consideration of such as you shall think convenient And that you may the better judge of that which I shall propound it is requisite that I put you in remembrance First how the Queen found the Realm next how she hath restored and conserved it and thirdly how we stand now Touching the first no man can be ignorant how that our most gracious Queen at her Entring found this noble Realm by reason of the evil Government preceeding miserably over-whelmed with Popery dangerously afflicted with War and grievously afflicted with Debts the burthen of which three cannot be remembred without grief especially if we call to mind how this Kingdom being utterly delivered from the Usurped Tyranny of Rome and that many years together was nevertheless by the iniquity of later time brought back again into the former Captivity to the great thraldom both of Body and Soul of all the People of this Land A wretched time and wretched Ministers to bring to pass so wretched and wicked an Act to strengthen this Bondage of Rome We saw how there was brought hither a strong Nation to press our Necks again into the Yoke terrible this was to all the Inhabitants of this Land and so would have proved if their abode had been here so long as was to be feared from them and by their occasion came the War that we entred into with France and Scotland and not upon any Quarrel of our own but to help them forward to their great advantage and our great loss and shame by means whereof and of other disorders the Realm grew into great Debt both at home and abroad and so was left to the intollerable loss and charge of her Majesty and the State The Realm being thus miserably oppressed with Popery with War and with Debts the Queen our most Gracious Soveraign hath thus restored and conserved it she hath delivered us from the Tyrannous Yoke of Rome and restored again the most Holy Religion of the Gospel not slacking any time therein but even at the first doing that which was for the Honour of God to the unspeakable joy of all good Subjects But adventuring thereby the malice of the mighty Princes of the World her Neighbours being Enemies of our Religion whereby it did appear how much she preferred the Glory of our God before her own Quietness this done she made Peace with France and Scotland the one a mighty Nation the other though not so Potent yet in regard of their nearness and of their Habitation with us upon our Continent more dangerous which may easily appear by consideration of former times wherein it hath been seen how dangerous Scottish Wars have proved to this Realm above those of any other Nation But such hath been the Providence of our Gracious Queen as the Peace with Scotland which in times past was found very tickle is now become so firm as in no Age there hath been so long and so good Peace between them and us And that is brought to pass the rather for that her Majesty by two notable Exploits with her Forces the one to Lieth and another to Edenburgh-Castle hath both quieted that Realm and taken away all occasions of Hostility that might arise against this Country also by the first delivering Scotland from the French which had so great a footing there as without aid from hence they must needs in short time have Tyrannized over that Country to their perpetual servitude and to the peril also of this Country being so near them and they so ill Neighbours to dwell by And by the second ending and putting out the fire of the Civil Wars amongst them to the preservation of their young King and the perpetual quietness of that Realm both which as they have brought unto her Majesty great and immortal Honor and Renown and to this Country and that Peace and Surety So you cannot but think therewith upon the Charges which necessarily follow such two Journeys furnished by Land and by Sea as for the atchieving of so great Enterprizes was requisite What her Majesty hath done besides for the suppressing of a dangerous and unnatural Rebellion practised by the Pope the most principal and malicious Enemy of this State and put in ure by certain undutiful Subjects in the North parts of this Realm was seen so late even in your view as it needeth not to be remembred neither the charge that belongeth to a matter of such importance as did threaten the utter ruine to our most Gracious Soveraign and to all the People of this Land if God of his Mercy had not prevented it Notwithstanding all which costly Journies both into Scotland and within the Realm her Majesty hath most carefully and providently delivered this Kingdom from a great and weighty Debt wherewith it hath been long burthened A Debt begun four years at the least before the Death of King Henry the Eighth and not cleared until within these two years and all that while running upon Interest a course able to eat up not only private men and their Patrimonies but also Princes and their Estates but such hath been the care of this time as Her Majesty and the State is clearly freed from that eating corrosive the truth whereof may be testified by the Citizens of London whose Bonds under the Common Seal of the City of assurance of payment being usually given and renewed and which have hanged so many years to their great danger and to the peril of the whole traffick are now all discharged cancelled and delivered into the Chamber of London to their own hands By means whereof the Realm is not only acquitted of this great burthen and the Merchants free but also her Majesties credit thereby both at home and abroad greater than any other Prince for money if she have need and so in reason it ought to be for that she hath kept Promise to all men wherein other Princes have often failed to the hindrance of many Lastly for this point how the Justice of this Realm is preserved and ministred to her People by her Majesties political and just Government is so well known to all men as our Enemies are driven to confess that Justice which is the Band of all Common-Wealths doth so tie and link together all degrees of Persons within this Land as there is suffered here no violence no oppression no respect of persons in Judgment but Jus equabile used to all indifferently All which godly provident and wise acts in Government have brought forth these effects that we be in Peace and all our Neighbours in War that we be in quietness at home and safe enough from troubles abroad that we live in Wealth and all Prosperity and that which is the greatest we enjoy the freedom of our Consciences delivered from the Bondage of Rome wherewith we were so lately oppressed and thus we stand But for all this as wise Mariners in calm weather do most diligently prepare their tackles and provide to withstand attempts that may happen even
we were so secure and never thought that the King of Spain would have set up his Rest for England Then sent he his Navy termed Invincible and was almost upon the Banks of us before we were aware Yea we were so slack in provision that it was too late to make resistance had not God preserved us His attempt against us by seeking to win the Low-Countries and to obtain Ireland being but trifles and partly devices which I mean not to trouble you with he hath now of late gone about to win France wherein he hath greatly prevailed as in Lorrain and in other parts as you have heard but specially in Britany having most part of the Port Towns in his Possession whither he still sendeth supply daily and reinforces them every four or five Months which part is always open and his men and forces never wanting This Province he especially desireth for it lyeth most fitly to annoy us whither he may send forces continually and there have his Navy in a readiness the which he could not so easily unless he had the wind in a bag Besides having this Province he might keep us from Traffick to Rochell and Burdeaux as he doth in the Straights from Tripoly and S t Jean de Lucc And so hinder us from carrying forth and bringing into this Land any Commodities from those parts whereby the Realm might be inriched and her Majesties Impost ever eased being one of the greatest Revenues of her Crown He hath also gone about with them of Stade and the King of Poland one of his own Faction and who by reason he cannot do in that Kingdom what he listeth he may not so easily command him to impeach or hinder our Traffick in those Eastern parts which if he could bring to pass you see how hurtful it would be to this Land But to descend yet lower into these latter Actions He hath seen it is but a folly to make Woodden Bridges to pass into Ireland therefore he hath found out a safer way and stronger passage into it by Land and that by Scotland which though it be not talked of on the Exchange nor Preached at Paul's Cross yet it is most true and in Scotland as common as the high-way That he hath procured unto him many of the Nobility It may be he hath sent thither no great Navy and that her Majesty would not suffer him to do yet do what she can some one Paltry Fly-Boat may escape her Majesties Ships and carry gold enough in her to make them Traytors and stir them to Sedition These things her Majesty understood before and Advertized the King thereof which the effect hath proved to be true For unless I be deceived the last Letter that came from thence might shew that the King is gone to make a Rode into the North and to bring back the Lord Bothwell and the Lord Huntley The King of Spain's malice thus daily increaseth against us and seeketh also to stir up Sedition amongst us by his Instruments The number also of Papists daily increaseth or at least wise becomes more manifest My advice is that you would consult how to withstand such imminent dangers which the greater they be the sooner they would be looked into and remembred Wherefore I would desire M r Speaker that he would appoint some Committees of the sufficientest and wisest men in the House to consider thereon Sir John Wolley spake to the like Effect saying that upon the Cause of the danger the Realm was now in and of the remedy his Speech should consist which he likened to a natural Body in which the more danger the principal Member was in the greater means there should be used for the preservation thereof Roan being made now Admiral of France by the League should say that he was a poor Admiral now but yet he doubted not ' but that shortly he should be able to bring such a Navy as should terrify the Queen of England Also he shewed how the Princes of the Holy League had conspired the overthrow of the Realm the extirpation of Religion and the confusion of her Majesty and her Loyal Subjects And exhorted the House now because the season of the year groweth on which calleth many of the Knights and Burgesses to be in their Countries besides the Sickness being in the Town so that many of that House he thought knew not whether they lodged in Houses infected or not that they would seek to dispatch and end the Parliament so soon as might be He also shewed how the Dunkirkers trouled our Fishermen in small Barks upon the Sea-coasts And so that this matter might be Committed to some of the sufficientest in the House He also exhorted the House to a speedy agreeing of a Subsidy which considering the dangers we were in and that it was for our own good as also for her Majesty's he hoped that no good Subject but would willingly agree to it Also he shewed that the Wars with the King of Spain had cost her Majesty a Million of Money but this he avouched that where it cost her Majesty one it cost the King of Spain three Then Sir John Fortescue spake and said They that spake before me spake sufficiently of the Authors of our trouble of the great danger which is now imminent insomuch that as it is come to that point now Non utrùm imperare sed utrùm vivere I will speak of nothing but that which concerns my Calling Her Majesty not being only careful for the preservation of Her own Realm but of her Neighbours also she hath not only defended her own Subjects from being invaded but also hath aided Strangers which wanted Money with whom otherwise it would have gone ill by this time both with them and ourselves Insomuch that the burthen of four Kingdoms hath rested upon her Majesty which she hath maintained with her Purse England France Ireland and Scotland For how could the French King at his first coming to the Crown have held out against those Leaguers had not her Majesty assisted him with her Men and Money which hath cost her Majesty about a hundred thonsand pound For 't is well known that the French King had not been able to withstand the Duke of Parma's coming into France had it not been for our Englishmen and Money As for the Low Countries they have stood her Majesty in yearly since she undertook the defence of them one hundred and fifty thousand pound All which her Majesty bestowed for the good of the Realm to free us from War at home Besides when her Majesty came to the Crown she found it four Millions indebted her Navy when she came to view it she found greatly decayed Yet all this hath discharged and thanks be to God is nothing indebted and now she is able to match any Prince in Europe which the Spaniards found when they came to invade as Yea she hath with her Ships compassed the whole world whereby this Land is made famous throughout all places
tertio die Martii duximus dissolvend ' De fidelitate igitur prudentiâ circumspectione vestris plurimùm confident ' de avisamento assensu Concilii nostri assignavimus vos aliquos tres vel plures vestrum Commissionarios nostros dantes vobis aliquibus tribus vel pluribus vestrum tenore praesentium plenam potestatem facultatem authoritatem hoc instante vicesimo tertio die Martii ad dictum Parliamentum nostrum Nomine nostro plenar ' dissolvend ' Et ideo vobis Mandamus quòd vos aliqui tres vel plures vestrum idem Parliamentum nostrum eodem instante vicesimo tertio die Martii virtute harum Literarum Patentium Nomine nostro plenè dissolvatis determinetis Et ideo vobis Mandamus quòd circa praemissa diligenter intendatis ac ea in forma praedicta effectualiter expleatis exequamini Damus autem universis singulis Archiepiscopis Marchionibus Comitibus Vicecomitibus Episcopis Baronibus Militibus Civibus Burgensibus ac omnibus aliis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum nostrum conventur ' tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis quòd vobis in praemissis pareant obediant intendant in omnibus prout decet In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras sieri secimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo tertio die Martii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo nono Per ipsam Reginam Powle It should seem that the reading of these Commissions and the Dissolution of this Parliament were all of them finished this Thursday the 23 th day of this instant March in the Forenoon for else there must have been some other continuance of it by the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas supplying the place of the Lord Chancellor upon the rising of the Lords to dinner unto some hour in the Afternoon which may very well be in respect that although the Queens Majesty came usually in Person to give her Royal Assent in the Afternoon yet that being now performed after an unusual and extraordinary manner by her Majesties Letters Patents or a Commission under the Great Seal the time was also altered So that though this Parliament were not long in continuance for both the meetings thereof put together make but ten weeks at the most yet it had many weighty matters debated in it and this Journal of the Upper House is richly stored with rarer Precedents than any other of all the Queens time Finally Her Majesties loving Subjects considering the great Charges she sustained by the maintenance of the Low Countries Wars and withal in a manner foreseeing the stupendious preparations of Spain at this time most intentive in providing and furnishing of that mighty Armado stiled afterwards Invincible did not only grant unto her Majesty one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths as the Clergy had also granted unto her one other Subsidy but did likewise consult in either House severally for the Lords refused to joyn with the House of Commons therein concerning a Contribution to be bestowed upon her Majesty in like sort also towards the further and better support of those foresaid continual and chargeable Wars of the Netherlands THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS An Exact large and very perfect Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1586. which began there on Saturday the 29 th Day of October after two several Prorogations thereof and there continued until it was at length Dissolved on Thursday the 23 th Day of March Anno 29 Reginae ejusdem THE Passages of this Journal of the House of Commons are fully replenished with excellent and rare matter both in respect of the business of Mary Queen of Scots handled in the first meeting and of the publick dangers threatned against her Majesties person and Realms discussed in the second meeting of this Parliament in which also there wanted not the passing of divers good and wholesome Laws and the discussing of many emergent disputes touching the private affairs of the said House all which are in themselves very useful and worthy of observation Although the Parliament had been summoned to have begun upon Saturday the 15 th day of October in Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. yet it held not but was on the said day further Prorogued unto Thursday the 27 th day of the same Month upon which said day it was lastly Prorogued unto Saturday the 29 th day of the same next ensuing On which said 29 th day of October the Parliament held accordingly although her Majesty came not in person but appointed by her Letters Patents under the Great Seal the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer and the Earl of Darby Lord Steward or any two of them her Delegates or Commissioners in her Majesties name and stead to begin this said Parliament and the same further to hold continue Adjourn or Prorogue as to them should seem fitting and needful The Lords therefore being set the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired unto the Upper House and as many as could conveniently being let in Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor shewed that the Queens Majesty was with-held by some very great and important occasions so that she could not be there personally present at this time but yet had appointed some other Honourable personages there present to supply her place and in her name to begin the said Parliament And then the same Letters Patents were read After which the foresaid three Commissioners leaving their places went to a Seat prepared for them on the right side of the Chair of State who being so placed the Lord Chancellor did Lastly declare that the meer cause for which this Parliament had been so suddenly called at this time was upon the discoveries of the late most great and horrible Treasons plotted for the taking away of her Majesties Life and the subversion of true Religion and that one great offender therein did yet remain touching whose punishment her Majesty did crave their faithful advice and therefore wished those of the House of Commons to make present choice of some one amongst them to be their Speaker and to present him unto the Lords Lieutenants or Lords Commissioners as soon as conveniently they might Whereupon the Knights Citizens Barons and Burgesses of the House of Commons repairing to their said House did there elect and chuse John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Prolocutor who had been Speaker also the last Parliament Nota That there is not any one word of all this before set down in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons de annis istis 28 o 29 o Reginae Eliz. which is very defective not only here but in some other places thereof but that which is before set down is for the most part gathered out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and only
countenancing Monsieur with Money at Cambray with sending her Nobility with him into the Low Countries with the actions of Sir Francis Drake with assistance of the Low Countries Of the purpose of the Combined Princes Their shew is to deal with the King of Navarr to extirp him but their drift is to ruinate Religion not only there but to set upon and to work the ruine of it here also Wherein the King of Spain and Guise are now very busie Their malice is the more for executing the Scottish Queen but their hope is the less The King of Spain his designments are to invade England and Ireland His Preparation Three hundred sixty Sail of Spain Eighty Gallies from Venice and Genoua One Galliass with six hundred armed men from the Duke of Florence Twelve thousand men maintained by Italy and the Pope Six thousand by the Spanish Clergy Twelve thousand by his Nobility and Gentlemen of Spain It is reported that ten thousand of these be Horsemen I think it not all true but something there is We must look to the Papists at home and abroad It hath touched us in the blood of the Nobility and the blood of many Subjects They practise to frame Subjects against all duty and bring in Doctrine of lawfulness and merit to kill the Queen and have sent their Instruments abroad to that purpose Two manner of forces are to be handled Assistance to the Low Countries defence by force otherwise That God may assist us in Justice in Right in Defence against those Princes The assistance is acceptable that will be profitable Her Majesty oweth relief there in Honour according to the Leagues especially between us and the House of Burgundy which Leagues differ from Leagues growing between Prince and Prince for they grew between the people and this State We are bound to help them in Honour according to the Leagues Many Marriages and many Secrecies have been long between us and the relieving of the afflictions of that people may not be omitted The heads of their miseries are The Spanish Inquisition by Placard using strange tortures not to be suffered great impositions without and against Law sending some of their people into Spain and there tyrannized over their Noblemen done away taking their Towns and setting Tyrants over them to use them like Dogs The purpose was to bring the Low Countries into a Monarchal seat and then vae nobis The Queens dealing there is warranted by God The Queen is occasioned of necessity for safety of her Dominions and us that that Country may be preserved that the English Commodities may be vented there with readiness with safety and with profit the recovery thereof will be good for this Country and Crown it may not be suffered that a Neighbour should grow too strong he uttered that as though it were not meet another Prince should have it for examples whereof he commended the Princes of Italy and especially the Duke of Florence for using that policy Henry the 7 th for aiding the Duke of Brittany with eight thousand men rather than the King of France after he had found great friendship of them both that the King of France might not grow too strong The King of Spain seeketh to be yet greater for he hath already a Seat in Council amongst the Princes of Germany by reason of Territories his Father got there And if he could he would frame the Low Countries to his desire As to the pretence of Injuries before remembred As to the first going over her Majesty misliked it and punished some of the Captains he named Sir Humfrey Gilbert for one Concerning Monsieur the first time her Majesty drew him from proceeding for the Low Countries The second time she consented that he should only assist the Low Countries which Monsieur afterwards abused contrary to her Majesties meaning Concerning M r Drakes first Voyage her Majesty knew it not and when he came home she seized the whole Mass of Substance brought by him to satisfie the King of Spain if cause so required and thereupon desired Certificate for Invasion into Ireland Concerning M r Drake's last Voyage it was to meet with the restraints and seisures in Spain and their purpose of War was thereupon discovered for there was found by the Master of M r Bonds Ship who took the Corrigedore and others a Commission from the King of Spain whereby he termed us his Rebels as he termed the Low Countries He then remembred another grievance not touched before which was the entertaining of Don Anthony Which he answered to be done in Honorable Courtesie because of his State who was a King anointed and crowned though his seat was not long untroubled and coming hither in honourable and courteous manner though something weakned required the entertainment he had Then he iterated that the great grief is Religion and said that all godly ones are bound to defend it He then said God endue us to fear him and all things shall prosper He said her Majesty protesteth sincere service to God and to leave the Crown in peace c. commended her courage against their malice esteeming it not less than the stoutest Kings in Europe M r Chancellor of the Exchequer after M r Vice-Chamberlain his speeches ended remembred some of the former and inferred and so concluded that the great preparations of War which was fit speedily to be thought of and provided would grow chargeable and therefore thought it fit with expedition that the House should appoint a convenient number of the same to set down Articles for a Subsidy Whereupon are appointed Committees for concluding and drawing of Articles for the Subsidy and other great Causes all the Privy Council being of this House the first Knight for every Shire and others who were appointed to meet in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon One Bill lastly being for the better payment of Debts and Legacies by Executors and Administrators was read the first time On Thursday the 23 d day of February three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against delay of execution in Actions of Debt was read the first time The Committees appointed for Conference touching a Loan or Benevolence to be offered to her Majesty are M r Francis Bacon M r Edward Lewkenor and others On Friday the 24 th day of February four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being a Bill to avoid many dangers touching Records of Fines levyed in the Court of Common Pleas was upon the second reading committed unto M r Recorder of London M r Morrice M r Drew and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Recorder who with the rest was appointed to meet in Serjeants-Inn in Fleetstrect on Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Sir Thomas Scot Sir Henry Knyvet M r Thomas Knyvet and M r Topclyffe are appointed by this House to search
to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was an Act for confirmation of the Subsidy of the Clergy Four Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being a Bill for the continuance of divers Statutes was read secunda vice No mention is made in the Journal-Book of the continuance or Adjournment of the Parliament which seemeth to have been omitted by the Clerks negligence On Wednesday the 26 th day of March Three Bills were read of which the first being a Bill to avoid secret Outlawries of her Majesties Subjects was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons by D r Carew One Bill also of no great moment was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Thursday the 27 th day of March divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal met but nothing was done saving the continuance of the Parliament unto the day next following On Friday the 28 th day of March Three Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was a Bill for Explanation or Declaration of the Statute of the eighth year of H. 6. concerning forcible Entries the Inditements thereupon found expedite A Bill for the Naturalizing of Joice the Daughter of Ralph Esking Gentleman and Wife of Richard Lambert Merchant born beyond the Seas was read secunda tertia vice and expedited Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in Crastinum dimid horae ante septimam On Saturday the 29 th day of March to which day the Parliament had been last continued one Bill for continuance of divers Statutes was read tertia vice and sent to the House of Commons by D r Stanhope and M r Powle M r Doctor Carew in some other places also written Carie and M r Doctor Stanhop do bring from the Lords two Acts viz. the Act of the Queens most gracious general and free Pardon and also the Act of the two Subsidies and four Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty which they carried down to the House of Commons from whence the Bill of Pardon having there passed it was a little after sent back again unto their Lordships by M r Fortescue and others Nota That the sending of these two Bills is omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and is therefore supplied out of that of the House of Commons The presence of such Lords as attended her Majesty who was her self this day at the Dissolving of the Parliament in Person is not much differing from that set down on Saturday the 8 th of February foregoing only the two Earls of Northumberland and Essex then absent attended this day as also the Lord Strange the Lord Morley the Lord Talbot the Lord Wentworth and the Lord de la Ware were at this time also present though not then Whereas the Lords Audeley and Cromwell then present were now absent and for the Spiritual Lords it appeareth not at all who were present These being thus set and the House of Commons with Serjeant Snagg their Speaker being let into the Upper House the said Speaker according to the usual form presenting her Majesty with the Bill of two Subsidies and four Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty desired her Highness graciously to accept thereof as the free testimony of the faithful and loyal respects of their Subjects and withal desiring her Majesty to give her gracious consent to such Acts as had been prepared and expedited by the two Houses After the passing of which Bills the Dissolution of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Cancellarius ex mandato Dominae Reginae tunc praesentis dissolvit praesens Parliamentum It should seem that her Majesty gave her Royal Assent and that this Parliament was Dissolved this present Saturday the 29 th day of March in the Forenoon contrary to the usual course in such cases accustomed for it appeareth in all other Journals for the most part to have been deferred till the Afternoon and that this present Parliament was so Dissolved as aforesaid it appeareth plainly by the last continuance of it on Friday immediately foregoing to this day in the Forenoon half an hour before seven of the Clock to which early and unusual time of the day I suppose it was continued because all things might be better expedited against her Majesties coming THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS An Exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 31 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1588. which began there after one Prorogation of the same on Tuesday the 4 th Day of February and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Saturday the 29 th Day of March Anno Domini 1589. THIS Parliament was Summoned about three Months after Gods miraculous preservation of Religion the Realm and her Majesties Person from the ambitious and bloody Conquest of the Spanish King and therefore the House did not only regard their private business as the passing of Bills discussing Elections preserving their Priviledges and the like with which this Journal is abundantly stored but also the publick safety of her Majesty and her Realms by aiding her Highness with the unusual and extraordinary gift of four Fifteenths and Tenths and two entire Subsidies the Clergy also adding two Subsidies of their own and by desiring her also in the conclusion of this Parliament to denounce open War against the King of Spain who had so lately invaded her whom they concluded to have been the Root and Fountain of all the Conspiracies practised and of all the Rebellions raised against her Majesty Although this Parliament had been summoned to have begun and to have been holden on Tuesday the 12 th day of November last past yet it held not but was upon the said day in the thirtieth year of her Majesties Reign further Prorogued by her Majesties Writ unto Tuesday the 4 th day of February in the thirty first year of the same On which said Tuesday the 4 th day of February it held accordingly and her Majesty came in Person unto the Upper House where Sir Christopher Hatton being now Lord Chancellor in her Highness presence declared unto the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and to the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons then and there Assembled how great happiness they enjoyed under her Majesties peaceful and victorious Reign and that though the Spanish late Wonderful Fleet had been lately defeated yet there wanted not still power and malice in him against this Nation and her Majesty and so much the more implacable it may be conjectured he now remains because of his late defeature and loss before-mentioned And therefore he shewed that the cause of the calling of this Parliament was to provide by common Counsel against all his future attempts And lastly he gave notice to
ingrossing thereof and so the Bill upon the question and division of the House was passed by the yielding of the negative Voices without going through with telling of the whole numbers on both sides and was sent presently up to the Lords by Sir John Parrot and a little after two other Bills the one to avoid Horse-stealing and the other touching forcible Entries were likewise sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer and others The Bill against such as steal and imbezel the Goods Chattels or Treasure of her Majesty being put in trust with the same was read the first time The Bill that Aliens Children shall pay Strangers Customs was read the third time and a Proviso added unto it thrice read the Bill and Proviso upon the question and division of the House dashed with the Yea sixty four and with the No seventy four Mr. Doctor Cary and Mr. Powle do bring from the Lords the Bill for relief of the City of Lincoln with an Addition of this word yearly added to their former Amendments for the explaining of the same Amendments All which Amendments being thrice read were upon the question assented unto by this House Nota That this Bill was brought down from the Lords to the House yesterday and therefore it should seem upon some doubts the House made touching their Lordships Amendments it was carried back again and those Amendments explained by the word above-mentioned and so being brought down again this day the said Amendments were thrice read and passed the House On Saturday the 29 th day of March Mr. Doctor Stanhop and Mr. Powle do bring from the Lords the Bill lately passed this House for continuation and perfecting of certain Statutes with a Schedule unto the same added and annexed by their Lordships and the same Schedule being thrice read passed upon the Question The Bill for the relief of the City of Lincoln being perfected according to the Amendments of the Lords and the Bill also for continuance of Statutes with the Schedule to the same were sent up to the Lords by the Master of the Wardrobe and others The Amendments of the Committees of this House to the Bill against excess of Apparel was denied upon the Question to be opened unto the House The Bill against such as steal or imbezel the Goods Chattels or Treasure of her Majesty was brought in again by Mr. Harris one of the Committees in the same as not to be sufficiently considered of for lack of time the same Bill consisting of many parts Mr. Serjeant Puckering and Mr. Serjeant Shuttleworth did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships do pray present Conference with some twenty or more of this House to meet with their Lordships in the nether room of the Upper House and the rest not to depart until the return of the same Committees Whereupon were appointed for that purpose all the Privy Council of this House Sir William Hatton Mr. Wroth Mr. North Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Mr. Wade Mr. Mills Mr. Juers Mr. Henry Grey Sir Edward Dymock Mr. Robert Bowes Mr. Harris Mr. Heydon Mr. Francis Moore Sir George Barne Mr. Robert Cecill Mr. Shirley Mr. Dyer Mr. Hare Mr. Ralph Bowes Sir Francis Hinde Mr. Preston Mr. White Mr. Hill Mr. Henry Brooke and the Master of the Jewel-House Mr. Treasurer in the name of the rest of the Committees did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships have had Conference amongst themselves of the great practices and Treasons heretofore intended against her Majesties Person State and Kingdom And therefore ..... What should here follow is wholly omitted by the great negligence of Mr. Fulk Onslow at this time Clerk of the House of Commons as also the Speeches of Mr. Vice-Chamberlain of Mr. Secretary Wolley of Sir John Parrot Mr. Comptroller and of Mr. Fortescue for the inserting of which said Speeches there is left a blank of near upon two whole Pages and yet it may be probably gathered what the scope and end of all the said several and respective Speeches were out of a question following which Mr. Speaker propounded at the end of them viz. That seeing most of all those Treasons which had been practised against her Majesty had been either Plotted in Spain or procured by Spain and all the Rebellions during her Highness Reign raised either in England or Ireland had been countenanced from thence to which as the upshot of all that his late intended ambitious and blood-thirsty Conquest yet fresh in memory may be added That therefore her Majesty would be pleased to denounce open War against him the said King of Spain as against a most dangerous Enemy of her Majesty and her Realms Upon the said Speeches Mr. Speaker maketh the question and thereupon it was resolved by the whole House for joining with their Lordships in request to her Majesty to be delivered by the Mouth of Mr. Speaker for concurring with their Lordships for denouncing of War against the King of Spain at the time of his going up with the Subsidy and after the offer and delivery of the same Subsidy Mr. Doctor Cary and Mr. Doctor Stanhop did bring from the Lords two Bills viz. The Act of the Queens Majesties most gracious and free Pardon and also the Act of four Fifteenths and Tenths and two Subsidies which had before passed this House The Bill of the Queens Majesties most general and free Pardon being once read passed thereupon Which said Bill so passed was presently sent up to the Lords by M r Fortescue and others Nota That this is all which is found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and therefore the Conclusion and Dissolution of this Parliament next ensuing are supplied out of that of the Upper House Her Majesty being as it should seem this very Forenoon come unto the Upper House and there set the House of Commons having notice thereof with Serjeant Snagg their Speaker repaired thither who after his delivery of the Bill of Subsidy did move her Majesty as may be very probably conjectured according to the former resolution had this day in the said House as aforesaid that her Majesty would be pleased to denounce open War against the Spanish King who had so lately threatned destruction to her Majesty and her Realms by that his not long since open and Hostile Invasion After which her Majesty having given her Royal Assent unto the passing of sixteen publick Acts and eight private Acts being all the Statutes that passed this Parliament Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor by her Majesties Commandment Dissolved the same THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS An Exact and perfect Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 35 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1592. which began there on Monday the 19 th Day of February and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Tuesday the 10 th Day of April Anno Domini 1593. THERE is little extraordinary in
might not be committed to the Bishop of the Diocess because their Chancellors are so much affected to the Canon Law that some are infected with Popish Religion Besides the office of Bishops is to preach and this duty in the one calling would not be hindred by other affairs committed to their care Wherefore fitter it is that the Justices of Assize should have the appointment of them Then said Sir Edward Stafford it may be the Party is Enemy to him to whom the Child is committed therefore the Commitment is to be by two or three Then Mr. Wroth spake as followeth The Law hath no Proviso for Leases no remedy is appointed as by the distress or otherwise how the Guardian is to come by the money appointed to him for the Custody of the Child of a Recusant And it were fit to make a Proviso that no Party being next Heir to the Child should be his Guardian And the Recusant not to forfeit ten pound a Month for the keeping of his Wife otherwise for keeping of Servants Recusants After all these Speeches they agreed to have the Bill committed But the Committees names are all omitted in the said Anonymous Journal out of which these foresaid Speeches are inserted and are therefore to be supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons where they are set down in manner and form following viz. All the Privy Council Sir Thomas Cecil Sir Walter Raleigh Sir William Moore M r Feele M r Finch M r Wroth M r Greenfield M r Fulke Grevill M r Sands M r Cradock Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Stafford M r Morrice M r George Cary M r Peejam M r Tasborough Sir Henry Unton Sir William Bowes Sir Moyle Finch M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Alice Sir Francis Vere Sir Edward Dimock Mr. Warren M r Lewes Mr. Tanseild Mr. Edw. Barker Mr. Beale Mr. Philips Mr. Stephenson M r Lewkenor M r Nat. Bacon M r Grimston Mr. Fuller all the Serjeants at Law Mr. George Moore Sir Thomas Wast Mr. Doctor Caesar Mr. Doctor Lewen Sir Henry Cock Sir Edward Cock Sir Edward Hobby Mr. Dier Mr. John Cary Mr. Emerson Sir Thomas Shirley Mr. Fanshaw Sir John Harrington Sir Henry Knivett Sir Charles Candish and Sir Francis Drake And the Bill was delivered to Mr. Serjeant Telverton who with the rest was appointed to meet upon to Morrow next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon at Serjeants-Inn in Fleetstreet Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees in the great Cause for Consultation and provision of Treasure appointed on Monday the 26 th day of this instant February foregoing shewed that he and the residue of the Committees in that Case met yesterday in the Afternoon according to the Commission of this House and upon Conference had amongst them for some convenient proportion of Treasure to be provided did in the end agree that two intire Subsidies and four Fifteenths and Tenths should be granted unto her Majesty if this present House shall so think good Upon which Report by him made it was upon the question agreed unto by the whole House that the same two intire Subsidies and four Fifteenths and Tenths should be granted unto her said Highness accordingly Which done Mr. Nathanael Bacon one also of the said Committees put the House in remembrance that at their said Conference in the said Committee it was moved by some of them that the present necessity of the Causes now moving them to offer the said double Subsidy and double Fifteenths and Tenths should be set down and inserted in the Bill for the granting thereof After this Speech of Mr. Bacons there is no particular mention of any other Speech which was spoken at this time touching this business in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and therefore these Speeches which follow are supplyed out of another Anonymous Journal of the passages of this Parliament more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal Sir Henry Knivett spake allowing the Subsidies but withal desired these things First that it might be lawful for every Subject to annoy the King of Spain that would that weak Forces might not be spent against him but a Royal Army That we should not wrastle with him on our own ground but abroad Further that all her Majesties debtors might be called in and her Majesty to have power to sell all the Debtors Lands of what State soever they were seized of No Steward or Commissioner but to answer her Majesty the Royal Fines and Sums they received All her Woods to be viewed and the great Timber to be for sale the Copy wood to be sold to encrease the Revenues Licences granted to any to have benefit of penal Statutes to be taken in and the whole benefit of Inns and Alehouses to come to the Queen A great benefit to come to the Queen by this new Statute against Recusants Their Children to be committed to persons of sound Religion The whole benefit of their relief and living to come to the Queen deducting only charges for Education of Children Serjeant Harris agreed on the Subsidy because Parliaments were seldom whereas by the Statute of 4 Edw. 3. they may be called every year The Subsidies to be granted to maintain Wars but whether it be War or no War as yet we know not And the things which we take from the Spaniard is doubted by many not to be lawful prize Therefore desires in the Subsidies to have it set down that those Subsidies be to maintain a War impulsive and defensive against the Spaniard Sir Walter Raleigh seconded his Speech agreeing in all things with the Serjeant and said he knew many that held it not lawful in Conscience as the time is to take from the Spaniards And he knew that if it might be lawful and open War there would be more voluntary hands to fight against the Spaniard than the Queen should stand in need of to send to Sea Nota That these aforesaid Speeches are all that are found in the forementioned Anonymous Journal and therefore that which follows is made perfect out of the Original Journal-Book it self in manner and form following viz. After the former and other like Speeches in which also some had moved that to make the Wars against the King of Spain and his Subjects lawful and warrantable it should be inserted into the preamble of the said Bill that so great and extraordinary supply was at this time given for the resisting of his power and preventing of his malice it was Ordered by the House upon the question that all the Serjeants at Law which are Members of this House Mr. Heile Mr. Philips Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Drake Sir George Carey Mr. Doctor Caesar Mr. Doctor Awberry Mr. Francis Bacon Sir Francis Gudolphin Mr. John Hare Sir Thomas Conisby Mr. Attorney of the Wards Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. John Trevor Mr. Sands Mr. Doctor Lewen Mr. Beale Sir Henry Unton and Mr. Ridisden
treble Subsidies and like proportionable Fifteenths and 〈◊〉 and some by other sorts of benevolences resolved upon the question that the former Committees of this House for consultation to be had for necessary supply of Treasures to be had for the repelling of the said dangers should meet in this House in the Afternoon of this present day to confer and consult generally touching the said great dangers as also touching the remedies that the same being digested may be reported over unto this House into such form as to the same shall be thought good to the end that afterwards it may in the Afternoon be imparted unto the Lords accordingly Nota That there is no more of this days Passages found in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although there followed divers Speeches upon the foregoing Motion of Sir Thomas Heneage her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain concerning the great business of supply to be given to her Majesty all which are therefore inserted out of that foresaid Anonymous Journal taken by some Member of the said House during this Parliament which are there set down with very little alteration added to them in manner and form following Sir Thomas Cerill speaking next after Sir Thomas Heneage had ended his former Speech said that three Subsidies might be set down to be paid in four years and to be charged upon men of ten pound and upwards to spare them that were under Sir Henry Knivet affirmed the poverty of our Country against the reasons used The principal reason of our poverty he said was because we brought in more Foreign Wares than we vented Commodities and so by this means our money was carried out of our Country Alledging it to be like a Pond fed with a Spring but having a breach through which more passeth than cometh in so c. He made these two Motions First that the Queen should be helped by a survey taken of all mens Lands and Goods in England and so much to be yearly levyed as to serve the Queen to maintain Wars the proportion being set a hundred thousand pound yearly And secondly if this were misliked every man upon his word and power to deliver what were the profits of his Lands and worth of his goods and so a proportion to be had accordingly Sir Francis Hastings said The preparations of the Enemies Forces are both ready and great and intus they conspire therefore a great Aid must be yielded And I could wish three Subsidies to be levyed in this matter in the first of them those to be charged of five pound Lands and five Marks Goods in the second those of twelve pound Lands and eight pound Goods and in the third all to be charged as these have been Sir Walter Raleigh Answered them that spake of the Poverty of the Land which they argued by the multitude of Beggars he gave these reasons That the broken Companies in Normandy and the Low Countries who returned maimed hither never went back again to the Towns from whence they came For a multitude of Clothiers take their Looms into their own hands spinning their Wooll themselves and except we would work unto them better cheap than they can make themselves they will set none on work This grossing of so many Trades into their own hands beggereth so many as usually lived by the Trade He thought it inconvenient to have so many mens livings surveyed For many are now esteemed richer than they are and if their Land and Wealth were surveyed they would be found Beggars and so their credit which is now their Wealth would be found nothing worth He reported of his own knowledge that the West Country since the Parliament begun had taken from them the worth of four hundred and forty thousand pound They of Newcastle lie still for fear because Burdeaux Fleet was taken this year by the Enemy For the Enemy approaching us and being our Neighbour as he is gotten to be our Trades will decay every day and so our poverty encreaseth every day more and more And this is most certain the longer we defer Aid the less able shall we be to yield Aid And in the end the greater Aid will be required of us And so sparing them now we shall charge them when they shall be less able to bear it For this is most true one hundred thousand pound would have done the last year that which three will not now do and three will do this year that which six will not do hereafter So in conclusion he agreed to three Subsidies in them the three pound men to be spared and the summ which came from them to be levied upon those of ten pound and upwards and the payment to be speedy Sir Henry Umpton agreed that there should be three Subsidies granted according to the old payment only that a care should be had of assessing it on them that were best able And his conclusion was that it might be soon agreed upon for so it would be more acceptable because Tardè velle nolle instar est Sir Edward Stafford thought Subsidies were not so fit a remedy for the dangers we were in but advised rather there being ten thousand Parishes in England that it should be imposed on every Parish to find so many men for the Wars and the richer Parishes to help the poorer And the allowance for every man yearly to be twelve pound After this he moved to have the Parliament Prorogued Sir Francis Drake described the King of Spains strength and cruelty where he came and wished a frank Aid to be yielded to withstand him and he agreed to three Subsidies Serjeant Harris moved for three Subsidies but the ancient custom of payment to be retained besides no three pound men to be excused for then every man will labour by his Friend to be set three pound And that it was not needful to find men for the Field For by the Tenures of which there are three in England this is provided for The first Chivalry that is to do service in the Field the second Socage that is to find us victum vestitum by the Plough the last Frankal moign who are to pray for us to God Now every one by whom fealty is to be done by his Tenure he is to be forty dayes in the Field with his Lord. Sir Robert Cevill said I am glad to see the willingness of the House and readiness to yield Aid and having a feeling of the necessity requiring it my desire is that the Sentence which had had so many Parentheses might now be brought to a Period and the Bears Whelp that hath so many times been licked over might now be made somewhat For that is always the most Honourable Conclusion which having received many Contradictions is in the end concluded So he desired this matter of Subsidying might be committed to some special Committees in the Afternoon Sir John Fortescue thought it liberal to grant three Subsidies but did assure of his proper knowledge that three
Temporal Lords not because as I suppose they were all returned first but because of their Ecclesiastical dignities and in respect that the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury one of their Order is the first Peer of the Realm Whence also their names are usually first set down in the Journal-Book where the presence of all the Lords is noted each day when they sit as long as the Parliament continueth Then follow the Proxies of the Temporal Lords in such order as they are here set down Rogeri Comitis Rutland which as the rest is put in the Genitive Case in relation to those first words Literae procuratoriae in hoc Parliamento sunt allatae qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Edwardi Comitis Bedford qui procuratorem suum constituit Oliverum Dominum S t John de Bletsoe Caroli Domini Mount joy qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum Hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Gulielmi Comitis Bathon ' qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum Hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Edwardi Domini Morley qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham magnum seneschallum Hospitii Reginae magnum Admirallum Angliae Anthonii Vicecomitis Mountague qui procuratorem suum constituit Thomam Dominum Buckhurst magnum Thesaurarium Angliae Gulielmi Domini Sandes qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Edwardi Domini Stafford qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Georgii Comitis Huntington qui procuratorem suum constituit Edwardum Comitem Wigorn ' Thomae Vicecomitis Bindon qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Domini Lumley qui procuratorem suum constituit Thomam Dominum Darcy de Chiche Johannis Domini Darcy qui procuratorem suum constituit Gilbertum Comitem Salop. Henrici Comitis Kanciae qui procuratorem suum constituit Gilbertum Comitem Salop. Edwardi Comitis Oxon qui procuratorem suum constituit Carolum Comitem Nottingham Thomae Domini Burleigh qui procuratorem suum constituit Henricum Comitem Northumberland Nota That in respect that this present Parliament was the last of her Majesties Reign and these Proxies are entred after a different manner from most of those in the Queens time which are before set down they are all of them therefore Transcribed both ordinary and extraordinary out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of which the Ordinary I call those when a Spiritual Lord constituteth two Proctors and a Temporal Lord one and those Extraordinary when a Temporal Lord constituteth more than one Proctor and a Spiritual Lord but one or more than two Nota also that the Earl of Nottingham had eight several Proxies sent unto him this Parliament by which it is plain that by the Ancient Custom and usages of the Upper House every Member thereof is capable of as many Proxies as shall be sent unto him although the said Custom be at this day altered by an Order made in the said House upon the day of in Anno 2. Regis Caroli Anno Dom. 1626. upon the ingrossing of many Letters procuratory by George Duke of Bucks that no Lords Spiritual or Temporal should be capable of above two of the said Proxies The above-mentioned Proxies being set down in manner and form as aforesaid now followeth in the next place the beginning of the Parliament it self and the manner of her Majesties coming to the same On Tuesday the 27 th day of October and the first day of this present Parliament about three of the Clock in the Afternoon the Queen went by Land to Westminster Church riding in a Chariot made all open only like a Canopy at the Top being of Cloth of Silver or Tissue with divers Lords and others in their degree being Marshalled by the Heralds where having heard a Sermon she went into the Upper House and being there set the Lords Spiritual and Temporal took their several places whose names are Transcribed out of the Original Journal of the Upper House in manner and form following Johannes Archiepiscopus Cantuarien ' Thomas Egerton Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Matchio Winton Comites Comes Sussex Magnus Mareschallus Comes Nottingham Magnus Admirallus Angliae Magnus seneschallus Hospitii Reginae Comes Northumbr Comes Salop. Comes Darbiae Comes Wigorn ' Comes Cumbriae Comes Pembrooke Comes Hertford Comes Lincoln Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Dunelmen Episcopus Wintonien Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Coventr ' Litchfield Episcopus Wigorn. Episcopus Bathon ' Wellen. Episcopus Meneven Episcopus Lincoln Episcopus Asaphen Episcopus Cestren Episcopus Cicestren Episcopus Exon. Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Elien Episcopus Petriburgen Barones Dominus Zouch Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Dudley Dominus Lumley Dominus Stourton Dominus Windsor Dominus Mordant Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby de Parham Dominus Sheffield Dominus Darcie de Chiche Dominus Chandots Dominus S t John de Bletsoe Dominus Compton Dominus Norreys Dominus Howard de Walden These names being thus inserted out of the Original Journal-Book now follow some other passages of this day with the summ of the Lord Keepers Speech out of a private Journal of the House of Commons The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice that her Majesty with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal and others were set in the Upper House hasted thither but before they came the door of the House was shut and notwithstanding any means that was made by them was still kept shut until the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech the substance or chief scope of which said Speech was as followeth He used perswasion of thankfulness and of obedience and also shewed her Majesties desire of dissolution of this Parliament before Christmas He shewed unto us the necessity we stand in and the means to prevent it the necessity the Wars between Spain and England the means Treasure c. His advice was that Laws in force might be revised and explained and no new Laws made Our Enemies he said were Enemies to God the Queen and the peace of this Kingdom conspired to overthrow Religion to reduce us to a Tyrannical servitude These Enemies he named to be the Bishop of Rome and the King of Spain Our state being thus he summoned us to be provident by reason we deal with a provident Enemy and confident because God hath ever and I hope will ever bless the Queen with successful fortune He shewed how apparent his providence was by the means and course he taketh for our instruction And secondly the success we had against him by Gods strong Arm of defence in Anno 1588. and divers other times since You see to what effect the Queens support of the French Kings Estate hath
to him for setting forth a Book derogatory to the authority of Parliaments c. p. 291. D r Parry a Member of the House committed to his custody and why p. 341. A Currier committed to his Custody for saying The Curriers could not have justice in the House c. p. 366. Several persons committed to him for presuming to come into the House not being Members p. 394. 486. 565. passim A Motion that the Members should pay him his Fees before they come into the House p. 550. One committed to his Ward for disturbing a Member by way of an Appearance p. 593. If he be to go into the Country to fetch any accused for breach of priviledge he may desire part of his expences of the Complainant before he begin his Journey p. 655. Vide the word Gentleman-Usher in the Table to the Journal of the House of Lords Servants of Parliament men Vide Priviledge M r Seymore Clerk of the Parliament from 1 to 9 Eliz. p. 43. 122 Sheriffs when and where they may be chosen for Knights of the Shire and when and where not p. 38. 625. One Man formerly Sheriff of several Counties p. 39. A Bill that they should be allowed for the Justices Diets p. 51. 79. The Queen stops the Bill saying that she will her self take order therein p. 71. 88. A Bill for several Sheriffs in several Counties p. 129. 150. A Bill that Sheriffs Undersheriffs and Bailiffs of Liberties shall take Oaths dashed p. 135. A Member of a Parliament may be made a Sheriff p. 336. 355. 665. and on the contrary a Sheriff may be chosen a Knight of the Shire but not for the County of which he is Sheriff p. 436. 624 625 Shop-Books a Bill to prevent the double payment of debts upon them well spoken to p. 666 667 Sidney Colleà ge in Cambridge upon what occasion founded p. 503 Simony a Bill for prevention of it in presentations to Benefices with a speech thereupon p. 165 Sirname altered by an Act of Parliament p. 687 George Snagg Serjeant at Law chosen Speaker 31 Eliz. p. 428 Solicitor General chosen Speaker 8 and 9 Eliz. p. 121. again 35 Eliz. p. 469. He is to attend in the Upper House though he be chosen a Member of the House of Commons if he be call'd thereto by her Maiesties Writ before he was elected a Member p. 441 442 Common Solicitors a Bill against them in 43 Eliz. well spoken to by him that brought it in p. 631 Maimed Souldiers the Money collected in the Parliament 43 Eliz. chiefly bestowed upon them p. 665. 687. Husbandmen make the best Foot-souldiers p. 674 Spain reputed the Author of all the Treasons and Rebellions in Queen Elizabeths time p. 454. Both Houses join in a Petition to the Queen that she will proclaim War against Spain ibid. Several speeches in the Parliament 35 Eliz. containing an history of the methods the King of Spain used for the Conquest of England p. 471 472 473. 484. He invades Ireland with 4000. in 43 Eliz. p. 623. His pretence is to defend the Catholick Cause p. 624 Speak if two or three offer to speak together that party that is going to speak against the last Speaker is to be heard first p. 493. None to be interrupted while he is speaking p. 633. 640 Speaker of the House of Commons his antiquity p. 40. After he is nominated he uses to uncover himself p. 549. He is commonly nominated by the Comptroller of the Household p. 621. passim After Election he is placed in the Chair either by M r Comptroller alone or by him with another p. 79. 621 c. Two Questions concerning the Election of a Speaker proposed and answered p. 41. How he is presented to the Sovereign ibid. Their excusing or disabling of themselves meerly formal or complementive being sometimes done sometimes not ibid. p. 42. Their Petitions of course to the King or Queen after confirmation p. 16 42 43. 98 c. He makes his Speech now according to his own pleasure but formerly by the directions of the House p. 42. The story of Thorp Speaker in an 31 H. 6. p. 56. 516. He is not always present at Prorogations p. 119. When the Speaker dies in the interval of a Prorogation what method taken to chuse a new one p. 267 268. 278 279 280. The Speaker is to be presented and allowed before the House can determine or resolve on any thing p. 282. He may speak to a Bill with the leave of the House p. 515. He is of that dignity that he is to be commanded by none nor to attend any but the Sovereign p. 627. When any new Election is to be made sitting the Parliament he is to direct a Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to issue out the Writ ibid. p. 628. A great contest whether such Warrant be to be directed to the said Clerk or to the Lord Keeper but carried for the former p. 636 637 638 639. Bills are commonly perused by the Speaker before thy are received into the House p. 637. He hath no voice in the passing of a Bill p. 683 684 Liberty of Speech of absolute necessity in Parliaments p. 236 237 238 239 240. 259 Star-Chamber a Bill for the better expedition of Justice in it with a notable Speech against the Bill p. 504. A Bill exhibited therein by a Peer against a Member of the House of Commons Vide Belgrave ante Bill to make Steel in England 8 9 Eliz. p. 132 Steward of the Household administers the Oath of Supremacy to the Members p. 122. Who is his Deputy of course ibid. He may appoint several Deputies p. 155. 205 c. The Heirs of the Lord Stourton restored in blood with a notable Conference about the Bill betwixt the two Houses wherein the liberties of the House of Commons are asserted p. 263 Disloyal Subjects a Bill to reduce them to their due obedience 35 Eliz. p. 498. Several Speeches upon it p. 500. 517 Subpoena not to be served on a Member p. 347 348. 553. 637. What punishment was inflicted on one for serving such Subpoena p. 373. Two Members sent to the Lord Keeper to have the Subpoena revoked p. 553 554 Subsidy the Queen remitteth the third payment of one p. 131. Bill of Subsidy when it hath passed both Houses is to remain in the House of Commons till the end of the Session and then to be presented by the Speaker to the Sovereign p. 309. Subsidies use to be first offered by the Commons p. 483. Thought to be against the priviledge of the House for the Lords to join with them therein or to prescribe to them how much to give ibid. 485 486. 488. The danger of encreasing the number of Subsidies p. 494. Three Subsidies not given at one time till 35 Eliz. and then with caution that it should not be made a Precedent p. 569. Yet there were the same number given 39 40 Eliz. and four in 43 Eliz. ib.
668. Poor men commonly higher taxed in the raising of Subsidies than the rich and how it comes about p. 633. Few Justices vated at above eight or ten pound Lands whereas according to the Statute they ought to be at twenty ibid. Subsidies are of free gift and cannot be exacted by the Sovereign ibid. Succession Vide Limitation Two or three Members committed to Prison by the Queen for desiring the Lords to join with the House of Commons in a Petition to the Queen to entail the Succession of the Crown p. 470. Upon a Motion in the House for Petitioning the Queen for their enlargement the Courtiers are against it p. 497 Sunday Vide Sabbath Supersedeas to be awarded by the Lord Chancellor to stop proceedings in a Nisi prius against a Member p. 436 Supremacy a Bill for restoring it to the Crown 1 Eliz. sent from the Lords dashed by the Commons p. 47. The Oath of Supremacy made 1 Eliz. begun to be taken by the Members of Parl. 5 Eliz. p. 39. 78 A Member suspended by the Council from sitting in the House for bringing in a Bill to reform Ceremonies p. 168. But the suspension soon taken off p. 176 Common Swearing a Bill against it with a very ingenious Speech thereupon p. 660 661 T. THree Tenures in England p. 492 Thorp Vide Speaker Changing of Tillage into pasture prejudicial to the Common-wealth p. 551. Several Speeches on occasion of repealing a Statute for the increase of Tillage p. 674 Tin-Mines in Cornwall belonged to the Dukes of Cornwall so long as there were any by special Patent p. 646 Tonnage and Poundage a Bill for them 1 Eliz. p. 45 A Bill to make certain offences Treason 13 Eliz. with several Arguments thereupon p. 162 163 164 165 U. A Bill against Vagrants with some Speeches thereupon p. 165 Voices in Parliament ought to be free without any manner of compulsion p. 683 684 A Bill against Usury with sundry arguments and speeches thereon p. 171. ad p. 174 The End of the TABLE W. WAR Vide Spain A Bill that Wednesday shall be a Fish-day p. 87. It s benefit to the Navy and Mariners and in what places to be observed p. 372 A Bill against false Weights and Measures ingeniously spoken to by him that brought it in p. 626 627. Another to the same purpose p. 662 Welch tongue a Bill to translate the Bible and Service-Book into it p. 72 89 Lord Wentworth Arraigned for the loss of Calis p. 54 Peter Wentworth Esq his notable Speech for the Liberty of the House p. 236. ad p. 241. A Committee appointed to examine him upon it p. 241. He is sent to the Tower for speaking undutifully of her Majesty in it p. 244. Upon her Majesties pardoning him he is received into the House again after above a months imprisonment p. 259 260. He is sent to the Tower again by the Queens Order in the Parliament 35 Eliz. for desiring the Lords to join with the Lower House in a Petition to the Queen for entailing the Succession of the Crown p. 470 Westminster Vide Sanctuary Weymouth and Melcomb Regis incorporated by the Queens Letters Patents into one Borough but so that they still chuse four Burgesses p. 554. Whispering not permitted in the House p. 487 Whitby-haven a Bill for the re-edifying of it in 39 Eliz. rejected p. 567 Williams Thomas chosen Speaker 5 Eliz. p. 79. Vide the Table to the Journal of the House of Lords Winchester a Bill for the assurance of certain Lands late parcel of that Bishoprick to divers Patentees of Edw. 6. with that Bishops opposition to it p. 50 51. passed p. 52 Wray Christopher chosen Speaker 13 Eliz. p. 156 Writ of Summons to the Sheriffs for chusing Parliament men p. 37. Some alteration in the present from those of former times p. 38 39 Y. YArmouth a Bill for repealing part of its Charter dashed p. 562 Serjeant Yelverton chosen Speaker in the Parliament 39 40 Eliz. p. 549 550. His more than usual disabling of himself p. 549. His Speech to the Queen at the end of the Session p. 546 547 York a Bill for the office of its Town-Clerk p. 131 The End of the TABLE A Catalogue of Books Printed for John Starkey Bookseller at the Mitre in Fleetstreet near Temple-Bar DIVINITY 1. A Discourse of the Freedom of the Will By Peter Sterry sometime Fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge in folio 2. The Jesuits Morals collected by a Doctor of the Colledge of Sorbon in Paris who hath faithfully extracted them out of the Jesuits own Books which are printed by the permission and approbation of the Superiors of their Society Written in French and exactly translated into English in folio 3. The Christians Consolations against the fears of Death with Prayers and Meditations sit to prepare all manner of persons for it Written in French by the late famous M r Drelincourt Minister of the Protestant Church at Charenton near Paris and from the twelfth Edition of it much corrected and enlarged by the Author Now newly translated into English by Marius a Assigny in octavo 4. The Living Temple or the Notion improved that A good man is the Temple of God By John Howe M. A. sometimes Fellow of Magdalen Colledge Oxon. in octavo 5. A Confutation of the Millenarian Opinion plainly demonstrating that Christ will not reign visibly and personally upon earth with the Saints for a thousand years either before the day of Judgment in the day of Judgment or after it By Tho. Hall B. D. PHYSICK 6. The Royal Pharmacopoeia Galenical and Chymical according to the Practice of the most Eminent and Learned Physicians of France and Published with their several Approbations By Moses Charras the Kings Chief Operator in his Royal Garden of Plants faithfully Englished Illustrated with several Copper Plates in folio 7. Basilica Chymica Praxis Chymiatricae or Royal and Practical Chymistry augmented and enlarged by John Hartman To which is added his Treatise of Signatures of internal things or a true and lively Anatomy of the greater and lesser World As also the Practice of Chymistry of John Hartman M. D. Augmented and enlarged by his Son with considerable Additions all faithfully Englished by a lover of Chymistry 8. The Compleat Chymist or a New Treatise of Chymistry teaching by a short and easy Method all its most necessary Preparations Written in French by Christopher Giaser Apothecary in Ordinary to the French King and the Duke of Orleans And from the fourth Edition Revised and Augmented by the Author Now faithfully Englished by a Fellow of the Royal Society Illustrated with Copper Plates in octavo 9. The Art of Chymistry as it is now practised Written in French by P. Thybault Chymist to the French King and Englished by W. A. Doctor in Physick and Fellow of the Royal Society in octavo 10. Medicina Instaurata or a brief Account of the true Grounds and Principles of the Art of Physick with the insufficiency
of the vulgar way of preparing Medicines and the Excellency of such as are made by Chymical Operations By Edward Bolnest Med. Lond. in octavo 11. Aurora Chymica or a rational way of preparing Animals Vegetables and Minerals for a Physical Use by which preparations they are made most efficacious safe and pleasant Medicines for the preservation of the life of man By Edward Bolnest Med. Reg. Ord. in octavo 12. The Chirurgions Store-house furnished with forty three Tables cut in Brass in which are all sorts of Instruments both Ancient and Modern useful to the performance of all Manual Operations with an exact description of every Instrument together with one hundred choice Observations of famous Cures performed with three Indexes 1. Of the Instruments 2. Of Cures performed 3. Of things remarkable Written in Latin by Johannes Scultetus a famous Physician and Chirurgeon of Ulme in Suevia and faithfully Englished by E. B. D r of Physick in octavo 13. Medicina Statica or Rules of Health in eight Sections of Aphorisms Originally Written by Sanctorius Chief Professor of Physick at Padua in twelves LAW 14. An Abridgment of divers Cases and Resolutions of the Common Law Alphabetically digested under several Titles By Henry Rolls Serjeant at Law published by the Lord Chief Baron Hales and approved by all the Judges in folio 15. The Reports of that famous Lawyer Henry Rolls Serjeant at Law sometime Chief Justice of the Kings Bench of divers Cases in the Law adjudged in the time of King James approved by all the Judges in folio 16. The Reports of Sir George Crook Knight in three Volumes in English allowed of by all the Judges The second Edition carefully corrected by the Original in folio 17. The History of Gavel-kind with the Etymology thereof containing a Vindication of the Laws of England together with a short History of Will the Conqueror By Silas Taylor in quarto 18. Action upon the Case of Slander or a Methodical Collection of thousands of Cases in the Law of what words are Actionable and what not By William Shepherd Esq in octava 19. An Exact Abridgment in English of the Cases reported by Sir Francis Moor Knight with the Resolution of the Points of the Law therein by the Judges By Will. Hughes in octavo 20. The Touchstone of Wills Testaments and Administrations being a Compendium of Cases and Resolutions touching the same carefully collected out of the Ecclesiastical Civil and Canon Laws as also out of the Customs Common Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom By G. Meriton in twelves HISTORY 21. The Voyages and Travels of the Duke of Holstein's Ambassadors into Moscovy Tartary and Persia begun in the year 1633. and finished in 1639. containing a Compleat History of those Countries whereunto are added the Travels of Mandelslo from Persia into the East-Indies begun in 1638. and finished in 1640. The whole Illustrated with divers accurate Maps and Figures Written originally by Adam Olearius Secretary to the Embassy Englished by J. Davies The second Edition in folio 22. The Works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel Citizen and Secretary of Florence containing the History of Florence the Prince the Original of the Guelf and Ghibilin the Life of Castruccio Castracani the Murther of Vitelli c. By Duke Valentino the State of France the State of Germany the Discourses on Titus Livius the Art of War the Marriage of Belphegor All from the true Original newly and faithfully translated into English in folio 23. I Ragguagli di Parnasso or Advertisements from Parnassus in two Centuries with the Politick Touchstone Written Originally in Italian by that famous Roman Trajano Bocalini Englished by the Earl of Menmouth in folio 24. The History of Barbadoes S t Christophers Mevis S t Vincents Antego Martinico Monserret and the rest of the Caribby Islands in all twenty eight in two Books containing the Natural and Moral History of those Islands Illustrated with divers pieces of Sculpture representing the most considerable Rarities therein described in folio 25. The History of the Affairs of Europe in this present Age but more particularly of the Republick of Venice Written in Italian by Battista Nani Cavalier and Procurator of S t Mark. Englished by Sir Robert Honywood K t in folio 26. The History of the Turkish Empire from the year 1623. to the year 1677. Containing the Reigns of the three last Emperours viz. Sultan Morat or Amurat IV. Sultan Ibrahim and Sultan Mahomet IV. his Son the XIII Emperour now Reigning By Paul Rycaut Esq late Consul of Smyrna in folio 27. The present State of the Ottoman Empire in three Books containing the Maxims of the Turkish Polity their Religion and Military Discipline Illustrated with divers Figures Written by Paul Rycant Esq late Secretary to the English Ambassador there now Consul of Smyrna The fourth Edition in octavo 28. The present State of the Greek and Armenian Churches AnnoChristi 1678. Written at the Command of His Majesty by Paul Rycaut Esq late Consul of Smyrna and Fellow of the Royal Society in octavo 29. The Memoirs of Philip deComines Lord of Argenton containing the History of Lewis XI and Charles VIII Kings of France with the most remarkable occurrences in their particular Reigns from the year 1464. to 1498. Revised and Corrected from divers Manuscripts and ancient Impressions by Denis Godfroy Counseller and Historiographer to the French King and from his Edition lately Printed at Paris newly translated into English in octavo 30. A Relation of Three Embassies from his Majesty Charles the Second to the Great Duke of Muscovy the King of Sweden and the King of Denmark performed by the Right Honourable the Earl of Carlisle in the year 1663 and 1664. Written by an Attendant on the Embassies in octavo 31. A Relation of the Siege of Candia from the first Expedition of the French Forces to its Surrender the 27 th of September 1669. Written in French by a Gentleman who was a Voluntier in that Service and faithfully Englished in octavo 32. The Present State of Egypt or a new Relation of a late Voyage into that Kingdom performed in the years 1672 and 1673. By F. Vansleb R. D. Wherein you have an exact and true account of many rare and wonderful particulars of that Ancient Kingdom Englished by M. D. B. D. in octavo 33. The History of the Government of Venice wherein the Policies Councils Magistrates and Laws of that State are fully related and the use of the Balloting-Box exactly described Written in the year 1675. by the Sieur Amelott de la Houscaie Secretary to the French Ambassador at Venice in octavo 34. An Historical and Geographical Description of the great Country and River of the Amazones in America with an exact Map thereof Translated out of French in octavo 35. The Novels of the famous Don Francisco de Quevedo Villegas Knight of the Order of S t James whereunto is added the Marriage of Belphegor an Italian Novel Translated from Machiavel faithfully Englished in
octavo 36. The Amours of certain Great Men and famous Philosophers Written in French and Englished by J. D. in octavo 37. Deceptio visus or Seeing and Believing are two things a pleasant Spanish History faithfully translated in octavo 38. The History of France under the Ministry of Cardinal Mazarine viz. from the death of King Lewis XIII to the year 1664. wherein all the Affairs of State to that time are exactly related By Benjamin Priolo and faithfully Englished by Christopher Wase Gent. in octavo 39. The History of the Twelve Caesars Emperours of Rome Written in Latin by C. Suetonius Tranquillus newly translated into English and illustrated with all the Caesars Heads in Copper-plates in octavo 40. The Annals of Love containing select Histories of the Amours of divers Princes Courts pleasantly related By a person of Honour in eight Parts in octavo 41. A new Voyage into the Northern Countries being a description of the Manners Customs Superstition Buildings and Habits of the Norwegians Laplanders Kilops Borandians Siberians Samojedes Zemblans and Islanders in twelves 42. The present State of the United Provinces of the Low Countries as to the Government Laws Forces Riches Manners Customs Revenue and Territory of the Dutch Collected out of divers Authors by W. A. Fellow of the Royal Society The second Edition in twelves 43. The present State of the Princes and Republicks of Italy The second Edition enlarged with the manner of Election of Popes and a Character of Spain Written Originally in English by J. Gailhard Gent. in twelves 44. The Policy and Government of the Venetians both in Civil and Military Affairs Written in French by the Sieur de la Hay and faithfully Englished in twelves 45. The Voyage of Italy or a compleat Journey through Italy in two Parts with the Character of the People and the Description of the chief Towns Churches Palaces Villas Gardens Pictures Statues Antiquities as also of the Interest Government Riches Forces c. of all the Princes with Instructions concerning Travel By Richard Lassells Gent. who travelled through Italy five times as Tutor to several of the English Nobility Opus Posthumum corrected and set forth by his old Friend and Fellow-Traveller S. W. Never before extant in twelves 46. A Relation of the French King 's late Expedition into the Spanish Netherlands in the years 1667 and 1668. with an Introduction discoursing his Title thereunto and an account of the Peace between the two Crowns made May 2. 1667. Englished by G. H. in twelves POETRY and PLAYS 47. The Works of Sir William Davenant K t consisting of those which were formerly Printed and those which he designed for the Press Now published out of the Author 's Original Copies in folio 48. Andronicus Comnenius a Tragedy By John Wilson in quarto 49. Heraclius Emperour of the East a Tragedy By Lodowic Carlel Esq in quarto 50. The Shepherds Paradise a Pastoral By Walter Montague Esq in octavo 51. Paradise Regain'd a Poem in four Books to which is added Sampson Agonistes The Author John Milton in octavo MISCELLANIES 52. A General Collection of Discourses of the Virtuosi of France upon Questions of all sorts of Philosophy and other Natural Knowledge made in the Assembly of the Beaux Esprits at Paris by the most ingenious Persons of that Nation Englished by G. Havers in two Volumes in folio 53. A Justification of the late War against the United Netherlands in two Parts illustrated with several Sculptures by Henry Stubbs in quarto 54. The Compleat Gentleman or Directions for the Education of Youth as to their Breeding at home and Travelling abroad In two Treatises by J. Gailhard Gent. who hath been Tutor abroad to several of the Nobility and Gentry in octavo 55. The Temperate Man or the right Way of Preserving Life and Health together with Soundness of the Senses Judgment and Memory unto an extream Old Age. In three Treatises The first written by the learned Leonardus Lessius The second by Lodowick Cornaro a Noble Gentleman of Venice The third by a famous Italian faithfully Englished in twelves 56. The Golden Calf in which is handled the most rare and incomparable wonder of Nature in transmuting Metals viz. how the entire substance of Lead was in one moment transmuted into Gold Obrizon with an exceeding small Particle of the true Philosophers Stone at the Hague in the year 1666. Written in Latin by John Frederick Helvetius Doctor of Medicine at the Hague and faithfully Englished in twelves 57. Accidence commenc'd Grammar and supplied with sufficient Rules or a new and easy method for the learning of the Latin Tongue The Author John Milton in twelves 58. The Rules of Civility or certain ways of Deportment observed in France amongst all persons of Quality upon several occasions faithfully Englished in twelves 59. The Art of Complaisance or the means to oblige in Conversation in twelves * Rot. Parl. 31 32 H. 6. n. 1 7 8 9 10 12 20 22 23 24. || Rot. Parl. 1 H. 7. n. 26. An Act for Roger Thorpe a Eadmerus Histor. Normannorum lib. 1. fol. 5. l. 44. b Malmesbury obiit mortem an poll natum Sirvatorem sesum MCxliio. 7 Regis Stephani Balaeus Script Britanniae fol. 186. l. 3. p. 56. l. 24. in vita Willielmi c Eadmerus lih 6. p. 135. l. 21. d Rut. Cart. 5 Johannis m. 5. n. 33. e Rut. Claus. 19 H. 3. Pars 2. m. 5. dorso Vide Stat. de an Bissextili 21 H. 3. Rex per Consilium fidelium subditorum and vet resolved to be a Parliament Coke lib. 8. Case del Prince fol. 20. f A Mat. Weslm An. 1231. 15 H. 3. p. 290. l. 13. g A Barones suni majores minores Barones pro libere tenentibus in genere hoc est tam in Soccagio quam per Servitium militare Spelm. Gloss. Diatriba de Baronibus fol. 64 67. h Rot. Claus. 1 E. 2. m. 19. dorso i Rot. Pars. 5 E. 3. n. 3. k Rot. Pars. 23 H. 6. n. 19. l Rot. Parl. 1 R. 3. Cotton's Records fol. 711. m Rot. Parl. 1 H. 7. n. 18. n Dominus Herbert de Cherbury in vita H. 8. fol. 303 305 306 307. o Parl. sicundum 1 Mariae Rast. Stat. p. 1085. c. 2. Rast. Stat. part 2. de An. 28 Eliz. fol. 121. c. 18. p Rot. Claus. 23 E. 1. m. 3. dorso Euseb. li. 2. de vita Constantini * Bracton de Legibus Angliae Lib. 1. Cap. 7. Vide Camden Annal. p. 432. This Ordinance inhlbitis also as well the Election of Lawyers as of Sheriffs Vide de tota ista materia in Annal Eliz à Guliel Camd. script edit Lugdun Batav An. Dom. 1625. à pagin 432. ad pagin 472. Gul. Camd. in Annal Eliz. supracitatis pag. 468. line is 1 2 3. Vide à e tota ista matcria in Annal. Eliz à Cambd. script Edit Lugd. Bat. 1625. à p. 432. ad p. 472. The Pitition against the Scottish Queen presented unto her Majesly Nov. 12. Guliel Cambden in Annal. Regin Eliz. edit Lugdun Batav Anno Dem. 1625. p. 511 512. Vide Gulicl Camd. Annal. Regin Eliz. edit Lugd. Batavorum An. Dom. 1625. pag. 589. Vide Holinghs pag. 955. 956. An excellent Case of one George Finers a Burgess of Plimouth in Devonshire in the Parliament An. 33 H. 8. Anno Dom. 1541. arrested and taken in Execution by the means of one White and afterward had his priviledge as also of the Temple-Cook who was Servant to Sir Thomas Audley once Speaker of Parliament and after Lord Chancellor who being arrested was freed Which case was cited by King H. 8. himself * Statute de 23 H. 6. Cap. 15. 1 H. 5. Cap. 1. enact it Vide 38 H. 8. fol. 60. a. Dyer Vide Gul. Camd. Anno Regin Eliz. edit Lugdun Batavorum An. Dom. 1625. pag. 682.