House of Lords Journal Volume 3: 9 March 1624

Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 3, 1620-1628. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.

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'House of Lords Journal Volume 3: 9 March 1624', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 3, 1620-1628, (London, 1767-1830) pp. 251-253. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol3/pp251-253 [accessed 27 April 2024]

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DIE Martis, videlicet, 9 die Martii,

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales, quorum nomina subscribuntur, præsentes fuerunt:

p. Carolus Princeps Walliæ, etc.

p. Archiepus. Cant.
Archiepus. Eborum.
p. Epus. London.
p. Epus. Dunelm.
p. Epus. Winton.
Epus. Petriburg.
p. Epus. Hereforden.
Epus. Wigorn.
Epus. Norwicen.
Epus. Roffen.
Epus. Glocestren.
Epus. Carlien.
p. Epus. Co. et Lich.
p. Epus. Bath. et W.
p. Epus. Bangor.
p. Epus. Elien.
Epus. Cicestren.
p. Epus. Oxon.
p. Epus. Cestren.
p. Epus. Landaven.
p. Epus. Sarum.
p. Epus. Exon.
p. Epus. Meneven.
p. Epus. Bristol.
p. Epus. Asaphen.		 p. Epus. Lincoln, Ds. Custos Mag. Sigilli.
Comes Midd. Magnus Thesaur. Angliæ.
p. Viscount Maundevill, Præs. Concilii Domini Regis.
p. Comes Wigorn, Ds. Custos Privati Sigilli.
p. Dux Buck. Magnus Admirallus Angliæ.
Marchio Winton.
p. Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerar. Angliæ.
p. Comes Arundell et Surr. Comes Maresc. Angliæ.
p. Comes Cantabr. Senescallus Hospitii.
p. Comes Pembroc, Camerar. Hospitii.
Comes Northumbriæ.
Comes Nottingham.
Comes Salop.
p. Comes Kanciæ.
Comes Derbiæ.
p. Comes Rutland.
Comes Cumbriæ.
Comes Sussex.
Comes Huntingdon.
Comes Bath.
p. Comes South'ton.
Comes Bedd.
Comes Hertford.
p. Comes Essex.
p. Comes Lincoln.
p. Comes Suffolciæ.
p. Comes Dorset.
p. Comes Sarum.
Comes Exon.
p. Comes Mountgomery.
Comes Bridgewater.
p. Comes Leicestriæ.
p. Comes North'ton.
Comes Warwic.
p. Comes Devon.
Comes March.
Comes Holdernesse.
Comes Carlile.
p. Comes Denbigh.
Comes Bristol.
p. Comes Anglisey.
p. Vicecomes Mountague.
Vicecomes Wallingford.
Vicecomes Purbeck.
Vicecomes Maunsfeild.
Vicecomes Colchester.
p. Vicecomes Rochford.
p. Vicecomes Andever.
Ds. Abergavenny.
Ds. Audley.
Ds. Zouch.
Ds. Willoughby de E.
Ds. Delaware.
p. Ds. Berkley.
Ds. Morley et M.
Ds. Dacres de Herst.
p. Ds. Stafford.
Ds. Scroope.
p. Ds. Duddeley.
Ds. Stourton.
Ds. Herbert de Sh.
p. Ds. Darcy de M.
Ds. Vaux.
p. Ds. Windsore.
Ds. Wentworth.
p. Ds. Mordant.
Ds. St. John de Bas.
p. Ds. Cromewell.
Ds. Evre.
p. Ds. Sheffeild.
p. Ds. Paget.
Ds. North.
p. Ds. St. John de Bl.
p. Ds. Howard de W.
Ds. Wootton.
p. Ds. Russell.
Ds. Grey de Groby.
p. Ds. Petre.
Ds. Danvers.
p. Ds. Spencer.
p. Ds. Say et Seale.
p. Ds. Denny.
Ds. Stanhope de H.
p. Ds. Carew.
Ds. Arundell de W.
Ds. Haughton.
Ds. Teynham.
Ds. Stanhope de Sh.
p. Ds. Noel.
Ds. Brooke.
Ds. Mountague.
p. Ds. Cary de Lep.
Ds. Kensington.
p. Ds. Grey de Werke.

Against prophane Swearing.

HODIE 2a vice lecta est Billa, An Act to prevent and reform prophane Swearing and Cursing; and committed unto,

E. of Oxford.
E. of North'ton.
L. Bp. of Duresms.
L. Bp. of Bangor.		 L. Wentworth.
L. Crumwell.
L. Walden.
L. Spencer.

Mr. Serjeant Davis to attend their Lordships.

To meet presently, in the Little Committee Chamber.

Abuse of the Sabbath.

The Lord Archbishop of Cant. reported the Bill, An Act for punishing of divers Abuses committed on the Lord's Day, called Sunday.

And a Doubt being moved whether, by this Act, the Exercise of Arms after Evening Prayer be forbidden; the Opinion of the Judges was required therein.

The Judges, videlicet, the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Justice Winch, and Mr. Justice Chamberlaine, having considered the Bill apart by themselves, returned, and delivered their Opinion to be, That the Exercise of Arms is not a Sport forbidden by the Law, and so not within this Act.

Whereupon the said Bill read the Third Time; and, being put to the Question, was generally Assented unto, and so Expedited.

To explain Part of an Act for Discovery of Popish Recusants.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, An Act for the Explanation of a Branch of the Statute, made in the Third Year of the King's Majesty's Reign of England, intituled, An Act for the better discovering and repressing of Popish Recusants; and was committed unto the

L. Archbp. of Cant.
L. President.
D. of Buck.
E. of Essex.
L. Viscount Rochford.
L. Bp. of Winchester.
L. Bp. of Co. et Lich.		 L. Bp. of Bath et Wells.
L. Sheffeild.
L. Darcie of M.
L. Pagett.
L. St. John of Bletso.
L. Russell.
L. Say et Seale.
L. Noel.
L. Mountague.
Mr. Attorney General,
Mr. Serjeant Crooke,		 To attend their Lordships.

To meet on Thursday next, the 11th of this March, at Two, in the Painted Chamber.

Limitation of Actions and avoiding Suits at Law.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, An Act for Limitation of Actions, and avoiding of Suits in Law; and committed unto the

L. President.
L. Privy Seal.
E. Marshal.
E. of Suff.
L. Bp. of Duresme.
L. Bp. of Chester.
L. Bp. of Exeter.
L. Bp. of Bristol.		 L. Darcy of M.
L. Pagett.
L. St. John of Bletso.
L. Russell.
L. Peter.
L. Noel.
L. Mountague.
L. Grey of Werke.
The Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
Mr. Serjeant Davys,
Mr. Attorney General,
Mr. Serjeant Crooke,		 To attend their Lordships.

To meet on Friday next, the 12th of this March, at Two, in the Painted Chamber.

Relief against Informations.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, An Act for the Ease of the Subject, concerning Informations upon Penal Statutes; and committed unto the

L. President.
E. of South'ton.
E. of Leicester.
L. Viscount Wallingford.
L. Bp. of London.
L. Bp. of Co. et Lich.
L. Bp. of Ely.
L. Bp. of Exeter.		 L. Berkeley.
L. Darcy of M.
L. Pagett.
L. St. John de Bletso.
L. Say and Seale.
L. Noel.
L. Mountague.
L. Cary of L.
Mr. Justice Chamberlaine,
Mr. Attorney General,		 To attend their Lordships.

To meet on Saturday next, the 13th of this March, in the Painted Chamber, at Two in the Afternoon.

A Bill after the Third Reading rejected for an Imperfection.

The Lord Mountague signified unto the Lords, That the Sub-committee of Orders, etc. Yesterday perusing the Journal Book, found that the Bill to revive and make perpetual the Statute of 39 Eliz. for erecting of Hospitals, etc. was read the Third Time in this House on Thursday the 25th of February last, and, being put to the Question, was generally assented unto; and that, on the next Day (the 26th of the same February) an Imperfection being signified to the House to be in the same Bill, it was Agreed, That the same should sleep, as by the Order of the said 26th of February appeareth; wherefore his Lordship moved the House, To consider, whether it may stand with the Orders of the House to lay a Bill to sleep, after it is generally assented unto upon the Third Reading, which may be a dangerous Precedent for any other Bill; and also to consider, whether their Lordships would not rather be pleased to send the said Bill down to the Commons, and by the Messengers to signify the Defect, and to commend the Supply thereof to be made by them, whereof there is a Precedent.

The Judges to give their Opinions on it.

Hereupon the Lords appointed the Judges to take this Bill into their further Consideration, and to deliver their Opinion, whether there were any such Defect in the same; who had Time to deliver their Opinions until the next Morning.

Committee to receive and examine Petitions.

Lords Committees appointed by the House to receive Petitions, and to examine them, and upon Examination to make Report thereof to the House: videlicet,

E. of Essex.
E. of Bridgewater.
L. Viscount Rochford.
L. Bp. of Bath and Wells.
L. Bp. of Oxon.
L. Bp. of Bristol.		 L. Pagett.
L. North.
L. St. Jo. of Bl.
L. Russell.
L. Denny.
L. Mountague.

To meet as often as their Lordships shall please.

Committee for Munitions, etc.

The Lords Committees for Munitions are to meet on Monday next, at Two, in the Council Chamber at the Court.

Trial by Battle.

The Lords Committees on the Bill for abolishing of Trial by Battail, are to meet on Monday next, at Eight in the Morning, in the Painted Chamber.

Subject to plead the General Issue.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, An Act to admit the Subject to plead the General Issue in Informations of Intrusion, brought on the Behalf of the King's Majesty, and to retain his Possession till Trial; and committed unto the

L. President.
L. Steward.
E. of South'ton.
L. Bp. of Oxford.
L. Bp. of Bathe and Wells.
L. Bp. of Landaph.		 L. Wentworth.
L. Cromwell.
L. Pagett.
L. St. John of Bletsoe.
L. Walden.
L. Russell.
Mr. Attorney General,
Mr. Serjeant Crooke,		 To attend their Lordships.

To meet on Monday, the 15th of this March, at Two, in the Painted Chamber.

Vere's Naturalization.

Hodie 3a vice lecta est Billa, An Act for the Naturalizing of Elizabeth Vere and Marie Vere, Daughters of Sir Horace Vere, Knight, with the Amendments thereof; and, put to the Question, was generally Assented unto.

Establishing Lands to the Earl of Oxford, etc. pursuant to Decrees.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, An Act for the quiet Establishing of the Right and Interest of certain Lands and Tenements of Henry now Earl of Oxford, and his Tenants, according to Two several Decrees in Chancery, and His Majesty's Royal Pleasure, signified under his Highness's Privy Seal exemplified, and One other Decree in His Majesty's High Court of Wards and Liveries: And committed to the

L. Archbp. of Cant.
L. President.
L. Steward.
E. of South'ton.
E. of Essex.
L. Bp. of Co. et Lich.
L. Bp. of B. and W.
L. Bp. of Chester.		 L. Berkley.
L. Wentworth.
L. Sheffeild.
L. Pagett.
L. Russell.
L. Walden.
L. Spencer.
L. Mountague.
Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
Lord Chief Baron,		 To attend the Lords.

To meet on Thursday next Week, the 18th of this Month, at Two, in the Painted Chamber.

Adjourn.

Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque in diem crastinum, videlicet, diem Mercurii, 10m diem instantis Martii, hora nona, Dominis sic decernentibus.

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