Moufe to attend the Having thus humbly laid these our Obfervations "before Your Majefty; we reft affured, that Your Majesty's great Wifdom and tender Concern for the "Happiness of Your Subjects will difpofe You to ap 66 66 ply the proper Remedies. Your Majefty is fully fa "tisfied, that the Honour and Safety of Your Domi"nions, and the Security of Trade, depend entirely upon a due Management of the Naval Affairs; and "therefore we doubt not but Your Majefty will con"fider of the fittest Methods, and give the most effec"tual Orders, for the reftoring and establishing the Difcipline of the Navy. And, as we are very fure "Your Majefty is touched, in the most fenfible Manner, with the late heavy Loffes of the Merchants, and "the Perfons of many Hundreds of your Seamen; fo we humbly befeech Your Majefty to give Your "Commands, that all poffible Methods may be "taken, for the Encouragement of Seamen, the guarding of the Coafts, and the Protection of "Trade." Comes Torrington. Ds. Paulett. to Their Lordships, or any Three of them; ORDERED, That the whole Houfe do attend Her Eyre and others: Queen with it. Majefty, with the faid Addrefs. Who brought up a Bill, intituled, "An A&t for ઉં giving like Remedy upon Promiffory Notes as is now "ufed upon Bills of Exchange, and for the better "Payment of Inland Bills of Exchange;" to which they defire the Concurrence of this Houfe. H. C, with a Bill. Jand Bills of Hodie 1 vice leta eft Billa, intituled, "An Act Promiffory for giving like Remedy upon Promiffory Notes Notes and Inas is now used upon Bills of Exchange, and for Exchange, "the better Payment of Inland Bills of Ex-Bill. "change." ORDERED, That the faid Bill be read the Second Dominus Cuftos Magni Sigilli declaravit præfens Parlia- Adjourn; mentum continuandum effe ufque ad & in diem Sabbati, tertium diem inftantis Februarii, hora undècima Aurora, Dominis fic decernentibus. Epus. Carliol. Ds. Ferrers. VOL. XVII: 8 A DIE Dux Bolton. Malett's Bill. Guy's Bill. Comes Denbigh. Comes Rivers. Comes Stamford. Comes Kingston. fuerunt: Ds. Bergevenny: Ds. Ferrers. Comes Sunderland. Ds. Fitzwalter. Ds. Cuftos Magni Dux Somerset. Dux Northumberland. Dux Bolton. Ds. Wharton. Comes Lindsey, Mag- Ds. Colepeper. nus Camerarius. Comes Bridgewater. Comes Berkeley. Comes Nottingham. Comes Portland. Comes Torrington. Comes Bradford. Comes Orford. Viscount Townshend. PRAYER S. Ds. Berkeley Str. Ds. Sommers. Ds. Halifax. Ds. Granville. Ds. Hervey Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on Monday next, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please. Hodie 2a vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, " An Act for vefting the Estate late of Thomas Guy Gentleman, de"ceased, in Trustees, to be fold, for Payment of Debts." ORDERED, That the Confideration of the faid Bill be committed to the Lords following; (videlicet,). Comes Pembroke, Comes Effex: Ds. Howard Ejc. Ds. Herbert. Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on Monday the Twelfth Day of this Inftant February, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings near the Houfe of Peers; and to adjourn as they please. Hodie 2 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, " An A&t Hatcher's Bill. "for raising of Money, for Payment of the Debts of "Thomas Hatcher Efquire, by Sale or Mortgage of "fome Part of his Eftate; and for the better Execu"tion of feveral Powers in his Marriage Settlement." ORDERED, That the Confideration of the faid Bill be referred to the Lords Committees beforenamed. Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on Hodie 2 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An A& Burr's Bill, "for vefting an Estate mortgaged in Fee by Thomas "Burr to Anthony Tomkins (now in Infants) in Trustees, "to re-convey the fame to the faid Thomas Burr, or as "he fhall appoint, upon Payment of all the Monies due on the faid Mortgage." ORDERED, That the Confideration of the faid Bill be referred to the Lords Committees abovenamed. Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on Tuesday the Thirteenth Day of this Inftant Febru ary, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon. Hodie 2 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An Act Nodes's Bill. "for Sale of feveral Lands and Hereditaments of George Nodes Efquire, in the County of Hertford, for "Payment of his Debts, and the Debts of George Nodes Efquire his Father deceased, charged thereupon." ORDERED, That the Confideration of the said laft mentioned Bill be committed to the Lords Committees beforenamed. Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on Stevenfon verjus Frewen. Nanny's Bill. Cadogan et al. Nat. Bill: Manor of D. Marl bend. Ds. Hervey. Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet on Monday the Twelfth Day of this Instant February, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please. Hodie 2 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An A&t "to naturalize Margarita Cecilia Cadogan, Wife of Brigadier General Cadogan, and Gilbert Affleck." ORDERED, That the Confideration of the faid Bill be referred to the Lords Committees abovenamed. Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on Friday next, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings, near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they pleafe. Hodie 2 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled; "An Act for Woodstock to the better enabling Her Majefty to grant the Honour brough, Bill." and Manor of Woodstock, with the Hundred of Wootton, to the Duke of Marlborough and his Heirs, in Con"fideration of the eminent Services by him performed 66 to Her Majefty and the Public." 66 ORDERED, That the faid Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House, prefently. fhire's Bill The Lord Herbert reported from the Lords Commit-D. Devontees, the Bill, intituled, " An Act for vefting in Truf "tees certain Manors and Lands of William Duke of "Devonshire and William (commonly called Marquis of "Hartington), to enable them to mortgage the fame, "for Payment of Debts; and, fubject thereunto, to fettle. "the fame to the like Ufes as the fame are now fettled," as fit to pafs, with One Amendment. Which was read Twice, and agreed to. Hodie 32 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An A&t for "vefting in Trustees certain Manors and Lands of "William Duke of Devonshire and William Cavendish "(commonly called Marquis of Hartington), to enable "them to mortgage the fame, for Payment of Debts; " and, fubject thereunto, to fettle the fame to the like "Ufes as the fame are now fettled." Drake's Bill. Cobb's Bill. Malett's Bill. Hodie 3a vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, " An A&t "to empower the Lord High Treasurer, or Com"miffioners of the Treafury, to compound with Richard "Cobb Efquire, as One of the Sureties for Thomas Cobb "Gentleman deceased, Receiver General for the County "of Southampton." The Queftion was put, "Whether this Bill fhall "país?" It was Refolved in the Affirmative. ORDERED, The Commons have Notice, that the Lords have agreed to the faid Bill, without Amendany A Meffage from the Houfe of Commons, by Mr. H. C. with Meffage from Lawson and others: able John Proctor, of Rock, in the County of Northum Who brought up a Bill, intituled, " An Act to en"berland, Efquire, to fell, or otherwise dispose of, his "Lands in Shawdon, Shawdon Woodhoufe, and Crawley, upon fettling Lands of the like Value, in the faid "County, in Lieu thereof;" to which they defire the Concurrence of this Houfe.. Then the Houfe was adjourned during Pleasure, to attend Her Majefty, with the Addrefs, at St. James's. After fome Time, the Houfe was refumed. And the Lord Keeper reported Her Majesty's Answer to the Addrefs, as follows; (videlicet,) "My Lords, Bill: Queen's Anfwer to Ad Naval Affairs: "This Addrefs contains many Obfervations: I fhall drefs about "confider them particularly; and give fuch Directions upon them as may be moft for the Advantage of the public Service." 66 It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Tem-os and Ine poral in Parliament affembled, That the Bill, intituled, land Bills of "An Act for giving like Remedy upon Promiffory Exchange, "Notes as is now ufed upon Bills of Exchange; and "for the better Payment of Inland Bills of Exchange," shall be read a Second Time on Thursday next. Bill. liamentum continuandum effe ufque ad et in diem MerDominus Cuftos Magni Sigilli declaravit præfens Par- Adjourna curii, feptimum diem inftantis Februarii, hora undecima Aurora, Dominis fic decernentibus. 8 B DIE |