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Journal of the House of Commons
… Conscience in Southwarke, Westminster, the Tower Hamlets, and Out Parishes, be made upon Friday next, at Ten of the … the Great Seal to execute the Office of Lord Chancellor, and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, was … the Custos Rotulorum, to nominate the Clerk of the Peace; and for the Justices of Peace to remove the Clerk of the …
Journal of the House of Commons
… the ill State of the Coin of the Kingdom, be revived; and do withdraw, and sit during the Sitting of the House. Inrolling Deeds. … 1696 54,310 15 8 And may be reckoned per Annum 50,000 Windows: The Duplicates for these Duties not being yet …
Journal of the House of Commons
… That the Bill to restrain the Wearing of all wrought Silks and Bengals . . . . . . into this Kingdom from Persia and East-India, and all Callicoes printed or stained there, be read a Second …
Journal of the House of Commons
… to settle Lands upon the Marriage of his sole Daughter and Heir; and for settling Lands upon the said Widow Howland, for her Life, in lieu of Dower; and for indemnifying Sir Josias Child, and the Widow Howland, …
Journal of the House of Commons
… Sergemaking. A PETITION of divers Sergemakers, living in and about the Town of Wellington in the County of Somerset, was presented to the House, and read; setting forth, That the Art of Sergemaking is of … exceeding 21 Years, do, out of the Profits of the Convex-Lights, pay the Sum of Six hundred Pounds per Ann. Resolved, …
Journal of the House of Commons
… ; 7 Gulielmi Tertii. Prayers. BARTHOLOMEW Gisbitsky and Johann Henry Boock took the Oaths appointed, in order to … them turn the Rogue upside down; and the Rabble broke his Windows. Henry Coward said, About Two a Clock he was alarmed … he was for Admiral Aylmer, Bently threatened to shut his Windows down. That on the behalf of Colonel Gibsonne, and the …
Journal of the House of Commons
… intituled, An Act for the better enabling the Executors and Trustees of Sir Thomas Hare Baronet, lately deceased, to raise Portions and Maintenance for his younger Children, was read the First … Chiswell, and the Secretary to the Company for the convex Lights, do attend this House To-morrow Morning, with the …
Journal of the House of Commons
… of the whole House, to consider of the Bill for settling and regulating the Trade to Africa; and nothing to intervene. Stockley's Estate. An ingrossed … the County of Chester, deceased, for Payment of his Debts; and for making Provision for Mary Stockly, his Daughter, an …
Journal of the House of Commons
… of the County of Gloucester was presented to the House, and read; setting forth, That the said County chiefly depends … by reason of the Decay of Trade, havingno Employment, and are become intolerably chargeable to their Parish; the … Funds, a further Term, in the Duties arising by Windows, be granted to his Majesty. The said Resolutions, …
Journal of the House of Commons
… Edward Butland, William Sanderson, Edward Devon, and Richard Shelito, in Custody of the Serjeant at Arms, for … James Nurbury his Servant, was presented to the House, and read; whereby they acknowleged their Offence, and begged … City, to several Persons in the Bill named, of the Convex-Lights, is intended as Part of a Fund for their Relief; …