Stourton Dominus Darcie Dominus Sandes Dominus Windsor Dominus Wentworth Dominus Borough Dominus Cromwell Dominus Evers Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby de Parham Dominus Darcie de Chiche Dominus Shandois Dominus S t John Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Delaware Dominus Compton Dominus Cheney Dominus Norris The Lords being all set in this Order in their Parliament-Robes and the Judges placed with other Attendants and Assistants of the Upper House being also before the said Lords Commissioners had taken their places on the right side of the Chair of State the Lord Chancellor shewed forth the Queens Majesties Letters Patents by which She committed full Power to the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England and the Earl of Darby to supply her place in the said Parliament which were as followeth viz. Hodie cùm omnes Proceres Robis Parliamentaribus induti in suo Loco quisque sederent Milites Cives Burgenses qui ad hoc praesens Parliamentum summoniti fuerunt praesso essent jam universt tam Proceres quà m Communes Reginae adventum expectarent Thomas Bromley Miles Dominus Cancellarius exponit omnibus Regiam Majestatem maximis urgentissimis causis adeò esse impeditam ut non queat impraesentiarum commodè interesse ut decreverat Nihilominus inquit sua Majestas Literis suis Patentibus plenam potestatem commisit Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Johanni Cantuar. Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac praedilecto fideli suo Willielmo Domino de Burleigh Domino Thesaurario Angliae ac charissimo Consanguineo suo Henrico Comiti Darbiae ad facienda nomine suo omnia singula quae in dicto Parliamento gerenda essent ut per easdem Liter as Patentes 〈◊〉 apparet quas hiis dictis Dominus Cancellarius Clerico Parliamentar publicè legendas tradidit Earum autem tenor sequitur in haec verba ELizabetha Dei graetiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei Defensor c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd cùm de advisamento Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae ae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernen quoddam Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonaster 29 o die instant mensis Octobris teneri ordinavimus quia verò propter certas causas ad Parliamentum praedictum non potuerimus interesse nos de circumspectione sideliate industria Reverendissimi in Christo Patris Johannis Cantuar. Archiepiscopi totius Angliae Primat Metropolitan ac praedilecti fidelis nostri Willielmi Domini de Burleigh Domini Thesaurarii Angliae ac charissimi Consanguinei nostri Henrici Comitis Darbiae plenam fiduciam reportand eisdem Archiepiscopo Willielmo Domino de Burleigh Henrico Comiti Darbiae duobus eorum ad Parliamentum praedictum nomine meo inchoand tenend negotiáque praedict exponend declarand ac exponi declarari faciend necnon in negotiis illis Parliamento praedicto ac omnibus sin gulis in eo procedend ad faciend omnia singula quae pro nobis per nos pro bono regimine gubernatione praedicti Regni nostri Angliae ac aliorum Dominiorum nostrorum eidem Regno nostro pertinen ibid. fuerint faciend necnon ad Parliamentum illud si necesse fuerit continuand adjournand prorogand de assensu Concilii nostri praedicti plenam tenore praesentium committimus prtestatem Dante 's ulteriùs de assensu ejusdem Concilii nostri tam universis singulis Archiepiscopis Episcopis Comitibus Vicecomitibus Baronibus Militibus quà m omnibus aliis quorum interest ad Parliamentum nostrum praedictum conventur similit tenore praesentium firmiter in Mandatis Quòd eisdem Archiepiscopo Willielmo Domino Burleigh Henrico Comiti Darbiae duobus eorum intendant in praemissis in fornia praedicta In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras sieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo octavo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri vicesimo octavo Per ipsam Reginam c. The Letters Patents foregoing being read the said three Lords Commissioners leaving their own places went to a Seat prepared for them on the right side of the Chair of State beneath the steps Then the said Lord Chancellor going first to the said Lords and conferring a while with them went to his accustomed place and there made intimation of the Cause of this present Summons of Parliament which as he said were no usual Causes not for making of Laws whereof her Majesty thought there were more made than were duly executed nor for Fifteenths and Subsidies although there were some cause yet her Majesty would not charge her loving Subjects so far at this time But that the cause was rare and extraordinary of great weight great peril and dangerous consequence Then he declared what dangerous practices had been contrived of late and how miraculously the Providence of God had by discovery thereof beyond all humane Policy preserved her Majesty the destruction of whose Sacred Person was most traiterously compassed and imagined Here he shewed what misery the loss of so Noble a Queen would have brought to all Estates and said That although some of them had suffered according to their demerits yet one remained that by due course of Law had received her Sentence which was the chief cause of this Assembly and wherein her Majesty required their faithful advice and therefore said he you may orderly proceed therein And you of the House of Commons are to make present choice of some one amongst you to be your Speaker and to present him unto the Lords Lieutenants as soon as conveniently you may Assoon as the Lord Chancellor had ended his Speech the Clerk of the Parliament stood up and read the Names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions in French which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland France and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Knight Lord Chief Justice Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Gawdy Knight one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Awberry and Doctor Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Knight Lord Chief Baron Francis Windham one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Barkeley and Doctor Cary. Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Darby Lord High Steward of England the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Howard of Essingham Lord High Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton Tryors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles the Archbishop of York the Earl
of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembroke the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst Assoon as the Clerk of the Parliament had read these Names and had likewise ended other things of course belonging unto them viz. That the first Tryors of England c. or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants should at their leisure meet together in the Chamberlains Chamber And that the last Tryors of Gascoigne c. or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor should hold their place when their leisure did serve them to meet in the Treasurers Chamber Then the Lords Lieutenants adjourned the Parliament until Monday next following This day were divers Proxies returned of which the Extraordinary ones were these that follow 29 o die Octobris introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Marmad Episcopi Meneven in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuar. Johannem Episcopum London Thomam Episcopum Wintonien Item introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Willielmi Episcopi Cestren in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Episcopum Cantuarien Item introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Hugonis Episcopi Bangor in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Episcopum Cantuarien Willielmum Dominum Burleigh Thesaurarium Item introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Johannis Episcopi Carliolen in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Edwinum Archiepiscopum Ebor. Nota That these were all the Extraordinary or unsual Proxies that are entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House to have been returned this Parliament For whereas the Spiritual Lords do for the most part constitute two Proctors and the Temporal Lords but one and those likewise of their own Order here the Bishop of S t Davids nominated three the Bishops of Chester and Carlisle but one apiece and the Bishop of Bangor did constitute the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England his Joynt Proctor with John Bishop of Canterbury which I take to be the only Precedent with two others in Anno 5 Eliz. during all the Parliaments of Queen Elizabeth's Reign where a Spiritual Lord did nominate a Temporal for his Proctor or a Temporal Lord a Spiritual although in the Reign of Queen Mary and other times more ancient it was very usual and ordinary On Monday the 31 th of October her Majesties Person was represented as it had been on the first day of this Parliament by three Commissioners viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England and the Earl of Darby great Steward of England who were stiled the Lords Lieutenants These with divers other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal being fet in their Parliamentary Robes in the Upper House the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon with John Puckering Serjeant at Law who had been Speaker also the last Parliament their now Prolocutor repaired thither and being as many as conveniently could let in the said M r Speaker was led up by two of the most eminent Personages of the House of Commons to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House who being there placed and having according to the usual course desired himself to be excused that so the House of Commons might make choice of some other more able Member amongst themselves it was not allowed but his former wise and discreet behaviour the last Parliament in the Execution of this very place was alledged and much commended Whereupon the said M r Speaker having made humble reverence and in very discreet and good manner submitted himself to the undertaking of the said Prolocutorship did in the end of his Speech make divers petitions of course for freedom of Speech freedom of Access to her Majesty and freedom from Arrests and Suits in the Name of the House of Commons and lastly for pardon for himself if he should unwittingly erre in the report or carriage of any thing Whereunto the Lords Commissioners by the Lord Chancellor answered That the said House of Commons and himself should enjoy and use such Priviledges as others in the times of the Queen her Noble Progenitors had accustomed to use and enjoy Nota That it doth not appear by the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House whether the Speaker were presented in the Forenoon or in the Afternoon Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Veneris prox horâ octavâ On Friday the 4 th day of November the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being Assembled the Lord Chancellor continued the Parliament unto the next day at eight of the Clock On Saturday the 5 th day of November the Lord Chancellor declared unto the Lords the foul and indirect dealings practised by the Queen of Scots against her Majesty and the whole Realm notwithstanding so many great benefits and favours which the said Queen of Scots had received of her Majesty the which matter by William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England as one unto whom the said Queen of Scots whole proceedings were better known by reason of his long Service done unto our most gracious Soveraign Lady since the beginning of her Reign were more fully dilated Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae horâ octavâ On Monday the 7 th day of November while the Lords were debating the matter of the Queen of Scots the House of Commons came up and desired a Conference with some of the Lords of this House what number it should please them to appoint about the great matter of the Queen of Scots already opened unto them Whereupon the Lords chose out to the number of twenty one viz. the Archbishops of Canterbury and York the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Kent the Earl of Rutland and the Earl of Sussex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Worcester the Lord Admiral the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey the Lord Lumley the Lord Shandois the Lord Buckhurst the Lord de la Ware and the Lord Norris Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 8 th day of November nothing was done but the Parliament was by the Lord Chancellor continued usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Wednesday the 9 th day of November were read divers Letters as well of Anthony Babington to the Queen of Scots as of the said Queen of Scots to the said Anthony Babington Charles Paget and others The Sentence also pronounced by the Commissioners against the Queen of Scots was read A form of a Petition agreed upon by the Committees of both Houses was
said several Acts and Ordinances by you our said Subjects the Lords and Commons in this our present Parliament Assembled be fully agreed and consented unto and seem very necessary and profitable for the Commonwealth which nevertheless be not of any force or effect in the Law without our Royal Assent given and put to the same Acts and Ordinances and every of them And forasmuch as for divers great and urgent Causes and Considerations We cannot conveniently at this present be personally in our Royal Person in our Higher House of Parliament being the place accustomed to give our Royal Assent unto such Acts and Ordinances as have been agreed upon by our said Subjects the Lords and Commons We have therefore caused these our Letters Patents to have been made and have signed and caused the same to be Sealed accordingly And by the same do declare and notify as well to you the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons aforesaid as to all and singular other our loving Subjects That we by these Presents do give put our Royal Assent to all and singular the said Acts and Ordinances and to all Articles Clauses and Provisions in them contained and be fully agreed and consented to all and every the said Acts willing that the said Acts and every Article Clause sentence and provision in them contained from henceforth shall be of the same strength force and effect as if we had been personally present in the said Higher House and had openly and publickly in the presence of you all assented to the same Commanding also by these Presents as well our Chancellor of England to seal these our Letters Patents with our great Seal as our Trusty and well-beloved Sir Edmund Anderson Knight our Chief Justice of our Common Pleas to declare and notify this our Royal Assent in our absence in the said Higher House in the presence of you the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons of our Parliament 〈◊〉 to be assembled for that purpose and the Clerk of our Parliament to Indorse the said Acts with such Terms and Words in our Name as is requisite and hath been accustomed for the same And also to Inrol these our Letters in the said Parliament Roll and these our Letters Patents shall be to every of them sufficient Warrant in that behalf And finally declare and will that after this our Royal Assent given and passed by these Presents and declared and notified as is aforesaid That then immediately the said Acts and every of them shall be taken accepted and admitted good sufficient and perfect Laws to all intents Constructions and purposes and to be put in due Execution accordingly the Continuance or Dissolution of this our Parliament or any other Use Custom thing or things to the contrary thereof notwithstanding In Witness whereof We have caused those our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the 23 th day of March in the 29 th year of our Reign Per ipsam Reginam Nota That the Clerk of the Parliament having read the said Letters Patents before set down Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas still supplying the place of Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor delivered other Letters Patents unto the said Clerk openly to be read whereby eight several Commissioners were nominated and authorized to dissolve the Parliament viz. The Archbishop of Canterbury the Archbishop of York the Earl of Shrewsbury Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Darby Lord Steward the Earl of Kent the Earl of Leicester Master of her Majesties Horse the Lord Howard Lord Admiral of England Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Cobham Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports For doubtless unless a new Commission had come forth by which these before-named Honourable Personages had been de novo nominated to this purpose the three Commissioners at first appointed in the beginning of this Parliament which see at large upon Saturday the 29 th day of October foregoing might without any other new authority though not have Dissolved the Parliament yet have Prorogued it to a further day as they had formerly Adjourned it upon Friday the second day of December foregoing unto Wednesday the 15 th day of February next ensuing which was for ten weeks space at the least but that former Authority being now at an end by these new Letters Patents the manner of their delivery the removal of the new Commissioners in them nominated and the Commission lastly it self are thus verbatim set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House Postquam verò Clericus Parliament has Literas palà m perlegisset Edmundus Anderson Miles alias etiam Literas Patentes eidem Clerico Parliamenti publicè legendas tradidit atque hîc notandum est omnes Dominos Commissionarios in Literis patentibus nominatos locis suis relictis in medio banco consedisse dum diclae Literae legerentur Earum autem tenor hic sequitur ELizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei Defensor c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri ac Consiliario suo Johanni Cantuarien Archiepiscopo totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Edwino Archiepiscopo Eboracen Angliae Primati Metropolitano ac etiam chavissimis Consanguineis Consiliariis suis Georgio Comiti Salop Comiti Marescallo Angliae Henrico Comiti Darbiae magno Seneschallo necnon charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Henrico Comiti Kantiae ac charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario suo Roberto Comiti Leicestr Magistro Equorum suorum ac etiam praedilectis fidelibus Consiliariis suis Carolo Domino Howard magno Admirallo suo Angliae Henrico Domino de Hunsdon Domino Carmerario suo Willielmo Domino Cohham Domino Gardiano quinque Portuum suorum Salutem Cùm nuper pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum desensionem Regni nostri Angliae ac Ecclesiae Anglicanae concern praesens hoc Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterii decimo quinto die Octobris ultimo praeterito inchoari teneri ordinaverimus in à quo dic idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in vicesimum septimum ejusdem mensis Octobris prorogat fuerat eodémque die idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in vicesimum nonum diem dicti mensis Octobris prorogat ' fuerat ac ibid ' tunc tent ' continuat ' fuerat usque ad in secundum diem Decembris tunc proximum sequentem Eódémque die idem Parliamentum nostrum usque ad in decimum quintum diem Februarii tunc prox ' sequent ' adjournat ' fuit Eodémque die idem Parliamentum nostrum tunc ibidem tent ' continuat ' fuerat usque ad in vicesimum tertium diem instantis mensis Martii Sciatis tamen certis urgentibus causis considerationibus nos specialiter moven ' idem Parliamentum nostrum hoc instante vicesimo
directed unto him for a Proxie is but an Authority to give another man's assent which cannot be transferred to a third person yet doth the sending of one Proxie sufficiently excuse any absent Lord although the Peer to whom it is directed be not present himself but as soon as that absent Lord shall have notice that he or they whom he constituted for his Procurators do themselves send their Proxies also by reason of their absence then may he send another Proxie and constitute one other or more Proctors for himself and in his stead to give his voice de Novo as the Lord Vaux did in A. 18. Jacobi Regis After those Bloody and Intestine Civil Wars which had been raised in England in the year 1642. and that Robert Earl of Essex General of the Forces raised by the two Houses of Parliament against the King had by the Power of the Independent Faction over ballancing those who desired the settling of the Presbyterian Government been laid aside and Sir Thomas Fairfax Knight placed in his Room the opposition between those two Parties in either House of Parliament growing every day higher and higher the Aged Earl of Mulgrave being an Enemy to all Faction and Innovation was much troubled that William Viscount Say and Seale the chief Promoter of the Independent Novelties did make use of his Proxie for the acting and passing those particulars which were contrary to the Judgment and Conscience of him the said Earl of Mulgrave And therefore my advise being desired by some of the Members of the House of Commons for the reminding him thereof I drew the Letter and Instrument ensuing being not only the first but the sole President also of this King which yet remains upon Record in the Office of the Clerk of the House of Peers To the Right Honourable the Speaker of the House of Peers pro Tempore My very good Lord I am humbly to request of your Lordship to communicate this my present Instrument under my hand and Seal to the House of Peers that it may be publickly there Read and remain upon Record in the Office of the Clerk of the same House Kenzington April 1646. I am Your Lordships humble Servant TO all Christian People to whom these presents shall come Edmund Earl of Mulgrave Greeting Know Ye that Whereas I the said Edmund Earl of Mulgrave have formerly constituted the Right Honourable William Viscount Say and Seal c. my lawful Actor and Procurator for me and in my name to give my Voice and Suffrage upon all such emergent Occasions as the same shall be requisite by the ancient Orders and Constitutions of the House of Peers That I do now by these presents Revoke and Vacate the Proxie by which I did formerly Constitute the said William Viscount Say and Seal my lawful Actor and Procurator as is aforesaid and do hereby declare the same Proxie to be utterly Annulled Vacated and Revoked to all intents and purposes whatsoever In witness whereof I have Signed and Scaled these presents this day of April in the 22th year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King etc. An. Dom. 1646. This Instrument was written and ingrossed in Parchment as a Deed Poll is and to it in a Libel of Parchment was the Seal of the said Earl of Mulgrave affixed and it was read and allowed in the House of Peers Soon after the allowance of the aforesaid Instrument the said Earl of Mulgrave sent this ensuing Proxie to the Earl of Essex who made use of it in the House of Peers and it was there allowed of without any the least question or dispute OMnibus Christi Fidelibus ad quos hoc presens Scriptum pervener it Edmundus Comes de Mulgrave Salutem Noveritis me prefatum Edmundum Comitem de Mulgrave per Licentiam Serenissimi Domini nostri Regis a presenti hoc suo Parliamento inchoat ' et tent ' apud Westmonasterium etc. sufficientèr excusatum abesse nominare ordinare et constituere dilectum mihi in Christo et honorandum Virum Robertum Comitem Essex meum verum certum et indubitatum Factorem Actorem seu Procuratorem per presentes eidemque procuratori meo dare concedere plenam Authoritatem potestatem pro me nomine meo de super quibuscunque causis negotiis in Presenti hoc Parliamento exponendis seu declarandis tractandi tractatibusque hujusmodi inibi factis seu faciendis consilium auxilium nomine meo impendendi statutisque etiam ordination ' quae ex maturo deliberato judicio Domincrum in eodem Parliamento congregat ' inactitart seu ordinari contiger in t nomine meo consentiendi Caeteraque omnia singula quae in praemissis necessaria fuerint seu quomodolibet requisita faciendi exercendi in tam amplis modo forma ut ego ipse facere possem aut deberem si presens personalitèr interessem Ratum Gratum habiturus totum quicquid Procuratormeus statuerit aut fecerit in praemissis In 〈◊〉 rei testimonium praesentibus subscripsi Sigillumque apposui Neither will it be impertinent to set down here how many Proxies were sent to some special Peers at this Parliament it having been my usual course to make some short remembrance of them in all their Journals of Queen Eliz's Reign upon the first day that any extraordinary Proxies were returned and I have caused not only the Presidents of this kind to be inserted here at large in respect this was the first Parliament of her Majesties Reign but also because they are more full and direct than any other that ensue to prove what hath been the ancient use and Priviledge of the Peers of the Upper House in the matter of sending and receiving of Lords Procuratory At first Nicolas Archbishop of York for the See of Canterbury remained still void since the Death of Cardinal Pool was constituted the sole or joynt Proctor of David Bishop of Peterborough Cuthbert Bishop of Durham Thomas Bishop of Ely Gilbert Bishop of Bath and Wells Henry Bishop of St. Davids and of Thomas Tresham Prior of St. Johns of Jerusalem all which Proxies are entred at the beginning of the Original Journal Book of the Upper House to have been returned on Monday the 23th day of January on which this present Parliament was Summoned to have begun Francis Earl of Bedford was also Constituted the sole or joynt Proctor of 15 several Peers viz. of John Lord Mordant William Lord Paget George Lord Zouch and of Henry Lord Aburgaveny all which Proxies are entred at the beginning of the Original Journal Book of the Upper House to have been returned this present Monday the 23th day of January He was also constituted the joynt Proctor of Edward Lord Clinton Lord Admiral Thomas Lord Sands William Lord Vaux of Heredoun William Lord Gray of Wilton and Henry Earl of Cumberland all whose Proxies are entred in such
notwithstanding all the disbursements of these her great Charges yet she was as I right well know very hardly brought to and perswaded to call this Parliament in which she should be driven to require any aid or by any means to charge her Subjects if by any other means it might have been holpen and so her Majesty her self Commanded to be declared And I for my part and so do others very well know for the Commons little think or consider what a trouble want is to her whereby she is forced to ask of them which surely is against her nature but that she is thereunto forced for the surety of this Realm And for that the nether House cannot being so many together but of necessity must have one to be a Mouth Aider or Instructer unto them for the opening of matters which is called the Speaker Therefore go and Assemble your selves together and Elect one a discreet wise and learned Man to be your Speaker and on Friday next the Queens Majesty appointeth to repair hither again for to receive the Presentment of him accordingly The manner of her Majesties coming to the Upper House with the Lord Keepers Speech being supplied out of that written Copy or Anonymous Memorial I had by me as aforesaid now follow the Names of the Receivers and Tryors of Petitions out of the Original Journal-Book it self of the Upper House Then the Clerk of the Parliament read in French the Names of such as should receive hear and try the Petitions for England France Scotland Ireland Gascoigne and Guyen c. which were as followeth Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland viz. Sir Robert Catlin Chief Justice of the Kings Bench Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Anthony Browne Knight Sir Richard Read Knight and Doctor Huicke And such as will prefer any Petitions are to deliver them in six days next ensuing Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles viz. Sir James Dyer Knight Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Saunders Knight Chief Baron Justice Weston M r John Vaughan and Doctor Yale And such as will prefer any Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland viz. The Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Marquess of Winchester Treasurer of England the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Rutland the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Pembroke the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Clinton Admiral of England the Lord Rich all these together or four of the Prelates and Lords calling to them the Keeper of the Great Seal and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeant when need shall require shall hold their places in the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries and parts beyond the Sea viz. The Archbishop of York the Marquess of Northampton the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntingdon the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Oxon the Lord Howard the Lord Chamberlain the Lord Abergaveny the Lord Wentworth the Lord Willoughby and the Lord North all they together or four of the Prelates and Lords aforesaid calling to them the Queens Serjeant Attorney and Sollicitor when need shall require shall hold their place in the Treasurers Chamber These Names of the Receivers and Tryors of Petitions foregoing being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House there should follow out of the same the Adjournment or Continuance of the Parliament by the Queens Majesty or the Lord Keeper by her Commandment but the same being wholly omitted through the negligence of Francis Spilman Clerk of the same it is in part supplied out of that before-mentioned memorial Copy of this present days passages following Then the Lord Keeper Adjourned the Parliament till Friday next and then the Queen returned to her Chamber and shifted her and so did all the Lords and then waited on her to the Water side where she took her Boat and departed to Whiteball from whence she came and they till Friday at their pleasures upon which ensuing Friday her Majesty came again to the Upper House but the manner and form thereof being wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and only found in the foresaid Anonymous Memorials I had by me is therefore inserted out of the same in manner and form following On Friday the 15 th day of Jan. 1562. the Queens Majesty at her Privy-Stairs took Boat and went by Water to the Parliament-House about two of the Clock the Lords and Heralds waiting on her to the Landing place on the back side of the Parliament and so brought her to her Privy-Chamber where she shifted her and put on her Robes and the Lords theirs as the first day and then she repaired to her Seat and the Lords to theirs with their Serjeants and Gentlemen-Ushers before her the Lord Marquess of Northampton bearing the Cap of Estate the Duke of Norsolk the Rod of the Marshalsie and the Earl of Northumberland the Sword the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and the Baron of Hunsdon sustained her Mantle from her Arms And her Train was born by the Lord Chamberlain Vice-Chamberlain and M r Ashley Master of the Jewel-House and the Lord Keeper standing at the back of the Rail on the right and the Lord Treasurer on the left And because this is the first Session of the Second Parliament of her Majesty I thought it worth the labour to cause the presence of her Majesty and the Lords spiritual and Temporal to be inserted directly according unto the Copy thereof in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper-House Die Veneris 15 to Januar. Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales quorum nomina subsequuntur praesentes fuerunt Pr. Regina Pr. Archiepiscopus Cantuar. Pr. Archiepiscopus Eboracen Pr. Episcopus London Pr. Episcopus Dunelmen Pr. Episcopus Winton Pr. Episcopus Cicestren Episcopus Landaph Pr. Episcopus Hereford Pr. Episcopus Elien Pr. Episcopus Wigorn. Pr. Episcopus Bangoren Pr. Episcopus Lincoln Pr. Episcopus Sarum Pr. Episcopus Meneven Pr. Episcopus Rofsen Pr. Episcopus Bathon Wellen. Pr. Episcopus Coven Lichfeild Pr. Episcopus Exon. Pr. Episcopus Norwicen Pr. Episcopus Petriburgen Episcopus Carliolen Pr. Episcopus Cestren Pr. Episcopus Assaven Pr. Episcopus Gloucestren Nota That this is the very express manner and form by which the presence of her Majesty the Lord Keeper and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal is set down and marked out upon this present Friday being the first day of this her Highnesses Second Session of her Parliament and at the beginning of every Lords name that was present are the Letters Pr. prefixed by which it appeareth and may certainly be concluded that all they before whose names those Letters are not set down and entred were then absent which hath been the constant course
at and if offences were then her Majesties Clemency and Mercy the more to be commended Misericordia ejus super omnia opera ejus Besides like as it hath pleased God ten years and more by the Ministry of our said Soveraign to bless this Realm with those two inestimable benefits of Peace and Clemency so there is no cause but the same might by Gods Grace have continued twenty Years longer without intermission had not the Raging Romanist Rebels entertained the matter And here it is to be noted that this Merciful and Peaceful Reign of ten Years and more hath hapned in the time of Christs Religion now established I cannot think that any man can follow me in this in the time of the Romish Religion since the Conquest Nay a man might affirm that this is an Example for times to come without any like in times past comparing Singula singulis what should I say these be the true Fruits of true Religion I could further remember you of the Fruits of Justice the benefit of restoring your Money to Finess yea I could put you in mind but I think it needs not it happened so late of a Subsidy granted whereof the Queens Majesty of her own bountifulness remitted the one half was the like here in England ever seen or heard of But being out of doubt that these benefits already remembred be sufficient of themselves to move you to be thankful to your Power I leave any longer to detain you in this point And albeit a Subject cannot yield any benefit to his Soveraign in the same nature that he receiveth it because every benefit is more than Duty and more than Duty a Subject cannot yield to his Soveraign Yet can it not be denied but a Subjects acknowledging of benefits received joined with good will to yield as far as Liberty will reach doth sufficiently satisfie for the Subject for ultra posse non est esse To your best actions therefore address ye And thus much concerning benefits Now to the second part concerning urging by Necessity true it is that the extraordinary matters of Charge happened since the last Assembly here urging to have by necessity a relief granted amongst many others be these First The great Charge in suppressing the late Northern Rebellion with Charges also in reforming those the Queens Majesties Enemies in Scotland that assisted the Rebels and made Rodes into England The continual growing Expences by reason of Ireland as in subduing the Rebels within that Realm and withstanding the Scots Northward and other Foreign Forces intending Invasion Southward To these three Charges by Land you may add a fourth by Sea as the preparation and setting forth of Ships partly for the defence against all Foreign Forces suspected and intended partly for the safe conducting of the Wares and Merchandizes in greater strength and longer cut than heretofore hath been used These and such like extraordinary Charges whereof there be sundry with the remains of old Charges not possible to be born by the ordinary Revenue and yet of necessity to be expended do greatly exceed any extraordinary aid therefore commonly granted Again the great decay of the Queens Majesties Customs by reason of stay and alteration of Traffick albeit upon just occasion hath bred no small want for although in time it is not to be doubted but that will grow again to his old course and continue with great Surety Yet in the mean time this want must some way be supplied for you know the Horse must be provided for whilst the Grass is in growing At the least let us do so much for our selves as we do for our Horses For our selves it is that are to be relieved in this Case This I must needs say that if the Queens Majesty did use in matters of Expence to do as commonly Princes heretofore have used to do then with the more difficulty might such extraordinary aid be assented unto and yet of necessity to be had to withstand a greater necessity It hath been used in times past that Princes pleasures and delights have been commonly followed in matters of Charge as things of necessity And now because God be praised the relieving of the Realms necessity is become the Princes Pleasure and Delight a noble Conversion God continue it and make us as we ought to be earnestly thankful for it A Princely Example shewed by a Soveraign for Subjects to follow To descend in some particulars What need I to remember unto you how the gorgeous sumptuous superfluous Buildings of time past be for the Realms good by her Majesty in this time turned into necessary Buildings and upholdings The chargeable glittering glorious Triumphs into delectable Pastimes and Shows Embassadors of Charge into such as be void of excess and yet honourable and comely These and such like are dangerous dams able to dry up the flowing Fountains of any Treasure and yet these imperfections have been commonly Princes Peculiars especially young One free from these was accounted Rara avis c. and yet God be thanked a Phoenix a Blessed Bird of this kind God hath blessed us with I think it may be affirmed and that truly that there hath not been any matter of great Charge taken in hand by her Majesty in this happy Reign of twelve Years and more that hath not been thought before convenient to be done for the Weal and profit of the Realm so far her Highness is from spending of Treasure in vain matters and therefore the rather how can a man make any difficulty to contribute according to his Power specially in maintaining of his Sovereign his Country his Self his Wife and Children and what not having so long a proof by experience of such an imployment Here I would put you in mind of extraordinary Charges to come which in reason seems evident but so I should be over tedious unto you and frustra sit per plura quod sieri potest per pauciora And therefore here I make an end doubting that I have tarried you longer than I promised or meant or perchance needed your wisdoms and good inclinations considered But you know things are to be done both in form and matter And my trust is that if I had stayed I may be warranted by either or by both that you will take it in good part Thus far out of the Copy of this foregoing Speech As soon as the Lord Keepers Speech was ended then the Clerk of the Upper House read the names of Receivers and Tryers of Petitions in French whose names are transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and were as followeth Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Kings Bench Sir William Cordell Knight Master of the Rolls Sir John Widden Knight one of the Justices of Sir Richard Read Knight and D r Huick who were Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and the parts beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir James Dyer Knight
Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Saunders Knight Lord Chief Baron Richard Weston one of the Justices of Welsh one of the Justices of D r Lewis D r Yale and D r Vaughan Triers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Arundel the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Clinton the Lord Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Wentworth and the Lord North. Triers of Petitions for Gascoigne and for other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles The Archbishop of York the Marquess of Northampton the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Leicester the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Howard of Esfingham Chamberlain of the Queen the Lord Windsor the Lord Hastings of Loughborough and the Lord Carie of Hùnsdon Hodiè retornatum breve quo Edwardus Comes Oxon. praesenti huic Parliamento summonitus fuit qui admissus fuit ad suum in sedendo praeheminentiae locum salvo cuique jure suo The like Writs returned for Henry Earl of Pembroke and William Lord Sands Hodiè retornatum fuit breve quo Richardus Episcopus Carliolen praesenti buic Parliamento summonebatur qui admissus fuit ad suum in sedendo praeheminentiae locum salvo jure alieno On Wednesday the 4 th day of April in the Afternoon but at or about what hour appeareth not although it may probably be guessed that it was about three of the Clock her Majesty with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal Assembled in the Upper House whose names are marked to have been present this day in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House being as followeth Regina Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Episcopus London Episcopus Dunelmen Episcopus Winton Episcopus Hereforden Episcopus Wigorn. Episcopus Lincolnien Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Meneven Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Norwicen Episcopus Carliolen Episcopus Cestren Episcopus Assaven Episcopus Glocestren Episcopus Bangoren Episcopus Landaven Nicolaus Bacon Miles Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli Marchio Northampton Comes Arundell Comes Oxon. Comes Wigorn. Comes Sussex Comes Southampton Comes Bedford Comes Pembroke Comes Leicester Vice-Comes Hereford Vice-Comes Mountague Which are all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal sitting on the two Upper Forms noted to be present this day Nota That the Spiritual Lords are always thus placed in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House on the dexter side not in respect of their precedency but as it should seem because the Archbishop of Canterbury the chief of them is the first Peer of England and so the residue of the Clergy are placed next after him in respect of their Ecclesiastical Dignities The next that follow are the Barons who are placed in the said Journal-Book in respect of their several places and precedencies as followeth Barones Dominus Clinton Admirallus Angliae Dominus Howard Camerarius Dominus Burgavenny Dominus Strainge Dominus Dacres de Souch Dominus Cobham Dominus Stafford Dominus Gray de Wilton Dominus Dudley Dominus Lumley Dominus Darcie Dominus Mountegle Dominus Vauxes Dominus Windesor Dominus Wentworth Dominus Burgh Dominus Crumwell Dominus Evers Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby Dominus Paget Dominus Darcie de Chich. Dominus North. Dominus Shandois Dominus Haistings de Loughborough Dominus Hunsdon Dominus S t John de Bletsoe Dominus Buckhurst Dominus De la Ware Her Majesty and the Lords being thus set the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired to the Upper House with Christopher Wray Serjeant at Law their lately Elected Speaker whose presentation to her Majesty and allowance by her being not mentioned in the Original Journal-Book of the said House are therefore wholly transcribed out of that before-cited Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal the same also in effect being contained in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons fol. 10. a. The said Speaker being led up to the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the Upper House by two of the most Honourable Personages of the House of Commons did there after three Reverences made humbly beseech her Majesty according to the usual course that albeit he could not obtain of the Commons who had Elected him to be their Speaker for such causes as he had alledged to be disbunthened of that place that so some other more fit and able might be chosen that yet her Highness would vouchsafe to have consideration of the greatness of the Service and therefore to require them eftsoons to return to the House and to make a new Choice To which his Petition the Lord Keeper by her Majesties Commandment Answered and said That as well for that her Highness had understood of him as for that the Commons had chosen him his Request could not be granted Whereupon the said Speaker being allowed he desired to be heard to say somewhat concerning the orderly Government of a Common-Weal which to be duly done he said there were three things requisite Religion Authority and Laws By Religion he said we do not only know God aright but also how to Obey the King or Queen whom God shall assign to Reign over us and that not in Temporal Causes but in Spiritual or Ecclesiastical in which wholly her Majesties Power is absolute And leaving all proofs of Divinity to the Bishops and Fathers as he said he would he prov'd the same by the practice of Princes within this Realm and first made remembrance of Lucius the first Christian King who having written to Elut herius the Pope 1300. Years past for the Roman Laws he was Answered that he had the Holy Scriptures out of the which he might draw to himself and for his Subjects Laws by his own good discretion for that he was the Vicar of Christ over the People of Brittain The Conqueror he said in the Erection of Battell-Abby granted that the Church should be free from all Episcopal Jurisdiction Henry the Third gave to Ranulph Bishop of London the Archbishoprick of Canterbury by these words Rex c. Sciatis quod dedimus Dilect nostro Ranulpho Archiepiscop Cantuarien quem instituimus Anulo Baculo The Ring he said was the sign of perfection The Staff the sign of Pastoral Rule which he could not do if these Kings had not had and used the Ecclesiastical Powers In the Reports of the Law we find that an Excommunication of a certain person came from the Pope under his Leaden Bull and was shewed in abatement of an Action brought at the Common Law which besides that it was of no force the King and Judges were of Mind that he who brought it had deserved Death so to presume on any Foreign Authority which Authority being now by Gods Grace and her Highness means abolished and the freedom of Consciences and the truth
without a Head thus do therefore it resteth that you according to your antient Order of your selves chuse some wise and discreet man who after he hath been by you chosen and presented and that presentation by the Queens Majesty allowed shall then be your Speaker and Day is given c. This Speech being thus transcribed out of the Copy I had of it as is aforesaid now follow the names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House which the Clerk of the same readeth in French as soon as the Lord Keepers Speech is ended and which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Robert Catlin Knight Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Sir William Cordell Knight Master of the Rolls Sir John Widdon Knight one of the Justices of the ----- Sir Richard Read K t one of the Justices of the ----- and D r Huick and they that will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six dayes next ensuing Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir James Dyer Knight Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Sanders Knight Lord Chief Baron Richard Weston one of the Justices of the ----- John Southcott one of the Justices of the ----- Doctor Lewis Doctor Yale and Doctor Vaughan and they that will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Oxford the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Huntington the Earl of Bedford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Ely the Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain of the Queens House the Lord Windsor and the Lord North. All these or four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Islands beyond the Seas The Archbishop of York the Earl of Lincoln Lord Admiral of England the Earl of Leicester the Earl of Essex the Bishop of Worcester the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Burleigh Principal Secretary the Lord Wentworth the Lord Buckhurst All they or four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants Attorney and Sollicitor when need shall require shall hold their place in the Treasurer's Chamber Hodiè retornatum est breve Dom. Reginae quo Henricus Compton de Compton Chevalier praesenti Parliamento interesse summonitus est qui praesens admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo cuique jure suo And two other Writs were returned in like manner by which Henry Cheyney of Toddington and Henry Lord Norris of Ricott were Summoned to be present this Parliament who were accordingly admitted to their due places saving to all others their right Nota That there is no entrance in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House of any Continuance or Adjournment of the Parliament by the Lord Keeper which doubtless happened through the great negligence of Anthony Mason Esq at this time Clerk of the said House There were also divers Proxies returned on this present Thursday being the 8 th day of May but whether before or after the Continuance of the Parliament appeareth not in which two Spiritual Lords Constituted each of them two Proctors apiece according to the usual and frequent manner and are therefore omitted but four other Bishops nominating either three Proctors apiece or but one which is somewhat extraordinary therefore they are here inserted Die 8 o Maij introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Hugonis Episcopi Landaven in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Nicolaum Wigorn. Richardum Meneven Nicolaum Bangoren Episcopos Eodem die introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Jacobi Dunelmensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Edmundum Archiepiscopum Ebor. Eodem die introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Johannis Herefordensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Matthaeum Cantuariensem Archiepiscopum Edwin London Nicolaum Wigorn. Episcopos Eodem die introductae sunt literae Procuratoriae Thomae Assavensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Robertum Wintonien Nicolaum Wigorn. ac Nicolaum Bangoren Episcopos Now although it be most usual for the Spiritual Lords to name two Proctors yet here four of six varied from it three of them exceeding that number and the other nominating but one It is likewise as usual for the Temporal Lords to Constitute but one Proctor and it is an Action worthy observation where they nominate more for in this very Parliament of fifteen Temporal Lords that sent Proxies but one nominated two Proctors which see afterwards on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May following and all the rest Constituted but one Proctor apiece which being trivial and ordinary are omitted Nota Also that the Earl of Leicester had this Parliament eight Proxies sent unto him viz. from George Earl of Shrewsbury Edward Earl of Darby Henry Lord Scroop Edward Lord Dudley Anthony Viscount Mountacute Gregory Lord Dacres William Lord Sands and Edward Earl of Lincoln all which seem to have been returned on Monday the 12 th day of this instant May in such order as they are here set down Nota That the Lord Burleigh also Principal Secretary to her Majesty had six Proxies sent unto him this Parliament viz. from John Marquess of Winchester Henry Lord Hunsdon Thomas Lord Buckhurst John Lord Latimer Edward Earl of Lincoln who made also the Earl of Leicester his joint Proctor with him and Robert Lord Rich. These also are set down in the Journal-Book to have been returned the 12 th day of May in such order as they are here set down but now by a late Order made in the Upper House an 2 do Caroli Regis no Lord is capable of above two Proxies Nota That in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House it doth not appear at all whether her Majesty or any of the Lords were present on Saturday following being the tenth day of this instant May it appearing plainly that neither House sate on Friday the 9 th day of the same nor what was done thereon and therefore the Passages of the same are supplied out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons On Saturday the 10 th day of May in the Afternoon her Majesty being come to the Upper House with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being there also set and the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the House of Commons having notice repaired thither with Robert Bell of the Middle-Temple London Esq their Speaker Elect who was led up unto the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the said Upper House by two of the most Eminent Personages of the Commons and presented to her Majesty whom she allowed and Confirmed
and it was agreed by the consent of the whole House M r Carleton offered again to speak saying with some repetition that what he had to move was for the liberty of the House but the Speaker notwithstanding and the House out of a tender care as it seemeth to give no further distast to her Majesty did stay him On Wednesday the 25 th day of January the Bill for Children born in England of Fathers that were Aliens not to be accounted or reputed as English was read the second time M r Cromwell now upon the second reading as the Order is spake against the Bill M r Norton for it with Motion also that Englishmen taking Oath to the Pope or Foreign Potentates beyond Sea for Obedience in England shall have no benefit as Englishmen M r Broughton spake against the said Bill Sir Francis Knolles Treasurer of her Majesties Houshold spake for it and M r Dalton spake against it Whereupon the said Bill was after the foresaid second reading according to the course and order in that case usual and accustomed committed to M r Treasurer aforesaid M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Doctor Dale one of the Masters of Requests M r Norton M r Aldrich M r Aldersey M r Dalton M r Fleetwood Recorder of London and M r Serjeant Fenner who were appointed to meet on Friday the 27 th day of January now next following at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Vice-Chamberlain brought Answer from her Majesty of her most gracious acceptation of the Submission and of her Majesties Admonition and Confidence of their discreet proceeding with one special note that they do not misreport the cause of her misliking which was not for that they desired Fasting and Prayer but for the manner in presuming to indict a form of publick Fast without Order and without her Privity which was to intrude upon her Authority Ecclesiastical Sir Walter Mildmay spake next and delivered a most Honourable Grave Wise and Honest Speech which being not found either in the first Original draught of the Journal of the House of Commons taken by Fulk Onslow Esq Clerk of the same nor otherwise set down in one other fair transcribed Copy of the said Journal by the same M r Onslow's direction then abstractedly and summarily taken I have therefore caused it to be transcribed at large out of a Copy of the said Speech I had by me in manner and form following The principal cause of our Assembly here being to consult of matters that do concern the Realm I have thought good with your patience to remember you of such things as for the weight and necessity of them I take to be worthy of your considerations Wherein I mean to note unto you what I have conceived first of the present state we be in next of the dangers we may justly be in doubt of and lastly what provision ought to be made in time to prevent or resist them These shewed as briefly as the matters will suffer I leave them to your Judgments to proceed further as you shall find it expedient That our most Gracious Queen did at her first Entry loosen us from the Yoke of Rome and did restore unto this Realm the most pure and holy Religion of the Gospel which for a time was over-shadowed with Popery is known of all the World and felt of us to our singular Comforts But from hence as from the Root hath sprung that implacable malice of the Pope and his Confederates against her whereby they have and do seek not only to trouble but if they could to bring the Realm again into a Thraldom the rather for that they hold this as a firm and setled Opinion that England is the only setled Monarchy that most doth maintain and countenance Religion being the Chief Sanctuary for the afflicted Members of the Church that fly thither from the Tyranny of Rome as men being in danger of Shipwrack do from a raging and tempestuous Sea to a calm and quiet Haven This being so what hath not the Pope assaied to annoy the Queen and her State thereby as he thinketh to remove this great obstacle that standeth between him and the over-flowing of the World again with Popery For the proof whereof these may suffice The Northern Rebellion stirred up by the Pope and the quarrel for Popery The maintenance sithence of those Rebels and other Fugitives The publishing of a most impudent blasphemous and malicious Bull against our most Rightful Queen The Invasion into Ireland by James Fitz Marrice with the assistance of some English Rebels The raising of a dangerous Rebellion in Ireland by the Earl of Desmond and others intending thereby to make a general Revolt of all the whole Realm The late Invasion of Strangers into Ireland and their fortifying it The Pope turned thus the venom of his Curses and the Pens of his malicious Parasites into men of War and Weapons to win that by Force which otherwise he could not do And though all these are said to be done by the Pope and in his name yet who seeth not that they be maintained under-hand by some Princes his Confederates And if any man be in doubt of that let him but note from whence the last Invasion into Ireland came of what Country the Ships and of what Nation the most part of the Souldiers were and by direction of whose Ministers they received their Victual and Furniture For the Pope of himself at this present is far unable to make War upon any Prince of that Estate which her Majesty is of having lost as you know many years by the Preaching of the Gospel those infinite Revenues which he was wont to have out of England Scotland Germany Switzerland Denmark and others and now out of France and the Low Countries so as we are to think that his name only is used and all or the most part of the charge born by others The Queen nevertheless by the Almighty Power of God standeth fast maugre the Pope and all his Friends having hitherto resisted all attempts against her to her great honor and their great shame As The Rebellion in the North suppressed without effusion of Blood wherein her Majesty may say as Caesar did veni vidi vici so expedite and so honourable was the Victory that God did give her by the diligence and valour of those noble men that had the conducting thereof The Enterprize of James Fitz Morrice defeated and himself slain The Italians pulled out by the ears at Smirwick in Ireland and cut in pieces by the notable Service of a noble Captain and Valiant Souldiers Neither these nor any other threatnings or fears of danger hath or doth make her to stagger or relent in the Cause of Religion but like a constant Christian Princess she still holdeth fast the profession of the Gospel that hath so long upholden her and made us to live in Peace twenty two Years and more under her most Gracious Government
their several places the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof who thereupon repairing thither as many as conveniently could were let in and standing all together at the Rail or Bar at the lower end of the Upper House Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord Chancellor by the Queen Commandment declared unto them the Causes of the Assembling of this Parliament But what those Causes were neither the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House nor that of the House of Commons do at all mention in setting down the other daily Passages of this Parliament de Anno isto 27 Reginae Eliz. But in respect they are set down the above-mentioned Catalogue of Honour imprinted at London An. Domini 1610. pag. 〈◊〉 and that it is most probable that were there inserted out of the Collections or Memorial of some Member of the House of Commons at this Parliament therefore I have thought good to supply it verbatim as it is there set down The said Lord Chancellor declared unto them in her Majesties name that this Assembly of Parliament was for three causes called viz. For the glory of Almighty God and the furthering of Religion for the health and preservation of her Royal Majesty and the welfare of the Common-Weal Which after that he had a loud and most eloquently at large declared turning his Speech unto the Knights and Burgesses standing on a heap together below he willed them to make choice of their Prolocutor and to give notice of him so Chosen unto the Lords of the Privy-Council from whom they should expect what the Queens Pleasure and Answer was concerning him so Chosen to be afterward presented The substance of this Speech being so shortly set down in the said Catalogue of Honour I thought good to transcribe although it were imprinted because it doth much augment and perfect this present Journal of the Upper House The residue whereof doth next in order follow out of the Original Journal-Book of the same House there being only added now and then as the occasion offered it self some Observations and Animadversions upon it Nota Also that no names of any of the Lords Spiritual or Temporal are noted to have been present this day which happened through the negligence of the Clerk of the Parliament but it may be conjectured who they were by the names of such whose presence is noted on Thursday next following being the 26 th day of this instant November on which said day the presence of such Lords as attended this Parliament is first marked Then follow the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions which is the more remarkable at this time because it is said that the Clerk of the Parliament did read them by the Lord Chancellors Commandment whereas it should seem at other times and which is agreeable also to the course at this day he doth presently stand up of himself as soon as the Lord Chancellors or Lord Keepers Speech is ended and reads the said Receivors and Triors names yet the entrance aforesaid is at this time set down in the said Journal-Book in manner and form following Tunc having before-mentioned the Lord Chancellors Speech Parliamenti Clericus ex mandato Cancellarn omnibus Petitionibus exhiberi volentibus Receptorum Examinatorum nomina formâ subsequenti recitavit Then follows all in French of which the names were these Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Lord Chief Justice of England Sir Gilbert Gerrard Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Gawel Knight one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench Doctor Clarke and Doctor Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Lord Chief Baron Francis Windam one of the Justices of ..... Doctor Awbery and Doctor Barkley Such as will deliver Petitions must so do within six days next ensuing Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Leicester Lord High Steward of England the Earl of Darby the Earl of Rutland the Bishop of Winchester the Bishop of Salisbury the Lord Howard of Effingham Chamberlain of the Queens House the Lord Gray of Wilton the Lord North. All these or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants at their leisure to meet and hold their place in the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoigne and the Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles The Archbishop of York the Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembroke the Bishop of Norwich the Bishop of Chester the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Cobham the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst All these or four of them calling to them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor to hold their place when their leisure did serve to meet in the Treasurers Chamber Breve returnatum which was returned this Morning quo Johannes Episcopus Gloucestren praesenti Parliamento interesse summonitus fuit qui admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno Dominus Cancellarius continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem crastinum horâ nonâ On Tuesday the 24 th day of November the Lords met in the Upper House but nothing was done saving the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor until nine of the Clock the next Morning On Wednesday the 25 th day of November there was a like meeting of the Lords but nothing done saving the continuance of the Parliament by the Lord Chancellor unto two of the Clock in the Afternoon the day following But no presence of the Lords is noted on this day in the Original Journal-Book On Thursday the 26 th day of November the Commons having chosen their Speaker who upon his Presentment to the Queen was this day to be allowed of in the said place her Majesty Accompanied with divers of the Nobility came into the Upper House about three of the Clock in the Afternoon whose name and the names of such Lords Spiritual and Temporal as are marked in the Original Journal-Book of this Parliament to have been present this day do here ensue Regina Archiepiscopus Cantuar. Dominus Thomas Bromley Miles Cancellarius Archiepiscopus Eboracen Dominus Barleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Marchio Winton Comites Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerarius Comes Arundell Comes Kantiae Comes Darbiae Comes Wigorn. Comes Rutland Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Comes Bathon Comes Pembrooke Comes Hartford Vice-Comes Mountague Vice-Comes Bindon Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Winton Episcopus Meneven Episcopus Sarisburien Episcopus Petriburgen Episcopus Norwicen Episcopus Roffen Episcopus Cestren Barones Dominus Howard Camerar Dominus Zouch Dominus Willoughbie Dominus Dacres Dominus Cobham Dominus Grey de Wilton Dominus Lumley Dominus Stourton Dominus Mountjoy
that she hath right not to succeed but to enjoy your Crown in possession and therefore as she is a most impatient Competitor acquainted with blood so will she not spare any means that may take you from us being the only Lett that she enjoyeth not her desire She is hardned in malice against your Royal Person notwithstanding that you have done her all favour mercy and kindness as well in preserving her Kingdom as saving her Life and Honour And therefore there is no place for mercy where there is no hope of amendment or that she will desist from most wicked Attempts The rather for that her malice appeareth such as that she maketh as it were her Testament of the same to be executed after her death and appointeth her Executors to perform the same She affirmeth it lawful to move Invasion therefore as of Invasion Victory may ensue and of Victory the death of the vanquished so doth she not obscurely profess it lawful to destroy you She holds it not only lawful but honourable also and meritorious to take your life c. being deprived of your Crown by her holy Father and therefore she will as she hath continually done seek it by all means whatsoever She is greedy of your death and preferreth it before her own life for in her late direction to some of her Complices she willed whatsoever became of her the Tragical Execution should be performed on you There is by so much the more danger to your Person since the Sentence than before by how much it behoveth them that would preserve her or advance her to hasten your death now or never before Execution done upon her as knowing that you and none else can give direction for her death and that by your death the Sentence hath lost the force of Execution and otherwise they should come too late if they take not the present opportunity to help her Her Friends hold Invasion unprofitable while you live and therefore in their opinion your death is first and principally to be sought as the most compendious way to ruine the Realm by Invasion Some of the eldest and wisest Papists set it down for a special good drift to occupy you with conceit that the preservation of her Life is the safety of your own and therefore you may be assured that they verily think that her life will be your death and destruction Secondly Forasmuch as concerns Religion It is most perillous to spare her that hath continually breathed the overthrow and suppression of the same being poysoned with Popery from her tender Youth and at her Age joyning in that false termed Holy League and ever since and now a professed Enemy of the Truth She resteth wholly upon Popish hopes to be delivered and advanced and is so devoted and doted in that profession that she will as well for satisfaction of others as feeding her own humor supplant the Gospel where and whensoever she may Which evil is so much the greater and the more to be avoided as that it slayeth the Soul and will spread it self not only over England and Scotland but also into all parts beyond the Seas where the Gospel of God is maintained the which cannot but be exceedingly weakened if defection should be in these two most valiant Kingdoms Thirdly For as much as concerns the happy Estate of this Realm The Lydians say Unum Regem agnoscunt Lydii duos autem tolerare non possunt So we say Unam Reginam Elizabetham agnoscunt Angli duas autem tolerare non possunt And therefore since she saith that she is Queen here and we neither can nor will acknowledge any other but you to be our Queen It will follow if she prevail she will rather make us slaves than take us for Children and therefore the Realm sigheth and groaneth under fear of such a Step-Mother She hath already provided us a Foster-Father and a Nurse the Pope and the King of Spain into whose hands if it should mis-happen us to fall what can we else look for but ruine destruction and utter extirpation of goods lands lives honour and all Whilst she shall live the enemies of the State will hope and gape after your death By your death they trust to make Invasion profitable for them which cannot be but the same should be most lamentable for us and therefore it is meet to cut off the head of that hope As she hath already by her poysoned baits brought to destruction more Noble men and their Houses and a great multitude of Subjects during her being here than she would have done if she had been in possession of her own Country and armed in the field against us so will she still be continually cause of the like spoil to the greater loss and peril of this Estate and therefore this Realm neither can or may endure her Her Sectaries do write and print that we be at our wits end worlds end if she over-live your Majesty meaning thereby that the end of our world is the beginning of theirs and therefore take her away and their world will be at an end before it begin Since the sparing of her in the 14 th year of your Reign Popish Traytors and Recusants have multiplied exceedingly And if you spare her now again they will grow both innumerable and invincible also And therefore now in the 4 th place Mercy in this case would in the end prove cruelty against us all Nam est quaedam crudelis misericordia And therefore to spare her is to spill us She is only a Cousin to you in a remote degree but we be Sons and Children of this land whereof you be not only the natural Mother but also the Wedded Spouse And therefore much more is due from you to us all than to her alone It would exceedingly grieve and wound the hearts of your loving Subjects if they should see so horrible Vice not condignly punished if any be wavering it will win them to the worser part and many will seek to make their own peace Wherefore as well for the comfort of the one as stay of the other and retaining of all It is most needful that Justice be done upon her Thousands of your loving Subjects of all degrees which have for special zeal of your safety made Oath before God to pursue to death by all forcible and possible means such as she is by just sentence found to be cannot save their Oaths if you keep her alive for then either we must take her life from her without direction which will be to our extream danger by the offence of your Law or else we must suffer her to live against our express Oath which will be to the uttermost peril of our own Souls wherewith no Act of Parliament nor power of man whatsoever can in any wise dispense And therefore seeing it resteth wholly in you by a most worthy and just execution of this sentence to keep us upright and free us in both we most humbly and earnestly
Prorogand Ita quod nec vos nec aliquis vestruin ad dictum duodecimum diem Novembris apud Civitatem praedictam comparere teneamini seu arctemini volumus enim vos quemlibet vestrum erga nos penitus exonerari Mandantes tenore praesentium firmiter injungendo praecipientes vobis cuilibet vestrum omnibus aliis quibus in hac parte intererit quòd ad dictum quartum diem Februarii apud praedictam Civitatem Westmonasterii personaliter compareatis intersitis quilibet vestrum compareat intersit ad tractand faciend agend concludend super hiis quae in dicto Parliamento nostro de communi Concilio dicti regni nostri favente Domino contigerint ordinari In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium 15. die Octobris Anno Regni nostri 30. Per ipsam Reginam Ha. Gerrard On Tuesday the 4 th day of February in the 31. year of her Majesties Reign to which day the Parliament had been last Prorogued upon Tuesday the 12 th day of November foregoing and accordingly now held The Queens Majesty was personally present accompanied by the Lord Chancellor and divers of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal but the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House doth not at all mention the presence of any Lords which happened through the great negligence of M r Anthony Mason at this time Clerk thereof yet it may be collected February 8. The Queen being set under her Cloth of State and the Lords placed in their Parliamentary Robes according to their several ranks and orders the Knights Citizens Barons and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired to the said Upper House and as many of them as conveniently could being let in stood before the Rail or Bar at the nether end thereof Then Sir Christoper Hatton Knight Lord Chancellor of England in a Speech which he used did at large declare the Queens gracious disposition to peace and her great wisdom in preserving the same and singular government of the Realm Next he shewed the great benefit which this Kingdom enjoyed by her government and remembred her great Conquest over the Spanish late wonderful Army or Fleet on the Seas videlicet in Anno 30 Reign Eliz. Anno Domini 1588. He further declared how much the King of Spain remained bent against this Kingdom And lastly shewed the Cause of calling this Parliament to be that by the consent of the most grave and wise Persons now called together out of all parts of the Realm preparation may as far forth by the Counsel of man as is possible be made and provided that Arms Souldiers and Money may be in readiness and an Army prepared and furnished against all Events The Lord Chancellors Speech being ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French according to the usual form which were these Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir Christopher Wray Chief Justice Sir Gilbert Gerrard Knight Master of the Rolls Sir Robert Shute one of the Justices of Kings Bench D r Aubrey and D r Ford. Receivors of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Roger Manwood Chief Baron Francis Windham one of the Justices of the Common Pleas D r Clerk and D r Cary. Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Earl of Darby the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Sussex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton Tryors of Petitions for Gascoigne and for other Countries beyond the Seas and the Islands The Earl of Oxford great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Warwick the Earl of Pembrook the Bishop of Salisbury the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop of Rochester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst As soon as the Clerk of the Parliament had read these names and had likewise ended other things of course belonging unto them viz. That the first Tryors of England c. or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants should at their leisure meet together in the Chamberlains Chamber and that the last Tryors of Gascoigne c. or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor should hold their place when their leisure did serve them to meet in the Treasurers Chamber Then the Queen continued the Parliament unto a day to come which is entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. Ipsa Regina continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox ' hora secunda post Meridiem On Wednesday the 5 th day of this instant February although the Upper House sate not yet was one extraordinary Proxy returned or brought in unto the Clerk of the said House as there had formerly been another of a like nature returned on Monday the third day of the said Month foregoing which because it was returned before the Parliament it self began and is entred together with that before mentioned in the beginning of the Original Journal-Book of the said House it shall not be much amiss to set them down both together in this place in such manner and form as they are entred in the said Journal-Book viz. Vacat 3. die Februarii introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Willielmi Assaphen ' Episcopi in quibus Procuratores suos constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuar ' Johannem Episcopum Roffen Hugonem Episcopum Bangoren ' Nota That though the word vacat be here placed in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in the Margent of this Proxy in such manner and sort as this is transcribed yet there doth not appear any reason thereof for as it may be collected by the presence of the Lords set down on Saturday the 8 th day of this instant February following neither the said Bishop of S t Asaph was present himself after the said Proxy sent nor all nor any of his Proctors absent nor himself dead which are only causes of a Vacat 5 to Die Februarii introductae sunt Literae procuratoriae Johannis Carliolen ' Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constitiuit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuarien ' Nota That these Two Proxies are therefore called unusual and extraordinary because these two Bishops did constitute the first of them three Proctors and the last of them but one whereas for the most part the Spiritual Lords do nominate two and the Temporal Lords but one which may be collected in part out of the very Returns of this Parliament for of five Spiritual Lords that sent their Proxies three constituted two
this Journal of the Upper House save only the return of divers unusual Proxies and a Speech used by her Majesty her self at the conclusion of the Parliament which also is supplied out of a certain Journal of the House of Commons very claborately taken by an Anonymus And Sir Christopher Haton the late Lord Chancellor being dead since the last Parliament whose death was occasioned from the grief he conceived at some harsh Speeches of her Majesty used unto him touching divers great sums due unto her from him Sir John Puckering her Highness Serjeant who had been twice before Speaker or Prolocutor of the House of Commons succeeded him in the full power and priviledges of his place though not in his title he having only the Stile of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England The Summons for this Parliament being Returnable upon this Monday the 19 th day of February it held accordingly the Queen coming privately by water accompanied with Sir John Puckering Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and many of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal There being present this day these Peers and others ensuing Archiepiscopus Cantuarien Johannes Puckering Miles Dominus Custos magni Sigilli Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Marchio Wintoniae Comites Comes Oxon. Magnus Camerarius Angliae Comes Darby Magnus Seneschallus Comes Northumbriae Comes Salopiae Comes Cantiae Comes Wigorn. Comes Cumberland Comes Sussex Comes Huntingdon Comes Bathon Comes Pembroke Comes Hartford Comes Essex Comes Lincoln Vice-Comes Bindon Episcopi Episcopus London Episcopus Dunelmen Episcopus Assaphen Episcopus Cestren Episcopus Covent ' Lich. Episcopus Lincoln Episcopus Petriburgen Episcopus Hertf. Episcopus Cicestren Episcopus Bangor Episcopus Wigorn. Episcopus Landaven Episcopus Salopiae Episcopus Bathon Wellen. Barones Dominus Howard mag Maresc ' Adm. Angliae Dominus Hunsdon Camerarius Reginae Dominus Strange Dominus Morley Dominus Stafford Dominus Grey Dominus Scroope Dominus Montjoy Dominus Sandes Dominus Windsor Dominus Cromwell Dominus Wharton Dominus Rich. Dominus Willoughby Dominus Sheffield Dominus North. Dominus Shandois Dominus St. John Dominus Buckhurst Dominus De la Ware Dominus Crompton Dominus Norris And the Queen and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal having on their Parliamentary Robes and having seated themselves in their several places The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and repaired to the Upper House Where contrary to the Ancient use and Custome they found the door shut upon them which happened by reason that divers of the House and others having gotten in privately before and filled up the place at the Bar or Rayl at the lower end of the said House Sir John Puckering Lord Keeper of the Great Seal by Commandment from her Majesty had already made some enterance into his Speech before the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses had any Notice of it who sate in their own House expecting to be called up to the said Upper House upon her Majesties coming But the door at length being opened by her Majesties Commandment about two of the Clock in the Afternoon as many as conveniently could were let in Where the Lord Keepers Speech was directly in these words following or not much differing from them He shewed in the first place as matter of Preface and Ornament not much material somewhat touching the Antiquity Nature and use of Parliaments Then he came to set forth as the principal matter which her Majesty did desire to have made known and manifest to all her loving Subjects the great Malice of the King of Spain which he had towards this Realm And that he shewed by sundry instances as his last Invasion intended his Forces then addressed out of the Low Countries for that purpose to have been conducted by the Duke of Parma And then he proceeded in the rest of his Oration verbatim or much to the intent and purpose sollowing The high and mighty Ships that then he prepared and sent for that purpose because he found them not fit for our Seas and such a purpose he is building of Ships of a less Bulk after another Fashion some like French Ships some like the Shipping of England and many hath he gotten out of the Low Countries He is now for the better invading of England planting him in Britanie a Country of more facility to offend us than the Low Countries there he hath fortified himself in the most strong Holds of that Country In Scotland he hath of late wrought most of the Nobility to conspire against their King to give Landing to his Forces there and to assist him in his Invasion thither A greater part of the Nobility in Scotland be combined in this Conspiracy and they have received great Sums of Money for their service therein And to assure the King of Spain of their assistance they have Signed and sent their promises sealed to the King This Conspiracy the King of Scots was hardly brought to believe but that her Majesty advertised him thereof having entertained Intelligence thereof as she hath of all things done and intended in those parts And that the King might better advise thereupon her Majesty hath sent one of her Noblemen now into Scotland and the King hath assured her Majesty with all his Ability and endeavour to prevent the Spaniard whose purpose is on the North parts to assault us by Land and on the South side to invade us by Sea which is the most dangerous practice that could be devised against us And now the rage of this Enemy being such his Forces joyned with other Princes his Adherents greater the charge of her Majesty for defence of her Realm both with Forces by Sea and Armies by Land hath been such as hath both spent the Contribution of her Subjects by Subsidies and what otherwise they have offered her and also consumed her Treasure yea caused her to sell part of her Highness's Crown And it is not to be marvelled how all this is consumed but rather to be thought how her Majesty could be able to maintain and defend this her Realm against so many Realms conspired against us Wherefore we her Majesties Subjects must with all dutiful consideration think what is fit for us to do and with all willingness yield part of our own for the defence of others and assistance of her Majesty in such an insupportable Charge Were the cause between Friend and Friend how much would we do for the relief one of another But the Cause is now between our Soveraign and our selves seeing there is so much difference in the Parties how much more forward ought we to be The Aid that formerly hath been granted unto her Majesty in these like Cases is with such slackness performed as that the third of that which hath been granted cometh not to her Majesty A great shew a rich grant and a long summ seemeth to be made but it is hard to be gotten and the summ not great which is paid
Her Majesty thinketh this to be for that the wealthier sort of men turn this charge upon the weaker and upon those of worst ability for that one dischargeth himself and the other is not able to satisfie what he is charged withal These things would be reformed by such as are Commissioners in this present service Her Majesty further hath willed me to signify unto you that the calling of this Parliament now is not for the making of any more new Laws and Statutes for there are already a sufficient number both of Ecclesiastical and Temporal and so many there be that rather than to burthen the Subject with more to their grievance it were fitting an Abridgment were made of those there are already Wherefore it is her Majesties Pleasure that the time be not spent therein But the principal Cause of this Parliament is that her Majesty might consult with her Subjects for the better withstanding of those intended Invasions which are now greater than were ever heretofore heard of And whereas heretofore it hath been used that many have delighted themselves in long Orations full of verbosity and of vain ostentations more than in speaking things of substance The time that is precious would not be thus spent The Sessions cannot be long by reason the Spring time 't is fit that Gentlemen should repair to their Countries the Justices of Assize also to go their Circuits So the good hours should not be lost in idle Speeches but the little time we have should be bestowed wholly on such businesses as are needful to be considered of And so willed them to Elect a Speaker As soon as the Lord Keepers Speech was ended the Clerk of the Parliament read the names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French according to the ancient use and form which were as followeth viz. Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench John Clynch one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench Francis Gawdy another of the Justices of the said Bench Doctor Awberry and Doctor Ford. They which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Receivors of Petitions for Gascoign and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmond Anderson Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir William Perrian Lord Chief Baron and Thomas Walmsley one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas Doctor Cary and Doctor Stanhop And they which will deliver Petitions are to deliver the same within six days next ensuing Tryors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland the Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Darby Lord Steward of the Queens Houshold the Earl of Sussex the Earl of Pembroke the Earl of Essex the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Lord Howard of Effingham Earl Marshal and Lord Admiral of England the Lord Cobham the Lord Grey of Wilton All these or any four of them calling to them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Treasurer and the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their places in the Chamberlains Chamber Tryors of Petitions for Gascoign and other parts beyond the Seas and the Isles the Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst These or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants when need shall require shall hold their places in the Treasurers Chamber Nota That all that which is set down touching the coming up of those of the House of Commons into the Higher House and the Lord Keepers Speech being before placed after the names of such Lords Spiritual and Temporal as were this day present is not found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is here inserted partly out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and partly out of another very exact Journal of that House which was in my Custody being very diligently observed and set down by some Anonymus who was a Member of the said House during this Parliament And I have always thought it most fitting in all these several Journals ever to refer the aforesaid Speeches the Presentments of the Speakers and such other Passages as are wholly handled and agitated in the Upper House to be set down as largely as by any good Authority they may in the Journal of the same to which they do most truly and properly belong and only for Orders sake to give a short touch or remembrance of them in the Journal of the House of Commons Finally at the Conclusion of this days business the Continuance of the Parliament is Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in manner and form following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex Mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis prox ' futurum On Thursday the 22 th day of February to which day the Parliament had been last continued the Queens Majesty her self came about three of the Clock in the Afternoon accompanied by the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal William Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer of England the Marquess of Winchester and divers others of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being for the most part the very same that are by name set down to have been present on Monday foregoing the first day of this Parliament The Queen and the Lords being thus set the House of Commons had notice thereof who immediately thereupon came up with Edward Cooke Esquire the Queens Sollicitor into the Upper House whom they had Chosen for their Speaker or Prolocutor Which said Speaker being led up to the Bar at the nether end of the said House between two of the most Eminent Personages of the House of Commons who as soon as silence was made and the rest of the said House as many as could conveniently get in had placed themselves in the space below the said Bar spake as followeth YOur Majesties most loving Subjects the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons have nominated me your Graces poor Servant and Subject to be their Speaker This their nomination hath hitherto proceeded that they present me to speak before your Majesty Yet this their nomination is only as yet a Nomination and no Election until your Majesty giveth Allowance and Approbation For as in the Heavens a Star is but opacum Corpus until it have received light from the Sun so stand I Corpus opacum a Mute Body until your Highness bright shining Wisdom hath looked upon me and allowed me How great a Charge this is to be the Mouth of such a Body as your whole Commons represent to utter what is spoken Grandia Regni My small Experience being a poor Professor of the Law can tell But how unable I
we were so secure and never thought that the King of Spain would have set up his Rest for England Then sent he his Navy termed Invincible and was almost upon the Banks of us before we were aware Yea we were so slack in provision that it was too late to make resistance had not God preserved us His attempt against us by seeking to win the Low-Countries and to obtain Ireland being but trifles and partly devices which I mean not to trouble you with he hath now of late gone about to win France wherein he hath greatly prevailed as in Lorrain and in other parts as you have heard but specially in Britany having most part of the Port Towns in his Possession whither he still sendeth supply daily and reinforces them every four or five Months which part is always open and his men and forces never wanting This Province he especially desireth for it lyeth most fitly to annoy us whither he may send forces continually and there have his Navy in a readiness the which he could not so easily unless he had the wind in a bag Besides having this Province he might keep us from Traffick to Rochell and Burdeaux as he doth in the Straights from Tripoly and S t Jean de Lucc And so hinder us from carrying forth and bringing into this Land any Commodities from those parts whereby the Realm might be inriched and her Majesties Impost ever eased being one of the greatest Revenues of her Crown He hath also gone about with them of Stade and the King of Poland one of his own Faction and who by reason he cannot do in that Kingdom what he listeth he may not so easily command him to impeach or hinder our Traffick in those Eastern parts which if he could bring to pass you see how hurtful it would be to this Land But to descend yet lower into these latter Actions He hath seen it is but a folly to make Woodden Bridges to pass into Ireland therefore he hath found out a safer way and stronger passage into it by Land and that by Scotland which though it be not talked of on the Exchange nor Preached at Paul's Cross yet it is most true and in Scotland as common as the high-way That he hath procured unto him many of the Nobility It may be he hath sent thither no great Navy and that her Majesty would not suffer him to do yet do what she can some one Paltry Fly-Boat may escape her Majesties Ships and carry gold enough in her to make them Traytors and stir them to Sedition These things her Majesty understood before and Advertized the King thereof which the effect hath proved to be true For unless I be deceived the last Letter that came from thence might shew that the King is gone to make a Rode into the North and to bring back the Lord Bothwell and the Lord Huntley The King of Spain's malice thus daily increaseth against us and seeketh also to stir up Sedition amongst us by his Instruments The number also of Papists daily increaseth or at least wise becomes more manifest My advice is that you would consult how to withstand such imminent dangers which the greater they be the sooner they would be looked into and remembred Wherefore I would desire M r Speaker that he would appoint some Committees of the sufficientest and wisest men in the House to consider thereon Sir John Wolley spake to the like Effect saying that upon the Cause of the danger the Realm was now in and of the remedy his Speech should consist which he likened to a natural Body in which the more danger the principal Member was in the greater means there should be used for the preservation thereof Roan being made now Admiral of France by the League should say that he was a poor Admiral now but yet he doubted not ' but that shortly he should be able to bring such a Navy as should terrify the Queen of England Also he shewed how the Princes of the Holy League had conspired the overthrow of the Realm the extirpation of Religion and the confusion of her Majesty and her Loyal Subjects And exhorted the House now because the season of the year groweth on which calleth many of the Knights and Burgesses to be in their Countries besides the Sickness being in the Town so that many of that House he thought knew not whether they lodged in Houses infected or not that they would seek to dispatch and end the Parliament so soon as might be He also shewed how the Dunkirkers trouled our Fishermen in small Barks upon the Sea-coasts And so that this matter might be Committed to some of the sufficientest in the House He also exhorted the House to a speedy agreeing of a Subsidy which considering the dangers we were in and that it was for our own good as also for her Majesty's he hoped that no good Subject but would willingly agree to it Also he shewed that the Wars with the King of Spain had cost her Majesty a Million of Money but this he avouched that where it cost her Majesty one it cost the King of Spain three Then Sir John Fortescue spake and said They that spake before me spake sufficiently of the Authors of our trouble of the great danger which is now imminent insomuch that as it is come to that point now Non utrùm imperare sed utrùm vivere I will speak of nothing but that which concerns my Calling Her Majesty not being only careful for the preservation of Her own Realm but of her Neighbours also she hath not only defended her own Subjects from being invaded but also hath aided Strangers which wanted Money with whom otherwise it would have gone ill by this time both with them and ourselves Insomuch that the burthen of four Kingdoms hath rested upon her Majesty which she hath maintained with her Purse England France Ireland and Scotland For how could the French King at his first coming to the Crown have held out against those Leaguers had not her Majesty assisted him with her Men and Money which hath cost her Majesty about a hundred thonsand pound For 't is well known that the French King had not been able to withstand the Duke of Parma's coming into France had it not been for our Englishmen and Money As for the Low Countries they have stood her Majesty in yearly since she undertook the defence of them one hundred and fifty thousand pound All which her Majesty bestowed for the good of the Realm to free us from War at home Besides when her Majesty came to the Crown she found it four Millions indebted her Navy when she came to view it she found greatly decayed Yet all this hath discharged and thanks be to God is nothing indebted and now she is able to match any Prince in Europe which the Spaniards found when they came to invade as Yea she hath with her Ships compassed the whole world whereby this Land is made famous throughout all places
it is in defence of the Religion of God of our most gracious Soveraign and of our natural Country of our Wives our Children our Liberties Lands Lives and whatsoever we have Wherefore not mistrusting your forwardness that I may not offend in too much enlarging of this point as a poor remembrance of her Majesty I shortly say to your Lordships quod justum est necessarium est nothing can be more just than this War nothing ought to seem more necessary than carefully to provide due maintenance for the same And to you of the House of Commons to the end you may orderly proceed and wisely consult of these weighty Causes delivered unto you her Majesties pleasure is you should according to your accustomed manner go down to the Lower House and there make choice of some grave wise and Learned man among you to be your Speaker who shall be for an understanding sufficient and for discretion fit as your Mouth to signify your minds and to make your Petitions known to her Highness and him on Thursday next to present in this place Nota that this foregoing Speech of the Lord Keeper is not found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but is supplied by me out of a Copy thereof lying by me which I conceive to have been very truely transcribed out of the Original and I have always conceived it most proper to refer this and such like other Speeches if warranted by any good authority to the Journal of the said Upper House because they are delivered in it and only for Order sake to have some short Memorial thereof in the Journal of the House of Commons As soon as the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech and the Knights Citizens and Burgesses were departed down to their own House the Clerk of the Upper House read the Names of the Receivers and Triers of Petitions in French which were as followeth viz. Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland France and Scotland Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice John Clinch one of the Justices of the Kings Bench Francis Gaudy one of the Justices of the said Bench Dr. Carew and Dr. Stanhop Receivers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Willam Perriam Knight Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesley one of the Justices of the said Common Pleas Dr. Lewen and Dr. Cousins and they who will deliver Petitions to deliver them within six days Tryers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Sussex great Marshal the Earl of Nottingham Lord Steward of the Queens Household and Lord Admiral of England the Bishop of London the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Cobham and the Lord North. All these Lords and Prelats or any four of them calling unto them the Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants shall hold their place when their leisure serveth in the Chamberlains Chamber Tryers of Petitions for Gascoigne and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and the Isles The Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain of England the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Worcester the Lord Hunsdon Lord Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Lumley and the Lord Buckhurst All these Lords and Prelats or any four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants and also the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor when their leisure serveth shall hold their place in the Treasurers Chamber The Lord Burgh absent being at this time Lord Deputy of Ireland The Lord De la Ware absent because he made question of his place intending to make Suit to the Parliament concerning the same Dicto 24 o die Octobris viz. Primo die hujus Parliamenti Introductum est breve quo Archiepiscopus Eboracen ' praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissas est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno 〈◊〉 brevia introduct sunt 4. Comitibus 10. Episcopis 5. Baronibus Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Jovis proximum futurum viz. 27 diem Octobris On Thursday the 27 th day of October the Queens Majesty repaired in the-Afternoon to the Upper House of Parliament accompanied with divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal who attended her Majesty this said day in the House being for the most part the same that are mentioned to have been present there on Monday the 24 th day of this instant October foregoing Of which the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons having notice M r Serjeant Yelverton being chosen Prolocutor or Speaker of the said House was by them brought into the Upper House and by the hands of Sir William Knolles Controller of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer presented Who by a Speech full of Gravity and Modesty signifying the accomplishment of the Duty of the House of Commons in making an Election but excusing himself by pretence of many disabilities and imperfections and wishing earnestly he were of sufficiency to perform the Duty of that place made humble Suit to her Majesty that he might be discharged and that the said House of Commons might proceed to a new Election Which excuse was not allowed by her Majesty as the Lord Keeper delivered by Answer but the choice of the said M r Yelverton was by her Majesty very well approved and his sufficiency much commended He then proceeded in another Speech according to the manner to undertake that charge and to present to her Majesty in the behalf of the said House of Commons certain humble Petitions for access unto her Majesty in the behalf of the said House upon needful occasions and for the using and enjoying such Liberties and Priviledges as in former times had been granted and allowed by her Majesties Progenitors and her self Whereunto her Majesty making Answer by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper did yield her Gracious Assent with admonition that the said Liberties and Priviledges should be discreetly and wisely used as was meet Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem quintum Mensis Octobris On Saturday the 5 th day of November the Bill for the speedy satisfaction of her Majesty against Accomptants was read primâ vice Introductum est breve Thomae Domini Gray de Wilton quo praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur admissus est ad suum praeheminentiae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alieno The Earl of Lincoln's excuse by reason of sickness presented by the Lord Treasurer Thomas Lord de la Ware having petitioned the Queens Majesty for his Ancient and right Place of Precedence in and amongst the Peers in Parliament and her Majesty well allowing his said
brought him even made him one of the greatest Princes in Europe when her Majesties Forces there left him how again he was fain to Ransom a servile Peace at our enemies the Spaniards hands with dishonourable and servile Conditions For the Low-Countries how by her aid from a confused Government and State she brought them to an Unity in Counsel and defended them with such success in her Attempts against the greatest power of the Spaniards Tyrannical designs which have so much gauled him that how many desperate practices have been both devised consented to and set on foot by commandment of the late King his Father I need not shew you neither trouble you with Arguments for proof thereof being confessed by them that should have been Authors themselves But de mortuis nil nisi bonum I would be loth to speak of the dead much more to slander the dead I have seen her Majesty wear at her Girdle the price of her blood I mean Jewels which have been given to her Physicians to have done that unto her which I hope God will ever keep from her but she hath rather worn them in Triumph than for the price which hath not been greatly valuable Then he fell to perswade us because new occasions were offered of consultations to be provident in provision of means for our own defence and safety seeing the King of Spain means to make England miserable by beginning with Ireland neither doth he begin with the Rebels but even with the Territory of the Queen her self He shewed that Treasure must be our means for Treasure is the sinews of War Nota That the substance of this Speech is only here inserted as it was afterwards repeated in the said House upon Tuesday the third day of November which next ensued by Sir Robert Cecill her Majesties principal Secretary who had done it to satisfy divers Members of the same who could not get into the Upper House to hear it this first day of the Parliament as is aforesaid Now follow the Names of the Receivors and Tryors of Petitions out of the Original Journal-Book of the said House As soon as the Lord Keeper had ended his Speech and that such of her Majesties Privy-Council and others of the House of Commons as had privately got in and heard it were departed down to their own House Thomas Smith Esq Clerk of the Upper House read the Names of the Receivors and Triors of Petitions in French which were as followeth Receivors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Sir John Popham Knight Lord Chief Justice Francis Gawdy one of the Justices of the Kings Bench George Kingsmell one of the Justices of the Common Pleas D r Carew and D r Stanhop Receivors of Petitions for Gascoign and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Sir Edmund Anderson Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir William Perriam Knight Lord Chief Baron Thomas Walmesley one of the Justices of the Common Pleas D r Swale and D r Howard They who will deliver Petitions to deliver them within six dayes Triors of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland The Archbishop of Canterbury the Marquess of Winchester the Earl of Sussex Lord Marshal of England the Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and Steward of the Queens House the Earl of Hartford the Bishop of London the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Winchester the Lord Zouch and the Lord Cobham All these or any four of them calling unto them the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Treasurer and also the Queens Serjeants at their leisure to meet and hold their place at the Chamberlains Chamber Triors of Petitions for Gascoign and other Lands and Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles The Earl of Oxford High Chamberlain of England the Earl of Northumberland the Earl of Shrewsbury the Earl of Worcester the Earl of Huntington the Bishop of Rochester the Bishop of Lincoln the Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain to the Queen the Lord Le Ware the Lord Lumley and the Lord Burleigh All these or four of them calling unto them the Queens Serjeants and the Queens Attorney and Sollicitor when their leisure did serve them to meet and hold their place in the Treasurers Chamber Then the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament which is set down in the Original Journal-Book in manner and form following Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Veneris proximè futurum viz. 30 m diem Octobris Nota That although there be some short mention made of the Presentment of the Speaker of the House of Commons in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House yet because it is very imperfectly and briefly Entred there I have therefore supplied it somewhat largely out of a private Journal of the House of Commons On Friday the 30 th day of October about one of the Clock in the Afternoon her Majesty came by Water to the Parliament Chamber commonly called the Upper House and being Apparelled in her Royal Robes and placed in her Chair of State divers also of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being present the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons who had attended at the Door of the said House with John Crooke Esq Recorder of London their Speaker Elect the full space of half an hour were at last as many as conveniently could let in and the said Speaker was led up to the Bar or Rayl at the lower end of the same House by the hands of Sir William Knolles Knight Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold and Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer and presented to her Majesty to whom after he had made three low Reverences he spake in effect as followeth MOST Sacred and Mighty Sovereign Upon your Majesties Commandment your most dutiful and loving Commons the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Lower House have chosen me your Majesties most humble Servant being a Member of the same House to be their Speaker but finding the weakness of my self and my ability too weak to undergo so great a burthen I do most humbly beseech your Sacred Majesty to continue your most gracious favour towards me and not to lay this charge so unsupportable upon my unworthy and unable Self And that it would please you to Command your Commons to make a new Election of another more able and more sufficient to discharge the great service to be appointed by your Majesty and your Subjects And I beseech your most excellent Majesty not to interpret my denial herein to proceed from any unwillingness to perform all devoted dutiful service but rather out of your Majesties Clemency and Goodness to interpret the same to proceed from that inward fear and trembling which hath ever possessed me when heretofore with most gracious Audience it hath pleased your Majesty to Licence me to speak before you For I know and must acknowledge that