House of Lords Journal Volume 20: 31 January 1718

Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 20, 1714-1717. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.

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'House of Lords Journal Volume 20: 31 January 1718', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 20, 1714-1717, (London, 1767-1830) pp. 590-592. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol20/pp590-592 [accessed 26 April 2024]

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DIE Veneris, 31 Januarii.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

Georgius Princeps Walliæ.

Arch. Ebor.
Epus. Wigorn.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Carliol.
Epus. Bristol.
Epus. Cestriens.
Epus. Gloucestr.
Epus. Asaph.
Epus. Oxon.
Epus. Bangor.
Epus. Exon.
Epus. Lich. & Cov.		 Ds. Cowper, Cancellarius.
Dux Kingston, C. P. S.
Dux Newcastle, Camerarius.
Dux Richmond.
Dux St. Albans.
Dux Bolton.
Dux Marlborough.
Dux Bucks.
Dux Mountagu.
Dux Montrose.
Dux Portland.
March. Annandale.
Comes Pembroke.
Comes Lincoln.
Comes Dorset.
Comes Bridgewater.
Comes Northampton.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Berkshire.
Comes Stamford.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Burlington.
Comes Litchfield.
Comes Yarmouth.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Abingdon.
Comes Warrington.
Comes Rochford.
Comes Greenwich.
Comes Sutherland.
Comes Buchan.
Comes Orkney.
Comes Bute.
Comes Deloraine.
Comes I'lay.
Comes Ferrers.
Comes Strafford.
Comes Carnarvon.
Comes Tankerville.
Comes Sussex.
Viscount Say & Seale.
Viscount Townshend.
Viscount Lonsdale.
Viscount Tadcaster.
Viscount Castleton.
Viscount Stanhope.		 Ds. Willoughby Er.
Ds. Delawar.
Ds. North & Grey.
Ds. Hunsdon.
Ds. Compton.
Ds. Teynham.
Ds. Lumley.
Ds. Carteret.
Ds. Weston.
Ds. Herbert.
Ds. Gower.
Ds. Rosse.
Ds. Belhaven.
Ds. Harcourt.
Ds. Mansel.
Ds. Foley.
Ds. Bathurst.
Ds. Bingley.
Ds. Harborough.
Ds. Carleton.
Ds. Cobham.
Ds. Parker.
Ds. Coningesby.
Ds. Onslow.
Ds. Torrington.
Ds. Cadogan.
Ds. Romney.
Ds. Pawlet Bas.

PRAYERS.

Persons to be naturalized, sworn.

This Day several Persons took the Oaths appointed, in order to their Naturalization.

Burk versus Morgan, in Error:

After hearing Counsel, as well on Wednesday last as this Day, to argue the Errors assigned upon a Writ of Error brought into this House the Sixteenth Day of April last, wherein Rickard Burk is Plaintiff, and Rich'd Morgan, Lessee of Henry Blake, Defendant, in order to reverse a Judgement in Ejectment, given in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, upon a special Verdict, and affirmed in the Exchequer Chamber there; and due Consideration having been had of what was offered on either Side thereupon:

Judgement affirmed, with Costs.

It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said Judgement given in the said Court of Exchequer, and the Affirmance thereof in the Exchequer Chamber, be, and are hereby, affirmed; and that the said Writ of Error, with the Transcript of the Record, be remitted to the said Court of Exchequer in Ireland, to the End the said Richard Morgan may have Execution of the said Judgement as if no such Writ of Error had been brought into this House: And it is hereby further Ordered, That the said Plaintiff in Error do pay, or cause to be paid, to the said Defendant in Error, the Sum of Forty Pounds, for his Costs in this House.

The Tenor of which Judgement, to be affixed to the Transcript of the Record to be remitted, follows:

Postea, scilicet, Decimo Sexto Die Aprilis, Anno Regni dicti Domini Regis nunc Tertio, Transcript. Record. & Process. præd. inter Partes præd. cum omnibus ea tangen. Prætextu cujusdam Brevis dicti Domini Regis nunc, de Error. corrigend. per præsat. Rickard. Burke in Præmiss. prosecut. dicto Domino Regi nunc in Parliamento apud Westm. præd. a præd. Cur. dicti Domini Regis nunc, de Scaccario suo in Regno suo Hib'niæ, hic transmiss. suit; prædictusque Rickard. Burke, in eadem Cur. Parliamenti comparens, diversas Mater. pro Error. in Record. & Process. præd. Judic. præd. necnon in Affirmatione ejusdem Judic. ac pro Revocatione & Annullatione Judic. præd. in præd. Cur. dicti Domini Regis nunc, de Scaccario suo præd. reddit. & Affirmation. ejusdem Judic. in præd. Cur. dicti Domini Regis nunc, de Camer. Scaccarii sui præd. coram ipso Rege in Parliamento præd. apud Westm. præd. affignavit; ad quas quidem præd. Richard. Morgan, in eadem Cur. Parliamenti præd. scilicet comparens, placitavit, quod in Record. & Process. præd. ac in Redditione Judic. præd. ac in Affirmatione ejusdem Judic. in nullo suit Errat.: Posteaque, scilicet, Tricesimo Primo Die Januarii, Anno Regni dicti Domini Regis nunc Quarto, in eadem Cur. Parliamenti præd. apud Westm. præd. vener. Partes præd.; super quo, visis & per eandem Cur. Parliamenti præd. diligenter examinat. et plenius intellect. tam Record. & Process. præd. ac Judic. superinde reddit. necnon Affirmatione ejusdem Judic. quam præd. Causis & Mater. per præsat. Rickard. Burke pro Error. assign. & allegat. maturaque Deliberatione superinde habita, videtur eidem Cur. Parliamenti præd. quod Record. ill. in nullo vitiosum aut defectivum existit, quodque nec in Record. & Process. præd. nec in Redditione Judic. præd. nec in Affirmatione ejusdem Judic. in ullo est Errat.: Ideo ad tunc & ibidem per eandem Cur. Parliamenti præd. considerat. est, quod Judicium præd. in præd. Cur. dicti Domini Regis nunc, de Scaccario suo præd. reddit. necnon Affirmatio ejusdem Judic. in præd. Cur. dicti Domini Regis de Camerar. Scaccarii sui præd. in omnibus affirmentur, & in omni suo Robore stent & Effectu, dictis Causis & Mater. per præsat. Rickard. Burke pro Error. assignat. & allegat. non obstant.; & quod præd. Richard. Morgan in præd. Cur. dicti Domini Regis nunc, de Scaccario suo præd. habeat inde Executionem versus præsat. Rickard. Burke juxta Formam & Effectum Judic. præd.; & ulterius per eandem Cur Parliament. præd. considerat. est, quod præd. Richard. Morgan recuperet versus præsat. Rickard. Burke Quadragint. Libr. eidem Richard. Morgan adjudicat. pro Misis & Custagiis suis, quas sustinuit Occasione Dilationis Executionis Judic. præd. Prætextu Prosecution. præd. Brevis de Error. eo Modo recuperand. quo Custag. in præd. Cur. de Scaccario præd. recuperari solent; ac superinde Record. & Process. præd. per eandem Cur. Parliamenti præd. prædict. Cur. dicti Domini Regis nunc, de Scaccario suo præd. remitt."

Coin and Plate Committee revived:

Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the Committee appointed to prepare Heads for a Bill, in relation to the Coin of this Kingdom and the Standard of Silver Plate, be revived; and meet on Monday Morning next.

State of the Coin.

Ordered, That this House be, on Tuesday next, put into a Committee of the whole House, to take into further Consideration the State of the Coin of this Kingdom.

Thanks to the Bishop of Litch. and Cov. for his Sermon.

Ordered, That the Thanks of this House be, and are hereby, given to the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, for the very excellent Sermon by him preached before this House Yesterday, in the Abbey Church Westm'r; and he is hereby desired to cause the same to be forthwith printed and published.

Sir G. Downing's Bill.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for making more effectual certain Articles of Agreement, between Sir George Downing Baronet, and Dame Mary Eldest Daughter of Sir William Forester Knight, and her Trustees."

Ordered, That the Consideration of the said Bill be committed to the Lords following; videlicet,

D. Richmond.
D. Montrose.
D. Portland.
E. Pembroke.
E. Dorset.
E. Stamford.
E. Sunderland.
E. Clarendon.
E. Litchfield.
E. Yarmouth.
E. Rochester.
E. Abingdon.
E. I'lay.
E. Strafford.
Viscount Townshend.
Viscount Castleton.
Viscount Stanhope.		 L. Bp. Worcester.
L. B. Carlisle.
L. B. Bristol.
L. B. Chester.
L. B. Oxon.		 Ld. Delawar.
L. Compton.
L. Lumley.
L. Guilford.
L. Harcourt.
L. Mansell.
L. Trevor.
L. Parker.
L. Coningesby.
L. Cadogan.

Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet on Saturday the Fifteenth Day of February next, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

Corporation of Newcastle, Bill.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for vesting several Lands belonging to the Master, Brethren, and Sisters, of the Hospital of The Holy Jesus, in Newcastle upon Tyne, in Trustees, to be sold; and for settling on the said Master, Brethren, and Sisters, a perpetual Yearly Rent of One Hundred and Eighty-five Pounds, in clear Money, in Lieu of the said Lands."

Ordered, That the Consideration of the said Bill be committed to the Lords Committees aforenamed; to meet on the same Day, and at the same Place.

D. of Newcastle's Bill.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for vesting the Manor of Esher Waterville, and other Lands therein mentioned, in the most Noble Thomas Holles Duke of Newcastle and his Heirs, in Consideration of Rent-charges to be issuing out of the same, and other Lands, in Lieu thereof, to the Use of the Corporation of Kingston upon Thames, in the County of Surrey, in Trust for the Poor of the said Town."

Ordered, That the Consideration of the said Bill be committed to the Lords Committees aforenamed; to-meet on the same Day, and at the same Place.

Bridges, Leave for a Bill.

After reading, and considering, the Report of the Judges to whom the Petition of Harry Bridges and others, was referred; praying Leave to bring in a Bill, for the Purposes in the Petition mentioned:

It is Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pursuant to the said Petition and Report.

Bertie's Bill.

Hodie 1a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for the better enabling the Honourable James Bertie Esquire to raise Portions for his Younger Children."

Ordered, That the Consideration of the said Bill be committed to the Lords Committees aforenamed; to meet on the same Day, and at the same Place.

E. of Burlington, Leave for a Bill.

After reading, and considering, the Report of the Judges to whom the Petition of Richard Earl of Burlington was referred; praying Leave to bring in a Bill, for the Purposes in the Petition mentioned:

It is Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pursuant to the said Petition and Report.

Bridges Bills.

Hodie 1a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to enable Harry Bridges Esquire to sell the Manor of Illbrewers, in the County of Somerset, for Payment of Five Thousand Pounds, charged upon his Estate, for his Daughter's Portion."

E. of Burlington's Bill.

Hodie 1a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to enable Richard Earl of Burlington to make Leases of a Piece of Ground behind Burlington House."

Rose & al. Nat. Bill.

Hodie 2a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to naturalize Peter Rose, Charles Corssar, and others."

Ordered, That the Consideration of the said Bill be committed to the Lords Committees aforenamed.

Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet on Monday next, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

Capon & al. to be added to Nat. Bill.

Upon reading the Petition of Peter Capon and Peter Conrad Swellengrebel; praying, "That this House will admit them into the Bill of Naturalization now depending:"

It is Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the Committee to whom the Bill to naturalize Peter Rose and others stands committed; and that the said Committee may add the Petitioners to the said Bill, if they think fit.

Brown, to enter into a Recognizance for Preston.

The House being moved, "That Bruno Brown, of the Parish of St. Clement's Danes, Esquire, may be permitted to enter into a Recognizance for Mary Preston and her Son, on Account of their Appeal depending in this House; they being in Ireland:"

It is Ordered, That the said Bruno Brown may enter into a Recognizance for the said Appellants accordingly.

Birmingham & al. admitted in Forma Pauperis.

Upon reading the Petition of Edward Bermingham, William Augustin, and John Cully; setting forth, "That they were admitted, by the Court of Exchequer in Ireland (from whence they have appealed to this House), to prosecute their Suit in Forma Pauperis; and that they still continue in the same poor Condition;" and praying, "That this House will admit them as Paupers before their Lordships:" As also upon reading an Affidavit of the Petitioners, verifying the Allegations of the said Petition:

It is Ordered, That the Petitioners be admitted to prosecute their Appeal in Forma Pauperis in this House, as desired.

Adjourn.

Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Sabbati, primum diem Februarii jam prox. futur. hora undecima Aurora, Dominis sic decernentibus.

Die Lunæ, 17 Martii 1717,
hitherto examined by us,

Clarendon.
Stamford.
Warrington.
Coningesby.

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