The Journals of Parliaments, Journal 15

The Journals of Parliaments · Journal 15

p. 311THE JOURNAL OF THE House of LORDS.

A. Journal of the Passages of the House of Lords in the Parliament holden at Westminster, Anno 27 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1584. which began there on Monday the 23^th Day of November, and then and there continued until the Prorogation thereof on Monday the 29^th Day of March Anno Domini 1585. after which it was lastly Dissolved on Wednesday the 14^th Day of September, Anno 28 Reginae ejusdem, Anno Domini 1586.

THIS Parliament Summoned and holden in the twenty seventh year of her Majesties Reign, lasted a long time in respect of the continual sitting of either House for the space of about three Months, at two several Meetings, between which there intervened only one Adjournment of about forty days space. There were no publick matters of any great consequence debated in it, but many Excellent Passages for the Power, Priviledge and Order of the Upper House may be observed from it. At the first Prorogation thereof on Monday the 29^th day of March in Anno 27 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1585. there passed near upon fifty several Acts or Statutes publick and private; from which time it continued until the Dissolution thereof as abovesaid.

The day before the Parliament began being Sunday, and the 22^th day of November, the Original Journal-Book setteth down amongst others two unusual or extraordinary Proxies to have been introducted or returned thereon into the hands of the Clark of the Upper House; for any Proxy if it be delivered into the hands of the said Clark, whether it be before the Parliament begin or after, is well returned: and it is most likely that these two with some other ordinary or usual Proxies which are here omitted, were delivered as aforesaid this Sunday towards the Evening, because the Parliament was to begin the next Morning. Which said Letters Procuratory are Entred as aforesaid in manner and form following.

22^o die Novembris introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Johannis Episcopi Carliolen' in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Episcopum London.

Item introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Willielmi Episcopi Cestren' in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Edwinum Archiepiscopum Eboracen'.

Nota. That here two Bishops did constitute but one Proxy apiece, whereas it seldom happeneth that any spiritual Lord nominateth fewer than two. But for any further observation upon the Proxies returned this Parliament, Vide on Friday the 27^th day of this instant November following.

On Monday the 23^th day of November the Parliament began according to the Summons. Which had been sent forth.

The Queens Majesty went to this Parliament in her accustomed Pompous and Royal manner, being attended first unto the Cathedral Church of Westminst.: from her Palace of Whitehall by the Lords and others; where having heard a Sermon, she was afterwards conducted by them in the like Royalty into the Parliament Chamber, commonly called the Upper House, whither she came about two of the Clock in the Afternoon.

Nota, That the whole manner and form aforesaid p. 312of her Majesties most Royal going to this Parliament, is set down at large in M^r Mills his Catalogue of Honour, imprinted at London Anno Domini 1610. pag. 64.

The Queen and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being all set in their several places, the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof; who thereupon repairing thither, as many as conveniently could, were let in, and standing all together at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the Upper House, Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor, by the Queen, Commandment declared unto them the Causes of the Assembling of this Parliament.

But what those Causes were, neither the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House nor that of the House of Commons do at all mention, in setting down the other daily Passages of this Parliament de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. But in respect they are set down the above-mentioned Catalogue of Honour, imprinted at London An. Domini 1610. pag. …. and that it is most probable that were there inserted out of the Collections or Memorial of some Member of the House of Commons at this Parliament, therefore I have thought good to supply it verbatim as it is there set down.

The said Lord Chancellor declared unto them in her Majesties name, that this Assembly of Parliament was for three causes called, viz. For the glory of Almighty God and the furthering of Religion, for the health and preservation of her Royal Majesty, and the welfare of the Common-Weal. Which after that he had a loud and most eloquently at large declared, turning his Speech unto the Knights and Burgesses standing on a heap together below, he willed them to make choice of their Prolocutor, and to give notice of him so Chosen unto the Lords of the Privy-Council, from whom they should expect what the Queens Pleasure and Answer was concerning him so Chosen to be afterward presented.

The substance of this Speech being so shortly set down in the said Catalogue of Honour, I thought good to transcribe, although it were imprinted, because it doth much augment and perfect this present Journal of the Upper House. The residue whereof doth next in order follow out of the Original Journal-Book of the same House, there being only added now and then, as the occasion offered it self, some Observations and Animadversions upon it.

Nota, Also that no names of any of the Lords Spiritual or Temporal are noted to have been present this day, which happened through the negligence of the Clerk of the Parliament; but it may be conjectured who they were by the names of such whose presence is noted on Thursday next following being the 26^th day of this instant November, on which said day the presence of such Lords as attended this Parliament is first marked.

Then follow the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions, which is the more remarkable at this time because it is said that the Clerk of the Parliament did read them by the Lord Chancellors Commandment, whereas it should seem at other times, and which is agreeable also to the course at this day, he doth presently stand up of himself as soon as the Lord Chancellors or Lord Keepers Speech is ended, and reads the said Receivors and Triors names; yet the entrance aforesaid is at this time set down in the said Journal-Book in manner and form following.

Tunc (having before-mentioned the Lord Chancellors Speech) Parliamenti Clericus ex mandato Cancellarn omnibus Petitionibus exhiberi volentibus Receptorum & Examinatorum nomina formâ subsequenti recitavit.

Then follows all in French, of which the names were these.

Receivors of Petitions for England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland.

Sir Christopher Wray Lord Chief Justice of England, Sir Gilbert Gerrard Master of the Rolls, Sir Thomas Gawel; Knight one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench, Doctor Clarke and Doctor Ford.

Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles.

Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Sir Roger Manwood Lord Chief Baron, Francis Windam one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Awbery and Doctor Barkley.

Such as will deliver Petitions must so do within six days next ensuing.

Triors of Petitions for England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of Leicester Lord High Steward of England, the Earl of Darby, the Earl of Rutland, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Lord Howard of Effingham Chamberlain of the Queens House, the Lord Gray of Wilton, the Lord North.

All these or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants, at their leisure to meet and hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber.

Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and the Countries beyond the Seas, and the Isles.

The Archbishop of York, the Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England, the Earl of Warwick, the Earl of Pembroke, the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Chester, the Bishop of Rochester, the Lord Cobham, the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst.

All these or four of them, calling to them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor, to hold their place when their leisure did serve to meet in the Treasurers Chamber.

Breve returnatum (which was returned this Morning) quo Johannes Episcopus Gloucestren. praesenti Parliamento interesse summonitus fuit, qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum, salvo jure alieno.

p. 313Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum us que in diem crastinum horâ nonâ.

On Tuesday the 24^th day of November, the Lords met in the Upper House, but nothing was done, saving the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor until nine of the Clock the next Morning.

On Wednesday the 25^th day of November there was a like meeting of the Lords, but nothing done saving the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon the day following: But no presence of the Lords is noted on this day in the Original Journal-Book.

On Thursday the 26^th day of November, the Commons having chosen their Speaker, who upon his Presentment to the Queen was this day to be allowed of in the said place, her Majesty Accompanied with divers of the Nobility came into the Upper House about three of the Clock in the Afternoon, whose name and the names of such Lords Spiritual and Temporal as are marked in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament to have been present this day, do here ensue.

Regina.

Archiepiscopus Cantuar.

Dominus Thomas Bromley Miles, Cancellarius.

Archiepiscopus Eboracen.

Dominus Barleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae.

Marchio Winton.

Comites.

Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerarius.

Comes Arundell.

Comes Kantiae.

Comes Darbiae.

Comes Wigorn.

Comes Rutland.

Comes Cumberland.

Comes Sussex.

Comes Bathon.

Comes Pembrooke.

Comes Hartford.

Vice-Comes Mountague.

Vice-Comes Bindon.

Episcopi.

Episcopus London.

Episcopus Winton.

Episcopus Meneven.

Episcopus Sarisburien.

Episcopus Petriburgen.

Episcopus Norwicen.

Episcopus Roffen.

Episcopus Cestren.

Barones.

Dominus Howard Camerar.

Dominus Zouch.

Dominus Willoughbie.

Dominus Dacres.

Dominus Cobham.

Dominus Grey de Wilton.

Dominus Lumley.

Dominus Stourton.

Dominus Mountjoy.

Dominus Darcie.

Dominus Mounteagle.

Dominus Windsor.

Dominus Wentworth.

Dominus Borough.

Dominus Cromwell.

Dominus Evers.

Dominus Wharton.

Dominus Rich.

Dominus Willoughby de Parham.

Dominus Darcy de Chiche.

Dominus North.

Dominus Shandois.

Dominus S^t John de Bletsoe.

Dominus Buckhurst.

Dominus de la Ware.

Dominus Cheyne.

Dominus Norris.

Her Majesty with the Lords being set, the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons repaired to the Upper House with John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Speaker, and being as many as could conveniently let in, the said Speaker was led up between two of the most eminent Personages of the House of Commons to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the Upper House; and being there placed, after humble reverence made, he declared, that the said House of Commons amongst many other more able Members of the said House had Elected and Chosen him for their Speaker, and that knowing his manifold weaknesses and inability to undergo so great a Charge, he did there implore her Gracious Majesty to free him from the same, and to Command them to Elect and chuse amongst themselves some other more Experienced and better fitted for that imployment.

To which the Lord Chancellor having received Instructions from her Majesty Answered, that the said Speaker had shewed a great deal of humility and modesty in disabling himself, but that her Highness well knowing his great sufficiency, did very well allow and approve of the choice which the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of the said House of Commons had made of him to be their Speaker.

Whereupon the said Speaker after humble reverence made and many expressions of his great thankfulness to her Majesty for her gracious Approbation of him made certain Petitions of Course in the name of the House of Commons, p. 314viz. for freedom of speech and freedom of access to her Majesty; and that themselves and their necessary attendants might be exempted from Suits and Arrests in such manner and form as hath been accustomed; and lastly, that if himself should in any thing mistake or misreport the sayings or doings of the said House it might be imputed unto himself, and that her Majesty would be graciously pleased to pardon it.

To which Speech the Lord Chancellor having further instructions from her Majesty replied, that all such liberties and immunities as had been formerly enjoyed in the like case in the times of any of her Majesties most Royal Progenitors, should still be continued unto them.

The Writ was returned this day whereby Henry Lord Wentworth was Summoned to the Parliament, who thereupon admissus fuit ad sunm praeheminentiae in Parliamento sedendi locum, salvo cuiquam jure suo.

Then followed the continuance of the Parliament which is Entred in the Original Journal-Book de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. in these words following.

Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum us que in diem Sabbati prox. horâ consuetâ.

On Friday the 27^th day of November, although the Upper House sate not (because the Parliament had been continued yesterday unto Saturday Morning at nine of the Clock) yet were divers Proxies returned or introducted, whereof the only unusual or extraordinary one was this ensuing, viz.

27 die Novembris introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Henrici Comitis Huntingtoniae, in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Franciscum Comitem Bedford & Robertum Comitem Leicester.

Nota, That whereas the Temporal Lords do very seldom constitute more than one Proctor, the Earl of Huntington here nominateth two, which appeared also, by the other Proxies returned this Parliament, for of three other Earls and eleven Barons who were absent this Parliament by her Majesties Licence, not any of them constituted more than one Proctor apiece; whereas on the other side the spiritual Lords do for the most part nominate two Proctors at the least, for of nine Bishops who were likewise absent during this Parliament, two of them only nominated each his Proctor. Ut vide on Sunday the 22^th day of this instant November foregoing, and the other seven made every of them two Proctors.

Nota also, that Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester had this Parliament ten several Proxies sent unto him, all Entred in the beginning of the Original Journal-Book in such order as they now follow, viz. from Edward Lord Dudley, Henry Lord Scroop, Lodowick Lord Mordant, Edward Lord Stafford, Henry Lord of Abergavenny, Edward Earl of Lincoln, Ambrose Earl of Warwick, Henry Earl of Huntington (who constituted Francis Earl of Bedford joint Proctor with him) Lord Audeley, and John Lord Lumley. By which and many other Precedents in all other Parliaments it plainly appeareth, that any Lord of the Upper House was capable of as many Proxies as should be sent unto him, until in Anno 2^do Caroli Regis Anno Domini 1626. It was Ordered by the Lords then sitting in Parliament, that no Member of the said House should be capable of above two Proxies at the most.

On Saturday the 28^th day of November, to which day the Parliament had been last continued, three Bills had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill to provide remedy against fraudulent Conveyances was read the first time.

Hodie returnatum est breve quo Henricus Comes Suffex praesenti huic Parliamento interesse summonebatur, qui ad suum praeheminentiae in Parliamento sedendi locum admissus fuit, salvo jure alieno.

Nota, That the daily continuing of the Parliament in those words, Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum, &c. is hereafter omitted as matter of course, unless where somewhat in it doth happen extraordinary or unusual in respect of the time, place or manner.

On Monday the 30^th day of November, to which day the Parliament had been last continued, three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first was the Bill for appointing fit and convenient places for Landing and Shipping of Merchandize.

On Tuesday the first day of December, whereas James Diggs, one of the ordinary Gentlemen of my Lord's Grace of Canterbury, was committed to the Fleet upon a Reddit se in the Exchequer, since the beginning of this present Parliament; the Lords at the Motion of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, claiming the ancient priviledge of this High Court, gave Commandment to the Gentleman Usher, that the said James should be brought before them.

And this day the said Lords having openly heard both Sir Roger Manwood then Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and the same James Diggs; They Ordered that the said Diggs by vertue of the priviledge of this Court, should be enlarged and set at liberty.

And it was further Ordered, that the Warden of the Fleet should be discharged of the Prisoner and of the Action that might be brought against him the said Warden of the same.

Lastly, Touching the Lord Chief Baron, the said Lords have resolved for such causes and reasons as they have heard, that the said Lord Chief Baron had not committed any contempt against this Right Honourable Court.

And further Ordered 13^o die Decembris, that the appearance of the same James Diggs, by rendring himself into the Exchequer, was and should be a sufficient discharge of his Sureties and their Bonds, and that the Bonds shall be redelivered.

Provided nevertheless, that for as much as the said James Diggs was not Arrested in Execution p. 315at the Suit of Richard Howe, but was committed after Judgment by the Barons of the Exchequer upon a Reddit se, for discharge of his Sureties. It is therefore further Ordered by the said Lords, that touching the sum of money recovered by the said Howe against the said James Diggs, the said Howe and James Diggs shall stand to such Order as the Lord Chief Baron and other of the Barons of the Exchequer shall set down for the same. Vide more afterwards concerning this matter upon Monday the 14^th, and on Tuesday the 15^th day of this instant December following.

On Thursday the third day of December, to which day the Parliament had been on Tuesday last continued, the Bill for fit and convenient places for landing and shipping of Merchandize was read secunda vice, and then committed to the Lord Treasurer and others, and to the two Senior Barons of the Exchequer.

Nota, That here two Judges who are but Assistants unto the Upper House, are made joint Committees with the Lords.

On Friday the 4^th day of December, Two Bills were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons; of which the first being an Act for the maintenance of Navigation was read prima vice, and the second touching the Clothiers of Essex was read prima & secunda vice, and then committed.

On Saturday the 5^th day of December, Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the second being the Bill for the Inning of Erith and Plumsted Marsh, was read secunda vice, and committed unto three Earls, one Bishop and five Barons: which Committees did appoint to hear amongst themselves as well the Parties Owners, as Inners touching the same Bill.

The Bill also concerning the Essex Clothiers which had been sent up yesterday to the Lords from the House of Commons, was this day upon the third reading and conclusion thereof sent back again thither.

On Monday the 7^th day of December, to which day the Parliament had been last continued, two Bills had each of them one reading; the first for maintenance of Navigation, and the second for increase of Mariners.

Two Bills also were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons; the one touching the Essex Clothiers, the other for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day.

Nota, That this Bill concerning the Sabbath day was long in passing the two Houses, being committed, and amendments upon amendments added unto it, as Vide afterwards on Tuesday the 8^th day, on Monday the 14^th day, and on Saturday the 19^th day of this instant December ensuing; as also on Wednesday the third day, and on Saturday the 6^th day of March following. Vide etiam on Wednesday the 9^th day of this instant December foregoing.

Whereas the Lord Viscount Bindon moved the Lords for the priviledge of the House for Robert Finnies, alledging that he was his Servant, the Lords gave Commandment to the Gentleman-Usher to go to the Counter in Woodstreet, where the said Robert Finnies then lay upon an Execution, and to bring him and the Parties that Arrested him before them.

And this day the said Lords after the hearing of the Cause thought it not convenient that the said Robert Finnies should enjoy the priviledge of this House, as well because he claimed not the priviledge when he was first Arrested, nor in the Counter when he was charged with the Execution; as also for that he was not a menial Servant, nor yet ordinary Attendant upon the said Viscount. And further Ordered, that the Officers of the Sheriffs of London should take again in Execution the said Finnies and convey him to the place from whence he came, and that the bringing of the said Finnies before the said Lords at their Commandment should not be in any wise prejudicial to the Sheriffs or their Officers.

On Tuesday the 8^th day of December, the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day was read prima vice. Vide concerning this Bill on Monday the 7^th day of this instant December foregoing.

On Wednesday the 9^th day of December, Five Bills had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill for the increase of Mariners was read the second time, and thereupon committed.

And the second of the said Bills being for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day was read the second time and committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Treasurer, the Lord Steward, the Earl of Kent, the Earl of Darby, the Earl of Sussex, the Earl of Bedford, Viscount Mountague, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Bishop of Chester, the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Zouch, the Lord Willoughby, the Lord Grey, the Lord North, the Lord Norris, the Lord Chief Baron, and Justice Windham.

Nota, That here two Judges being here meer Assistants of the Upper House were made joint Committees with the Lords; whereas of later times they are always Commanded to attend the Lords Committees, of which also there was another Precedent this Morning.

The Bill to provide remedy against fraudulent means used to defeat Wardships, Liveries and primier seisin was read secunda vice, and committed to the Lord Treasurer (being Master of the Wards) to two Earls, Viscount Mountague, two Bishops, five Barons, the two Chief Justices, and the Queens Attorney.

The continuance or Adjournment of the Parliament this day is not at all Entred in the Original Journal-Book, which seemeth to have happened through the Clerks negligence.

On Thursday the 10^th day of December, Three Bills of no great moment had each of them their p. 316first reading; of which the first was concerning Sir Thomas Lucy Knight, and others.

On Saturday the 12^th day of December, to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued, Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the last being the Bill to provide remedy against fraudulent Conveyances and another concerning certain assurances of Sir Thomas Lucy and others, were after the third reading sent down unto the House of Commons.

A Bill lastly being for the assurance of certain Lands unto George Chewne Esquire, and others in Fee-simple, was sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons.

On Monday the 14^th day of December, to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued, the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day, with certain amendments, was read tertiâ vice, and with another bill of no great moment was sent down to the House of Commons by two Doctors.

Nota, That though this Bill were upon Wednesday last past, being the 9^th day of this instant December, referred to Committees; yet no mention is made in the Original Journal-Book, when it was again returned or brought into the House by the said Committees, by whom it is most probable that these amendments were added unto it, and for the passing of which the said Bill was at this time sent down to the House of Commons, having formerly passed that House, and been sent up from thence to the Lords (before the aforesaid new amendments had been added by them) on Monday last past being the 7^th day of this instant December.

The Bill touching the Lord Dacres and the Lord Norris was read prima vice.

Memorand. That upon the Petition of the Lord Norris, the Lords Ordered that he and the Lord Dacres with their Council should be heard upon Saturday next to Answer the said Bills.

Memorand. That touching the former Order Entred primo die Decembris concerning James Diggs, for that there wanted words for the discharge of the Bond and Sureties of the said James Diggs; This day the Lords Ordered that the appearance of the said James Diggs by rendring himself in the Exchequer, was and should be a sufficient discharge of his Sureties and their Bonds, and that the Bonds should be redelivered, and that this Order should be added to the former Order.

Memorand. That where the said James Diggs exhibited to the Court a Bill of complaint in form of supplication against Sir Roger Manwood Knight Lord Chief Baron, the Lords having heard the Parties and the Witnesses of M^r Diggs, and deliberately considered the Contents thereof, with one consent agreed and adjudged, that the said complaint was untrue and unjustifiable against the Lord Chief Baron: And further Ordered, that the said James Diggs by humble submission and open recognition should confess and acknowledge his fault. And that the Earl of Rutland, the Bishop of Winchester, the Lord Lumley, the Lord North, and the Lord S^t John of Bletsoe, the Master of the Rolls and M^r Serjeant Gawdy should peruse and consider the said recognition, whether it were made in due form, and that then it should be Entred on Record. Vide touching this matter on Tuesday the first day of this instant December foregoing.

On Tuesday the 15^th day of December four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill for confirmation of her Majesties Letters Patents granted to Queens-Colleàge in Oxford was read secundâ vice, & commissa ad ingrossandum.

This day James Diggs Gent. did according to their Lordships Order made yesterday, humbly submit himself in manner and form following, as it stands Entred upon Record in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament.

The humble Submission of James Diggs unto the High Court of Parliament, as well for his contempt unto the said Court, as unto Sir Roger Manwood Lord Chief Baron, by his untrue and unadvised Speeches in his Bill of complaint.

Whereas I James Diggs did of late exhibite a Bill of complaint unto your honourable Lordships in this High Court of Parliament, against the said Lord Chief Baron, wherein amongst other things is contained as followeth, that is to say, That the said Lord Chief Baron doth still continue an obstinate intention to frustrate your Lordships honourable Order, taken for the discharging of the great Bonds of the said James Diggs his Sureties, boldly saying, that the same your Lordships honourable Order should be undone or brought about again, as by the said Bill of complaint doth appear. And whereas also it pleased your most honourable Lordships upon the humble Petition of me the said James Diggs to call before your honourable Lordships that Witness which I the said James Diggs did avow for the proof of the Allegations before rehearsed in the said Bill of Complaint against the said Lord Chief Baron, which Witness being heard and examined at large touching the said Allegations, with the circumstances of the same openly before your honourable Lordships in this High Court of Parliament, it hath plainly and evidently appeared that there was no such obstinate intention in the said Lord Chief Baron, nor that he did utter the said words or Speeches above-mentioned. Whereupon it hath pleased your honourable Lordships to Order that I the said James Diggs should before your Lordships openly in this honourable Court of Parliament recognize my fault for this my untrue and unadvised complaint against him.

Wherefore I the said James Diggs being now heartily sorry for my said untrue and unadvised complaint in the Speeches aforesaid exhibited against the Lord Chief Baron, do openly before your Lordships in this most High Court of Parliament consess and acknowledge my said offence p. 317in my said unadvised and untrue complaint made against the said Lord Chief Baron. And do here before your Lordships heartily pray and desire the said Lord Chief Baron to remit and forget my said offence in my untrue and unadvised complaint made against him; and withal do most humbly beseech all your Lordships to pardon my contempt and offence committed to this most High Court in exhibiting unto your Lordships of the said unadvised and untrue complaint.

Vide the former proceedings of this case of James Diggs Gentleman on Tuesday the first day, and on Monday the 14^th day of this instant December foregoing.

Nota also, That there is no continuance or adjournment of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor in usual form entred in the Original Journal-Book, which seemeth to have happened through the negligence of the Clerk of the Parment; but it is easie to be conjectured the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto nine of the Clock in the forenoon of Wednesday next following.

On Wednesday the 16^th day of December two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the second being the Bill against scandalous Libelling was read secundâ vice, and committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Lord Treasurer and others, the Master of the Rolls, the two Chief Justices, the Queens Serjeant and Attorney.

Nota, That here not only the Judges which are but Assistants to the Lords, but also the Queens Council, which are but meer Attendants upon the upper House, are made joynt Committees with the Lords.

On Thursday the 17^th day of December the Bill for restitution in blood of Thomas Howard, Son of Thomas Howard, late Dake of Norfolk, was read primâ vice.

And the same Bill was again read secundà & tertiâ vice, and by all the Lords concluded and sent to the House of Commons by two Doctors being Masters of the Chancery.

Nota, The speedy passing of this Bill by vouchsasing of it three readings at one time each after other, did express the special desire of the Lords to pass this Bill with as much honour as lay in them to do.

Eight other Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the second being the Bill for the paving of Newark upon Trent in Com. Nott. was read tertiâ vice & conclusa and sent to the House of Commons.

On Saturday the 19^th day of December, to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued, four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons; of which the last was the Bill for the restitution in blood of the Lord Thomas Howard, which it seemeth the House of Commons passed with great expedition, having given it one reading yesterday morning, when they sent it again up to the Lords, as appeareth by the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons de Anno isto 27^o Reginae Eliz. pag. 44, & 50.

The Bill also for the paving of Lewes in the County of Suffex was read primâ vice.

Lectae sunt the Reasons and Allegations of the Lord Norris, why the Bill exhibited by the Lord and Lady Dacres should not be enacted.

Memorandum. This day the Lords, as they had ordered before, having heard both the Council of the Lord Dacres and Lord Norris and Samson Leonard Esquire, upon offer and agreement of the parties to commit the Cause to the hearing of four of the Lords and two of the Judges, the Lords thought it most convenient that they should be named by the parties themselves. The Lord Dacres and Samson Leonard named William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer, Robert Earl of Leicester Lord Steward, and Sir Roger Manwood Knight Lord Chief Baron. The Lord Norris named the Earl of Kent, the Earl of Bedsord and Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls. And further Ordered, That the Lords and Judges should end the matter between the said parties before the next Session of Parliament if they could; and if they could not, then to make Report thereof to the whole House. And further Ordered, That all the parties should have Letters directed to such Witnesses to appear before the said Lords as they thought convenient; and that the said Lords should have Authority to examine all parties upon their Oaths, if occasion so required.

Memorandum, That whereas the Lords received a Bill from the House of Commons, viz. for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day, the said Lords having passed the same with some amendments, sent down the said Bill to the House of Commons, who sent up the same with other amendments of theirs; which because the Lords thought it not to stand with the Order of the House to pass the same Bill again with their new amendments, they returned the said Bill to them again, and signisied the same unto them by M^r Serjeant Gawdy, &c.

On Monday the 21^th day of December, Consedentibus Proceribus Dominus Cancellarius exposirit Regiam Majestatem satis perpendere Fcstum solemne Nativitatis is Domini in proximo esse, nec posse ante idem hoc Parliamentum terminari, nec in longum tempus prorogari; propter quas & alias causas & considerationes idem Cancellarius jussu suae Majestatis lectis Literis Patentibus magno Sigillo suo sigillat. hoc Parliamentum in quartum diem Februarii prox sequentem adjournavit, adhortatus que est omnes & singulos ut tunc adsint, facturi quod decuerit. Earúm que autem tenor sequitur in haec verba.

ELizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae, Franciae & Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor, &c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Johanni Cantuar' Archiepiscopo, totius Angliae Primati & Metropolitano, p. 318& praedilecto & fideli Consiliario suo Thomae Bromley Militi Domino Cancellario Angliae, ac etiam Reverendissimo in Christi Patri Edwino Eboracen' Archiepiscopo Angliae Primati & Metropolitano, necnon praedilecto & fideli Consiliario suo Willielmo Domino Burleigh Domino Thesaurario Angliae, ac charissimo consanguineo Edwardo Comiti Oxon' magno Camerario Angliae, ac etiam charissimis consanguineis & consiliariis suis Edwardo Comiti Lincoln' magno Admirallo suo Angliae, Georgio Comiti Salop' Comiti Mareschallo Angliae, Roberto Comiti Leicester magno Seneschallo Hospitii sui, necnon charissimis consanguineis suis Philippo Comiti Arundel, Henrico Comiti Kantiae, Henrico Comiti Darbiae, Willielmo Comiti Wigorn', Elwardo Comiti Rutland, Georgio Comiti Cumberland, Henrico Comiti Sussex, ac charissimis consanguineis & consiliariis suis Ambrosio Comiti Warwici Magistro Ordinationum suarum, Francisco Comiti Bedford, ac etiam charissimis consanguineis suis Henrico Comiti Pembroke, Edwardo Comiti Hartford, Anthonio Vicecomiti Mountague, necnon Reverendis in Christo Patribus Johanni Episcopo London, Thomae Episcopo Winton', ac praedilectis & fidelibus suis Carolo Domino Howard Domino Camerario Hospitii sui, Edwardo Domino Zouch, Peregrino Domino Willoughby, Edwardo Domino Morley, Willielmo Domino Cobham Domino Gardiano quin que Portuuni, ac etiam praedilecto & fideli suo Henrico Domino de Hunsdon Domino Gardiano Marchiarum Orientalium versus Scotiam, Salutem. Cùm nuper pro quibuselam arduis & urgentibus negotiis nos, statum & defensionem Regni nostri Angliae & Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus, praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii vicesimo vertio die Novembris ultimo praeterito inchoari & teneri ordinaverimus, à quo die idem Parliamentum nostrum tunc & ibidem tentum & continuatum fuerat usque in instantem vicesimum primum diem Decembris: Sciatis tamen quia negotia Parliamenti nostri in eodem communicata ante Festum Natalis Domini nunc prox' instantis terminari non possunt, & propter alias causas & considerationes nos specialiter move ntes, praedictum Parliamentum nostrum & omnes causas & materias inceptas & non adhuc terminatas adjornand' duximus. De fidelitate igitur, prudentiâ & circumspectione vestris plurimùm confidentes, de avisamento & assensu Concilii nostri assignavinius vos Commissionarios nostros, dantes vobis & aliquibus sex vel pluribus vestrum tenore praesentium plenam potestatem & authoritatem hoc instante die Lunae ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum, ac omnia negotia & materias supradict' adhuc ut praesertur non terminata, nomine nostro ad & in quartum diem Februarii jam prox' futurum usque praedictam Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii adjornand' & continuand' ibidem tunc tenend' & prosequend'. Et ideo vobis mandamus, quòd circa praemissae diligenter intendatis, ac ea in forma praedicta effectualiter expleatis. Damus autem universis & singulis Archiepiscopis, Marchionibus, Comitibus, Vicecomitibus, Episcopis, Baronibus, Militibus, Civibus & Burgensibus, ac omnibus aliis quorum interest ad dictum Parliamentum nostrum conventuris, tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis, quod vobis in praemissis faciend', agend' & exequend' pareant, obediant & intendant, prout decet. In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras sicri fecimus Patentes. Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo primo die Decembris, Anno Regni nostri vicesimo septimo.

Nota, That by these Letters Patents the Parliament was adjourned forty four days, viz. from Monday the 21^th day of December unto Thursday the 4^th day of February ensuing. From which, as also from many other like Precedents, it appeareth, that it is and always hath been the power of the Prince not only to summon, dissolve and prorogue, but also to adjourn his Parliament at his pleasure; yet this must be done either by himself in person or by matter of Record; yet it is also in the power of either House when they shall think it expedient to adjourn it self.

The meeting of the two Houses at the end of this foresaid Adjournment was in such manner as it useth to be at the end of a Prorogation without all Solemnity and Pomp; yet with this difference: At the end of every Prorogation a new Session beginneth, though the same Parliament continueth; but at the end of an Adjournment there beginneth neither new Session nor new Parliament, but (be the Adjournment for one day or for many) the business is so entred upon at the next meeting as it was left, and as it stood at the time of the Adjournment.

Yet because the Adjournment was for so many days, I have caused all the Names of the Lords who were present this Thursday following, being the 4^th day of February, to be transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book; which course, though it be usually observed in all these Journals at the beginning only of a new Parliament, or at least of a new Session, yet it is in one respect somewhat necessary at the beginning of this new meeting after the Adjournment, because the presence of the Lords on this said ensuing Thursday, though it appears not that any new Proxies were returned, (which is usual after a long Adjournment as well as after a Prorogation) differeth much from that former number of the Lords noted to have been present on Tuesday the 26^th day of November foregoing, as may appear by this which followeth.

On Thursday the 4^th day of February, to which day the Parliament had been on Monday the 21^th day of December last past by her Majesties Commission under the Great Seal adjourned, the Lords and Commons repaired each of them without all manner of Pomp or Solemnity to their several Houses, and there fell upon such ordinary business as had been left unperfected at their last Adjournment. The Names of the Lords who were this day present in the Upper p. 319House being as followeth out of the Original Journal-Book.

Archiepiscopus Cantuar.

Archiepiscopus Eboracen.

Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius.

Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurarius.

Marchio Winton.

Comites.

Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerarius.

Comes Leicester Magnus Seneschallus.

Comes Kantiae.

Comes Sussex.

Vice-Comes Mountague.

Episcopi.

Episcopus Winton.

Episcopus Sarisburien.

Episcopus Oxon.

Episcopus Meneven.

Barones.

Dominus Zouch.

Dominus Willoughbie.

Dominus Dacres.

Dominus Cobham.

Dominus Stourton.

Dominus Mountjoy.

Dominus Wentworth.

Dominus Borough.

Dominus Cromwell.

Dominus Evers.

Dominus Rich.

Dominus Darcy de Chiche.

Dominus North.

Dominus Hunsdon.

Dominus de la Ware.

Dominus Compton.

Dominus Norris.

This day also 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 granted to the Queens Colledge in Oxford was read tertia vice & conclusa, and sent to the House of Commons by two Serjeants at Law.

And the last being the Bill for the Savoy was read secunda vice & commissa Archiepiscopis Cantuar. & Eboracen. Dominis Thesaurario & Seneschallo, Comitibus Kantiae & Bedford, Episcopis London & Winton. Dominis North & Hunsdon, Baroni Shute & Servienti Gawdy.

On Saturday the 6^th day of February to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued, returnatum fuit breve quo Episcopus Wigorn. praesenti Parliamento summonebatur, qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae in Parliamento sedendi locum, salvo jure alieno.

The Bill also against Jesuits, Seminary Priests and other such like disobedient persons was read prima vice, & commissa Archrepiscopo Cantuar. Domino Thesaurario, Domino Senesebatio Comiti Kantiae, Comiti Bedford, Episcopo London, Episcopo Winton. Episcopo Sarisburien. Domino Camerario, Domino Cobham, Domino North, Domino Hunsdon, Domino Primario Justiciario & Baroni Shute.

On Monday the 8^th day of February, the Bill for the paving of Lewes was read secunda vice & commissa.

On Tuesday the 9^th day of February, Returnatum suit breve quo Thomas Dominus Darcy de Chiche praesenti Parliamento summonebatur, qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae in Parliamento sedendi locum, salvo jure alieno.

Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons; of which the second was the Bill that Parsonages impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses.

The matter which had been debated on Tuesday the 7^th day of March in the last Parliament (de anno 23 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1580.) between M^r Oughtred and the Lord Marquess of Winchester concerning certain accompts, was again this Tuesday Morning brought into the Upper House before the Lords, who for the more speedy ending of the same committed it with the consent of the parties unto the Lord Treasurer, the Lord Steward, the Earl of Arundel, the Earl of Hartford Viscount Mountague, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Lord Cobham, the Lord Grey, the Lord Lumley, and the Lord North. And it is Ordered that the said Lords should hear and end the matter between the Parties if they could, or otherwise to make report thereof to the whole House: and appointed the Lord Chief Justice of England, Justice Windham and Serjeant Gawdy, to attend the Lords. Vide plus concerning this matter on Thursday the 4^th day of March ensuing.

Nota, That here the Judges and the Queens Council are not nominated as joint Committees with the Lords, but only appointed to attend upon them, which is very rare in any Parliaments of the Queens time until in Anno 39 & 43 Reginae ejusdem.

On Wednesday the 10^th day of February four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the second being the Bill that Parsonages impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses, was read prima vice.

On Thursday the 11^th day of February, Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill for the better foundation and relief of the Hospital of Eastbridge in the City of Canterbury, was read prima vice.

Five Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons; of which the first was the Bill for paving Newark upon Trent in the County of Nottingham.

Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum us que in diem Lunae prox. horâ consuetâ.

p. 320On Monday the 15^th day of February, to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Thursday foregoing, four Bills of no great moment had each of them their first reading; of which the first was a Bill for returning of Justices, Jurors, and for expedition of Trials.

The Lords Ordered that Edward Fisher and Katherine his Wife should personally appear before them on Wednesday next the 17^th day of this instant February, for the better satisfying of their Lordships of their consent to the passing of a Bill Entituled An Act for the assurance of certain Lands unto George Chewne, Giles Flood, Christopher Puckering, and their Heirs. Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 17^th day of this instant February ensuing.

The Lords also Ordered that the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Baron, Justice Gawdy and Baron Shute should have the hearing of the matter of the Writ of Error between Akrode, &c. and M^r Whawley.

On Tuesday the 16^th day of February, Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill for the continuance of a former Statute Intituled, An Act to redress disorders in common Informers upon penal Laws, made in the eighteenth year of the Queens Majesties Reign, was read tertiâ vice & communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa.

Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; and had been brought to the Lords from the House of Commons; of which the first was the Bill against Class-Houses and making of Glass by Aliens born.

On Wednesday the 17^th day of February, Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the last save one being the Bill concerning the Lord Dacres and the Lord Norris was read tertia vice & conclusa, and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rodes and the Queens Attorney.

Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon.

At which time as the Lords had Ordered, M^r Edward Fisher with his Councel, viz. M^r Serjeant Walmesley and M^r Cowper appeared before them. The Lords having heard the consent of the said Edward Fisher to the passing of the Bill Intituled, Au Act for the assurance of certain Lands unto George Chewne, &c. and their Heirs, committed again the said Edward Fisher to the Custody of the Warden of the Fleet; and further Ordered that the bringing of the said Edward Fisher before their Lordships at their Commandment, should not in any wise be prejudicial to the said Warden.

The said Edward Fisher and his Councel made two Petitions to the Lords; the one that the Preamble of the Act alledging the cause of the making of the same Act to be for doubtfulness of his ill dealing, because he was judged in the Star-Chamber to have made two false and forged Writings to the prejudice of the said Bargains, might be amended, and that the same might be taken out of the Act, and not to remain in perpetual memory of his shame for ever.

The second that Serjeant Puckering, to whose behalf the said Lands were sold, having him and his Lands in Execution upon a Statute of eight thousand pound for not performance of the Covenants of the same, yet also enjoying the Lands sold would release him the said Execution, and take a new Statute in that behalf; to which the said Serjeant Puckering whom the cause chiefly concerned, being present by the appointment of the Lords, answered as to the first request, That if to alter or take out of the said Act the said Preamble being parcell of the Bill and matter passed from the House of Commons to this Honourable House in that form should be no hurt or prejudice to the Bill so passed from the Lower House to the Lords, he was well content therewith, and therein submitted himself to their honourable Lordships. And as to the second Request he Answered, That whensoever the said Edward Fisher shall have cleared and discharged the said Lands and Tenements by him bargained and sold as aforesaid, of and from all Statutes Staple and Recognizances, charges and incumbrances liable or chargeable upon the same, then he having a new like Recognizance in nature of a Statute Staple made unto him by the said Edward Fisher of the sum of eight thousand pound for performance of Covenants mentioned in the said Indenture of Bargain and Sale from thenceforth to be performed, unto which Recognizance all the Lands and Tenements of the said Edward Fisher which shall not be sold for the payment of his Debts, shall be liable and chargeable, and that there were no former Statutes and Recognizances knowledged by the said Edward Fisher to the prejudice of the same, he was contented then after that done to discharge the said new Execution, having and takeing a new Recognizance in form aforesaid. Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 15^th day of this instant February foregoing.

On Thursday the 18^th day of February, Nine Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the two first were upon the third reading concluded and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rolls and D^r Carey, the one being the Bill to explain the Statute concerning Tellors and Receivors, &c. made An. 13 Reginae Eliz. and the other being for the better relief of the Hospital of Eastbridge within the City of Canterbury.

Nota, That the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons sets down a third Bill assented unto and concluded at this time.

The last of the said Bills touching divers Assurances made by the Bishop, and Dean and Chapter of Exeter was read secunda vice & commissa Archiepiscopo Eboracen. Comiti Sussex, Episcopo Exon. Domino Stourton & Domino Buckhurst.

On Saturday the 20^th day of February, to p. 321which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued, a Proviso added by the House of Commons to the Bill concerning certain assurances of Sir Thomas Lucy and others, was read and concluded.

The Bill also to make a Fine levied by Peter Heam and Johan his Wife, and Tredolias Leza and his Wife during the Minority of the said Johan and Anne, to be void against the said Anne, was read secundâ vice.

The Lords appointed Monday next in the Afternoon for the hearing of the Cause, and have given Order that the Parties shall have warning to be then there with their Councel by two of the Clock in the Afternoon.

Five other Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the fourth being the Bill for the well-ordering and governing of the Savoy, was read the third time and sent to the House of Commons.

On Monday the 22^th day of February, to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing, Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill for preservation of Grain and Game, with 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 p. 322vice & 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 and Erisby against the Heirs and Assigns of M^r Heronden was read tertia vice & conclusa, and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Gawdy and Serjeant Rolls.

Memorandum, That this day before the passing of my Lord Willoughbies Act, Edward Heronden came before the Lords and gave his Assent thereunto. Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the third day of this instant March foregoing.

Saturday next was appointed by the House for the appearance of M^r Oughtred and the Earl of Sussex, and Viscount Mountague, appointed to talk with the Lady Marchioness about the assurance of her Jointure by a Parliament.

Nota, That this matter was formerly debated on Tuesday the 7^th day of March in the last Parliament de anno 23 Reginae Eliz. and before also in this present Parliament on Tuesday the 9^th day of February last past, when Committees were appointed about it. Vide also on Monday the 29^th day of this instant March following.

M^r Vinions matter (of which Vide antca on Monday the first day of this instant March foregoing) was again referred to the Master of the Rolls and M^r Serjeant Rodes.

The Bill lastly for redress of erroneous Judgment in the Kings-Bench was read tertia vice & communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa.

Sir Christopher Wray Knight, Lord Chief Justice of England brought in also a certain Record touching a Writ of Error according to a Bill preferred to her Majesty and Signed with her Highness hand, concerning the same. Which see at large on Monday the 8^th day of this instant March following. For though it was this day brought into the Upper-House, yet it is likely it was not there publickly read until the said Monday, and therefore it is Entred at large on that day in the Original Journal-Book upon which it was read, and not upon this day when it was brought into the House by the Lord Chief Justice as aforesaid.

On Friday the 5^th day of March, Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the second being the Bill for following of Hue and Cry was read tertia vice & communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa.

On Saturday the 6^th day of March, Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons; of which the last was the Bill for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath; to which the Lords having formerly added some Amendments, had sent it back to the House of Commons (where it first passed on Monday the 14^th day of December foregoing.)

And upon this instant Saturday the said Commons sent it back again to the Lords with new Amendments upon their Amendments; which said new Amendments of the Commons their Lordships did this Morning pass without further Disputation, having read them prima, secunda & tertia vice.

Vide concerning this Bill of the Sabbath on Monday the 7^th day, Tuesday the 8^th day, Wednesday the 9^th day, Monday the 14^th day, and Saturday the 19^th day of December foregoing: As also on Wednesday the third day of this instant March last past, and on Saturday the 13^th day of the same Month ensuing. In all which days it will appear fully how hardly and difficultly it passed either House. And yet at last when it was agreed on by both the said Houses, it was dashed by her Majesty at the last day of this Parliament, upon that prejudicated and ill followed p. 323Principle (as may be conjectured) that she would suffer nothing to be altered in matter of Religion or Ecclesiastical Government. Vide itidem on Thursday the 18^th day of this instant March following.

Memorandum, That whereas Ferdinando Clark one of the Ordinary Gentlemen of the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Leicester Lord Steward, was committed to the Prison commonly called the Kings-Bench, upon a Reddit se in the Kings-Bench, for the discharge of his Sureties, since the beginning of this present Parliament, the Lords at the Motion of the Lord North, in the name of the Lord Steward claiming the ancient priviledge of this High Court, after the hearing of the Cause between the said Ferdinando and one John Lacy Citizen of London, Ordered, that the said Ferdinando by vertue of the priviledge of this High Court should be enlarged and set at liberty. And further for as much as the said Ferdinando was not Arrested in Execution at the suit of the said John Lacy, but was committed after Judgment by the Lord Chief Justice and the rest of the Justices of the Kings-Bench upon a Reddit se for discharge of his Sureties and their Bonds, the said Lords Ordered, that touching the sum of money recovered by the said John Lacy against the said Ferdinando Clark, should stand to such order and mitigation therein as the said Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench shall set down and order for the same. And further Ordered, that the appearance of the said Ferdinando Clark by rendring himself into the said Court of Kings-Bench, was and should be a sufficient discharge of his Sureties and their Bonds, and that the Bonds should be redelivered. And it was further Ordered, that ..... Catesby, Marshal of the Kings-Bench, should be discharged of the Prisoner and of any Action that might be brought against the said Marshal for the same.

On Monday the 8^th day of March, to which day the Parliament had been last continued on Saturday foregoing, the Record touching a Writ of Error (which the Lord Chief Justice had brought into the Upper House on Thursday the 4^th day of this instant March foregoing) was Entred in the Original Journal-Book, and as it should seem read publickly in the House, being in manner and form following.

Memorandum quod Christopherus Wray Miles Capitalis Justiciarius de Banco Regis secum adduxit in Cameram Parliamenti inter Dominos Breve de errore & Billam per Reginam indorsat' & Rotul' in quibus supponebatur error, & ibidem reliquit transcriptum totius Recordi cum Clerico Parliamenti simul cum praedicto Breve de Errore in Parliamento.

Et super hoc venerunt Richardus Harbert, Johannes Awbery, Willielmus Filian & Simon Browne in propriis personis suis in Parliamento, & statim dixerunt quod in Recordo & processu praedictis, ac etiam in redditione Judicii praedicti manifestè est erratum in hoc, quod posiquam Judicium praedictum in loqkela hac versus praefatum Thomam Gonnel redditum fait, & antequam praedictus Joh. Hunt hunc prosecutus suit & impetravit praedictum primum breve de seire facias versus praefatum Richardum Harbert, Johannem Awbery, Willielmum Filian & Simonem Browne Manucaptores praedicti Thomae Gonnell, nullum breve de Cap. ad satisfaciendum pro debito & damnis praedictis per praefatum Johannem Hunt in placito praedicto prosecutum & returnatum suit versus praefatum Thomam Gonnell, ubi per consuetudinem Curiae dictae Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina ac tempore cujus contrarii memoria hominum non existit, in eadem usitat & approbat breve de Cap. ad satisfaciendum versus cundem Tho. Gonnell pro debito & damnis praedictis in placito praedicto prosequi & returnari deberet, antequam aligned breve de seire facias versus manucaptores praedictos in loquela illa impetrari seu prosequi deberet, licet consuetudo & sorma captionis recognitionum in Curia praedict a usae suerunt in sorma praedicta, viz. Si contigerit cundem Thomam Gonnel in placito praedicto convinci, tunc iidem Manucaptores concesserunt & quilibet corum per se concessit tam debitum praedictum quàm omnia hujusmodi damna nune & custag' quae praesato Johanni Hunt in ea parte adjudicentur, de terris & Catallis suis & cerum … it sieri, & ad opus praedicti Johannis Hunt …, si consigerit praedictum Thomam Gonnell debitum & damna illa praefato Johanni Hunt minimè …, aut si pri onae Marescal' Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina ea occasione non reddere, &c. Et peturt iidem Richardus Harbert, Johannes Awbery, Willielmus Filian & Simon Browne, quod Judicium praedictum & processus super … praedicta de seire … prosecut in Curia dict' Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina revocetur, adnulletur & penitus pro nullis habeatur. Et super hoc Domini per … Justiciariorum post longam & maturam deliverationem uno consensu adjudicaverunt ..... quod judicium praedictum & processus super brevia praedicta de scire sac' prosecut' in Curia dictae Dominae Reginae coram ipsa Regina revocetur, adnulletur & penitus pro nullis habcatur.

On Wednesday the 10^th day of March, to which day the Parliament had been on Monday last continued, Eight Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents, made unto the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, was read prima vice.

Six Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons; of which the first being the Bill for Provision to be made for the Surety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the continuance of the Realm in Peace, was read prima vice.

On Thursday the 11^th day of March, Six Bills had each of them one reading; of which the first being the last recited Bill for Surety of the Queens Royal Person, &c. was read secunda vice. And the second being the Bill for the good p. 324Government of the City and Borough of Westminster in the County of Middlesex was read tertia vice, with a Schedule and certain Amendments, quae communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa & dat' Doctori Barkeley & Servienti Rolls in Domum Communem deferend.

Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon. About which hour the Lords Spiritual and Temporal meeting six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the second being the Bill concerning the Lady Marchioness of Winchesters Jointure, was read secunda vice & commissa to the Master of the Rolls, and the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas.

For as much as in the matter depending now in Parliament by Writ of Error brought by John Akerode, Thomas Stanfeild and divers others, against Richard Whalley Defendant, for reversing of certain Errors supposed by the said Plaintiff to be in the said Defendants Grandfathers form of Pleading, and other things in his Recovery of the Mannor of Eringden in the County of York; it hath appeared to this honourable Court by the Certificate of the Lords Chief Justices, the Master of the Rolls and others, being by this Honourable Court appointed Committees to hear and examine the matter privately before them, that the Writ of Error and the scire facias are insufficient in Law for divers Causes opened to this Court. Therefore it is Ordered by the Lords that the same Writ of Error shall abate, and the Plaintiffs to pursue their further remedy as they shall thing good.

On Saturday the 13^th day of March, to which day the Parliament had been on Thursday last continued, the Bill for Provision to be made for the Surety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person, and the continuance of the Realm in Peace was read tertia vice, quae communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa, with one amendment in the 44. line, that is after this word [left] put out [so as] and in place thereof put in [foreseeing that.] This amendment was made after the third reading, and before the Bill was put to the question, and was delivered to Doctor Barkeley and Serjeant Rodes to be carried to the Lower House, with the Bill for the better observing of the Sabbath day; with request, for that there are whole Sentences inserted into the said Bill for the Sabbath day, and the Bill would remain a very soul Record, it might be fair written again. Vide concerning this Bill of the Sabbath on Wednesday the third day, and on Saturday the 6^th day of this instant March foregoing.

Two other Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the second being the Bill for Oxford-Haven was read tertia vice & expedita.

Four Bills lastly were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons; of which the first was the Bill of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty.

On Monday the 15^th day of March, to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued, prima, secunda & tertia vice lecta est schedula of the amendments of the Bill against Jesuits sent from the House of Commons, quae communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa est, with an Addition to the said Schedule added by them of the House of Commons, & data Doctori Barkeley & Servienti Rolles in Domum Communem deferend.

Six several Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill for Consirmation of the Subsidy of six shillings in the pound granted by the Clergy, was read prima vice & commissa ad ingrossandum.

Three Bills lastly were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons, of which the first was the Bill for the renewing, continuance, explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes.

Then the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon, about which time the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembling, Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill for the payment and satisfaction of the Debt of William last Lord Marquess of Winchester deceased, due to the Queens Majesty, was read prima vice.

On Tuesday the 16^th day of March, Seven Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill for the incorporation of Christs Hospital was read tertia vice & communi omnium procerum assensu conclusa, & data Doctori Barkeley & Servienti Rodes in Domum Communem deferend. And the second being the Bill to give her Majesty Authority to alter and new make a Kalendar according to the Kalendar now used in other Countries, was read prima vice.

Four Bills also of no great moment were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons; of which the first was the Bill whereby Marriage was declared lawful at all times of the Year.

Two other Bills were lastly read each of them secunda vice; of which the last being the Bill for the grant of one entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty was read secunda vice.

About two of the Clock in the Afternoon, to which hour the Lord Chancellor had in the Forenoon continued the Parliament, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal meeting, nine Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill for the Haven of Plymouth, was read secunda vice.

The Amendments lastly in the Bill concerning the Hospital of East-Bridge, were read prima, secunda & tertia vice, & conclusae dissentientibus Vicecomite Mountague & Comite Hertford.

On Wednesday the 17^th day of March, Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill of one p. 325entire Subsidy and two Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty, was read tertia vice & communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa. The fourth also being an Act for the assurance of certain Lands unto the Lord Hunsdon, was read secunda vice & commissa ad ingrossandum.

After which Robert Elrington and Alice his Wife, mentioned in the said Bill touching the Lord Hunsdons assurance, came into the House, and gave their consent to the passing of the said Bill.

The Bill against the making of Starch was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons, and had its first reading.

After which lastly three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill for bringing in of Staple Fish and Herrings into the Realm, was read secunda vice.

On Thursday the 18^th day of March six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Hunsdon, and the second being the Bill touching the breadth of white Woollen Clothes made within the Counties of Wilts, Glocester and Oxon' with the amendments, were each of them read tertia vice & conclusae & datae servienti Rodes. It should seem that these Bills were delivered to him to carry down to the House of Commons, although so much be not expressed.

There were also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons four Bills of no great moment; of which the first being the Bill that Parsonages impropriate may be disposed to godly and charitable uses, and the third for the better and more reverent observing of the Sabbath day, were each of them read the first time.

Vide concerning this Bill of the Sabbath on Saturday the 6^th day of this instant March foregoing. But what the intent or scope of this Bill was, (her Majesty refusing to pass it upon the last day of this Parliament) cannot be certainly set down, it being not now remaining in the bundle of the Acts de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. in the Clerk of the Upper House his Office: in which said bundle I searched for it on Thursday the 8^th day of October in the year 1629.

About two of the Clock in the Afternoon, to which hour the Lord Chancellor had in the Forenoon continued the Parliament, Proceres tam Spirituales quàm Temporales, quorum nomina subscribuntur, praesentes fuerunt, and so is the entrance of every sitting in the Afternoon upon such continuance, ut supra, viz. the same form which is used in entring the sitting of the House in the Forenoon, which for brevity is in this Collection elsewhere omitted.

Two Bills had this Afternoon each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill against covenous and sraudulent Conveyances with certain amendments was read tertia vice.

On Friday the 29^th day of March five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill against covenous and fraudulent Conveyances with the amendments was read tertia vice, & communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa & data servienti Rodes & Doctori Barkeley in domum communem deferend.

Nota, That this Bill is said to have been read tertia vice in the Afternoon of the day past which was Thursday, and therefore it could not be now read again: but to reconcile this difference, it should seem the Bill it self had then its third reading, and the amendments but the second; and this day the said amendments passed upon the third reading: but the Bill it self which had passed yesterday, was no more read, which by the negligence of Mr. Mason, at this time Clerk of the Parliament, was suffered to be set down thus confusedly in the Original Journal-Book, and so to stand.

On Saturday the 20^th day of March the Bill for the explanation of the Statute made Anno 13 of the Queens Majesty, entituled An Act to make the Lauds, Tenements, Goods and Chattels of Receivors, &c. liable to pay their debts, was read prima, secunda & tertia vice, & communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa.

Three other Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading.

There were also brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons nine Bills; of which the first was an Act for the good Government of the City and Borough of Westminster, and the second being for the Subsidy of the Clergy was returned and expedited.

The Lord Bishop of Exeter shewed unto the Lord Chancellor Sir Francis Walsingham's Letter dated at the Court this 14^th day of March 1584. importing her Majesties licence for the said Bishop to depart home to his charge.

Nota, That it appeareth not by the Original Journal-Book, whether the Bishop of Exeter aforesaid, absenting himself for this time from the Parliament by her Majesties licence, did constitute any Proctor or no, and it should seem that he did not, because his departure from it was but for some few weeks during the last sitting thereof, and that also in open Parliament, and as it were with the allowance also of the rest of the Lords.

On Monday the 22^th day of March, to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued, six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill for reformation of Errors in Fines and Recoveries in the twelve Shires of Wales with a Proviso added by the Lords from the Earl of Kent, was read tertia vice & communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusa & data Doctori Barkeley & servienti Rodes in domum communem deferend'.

The Bill to make a Fine levied by Peter Heame and Johan his Wife and John Tredolias alias Leha and Anne his Wife, during the Minority of the said Johan and Anne, to be void against the said p. 326Anne, was put to the question, and was rejected by the most Voices; for the Preamble of the Bill was scandalous, and no proof made thereof.

Nota, That this Bill preferred by Anne the Wife of the above-named Tredolias, to reverse a Fine levied by her during her Non-age, by Authority of Parliament, (because it seemeth, being at this time of full Age she could not otherwise do it by ordinary course of Law) was very deliberately and advisedly proceeded in by the Lords, who having given it the first reading upon Thursday the 17^th day of December, and the second reading upon Saturday the 20^th day of February foregoing, did before any further proceeding in it, on Monday next following, being the two and twentieth day of the said February foregoing, refer the same to certain Lords being chosen Committees therein by the said Anne on the one part who was the Plaintiff, and M^r … on the other who was the Defendant, and to whose use it seemeth the said Fine had been levied, after which the said Lords Committees having not ended the said difference, it was again committed on Monday the first day of March foregoing, to the Master of the Rolls and M^r Serjeant Rodes to hear it, and to make some conclusion thereof, which being not effected, it was again on Thursday following, being the 4^th day of this instant March, referred to the said M^r of the Rolls and the Serjeant aforesaid; who still endeavouring without any effect to make any accord between the said Parties, it was now at last upon the foresaid Monday the 22^th day of this instant March put to the Question in the Upper House, and there the said Bill preferred by the said Anne to be relieved in Parliament contrary to her own Fine, was rejected: where it may be seen how tender their Lordships were to relieve any Party contrary to the course of the common Law. For the Case appeareth singly to be this: Baron and Feme levy a Fine, the Wife being under Age, then the Husband dies, (as John Tredolias Leza or Leha did here) the Wife being of full Age, and she sues in Parliament to be relieved; for at Common Law if an Infant levy a fine and then die, or becomes of full Age before it be reversed, the Fine stands good as if it had been levied by one of full Age, as was delivered in the Common-Pleas per totam Curiam in the Lady Caesars Case, then Wife of Sir Julius Caesar Knight Master of the Rolls, which is entred in termino Trinitatis Anno 21 Jacobi Regis Rotulo 1971.

On Tuesday the 23^th day of March, Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first being the Bill concerning the Water-Bailiff was read secunda vice, but not mentioned to be either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed.

Four Bills also were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons; of which the first being the Bill for the Explanation of a Statute made Anno 13. of the Queens Majesties Reign, intituled An Act to reform sundry disorders touching Ministers of the Church, was read prima vice.

On Wednesday the 24^th day of March, The Bill against Rogues, Idle and Vagrant Persons, was read secunda vice; but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or Ordered to be ingrossed: and the reason hereof may be, that this Bill having passed the House of Commons, and being sent up to the House of Lords fairly ingrossed in Parchment, can be no more ingrossed, neither do the Lords ordinarily refer such Bills to Committees unless there be very great cause, in respect that each House holding correspondency with other, they do not willingly submit that to the agitation of a private Committee which hath been allowed and approved by the wisdom of a whole House. There may also be two other reasons (besides the Clerks negligence who may sometimes omit it) why a Bill upon the second reading is so left without any mention made of the committing or ingrossing; as where the referring of it to Committees is deferred till some other day, as it fell out in the Parliament de Anno 13 Reginae Eliz. when the Bill touching the Commission of Sewers being read secunda vice on Friday the 20^th day of April, was referred to Committees on the day following, being Saturday the 21^th day of the same Month. The third and last reason finally why a Bill may be mentioned to be read secunda vice without any further Order taken in it as aforesaid, may be assigned in some extraordinary Cases; as where Bills of Grace, viz. for the restitution in Blood of any; and such like are sent to the House from her Majesty fairly ingrossed in Parchment and Signed with her hand, which for the most part do pass the House without any stop or question. But it is to be noted, that in later times the committing of a Bill upon the second reading is always when it is so read, and is never deferred until another day.

Three Bills also of no great moment were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons; of which the first was an Act for the Incorporation of the Hospital of Christ in the Town of Sherbourn.

Nota, That no continuance of the Parliament is Entred this day in the Original Journal-Book, which seemeth to have happened through the negligence of the Clerk of the Parliament.

On Friday the 26^th day of March, to which day it seemeth the Parliament had been on Wednesday last continued, Introductum suit breve quo Richardus Petriburgen. Episcopus praesenti Parliamento summonebatur interesse, qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae in Parliamento sedendi locum, salvo cuiquam jure suo.

The Amendments for the Bill touching the Incorporation of Christs Hospital in the Town of Sherbourn, were read tertia vice, & communi omnium Procerum assensu conclusae.

Two Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading; of which the first was the p. 327Bill for the reviving, continuance and explanation and perfecting of divers Statutes.

Six Bills lastly were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons; of which the first being for the naturalizing of certain Englishmens Children born beyond the Seas, was read prima, secunda & tertia vice & expedita.

And the second being the Bill for the safe keeping of the Armour of obstinate Recusants was read prima, secunda & tertia vice, and sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Rodes and M^r Powle.

Nota, That the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. maketh mention of some amendments added to this Bill by the Lords before it was thus immediately returned (a thing very observable and extraordinary) within a short time after the Lords themselves had received it.

It appeareth also in the said Journal-Book that one Bill more concerning the good Government of the City of Westminster was sent up with certain amendments to the Lords from the House of Commons; and that two other Bills, whereof this very Bill concerning the City of Westminster was one, and the Bill for the keeping of the County-Court at Morpeth, and the Town of Anwicke in the County of Northumberland was the other, had been this day sent down to the House of Commons from the Lords by Serjeant Rodes and M^r Powle, who thereupon did presently read them prima, secunda & tertia vice, as the Lords it should seem led by their Example did the two Bills above-mentioned this same Morning afterwards, and with some small alteration sent them up to the Lords. All which matter is by the negligence of M^r Mason at this time Clerk of the Upper House, omitted in the said Original Journal-Book of that House, and supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons, pag. 166, & 167. Collected by M^r Fulk Onslow at this time Clerk of the said House.

On Saturday the 27^th day of March, the Bill for the maintenance of the Pier and Cobb of Lime-Regis in the County of Dorsett, was read tertia vice & conclusa.

The Petition also of the Lord Marquess of Winchester against M^r Oughtred concerning certain Accompts by him to be made, was this day read before the Lords. Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 29^th day of this instant March following.

On Monday the 29^th day of March, to which day the Parliament had been on Saturday last continued, a Proviso to the Bill concerning the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis added by the Lords, was read tertia vice, and then sent down to the House of Commons by M^r Serjeant Rodes and M^r Powle.

M^r Oughtred appeared before the Lords. The Lord Chancellor by the advice and consent of the said Lords, asked the said Oughtred whether he meant to take the benefit of a Release heretofore mentioned. The said Oughtred … before the said Lords that he would … advantage of any Release concerning … sum of twelve thousand pound and more, … further, that the said Release extended … the said sum, but to other accompts before … time of his Executorship. The Lord Chancellor demanded further of the said Oughtred, … would be contented that his said Speeches should be entred by the Clerk in the Journals of the House. The said Oughtred Answered that he was very well pleased therewith. Whereupon the Lord Chancellor Commanded that his said Speeches should be Registred.

Nota, That this matter was formerly debated on Tuesday the 7^th day of March in the last Parliament de Anno 23 Reginae Eliz. and before also in this present Parliament on Tuesday the 9^th day of February last past, and on Tuesday the 4^th day, and on Saturday the 27^th day of this instant March foregoing, and Committees were likewise appointed about it on the foresaid 9^th day of February being Tuesday.

Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum us que in horam secundam post meridiem.

About which hour the Lords meeting, the Bill for the Queens Majesties most Gracious general and free Pardon, lecta est, quae commum omnium Proccrum assensu conclusa est, & data Servienti Rodes in Domum Communem deferend', unà cum subsidio Temporalitatis.

Nota, That the general Pardon passeth here upon the first reading.

There was also brought from the House of Commons two Bills; of which the first was the Bill for the preservation of the Pier or Cobb of Lime Regis in the County of Dorset, and the second being an Act for the preservation of Pheasants and Partridges with amendments was rejected; for that they of the House of Commons had with their amendments taken away the principal intent of the Bill.

This Afternoon her Majesty Accompanied with the two Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor, the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England, the Lord Marquess of Winchester, the Earl of Oxford and divers other Lords Spiritual and Temporal were personally present in the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House, who being all set in their Parliamentary Robes, and the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice thereof, repaired thither with John Puckering Serjeant at Law their Speaker, who being placed at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House, after his humble reverence made, and some expressions of his thankfulness to her Majesty, he proceeded according to the usual course to desire her Majesty to give Life to such Laws by adding her Gracious Allowance unto them, as had passed either House, and remained as yet but as a dead Letter; and withal gave her Majesty knowledge of the free gift of the House of Commons of p. 328one Subsidy and two Fifteenths and Tenths.

To which Speech of the said Prolocutors the Lord Chancellor by her Majesties commandment answered, That she did graciously accept of the said gift of her Commons, and was come thither to give her Royal assent to divers of those Laws which had passed the two Houses.

Then were the Titles of all the Acts read, and first the Bill of Subsidy, to which the Clerk of the Parliament standing up, did read the Queens Majesties Answer in manner and form following.

La Royne remercie ses loyaulx Subjects, accepte leur benevolence, & ainsi le veult.

The Clerk of the Parliament having read the Queens acceptance and thanks for the Subsidy given as aforesaid, did then upon the reading of the Pardon pronounce in these French words following the thanks of the Lords and Commons for the same.

Les Prelates, Seigneurs & Communes en se present Parliment assembles, au nom de touts vous autres Subjects remercient treshumblement vostre Majesty, & prient a Dieu que il vous done en sante, bone vie & longue.

Nota, That her Majesties Answer to these two Acts of the Subsidy and Pardon do differ from all the rest to any other Bills, because in the first is expressed her Majesties thanks to the Subjects, and in the second the Subjects humble acknowledgment of her said Majesties Pardon as an act of her own free grace and goodness.

To every publick Act allowed by the Queen, the Clerk of the Parliament reads in these French words following.

La Royne le veult.

To every private Act that passeth, the said Clerk of the Parliament reads the Queens Answer in these French words following.

Soit fait come il est desire.

These two last Answers to the publick and private Acts that pass, are to be written by the Clerk of the Parliament at the end of every Act.

To such Acts as her Majesty doth forbear to allow, the Clerk of the Parliament reads in French these words following.

La Royne s'advisera.

Nota, That all the Acts which passed this Parliament were in number forty nine, whereof thirty were publick, and nineteen private, ut vide in the Statute-Book at large printed Anno Domini 1585.

Nota also, That the express and direct manner of her Majesties giving her Royal assent to such Acts as passed at this Parliament, as is before set down, is not so entred in the Original Journal-Book of the same, but is supplied out of that de Anno 39 Reginae Eliz. where it is at large inserted; according to which Precedent (the form being always the same) the rest of the Journals of her Majesties Regin, as well as this present Journal, are enlarged and perfected.

To the further amplifying of which also, here doth now in the next place ensue a most pious and gracious Speech of her Majesty's, uttered by her upon the conclusion of this Parliament, which being not found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House, is therefore supplied out of a Copy thereof I had by me, written by John Stow the Chronicler with his own hand, being verbatim as followeth.

MY Lords and ye of the Lower House, my silence must not injure the Owner so much as to suppose a Substitute sufficient to render you the thanks that my heart yieldeth you, not so much for the safe keeping of my life, for which your care appears so manifest, as for the neglecting your private future peril, not regarding other way than my present State.

No Prince herein, I confess, can be surer tied or faster bound than I am with the link of your good will, and can for that but yield a heart and a head to seek for ever all your best; yet one matter toucheth me so near, as I may not overskip, Religion, the ground on which all other matters ought to take root, and being corrupted, may marr all the tree. And that there be some fault-finders with the Order of the Clergy, which so may make a slander to my self and the Church, whose over-Ruler God hath made me, whose negligence cannot be excused, if any Schisms or Errours heretical were suffered. Thus much I must say that some faults and negligences may grow and be, as in all other great Charges it happeneth, and what vocation without? All which if you my Lords of the Clergy do not amend, I mean to depose you. Look ye therefore well to your Charges. This may be amended without heedless or open exclamations. I am supposed to have many studies, but most Philosophical. I must yield this to be true, that I suppose few (that be no Professors) have read more. And I need not tell you that I am so simple, that I understand not, nor so forgetful, that I remember not; and yet amidst my many Volumes I hope Gods Book hath not been my seldomest Lectures, in which we find that which by reason (for my part) we ought to believe; that seeing so great wickedness and greeves in the World in which we live, but as way-faring Pilgrims, we must suppose that God would never have made us but for a better place, and of more comfort than we find here. I know no Creature that breatheth, whose life standeth hourly in more peril for it than mine own, who entred not into my state without sight of manifold dangers of life and Crown, as one that had the mightiest and greatest to wrestle with. Then it followeth that I regarded it so much, as I left my life behind my care; and so you see that you wrong me too much (if any such there be) as doubt my coldness in that behalf; for if I were not perswaded that mine were the true way of Gods will, God forbid that I should live to prescribe it to you. Take you heed lest Ecclesiastes say not too true, They that fear the hoary p. 329frost, the snow shall fall upon them. I see many over-bold with God Almighty, making too many subtle scannings of his blessed will, as Lawyers do with humane Testaments. The presumption is so great, as I may not suffer it (yet mind I not hereby to animate Romanists, which what Adversaries they be to mine Estate, is sufficiently known) nor tolerate new-fangleness. I mean to guide them both by Gods holy true Rule. In both parts be perils, and of the latter I must pronounce them dangerous to a Kingly Rule, to have every man according to his own censure to make a doom of the validity and privity of his Princes Government with a common veil and cover of Gods Word, whose followers must not be judged but by private mens exposition. God defend you from such a Ruler that so evil will guide you. Now I conclude that your love and care neither is nor shall be bestowed upon a careless Prince, but such as but for your good will passeth as little for this World as who careth least, with thanks for your free Subsidy, a manifest shew of the abundance of your good wills, the which I assure you but to be imployed to your weal, I could be better pleased to return than receive.

This Speech of her Majesty being thus transcribed out of the foresaid Copy, written by John Stow the Chronicler, as is already mentioned; now followeth the Prorogation of the Parliament, which is entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following.

Domina ipsa Regina prorogavit praesens Parliamentum us que in vicesimum diem Maii proximum.

Upon which said 20^th day of May the Parliament was again prorogued, and so continued by five other several Prorogations unto Wednesday the 14^th day of September in Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1586. upon which said 14^th day of September it was at last dissolved.

The manner of which Dissolution, and the substance of all the foresaid Prorogations do next ensue.

Memorandum, quòd vicesimo die Maii, Anno Regni Reginae Eliz. 27^o convenêre Proceres tam Spirituales quàm Temporales, quorum nomina subscribuntur. Johannes Archiepisiopus Cantuar. Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius Angliae, Henricus Comes Darby, Johannes Episiopus London, Edwardus Dominus Zouch.

Qui cùm convenissent, Dominus Cancellarius Literas Regias commissarias Anthonio Mason Clerico Parliamenti publicè legendas in manus tradidit. The tenor whereof was a Commission unto the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of York, the Lord Treasurer, the Earl of Oxford Lord great Chamberlain of England, George Earl of Shrewsbury Earl Marshal of England, and six other Earls, also to the Earl of Warwick Master of the Ordnance, four other Earls, Charissimó que Consanguineo suo Anthonio Vicecomiti Mountague, John Bishop of London, John Bishop of Sarum, John Bishop of Rechester, Charles Lord Howard Lord Chamberlain of her Majesties House, and eight other Barons, giving to them or any three or more of them … potestatem, facultatem & authoritatem hoc instante die Jovis ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum nomine nosiro ad & in … diem Junii prox. futurum us que praedictam Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii prorogand' & continuand … tunc tenend' & prosequend' &c. In cujus rei testimonium &c. Tejte, &c. 20^th die Maii, Anno Regni nostri 28^o

Septimo die Junii Anno Regni Elizabethae 27^o the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor, one Earl, one Bishop and three Barons by virtue of a Cemmission under the Great Seal to them and others directed, did prorogue and continue the Parliament unto the 21. day of this instant June.

At which time the Parliament was in like sort prorogned until the 11^th day of October next.

Vicesimo die Octobris the Parliament was in like sort by Commissioners prorogued unul the 10^th day of February next, viz. Anno 28^o Reginae Eliz.

Decimo die Februarii Anno Regni Elizabethae Reginae 28^o the Parliament was in like sort by Commissioners prorogued until the 26^th day of April next, viz. Anno 28^o Reginae Eliz.

On the 26^th day of April Anno 28^o Elizabethae Reginae the Parliament was in like sort by Commissioners prorogued until the 14^th day of November next, viz. Anno 28^o Eliz. before which day it was dissolved on September the 14^th at vide insra.

Decimo quarto die Septembris Anno Regni Reginae Eliz. vicesimo octavo.

Memorandum, quòd cùm praesens Parliamentum in decimum quartum diem Novembris prox. futurum prorogatum fuisset tamen maximis gravissimisque causis intervenientious, & negotiis ita flagitantibus, Regiae Majestati per avisamentum Constiti sui consultissimum visum est, dictum Parliamentum hoc instame decimo quarto die Septembris pemtùs dissolvere, ob eám que rem per Literas suas Patentes quibusdam Proceribus plenam potestatem, facultatem & authoritatem praedictum Parliamentum nomine suo dissolvend' concessit. Additio etiam speciali mandato, ut circa praemissa diligenter intenderent & effectualiter explerent. Igitur hodierno die 14^o Septembris Proceres isti in Camera Parliamenti convenerunt, quorum nomina subsequuntur.

Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius Angliae.

Georgius Comes Salop.

Edwardus Dominus Zouch.

Arthurus Dominus Grey de Wilton.

Qui cùm consedissent, Dominus Cancellarius praecepit ut dictae Literae Patentes publicè legerentur, quibus lectis, praefati Proceres dictum Parliamentum nomine dictae Reginae dissolverunt, & ipso facto dissolut. pronunciaverunt. Literarum autem Patentium tenor sequitur in hae verba.

p. 330ELizabetha Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Regina, Fidei Defensor, &c. reverendissimo in Christo Patri ac Consiliario suo Johanni Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati & Metropolitano, & praedilecto & fideli confiliario suo Thomae Bromley Militi Domino Cancellario Angliae, ac reverendissimo in Christo Patri Edwino Eboracen' Archiepiscopo Angliae Primati & Metropolitano; necnon praedilecto & fideli consiliario suo Willielmo Domino Burleigh Domino Thesaurario Angliae, ac charissimo consanguineo suo Edwardo Comiti Oxon' Magno Camerario Angliae, ac etiam charissimo consanguineo & consiliario suo Georgio Comiti Salop' Comiti Marescallo Angliae, charissimo que consanguineo suo Henrico Comiti Kantiae; necnon charissimo consangnineo & consiliario suo Henrico Comiti Darbiae, ac charissimis consanguineis suis Willielmo Comiti Wigorn', Edwardo Comiti Rotel', Georgio Comiti Cumberland, Henrico Comiti Sussex; Ac etiam charissimo consanguineo & consiliario suo Ambrosio Comiti Warwici Magistro Ordinationum suarum, necnon charissimis consanguineis suis Henrico Comiti Pembroke, Edwardo Comiti Hartford, Anthonio Vicecomiti Mountague; necnon reverendis in Christo Patribus Johanni Episcopo London, Johanni Episcopo Sarisburien, Johanni Episcopo Roffen'; ac praedilectis & consiliariis suis Carolo Domino Howard Magno Admirallo suo Angliae, Henrico Domino de Hunsdon Domino Camerario Hospitii sui; Ac etiam praedilectis & fidelibus suis Edwardo Domino Zouch, Edwardo Domino Morley, Georgio Domino Dacres; necnon praedilecto & fideli consiliario suo Willielmo Domino Cobham, Domino Gardiano quinque portuum suarum, ac praedilectis & fidelibus suis Arthuro Domino Grey de Wilton, Johanni Domino Lumley, Henrico Domino Cromwell, ac praedilecto & fideli consiliario suo Thomae Domino Buckhurst salutem. Cum nuper pro quibusdam arduis & urgentibus negotiis nos, statum & defensionem regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud civitatem nostram Westmonasterii 23 die Novembris Anno Regni nostri 27^o inchoari & teneri ordinaverimus, à quo die idem Parliamentum nostrum tunc & ibidem tentum & continuatum fuerat us que ad & in 29 diem Martii, tunc prox' sequentem, Eodém que die idem Parliamentum nostrum us que ad & 20 diem Maii tunc prox' sequentem prorogatum suerat, Eodém que die idem Parliamentum nostrum us que ad & in septimum diem Junii tunc prox' sequentem prorogatum fuerat, Eodém que die idem Parliamentum nostrum us que ad & in vicesimum diem ejusdem Mensis Junii prorogatum fuerat, Eodém que die idem Parliamentum nostrum us que ad & in vicesimum diem Octobris tunc prox' sequentem prorogatum fuerat, Eodém que die idem Parliamentum nostrum us que ad & in decimum diem Februarii tunc prox' sequentem prorogatum fuerat, necnon idem parliamentum nostrum us que ad & in vicesimum sextum diem Aprilis tunc prox' sequentem prorogatum fuerat, necnon idem Parliamentum nostrum à praedicto vicesimo sexto die Aprilis us que ad & in decimum quartum diem Novembris jam prox' futurum prorogatum fuerat, ibidem tunc tenend' & prosequend': Sciatis tamen quod certis urgentibus causis & considerationibus nos ad praesens specialiter moventibus idem Parliamentum nostrum hoc instante decimo quarto die Septembris duximus dissolvend'. De fidelitate igitur prudentia & circumspectione vestris plurimum confidentes, de avisamento & assensu consilii nostri assignavimus vos & aliquos tres vel plures vestrum Commissionarios nostros, Dantes vobis & aliquibus tribus vel pluribus vesirum tenore praesentium plenam potestatem, facultatem & authoritatem hoc instante decimo quarto die Septembris ad dictum Parliamentum nostrum nomine nostro plenariè dissolvend'. Et ideo vobis mandamus quod vos, aliqui tres vel plures vestrum, idem Parliamentum nostrum idem instante decimo quarto die Septembris virtute harum literarum nostrarum patentium nomine nostro plenè dissolvatis & determinetis. Et ulterius volumus & per praesentes concedimus & declaramus, quod idem Parliamentum nostrum vigore praesentium hoc instante decimo quarto die Septembris dissolutum & determinatum sit, & per has literas nostras patentes idem Parliamentum nostrum penitus dissolvimus & determinamus. Et ideo vobis mandamus quòd circa praemissa diligenter intendalis, ac ea in forma praedicta effectualiter expleatis & exequamini. Volumus etiam & concedimus quòd omnes & singuli Archiepiscopi, Marchiones, Comites, Vicecomites, Episcopi, Barones, Milites, Cives & Burgenses, ac omnes alii quorum interest, ad dictum Parliamentum nostrum conventuri de omni eo quod eis pertinet in praemissis faciend' & exequend, sint omnino tenore praesentium exonerati & quieti in omnibus prout decet. In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium decimo quarto die Septembris Anno Regni nostri 28^o.

Per ipsam Reginam.

Nota, That this last Dissolution of the aforesaid Parliament in Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1586. was somewhat above one whole year and a half from and after the first Prorogation thereof, which was on Monday the 29^th day of March (Anno 27 Reginae ejusdem Anno Domini 1585.) by which it is probable that her Majesty had intended at first to have made this and the Parliament that follows to have been but two Sessions, and not two several Parliaments as afterwards it sell out, and as they now remain. And it is the more strange that this resolution was at all altered, because the ensuing Parliament held in Anno 28, & 29 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1586. began within some forty five days after this last recited day, on which this aforesaid Parliament was Dissolved as is aforesaid.

And that which yet maketh this foresaid Dissolution of the above-mentioned Parliament on this 14^th day of September, the more strange, is, because it had been last prorogued on the 26^th day of April Anno 28 Reginae Eliz. unto the 14^th day of November following, which if it had held, p. 331would have fallen out full two Months after this day of the Dissolution thereof, and at least a Fortnight after the 29^th day of October, on which the next and new Parliament began in the said twenty eighth year of her Majesties Reign. But to clear this, doubtfully there was no other cause or ground upon which her Majesty altered that her first resolution, but the blessed and strange discovery of that most horrible and merciless Conspiracy plotted between the Scottish Queen, Ballard, Babington and others, for the speedy Murthering of her Majesty and Extirpation of true Religion. The manner and Execution whereof having continued in agitation between them from July to September, in this said twenty eighth year of her Majesties Reign, upon the 20^th day of the last mentioned Month, the two foresaid Conspirators and five more of their notablest Complices, were Executed in S^t Giles-Fields near London, having been Condemned upon Tuesday the 13^th day of the said Month, which was the very day foregoing the said 14^th day of the same Month on which the foresaid Parliament was Dissolved, as appears fully by the fore-recited Commission. After which also before the new Parliament began on Saturday the 29^th day of October following, the Queen of Scots was tried at Fothringhay. Castle in Northamptonshire, and after Condemned in the Star-Chamber by the lawful Verdict of her Peers, the proceedings Vide Camden Annal. p. 432.whereof lasted from the 11^th day of the Month aforesaid, being Wednesday unto the 25^th day of the same being Tuesday, which Sentence was affirmed and allowed by the Parliament following in Anno 28 Regin. Eliz.