DIE Martis, 15 Junii.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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Arch. Ebor.
Epus. London.
Epus. Eliens.
Epus. Bangor.
Epus. Bath & Well.
Epus. Lincoln.
Epus. Landaven.
Epus. Asaphen.
Epus. Hereford.
Epus. Meneven.
Epus. Roffen.
Epus. Bristol.
Epus. Cestrien. |
Ds. Harcourt, Cancellarius.
Comes Oxon. & Mort. Thesaurarius.
Dux Bucks & Nor. Præses.
Comes Dartmouth, Custos Privati Sigilli.
Dux Somerset.
Dux Cleveland.
Dux Grafton.
Dux Ormonde.
Dux Northumberland.
Dux Bolton.
Dux Schonburg.
Dux Devon.
Dux Montagu.
Dux Kent.
March. Dorchester.
Comes Poulet, Senescallus.
Comes Derby.
Comes Pembroke.
Comes Lincoln.
Comes Suffolk.
Comes Dorset.
Comes Salisbury.
Comes Northampton.
Comes Denbigh.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Berks.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Anglesey.
Comes Carlisle.
Comes Radnor.
Comes Yarmouth.
Comes Berkeley.
Comes Nottingham.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Abingdon.
Comes Plimouth.
Comes Portland.
Comes Torrington.
Comes Scarbrough.
Comes Bradford.
Comes Orford.
Comes Jersey.
Comes Grantham.
Comes Greenwich.
Comes Wharton.
Comes Cholmondeley.
Comes Mar.
Comes Eglintoun.
Comes Loudoun.
Comes Findlater.
Comes Northesk.
Comes Dundonald.
Comes Dunmore.
Comes Orkney.
Comes Roseberie.
Comes Portmore.
Viscount Say & Seale.
Viscount Townshend.
Viscount Weymouth.
Viscount Longueville.
Viscount Kilsyth.
Viscount Bolingbroke. |
Ds. Delawar.
Ds. Fitzwalter.
Ds. Willughby Br.
Ds. North & Grey.
Ds. Hunsdon.
Ds. St. John.
Ds. Compton.
Ds. Bruce.
Ds. Rockingham.
Ds. Berkeley.
Ds. Cornwallis.
Ds. Carteret.
Ds. Ossulstone.
Ds. Guilford.
Ds. Ashburnham.
Ds. Weston.
Ds. Haversham.
Ds. Sommers.
Ds. Halifax.
Ds. Harvey.
Ds. Cowper.
Ds. Balmerino.
Ds. Hay.
Ds. Montjoy.
Ds. Mansel.
Ds. Trevor.
Ds. Masham.
Ds. Foley.
Ds. Bathurst.
Ds. Bingley. |
PRAYERS.
Prendergast's Bill:
Hodie 3a
vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act, to
enable Sir Thomas Prendergast Baronet, an Infant, to
sell Part of his Estate, lying in the County of Waterford, in the Kingdom of Ireland, for Payment of
his Father's Debts, and other Purposes therein mentioned."
The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall
pass?"
It was Resolved in the Affirmative.
Message to H. C. with it.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by
Mr. Orlebar and Mr. Dormer:
To carry down the said Bill, and desire their Concurrence thereunto.
Bristol Poor, Bill.
Hodie 1a
vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for
making more effectual an Act, passed in the Seventh
and Eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty
King William the Third, intituled, An Act for erecting of Hospitals and Workhouses within the City of
Bristol, for the better employing and maintaining the
Poor thereof."
Faulkner versus Baird & al.
The House being moved, "That a Day may be appointed, for hearing the Cause wherein John Faulconer Esquire and others are Appellants, and John
Mushet, Sir James Baird, and others, Respondents:"
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 Friday the Twenty-fifth Day of this Instant June, at Eleven
a Clock.
Tobacco Trade, Bill.
Hodie 2a
vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for
encouraging the Tobacco Trade.
Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a
Committee of the whole House, To-morrow.
Ordered, That the Paper laid before this House
the Fifth Instant, intituled, "Answer of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, to an Order of
the Right Honourable the House of Lords of the
1st of June 1714, relating to the Tobacco Trade,"
be referred to the said Committee; and that some of
the Commissioners of the Customs do attend.
Schism, to prevent the Growth of, Bill:
Hodie 3a
vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to
prevent the Growth of Schism; and for the further
Security of the Church of England as by Law
established."
The Question was put, "Whether this Bill, with
the Amendments, shall pass?"
It was Resolved in the Affirmative.
"Dissentient.
Protest against it:
"1. We cannot apprehend (as the Bill recites) that
great Danger may ensue from the Diffenters to the
Church and State;
"Because,
"1. By Law no Diffenter is capable of any Station, which can be supposed to render him
dangerous.
"2. And since the several Sects of Diffenters differ
from each other as much as they do from the
Established Church, they can never form of
themselves a National Church; nor have they
any Temptation to set up any one Sect among
them; for, in that Case, all that the other
Sects can expect is only a Toleration, which
they already enjoy by the Indulgence of the
State; and therefore' tis their Interest to support the Established Church, against any
other Sect that would attempt to destroy it.
"If, nevertheless, the Diffenters were dangerous,
Severity is not so proper and effectual a Method to
reduce them to the Church as a charitable Indulgence, as is manifest by Experience; there having
been many more Diffenters reconciled to the Church
since the Act of Toleration, than in all the Time
from the Act of Uniformity to the Time of the said
Act of Toleration; and there is scarce One considerable Family in England in Communion with the Dissenters: Severity may make Men Hypocrites, but
not Converts.
"3. If Severity could be supposed ever to be of
Use, yet this is not a proper Time for it, while we
are threatened with much greater Dangers to our
Church and Nation, against which the Protestant
Diffenters have joined, and are still willing to join
with us, in our Defence: And therefore we should
not drive them from us, by enforcing the Laws
against them, in a Matter, which, of all others, must
most sensibly grieve them, (videlicet,) the Education
of their Children; which reduces them to the Necessity either of breeding them in a Way which they
do not approve, or leaving them without Instruction.
"4. This must be the more grievous to the Dissenters, because it was little expected from the Members of the Established Church, after so favourable
an Indulgence to them as the Act of Toleration, and
the repeated Declarations and Professions from the
Throne, and former Parliaments, against all Persecution, which is the peculiar Badge of the Roman
Church, which avows and practises this Doctrine:
And yet this has not been retaliated even upon Papists; for all the Laws made against them have been
the Effect, and just Punishment, of the Treasons
from Time to Time committed against the State.
But it is not pretended that this Bill is designed as a
Punishment of any Crime which the Protestant Dissenters have been guilty of against the Civil Government, or that they are disaffected to the Protestant
Succession as by Law established; for in this their
Zeal is very conspicuous.
"5. In all the Instances of making Laws, or of a rigid
Execution of the Laws, against Dissenters, it is very
remarkable, that the Design was to weaken the
Church, and to drive them into one common Interest
with the Papists, and to join them in Measures tending to the Destruction of it: This was the Method
suggested by Popish Counsels, to prepare them for
the Two successive Declarations in the Time of King
Charles the 2d, and the following One issued by
King James the 2d, to ruin all our Civil and Religious Rights: And we cannot think that the Arts
and Contrivances of the Papists to subvert our
Church are proper Means to preserve it; especially
at a Time when we are in more Danger of Popery
than ever, by the Designs of the Pretender, supported by the mighty Power of the French King,
who is engaged to extirpate our Religion, and by
great Numbers in this Kingdom who are professedly
in his Interests.
"6. But if the Dissenters should not be provoked,
by this Severity, to concur in the Destruction of their
Country and the Protestant Religion, yet we may
justly fear they may be driven by this Bill from England, to the great Prejudice of our Manufactures;
for, as we gained them by the Persecutions Abroad,
so we may lose them by the like Proceedings at
Home.
"7. Lastly, The Miseries we apprehend here are
greatly enhanced by extending this Bill to Ireland,
where the Consequences of it may be fatal; for
since the Number of Papists in that Kingdom far exceeds all the Protestants of all Denominations together, and that the Dissenters are to be treated as
Enemies, or at least as Persons dangerous to that
Church and State, who have always in all Times
joined, and would still join, with the Members of
that Church, in their common Defence, against the
common Enemy of their Religion; and since the Army there is very much reduced; the Protestants, thus
unnecessarily divided, seem to us to be exposed to the
Danger of another Massacre, and the Protestant Religion in Danger of being extirpated.
"And we may further fear, that the Scotch in Britain, whose National Church is Presbyterian, will
not so heartily and zealously join with us in our Defence, when they see those of the same Nation, the
same Blood, and the same Religion, so hardly treated
by us.
"And this will still be more grievous to the Protestant Dissenters in Ireland, because, whilst the Popish Priests are registered, and so indulged by Law
as that they exercise their Religion without Molestation, the Dissenters are so far from enjoying the
like Toleration, that the Laws are by this Bill enforced against them.
"Torrington.
"Dorchester. Somerset.
"Bolton. Dorset & Middlesex.
"T. Wharton.
"Grafton.
"Devonshire. Townshend. Carlisle.
"Scarbrough. Sunderland.
"Derby. Cornwallis.
"Lincoln. Orford.
"Nottingham.
"Radnor. Somers.
"Rockingham.
"Haversham.
"W. Lincoln. J. Ely. Jo. Bangor.
"Foley.
"W. Asaph. Jo. Landaff.
"Schonburg & Leinster.
"Montagu.
"Drlongueville.
"Halifax.
"Cowper. Greenwich."
Message to H. C. with the Bill.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by
Mr. Meller and Mr. Orlebar:
To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act to prevent
the Growth of Schism; and for the further Security of the Church of England as by Law established;" and to acquaint them, that the Lords
have agreed to the same, with several Amendments,
whereunto they desire their Concurrence.
Acts, to avoid Dangers from Recurants, and for settling the
Hodie 1a
vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for
rendering more effectual an Act, made in the Third
Presentations to Benefices of Papists, Bill to render more effectual.
Year of the Reign of King James the First, intituled, An Act to prevent and avoid Dangers which
may grow by Popish Recusants; and also of One
other Act, made in the First Year of the Reign of
Their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary,
intituled, An Act to vest in the Two Universities
the Presentations of Benefices belonging to Papists."
Ordered, That the said Bill be read a Second
Time To-morrow.
Stealing and killing Cattle, to prevent, Bill.
Hodie 1a
vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for
the more effectual preventing and punishing the
stealing or unlawful killing of Cattle."
Causes put off.
Ordered, That the Cause wherein Grace and Rachel Douglas are Appellants, and James More is Respondent, be heard on Thursday next; and the other Causes
removed in Course.
Queen's Bounty to poor Clergy, Bill.
Ordered, That the House be put into a Committee
upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for the making
more effectual Her Majesty's gracious Intentions, for
the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor
Clergy," To-morrow, after the Business already appointed.
Adjourn.
Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad & in diem Mercurii,
decimum sextum diem instantis Junii, hora duodecima,
Dominis sic decernentibus.