House of Lords Journal Volume 20: 22 July 1715

Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 20, 1714-1717. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.

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'House of Lords Journal Volume 20: 22 July 1715', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 20, 1714-1717, (London, 1767-1830) pp. 125-127. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol20/pp125-127 [accessed 24 April 2024]

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DIE Veneris, 22 Julii.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

Georgius Princeps Walliæ.

Arch. Ebor.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Hereford.
Epus. Cestrien.		 Ds. Cowper, Cancellarius.
Comes Nottingham, Præses.
Dux Devon, Senescallus.
Dux Bolton, Camerarius.
Dux Somerset.
Dux Richmond.
Dux Grafton.
Dux St. Albans.
Dux Shrewsbury.
Dux Bucks.
Dux Montrose.
Dux Roxburgh.
Dux Kent.
March. Lindsey, Magnus Camerarius.
March. Dorchester.
March. Tweddale.
March. Annandale.
Comes Derby.
Comes Pembroke.
Comes Lincoln.
Comes Dorset.
Comes Northampton.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Peterborow.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Cardigan.
Comes Anglesey.
Comes Burlington.
Comes Yarmouth.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Abingdon.
Comes Plymouth.
Comes Portland.
Comes Bradford.
Comes Greenwich.
Comes Poulet.
Comes Godolphin.
Comes Cholmondeley.
Comes Sutherland.
2. Comes Buchan.
1. Comes Rothes.
Comes Loudoun.
Comes Orkney.
Comes Bute.
Comes I'lay.
Comes Strafford.
Comes Dartmouth.
Comes Carnarvon.
Comes Rockingham.
Comes Aylesford.
Comes Bristol.
Comes Clare.
Viscount Say & Seale.
Viscount Longueville.
Viscount Tadcaster.		 Ds. Bergavenny.
Ds. Willoughby Er.
Ds. Delawar.
Ds. North & Grey.
Ds. St. John.
Ds. Compton.
Ds. Bruce.
Ds. Colepeper.
Ds. Berkeley.
Ds. Lumley.
Ds. Ashburnham.
Ds. Haversham.
Ds. Rosse.
Ds. Belhaven.
Ds. Boyle.
Ds. Montjoy.
Ds. Mansel.
Ds. Lansdowne.
Ds. Masham.
Ds. Foley.
Ds. Bathurst.
Ds. Harborough.
Ds. Carleton.

PRAYERS.

Mixed or medley Broad Cloth, Bill.

Hodie 1a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to make an Act of the Tenth Year of Her late Majesty, intituled, "An Act for regulating, improving, and encouraging, of the Woollen Manufacture of mixed or medley Broad Cloth, and for the better Payment of the Poor employed therein," more effectual, for the Benefit of Trade in general; and also to render more effectual an Act of the Seventh Year of Her said Majuesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for the better ascertaining the Lengths and Breadths of Woollen Cloth made in the County of York."

Ordered, That the said Bill be read a Second Time on Thursday next.

King's Answer to Address.

The Lord Chancellor reported, "That this House did Yesterday attend His Majesty, and present to him their humble Address; and that His Majesty was pleased to return this most Gracious Answer thereunto; (videlicet,)

My Lords,

"I thank you for the zealous Affection you express towards Me, and the Assurances which you give Me in this Address; and you may depend on My punctually making good all those which I have given to My People, either on this or any former Occasion."

Ordered, That the Address of this House presented to His Majesty Yesterday, and His Majesty's said Gracious Answer thereunto, be forthwith printed and published.

St. Albans, &c. Highways, Bill.

Ordered, That the Duke of Marlborough, Marquis of Dorchester, Earl of Godolphin, Earl of Sutherland, Earl of Bristol, Lord Haversham, and Lord Lumley, be added to the Committee, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act for repairing the Highways, through the several Parishes of St. Michael, St. Albans, St. Peter, and Shenley Ridge, and South Mins, in the Counties of Hertford and Middlesex," stands committed.

Militia Bill:

Hodie 3a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for raising the Militia for the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifteen, although the Month's Pay formerly advanced be not re-paid."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill, with the Amendments, shall pass?"

It was Resolved in the Affirmative.

Message to H. C. with Amendments to it.

A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by Mr. Rogers and Mr. Dormer:

To carry down the said Bill; and acquaint them, that the Lords have agreed to the same, with some Amendments, whereunto their Lordships desire their Concurrence.

Messages from thence, with Bills.

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

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for the more effectual preventing the Abuses of Sheriffs, in not returning the Writs of Summons in due Time; and for preventing Bribery and Corruption in the Elections of Members to serve in Parliament;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Sir John Cope and others:

With a bill, intituled, "An Act for securing the Freedom of Parliaments, by limiting the Number of Officers to sit in the House of Commons;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Panton's Bill.

The Order being read, for the Second Reading of the Bill, intituled, "An Act for explaining an Act, made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled, An Act for vesting Part of the Estate of Thomas Panton Esquire in Trustees, to be sold, for Payment of Debts, and securing a Jointure to Mary his now Wife, and for other Purposes therein mentioned;" and to hear Counsel, upon the Petition of Anthony Boyce Gentleman and Charlott Maria Barkly Widow, before the Second Reading of the said Bill:

The House was informed, "That, the Counsel instructed by the Petitioners being this Day engaged in a Suit in Chancery, the said Petitioners were willing to defer their being heard, in relation to the said Bill, till the Committee should meet upon the same."

The said Bill was read a Second Time.

Ordered, That the Consideration thereof be committed to the Lords following:

Dux Shrewsbury.
Dux Montrose.
Dux Kent.
March. Dorchester.
March. Annandale.
Comes Lincoln.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Anglesey.
Comes Yarmouth.
Comes Abingdon.
Comes Godolphin.
Comes Loudoun.
Comes I'lay.
Comes Carnarvon.
Comes Rockingham.
Comes Bristol.
Viscount Tadcaster.		 Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Hereford.
Epus. Cestrien.		 Ds. Delawar.
Ds. St. John.
Ds. Colepeper.
Ds. Lumley.
Ds. Haversham.
Ds. Boyle.
Ds. Mansel.
Ds. Masham.
Ds. Foley.
Ds. Carleton.

Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet on Saturday the Sixth Day of August next, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

Evans & Ux. versus Jackson.

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of John Evans and Mary his Wife; complaining of a Decree of the Court of Chancery, made the Twenty-fifth Day of April in the Tenth Year of the Reign of the late Queen Anne, and of an Order and subsequent Proceedings of the said Court, in certain Causes there depending, wherein John Jackson was Plaintiff, and Thomas Traunter, John Evans and Mary his Wife, were Defendants; and wherein the said John Evans and his Wife were Plaintiffs, and the said John Jackson and Thomas Traunter Defendants; and praying to be relieved, as to this House, in their great Wisdom, shall seem meet:

It is Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said John Jackson may have a Copy of the said Appeal; and shall and is hereby required to put in his Answer thereunto, in Writing, on or before Friday the Fifth Day of August next.

E. Clanriceard versus Bourke, &c.

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of the Right Honourable John Earl of Clanricarde of the Kingdom of Ireland, and Michael Lord Dunkellin his Eldest Son, from that Part of the Order of the Court of Chancery in the said Kingdom, made the Twenty-second of February 1714, on re-hearing of a Plea, in a Cause there depending, wherein the Appellants were Plaintiffs, and Colonel Thomas Bourke and Hellen Countess Dowager of Clanricarde Defendants, which allows the said Plea, against performing an Award made the Seventeenth of July 1688; praying, "That the same may be set aside; and, in order thereto, that the Defendants abovementioned may answer the said Appeal; and that the Service of the Order of this House on their Clerk in Court may be deemed good Service:"

It is Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said Thomas Bourke and Hellen Countess Dowager of Clanricarde may have a Copy of the said Appeal; and shall and are hereby required to put in their Answer or respective Answers thereunto, in Writing, on or before Friday the Fifth Day of August next.

Daly & Ux. versus Lynch.

The House being moved, "That a Day may be appointed, for hearing the Cause wherein Denis Daly Esquire and Ellin his Wife are Appellants, and Mary Lynch Respondent:"

It is Ordered, That this House will hear the said Cause, by Counsel, at the Bar, on Thursday next, at Eleven a Clock.

Waggoners, &c. Bill.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to restrain all Waggoners, Carriers, and others, from drawing any Carriage with more than Five Horses in Length."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to the Consideration of the same Committee to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act for explaining an Act, made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled, An Act for vesting Part of the Estate of Thomas Panton Esquire in Trustees, to be sold, for Payment of Debts, and securing a Jointure to Mary his now Wife, and for other Purposes therein mentioned," is committed.

Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet on Monday next, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

Adjourn.

Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad & in diem Sabbati, vicesimum tertium diem instantis Julii, hora undecima Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.

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