Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet
on Tuesday the Nine and Twentieth Day of this
Inftant February, at Ten a Clock in the Fore-
noon, in the Prince's Lodgings near the House
of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

The Duke of Bolton reported from the Lords Com-
mitttees, the Addrefs, drawn by them.

Which was read, Paragraph by Paragraph; and, with fome Amendments, was agreed to by the House, as followeth; (videlicet,)

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"The Original Examinations of Sir John Mack-
"leane, Campbel, Clark, Ferguson, Lindsey, Keith,
"and Mrs. Fox.

pre

"The Commiffion and Credentials from the
"tended Prince of Wales to Frazier.
"With all poffible Refpect to Your Majefty, and
"Deference to Your Royal Judgement, we defire these
"Papers may be communicated to the Houfe; as alfo
"an Affidavit concerning the Lord Belhaven, which,
"we are informed, is lodged in One of the Secretaries
"Offices; together with fuch other Papers relating to
any treasonable Defigns, which have been on Foot in
"Scotland fince Your Majefty's happy Acceffion to the
Throne, as Your Majefty, in Your Wisdom, fhall
"think fit.

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"It is not our Meaning by this Addrefs, nor was it

ever the Intention of the Houfe, to defire that the "Matter which, Your Majefty was pleafed to fignify by "the Earl of Nottingham, could not be then properly "communicated without Prejudice to the public Ser"vice, should be brought before the Houfe, till such "Time as Your Majefty fhould judge it convenient : "And therefore we take this Opportunity to fay, that, "if a fair Representation had been made to Your Ma"jefty, of what was univerfally profeffed and declared to "be the Senfe of the Houfe throughout the whole De"bate upon which our Address of the Nine and Twen"tieth Day of January was formed, it could not have been interpreted as preffing Your Majefty to lay that Matter "before us, fooner than confifted with Your Majesty's "Pleasure.

"We remain ftill in Hopes, that, according to Your Majefty's gracious Intimation, there may be a proper "Time, before the End of this Seffion, to communicate "that Matter to us, without Inconvenience to the "Public.

We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Sub-
jects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament
"affembled, humbly beg Leave to acquaint Your Majefty, "We are deeply fenfible, that Your Majefty and
"That having (according to our Duty, and Your Majefty's "Your People cannot be fafe, while the Defigns of the
Royal Intention) taken into our most serious Confidera-
"Emiffaries of France, and the Abettors of the pre-
tion the Papers laid before us by the Earl of Not-tended Prince of Wales, in any Part of Your Do-
"tingham, relating to the very ill Practices and De-
"figns carried on in Scotland, by Emiffaries from France;
we find Mention made therein of several other Papers," them, will rather
"not yet brought to the Houfe, which we have Reafon
to believe are very material, as well for fetting those
"wicked and dangerous Confpiracies in a due Light, as
"for our forming a right Judgement upon the whole
"Matter. In particular,

"The Account of Defigns of an Infurrection in
"Scotland, which, by Your Majesty's Command,
"the Earl of Nottingham communicated to the
"Duke of Queensbborough.

"Mr. Stanhop's Letter, or Memorial, giving an
"Account of Money to be remitted into Scot-
"land and Ireland, with the Perfons Names to
"whom the fame was to be paid.

"The Letter wrote by an Officer of the Garrison
"of Inverlochy, to the Governor, of a Design to
"draw great Numbers together, under Pre-
"tence of Hunting.

"The Letters intercepted going from France to Scot-
"land, written in a Gibberish Language, where
"in the Confpiracy is faid to be contained.
"One Letter going from Scotland to France, to
"the late Queen at St. German's, written in the
"fame Sort of Language.

"A Letter written by the proper Hand of the
"late Queen, at St. German's, to fome Perfon
"in Scotland.

"The Letters or Accounts tranfinitted from the
"Duke of Queensborough, as far as they relate
"to the Tranfactions with Frazier, or any Con-
fpiracy in Scotland.`→

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"minions, are not thoroughly fearched into and difco-
«vered; and that an imperfect and partial Inquiry into
"them, will rather encourage than prevent them.

"It is upon this Account that, with fo much dutiful
"Zeal (which we are fure will be always acceptable to
"Your Majefty), we defire to have all the Informations

we can, before we proceed to offer to Your Majefty "our humble Advice of what may best contribute in the « prefent Juncture, to the Honour and Safety of Your "Majefty, and the Security and Tranquillity of Your "Dominions.

to attend the

in Parliament affembled, That the Duke of Bolton, the each Degree
It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Two Lords of
Duke of Newcastle, the Earl Rivers, the Earl of King- Queen with it.
fton, the Lord Viscount Say & Seale, the Lord Viscount
Townshend, the Lord Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, the
Lord Bishop of Oxford, the Lord Ferrers, and the Lord
Harvey, do attend Her Majefty, with the Addrefs agreed
to this Day,
to this Day, relating to the Scotch Confpiracy.

The Earl of Manchester reported from the Lords Committees, the Bill, intituled," An Act to enable the "Lord High Treasurer of England, or Commiffioners of "the Treasury for the Time being, to compound with "John Ferrar Efquire, for a Debt due from him, as "Surety for John Mafon Gentleman, late Receiver Ge"neral for the County of Cambridge and Ifle of Ely," as fit to pafs, without any Amendment.

Hodie 3 vice leta eft Billa, intituled, "An Act to
"enable the Lord High Treasurer of England, or Com-
"miffioners of the Treasury for the Time being, to
"compound with John Ferrar Efquire, for a Debt due
"from him, as Surety for John Mafon Gentleman, late
"Receiver General for the County of Cambridge and Isle
"of Ely."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill fhall
"pafs?"

It was Refolved in the Affirmative.

The Earl of Manchefter alfo reported from the Lords Committees, the Bill, intituled, " An Act for vefting in "Trustees, Part of the Eftate late of Thomas Harlack

"enden 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," as
fit to pafs, without any Amendment.

ἐσ

Hodie 3 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, " An A&t for vef ting in Trustees, Part of the Eftate late of Thomas Har"lackenden 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." The Queftion was put, "Whether this Bill fhall "pafs?"

It was Refolved in the Affirmative.

ORDERED, That the Commons have Notice, that the Lords have agreed to the abovefaid Two Bills, without any Amendment.

Thrown

Hodie vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An Act for Sicilian 1 prolonging the Time by an Act of Parliament, made in Silk, Bill to "the First Year of Her Majefty's Reign, for importing continue the "Thrown Silk, of the Growth of Sicily, from Leghorn." Importation

After hearing Counsel, upon the Petition and Appeal Harnage of Richard Harnage, from a Decree made in the Court jus Barrington of Chancery, the Eleventh Day of June laft paft, and an Order of the Seven and Twentieth of November, for confirming the Decree on the Behalf of Mary Barrington Widow; and praying the Reverfal of the faid Decree and Order: As also upon the Answer of Mary Barrington put in thereunto; and due Confideration of what was offered thereupon:

It is ORDERED and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiri- Judgement tual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, That the affirmed.

Ranc et al.
Nat. Bill.

Meffage from

H. C. to re-
turn Sir G.
Wheeler's
Bill.

Meffages from thence, with

Bills.

Cotton's Bill.

Meffages from
H. C. to return

Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet on
Monday the Eight and Twentieth Day of this
Inftant February, at Ten a Clock in the Fore-
noou, in the Prince's Lodgings near the House
of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

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"That the

verjus

Upon reading the Petition of Elizabeth Cockayne, Cockayne Wife of James Cockayne Efquire, Refpondent to the Rowe. Hodie 22 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An Act "for naturalizing Rene Ranc, Mathew Decker, and Appeal of Anthony Rowe Efquire; fhewing, "having put in her Anfwer to the faid Appeal; alledg"others." ing, that the Appeal is chiefly brought to prevent a "Trial at Law, directed by the Chancery at the next "Affizes at Gloucefter, and thereby delay the Payment "of a confiderable Sum of Money due to the Petitioner; "and therefore praying a fhort Day for hearing the "faid Appeal:"

ORDERED, That the Confideration of the faid Bill be
referred to the Lords Committees abovenamed; their
Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet thereupon on
Monday next, at the Time and Place aforefaid.

A Meffage was brought from the Houfe of Commons, by Sir Robert Edon and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act to enable Sir George Wheeler Knight, and Doctor in Divinity, to make "Leafes of fome Houfes and Ground in Channon Row, "in Weftm'r;" and to acquaint this House that they have agreed to the faid Bill, without any Amendment.

A Meffage from the House of Commons, by Mr.

Bertie and others:

Who brought up a Bill, intituled, "An Act to "enable Sir John Cooper Knight, and Anthony Henley "Efquire, to make a Partition, and grant Building "Leafes, of feveral Meffuages and Tenements, in Lin"colne's Inn Fields, in the Parishes of St. Giles in the "Fields and St. Clement's Danes, in the County of "Middl'x;" to which they defire the Concurrence of this House.

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

Who brought up a Bill, intituled, "An Act to re-
"peal a Provifo, in an Act of the Fourth Year of the
Reign of King William and Queen Mary, which pre-
"vents the Citizens of the City of York from difpoling
"of their Perfonal Eftates by their Wills, as others in-
"habiting within the Province of Yorke, by that Act,
"may do;" to which they defire the Concurrence of
this Houfe.

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

Who brought up a Bill, intituled, "An Act for
"enabling Bernard Cotton Efquire to fell fome Part of
"his Eftate, for Payment of his Debts; and for confir-
"ming feveral Conveyances already made of feveral
"other Parcels of his Eftate, by himself and Trustees,
"to feveral Purchasers thereof;" to which they defire
the Concurrence of this Houfe.

Hodie 1 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An Act for. "enabling Bernard Cotton Efquire to fell fome Part of "his Eftate, for Payment of his Debts; and for confir"ming feveral Conveyances already made of feveral "other Parcels of his Eftate, by himself and Trustees, to "feveral Purchafers thereof."

A Meffage was brought from the House of Commons,
Kopp's Nat. by Sir Francis Masham and others:
Bill, and

Awdley's
Bill.

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To return the Bill, intituled, " An Act for natu-
ralizing Ifaac Kopps ;" and to acquaint this Houfe,

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