DIE Martis, 2 Augusti.
REX.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
Georgius Princeps Walliæ.
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Epus. London.
Epus. Winton.
Epus. Lich. & Cov.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Bangor.
Epus. Carliol.
Epus. Landav.
Epus. Eliens.
Epus. Menev.
Epus. Bristol.
Epus. Cestrien.
Epus. Gloucestr.
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Ds. Cowper, Cancellarius.
Comes Nottingham, Præses.
Dux Devon, Senescallus.
Dux Somerset.
Dux Richmond.
Dux St. Albans.
Dux Marlborough.
Dux Bucks.
Dux Montagu.
Dux Kent.
March. Lindsey, Magnus Camerarius.
March. Tweddale.
March. Annandale.
Comes Derby.
Comes Lincoln.
Comes Salisbury.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Anglesey.
Comes Radnor.
Comes Berkeley.
Comes Abingdon.
Comes Portland.
Comes Scarbrough.
Comes Rochford.
Comes Orford.
Comes Grantham.
Comes Greenwich.
Comes Poulet.
Comes Godolphin.
Comes Cholmondeley.
Comes Sutherland.
Comes Rothes.
Comes Buchan.
Comes Orkney.
Comes Bute.
Comes De Loraine.
Comes I'lay.
Comes Strafford.
Comes Dartmouth.
Comes Rockingham.
Comes Bristol.
Comes Clare.
Viscount Hereford.
Viscount Townshend.
Viscount Longueville.
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Ds. Bergevenny.
Ds. Willoughby Er.
Ds. Delawar.
Ds. Fitzwalter.
Ds. Howard Ess.
Ds. Compton.
Ds. Colepeper.
Ds. Berkeley.
Ds. Cornwallis.
Ds. Lumley.
Ds. Carteret.
Ds. Guilford.
Ds. Ashburnham.
Ds. Herbert.
Ds. Haversham.
Ds. Rosse.
Ds. Belhaven.
Ds. Hay.
Ds. Montjoy.
Ds. Mansel.
Ds. Foley.
Ds. Bathurst.
Ds. Bingley.
Ds. Saunderson.
Ds. Harborough.
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PRAYERS.
L. Vise. Lonsdale takes his Seat.
This Day Henry Lord Viscount Lonsdale sat first in
Parliament, after the Death of his Brother late
Lord Viscount Lonsdale; and took the Oaths, and made
and subscribed the Declaration, and also took and subscribed the Oath of Abjuration, pursuant to the Statutes.
Thanks to the Bp. of Oxon for his Sermon.
Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal
in Parliament assembled, That the Thanks of this House
be, and are hereby, given to the Lord Bishop of Oxford,
for his excellent Sermon preached before this House
Yesterday, in the Abbey Church, Westminster; and he
is hereby desired to cause the same to be printed.
Newburgh et al. Causes put off.
Ordered, That the Cause wherein Henry Newburgh
Gentleman is Appellant, and Brockhill Newburgh Esquire Respondent, which was appointed to be heard
this Day, be heard on Thursday next; and the other
Causes removed in Course.
St. Albans, &c. Highways, Bill:
Hodie 3a
vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act
for repairing the Highways through the several Parishes of St. Michael, St. Albans, St. Peter, Shenley
Ridge, and South Mims, in the Counties of Hertford
and Middlesex."
The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall
pass?"
It was Resolved in the Affirmative.
Message to H.C. that the Lords have agreed to it.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by
Sir Thomas Gery and Mr. Browning:
To acquaint them, that the Lords have agreed to the
said Bill, without any Amendment.
L. Vise. Rosse's Bill.
Hodie 1a
vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act
to enable Richard Lord Viscount Rosse, of the Kingdom of Ireland, notwithstanding his Nonage, to make
a Jointure on Mary Viscountess Rosse his Wife, and a
Settlement on his Issue Male, with Provision for
Younger Children; and for other Purposes therein
mentioned."
Further Articles of Impeachment against E. Oxford brought from H.C.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons,
by the Lord Coningsby and others, as follows; (videlicet,)
"My Lords,
"The Commons assembled in Parliament, having received further Information of divers other high Crimes
and Misdemeanors committed by Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, have commanded me to exhibit further Articles of Impeachment of high Crimes
and Misdemeanors against the said Earl."
Then the said further Articles were read, as follow:
"Further Articles of Impeachment of high Crimes
and Misdemeanors against Robert Earl of
Oxford and Earl Mortimer.
"ARTICLE I.
"That whereas, in or about the Month of January
in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and TenEleven, a dangerous and destructive Expedition had
been projected and set on Foot, under Pretence of
making a Conquest on the Possessions of the French
King in North America; but with a real Design to
promote His Interests, by weakening the Consederate
Army in Flanders, and dissipating the Naval Force of
this Kingdom; as well as for the Sake of the private
Interests and corrupt Gain of the Promoters of the
said Expedition; he the said Robert Earl of Oxford
and Earl Mortimer, being then One of Her late Majesty's Privy Council and One of the Commissioners
of Her Majesty's Treasury, was not only wanting in
His Duty to Her late Majesty, by wilfully and industriously absenting from the Meetings of other Persons then in high Trust under Her Majesty, wherein
the said Expedition was concerted; and, by not
advising Her Majesty against, and doing what in him
lay to have prevented, the putting the same in Execution; but did, contrary to his Oath and the high
Trust then reposed in him, advise Her Majesty to
consent to the making an Expedition for the conquering Canada, and the City of Quebeck, on the
River of Saint Laurence, in North America: And, in
Execution of his said evil Counsels, he did further
advise Her Majesty to give Orders for detaching several Battalions of the Forces then in the Service of
Her Majesty in Conjunction with Her Allies in Flanders, and to send the same, with a large Squadron
of Men of War, on the said Enterprize; although
the said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
well knew, that the said Project or Expedition,
having been frequently deliberated on, and maturely
considered a short Time before in a Committee of
Council, was then laid aside as dangerous and impracticable: And a Demand being made, at the Treasury, on or about the Months of May and June One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Eleven, for the Sum
of Twenty-eight Thousand Pounds, or thereabouts,
on Pretence of Arms and Merchandises said to be sent
on the said Expedition to Canada; he the said Robert
Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, being then Lord
High Treasurer of Great Britain and One of Her
Majesty's Privy Council, though he well knew, or
had Reason to suspect, that the same was an unjust
and exorbitant Demand, and a great Abuse on
Her Majesty and the Public, and such as ought not
to have been complied with, was not only wanting
in his Duty to Her Majesty, in not giving his humble
Advice against the said Demand, or at least in not representing to Her the Grounds of such his Suspicion;
but did, contrary to his Oath and his Duty, advise
Her Majesty, that the said Sum should be issued and
paid; and did accordingly countersign a Warrant to
the Pay-master of Her Majesty's Forces for the
Payment of the same; pursuant to which, the same
was issued and received: And, in further Violation
of his Oath, his Duty, and Trust, and with the
most corrupt Design to prevent the Justice due to
Her Majesty and the Nation, he the said Robert Earl
of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, being then Lord High
Treasurer of Great Britain, and exercising a most unexampled arbitrary Power, not only in Her Majesty's
private Councils, but extending his evil Influences
to the Great Council of the Nation, after the said
Expedition had proved unsuccessful, and it had been
discovered to him the said Robert Earl of Oxford and
Earl Mortimer that the Nation had been cheated of
above Twenty Thousand Pounds on that Account, did
most ungratefully and corruptly employ his wicked
Arts, and the Credit which he had gained by his
many false and crafty Insinuations and Practices, to
keep the House of Commons from examining that
Affair; and, in or about the Month of August One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Fourteen, in a Letter,
or Memorial, under his own Hand, to Her late
Majesty, he did presume, not only to insinuate the
ill Opinion he therein pretended always to have
had of the said Expedition, but did declare the
Suspicions he had of the great Injury and Abuse
done to Her Majesty and the Public, in the Demand
of the said Twenty-eight Thousand Pounds, even at
the Time when the same was made, and that the
Public had been cheated of above Twenty Thousand
Pounds on that Account; and, in the said Memorial,
did presume further to declare to Her Majesty,
"That he was forced to use all his Skill and Credit,
to keep the House of Commons from examining that
Affair the last Parliament;" thereby vainly, but most
wickedly, recommending himself to the Continuance
of Her Majesty's Favour, by the Success of his most
prosligate Measures. By all which unparalleled Corruptions and most dangerous Counsels and Practices
of him the said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, the good and faithful Allies of Her Majesty
were deprived of the Aid of Her Majesty's Troops;
to which they were entitled by their Conventions;
and the Confederate Army in Flanders was greatly
diminished, to the apparent Advantage of the common Enemy; the Public Money granted by Parliament for reducing the Power of France, and which
was expressly appropriated for other special Services,
was arbitrarily and illegally misapplied and embezzled,
and an heavy Debt incurred on the Nation; not
only sitting the Parliament, but even in Contempt
and Defiance of a Representation made by the House
of Commons to the Throne, even whilst the said Expedition was concerting; and whereby the highest
Injustice was done, in suppressing an Inquiry so just
to Her Majesty and Her People, and a lasting Reproach and Scandal brought on that House of Commons; of which he boasts, as having been wrought
on, by his corrupt Influence, not to examine into so
high and so scandalous an Abuse.
ARTICLE II
"That the said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl
Mortimer, not contented with the high Employments
and Places of Honour and Profit bestowed on him by
Her late Majesty, nor with the large and excessive
Gains by him made by the Incomes and Profits of
the said Employments, on or about the Month of
October One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eleven,
whilst the Nation was engaged in a most expensive
War against France and Spain for preserving the
Liberties of Europe, and greatly exhausted with the
Supplies and Taxes for carrying on the same, and
was under such heavy Debts as were impossible to be
satisfied without the utmost Frugality, or laying
grievous Taxes on the Commons of Great Britain,
contrary to his Oath and his high Trust, and making a most dishonourable and ungrateful Use of the
ready Access he had to Her late Majesty, did prevail
on and advise Her Majesty to sign a Warrant to himself, being then Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain,
for the Issuing and Payment of the Sum of Thirteen
Thousand Pounds to John Drummond Esquire or his
Assigns, for such special Services, relating to the
War, as Her Majesty had directed; and the said
Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, on or
about the Twenty-fourth Day of November following,
in Pursuance of the said Warrant under Her Majesty's Sign Manual, did sign a Warrant for the Payment of the said Thirteen Thousand Pounds, for such
special Services of the War as Her Majesty had directed, although no special Services had been, or
were at any Time afterwards, directed by Her Majesty, to which the said Monies were to be applied:
And the said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer having privately desired Leave of the said Drummond to strike some Tin Tallies in his the said Drummond's Name, he did, pursuant thereto, direct that
Orders, amounting to the Sum of Thirteen Thousand
Pounds, should be charged in the Register of the Exchequer, on the Monies arising by Sale of Tin, in
the Name of the said John Drummond; and though
the same were accordingly struck, in the Name of the
said Drummond, in or about the Month of November
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eleven, they
were not delivered out to the said Drummond, but
were kept in the Treasury Chamber, or elsewhere
in the Power or Custody of the said Earl, till about
the End of January following; when the said Drummond having Occasion, as the said Robert Earl of
Oxford and Earl Mortimer well knew, to go into
Holland, at the Desire and Request of the said Earl,
he endorsed his Name on the said Orders; and the
same were left, by his Privity, Direction, or Consent, in the Hands of Master John Taylor a Clerk of
the Treasury; and the said Robert Earl of Oxford and
Earl Mortimer, having afterwards got Possession of
the said Orders, did, in or about the Month of June
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twelve, send an
Order, in Writing, to the said Master Taylor, to deliver the said Tallies to a Servant of the said Earl,
which was done accordingly, the said Endorsements
not being at that Time filled up; and the said Robert
Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, having by these
corrupt and scandalous Methods got the said Tallies
and Orders into his own Hands, did afterwards fill
up Assignments of the said Orders for Twelve Thousand Pounds, Part of the said Thirteen Thousand
Pounds, to himself, and the remaining Part to such
other Persons as he thought fit; and did afterwards,
in or about the Months of August, October, and November, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirteen,
at several Times, dispose of the said Orders and Tallies
to his own private Use and Advantage; and, to
cover the said scandalous Embezzlements, he the said
Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer did afterwards, as he pretends, advise and prevail on Her
Majesty, on or about the Fourteenth of December
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirteen, to sign
a Warrant, prepared by himself, wherein, after the
Recitals of his own good, faithful, and acceptable
Services, which had tended to the Quiet, Safety, and
Prosperity of Her Majesty and Her Realms, though
accompanied with great Difficulties on himself, and
Hazards to him and his Family; and that Her Majesty was resolved to bestow upon him a Sum of ready
Money; but the said Earl representing to Her Majesty, that the Arrears then due to Her Servants and
Tradesmen were very great and pressing, Her Majesty did therefore agree and determine, that he
should have to his own Use the said several Sums,
amounting to Thirteen Thousand Pounds, comprized
in the Orders aforesaid; it was directed, that the
said John Drummond should assign the said Orders,
and the whole Right and Benefit thereof, to the said
Earl and his Assigns; although the said Earl had
privately and clandestinely procured from the said
Drummond an Assignment of the said Orders near
Two Years before the said Warrant, and had fraudulently and corruptly disposed and converted them
to his own Use, without Her Majesty's Privity or
Consent, some Time before Her Majesty was prevailed on to sign the said Warrant: And though the
last mentioned Warrant, if any such there be, was
not communicated to the said Drummond by the said
Earl during Her Majesty's Life; nor was the same
countersigned, nor entered in the Treasury; yet he
the said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer,
even after his said Corruption had been discovered in
Parliament, did presume, without the Privity of the
said Drummond, to send the said Warrant to the
Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, desiring
that the same might then have been entered in the
Treasury; but the same was, with great Honour and
Justice, refused to be so entered: By which most vile
and scandalous Corruption, he the said Robert Earl
of Oxford and Earl Mortimer was guilty of the most
notorious Breach of his Oath and Trust as Lord
High Treasurer of Great Britain, of the highest Abuse
of Her Majesty's Goodness, and Embezzlement of
Her Treasure, and of the greatest Injustice and Oppression of other Her Majesty's Subjects.
"ARTICLE III.
"That whereas, by the established and known
Laws of this Kingdom, the Allowances or Appointments for the Maintenance and Support of Ambassadors, Envoys, Plenipotentiaries, and other public
Ministers of the Crown in Foreign Courts, ought to
be ascertained in due Form of Law, as well in Honour,
as in Justice to the Imperial Crown of these Realms;
and whereas the said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl
Mortimer, in or about the Month of July or August
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twelve, sent
Mathew Prior Esquire, an Instrument and Creature
of his own, into France, for the carrying on his separate and dangerous Negotiations; and did afterwards, in the Month of November One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Twelve, by his evil Counsels,
prevail on Her late Majesty, without the Privity of,
or any Communication with, Her Allies, to send the
said Mathew Prior as Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary
to the French King, with Instructions to treat and
conclude Matters of the highest Importance relating
to the general Negotiations of Peace; but the same
was a treacherous and wicked Contrivance of him the
said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, for
the more effectual carrying on and promoting his
private, separate, and dangerous Practices, with the
Ministers of France, and the Enemies of Her Majesty
and Her Kingdoms; he the said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, not regarding his Oath or
his high Trust, or the Laws of the Kingdom, did
most corruptly and scandalously combine with the
said Mathew Prior, for the defrauding Her Majesty
of very great Sums, under the Colour of his said
Employments in France; and, to that End, the said
Earl did contrive that the said Prior should be sent
into France with the Character aforesaid, but without
any settled Appointments or Allowances; but, in the
Stead and Lieu thereof, he the said Robert Earl of
Oxford and Earl Mortimer did give the said Mathew
Prior an unlimited Credit, and did promise to answer
and pay such Bills as the said Prior should draw on
him during his Residence in France; pursuant to
which Contrivance and corrupt Agreement, he the
said Mathew Prior did, between the Twenty-seventh
of August in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Twelve (N. S.) and the Tenth of July One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Fourteen, or thereabouts, at several Times, draw Bills of Exchange, to
the Amount of Twelve Thousand Three Hundred and
Sixty Pounds, or thereabouts, on him the said Robert
Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, which he, being
then Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain, did advise and prevail upon Her Majesty to sign Warrants
for the Payment of, and did countersign the same, although the said Prior was no way entitled to any such
Allowances by Reason of his said Employment,
and the same greatly exceeded the Allowance even
of an Ambassador of the Crown of Great Britain.
And the said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer did, in the Years One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Twelve, One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Thirteen, and One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Fourteen, without any Colour of Authority, but for
the further promoting his corrupt and wicked Purposes, prevail on and advise Her Majesty to sign
Warrants, which were countersigned by himself, for
the Payment of the Sum of Five Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty Pounds, or thereabouts, to the Use of
Thomas Harley Esquire, a near Relation and Emissary
of him the said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, out of the Monies appropriated to the Use of
Her Majesty's Civil List; and did, in like Manner,
at several Times, in the Years aforesaid, most illegally, fraudulently, and corruptly, issue or direct, or
advise the Direction and Payment, of several other
large Sums of Money, to other Persons, out of Her
Majesty's Treasury: By which most illegal and scandalous Management, he the said Robert Earl of Oxford
and Earl Mortimer has introduced a Practice highly
prejudicial to, and utterly inconsistent with, the Constitution of this Kingdom, and of the most pernicious
Consequence, by opening a Way for the most dangerous Corruptions; and was not only guilty of a
notorious Breach of his Oath, but entered into the
most base and seandalous Combination with the Persons abovementioned, and others, under Pretence
and Colour of promoting Her Majesty's Service, to
defraud Her Majesty of the Public Money, which he
was entrusted with the Management of for the Support of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown.
"ARTICLE IV.
"That whereas the Revenues arising to the Crown
from the Hereditary Excise, and Post Office, or some
Parts thereof, were, by virtue of Letters Patents of
the late King James the Second, charged with, and
made liable to, certain Annuities, or Yearly Sums,
in Trust for, or to the Use of, Mary the Consort of
the said King James the Second; but the said Revenues were afterwards, by several Acts of Parliament,
granted and settled for the Support of the Royal
Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the
Crown, or for other public Uses, without any Saving
or Exception of the said Letters Patents; and whereas, by an Act made in the Twelfth Year of Her
late Majesty's Reign, the Sum of Five Hundred
Thousand Pounds was granted to Her late Majesty,
for the Discharge of divers Arrears of Salaries, Dietmonies, and other Allowances, and sundry Debts
for Pre-emptions, Provisions, and other Causes, which
had been then incurred and grown due to Her late
Majesty's Servants, Tradesmen, and others, and
were occasioned by several extraordinary Expences,
since the Act for the better Support of Her Majesty's
Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the
Crown; and the said Sum of Five Hundred Thousand Pounds was expressly appropriated to the Uses
aforementioned, in Aid of the said Revenues or
Branches which were appointed for the Support of
Her Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and
Dignity of the Crown: And whereas, by an Act
made in the Thirteenth and Forteenth Years of His
late Majesty King William the Third, it was enacted,
"That for preventing traiterous Correspondence between His Majesty's Subjects and the pretended
Prince of Wales or his Adherents, that if any of
the Subjects of the Crown of England, from and
after the First Day of March One Thousand Seven
Hundred and One, should, within this Realm or
without, hold, entertain, or keep, any Intelligence
or Correspondence, in Person, or by Letters, Messages, or otherwise, with the said pretended Prince of
Wales, or with any Person or Persons employed by
him, knowing such Person to be so employed, or
should, by Bill of Exchange or otherwise, remit or
pay any Sum or Sums of Money for the Use or Service
of the said pretended Prince of Wales, knowing such
Money to be for such Use or Service; such Person so
offending, being lawfully convicted, should be taken;
deemed, and adjudged, to be guilty of High Treason,
and shall suffer and forfeit as in Cases of High Treason;" he the said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl
Mortimer having, by the Means of the said Mathew
Prior, held a private and unlawful Correspondence
with the said Confort of the late King James the Second, then residing in France, and being de ermined
secretly to promote as far as in him lay the Interest
of the Pretender, but yet contriying to avoid the said
Penalty of High Treason; and the said Confort of
His late Majesty King James the Second having empowered Abbot Gaultier, a Popish Priest, and busy
Emissary between Great Britain and France during
the said private and separate Negotiations of Peace,
and who was particularly entrusted, as the common
Agent between the Ministers of Great Britain and
France, in transacting the most secret Affairs relating
to the Pretender, to concert with the said Robert Earl
of Oxford and Earl Mortimer the settling the Payment and Remittance of a very great Yearly Sum out
of Her Majesty's Treasure into France, under Colour
and Pretence of the said Letters Patents; and the
said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer having
held frequent clandeltine Conferences with the said
Abbot Gaultier, on the Subject aforesaid; and having, by his evil Counsels, sacrificed to France the
common Interests of Europe; and being resolved,
that the First Fruits of the Peace with France should
be an Offering, made by his immediate Procurement,
to the nearest and most avowed Adherent of the Pretender, though at the great Expence of the Honour
and Safety of Her Majesty and Her People; did,
soon after the Conclusion of the Peace with France,
agree and undertake to procure the Payment of the
Yearly Sum of Forty-seven Thousand Pounds, and
upwards, to, or to the Use of, the said Confort,
during Her Life; and, in Execution of his said Purpose, did afterwards, on or about the Twenty-third
of December One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Thirteen, being then Lord High Treasurer of Great
Britain and of Her Majesty's Privy Council, advise
Her late Majesty to sign a Warrant to himself, in
the Words or to the Effect following; videlicet,
"Ann R. Whereas Our late Royal Father King
James the Second, by Letters Patents under His Great
Seal, bearing Date on or about the Twenty-eighth
Day of August One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty-five, did grant unto Lawrence Earl of Rochester,
Henry Earl of Peterborow, Sidney Lord Godolphin,
Robert Worden Esquire, and Sir Edward Herbert
Knight (who are all since deceased), divers Annuities,
or Yearly Sums, amounting to Thirty-seven Thousand
Three Hundred Twenty-eight Pounds, Thirteen
Shillings, and Seven Pence, to hold to them and
their Heirs, during the Life of His then Royal
Consort Mary now Queen Dowager, in Trust for
Her; and, by other Letters Patents, bearing Date on
or about the Third Day of December One Thousand
Six Hundred Eighty-six, did also grant unto the
said Queen a further Pension or Yearly Sum of
Ten Thousand Pounds, to hold during Her natural
Life; all which were made payable in such Manner
as in the said several Letters Patents is more fully
expressed: Our Will and Pleasure now is, and we do
hereby direct, authorize, and command, that you
cause Payment to be made, to the Heirs of such of
the said Trustees as was the longest Liver of them,
of so much as, since the Twenty-fifth Day of March
last, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirteen, is
incurred or grown due on the said Annuities or Yearly Sums, amounting to Thirty-seven Thousand Three
Hundred Twenty-eight Pounds, Thirteen Shillings, and Seven Pence; and to the said Queen
Dowager, or Her Assigns, of so much as, since the
said Twenty-fifth Day of March last, is incurred or
grown due on the said Annuity of Ten Thousand
Pounds, according to the Purport of the several
Grants or Letters Patents above recited; as also of
what shall hereafter become due and payable upon
the said several Annuities, Quarterly, during the Life
of the said Queen Dowager; and for so doing, this
shall be your Warrant. Given at Our Court at
Windsor Castle, the Twenty-third Day of December
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirteen, in the
Twelfth Year of Our Reign." And did afterwards,
on or about the Twenty-fourth of December following, sign a Warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt
of Her Majesty's Exchequer, requiring him to make
and pass Debentures, for paying to such Person or
Persons as is, are, or shall be, authorized to receive
the same, the Sum of Nine Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty-two Pounds, Three Shillings, and
Four-pence Three Farthings, for One Quarter, incurred upon the said several Yearly Sums therein
mentioned, from Lady-day One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Thirteen to Midsummer following; and
appointed the same to be satisfied out of the Sum of
Five Hundred Thousand Pounds, appropriated by
an Act passed the then last Session of Parliament, for
or towards Payment of such Debts and Arrears as
were therein mentioned; and another Warrant to
the said Auditor, to make and pass Debentures for
paying to the said Queen, or to Her Treasurer or
Receiver, the Sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred
Pounds, for One Quarter, incurred on the said Pension of Ten Thousand Pounds per Annum, from Ladyday One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirteen to
Midsummer then last past; and appointed the same to
be satisfied out of the Sum of Five Hundred Thousand Pounds, appropriated by an Act passed the then
last Session of Parliament, for or towards Payment of such Debts and Arrears as were therein
mentioned: And the said Rob't Earl of Oxford and
Earl Mortimer, on or about the Twentieth of July
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fourteen, being
then Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain and of
Her Majesty's Privy Council, having corruptly and
deceitfully, in further Violation of his Oath and his
high Trust, advised Her late Majesty to sign a Warrant, directing the Payment of One Thousand Pounds
Sterling to Daniel Arthur Esquire, for Monies expended by him for Her Majesty's Special Service;
and the same being accordingly issued, and received
by him the said Arthur out of Her Majesty's Treasure;
he the said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer,
being then also Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain,
did give private Direction to the said Arthur, to pay
the said Sum of One Thousand Pounds to the said
Abbot Gaultier, or to his Use; pursuant to which
Direction, the said Arthur did pay, or cause to be
paid, the said Sum of One Thousand Pounds to the
said Abbot Gaultier, or to his Use; whereby the said
Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer did most
wickedly betray the Honour of Her late Majesty
and the Imperial Crown of these Realms, in advising
Her, under Colour of the said Letters Patents, and
without the Advice of Her Council or Her Parliament, to direct the issuing of the Revenue provided
by Parliament for the Support of the Honour and
Dignity of the Crown, to the Use and Benefit of
the open and avowed Adherent of the Pretender;
and did not only defraud Her Majesty of the said
Sum of One Thousand Pounds; but did most arbitrarily, illegally, and corruptly, advise the Embezzlement and Misapplication of so much of the said
Sum of Five Hundred Thousand Pounds, in Contempt and Defiance of the express Appropriation
of an Act of Parliament.
ARTICLE V.
"That whereas, by the ancient and undoubted Laws
of this Kingdom, no Person, being a natural-born
Subject of this Realm, or within any of the Dominions thereunto belonging, and having committed
and being under the Guilt of High Treason, ought
to be received within this Kingdom as a Public Minister, or with any Character, from any Foreign Prince,
State, or Potentate; and whereas, some Time in the
Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirteen,
one Patrick Lilesh, stiling himself as commonly
known by the Name of Sir Patrick Lawless, an Irish
Papist (who had served with the late King James the
Second in the War in Ireland, against His late Majesty King William the Third of Ever-glorious Memory,
had followed the said King James into France, and
continued in the most open and avowed Manner in
His Interest and Service, and in Rebellion against His
said Majesty King William, and had bore high Commissions, and had been in open Arms, against her late
Majesty Queen Anne, in the late War in Spain) did
come into this Kingdom, and pretended to have, and
did take on himself, the Character of a Minister
sent from Philip King of Spain to Her late Majesty,
to treat of Matters of the greatest Importance to
the Honour and Safety of Her Majesty and Her
Kingdoms; and having given Notice of the same to
Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, then Lord
High Treasurer of Great Britain and of Her Majesty's Privy Council, and who then assumed to himself the supreme Direction in Her Majesty's Councils; he the said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl
Mortimer was not only wanting in his Duty to Her
Majesty, in not advising Her Majesty against receiving and admitting the said Lilesh, alias Lawiess,
in the Quality aforesaid; but did, together with other
false and evil Councellors, advise Her Majesty to
receive and admit him as a Minister from his said
Catholic Majesty; and the said Earl did presume frequently to meet, confer, and negotiate, the most
important Affairs of the Nation, with the said Lilesh,
alias Lawless, in the Quality aforesaid; and, the
better to conceal his said illegal and dangerous
Measures from Her said Majesty, he the said Robert
Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer was privy to, consenting, and advising, that the said Lilesh, alias Lawless, should be introduced to Her said Majesty, and
should be received and treated by Her Ministers,
under the false and disguised Name of Don Carlo
Moro; and the House of Lords, some Time in the
Month of April One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Fourteen, having Notice of the said dangerous Attempt of the said Lilesh, alias Lawless, on or about
the Ninth of the said Month, made an humble Address to Her Majesty, "That she would be graciously
pleased to issue Her Royal Proclamation, commanding
all proper Officers and Magistrates to make diligent
Search for, and to apprehend, all Popish Priests, and
to put the Laws in Execution against them; and likewise to inquire after and apprehend all such Persons
as have served in Arms against Her Majesty, or Their
late Majesties King William and Queen Mary, and
who were then within this Kingdom, contrary to Law,
to the End that they might be brought to Justice;"
which Her Majesty was graciously pleased to return
an Answer to the Effect following; videlicet, "That
she would give Orders pursuant thereto;" and a Proclamation did accordingly issue; and on the said Ninth
Day of April, the House of Lords, having under
their Consideration what further Security could be
provided for strengthening the Protestant Succession
in the House of Hanover, came to the following Resolution; videlicet, "That no Person, being a natural born Subject of Great Britain, or within any
of the Dominions thereunto belonging, and who
having traiterously served against Her Majesty, ought
to be received as a Public Minister, or with any Character, within this Kingdom;" notwithstanding which,
he the said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer,
having no Regard to the Safety of Her Majesty's
Person, or to the Security of the Protestant Succession, and setting himself in utter Defiance, not
only of the said Advice and Resolution of the House
of Lords, but of Her Majesty's Assurances to that
House of Parliament, and of Her Royal Authority
and Command by Her Proclamation under the Great
Seal, instead of doing what in him lay to have apprehended and brought, or causing the said Lilesh,
alias Lawless, to be brought to Justice, did afterwards, on or about the Fifteenth Day of March One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Fourteen, most wickedly and treacherously advise Her Majesty to sign a
Warrant, directing the Payment of One Thousand
Pounds Sterling to Daniel Arthur Esquire, for special
Services; which being accordingly issued, and received by the said Arthur, he the said Earl did privately and corruptly direct the said Arthur to pay
the same, and accordingly the said One Thousand
Pounds was paid, to the Use of the said Lilesh, alias
Lawless; and the said Robert Earl of Oxford and
Earl Mortimer did, at other Times, in a fictitious and
scandalous Manner, direct the Payment of other considerable Sums of Money, out of Her Majesty's
Treasure, to the said Lilesh, alias Lawless, which
were accordingly paid to him; although it was notorious, that the said Lilesh, alias Lawless, had not
only traiterously served in Arms against Her Majesty, but had been the Minister or Agent of the
Pretender at the Court of Madrid, and was under
strong Suspicions of being sent into England, though
under the Pretences aforesaid, secretly to promote
the Interest of the Pretender in these Kingdoms: By
all which corrupt and evil Counsels, he the said
Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer did most
basely and ungratefully expose the Person of Her
Sacred Majesty, did what in * his lay to enervate
and render ineffectual the Advice of Parliament, and
Her Majesty's most solemn Declarations, in a Matter
of the nearest Concern to Her Majesty and Her
Kingdoms; and, by countenancing in the most corrupt
and scandalous Manner the secret Emissaries of the
Pretender, did greatly encourage his open Adherents,
to the apparent Danger of the Protestant Succession
to the Imperial Crown of these Realms."
ARTICLE VI.
"That whereas Her late Majesty Queen Ann, after
several unsuccessful Attempts, in Conjunction with
Her Allies, to establish His present Imperial Majesty
on the Throne of Spain, being informed that the
People of Catalonia were inclined to cast off the Yoke
imposed upon them by the French, and to return to
the Obedience of the House of Austria; and Her
Majesty being desirous to maintain and improve that
good Disposition in them, and to induce them to put
the same speedily in Execution; did send Mitford
Crow Esquire to them, with necessary Powers and Instructions to carry on so great a Work, for the Advantage of Her Service, and the Good of the common Cause; and, to that End, to treat with the Catalans, or any other People of Spain, about their
coming into the Interest of King Charles the Third,
His present Imperial Majesty, and joining with Her
Majesty and Her Allies against the common Enemy;
and Her Majesty, after Her gracious Assurances to
assist them with Men and Money, was pleased to authorize Her said Minister to give them Her utmost
Assurances, to procure the Establishment of all such
Rights and Immunities as they had formerly enjoyed
under the House of Austria; and that, for their further Satisfaction, She had sent for Powers from King
Charles the Third, for confirming the same, and was
willing to become Guarantee that it should be done;
nevertheless, on this express Condition, that they
should receive the said King Charles as lawful King
of Spain, and utterly renounce the House of Bourbon; and, together with the said Instructions, Her Majesty was pleased to sign, and cause to be delivered
to Her said Minister, Credential Letters, to the Nobility, Magistrates, and all other Officers Civil and
Military, of Catalonia, desiring them to depend on
the Promises He should make them in Her Name;
and, in Her Majesty's Instructions to the Earl of Peterborow and Sir Cloudesly Shovell, in or about the
Month of May One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Five, they are ordered to use their utmost Endeavours
to induce the Catalans to join with them in their
Undertaking; and to assure them of Her Majesty's
Support; and to promise them, in the Queen's Name,
that She would secure them a Confirmation of their
Rights and Privileges from the King of Spain, that
they might be settled on a lasting Foundation to them
and their Posterity; and in case Persuation should
not prevail, and the Catalans should not make a suitable Return to those kind Offers, they were ordered
to annoy their Towns on the Coast of Spain, and to
reduce them by Force: And in Conformity to these
Instructions, a Manifesto, or Declaration, was prepared, by the Privity and Advice of Robert Earl of Oxford
and Earl Mortimer, then One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and delivered to the said
Earl of Peterborow, full, on the one Hand, of the
Assurances afore-mentioned; and, on the other Hand,
of Menaces to them, in case they declined Her Majesty's Overtures; which Manifesto was afterwards
published by him the said Earl of Peterborow in Catalonia: And whereas the Nobility, Clergy, and the
whole Principality of Catalonia, and the Inhabitants
of the Isle of Majorca, relying on the Faith of those
Royal Assurances, did utterly abandon the House of
Bourbon, and acknowledged King Charles the Third,
His present Imperial Majesty, for their lawful Sovereign, and did join their Arms with those of Her
Majesty and Her Allies, against the Duke of Anjou;
and it having pleased Almighty God so far to
bless Her Majesty's pious and generous Undertaking,
as, by most sigual Successes, in a short Time, to deliver the Principality of Catalonia from the heavy
Yoke of French Bondage; and great Supplies having
been granted by Parliament for the reducing the
whole Kingdom of Spain to the Obedience of the
House of Austria, the Arms of Her Majesty and Her
Allies were attended with vast Successes, having
Twice entered the Capital City of that Kingdom, and
obtained many other signal Consequents, to the great
Advantage of the common Cause; and, through the
whole Progress thereof, the Bravery and Firmness of
the Catalans being always remarkable, thereby, as
well as from the repeated Assurances given to them,
from Time to Time, in Her Majesty's Name, by every
General and Minister sent from Great Britain to Spain,
the Hearts of that brave People were united under
the strongest Ties of Affection and Gratitude to Her
Majesty; and they were justly held in the strictest
Dependence on the Continuance of Her Royal Protection; he, the said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl
Mortimer, being an Enemy to the common Liberty of
Europe, and having traiterously entered into Conspiracies for subjecting the whole Spanish Monarchy to
to the House of Bourbon, and designing most maliciously
the utter Ruin and Destruction of the ancient Rights,
Liberties, and Privileges, of the Catalans, who had
made so glorious a Stand for the Preservation of them,
did, together with other false and evil Counsellors,
form a most dishonourable, wicked, and cruel Contrivance, not only for abandoning the Catalans to the
Fury and Revenge of the Duke of Anjou and his
Adherents, but for the final Extirpation of all their
Rights, Liberties, and Privileges; and, in Execution
of that his Intention, during the private, separate,
and pernicious Negotiation of Peace, which was carried on between him and the Ministers of France,
and before any Negotiation of Peace was set on Foot
in due Form of Law between the Crowns of Great
Britain and Spain, did advise Her Majesty to give
Directions to the Lord Lexington, Her Ambassador
to the Court of Spain, to acknowledge the Duke of
Anjou King of Spain; but was greatly wanting in
his Duty to Her Majesty, in not advising Her to give
Instructions to Her said Minister, at the same Time,
peremptorily and absolutely to insist on the securing
the Catalans Liberties, at the Conclusion of the
Peace: And although the private, separate, and
treacherous Practices of him the said Robert Earl of
Oxford and Earl Mortimer and others, in Combination with the Ministers of France, did afterwards, on
or about the Fourteenth of March One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Thirteen, necessitate His present
Imperial Majesty to conclude a Treaty for the evacuating Catalonia, whereof Her Majesty was Guarantee,
without any express and positive Stipulations for the
Catalans Liberties; His Imperial Majesty relying in
that respect on Her Majesty's Declaration to interpose for them in the most effectual Manner, and on
the Promises of the French King to join His Endeavours for the same Purpose; and although Her
Sacred Majesty did, both before and after, frequently
declare, by Her Ministers in Spain, "That She thought
Herself under the strongest Ties of Honour and Conscience, not to abandon a People, whom the Necessities of the War had obliged Her to draw into Her
Interest;" and though the French King did not join
His Endeavours for the Purposes aforesaid; he the
said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, together with other false and wicked Councellors, having, from Time to Time, amused and deceived the
distressed Catalans with groundless Hopes of Her
Majesty's effectual Interpositions in their Favour,
thereby engaging them in a more obstinate Defence
of their Territories against the Duke of Anjou, was
not only highly wanting in his Duty to Her Majesty,
by not doing what in him lay, as a faithful Minister,
to have prevented the Conclusion of the Treaty of
Peace with Spain, till just and honourable Conditions
were secured for the Catalans; but did, falsely, maliciously, and treacherously, advise Her Majesty to
conclude a Peace with the King of Spain, without
any Security for the ancient and just Rights, Liberties, and Privileges, of that brave, but unhappy,
Nation; and did further advise Her Majesty to send
Sir James Wishart, Her Admiral, with a large Squadron of Men of War, at a great Expence, to favour
the said King of Spain in the Siege of Barcelona,
the Capital City of Catalonia; and with express Instructions, "That in case the Inhabitants of Majorca
should refuse the Terms that should be offered them
by the Duke of Anjou, to employ his Squadron in
countenancing and assisting all Attempts that should
be made for reducing them to a due Obedience;"
by which most vile and detestable Counsels, Her
Sacred Majesty, contrary to Her most pious Intentions, the Faith of Nations, and the Duties of Religion and Humanity itself, and contrary to Her
solemn and repeated Assurances, was prevailed on to
abandon a distressed People, drawn in and engaged
by Her own Invitation into an open War with the
Duke of Anjou, for the Preservation of the Liberties of Europe, and the Commerce of Great Britain;
and the Persons, Estates, Dignities, Rights, Liberties,
and Privileges, of the Catalans, were given up, as
a Sacrifice to the implacable Resentment of their
enraged and powerful Enemy; and the Honour of
the British Nation, always renowned for the Love of
Liberty, and for giving Protection to the Assertors
of it, was most basely prostituted; and a free and
generous People, the faithful and useful Allies of
this Kingdom, were betrayed, in the most unparalleled Manner, into irrevocable Slavery; and in
Consequence of which most dishonourable and perfidious Counsels, the most execrable Hostilities, Burnings, and Plunderings, were committed upon them
throughout their whole Province, without sparing the
Effusion of innocent Blood, and without the Distinction of Age or Sex; and that unfortunate People
were afterwards forced to undergo the utmost Miseries of a Siege, in their Capital City of Barcelona;
during which, great Multitudes of them perished by
Famine and the Sword, many of them have since
been executed; and great Numbers of the Nobility
of Catalonia, who, for their Constancy and Bravery
in Defence of their Liberties, and for their Services
in Conjunction with Her Majesty and Her Allies, had,
in all Honour, Justice, and Conscience, the highest
Claim to Her Majesty's Protection, are now dispersed
in Dungeons throughout the Spanish Dominions; and
not only the Catalan Liberties extirpated, but, by
those wicked Counsels of him the said Robert Earl
of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, Catalonia itself is almost become desolate: All which Crimes and Misdemeanors were committed and done by him the said
Earl, against our late Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her
Crown and Dignity, the Peace and Interest of this
Kingdom, and in Breach of the several Trusts reposed in him the said Earl; and he the said Robert
Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer was either Commissioner of the Treasury, or Lord High Treasurer of
Great Britain, and One of Her Majesty's Privy Council, during the Time that all and every the Crimes
before set forth, were done and committed: For
which Matters and Things the Knights, Citizens, and
Burgesses of the House of Commons in Parliament
assembled, do, in the Name of themselves and of
all the Commons of Great Britain, further impeach
the said Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
of other high Crimes and Misdemeanors, in the said
Articles contained.
"And the said Commons, by Protestation, saving to
themselves the Liberty of exhibiting, at any Time
hereafter, any other Accusations or Impeachments
against the said Earl; and also of replying to the
Answers which the said Rob't Earl of Oxford and
Earl Mortimer shall make to the Premises, or any
of them, or to any Impeachment or Accusation
that shall be by them exhibited, according to
the Course and Proceedings of Parliament; do
pray, that the said Rob't Earl of Oxford and Earl
Mortimer be put to answer all and every the
Premises; and that such Proceedings, Examinations, Trials, and Judgements, may be upon
them, and every of them, had and used, as shall
be agreeable to Law and Justice."
E. Oxford to be brought to the Bar.
Whereas the Commons assembled in Parliament
having this Day exhibited to this House further Articles of Impeachment of high Crimes and Misdemeanors,
against Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer:
It is Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said Earl be
brought to the Bar of this House, To-morrow, at Three
of the Clock in the Afternoon, to hear the said Articles
read.
To the Constable of His Majesty's
Tower of London; or, in his Absence, to the Lieutenant or Deputy Lieutenant of the same.
Mutiny Act, to enforce, Bill.
Hodie 3a
vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for
the better preventing Mutiny and Desertion, by enforcing and making more effectual an Act of this
present Parliament, intituled, An Act for the better
regulating the Forces to be continued in His Majesty's
Service; and for the Payment of the said Forces and
their Quarters."
Then a Clause was offered, to be added at the End of
the said Bill.
And the same, being Thrice read, was agreed to.
And the Question being put, "Whether this Bill,
with the Amendments, shall pass?"
It was Resolved in the Affirmative.
Message to H. C. with Amendments to it.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by
Sir Thomas Gery and Mr. Browning:
To carry down the said Bill; and acquaint them, that
the Lords have agreed to the said Bill, with some
Amendments, whereunto they desire their Concurrence.
High Bailiff, Westm'r, to prevent Stoppages, Streets.
The High Bailiff of Westminster attending (according
to Order) was called in.
And the Lord Chancellor, by Direction of the House,
acquainted him with the Alteration made on Saturday
last, in their Lordships Order to prevent Stoppages in
the Streets, and also the Addition thereto; and enjoined
him, "To take Care that for the future it be better
observed and executed; or else the House shall impute
it to him as a Fault."
Message from H. C. to return the Bill to augment the Maintenance of the poor Clergy.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons,
by Mr. Ward and others:
To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for making
more effectual Her late Majesty's Gracious Intentions
for augmenting the Maintenance of the poor Clergy;"
and to acquaint this House, that they have agreed to
the same, with some Amendments, whereunto they desire
their Lordships Concurrence.
Then the said Amendments were read Thrice, and
agreed to.
And a Message was sent to the House of Commons,
by Sir Thomas Gery and Mr. Browning, to acquaint them
therewith.
Cope's Bill:
Hodie 3a
vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to
enable Robert Cope Esquire to settle an additional
Jointure out of his Estate on Elizabeth his now Wife,
and also to raise Portions and Maintenances for his
Daughters and Younger Children by her; and to
enable those in Remainder to do the same."
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
Sir Thomas Gery and Mr. Browning:
To carry down the said Bill, and desire their Concurrence thereunto.
E. of Abingdon's Privilege:
The House being informed, from the Lords Committees for Privileges, to whom the Matter of the Complaint of a Breach of the Earl of Abingdon's Privilege,
and the Privilege of this House, was referred, "That,
upon Examination of the Matter of the said Complaint, it appeared to the Committee, that it would
be necessary, for their Lordships better Information
in this Matter, to have a Letter, which is now in
Cheshire, in the Custody of the said Earl's Steward,
produced before them; the Committee had for that
Purpose adjourned the further Consideration of the
Matter of the said Complaint to Monday the 15th
Day of this Instant August; and therefore desired the
House would admit Richard Vernon, in Custody of the
Serjeant at Arms attending this House on Account of
the said Complaint, to be bailed in the mean Time:"
Vernon to Be bailed.
Ordered, That the said Richard Vernon be, in Consideration of the Delay above-mentioned, admitted to
Bail, by entering into a Recognizance, in the Penalty of
£500. to His Majesty, with Two sufficient Sureties, in
the Penalty of £250. each; on Condition, "That the said
Richard Vernon attend this House, on Monday the 15th
Day of this Instant August, and at such other Times as
he shall be required by their Lordships Order;" and
the Clerk of the Parliaments is hereby empowered to
take such Recognizances accordingly.
Message from H. C. to return the Bill for enforcing the Mutiny Act.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Craggs and others:
To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for the better
preventing Mutiny and Desertion, by enforcing and
making more effectual an Act of this present Parliament, intituled, An Act for the better regulating the
Forces to be continued in His Majesty's Service, and
for the Payment of the said Forces and their Quarters;" and to acquaint this House, that they have
agreed to the Amendments made to the said Bill, with
an Amendment to One of them, whereunto they desire
their Lordships Concurrence.
Then the Amendment was read Thrice, and agreed to.
And a Message was sent to the House of Commons
to acquaint them therewith.
Fish Bill.
Hodie 1a
vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for
the better preventing fresh Fish taken by Foreigners
being imported into this Kingdom; and for the Preservation of the Fry of Fish; and for the giving
Leave to import Lobsters and Turbots in Foreign
Bottoms; and for the Preservation of Salmon, within
several Rivers in this Kingdom."
The House was adjourned during Pleasure, to robe.
The House was resumed.
King present.
His Majesty, being seated on His Royal Throne,
adorned with His Crown and Regal Ornaments, and attended with His Officers of State; the Prince of Wales,
in his Robes, sitting in his Place, on His Majesty's Right
Hand; the Lords being also in their Robes; commanded
the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to let the Commons know, "It is His Majesty's Pleasure, they attend
Him immediately, in the House of Peers:"
Who being come, with their Speaker; the Clerk of
the Crown read the Titles of the Bills to be passed, as
follows:
Bills passed.
"1. An Act for the better preventing Mutiny and
Desertion, by enforcing and making more effectual an
Act of this present Parliament, intituled, An Act for
the better regulating the Forces to be continued in
His Majesty's Service; and for the Payment of the
said Forces and their Quarters."
"2. An Act for making more effectual Her late Majesty's Gracious Intentions for augmenting the Maintenance of the poor Clergy."
"3. An Act to restrain all Waggoners, Carriers, and
others, from drawing any Carriage with more than
Five Horses in Length."
"4. An Act for repairing the Highways through the
several Parishes of St. Michael, St. Albans, St. Peter,
Shenly Ridge, and South Mims, in the Counties of
Hertford and Middlesex."
To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced,
severally, in these Words; (videlicet,)
"Le Roy le veult."
5. An Act for confirming the Sale of the Reversion
of the Manor of Darrington, by George Earl of Cardigan, to Theophilus Shelton Esquire and his Heirs."
"6. An Act for vesting in Trustees Part of the
Estate of Nicholas Fry Esquire, deceased, for Payment
of his Debts."
To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced,
severally, in these Words; (videlicet,)
"Soit fait comme il est desire."
Then His Majesty was pleased to retire; and the
Commons withdrew.
The House was adjourned during Pleasure, to unrobe.
The House was resumed.
Security of His Majesty's Person, &c. Bill.
Ordered, That To-morrow this House shall be put
into a Committee, to consider further of the Bill relating to the Security of His Majesty's Person and Government.
Adjourn.
Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Mercurii,
tertium diem instantis Augusti, hora undecima Auroræ,
Dominis sic decernentibus.