Mercurii, 18 die Novembris; 3° Gulielmi et Mariæ.
Prayers.
Supply Bill; Excise.
Mr. Solicitor General, according to Order, presented
to the House a Bill for granting to their Majesties
certain Impositions upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors,
for One Year: And the Bill was read the First time.
Resolved, That the Bill be read a Second time Tomorrow Morning, at Ten a Clock.
Putt's Estate.
A Message from the Lords, by Sir Miles Cooke and
Doctor Edisbury;
Mr. Speaker, The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled,
An Act to enable the Executors and Trustees of Sir Tho.
Putt, Baronet, deceased, to lease several Messuages,
Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, during the Minority of Sir Tho. Putt, Baronet, Son and Heir of the said
Sir Thomas Putt, towards the Payment of Five hundred
Pounds a-piece, Legacies to his Three Sisters, Margaret,
Ursula, and Susanna Putt; as also the Debts of the said
Sir Thomas Putt: To which they desire the Concurrence
of this House.
And then the Messengers withdrew.
Pinmakers Trade.
A Petition of the Master, Wardens, Assistants, and
Commonalty of the Company of Pinmakers of London,
was read; setting forth, That the Petitioners, and their
Predecessors, are and have been incorporated by divers
Charters and Letters Patents of several preceding Kings:
And, into the Membership, Regulation, and Government
of this Company are all the Pinmakers of England and
Wales incorporated: And that almost all of the said Company are poor and indigent, and their Numbers increased
by the unlimited Numbers of Apprentices of those that
keep and employ them, contrary to Law: Besides which,
the Petitioners Trade is exceedingly prejudiced and undersold by the clandestine Importation of Foreign Pins, which
are daily exposed to Sale under the English Mark; and
also by some covetous Members of the Company, who
have Stocks, live boundless to their Charter, and have
occasioned the Ruin of above Four hundred Families, and
Decay of that Staple Commodity: And praying, That,
for the several Reasons aforesaid, and Redress in the
Premises, the Petitioners may have Leave to bring in a
Bill for the better settling and relieving the Petitioners in
their said Trade and Employments.
And the Question being put, That Leave be given to
bring in a Bill accordingly;
It passed in the Negative.
Tryals for Treason.
Resolved, That the ingrossed Bill for regulating of
Tryals, in Cases of Treason, be now read the Third time.
The Bill was read the Third time.
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the Title be,
An Act for Regulating of Tryals, in Cases of Treason.
Ordered, That Sir Wm. Whitlock do carry the Bill to
the Lords; and desire their Concurrence thereunto.
Supply.
Then the House, according to the Order of the Day,
resolved itself into a Committee of the whole House, to
consider further of the Supplies to be granted to their
Majesties for the carrying on a vigorous War against
France.
Mr. Speaker left the Chair.
Mr. Solicitor General took the Chair of the Committee.
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.
Mr. Solicitor General reports from the said Committee,
That they had agreed upon a Resolution; which they
had directed him to report to the House: The which he
read in his Place; and afterwards delivered in at the
Table: Where the same was read; and is as followeth;
Resolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee,
That a Sum not exceeding the Sum of One million Five
hundred seventy-five thousand Eight hundred and Ninety
Pounds, for the Charge of the Navy to be set out for the
Year 1692 (including the Ordnance, and the Charge of
building One dry Dock, and Two wet Docks, at
Portsmouth), be granted to their Majesties, as Part of
the Supply for the carrying on a vigorous War against
France.
The said Resolution being read a Second time;
Resolved, Nemine contradicente, That the House doth
agree with the Committee in the said Resolution, That a
Sum not exceeding One million Five hundred seventyfive thousand Eight hundred and Ninety Pounds for the
Charge of the Navy, for the Year 1692 (including the
Ordnance, and the Charge of building One dry Dock,
and Two wet Docks, at Portsmouth), be granted to their
Majesties, as Part of the Supply for the carrying on a
vigorous War against France.
Mr. Solicitor General also acquainted the House, That
he was directed by the said Committee to move, That the
Committee might have Leave to sit again, to consider
further of the Supply to be granted to their Majesties.
Supply.
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow Morning
at Eleven a Clock, resolve itself into a Committee of the
whole House, to consider of the Supply to be granted to
their Majesties, in relation to the Land Forces.
State of the Nation.
Resolved, That this House will, upon Saturday Morning next, at Ten a Clock, resolve itself into a Committee
of the whole House, to consider further of the State of
the Nation.
Committees.
Ordered, That all Committees be revived.
And then the House adjourned till To-morrow
Morning, Nine of the Clock.