Die Mercurii, 20 Maii, 15 Regis Car. IIdi.
Prayers.
Lord Strangford's Estate.
A BILL to enable the Lord Strangford to sell Lands
for the Payment of his Debts, was read the First
time.
Resolved, &c. That this Bill be read the Second time
on Friday next.
Wells Key.
A Bill for the Repairing and Maintaining of Wells Key
in the County of Norfolke, was read the First time.
Resolved, &c. That this Bill be read the Second time
To-morrow Morning.
Bills not to be taken away.
Ordered, That it be declared to be the antient Order
and Course of the House, That, when any Bill is committed, no private Member ought to take it away: But
the Clerk of the House, or his Deputy, is to attend with
the Bill and Order, at the Time and Place appointed for
the First Meeting of the Committee; and deliver the
same in at the Committee, after the Chairman is chosen.
Crown Revenue.
Ordered, That the Speaker's Inner Chamber be appointed for the Sitting of the Committee for the King's
Majesty's Revenue: And no other Committee to meet
there, at the Times of their Sitting.
Forrester's Petition.
A Petition of Mr. Abraham Forrester was read.
Resolved, &c. That the said Petition be committed to
Lord Fanshaw, Sir John Denham, Colonel Reames, Mr.
Hoby, Colonel Strangwayes, Sir Ralph Bancks, Sir John
Shaw, Mr. Yorke, Sir Cha. Hussey, Sir John Fitz-James,
Sir Rich. Onslow, Mr. John Vaughan, Lord St. John, Sir
Sol. Swale, Sir John Strode, Mr. Hungerford, Mr. Wm.
Sandis, Colonel Birch, Sir Tho. Meres, Mr. Walker, or
any Five of them, to take the Petition into Consideration;
and to consider some Expedient, how the Petitioner may
be gratified, in some Way answerable to his Skill and
Merit; and report their Opinions therein to the House.
Damage Cleere.
A Bill to take away Damage Cleere was this Day read
the First time.
Resolved, &c. That this Bill be read the Second time
To-morrow Morning.
Ministers Maintenance.
The House did then resolve itself into a Committee of
the House, to proceed upon the Bill for the Increase of
the Maintenance of Ministers in Cities, Towns Corporate,
and Market Towns.
Mr. Speaker left the Chair.
Sir Thomas Meres took the Chair of the Committee.
Mr. Speaker again took the Chair.
Sir Thomas Meres reports from the Committee, That
the Committee had made a good Progress in the said
Bill; and desired, that the House would again resolve
itself into a Committee of the whole House, on Saturday
Morning next, at Ten of the Clock, to resume the Debate
upon the said Bill.
Resolved, That this House will again resolve itself into
a Committee of the whole House, on Saturday Morning
next, at Ten of the Clock, to resume the Debate upon
the said Bill.
Mersey, &c. Navigation.
Resolved, &c. That the Committee to whom the Bill
for making navigable the Rivers of Mersey and Weever
is committed, be revived; and they are to meet this
Afternoon at Two of the Clock, in the Place formerly
appointed.
Bills sent to Lords.
Ordered, That Mr. Street do carry up the ingrossed
Bills, already passed, to the Lords.
Hertford, &c. Roads.
A Message from the Lords, by Sir Thomas Bird and
Sir Walter Littleton;
Mr. Speaker, The Lords have returned you a Bill, sent
from this House, for repairing the Highways within the
Counties of Hertford, Cambridge, and Huntington, with
some Alterations and Amendments: To which they
desire the Concurrence of this House.
Lessees for Lives.
Ordered, That all the Members that serve for the
Counties of Cornwall and Devon be added to the Committee to which the Bill to make the Lessee prove his
Lives in being, is committed.
And then the House adjourned till To-morrow
Morning, Eight of the Clock.