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Journal of the House of Commons
… was read; setting forth, That he is now Prothonotor in a Court of Record, within the Manors of Stepney and … has so been for Eight Years; which Court holds Plea, only in Personal Actions, under Five Pounds Value: That his Estate … communibus Annis: That the rest of his Estate lies most in Ground Rents, and new Foundations, proposed to be taxed: …
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… he had a Grant from the late King Charles the Second, in 1675, for a Term of Fourteen Years: That nevertheless, … Robert Fitzgerald, Esquire, and others, have since, in 1683, procured other Letters Patents for the sole Exercise … obstructing the Petitioner's Proceedings; who afterwards, in 1685, brought their Bill into this House for enlarging the …
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… person petitions for discharge. A PETITION of Tho. Bush, in Custody of the Serjeant at Arms attending this House, was … knowing he was such Servant, till some Hours after he was in Custody; and the Warrants being for a Breach of a Decree, … the Committee, touching the Election of a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of Stockbridge in …
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… fit to make several Amendments to the Bill: Which he read in his Place; and afterwards delivered the same in at the Clerk's Table: Where the same were once read … A Petition of divers Planters of Virginia and Maryland, in Behalf of themselves and all the Planters there, …
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… read; setting forth, That the Petitioners being Traders in the Port of Hull, Captain Copley, present Lieutenant … was with the Weavers on Wednesday last, encouraging them in the Tumult they then made: Who, being apprehended, was … them: And that he had taken several Informations given in against him, and committed him to the Gatehouse: And that …
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… and beating the Servant of the said Sir John Wynne, in the County of Carnarvon, and disturbing his Possession; … and Elections, touching the Election of a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament, for the Borough of Abbington in the County of Berks, be received upon Wednesday Morning …
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… Bill for the vesting several Messuages and Tenements in the City of London, late the Estate of John Baines, Gentleman, deceased, in Trustees, to be sold for Payment of Debts, was read the … Thousand Quarters of Malted Corn in a Year, for making English Brandy, which they brew into Drink for that Purpose: …
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… vesting the Estate, Real and Personal, of Henry Hawley, in Trustees, to be sold, or otherwise disposed, for the … granted by the Kings of this Realm; and the Manufacture of English Pins were heretofore of great Reputation in Foreign Parts: But, through the deceitful Making of Pins, …
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… Agreement touching the same, made between Charles Curtis in his Life-time, and Edward Earle, according to a Decree in the High Court of Chancery, was read the Third time. … in West India Trade. An ingrossed Bill for permitting English Ships to be navigated with Foreign Seamen to and from …
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… the Bill for reviving a former Law for Repair of Highways in the County of Hertford. Malicious Informations. Mr. Waller … to whom the Bill for preventing malicious Informations in the Court of King's Bench, and for the more easy Reversal … to be applied to the Uses of the War. Supply Bill; English Forfeitures. Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in …