Clock in the Afternoon of this present day and the Bill with a note of the said names was delivered then to Sir Edward Dymock one of the said Committees The Committees names in the Bill for repeal of certain Statutes appointed on Friday the 21 th day of this instant February foregoing were read by the Clerk and the Committees appointed to meet at the Rolls at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present day and the Bill with a note of the said Committees names was then delivered to Mr. Cromwell one of the said Committees The Bill touching Mortmain with a note of the names of the Committees in the same was delivered to Humfrey Waring Servant to Mr. Aldersey one of the Committees in the same Bill to be by him delivered to the said Mr. Aldersey but it appeareth not certainly in what place or upon what occasion the said Bill was delivered to the Servant of the above-named Mr. Aldersey for although it be Entred in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons amongst such other matters as were debated in the House yet it is most probable it was delivered unto him out of the House either after or upon the very rising thereof On Wednesday the 26 th day of February the Bill concerning Captains and Souldiers was read the first time and argued unto by Mr. Outred Sir Edward Dymock Mr. Cromwell Sir Henry Knyvet Mr. Treasurer Mr. North and Mr. Markham and afterwards Mr. Cromwell Mr. Outred Mr. Serjeant Walmesiey Mr. North Mr. Wroth Sir William Moor Sir Edward Dymock Sir Henry Knyvet Mr. Markham and Sir Ralph Bourchier were appointed to Article to the said Bill and to meet this Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer Chamber and the Bill was delivered to Mr. Cromwell Upon a Speech used by Mr. Alsord purporting that some that had spoken to the said Bill had uttered some words of rejecting the same Bill and casting it out of the House where in very deed there was no such Speech used at all by any that had spoken to the said Bill nor yet any word tending to such effect It was upon the Question resolved by the Judgment of the whole House that there had been no such Speech used at all by any of them that did speak Mr. Francis Bacon one of the Committees in the Bill concerning Forestallers Regraters and Ingrossers shewed the meeting and travail of the Committees in the said Bill and that they had made a new Bill and shewing the reasons moving them so to do sufficiently and at large offereth in the end the new Bill and prayeth the good and speedy expediting of the same On Thursday the 27 th day of February the Bill for sour Fifteenths and Tenths and two entire subsidies had its second reading M r Serjeant Puckering and M r Sollicitor do bring word from the Lords that their Lordships have this morning received a Message from her Majesty delivered unto them by two of the Lords of her Majesties most Honourable Privy Council which Message their said Lordships of the Upper House do mind to impart unto this House and pray that some convenient number of this House may to that end be appointed to meet with fourteen of their Lordships in the Room next to the Higher House of Parliament either this present Forenoon or else to Morrow in the Forenoon at the choice of this House and so requiring the answer of this House presently they departed and stayed without in the mean time Where the said Message being opened by M r Speaker It was resolved upon the Question that twenty eight or thirty of this House should attend upon their Lordships this present Forenoon accordingly And then the said M r Serjeant Puckering and M r Sollicitor being called in again and receiving the answer of this House by the Mouth of M r Speaker all the Privy Council being of this House and now present viz. four Sir Henry Cobham Sir Henry Gray Sir William Moore Sir Edward Dyer Sir George Bary Sir Edward Hobby Sir Edward Dymock Sir Henry Knyvet Sir Thomas Palmer Sir George Moore M r Serjeant Walmesley M r Francis Hastings M r Alford M r Wroth Sir Richard Knightly Sir Robert Jermin M r Heydon M r Recorder of London M r Beamond M r Cook M r Beale M r Cradock M r Markham M r Lieutenant of the Tower M r Tho. Knivet M r Cromwell M r Richard Brown M r Conisby Sir Philip Butler and Mr. Outred were nominated and sent up to the Higher House to attend the said fourteen Committees of the Lords touching their imparting unto this House the said Message delivered unto them from her Majesty and the paper Bill touching Purveyors was deliver'd to Mr. Cromwell one of the said Committees and the Note of the Committees names to Mr. Vice-Chamberlain M r Recorder one of the Committees in the Bill for Reformation of disorders of common Inns and other Victualling Houses shewed the meeting and travail of the Committees and some Causes which moved them to deal only with that part thereof which concerneth Casks and the Gaging of Vessels for Beer and Ale and so offereth a new Bill for that purpose with request for good expediting thereof Mr. Apsley moved this House touching the great inconveniences grown by the great number of Pluralities and Non-Residents and offereth a Bill for Reformation thereof praying the same might be presently read which was so done by the order of the House accordingly The Council and the Residue returned from the Lords and Mr. Treasurer reported that my Lord Treasurer shewed them that the Message from her Majesty delivered this day unto the Lords of the Upper House was concerning two Bills lately passed this House and sent to the Upper House the one concerning Purveyors and the other touching Process and Pleadings in the Court of Exchequer a thing misliked of her Majesty in both those Cases the one tending to the Officers and Ministers of her own Household and the other to the Officers and Ministers of her own Court of her own Revenues in both of which if any should demean themselves any way unlawfully or untruly her Majesty was of her self he said both able and willing to see due Reformation and so would do to publick example of others upon any of the said Officers or Ministers which at any time should be found to offend in any particularity either in her said Household or in her said Court. Whereupon after sundry Motions Speeches and advices what might best be done for satisfying her Majesty of the doings of this House concerning their dealings in both the said Bills either by way of excuse or confession or otherwise howsoever It was in the end resolved to make choice of some Committee of this House both to consider further of the course and also to search such Precedents as might best serve for that purpose And then were named the said former Committees and Mr. John Hare Mr. Morrice Mr. Clark Mr.
Mountague and Viscount Hereford present Then the Earls but nineteen present the Earl of Hertford the Earl of Pembroke Bedford Southampton Warwick Bath Huntington Sussex Cumberland Rutland Worcester Darby Shrewsbury Westmoreland Northumberland Oxford and Arundel their Robes of Scarlet with their Rows of Miniver Then the Marquess of Winchester but now as Lord Treasurer and the Marquess of Northampton the Duke of Norfolk went as Earl Marshal Then the Lord Keepers Serjeant and Seal and after Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in his Gown Here Clarenceux and Norroy Then the Queens Serjeant at Arms and after Garter Then the Duke of Norfolk with the gilt Rod as Marshal the Lord Treasurer with the Cap of Estate and the Earl of Worcester with the Sword Then the Queens Majesty on Horseback a little behind the Lord Chamberlain and Vice-Chamberlain her Grace Apparelled in her Mantle opened before furr'd with Ermines and her Kirtle of Crimson Velvet close before and close Sleeves but the Hands turned up with Ermines and a Hood hanging low round about her Neck of Ermins Over all a rich Coller set with Stones and other Jewels and on her Head a rich Caul And the next after Her the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse leading the spare Horse And after all other Ladies two and two in their Ordinary Apparel By side the Queen went her Footmen and along on either side of her went the Pensioners with their Axes after the Ladies followed the Captain of the Guard Sir William St. Loe and after him the Guard In which Order Her Majesty proceeded to the North Door of the Church of Westminster where the Dean there and the Dean of the Chappel met her and the whole Chappel in Copes and S t Edwards Staff with the Inlet in the top was delivered unto her her Arm for the bearing thereof assisted by the Baron of Hunsdon the Canopy born over her by Charles Howard Esq Sir George Howard Sir Richard Blunt Sir Ed. Warner Sir John Perrott and Sir William Fitz-Williams Knights her Graces Train born up and assisted for the weight thereof from her Arms by the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and Sir Francis Knowles Vice-Chamberlain and so orderly proceeded to the Travers beside the Table of Administration Although other Princes have used to be placed in the Quire till the Offering but not now because there was neither Communion nor Offering and so she being placed all the Lords sate down on Forms besides the Travers the Spiritualty on the North side and the Temporalty on the South side the Sword and the Cap of Estate laid down on the Table Then the Quire sung the English Procession which ended M r Noell Dean of Pauls began his Sermon and first made his Prayer orderly for the Queens Majesty and the Universal Church and especially for that Honourable Assembly of three Estates there present that they might make such Laws as should be to Gods Glory and the good of the Realm The Sermon being ended and a Psalm sung her Majesty and the rest orderly on foot proceeded out of the South Door where she delivered the Dean the Scepter and so proceeded into the Parliament Chamber where the Queen stayed a while in her Privy Chamber till all the Lords and others were placed and then her Highness came forth and went and fate her down in her Royal Place and Chair of Estate the Sword and Cap of Maintenance born before her and when she stood up her Mantle was assisted and born up from her Arms by the Lord Robert Dudley Master of the Horse and Sir Francis Knowles Vice-Chamberlain The Lord Keeper sate alone upon the uppermost Sack until the Queen was sate and then went and stood without the Rail on the right hand the Cloth of Estate and the Lord Treasurer holding the Cap of Estate on the right hand before the Queen Garter standing by him and on the left hand standing the Earl of Worcester with the Sword and by him the Lord Chamberlain The Duke of Norfolk began the first Form and the Viscount Mountague for that the Viscount Bindon was not there ended it The Lord Clinton the Lord Admiral began the Form behind that of Barons and the Lord St. John of Bletsoe ended it The Archbishop of Canterbury began the Bishops Form and the Bishop of Glocester ended the same On the Woolsack on the right hand and Northside sate Sir Robert Catlin and Sir James Dyer Chief Justices Sir William Peter Anthony Browne Corbett Weston and M r Gerrard the Queens Attorney On the Sack on the left hand and Southside sate Sir William Cordall Master of the Rolls Sir Edward Saunders Chief Baron Justice Widdon Serjeant Carus and M r Russell the Queens Sollicitor and at their Backs sate Sir Richard Read Doctor Yale and Doctor Vaughan On the other Sack sate Doctor Huicke Spilman Clerk of the Parliament and M r Martin Clerk of the Crown and behind them kneeled M r 〈◊〉 Allen Dyeter Nicasius Cliffe and Permitter At the side hand of the Queen sate on the ground three or four Ladies and no more and at the back of the Rail behind the Cloth of Estate kneeled the Earls of Oxford and Rutland under Age the Earl of Desmond the Lord Roos the Lord Herbert of Cardiffe and divers other Noblemens Sons and Heirs Nota That these foregoing passages touching the solemn manner of her Majesties coming to the Upper House are not at all found in the Original Journal-Book of the same but are transcribed out of a written Copy or memorial of them I had by me as doth also the Lord Keepers Speech follow out of the same in the next place The Queens Majesty being set as aforesaid under the Cloth of Estate the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the same repaired to the Upper House and being as many as conveniently could let in she Commanded Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper to open the cause of Calling and Assembling this Parliament who thereupon spake as followeth My Lords and others of this Honourable Assembly YOU shall understand that my most Dread and Sovereign Lady the Queens Majesty here present hath Commanded me to declare the occasion of this Assembly which I am not able but unmeet to do as it ought to be done among such a noble wise and discreet Company Howbeit knowing the Experience of her Majesty bearing with such as do their good wills and your Honours Patience in bearing with me in the like afore this time it encourageth me the better herein not doubting of the like at this present Therefore my Lords the occasion is that necessary matters be provided for propounded and scanned and after agreed upon and ended which afterwards shall remain and continue which matters in my Judgment may well be divided into two parts one touching Religion for the setting forth of Gods Honour and Glory and the other concerning Policy for the Common-Wealth as
the Privy-Council being Members of this House and divers others to repair unto the Lords this Forenoon which they performed immediately But their names being very negligently omitted by Mr. Seymour at this time Clerk of the House of Commons in this Original Journal-Book of the said House are therefore supplied out of that of the Upper House being as followeth Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold Sir Francis Knolles her Highness Vice-Chamberlain Sir William Cecill her Majesties Chief Secretary Sir Ambrose Cave Knight Chancellor of her Highness Dutchy of Lancaster Sir William Peeter Sir Ralph Sadler Sir Walter Mildmay Knights all of her Highness Privy-Council Sir Thomas Wroth the Master of the Rolls Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Sir Morrice Berkely Sir Peter Carew Sir John Chichester Sir Thomas Gargrave Sir Henry Nevill Sir Nicholas Arnold Sir Henry Ashelie Sir John Pollard Sir John Perrott Sir Gabriel Carew Sir Thomas Gerrard Sir William Chester Sir John White Sir John Sellinger Sir John Constable Sir ..... Haistings Sir John Moor Sir John Southwrote Sir John Thinn Sir G. Turpin Sir Henry Gates Sir Robert Wingfeild Sir Henry Cheyney and Sir Arthur Champernown Knights Mr. Seckford Mr. Bell Mr. Mounson Mr. Dalton Mr. Colbie Mr. Kingsmill Mr. Mollineux Mr. Mersh Mr. Prat Mr. Norton Mr. Robert Newdigate Mr. Strickland Mr. Wray Mr. Sands Mr. Recorder Mr. William Fleetwood Mr. Mountgomery Mr. Thomas Fleetwood Mr. Heneage Mr. Bartue Mr. Alford Mr. Henry Knolles Sen. Mr. Hasset Mr. Hawtry Mr. John Haistings Mr. Ashbie of the Jewel-House Mr. Colly Mr. William Moor Mr. Hilliar Mr. Knight Marshall Mr. Robert Manners Mr. Barkham Mr. Francis Newdigate Mr. Warncomb Mr. Francis Brown Mr. Dunch Mr. Withers Mr. Robert Bowes Mr. Awberry Mr. Haddon Mr. Edward Leighton Mr. Young Mr. Charles Howard and Mr. Wilson Esquires The Names of these Committees being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House now follows the Issue of their said meeting and Conference with the Lords out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons which was that after they had returned thanks unto their Lordships for their readiness to join with them in their Suit unto her Majesty touching those two great businesses of her Marriage and the Declaration of a Successor their said Lordships Answer was that on Saturday next in the Afternoon they would confer with them the said Committees of the House of Commons in the Utter or Outward Parliament Chamber The House Adjourned it self until Monday next ensuing being the 4 th day of November and the Committees before-named were appointed to meet in the mean time on Saturday Morning to agree upon such reasons as they might offer to the Lords in the Afternoon of that day to be presented unto her Majesty to perswade and induce her to Marriage or at least to the Declaration of a Successor But what the Issue of the Conference was between the Committees of the Lords and Commons doth no where appear in the Original Journal-Books of the Upper and Commons House but it may bevery probably conjectured that upon their meeting it was agreed that the Commons should not at all at this time prefer any Petition unto her Majesty touching the said great businesses because they had already perform'd it in the first Session of this Parliament in An. 5 Regin Eliz. on Thursday the 28 th day of January in anno praedicto and that thereupon now the Lords only should sue unto her Majesty in the foresaid great matters if the said Upper House should allow thereof Which resolution as it should seem was accordingly approved and put in Execution as is very probable upon Tuesday the 5 th day of November following Ut vide ibidem On Monday the 4 th day of November to which day the House of Commons had Adjourned it self on Thursday the 31 th day of October foregoing Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the new Bill for the Alneagers Fees of Lancashire and for the length breadth and weight of Cottons Frizes and Rugs was read the first time On Tuesday the 5 th day of November Five Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the having of one Sheriff of one County in divers Counties was read the second time and thereupon Ordered to be ingrossed The Lords sent down M r Serjeant Carus and M r Attorney to signisie unto the House that the Committees touching those two great matters of her Majesties Marriage and Declaration of a Successor whose names see on Thursday the 31 th day of October foregoing should come up unto their Lordships who immediately thereupon did so And shortly after returning from the Lords they made Declaration that their Lordships required that thirty of this House should be before the Queen in the Afternoon at the Palace with thirty of the Lords which were thereupon appointed and chosen accordingly by M r Speaker out of the foresaid Committees nominated on the 31 th day of October foregoing to attend her Majesty and to understand what her pleasure was Post Meridiem The Committees of the Lords and House of Commons attended her Majesty this Afternoon touching those two great businesses of her Marriage and Declaration of a Successor which I have supplied as a thing necessary for the understanding both of the former and future agitation of which see more largely on Monday the 25 th day of this instant November following and what her Majesties Answer was shall be needless to insert here in respect that it was openly published by M r Comptroller and M r Secretary Cecill on this ensuing Morning On Wednesday the 6 th day of November Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Cloth-Workers of London to have search was read the second time and as it should seem committed to M r Chancellor and others The Bill touching Informers for better Execution of penal Laws was read the third time and passed upon the Question M r D r Vaughan and M r Yale brought from the Lords the Bill for Hexamshire and a Proviso in the Bill for Bishops Sir Edward Rogers Knight Comptroller of her Highness Houshold and Sir William Cecill Knight her Majesties Principal Secretary read in writing notes of the Queens Majesties saying before the Lords and Committees of this House tending that her Grace had signified to both Houses by words of a Prince that she by Gods Grace would Marry and would have it therefore believed and touching limitation for Succession the perils be so great to her Person and whereof she hath felt part in her Sisters time that time will not yet suffer to treat of it Whereupon all the House was silent Vide plus concerning this matter on Monday the 25 th day of this instant November following The Proviso added to the Bill for Archbishops and Bishops was read the first time On Thursday the 7 th
some imputation of slander to be offered unto her Majesty I mean by the Gentleman that first mentioned Tinn which was M r Martin for that being one of the principal commodities of this Kingdom and being in Cornwall it hath ever so long as there were any belonged to the Dukes of Cornwall and they had special Patents of Priviledge It pleased her Majesty freely to bestow upon me that priviledge And that Patent being word for word the very same the Duke's is and because by reason of mine Office of Lord Warden of the Stannary I can sufficiently inform this House of the State thereof I will make bold to deliver it unto you When the Tinn is taken out of the Mine and melted and refined then is every piece containing one hundred weight sealed with the Duke's Seal Now I will tell you that before the granting of my Patent whether Tinn were but of seventeen shillings and so upward to fifty shillings a hundred yet the Poor Workmen never had above two shillings the week finding themselves But since my Patent whosoever will work may and buy Tinn at what price soever they have four shillings a week truly paid There is no Poor that will work there but may and have that wages Notwithstanding if all others may be repealed I will give my consent as freely to the cancelling of this as any Member of this House Sir Francis Hastings said It is a special honour to this Assembly to give freedom of speech to all And howsoever some have been heretofore troubled yet I joy to see so great reformation that we may speak quietly and be heard peaceably Every man hath not like sence or judgment neither is every mans memory alike I wish that if any Gentleman that speaks of this or any other subject as injurious shall let fall any word amiss or unpleasing that it may be attributed rather to hastiness than want of duty This Speech proceeded in respect of Sir Walter Raleighs Speech as also of the great silence after it M r Snigg wisht a Committee to devise a course Sir Robert Wroth wisht a Committee in which a course might be devised how her Majesty might know our griefs M r Downland said As I would be no lett or over vehement in any thing so I am not sottish or senseless of the common grievance of the Common-Wealth If we proceed by way of Petition we can have no more gracious Answer than we had the last Parliament to our Petitions But since that Parliament we have no reformation And the reason why I think no reformation hath been had is because I never heard the cry against Monopolies greater and more vehement M r Johnson said M r Speaker I 'le be very short and say only thus much I would we were all so happy that her gracious self had heard but the fifth part of that that every one of us hath heard this day I think verily in my Soul and Conscience we should not be more desirous in having those Monopolies called in than she would be earnest therein her self The Bill aforesaid for Explanation of the Common Law touching Letters Patents was after the foregoing several long Arguments Ordered upon the question to be committed unto all the Privy Council and Learned Councel of this House Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Stafford Sir Edward Hobbie Sir George Moore Sir Robert Wroth and others And the Bill and Committees names were delivered to Sir Francis Hastings who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in this House at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Saturday the 21 th day of November Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for levying of Fines with Proclamations of Lands within the County of the City of Chester and the second to reform the abuse of Tainters had each of them their first reading M r Francis Moore made Report of the meeting of the Committees of the Bill touching Sir Edward Seymour who were appointed on Tuesday the 17 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the Amendments in the same and brought in the Bill Thus far out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons Now follows one passage of this day touching the Priviledge of the House out of the often before-cited private Journal of the said House Sir Edward Hobbie said A Gentleman a good Member of this House Sir John Gray was served with a Subpoena in the Chancery ad respondendum the 30 th of November ad sectam Roberti Atkins if no Order be taken herein for my own part I think both the House and the Priviledges thereof will grow in contempt I wish the Serjeant may be sent for and the Party and that some exemplary punishment may be shewed M r Doyley said M r Speaker we spend much time which is precious in disputing of Priviledges and other matters of small importance for my own part I think fit no time should be spent herein but that a Writ of Priviledge may be granted M r Johnson said M r Speaker our own lenity is the cause of this contempt and till some special punishment be shewed I think it will not be otherwise Thus far out of the aforesaid private Journal Now follows the residue of the Passages of this Forenoon out of the Original Journal-Book it self The Bill against Taintering of Woollen Cloths was read the second time and committed unto the former Committees in the Bill for Cloths and Clothworkers and Ordered that Merchants and Drapers do attend the Committees and be heard therein as appertains And Sir Edward Stafford M r Fulk Grevill and M r Barkley were added to the former Committees The Amendments in the Bill touching Sir Edward Seymour Knight Deceased and Edward Seymour Esq were twice read and Ordered with the Bill to be ingrossed The Bill for the making of an Haven or Key on the North part of Severn was read the second time and committed unto the Knights and Burgesses for the Counties of Devon Cornwall Somerset and South-Wales all the Queens Learned Councel the Batons of the Cinque Ports and others who were appointed to meet upon Wednesday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for the Assurance of the Jointure of 〈◊〉 Countess of Bedford was read the second time and committed unto all the Queens Learned Councel being Members of this House Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Hobbie and others who were appointed to meet on Wednesday next in the Middle-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for the better observation of certain Orders in the Exchequer set down and established by vertue of her Majesties Privy Seal was read the second time and committed unto the former Committees in the first Bill and unto all the Privy Council and Learned Councel of her Majesty being Members of this House Masters Attornies of the Dutchy and Court of Wards M r Francis
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