DIE Jovis, secundo die Decembris.
REX.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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Epus. Bath & Wells.
Epus. Exeter.
Epus. St. Asaph. |
D. Cumberland.
L. Chancellor, Lord High Steward pro hac vice.
L. President.
L. Privy Seal.
D. Bucks.
D. Albemarle.
D. Monmouth.
D. Newcastle.
Marq. Worcest'.
L. Chamberlain.
Comes Oxon.
Comes Kent.
Comes Rutland.
Comes Huntingdon.
Comes Bedford.
Comes Suffolke.
Comes Dorset.
Comes Salisbury.
Comes Bridgewater.
Comes Leicester.
Comes North'ton.
Comes Denbigh.
Comes Bristoll.
Comes Clare.
Comes Westm'l'd.
Comes Manchest'.
Comes Berks.
Comes Mulgrave.
Comes Peterborough.
Comes Stanford.
Comes Winchelsea.
Comes Carnarvan.
Comes Chesterfeild.
Comes Thannet.
Comes Sund'l'd.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes St. Albans.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Essex.
Comes Bath.
Comes Carlisle.
Comes Craven.
Comes Aylisbury.
Comes Burlington.
Comes Shaftsbury.
Comes Guilford.
Comes Sussex.
Comes Feversham.
Comes Hallifax.
Comes Macclesfeild.
Comes Berkley.
Comes Conway.
Vicecomes Fauconberge.
Vicecomes Newport. |
Ds. Mowbray.
Ds. Ferrers.
Ds. Morley.
Ds. Conyers.
Ds. Windsor.
Ds. Cromwell.
Ds. Eure.
Ds. Wharton.
Ds. Paget.
Ds. North & Grey.
Ds. Chandois.
Ds. Norryes.
Ds. Brooke.
Ds. Grey de Warke.
Ds. Deyncourt.
Ds. Lovelace.
Ds. Maynard.
Ds. Coventry.
Ds. Howard Esc.
Ds. Herbert de Cher.
Ds. Leigh.
Ds. Hatton.
Ds. Byron.
Ds. Ward.
Ds. Astley.
Ds. Lucas.
Ds. Rockingham.
Ds. Wootton.
Ds. Hollis.
Ds. Cornwallis.
Ds. Crewe.
Ds. Arundell Tr.
Ds. Butler de West. |
Memorandum, That these
Lords Spiritual were in
the House in the Morning; but none of them
went down into Westminster Hall.
PRAYERS.
Pardon for Persons who will come in and discover the Plot.
The Earl of Shaftesbury this Day acquainted the
House, "That there is a considerable Prelate and
Three other Persons of the Church of Rome, that
would come in, and make a further Discovery of
the Popish Plot, if they may have the King's Pardon,
according to His Majesty's Proclamation, and Safety
for their Persons; and in regard his Lordship is only
privy to their Names, he desires he may have the
Leave of this House to communicate their Names to
the Earl of Salisbury and the Earl of Essex:"
Which the House gave him Leave to do; and Power
to give the aforesaid Persons the Assurance of obtaining
His Majesty's Gracious Pardon, according to the Declaration, and Protection for the Safety of their Persons in
coming hither.
Lords not to absent themselves during the Trial.
ORDERED, by the Lords in Parliament assembled,
That all the Lords do attend this House during the
Trial of the Lord Viscount Stafford, upon the Peril of
undergoing the Censure of this House for their Absence; and are to attend precisely To-morrow, at Nine
of the Clock in the Forenoon.
Guards in Westm. Hall.
ORDERED, by the Lords in Parliament assembled,
That, during the Trial in Westminster Hall of the Lord
Viscount Stafford, the Shops there be shut up; and
that Guards be there set to take Care that the Vacant
Places in the said Hall be kept free from all Company,
and the Footmen kept out.
House adjourned into Westm. Hall.
This House was adjourned into Westminster Hall; and
the Lords Temporal went in their due Order.
Proclamation was made, for Silence to be kept.
And Proclamation for the Lieutenant of The Tower
to bring his Prisoner, the Lord Viscount Stafford, to the
Bar.
L. Stafford to make his Defence.
Then the Lord High Steward told the Lord Viscount
Stafford, "He might proceed to produce his Witnesses."
And, after much Time spent therein, the House was
adjourned to the House above.
To proceed on the Trial Tomorrow.
ORDERED, That this House will proceed in the Trial
of the Lord Viscount Stafford To-morrow Morning, at
Nine of the Clock.
ORDERED, by the Lords in Parliament assembled,
That the Lieutenant of His Majesty's Tower of London
be, and is hereby, required to bring William Viscount
Stafford, now Prisoner there, to the Bar of this House
in Westminster Hall, on Friday the Third Day of December Instant, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon.
Message to acquaint H. C.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by
Sir Tymothy Baldwin and Sir Samuell Clerke:
To signify to them, that the Lords have ordered, to
bring the Lord Viscount Stafford to the Bar in Westminster Hall, To-morrow Morning, at Ten of the Clock.
Adjourn.
Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque in diem Veneris, 3u diem
instantis Decembris, hora nona Aurora, Dominis sic decernentibus.