Low Wines, &c. Bill. Subfidy Bill. Poor's Bill. Scheme from Comes Abingdon. Viscount Townshend: PRAYERS. Hodie 2 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, " An A&t for "continuing Duties upon Low Wines, and upon Coffee, "Tea, Chocolate, Spices, and Pictures; and upon Hawkers, Pedlars, and Petty Chapmen, and upon Mullins; "and for granting new Duties upon feveral of the faid "Commodities; and alfo upon Callicoes, China Ware, "and Drugs." the Board of Trade, forRelief of the Poor. A&t to prevent the Growth of Popery, ORDERED, That the faid Bill be committed to a The House (pursuant to Order) was adjourned during Continuing Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, inti- Bil Then the House was adjourned during Pleasure, and tuled, "An Act for making perpetual an Act for the put into a Committee thereupon. Then the House was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act Bill to explain." for explaining and better Execution of an Act, inti"tuled, An Act for the further preventing the Growth "of Popery." After fome Time, the Houfe was refumed. And the Lord Herbert reported, "That the Commit- Which were read Twice, and agreed to; and OR- "more eafy Recovery of Small Tithes; and alfo an 66 The Question was put, "Whether this Bill, with It was Refolved in the Affirmative. Acts, &c. Sir Richard Holford and Mr. Pitt : To return the faid Bill, and defire their Concurrence 66 H. C. with Amendments to it. Hodie 2a vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An Act for Mutiny Bill. Committee of the whole Houfe, prefently. Then the House was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the faid Bill. After fome Time, the Houfe was refumed. And Lord Dursley The Lord Treafurer acquainted the House, from Her fummoned to Parliament: Majefty, "That, in Confideration of the many Services “done by the Lord Dursley, Son of the Earl of Berkeley, Her Majefty is pleafed to call him to this House, 66 by Writ." Introduced: His Writ of Summons. Meffage from H. C. for a 66 Then, James Berkeley de Berkeley, Chevalier, was introduced, in his Robes, between the Lord Wharton and the Lord Halifax; the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Deputy Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, and Garter King at Arms, preceding. He delivered his Writ to the Lord Keeper on his Knee; which was afterwards read by the Clerk at the Table. Then his Lordship was feated on the Barons Bench, in his Father's Barony, next below the Lord La warr. The Writ follows; (videlicet,) "ANNA, Dei Gratia, Angl. Scotia, Francia, et Hi"b'nia Regina, Fidei Defenfor, &c. Prædilecto et Fi"deli Noftro Jacobo Berkeley de Berkeley, Chevalier, Salu"tem. Cum Parliamentum Noftrum, pro arduis et ur"gentibus Negotiis, Nos, Statum et Defenfionem Regni "Noftri Angl. et Ecclefiæ Anglicana concernen. apud "Civitatem Noftram Weftm. nunc congregat. exiftit; vo"bis, fub Fide et Ligeantia quibus Nobis tenemini, fir"miter injungendo mandamus, quod, confideratis dictorum 66 Negotiorum Arduitate et Periculis incumbentibus, cef"fante Excufatione quacunque, ad dictum Parliamentum "Noftrum perfonaliter interfitis, Nobifcum, ac cum Prælatis, Magnatibus, et Proceribus, fuper dictis Negotiis "tractatur. veftrumque Confilium impenfur. Et hoc ficut "Nos et Honorem Noftrum, ac Salvationem et Defen"fionem Regni et Ecclefiæ præd. Expeditionemque dic"torum Negotiorum diligitis, nullatenus omittatis. "Tefte Meipfa, apud Weftm. Quinto Die Martii, "Anno Regni Noftri Tertio. "WRIGHTE." Then his Lordship came to the Table, and took the Oaths, and made and fubfcribed the Declaration, and alfo took and fubfcribed the Oath of Abjuration, purfuant to the Statutes. A Meffage was brought from the Houfe of Commons, Bill. Conterence, by Mr. Aislaby and others: concerning the Proceedings about the To defire a Conférence with this House, upon the Albury Men. Subject-matter of the last Conference. To which the House agreed. Then the Meffengers were called in; and told, "That "the Lords agree to a Conference, as defired; and ap"point it presently, in the Painted Chamber." The Commons being come to the Conference, the Managers Names of the laft Conference were read. Whereupon, the Houfe was adjourned during Pleafure, and the Lords went to the Conference. Anfwer from thence, about a Free Conference. Committee to Warrants for ror, for the Ailfbury Men, and to lay a State of the Cafe with regard to them before the Queen. Amended per Old. ro inftant. Mar tii. Adjourn. Lords Committees appointed to draw up the State of what Proceedings [* have been in this Houfe, or at Conferences with the Houfe of Commons,] in relation to the Five Ailesbury Men, (videlicet,) Daniel Horne, Henry Bafs, John Paton Junior, John Paty, and John Oviat; and an humble Addrefs, to be presented to Her Majefty," That She will be pleafed "to grant the Petitions of Two of the Ailesbury "Men, (videlicet,) John Paty and John Oviat, and "to grant them Her Majefty's Warrant for autho"rizing the Curfitor to make their Writs of Er"ror as is ufual in fuch Cafes ;" and report to the Houfe (videlicet,) Dux Devonshire. Epus. Sarum. Dux Somerset. Dux Bolton. Comes Rivers. Comes Stamford. Comes Sunderland: Comes Torrington. Comes Bradford. Viscount Townfbend. Ds. Ferrers. Ds. Wharton Ds. Poulett. Ds. Mobun. Ds. Offulftone. Ds. Herbert. Ds. Halifax. Ds. Hervey. Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet presently, in the Prince's Lodgings near the Houfe of Peers; and to adjourn as they please. Dominus Cuftos Magni Sigilli declaravit præfens Parliamentum continuandum effe ufque ad et in diem Jovis, octavum diem inftantis Martii, hora duodecima, Dominis fic decernentibus. Thefe Words within Crotchets are interlined in the Original. VOL. XVIL PRAYERS. Ds. Cuftos Magni Sigilli. Dux Bolton. Comes Lindley, Ds. Bergevenny. Ds. Wharton. Ds. Paget. Ds. Grey W. Magnus Camera- Ds. Lovelace. rius. Comes Northampton. Ds. Cornwallis. Comes Stamford. Ds. Mobun. . Ds. Colepeper. Ds. Offulstone. Ds. Halifax, Ds. Gernsey. Ds. Guilford. H. C. with an Amendment to it. Free Conference, about A Meffage from the Houfe of Commons, by Sir Meffage from Thomas Hanmer and others, to this Effect; (videlicet,) thence, for a "I am commanded, by the Commons, to acquaint the Proceedyour Lordships, That when your Lordships fent, ings conYesterday in the Afternoon, after Three a Clock, to cerning the Ailfbury "defire a Free Conference upon the Subject-matter of Men. "the laft Conference, the Houfe was juft a rifing: But "the House will meet your Lordships, at a Free Conference, as your Lordships have defired, at fuch Time as your Lordships fhall appoint; the Time appointed Yesterday by your Lordships being now paft.' 66 σε To acquaint this Houfe, that they have agreed to their Lordships Amendments made to the Bill, intituled, "An Act for making perpetual an Act for the more eafy Recovery of imall Tithes; and alfo an Act for "the more eafy obtaining Partition of Lands in Coparcenary, Joint Tenancy, and Tenancy in Com"mon; and alfo for making perpetual and amending "feveral Acts relating to the Return of Jurors." 66 H. C. to return the Bil for continuing A&ts, &c. The Commons being come to the Free Conference, Free Conthe Managers Names were read. Then the House was adjourned during Pleafure, and the Lords went to the Free Conference. Which being ended, the Houfe was refumed. And the Earl of Sunderland reported, "That the "Lords had been at the Free Conference; which was "managed, on the Part of the Commons, by Mr. Bromley, Sir Thomas Powys, Sir Humphry Mackworth, Sir "John Hawles, Mr. Pooley, Mr. Commins, Mr. Brewer, "and Mr. Ward." 66 66 ference, concerning the Ailibury Men. |