Comes Dorfet.

Ds. Willoughby Erefby.

Ds. Hunfdon.

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PRAYERS.

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Upon reading the Petition of Denis Daly Junior Daly Efquire and Ellin his Wife; fetting forth, "That, on French, to "the Twelfth of May laft, they lodged an Appeal in proceed on the "this House, from a Decree of the Court of Chancery Appeal. "in Ireland, in January 1713; but, by means of the "Shortness of the Seffion, the fame was not heard; and

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upon Application to the Regifter of the faid Court "to make up the Decretal Order, he refufed fo to do;" and praying, That the faid Regifter may be ordered "to make up the fame, that the Petitioners may have it "to produce before this Houfe; and that they may be "permitted to amend their faid Appeal, by making "Mary Lynch, Thomas Martin, Patrick Bodkin, and Michael Lynch, Refpondents thereunto; and that they "and Mary French the former Refpondent may be required to answer the faid Appeal; and that the "Service of the Order of this Houfe on their Six "Clerk in the faid Court may be good Service :"

It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Tempotal, in Parliament affembled, That the Regifter of the faid Court of Chancery do make up the Decretal Order in the faid Caufe; and that the feveral Perfons abovementioned be made Refpondents to the faid Appeal; and that they and the faid Mary French be; and are. hereby, required to put in their Answer or respective Anfwers thereunto, in Writing, on or before Tuesday the Twenty-fixth Day of April next; and that the Service of this Order on the Refpondents Six Clerk shall be good Service, in order thereunto.

Oaths,

This Day James Duke of Ormond, John Duke of Lords take the Rutland, William Lord Bishop of Ely, and Charles Lord Wefton, took the Oaths, and made and fubfcribed the Declaration, and alfo took and fubfcribed the Oath of Abjuration, pursuant to the Statutes. Alfo,

Arthur Earl of Anglefey and Henry Earl of Rochefter took the Oaths, and made and fubfcribed the Declara tion, and alfo took and fubfcribed the Oath of Abjuration, pursuant to the Statutes; their Lordships having first feverally delivered Certificates of their receiving the Sacrament; to the Truth whereof, Witnesses were fworn and examined.

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Charles Lord Offulftone, being, by Letters Patents, E. of Tanker. dat. Decimo Nono Die Octobris, Primo Georgii Regis, ced: created Earl of Tankerville, was this Day (in his Robes) introduced, between the Earl of Lincoln and the Earl of Grantham (alfo in their Robes); the Gentleman Ufher of the Black Rod, Clarencieux King at Arms in the Absence of Garter King at Arms, and the Lord Great Chamberlain, preceding.

His Lordship prefented his Patent to the Lord Chancellor, on his Knee, at the Woolfack; who delivered it to the Clerk; and the fame was read, at the Table.

Summons.

His Writ of Summons was alfo read, as follows: "GEORGIUS, Dei Gratia, Mag. Britannia, Franc. & His Writ of "Hib'nia Rex, Fidei Defenfor, &e. Chariffimo Con"fanguineo Noftro Carolo Comiti Tankerville, Salutem. "Quia, de Advifamento et Affenfu Concilii Noftri, pro "quibufdam arduis & urgentibus Negotiis, Nos, Sta"tum & Defenfionem Regni Noftri Mag. Brit. & Eccle"fiæ concernentibus, quoddam Parliamentum Noftrum, "apud Civitatem Noftram Weftm. Decimo Septimo Die "Martii prox. futur. teneri ordinavimus; & ibidem, "cum Prælatis, Magnatibus, & Proceribus dicti Regni "Noftri, Colloquium habere & Tractatum; vobis, fub "Fide & Ligeantia quibus Nobis tenemini, firmiter injungendo mandamus, quod, confideratis dictorum Ne"gotiorum Arduitate & Periculis imminentibus, ceffante "Excufatione quacunque, dictis Die & Loco perfonali"ter interfitis, Nobifcum, ac cum Prælatis, Magnatibus, & Proceribus præd. fuper dictis Negotiis tracta66 tur.

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L. Pierrepont introduced :

His Writ of Summons.

Addrefs repor

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Allo Gervafe Lord Pierrepont in the Kingdom of Ireland, being, by Letters Patents, dat. Decimo Nono Die Octobris, Primo Georgii Regis, created Baron Pierrepont of Hanflip in the County of Bucks, was this Day, in like Manner, in his Robes, introduced, between the Lord Guilford and the Lord Harcourt (alfo in their Robes).

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His Lordship prefented his Patent to the Lord Chancellor, on his Knee, at the Woolfack; who delivered it to the Clerk; and the fame was read, at the Table. His Writ of Summons was alfo read, as follows: "GEORGIUS, Dei Gratia, Mag, Britannia, Franc. & "Hib'niæ Rex, Fidei Defenfor, &c. Prædilecto & Fideli "Noftro Gervafio Pierrepont Ch'r, Salutem. Quia, de "Advifamento & Affenfu Concilii Noftri, pro quibuf"dam arduis & urgentibus Negotiis, Nos, Statum & "Defenfionem Regni Noftri Mag. Britanniæ & Ecclefiæ, concernentibus, quoddam Parliamentum Noftrum, "apud Civitatem Noftram Weftm. Decimo Septimo Die "Martii prox. futur. teneri ordinavimus; & ibidem, "cum Prælatis, Magnatibus, & Proceribus dicti Regni "Noftri, Colloquium habere & Tractatum; vobis, sub "Fide & Ligeantia quibus Nobis tenemini, firmiter injungendo mandamus, quod, confideratis dictorum Ne"gotiorum Arduitate & Periculis imminentibus, ceffante "Excufatione quacunque, dictis Die & Loco perfonali"ter interfitis, Nobifcum, ac cum Prælatis, Magnati"bus, & Proceribus præd. fuper dictis Negotiis tracta"tur. veftrumque Confilium impenfur.; & hoc ficut Nos "& Honorem Noftrum, ac Salvationem & Defenfionem "Regni & Ecclefiæ præd. Expeditionemque dictorum Negotiorum diligitis, nullatenus omittatis.

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"Your Majefty with Safety, and at fo critical a Juncture, to the Throne of Your Anceftors, yet we could not but become ftill more affected with that ineflimable Bleffing, when we heard fo very affectionate Expref"fions from Your Majefty towards Your People; fo "clear and full Affurances, from a Prince of fuch known "Honour and Juftice, that the cftablifhed Conftitution "in Church and State fhall be the Rule of Your Go vernment; and fo juft and tender a Concern for our not having obtained thofe Advantages by the Peace, "which would have been but a fuitable Conclufion to fo is glorious and fuccefsful a War; nor as yet a due Execution of fome Conditions, even of that Peace, effen"tial to the Security and Trade of this Kingdom.

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"We are but too fenfible that our Trade is ren"dered impracticable in the most valuable Branches of "it, and of the ill Effects that must have upon our "Manufactures and Navigation: But Your Majefty may be affured, nothing fhall be wanting on our "Part, that may any Way conduce to the retrieving it. "Thefe and other Difficulties Your Majefty hath met with on Your Acceffion to the Crown (and which, "we must observe, in Juftice to Your Wifdom and Forefight, would have been prevented had Your Opinion been followed), we must confefs, are very great and difcouraging: However, we do not doubt but "that Your Majefty, affifted by this Parliament, zea"lous for Your Government, and the Safety and Ho"nour of their Country, may be able to take fuch fur"ther Measures, as will fecure what is due to us by "Treaties, ease our Debts, preferve the Public Cre"dit, reftore our Trade, extinguish the very Hopes of "the Pretender, and recover the Reputation of this Kingdom in Foreign Parts; the Lofs of which, we hope to convince the World by our Actions, is by no "Means to be imputed to the Nation in general.

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"And these good Ends cannot fail of being obtained, by Your Majesty's purfuing with Steadinefs, as You “have begun, the true Intereft of this Your obedient "and affectionate People: And Your Majefty may, by GoD's Bleffing, depend that, in Conjunction with "fo loyal a Parliament, You will be able to lay Foun"dations that can never be moved, not only of the Security and Glory, but even of the Eafe and Tran"quillity of Your Government, and that of Your Maardent Prayers, that it may for ever continue to jefty's Pofterity; for which we offer up our most "reign after Your Majefty on the Throne of thefe Kingdoms, and in the Hearts of a People truly happy, "and fully fenfible of their being fo."

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Then the fame was read by the Clerk entire.

And the Three firft Paragraphs, being again read, were feverally agreed to by the House.

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Then the Fourth Paragraph being read;

Words in it.

It was moved, "That at the Clofe thereof thefe Motion for "Words be left out; (videlicet,) [" And recover the omitting Reputation of this Kingdom in Foreign Parts; the "Lofs of which, we hope to convince the World by "our Actions, is by no Means to be imputed to the Na"tion in general."]

Countess

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Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of James Touch-Touchett ett, of the City of Dublin, in the Kingdom of Ireland, Ef-verfus quire, from a Decree of Difmiffion made in the Court Dowager of Chancery in the faid Kingdom the Second Day of Cattlehaven December 1713, and an Affirmation of the fame on the Twenty-fourth Day of February 1713, in a Cause wherein the Appellant was Plaintiff, and Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Caftlehaven, James Earl of Castlehaven, Fergus Farrell, and Mary Cartwright, were Defendants; praying, "That the faid Decree may be re"verfed; and, in order thereunto, that the faid Defen"dants may answer the faid Appeal; and that the Ser"vice of the Order of this Houfe on their feveral "Clerks in Court may be good Service:"

It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, That the faid Countess of Caftlehaven and the other Defendants may have a Copy of the faid Appeal; and fhall and they are hereby required to put in their Answer or refpective Answers thereunto, in Writing, on or before Wednesday the Fourth Day of May next; and that the Service of this Order on the Respondents Clerks in Court shall be good Service, in order thereunto.

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of Thomas Dyke Dyke et al. Efquire, Gustavus Venner Gentleman, Robert Kerflake verfus Bp. of Bath Gentleman, William Manley, Thomas Southwood, and and Wells. Richard Blackmore, from a Decree of the Court of Exchequer, on the 11th of February 1713, on the Behalf of George Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells; praying, "That the fame may be reverfed, and the Petitioners "relieved:"

It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, That the faid George Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells may have a Copy of the said Appeal; and put in his Answer thereunto, in Writing, on or before Wednesday the Twentieth Day of April next.

Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præfens Parliamen- Adjourn. tum continuandum effe ufque ad et in diem Veneris, primum diem Aprilis nunc prox. fequen. hora undecima Aurora, Dominis fic decernentibus.

Comes Cardigan.
Comes Anglesey.
Comes Suffex.
Comes Radnor.
Comes Yarmouth.

Comes Berkeley.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Abingdon.
Comes Holderness.
Comes Portland.

Comes Bradford.
Comes Rochford.
Comes Ferfey.

Comes Grantham.
Comes Greenwich.
Comes Poulet.
Comes Godolphin.
Comes Cholmondeley.
Comes Loudoun.

Comes Bute.

Comes Play.
Comes Strafford.
Comes Dartmouth.
Comes Uxbridge.
Comes Carnarvon.
Comes Rockingham.
Comes Halifax.
Comes Aylesford.
Comes Briftol
Viscount Say & Seale.
Viscount Townshend.
Viscount Longueville.
Viscount Tadcaster.

PRAYERS.

Ds. Carleton.

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Upon reading the Petition of Thomas Dyke Efquire Dyke et al. tor Spreat to and others; praying, "In regard the Petitioners live in enter into Somerfetfhire, above One Hundred Miles off, and Recognizance cannot enter into a Recognizance, upon their Appeal for them. depending in this House, within the Time limited "by the Standing Order; that John Spreat, of * Nine"head, in the faid County, Gentleman, their Agent, "and of Subftance fufficient to anfwer Cofts if any "should be awarded, may be allowed to enter into fuch Recognizance for the Appellants :"

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