House of Lords Journal Volume 15: 16 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: 16 December 1695', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 15, 1691-1696, (London, 1767-1830) pp. 613-614. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol15/pp613-614 [accessed 27 April 2024]

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DIE Lunæ, 16 Decembris.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

Arch. Ebor.
Epus. London.
Epus. Dur.
Epus. Winton.
Epus. Menev.
Epus. Norwic.
Epus. Peterb.
Epus. Gloucester.
Epus. Cicestr.
Epus. Bristol.
Epus. St. Asaph.
Epus. Lincoln.		 Joh'es Sommers Miles, Ds. Custos Magni Sigilli.
Dux Norsolke.
Dux Somerset.
Dux Northumb'land.
Dux Bolton.
Dux Schonbarge.
Dux Newcastle. 2.
Dux Shrewsbury. 1.
March. Halifax.
March. Normanby.
Comes Dorset, Ds. Camerarius.
Comes Kent.
Comes Huntingdon.
Comes Bridgewater.
Comes North'ton.
Comes Warwicke.
Comes Denbigh.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Rivers.
Comes Stamford.
Comes Kingston.
Comes Carnarvan.
Comes Chesterfield.
Comes Thanet.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Essex.
Comes Bathe.
Comes Craven.
Comes Sussex.
Comes Feversham.
Comes Maclesfeld.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Portland.
Comes Fauconberge.
Comes Marleborough.
Comes Scarbrough.
Comes Bradford.
Comes Romney.		 Ds. Bergevenny.
Ds. Willoughby Er.
Ds. Berkeley Ber.
Ds. Ferrers.
Ds. Fitzwalter.
Ds. Willoughby Par.
Ds. Hunsdon.
Ds. Brooke.
Ds. Howard Esc.
Ds. Raby.
Ds. Vaughan.
Ds. Culpeper.
Ds. Berkeley Str.
Ds. Granville.
Ds. Ossulstone.
Ds. Dartmouth.
Ds. Cholmondeley.
Ds. Ashburnham.

PRAYERS.

L. Fitzwalter takes the Oaths.

This Day Charles Lord Fitzwalter took the Oaths, and made and subscribed the Declaration, pursuant to the Statutes.

Ly. Cat. Fane's Bill.

Hodie 1a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to enable the Lady Katherine Fane to sell the Reversion of certain Fee-farm Rents, given to her by her Grandfather John Bence Esquire."

Message from H. C. for a Conference about the Address against the Scots Act:

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Boyle and others:

To desire a Conference, upon the Subject-matter of the last Conference.

To which the House agreed.

The Commons, being called in again, were told, That the Lords agree to a Conference, as desired; and appoint the same presently, in the Painted Chamber."

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

Which being ended, the House was resumed.

Report of the Conference:

And the Earl of Rochester reported, "That the Lords had attended the Conference; and that the Commons were very sensible of the Care the Lords had taken of the Trade of this Kingdom; and that they did agree to the Address, with an Amendment, by filling the Blank with ["and Commons"].

King to be attended with the Address.

ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That his Grace the Duke of Norfolke and the Earl of Bridgewater do attend His Majesty, humbly to know when both Houses may attend Him, with their Address in relation to an Act lately passed in Scotland.

Relief of Creditors, Bill for.

ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That this House shall be put into a Committee, upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for Relief of Creditors," on Wednesday next, at Eleven of the Clock.

Stoughtons Bill:

Hodie 1a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for vesting the Estate late of Sir Nicholas Stoughton and Sir Laurence Staughton Baronets, deceased, in Trustees, to be sold, for the Payment of their Debts, and raising Portions for the Daughters of the said Sir Nicholas Stoughton."

Clipped Money, Committee to prepare an Address against.

Lords Committees appointed to draw an Address, to be presented to His Majesty, in relation to Coin:

D. Somerset.
D. Shrewsbury.
March. Normanby.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Marleborough.		 Ds. Ferrers.

Then the House was adjourned during Pleasure; and the Lords withdrew, to draw the Address.

After some Time, the House was resumed.

And the Earl of Rochester reported the Address following; (videlicet,)

The Address:

"We, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, 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 Your Majesty to issue out Your Royal Proclamation, That, from such Day or Days as Your Majesty shall think fit, no clipped Money, of any Sort, shall pass in any Payment as the current Coin of this Kingdom."

To which the House agreed.

D. Shrewsbury to attend the King with it.

ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That his Grace the Duke of Shrewsbury do humbly attend His Majesty, with the Address made this Day.

Thornhill versus Clifton.

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of Captain Thornhill, from a Dismission of his Bill in the Court of Chancery, the Three and Twentieth of November, One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty-seven, in a Cause wherein the Petitioner was Plaintiff, and Sir Gervas Clifton and Sarah Clifton Widow (Mother of Sir Gervas) Defendants; and praying the Reversal of the said Order of Dismission:

It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said Sir Gervas Clifton and Sarah Clifton may have a Copy of the said Appeal; and shall and they are hereby required to put in their Answer or respective Answers thereunto, in Writing, on Monday the Sixth Day of January next, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon.

House to be called.

ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That this House shall be called over on Monday next, at Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon.

Jerman & al. versus Orchard.

The Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, in the usual Manner, brought in a Writ of Error:

Phillip Jerman & al. Plaintiffs, versus Mar. Orchard Desendant.

Adjourn.

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

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