House of Lords Journal Volume 20: 21 June 1717

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: 21 June 1717', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 20, 1714-1717, (London, 1767-1830) pp. 504-506. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol20/pp504-506 [accessed 24 April 2024]

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DIE Veneris, 21 Junii.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

Arch. Cant.
Arch. Ebor.
Epus. London.
Epus. Winton.
Epus. Lich. & Cov.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Carliol.
Epus. Landav.
Epus. Bath & Well.
Epus. Cicestr.
Epus. Hereford.
Epus. Menev.
Epus. Roffen.
Epus. Bristol.
Epus. Cestriens.
Epus. Gloucestr.
Epus. Asaph.
Epus. Oxon.
Epus. Lincoln.
Epus. Exon.		 Ds. Cowper, Cancellarius.
Dux Kingston, C. P. S.
Dux Kent, Senescallus.
Dux Newcastle, Camerarius.
Dux Somerset.
Dux Cleveland.
Dux Richmond.
Dux Bolton.
Dux Shrewsbury.
Dux Devon.
Dux Marlborough.
Dux Bucks & Nor.
Dux Rutland.
Dux Mountagu.
Dux Roxburgh.
Dux Ancaster, Magnus Camerarius.
Dux Portland.
Comes Lincoln.
Comes Dorset.
Comes Salisbury.
Comes Northampton.
Comes Westmorland.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Stamford.
Comes Thanet.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Cardigan.
Comes Carlisle.
Comes Burlington.
Comes Litchfield.
Comes Yarmouth.
Comes Nottingham.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Holderness.
Comes Warrington.
Comes Bradford.
Comes Orford.
Comes Poulet.
Comes Godolphin.
Comes Cholmondeley.
Comes Sutherland.
Comes Rothes.
Comes Buchan.
Comes Hadintoun.
Comes Loudoun.
Comes Orkney.
Comes I'lay.
Comes Ferrers.
Comes Strafford.
Comes Dartmouth.
Comes Uxbridge.
Comes Carnarvon.
Comes Rockingham.
Comes Tankerville.
Viscount Hereford.
Viscount Say & Seale.
Viscount Townshend.
Viscount Longueville.
Viscount Lonsdale.
Viscount Tadcaster.
Viscount Castleton.		 Ds. Bergavenny.
Ds. Willoughby Er.
Ds. Delawar.
Ds. Willughby Br.
Ds. North & Grey.
Ds. Hunsdon.
Ds. St. John Bletsho.
Ds. Bruce.
Ds. Teynham.
Ds. Byron.
Ds. Colepeper.
Ds. Berkley Str.
Ds. Cornwallis.
Ds. Osborne.
Ds. Lumley.
Ds. Stawell.
Ds. Guilford.
Ds. Ashburnham.
Ds. Weston.
Ds. Herbert.
Ds. Haversham.
Ds. Gower.
Ds. Conway.
Ds. Rosse.
Ds. Harcourt.
Ds. Hay.
Ds. Montjoy.
Ds. Mansel.
Ds. Middleton.
Ds. Trevor.
Ds. Lansdowne.
Ds. Masham.
Ds. Foley.
Ds. Bathurst.
Ds. Bingley.
Ds. Harborough.
Ds. Carleton.
Ds. Cobham.
Ds. Parker.
Ds. Coningsby.
Ds. Torrington.
Ds. Cadogan.
Ds. Romney.
Ds. Newburgh.
Ds. Pawlet Bas.

PRAYERS.

Mait, &c. Bill.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for continuing the Duties on Malt, Mum, Cyder, and Perry, for the Service of the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventeen; and to authorize Allowances to be made to certain Receivers; and to obviate a Doubt concerning Goods imported from the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, Sarke and Alderney; and to ascertain the Duty upon Sheep skins and Lamb-skins; and to prevent Frauds in the Duties upon Starch; and for making forth Duplicates of Exchequer Bills, Lottery Tickets, and Orders, lost, burnt, or destroyed; and for enlarging the Time for adjusting Claims in several Lotteries; and for preventing Frauds in the Duties on Low Wines and Spirits carried Coastwise."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House, To-morrow.

D. of Montagu's Bill:

Hodie 3a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for the Sale of Part of the Duke of Montagu's Estate, for the Intents and Purposes therein mentioned; and for settling other Estates, in Lieu thereof, to the same Uses."

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

It was Resolved in the Affirmative.

Message to H. C. with it.

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

To carry down the said Bill, and desire their Concurrence thereunto.

Tenths, for better collecting, Bill.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for the better collecting and levying the Revenue of the Tenths of the Clergy."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House, To-morrow.

Thynne's Estate, for Sale of, Bill.

The Earl of Nottingham reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act for vesting an Estate at Corsham in Wiltshire in the surviving Trustee and Executor of the last Will of Henry Frederick Thynne Esquire, deceased, and his Heirs, to make Sale thereof, for the Execution of the Trusts created by his Will," was committed: "That they had found the Allegations of the Bill to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given their Consents; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made some Amendments thereunto."

Which were read Twice, and agreed to.

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be engrossed.

Stafford to take the Name of Wollocombe, Bill.

The Earl of Clarendon reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act to enable Roger Stafford Esquire and his Issue Male to change their Surname to Wollocombe, according to the Will of Roger Wollocombe Esquire, deceased," was committed: "That the Committee had gone through the Bill; and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Heldt & al. Nat. Bill.

The Earl of Clarendon also reported from the Committee, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act to naturalize John Jacob Heldt, Theodore Van Rheden, and others," was committed: "That they had gone through the said Bill; and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Ordered, That the Bill be engrossed.

Pilots, Deal and Dover, Bill.

The House being moved, "That the Bill, intituled, "An Act for the better regulating of Pilots, for the conducting of Ships and Vessels from Dover, Deale, and the Isle of Thanet, up the Rivers of Thames and Medway," be now read the Third Time:"

It is Ordered, That the said Bill be re-committed to a Committee of the whole House, To-morrow.

Nugent's Bill:

Hodie 3a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to enable Susanna Catherina Nugent to sue for, recover, and hold, the Portion of Fourteen Hundred Pounds, provided for out of her Father's Estate; notwithstanding her Coverture, and the Outlawry of her Husband Hyacinthus Nugent Esquire."

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

It was Resolved in the Affirmative.

Message to H. C. that the Lords have agreed to it.

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

To acquaint them, that the Lords have agreed to the said Bill, without any Amendment.

Herbert, Leave for a Bill.

After reading, and considering, the Report of the Judges, to whom the Petition of Elizabeth and Mariamne Herbert was referred; praying Leave to bring in a Bill, for the Purposes in the Petition mentioned:

It is Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pursuant to the said Petition and Report.

Messages from H. C. with a Bill; and to return the E. of Exeter & al. Bill;

A Message from the House of Commons, by the Lord William Pawlet and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for confirming a Partition lately made of the Estate of Sir John Brownlowe Baronet, deceased, in the Counties of Lincoln, York, Middlesex, and Hertford, remaining unsold, and Articles of Agreement relating thereunto; and also all the several Conveyances made of the divided Parts; and for making effectual a Fine and Recovery, intended to be levied and suffered, of a Fee Farm Rent of Twenty Pounds per Annum, Part of the Estate in the said County of Hertford;" and to acquaint this House, that they have agreed to the same, without any Amendment.

and Fulford's Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Sir William Pole and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act to enable Francis Fulford Esquire, and his First and other Sons, successively, to put in Execution the Power of granting Leases, given by the last Will and Testament of Francis Fulford Esquire, deceased;" and to acquaint this House, that they have agreed to the same, without any Amendment.

A Message also from the House of Commons, by Mr. Pringle and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act to enable His Majesty to make such Provision for, and Settlement upon, Margaret the Wife of James late Earl of Panmure as she would have been entitled to in case her said Husband was naturally dead;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

E. of Oxford to be brought to the Bar.

Whereas, by Order of this House on Wednesday the Twelfth Day of this Instant June, Monday next, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon, is appointed for the Trial of Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, upon the Impeachment of High Treason, and other high Crimes and Misdemeanors, exhibited by the Commons against him:

It is this Day Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the Constable of His Majesty's Tower of London, or, in his Absence, the Lieutenant of the same, do bring to the Bar of this House in Westm'r Hall, at the said Time before appointed, the said Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, in order to his Trial.

To the Constable of His Majesty's Tower of London; or, in his Absence, to the Lieutenant of the same.

Commission for a Lord High Steward, Form of it.

The Commission appointing a Lord High Steward for the Trial of the Lord Viscount Stafford, as entered in the Journal of this House the 30th of November 1680, being read:

It is Ordered, That the Commission for appointing a Lord High Steward for the Trial of the Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer shall be in the like Form.

King's Answer to Address for Treaties.

The Lord Steward acquainted the House; "That the Lords with White Staves (according to Order) had presented to His Majesty the Address of this House, on Wednesday last, "That His Majesty will be pleased to cause Copies of all Treaties made between Him and the Crowns of France and Spain, and The States General, or any of them, and of all Treaties between His Majesty and the said Crowns, and States General, or any of them, which have received any Alteration by subsequent Treaties since His Majesty's Accession to the Throne, to be laid before this House;" and that His Majesty was pleased to say, "He would give Directions accordingly."

Game Bill.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to explain and amend several Laws therein mentioned, for the better Preservation of the Game."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House, To-morrow.

E. of Oxford Proceedings concerning, to be further considered.

Ordered, That this House will, To-morrow, take into further Consideration the Proceedings that are to begin on Monday next in Westm'r Hall, concerning the Trial of the Earl of Oxford; and that all the Lords be summoned then to attend the Service of this House.

Act for Papists to register their Estate, Bill to explain.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee, to consider further of the Bill, intituled, "An Act for explaining an Act passed the last Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act to oblige Papists to register their Names and Real Estates; and for enlarging the Time for such registering."

And, after some Time spent therein, the House was resumed.

And the Earl of Clarendon reported from the said Committee, "That they had made some further Progress in the said Bill; and had directed him to move, That they may have Leave to fit again."

Ordered, That on Wednesday next this House shall be again put into a Committee of the whole House, to consider further of the said Bill, and that the Judges do then attend, in order to assist the said Committee.

E. of Sembrough to take the Oaths in England, Bill.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to enable Richard Earl of Scarbrough to take in Great Britain the Oath of Office, as Vice Treasurer and Receiver General and Paymaster General of all His Majesty's Revenues in the Kingdom of Ireland, and to qualify himself for the Enjoyment of the said Office."

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

L. Chamberlain.
D. Bolton.
D. Roxburgh.
E. of Dorset.
E. of Manchester.
E. of Stamford.
E. of Clarendon.
E. of Yarmouth.
E. of Rochester.
E. of Warrington.
E. of Godolphin.
E. of Tankerville.
L. V. Townshend.
L. V. Castleton.		 L. Bp. Sarum.
L. Bp. Carlisle.
L. Bp. St. Asaph.
L. Bp. Bangor.		 L. Delawar.
L. Compton.
L. Cornwallis.
L. Lumley.
L. Montjoy.
L. Foley.
L. Carleton.
L. Romney.

Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet To-morrow, at Ten of the 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 et in diem Sabbati, vicesimum secundum diem instantis Junii, hora undecima Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.

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