Report of Queen's Anfwer.

Torre, Leave for a Bill.

Bateman 916x/us Crawley.

Dobfon verfus Hearne :

Judgement affirmed.

Dr. Wood

ward's Peti tion withdrawn.

Upon reading the Petition of Anna Torre; praying Leave to bring in a Bill, to veft feveral Lands and Tenements, in the Parish of Gisborough, in the County of York, and in the Parish of Haxham, in the County of Lincolne, in Trustees, to enable them to make Sale thereof, for Payment of James Torr's Debts; and also to veft the Manor of Suydale in Trustees, to enable them to fettle One Hundred and Forty Pounds per Annum to the fame Ufes as in a former Settlement is limited:

It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, That the Petitioner hath hereby Leave to bring in a Bill, as defired.

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of Joas Bateman, of London, Merchant, in relation to a Decree made in the Court of Chancery, the Eight and Twentieth of June One Thoufand Seven Hundred and One, by the Mafter of the Rolls; who declared, "That William "Bateman, in the Petition mentioned, was but a Truf "tee for his Father," and decreed a perpetual Injunction against Cornelias Dower, and difmiffed her Bill; and against a Decree made by the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, in May and June One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Two, and other Things in the Decree mentioned; and praying, "That the Order and "Decree of the Lord Keeper may be reverfed, and "the Decree made by the Mafter of the Rolls may be "affirmed; and that John Crawley, in the Appeal men tioned, may anfwer to the faid Appeal:"

It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, That the faid John Crawley may have a Copy of the faid Appeal; and fhall and he is hereby required to put in his Answer thereunto, in Writing, on Thursday the Third Day of February next, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon.

After hearing Counfel, upon the Petition and Appeal of William Dobfon, from a Decree of Difmiffion made in the Court of Chancery, the First Day of June One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Three, on the Behalf of Gilbert Hearne and praying the Reverfal of the faid ; Decree; and duc Confideration of what was offered thereupon:

It is ORDERED and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, That the faid Petition and Appeal of William Dobfon fhall be, and is hereby, difmiffed this House; and that the Decree of Difmiflion therein complained of shall be, and is hereby, affirmed.

added to a Bill of Naturalization now depending in this House, as defired.

verfus

Whereas Thursday next was appointed, for hearing Striblolehill of the Caufe wherein Frances Stribblehill is Appellant, Brett. and Henry Brett and Richard Brett are Refpondents: Counfel being engaged that Day in a great and long Trial in Westminster Hall; it is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, That this House will hear the faid Caufe, by Counsel, at the Bar, on Saturday the 29th Day of this Inftant January, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon; and the Caufe on that Day to be removed.

Comes Manchester. Comes Peterborow. Comes Stamford. Comes Winchilfea. Comes Sunderland. Comes Feverfham. Comes Berkeley. Comes Nottingham. Comes Rochester. Comes Abingdon. Comes Bradford. Comes Orford. Viscount Townshend. Viscount Weymouth.

Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet
on Tuesday the Eighth Day of February next,
at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's
Lodgings near the Houfe of Peers; and to ad-
journ as they please.

Dominus Cuftos Magni Sigilli declaravit præfens Par- Adjourn. liamentum continuandum effe ufque ad et in diem Martis, vicefimum quintum diem inftantis Januarii, hora undecima Aurora, Dom nis fic decernentibus.

Mathew & Ux.

verfus

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of George Mathew Junior, Gentleman, and Martha his Wife, from Phillips & al. a Decree of Difmiffion of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, the Seventeenth Day of November One Thoufand Seven Hundred and One, of the Petitioners Bill there, in a certain Caufe, wherein, the faid Appellants being then under the Age of One and Twenty Years, by George Mathew the Elder, Efquire, their Parent and next Friend, were Complainants, against Chichester Phillips, Dame Sufanna Eaton the Widow and Relict of Sir Symon Eaton Baronet, Thomas Brown and Margaret his Wife, Henry Johnston Efquire, and others, were Defendants; and praying" the Reverfal of the faid Decree; and that the Refpondents may answer to the "faid Appeal; and, in the mean Time, all Proceedings "ftayed in this Caufe:"

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It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, That the faid Chichester Phillips, Thomas Browne and Margaret his Wife, Henry Johnston, and the other Refpondents, may have a Copy of the faid Appeal; and fhall and they are hereby required to put in their Anfwer or refpective Anfwers thereunto, in Writing, on Tuesday the Fifteenth Day of February next, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon; and that, in the mean Time, all Proceedings in the Caufe shall be stayed.

verfus

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of Diana Savage Savage, Wife of Francis Darcy Savage Efquire, and Humble & al, of her Trustee Rachel Countefs Dowager of Westmor land, from a Decree made in the Court of Chancery, the Thirtieth Day of October One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Three, in the Caufe wherein Sir Wm. Humble was Plaintiff; and praying, "That fo much "thereof may be reverfed as any Way tends to the "Prejudice of the Petitioners, or their Demands; and "alfo humbly appeal against a Decree of the Four and "Twentieth Day of July in the Four and Thirtieth Year "of King Charles the Second, and the Proceedings in "the fame Caufe; and that the fame, or fo much thereof as tends to the Petitioners Prejudice, may be fet "afide, discharged, or reverfed; and praying, that Sir "William Humble, Charles Bill, Charles Garret, and "fuch other Perfons, Parties to the faid feveral Suits,

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or fuch of their Reprefentatives as are proper to be Emendat. per "brought before this Houfe, in order to the Peti- Ordin. 19 Feb. ❝tioners Relief, may answer to the faid Petition :"

It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, That the faid Sir William Humble, Charles Bill, and Charles Garret, and other Perfons concerned as aforefaid, may have a Copy of the faid Appeal; and they fhall and are hereby required to put in their Answer thereunto, in Writing, on Tuesday the Forenoon; and that the Service of this Order on the the Eighth Day of February next, at Ten a Clock in Refpondents Clerks or Solicitors in the Causes in Chanthe Forenoon; and that the Service of this Order on the cery fhall be deemed good Service, in order thereunto.

1703.

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of Richard Bradley verfus Bradley and Anne his Wife, Two of the Defendants in Jourden & al. the Court of Chancery, from a Decree made there by the Mafter of the Rolls, the Eighteenth Day of June in the Third Year of the Reign of His late Majefty King James the Second, on the Behalf of Godfrey Ward and Mary his Wife; and praying, "That John Triftram, "Francis Jourden, Thomas Taylor, and William Bell "Administrator of Godfrey, and Frances Mence the "Widow and Executrix of John Mence, may answer "thereunto, and fuch Relief given the Appellants as "to Justice shall seem meet :"

Brifcoe's Bill.

Ds. Cuftos Magni

Sigilli.
Comes Pembroke,
Præfes.

Dux St. Albans.

Comes Lindsey, Mag

nus Camerarius.

Comes Kent.
Comes Derby.
Comes Bridgewater.
Comes Northampton.
Comes Manchefter.
Comes Rivers.
Comes Peterborow.
Comes Stamford.
Comes Winchilfea.
Comes Kingston.
Comes Carnarvon.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarfdale.
Comes Effex.
Comes Anglesey.
Comes Feverfham.
Comes Berkeley.
Comès Abingdon.
Comes Plimouth.

Comes Torrington.
Comes Scarbrough.

Ds. Bergevenny.

Ds. Ferrers.

Ds. Wharton.

Ds. Pagett.
Ds. Grey W.
Ds. Poulett.
Ds. Mobun.
Ds. Vaughan.
Ds. Rockingham.
Ds. Berkeley.
Ds. Craven.
Ds. Offulftone.
Ds. Guilford.
Ds. Cholmondeley.
Ds. Afhburnham.
Ds. Wefton.
Ds. Herbert.
Ds. Sommers.
Ds. Halifax.
Ds. Granville.
Ds. Gernsey.
Ds. Gower.
Ds. Conway.

Weft Riding, York, Regitter Bill:

Adjourn.

Comes Holderness.
Comes Scarbrough.

Comes Bradford.

Comes Romney.

Comes Orford.

Viscount Townshend. Viscount Weymouth.

Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet on Wednesday the Ninth Day of February next, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings near the Houfe of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

Hodie 2a vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, " An Act for "the public regiftering of all Deeds, Conveyances, and "Wills, that fhall be made, of any Honours, Manors, "Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, within the Weft Riding of the County of York, after the Nine "and Twentieth Day of September One Thousand "Seven Hundred and Four."

ORDERED, That the faid Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole Houfe, prefently.

Then the Houfe was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the faid Bill.

After fome Time, the Houfe was refumed.

And the Lord Bishop of Salisbury reported, "That "the Committee had gone through the faid Bill; and "think it fit to pass, without any Amendment."

ORDERED, That the faid Bill be read a Third Time To-morrow, at One a Clock.

Dominus Cuftos Magni Sigilli declaravit præfens Parliamentum continuandum effe ufque ad et in diem Mercurii, vicefimum fextum diem inftantis Januarii, hora · undecima Aurora, Dominis fic decernentibus.

Comes Orford.

draw up a

Cafe.

Lords Committees appointed to draw up the State Athby verfus of the Cafe upon the Writ of Error, lately de-White & al. pending in this House, wherein Mathew Afbby in Error, was Plaintiff, and William White, Richard Tal-Committee to boys, William Bell, and Richard Heydon, were State of the Defendants, and the Proceedings of this House upon the faid Writ of Error; and report to the House; and that the Lord Chief Juftice of Her Majefty's Court of Queen's Bench and the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer do affift their Lordships:

Brewer and others:

Who brought up a Bill, intituled, "An Act for "vesting several Eftates of Sir Charles Bickerfaffe "Knight, in Trustees, to be fold, for Payment of Debts, "and making Provision for his Wife and Daughter;" to which they defire the Concurrence of this House.

Hodie 1 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An Act for "vesting several Eftates of Sir Charles Bickerstaffe "Knight in Trustees, to be fold, for Payment of "Debts, and making Provision for his Wife and Daughter."

A Meffage from the Houfe of Commons, by Mr. Comyns and others:

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Who brought up a Bill, intituled, " An Act for vesting in Trustees Part of the Estate late of Thomas "Harlackenden Bowes Efquire, for Payment of the "Debts and Legacies wherewith the faid Eftate is charged; and for preserving the Residue, clear of all Charges, for the Benefit of Thomas Bowes Efquire, an Infant;" to which they defire the Concurrence of this House.

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Hodie vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An Act for "vesting in Trustees Part of the Estate late of Thomas "Harlackenden Bowes Efquire, for Payment of the "Debts and Legacies wherewith the faid Eftate is "charged; and for preferving the Refidue, clear of all "Charges, for the Benefit of Thomas Bowes Efquire, an Infant."

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The Lord Bishop of Salisbury reported from the Lords Committees, the Bill, intituled, " An Act to enable "Arabella Foote to lay out Monies, belonging to her "Son Topham Foote, in Purchases of Lands for his Be"nefit," as fit to pafs, without any Amendment.

Marefcallus. Comes Ferfey, Camerarius. Comes Kent. Comes Derby. Comes Bridgewa

ter.

Ds. Grey W.

Ds. Poulet.
Ds. Mohun.
Ds. Vaughan.
Ds. Rockingham.
Ds. Lexington.
Ds. Berkeley.
Ds. Craven.
Ds. Guilford.
Ds. Cholmondeley.
Ds. Afhburnham.
Ds. Herbert.

Comes Northamp

Ds. Sommers.

ton.

Comes Manchester.
Comes Rivers.
Comes Peterborow.
Comes Stamford.
Comes Winchilfea..
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarfdale.
Comes Effex.
Comes Anglesey.
Comes Feverfham.
Comes Berkeley.
Comes Rochefter.
Comes Holderneffe.
Comes Portland.
Comes Torrington.
Comes Scarbrough.
Comes Bradford.
Comes Romney.
Comes Orford.
Viscount Townshend.
Viscount Weymouth.

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

Nat. Bill.

The Lord Bishop of Salisbury reported from the Lords St. Leger & al. Committees, the Bill, intituled, " An Act for natu"ralizing Henry Boifroud de St. Leger, Peter de la "Grange, Lewis Wadden, and others," as fit to pass, with feveral Amendments.

Which were read Twice, and agreed to; and the Bill ordered to be engroffed, with the faid Amendments.

The House being this Day moved, on the Behalf of Haffell & al. Sir Thomas Knatchball, Refpondent to the Petition and sir T.Knatch verfus Appeal of Anne Haffell and Sir Charles Cottrel, "That bull. "a Day may be appointed, for hearing of the faid "Caufe:"

It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, That this Houfe will hear the