House of Lords Journal Volume 19: 2 March 1714

Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 19, 1709-1714. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.

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'House of Lords Journal Volume 19: 2 March 1714', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 19, 1709-1714, (London, 1767-1830) pp. 624-628. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol19/pp624-628 [accessed 24 April 2024]

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DIE Martis, 2 Martii.

REGINA.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

Epus. Dunelm. & Ds. Crew.
Epus. Winton.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Lich. & Cov.
Epus. Eliens.
Epus. Petriburg.
Epus. Bangor.
Epus. Lincoln.
Epus. Landav.
Epus. Exon.
Epus. Cestrien.
Epus. Norwic.
Epus. Cicestr.
Epus. Hereford.
Epus. Meneven.
Epus. Roffen.		 Ds. Harcourt, Cancellarius.
Comes Oxon. & Mortimer, Thesaurarius.
Dux Buckingham & Nor. Præses.
Comes Dartmouth, Custos Privati Sigilli.
Dux Grafton.
Dux Ormonde.
Dux Beaufort.
Dux Northumberland.
Dux St. Albans.
Dux Bolton.
Dux Leeds.
Dux Devonshire.
Dux Rutland.
Dux Montagu.
Dux Atholl.
Dux Kent.
March. Lindsey, Magnus Camerarius.
March. Dorchester.
Comes Poulet, Senescallus.
Comes Pembroke.
Comes Lincoln.
Comes Dorset.
Comes Bridgewater.
Comes Leicester.
Comes Northampton.
Comes Denbigh.
Comes Westmorland.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Thanet.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Cardigan.
Comes Anglesey.
Comes Sussex.
Comes Yarmouth.
Comes Berkeley.
Comes Nottingham.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Abingdon.
Comes Plimouth.
Comes Portland.
Comes Warrington.
Comes Orford.
Comes Jersey.
Comes Greenwich.
Comes Wharton.
Comes Cholmondeley.
Comes Mar.
Comes Loudoun.
Comes Findlater.
Comes Dundonald.
Comes Dunmore.
Comes Orkney.
Comes Portmore.
Comes Ferrers.
Viscount Say & Seal.
Viscount Townshend.
Viscount Weymouth.
Viscount Hatton.
Viscount Longueville.
Viscount Bolingbroke.		 Ds. Bergavenny.
Ds. Delawar.
Ds. Fitzwalter.
Ds. Willughby Br.
Ds. Paget & Burton.
Ds. North & Grey.
Ds. Hunsdon.
Ds. Compton.
Ds. Howard Escr.
Ds. Bruce.
Ds. Byron.
Ds. Colepeper.
Ds. Rockingham.
Ds. Lexington.
Ds. Borkeley.
Ds. Cornwallis.
Ds. Osborne.
Ds. Carteret.
Ds. Guilford.
Ds. Ashburnham.
Ds. Weston.
Ds. Herbert.
Ds. Haversham.
Ds. Sommers.
Ds. Barnard.
Ds. Halifax.
Ds. Gernsey.
Ds. Hervey.
Ds. Cowper.
Ds. Boyle.
Ds. Hay.
Ds. Montjoy.
Ds. Mansel.
Ds. Trevor.
Ds. Lansdowne.
Ds. Masham.
Ds. Foley.
Ds. Bathurst.
Ds. Bingley.

PRAYERS.

Lords take the Oaths.

The Lords following took the Oaths, and made and subscribed the Declaration, and also took and subscribed the Oath of Abjuration pursuant to the Statutes:

John Duke of Buckingham & Normanby, Lord President.

James Duke of Ormonde.

George Duke of Northumberland.

Peregrine Duke of Leeds.

John Duke of Rutland.

John Earl of Leicester.

Basil Earl of Denbigh.

James Earl of Fndlater.

Thomas Lord Viscount Weymouth.

Offspring Lord Bishop of Exeter.

Adam Lord Bishop of St. David's.

Charles Lord Fitzwalter.

George Lord Willughby of Broke.

John Lord Ashburnham.

Charles Lord Weston.

Marice Lord Haversham.

Thomas Lord Montjoy.

Thomas Lord Foley.

The House was adjourned during Pleasure, to robe.

The House was resumed.

Queen present:

Her Majesty, being seated on Her Royal Throne, adorned with Her Crown and Regal Ornaments, and attended with Her Officers of State (the Lords being in their Robes), commanded the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to let the House of Commons know, "It is Her Majesty's Pleasure, that they attend Her, in the House of Peers, immediately."

Who being come, with their Speaker; Her Majesty spake as follows:

Her Majesty's Speech.

"My Lords, and Gentlemen,

"I have much Satisfaction in being able, at the opening this Parliament, to tell you, that the Ratifications of the Treaties of Peace and of Commerce with Spain are exchanged, by which My Subjects will have greater Opportunities than ever to improve and extend their Trade. Many Advantages, formerly enjoyed by Connivance, and procured by such Methods as made a Distinction between one British Merchant and another, are now settled by Treaty, and an equal Rule is established.

"It has pleased God to bless My Endeavours to obtain an honourable and advantageous Peace for My own People, and for the greatest Part of My Allies. Nothing which I can do shall be wanting, to render it universal: And I persuade Myself that, with your hearty Concurrence, My Interposition may at last prove effectual, to compleat the Settlement of Europe.

"In the mean while I congratulate with My own Subjects, that they are delivered from a consuming Land War, and entered on a Peace, the good Effects whereof nothing but intestine Divisions can obstruct.

"It was the Glory of the Wisest and Greatest of My Predecessors, to hold the Balance of Europe; and to keep it equal, by casting in Their Weight, as Necessity required. By this Conduct, They enriched the Kingdom, and rendered Themselves dreadful to Their Enemies, and useful to Their Friends: I have proceeded on the same Principle; and I doubt not but My Successors will follow these Examples.

"Our Situation points out to us our true Interest; for this Country can flourish only by Trade, and will be most formidable by the right Application of our Naval Force.

"Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

"I have ordered such Accounts to be prepared, and laid before you, as will shew you, at the Conclusion of the War, the true State of your Condition; whereby you will be better able to judge what Aids are necessary: And I only ask of you Supplies for the current Service of the Year, and for the Discharge of such Debts as you will find, on Examination, to be just and reasonable.

"My Lords, and Gentlemen,

"The Joy which has been generally expressed on My Recovery from My late Indisposition, and on My coming to this City, I esteem as a Return to that tender Affection which I have always had for My People.

"I wish that effectual Care had been taken, as I have often desired, to suppress those seditious Papers and factious Rumours, by which designing Men have been able to link Credit, and the Innocent have suffered.

"There are some who are arrived to that Height of Malice, as to insinuate, that the Protestant Succession in the House of Hanover is in Danger under My Government.

"Those who go about thus to distract the Minds of Men with imaginary Dangers, can only mean to disturb the present Tranquillity, and bring real Mischiefs upon us.

"After all I have done to secure our Religion and your Liberties, and to transmit both safe to Posterity, I cannot mention these Proceedings without some Degree of Warmth; and I must hope you will all agree with Me, that Attempts to weaken My Authority, or to render the Possession of the Crown uneasy to Me, can never be proper Means to strengthen the Protestant Succession.

I have done, and shall continue to do, My best for the Good of all my Subjects: Let it be your Endeavour, as it shall be Mine, to unite our Differences, not by relaxing from the strictest Adherence to our Constitution in Church and State, but by observing the Laws yourselves, and enforcing a due Obedience to them in others.

A long War has not only impoverished the Public, (however some particular Men may have been Gainers by it), but has also greatly affected Government itself.

"Let it be your Care so to improve the present Opportunity, as to lay the Foundation of recovering from those Disorders.

"I had the Concurrence of the last Parliament in making the Peace: Let it be the Honour of this, to assist Me in obtaining such Fruits from it, as may not only derive Blessings on the present Age, but even down to latest Posterity."

Then Her Majesty was pleased to withdraw; and the Commons returned to their House.

The House was adjourned during Pleasure, to unrobe.

The House was resumed.

Poor's Bill.

Hodie 1a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for preventing the Poor's being defauded."

The Lord Chancellor reported Her Majesty's Speech.

And the same being read by the Clerk:

Address to be drawn.

Ordered, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, "To return Her Majesty the humble Thanks of this House, for Her most Gracious Speech from the Throne; and to congratulate Her Majesty upon Her Recovery from Her late Indisposition."

Then the Lords following were appointed a Committee, to prepare an Address pursuant thereunto; and report to the House; (videlicet,)

Ds. Thesaurarius.
Ds. Præses.
Ds. Custos Privati Sigilli.
Dux Beaufort.
Dux Northumberland.
Dux Bolton.
Comes Poulet, Senescallus.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Anglesey.
Comes Nottingham.
Comes Abingdon.
Comes Jersey.
Comes Orkney.
Comes Wharton.
Viscount Bolingbroke.		 Ds. North & Grey.
Ds. Lexington.
Ds. Sommers.
Ds. Halifax.
Ds. Cowper.
Ds. Trevor.

Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet presently, in the Prince's Lodgings near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

The House was adjourned during Pleasure.

The House was resumed.

Receivers and Triers of Petitions.

Les Receveurs des Petitions de la Grande Bretagne et d'Ireland.

Messire Thomas Parker, Chivalier et Chief Justicier.

Messire Littleton Powys, Chivalier et Justicier.

Messire Thomas Gery, Chivalier et Justicier.

Et ceux qui veulent delivre leur Petitions, les baillent dedans Six Jours prochainement ensuivant.

Les Receveurs des Petitions de Gascoigne, et des autres Terres et Pais de par la Mer, et des Isles.

Messire Edward Ward, Chivalier et Chief Baron de l'Excheq'r de la Reine.

Messire Jean Blencowe, Chivalier et Justicier.

Messire William Rogers, Ecuyer.

Et ceux qui veulent delivre leur Petitions, les baillent dedans Six Jours prochainement ensuivant.

Les Triours de Petitions de la Grand Bretagne et d'Ireland.

Le Duc de Somerset.

Le Duc de Beaufort.

Le Duc de Bolton.

Le Duc de Devonshire.

Le Duc d'Atholl.

Le Marquis de Lindsey, Grand Chamberlain d'Angleterre.

Le Count de Derby.

Le Count de Dorset.

Le Count de Sunderland.

Le Count d'Anglesey.

Le Count de Berkeley.

Le Count de Greenwich.

Le Count de Wharton.

Le Count de Mar.

Le Count de Dundonald.

Le Count d'Orkney.

Le Count Ferrers.

Le Baron Delawar.

Le Baron Carteret.

Le Baron Sommers.

Le Baron Halifax.

Le Baron Cowper.

Le Baron Trevor.

Touts ceux ensemble, ou Quatres des Seigneurs avantditz; appellant aux eux les Seigeants de la Reine, quant sera Besoin; tiendront leur Place en la Chambre du Tresorier.

Les Triours des Petitions de Gascoigne, et des autres Terres et Pais de par la Mer et des Isles.

Le Duc d' Ormonde.

Le Duc de Leeds.

Le Duc de Northumberland.

Le Duc de Rutland.

Le Marquis de Dorchester.

Le Count de Lincoln.

Le Count de Bridgewater.

Le Count de Thanet.

Le Count de Scarbrough.

Le Count de Scarsdale.

Le Count de Loudoun.

Le Count de Northesk.

Le Count de Portmore.

Le Baron Paget & Burton.

Le Baron Berkeley de Stratton.

Le Baron Guilford.

Le Baron Gernsey.

Le Baron Masham.

Touts ceux ensemble, ou Quatre des Seigneurs avantditz; appellant aux eux les Sergeants de la Reine, quant sera Besoin; tiendront leur Place en la Chambre du Chamberlaine.

Committee of Privileges.

Lords Committees appointed to consider of the Customs and Orders of the House, and the Privileges of Parliament, and of the Peers of Great Britain and Lords of Parliament.

Ds. Cancellarius.
Ds. Thesaurarius.
Ds. Præses.
Ds. Custos Privati Sigilli.
Dux Somerset.
Dux Cleveland.
Dux Grafton.
Dux Ormonde.
Dux Beaufort.
Dux Northumberland.
Dux St. Albans.
Dux Bolton.
Dux Leeds.
Dux Devonshire.
Dux Rutland.
Dux Montagu.
Dux Atholl.
Dux Kent.
March. Lindsey, Magnus Camerarius.
March. Dorchester.
Comes Poulet, Senescallus.
Comes Pembroke.
Comes Lincoln.
Comes Dorset.
Comes Bridgewater.
Comes Leicester.
Comes Northampton.
Comes Denbigh.
Comes Westmorland.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Thanet.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Cardigan.
Comes Anglesey.
Comes Sussex.
Comes Radnor.
Comes Yarmouth.
Comes Berkeley.
Comes Nottingham.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Abingdon.
Comes Plimouth.
Comes Portland.
Comes Scarbrough.
Comes Warrington.
Comes Coventry.
Comes Orford.
Comes Jersey.
Comes Grantham.
Comes Greenwich.
Comes Wharton.
Comes Godolphin.
Comes Cholmondeley.
Comes Mar.
Comes Loudoun.
Comes Findlater.
Comes Dundonald.
Comes Dunmore.
Comes Orkney.
Comes Roseberie.
Comes Portmore.
Comes Ferrers.
Viscount Say & Seal.
Viscount Townshend.
Viscount Weymouth.
Viscount Hatton.
Viscount Longueville.
Viscount Bolingbroke.		 Epus. Dunelm.
Epus. Winton.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Lich. & Cov.
Epus. Eliens.
Epus. Petriburg.
Epus. Oxon.
Epus. Bangor.
Epus. Lincoln.
Epus. Landav.
Epus. Exon.
Epus. Cestr.
Epus. Norwic.
Epus. Cicestr.
Epus. Hereford.
Epus. Meneven.
Epus. Roffen.		 Ds. Bergevenny.
Ds. Delawar.
Ds. Fitzwalter.
Ds. Willughby Br.
Ds. Paget & Burton.
Ds. North & Grey.
Ds. Hunsdon.
Ds. Compton.
Ds. Howard Escr.
Ds. Bruce.
Ds. Byron.
Ds. Colepeper.
Ds. Rockingham.
Ds. Lexington.
Ds. Berkeley Str.
Ds. Cornwallis.
Ds. Osborne.
Ds. Carteret.
Ds. Ossulstone.
Ds. Guilford.
Ds. Ashburnham.
Ds. Weston.
Ds. Herbert.
Ds. Haversham.
Ds. Sommers.
Ds. Barnard.
Ds. Halifax.
Ds. Gernsey.
Ds. Hervey.
Ds. Cowper.
Ds. Boyle.
Ds. Hay.
Ds. Montjoy.
Ds. Mansel.
Ds. Trevor.
Ds. Lansdowne.
Ds. Masham.
Ds. Foley.
Ds. Bathurst.
Ds. Bingley.

Their Lordships, or any Seven of them; to meet on Monday next, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon, in the House of Peers, and every Monday after; and to adjourn from Time to Time, as they please.

Committee for the Journal.

Lords Sub-committees appointed to consider of the Orders and Customs of the House, and Privileges of the Peers of Great Britain and Lords of Parliament; and to peruse and perfect the Journals of this and the last Sessions of Parliament.

Dux Beaufort.
Dux Bolton.
Dux Devonshire.
Dux Atholl.
March. Dorchester.
Comes Northampton.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Anglesey.
Comes Sussex.
Comes Yarmouth.
Comes Nottingham.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Abingdon.
Comes Warrington.
Comes Wharton.
Comes Mar.
Comes Findlater.
Comes Dundonald.
Comes Ferrers.
Viscount Say & Seal.
Viscount Townshend.
Viscount Weymouth.		 Epus. Winton.
Epus. Eliens.
Epus. Petriburg.
Epus. Oxon.
Epus. Bangor.
Epus. Carliol.
Epus. Landaven.
Epus. Norwic.
Epus. Hereford.
Epus. Roffen.		 Ds. Delawar.
Ds. Willughby Br.
Ds. North & Grey.
Ds. Compton.
Ds. Howard Escr.
Ds. Bruce.
Ds. Rockingham.
Ds. Berkeley Str.
Ds. Carteret.
Ds. Guilford.
Ds. Haversham.
Ds. Sommers.
Ds. Halifax.
Ds. Gernsey.
Ds. Cowper.
Ds. Trevor.
Ds. Foley.

Their Lordships, or any Three of them; to meet when, where, and as often as, they please.

Stoppages in the Streets, Order to prevent.

The House taking Notice, that there is such an Interruption, by Hackney Coaches, Carts, and Drays, in King-street, and the Passages to The Old Palace Yard in Westminster, that the Lords and others are frequently hindered from coming to this House, to the great Inconveniency of the Members of both Houses:

It is thereupon Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the High Steward of the City of Westminster, or his Deputy, together with the Justices of the Peace for the said City, shall, by their Care and Directions to the Constables and other Officers within the said Limits, take special Order, that no empty Hackney Coaches be suffered to make any Stay, between Whitehall and The Old Palace Yard in Westminster, from Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon until Three of the Clock in the Afternoon of the same Day, during the Sitting of this Parliament; and that no Carriages; Drays, or Carts, be permitted to pass through the said Streets and Passages, between the Hours aforesaid, during the Sitting of this Parliament; and herein special Care is to be taken, by the said Deputy Steward, Justices of the Peace, Constables, and all other Officers herein concerned, as the contrary will be answered to this House.

Standing Orders to be read.

Ordered, That, on this Day Sevennight the Roll of Standing Orders of this House shall be read.

House to be called.

Ordered, That this House shall be called over on this Day Fortnight, at Twelve a Clock.

Pamphlet intituled, "The Public Spirit of the Whigs, &c." censured:

Complaint being made to the House, of a printed Pamphlet, intituled, "The Public Spirit of the Whigs, set forth in their generous Encouragement of the Author of The Crisis; with some Observations on the Seasonableness, Candour, Erudition, and Stile of that Treatise; London, Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers Hall, 1714;" and several Paragraphs thereof being read:

The House came to the following Resolution; (videlicet,)

"That the said Pamphlet is a false, malicious, and factious Libel, highly dishonourable and scandalous to the Scotch Nation, tending to the Destruction of the Constitution, and most injurious to Her Majesty, who has often declared from the Throne, That the Union of the Two Kingdoms of England and Scotland was the peculiar Happiness of Her Reign, in making so full a Provision for the Peace and Quiet of Her People, and the Security of our Religion, by so firm an Establishment of the Protestant Succession throughout Great Britain."

Morphew to be attached.

Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod attending this House, his Deputy or Deputies, do forthwith attach the Body of John Morphew, for whom the said Pamphlet is mentioned to be printed, and bring him in safe Custody to the Bar of this House, to answer for his Offence; and this shall be a sufficient Warrant on that Behalf.

To Sir William Oldes, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, his Deputy or Deputies, and every of them.

Adjourn.

Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Mercurii, tertium diem instantis Martii, hora undecima Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.

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