House of Lords Journal Volume 2: Note of Bills

A Calendar of Bills brought in this Session.

A Note of such Bills as have been brought into the House this present Session of Parliament, begun the 18th of November, 1606.

Rejected.

AN Act for the avoiding of such Trouble and Inconveniencies as hath grown in the affering, streiting, and levying of certain Fines and Amerciaments, in the King's Majesty's Court at Westminster.

Expedit.

An Act for the Confirmation of the King's Majesty's Letters Patents, made to Robert Bathurst, Esquire, of the Manor and Borough of Lachlade, in the County of Glocester.

(fn. 1) An Act for Reformation of Abuses committed in the Court of Marshalsea.

Expedit.

An Act for the Confirmation of the King's Majesty's Letters Patents, made to William Bourchieur, Esquire, of the Manor of Bardisley, in the County of Gloucester.

Rejected.

An Act for the Sale of some Part of the Lands of Sir Frauncis Gawdie, Knight, deceased, late Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, for Payment of his Debts.

An Act to repress the inordinate Haunting of Alehouses.

A new Bill instead thereof.

An Act to restrain the Multitude of inconvenient Buildings, in and about the Cities of London and Westminster.

Expedit.

An Act for assuring of the Advowson of the Vicarage of Chesthunt to Robert Earl of Salisbury and his Heirs; and of the Advowson of the Rectory of Orsett to Richard Bishop of London and his Successors.

Rejected.

An Act to enable Henry Jernegen, Esquire, and Frauncis his Wife, to sell the Manor of Mutford, in the County of Suffolke, and for Confirmation of the Sale made to Thomas Hirne.

L. H.

An Act to to make the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, of William Cardinall, deceased, liable to the Payment of Five Hundred Pounds, heretofore decreed in His Majesty's Court of Whitehall, with Costs and Damages.

L. H.

An Act against dividing of Tenements, and against Inmates, Undersetters, Unlawful Victualers, and other Houses of Disorder, in and about London and Westminster. The Bill delivered to the Lord Chief Justice.

An Act to direct some Proceeding in Causes and Courts Ecclesiastical, touching Accusation, and the Oath ex officio.

Expedit.

An Act for the better enabling of John Evelin, Esquire, to make Sale of certain Lands, for the Payment of his Debts.

Expedit.

An Act to explain a former Act, made the last Session of this Parliament, intituled, An Act to enable all His Majesty's Loving Subjects of England and Wales, to trade freely into the Dominions of Spayne, Portugall, and France.

A new Bill instead thereof.

An Act for Confirmation of certain Lands to Sir William Smith, Knight, against a pretended Right of the Warden and College of All Souls, in Oxford, according to the Award of divers Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and divers Judges of the Realm, by Consent of the said Warden and College.

C.

An Act for more Credit to be required in Wills of Land.

An Act for the further repressing of Usury.

A new Bill instead of it.

An Act for the Preservation and Encrease of Woods and Timber.

A new Bill instead thereof, but of the same Title.

An Act for the Establishment and Assurance of divers of the Possessions and Hereditaments of Ferdinando late Earl of Derbie.

Expedit. L. H.

An Act for assuring and confirming of the Lands, Tenements, and Rents, heretofore granted, devised, or conveyed, to several Companies within the City of London.

A new Bill instead thereof.

An Act for the Confirmation of Grants made, or to be made, by Commissions heretofore granted, or hereafter to be granted, for the amending of Defective Titles.

An Act against Non-residence and Pluralities of Benefices.

An Act restraining the Execution of Canons Ecclesiastical not confirmed by Parliament.

An Act for some Addition to be made unto a Statute, made in the Eighth Year of King Henry the Sixth, Cap. Nono, concerning Forcible Entries.

Expedit.

An Act for repressing the odious and loathsome Sin of Drunkenness.

Expedit.

An Act to restrain the Utterance of Beer and Ale to Alehouse-keepers and Tipplers not licensed.

Expedit.

An Act for further Assurance to the Purchasers of certain Lands, late Sir Jonathan Trelawnies, Knight, deceased, appointed by Act of Parliament to be sold, for Payment of his Debts.

C.

An Act to convert the Manor and Prebend of Cutton, in the County of Devon (being a Prebend sine Cura), to the Maintenance of a Preaching Minister, who shall also teach a Free Grammar School.

Expedit.

An Act touching the drowned Marshes of Lesnes and Fants, in the County of Kent.

Expedit.

An Act whereby Richard Sackvile, Esquire, is enabled to make a Surrender unto the King's Majesty of the Offices of Chief Butler of England and Wales, notwithstanding his Minority of Years.

L. H.

An Act for Confirmation of Letters Patents to be made upon Composition with the King's Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for Seven Years.

L. H. Expedit.

An Act of Restitution in Blood of the Sons and Daughters of Edward Windsor.

L. H. Expedit.

An Act for the Confirmation of certain Lands to the Warden and College of The Souls of all the Faithful People deceased, of Oxon, and of other Lands to Sir William Smith, Knight.

Rejected.

An Act for the more convenient Examination and Approbation of Surgeons in and about the City of London, by Men expert and skilful in that Service and Faculty, and for their Attendance upon their Patients and Cures.

Expedit.

An Act for the Naturalizing of John Ramsden.

Expedit.

An Act for the Assignment of a Jointure to such Wife as John Tomson, Son and Heir of Robert Tompson, a Lunatick, shall marry, and for present Maintenance of the said John.

Expedit.

An Act for the Sale of the Lands of William Waller, Esquire, to perform a Decree in Chancery, for the Payment of Five Hundred and Five Pounds, Ten Shillings, and Six Pence.

A new Bill instead thereof.

An Act for the Establishment of an Exchange of Manors, Lands, and Hereditaments, late Parcel of the Archbishoprick of Canterbury, for Tithes, Tenths, and Parsonages, late belonging to the Crown.

Expedit.

An Act for Explanation of the Statute, made in the Third Year of the Reign of King James, intituled, "An Act for the bringing of a Fresh Stream of Running Water to the North Parts of the City of London."

Expedit.

An Act for the Naturalizing of James Desmaistres, of the Parish of St. Buttolphes without Algate, and Marie his Wife.

Expedit.

An Act for the Naturalizing of Peter Baro, alias Barow, Doctor of Physick, and Marie his Wife.

Expedit.

An Act for the Repealing of so much of One Branch of a Statute, made in the First Year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act concerning Tanners, Curriers, Shoe-makers, and other Artificers, occupying the Cutting of Leather," as concerneth the Sealing of Sheepskins, and to avoid selling of Tann'd Leather by Weight.

An Act for the Explanation of the Statute, made in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of the late Queen Elizabeth, intituled, "An Act to reform certain Disorders, touching Ministers of the Church, and concerning Subscription."

L. H. Expedit.

An Act for the better Provision of Meadow and Pasture, for necessary Maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage, in the Manors, Lordships, and Parishes, of Marden, alias Mawarden, Bodenham, Wellington, Sutton St. Mi'haell, Sutton St. Nicholas, Murton upon Lugg, and the Parish (fn. 1) of Pipe, and every of them, in the County of Hereford.

An Act for the Strengthening, Explanation, and Enlarging of an Act of Parliament, made in the Thirty-second Year of King Henrie the Eighth, of Famous Memory, for the Incorporation of Six or Four Church-wardens, in the Parish of St. Saviours, in Southwarke.

An Act for Relief of Curriers inhabiting in London, or within Three Miles thereof.

L. H.

An Act for the true Making of Woollen Cloths.

L. H. Expedit.

An Act for the Naturalizing of Fabian Smith.

L. H. Expedit.

An Act for the Assurance of the House of Theobalds, and divers Manors and other Lands, to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, for Term of Her Life; and of the same House, Manors, and Lands, with other Manors and Lands, to the King's Highness, His Heirs and Successors; and for the Assurance of other Manors and Lands to the Earl of Salisbury and his Heirs.

An Act for the Naturalizing of Thomas Annott.

Expedit.

An Act for the Founding and Incorporating of a Free Grammar School, in the Town of Northlech, in the County of Glocester.

c.

An Act for the Repealing of one Clause, or Branch, of a Statute, made in the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord James, the King's Majesty that now is, of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the Thirty-seventh, intituled, An Act concerning Wherrymen and Watermen.

Expedit.

† An Act for the utter Abolition of all Memory of Hostility, and the Dependances thereof, between England and Scotland; and for the repressing of Occasions of Discords and Disorders in Time to come.

Expedit.

An Act to give Costs to the Defendant upon a Nonsuit of the Plaintiff, or a Verdict against him.

Expedit.

An Act for Confirmation of some Part of a Charter, granted by King Henry the Sixth, to the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgesses, of the Town of Southampton, and for Relief of the said Town.

Expedit.

An Act for Confirmation of an Agreement, betwixt Edward Lord Bruce, and Mi'haell Doiley, and others, of the Lands late of William Ibgrave, deceased.

C.

An Act to reform the Abuses of Mariners and Sailors.

L. H.

An Act for the enabling of John Goode, Esquire, to convey unto His Majesty a small Portion of Land, during a Term of Years.

C.

An Act for the confirming and ratifying of the Rent Charges given, bequeathed, and appointed, by the last Will and Testament of Tho. Hoord, Esquire, to be expended and bestowed upon amending of Highways, &c.

L. H.

An Act for the Confirmation of all Letters Patents and Grants, to be made by the King's Majesty, of any Copyhold Lands or Tenements, Parcel of any His Highness's Manors.

L. H.

An Act to restrain the using of any Leather made of Horse Hides, or Hog Skins, by Shoe-makers, Saddlers, Girdlers, Coach-Harness-makers, and others.

C.

An Act for Restraint of going into Foreign Countries, and for Restraint of exporting Gold and Silver out of this Realm.

Exped.

An Act for the Draining of certain Fens and Low Grounds, within the Isle of Elie, subject to Hurt by Surrounding, containing about 6000 Acres, compassed about with certain Banks, commonly called and named The Ring of Waldersey and Coldham.

L. H.

An Act for the Naturalizing of John Steward, Esquires, Brother and Heir Apparent to Patrick Earl of Orkney.

L. H.

An Act whereby the Counterseiting of His Majesty's Great Seal of Scotland, or Privy Seal of Scotland, is made Treason.