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Lord Howard

of Eff. takes his Seat.

Lord Willoughby of P. takes the

Oaths.

Queen's Speech to be confidered.

Surveyor Ge neral to at

tend.

Poor's Bill.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

"I heartily with fome eafy, and lefs chargeable, "Method could be found, for the fpeedy and effectual Manning of the Fleet.

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"I must also recommend to you to make fome Re"gulation, for preventing the exceffive Price of Coals. "I have examined this Matter, and taken particular "Care to appoint Convoys for that Service; but the "Price has not been in the leaft abated, notwithstand"ing a very confiderable Quantity has been imported "fince that Time. This gives great Ground of Suf picion, there may be a Combination of fome Perfons, "to enrich themselves by a general Oppreffion of "others, and particularly the Poor: It will deferve મંદ your Confideration, how to remedy this great Incon

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venience.

"And, in all your Affairs, I must recommend to you as much Dispatch as the Nature of them will admit. "This is neceffary, to make our Preparations early; on "which, in great Measure, depends the good Succefs "of all our Enterprizes.

વંદ

"I want Words to exprefs to you My earneft Defires "of feeing all My Subjects in perfect Peace and Union "among themselves: I have nothing fo much at Heart, "as their general Welfare and Happiness. Let Me "therefore defire you all, that you would carefully "avoid any Heats and Divifions, that may difappoint "Me of that Satisfaction, and give Encouragement to "the common Enemies of our Church and State."

A. 1703.

Privileges.

Lords Committees appointed to confider of the Cuf- Committee toms and Orders of the House, and the Privileges of Parliament, and of the Peers of this Kingdom and Lords of Parliament.

Ds. Lawarr.
Ds. Ferrers.
Ds. Wharton.
Ds. Paget.
Ds. Howard Eff.
Ds. North & Grey
Ds. Chandos.
Ds. Grey W.
Ds. Mobun.
Ds. Vaughan.
Ds. Culpeper.
Ds. Berkeley.
D's. Ofborne.
Ds. Dartmouth.
Ds. Stawel.

Ds. Guilford.
Ds. Afhburnham.
Ds. Bernard.

Ds. Halifax. Ds. Granville.

Their Lordships, or any Seven of them; to meet on Monday next, at Four of the Clock in the Afternoon, in the Houfe of Peers; and every Monday after; and to adjourn as they please.

Lords Sub-committees appointed to confider of the Orders and Customs of the Houfe, and Privileges of the Peers of this Kingdom and Lords of Par'liament; and to perufe and perfect the Journal of the laft Parliament, and alfo the Journal of this Parliament.

Lords added per Or
der, 9o Februarii,
1703.

Comes Pembroke,
P.
D. Devon, Se-
nefcallus.

D. Somerfet.
D. Northumber-

land.
D. Newcastle.
Comes Lindley,
Magnus Ca-

merarius.

Comes Carlisle,
Marefcallus.

Comes Derby.
Comes Manchef

ter.
Comes River's.
Comes Peter-
borow.
Comes Winchil
Sea.
Comes Kingston.
Comes Carnar

von.

Committee fo the Journale

Dux Richmond. Epus. Roffen. Ds. Lawarri

Dux South

ampton. Dux Bolton.

Comes Kent. Comes Bridge

water.

Comes Stamford. Comes Sunder

land. Comes Sand

wich.

Epus. Norwic. Epus. Petrib. Epus. Ciceftr. Epus. Bangor.

Arch. Ebor.

Ds. Ferrers.
Ds. North &

Grey.
Ds. Chandos.
Ds. Grey W.
Ds. Mohun.
Ds. Byron.
Ds. Culpeper.
Ds. Dartmouth.

Comes Abingdon. Epus. Lich. &

Viscount Weymouth.

Cov. Epus. Lincoln.

Epus. Oxon.

Epus. St. Asaph. Ds. Bergevenny

Ds. Wharton.

Ld. Mohun verfus

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of Charles Lord D. Hamilton. Mohun, Executor of the laft Will and Teftament of the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Maclesfeld, deceased, who was Executor of the laft Will and Teftament of the Right Honourable Elizabeth Lady Gerrard, deceased, who was Widow of Digby Lord Gerrard, deceased, from a Decree made in the Court of Chancery, the Seven and Twentieth Day of January One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Two, and the fubfequent Orders thereupon, in a Caufe wherein James Duke of Hamilton, and Elizabeth Dutchefs of Hamilton his Wife, Daughter and Heir of the faid Digby Lord Gerrard by the faid Elizabeth Lady Gerrard were Plaintiffs, and the now Appellant Defendant; and praying, "That the faid Decree, and all fubfequent Orders and Proceedings, may be "reverfed; and that the Service of the Refpondents "Clerk in Chancery may be a good Service, in order "to answer the faid Appeal:"

Spencer et al.

verfus

It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, That the faid James Duke of Hamilton and Elizabeth Dutchefs of Hamilton his Wife, may have a Copy of the faid Appeal; and fhall and they are hereby required to put in their Anfwer thereunto, in Writing, on Friday the Nineteenth Day of this Inftant November, at Eleven a Clock in the Forenoon; and that the Service of this Order upon the Refpondents Clerk in Chancery fhall be a good Service in order thereunto.

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of Edward Conold et al. Spencer and Robert Sprakling, against Two Decrees of the Court of Exchequer, made the Nine and Twentieth Day of June laft; One of them, in a Caufe wherein Edward Spencer Gentleman was Plaintiff, and Sir James Coliet Knight and John Conold Clerk were Defendants; and the other, in a Caufe wherein the faid John Conold was Plaintiff, and the Petitioner Sprakling Defendant; and praying the Reverfal of the faid Decrees; and that Proceedings may be stayed in the Court below:

Epus. St. Asaph.

fuerunt:

Dux Cumberland.
Ds. Cuftos Magni
Sigilli.

Ds. Godolphin, Thefaurarius Angl.

Ds. Lawarr.

Ds. Ferrers.

Ds. Wharton.

Ds. Willughby Par.

Dux de Comit. Buck- Ds. Pagett. ingham & Normanby, Ds. Chandos.

Cuftos Privati Si

gilli. Dux Devonshire,

Senefcallus.

Dux Somerfet.

Dux Richmond.
Dux Bolton.

Dux Marlborough.

Ds. North & Grey

Ds. Mohun.

Ds. Byron.
Ds. Vaughan.
Ds. Culpeper.
Ds. Dartmouth.
Ds. Guilford.
Ds. Afhburnham.
Ds. Bernard.

Comes Jerzey, Came- Ds. Halifax. Ds. Granville.

rarius.

Ux. verfus

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of James Fou- Foubert et bert and Charlott his Wife, and Efther Duplate, from a Turft. Decree made in the Court of Chancery, in Michaelmas Term One Thousand Seven Hundred and Two, in a Caufe there depending, wherein the Petitioners were Plaintiffs, and Thomas Turft and others were Defendants; and praying the Reverfal of the faid Decree, as to all but to the Eight Hundred Livres and Intereft therein mentioned :

It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, That the faid Thomas Turft and other Defendants may have a Copy of the faid Appeal; and shall and they are hereby required to put in their Anfwer thereunto, in Writing, on Saturday the Twentieth Day of this Inftant November, at Eleven a Clock in the Forenoon.

Chapinan.

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of William Fletcher Fletcher and Jane his Wife, from a Decree made in the verfus Court of Chancery, the Sixteenth Day of June One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety-nine, in a Caufe wherein Thomas Chapman Efquire, Roger Chapman Infant, by the aforefaid Thomas his Father and next Friend, by Bill of Review, were Plaintiffs, against the said William Fletcher and his Wife, Thomas Newton and George Cockquerel, Defendants; and praying Relief therein : It

4 P

the Crowd

"Her Majefty is prefent in this Houfe, and for the Re-when the ception of thofe that fhall be admitted to fee the Queen is preQueen upon the Throne."

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Sir Chriftopher Wren fays, "If a Committee of Two "or Three Lords were appointed to difcourfe with "him, he could propofe the Conveniencies and Incon"veniencies of altering the House." Whereupon, he being withdrawn,

fent:

confider of it.

Lords Committees were appointed, to confider of this Committee to Matter, and speak with Sir Chriftopher Wren; and report to the House. Comes Pembroke,

Præfes.

Sir Christopher Wren to attend..

Their Lordships, or any Three of them; to meet
on Saturday next, at Ten a Clock in the Fore-
noon, in the Prince's Lodgings near the House
of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

The Earl of Peterborow reported from the Lords Committees, an humble Addrefs, to be prefented to Her Majefty from this Houfe, upon Her Majefty's moft Gracious Speech, and the Debate of the House.

Which was read, as followeth; (videlicet,)

"We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, Address. "the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament af"fembled, do offer up our hearty Acknowledgements to "ALMIGHTY GOD, for the Prefervation of Your Royal "Perfon, fo effential to the Happinefs of Your People, "and the Safety of Europe.

"Your Majefty may depend upon Security at Home, "in the Love of Your People. Our Perfons and Fortunes "fhall ever be ready to defend You upon all Occasions; "and Your Majefty may therefore, with the greater "Safety and Glory, fend Your Fleets and Armies Abroad, "in the Defence of Your Allies.

"The happy Declaration of the Duke of Savoy, for "the common Intereft, gives Your Majefty a seasonable "Opportunity to fhew Your Compaffion and Concern "for thofe Proteftants in the South of France, who lie "under the heaviest Perfecution and Oppreffion.

"We lament, for ourselves and others, the unavoid"able Expences of War; but have Reafon to thank "GOD, and Your Majefty, that we are free from all "the other Calamities of it, having almost nothing else "to wifh for (being fecured of a Proteftant Succeffion) "but Your long and happy Reign over us: And we shall "moft willingly pay our Proportion of Taxes, encouraged by Your Royal Generofity for the Ease of Your People, and by the frugal Management of what is given; being fenfible there is no better Way to fave "the Wealth of the Nation, than by carrying on the "War at this Time with the utmost Vigour.

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between Whitehall and The Old Palace Yard in Weftminfter, from Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon until Three of the Clock in the Afternoon of the fame Day, during

the Sitting of this Parliament; and that no Carriages, Drays, or Carts, be permitted to pafs through the faid Streets and Paffages, between the Hours aforefaid, during the Sitting of this Parliament; and herein fpecial Care is to be taken, by the faid Deputy Steward, Justices of the Peace, Conftables, and all other Officers herein concerned, as the contrary will be answered to this House.

Queen to be attended.

Order to pre

in the Streets.

Comes Stamford.

Comes Kingston. Comes Sunderland.

Comes Sandwich. Comes Abingdon. Comes Portland. Comes Bradford.

PRAYER S.

Ds. Wefton. Ds. Halifax. Ds. Gernfey.

Upon Complaint made to this House, "That there vent Stoppages is fuch an Interruption, by Hackney Coaches, Carts, "and Drays, in King's-ftreet, and the Paffages in The Old "Palace Yard, in Weftminster, that the Lords and others "are frequently hindered from coming to this House, "to the great Inconveniency of the Members of both

"Houfes:"

It is thereupon ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, That the High Steward of the City of Wefiminfier, or his Deputy, together with the Juftices of the Peace for the faid City, fhall, by their Care and Directions to the Conftables and other Officers within the faid Limits, take fpecial Order, that no empty Hackney Coaches be fuffered to make any Stay,

Comes Ferfey, Came- Ds. Stawell.

Comes Kent.

Comes Bridgewater. Ds. Wefton.

Comes Peterborow.

Comes Stamford.
Comes Kingston.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Sandwich.

Comes Effex.
Comes Feverfham.
Comes Radnor.

Comes Berkeley.

Comes Nottingham. Comes Abingdon. Comes Portland. Comes Bradford. Comes Romney. Viscount Weymouth.

PRAYER S.

Ds. Halifax.

Ds. Granville

Ds. Gernfey.

* Origin. Epus.

fwer to Addrefs.