DIE Mercurii, 30 Decembris.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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Arch. Cant.
Epus. Durham.
Epus. Rochester.
Epus.
St. David's.
Epus. Chester.
Epus. Worcester.
Epus.
Ely.
Epus. Peterborow.
Epus. Chichester.
Epus. Bath &
Wells. |
Dux Cumberland.
Ds. Præses.
Dux
Norfolke.
Dux Ormond.
Dux
St. Albans.
Dux Bolton.
March. Hallifax.
Ds.
Magnus Camerarius.
Ds. Camerarius.
Comes Shrewsbury.
Comes Bedford.
Comes
Pembroke.
Comes North'ton.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Mulgrave.
Comes
Carnarvan.
Comes Chesterfeild.
Comes Strafford.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes
Essex.
Comes Sandwich.
Comes Craven.
Comes
Ailesbury.
Comes Feversham.
Comes Maclesfeild.
Comes Nottingham.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Abingdon.
Comes
Fauconberge.
Comes Mountagu.
Comes Marleborough.
Comes Scarborough.
Comes Warrington.
Viscount Newport.
Viscount Weymouth.
Viscount Sidney.
Viscount Villiers. |
Ds. Willougbby Er.
Ds. Berkeley Ber.
Ds. Ferrers.
Ds.
Howard Ess.
Ds. Chandos.
Ds. Coventry.
Ds.
Byron.
Ds. Vaughan.
Ds.
Colepeper.
Ds. Clifford.
Ds. Lucas.
Ds.
Granville.
Ds. Cornwallis.
Ds. Crew.
Ds.
Carteret.
Ds. Ossulston.
Ds. Godolphin.
Ds.
Ashburnbam. |
PRAYERS.
Supply Bill.
Hodie 2a
vice lecta
est Billa, intituled, "An Act for granting an Aid to Their Majesties, of
the Sum of Sixteen Hundred Fifty-one Thousand Seven Hundred and Two Pounds,
Eighteen Shillings, towards the carrying on a vigorous War against
France."
ORDERED, That the said Bill shall be committed to a
Committee of the whole House, presently.
Then the House was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into
a Committee upon the said Bill.
The House was resumed.
Amendments to it.
And the Lord Godolphin reported,
"That the Committee had gone through the Bill, with some few
Amendments."
Which were read Twice, and agreed to, as followeth:
"Press 44th. 1. 37th. After ["Earl"], leave out
["of"].
"Press 115th. For ["the"], read ["such"]; and after
["Person"], add ["or Persons"]; and for ["Peers"], read ["Peeress"].
"Press 140th. 1. 29th. After ["the"], add ["Lords
and"]."
ORDERED, That the said Bill shall be read a Third Time
To-morrow, at Nine of the Clock in the Forenoon.
Message from H. C. with a Bill.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Sir
Walter Clarges:
Who brought up a Bill, intituled, "An Act for the making a
further Provision for finishing the Parish Church of St.
Anne within the Liberties of Westminster, and
other Buildings directed to be erected and done pursuant to a former Act of
Parliament;" to which they desire their Lordships Concurrence.
Phillips versus Phillips.
Upon reading the Petition of Elizabeth
Phillips Spinster, Appellant, to which Dame Marina
Phillips is Respondent; praying, "That Robert
Naper Gentleman may enter into Recognizance for her:"
It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in
Parliament assembled, That the said Robert Napper may
enter into Recognizance for the Petitioner, as desired.
Sir Charles Holt to be relieved by Bill.
The Earl of Rochester reported from
the Lords Committees appointed to consider of the Petition of Sir
Charles Holt Baronet, "That the Committee have heard the
Judges in this Case; who were of Opinion, that Sir Charles
Holt can have no Relief but by an Act of Parliament; and that the
Committee had ordered him to report, that they were of the same Opinion with
the Judges:"
Sir C. Holt's Bill to divest Fountain of Lands for Payment of a
Mortgage.
To which the House agreed; and ORDERED, That the Bill,
intituled, "An Act for divesting the Manor or Lordship of Bushwood and Lapworth, and several other
Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, in the County of Warwicke, out of Andrew Fountaine
Esquire, and vesting the same in Trustees, for raising and paying a Debt due
upon a Mortgage thereof, taken in the Name of the said Andrew
Fountaine," shall be read the Second Time on Saturday next, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon.
Whitaker versus Pawlin.
Upon Consideration of the Petition of Edward Whitaker, and what he desires in it, concerning the
Order made by this House of the Eighteenth of November
last, and some Instances brought by the Clerk, wherein the Chancery have had
Orders directed to them:
It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in
Parliament assembled, That the Defendant William Pawlin
and others may have a Copy of this Petition; and shall be heard thereunto, by
their Counsel, on Tuesday next, at Ten of the Clock in
the Forenoon; as also Counsel for the Petitioner at the same Time.
Against adhering to Their Majesties Enemies, Bill.
The House was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a
Committee, upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act against adhering to Their
Majesties Enemies."
And, after some Time spent therein, the House was
resumed.
And the Lord Viscount Newport
reported, "That the Committee had agreed upon Two Heads, upon which the Judges
are to draw Two Clauses, to be Part of the Bill, as followeth:
"A Clause of the particular Species of those Goods that it
is now High Treason to carry into France.
"Another Clause, to make it a Præmunire to carry away any other Goods into
France, which it is not now High Treason to carry.
"And that the Committee desired another Day may be
appointed, for the House to be put into a Committee again upon this
Bill."
To which the House agreed; and ORDERED, That the Judges do
draw Two Clauses upon the said Heads against To-morrow Morning; and that the
House shall be put into a Committee, to proceed upon the said Bill, immediately
after the Third Reading of the Money Bill To-morrow Morning.
Public Accompts.
The Earl of Fauconberge reported
from the Committee of the whole House, the several Queries agreed on by the
Committee to be sent to the Commissioners appointed by a late Act of Parliament
for taking the Public Accompts of the Kingdom, upon their Observations upon the
Book of Accompts.
Which were agreed to, as followeth:
Questions to the Commissioners for taking Public Accompts.
"Head 5th. Concerning Persons who have Salaries, and the
King hath paid for passing their Patents and Accompts:
"Whose Patents and Accompts they are that the King was at
the Charge of, and the Names of those Persons that claimed it, and that allowed
the Accompt.
"Head 6th. Concerning those that have great Salaries, and
have got them increased:
"To explain, and give Instances, to whom, and how
much.
"Head 7th. Concerning Salaries continued, though the
Reasons cease:
"To send a List of the Names and Salaries, and what
Employment they were or are in.
"Head 8th. Concerning several Sums of Money borrowed of
the Receivers of the Public Revenue, and Interest for the same:
"Q. Who they were that had those Sums, and what the said
Sums amount to.
"Head 9th. Concerning Monies having been paid to
Parliament Men, out of Secret Service Money:
"Q. What the Payments to Parliament Men, whose Names are
not mentioned, amount to upon thi Head.
"Head 10th. Concerning great Sums to divers Persons which
have been pardoned, and small Fee Farm Rents excepted from Pardon:
"Q. To have a Particular of what the Sums pardoned were,
and by whom they should have been paid.
"Head 11th. Concerning excessive Fees not to be challenged
by Law:
"An Account of what Fees, and by whom such Fees have been
received, for which there is no legal Precedent to justify the same.
"Head 12th. Concerning great Quantities of Plate kept out
of the Jewel-house:
"To have a List of that Plate sent in, and the Names of
the Persons that retain it.
"Head 15th. Concerning the Royal Oak Lottery, with
Non-obstantes to several Acts:
"Whether this Patent be passed with Non-obstantes as the other in King James'
Reign, and what essential Difference there is between them.
"Head 16th. Concerning Persons discharged of their
Offices, and yet their Pensions continued:
"A List of such Persons Names.
"Head 19th. Concerning Accompts that have been passed by
Privy Seal only:
"To mention the particular Cases where Accompts have been
discharged by Privy Seals only.
"Head 20th. Concerning the Duplicates of particular
Accompts:
"What Accompts, and by whom such Accompts have been
brought in.
"Head 21°. Concerning Commissioners and Receivers
General:
"A List of the Names of such Persons.
"Head 23d. Concerning Susan Willis
procuring a Captain's Place:
"To send the Captain's Name.
"Head 24th. Concerning Establishments of the Army; and
that nothing used to be offered for the Royal Signature, but under the Hands of
certain Persons therein named, and its beginning in the Lord Treasurer
Clifford's Time:
"Who the Officers were that gave the Directions to the
Muster-master, and who those Commissaries of the Musters were; and what it
appears to them the King paid by such Rolls more than if He had paid Effective
Men.
"Head 26th. Concerning Agency to Regiments:
"The Names of the Agents that have given Money for their
Places, and what Regiments they belong to, and to whom they gave it; and who
those Agents are that keep Money in their Hands.
"Head 27th. Concerning buying of Cloaths:
"To give Instances where the Rates of Cloathing were
excessive.
"Head 29th. Concerning Irish
Musters:
"To send the Names of the Muster-masters.
"Head 31st. Concerning miscasting Accompts, and
particularly Mr. Fox:
"In what Particular this Miscasting was."
It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in
Parliament assembled, That the Commissioners, appointed by a late Act of
Parliament for taking the Public Accompts of the Kingdom, are hereby desired to
send to this House, in Writing, particular Answers to the Queries upon the
abovesaid Heads, in their Observations upon their Accompts sent to this House,
on Saturday next, at Eleven of the Clock in the
Forenoon.
Coker versus Stickland.
Upon reading the Petition of Robert
Coker Esquire, Respondent to the Petition of John
Stickland and others; praying, "That a further Day may be appointed for
hearing the Cause depending in this House between them, for that the Cause hath
been depending in this House above Ten Years:"
It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in
Parliament assembled, That this House will hear the said Cause, by Counsel on
both Sides, at the Bar, on Monday the First Day of
February next, at Ten of the Clock in the
Forenoon.
Hungerford versus Pollard.
It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in
Parliament assembled, That this House will hear the Cause wherein
Jane Hungerford and others are Plaintiffs, and
Thomas Pollard Defendant, on Saturday the Sixteenth Day of January
next, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon.
Shore versus Billingsley.
The House being moved, "That Lewis
Billingsley, now in Holland, may have a Week's
Time longer for answering to the Petition of the Lady Shore:"
It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in
Parliament assembled, That he hath hereby Time given him for answering
thereunto, until Wednesday the Sixth Day of
January next, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon.
Adjourn.
Rob'tus Atkyns, Miles de Balneo,
Capitalis Baro de Scaccario, Orator Procerum, declaravit præsens
Parliamentum continuandum esse usque in diem Jovis, (videlicet,) 31um diem instantis
Decembris, hora nona Aurora, Dominis sic decernentibus.