House of Commons Journal Volume 1: 29 May 1624

Sabbati, 29o Maii

Collection.

SIR Geor. More reporteth, 118l. 5 s. collected: -

About 24 or 25l. behind.

Upon Question, the Clerk to have 30l. his Son, 10 l. and the Serjeant, 20l.

Upon Question, all those, which pay not this Contribution, by themselves, or their Friends, to pay double.

Sir Ro. Pye, Sir P. Hayman, Sir Francis Seymor, Sir Nath. Rich, Sir D. Digges, Sir Geor. More, Mr. Wandesford, Sir Guy Palmes, Mr. Noy, to go up into the Committee to consider of the Distribution.

Order.

The Order for the -

Patents.

Sir Ro. Mansell's and Sir Henry Fane's Patents to be delivered in to them.

Alienations.

The Bill for pleading upon Alienations, sent up to the Lords by Sir Edw. Coke.

Bills to rest.

Mr. Solicitor reporteth the Bill of Battle. - That the Committee thinketh it not fit it should proceed; but rest, to be advised of.

So the Bill of Brewers: So Earl of Oxenford's Bill, and the Apothecaries Bill, to rest.

Grievances presented to the King.

Mr. Solicitor reporteth, from his Majesty, that, from the House, he thanked the King for the Enlargement of the Time, within which these Grievances had been perfected. That then he presented the Grievances. - The Number not many; yet so many, in respect of the Length of Time sithence Parliaments. - The Length of Words, to inform his Majesty of the Reasons. - Collected from several Parts of the Kingdom ; weighed with great Care to his Majesty's Service, and the Good of his Subjects ; presented in a parliamentary Manner. - Petitioned him for his gracious Answer, in his Time, and, if possible, before the Rising of the Parliament; that so good News might be carried him down. -

King's Answer.

That the King answered, as in Writing appeareth which taken by him, and other Members of the House: Which delivered in.

Patents.

Mr. Solicitor moveth, all the Patents, not condemned. may be delivered out; and for those condemned, leaveth it to the Judgment of the House.

Upon Question, all Patents, brought into the House this Parliament, and not now condemned here, to be delivered to those, which brought them in.

King's Answer not to be copied.

Resolved, No Copy to be made of the King's Answer, but to be re-delivered to Mr. Solicitor; because a Thing only penned by him, and not by the King's Warrant.

Heralds Patents.

The Patents of the Heralds to be delivered in to the Clerk by Sir Francis Seymor.

Bishop of Norwich.

The Matters objected against the Lord Bishop of Norwich, reduced into Writing by Mr. Pymme: Which read in the House by him and ordered to be kept here by the Clerk.