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A34712	An exact abridgement of the records in the Tower of London from the reign of King Edward the Second, unto King Richard the Third, of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings reign, and the several acts in every Parliament : together with the names and titles of all the dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons, summoned to every of the said Parliaments / collected by Sir Robert Cotton ... ; revised, rectified in sundry mistakes, and supplied with a preface, marginal notes, several ommissions, and exact tables ... by William Prynne ...	England and Wales. Parliament.; Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6489; ESTC R1629	813,278	764

money the King establisheth the order ensuing for passage over of Wools thinking thereby the more speedily to come by great sums to his content The print touching Merchant strangers cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The print touching the Staple to be open to all Merchants whatsoever cap. 2. agreeth with the Record The print touching a Subsidy for keeping the Seas cap. 3. agreeth with the Record The print touching the old Estates that ought to come into the Parliament cap. 4. agreeth with the Record The print touching the inquiry of Heresies cap. 5. agreeth with the Record Anno Quinto Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Westminster the day after All Souls in the fifth year of King Richard the Second FOr that this year All Souls fell on Saturday the Parliament was adjourned until Munday ensuing on which Munday the King and many Bishops and Lords came but for that sundry Sheriffs made no return of their Writs the Parliament was adjourned untill Tuesday after on which day the King and Lords and Bishops came into the White Chamber at Westminster and caused the names of the Knights and Burgesses to be called where upon the default of sundry of them the Parliament was therefore adjourned unto Wednesday after On which Wednesday for that great debate rose between the Duke of Lancaster and the Earl of Northumberland so as great force of arms men and Archers armed in warlike manner on both sides came to the Parliament whereof great complaint being made to the King the King with his Councel and Nobles were much busied to appease the same the King therefore adjourned the same Parliament till Saturday after On that same Saturday the King being in Parliament and the Councel being called by their names William Cant. elect and confirmed Chancellor of England began to declare the cause of the Parliament taking for this his Theam Rex convenire fecit consilium whereupon in English he made a good Oration applying it to the good vertuous government of the King and of his reign affirming that no reign could long endure if vice reigned therein the which to redress by this Parliament that could not be by the order of the other Law the King therefore had called the same Receivers of petitions for England Ireland and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Triers of petitions for England c. as above Triers of petitions for Gascoin c. as above The which done the Chancellor declared That on Munday the cause of the Parliament should more especially be declared willing all men therefore to attend The Wednesday after but certainly it should seem to be the Munday the Commons were all called by their names within the Chamber Blank where Sir Hugh Segrave Treasurer of England by the Kings Commandment remembred the Oration of the Archbishop of Canterbury and said that the especiall cause was to maintain the liberties of the Church and to provide for the observation of the peace and namely to punish the horrible tumults and rebellion made against the King in those tumults who was enforced to grant manumissions to the bondmen and others of the Realm as on them having Kingly power under the Great Seal of England The which he knowing to be done against Law willed them to seek remedy accordingly due for the confirmation or revocation thereof In the end he touched the Kings great want whereof certain of the Council should make them privy And so wishing them thereof to have due consideration wished the Commons to depart to their accustomed place within the Abby of Westminster The Monday after in the third day of the Parliament being the eighteenth day of November the Commons came into the Parliament to present Sir Richard Walsgrave knight whom they had chosen their Speaker who excused himself and desired to be discharged of the office whereunto the King on his allegiance willed him to stand being chosen by his companions Thereupon the said Sir Richard maketh the common protestation He then required a more full declaration of the Kings meaning either by a mean rehearsal or by his repetition The King therefore appointed Sir Richard le Scroop knight and created Chancellor to do the same who did so and namely touching the Repeal of the Manumissions made to the Bondmen Whereto all the Commons cryed with one voice that the Appeal was good and lawful adding That such infranchisement could not pass without their consents and so upon the prayer of the Commons the same Repeal was by assent confirmed Certain Bishops Lords and Nobles upon the request of the Commons are appointed to confer with them After this Conference the Commons thought it good that the King would grant a general Pardon to the offenders in these tumults The Commons require That of the particular consultations of the Bishops Lords and Justices a hearing might be brought to them Whereunto was answered that the old custom was that the Commons should bring to the Lords their conceits and devises and not to the contrary The which the King would should be observed The Commons afterwards coming into the Parliament and making their protestation shewed that for want of good redress about the Kings person in his houshold in all his Courts touching Maintainers in every County and Purveyors the Commons were daily pilled and nothing defended against the Enemy and that it would shortly deprive the King and undo the whole State Wherefore in the same Government they intirely require remedy Whereupon the King appointed sundry Bishops Lords and Nobles to sit in Privy Council about these matters Who since that they must begin at the Head and go at the request of the Commons they in the presence of the King charged his Confessor not to come into the Court but upon the four principal Feasts The Devises of the Commons exhibited in a Schedule First that there may be appointed about the Kings person the most sage and approved wise men in the Court● the like Officers for the well governance of both That the most wise and able man in the Realm may be chosen Chancellor and that he seek to redress the enormities of the Chancery That the like order may be of the Treasurer Barons and Officers of the Exchequer That the like be made touching all the Justices of both Benches and that in th●s year two Justices two Serjeants and four Apprentices of the Law may be sworne to declare the delay and defects of the Law and that the same may be remedied That upon the accomplishment hereof the Commons may view the names of the persons and see the Ordinances before the confirming of them The provision may be made for observing of the peace and repressing of such tumults as late were

have also seduced Egypt even they that are the stay of the Tribes thereof The Lord hath mingled a spirit of Perversenesse in the midst thereof and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit Neither shall there be any work for Egypt which the head or tail branch or rush may doe So as we may justly conclude with that of Psal. 118 8 9. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in Princes yea or Parliaments Wherefore Put not your trust in Princes in Parliaments nor in any son of man in whom there is no help yea Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of For although usually in a way of ordinary providence In the multitude of Counsellers there is safety yet God many times in justice Leadeth the greatest Counsellers yea Parliaments themselves away spoyled and maketh the Iudges fools so that though they associate themselves together they shall be broken in pieces and though they take Counsel together yet it shall come to naught when God is not with but against them whereof we have seen many late sad domestick experiments to wean us from Deifying Idolizing of or over-much confiding in or depending upon Parliaments which have been so subject to Errors Deviations Abortions in former and later times Touching the Original of electing and sending Knights Citizens and Burgesses to our Parliaments it is very obscure and dubious Sir Robert Cotton the Author of this Abridgment In his brief Discourse concerning the Power of the Peers in Parliament in point of Iudicature affirms and proves That the Generale Placitum Universalis Synodus Magnum Commune Concilium of the Realm now stiled a Parliament was held Ceram Episcopis Magnatibus suis Or Coram Episcopis Principibus Regni in praesentia Regis This Great Court or Council consisting of the King and Barons ruled all affairs of State and controlled all Inferiour Courts Causes being referred and transferred out of the County and other Courts unto it propter aliquam dubitation●m quae emergit cum Comitatus nescit dijudicare as Glanvil in King Henry the seconds reign informs us and Bracton Britton with sundry Statutes and Records of later date with the antient presidents of Ethelwold Bishop of Wilton his sute against Leoftine and Q Edgin against Goda in the time of King Ethelred● the sute between the Bishop of Winton Durham in the time of St. Edward and one in the 10. year of the Conqueror evidence The power of the Peers in this Courtt and of certain Officers as the Steward Constable and Marshal fixed upon Families in fee for many ages was so transcendent that it seemed to be set to bound in the execution of Princes wills and grew fearfull to Monarchy Hereupon King Henry 3. when the daring Earl of Leicester was slain at the battel of Evesham by the dear experience himself had made at the Parliament at Oxford in the 40. year of his reign and the memory of the many streights his Father was driven unto especially at Runny-mead near Stanes wisely began to lessen the strength and power of his great Council weakning that hand of power which they carried in the Parliaments by commanding the service of many Knights Citizens and Burgesses to that Council NOW BEGAN saith he THE FREQUENT SENDING OF WRITS TO THE COMMONS THEIR ASSENTS not only used in Money Charge and making Laws For before ALL ORDINANCES PASSED BY THE KING PEERS but THEIR CONSENTS IN JUDGMENTS OF ALL NATURES WHETHER CIVIL OR CRIMINAL For proof whereof he produceth some succeeding presidents out of records When Adomar that proud Prelat of Winchester the Kings half Brother had grieved the State with his daring power he was exiled by the joynt consent of the King the Lords and Commons and this appeareth expresly by the Answer to the Letter sent by Pope Alexander the 4th expostulating a Revocation of him from Banishment because he was a Church-man and so not subject to Lay Censures In this the Answer is Si Dominus Rex et regni Majores hoc vellent COMMUNITAS TAMEN IPSIUS INGRESSUM IN ANGLIAM JAM NULLATENUS SUSTINERENT The Peers subjoyn this answer with their names and Petrus de Montford VICE TOTIUS COMMUNITATIS as SPEAKER or PROLOCUTOR OF THE COMMONS For by this stile Sir Io. Tiptoff Prolocutor affirmeth under his Arms the Deed of entail of the Crown by King Hen. 4. in the 8. year of his reign for ALL THE COMMONS By which passage and president it is apparent that in Sir Robert Cottons Judgement the Commons were not usually summoned to our Parliaments by writs till after 40 of King H. 3. and that purposely to curb and lessen the power of the Lords in Parliament This President he cites of Bishop Adomar out of the Leiger book of St. Albans falls in 44 H. 3. full 5 years before the Earl of Leicester was slain in which year Adomar died at Paris as he was posting from Rome into England to recover his Bishoprick Pope Alexander also dyed the same year 1260. in which I read there was a Parliament held but no mention of any Commons in it neither is there in our Records any Writ of Summons for electing Knights or Burgesses to repair to it in this year Onely I find there was a great difference then begun between King Henry and his Magnates Barones about the Ordinances made in the Parliament at Oxford which the King refused to observe contrary to his Oath from which he gained an absolution from the Pope I likewise read in William Rishanger his Continuation of Matthew Paris that this 44. year Magnates the Nobles not Commons sent quatuor Milites satis facundos qui Epistolam Sigillis suis firmatam Papae Cardinalibus exhi●erent containing many grievous accusations against this Bishop elect of Winton to hinder his promotion and return into England which Letter was sent from them sitting rather in a Military Councel at Oxford than in a true and real Parliament where Simon de Montsord Earl of Leicester Richard de Clare Earl of Gloucester MULTIQUE NOBILES IPSIS ADHAERENTES CONVENERUNT OXONIIS EQUIS ARMIS SUFFICIENTER INSTRUCTI finaliter statuentes in animo aut mori pro pace patriae aut pacis eliminare a patria turbatores as Rishanger relates Praeceperuntque omnibus qui eisdem servitium militare debuerant quatenus cum insis venirent parati veluti ad corpora sua contra hostiles insultus defensu●i Quod et fecerunt palliantes talem adventum eo quod in Walliam contra hostes Regis viderentur collectis viribus prof●cturi as Matthew Paris himself records Neither was this Letter signed and sealed by Peter de Montsord as Speaker or

could not be answered but after the same Feast the King would appoint certain to answer them After this the King gave thanks to the Lords and Commons for their travel and aid and licensed them to depart And after the great Councel summoned and holden at Winchester at the Utaves of Trinity th●n ensuing the Chancellor declared to the Lords and Commons there assembled how that their Grant of twenty two shillings four pence of every parish would not amount to Fifty thousand pounds for that by the return into the Chancery there were not so many parishes within the Realm Whereupon the Lords and Commons for the accomplishment of the aforesaid sum granted to the King of every parish Church assessed within the Realm Five pounds ten shillings comprising therein the aforesaid sum of twenty two shillings four pence excepting the County of Chester and all such lands of the Church as were amortized before the twen●ieth year of Edward the First The form of the Commission for this Subsidy was read before the King and the Collectors and Commissioners were appointed by the Knights of the Counties After this the Petitions of the Commons not before answered were now read and answered before the King Lords and Commons which done the King licensed the Estates to depart and the Parliament ended Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The print touching the observation of the great Charter cap. 1. agreeth with the Record For that the Realm had been of long time governed by men of the Church in dishereson of the Crown the Lords and Commons required that Lay men onely may be principal Officers of the Kings Courts and House there particularly named and that none of the Clergy be saving to the King his free election to choose and remove such Officers so as they be Lay. The King will therein do by the advice of his Councel It is agreed that every Petition now exhibited may be by some of the Lords considered That all Lands holden of the King in chief may be letten for life without licence The King will do his pleasure The print for the pulling down of Mills cap. 2. agreeth not fully with the Record That there be no Fines for any Writs of the Chancery The Chancellor shall consider the state of the person That no purveyance be made for the King but for ready money and that the King be served by common measure The Statute made shall be observed That no Eyre or Treilbaston be holden during the Wars It is enacted It is enacted that all men may freely buy and sell corn and victuals within the Realm The Print for the Wooll sold cap. 3. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form quod nota That in the extracts of green wax may mention be made at whose suits such amerciaments were lost in what Term in what plea and between what parties Let the same be provided at the next Parliament The like motion and Answer as at the last Parliament Num. 19. That the birth of any man to be tried by men as well of the Country where the birth is alleadged as in the same County where the Writ is brought The Law used herein shall stand That no Mayor Bayliff or any Sergeants be Victualler Hostler or Taverner during their Offices on pain of 20. l. There is in this case a certain Law That the Easterlings may find surety to entreat the English Merchants in their Countries in such wife as they are here The same so hath and shall be done as need shall require That all Merchants may pass over Wooll ●r●●ly The King will be advised That such Statutes as restrain the English Merchants to fetch wine at Goscoyne may be utterly repealed The Statutes heretofore made shall stand That all Corporations may enjoy their Liberties any Statute to the contrary notwithstanding Such as be grieved upon complaint shall be answered They affirm the decay of the Navy to arise by three causes viz. First For that sundry mens ships are staid for the King long before they serve whereby the owners are driven at their charges to finde their Marriners to their undoing Secondly For that Merchants the nourishers of the Navy are often restrained their shipping whereby Mariners are driven to seek other Trades and Livings Thirdly for that the Masters of the Kings ships do take up Masters of other ships as good as themselves are whereby the most of these ships do lye still and the Marriners are enforced to seek new Livings whereof they pray remedy The King will provide remedy That all such Merchants as plead the Kings pardon for their goods not customed may have the same allowed The grieved upon complaint shall be heard That every man may freely make Fortresses Towns and Walls karnelled and embattelled The King will be advised That such as sue forth Assizes be not driven to pay for the Justices Patent The same shall be as it hath been That the Commissioners for the Kings affairs may be allowed their charges of the profit of their Sessions The King will provide therefore That in Villenage alledged in the Plaintiff as regardant to the Mannor the Visne may be where the Mannor is laid The King will be advised That no man be put from his possession by an Inquest of Office taken before the Escheator or other Justice by Commission until the right be tried by Scire facias The Statute made therefore shall stand That no Sheriff or Escheator do remain above one year and they may dispend 20 l. within their own County The Statute made shall be kept That the Boys or Varlets of France being here shall be used either as Servants or as Bond-men Let them stay untill the next Parliament That the Statutes whereby Justices shall not stay to do justice for the Great or Privy Seal or other commandment and that no man be put to answer but by the due order of Law may be kept Such as are grieved shall be heard The Print touching Impositions on Woolls cap. 4. agreeth with the Record That none of the Commons House be appointed for the Subsidy The King will be advised That such as remain upon the Sea-coasts by the Kings commandment may have Protections with the clause Volumus The same is to the apparent loss of the Commons That such as counterfeit any mans seal to any Deed remain in perpetual prison The Statutes mad etherefore shall stand That all Scottish money be brought into the Kings Exchequer by a day The Answer cannot be read That the Statutes of the Priests by assent of the Clergy may be observed The

do keep thereupon saving that the King may shew favour where the same shall like him That such money as remaineth in the Prior of St Iohns of Ierusalems hands called Responcies may be converted to the Kings proffit The King willeth that the same be sent by the Covent to Rhodes to be imployed against the Miscreants That all Captains as well of the Marches as of Callice Brest Chirburgh and elsewhere may continue them in their Hands and not let the same to Farm It is enacted That Inquisition and redress may be had against such religious persons as under the License to purchase 10 l. yearly do purchase 24 or C l. The King will be advised That sufficient Suretie of the Sea be provided and the Admiralls names known The King by advise of his Councell shall provide therefore They require to know who shall be the Kings chief Officers and Governours of the State The King hath sufficient at this present and will change at his pleasure That such Patents as are granted unto any Lay-persons or secular Priest of any religious dignitie may be revoked and granted to like of profession The Statutes therefore made shall be observed The King at the petition of the Commons pardoneth the payment of Escuage for his voyage into Scotland It is enacted that the Treasurers appointed for this War shall defray no part of the Subsidy now granted otherwise than to the use of the War It is enacted that all the revenews as well in the Exchecquer as elsewhere shall be layed up for one whole year without any diminution thereof by any gift It is enacted that the Bishops of Winchester and Exeter and two Bannerets shall have power to search and to take order as well in the Cxxl. Respontions Scismaticks and other the Kings debts together with the Lords of the Councell That all Clarkes advanced to any Ecclesiast dignities or Livings by the King will grant to the King the first fruits of their Livings none otherwise than they would have done to the Pope being advanced by him It liketh the King so the Clergie will thereto accord That such as have any Fee of the King and serve him in Fee place may be appointed to serve the King on the Marches of Scotland except old and impotent It liketh the King for such as have to live on their money besides the Kings grant Note that of the Statutes of the 3.4 and 5. Chapters contained in the printed Book is no mention made in this Record Anno Decimo Richardi Secundi Rex c. Avunculo suo Edw. Duci Ebor c. Apud Westm. primo die Octobris Teste Rege apud Osney viii die Augusti Chariss avunculo Tho. Duci Gloucester Chariss fratri Tho. Com. Cantii Rico. Com. Arundell Tho Com. Ware Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Rob. de Vere Marchioni Dublin Henr. Percie Com. Northumb. Michaeli de la Poole Com. Suff. Hen. Com. Derby Tho de Mowbray Com Notting Nico. de Audley de Heleigh Iohi. de Fallesly Chlr. Tho. Camois Chlr. Guidoni de Bryan Iohi. de Clinton Gilberto de Talbot Iohi. de Ware Hen. de Scroope Chlr. Hen. de Ferrariis de Groby Iohi de Roos de Hamelake Willo Nevill de Raby Iohi. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Rico. de Scroope Rico. Talbot de Blackmore Iohi de Enerenx Hugoni Burnell Willo la Zouch de Harringworth Rogero Clifford Rado de Cromwell Rado Lumley Willo Thorpe Rado Baroni de Greystock Willo Botteraux Chlr. Iohi. de Bello monte Robto de Willoughby Iohi de Clifton Iohi. de Cobham de Kent Willo de Dacre Ioh. de Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmstryer Willo de Aldburgh Rico. Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Phillippo Darcey Thomae de Morley Iohi. de Bourchier Iohi Lovell de Fishmerch Iohi de Monteacuto Iohi. de Cherlton de Powis Tho. de Berkley Simoni de Burleigh Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the first o● October in the 10 th year of the Raign of K. Richard 2. ON this day Sir Michaell de la Poole Earl of Suffolk Chancellor of England by the Kings commandment in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared that the principall cause of the Parliament was for that upon a Councell late gathered at Oxford the King meant in person with an Army royall to pass into the parts beyond the Seas the which his purpose of the same continued it was then to be debated in what wise and wherewith the King should pass He sheweth that four causes moveth the King to pass The first for that he might with less charges assail his enemies than against them to make the defence The second to avoyd the reproch blazed of him that he durst not pass in person The third to purchase his right to the Crown of France The fourth thereby to win Renown and Honour And sith the French did daily make themselves strong to invade the Realm he wished them to consult thereon and for the maintenance of the Laws and preservation of the Peace Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyn and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above Tryars of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above Sir Michael de la Poole Earl of Suffolk and Chancellor of England was accused by the Commons in full Parliament before the King Bishops and Lords and had objected against him six severall Articles The first and chief of the same that he purchased Lands to a great value of the King during the time that he was Chancellor in deceit of the King The other five seemed of some importance but were onely quarrels and little matter To which Accusation the said Earl demanded of the Lords that sith he was Chancellor of England and therefore for the time represented the Kings person in his absence whether he should answer without the Kings presence for things done while he was Chancellor Secondly he said that by advice of his Counsell he had appointed Sir Richard le Scroope his Brother in Law to answer for him The Lords answered it was honest and fit for him to answer for himself Whereupon the Earl making Protestation that he might adde or diminish to his answer that which might be for him honourable by the advice of his Counsell they granted thereunto And to the first and chief Article the said Earl answered that while he was Chancellor he neither purchased Lands of the King nor the King gave any to him

and the Barons of the Exchecquer be made void That Inquisition may be made in every County of Liberties granted to any person and of the value so as upon returne of the same every Sheriff may be discharged of the same values The King will provide remedy by the advice of his Councell That no Protection to delay any man be granted That no man do carry any Victualls into Scotland or elsewhere by safe conduct or otherwise The King granteth with speciall Licence That there may be no more Serjeants at Arms than have been heretofore and that for doing otherwise than they should they may be expelled The Statutes of the Kings houshold shall be observed That no prorogation be granted from henceforth in Assize of Novell Dissesin or other Plea of Land in delay of the party If the same be demanded the King will be advised before he grant That every owner of a Ship serving the King may have for every Quarters service of the same Ship iii s iiii d. of every tun weight The King hath committed the same to his Councell to be considered of That all Bishops and Lords having their Resiants within the Counties of York Gumberland and VVestmorland may abide there upon a great pain The King will request and charge them so to do That all Grants of Comptrollers of Ports for life may be revoked and not the like hereafter granted They upon their Examinations shall continue hereafter and for their continuances the King will provide therefore That all Charters and Patents made in the time of the last Chancellor may be repealed by this Parliament The King granteth thereto by the advice of his Councell The Archbishop of Canterbury being appointed among other Lords by Commission to view the State of the Realm and being moved to answer for the execution of the same as all other Lords were maketh a long Protestation entred by word the effect whereof was That for as much as he and his Predecessors time out of minde had the Prerogative that they should and ought to be in all the Councels and Parliaments of the Prince and of the Realm and ought not to be sworn to any inferior unto the Pope and thereby ought not to be sworn yet of his meer good will saving the same his Prerogative he taketh upon him the Oath The King in full Parliament by his own mouth maketh open Protestation that for any thing which was done in the same Parliament he would not turne it to the Prejudice of him or of his Crown but that the Prerogative of him and his Crown might be saved It is to be remembred that this Parliament made an end on Wednesday the 20th of November Anno Vndecimo Richardi Secundi Rex c. Ed. Duci Eborum c. apud Westm. Cro. Purificationis Mariae Teste Rege apud Windsor xvii Die Decembris CHariss Avunculo Tho. Duci Gloucestriae Chariss Consanguineo Regis Rob. Duci Hiber Chariss Fratri Regis Thom. Com. Cantii Dilecto Confanguineo Ric. Com. Arundell Tho. de Bellocampo Com. War Ed. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. de Percie Com. Northum Hen. Com. Derby Tho. de Mowbray Com. Norff. Marescal Angliae Iacobo de Audley de Heleigh Ioh. de Fallesley Chlr. Tho. Camois Guid. de Bryan Ioh. de Clinton Ric. Talbot de Godricastle Ioh. de War Ric. le Scroope Chlr. Hen. de Ferrariis de Groby Ioh. Roos de Hamelake Ioh. de Nevell de Robie Ioh. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Ric. le Scroope Ric. Talbot de Blackmore Chlr. Ioh Deureeux Hugo Burnell Will. la Zouch de Harringworth Rogero Clifford Rado Cromwell Rado de Lumbley Will. de Thorpe Rado Baroni de Greystock Will. Botreaux Chlr. Ioh. de Bellomonte Rob. de Harrington Rob. de Willoughby Ioh. de Clinton Ioh. de Cobham de Kent Ioh. Beauchampe de Ridermi●● Will. Dacr● Ioh. le Strange de Knokin Tho de Nevill de Halmshyre Will. de Aldburg Rico Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Phillippo Darcey Thomae de Morley Ioh. de Bourchier Ioh. Lovell de Fishmerch Ioh. de Monteacuto Ioh. de Cherlton de Powis Tho. de Berkley Ioh. de Wells Philippo le de Spencer Simoni de Burley Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Vndecimo Richardi Secundi De essendo ad Parliamentum REx c. Avunculo suo Tho. Duci Gloucestriae Chariss fratri Rs. Tho. Com. Cantii Rico Com. Arundell Thom. Com. Warr. Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. de Percie Com. Northumb. Hen. Com. Derby Tho. de Mowbray Com. Norff. Marresc Angliae Nico. de Audley de Heleigh Ioh. de Fallesley Chlr. Tho. Camois Chlr. Guidoni de Brian Ioh. de Clinton Rico. Talbot de Greystock Ioh. de Roos de Hamelake Ioh. de Nevill de Rabie Hen. Gray de Wilton Hen. Fitz-Hugh Ric. le Scroope Ioh. Devereux Hugo Burnell Will. la Zouch de Harringworth Rogero Clifford Rado Cromwell Rado Lumley Will. Thorpe Rado Baroni de Graystock Ioh. de Bellomonte Rob. de Harrington Rob. de Willoughby Ioh. de Cobham de Kent Ioh. de le Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmshyre Ric. Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Philippo Dacry Tho. Morley Ioh. Bourchier Ioh Lovell de Fishmerch Ioh. Cherlton de Powis Tho. de Berkley Chlr. The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the Munday after the Purification of our Lady in the eleventh year of the raign of King RICHARD the second THe same day Thomas Bishop of Ely Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement declared very wisely eloquently the cause of the Parliament viz. by what means the great troubles grew within the Realm for want of good Government might be appeased the King better counselled the Realm better governed Peace better observed the laws more straightly maintained Justice more indifferently ministred Misdemeanors more severely punished and Well-doers the better cherished How also the Realm might be best defended how the Sea kept the Marches of Scotland well guarded and the parts of Guienne valiantly acquitted whereof some part was then besiedged and how the charges about these exploits might most easily be levied Receivers of the Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Triars of Petitions for England c. as above Triars of Petitions for Gascoin c. as above After this Thomas Duke of Gloucester kneeling before the King said that he understood how that the King was informed that he went about to depose the King and to make himself King wherefore he offered there to declare and shew his

Angliae Council Merchants Purveyance Merchants called to Parliament by Writ Pardons Pardon Powder Array Soldiers Scotland Barwick Soldiers Array Array Soldiers Roxsborough-Castle King of Scots Archbishop of York Vacancie Array Soldiers Imprest money Commission Justiceship Array Garrison Edinburgh Sterling Berwick Chamberlain Fees Victualler Array North-marches Victuals exported Scotland Commission Array Rebels Marshal-Law Pardons Peace Truce Martial Law Duke of Cornwal Custos Angliae Councellors of State Councellor of State Victuals Navy Writ of Summons Causes of Parliament Enemies Peace Defence Sea guarded Subsidy Proclamation Victory Aid Aid granted Privy-seal Kings Letters Victory Aid of money Victory Aid Kings Honor. 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AN EXACT ABRIDGEMENT OF THE RECORDS IN THE TOWER of LONDON From the reign of King Edward the Second unto King Richard the Third of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings reign and the several Acts in every Parliament Together with the Names and Titles of all the Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts and Barons summoned to every of the said Parliaments COLLECTED By Sir ROBERT COTTON Knight and Baronet Revised rectified in sundry mistakes and supplied with a Preface Marginal Notes Several Omissions and Exact Tables both of the Special Matters Great Officers Speakers Nobles and other Persons therein conteined By WILLIAM PRYNNE Esquire a Bencher of Lincolns Inne LONDON Printed for William Leake Stationer at the Crown in Fleetstreet between the two Temple Gates 1657. The Preface to the Reader COURTEOUS READER HAving already published to the World a Chronological Epitome or Summary Collection of all the extant Parliamentary Councils Synods and publike State-Assemblies held within the Realm of Great Britain upon several Occasions from the Britons first arival in it under King Brute as our old Historians generally assert till the Coronation of King William the Norman Anno Dom. 1066. conteining the space of 2390 years or thereabouts after the computation of the Chronicle of Bromton and others And having likewise an intention if God shall vouchsafe me life health liberty opportunity and encouragements to collect and publish an Exact Chronological History of all the Great Councils Synods Parliaments State Assemblies and the several Consultations Debates Acts Edicts Laws Statutes Ordinances Iudgements Petitions Proceedings in them and Writs of Summons to them extant either in Histories or Records all other usefull Records from the crowning of K. William the first Anno 1066. till the end of the reign of K. Charls 1648. A most necessary profitable useful Work never yet undertaken by any to my knowledge tending much to the Honour of our English Nation the Dignity of our Parliaments and Great Councils the advancement of our Laws and Learning the information instruction of the present times and future ages in our Parliamentary and State affairs of greatest concernment the enabling Members of Parliament both to know discharge their Duties and maintain their antient Privileges Jurisdictions better than in former times the preservation of our usefullest Parliamentary Rolls Journals and other Records from Suppression Embezlement Oblivion to rectifie sundry Gross mistakes both in our printed Statutes Law-books and Vulgar Historians The compleating of which vast undertaking requiring more toylsom Study Cost expence and time than yet I can bestow thereon I thereupon apprehended that I could not in the Interim perform a more profitable Service to my Country conducing towards the furtherance of that great Undertaking than at the earnest importunity of the Stationer and some special Friends to contribute my best directions assistance towards the printing and publishing of this Exact Abridgement of the Parliamentary Records in the Tower of London from the reign of King Edward 2. unto King Richard the 3. collected as is generally voiced believed by that most eminent industrious Collector of our best rarest English Antiquities Manuscripts Leger-books Records of all sorts Sir ROBERT COTTON whose famous Name and Memory alone are sufficient to adde more praise and lustre to this Abridgement than any Panegyrical Epistle I am able to prefix thereto This Exact Abridgement being licensed for the Press before the Stationer brought it me to peruse I thereupon diligently read over the Copy belonging formerly to a person of quality curiously bound up gilt and written in a very fair hand wherein I corrected several verbal mistakes of the Clerk in the Transcribing and comparing it with another Transcript of mine own supplyed some blank spaces in it together with the Abridgements of the whole Parliaments of 21 E. 3. 4. 16. Rich. 2. the explanation of the Charter of the Stanneries in the Parliament of 50 E. 3. the Abridgment of the beginning of the 1. Parliament of 5 R. 2. to numb 14. with the end of 15 R. 2. n. 36. c. wholly omitted in the Stationers Copy without any alteration except in the Clerks misprisions in or addition to the Text it self to avoid the Censure of being an over-officious Critick in another deceased honourable persons Posthumus Work After which perusal of the Copy finding neither Notes of direction in the Margin nor Tables in the end of this Abridgement to direct the Reader readily to finde out the principal things or Names of persons therein comprised I thereupon supplyed these defects with such Marginal Notes and Tables thereto annexed as might render it most usefull to the Buyers comprizing the Principal matters therein contained together with the Names of the Nobles and other persons mentioned therein in Alphabetical Tables with the names of the Admirals Chancellors Constables Marshals Iudges Protectors Privy Seals Speakers of Parliament Stewards of the Kings House and other Great Officers mentioned in it in a Chronological Order with the years Sections Pages wherein they are recorded Which additional Supplements will render it much more usefull and beneficial to the Reader upon all occasions than it would have been without them The Subject matter of this Exact Abridgement consisting wholly of Records or Rolls of Parliament and the principal matters of greatest publike and private concernment in Peace or War debated adjudged transacted in this supremest Court of the Realm both for Iudicature Consultation with the Names of all the Nobility summoned to or created in our Parliaments never formerly published in print and generally unknown to most Judges Lawyers Historians Gentlemen Bookmen of all Professions will sufficiently blazon and proclaim its Eminency Utility Excellency Complacency and Desirableness to every intelligent Reader beyond all other late publications and uncertain Reports of private Persons or Cases lately published or any Histories yet set forth without any other Proemial Encomiums yea the manifold discoveries it makes of the Variances of sundry printed Statutes from the Parliament Records both in form and substance and of divers bastard Statutes put in print never extant on Record which Sir Edward Cook hath gleaned out of this Abridgement and inserted into his 4 Institutes p. 50 51 52. though he there assumes the first discovery and honor of it to himself alone will undeniably demonstrate how worthy it is the most serious perusal of the greatest as well as meanest Professors of the Law who commonly take all printed Statutes and Reverend Sir Edward Cooks oft mistaken Records for undoubted Oracles without comparing them with the original Records themselves out of over-much laziness or credulity If any supercilious persons shall disdain or slight it because it is but an Abridgement and so not comparable to the Records themselves at large or object out of Sir Edward Cooks Reports and Institutes who oft forgot this lesson himself inculcates Satius et tutius est petere fontes quam sectari rivulos I answer That though

and levying of Hu● and Cry And it was by the King Bishops Lords and Commons enacted and agreed that a sentence of Excommunication should be published in every Church throughout the Realm 1. To excommunicate all Breakers of the Peace 2. To excommunicate all such as should defend receive or be privie thereunto 3. That all Obligations and such like instruments thereupon made be utterly void so far as lyeth in the Bishop and all others or by them dispenced By the fift and sixt titles before it may appear that at this time the Lords and Commons were of one House and that then there was no Speaker for the Commons Touching the Kings Voyage to the Holy Land it was thought too timely and therefore deferred for three years Touching the Treaty with the French and alliance by Marriage The King by Sir Ieffery le Scroop sheweth How the French King declareth to the Kings Ambassador that so as the King would come over in person he should finde great friendship Of whom requi●ing advice therein Answer was made That for those respect● they agreed thereunto deferring the Kings expedition into Ireland for one year so as aid might be sent in the mean time The Saturday next after the beginning of the Parliament the same was dissolved Touching the debate between Sir Iohn Grey of Rotherfield and Sir William de la Zouch which was heard before the King and his Councel in whose presence there fell great wo●ds between them so as the said Iohn drew his knife upon him in the Kings presence for the which they were both commanded to prison and being after brought forth to their answers the said William was delivered and the said Iohn recommitted to prison during the Kings pleasure Anno Sexto Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the morrow after the Nativity of our Lady in the Sixth year of King E. 3. THe Bishop of Winchester Chancellor of England declareth That the Parliament was called touching French affairs and the Kings expedition thither for repressing his Enemies At this day were proclaimed the Articles contained in the last Parliament 1.2.3 The Parliament was adjourned until Thursday following at what time considering the news from the North they doubted the Scots arrival Wherefore● the Bishops by themselves the Lords by themselves and the Knights by themselves advised the King to stay his journey into Ireland and to send thither a new supply of men and money to stay within the Realm and with an armed power to go towards the North there to lie ready for the Scot. Towards which Exploit They granted to the King one Disme and one Fifteen to be levied of the Laity so as the King will live of his own without grieving of his Subjects with outragious prizes or such like Whereupon The King revoked the new Commissions for rea●ing of Tallages and promiseth from henceforth to remise the same according to the old rate Anno Sexto Edwardi Tertii The Remembrances of the Parliament summoned at York the Friday next before the Feast of S. Michael in the Sixth year of Edward the Third Mense Decembris MEmorandum That the Parliament began before the King came to York On Friday the King was not come to York but remained not far from thence looking for the coming of such as were warned thereto Wherefore at this day the Parliament was adjourned till Monday after and from Monday until Tuesday then ensuing At which day Sir Ieffery le Scroop Knight by the K●n●s commandment shewed the Kings approach thither which was uttered in the last Parliament And for that he understood that Edward Bayliol had proclaimed himself King of Scotland he required Councel of the whole Estate viz. Whether it were better for him to assail Scotland or to claim the Demesne of the same or else by making himself party to take the advantage and thereby to enjoy the services as other his Ancestors had But forasmuch as most of the States were absent the Assembly require the continuance of the Parliament until the Utas of S. Hilary then next ensuing at York which was granted and new Summons e●pecially awarded to ev●ry p●rson with especial charge to attend so as the aff●irs between the King and th● Realm might not be delayed for the debate betwixt the Archbishops of Canterbury and York for their supreme bearing of their Crosses To th●s Parliament came no other of the Clergy then the Archbishop of York the Bishops of Lincoln and Carlile and the Abbots of York and Selby The Archbishop of Canterbury came not nor any other of his Province and all for bearing of the Cross. Whereby the same was not only loss of the opportunity to Scotland but also an importable charge to the whole Estate by a new Reassembly The Reassembly of the Parliament adjourned unto York unto the Uta's of S. Hilary 6. E● 3. REceivers of Petitions for England Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne Ireland Wales and the Foreign Isles Tryers of Petitions for England Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above An Order for the trying of Petitions as well before the King as before the Lords It was enacted That the Articles expressed in the last Parliam●nt should be proclaimed by the Steward and Marshal and by the Mayor and Bailiffs at York The same day commandment was given to the Mayor of York in the presence of the King in full Parliament to see the Peace kept in the same City and Suburbs thereof and to arrest them that did the contrary The Thursday after being the second day of the Parliament Sir Godfrey le Scroop in the presence of the King declareth to the whole Estates the Circumstances of the two last Assemblies and how the Bishop of Winchester and others were appointed to consult on certain causes The Saturday after the Bishop of Winchester and other Committees declared how he and they had consulted on the whole matter but for that the same greatly imported they were not therein fully resolved whereupon they wish the King to take advice of the Pope and of the French King for his better proceeding therein And further That the King would appoint Wardens of the Marches of the North. Whereupon the Commons had license to depart and the Lords commanded to attend unto the next day at which time the Parliament was dissolved Anno Octavo Edwardi Tertii Petitions and Acts moved at the Parliament holden at York the next before S. Peter in Cathedra 8. E. 3. IT was enacted That the great Charter of the Forrest and other Statutes should be observed and that such Statutes as be obscure by good advice shall be made plain That in every County be appointed one Justice of the Peace learned in the