House of Commons Journal Volume 1: 04 July 1610

Mercurii, 4o Julii, 1610

Orrell.

ORRELL. - This Afternoon.

Rochester.

Monday - Rochester.

Damerham.

L. 2. B. - Damerham: - Mr. Chancellor, Sir Edw. Hobby, Knights and Burgesses of Wiltshire, Mr. Yong, Mr. Martin, Mr. Ravenscroft, Mr. Fuller, Sir Walter Cope, Mr. Hyde, Sir Rob. Johnson, Sir Roger Owen, Sir Chro. Perkins, Mr. Hungerford: - Saturday, Chequer...

Platt.

Mr. Platt's Bill reported by Mr. Martin, with a Proviso : - Ingrossetur.

Ash & Deane.

L. 1. B. - Ash and Deane: - Knights and Burgesses of Hampshire, all the Civilians of the House, Mr. Yong, Sir John Egerton, Mr. Hadds, Sir Henry Poole, Sir John Mallory, Mr. Staughton, Sir Fr. Barrington, Sir Edw. Hobby, Sir Wm. Ayre, Sir Tho. Smyth, Mr. Hare, Sir Rob. Oxenbridge, Sir Geo. Moore, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Hoskins, Mr. Hadds: - Saturday, Chequer Chamber.

Impropriations.

Tuesday, - Impropriations - Chequer Chamber.

Rous.

L. 3. - Rous: - Passed. - Sir H. Poole, contra; Mr. Tate, pro.

Oath of Allegiance.

Quest. That Women, - Recusants, &c. shall be inserted into this Bill.

The House divided: The Yea went out, in this Question :

Tellers : Sir Edw. Mountague, Sir Walter Cope, 91, Yea.

Sir H. Poole, Sir Edw. Hobby, 88, Noe.

To be inserted in this Bill.

To re-commit it.

Quest. - Ministring of the Oath to particular Officers:

- To be stroken out, by Question.

Impositions.

Mr. Martin reporteth the Petition of the Impositions :

Which was twice read.

Quest. Whether it shall be agreed : - Resolved.

Grievances.

The Preamble also to the Grievances twice read; and to be ingrossed.

The Grievances not perfected, re-committed. - Sir Edwyn Sandys.

Preamble to the Grievances read, and resolved.

Mr. Solicitor to present the Grievances.

Committee to meet Lords.

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Attorney General, Sir John Savill, Sir John Mallorie, Sir H. Slingsby, Sir H. Poole, Sir Henry Nevill, Sir Wilfryde Lawson, Mr. Talbot Bowes, Mr. Perkinson, Sir Chro. Perkins, Sir John Bennett, Mr. Alford, Sir Raphe Gray, Sir Geo. Moore, Sir Roger Aston, Mr. Brock, Mr. Martin, Mr. Nanton, Mr. Hedley, Mr. Carleton, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Askewe, Mr. Barwick, Mr. Hoskins, Sir Roger Owen, Sir Carey Raleigh, Sir Dudley Diggs, Mr. Crewe, Sir Jo. Harpur, Mr. Whytlock, Sir Herbert Crofts, Sir Jo. Sheffield, Mr. Psalter, to meet To-morrow with the Lords in the Painted Chamber

Support and Purveyance.

Matter of Support to be proceeded in this Afternoon, and Matter of Purveyance specially.

Mounsy.

L. 1. - NAT. - Mounsy.

Poor, &c.

L1. - Relief of the Poor, Rogues, &c. - Forsett.

Brokers.

L. 1. - Brokers. - Forsett.

E. of Darby.

Earl of Darby, - re-committed. - Mr. Fitton to be heard, with his Counsel, To-morrow Morning.

Contractors.

L. 2. - Contractors: - The King's Privy Council, the King's learned Counsel, Sir Geo. Moore, Sir John Scott, Sir Wm. Burlacy, Sir H. Poole, Sir Tho. Lowe, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Tate, Mr. Hoskins, Mr. Bacchus, Sir Rob. Phelips, Mr. Pulleston, Sir Valentine Knightley, Mr. Hungerford, Mr. Askwith, Sir Nich. Saunders, Mr. Alford, Mr. Oldsworth, Sir John Bennett, Mr. Doyley, Mr. Yong, Sir Henry Cary, Sir Fr. Knollys, Mr. Hugh Middleton, Mr. Hare, Mr. Oxborough, Mr. Dammett, Sir Edw. Mountague, Sir Walter Vaughan, Sir Tho. Beamount, Sir Jo. Sammes, Mr. Ingram; and all that will come : To-morrow in the Afternoon, Chequer Chamber.

Oath of Allegiance.

B. - Oath of Allegiance : - Amendments twice read; some Exceptions taken: - Re-committed, for the Amendment of the Title.

Holdich.

Holdich, - reported Mr. Martin: - Ingrossetur.

Oath.

Oath of Allegiance: - Ingrossetur.

Grievances.

Sir Edwyn Sandys reporteth the Proceeding of the special Committee for Five several Grievances. -

Touching Excommunication; to be committed again, and the Bill, offered here in the second Sessions, to be brought in.

Monday, for the Grievances, not to be presented.

Exaction for Sealing of new Draperies, new written, not altered, read again. - Resolved, no Question.

Monopoly of Licence of Wines; altered, read, and upon Question, resolved.

Member spared.

Mr. Solicitor, upon his Excuse, to be spared : - Resolved.

Support.

This Afternoon, Matter of Support.

Ash & Deane.

Executors of Sir James Deane to have Warning to be at Committee of B. - Ash and Deane.

Patents.

Mr. Tey: - Duke of Lenneux - Other Patents, granted in Trust to others, which the Duke had purchased, to be suppressed likewise.

Printing Statutes.

Mr. Dyett: - To print all Statutes, not printed. - Old, that be for the Good of the King, or Subject, should be printed.

Bills sent to Lords.

Sent up to the Lords by Mr. Chancellor.

B. - Nat. to receive Sacrament, - Amendments :

B. - Double Payment of Debts, - Amendments:

B. - Moor-burning, - Amendments :

B. - Earl of Oxenford, - Henningham: -

B. - Scandalous and unworthy Ministers :

B. - Sir Stephen Proctor:

B. - Rous :

B. - Bishop of Derry:

Priests, &c.

Sir Wm. Bulstrod: - That one hath offered sundry Informations touching Papists. -

Sundry Names of Priests apprehended, let escape for Money by Pursevants, and other ransomed for Money, read in the House. -

Priests confined at the Suit of Pursevants for Money: Popish Books taken, and sold. -

A Letter from a Jesuit to a Gentlewoman named Mrs. Vaux. -

Priests carried to Taverns, and Money extorted. -

Church Stuff sold : - Obligations in the great Commission Court.

Sir Francis Hastings, - touching the Lessening of the Number of Papists. -

Want of Instruction:

Too much Countenancing :

Corruption of Officers.

Spiller remembered : The Order to be found out against To-morrow Morning.

The Man, Wm. Udall, that offers to do the Service, touching Priests.

Mr. Chancellor, Sir Wm. Ward, Sir Wm. Bulstrod, Sir John Scott, Mr. Fuller, Sir Geo. Moore, Sir John Savill, Sir Fr. Goodwyn, Sir Fr. Hastings, Sir Tho. Beamount, Sir Henry Nevill, Sir Edw. Mountague, Mr. Tate, Sir Antho. Cope, Mr. Crewe, Sir Fr. Knollys, Sir Jo. Bennett, to examine the Matter touching the Priests, To-morrow Morning, at Six a Clock, in the Court of Wards.

Canons.

Sir Matthewe Carewe, Mr. Grimston, bring a Message from the Lords: Thirty of the Lords to confer with this House, touching the Bill of Canons, To-morrow in the Afternoon, in the Painted Chamber. - Assented.

Conference touching the Bill of Canons; - Committees for Religion with these added : - Mr. Hyde, Mr. Whytlock, Mr. Yelverton, Mr. Noy, Mr. Brock, Mr. Hedley, Mr. Carleton, Sir John Sheffield, Sir Warwick Heale, Mr. Dyett, Mr. Holt, Sir Walter Cope, Sir Roger Owen, Mr. Hakewill, Mr. Tate, Sir Jo. Sammes, Sir Tho. Beamount, Sir Dudley Diggs, Sir Wm. Cook, Sir Rob. Moore, Mr. Hoskins, Sir Sam. Sandys, Sir Nich. Saunders, Mr. Hare, Mr. Brook, Sir Roger Owen.

The Committee to make Choice on whom to lay the Burden.