DIE Veneris, videlicet, 22 die Martii.
PRAYERS, by Mr. Wilson.
Lords present this Day:
Ds. Grey de Warke, Speaker.
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L. General. Comes Pembrooke. Comes Rutland. Comes Sarum. Comes Bolingbrooke. Comes Stamford. Comes Lyncolne. L. Viscount Say & Seale, Comes Nottingham. Comes Northumb. Comes Suffolke. |
Ds. Howard, Ds. Dacres. Ds. Bruce. Ds. Hunsdon. Ds. Wharton. |
Ld. Dacres, Leave to be absent.
Ordered, That the Lord Dacres hath Leave to go
down to his own House in the County of Southsex, about
his Occasions there.
Answer from the H. C.
The Messengers sent Yesterday to the House of Commons return with this Answer:
That they will send an Answer, by Messengers of
their own, touching the Ordinance concerning the
Weekly Meal.
E. of Arundel's Assessment.
Ordered, That the levying the One Thousand
Pounds assessed upon the Earl of Arrundell shall be respited until this House hath considered of his Petition.
Archbishop of Canterbury's Trial.
This House proceeded in the Trial against the Archbishop of Canterbury, upon the Third Article of the
First Charge, and the Third Article in the Second
Charge:
"3. He hath, by Letters, Messages, Threats, Promises,
and divers other Ways, to Judges and other Ministers
of Justice, interrupted and perverted, and at other
Times, by the Means aforesaid, hath endeavoured to
interrupt and pervert, the Course of Justice, in His
Majesty's Courts at Westm. and other Courts, to the
Subversion of the Laws of this Kingdom, whereby
sundry of His Majesty's Subjects have been stopt in
their just Suits, and deprived of their lawful Rights,
and subjected to his Tyrannical Will, to their utter
Ruin and Destruction.
"That the said Archbishop, to advance the Canons
of the Church, and Power Ecclesiastical, above the
Law of the Land, and to pervert and hinder the
Course of Justice, hath, at divers Times within the
said Time, by his Letters, and other undue Means and
Solicitations used to Judges, opposed and stopped the
granting of His Majesty's Writs of Prohibition, where
the same ought to have been granted, for Stay of
Proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Court, whereby Justice
hath been delayed and hindered, and the Judges diverted from doing their Duties."
The First Particular of (fn. *)
Colchester was the First: The
(fn. †) Witnesses were, Sam. Burroughes and Mr. Ric'd Aske, &c.
The Committee that managed the Evidence desired
that the Testimony of Mr. Huntly, and the Evidence
concerning the Hindrance of issuing out Prohibition, may
be reserved until some other Time.
Ordered, That the Archbishop shall make Answer
to so much of the Evidence as was delivered this Morning, at Four of the Clock this Afternoon.
Adjourn.
House adjourned till 4 a post meridiem.
Post meridiem.
PRAYERS, by Mr. Wilson.
Lords present:
Ds. Grey de Wark, Speaker.
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Comes Northumb. Comes Bolingbrooke. Comes Stamford. Comes Rutland. Comes Pembrooke. Comes Sarum, L. General, Comes Lyncolne. |
Ds. Wharton. Ds. Howard. Ds. Berkley. |
Carvaial's Petition, against Hempson.
Ordered, That the Petition of Ferdinando Carvyall,
&c. against Peter Hempson, shall be referred to the Examination of these Lords following, who are to hear both
Parties, and report their Opinions to this House:
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Comes Northumb. Comes Pembrooke. Comes Stamford. Comes Rutland. Ds. Howard. Ds. Grey. Ds. Wharton. |
Any Two, to meet on Monday Morning. |
Archbishop of Canterbury's Trial.
The Archbishop of Canterbury was brought to the
Bar, to make his Answer to the Evidence delivered
against him this Morning.
And then Mr. Maynard replied.
Ordered, That this House will proceed further
against the Archbishop of Canterbury on Thursday Morning next, at Nine of the Clock.
Adjourn.
House adjourned till 9 a cras.