Then the Lords Commiffioners; (videlicet,) the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England; on whofe Right Hand fat the Lord Prefident and Earl Marshal; and on his Left Hand the Lord Steward, Lord Chamberlain, and Earl of Manchester Secretary of State; on a Form placed across the Houfe, between the Throne and the Woolfack; gave Order to the Deputy Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, to fignify to the Houfe of Commons, "That the King had granted a Commiffion, under the "Great Seal of England, for giving the Royal Affent "to thofe Bills which have been agreed to by both "Houses of Parliament; and the Lords commiffioned "by the King do defire that they would prefently come up, with their Speaker, to be prefent at the paffing "thereof."

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The Lords were in their Robes.

Then the Commons being come, with their Speaker ; the Lord Keeper made a fhort Introduction, as follows; (videlicet,)

"My Lords; and you the Knights, Citizens, and "Burgeffes, in Parliament affembled;

"WILLIAM R.

"WILLIAM the Third by the Grace of GOD of "England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender "of the Faith, &c. To Our Right Trufty and Well"beloved the Lords, and to Our Right Trufty and Well"beloved the Knights, Citizens, and Burgeffes, the Com"mons in this prefent Parliament affembled; Greeting. "We have feen, and perfectly understood, an Act, inti"tuled, "An Act for the Attainder of the pretended "Prince of Wales, of High Treafon ;" and alfo one "other Act, intituled, " An Act for punishing of Of"ficers and Soldiers that fhall mutiny or defert, in England or Ireland;" and also one other Act, intituled, "An Act for continuing an Act, intituled, An "Act that the folemn Affirmation and Declaration of "the People called Quakers, fhall be accepted inftead " of an Oath in the ufual Form;" and alfo one other "Act, intituled, "An Act to naturalize Charlotte the "Wife of Hugh Bofcawen Efquire;" annexed and "affixed to thefe Prefents, and agreed and accorded on "by you Our Loving Subjects, the Lords and Commons "in this Our prefent Parliament affembled, and endorsed by you as hath been accustomed And albeit the faid "Acts by you Our faid Subjects, the Lords and Con"mons in this Our prefent Parliament affembled, are

"His Majefty, by an unhappy Accident, being pre"vented from coming hither in His own Perfon, to pass "the feveral Bills agreed on by both Houses, has com"manded a Commiffion under His Great Seal to be "made out, by which He has given His Royal Affent "to the faid Bills; and hath thereby alfo empowered "and commiffionated feveral Lords in the faid Commiffion "named, to declare and notify to both Houses fuch "His Affent to the faid Bills; which Commiffion we defire may be openly read to you."

Then the Clerk of the Parliaments received the Commiffion from the Lord Keeper on his Knee, and brought it to the Table.

Where the fame was read, in hæc verba; (videlicet,)

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fully agreed and confented unto; yet neverthele's the "fame are no: of Force and Effect in the Law, without "Our Royal Affent given and put to the faid Afts: And "forafmuch as We are hindered by an unhappy Acci"dent, and cannot conveniently at this prefent be Per« Our faid Parliament, being the Place accustomed to "fonally in Our Royal Perfon in the Higher House of "give Our Royal Affent to fuch Acts as have been agreed upon by you Our faid Subjects the Lords and Commons; We have therefore caufed thefe Our Letters "Patents to be made, and have figned the fame; and by "the fame do give and put Our Royal Affent to the faid "Acts, and to all Articles, Claufes,and Provifions therein "contained; and have fully agreed and affented to the "faid Acts; willing that the faid Acts, and every Article, "Claufe, Sentence, and Provifion therein contained, from "henceforth fhall be of the fame Strength, Force and

Effect, as if We had been Perfonally prefent in the "faid Higher Houfe, and had openly and publicly, in "the Prefence of you all, affented to the fame; and We "do by thefe Prefents declare and notify the fame Our "Royal Affent, as well to you the Lords Spiritual and "Temporal, and the Commons aforefaid, as to all others "whom it may concern; commanding alfo, by these Pre"fents, as well Our Keeper of Our Great Seal of Eng"land, and Our Right Trufty and Right Well-beloved "Coufins and Counfellors Charles Duke of Somerset "Prefident of Our Council, Thomas Farl of Pembroke "&Montgomery Lord High Admiral of England, William "Duke of Devonshire Steward of Our Household, "Charles Earl of Carlisle Earl Marshal of England, "Charles Earl of Manchester One of Our Principal Se"cretaries of State, and Edward Earl of Ferfey Cham"berlain of Our Household, or any Two or more of "them, to declare and notify this Our Royal Affent, " in Our Abfence, in the faid Higher Houfe, in the Pre"fence of you the faid Lords and the Commons of Our "Parliament, there to be affembled for that Purpose ; " and the Clerk of Our Parliaments to endorfe the faid "Acts with fuch Terins and Words, in Our Name, as is "requifite and hath been accustomed for the faine; and "alfo to enroll thefe Our Letters Patents and the faid Acts "in the Parliament Roll; and thefe Our Letters Patents "fhall be to every of them a fufficient Warrant in that "Behalf: And finally We declare and will, that after "this Our Royal Affent given and paffed by thefe Prefents, and declared and notified as is aforefaid, that then immediately the faid Acts fhall be taken, accepted, and "admitted, good, futficient, and perfect Acts of Parliament, "in Law, to all Intents, Conftructions and Purposes, and to "be put in due Execution accordingly; the Continuance

Wentworth

verfus

After hearing Counsel, upon the Petition and ApLd, Raby: peal of the Honourable Thomas Wentworth Efquire, from feveral Decrees, Orders, and Reports, thereupon made, in the Chancery of Ireland, in a certain Caufe there depending, wherein the faid Appellant and others, the Executors of the Right Honourable William Earl of Strafford, the Appellant's late Uncle, were Complainants, against the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Raby and Mrs. Anne Wentworth, and others, Defendants; and praying Relief, against the Order of the Judges, Commiffioners of the Court of Chancery, of the One and Twentieth of February One Thousand Seven Hundred; as alfo former Orders in the Appeal mentioned, of the Fifteenth of July and the One and Twentieth of November One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety-nine, and the Nine and Twentieth of November and the Thirteenth of January One Thoufand Seven Hundred, made by the Lord Chancellor Methwen, and the Mafters Reports thereupon; which the Petitioner conceives are erroneous; and from and against so much and fuch Parts of the faid feveral Orders, and Reports grounded thereupon, as hinder and restrain the Petitioner from raveling into the Confiderations of the Eleven Deeds of Mortgage, and from affigning and rectifying the Errors and Falfifications in the Writing mentioned in the faid Appeal, delivered by Sir William Wentworth, containing the Particulars of and for which the Confiderations of the faid feveral Deeds. were and are made up, and which direct the Payment of Interest upon Intereft; and whereby the Sums of Twenty Pounds, and Two Hundred Forty-nine Pounds, Five Shillings, and Four Pence, are difallowed to the Petitioner; and which direct the Payment of the Rents and Profits of the Petitioners Eftate into Court, and which tend to excufe the Refpondents from difcounting and allowing for the Monies received by Sir William Wentworth, from the Times of the Receipt thereof; as alfo hearing Counfel, upon the Anfwer of Thomas Lord Raby and Anne Wentworth his Sifter put in thereunto; and due Confideration had thereof:

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præfentes

Epus. Wigorn: Epus. Sarum. Epus. Ceftr. Epus. Lincoln. Epus. Oxon. Epus. Bangor.

fuerunt:

callus.

Dux Ormonde.
Dux Bolton.

March. Normanby.
Comes Lindley, Mag-

nus Camerarius. Comes Carlisle, Marefcallus. Comes Ferfey, Camerarius.

Comes Leicester. Comes Manchester. Comes Rivers. Comes Peterborow. Comes Stamford. Comes Kingston. Comes Carnarvon. Comes Thanet. Comes Scarfdale. Comes Effex. Comes Anglesey. Comes Shaftesbury. Comes Radnor. Comes Nottingham. Comes Abingdon. Comes Plimouth. Comes Portland. Comes Scarbrough. Comes Warrington. Comes Bradford. Viscount Hereford. Viscount Townshend.

Viscount Weymouth.

Viscount Longueville.

PRAYER S.

Ds. Ferrers.

Ds. Wharton.

Ds. North & Grey.

Ds. Grey W. Ds. Poulet. Ds. Howard Efc. Ds. Mobun. Ds. Raby. Ds. Leigh. Ds. Vaughan. Ds. Culpeper. Ds. Lucas. Ds. Rockingham. Ds. Lexington. Ds. Berkeley Str. Ds. Cornwallis. Ds. Craven. Ds. Offulftone. Ds. Dartmouth. Ds. Stawell. Ds. Guilford. Ds. Godolphin. Ds. Jeffreys. Ds. Cholmondeley. Ds. Afhburnham. Ds. Herbert. Ds. Haverfham.

Sir W. Buck et al.

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of Thomas Dent verfus Dent Doctor in Divinity, Complainant, against Sir William Buck Baronet, William Walker, alias Walcot, Edward Kitchen, Thomas fervafe, John Young, Thomas Sheppard, Jofeph Smith, Richard Clifton, John Rawlinson, John Garland, Timothy Lacy, Richard Raftall, and John Eagle, Defendants, from a Difmiffion of the Petitioner's Bill in the Court of Exchequer Chamber, made and pro- . nounced the One and Twentieth of February One Thoufand Seven Hundred, and affirmed upon a Ke-hearing on the Sixth Day of December laft; and praying "the fame may be fet afide and reversed; and that he may have "Tithes in Kind decreed, as well of Hanby, as of Grange Leas; and that the Defendants abovementioned may answer to this Appeal; and that, in the mean "Time, Proceedings may be stayed; and that the Ser"vice of the Refpondents Clerk in the Exchequer may "be good Service:"

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It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, That the faid Sir William Buck, William Walker, Edward Kitchen, Thomas Fervafe, John Young, Thomas Sheppard, Jofeph Smith, Richard Clifton, John Rawlinfon, John Garland, Timothy Lacy, Richard Rafall, and John Eagle, may have a Copy of the faid Appeal; and fhall and they are hereby required

Barnwell,

Leave for a Bill.

Purefoy's Bill.

Ld. North &

required to put in their Anfwers thereunto, in Writing, on Tuesday the Tenth Day of this Inftant March, at Eleven a Clock in the Forenoon; and that the Service of this Order upon the Refpondents Clerk in the Exchequer fhall be good Service; and, in the mean Time, all Proceedings fhall be ftayed in the Court below.

Upon reading the Petition of Abraham Barnewell and Mary his Wife; praying Leave to bring in a Bill, for difpofing of fome Part of their Estate, to pay his Debts, and Sifters Portions:

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

The Lord North and Grey took the Oaths, and made Grey takes the and fubfcribed the Declaration, pursuant to the Statute; and figned the Affociation.

Oaths.

&c. of Lon

Upon reading the Petition of the Mayor, Commo-Id. Mayor, nalty, and Citizens, of the City of London, the Wardens don, a Bill to and Commonalty of the Mystery of the Mercers of the build Grelham City of London, and the Lecturers of Gresham Colledge, College. in the faid City; praying Leave to bring in a Bill, to empower the City and Company to pull down the prefent Building called Gresham Colledge, and to make fuch Building for the Lecturers as is agreed upon, which will be more convenient; and for the better Performance of the Charities given by Sir Thomas Gresham's Will:

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

Wentworth.

It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Tempo-Ld. Raby ral in Parliament affembled, That this Houfe will hear verfus the Caufe now depending in this House, wherein the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Raby is Appellant, and Thomas Wentworth Refpondent, on Tuesday the Tenth Day of this Inftant March, at Eleven a Clock in the

Forenoon.

The Order being read, for taking into Confideration Proteftation the Proteftation entered the Four and Twentieth of Fe-Bill for fetbruary laft:

The First Reafon in the Proteftation was read.
After Debate;

It was propofed, "That the First Reafon in the Pro"teftation be expunged."

After further Debate;

tling the Succeffion, Debate about.

ORDERED, That this Debate fhall be refumed Tomorrow, at Twelve a Clock.

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in it to be expunged.

keep Arms, Bill.

Adjourn