another Bill against Moor-burning in the Counties of Northumberland Cumberland Westmerland and Durham with an amendment added unto it by the Lords were upon the third reading sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rolls and Doctor Ford. Three Bills also had each of them one reading being brought from the House of Commons of which the first was for redress of erroneous Judgments in the Court called the Kings-Bench Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon at which time the Lords Assembling themselves two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being against Glass-Houses and making of Glass by Aliens born was read the first time This Afternoon also the Lords having heard the Councel of both Parties touching the Bill Intituled An Act to make a Fine levied by Peter Heam and Johan his Wife and Tredolias Leza and Anne his Wife during the minority of the said Johan and Anne to be void against the said Anne for a more speedy end of the said cause with the consent of the said Parties committed the matter to the hearing of certain of the Lords which should be named by the Parties themselves The Plaintiff Anne did chuse the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Arundell the Bishop of Salisbury and the Lord North and M r Vinion the Defendant chose the Lord Steward the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of Exeter and the Lord Buckhurst And further Ordered that the said Lords should end the matter between the Parties if they could and if they could not then to certifie the State of the matter as they found it to the whole House And the Lord Chief Justice and the Lord Chief Baron were appointed to attend the Lords On Tuesday the 23 th day of February Six Bill s of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the furtherance of Justice was read prima vice Two Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was concerning the Jointure of the Countess of Huntington On Wednesday the 24 th day of February Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the better assurance of her Majesties Letters Patents granted for the better foundation of the Hospital called Sherborn-House was read prima vice Commissa Archiepiscopo Eboracen Episcopo London Domino Darcy Domino Evers the Lord Chief Baron and Justice Gawdy On Thursday the 25 th day of February Three 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 to the Masters Fellows and Scholars of Clare-Hall in Cambridge was read secunda vice but no mention is made whether it was Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees On Saturday the 27 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued the Bill for following of Hue and Cry was read secunda vice and committed to one Earl three Lords the Lord Chief Baron and one Judge Where still Nota the Judges are joint Committees with the Lords One Bill also touching Plymouth-Haven was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons And three other Bills of no great moment the first concerning Rochester-Bridge was read secunda vice On Monday the first day of March to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for returning of sufficient Jurors for the better expediting of Trials was read tertia vice and concluded The Master of the Rolls and M r Serjeant Rodes were appointed Committees to hear the matter between M r Vinion and M r Tredolias Leza and his Wife and Commission given to the said Committees to end the matter between the Parties if they could and if they could not then the Parties with their Councel to be before the Lords at this House upon Thursday next Two Bills lastly had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests c. was read secunda vice with certain Amendments and a Proviso added by the Lords On Wednesday the third day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Monday foregoing Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests c. with the Amendments and Provisoes added by the Lords was read tertia vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Serjcant Rodes and the Queens Attorney Two Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the last was the Bill for the repairing and maintenance of the Sea-Banks and Sea-Works on the Sea-Coast in the County of Norf. Committees were appointed to hear the matter between the Lord Willoughby and M r Heronden who were chosen by the Parties themselves viz. the Earl of Kent and the Lord Zouch for the Lord Willoughby and Viscount Mountague and the Lord Cobham for M r Heronden And the Lords further Ordered that the said Lords Committees should end the matter between the said Parties if they could Committees lastly were this day Chosen to examine the Record touching passing Amendments of Amendments moved by the House of Commons viz. the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Suff. Viscount Mountague the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Hunsdon the Lord Buckhurst the Master of the Rolls and M r Attorney about the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day to which the House of Commons had added Amendments upon Amendments The Precedents they named were the Bills for Treasons and bringing in of Bulls Acts passed in Anno 13 o of the Queen Nota That this Bill concerning the Sabbath as hath been before observed was long in passing the two Houses and much debated betwixt them being committed and Amendments upon Amendments added unto it which as appeareth in this place was the cause of some Disputation between the Lords and the said Commons Of the other several Passages of this Bill Vide on Monday the 7 th day Tuesday the 8 th day Wednesday the 9 th day Monday the 14 th day and on Saturday the 19 th day of December foregoing As also on Thursday the 4 th day Saturday the 6 th day and on Saturday the 13 th day of this instant March following Nota also That the Master of the Rolls and the Queens Attorney being no Members of the Upper House are here made joint-Committees with the Lords On Thursday the 4 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands in the Counties of Norsolk Suff. Lincoln and Warwick unto the Lord Willoughby of Willoughby
Proctors a piece and of seven Temporal Lords not any nominated more than one It is also worth the observation that the Lord Burleigh the Lord Treasurer had this Parliament four several Proxies sent unto him entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in such order as they be here set down viz. from the Lord Dacres the Earl of Warwick Viscount Mountacute and the Lord Lumley On Thursday the 6 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Queens Majesty was personally present coming unto the said Parliament in her accustomed State and Order about three of the Clock in the Afternoon it being the time appointed for the House of Commons to present their Speaker or Prolocutor whom they had been authorized to chuse on the last Tuesday when the Parliament first began And thereupon accordingly the Queen and Lords being set and the said Knights Citizens and Burgesles of the House of Commons let into the Upper House two of the most eminent Personages of the said House did lead up to the Bar of the Upper House George Snagg Serjeant at Law who was chosen the Speaker or Prolocutor of the said House of Commons who being placed at the said Bar and silence being made did in a modest and discreet Speech disable himself by reason of his many imperfections and humbly desired her Majesty to discharge him of that great place and to nominate some other more able and sufficient Member of the said House Whereupon the Lord Chancellor by commandment from the Queen did let him know that her Majesty did very well allow of his choice and thereupon encouraged him willingly and chearfully to undertake and execute that charge and place to which he had been by the free and unanimous consent of the House of Commons elected and chosen Upon which Speech of the Lord Chancellor the said Speaker according to the usual course and form rendring all humble thankfulness to the Queens Majesty for her undeserved goodness towards him in conceiving him able and worthy for the execution of a place of that great charge and trust and promising his care and readiness with all diligence to undergo the same he did offer up unto her said Majesty divers petitions in the name and on the behalf of the said House of Commons first That during the continuance of this Session themselves and their necessary attendants and servants might be freed from all suits and arrests secondly That they might have free access unto her Majesty upon all urgent and important occasions and thirdly That they might have free liberty of speech in the said House to debate and dispute of such matters and things as shall be there purposed And lastly He petitioned her Majesty in his own behalf that if any thing should be mistaken or unwillingly omitted by himself that she would be graciously pleased to pass by and pardon the same To which speech the Lord Chancellor by commandment from the Queen shortly replied That her Majesty was graciously pleased to grant all his said Petitions and that he the said Speaker and the House of Commons should use and enjoy all such liberties and priviledges as others before them had been accustomed to use and enjoy in the times of her Majesties most noble Progenitors and withal admonishing them not to extend the said priviledges to any unreverent and misbecoming speech or unnecessary accesses to her Majesty Nota That the presence of the Lords is here omitted as it was before upon the first day of this Parliament through the Clerk of the Upper House his great negligence where also the foresaid Presentment of the Speaker is but shortly set down Then followed the continuance of the Parliament which is thus entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House viz. the Lord Chancellor by the Queens Commandment continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbathi prox ' hora octava On Saturday the 8 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued were present these Lords Spiritual and Temporal following viz. Archiepiscopus Cantuarien ' Episcopus London ' Episcopus Winton ' Episcopus Sarum Episcopus Roffen ' Episcopus Cestren ' Episcopus Coven ' Litchf Episcopus Gloucestren ' Episcopus Lincoln ' Episcopus Petriburgen ' Episcopus Hereford Episcopus Cicestren ' Episcopus Bangor Nota That though the Bishops names are sometimes placed after the Earls and Viscounts as they are commonly in all places where they are made Committees yet in all the Journals of the Upper House where the presence of the Lords is marked they are always thus placed on the dexter side in respect chiefly of the Archbishop of Canterburies place which is before all others next the Prince Christopherus Hatton Miles Cancellarius Angliae Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Marchio Winton ' Comes Darbiae Magnus Seneschallus Comes Kantii Comes Sussex Comes Huntingdon Comes Bathon Comes Pembroke Comes Hartford Barones Dominus Howard Admirallus Angliae Dominus Hunsdun Camerarius Dominus Audeley Dominus Strange Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Gray de Wilton Dominus Darcie Dominus Sands Dominus Windsor Dominus Cromwell Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughbie Dominus North. Dominus S t John Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Norris Nota That these names of such Lords as were present are supplied here out of the Original Journal Book of the Upper House on the third day of the Parliament because it is the first on which their presence is noted it having been omitted in the two foregoing days by the great negligence of Mr. Anthony Mason at this time Clerk of the said House Two Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading of which the last was the Bill for the maintenance of Husbandry and for increase of Tillage Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox ' hora nona On Monday the 10 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued were four Bills read whereof the last being a Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers was read secunda vice commissa Domino Thesaurario Marchioni Winton ' the Earl of Oxford the Earl of Shrewsbury Lord Steward the Earl of Kent the Earl of Cumberland the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Essex the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Coven ' and Litchf the Bishop of the Lord Admiral the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Audley the Lord Strange the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Wentworth the Lord Cromwell the Lord North the Lord Buckhurst and the Lord Norris Serjeant Puckering and Mr. Attorney Nota That here were Attendants of the Upper House and no Members of it are made joint Committees with the Lords which is very usually done in the Parliaments foregoing in the Reign of this Queen where also the Judges being but meer Assistants of the said House are often nominated Committees also Whereas in the two last Parliaments of
QUEEN ELIZABETH IN PARLIAMENT A. L. Chancellor B. Marquises Earles C. Barons D. Bishops E. Judges F. Masters of Chancery G. Clerks H. Speaker of y e com̄ons I. Black Rod. K. Sergeant at Armes L. Members of the Commons house M. Sr. Francis Walsingham Secretary of State THE JOURNALS OF ALL THE PARLIAMENTS During the REIGN of Queen ELIZABETH BOTH OF THE HOUSE of LORDS AND HOUSE of COMMONS Collected By Sir SIMONDS D'EWES of Stow-Hall in the County of SUFFOLK Knight and Baronet Revised and Published By PAUL BOWES of the MIDDLE-TEMPLE LONDON Esq LONDON Printed for John Starkey at the Mitre in Fleetstreet near Temple-Bar 1682. TO Sir Willoughby D'Ewes Baronet SIR ALthough none can have so good Title to your Father's Labours as your Self and the improvement of his Posterity by them was his great desire yet he did not intend to confine them to his own Family but his Study tended to the publick good Amongst those very many and large Volumes Written by his own hand and his Servants I made choice thoroughly to revise these Journals in the Collecting of which the most indesatigably Industrious Author imployed much Time Labour and Cost constantly endeavouring to find out the Truth and faithfully and impartially relating the same In his own Preface to which there needs no other to be added he doth declare his Credentials and Vouchers̄ and also the Usefulness of the Work But there are several other good purposes to which these Journals are very conducible not particularly mentioned in his Preface Yet I shall name but two The one to be a discovery of the true intent and meaning of some Acts of Parliament of those times which are now controuerted The other to be a just representation of that Sincerity Perspicuity and Unreseruedness with which the Members of Parliament then exprest their Minds and gave their Advice that there was no difficulty to understand them The Authority and substantial Excellency of these Collections especially since the Original Journal Books are not now extant and their rarity do sufficiently recommend them to all Judicious Persons and did abundantly convince me that I could do no better service to my Country nor greater Justice to the Memory of my Worthy Uncle than to publish this Monument of his Fame Nor do I know how duly to express my thankfulness to you otherwise than by this publick acknowledgement as of your many other Favours so in particular for my free access unto and use of your well stored Library which hath furnisht me with this opportunity to subscribe my self Your most Obliged Humble Servant PAUL BOWES THE PREFACE OF Sir Simonds D'Ewes BEFORE THE ENSUING JOURNALS OF ALL THE Parliaments and Sessions of Parliament during the Reign of Queen ELIZABETH Wherein are expressed the several Materials and Authorities out of which the said Journals were extracted and drawn As also what Method and Form hath been observed in the transcribing of them together with the excellency and use of them IN respect that these ensuing Journals both of the Upper House and House of Commons during the Reign of that Incomparable Princess and Virgin Queen Queen Elizabeth whose memory will ever remain dear and precious to the Church of God are Collected and Framed up by my exceeding great pains and diligence out of several Materials and do contain in them Incomparable Historical matters both touching the Church and State as well as matters of rarity and Precedent incident to the Orders Priviledges or Usages of either House It shall not be amis shortly to touch those Heads that so they may serve as a Key for the better Direction and Guidance in the use of the Journals themselves First therefore I will set down briefly all those Materials out of which I have Collected these ensuing Journals Secondly the Method I have constantly observed in the causing them to be Penned or Transcribed And thirdly the rich Treasures of rarity and knowledge contained in them First for the Materials out of which I drew these ensuing Journals of either House they were for the most part rare and invulgar viz. 1. The Original Manuscript or Journal-Books of the Upper House of every Parliament and Session of Parliament of the Queens Reign remaining in the Office of the Clerk of the same House and these are absolute and undeniable Records and therefore could not be removed out of the said Office but I was inforced as often as I had occasion to use them to repair unto the same to which I had most free and respectful access always offered me as also to the Bundles of Original Acts and Petitions reserved there 2. A large Manuscript Abridgment in Folio of all the said Original Journal Books of the Upper House during her Majesties Reign very faithfully for the most part collected and transcribed with his own hands by Robert Bowyer Esquire who continued Clerk of the said House ab an 6 Jacobi Regis until the eighteenth year of the same King 3. The Original Journal-Book Manuscripts of the House of Commons of every Parliament and Session of Parliament during her Majesties Raign 4. Another help which I had for the perfecting of these Journals were the two Manuscript Volumes of Fragmentary and Imperfect Journals or rather Collections of the Parliaments and Sessions of Parliament of Queen Elizabeth's Reign which remained in Sir Robert Cottons well known and much famoused Library in the said Years 1629 and 1630. out of which I had most of the Speeches of Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Out of these also I had passages which did excellently serve to enlarge and beautify some of the Journals of the House of Commons as is fully mentioned in their proper places In which two Volumes of Parliamentary Collections which then remained in Sir Robert Cottons Library as asoresaid who since Deceased on Friday the 6. day of May Anno Domini 1631. many things being either ignorantly or negligently referred to other times than in truth they belonged unto are here rectified and enlarged according as the occasion it self required 5. And another means to enlarge these Ensuing Volumes were Manuscripts or written Fragments I had by me of Parliamentary Speeches Petitions and such like Passages especially touching the House of Commons all which served most fitly in their due places to supply those things and matters in which the Original Journal-Books themselves were defective 6. A further material for the furtherance of this present work was a Manuscript Treatise which I had by me Intituled Modus tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos Compiled especially as I conceive by Robert Bowyer Esquire and afterwards enlarged by Henry Elsing Esquire at this present Clerk of the Upper House of Parliament in which were many good Collections touching Proxies Summons Receivors and Tryors of Petitions the Commons Prolocutor and other matters incident to the Passages of the Journals of either House and those especially gathered out of Records of which Treatise there is very
except those before-named went free and were never called in question that I heard of And thus far it is inserted out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal On Monday the 26 th day of February the Bill for reducing disloyal Subjects to their due Obedience had its first reading Upon a Motion made by M r George Moore touching some questions for the manner of Election of one Richard Hutton returned into this House one of the Burgesses for the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey and supposed to have been indirectly made and so prayed to be further Examined by some Committee of this House and then to be reported over to this House for the further Order of this House in the same And upon another Motion thereupon also made by M r Wroth for a Committee for the Liberties and Priviledges of the Members of this House and their Servants it is upon the question Ordered that all the Members of this House being of her Majesties Privy-Council Sir William Moore M r Serjeant Yelverton M r Robert Wroth M r Recorder of London M r Heyle M r Conisby M r Miles Sands M r Attorney of the Wards M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r William Howard Sir Henry Cooke Sir Francis Godolphin Sir George Moore Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Drake M r Tanfield M r Francis Bacon M r Lewkenor Sir John Harrington M r Emersam Sir Edward Hobby M r Lawrence Stourton M r Beale M r Doctor James Sir Henry Duton M r Doctor Caesar M r Tasborough Sir Moyle Finch Sir Thomas Cecill and Sir Francis Hastings shall during all this present Sessions of Parliament examine and make report of all such Cases touching the Elections and Returns of any the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons of this House and also all such Cases for priviledge as in any wise may occur or fall out during all the same Sessions of Parliament to the end this House upon the Reports of the same Examinations may proceed to such further course in every the same Cases as to this House shall be thought meet And it is further Ordered that the said Committees do meet upon Wednesday next in the Exchequer Chamber at three of the Clock in the Afternoon to examine the manner of the said Election of the said Richard Hutton and also any other case of Elections Returns or Priviledges whatsoever in question which shall be moved unto them by any Member of this House at their Pleasure And notice was then also given in the House to all the Members of the same that in all these Cases they might from time to time repair to the said Committees as occasion shall serve accordingly The Bill touching salted Fish and salted Herrings had its first reading Sir Robert Cecill Sir John Wolley Sir John Fortescue Sir Edward Stafford and M r Francis Bacon having severally delivered most manifest and apparent reasons of the inevitable necessity both of present consultation and also of present Provision of Treasure to prevent and withstand the great imminent perils and dangers of this Realm intended against the same by the King of Spain the Pope and other Confederates of the Holy League The said Sir Robert Cecill Sir John Fortescue Sir John Wolley and M r Francis Bacon laying open the sundry particular practices of the King of Spain against the State of this Realm attempted both in Ireland the Low Countries France and Scotland do each of them in the end conclude and move That a grave Committee of this House be presently selected to have Conference touching some fit course to be taken for the said consultation and provision of Treasure And thereupon it was upon the Question Ordered and Assented to by the whole House Nota That this is all that is found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons touching these Speeches which because they contain many Excellent Passages concerning the History of these times of her Majesty I have therefore supplied at large Sir Edward Staffords Speech only excepted which was wanting there also out of a very Elaborate Journal of the same House taken by some Anonymous Member thereof at this Parliament which is mentioned more at large in the beginning of this present Journal Sir Robert Cecill spake first and said As I remember I have been of this House these five Parliaments and I have not determined to say any thing in these Assemblies further than my Cogitations should concur with my Conscience in saying bare I or No. Give me leave I pray you to rehearse an old saying and it is in Latin Nec te collaudes nec te vituperes ipse for me to do the one were exceeding arrogancy and to do the other I do confess I hope you will pardon me The occasion of this Parliament as I take it by that which we received from the Honourable and Learned Speech of the Lord Keeper of and from her Majesty to us in the Higher House is for the cause of Religion and maintenance thereof amongst us the preservation of her Majesties most Royal Person and the good of this Realm of our Country All which because they be things of most dear and greatest price and at this present in exceeding great and imminent danger it is most behoofful to consult of speedy remedies which should proceed from the wisest Heads The Enemy to these is the King of Spain whose malice and ambition is such as together with the Pope that Antichrist of Rome for I may well couple them together the one being always accompanied with envy at our Prosperity the other with unsatiable desire makes them by all means to seek the Subversion of the State But concerning the first the cause of God and his Religion which her Majesty professed before she came to sit in this Royal Seat which she hath defended and maintained and for which cause God hath so blessed her Government since her coming to the Crown Yea while the Crown was scarce warm on her Head she abolished the Authority of Rome and did set up Gods truth amongst us and to her great renown made this little Land to be a Sanctuary for all the persecuted Saints of God whereby the people perceived her Magnanimity Zeal and Judgment Magnanimity in undertaking so great an Enterprize Zeal in professing the same not for the shew but of sincerity Judgment in defending it and preventing all his designs He sent forth his Bulls and Missives against her Majesty thereby most unnaturally depriving her of her most natural right the Duty and Loyalty which her Subjects should owe unto her c. He touched the many dangers her Majesty had been in which as it caused him to fear to think so did he tremble to speak concerning the danger of her Country and so the loss of our Lives Liberties Wives Children and all other Priviledges Let me not trouble you with things past so long and perhaps beyond my reach but with things past of late years and since Eighty eight When