House of Lords Journal Volume 15: 5 December 1695

Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 15, 1691-1696. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.

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'House of Lords Journal Volume 15: 5 December 1695', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 15, 1691-1696, (London, 1767-1830) pp. 604-605. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol15/pp604-605 [accessed 25 April 2024]

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DIE Jovis, 5 Decembris.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

Arch. Cant.
Arch. Ebor.
Epus. London.
Epus. Winton.
Epus. Cov. & Litch.
Epus. Menev.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Ely.
Epus. Peterb.
Epus. St. Asaph.
Epus. Lincolne.		 Dux Cumberland.
Joh'es Sommers Miles, Ds. Custos Magni Sigilli.
Dux Leeds, Ds. Præses.
Comes Pembroke, Ds. Privati Sigilli.
Dux Somerset.
Dux Ormond.
Dux St. Albans.
Dux Schonbarge.
March. Halifax.
March. Normanby.
Comes Dorset, Ds. Camerarius.
Comes Kent.
Comes Huntingdon.
Comes Bridgewater.
Comes Denbigh.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Rivers.
Comes Stamford.
Comes Kingston.
Comes Carnarvan.
Comes Chesterfield.
Comes Thanet.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Sandwich.
Comes Essex.
Comes Bathe.
Comes Craven.
Comes Ailesbury.
Comes Maclesfeld.
Comes Radnor.
Comes Berkeley.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Portland.
Comes Fauconberg.
Comes Monmouth.
Comes Montagu.
Comes Marleborough.
Comes Torrington.
Comes Scarbrough.
Comes Bradford.
Comes Romney.
Viscount Longueville.		 Ds. Willoughby.
Ds. Lawarr.
Ds. Ferrers.
Ds. Eure.
Ds. Willoughby Par.
Ds. Hunsdon.
Ds. Lovelace.
Ds. Howard Esc.
Ds. Raby.
Ds. Ward.
Ds. Culpeper.
Ds. Clifford L.
Ds. Lucas.
Ds. Berkeley Str.
Ds. Granville.
Ds. Dartmouth.
Ds. Guilford.
Ds. Godolphin.
Ds. Cholmondeley.
Ds. Ashburnham.
Ds. Lempster.
Ds. Weston.
Ds. Herbert Ch.

PRAYERS.

Lords take the Oaths.

The Lords following took the Oaths, and made and subscribed the Declaration, pursuant to the Statutes:

Thomas Earl of Thanet.

William Lord Lempster.

Sir T. Parkins's Bill.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for enabling Sir Thomas Parkyns Baronet to sell certain Messuages, Lands, and Hereditaments, in Huby and Easingwould, in the County of York; and for settling other Lands and Hereditaments, of greater Value, in Lieu thereof."

ORDERED, That the Consideration of the said Bill be committed to the Lords following; (videlicet,)

Comes Huntingdon.
Comes Bridgewater.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Stamford.
Comes Thanet.
Comes Bathe.
Comes Craven.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Fauconberg.
Comes Monmouth.
Comes Marleborough.
Comes Torrington.
Comes Scarbrough.
Comes Bradford.
Viscount Longueville.		 Arch. Cant.
Epus. Winton.
Epus. Menev.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Eliens.
Epus. Peterb.
Epus. St. Asaph.
Epus. Lincolne.		 Ds. Ferrers.
Ds. Willoughby P.
Ds. Hunsdon.
Ds. Howard Esc.
Ds. Culpeper.
Ds. Dartmouth.
Ds. Herbert Ch.

Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet To-morrow, at Nine of the Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

Address that no clipped Money may be current here:

The Earl of Rochester reported from the Committee, appointed to draw an Address to be presented to His Majesty concerning clipped Money:

"That the Committee had drawn an Address to His Majesty, to be communicated to the House of Commons for their Concurrence, with some Reasons relating thereto, as followeth.

"The Lords, taking into Consideration the ill State of the Coin of this Kingdom, and finding the Mischiefs arising thereby very grievous and general, for the preventing the further Growth of so great an Evil, and towards the remedying of it in some Measure, conceive it necessary to come to a Resolution of making this following Address:

"We, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and assembled in Parliament, having taken into our serious Consideration the great Mischief which is brought upon this Your Kingdom, by reason that the Coin which passeth in Payments is generally clipped; and that no other Remedy is like to prove effectual for preventing the Increase of this Evil, but to make Clipping unprofitable for the future; do most humbly address to Your Majesty to issue out Your Royal Proclamation, declaring, that from no clipped Money should pass in any Payment as the current Coin of this Kingdom.

Reasons for the Address to be communicated to H. C. at a Conference.

"Their Lordships are not insensible that many Objections of Weight may arise against any Opinion upon this Subject; it being indeed very difficult to find out a Remedy at once to so great a Mischief as this universal Clipping of the Coin throughout the Kingdom: But their Lordships cannot but think what they have proposed a good Foundation at least for other Superstructures, and indeed so necessary a one, that without it scarce any good Building can be raised for our future Security in this Point.

"Their Lordships have left a Blank for the Time after which the clipt Money should be no longer current, to the End that that Time may be better adjusted in future Conferences between the Two Houses; their chief Design, in what they now propose, being to have some Remedy attempted for this great Mischief in the Beginning of this Session of Parliament, that there may be Time, before the End of it, to remedy any Inconveniences that may not now be foreseen; and likewise to shew their Desire, in this Matter, as well as in all others, of proceeding in a perfect good Correspondence with the Commons, for the general Good of the Kingdom."

To which the House agreed.

Message to them, for a Conference.

A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by Sir Miles Cooke and Sir John Hoskyns:

To desire a present Conference, in the Painted Chamber, concerning the present ill State of the Coin of this Kingdom.

ORDERED, That the Lords of the Committee do manage the Conference.

State of the Nation; Scots Act for establishing an E. India Company to be considered.

The House was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee, pursuant to the Orders of the Third Instant.

And, after hearing some of the Commissioners of the Customs, and several Merchants trading to The East and West Indies, and others, the House was resumed; and the following Order made; (videlicet,)

"It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That on Monday next, at Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon, this House shall be put into a Committee again, to proceed further on the State of the Nation, in relation to the late Act of Parliament in Scotland, for establishing an East India Company there."

Answer from H. C.

The Messengers sent to the House of Commons return Answer:

That the Commons will give a present Conference, as desired.

Conference about clipped Money.

The Commons being come to the Conference, the Managers Names were read; and the House was adjourned during Pleasure, and the Lords went to the Conference.

Which being ended, the House was resumed.

And the Earl of Rochester reported, "That they had communicated to the Commons what the House had ordered to be offered at the Conference."

Adjourn.

Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Veneris, (videlicet,) sextum diem instantis Decembris, hora decima Aurora, Dominis sic decernentibus.

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