Die Jovis, 11 Januarii.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
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Arch. Ebor.
Epus. Dunelm.
Epus. Winton.
Epus. Rossen.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Lich & Cov.
Epus. Eliens.
Epus. Petriburg.
Epus. Bangor.
Epus. Carliol.
Epus. Bath & Well.
Epus. Lincoln.
Epus. Landaven.
Epus. Exon.
Epus. Cestr.
Epus. Norwic.
Epus. Asaph.
Epus. Meneven. |
Ds. Custos Magni Sigilli.
Comes Rochester.
Dux Newcastle, C.P.S.
Dux Buckingham, Senescallus.
Dux Shrewsbury, Camerarius.
Dux Richmond.
Dux Grafton.
Dux Ormonde.
Dux Beaufort.
Dux Northumberland.
Dux Leeds.
Dux Bedford.
Dux Devonshire.
Dux Marlborough.
Dux Atholl.
Dux Dover.
Dux Kent.
March. Dorchester.
March. Annandale.
Comes Pembroke.
Comes Lincoln.
Comes Dorset & Midd'x.
Comes Bridgewater.
Comes Leicester.
Comes Northampton.
Comes Denbigh.
Comes Westmorland.
Comes Berkshire.
Comes Rivers.
Comes Peterborow.
Comes Stamford.
Comes Winchilsea.
Comes Thanet.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Cardigan.
Comes Anglesea.
Comes Yarmouth.
Comes Berkeley.
Comes Nottingham.
Comes Abingdon.
Comes Portland.
Comes Scarbrough.
Comes Orford.
Comes Jersey.
Comes Grantham.
Comes Greenwich.
Comes Wharton.
Comes Poulet.
Comes Godolphin.
Comes Cholmondeley.
Comes Marischall.
Comes Mar.
Comes Eglintoun.
Comes Home.
Comes Kinnoull.
Comes Loudoun.
Comes Northesk.
Comes Orkney.
Comes Roseberrie.
Comes I'lay.
Viscount Weymouth.
Viscount Kilsyth. |
Ds. Dartmouth.
Ds. Delawar.
Ds. Ferrers.
Ds. Howard Eff.
Ds. North & Grey.
Ds. Chandos.
Ds. Hunsdon.
Ds. Howard Escr.
Ds. Mohun.
Ds. Byron.
Ds. Vaughan.
Ds. Rockingham.
Ds. Lexington.
Ds. Berkeley Str.
Ds. Cornwallis.
Ds. Craven.
Ds. Ossulstone.
Ds. Stawell.
Ds. Guilford.
Ds. Ashburnham.
Ds. Weston.
Ds. Herbert.
Ds. Haversham.
Ds. Sommers.
Ds. Halifax.
Ds. Gernsey.
Ds. Hervey.
Ds. Cowper.
Ds. Balmerino.
Ds. Blantyre. |
PRAYERS.
L. Stawell takes the Oaths.
This Day William Lord Stawell took the Oaths, and
made and subscribed the Declaration, and also took and
subscribed the Oath of Abjuration, pursuant to the
Statutes.
Sir H. Monoux's Bill.
Hodie 1a
vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for
the Sale of Lands and Tenements late of Sir Philip
Monoux Baronet, deceased, in Broome and Parish of
Southill, in the County of Bedford, according to his
Will."
Matthew's Leave for a Bill.
After reading, and considering, the Report of Mr.
Baron Bury and Mr. Baron Price, to whom was referred the Consideration of the Petition of Thomas
Mathew Senior, and others; praying Leave to bring in
a Bill, for the Purposes in the Petition mentioned:
It is Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the Petitioners have
hereby Leave given to bring in a Bill, according to the
Prayer of the said Petition.
Paul versus Shaw, in Error.
Whereas Saturday next was appointed for hearing
the Errors argued upon the Writ of Error depending
in this House, wherein William Paul and Christopher
Clitheroe Esquires are Plaintiffs, and Sir John Shaw
Baronet is Defendant:
It is Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That this House will
hear the Errors argued thereupon, on Saturday the
Twentieth Day of this Instant January, at Eleven a
Clock.
Papers concerning the War in Spain.
The Lord Dartmouth, by Her Majesty's Command,
delivered several Papers; the Titles whereof were read,
as follows:
1. "Copy of a Letter from the Earl of Sunderland
to the Earl of Gallway, 23d December 1706."
2. "Copy of a Letter from the Earl of Sunderland
to Mr. Stanhope, 23d December 1706."
3. "Copy of a Letter from the Earl of Sunderland
to Earl Rivers, 14th February 1706."
The House (according to Order) resumed the adjourned Debate, upon the proposed Question on Tuesday
last.
E. Gallway and Ld. Tyrawly's Petitions read, and rejected.
And a Petition of Henry Earl of Gallway being
offered, and read; desiring Time to put in an Answer
in Writing, to the Matters contained in the Entry on
the Journal of this House, of the Ninth Instant, before their Lordships do proceed to any Determination
thereon:
As also a Petition of Charles Lord Tyrawly to the
same Purpose;
And Debate thereupon:
This Question was put, "That the Petition of
Henry Earl of Gallway be rejected?"
It was Resolved in the Affirmative.
Ordered, That the Petition be rejected.
Then the Question was put, "That the Petition of
Charles Lord Tyrawly be rejected?"
It was Resolved in the Affirmative.
Ordered, That the Petition be rejected.
Protest against rejecting them.
"Dissentient.
"Because that, when a Question was stated in the
House, which seemed to us to import a Censure on
the Conduct of the Earl of Gallway, Lord Tyrawly,
and General Stanhope, the Two Lords, being now in
Town, should, we conceive, have been heard in their
Defence before the Question passed, though they
had not petitioned to put in their Answers; much
less ought the said Petitions to have been rejected:
And we think, that their having been before examined
only as to what they remembered concerning the
Council of Valencia, when they did not know that
any, much less what, Censure was intended upon the
Opinions given at that Council, is not sufficient to
satisfy what we apprehend to be the Rule of natural
Justice, That every One should have an Opportunity
of answering for themselves, at least upon their
humble Petitions, before what we take to be a public
Censure should pass upon them.
"Haversham.
"Halifax.
"Jon. Winton.
"Kent.
"Devonshire.
"W. Lincoln.
"Dorset.
"Leicester.
"Godolphin. Lincoln.
"J. Ely. "Sunderland.
"Ashburham.
"W. Carliol. "Gi. Sarum. Dorechester.
"C. Norwich. T. Wharton. Jo. Lichfield & Cov.
"Berkeley.
"Jo. Landaff.
"Stamford. "Jo. Bangor.
"W. Asaph. "Herbert.
"Rich. Peterbor.
"Rockingham.
"Scarbrough. "Somers. "Orford. "Hervey.
"Mohun. Cowper.
"J. Bridgewater.
"Marlborough.
36.
Then, it being moved, "That the Earl of Gallway
and Lord Tyrawly (if without) might be called in and
heard:"
It was ordered accordingly.
And they not being present;
Sate of the War in Spain.
The House (according to Order) was adjourned during
Pleasure, and put into a Committee, to take into further
Consideration the present State of the War in Spain.
After a long Time spent therein, the House was resumed.
And the Earl of Abingdon reported, "That the Committee had come to the following Resolution; (videlicet,)
Resolution, that the Opinions of the E. of Galway, L. Tyralwley, and Gen. Stanhope, in a Council of War, were the Occasion of the Loss of the Battle of Almanza, and the subsequent Losses:
"That the Earl of Gallway, Lord Tyrawly, and
General Stanhope, insisting, in a Conference held at
Valencia, some Time in January 170 6/7, in the Presence
of the King of Spain; and the Queen's Name being
used in Maintenance of their Opinion for an Offensive War, countrary to the King of Spain's Opinion,
and that of all the General Officers and Public
Ministers, except the Marquis das Minas; and the
Opinion of the Earl of Gallway, Lord Tyrawly, and
General Stanhope, being pursued in the Operations
of the following Campaign, was the unhappy Occasion of the Battle of Almanza, and One great Cause
of our Misfortunes in Spain, and of the Disappointment of the Duke of Savoy's Expedition before
Thoulon, concerted with Her Majesty."
Then the Question was put, "That the House
do agree with the Committee in the said Resolution?"
It was Resolved in the Affirmative.
Protest against it.
"Dissentient.
"1st. Because we conceive, that the Proofs which
have been before the House were not sufficient to
warrant the Facts as they are stated in the Question.
"2dly. Because we conceive, that the said Proofs do
not support the Consequences drawn from the Facts
stated in the Question; especially the Disappointment of the Expedition against Thoulon, which, as we
humbly apprehend, was clearly occasioned by other
Causes, and not by the Cause assigned in the Question.
"3dly. Because we conceive, it may be of dangerous
Consequence, if those who may have the Honour to
serve the Queen in Spain should from hence have
Reason to apprehend, that they may be censured for
presuming to insist on such Opinions as shall appear
to them to be most for the Queen's Service and the
common Cause, if contrary to the Opinion of the
King of Spain and His Ministers.
"Bedford.
"Halifax.
"Haversham.
"Jon. Winton.
"Devonshire.
"W. Lincoln.
"Kent. Lincoln.
"Leicester.
"J. Ely. Dorset.
"Dorchester.
"Ashburnham.
"W. Carliol. Sunderland.
"Berkeley.
"C. Norwich.
"T. Wharton. Gi. Sarum. Herbert.
"Jo. Landaff.
"Stamford. Jo. Lichfield & Cov.
W. Asaph. Rockingham.
"Jo. Bangor.
"Godolphin. Hervey.
"Mohun.
"Ric. Peterbor.
"Scarbrough.
"Orford. J. Bridgewater. Somers.
Cowper.
"Marlborough."
State of the War in Spain:
Ordered, That To-morrow, at Twelve a Clock,
this House shall be put into a Committee again, to
take into further Consideration the present State of the
War in Spain.
List of Officers not at the Battle of Almanza.
Ordered, That the Secretary at War do lay before
this House, To-morrow at Eleven a Clock, a List of
those Officers that were upon the Establishment in Spain,
and not at the Battle of Almanza.
Adjourn.
Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Veneris,
duodecimum diem instantis Januarii, hora undecima Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.