House of Commons Journal Volume 1: 29 April 1607

Mercurii, 29 Aprilis, 1607

Southampton Charter.

L. 1a. B. FOR Confirmation of some Part of a Charter granted to the Town of South' by King H. VI. and for Relief of the said Town,

Committees.

Certain Committees adjourned.

Smyth's Estate.

L. 2a. B. For Confirmation of certain Lands to the Warden and College of the Souls of all faithful People deceased, of Oxon, and of other Lands, to Sir William Smyth Knight: - Secondly read, and committed to Mr. Solicitor, Mr. Recorder of London, Sir Edward Grevill, Sir Robert Wingfield, the Burgesses of the Towns and Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Mr. Fuller, Sir Henry Poole, Mr. Martin, Sir Richard Bulkley, Sir James Perrott, Mr. Hyde, Sir William Skipwith, the Knights and Burgesses of Leicestershire, Sir John Heigham, Sir John Peyton, Sir Geo. Moore, Sir John Townsend, Sir Francis Fane, Sir Herbert Crofts, Sir Thomas Freak, Sir William Strowd, Sir Edward Mountague, Mr. Bullingham, Sir Edmund Ludlowe, Sir Jerome Horsey: - To meet on Saturday, in the Middle Temple Hall.

City of London Estates.

L. 1a. B. For the Securing and Confirming of the Lands, Tenements, and Rents, heretofore granted, devised or conveyed to several Companies within the City of London, and to the Mayor and Commonalty, and Citizens, of the City of London.

Upon this first Reading, the Bill impugned, and called a dangerous Bill: - That it might reach as far as the Mount in Cornwall: - That the Saving doth not help.

Mr. Recorder of London answereth ; so as the House was willing, the Bill should have his Course of second Reading, &c.

Union with Scotland.

The Dispute touching the Union, renewed by Sir Robert Wingfield first; who remembereth the Courses propounded : -

Whether to proceed in an unperfect Union, with Restraint: -

Whether in a perfect: -

Whether in collecting and setting down Reasons. -

Whether to a Conference with the Lords.

His Conclusion was, to frame Bills.

The Dispute continued by Mr. Fuller, Mr. Martin, Mr. Alford, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Roger Owen, Mr. Recorder of London, Mr. Attorney-general.

Motions made:

To have a Conference ; or to set down Reasons, and present them by way of Message. -

Unfit to gather Reasons, without the Lords, who have had Part in all. -

To digest Bills: - They may be so penned as they may include a Restraint, if not a perfect Union. -

First, to shew our Reasons for the perfect; and if we cannot satisfy the King, and the Lords, then to proceed with this particular Union. -

The new Project for the perfect, unseasonable. - We vary from ourselves: - We cross ourselves by our own Direction.

Mr. Speaker remembereth the material Motions, and no more done for this Day.