Veneris, 24 die Novembris;
5° Gulielmi et Mariæ.
PRAYERS.
5th Eliz. respecting Cloth Weavers.
A BILL for Repeal of the 32d Article, in the Act of
5 Eliz. containing divers Orders for Artificers and
others, which relates to Weavers of Cloth, was read the
Second time.
Resolved, That the Bill be committed to Sir John
Guise, Sir Tho Vernon, Sir S. Bernadiston, Mr. Freke,
Mr. How, Mr. Sandford, Sir Richard Hart, Mr. Bromley,
Sir Robert Cotton, Mr. Arnold, Sir John Dorrell, Mr.
Cooke, Mr. Hutchinson, Sir Ri. Reynolds, Mr. Blowfeild,
Mr. Bockenham, Sir Ra. Dutton, Mr. Foley, Mr. Slater,
Mr. Price, Mr. Pigot, Mr. England, Sir Isaac Rebow,
Mr. Hedger, Sir Robert Dacers, Mr. J. Smith, Mr. Biddulph, Sir John Moreton, Sir Tho. Haslerigg, Mr. S. Smith,
Sir William Leman, Sir John Key, Sir Gervas Elwes,
Mr. Ogle, Sir Edward Chisnell, Mr. Colt: And they are
to meet at Four a Clock this Afternoon, in the Speaker's
Chamber.
Frequent Parliaments.
The House, according to the Order of the Day, resolved itself into a Committee of the whole House, to
consider of the Bill for more frequent Elections of Parliaments.
Mr. Speaker left the Chair.
Colonel Granville took the Chair of the Committee.
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.
Colonel Granville reported from the said Committee,
That they had gone through the Bill, and made some
Amendments thereunto, which they had directed him to
report to the House, when the House would please to
receive the same.
Ordered, That the said Report be made To-morrow
Morning.
The King's Speech to be considered.
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday Morning
next, consider further of his Majesty's gracious Speech to
both Houses of Parliament.
Adjournment.
A Motion being made, and the Question being put,
That the House do now adjourn;
The House divided.
The Noes go forth.
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| Tellers for the Yeas, |
Sir Robert Cotton,
Sir John Barker: |
64. |
| Tellers for the Noes, |
Mr. Tankred,
Mr. Freke: |
101. |
So it passed in the Negative.
Debt due to Seamen.
The Lord Falkland, from the Commissioners of the
Admiralty, according to Order, presented to the House
a State of the Debt due to the Seamen at Michaelmas
last.
And the same was read; and is as followeth; viz.
24 Nov. 1693.
An Estimate of the Wages due to the Seamen serving in
their Majesties Navy to Michaelmas last.
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£ |
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d. |
| For Wages to their Majesties Ships, in Pay to Michaelmas 1692, which are not yet paid up to that Time, as the rest of the Fleet have been |
135,056 |
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| For Wages to all their Majesties Ships, in Pay, from the First of Nov. 1692, to the 30th of Sept. 1693. |
664,699 |
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| For the Recalls of those paid off, whose Books are not yet cleared; calculated from the First Books by casting each Man's Wages remaininging unpaid thereon, as also what remains in Arrear on the Books made up |
236,660 |
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| Total. |
£. 1,036,415 |
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Falkland,
Robert Austen,
J. Lowther,
R. Rich.
And then the House adjourned till To-morrow
Morning, Nine a Clock.