upper House and was attended by Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal but in the Journal-Book of the Upper House there is no mention made who were present this day only it may be guessed by the names of such as the said Original Journal-Book setteth down to have been present on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May following which is the first day on which the presence of any Lords is marked according to the usual form by the Clerk of the Parliament Neither can it possibly be collected or gathered by the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House or House of Commons whether her Majesty was present or no. For as concerning the Journal of the House of Commons it appeareth only that divers of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the said House of Commons did this day take the Oath in that Case accustomed And therefore the chief ground I had to conclude that her Majesty was this day personally in the Upper House was a Copy I had by me of the Lord Keepers Speech made there this day in the publick Assembly of both Houses in the end of which he gives direction to the House of Commons to Elect their Speaker which shews also that the said Speech in divers Copies thereof is falsly attributed to the eighteenth Year of her Majesty which was but the second Session of this Parliament and no Speaker Elected in it and therefore this Error seemeth only to have grown through the fault of Transcribers and the ignorance of such as suffered so groundless
so in this our blessed time of Peace that we enjoy by the blessing of God through the Ministry of her Majesty we ought in time to make provision to prevent any storm that may arise either here or abroad and neither to be too careless or negligent but think that the tayl of these storms which are so bitter and so boisterous in other Countries may reach us also before they be ended especially if we do not forget the hatred that is born us by the Adversary of our Religion both for our profession and for that this Realm is also a merciful Sanctuary for such poor Christians as sly hither for succour so as now one of the most principal cares that we ought to care in this great Councel of the Realm is both to consider aforehand the dangers that may come by the malice of Enemies and to provide in time how to resist them and seeing that by those great occasions which I have remembred you can easily understand how low her Majesties Coffers are brought it is our parts frankly and willingly to offer unto her Majesty such a Contribution as shall be able to restore the same again in such sort as she may be sufficiently furnished of Treasure to put in order and maintain her Forces by Land and by Sea to answer any thing that shall be attempted against her and us and unless it might seem strange to some that her Majesty should want this some considering that not long sithence Aid was granted by the Realm To that I Answer That albeit her Majesty is not to yield an account how she spendeth her Treasure yet for your satisfactions I will let you understand such things as are very true and which I dare affirm having more knowledge thereof than some other in respect of the place I hold in her Majesties Service First how favourable the Taxations of Subsidies be through the whole Realm cannot be unknown to any whereby far less cometh to her Majesties Coffers than by the Law is granted a matter now drawn to be so usual as it is hard to be reformed Next the clearing of all Debts that run upon Interest to the insupportable charge of the Realm Thirdly the charge is suppressing the Rebellion in the North. Fourthly the free and honourable repayment of the last Loans the like whereof was not seen before Fifthly the Journey to Edenburgh-Castle for the quieting of that Country and this And lastly the great and continual Charges in Ireland by the evil disposition of the people there all which could not have been performed by the last Aid except it had pleased her Majesty to spare out of her own Revenues great Sums of money for the supplying of that which lacked wherein she more respected the Realm than her own particular Estate living as you see in most temperate manner without either Building or other superfluous things of pleasure and like as these be causes sufficient to move you to devise how these wants may be repaired so you ought the rather to do it for that her Majesty lacketh and cannot have without great inconvenience those helps which in the times of her Father her Brother and Sister were used as the abasing of Coin which brought infinite sums to them but wrought great damage to the Realm which we yet feel and should do more had not her Majesty to her perpetual Fame restored the same again so much as the time could suffer The sale of Lands whereof came also very great sums of money but that is not hereafter to be used saving that by the same the Revenues of the Crown are greatly diminished which it cannot more bear the borrowing of money upon Interest the burthen whereof the Realm hath felt so heavy as that is never more to be done if by any means it may be avoided And yet notwithstanding all those helps it is apparent that Subsidies were continually granted in those times if so then much more now then besides War and other extraordinary Charges may happen her Majesties very ordinary Charges which she cannot but sustain are far greater by dearth of prices and other occasions than in any other Princes days as you may see by the ordinary and annual Charges of the Houshold the Navy the Ordnance the Armory the Garrison of Berwick the standing Garrison and Officers within the Realm of Ireland And whether these are like to be more costly to her Majesty than in former times in respect of the prices of all things let every man judge by the experience he hath of his private expences And so to draw to an end for avoiding of your trouble I trust these few things may suffice to remember us how her Majesty found the Realm how she hath restored and preserved it and how the present State is now and therewith all may serve as reasons sufficient to perswade us to deal in this necessary cause as her Majesty being the Head of the Common-Wealth be not unfurnished of that which will be sufficient to maintain both her self and us against the private or open malice of Enemies wherein let us so proceed as her Majesty may find how much we think our selves bound to God that hath given us so Gracious a Queen over us and shew thereby also such gratuity towards her as she may perform the course of her Government cum alacritate This foregoing Speech of Sir Walter Mildmay Knight Chancellor of the Exchequer being thus transcribed out of the Copy thereof I had by me now follow the Proceedings thereupon out of the Original Journal Book of the House of Commons by which it appeareth that divers Members of the said House were appointed immediately after it to have Conference for drawing of a Bill for a Subsidy which Committees were as followeth viz. All the Privy-Council being of this House M r Captain of the Guard the Master of the Requests Sir Thomas Scott Sir Rowland Hayward Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Thomas Shirley Sir George Speake Sir Henry Lea Sir Robert Wingfeild Sir John Thynne Sir George Turpin Sir William Winter Sir William Morgan Sir Edward Stanhope M r Edward Horsey Master Recorder of London M r Serjeant Lovelace M r Sampoole M r Grimston M r More M r Popham M r Telverton and M r Hilliard to meet this Afternoon at the Star-Chamber or some other place near unto it at three of the Clock M r Wilson Master of the Requests M r Norton M r Marsh M r Edward Stanhope M r Sandes M r Atkins and M r George Ireland were appointed to draw a Bill for the safe keeping of the Church Books or Registers of the Christnings Marriages and Burials and to meet upon Sunday next in the Afternoon at M r Wilsons Chamber in the Arches at three of the Clock M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Recorder of London M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Popham M r Marsh M r Sampoole M r Cromwell M r Thomas Browne and M r Robert Snagg
Hoddy Mr. French Mr. Alford and Mr. Norton to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon at three of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber Certain Amendments in the Bill of Rogues c. reported by Mr. Treasurer upon the last Committee of the Bill which amendments were read and thereupon the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills lastly had each of them their first reading of which the latter was the Bill for Trials by Juries Edward Smalley Servant unto Arthur Hall Esq being this day brought to the Bar in the House by the Serjeant of this House and accompanied with two Serjeants of London was presently delivered from his Imprisonment and Execution according to the former Judgment of this House and the said Serjeants of London discharged of their said Prisoner and immediately after that the said Serjeants of London were sequestred out of this House and the said Edward Smalley was committed to the charge of the Serjeant of this House And thereupon the said Edward Smalley was sequestred till this House should be resolved upon some former Motions whether the said Edward Smalley did procure himself to be Arrested upon the said Execution in the abusing and contempt of this House or not Vide Mar. 10. Saturday postea All the Privy-Council being of this House the Lord Russell Mr. Captain of the Guard Mr. Wilson Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Sir William Winter Mr. Serjeant Lovelace Sir Henry Knivett Mr. Crooke Mr. Coleby Mr. Popham and Mr. Norton were appointed to meet upon Friday next in the Afternoon at three of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber but through the great negligence of Fulk Onslow Esquire at this time Clerk of the House of Commons the business about which the foresaid Members of the House were appointed to meet doth not at all appear On Wednesday the 29 th day of February Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for Chepstow-Bridge another for Rochester-Bridge and the third for the Town of Reading were each of them read the third time and upon the Question passed the House Upon a Motion made by Robert Bainbrigge Gent. one of the Burgesses for the Borough of ..... in the County of ..... against one Williams as well for sundry unsitting Speeches pronounced by the said Williams in misliking of the present State and Government of the Realm and also for threatning and assaulting of the said Robert Bainbrigge the Serjeant of this House was thereupon by Order of this House presently sent for the said Williams to be brought unto this House to Answer such matters as shall be objected against him Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against excess in Apparel was read the first time The Petition and Motions made touching the reformation of Discipline in the Church was committed only to all the Privy-Council of this House Vide concerning this matter on Friday the 10 th day of March ensuing Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Doctor Berkley brought from the Lords four Bills of which the first was the Bill for the assurance of the Mannor of New Hall to Thomas Earl of Sussex the second for the appointing of Justices in the Shires of Wales the third concerning Offices found in the Counties Palatines and the last for the assurance of certain Lands unto Sir John Ryvers Knight All the Privy-Council being of this House the Lord Russell the Masters of the Requests Sir Thomas Scott Sir Henry Gates Sir Henry Wallope and divers others were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber between two and three of the Clock and agree touching the nature of the Petition to be made to the Queens Majesty upon the Motions for reformation of Discipline in the Church and that the matter of the Petition so agreed upon then those of the Privy-Council only to move the same to the Lords of the Privy-Council after report first made thereof to this House Vide concerning this matter on Friday the 10 th day of March following Walter Williams being brought to the Bar confessed that he did strike Mr. Bainbrigge and that he offered to strike at him with his Dagger Whereupon it was Ordered that he remain in the Serjeants Ward till the Order of this House be further known to Morrow Vide. On Thursday the first day of March Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which one being the Bill for the true making of Woollen-Cloths another for Kentish and Suffolk Cloths and another for toleration of certain Clothiers in the Counties of Somerset Wilts and Gloucester were each of them read the first time and thereupon committed to the former Committees who were nominated on Thursday the 16 th day of February foregoing and unto Sir Thomas Scott Mr. Serjeant Lovelace Mr. Savile Mr. Peacock Mr. Gargrave Mr. Mickleborn Mr. Langley and Mr. S t John to meet this Afternoon in the Star-Chamber at two of the Clock as also to conser touching the unlawful ingrossing of Woolls Two Bills also had each of them their first reading of which the second was the Bill against common Promoters Sir Richard Read and Mr. Doctor Vaughan brought from the Lords the Bill for the payment of Tythes within the Parish of Hallifax and the other to take away the benefit of Clergy from Offenders in Rape and Burglary Martin Cole one of the Burgesses for Sudbury in the County of Suffolk was this day Licensed by Mr. Speaker for his great business to be absent for four days The Bill lastly for setting the poor on work and for avoiding of idleness was read the third time and passed the House On Friday the second day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for assurance of certain Lands to Sir John Rivers K t was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because it had been formerly sent from the Lords The Bill against wearing of unlawful Weapons was twice read and committed thereupon unto Mr. Comptroller Sir Henry Radcliffe Sir Thomas Scott Sir Henry Knivett Sir Henry Gates and others to be considered of presently Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against the buying and selling of rooms and places in Colledges Schools c. was read the first time Mr. Treasurer one of the Committees for the Petition touching reformation of the Discipline of the Church reported that he and the residue of the Committees have met and agreed upon a Bill to be made for that purpose which Bill was then offered and received in the said House and then read accordingly Vide concerning this matter on Friday the 9 th day of this instant March ensuing The two Bills viz. for maintenance of Colledges and against buying and selling of rooms and places in Schools
first time M r Doctor Vaughan and M r Doctor Yale brought from the Lords the Bill for setting the Poor on work and for avoiding of Idleness with certain amendments and a Proviso M r Treasurer one of the Committees in the Lady Wainman's Cause reported that both the Parties have submitted themselves to the Arbitrement of the Lord Treasurer the Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Leicester M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Dutchy and M r Captain of the Guard or the most part of them to be made within one Year next after the Session of this present Session of Parliament for the performance and accomplishment of the same Arbitrement A Proviso with some Amendments was offered to the Bill for reformation of Inholders common Cooks and Tavern Keepers and being twice read after the Question was upon the Division of the House by the advantage of the number of forty persons Ordered to be ingrossed and added to the Bill and then afterwards upon another Question and like Division of the House the Bill with the Proviso was dashed with the difference of twenty eight persons Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Barham did bring from the Lords a Bill for the appointing of Wharfs and Keys for the unlading and discharging of Merchandizes and withal a Message from them that some of this House may be appointed to have Conference with some such of their Lordships as shall be thought meet touching such private Bills in both Houses as upon their Conference together shall be thought fittest to be Examined whereupon it was Ordered that twelve of this House shall be appointed for that purpose viz. M r Treasurer M r Captain of the Guard M r Wilson Master of the Requests Sir Henry Ratcliffe Sir Rowland Hayward Sir Thomas Scott Sir John Thynne Sir Henry Wallope Sir George Penrudock M r Popham M r Sampoole and M r Yelverton The Bill concerning Authority given to the Justices of the Queens Majesties Forests Chaces and Parks was read the second time and committed this day afterwards The two Bills for Denizens and the Bill for Presentations by Lapse being amended were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others M r Serjeant Barham and M r Doctor Vaughan brought word from the Lords that their Lordships do require that the Committees of this House may confer with them to Morrow in the Morning before eight of the Clock in the Parliament Chamber M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Captain of the Guard Sir Henry Gates Sir Henry Ratcliffe Sir Thomas Barrington Sir Nicolas Arnold Sir Henry Knivett M r Recorder of London M r Sampoole M r Stanhoppe M r Crooke M r Snagg M r John Vaughan M r Serjeant Jeffries M r Serjeant Lovelace M r Edward Horsey M r Robert Wroth M r Colby M r Topclyffe M r Bowyer M r John S t John M r Dawney M r Robert Colshill M r Digbie and M r Birkhed were appointed in Committee for the Bill concerning certain Authority given to the Justices of the Queens Majesties Forests Chaces Parks and Warrens Nota That this Bill having been sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons on Wednesday the 7 th day of this instant March foregoing should without all question never have been referd to Committees upon the second reading this instant Thursday except the said House of Commons had taken such just exceptions at the same as they afterwards made known to a Committee of the Lords and by reason of which finally the same was stopped from further passing The further carriage and proceeding of which business being wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons through the great negligence of Fulk Onslow Esq at this time Clerk of the same I have thought good to supply it out of a written Memorial or Copy thereof I had by me because it may appear upon what just grounds and solid reasons the Members of the said House did refuse to pass the said Bill and although it doth not certainly appear whether the said Proceedings in the said Bill between the Committees of either House were this day or no yet I have referred it thereunto as the most probable and likely time in respect that there is no further mention made of this Bill or business in either of the Original Journal-Books of the Upper House or House of Commons upon any ensuing day during this present Session of Parliament These things being thus premised the foresaid Memorial or written Discourse of this business doth now ensue to be inserted The Committees before-named having upon deliberate consideration of the parts and of the scope of the said Bill touching Authority to be given to the Justices of the Queens Majesties Forests c. found the same not convenient to proceed did nevertheless out of their respect unto the Lords from whom the Bill had been sent down desire first to satisfie them before they utterly refused and dashed the said Bill and did thereupon send unto their Lordships who as it appeareth by the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House did this Afternoon sit to offer them Conference which they accordingly accepted and thereupon there did assemble in a place appointed as Commissioners or rather as Committees for the Lords the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Leicester the Lord Grey of Wilton and the Lord Hunsdon having for their assistance standing by the two Chief Justices and the Queens Attorney General upon these the foresaid Committees of the House of Commons by Order of the same House gave their attendance and by Sir Walter Mildmay K t Chancellor of the Exchequer the second of the said Committees in the name and by consent of the rest said to the Lords in effect as followeth viz. That whereas a Bill touching the enlargement of the Justices of Forest-Authority had passed from their Lordships and was sent to the House of Commons the same had received there two readings and upon the second reading was greatly impugned by many Arguments made against it nevertheless the respect they had to their Lordships moved them to stay any further proceeding therein to the hazard of the Bill until by some Conference with their Lordships the House in such things as were objected might be satisfied To that end he said the House of Commons had sent them to attend upon their Lordships and so entring into the matter said That of many things spoken to the hindrance of the Bill they would trouble their Lordships but with some few such as they had noted to have been of most value by which he said their Lordships should find that the House of Commons did take the Bill to be unnecessary chargeable dangerous obscure For the first that whereas in the preamble of the Bill it was pretended that one principal cause of this Act was that the Justices of the Forests having no Authority to sit
in the days of our Predecessors by the punishment of such inconsiderate and disorderly Speakers hath appeared And so to return Let this serve us for an Example to beware that we offend not in the like hereafter lest that in forgetting our duties so far we may give just cause to our gracious Soveraign to think that this her Clemency hath given occasion of further boldness and thereby so much grieve and provoke her as contrary to her most gracious and mild consideration she be constrained to change her natural Clemency into necessary and just severity a thing that he trusted should never happen amongst wise and dutiful men such as the Members of this House are thought always to be Between which Speech and the reftoring of the said M r Wentworth unto the House although it be not mentioned in the before-cited written Memorial of the said Speech I had by me as appeareth plainly by the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons these ensuing Passages intervened in the said House as followeth viz. M r Treasurer M r John Thynne Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Henry Gate M r Marsh and M r Cromwell were sent to the Lords for Conference presently touching the reforming of some amendments of this House in the Bill which came from the Lords for taking away the benefit of the Clergy from persons Convict of Rape and Burglary M r Doctor Vaughan and M r Doctor Barkley did bring from the Lords the Bill for preservation of Pheasants and Partridges All the Privy-Councel being of this House the Lord Russell M r Captain of the Guard the Masters of Requests M r Treasurer of the Chamber the Master of the Wardrobe the Master of the Jewel-House Sir Henry Knivett Sir Thomas Scott Sir John Thynne Sir William Winter M r Crooke M r Popham M r Yelverton M r Norton M r Sampoole M r Alford and M r Skinner were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber touching Conference for the manner of Petition to be made unto the Queens Majesty touching Marriage Vide on Friday the 9 th day of this instant March foregoing and on Wednesday March the 14 th in the Afternoon ensuing These intervening Passages being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons now follows the manner of the restoring of the aforesaid Peter Wentworth Esquire being partly transcribed out of the abovesaid Original Journal-Book and partly out of the before-mentioned written Memorial or Copy thereof in manner and form ensuing M r Peter Wentworth was brought by the Serjeant at Arms that attended the House to the Bar within the same and after some Declaration made unto him by M r Speaker in the name of the whole House both of his own great fault and offence and also of her Majesties great and bountiful mercy shewed unto him and after his humble Submission upon his Knees acknowledging his fault and craving her Majesties Pardon and Favour he was received again into the House and restored to his place to the great contentment of all that were present This business of M r Wentworth being thus at large set down now follows a great part of the residue of this dayes Passages out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons it self The Bill for the Lord Stourton was read the third time in setting down of which Bill it seemeth the time of the reading is erroneously entred for this was doubtless the second reading and that the third as appeareth plainly by the Original Journal-Book it self was not until Tuesday the 13 th day of this instant March ensuing when the Bill also passed and it is the rather probable that this was but the second reading as is also set down in a written Memorial of this business I had by me in respect that it was upon this reading spoken unto ' and referred to Committees but as it should seem before the said Bill was agitated in the House or referred to Committees this business intervened which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons in manner and form following M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Yale did bring from the Lords the Bill touching taking away the benefit of the Clergy from Persons Convict of Rape and Burglary to be amended in the former addition of amendment thereof by this House whereupon the same being presently amended was together with the Bill of Addition to the former Statutes for amending and repairing of High-ways the Bill with the Amendments and Proviso for the repairing of the Bridges and High-ways near unto the City of Oxford the Bill for the Hospital of S t Cross near Winchester and the Bill for the Lord Viscount Howard of Bindon sent up to the Lords by M r Secretary Smith and others with the Bill also for maintenance of the Universities and of the Colledges of Eaton and Winchester to be reformed in the Amendments of their Lordships in the same Bill Which business being over-passed as it is inserted out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons now follows the dispute in the House upon the foresaid second reading of the Lord Stourton's Bill which is supplied out of a written Memorial or Copy of that business I had by me with very little alteration or addition It was first alledged in the House of Commons against the further proceeding of the Bill for the restitution in Blood of the Lord Stourton whose Father was Attainted of Murther and thereby his Blood corrupted by some in the said House that the said party who now sued to be restored in Blood had before given cause for men to think that he would not hereafter be worthy of so much favour and by some other that there wanted in the Bill sufficient provision for such as had been Purchasers from his Father Grandfather and other his Ancestors To the first Objection it was said in the House That seeing her Majesty had so graciously yielded to his Petition there was no doubt but she was well satisfied in all such things as might touch him and therefore no cause that this House should mislike her gracious Favours to be extended to any of her Subjects in such Cases but rather to hope that he being a young Nobleman would prove a good Servant to her Majesty and the Realm as divers of his Ancestors had done The second Objection was thought worthy of consideration That if the saving which was already in the Bill were not sufficient there might be other provision added This dispute concerning the foresaid Bill being thus transcribed out of the foresaid written Memorial or Copy thereof I had by me now follows the Committees names who were appointed thereupon out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons being as followeth M r Chancellor of the Exchequer the Master of the Wardrobe M r Recorder of London M r Norton M r Sampoole M r Dalton M r Savile M r Marsh M r Yelverton M r
the Pope and his Confederates are so notorious unto us and seeing the dangers be so great so evident and so imminent and seeing that Preparations to withstand them cannot be made without support of the Realm and seeing that our Duties to God our Queen and Country and the necessity that hangeth upon our own Safeguards be reasons sufficient to perswade us let us think upon these matters as the weight of them deserveth and so provide in time both by Laws to restrain and correct the evil affected Subjects and by provision of that which shall be requisite for the maintenance of Forces as our Enemies finding our minds so willing and our hands so ready to keep in Order-our Country and to furnish her Majesty with all that shall be necessary may either be discouraged to attempt any thing against us or if they do they may find such resistance as shall bring confusion to themselves honour to our most Gracious Queen and Safety to all of us M r Norton pursued the same Admonition and required the House to proceed to a manner of executing it which in his opinion was to appoint all the Privy-Council of this House and certain other fit Persons to consult of Bills convenient to be framed according to the said Motion to be presented to the House which Motion also was well allowed and Committees appointed to meet in the Exchequer-Chamber that Afternoon at two of the Clock viz. All the Privy Council of this House Sir Thomas Heneage Treasurer of the Chamber the Masters of Requests Sir George Carie Knight Marshal M r Fortescue Master of the Wardrobe M r Recorder of London M r Serjeant Fenner M r Serjeant Fleetwood Sir James Harrington Sir William More Sir Thomas Scott Sir John Brockett Sir Henry Radclyffe M r Yelverton M r Henry Gates M r Hutton M r Philip Sidney Sir Henry Leigh M r Woolley Sir Thomas Shirley Sir Henry Knivett M r Norton M r Aldersey Sir Rowland Hayward M r Matthew Sir Robert Wingfeild Sir Thomas Porter Sir Thomas Parrot M r John Price M r Aylmer Sir George Speak M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Thomas Cecill Sir Arthur Bassett M r Crooke M r Robert Wroth M r Edward Lewkenor M r Thompson M r Layton M r Edward Stanhope M r Charles Morrison M r Gilbert Talbot Mr. Edward Cary Mr. Peter Wentworth Mr. Sandes Sir Robert Stapleton Sir Nicholas S t Leger Sir James Mervin Sir William Winter Sir Edward Unton Mr. Fabian Philipps Mr. Edgecombe Sir Henry Woodhouse Mr. Payton and Mr. Digby It was Ordered that the House should be called upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon William Hanney Servant to Mr. Anthony Kirle having on Monday the 23 th day of January last past been present in the House of Commons about the space of half an hour being no Member of it and having been thereupon committed to the Serjeant of the House was this Forenoon brought to the Bar by the Serjeant who humbly upon his Knees submitted himself to the grace and favour of this House acknowledging his fault to proceed only upon simplicity and ignorance whereupon after some Examinations when he had willingly taken the Oath against the Popes Supremacy he was remitted by the House paying his Fees In the Afternoon about two of the Clock the said Committees did meet in the Exchequer Chamber where M r Norton spake very well to those matters which had been propounded by Sir Walter Mildmay in the Forenoon and did thereupon exhibite certain Articles to the like purpose which were by the Committees considered and some others added unto them And it was Ordered that M r Serjeant Flectwood M r Serjeant Fenner M r Serjeant Flowerden and M r Yelverton and Mr. Norton should set down the matters upon which they had there agreed and having digested them into Articles should exhibit them at the next meeting of the Committees which was appointed to be on Friday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Thursday the 26 th day of January the Bill for avoiding of Counterfeit Instruments under Counterfeit Seals of any Office or Offices was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Treasurer of the Chamber Sir Thomas Brown Mr. Sands Mr. Cromwell and Mr. Atkins who were appointed to meet on Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for avoiding of Incumbrances against Purchasers was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill that Actions upon the Case shall be brought in proper Counties was read the second time and after sundry Arguments was upon the question committed to Sir George Cary Sir George Speake Mr. Serjeant Fenner Mr. Wroth and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Temple-Church On Friday the 27 th day of January Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the speedy recovery of Debts was read the first time The Bill for the Reformation of the Clerk of the Market and the Proviso added unto it was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Treasurer Mr. Comptroller Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Thomas S t Poole Mr. Grimsditch and others who were appointed to meet on Monday next in the Afternoon at two of the Clock and the Clerk of the Market to be Licensed to attend them and to be heard before them if he will The House being moved did grant that the Serjeant who was to go before the Speaker being weak and somewhat pained in his Limbs might ride upon a Foot-Cloth Nag This day lastly in the Afternoon was a Motion made by Mr. Norton to have a Committee appointed to draw two Bills the one against secret and stoln Contracts of Children without the consent of Parents c. The other against exacting upon the Clergy by Ordinaries and by under-Collectors of Tenths and it was committed to Sir Walter Mildmay and himself Post Meridiem The Committees appointed on Wednesday last the 23 th day of this instant January to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber about the framing and drawing up the two Bills of Religion and the Subsidy met accordingly where the Articles and heads that concerned them were appointed to Mr. Norton to Pen and bring to the House the next day On Saturday the 28 th day of January Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the preservation of Woods was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Thomas Scott and others who were appointed to meet at the Temple-Church upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Two Bills also had each of them their second reading of which the first being a Bill against the erecting of Iron-Mills near the City of London and the
them read the second time and committed unto M r Recorder of London Mr. Serjeant Fenner Mr. Sands Mr. Grevill Mr. Christmas Mr. Boyes Mr. Cromwell and Mr Newdigate Mr. Henry Knolles the younger and Mr. Townesend were appointed to be with Mr. Speaker at this House at two of the Clock this Afternoon to examine the matter of Outlawry pretended against Walter Vaughan Esquire Knight for the County of Caermarthen And that the said Mr. Vaughan be then there present to Answer therein for himself as well as he can and the said Committees to make report unto this House of the state of the Case to the end this House may thereupon proceed to order accordingly Vide concerning this matter on the 18 th day of this instant February following Mr. Secretary Wilson declaring the travel of the Committees in Examining of the Printer that did Print Mr. Halls Book signified unto this House that the said Printer whose name is Henry Bynnyman upon his Examination before the Committees said that one John Wells a Scrivener in Fleetstreet did deliver the written Copy to him and when the Book was Printed he delivered one Book to Henry Shirland in Fridaystreet Linnen-Draper to be sent to Mr. Hall and that afterwards about a year past he delivered to Mr. Hall six of the said Books and at Michaelmas Term last six other of the said Books and one more to Mr. Halls man shortly after and said that Mr. Hall promised to get him a Priviledge whereupon he adventured he saith to Print the Book and saith that the Copy was written by Wells the Scrivener and that he received of the said Shirland Linnen-Cloth to the value of 6 l 13 s 4d. for Printing the said Book And that he staid of his own accord the publishing of the said Books till he were paid where Mr. Hall was contented that they should have been put to sale presently Which report so made by Mr. Secretary and withal that Mr. Hall and the Printer were both then at the Door the said Mr. Hall thereupon was brought to the Bar and being charged by Mr. Speaker in the behalf of the whole House with the setting forth the said Book containing very lewd and slanderous reproach not only against some particular Members of this House but also against the general State and Authority of this whole House denied not the setting forth of the said Book protesting the same to be done by him without any malicious intent or meaning either against the State of this House or against any Member of the same praying this whole House if he had offended in so doing they would remit and pardon him affirming withal very earnestly that he never had any more than one of the said Books and upon due consideration of his own rashness and folly therein willed that all the said Books should be suppressed and then was Mr. Hall sequestred Henry Bynnyman the Printer was brought to the Bar who affirmed in all things as Mr. Secretary Wilson before reported and further that he had Printed fourscore or an hundred of the said Books and was thereupon sequestred Henry Shirland was brought to the Bar who there confessed that Mr. Hall did write a Letter unto him and sent the said Book unto him willing him to get it Printed And that thereupon he delivered the Book to the said Bynnyman to have it Printed Wells the Scrivener being present with him and said further that Mr. Hall had paid him again the twenty Nobles which he before had paid the Printer and so he was then sequestred And the said Wells brought to the Bar upon his Examination saith that when he was Apprentice with one Mr. Dalton a Scrivener in Fleetstreet the said Mr. Hall lying then about Pauls-Wharf sent unto his said Master to send one of his Men unto him and that thereupon his said Master sent him unto the said Mr. Hall who when he came delivered to him a Book in written hand willing him to carry it home with him and Copy it out and said that when he had shewed it to his Master his Master Commanded him to write part of it and his Fellows some other part of it and his said Master as he remembreth did write the rest of it What his Master had for the writing of it he knoweth not And being further Examined saith that yesterday last past he delivered one of the said Books to Sir Randal Brierton from the said Mr. Hall and then the said John Wells was sequestred And afterwards all the Privy-Council being of this House Mr. Knight Marshal Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Serjeant Flowerdewe Mr. S t Leiger Mr. Cromwell Mr. Atkins the Master of the Jewel-House Sir Thomas Browne Sir Thomas Scott Mr. Nathanael Bacon Mr. Beale Mr. Norton and Mr. Alford were added to the former Committees for the further proceeding to the Examination of the matter touching Mr. Hall the Printer the Scrivener and all other persons Parties or privy to the publishing of the said Book set forth in Print by the means and procurement of the said Mr. Hall and to meet upon Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Which done Mr. Hall being brought to the Bar again Mr. Speaker declared unto him that this House mindeth further to examine the particularities of the matter wherewith they have charged him and do therefore commit him to the Serjeants Ward with this Liberty that upon Wednesday next in the Afternoon being accompanied with the Serjeant he may attend at the Exchequer Chamber upon the Committees in the Cause and was thereupon had out of the House Henry Bynnyman the Printer John Wells the Scrivener and Henry Shirland Linnen-Draper being brought all three to the Bar were by Mr. Speaker injoined in the name of the whole House to give their attendance upon the said Committees at the time and place aforesaid and also at all times in the mean season thereof if they shall happen to be called by them or any of them and so were had out of the House And further it is Ordered by this House that Mr. Speaker do send the Serjeant for John Dalton late Master of the said John Wells and to charge him also to attend upon the said Committees at the said time and place in like manner Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 14 th day of this instant February following On Tuesday the 7 th day of February the Bill for the Cloth-Workers of London was read the second time and committed to the former Committees in the Bill for Cloths called Tauntons and Bridgwaters who were appointed on Saturday the 4 th day of this instant February foregoing Mr. Treasurer one of the Committees for the great causes brought in a Bill for restraint of disobedient Subjects and also Articles for the granting of the Subsidy which Articles were then read by the Clerk and agreed by the whole House to be delivered by Mr. Speaker to Mr. Attorney General to draw a
prayer and thanksgiving accordingly The Master of the Rolls and the Lord Chief Baron did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do desire present Conference with some of this House in a matter of great importance and that their Lordships have appointed of themselves seventeen Whereupon were Chosen presently thirty four of this House viz. M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Exchequer the Lord Russell Sir Thomas Heneage M r Sollicitor M r Beale M r Wolley Sir Robert Germin Sir John Higham M r Doctor James Sir Richard Knightley Sir George Carey M r Edward Lewkenor Sir Henry Cock Sir William Moore M r Edward Barker M r Branker the Master of the Requests M r George Greenfield Sir Edward Dymock M r Skinner M r Atturney of the Wards Sir William Mallory M r Strickland M r David Williams M r Harris M r Henry Barkley Sir Thomas Shirley M r Robert Bowes M r Recorder of London M r Morrice M r William Knolles M r Faunshaw Sir Drew Drury M r Oughtred M r George Digby and Mr. Cheek who repaired then presently to the Lords accordingly Mr. Yelverton being of the Learned Councel of one of the Creditors of Edward Fisher Esquire and coming into this House for him and also some of the Creditors of the said Edward Fisher being likewise present in this House at the Bar the Bill had in their presence its second reading and further Order was then given that they be here again to Morrow in the Morning at the first sitting of this Court Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 22 th day of February ensuing Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning the assurances of Sir Thomas Lucie and others the Proviso of it having been once read had it self the third reading and passed upon the question with the foresaid Proviso The last former Committees returning from the Lords Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the said Committees declared unto the House that they attended the Lords in the Upper House according to the direction of this House to them in that behalf given and that they found the Lords not to want many of that number which was signified unto this House from them and withal that there were likewise almost as many of the Committees of this House as were by this House appointed for that purpose And that the Lord Treasurer being the chiefest of the Committees of the Lords shewed unto the said Committees of this House that their Lordships of the Upper House being of such quality and calling as they are known to be are one Member of the Parliament And also that the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of this House representing the whole Commons of this Realm are also another Member of the same Parliament and her Majesty the Head And that of these three Estates doth consist the whole Body of the Parliament able to make Laws And that none of the said two Houses without the other can in any wise make Laws And withal that therefore of ancient Courtesie and Custom both the same Houses have used mutual Conference each with other in matters of doubt happening amongst them from time to time in making and establishing of Laws and that yet notwithstanding their Lordships have heard by Speeches abroad not out of this House for they are not to take knowledge of any thing in this House that a Bill to provide remedy against fraudulent Conveyances passed with their Lordships and lately sent down from them to this House was upon a second reading thereof in this House denied to receive a Committee whereof their Lordships do greatly marvail and think it very strange not having known the like course used in this House before especially the Bill being so good and necessary for the Common-Wealth and so specially recommended from their Lordships to this House both at the first sending down thereof to this House and sithence And being as their Lordships are informed upon the reading thereof the first time nothing spoken unto at all and now lately at the second reading thereof argued unto both with the Bill and against the Bill by sundry on both sides learned in the Laws and of good account and discretion otherwise which doth greatly import the Bill very much to deserve Conference without all contradiction And further declaring that the said Bill was very well favoured and liked of her Majesty yea in so much that her Highness used to call it her own Bill that it was framed and drawn by her Highness learned Councel very maturely and advisedly digested in the Upper House with the privity and assistance of the Judges there attending considered of also in a Committee amongst their Lordships themselves and with very great deliberation passed also with them and as before specially recommended unto this House from them moved in Conclusion that this House would have such further consideration for proceeding in some convenient course in the said Bill by Conference or otherwise as may in good discretion seem requisite And not doubting but as their Lordships think many of this House have mistaken and misconceived some part of the said Bill so their Lordships upon Conference had they doubt not will resolve and satisfie them in the same And therefore they desire to be advertised of the Answer of this House therein as soon as may be conveniently Vide de ista materia in die sequenti On Tuesday the 16 th day of February a Motion was made for Mr. Kirles releasment from his Imprisonment and thereupon he was brought into this House and kneeling upon his Knees making very humble submission unto this House and acknowledging his fault alledging it also to have proceeded of ignorance and not of wilfulness and likewise having paid to the Serjeant of this House to M r Stepneth's use three pound six shillings eight pence set down by M r Morrice and M r Sands according to the former Order of this House was discharged paying his Fees after he had first taken the Oath of Supremacy Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 10 th day and on Thursday the 11 th day of this instant February foregoing Upon a Motion made by M r Doctor James that a Member of this House yesterday having given great offence unto this whole House in charging this whole House generally with matter of accusation in those things which they do offer and prefer unto this House only by way of Petitions and Motions for redress of certain griefs in dutiful and convenient manner may not so go away with those undecent forms of Speech but be further called to Question for the same M r Atkins was thereupon Licensed by the House to interpret his said Speeches in his place without being Commanded to the Bar who in very humble sort declared his intention was very sorry for his over-sight craved their good opinions and submitted himself to the good satisfaction of this
this House the summary cause of her Majesties calling and assembling of this great Council at this time which was he said not to make any more Laws as being many more already than well executed nor yet for any Subsidy albeit if need so required the same were convenient enough to be done but said he to consult for such matters as the like were never erst heard of nor any Parliament called for in former time that can be found or read of And so very excellently plainly and effectually made relation of the horrible and wicked practices and attempts caused and procured by the Queen of Scots so called meerly tending to the ruine and overthrow of the true and sincere Religion established in this Realm the Invasion of Foreign Forces into this Realm Rebellion and Civil Wars and dissension within this Realm yea and withal which his heart quaked and trembled to utter and think on the death and destruction of the most Sacred Person of our most Gracious Soveraign Lady the Queens Majesty to the utter desolation and conquest of this most Noble Realm of England And so discoursing of the matter and great execrable Treacheries and Conspiracies of the said Queen of Scots even from the first to the last in particularities very amply and effectually such of them at the least as have been hitherto discovered shewing also very manifestly and evidently the proofs and all other circumstances of the same Treachery and Conspiracies and so thinketh good for his part that speedy Consultation he had by this House for the cutting of her off by course of Justice for that otherwise our said Soveraign Lady the Queens Majesties most Royal Person cannot be continued with safety concludeth with this Sentence Ne pereat Israel pereat Absolon Which done M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Chancellor of the Dutchy and M r Secretary Woolley using each of them severally very effectual Speeches at large touching the said horrible Treasons and Conspiracies caused and procured by the said Queen of Scots the House did then rise the time being far spent with reservation nevertheless by M r Speaker remembred for further Speech therein to be had by others of this House to morrow again and a saving also till some other more convenient time for such of this House as shall please to speak to the said Bill of Inrollments upon the said second reading of the same accordingly Vide 7 th November Monday On Friday the 4 th day of November M r Recorder of London having made Declaration unto this House that divers of the Members of the same do find themselves grieved for that their Servants attending upon them are daily arrested contrary to the ancient Liberties and Priviledges of this House and having further moved also that a like Committee of this House may at this time be appointed as had been the last Parliament for the examining and reporting Cases of Priviledge It was resolved and agreed by the House that the same shall be exercised and done accordingly And for the performance thereof the said M r Recorder Sir Henry Gate M r Robert Wroth and M r William Fleetwood were appointed by the Authority of the House Upon the Motion of M r Speaker putting the House in remembrance of continuing and further prosecuting of the great Cause they dealt in yesterday divers Speeches were made to that effect by Sir James Croft Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold Sir Francis Knowles Treasurer of the same Sir William Herbert Sir Thomas Scot M r Francis Bacon M r Alford M r Throgmorton M r Barker M r Dalton M r Biynbrigg and M r Sollicitor by all which it was concluded That considering the late horrible Treasons and Practices conspired against the Life of the Queens Majesty and also for the procuring of Foreign Invasion in respect of the Attempt and also for endeavouring to raise Rebellion within the Realm for and by Mary late Queen of Scots therefore of necessity present remedy and provision must be had for preventing the like attempts and practices hereafter which could never be unless the said Scottish Queen did presently suffer the due Execution of Justice according to her deserts And then upon the further Motion of the said M r Sollicitor for a Committee of this House to be had to confer of some convenient and fit course to be taken by Petition and Suit to her Majesty in that behalf with request also unto the Lords to joyn therein with this House to her Highness if it please them thereupon this Committee following was nominated and appointed in that behalf accordingly viz. all the Privy Council of the House Sir William Herbert Sir Thomas Scot Sir Henry Gate Sir William Moore Sir Thomas Manners Sir Thomas Fairfax Sir Robert Jermin Sir John Petre Sir Henry Cock Sir Henry Cobham Sir Henry Knyvet Sir John Higham Sir Thomas Stanhope M r Fortescue Master of the Wardrobe M r Randal M r Osborne M r George Moore M r Cromwell M r Beale M r Wroth M r Burlace M r George Carie M r Doctor Stanhopp M r Dale Master of Requests M r Francis Hastings M r Sollicitor M r Attorney of the Wards M r Serjeant Snagg M r Morrice M r Sandes M r Dalton M r Bacon M r Alford M r Barker M r Bainbrigge M r Throckmorton M r Corbett M r Palmes M r Pate M r Skinner M r Amersam M r Edward Lukenor M r Thynne and M r Hellyard Recorder of York who were all of them appointed by the House to meet in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock this Afternoon On Saturday the 5 th day of November M r George Moore entring into some discourse touching the great Cause concludeth after sundry great and weighty reasons first shewed that only Popery is the chief and principal root of all the late horrible and wicked treacheries and practices and the Queen of Scots a principal branch issuing from the same root and the most perillous and full of poyson of all the other branches thereof for that the Papists in very deed for the most part not knowing the Person of the said Queen of Scots do wish the Establishing of her in the Crown of this Realm rather in respect of Popery which she would set up than for any affection they bear to her Person and so likewise for the most part all of them either wish or could easily bear the death of our Soveraign Lady the Queens Majesty though perhaps they would not shew themselves to be Actors or Dealers therein He therefore moveth that it may be joyned in the Petition for the great Cause that her Majesty may be moved to retain no Servants about her Highnesses Person but such only as may be well known both to profess the true and sincere Religion and also to be every way true and faithful Subjects And further that the Laws already in force against Papists may be put in due Execution Which Speeches being ended M r Speaker shewed that the
made by M r Speaker to the House for giving leave to M r Dillington a Member of this House to depart into his Country for his service there which was then granted The Bill for Regrators of Barley had its second reading and a Proviso to the same Bill presently after that was twice read and the Bill was committed unto Sir Henry Cock M r Salkington M r Alford M r Aldersey and others and the Bill and Proviso was delivered to the said Henry Cock who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Monday next in the Afternoon in the Guild Hall On Munday the 6 th day of March the Bill for continuance of Statutes with the Proviso was read the second time and committed unto all the Privy Council of this House M r Sollicitor Sir William Moore Sir Thomas Browne and others who were appointed to meet to morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for Orford-Haven was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Robert Jermin and others to meet to Morrow at the Guild Hall The Bill for bringing in of Fish into this Realm was upon the second reading committed unto M r Recorder M r Sandes M r Grice M r Dalton the Burgesses of the Cinque-Ports and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon at the Guild Hall and the Committees also for the Bill of Ingrossers to meet at the same time and place Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer moved that the Bill for the Purveyors should be further considered by the Committees this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber and further he moved that the Committees would at the same time and place meet for the further consideration of the benevolence that was offered to her Majesty in respect of the great charges her Majesty is to sustain in the Low Countries Mr. Gresham hath Licence to depart into his Country This day William White was brought into the House to answer his contempt for arresting of Mr. Martin a Member of this House who answered that he caused him to be arrested the 22 d day of January which was above fourteen days before the beginning of the Parliament The House ordered that the Precedents should be sought and thereupon proceeding should be had according to the direction of the House and referred to the report of Mr. Morrice Mr. Recorder Mr. Cromwell and Mr. Alford On Tuesday the 7 th day of March the Bill for the Subsidy was read the third time and before the rising of the House this morning was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others The Bill for the Attainders was brought in again by the Committees with a Proviso for M r Inglefeild Item another Proviso for the Lord Lumley The Bill was brought in again by the Commit tees for Purveyors with Amendments which Bill with the Amendments was upon the second reading committed to be ingrossed The Bill for restraint of Horse-Stealing and other Beasts sent from the Lords by M r Serjeant Gawdie and Mr. Attorney had its first reading and was delivered to Mr. Morrice It is Ordered That Edward Fisher now remaining Prisoner in the Fleet shall be brought to this House to Morrow to Answer such things as shall be objected against him Vide on Thursday the 9th of March following Mr. Stoverd Burgess for Woodstock hath leave to depart about his necessary business Sir Thomas Scott and his Son have leave to depart On Wednesday the 8 th day of March Mr. Stoughton and Mr. Wallop had Licence from the House to depart Three Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the first was a Bill for the true performance of the last Will of Sir James Harvey The Bill for Confirmation of Attainders brought in again by the Committees and now again upon divers reasons upon the reservations committed to the former Committees and all that will may come to the Committees Vide the said Committees on Saturday the 25 th day of February foregoing The said Committees to meet this Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber This day the Bill for Orford-Haven was brought in again by the Committees Nota There was a former Bill for Orford-Haven in the County of Suffolk read in the first meeting of this Parliament and committed on Monday the 7th day of November last past which it seemeth being disliked by the said Committees was rejected and a new Bill brought in again this second meeting of the same upon Friday the 24th day of February foregoing and lastly committed again after the second reading upon Monday the 6th day of this instant March last past Upon a Motion made by Sir John Higham that it were convenient to have the Amendment of some things whereunto Ministers are required to be sworn and that some good course might be taken to have a learned Ministry it was thought sit that some convenient number of this House might be appointed to confer upon some reasonable Motion to be made unto her Majesty for redress in these things Whereupon these persons ensuing were appointed viz. All the Privy Council of the House Sir John Higham Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Recorder Mr. Dr. Lluen Sir Henry Cock Sir Robert Jermin Mr. Doctor Cosins Sir Thomas Browne Mr. Brograve Mr. Beale Mr. Fortescue Mr. Richard Browne Sir William Moore the Master of the Requests Mr. Wroth Mr. Morrice Mr. Conisby Mr. Tasborough Mr. Fanshaw Mr. Hastings Sir Richard Knightley Mr. Bronker Mr. Amersham Mr. Hearly Mr. Francis Baker Mr. Stanhop Sir Walter Rawleigh Mr. Saunders Mr. Thomas Farmer and Mr. William Fleetwood Thomas Stampe Esquire one of the Burgesses for Wallingford in the County of Berks is licensed by Mr. Speaker to be absent for his necessary affairs On Thursday the 9th day of March Thomas Hudson Esquire Burgess for the Town of Barnstable in the County of Devon ' is for his necessary affairs licensed to depart also for the Service of her Majesty to be imployed in causes of Musters with the Earl of Bath her Majesties Lieutenant of the said County The Bill for Orford-Haven with the Amendments brought in by the Committees was by the House Ordered to be ingrossed Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Fines was read the second time and committed with the Bill for Errors in Fines unto Mr. Serjeant Snagg M r Sollicitor Mr. Lewkenor and others to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock at Serjeants-Inn Hall in Chancery-lane The Bill for Confirmation of Attainders was brought in again by the Committees with the Addition which being twice read was Ordered by the House to be ingrossed Vide the said Committees on Saturday the 25th day of February foregoing This day Edward Fisher by vertue of her Majesties Writ was brought into the House to Answer divers his misdemeanors as well for indirectly taking away as imbezelling certain Evidences remaining in a Cubbard which was locked and sealed up by Mr. Recorder and others Vide on Tuesday
the 7th day of this instant March foregoing The Bill for Fish brought into this House again by the Committees was twice read and committed unto Mr. Serjeant Snagg Mr. Morrice Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. Recorder and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in Serjeants-Inn in Chancery-lane at two of the Clock Here it seemeth Mr. William Onslow who by the Licence of the House supplied the place of Mr. Fulk Onslow his Kinsman Clerk of the same at this meeting is much mistaken in setting down this Commitment for the Bill it self was formerly twice read and according to the usual course committed upon the second reading to Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Sandes and others on Monday the 7th day of March and therefore doubtless this was either a new Bill brought in by the said Committees or else some new Additions and Amendments inserted into the old Bill which had this day their first and second reading and thereupon again committed unto some of the old Committees and others Vide plus die sequente Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the payment of Sir Gerrard Croker Knight his Debts was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Alford Sir Thomas Browne Mr. Thomas Harris Mr. John Ingleseild and others On Friday the 10 th day of March the Bill for Estretford was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Markham Mr. Topclyffe Mr. Savil and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Middle Temple Hall Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for stealing of Horses and other Cattel and Beasts was upon the second reading Committed unto Sir William Moore Mr. Sands Mr. Wroth and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Committee Chamber The Bill for bringing in of Fish was brought in again by the Committees by which it is most probable that there was a new Bill brought in yesterday which was twice read at one and the same time and then committed The Bill for Sir Gerrard Crokers payment of his Debts was brought in again by the Committees and amended On Saturday the 11 th day of March the Bill against fraudulent Conveyances by Fugitives was read the first time The Bill for the payment of Sir Gerrard Crokers Debts was brought in again by the Committees and committed to be ingrossed Three Bills being passed the House were sent up to the Lords whereof the two last were the Bill for the great abuses of Purveyors and the Bill for the confirmation of the Attainders of the late Lord Pagett and others A Motion being made by Mr. Treasurer for the matter of benevolence for the charges to be supplied in the Low Countries whether that this House should only deal in it without the Lords or else that they should make the Lords privy to it and join with them It was thought good by the House to join with the Lords in the same cause and commit it unto these persons viz. all the Privy Council of this House Sir Thomas Browne Mr. Sollicitor Sir Robert Jermin Sir John Heigham Master of the Requests Mr. Francis Hastings Mr. Sands Mr. Topclyffe and others Vide diem Saturn 18. diem Mar. This day a new Bill was brought in again for the payment of Edward Fishers Debts by the Committees and therefore the new was twice read and committed to be ingrossed Nota That a Bill to this purpose was in great agitation the last Parliament de anno 27 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1584. The Bill for confirmation of Letters Patents was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy Council of this House Mr. Sands Mr. Sollicitor and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Vice-Chamberlain This day the Committees made report of the priviledge of Mr. Martin a Member of this House Arrested upon mean Process by White above twenty days before the beginning of this Parliament holden by Prorogation mistaken for Adjournment and in respect that the House was divided about it in opinion Mr. Speaker with the consent of the House the sooner to grow to some certainty of the Judgment of the House in this cause moved these questions to the House viz. First Whether they would limit a time certain or a reasonable time to any Member of the House for his priviledge The House Answered a convenient time Secondly Whether Mr. Martin was Arrested within this reasonable time The House Answered yea Thirdly If White should be punished for arresting Martin The House Answered no because the arrest was twenty days before the beginning of the Parliament and unknown to him that would be taken for reasonable time But the principal cause why Martin had his priviledge was for that White the last Session mistaken for Meeting of Parliament arrested Mr. Martin and then knowing him to be returned a Burgess for this House discharged his Arrest And then afterwards Mr. Martin again returning out of his Country to London to serve in this House Mr. White did again arrest him and therefore this House took in evil part against him his second Arrest and thereupon judged that Martin should be discharged of his second Arrest out of the Fleet by the said Mr. White Vide Febr. 27 Monday The Bill to avoid fraudulent assurances made in certain Cases by Traytors was sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons by Dr. Ford and Serjeant Gawdie Nota That this Bill is not mentioned to have been sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons which as it should seem happened through the negligence of Mr. William Onslow who at this time supply'd the place of the Clerk of the said House And therefore it is supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House On Monday the 13 th day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against fraudulent Conveyances by Fugitives was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Sands and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Hughes of Grayes-Inn who with the rest was appointed to meet at Lincolns-Inn this Afternoon The Bill for Fish was brought in by the Committees and Ordered to be ingrosted Vide concerning this Bill on Thursday the 9 th day and on Friday the 10 th day of this instant March foregoing The Bills against delay of Execution by suing Writs of Error was read the second time upon the new bringing in of it by the Committees and upon the question was ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for payment of Edward Fishers debts was read the third time and passed upon the Question A Motion was made by Mr. Cromwell to have some conference with the Privy Council of this House and some others of the same concerning those Gentlemen Members of this House lately committed to the Tower Whereupon these were appointed viz. all the Privy Council
it until the foresaid Proviso should likewise have its third reading and that which further confirms the not passing of it at this time is because upon Monday the 20 th day of this instant March following divers Committees were appointed to go up unto the Lords and to confer with them about this said Bill Sir George Hastings hath pardon of his absence this Parliament Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill against Extortion of Sheriffs was twice read and committed unto M r Philips Mr. Harris Mr. Wroth Mr. Cromwell and others who were appointed to meet in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall On Saturday the 18 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Recusants with the Proviso was read the third time and passed upon the Question Mr. Speaker declared to the House from her Majesty That she thanked God understanding of their great love unto her in regard of her charges sustained in the Low-Countries and that her Majesty was contented this Afternoon that some convenient number of them should have Audience before her Majesty Whereupon these persons were appointed by the House all the Privy-Council of this House Sir Robert Jermin Sir John Higham Sir Henry Cock Sir Thomas Browne Mr. Fortefoue Master of the Requests Sir John Peter Sir William Moore Mr. Wroth Mr. Tasborough Mr. Markham Mr. Revel and Mr. George Moore Vide concerning this business on Saturday the 11 th day of this instant March foregoing The Proviso that persons Arrested by Informers may appear by Attornies was read the third time and passed upon the question Mr. Wingfield was brought into this House to Answer his misdemeanor against Mr. Walton a Member of this House for that as Walton informed Mr. Wingfield did offer to draw his Weapon upon him and gave evil Language which Mr. Wingfield denied and said for that his Brother ..... was slain by ..... of Walton and Walton being an Accessary to that Murther he said he could not well take it and knew not what might happen Whereupon Mr. Speaker exhorted him to remit all that was past seeing that he had taken the course of Law for his Brothers Death unto which Exhortation Mr. Wingfield yielded and so was discharged The Bill for payment of Fishers Debts was sent from the Lords with a Proviso and Amendments which were thrice read and assented unto by the House upon the Question Two Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons the first touching Exemplifications and Constats of Original Conveyances made to the Queens Majesty and the second for limitation of time touching Writs of Error upon Fines and Recoveries The sending up of these two Bills is not at all mentioned in the Journal-Book of the House of Commons which happened in this place as in divers others of this second meeting of this present Parliament through the inexperience and negligence of Mr. William Onslow who supplied the place of Mr. Fulk Onslow Clerk of the said House being detained from thence by sickness and therefore it is supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House On Monday the 20 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment did each of them pass upon the Question after the third reading of which the first was the Bill to prevent Extortion in Sheriffs and Under-Sheriffs c. for Executions The House appointed divers to go up to the Lords to confer with them about the Bill for continuance of Statutes who were as followeth Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Attorney of the Wards Mr. Morrice Mr. Saunders Sir William Moore Mr. Cromwell Mr. Hare and Mr. Francis Bacon Vide concerning this Bill on Friday the 17 th day of this instant March foregoing The old Committees appointed on Wednesday the 15 th day of this instant March foregoing in the Bill for the payment of Hanfords Debts were to meet this Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall and the Bill which came from the Lords and the new Bill drawn by the said Hanford which was once read were both delivered to M r Comptroller being one of the said former Committees Six Bills were sent up to the Lords the first touching the Sale of Edward Fishers Lands the second for the more speedy and due Execution of certain Branches of the Statute made in the twenty third year of the Queens Majesties Reign Intituled an Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience the third for continuance of Statutes the fourth to prevent Extortion in Sheriffs Under-Sheriffs c. the fifth for abridging of Proclamations to be made upon Fines levied in the Court of Common Pleas and the sixth to avoid fraudulent Assurances made in certain Cases with a Proviso annexed and Amendments Nota That the sending up of these six Bills is not at all mentioned in the Journal-Book of the House of Commons and therefore it is supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House On Tuesday the 21 th day of March the Bill for exemplifying Letters Patents was read the third time and passed upon the question The Bill new brought in for the payment of Hanfords Debts he himself being present assented to it and did subscribe every leaf with his own hand whereupon the Bill was read twice and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill to avoid fraudulent Conveyances made in certain Cases by Traytors was sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons Two Bills also of no great moment were sent up from the said House to the Lords The sending up of these two Bills to the Lords or the sending down the first Bill to the Commons is very negligently omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and are therefore inserted as the like was done Yesterday and upon divers other dayes out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House The Bill for payment of Hanfords Debts was read the third time and passed upon the question The Bill for breeding of Horses in the wast grounds of Devon and Cornwall was read the second time A Proviso offered by Mr. Conisbie to be inserted into the same Bill which being read the Bill and the Proviso were dashed upon the Question whether they should be ingrossed or no. The Bill for the continuance and perfecting of divers Statutes was sent from the Lords to the House of Commons by Serjeant Gawdie and Doctor Carew A new Bill also for the sale of Thomas Hanfords Lands was sent up to the Lords as it should seem by Mr. Treasurer and others The mutual sending of these two Bills from either House to other is very negligently omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and is therefore inserted out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House An Order delivered by M r Cromwell Entred by consent of the House WHereas upon complaint made to this House upon Monday the 21 th
the same would be much prejudicial to the Ancient Liberties and Priviledges of this House and to the Authority of the same M r Beale likewise shewing himself to be of the same mind with M r Wroth and insisting upon the preservation and maintenance of the former usual and ancient Liberties and Priviledges of this House in treating of Subsidies Contributions and other like benevolences amongst themselves without any Conference therein at all had or used with the Lords of the Higher House doth give an instance of a former precedent in the like Case and offered to shew forth the same precedent to this House which being omitted in the Original Journal-Book it self is here inserted out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal and was as followeth In Anno nono H. 4. the two Houses being divided about the Subsidy and the Higher House desiring a greater Subsidy than was granted by the Lower House hereupon twelve that were sent as Committees to the Lords came down and informed what was desired by the Upper House namely a greater Subsidy and to that end Conference to be had with them of the House of Commons The Commons thought themselves grieved therewith and so returned their Answer that they would consider what was meet to be done in so general a matter but thought the Conference a Derogation to the priviledge of the House Hereupon the King Answered that he could not neither was it fit to violate the priviledge of his Commons but in all things thought it just to prefer them Which said precedent being thus inserted out of the Anonymous Journal the rest that followeth is continued out of the Original Journal-Book it self taken in the House and committed to writing by M r Fulk Ouslow at this time Clerk of the House of Commons For it should seem the Speaker and the greater part of the House very well approving and being satisfied fully with the aforesaid precedent cited by M r Beale yet those of her Majesties Privy Council and the Courtiers also at this time of the House were still earnest for admitting of a Conference with the Lords And thereupon Sir Robert Cecill spake again and did put the House in remembrance of the great and urgent necessity for the speedy prevention and avoiding of the great and eminent perils and dangers of this Realm and State to be effected both by Consultation and also by provision of Treasure and thinketh good that Conference of this House were had with the Lords as a matter very behoofful Especially for that their Lordships some of them being of her Majesties Privy-Council do know both the purposes and strength of the Enemies on the one side and also her Majesties present store of Treasure more or less on the other side much better than those of this House do Resolveth for his own Opinion still to give his consent that Conference be had therein with the Lords by the Committees of this House according to their Lordships said former Motion and request for the same Sir William Brunker stood up and reciting the said great present necessity of consultation and provision and that it cannot be otherwise but that the proportion of convenient supply of Treasure answerable to the greatness of the dangers which are imminent must needs require a greater Mass of Treasure to be had than hath been as yet treated of in any resolution by this House And then the Question being urged and by the Order of the House propounded whether Conference should be had with the Lords upon the Motion of the Committees of the Lords to the Committees of this House in this Case or no it was upon the doubtfulness of the Voices twice given upon the Question thereof twice propounded resolved upon the division of the House That no such Conference should be had with the said Committees of the Lords by the said Committees of this House for the number of them which were for the said Conference and said I went out of the said House and were found to be in number but a hundred twenty eight whereas those that were against the said Conference and said No sate still in the House being in number two hundred and seventeen So that the matter was over-ruled by eighty nine Voices with which the Order and Judgment of the whole House went thereupon accordingly M r Serjeant Fleetwood and M r Doctor Ford do bring from the Lords a Bill Intituled an Act for the better assurance and confirmation of the Jointure of the Lady Margaret Countess of Cumberland After the delivery of this Bill thus sent from the Lords the House proceeded in the further agitation of the foregoing great business which by the bringing down of the last mentioned Bill from their Lordships had been a while interrupted For it having been already over-ruled by the House that there should be no Conference admitted with the Lords touching the matter of the Subsidy which their Lordships had desired it was therefore Ordered upon a Motion made in the House that some Answer might presently be sent from thence to their Lordships to satisfie them touching their said Motion for Conference for that in respect the said Conference had been already denied and had been voted to be prejudicial to the Liberties of the House by the Judgment of the same that a convenient number of this House should be appointed presently in the name of this whole House to give unto their Lordships most humble and dutiful thanks with all due reverence for their said Lordships good favourable and courteous offer of Conference with this House in the said Cause and to signify unto their Lordships that this House cannot in those Cases of Benevolence or Contribution join in Conference with their Lordships without prejudice to the Liberties and Priviledges of this House and of the infringing of the same and therefore do in most humble wise request and desire their good Lordships to hold the Members of this House excused in their not assenting unto their Lordships said Motion for Conference for that so to have assented without a Bill had been contrary to the Liberties and Priviledges of this House and contrary also to the former precedents of the same House in like Case had Which done all the former Committees of this House were presently appointed to declare the said Answer of this House unto their Lordships and M r Chancellor of the Exchequer appointed to declare the same And for this purpose were nominated and chosen All the Privy-Council now in this House being four Sir Henry Unton M r Wroth M r Beale Sir William Brunker Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Charles Cavendish Sir Edward Hobby Sir Thomas Cecill Sir George Carey Sir Robert Sidney Sir Thomas West M r Anthony Cooke M r Tasborough Sir William Moore M r George Moore M r Serjeant Yelverton Sir Francis Drake Sir Francis Hastings Sir William Knowles Sir Fulk Griffin M r William Haward Sir Charles Blunt Sir John Harrington M r Herbert Master of Requests M r Arthur George Sir Thomas Conisby
M r Dyer M r Doctor Awbery M r Edward Barker M r Robert Sackvile Sir Henry Poole Sir Edward Stafford Sir Thomas Read Sir Henry Cock M r Lewkenor Sir John Points and Sir Edward Carey who forthwith went up to the Lords of the Upper House with the Message of the said Answer accordingly And shortly after returning again from thence to this House the said M r Chancellor of the Exchequer made report of their delivery of the said Answer to the Lords and shewed that their Lordships well hoped to have had Conference with this House according to their former request And so wished this House to have due care and great consideration touching the speedy provision of a convenient supply of treasure to be had according to the present great necessity of the said Cause And shewed that their Lordships desired to see those precedents of this House by which this House seemeth to refuse the said Conference And so gave end to his Speech for that time One being no Member of this House and yet found to have sitten in this House during the greater part of this Forenoon was brought to the Bar and being there examined by M r Speaker of his name and place of abode answered his name to be John Legg and that he was Servant to the Earl of Northumberland and pleading simplicity and ignorance for his excuse and alledging that he had some business to do with M r Doctor Herbert Master of the Requests from the said Earl his Master and that therefore he entred into the said House not thinking any harm nor knowing the danger thereof And so humbly praying pardon was in the end committed to the Custody of the Serjeant of this House till this House shall upon further Examination of the matter take other Order The Bill for Naturalizing of William Sidney and Peregrine Wingfield was twice read and upon the Question was Ordered to be ingrossed Four Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching George Ognell Esquire had its first reading The substance whereof is taken out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following viz. One Trussell having sold the Mannor of Binsley to Ognell for good consideration and afterwards of purpose to defeat this Purchase caused himself to be Indicted of Felony done in Kent before the Seal to Ognell and was thereof Attainted and with relation of the Felony defeated Ognells purchase It was Enacted that this Attainder should be void only as in respect of this Purchase and to that end to be as if Trussell had never been Attainted nor no Lords to have any Escheats or other by reason of this Attainder Her Majesty understanding this was pleased to remit her Interest M r Speaker perceiving some men to whisper together said that it was not the manner of the House that any should whisper or talk secretly for here only publick Speeches are to be used Nota that these two particulars are only supplied out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal and that which followeth and also that which went before is inserted out of the Original Journal-Book it self Sir Edward Dymock moved that a Commit tee of this House may be appointed for a speedy Conference to be had touching the present necessary provision and Supply of Treasure to be had for the defence of this Realm and State And thereupon the former Committees for the Subsidy whose names see before on Monday the 26 th day of February last past were ordered to meet upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in this House to confer in this Case On Monday the 5 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against the stealing of Oxen Kine Sheep and Lambs was upon the second reading committed unto M r Wroth M r Sands M r Recorder of London and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Wroth who with the rest was appointed to meet in this House to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill concerning salted Fish and salted Herrings was read the second time and thereupon committed unto Sir Francis Drake Sir Thomas Sherley the Burgesses of Yarmouth Plymouth Hall and Saltash the Burgesses of all the Port Towns Mr. Robert Wroth Sir Henry Knivet and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Wroth who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Wednesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Nota That after the Commitment of these Bills ensued divers Speeches touching that great business of Conserence with the Lords which had been very largely debated on Saturday last in the House All which said Speeches being either very shortly and imperfectly set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons or wholly omitted and for which three intire pages and more are there left Blank to have inserted them in which are set down the names only of some of those that spake them therefore they are supplied out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal very elaborately taken by some Member of the said House during this Parliament and do here next ensue in manner and form following Mr. Beale desired to satisfy the House by reason it was conceived by the Lords the other day that upon his Motion and by his precedent shewed the House was led to deny a Conference with the Lords he acknowledged he had mistaken the question propounded For there being but a Conference desired by the Lords and no confirming of any thing they had done he thought we might and it was sit we should confer And to this end only he shewed the Precedent That in the 9 th year of H. 4. the Commons having granted a Subsidy which the Lords thought too little and they agreed to a greater and would have the Commons to confirm that which they had done this the Commons thought they could not do without prejudice to this House Wherefore he acknowledged himself mistaken in the Question and desired if any were led by him to be satisfyed for that he would have been of another opinion if he had conceived the matter as it was meant Sir Thomas Heneage propounded the Question anew and thought that with the priviledge of the House and by precedents to be shewed there had been Conference with the Lords used upon the like Motion Sir John Wolley thought that the former denyal grew upon mistaking of the Question and upon better consideration would have the matter reversed and now to assent to that which was denyed before Sir Henry Knivett moved that for the freedom of the House it might be concluded amongst them a matter answerable at the Bar for any man to report any thing of any Speech used or matters done in this House
Mountague and Viscount Hereford present Then the Earls but nineteen present the Earl of Hertford the Earl of Pembroke Bedford Southampton Warwick Bath Huntington Sussex Cumberland Rutland Worcester Darby Shrewsbury Westmoreland Northumberland Oxford and Arundel their Robes of Scarlet with their Rows of Miniver Then the Marquess of Winchester but now as Lord Treasurer and the Marquess of Northampton the Duke of Norfolk went as Earl Marshal Then the Lord Keepers Serjeant and Seal and after Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in his Gown Here Clarenceux and Norroy Then the Queens Serjeant at Arms and after Garter Then the Duke of Norfolk with the gilt Rod as Marshal the Lord Treasurer with the Cap of Estate and the Earl of Worcester with the Sword Then the Queens Majesty on Horseback a little behind the Lord Chamberlain and Vice-Chamberlain her Grace Apparelled in her Mantle opened before furr'd with Ermines and her Kirtle of Crimson Velvet close before and close Sleeves but the Hands turned up with Ermines and a Hood hanging low round about her Neck of Ermins Over all a rich Coller set with Stones and other Jewels and on her Head a rich Caul And the next after Her the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse leading the spare Horse And after all other Ladies two and two in their Ordinary Apparel By side the Queen went her Footmen and along on either side of her went the Pensioners with their Axes after the Ladies followed the Captain of the Guard Sir William St. Loe and after him the Guard In which Order Her Majesty proceeded to the North Door of the Church of Westminster where the Dean there and the Dean of the Chappel met her and the whole Chappel in Copes and S t Edwards Staff with the Inlet in the top was delivered unto her her Arm for the bearing thereof assisted by the Baron of Hunsdon the Canopy born over her by Charles Howard Esq Sir George Howard Sir Richard Blunt Sir Ed. Warner Sir John Perrott and Sir William Fitz-Williams Knights her Graces Train born up and assisted for the weight thereof from her Arms by the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and Sir Francis Knowles Vice-Chamberlain and so orderly proceeded to the Travers beside the Table of Administration Although other Princes have used to be placed in the Quire till the Offering but not now because there was neither Communion nor Offering and so she being placed all the Lords sate down on Forms besides the Travers the Spiritualty on the North side and the Temporalty on the South side the Sword and the Cap of Estate laid down on the Table Then the Quire sung the English Procession which ended M r Noell Dean of Pauls began his Sermon and first made his Prayer orderly for the Queens Majesty and the Universal Church and especially for that Honourable Assembly of three Estates there present that they might make such Laws as should be to Gods Glory and the good of the Realm The Sermon being ended and a Psalm sung her Majesty and the rest orderly on foot proceeded out of the South Door where she delivered the Dean the Scepter and so proceeded into the Parliament Chamber where the Queen stayed a while in her Privy Chamber till all the Lords and others were placed and then her Highness came forth and went and fate her down in her Royal Place and Chair of Estate the Sword and Cap of Maintenance born before her and when she stood up her Mantle was assisted and born up from her Arms by the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and Sir Francis Knowles Vice-Chamberlain The Lord Keeper sate alone upon the uppermost Sack until the Queen was sate and then went and stood without the Rail on the right hand the Cloth of Estate and the Lord Treasurer holding the Cap of Estate on the right hand before the Queen Garter standing by him and on the left hand standing the Earl of Worcester with the Sword and by him the Lord Chamberlain The Duke of Norfolk began the first Form and the Viscount Mountague for that the Viscount Bindon was not there ended it The Lord Clinton the Lord Admiral began the Form behind that of Barons and the Lord St. John of Bletsoe ended it The Archbishop of Canterbury began the Bishops Form and the Bishop of Glocester ended the same On the Woolsack on the right hand and Northside sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer Chief Justices Sir William Peter Anthony Browne Corbett Weston and M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney On the Sack on the left hand and Southside sate Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Edward Saunders Chief Baron Justice Widdon Serjeant Carus and M r Russell the Queens Sollicitor and at their Backs sate Sir Richard Read Doctor Yale and Doctor Vaughan On the other Sack sate Doctor Huicke Spilman Clerk of the Parliament and M r Martin Clerk of the Crown and behind them kneeled M r 〈◊〉 Allen Dyeter Nicasius Cliffe and Permitter At the side hand of the Queen sate on the ground three or four Ladies and no more and at the back of the Rail behind the Cloth of Estate kneeled the Earls of Oxford and Rutland under Age the Earl of Desmond the Lord Roos the Lord Herbert of Cardiffe and divers other Noblemens Sons and Heirs Nota That these foregoing passages touching the solemn manner of her Majesties coming to the Upper House are not at all found in the Original Journal-Book of the same but are transcribed out of a written Copy or memorial of them I had by me as doth also the Lord Keepers Speech follow out of the same in the next place The Queens Majesty being set as aforesaid under the Cloth of Estate the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the same repaired to the Upper House and being as many as conveniently could let in she Commanded Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper to open the cause of Calling and Assembling this Parliament who thereupon spake as followeth My Lords and others of this Honourable Assembly YOU shall understand that my most Dread and Sovereign Lady the Queens Majesty here present hath Commanded me to declare the occasion of this Assembly which I am not able but unmeet to do as it ought to be done among such a noble wise and discreet Company Howbeit knowing the Experience of her Majesty bearing with such as do their good wills and your Honours Patience in bearing with me in the like afore this time it encourageth me the better herein not doubting of the like at this present Therefore my Lords the occasion is that necessary matters be provided for propounded and scanned and after agreed upon and ended which afterwards shall remain and continue which matters in my Judgment may well be divided into two parts one touching Religion for the setting forth of Gods Honour and Glory and the other concerning Policy for the Common-Wealth as
vice Et nota that the same Bill was read the day following tertiâ vice conclus On Wednesday the 7. day of April Seven Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the one was for Orders for Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements and another for Retailers of Worsted Wools in Norwich and the County of Norfolk with a Proviso added by the Commons Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam à Meridie On the aforesaid Wednesday in the Afternoon the Bill touching Orders for Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements was read primâ vice On Thursday the 8. day of April Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill to take away the Misdemeanors of Purveyors and Takers was read primâ vice The Bill for divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants of Husbandry and Apprentices was read tertiâ vice conclus and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and D r Yale Two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons the one that Sanctuary shall not be allowed to defraud any due Debt And the other was for the Paving of Kentish Town near Southwark The Proviso annex'd by the Commons to the Bill for Retailers of Worsted-Woolls in Norwich and the County of Norfolk was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus The Proviso annex'd by the Commons to the Bill for the maintenance of Tillage And also one other Proviso annex'd to the same Bill by the Lords were each of them read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice On Friday the 9. day of April the Bill for Tillage was given to M r Attorney and M r Martin to be carried to the House of Commons The Bill touching Orders of Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements was read secundâ vice Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons conclus of which one was touching divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants of Husbandry and Apprentices And the second for the maintenance of Tillage And the third for the due Execution of the Writ de Excommunicato capiendo with a Proviso annex'd by the Commons and divers Amendments quae primâ secundâ vice lect sunt eadem Provis tertiâ vice lect a est conclus The Bill to take away the misdemeanors of Purveyors and Takers was read the second time and committed to Justice Southcot Quod nota The Bill for the destruction of Rooks Coughs and other Vermine was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons which said Bill was on the day following in the Afternoon read primâ vice On Saturday the 10 th day of April the Bill for the reviving of a Statute made Anno xxiii o Hen. 8. touching the making of Goals with a Proviso thereunto annex'd by the Commons which said Proviso was read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice conclus The Bill for the Queens Majesties most free and General Pardon was read primâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa Nota That this Bill for the general Pardon was concluded after the first reading whereas to all other Bills three readings are required before they can be passed The Bill also for Reformation of divers misdemeanors in Purveyors was read tertiâ vice with certain Amendments conclusa And then following the ordinary form the Parliament was continued in manner and order accustomed viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam primam à Mcridie In the Afternoon the Bill for destruction of Rooks and Coughs and other Vermin And the Bill touching buying and selling of course Woolls to make Cottons c. were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus Two Bills were returned from the House of Commons conclus One to take away the misdemeanors of Purveyors and Takers and the other touching Orders for Bankrupts their Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements Nota That in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House next after the setting down or entring of the two Bills aforesaid to have been returned up to the Lords from the House of Commons there followeth immediately the entrance of the Prorogation of this Session of Parliament which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Francis Spilman Esq at this time Clerk of the said Upper House For the Queens Majesty her self with the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal was present in her Robes and gave her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed Although no presence of any of the Lords or her Majesty be at all marked in the said Original Journal-Book And therefore I have caused the solemn and stately manner of the Queens coming to the Upper House with the several Interlocutory Speeches of the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Lord Keeper to be inserted at large out of a written Copy or Anonymous memorial thereof I had by me being doubtless the very Original Draught set down by some Member of one of the two Houses or at least by some other observant person then present while the said Speeches passed in the Upper House for it is written in a hand and language of that very time and in many places amended and interlined About three of the Clock this present Saturday in the Afternoon the Queens Majesty came by Water from Whitehall and landed on the backside of the Parliament Chamber and so the Earl of Northumberland bearing the Sword afore her the Dutchess of Norfolk the Train she proceeded up into her Privy-Chamber and there Apparell'd her self in her Parliament Robes during which time the Lords likewise put on their Robes and took their Places On the Upper Sack sate the Lord Keeper till the Queen came and then he went to his place at the Rail on the right hand to the Cloth of Estate On the Wooll-sack on the North-side sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer the two Chief Justices Sir John Mason and Serjeant Carus M r Ruswell the Queens Sollicitor and Doctor Yale On the Sack on the South-side sate Sir William Cecill Secretary Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Justice Weston Serjeant Southcott M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney and Doctor Lewes On the nether Sack sate M r Spilman Clerk of the Parliament M r Powle Deputy and joint Patentee with M r Martin Clerk of the Crown M r Heming and some Clerks of the Signet Dister and Permiter before which nether Sack stood a little Table Then the Queens Majesty being Apparell'd in her Parliament Robes with a Caul on her Head came forth and proceeded up and took the Seat the Duke of Norfolk as Earl Marshal with his gilt Rod before her with the Marquess of Northampton bearing the Cap of Maintenance and stood on her right hand and the Earl of Northumberland the Sword on her left hand the
which is usual in other continuations of it But the reason why they met not till the Afternoon seemeth to be because then the Queens Majesty her self came thither to whom Richard Onslow Esq her Majesties Sollicitor having been Chosen Speaker for the House of Commons the day past was presented and admitted by her in manner and form as followeth About three of the Clock in the Afternoon this present Wednesday the second day of October the Queens Majesty took her Barge and Landed on the back-side of the Parliament-Chamber and so the Earl of Northumberland bearing the Sword the Lady Strainge her Trayn with the Lords in their daily Apparel and the Heralds attending on her she proceeded up into the Privy-Chamber to prepare her self during which time the Lords and Justices put on their Parliament Robes and took their places in manner and form following In which it is to be noted that no part of this days passages already set down is found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is either transcribed out of a certain Anonymous memorial I had by me in which the presentment of the Speaker this day is somewhat exactly set down or was supplied by my self upon the comparing of several things together Now follow the Names of the Lords and others as aforesaid First on the Form on the North-side together with the Upper Form at the nether end sate the Bishops as followeth Younge Archbishop of York Grindall Bishop of London Pilkington Bishop of Durham Sands Bishop of Winchester Birkley Bishop of Bath and Wells Bett. Bishop of Carlisle Barlow Bishop of Chichester Alleo Bishop of Exeter Gest. Bishop of Rochester Skamler Bishop of Peterburgh Horne Bishop of Worcester Bullingham Bishop of Lincoln Bentam Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield Denham Bishop of Chester Scorie Bishop of Hereford Davies Bishop of S t Davids Parkhurst Bishop of Norwich Cheyney Bishop of Gloucester Nota That these names with those that follow being transcribed in a different manner from all others in the residue of the Journals of the Queens time were so found with the Names of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal added to them in that before-mentioned Anonymous memorial of this present Wednesdays passages being the second day of October and were therefore transcribed out of it as is aforesaid rather than out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House although the Series of them that were present set down there did serve well to rectifie those foregoing and these also that next ensue At the foremost Form on the South-side sate these Peers viz. William Paulet Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshall of England William Parre Marquess of Northampton Thomas Peircie Earl of Northumberland Charles Nevill Earl of Westmorland George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury William Sommerset alias Plantagenet Earl of Worcester Thomas Ratcliff Earl of Sussex Henry Haistings Earl of Huntingdon Edward Seymor Earl of Hartford Robert Sutton alias Dudley Earl of Leicester and Master of the Horse Anthony Brown Viscount Mountague Nota That Edward de Vere Earl of Oxford Lord Great Chamberlain of England Edward Mannors Earl of Rutland William Bowrchier Earl of Bath and Henry Wriotheisly Earl of South-hampton were at this time under Age and in Ward to the Queen and therefore they were not admitted to take their places in the Uppermost House but if they were present did either stand besides the upper part of the Rail at the higher end of the said House or were admitted to kneel at the upper end of the same House near the Chair of State at this time and upon like solemn days for no Peer is admitted to have his free Voice or sit as a Member of that Great Council untill he have accomplished his full Age unless by the special Grace of the Prince At the Form at their back and the nether Form at the nether end sate these Peers Fynes Lord Clinton as Lord Admiral sate first amongst the Barons Howard Lord Effingham as Lord Chamberlain of her Majesties Houshold sate second Nevill Lord of Burgaveny sate in his due place of preheminence and so the rest that follow unless such as were misplaced by the Clerks error which is too frequent Zouch Lord Zouch Standley Lord Strange Birkley Lord Birkley Parker Lord Morley Brooke Lord Cobham Stafford Lord Stafford Gray Lord Gray of Wilton Sutton Lord Dudley Lumley Lord Lumley Blunt Lord Mountjoy Darcy Lord Darcy of Mevill Standley Lord Mounteagle Sands Lord Sands Vaux Lord Vaux Windsor Lord Windsor Wentworth Lord Wentworth Burrough Lord Borough Mordant Lord Mordant Cromwell Lord Cromwell Evers Lord Evers Willoughby Lord Willoughby Sheffeild Lord Sheffeild Paget Lord Paget Darcy de Chiche Dominus Darcy North Lord North of Carthelige Bridges Lord Shandois Haistings Lord Haistings of Loughborough Carey Lord Carey of Hunsdon S t John Lord S t John of Bletsoe Nota That Dutchet Lord Audley and the Lord Dacres of the North were under Age. All which Peers abovesaid had their Mantles Hood and Circots furred with Miniver their Arms put on the right side and the Duke of Norfolk had Bars of Miniver the Marquess of Winchester and Northampton had three Bars of Miniver the Earls likewise the Viscounts two and the Barons two Item On the upper Sack of Wooll sate the Lord Keeper till the Queen came and then went to his place at the Rail On the Woolsack on the Northside sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer the Queens two Chief Justices M r Corbet Weston and Southcote Justices of both Benches on the Woolsack on the Southside sate Sir William Cecill the Queens Principal Secretary Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Sanders Chief Baron Baron Whiddon ..... Carus the Queens Serjeant ..... Gerrard the Queens Attorney and on the nether Sack sate M r Vaughan and Yale Masters of the Chancery M r Spilman Clerk of the Parliament M r Martin Clerk of the Crown and M r Peile his Joint Patentee And behind them kneeled Smith Clerk of the Council and Jones Clerk of the Signet Permiter and Dister Then the Queens Majesty being Apparelled in her Parliament Robes with a Caul on her Head came forth and took her Seat the Marquess of Northampton carrying the Cap of Maintenance and after stood on her right hand the Duke of Norfolk carrying his Marshals Rod and on her left hand the Earl of Northumberland with the Sword the Heralds also and Serjeants at Arms being before her her Majesties Mantle was born up on either side from her Shoulders by the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord of Hunsdon who also stood still by her for the assisting thereof when she stood up her Train was born by the Lady Strange assisted by Sir Francis Knolles Vice-Chamberlain at the left hand of the Queen and on the South-side kneeled the Ladies and at the Rail at the Queens back on the right hand stood the Lord Keeper and on the left hand the Lord Treasurer Then the Queen
Jurisdiction Paulus de Castro in dictam legem est receptivum ff eo verba ejus enim Major vel aequalis potest se subjicere Jurisdictioni ordinaliter alterius Judicis minoris vel paris tacite si Judex unius Territorii delinquat vel contrahat in territorium alterius Judicis vel minoris vel paris quia ratione delicti vel contractus sortitur ibi forum Rota de definitionibus de Judiciis Ille qui delinquit per delictum amisit mercem imprim sic factus est alius privatus sic compar potest eum punire Quilibet in suo Territorio est major Alexandro But the Scottish Queen having committed High Treason within this Realm hath by contraction of Law submitted her self to this Jurisdiction and therefore to be punished as another private Person And although it be said that one that is not subditus non potest committere crimen laesae Majestatis yet that saying is to be taken whereas the crime is committed out of the Jurisdiction but if it be committed within the Jurisdiction then there to be punished Papa in Clementinam de sententia re judicata And albeit the Pope did reverse the same Sentence yet he saith that if the party had been within the Jurisdiction of the superior at the time of the Crime committed and judgment to the party offended he had been justly condemned c. Verba Papae Quod si Rex infra districtum imperiale suisset invenitus delinquens potuisset contra eum scntentia dici Lo here the Pope declareth plainly that she here offending may justy here be punished in poena Capitis Item a King deposed is not afterwards to be taken for a King Thomas de Turrecremeta definitione 65. Rex Regno privatus non est amplius Rex But the Queen of Scots is deprived Ergo. The benefit or priviledge of safe-Conduct is lost when any crime is committed after the safe-Conduct granted Angelus de maleficiis in verbo publica fama But the Queen of Scots hath committed against the safe-Conduct since her coming into the Realm Ergo. The will and mind in Treasons is punished equally as the Act. Cod. ad legem Juliam laesae Majestatis verba legis In crimine laesae Majestatis voluntatem sceleris aeque ac effectum puniri jura voluerunt But the Scottish Queen hath not only had the affections but hath notoriously proceeded to the actions Ergo. Neither is it any new or rare thing for Kings and Queens to be adjudged and Condemned for Treason for Henry the Seventh Emperour did give a solemn judgment of death at Pisa A. D. 1311. against Robert King of Sicily Diotorus was likewise Condemned by Julius Caesar and Joan Queen of Naples for murthering her Husband and Hanging him out of a Window Punishment ought to be equal to the offences committed ss de poenis but Death is the penalty appointed for Treason Ergo. The foregoing Petition and Reasons for the speedy Execution of the Scottish Queen being thus transcribed out of the before-mentioned written Copy of them I had by me Now follows the residue of this days passages and of this ensuing Journal out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons it self in manner and form following Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Cogshall and Bocking was read the first time The Proviso to the Bill for Worcester was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for the Free Grammar-School in Tunbridge was committed unto Sir Tho. Scot and others to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon at three of the Clock The Bill for the Explanation of the Statute of 32 H. 8. for Recoveries was read the third time and committed to the former Committees unto whom also were added M r Serjeant Lovelace M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Popham and M r Townesend who were to meet this Afternoon in the Temple Church M r Treasurer declared that he and certain others of the Committees chosen by themselves out of themselves do presently come from her Majesty and that her Majesty doth very thankfully accept the good will and zeal of this House in their carefulness for her Majesties safety and preservation and that as her Majesty thinketh the course chosen by this House and wherein the Lords have joined with this House to be the best and surest way for her Majesties preservation and safety indeed yet her Highness for certain respects by her self conceived thinketh good for this time to defer but not to reject that course of proceeding as yet and in the mean time with all convenient speed to go forward in the great matter against the Scottish Queen with a second Bill being the other part of the said Choice heretofore offered to this House And that her Majesty minding in that Bill by any implication or drawing of words not to have the Scottish Queen either enabled or disabled to or from any manner of Title to the Crown of this Realm or any other Title to the same whatsoever touched at all willeth that the Bill be first drawn by her Learned Councel and by them penned before the same be treated of or dealt in in this House And that in the mean time of bringing in of the said Bill this House enter not into any Speeches or Arguments of that matter And that her Majesty hath likewise signified the same her like pleasure unto the Lords of the Upper House by some of the said Committees of the same House Vide concerning this matter on Thursday the 26 th day of June following M r Attorney and M r Sollicitor declared from the Lords that their Lordships have appointed six of themselves which were with the Queens Majesty this Forenoon at the Exchequer and that they have appointed the Judges there to attend them and pray that a convenient number of such of this House as were also with her Highness might with some others of this House meet there with their Lordships for further Conference and thereupon were for that purpose appointed by this House M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Chancellor of the Dutchy M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Maurice Berkeley Sir Tho. Scott Sir Hugh Pawlett Sir John Thynne Sir Hen. Gate M r D r Wilson Master of the Requests M r Serjeant Lovelace M r Attorney of the Court of Wards M r Recorder of London M r Moor. M r Mounson M r Popham M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Sands M r Norton M r Atkins and M r Dalton Nota That it is not certainly set down why these forenamed Committees were nominated but as is most probable they were appointed either for the great business touching the Scottish Queen or the Execution of the Duke or both The Resolution of this House upon the Question was that Petition should be made by this House unto her Majesty for the present Execution of the Duke and that the same
Petition shall be digested and put in writing against to Morrow Morning and be then delivered to M r Speaker to the end he may move her Majesty in the behalf of this whole House in such sort as this House shall further appoint him Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 31 th day of this instant May ensuing On Thursday the 29 th day of May Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Partition of the Lands to be made between the Lord Latimer and Sir Robert Wingfeild Knight was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Attorney of the Court of Wards and M r Boyer were added to the former Committees for the School of Tunbridge who were appointed on Friday the 23 d day of this instant May foregoing Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against the multitude of Rogues and Vagabonds was upon the second reading rejected M r Doctor Lewes and M r Doctor Huick did bring from the Lords a Bill touching the annexing of Hexham and Hexamshire to the County of Northumberland The Bill lastly for Vagabonds was committed unto M r Treasurer M r Comptroller M r Attorney of the Court of Wards M r Sands M r Mounson M r Marsh M r Sampole M r Cromwell and M r Boyer who were appointed to meet to Morrow between five and six of the Clock in the Morning and such of them as can to meet in the mean time in the Temple Church at three of the Clock On Friday the 30 th day of May the Bill for Sir William Harper was upon the first reading committed unto Sir Hugh Pawlett Sir John Thynne Sir Maurice Berkley M r D r Wilson Master of the Requests M r Atkins M r Nicholas Hare and M r Matthew Dale who were appointed to meet upon Monday next in Southwark in the Court-House there at two of the Clock in the Afternoon and the Parties to be warned by the Serjeant Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching Grants by Corporations were read the second time and committed unto M r Seckford Master of the Requests M r Serjeant Manwood M r Popham M r Bedell M r Thimbleby M r Snagg M r Fenner and M r Grimsditch who were appointed to meet at three of the Clock this Afternoon in the Temple Church The Committees for the Free Grammar-School of Tunbridge were appointed to meet at three of the Clock this Afternoon in the Guild-Hall Upon the Question it was resolved by this House touching the Bill of Vagabonds That the words Minstrells Bearwards Pedlers c. shall not be put out of the Bill but stand still in the same qualified by Licences of the Justices of the Peace in such sort as upon the Committee hath been considered and agreed upon with this condition also That if the Lords shall not agree to that qualification then this House will not be so bound by the said resolution but that they may alter and change the same at their Liberty and pleasure if they shall so think good Martin Cole one of the Burgesles for the Borough of Sudbury in the County of Suffolk was for his great business and affairs licensed to be absent for eight dayes On Saturday the 31 th day of May Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against Recoveries suffered by Tenants for term of life was read the second time and committed unto M r Attorney of the Court of Wards M r Recorder of London M r Mounson M r Popham and others who were appointed to consider of the said Bill sitting the Court. The Bill for the Earl of Kent was read the first time and committed to the former Committees and to meet at the Temple Church to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Upon the Question moved whether upon a former motion now made by M r Treasurer for respiting of the Petition to her Majesty touching the Execution of the Duke for that it may be her Majesty will cause the same to be done rather of her own disposition than being thereunto pressed by Petition of this House It is resolved That neither this present day nor in the mean time of the next Session of this House any Consultation be had touching any proceeding in the said Petition Vide concerning this business on Friday the 16 th day Friday the 23 th and on Wednesday the 28 th day of this instant May foregoing Four Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against such as shall practise to enlarge any person committed to Prison for High-Treason was read the first time On Monday the second day of June Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against Recoveries by Collusion suffered by Tenants for term of life was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Sir Tho. Scott and Sir George Turpin Knights were added to the former Committees in the Bill for the Earl of Kent whose names see on Wednesday the 21 th day of May foregoing with Authority given by this House to the said Committees or any six of them to proceed and to meet at the Temple Church to Morrow at three of the Clock in the Afternoon The Committees in the Bill for Sir William Harper were appointed by this House to meet this Afternoon at the Marshalsea and not at the Court-House in Southwark The Proviso for the Prisoners in the Marshalsea unto the Bill of Vagabonds was rejected upon the Question And the Proviso for M r Dutton allowed and passed the House The Bill against Vagabonds and for relief of the Poor with the Amendments and Provisoes passed upon the Question On Tuesday the third day of June Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against transporting of Leather and Tallow out of the Realm by way of Merchandize was read the third time The Bill of Vagabonds and the Bill of Tales de Circumstantibus were sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller and others The Bill also against Recoveries suffered by Collusion by Tenants for term of life and such others was read the third time and passed upon the Question M r Serjeant Barham and M r Doctor Lewes did bring from the Lords three Bills of which one was for the Assizes to be kept at Stafford and the third for the Severance of the Sheriffwicks of Huntington and Cambridge M r Chancellor of the Dutchy M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Hugh Pawlett Sir Tho. Scott M r Seckford M r Serjeant Lovelace M r Serjeant Gefferies M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Popham
that he should be presently Committed to the Serjeants-Ward as Prisoner and so remaining should be Examined upon his said Speech for the extenuating of his fault therein by all the Privy Council being of this House the Master of the Requests the Captain of the Guard M r Treasurer of the Chamber the Master of the Jewel-House the Master of the Wardrobe M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Thomas Scott Sir Rowland Hayward M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Henry Knolles the Elder M r Sampoole M r Randall M r Birched M r Marsh who were appointed to meet this Afternoon between two and three of the Clock at the Star-Chamber and to make report at this House to Morrow next And then the said Peter Wentworth was brought to the Bar and Committed thereupon to the said Serjeants-Ward according to the said Order This Afternoon-Passages being thus transcribed for the most part out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons now follows the Examination of the said M r Wentworth before the Committees before appointed which is transcribed out of a Memorial or Copy thereof set down by the said M r Wentworth himself being as followeth Post Meridiem A true Report of that which was laid to my Charge in the Star-Chamber by the Committees of the Parliament House viz. the House of Commons that same Afternoon viz. Wednesday February the 8 th after that I had delivered the Speech in the House that Forenoon and my Answer to the same Committees FIrst Where is your late Speech you promised to deliver in writing Wentworth Here it is and I deliver it upon two Conditions The first is that you shall peruse it all and if you can find any want of good will to my Prince and State in any part thereof let me Answer all as if I had uttered all The second is that you shall deliver it unto the Queens Majesty if her Majesty or you of her Privy-Council can find any want of Love to her Majesty or the State therein also let me Answer it Commit We will deal with no more than you uttered in the House Went. Your Honours cannot refuse to deliver it to her Majesty for I do send it to her Majesty as my Heart and Mind knowing it will do her Majesty good it will hurt no man but my self Commit Seeing your desire is to have us deliver it to her Majesty we will deliver it Went. I humbly require your Honours so to do Commit Then the Speech being read they said Here you have uttered certain rumors of the Queens Majesty where and of whom heard you them Went. If your Honours ask me as Councellors to her Majesty you shall pardon me I will make you no Answer I will do no such injury to the place from whence I came for I am now no private Person I am a publick and a Councellor to the whole State in that place where it is lawful for me to speak my mind freely and not for you as Councellors to call me to account for any thing that I do speak in the House and therefore if you ask me as Councellors to her Majesty you shall pardon me I will make no Answer but if you ask me as Committees from the House I will make you the best Answer I can Commit We ask you as Committees from the House Went. I will then Answer you and the willinger for that mine Answer will be in some part so imperfect as of necessity it must be Your Question consisteth of these two points where and of whom I heard these Rumors The place where I heard them was the Parliament House but of whom I assure you I cannot tell Commit This is no Answer to say you cannot tell of whom neither will we take it for any Went. Truly your Honours must needs take it for an Answer when I can make you no better Commit Belike you have heard some Speeches in the Town of her Majesties misliking of Religion and Succession you are loth to utter of whom and did use Speeches thereupon Went. I assure your Honours I can shew you that Speech at my own House written with my hand two or three years ago So that you may thereby judge that I did not speak it of any thing that I heard since I came to Town Commit You have Answered that but where heard you it then Went. If your Honours do think I speak for excuses sake let this satisfie you I protest before the living God I cannot tell of whom I heard these Rumors yet I do verily think that I heard them of a hundred or two in the House Commit Then of so many you can name some Went. No surely because it was so general a Speech I marked none neither do men mark speakers commonly when they be general and I assure you if I could tell I would not For I will never utter any thing told me to the hurt of any man when I am not enforced thereunto as in this Case I may chuse Yet I would deal plainly with you for I would tell your Honours so and if your Honours do not Credit me I will voluntarily take an Oath if you offer me a Book that I cannot tell of whom I heard those Rumors But if you offer me an Oath of your Authorities I will refuse it because I will do nothing to infringe the Liberties of the House But what need I to use these Speeches I will give you an instance whereupon I heard these Rumors to your satisfying even such a one as if you will speak the truth you shall confess that you heard the same as well as I. Commit In so doing we will be satisfied what is that Went. The last Parliament by which it may be conceived he meant and intended that Parliament in an 13 Reginae Eliz. he that is now Speaker viz. Robert Bell Esquire who was also Speaker in the first Session of this present Parliament in an 14 Reginae ejusdem uttered a very good Speech for the calling in of certain Licences granted to four Courtiers to the utter undoing of six or eight thousand of the Queens Majesties Subjects This Speech was so disliked of some of the Councel that he was sent for and so hardly dealt with that he came into the House with such an amazed Countenance that it daunted all the House in such sort that for ten twelve or sixteen days there was not one in the House that durst deal in any matter of importance And in those simple matters that they dealt in they spent more words and time in their preamble requiring that they might not be mistaken than they did in the matter they spake unto This inconvenience grew unto the House by the Councellors hard handling of the said good member whereupon this rumor grew in the House Sirs you may not speak against Licences the Queens Majesty will be angry the Councel will be too too angry and this rumor I suppose there is not one of
River of Thames was read the second time and committed to the former Committees in the Bill for preservation of Woods It was Ordered that the House should be called on Wednesday next in the Afternoon The Bill touching the Defeasances of Statutes of the Staple was read the second time and committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Humfrey Gilbert Mr. Sands and others who were appointed to meet on Monday next at three of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for the Assize of fuel was read the second time and committed unto the same former Committees in the Bill for Woods and at the same time and place A Motion was made by Mr. Alsord and pursued by Mr. S t Poole and Mr. Snagg touching composition for Purveyances and assented to have Conference by Mr. Treasurer and Mr. Comptroller on Thursday next Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Committees met again in the Exchequer Chamber about the two Bills for Religion and Subsidy The Articles which were exhibited by Mr. Norton concerning the Bill of Subsidy were allowed by the Committees and he appointed to draw the said Bill accordingly and the Articles agreed for the rates and times of Taxations Certificates and payment of a Subsidy and two Fifteenths On Monday the 30 th day of January the Bill touching 〈◊〉 of the Sea was read the second time and committed unto the Master of the Jewel-House Sir Thomas Scott Sir William Winter Sir William Moore Sir Arthur Bassett Mr. Grimsditch Mr. Layton Mr. Aldersee Mr. Rogers Mr. Shirley Mr. Boyes Mr. Knight and Mr. Borrey who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the speedy recovery of Debts was read the third time and passed upon the question Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Clerk did bring from the Lords two Bills viz. An Act against slanderous words and rumors and other seditious practices against the Queens Majesty and an Act for avoiding of slanderous Libelling The Bill for avoiding of certain Incumbrances against Purchasers was read the third time And a Proviso to this Bill was once read and dashed upon the question and likewise the Bill passed upon the question On Tuesday the 31 th day of January the Bill for the speedy recovery of Debts which passed this House yesterday was upon Motion made to this House by Mr. Speaker upon the mistaking of this House of some part of the said Bill amended upon the question with interlining of these words viz. such and of Debts the whole sentence wherein these interlined words are contained being thrice read and the Bill again passed upon the question accordingly The two Bills sent yesterday to this House from the Lords being against seditious practising and slanderous Libelling had each of them its first reading The two Bills that passed this House yesterday being for the speedy recovery of Debts and for the avoiding of certain Incumbrances against Purchasers were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and others The Bill for furniture of Armour and Weapons had its first reading Upon Motions made yesterday to this House by Mr. Diggs for maintenance of the Navy and Mariners and also for a supply of Souldiers and setting idle persons on work and by Fishing to procure increase of Gain and Wealth to the whole State of this Realm it is Ordered that the consideration hereof be committed unto all the Privy-Council being of this House and that as many of this House as are acquainted with that matter of Plot and device may attend them at their pleasure and to meet upon Friday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for punishing of unlawful having two Wives at once was read the second time and committed to Mr. Doctor Dale Master of the Requests Sir Thomas Browne Mr. Recorder of London M r Layton Mr. Alford Mr. Grimsditch Mr. Newdigate Mr. Snagg Mr. Thomas Bowyer and M r Greenfeild who were appointed to meet at two of the Clock in the Afternoon upon Saturday next in the Exchequer Chamber On Wednesday the first day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching Partition of Lands between the Coheirs of John sometime Earl of Oxford was read the first time Upon a Motion made unto this House by Mr. Norton that two Porters of Serjeants-Inn in Fleetstreet have much misused him in his attending the service of this House it is Ordered by this House that the Serjeant at Arms do forthwith fetch the same two Porters unto this House Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer in the name of the residue of the Committees for the Bill against counterfeit Instruments and Seals of Offices and of himself declared unto the House that they have upon consideration had amongst them thought good to make a new Bill for those purposes to be offered to this House and so delivered in both the old Bill and the new Three Bills also had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against slanderous words and rumors and other seditious practices against the Queens Majesty was read the second time and an Addition offered to this Bill by Mr. Norton was once read and with the Bill committed unto all the Privy-Council being of this House M r Treasurer of the Chamber all the Serjeants at Law of this House and others And the Bill was delivered to Mr. Treasurer who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Friday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon and the Committee for Mr. Diggs his Motions are deferred till Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the said Exchequer Chamber Vide Febr. 14. following Nota That here a new Addition inserted into a Bill which had been twice read was committed with the said Bill although it had been read but once Mr. Serjeant Anderson and Mr. Dr. Barkley did bring from the Lords a Bill for avoiding of disorders and abuses in Sheriffs and Under-Sheriffs and other like Ministers John Owld Porter of Serjeants-Inn in Fleetstreet and William Kenn his Servant being present here at the Bar and charged with their misbehaviour rather excusing than submitting themselves it is upon good proof of their said misbehaviour testified by three Gentlemen of this House besides Mr. Norton Ordered that both the Master and Servant be committed to the Serjeants Ward till further Order shall be taken And that Mr. Speaker may in the mean time set the said William Kenn the Servant at Liberty upon his Submission if he shall so think good Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against the multitude of common Inns and Ale-Houses was read the first time
Arthur Hall for his said offence And upon another Question it was resolved and Ordered in like manner that the same Fine should be five hundred Marks And upon another like question it was likewise resolved and Ordered that the said Arthur Hall should presently be removed severed and cut off from being any longer a Member of this House during the continuance of this present Parliament and that the Speaker by Authority from this House should direct a Warrant from this House to the Clerk of the Crown-Office in the Chancery for awarding of the Queens Majesties Writ to the Sheriff of the said County of Lincoln for a new Burgess to be returned into this present Parliament for the said Borough of Grantham in the lieu and stead of the said Arthur Hall so as before disabled any longer to be a Member of this House And upon another question it was also in like manner resolved and Ordered that the said Book and Libel was and should be holden deemed taken and adjudged to be for so much as doth concern the errors aforesaid condemned Which done the said Arthur Hall was brought in again to the Bar unto whom the Speaker in the name of the whole House pronounced the said Judgment in form aforesaid and so the Serjeant Commanded to take Charge of him and convey him to the said Prison of the Tower and to deliver him to the Lieutenant of the Tower by Warrant from this House to be directed and signed by the said Speaker for that purpose Vide concerning this matter on Saturday the 4 th day Monday the 6 th day and Wednesday the 8 th day of this instant February foregoing On Wednesday the 15 th day of February Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for granting of one Subsidy two Fifteenths and Tenths was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Thursday the 16 th day of February the Bill against the Family of Love was read the second time and committed unto Sir Thomas Scott Sir William Moore Sir John Brockett M r Beale and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill for counterfeit Seals who were appointed on Thursday the 26 th day of January foregoing brought in the old Bill amended by the Committees and a new Bill drawn by the said Committees according to the same amendments whereupon the same new Bill was twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for punishment of unlawful Marriages which was delivered to M r Doctor Dale and other Committees was this day brought in by M r Grimsditch one other of the Committees and a new Bill for that purpose made by the consent of the same Committees After sundry Speeches used against Sir Rowland Hayward one of the Committees in the Bill against Iron-Mills for an error by him done in preferring a new Bill for that purpose to the House not agreed upon by the more part of the residue of the Committees urging some infliction to be laid upon him or at least his Submission with an acknowledgment of his said error therein to the House it was upon a Motion made by M r Speaker and his Declaration of the Proceeding of the said Sir Rowland Hayward with him in the bringing in of the said latter Bill Ordered by the House that the matter of the said Prosecution should be no further dealt in or medled with as a thing of too small moment for this House to be troubled with or spend time in Three Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for ratification of an award for certain Copyholders in the County of Worcester was read the third time and passed upon the Question The Calling of this House appointed to have been this Afternoon is for greater causes deferred till another time On Friday the 17 th day of February Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill for limitation of Formedon in the Descender and the fifth being the Bill against the excessive multitude of Attornies in the Court of Common-Pleas was read the second time and with the former committed unto both Masters of the Requests M r Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Sands M r Carleton M r Layton M r Grimpston M r Vaughan M r Dalton M r Boyes and M r Grimsditch and both the Bills were delivered to M r Doctor Dale Master of the Requests who with the rest was appointed to meet in the new Hall in the Temple at two of the Clock this Afternoon The Bill touching the Children of Aliens and Strangers was once more read with the former amendments and other amendments now presently inserted three times first read was passed upon the Question after many Arguments first had and made Francis Drake Esquire was Licensed this day by M r Speaker to depart for certain his necessary business in the service of her Majesty Francis Vaughan Esquire one of the Burgesses for the Borough of Wilton in the County of Wiltshire was this day Licensed by M r Speaker to be absent for his necessary business at the Assizes On Saturday the 14 th day of February Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the naturalizing of certain English mens Children born beyond the Seas was read the first time The Bill for the repealing of certain branches of certain Statutes touching the making of Woollen-Cloths and another Bill touching the Shipping of Cloths were each of them committed upon the first reading unto the former Committees for Cloths who were appointed on Saturday the 4 th day of this instant February foregoing The Bill for preservation of Pheasants and Partridges was read the second time and committed unto M r Chancellor of the Dutchy M r Knight Marshal Sir Thomas Cecil Sir Thomas Scott M r Beamond and others who were appointed to meet at M r Chancellors of the Dutchy at two of the Clock in the Afternoon upon Monday next The Bill for Gavelkind Land within the City of Chester was read the third time The four Bills last past before this present day were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others The Bill against unlawful Hunting of Conies was read the second time and after many Arguments rejected upon the question of ingrossing M r Chancellor of the Exchequer declared that the Committees appointed by this House to have Conference with the Lords touching the Bill for Religion have sundry times met together with their Lordships about the same Bill and that the same Bill is by the said Committees in some parts altered changed and amended and in some other parts abridged and some others added unto and so delivered in the same
Justice of the Common-Pleas having informed this House touching the State of the Record mentioned in the Bill for the Lord Zouch and the said Lord Zouch having been here likewise heard at the Bar and the said Record having been here seen and perused in this House and read by the Clerk it was resolved that Sir Thomas Sampoole Mr. Recorder of London Mr. Harrington Mr. Cromwell Mr. Lewkenor and Mr. Cowper do consider of the Decree heretofore made in the Chancery touching the said matter and of the Exemplification of the said Record and meet to Morrow Morning at seven of the Clock in the Forenoon in the Committee Chamber of this House and afterwards to make Report Vide touching this matter on Friday the 17 th day of this instant March following Mr. Treasurer touching the Committee yesterday with the Lords for the Bill of maintenance of the Borders against Scotland declared that their Lordships in the Conference yesterday seem'd to marvel much that their Lordships having first passed a Bill with them for the said purpose and sending it down to this House this House would without requiring further Conference with their Lordships take upon them to make a new Bill for the same matter and not proceed with the said Bill thereof which came from their Lordships And their Lordships thought this House ought not so to have done neither could well by Warrant of any former Precedents of this House And further that some of the said Committees of this House then answered unto their Lordships that this House had cause to do as they did and might likewise well so do Mr. Vice-Chamberlain very excellently setting forth the great benefits and blessings of God upon this Realm in the Godly most loving and careful Government and Ministry of her Majesty and withal the great earnest most faithful and dutiful zeal and obedience of this House unto her Highness no less in every particular Member of the same than is or can be in any other Subject of this Realm whosoever noble or other as hath and may well appear by them all in their Actions And also taking occasion of the Bill lately very gravely carefully and dutifully considered and dealt in by this House for the due care and preservation of her Majesties Honour Fame and Dignity but nevertheless dashed by the Lords in the Upper House and not in this House nor in the default of this House moved that this House would yet notwithstanding for many great and weighty respects by him most excellently amply and effectually and no less aptly declared proceed to some such course for due provision to the same end of the safety of her Highness Honour Fame and Dignity as by some of this House for that purpose to be selected shall seem meet to express and shew the faithful hearts careful love and dutiful obedience of such thankful Subjects unto so Gracious Provident and Merciful a Prince Whereupon were appointed all the Privy-Council being of this House M r Treasurer of the Chamber M r Knight Marshal M r Doctor Dile Master of the Requests Sir Thomas Sanpoole Sir William fitz William Sir William Moore Sir Thomas Shirley M r Recorder of London M r Sands M r Atkins M r Cowper M r Cromwell M r Norton Sir Henry Gate Sir George Turpin M r Wolley M r Beale M r Thomson M r Crooke M r Nicholas S t Leger M r Vincent Skinner M r Pister Mr. Edward Lewkenor Mr. Diggs Mr. Dalton and Mr. Alford to meet in the Exchequer Chamber between one and two of the Clock this Afternoon to confer for the drawing of a Bill against to Morrow Morning for the safety and preservation of her Majesties Honour Fame and Person accordingly Vide concerning a Bill on Wednesday the first day of February foregoing much to this purpose as also on March the 13 th Monday foregoing The Bill for restitution in Blood of Philip Earl of Arundel was read the third time and passed upon the Question On Wednesday the 15 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation was read the second time and two Provisoes also to the same Bill were twice read and committed unto Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Thomas Sampoole Mr. Aldersey Mr. Grice Mr. Lewkenor Mr. Norton and others who were appointed to meet at the Temple-Hall at two of the Clock this Afternoon Two Bills also had each of them one reading of which the Bill for the more indifferent Tryal by Juries was read the third time and dashed upon the Question Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by Sir Henry Ratclyffe Sir Thomas Cecill Sir Edward Horsey Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower and others whereof the fifth was the Bill for restitution in Blood of John and Dudley S t Leger and the last for the more indifferent Tryal by Juries Mr. Treasurer reported that according to the Order and Commission of this House to him yesterday and others he and others of the Committees had met together and drawn a new Bill and so delivered the Bill in the House to be read The Bill against seditious words and rumors uttered against the Queens most Excellent Majesty was twice read and upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Doctor Gibbon did bring from the Lords the Bill for fortifying of the Borders against Scotland with some Amendments which Bill had passed this House before and was sent to their Lordships from this House On Thursday the 16 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for Exposition of the Statute of Bankrupts was read the third time and dashed upon the Question Sir Thomas Sampoole one of the Committees in the matter for the Lord Zouch whose names see on Monday the 13 th day of this instant March foregoing made report of their Travel therein and of the Estate of the Title of the said Lord Zouch to the Mannor in demand and thereupon the said Lord Zouch was afterward with his Councel heard at the Bar. Vide concerning this matter on Tuesday the 14 th day of this instant March foregoing and also on Friday the 17 th day of the same Month following Mr. Doctor Clark and Mr. Doctor Barkley did bring from the Lords a Bill before-passed this House touching the abolishing of certain deceitful stuffs used in the dying of Cloths and now returned by their Lordships with some Amendments and Provisoes thereunto added The Bill against seditious words and rumors uttered against the Queens most Excellent Majesty was read the third time and after sundry Motions and Arguments and some Amendments added were thrice read and the Bill passed upon the question Mr. Cope standing up and offering to speak unto the House said unto Mr. Speaker and Charged him with these Speeches that is to say That Mr. Speaker
their several places the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof who thereupon repairing thither as many as conveniently could were let in and standing all together at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the Upper House Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor by the Queen Commandment declared unto them the Causes of the Assembling of this Parliament But what those Causes were neither the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House nor that of the House of Commons do at all mention in setting down the other daily Passages of this Parliament de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. But in respect they are set down the above-mentioned Catalogue of Honour imprinted at London An. Domini 1610. pag. 〈◊〉 and that it is most probable that were there inserted out of the Collections or Memorial of some Member of the House of Commons at this Parliament therefore I have thought good to supply it verbatim as it is there set down The said Lord Chancellor declared unto them in her Majesties name that this Assembly of Parliament was for three causes called viz. For the glory of Almighty God and the furthering of Religion for the health and preservation of her Royal Majesty and the welfare of the Common-Weal Which after that he had a loud and most eloquently at large declared turning his Speech unto the Knights and Burgesses standing on a heap together below he willed them to make choice of their Prolocutor and to give notice of him so Chosen unto the Lords of the Privy-Council from whom they should expect what the Queens Pleasure and Answer was concerning him so Chosen to be afterward presented The substance of this Speech being so shortly set down in the said Catalogue of Honour I thought good to transcribe although it were imprinted because it doth much augment and perfect this present Journal of the Upper House The residue whereof doth next in order follow out of the Original Journal-Book of the same House there being only added now and then as the occasion offered it self some Observations and Animadversions upon it Nota Also that no names of any of the Lords Spiritual or Temporal are noted to have been present this day which happened through the negligence of the Clerk of the Parliament but it may be conjectured who they were by the names of such whose presence is noted on Thursday next following being the 26 th day of this instant November on which said day the presence of such Lords as attended this Parliament is first marked Then follow the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions which is the more remarkable at this time because it is said that the Clerk of the Parliament did read them by the Lord Chancellors Commandment whereas it should seem at other times and which is agreeable also to the course at this day he doth presently stand up of himself as soon as the Lord Chancellors or Lord Keepers Speech is ended and reads the said Receivors and Triors names yet the entrance aforesaid is at this time set down in the said Journal-Book in manner and form following Tunc having before-mentioned the Lord Chancellors Speech Parliamenti Clericus ex mandato Cancellarn omnibus Petitionibus exhiberi volentibus Receptorum Examinatorum nomina formâ subsequenti recitavit Then follows all in French of which the names were these Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Lord Chief Justice of England Sir Gilbert Gerrard Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Gawel Knight one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench Doctor Clarke and Doctor Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Lord Chief Baron Francis Windam one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Awbery and Doctor Barkley Such as will deliver Petitions must so do within six days next ensuing Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Leicester Lord High Steward of England the Earl of Darby the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Howard of Effingham Chamberlain of the Queens House the Lord Gray of Wilton the Lord North. All these or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants at their leisure to meet and hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and the Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles The Archbishop of York the Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembroke the Bishop of Norwich the Bishop of Chester the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Cobham the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst All these or four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor to hold their place when their leisure did serve to meet in the Treasurers Chamber Breve returnatum which was returned this Morning quo Johannes Episcopus Gloucestren praesenti Parliamento interesse summonitus fuit qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 24 th day of November the Lords met in the Upper House but nothing was done saving the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor until nine of the Clock the next Morning On Wednesday the 25 th day of November there was a like meeting of the Lords but nothing done saving the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon the day following But no presence of the Lords is noted on this day in the Original Journal-Book On Thursday the 26 th day of November the Commons having chosen their Speaker who upon his Presentment to the Queen was this day to be allowed of in the said place her Majesty Accompanied with divers of the Nobility came into the Upper House about three of the Clock in the Afternoon whose name and the names of such Lords Spiritual and Temporal as are marked in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament to have been present this day do here ensue Regina Archiepiscopus Cantuar. Dominus Thomas Bromley Miles Cancellarius Archiepiscopus Eboracen Dominus Barleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Marchio Winton Comites Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerarius Comes Arundell Comes Kantiae Comes Darbiae Comes Wigorn. Comes Rutland Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Comes Bathon Comes Pembrooke Comes Hartford Vice-Comes Mountague Vice-Comes Bindon Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Winton Episcopus Meneven Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Petriburgen Episcopus Norwicen Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Cestren Barones Dominus Howard Camerar Dominus Zouch Dominus Willoughbie Dominus Dacres Dominus Cobham Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Lumley Dominus Stourton Dominus Mountjoy
the 17 th day of March following The last Bill of the said six being for a Bank of general Charity to be appointed for the relief of common necessity was put to the Question upon the first reading and rejected Quod nota because it is not usual for a Bill to be put to the Question upon the first reading Upon the report of Sir James Croft Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold and M r William Howard of the great disorder of Serving-men and Boys in hurting and misusing of other Persons and of whom M r Comptroller and M r Howard did see and take two of the said disordered persons It was Ordered that the Serjeant of the House should wait upon M r Comptroller to know the same two Persons and to bring them to this House to Morrow sitting the Court. The Bill lastly for the true Answering of Tithes was read the second time and thereupon committed unto Sir Richard Greenfield Sir John Peter Sir William Harbert M r Dale one of the Masters of the Requests and the Bill was delivered to the said M r Dale who with the rest was appointed to meet on Monday the 8 th day of this instant December following at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall On Friday the 4 th day of December Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against partial Juries and Trials was upon the second reading committed unto M r Recorder of London M r Tanfield M r Cromwell and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Attorney of the Court of Wards one of the said Committees who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Monday the 7 th day of this instant December following at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Inner-Temple Hall The Bill for the maintenance of Navigation and another Bill concerning Cloth at Boated in Essex having passed the House upon the third reading were sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer of her Majesties Houshold M r Vice-Chamberlain and others The Bill for the better and more reverend observation of the Sabbath day was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed De qua Vide plus on Wednesday the 17 th day of March following Upon a Motion made this day unto the House by M r Speaker that M r Marmaduke Wivell one of the Burgesses for the Borough of Richmond in the County of York is lately faln very sick and not able to give his attendance on this House till he shall have recovered better health and therefore desireth in the mean time Licence of this House to go a little into the Country to take change of Air for a short time for the seeking of his better health and strength it was gramed and agreed by this House that he may do so with the good favour and leave of this House accordingly Upon another Motion also made by M r Speaker for M r Edward Leigh Esquire one of the Knights returned into this present Parliament for the County of Stafford and since that time chosen to be Sheriff of the said County of Stafford It was likewise Ordered by this House that the said Edward Leigh may with the good leave of this House have liberty to absent himself in and about his necessary charge and service in the said Office of Sheriffwick Nota That hence it may be probably gathered that neither her Majesty nor the House of Commons did conceive these two places to be incompetible but that they might well stand and be in one and the same Man at one and the same time for her Majesty did first make him Sheriff of the County of Stafford not only after he was chosen but returned a Knight of the same County also which it is very plain she could not be ignorant of and therefore her self and the House of Commons did both allow of his being made Sheriff as a thing well agreeing with the priviledge of his former place and the service of that House and did not therefore give him a sinal discharge but only liberty of recess about his necessary affairs into the Country as in the foregoing case of sickness which being expedited he might return again to that service For doubtless if the said House had conceived that he had been utterly disabled from his serving there by his new Office it would have been Ordered That a Warrant should have been sent to the Clerk of the Crown to have sent down a new Writ into the said County of Stafford for a new Election to have been made as in the case of double Returns death or the like is used Besides if her Majesty might have disabled as many Members from serving in that House as she should or could have made Sheriffs it had lain in her power and may lye in the power of any King or Queen of this Realm for the time being to have disfurnished the House of Commons at any time of all or the greater part of the ablest Members thereof Against this Opinion the words of the very Writ by Authority whereof the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the House of Commons are elected hath been and may be still objected viz. Nolumus antem quòd tu nec aliquis alius Vicecomes dicti Regni nostri aliqualiter sit electus c. which words were not in the Writ during the Reign of King Henry the Third E. 1. E. 2. and the beginning of the Reign of King Edward the Third but crept in afterwards by virtue of an Ordinance of Parliament upon some special occasion to that end made which is entred in Rotulo Parliamenti de Anno 46 E. 3. num 13. And therefore the constant practice in many Parliaments since to the contrary may well be admitted and followed as the greater and more swaying Authority which also appeareth in the aforesaid Precedent the said M r Leigh being allowed to maintain and retain both the said places and to serve in them without all manner of dispute or question Vide plus concerning this business on Tuesday the 23. day of February following On Saturday the 5 th day of December two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill against the delay of Justice was upon the second reading committed unto M r Vicechamberlain M r Chancellor of the Exchequer M r Sandes M r Sollicitor and others who were appointed to meet on Monday the 7 th day of this instant December following in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-Chamber or Star-Chamber The Bill also for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day was read the third time and upon the question passed the House Vide touching this Bill on Wednesday the 17 th day of March following The Lords also sent back to the House of Commons the Bill touching Boxted Clothes with some amendments and additions which had been carried up yesterday to their
Stourton Dominus Darcie Dominus Sandes Dominus Windsor Dominus Wentworth Dominus Borough Dominus Cromwell Dominus Evers Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby de Parham Dominus Darcie de Chiche Dominus Shandois Dominus S t John Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Delaware Dominus Compton Dominus Cheney Dominus Norris The Lords being all set in this Order in their Parliament-Robes and the Judges placed with other Attendants and Assistants of the Upper House being also before the said Lords Commissioners had taken their places on the right side of the Chair of State the Lord Chancellor shewed forth the Queens Majesties Letters Patents by which She committed full Power to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England and the Earl of Darby to supply her place in the said Parliament which were as followeth viz. Hodie cùm omnes Proceres Robis Parliamentaribus induti in suo Loco quisque sederent Milites Cives Burgenses qui ad hoc praesens Parliamentum summoniti fuerunt praesso essent jam universt tam Proceres quà m Communes Reginae adventum expectarent Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius exponit omnibus Regiam Majestatem maximis urgentissimis causis adeò esse impeditam ut non queat impraesentiarum commodè interesse ut decreverat Nihilominus inquit sua Majestas Literis suis Patentibus plenam potestatem commisit Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Johanni Cantuar. Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac praedilecto fideli suo Willielmo Domino de Burleigh Domino Thesaurario Angliae ac charissimo Consanguineo suo Henrico Comiti Darbiae ad facienda nomine suo omnia singula quae in dicto Parliamento gerenda essent ut per easdem Liter as Patentes 〈◊〉 apparet quas hiis dictis Dominus Cancellarius Clerico Parliamentar publicè legendas tradidit Earum autem tenor sequitur in haec verba ELizabetha Dei graetiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei Defensor c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd cùm de advisamento Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae ae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernen quoddam Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonaster 29 o die instant mensis Octobris teneri ordinavimus quia verò propter certas causas ad Parliamentum praedictum non potuerimus interesse nos de circumspectione sideliate industria Reverendissimi in Christo Patris Johannis Cantuar. Archiepiscopi totius Angliae Primat Metropolitan ac praedilecti fidelis nostri Willielmi Domini de Burleigh Domini Thesaurarii Angliae ac charissimi Consanguinei nostri Henrici Comitis Darbiae plenam fiduciam reportand eisdem Archiepiscopo Willielmo Domino de Burleigh Henrico Comiti Darbiae duobus eorum ad Parliamentum praedictum nomine meo inchoand tenend negotiáque praedict exponend declarand ac exponi declarari faciend necnon in negotiis illis Parliamento praedicto ac omnibus sin gulis in eo procedend ad faciend omnia singula quae pro nobis per nos pro bono regimine gubernatione praedicti Regni nostri Angliae ac aliorum Dominiorum nostrorum eidem Regno nostro pertinen ibid. fuerint faciend necnon ad Parliamentum illud si necesse fuerit continuand adjournand prorogand de assensu Concilii nostri praedicti plenam tenore praesentium committimus prtestatem Dante 's ulteriùs de assensu ejusdem Concilii nostri tam universis singulis Archiepiscopis Episcopis Comitibus Vicecomitibus Baronibus Militibus quà m omnibus aliis quorum interest ad Parliamentum nostrum praedictum conventur similit tenore praesentium firmiter in Mandatis Quòd eisdem Archiepiscopo Willielmo Domino Burleigh Henrico Comiti Darbiae duobus eorum intendant in praemissis in fornia praedicta In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras sieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo octavo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri vicesimo octavo Per ipsam Reginam c. The Letters Patents foregoing being read the said three Lords Commissioners leaving their own places went to a Seat prepared for them on the right side of the Chair of State beneath the steps Then the said Lord Chancellor going first to the said Lords and conferring a while with them went to his accustomed place and there made intimation of the Cause of this present Summons of Parliament which as he said were no usual Causes not for making of Laws whereof her Majesty thought there were more made than were duly executed nor for Fifteenths and Subsidies although there were some cause yet her Majesty would not charge her loving Subjects so far at this time But that the cause was rare and extraordinary of great weight great peril and dangerous consequence Then he declared what dangerous practices had been contrived of late and how miraculously the Providence of God had by discovery thereof beyond all humane Policy preserved her Majesty the destruction of whose Sacred Person was most traiterously compassed and imagined Here he shewed what misery the loss of so Noble a Queen would have brought to all Estates and said That although some of them had suffered according to their demerits yet one remained that by due course of Law had received her Sentence which was the chief cause of this Assembly and wherein her Majesty required their faithful advice and therefore said he you may orderly proceed therein And you of the House of Commons are to make present choice of some one amongst you to be your Speaker and to present him unto the Lords Lieutenants as soon as conveniently you may Assoon as the Lord Chancellor had ended his Speech the Clerk of the Parliament stood up and read the Names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions in French which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland France and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Knight Lord Chief Justice Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Gawdy Knight one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Awberry and Doctor Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Knight Lord Chief Baron Francis Windham one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Barkeley and Doctor Cary. Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Darby Lord High Steward of England the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Howard of Essingham Lord High Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton Tryors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles the Archbishop of York the Earl
Committees The Bill for the Pier of Hartilpool aforesaid was read the third time and after many Arguments both with the Bill and likewise against the Bill it was deferred to be further disputed and argued unto to Morrow On Thursday the 13 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching Richard Southwell was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Secretary Wolley Mr. John Stanhope Mr. Haydon Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill concerning Leases made of Lands parcel of the Possessions of the Bishoprick of Oxford was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Treasurer the Master of the Wardrobe Mr. Cromwell the Knights for the County of Oxford Mr. Oglethorp and others who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for repealing of certain Statutes with some Amendments was read and afterwards referred to be further considered of by Mr. Grafton Mr. Harris and Mr. Cromwell and the Bill was then delivered to Mr. Cromwell The Amendments in the Bill for the maintenance of Dover-Haven being opened to the House and the Bill read in such sort amended was passed upon the question after a Proviso offered for the Cinque-Ports first refused upon another former question Mr. Doctor Ford and Mr. Doctor Cary do bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed this House and sent up to their Lordships for the better recovery of costs and damages against Informers and passed since by their Lordships with a Proviso and some Amendments annexed to the same Bill After divers Arguments both with the Bill and against the Bill but whether it were the Bill last before-mentioned to have been sent down from the Lords it appeareth not although it seemeth to have been the same and after a Proviso received upon the question and some Amendment also of one word in the Bill viz. Sunderland to be put in the 14 th line and the word Soulderland to be put out of the Bill And the said Bill with the Proviso and Amendment aforesaid being put to the question was dashed upon the question and also upon the division of the House by the advantage of three persons viz. with the Yea a hundred twenty six and with the No a hundred twenty nine The Bill touching the bringing in of salted Fish and Herrings into this Realm was delivered to Mr. Wroth one of the Committees in the same On Friday the 14 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Town of Barwick was read the second time and thereupon committed unto Mr. Cromwell Mr. Grimston the Burgesses of Barwick Mr. Robert Bowes and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Cromwell who with the rest was appointed to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill touching the Children of Aliens and Denizens was upon the second reading committed unto the Committees in the Bill for Retailers appointed on Thursday the 12 th day of this instant March foregoing and for both to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching Mortmain was read the third time and some Amendments then made being thrice read also was after many Arguments both with the Bill and against the Bill passed upon the question Mr. Serjeant Shuttleworth and Mr. Powle do bring from the Lords the Bill for the preservation of the Haven of Orford in the County of Suffolk lately passed this House and since passed with their Lordships with a Proviso by them added in their passing of the same which Proviso being thereupon presently thrice read the same Proviso then passed also upon the question On Saturday the 15 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill to avoid Horse-stealing had its first reading The Amendments in the Bill for relief of the City of Lincoln being twice read and the Bill also read in such sort amended the Bill was upon the question committed to the former Committees and unto M r Vice-Chamberlain Sir John Parrot M r Alford the Master of the Wardrobe Sir Robert Jermin and others who were appointed to meet this present day at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber Mr. Doctor Clark and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords a Bill against the Erecting and maintenance of Cottages The former Committees were appointed on Mar. 11. Tuesday The Bill and Committees names concerning Leases made of the Lands parcel of the possession of the Bishoprick of Oxford was delivered to Mr. Treasurer one of the Committees And so likewise the Bill and Committees names touching Aliens and Strangers retailing of Foreign Wares and also touching the Children of Aliens and Denizens The Bill and Committees names concerning Richard Southwell Esquire was delivered unto Mr. George Moor one of the Committees in the same The Amendmènts in the Bill for relief of the Curriers being twice read the Bill was Ordered upon the question to be ingrossed On Monday the 17 th day of March Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for pursuit of Hue and Cry was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Shirley Mr. Harris Mr. Wroth Sir William Moor Mr. William Fleetwood and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for Pleading at large in an Ejectione firmae had its first and second reading and an Amendment twice read and upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers was brought in by Mr. Treasurer one of the Committees without any thing done and further report made and so likewise the Bill for Denizens Children Mr. Speaker signified unto the House that her Majesties gracious pleasure was that it be signified unto them that four of this House be specially chosen to have Conference with some of the Lords of her Highness most Honourable Privy Council and other Officers of her Houshold for convenient Orders and Constitutions to be made for ..... But what should here follow is by the great negligence of Mr. Fulk Onslow at this time Clerk of the House of Commons wholly omitted yet it should seem that her Majesty did now by Mr. Speaker send word to the said House that upon the above-mentioned Conference so had and passed according to her Majesties Prescription the said House might proceed in the two Bills so often before agitated on Saturday the 15 th day on Monday the 17 th and on Thursday the 27 th day of February foregoing and on Tuesday
upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Sir Henry Knyvet Mr. Wroth and others and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Vice-Chamberlain who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber The Bill for relief of the City of Lincoln was brought in by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the same who shewed that they have met and conferred upon the same Bill and have amended it in four parts thereof and sheweth wherein leaving the same to the further proceeding of this House in the expediting thereof Mr. Vice-Chamberlain shewed that he and divers others of the Committees of this House met yesterday in Conference about the matter touching abuses of Purveyors and received all such Informations as were then delivered unto them which he said were very many and foul and some of them offered to be proved true in such sort as the same had been reported unto them and so moving this House to make choice of four of the Members of the same to be specially selected to attend upon the Lords in the said matter according to her Majesties said pleasure formerly signified unto them by Mr. Speaker Sir Henry Kuyvet Mr. Thomas Cromwell Mr. John Hare and Mr. Robert Wroth were thereupon nominated for that purpose and Ordered and assented that all the Members of this House might at their pleasure in the mean time of the said Conference so to be had with the Lords repair unto the said Sir Henry Knyvet Mr. Thomas Cromwell Mr. John Hare and Mr. Robert Wroth and to every or any one of them with such instructions either in writing or by information otherwise as they shall think fit for the better furnishing of the same Sir Henry Knyvet Mr. Cromwell Mr. Hare and Mr. Wroth with matter against the time of the said conference to be had with the Lords Nota That this House having formerly dealt in this matter and in reforming some exactions of the Exchequer had been forbidden by her Majesty to deal any further therein and yet afterwards upon some new considerations had leave for their further proceeding in the said matter as see before on Saturday the 15 th day and on Thursday the 17 th day and on Monday the 27 th day of February foregoing and on Tuesday the 4 th day Thursday the 6 th day Saturday the 8 th day and on Monday the 17 th day of this instant March last past Mr. Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill of Hue and Cry appointed on Saturday the 15 th day of this instant March foregoing shewed that in respect of other particular attendance committed unto him in her Majesties service elsewhere he could not be at the said Commitment this Afternoon and therefore prayed he may be excused and some other appointed in his stead Whereupon presently Sir John Parrot and the Master of the Wardrobe were added to the former Committees and the said Mr. Vice-Camberlain withdrawn And the Bill together with the names of the Committees was then delivered to the said Sir John Parrot On Wednesday the 19 th day of March the Bill concerning Glass-houses and Glass-Furnaces was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Moore Mr. George Moore Mr. Markham and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir William Moore who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock this Afternoon The Bill for the Lady Gressam was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Cromwell Mr. Grafton Mr. Grimston Mr. Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber to Morrow in the Afternoon at two of the Clock The Bill against discontinuances in Writs of Error in the Courts of Exchequer and the Kings Bench was read the second time and upon further Motion was read again for the third reading thereof and so passed upon the question The Master of the Wardrobe one of the Committees in the Bill touching Leases of the Lands Parcel of the Possession of the Bishoprick of Oxford brought in the same Bill with report that the said Committees do think the same Bill not meet to be further dealt in by this House The Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers was read the second time and after the doubtfulness of the voices upon two several questions for the commitment thereof was upon the division of the House by the difference of thirty five Persons Ordered to be committed viz. with the Yea one hundred thirty one and with the No ninety six unto all the Privy Council being of this House Sir Henry Knyvet M r Wroth M r Lieutenant of the Tower M r North and others who were appointed to meet upon Friday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Sir John Parrot one of the Committees in the Bill touching Hue and Cry brought in the Bill again with report that the Committees have met and conferred upon the same Bill and finding good Laws in force already touching that matter are of opinion that in respect also partly of the shortness of this Parliament likely to ensue the said Bill may be reserved to be further considered of in another Session Thomas Drurie Gent. being brought to the Bar was charged by M r Speaker in the name of this whole House with great and deep offences committed by him against the whole State of this House in general in having untruly reported and given out both to some of the Lords in the Upper House and also to divers others Persons elsewhere that he could have no justice in this House nor could himself be heard nor have his Witnesses in his Cause heard neither in the House nor before the Committees and also against divers Members of this House in particular in offering unto some of them great threats and to some others of them great sums of Money to speak in this House for him and not against him and likewise in using of hard Speeches both to some of them and of some of them to the great discredit wrong and prejudice both of the whole State of this said House in general and also of divers Members of the same in particular for that in very deed he had been heard at large both in this House and also before the Committees and for that likewise sundry of his misbehaviours towards divers Members of this House were directly proved in this House against him to the full satisfaction of this House in the same And so was required by M r Speaker to answer therein for himself Whereupon the said Thomas Drurie in very humble sort and good terms sought to excuse himself not directly acknowledging any the said offences but humbly craving pardon of this House if he had committed any such And then being sequestred the House till his said pretended Speeches of excuse and conditional form of craving pardon were considered of it was by divers of the Members of this House grieved
Friday the 11 th day of this instant November foregoing delivered some particular informations to Mr. Chancellor and a Licence with a Blank to M r Speaker Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 16 th day of this Instant November foregoing M r Winch one of the Committees in the Bill to keep Horses from stealing who were appointed on Wednesday the 16 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and some Amendments in divers parts of the Bill and so delivereth in the Bill with some Amendments and the Bill was re-delivered unto him again to be further considered of by the Committees and the Committees names were read and thereupon were appointed to meet again at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present day in the Middle-Temple Hall M r Bourcher moved the House touching the discovery of the Counsel of the same by some Member thereof as it should seem for his said motion is set down very briefly and imperfectly in the Original Journal-Book of the said House neither is there any other issue of it there inserted than that Sir Edward Hobbie moved to have the matter proceeded to further Examination and the Party to be named Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer brought in the Articles for the three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths with the manners and days of Payments which being read unto the House and well liked of were presently delivered to Mr. Sollicitor to draw the Book Vide December the seventh Wednesday postea On Tuesday the 22 d day of November the Bill for the necessary habitation and relief of the Poor Aged Lame and Blind in every Parish was read the second time and committed unto the former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and Sturdy Beggars who were appointed on Saturday the 19 th day of this Instant November foregoing The Bill for relief of Hospitals poor Prisoners and others impoverished by casual losses was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues c. Vide Committees names pag. seq The Bill for Supply of Relief unto the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto the said former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues c. The Bill for setting the Poor on work was read the second time and dashed upon the third question for the Committee and rejected upon the question for ingrossing The Bill for petite Forfeitures to go to the relief of the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees in the Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars Sir Edward Hobby moved the House for priviledge for Sir John Tracie being a Member of this House and now presently at the Common Pleas to be put on a Jury Whereupon the Serjeant of this House was presently sent with the Mace to call the said Sir John Tracie to his attendance in this House which was thereupon so done accordingly and the said Sir John then returned to this House The Bill for the better relief of Souldiers and Mariners was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars who were appointed on Saturday the 19 th day of this instant November foregoing and Mr. Arnold was added unto them The Bill for the better governing of Hospitals and Lands given to the relief of the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees for the erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and Sturdy Beggars and Mr. Hubbard was added unto them The Bill for Hospitality was read the second time and dashed upon the questions for committing and ingrossing The Bill for the relief of the Poor out of Impropriations and other Church Livings was read the second time And after some Speeches both with the Bill and against the Bill upon the doubtfulness of the double question for the committing was upon the division of the House rejected with the difference of twenty nine Voices viz. with the Yea a hundred and seventeen and with the No a hundred forty six The Bill for levying of certain sums of money due to the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and Sturdy Beggars And the Bill for extirpation of Beggery was committed to the same Committees And then were the said eleven Bills concerning the relief of the Poor and the punishment of idle and sturdy Beggars delivered to Sir Robert Wroth together with the names of the Committees whose names being for the most part omitted upon the said Saturday the 19 th day of this instant November foregoing when the said first Bill touching the erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars was first committed unto them are here all expresly named with such as were added unto them Now in respect that nine other Bills were this present Tuesday referr'd likewise to them as Committees to consider of them being a thing scarce to be pattern'd that one and the same Committee had at one and the same time eleven Bills in agitation before them though all upon the matter tending to a like end and purpose the said Committees were as followeth viz. Mr. George Moore Masters Attorneys of the Dutchy and Court of Wards Mr. Francis Bacon Sir Thomas Philips Sir Thomas Cecill Sir William Moore Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Edward Philips Mr. Recorder of London Sir Thomas Maunsell All the Readers of the Houses of Court Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. Miles Sandes Mr. Finch Mr. Colbrond Mr. Edmund Boyer Mr. Edward Leukenor Mr. Henry Warner Mr. John Boyer Mr. Rosse Mr. Whalley Sir William Cornwallis Mr. Lea Mr. Hext Mr. Richard Mills Mr. Thomas Smith Mr. Lea of Lincolns-Inn All the Serjeants at Law Mr. James Harrington Mr. Wingfield Sir Thomas Hobbie Sir Anthony Cope Mr. Mark Steward Mr. Henry Yelverton Mr. William Coke Mr. George Rotheram Mr. Fettiplace Mr. Winch Mr. Hide All the Knights of Shires the Burgesses of Hull Mr. John Hare Mr. Coleman Mr. Hugh Biston All Citizens of Cities and Mr. Tasborough to which Committees this present Tuesday also were added Mr. Arnold and Mr. Hubbard Sir Edward Hobbie one of the Committees in the Bill against Counterfeiting of the hands of the Lords who were appointed on Saturday the 12 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed their meeting yesterday and complaining that albeit Yesterday last in the Afternoon was appointed for their meeting and the Committees names with the time and place read yesterday in the House none except Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor himself and one other more of the said Committees came to the said Committee so that nothing was done therein And so the names of the said Committees being eftsoons now read by the Clerk the
Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae fidei defensor c. Sexto in quem diem praesens hoc Parliamentum Prorogatum fuerat convenerunt Domini tam spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Marchio Winton Thesaurarius Comes Suffex Comes Huntington Episcopus London Episcopus Roffen Dominus Clinton Admirallus Dominus Howard Camerarius Dominus Cobham Dominus Hunsdon Qui cum convenissent una cum populi atque Burgensium ut vocant satis magna frequentia praedictus Archiepiscopus Cantuarien paucis verbis declaravit conventum Procerum populi quem Parliamentum vocant in hunc diem destinatum à dicta domina Regina ccrtis quibusdam de causis considerationibus illam ad id specialiter moven differri in tricesimum diem Aprilis prox futurum atque ut tam proceribus quam populo palam fieret Regiam Majestatem ita constituisse Literas Commissorias dict Dominae Reginae Francisco Spilman Armig Clerico Parliamenti publicè clarâ voce legendas in manus tradidii Earum autem Tenor sequitur in haec verba Elizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei defensor c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Matheo Cantuarien Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac Charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Willielmo Marchioni Winton Thesaurario Angliae ncc non charissimis consanguineis suis Thomae Comiti Sussex Henrico Comiti Huntingdon Reverendis in Christo patribus Edmundo Episcopo London Edmundo Episcopo Roffen ac etiam praedilectis fidelibus consiliariis suis Edwardo Domino Clinton magno Admirallo suo Angliae Willielmo Domino Howard de Essingham Domino Camerario suo ac praedilectis sidelibus suis Willielmo Domino Cobham Gardiano sive Custodi quinque portuum suorum ac Henrico Domino Hunsdon salutem Cum nuper pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernen praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitat nostram Westmonasterii duodecimo die Januarii Anno regni nostri Quinto inchoari teneri ordinaverimus à quo die idem Parliamentum nostrum tunc ibidem tent continuat fuerat usque decimum diem Aprilis tunc prox sequen ac post diversas Prorogationes idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in instantem Quintum diem Octobris Prorogatum ibidemque tunc tenend prosequend Sciatis tamen quod certis urgentibus causis considerationibus nos specialiter moven idem Parliamentum nostrum ulterius Prorogand duximus de sidelitate igitur prudentiâ circumspectione vestris plurimum considentes de avisamento assensu Concilii nostri assignavimus vos tres vestrum dantes vobis novem octo septem sex quinque quatuor tribus vestrum tenore praesentium plenam potestatem facultatem authoritatem hoc instan die Jovis ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum nomine nostro ad in tricesimum Aprilis prox futur usque praedictam Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii Prorogand continuand ibidemque tunc tenend prosequend ideo vobis mandamus quod circa praemissa diligenter intendatis ea in formâ praedicta effect ualiter expleatis Damus autem universis singulis Archiepiscopis Ducibus Magnatibus Comitibus Vice-Comitibus Episcopis Baronibus Militibus Civibus Burgen ac omnibus ahis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum conventur tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis quod vobis in praenissis faciend pareant obediant intendant prout decet In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium Quinto die Octobris Anno Regni nostri Sexto The like Commission bearing date 30. die Aprilis An. 7 Eliz. was directed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norsolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Derby Thomas Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntingdon the Earl of Pembroke the Earl of Warwick and the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Cobham Warden of the Cinque-Ports the Lord Wentworth and the Lord Hunsdon Authorizing them 17 16 15 14 13 c. or three of them to Prorogue and continue the Parliament ut supra in the other Commissions mutatis mutandis unto the 4 th day of October next coming Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium 30 die Aprilis Anno Regni nostri Septimo On which 30 th day of April the Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Derby the Earl of Sussex the Earls of Huntingdon Pembroke and Warwick the Bishop of London the Lord Admiral the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Cobham the Lord Wentworth and the Lord Hunsdon did meet in the Parliament Chamber and in due and accustomed Form did Adjourn the Parliament unto the 4 th day of October according to the said Commission last specified and caused the said Commission to be publickly read by Francis Spilman Esq Clerk of the Parliament in hearing of the Commons then also present according to antient Custom in that behalf On the 4 th day of October Anno Regni Reginae Eliz. Septimo The like Commission ut supra bearing date the said 4 th day of October directed unto the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Sussex Chief Justice of all Forrests c. on this side Trent Ambrose Earl of Warwick Master of the Ordnance the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Rochester Edward Lord Clinton great Admiral of England William Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain Thomas Lord Wentworth and Henry Lord Hunsdon authorizing them 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 and 3. ut antea mutatis mutandis to Prorogue and continue the same Parliament in Septimum diem Februarii prox futurum Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium 4 die Octobris Anno Regni nostri Septimo Which Commission was read by the Clerk of the Parliament in the Parliament Chamber in presence of ten of the Commissioners and of the Commons Memorandum quod hodie septimo die Februarii Anno Regni Eliz. Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae sidei defensor c. Octavo in quem diem praesens hoc Parliamentum Prorogatum suer at convenerunt Domini tam spirituales quam temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur viz. Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Nicolaus Bacon Miles Custos magni Sigilli Marchio Winton Thesaurar Dux Norfolc Comes Marescallus Marchio North Comes Sussex Comes Warwick Episcopus London Episcopus Roffen Dominus Clinton Admirallus Dominus Howard Camerarius Dominus Wentworth Dominus de Hunsdon Qui cum convenissent unà cum populi atque Burgen ut vocant satis magnâ frequentiâ praedictus Nicolaus Bacon
Declaration of the Queens great Charges in defending New-Haven in France in repairing and increasing the Navy and Munition her Charges also against John Oneyle in Ireland and immediately thereupon all the Privy-Council being Members of this House the Master of the Rolls and forty others of the House whose names are omitted through the negligence of the Clerk were nominated and appointed to consider of the rate and payment of some supply and aid to be given to her Majesty and Ordered to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Star-Chamber On Friday the 18 th day of October Four Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill touching prices of Barrels and Kilderkins was read the third time A Motion was made by Mr. Molineux for the reviving of the Suit touching the Declaration of a Successor in case her Majesty should die without Issue of her own Body which Suit had been first moved by the House and their Petition preferred therein in the first Session of this Parliament in Anno 5 Regin Eliz. and that the said business touching the Declaration of a Successor and the Subsidy Bill might proceed together which Motion was very well approved by the greater part of the said House And thereupon divers Propositions and Reasonings ensued this great business being once moved although it should seem in the conclusion thereof that the greater part of the House were resolved to recontinue the said Suit and to know her Highness Answer Although Sir Ralph Sadler Knight Banneret one of her Privy-Council had declared and affirmed unto the House that he had heard the Queen say in the presence of divers of the Nobility that for the Wealth of the Realm her Highness was minded to Marry Vide plus concerning this matter on Monday the 25 th day of November following whither all the days are referred on which this business was agitated On Saturday the 19 th day of October the Bill touching Fines and Recoveries to be good from the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth although the Originals be lost was read the second time and as it should seem was committed to M r Seckford and others Three Bills finally were brought down to the House from the Lords of which one was the Bill for the Indenization of John Stafford born beyond the Seas and another for prevention of fraudulent gifts in Bankrupts Mr. Secretary Cecill and Sir Francis Knolles her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain declared unto the House that the Queens Majesty was by Gods special Providence moved to Marriage and that she mindeth for the Wealth of her Commons to prosecute the same Sir Ambrose Cave Chancellor of the Dutchy and Sir Edward Rogers Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold affirmed the same and thereupon perswaded and advised the House to see the sequel of that before they made further Suit touching the Declaration of a Successor But against this Opinion divers Lawyers of the House although their names are negligently omitted the chief of them being Mounson Bell and Kingsmill did argue very boldly and judiciously And so prevailed with the greatest part of the House as that it was resolved contrary to the foregoing Motion of those of her Majesties Privy-Council to recontinue their Suit touching the Declaration of a Successor and to get the Queens Answer And to that end it was Ordered that all the Privy-Council being Members of this House with forty four others whose names are omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the said House should meet to Morrow to consult and advise in what manner they might move the Lords of the Upper-House to join with them in this matter This is the second day in which this great business was agitated in the House of Commons upon which doubtless those four Privy-Councellors who first moved to have a stop made of it did it not without her Majesties special Direction who as it is very probable foresaw even then the great inconveniencies which the further prosecution thereof would produce as see more at large that it did indeed so fall out upon Monday the 25 th day of November ensuing M r Secretary Cecill seeing his former Motion could not prevail to stop the foregoing resolution of the House partly as may be conjectured to divert it and partly that the matter of supply might preceed it made a Declaration of the Rates of one Subsidy and one fifteenth and tenth according to the proportion of that Subsidy which had been given in the first Session of this Parliament in an 5 Regin Eliz. but withal proposed further days of payment October the 20 th Sunday On Monday the 21 th day of October some Addition which had been annex'd to the Bill touching Coopers as it should seem after the third reading thereof which was on Friday the 18. day of this instant October foregoing was read the first second and third time and so passed with the Bill Three other Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill to take Clergy from Cut-Purses and Pick-Purses was read the third time and passed upon the Question These two foregoing Bills which passed this House this Morning were sent up to the Lords by Mr. Comptroller with all the Committees who were appointed on Saturday the 19. day of this instant October foregoing in the great business touching her Majesties Declaration of a Successor with Order also from the House to move the Lords to join with this House in the said Suit to her Majesty Vide plus concerning this business on Monday the 25. day of November ensuing Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Sealing of Cloaths by the Alneager of Lancaster was read the second time and as it should seem committed to Mr. Southerly and others The Committees brought word from the Lords upon their request that they coming again to the Lords on the Morrow following should have Answer On Tuesday the 22. day of October the Bill Confirming the Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops within this Realm was read the third time and passed upon the Question Doctor Vaughan and Mr. Martin brought word from the Lords that their Lordships desired the Committees of this House to defer their coming unto them until to Morrow But about what business the said meeting should then be is through the great negligence of Mr. Seymour at this time Clerk of the House of Commons wholly omitted although it were doubtless touching those two great businesses of her Majesties Marriage and the Declaration of her next Successor For the consideration of which the House had appointed a select Committee being the same here mentioned on Saturday the 19. day of this instant October foregoing and had yesterday sent them up to the Lords to 〈◊〉 their Lordships to join with them in Petitioning her Majesty touching the same And it should seem the reason why their Lordships deferr'd their Answer this day contrary to their appointment yesterday was because the
House of Commons by two Doctors Nota That though this Bill were upon Wednesday last past being the 9 th day of this instant December referred to Committees yet no mention is made in the Original Journal-Book when it was again returned or brought into the House by the said Committees by whom it is most probable that these amendments were added unto it and for the passing of which the said Bill was at this time sent down to the House of Commons having formerly passed that House and been sent up from thence to the Lords before the aforesaid new amendments had been added by them on Monday last past being the 7 th day of this instant December The Bill touching the Lord Dacres and the Lord Norris was read prima vice Memorand That upon the Petition of the Lord Norris the Lords Ordered that he and the Lord Dacres with their Council should be heard upon Saturday next to Answer the said Bills Memorand That touching the former Order Entred primo die Decembris concerning James Diggs for that there wanted words for the discharge of the Bond and Sureties of the said James Diggs This day the Lords Ordered that the appearance of the said James Diggs by rendring himself in the Exchequer was and should be a sufficient discharge of his Sureties and their Bonds and that the Bonds should be redelivered and that this Order should be added to the former Order Memorand That where the said James Diggs exhibited to the Court a Bill of complaint in form of supplication against Sir Roger Manwood Knight Lord Chief Baron the Lords having heard the Parties and the Witnesses of M r Diggs and deliberately considered the Contents thereof with one consent agreed and adjudged that the said complaint was untrue and unjustifiable against the Lord Chief Baron And further Ordered that the said James Diggs by humble submission and open recognition should confess and acknowledge his fault And that the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Lumley the Lord North and the Lord S t John of Bletsoe the Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Gawdy should peruse and consider the said recognition whether it were made in due form and that then it should be Entred on Record Vide touching this matter on Tuesday the first day of this instant December foregoing On Tuesday the 15 th day of December four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for confirmation of her Majesties Letters Patents granted to Queens-Colleà ge in Oxford was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum This day James Diggs Gent. did according to their Lordships Order made yesterday humbly submit himself in manner and form following as it stands Entred upon Record in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament The humble Submission of James Diggs unto the High Court of Parliament as well for his contempt unto the said Court as unto Sir Roger Manwood Lord Chief Baron by his untrue and unadvised Speeches in his Bill of complaint Whereas I James Diggs did of late exhibite a Bill of complaint unto your honourable Lordships in this High Court of Parliament against the said Lord Chief Baron wherein amongst other things is contained as followeth that is to say That the said Lord Chief Baron doth still continue an obstinate intention to frustrate your Lordships honourable Order taken for the discharging of the great Bonds of the said James Diggs his Sureties boldly saying that the same your Lordships honourable Order should be undone or brought about again as by the said Bill of complaint doth appear And whereas also it pleased your most honourable Lordships upon the humble Petition of me the said James Diggs to call before your honourable Lordships that Witness which I the said James Diggs did avow for the proof of the Allegations before rehearsed in the said Bill of Complaint against the said Lord Chief Baron which Witness being heard and examined at large touching the said Allegations with the circumstances of the same openly before your honourable Lordships in this High Court of Parliament it hath plainly and evidently appeared that there was no such obstinate intention in the said Lord Chief Baron nor that he did utter the said words or Speeches above-mentioned Whereupon it hath pleased your honourable Lordships to Order that I the said James Diggs should before your Lordships openly in this honourable Court of Parliament recognize my fault for this my untrue and unadvised complaint against him Wherefore I the said James Diggs being now heartily sorry for my said untrue and unadvised complaint in the Speeches aforesaid exhibited against the Lord Chief Baron do openly before your Lordships in this most High Court of Parliament consess and acknowledge my said offence in my said unadvised and untrue complaint made against the said Lord Chief Baron And do here before your Lordships heartily pray and desire the said Lord Chief Baron to remit and forget my said offence in my untrue and unadvised complaint made against him and withal do most humbly beseech all your Lordships to pardon my contempt and offence committed to this most High Court in exhibiting unto your Lordships of the said unadvised and untrue complaint Vide the former proceedings of this case of James Diggs Gentleman on Tuesday the first day and on Monday the 14 th day of this instant December foregoing Nota also That there is no continuance or adjournment of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor in usual form entred in the Original Journal-Book which seemeth to have happened through the negligence of the Clerk of the Parment but it is easie to be conjectured the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto nine of the Clock in the forenoon of Wednesday next following On Wednesday the 16 th day of December two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against scandalous Libelling was read secundâ vice and committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Archbishop of York the Lord Treasurer and others the Master of the Rolls the two Chief Justices the Queens Serjeant and Attorney Nota That here not only the Judges which are but Assistants to the Lords but also the Queens Council which are but meer Attendants upon the upper House are made joynt Committees with the Lords On Thursday the 17 th day of December the Bill for restitution in blood of Thomas Howard Son of Thomas Howard late Dake of Norfolk was read primâ vice And the same Bill was again read secundà tertiâ vice and by all the Lords concluded and sent to the House of Commons by two Doctors being Masters of the Chancery Nota The speedy passing of this Bill by vouchsasing of it three readings at one time each after other did express the special desire of the Lords to pass this Bill with as much honour as lay in them to do Eight other Bills of no great moment
Regina ac tempore cujus contrarii memoria hominum non existit in eadem usitat approbat breve de Cap. ad satisfaciendum versus cundem Tho. Gonnell pro debito damnis praedictis in placito praedicto prosequi returnari deberet antequam aligned breve de seire facias versus manucaptores praedictos in loquela illa impetrari seu prosequi deberet licet consuetudo sorma captionis recognitionum in Curia praedict a usae suerunt in sorma praedicta viz. Si contigerit cundem Thomam Gonnel in placito praedicto convinci tunc iidem Manucaptores concesserunt quilibet corum per se concessit tam debitum praedictum quà m omnia hujusmodi damna nune custag ' quae praesato Johanni Hunt in ea parte adjudicentur de terris Catallis suis cerum 〈◊〉 it sieri ad opus praedicti Johannis Hunt 〈◊〉 si consigerit praedictum Thomam Gonnell debitum damna illa praefato Johanni Hunt minimè 〈◊〉 aut si pri onae Marescal ' Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina ea occasione non reddere c. Et peturt iidem Richardus Harbert Johannes Awbery Willielmus Filian Simon Browne quod Judicium praedictum processus super 〈◊〉 praedicta de seire 〈◊〉 prosecut in Curia dict' Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina revocetur adnulletur penitus pro nullis habeatur Et super hoc Domini per 〈◊〉 Justiciariorum post longam maturam deliverationem uno consensu adjudicaverunt ..... quod judicium praedictum processus super brevia praedicta de scire sac ' prosecut ' in Curia dictae Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina revocetur adnulletur penitus pro nullis habcatur On Wednesday the 10 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Monday last continued Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents made unto the Dean and Chapter of Norwich was read prima vice Six Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for Provision to be made for the Surety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the continuance of the Realm in Peace was read prima vice On Thursday the 11 th day of March Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the last recited Bill for Surety of the Queens Royal Person c. was read secunda vice And the second being the Bill for the good Government of the City and Borough of Westminster in the County of Middlesex was read tertia vice with a Schedule and certain Amendments quae communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa dat' Doctori Barkeley Servienti Rolls in Domum Communem deferend Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon About which hour the Lords Spiritual and Temporal meeting six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill concerning the Lady Marchioness of Winchesters Jointure was read secunda vice commissa to the Master of the Rolls and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas For as much as in the matter depending now in Parliament by Writ of Error brought by John Akerode Thomas Stanfeild and divers others against Richard Whalley Defendant for reversing of certain Errors supposed by the said Plaintiff to be in the said Defendants Grandfathers form of Pleading and other things in his Recovery of the Mannor of Eringden in the County of York it hath appeared to this honourable Court by the Certificate of the Lords Chief Justices the Master of the Rolls and others being by this Honourable Court appointed Committees to hear and examine the matter privately before them that the Writ of Error and the scire facias are insufficient in Law for divers Causes opened to this Court. Therefore it is Ordered by the Lords that the same Writ of Error shall abate and the Plaintiffs to pursue their further remedy as they shall thing good On Saturday the 13 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued the Bill for Provision to be made for the Surety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the continuance of the Realm in Peace was read tertia vice quae communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa with one amendment in the 44. line that is after this word left put out so as and in place thereof put in foreseeing that This amendment was made after the third reading and before the Bill was put to the question and was delivered to Doctor Barkeley and Serjeant Rodes to be carried to the Lower House with the Bill for the better observing of the Sabbath day with request for that there are whole Sentences inserted into the said Bill for the Sabbath day and the Bill would remain a very soul Record it might be fair written again Vide concerning this Bill of the Sabbath on Wednesday the third day and on Saturday the 6 th day of this instant March foregoing Two other Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Oxford-Haven was read tertia vice expedita Four Bills lastly were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty On Monday the 15 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued prima secunda tertia vice lecta est schedula of the amendments of the Bill against Jesuits sent from the House of Commons quae communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa est with an Addition to the said Schedule added by them of the House of Commons data Doctori Barkeley Servienti Rolles in Domum Communem deferend Six several Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for Consirmation of the Subsidy of six shillings in the pound granted by the Clergy was read prima vice commissa ad ingrossandum Three Bills lastly were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill for the renewing continuance explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon about which time the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the payment and satisfaction of the Debt of William last Lord Marquess of Winchester deceased due to the Queens Majesty was read prima vice On Tuesday the 16 th day of March Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the
matters of Merchandize or Shipping The business which had been disputed of in the House on Thursday foregoing was this day again debated and as it should seem some moved to know whether the Antient Knights and Burgesses still remaining since the last Session in Anno 5 Regin Eliz. ought not to take again the Oath of Supremacy as well as those that were newly Elected and returned Although it were the general Opinion and Vote of the House as may be gathered that the new Knights and Burgesses only should be sworn yet it was committed to M r Secretary Cecill M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Kingsmill and others not named to consider thereof and to certify the House which they did accordingly on the Morrow following On Tuesday the 8 th day of October the Bill touching the ingrossing of Tallow and Kitchin-stuff was read the first time M r Kingsmill one of the Committee appointed yesterday to consider whether the Antient Members of the House which had taken the Oath the last Session in An. 5 Regin Eliz. should now have it administred unto them again or whether those only who were newly Elected and returned at the beginning of this present Session and to certifie thereof accordingly made Declaration this Forenoon by the Assent of the said Committee that the former Knights and Burgesses should not be sworn but those only who were newly returned A Motion was made that ..... Gardiner one of the Burgesses of the House remained now Prisoner in the Flect and desired to be restored to the said House whereupon the Master of the Rolls and the Master of the Requests were appointed by the House to repair unto the Lord Keeper in the name of the same House to know the cause of his said Imprisonment and to demand his Restitution To which Question and Request the said Lord Keeper did send his Answer by them on the Morrow following On Wednesday the 9 th day of October Two Bills had each of them their first reading of which the second was the Bill for buying of course Woolls in the North parts The Master of the Rolls who had been sent yesterday with the Master of Requests unto the Lord Keeper touching ..... Gardiner a Member of this House declared from his Lordship that he might be restored to this House again with condition that upon Prorogation or Dissolution of this present session of Parliament he might be Prisoner again Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill touching ingrossing of Tallow and Kitchin stuff was upon the second reading rejected On Thursday the 10 th day of October Two Bills had each of them their first reading of which the second being the Bill for continuance of divers Acts of Parliament to the end of the next Parliament was read the first time The new Bill also touching Apparel of the Laity and Clergy was this day brought into the House but whether it was read or no cannot certainly be set down The Dean of Westminster who had been appointed on Monday the 7 th day of this instant October foregoing to shew the Priviledges of the Sanctuary of the said Church had further day given him this instant Thursday upon the Motion of M r Speaker until Wednesday next being the 16 th day of this instant October following On Friday the 11 th day of October the Bill that Sussex and Surrey and other Counties never having but one Sheriff may have several Sheriffs was read the first time and under the Title of the said Bill at the bottom of it is written M r Vice-Chamberlain which is all that is usually done also under the Title of any Bill which is committed upon the second reading whether M r Vice-Chamberlain or any other be one of the Committees named such is the imperfect setting down of things in these former times and therefore to what end M r Vice-Chamberlains name should be added in this place I cannot guess unless this Bill were committed upon the first reading as many others have been or else that he brought in the Bill and commended it to the House The new Bill against Informers upon penal Statutes was this day brought into the House and read the first time On Saturday the 12 th day of October the Bill touching prices of Barrells by Coopers as in the Statute Anno 24 Hen. 8. was read the first time Two Bills lastly against Informers upon penal Statutes were each of them read the second time and as it should seem were thereupon committed to M r Vice-Chamberlain and others On Monday the 14 th day of October Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill touching prices of Barrels and Kilderkins sold by Coopers was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed Upon Complaint made by M r Graston against one Philpot a Pursuivant in the Court of Wards touching two Promoters for Extortion the said Pursuivant was sent for On Tuesday the 15 th day of October the new Bill touching Apparel to be worn by the Laity and Clergy was read the second time and as it should seem was thereupon committed to M r Vice-Chamberlain and others Two Bills were brought from the Lords to the House of Commons by M r Serjeant Carus and M r Attorney of which the first was the Bill touching Fines and Recoveries and the second was the Bill to take away Clergy from Offenders in certain Cases On Wednesday the 16 th day of October Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Assurance of Fines and Recoveries to be good from the beginning of the Reign of Queen Eliz. although the Original be imbezelled was read the first time This Morning finally the Dean of Westminster according to the appointment of the House on Thursday last the 10 th day of this instant October foregoing was present at the Bar with his Councel viz. Mr. Edmond Plowden of the Middle-Temple and Mr. Ford a Civilian The Dean himself made an Oration in defence of the Sanctuary and alledged divers Grants by King Lucius and other Christian Kings and Mr. Plowden alledged the Grant for Sanctuary there by King Edward five hundred years ago viz. Dat. in An. 1066. with great reasons in Law and Chronicle and Mr. Ford alledged divers Stories and Laws for the same and thereupon the Bill was committed to the Master of the Rolls and others not named to peruse the Grants and to certifie the force of the Law now for Sanctuaries On Thursday the 17 th day of October the Bill affirming the Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops within this Realm was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold moved the House to have consideration of the Queens Majesties late great and extraordinary expences to proportion out some supply accordingly And thereupon Sir William Cecil Knight her Highness Principal Secretary made an Excellent