House of Commons Journal Volume 1: 18 February 1607

Mercurii, 18o Februarii, 1606

Marshalsea Court.

MOVED, that at the Committee for the Bill touching the Abuses of the Court of Marshalsea, the Knight Marshal might be heard with his Counsel: Which was assented unto ; and the Committee adjourned till Monday.

Committees.

Sundry Committees adjourned to several Days.

Fame of worthy Persons.

Names added, upon Motion, to the Committee in the Bill for the better Continuance of the Fame and Memory of noble and worthy Persons, &c. viz. Mr. Secretary Herbert, Sir Robert Oxenbridge, Sir Herbert Crofts, Sir Henry Poole.

Soham Manor.

B. For the Confirmation of Letters Patents, made to Sir Roger Aston, &c. reported by Mr. Hyde, from the Committee, with some Amendments; which being twice read; the Bill, upon Question, ordered to be ingrossed.

Forcible Entries.

B. For some Addition to be made unto a Statute made in the 8th Year of King H. VI. cap. 9, concerning forcible Entries, secondly read; and committed to Sir Francis Hastings, Mr. Solicitor, Sir Henry Poole, Sir Edward Grevill, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Brock, Mr. Francis Moore, Sir Gamaliel Capell, Sir John Heigham, Sir Robert Oxenbridge Sir Henry Nevill, Sir Robert Wingfield, Sir Geo. Moore, Sir Roger Owen, Sir Edward Mountague, Mr. Serjeant Shirley, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Maurice Berkley, Mr. Blinco, Mr. Overbury, Mr. Forsett, Mr. Bromley, Sir Herbert Crofts, Mr. Dammett, Mr. Hyde, Sir William Strowd, Sir Robert Johnson, Mr. Wyld, Sir Tho. Holcroft:

- To meet on Saturday next, at Two a Clock in the Afternoon, in the Middle Temple Hall.

Union with Scotland.

Sir William Twysenden reneweth the Dispute touching the Point of Naturalization. Mr. Recorder of London, Mr. Attorney-general, Mr. Solicitor, Sir Roger Owen, and Sir Edw. Grevill, continue it: with these Motions :

That first a Committee amongst themselves, and then a Conference.

That they might consider of what to confer :

That divers Cautions were to be propounded:

That they might consider of every Caution :

Sir William Twisden moveth, that the Point might first be disputed in the House ; and that the Lawyers would severally deliver their Opinions, to rectify and direct the Consciences of the rest.

Mr. Recorder: - Parts Two :

1. Whether all born since the King's coming, be naturalized-

2. Whether, if it be not so, we should consent to make them so. -

4 H. III. in a Writ of Dower, provisum fuit, that before H. III. Time, an Englishman, Alien, might plead in France; and so a Frenchman in England. - A Provision of Counsel before the Law. -

E. II. Praerogativa regis intelligendum est, &c. There a plain Law. -

Gascoyne, Guyenne, Normandie: - Because once subject, therefore inheritable [c].