Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 14, 1685-1691. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.
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DIE Veneris, 16 die Augusti.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:
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Arch. Yorke. Epus. London. Epus. Winton. Epus. St. Asaph. Epus. Carlisle. Epus. Rochester. Epus. St. David's. Epus. Bangor. |
L. President. Marq. de Halyfax, C. P. S. Dux de Somerset. (fn. 1) Dux Beaufort. Dux de Bolton. Comes Lyndsey, L. Great Chamberlain. Comes Dorsett, L. Chamberlain. Comes Oxon. Comes Derby. Comes Bedford. Comes Suffolk. Comes Bridgewater. Comes Bolingbrooke. Comes Mulgrave. Comes Rivers. Comes Stamford. Comes Carnarvon. Comes Anglesey. Comes Bath. Comes Craven. Comes Aylesbury. Comes Sussex. Comes Feversham. Comes Maclesfeld. Comes Radnor. Comes Nottingham. Comes Rochester. Comes Fauconberg. Comes Monmouth. Comes Mountagu. Vicecomes Weymouth. |
Ds. Delawar. Ds. Berkeley de B. Ds. Morley. Ds. Pagett. Ds. North. Ds. Chandos. Ds. Sydney. Ds. Lovelace. Ds. Maynard. Ds. Herbert. Ds. Jermyn. Ds. Vaughan. Ds. Ward. Ds. Colepeper. Ds. Clifford. Ds. Lucas. Ds. Granville. Ds. Cornwallis. Ds. Ossulston. Ds. Dartmouth. Ds. Godolphin. Ds. Cholmondley. |
PRAYERS.
Marq. de Halyfax Speaker pro Tempore.
Tanned Leather Bill.
The House took into Consideration the Amendments made by the House of Commons in the Bill concerning Leather.
Which were read Thrice, and Agreed to.
Hamborough, Russia, Eastland, and African Companies heard against the Bill to prohibit the Exportation of Wool.
The Counsel of the Hamborough Company were heard at the Bar; and also the Counsel for the Russia Company and the Eastland Company.
Then a Petition of the African Company was read, desiring to be exempted.
Russian, Eastland, and African Companies exempted from it.
And, upon Consideration, the House agreed to exempt the Russia Company, the Eastland Company, and the African Company.
The Question being put, "Whether to agree to the Clause, as it came from the House of Commons?"
It was Resolved in the Affirmative.
Bill to prohibit the Exportation of Wool.
Hodie 3a vice lecta est Billa, "An Act for the better preventing the Exportation of Wool, and encouraging the Woollen Commodities of this Kingdom."
The Question being put, "Whether to agree, that the Bill, with these Amendments now read, shall pass for a Law?"
It was Resolved in the Affirmative.
Bill to prevent Minors clandestine Marriages.
Hodie 3a vice lecta est Billa, "An Act disabling Minors to marry without the Consent of their Fathers or Guardians, and against their untimely marrying after the Decease of their Fathers, and for preventing all clandestine Marriages for the future."
The Question being put, "Whether this Bill shall pass for a Law?"
It was Resolved in the Affirmative.
Message to H. C. with it; that the Lords agree to the Bill to prohibit the Exportation of Wool; and to the Amendments in the Tanned Leather Bill.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by Sir Jo. Francklyn and Mr. Meredith, which consisted of these Particulars:
1. To deliver the Bill for disabling Minors to marry without the Consent of their Parents, and desire the Concurrence of the Commons thereunto.
2. To let them know, that this House agrees to the Bill for the better preventing the Exportation of Wool, with some Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords desire the Concurrence of the Commons.
3. To let the Commons know, that the Lords do agree to the Amendments which they have made in the Bill for explaining Part of an Act made in the First Year of King James the First, concerning Tanned Leather.
Address to the King, in Behalf of Lords and others, Servants to K. Charles II, who had Securities on the Duties appropriated to repay The States General the Expences of His Majesty's Expedition.
The Address was reported from the Committee, amended; which was read, as follows:
"The Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, upon their Concurrence with the House of Commons in a Bill, intituled, "An Act for appropriating certain Duties, for paying The States Generall of The United Provinces their Charges for His Majesty's Expedition into this Kingdom, and for other Uses," think it incumbent upon them, in Honour and Justice, to lay before Your Majesty, how several of their own Body found themselves aggrieved thereby, in relation to some Debts justly owing to them, on the account of their having been Servants to King Charles the Second; and that their Claim to their Arrears on that Score was weakened and prejudiced by this Bill, which cuts them off from all Pretences whatsoever, except such as can be comprehended within the Sum of 60 Thousand Pounds, which is very far short of answering their just Demands, and which they conceive to have been better and more amply provided for in an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of the late King James the Second, intituled, "(An Act for granting to His Majesty an Imposition upon all Tobacco and Sugar, imported between the 24th Day of June 1685 and the 24th Day of June 1693.)
"Yet, being more concerned for the Advantage of Your Majesty's Affairs than their own particular Benefit, and being sensible of the Importance it may be to Your Majesty, as well as to the Good of Christendom in this Conjuncture, that the Debt owing to The States Generall of The United Provinces, upon the account of their assisting Your Majesty at Your coming into this Nation for our Deliverance from Popery and arbitrary Power should be provided for to their Satisfaction; they have willingly desisted from giving any Obstruction to the speedy passing of the said Bill, and have entirely submitted their Share of their Recompense for their long and faithful Services to their deceased Royal Master to the Conveniency of Your Majesty's present Circumstances.
"Whereupon this House hath thought fit to represent to Your Majesty, this most respectful and dutiful Acquiescence of the Peers herein concerned, in Your Majesty's Justice and Goodness; and to beseech Your Majesty, that You will be pleased to take their Condition, and the Manner of their present Resignation of it, into Your Gracious Consideration and Royal Protection, wherein this House doth promise themselves that the particular Peers concerned will find an entire Security; and whereas there is a Clause in this Bill, which provides that the 60,000l. therein mentioned for the late King Charles's Servants should be applied to such only as were His Servants at the Time of His Decease, it is the humble Desire and Recommendation of this House to Your Majesty, that this Restraint may bring no Prejudice to the just and equitable Pretensions of such of the Servants of His said late Majesty as are Members of this House, or of others in their Circumstances; but that Your Majesty will be graciously pleased to look upon them as entitled to an equal Share of Your Favour and Consideration with what others their Fellow Servants have generally had, or may pretend to, by virtue of this or the former Act of Parliament before mentioned."
The Speaker is appointed to present this Address humbly to His Majesty from this House.
Adjourn.
Marq. de Halyfax, Orator Procerum pro Tempore, declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque in diem Sabbati, videlicet, 17um diem instantis Augusti, hora (fn. 2) secunda Aurora, Dominis sic decernentibus.