House of Lords Journal Volume 17: 19 December 1704

Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 17, 1701-1705. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.

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'House of Lords Journal Volume 17: 19 December 1704', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 17, 1701-1705, (London, 1767-1830) pp. 604-605. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol17/pp604-605 [accessed 25 April 2024]

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DIE Martis, 19 Decembris.

REGINA.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

Arch. Cant.
Arch. Ebor.
Epus. Duresm. & Crew.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Lich. & Cov.
Epus. Petrib.
Epus. Cicestr.
Epus. Carliol.
Epus. Bath & Well.		 Ds. Custos Magni Sigilli.
Ds. Godolphin, Thesaurarius.
Comes Pembroke, P.
Dux Buckingham, C. P. S.
Dux Somerset.
Dux Southampton.
Dux Grafton.
Dux Northumberland.
Dux Bolton.
Dux Newcastle.
Dux Marlborough.
Comes Kent, Camerarius.
Comes Huntingdon.
Comes Bridgewater.
Comes Westmorland.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Rivers.
Comes Peterborow.
Comes Stamford.
Comes Winchilsea.
Comes Kingston.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Anglesey.
Comes Feversham.
Comes Radnor.
Comes Berkeley.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Abingdon.
Comes Portland.
Comes Torrington.
Comes Scarbrough.
Comes Warrington.
Comes Bradford.
Comes Orford.
Comes Grantham.
Viscount Townshend.		 Ds. Bergevenny.
Ds. Lawarr.
Ds. Ferrers.
Ds. Wharton.
Ds. Pagett.
Ds. Howard Eff.
Ds. North & Grey.
Ds. Grey W.
Ds. Lovelace.
Ds. Poulett.
Ds. Howard Esc.
Ds. Mohun.
Ds. Byron.
Ds. Vaughan.
Ds. Colepeper.
Ds. Rockingham.
Ds. Berkeley.
Ds. Dartmouth.
Ds. Guilford.
2. Ds. Weston.
1. Ds. Cholmondeley.
Ds. Haversham.
Ds. Sommers.
Ds. Halifax.
Ds. Granville.
Ds. Gernsey.
Ds. Hervey.

PRAYERS.

Drake's Bill.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for Sale of the Estate of Daniel Drake Gentleman, de ceased, for the Provision of his Widow and Children, according to his Will."

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

Ds. Godolphin, Thesaurarius.
Comes Pembroke, Præses.
Dux Buckingham, C. P. S.
Dux Somerset.
Dux Bolton.
Dux Marlborough.
Comes Kent, Camerarius.
Comes Huntingdon.
Comes Bridgewater.
Comes Westmorland.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Peterborow.
Comes Stamford.
Comes Winchilsea.
Comes Kingston.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Anglesey.
Comes Feversham.
Comes Berkeley.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Abingdon.
Comes Scarbrough.
Comes Warrington.
Comes Bradford.
Comes Orford.
Viscount Townshend.		 Arch. Cant.
Arch. Ebor.
Epus. Duresme, & Crew.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Lich. & Cov.
Epus. Petrib.
Epus. Cicestr.
Epus. Carliol.
Epus. Bath & Well.		 Ds. Bergevenny.
Ds. Lawarr.
Ds. Ferrers.
Ds. Wharton.
Ds. Paget.
Ds. Grey W.
Ds. Poulett.
Ds. Howard Esc.
Ds. Mohun.
Ds. Culpeper.
Ds. Rockingham.
Ds. Berkeley.
Ds. Dartmouth.
Ds. Guilford.
Ds. Weston.
Ds. Haversham.
Ds. Sommers.
Ds. Halifax.
Ds. Granville.
Ds. Gernsey.
Ds. Hervey.

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

States General, Quota of Ships.

ORDERED, That the Paper, intituled, "An Account of Quotas of Ships furnished by The States General last Summer," shall be, and is hereby, referred to the Lords Committees appointed to consider of the Books and Papers delivered into this House from the Admiralty-office, the Eight Instant, by Mr. Burchett.

Union, England and Scotland, Bill.

The House (pursuant to Order Yesterday) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act relating to an Union and good Correspondence with the Kingdom of Scotland."

After some Time, the House was resumed.

And the Earl of Sunderland reported, "That the Committee had gone through the said Bill; and think it fit to pass, with some Amendments."

Which were read Twice, and agreed to; and the Bill ordered to be engrossed, with the said Amendments.

W. Ford versus Reginam, in Error:

Upon reading the Petition of William Weedon Ford, of Lincolne's Inn, Gentleman, late Warden of The Fleet; shewing, "That he having brought a Writ of Error into this House, to reverse a Judgement given in the Court of Queen's Bench for Her Majesty; and he not insisting upon the Errors assigned upon the said Writ of Error, but praying the Affirmation of the said Judgement:"

Judgement affirmed.

It is thereupon ORDERED and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said Judgement shall be, and is hereby, affirmed; and that the Record be remitted, to the End Execution may issue thereupon, as if no such Writ of Error had been brought into this House.

The Tenor of which Judgement, to be affixed to the Record to be remitted, followeth; (videlicet,)

"Postea, scilicet, Decimo Tertio Die Novembris, Anno Regni Dominæ Annæ nunc Reginæ Angl. &c. Tertio, Transcript. Record. & Process. præd. inter Partes præd. cum omnibus ea tangen. Prætextu cujusd. Brevis de Error. corrigend. per præd. Will'um Weedon Ford in Præmissis prosecut. dict. Dominæ Reginæ in præsenti Parliamento a præd. Cur. dictæ Dominæ Reginæ hic transmiss. fuit; prædictusque Will'us Weedon Ford, in eadem Cur. Parliament comparens in propria Persona sua, diversas Causas & Materias pro Errore in Record. & Process. præd. pro Revocatione & Adnullatione Judicii præd. assignavit; ad quas præfat. Ed'r'us Northey Mil. Attorn. dict. Dominæ Reginæ nunc General. (fn. 1) qui pro eadem Domina Regina in hac Parte sequitur comparens, pro dicta Domina Regina in eadem Cur. Parliamenti præd. placitavit, quod nec in Record. & Process. præd. nec in Redditione Judicii præd. in ullo fuit Errat. Et postea, scilicet, Decimo Nono Die Decembris, Anno Regni dictæ Dominæ Reginæ nunc Tertio supradict. in præd. Cur. Parliamenti ven. tam præd. Will'us Weedon Ford, quam præd. Ed'r'us Northey Mil. Attorn. dictæ Dominæ Reginæ nunc General. in propriis Personis suis. Et idem Will'us Weedon Ford dixit, quod non insistit super Errores præd. per ipsum superius assign; sed tunc in eadem Cur. Parliamenti supplicavit, quod Judicium præd. in omnibus affirmetur. Super quo, præd. Ed'r'us Norrbey Mil. Attorn. dictæ Dominæ Reginæ General. ad tunc & ibidem pro eadem Domina Regina ut prius, petit etiam quod Judicium præd. in omnibus affirmetur; ac ad tunc in præd Cur. Parliamenti visis & per Cur. ibidem diligenter examinatis & plenius intellectis tam Record. & Process. præd. ac Judic. super eosdem reddit. quam præd. Causis pro Erroribus assign. & allegat. pro eo quod videtur Cur. Parliamenti præd. quod Record. ill. in nullo vitiosum aut detectivum existit; & quod in Record. & Process. præd. in nullo fuit Errat.: Ideo ad tunc & ibidem considerat. fuit per eandem Cur. Parliamenti, quod Judicium præd. in omnibus affirmetur, & in omni fuo Robore stet & Effectu; dictis Causis pro Erroribus assign. in aliquo non (fn. 2) obstantibus."

Adjourn.

Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Mercurii, vicesimum diem instantis Decembris, hora undecima Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.

Footnotes

  • 1. Origin. quam.
  • 2. Origin. oblante.
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