Sabbati, 11 die Julii, 15° Car. IIdi.
Prayers.
Privilege.
UPON Information, That one Susan Dawsan,
Widow, had caused Declarations, in Actions of
Ejectment, to be, in the Name of Richard Goodwyn,
delivered to Jacob Parsons and William Jeffery, Tenants
to Reynold Graham Esquire, a Member of this House,
to try the Title of certain Lands, lying in Chalke in the
County of Kent, of which Mr. Graham is Owner, and in
present Possession, by his said Tenants; in Breach of the
Privilege of this House;
Ordered, That all further Proceedings in the Suit and
Actions brought against Jacob Parsons and Wm. Jeffery,
Tenants of Reynold Graham Esquire, a Member of this
House, to try the Title of certain Lands lying in Chalke
in the County of Kent, to which Mr. Graham makes
Title, be stayed, during the Session of this present
Parliament.
Linen and Tapestry.
Ordered, That Leave be given for the bringing in a
Bill for setting up a Manufacture of making Linen and
Tapestry.
Excise Collection.
Mr. Knight reports from the Committee to which the
additional Bill for the better regulating and collecting
the Duty of Excise was committed, several Amendments
and Clauses, agreed by the Committee to be made, and
added to the said Bill: Which he read, with the Coherence, in his Place; and after delivered the same in at
the Clerk's Table.
The same Amendments and Clauses were read the
First time.
The several Amendments, precedent to the Amendments to the Twenty-sixth Line of the First Folio, were
read the Second time; and, upon the Question, agreed to.
The Amendment to the Six-and-twentieth Line of the
First Folio were read the Second time.
Ordered, That the Word "Tenure" be left out of the
Amendment.
Ordered, That the Blank be filled up with "Five
Pounds."
Ordered, That the Penalty, as to the Workmen, be
omitted.
Ordered, That the Amendment, with this Alteration,
be agreed to.
The Amendment to the Ninth Line of the Second
Folio was read the Second time:
The Question being put, That this Amendment be
agreed to;
It passed in the Negative: And so the Bill stood as it
was.
Ordered, That the Blank in the Bill be filled up with
the Sum of Fifty Pounds to the King, and Fifty Pounds
for the Informer.
Which was done accordingly.
The subsequent Amendments, until you come to the
Amendment to the Seventh Line of the Third Folio,
were read the Second time; and, upon the Question,
severally agreed to.
The Amendment to the Seventh Line of the Third
Folio was read the Second time.
Resolved, That these Words "and as often after as
there shall be Occasion," be inserted, after "1663."
Which was done.
Resolved, That the Amendment, with this Alteration,
be agreed to.
The rest of the Amendments following, till you come
to the Amendment to the Fourteenth Line of the Sixth
Folio, were read the Second time; and, on the Question,
severally agreed to.
The Amendment to the Fourteenth Line of the Sixth
Folio, being to leave out Two Clauses of the Bill, was
read the Second time.
The Question being put, To agree with the Committee
in leaving out the First of the Clauses;
It was resolved in the Affirmative.
The Question being put, To agree with the Committee, in leaving out the Second Clause, relating to the
Brewing Vessels and Utensils, to be liable to the Duty
of Excise;
It passed in the Negative: And so the Bill, in That,
to stand as it was before.
The rest of the Amendments and Clauses to be made,
and added to the Bill, until you come to the Clause,
marked with Number II. were read the Second time;
and, on the Question, agreed to.
The Clause, marked with Number II. was read the
Second time.
Resolved, &c. That these Words, "or in the several
proper Ridings and Divisions of Yorkshire and Lincolneshire," be inserted in this Clause.
Which was done.
And the Clause, with this Alteration, agreed to.
The next Clause was read the Second time.
Resolved, That these Words, "relating to the Excise,"
be inserted in this Cause.
Which was done.
Resolved, That these Words, "or Two or more of
them," be inserted after "Justices."
Which was done.
Resolved, That the Clause, so amended, be agreed to.
The next Clause was read the Second time:
Resolved, That these Words, "or Appeals," be inserted, after the Word "Excise."
Which was done.
And the Clause, so amended, upon the Question,
agreed to.
The last Clause was read the Second time:
Resolved, That, after the Word "Person," "giving
Security for the same," be inserted.
Which was done.
Resolved, That the Clause, so amended, be agreed to.
Resolved, That these Words following be inserted in
the * Line of the * Folio; viz. "But, in Case the
First Judgment shall be affirmed, the Party appealing
shall pay the like Costs to the Commissioner or Commissioners complained of.
Resolved, That the Bill, with these Alterations and
Amendments agreed to, be ingrossed.
Lord Mollineux Estate.
Ordered, That the Committee to which the Bill concerning the Lord Mollineux is committed, be revived;
and do sit this Afternoon, at the Place formerly appointed.
Supply Bill.
Resolved, That the Report of the Amendments to the
Bill of Subsidies be made, and be the first Business, on
Monday Morning next.
Answer from Lords.
Sir Francis Goodricke reports from the Lords, That
they had fully consented to the Order of this House, for
an Address to his Majesty, for a Day of Humiliation; and
declared, That they would send Two Members of their
House to his Majesty, with the Address: Also that the
Lords had declared, That they were sensible of what
Importance the Two Bills, to prevent the Growth of
Popery, and the Meetings of Non-conformists, were to
receive Dispatch; and that the Bills had been once read;
and they would proceed in them with what Speed the
Importance of those Bills should require.
The House adjourns till Monday Morning next,
at Eight of the Clock.