House of Lords Journal Volume 18: 3 December 1708

Die Veneris, 3 Decembris.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

PRAYERS.

Lords take the Oaths.

This Day Bazil Earl of Denbigh, Charles Earl of Radnor, John Earl Poulett, and David Earl of Northesk, took the Oaths, and made and subscribed the Declaration, and also took and subscribed the Oath of Abjuration, pursuant to the Statutes.

Att. General versus Crofts & al.

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of Her Majesty's Attorney General, from a Decree of Dismission made in the Court of Exchequer, in a Cause there depending, between Mr. Attorney General Complainant, against Roger Crofts, John Smith, Job Allybone, Nevill Ridley, Dixwell Hungerford, Thomas Ange, Roger Woodcock, Robert Strickland, and others, Defendants, the Two and Twentieth of November last, and from several Orders and Directions made and given by the said Court, in the said Cause: and praying the Reversal and setting aside the said Dismission:

It is Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said Roger Crofts, John Smith, Job Allybone, Nevill Ridley, Duxwell Hungerford, Thomas Ange, Roger Woodcock, Robert Strickland, and others, Defendants, may have a Copy of the said Appeal; and shall and they are hereby required to put in their Answer or respective Answers thereunto, in Writing, on Friday the Seventeenth Day of this Instant December, at Eleven a Clock in the Forenoon.

Morgan versus Digby.

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of James Morgan, Executor of Michael Rackett deceased, from several Orders and Decrees of the Court of Chancery, made on the Behalf of Elizabeth Digby, Administratrix of John Digby; and praying, "That the said several Decrees or Orders may be set aside and reversed; and that the Respondent do answer to the said Appeal; and that the Service of this Order upon the Respondent's Clerk in Court may be good Service for that Purpose; and that all further Proceedings on the said Decrees be stayed:"

It is Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said Elizabeth Digby may have a Copy of the said Appeal; and shall and she is hereby required to put in her Answer thereunto, in Writing, on Friday the Four and Twentieth Day of this Instant December, at Eleven a Clock; and that the Service of this Order upon the Respondent's Clerk in Chancery shall be good Service in order thereunto; and that all further Proceedings on the said Decrees be, in the mean Time, stayed.

Woolmere versus Markes.

Whereas Monday next was appointed, for hearing the Appeal of Charles Woolmere and John Simpson, presented to this House the Thirteenth of March last, to which Richard Markes is Respondent:

It is Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That this House will hear the said Cause, by Counsel, at the Bar, on Saturday the Eighteenth Day of this Instant December, at Eleven a Clock in the Forenoon.

Adjourn.

Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad & in diem Martis, septimum diem instantis Decembris, hora undecima Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.