Veneris, 13 die Decembris;
Septimo Gulielmi Tertii.
Prayers.
Red-lion-square (St. Andrew's Holborn) new Parish.
A PETITION of several of the Inhabitants in and
near Red-lion-square and the Streets adjacent, in
the Parish of St. Andrew's Holbourn, was presented to the
House, and read; setting forth, That the said Parish is of
late so much increased, by new Buildings, and grown so
populous, that the Care of so many Souls cannot be well
discharged by one Minister; nor is the Church of Saint
Andrew's large enough to receive all the Parishioners:
And praying Leave to bring in a Bill for making the
said Square, and Streets adjacent, a distinct Parish; and
to build a new Church near the said Square.
Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, according to the Prayer of the said Petition: And that
Doctor Barbon do prepare, and bring in, the Bill
Hawkers and Pedlars.
Sir Robert Davers presented to the House, according
to Order, a Bill for Suppressing of Hawkers and Pedlars:
And the same was received.
Address respecting Duty on Supplies to the Army.
Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to his
Majesty, by such Members of this House as are of his
Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, That he will
please to procure, That all Commodities and Provisions
that shall be transported from England, for the Use of the
Forces in his Majesty's Pay, abroad, may be exempted
from any Duty, or Excise, throughout the Spanish and
United Netherlands.
Clipped Money Deficiency.
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Morning
next, resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to
consider of Ways and Means for raising a Fund or Funds,
for supplying the Deficiencies of the clipped Money.
State of the Nation.
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow Morning,
resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to
consider further of the State of the Nation.
Reversing Judgment against Sir W. Williams while Speaker.
A Bill to reverse the Judgment given against Sir William Williams, for what he did as Speaker of the House
of Commons; and for asserting the Rights and Freedoms of Parliaments; was, according to Order, read a
Second time.
Resolved, That the Bill be committed to a Committee
of the whole House.
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday Morning
next, resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House,
to consider of the said Bill.
Chester Election.
A Petition of Sir William Williams Knight and Baronet,
Recorder, Alderman, and Citizen, of the City of Chester,
was presented to the House, and read; setting forth, That
the Petitioner was engaged, at the Request of Colonel
Roger Whitley Mayor, and divers other principal Citizens
of Chester, to stand to be elected one of their Members to
serve in this Parliament; and the Petitioner endeavoured
to have the Writ sent to Chester before the 21th of October
last, which was their County Court-day; but, by Contrivance, the same came not there till the 22th; whereby,
the Election was protracted to the 18th of November;
during which time, the Mayor, and Sir John Mainwaring,
with Sir Tho. Grosvenor, clandestinely consorted to frustrate
the Petitioner's Election, and to have the Mayor and Sir
Tho. Grosvenor elected; and, to effect the same, they made
use of the Power of the Mayor over the Citizens, who
had procured himself to be Mayor 3 Years, and prevailed
to continue so for the present Year; and, by large Declarations and Engagements of the Mayor, and Sir Tho. to have a
Common Hall erected for the City, and vast Expences at
the Election; and by Bribes and Menaces, with Violence,
upon the Petitioner's Voters, they prevailed with the greater
Number of Voters; and are returned as duly elected, in
Prejudice of the Right of the Petitioner, and the said City:
And praying the Justice of the House in the Premises.
Ordered, That the Merits of the Election for the said City
be heard, at the Bar of this House, upon this Day Month.
National Debt.
Mr. Harley, from the Commissioners for taking and
stating the publick Accounts, presented to the House,
according to Order, a State of the Debt of the Nation,
so far as it appeared to them: And also a general State
of the Receipts and Payments of the publick Revenue,
between the Feast of St. Michael 1694, and the Feast of
St. Michael 1695.
And the said State of the Debt was read; and is as
followeth; viz.
|
| 1. In respect to the War, due at Michaelmas 1695. |
£. |
s. |
d. |
£. |
s. |
d. |
£. |
s. |
d. |
| To the Navy. |
| At the Navy Office. |
450,740 |
— |
— |
|
| At the Victualling Office |
389,034 |
— |
— |
|
|
839,774 |
— |
— |
| To the Army; viz. |
| To the Forces that served in the Reduction of Ireland |
196,076 |
6 |
5⅓ |
|
| To the Forces paid by the Earl Ranelagh, due from 1st Apr. 1692, to 31 March 1695 |
557,613 |
7 |
8 |
|
| To the Forces under Mr. Vander Esch his Care, to the same time |
40,015 |
7 |
7½ |
|
| To the Danish Forces, to the same time |
14,426 |
12 |
7½ |
|
|
612,055 |
7 |
7 |
|
| To the whole Army, from 1st Apr. 95, to 30th Sept. following, by Computation |
180,795 |
8 |
7¼ |
|
|
792,850 |
16 |
2¼ |
|
|
988,927 |
2 |
7¾ |
| To the Ordnance; viz. |
| For Sea Service |
|
172,077 |
16 |
10¾ |
|
| For Land Service |
|
36,912 |
8 |
8 |
|
|
208,990 |
5 |
6¾ |
| At the Transport-Office. |
| The Irish Debt, for which Interest is allowed |
|
330,769 |
10 |
7 |
|
| More, on the said Account, due to the Dutch |
|
20,000 |
— |
— |
|
|
350,769 |
10 |
7 |
|
| More for the Service of 1693, &c. to Michaelmas 95, due |
|
81,373 |
17 |
11¾ |
|
|
432,143 |
8 |
6¾ |
| Total relating to the War |
2,469,834 |
16 |
87/8 |
| 2. There must be paid, out of the first Aids granted in Parliament, to make good the Grants of this present Year 1695. |
|
| On the reversionary Annuities, about |
383,407 |
— |
— |
|
| On the Coal and Glass Act, near the Whole; which was |
564,700 |
— |
— |
|
|
948,107 |
— |
— |
| 3. Tallies of Loan unsatisfied at Michaelmas 1695, and, for the most part, will remain so, till otherwise provided for, by reason of the Deficiency of former Acts; viz. |
|
| The First 4s. Aid |
62,763 |
18 |
8 |
|
| The Second Quarterly Poll |
120,165 |
13 |
4½ |
|
|
182,929 |
12 |
—½ |
| 4. For the Debt upon the Civil List |
|
441,504 |
17 |
10¾ |
|
£. |
4,042,376 |
6 |
71/8 |
| Besides the above Debt, Allowance must be made for the Charge of the Navy and Army from the 1st October 1695, to the 31 December 1695; because all the Funds of 1695, as well as the Cash remaining in the respective Offices, are applied, in the above State, to reduce the Arrear due at Michaelmas 1695. |
|
| 5. The Tallies of Loans and Anticipations, struck on the following Branches of the Revenue and unpaid at Michaelmas One thousand Six hundred Ninety-five, were as followeth; viz. |
|
| On Hereditary and Temporary Exercise |
488,597 |
16 |
11 |
| On Letter-money |
106,080 |
19 |
10½ |
| On Wine-Licences |
18,000 |
— |
— |
| On ¾ Customs |
209,890 |
14 |
10 |
|
£. |
822,569 |
11 |
7½ |
Note, The following Funds will fall considerably short of answering the Tallies struck upon them, and Interest
thereof; viz.
Additional Customs; Paper and Parchment; 2/3 of the Double 9d.; Duty on Births, Marriages, &c.
But whatever they shall fall short, will not come in order to be provided for, until those Acts shall be respectively
expired: So no further Notice taken of them in this State.
Note also, That the Duty on Salt, and that on Tonage will not answer what those Funds were granted for by near
140,000£. per Ann.; and the Deficiency thereof, being ordered to be paid out of the Revenue unappropriated,
will, by so much, postpone the Civil List.
P. Foley, Ro. Harley, H. Boyle, Tho. Pope Blount.
Also the Title of the State of the Receipts and Payments was read; which are in a Book by itself.
Ordered, That the said States do lie upon the Table, to
be perused by the Members of the House.
Supply.
The House, according to the Order of the Day, resolved
itself into a Committee of the whole House, to consider
further of the Supply to be granted to his Majesty, for
the carrying on the War against France.
Mr. Speaker left the Chair.
Sir Thomas Littleton took the Chair of the Committee.
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.
Sir Thomas Littleton reported from the said Committee,
That they had considered the Matter to them referred;
and had come to several Resolutions; which they had
directed him to report, when the House will please to
receive the same.
Ordered, That the said Report be made To morrow
Morning.
Committees.
Ordered, That all Committees be adjourned.
And then the House adjourned till To-morrow
Morning, Nine a Clock.