and Commons assembled in the place aforesaid where the said Chancellor began his long Oration with S. Paul viz. Libenter suffertis insipientes and applied it That being wise desired to hear him the contrary He proceeded with Scripture as that every Messenger bringing joyful news is welcomed Thereby proving that he should be so for that he brought joyful news of the Kings good recovery of a dangerous sickness By the which he shewed that God loved the King and Realm The King for that quos diligo castigo The King by the Psalmist saying Uxor tua sicut vitis abundans in lateribus and thereby sheweth that for children no Christian Prince was so happy and confirmeth the said happiness by the above saying Et videas filios filiorum which the King saw That God thereby loved the Realm he proved by the recovery of so renowned a Prince and that his recovery to be the Fiftieth year of his Reign the year of Jubile the year of joy for that he would thereby impart to his said Subjects as well spiritual as temporal or bodily comforts He then by the similitude That if the head be sound and some particular member of the body diseased that the said infected member can receive no vertue or salve from the head inferreth that as the King being the sound head and willing to shew grace and favor to the Subjects the members the infected with vice cannot receive the same And therefore perswaded such as would be partakers thereof to conform themselves thereafter by having love without which he proveth by S. Paul that nothing doth avail He then turneth his speech to the Lords enlarging the cause whereby they were to think that the King dearly loved them forasmuch as at their requests since the last Parliament the King had advanced Richard there present to be Prince of Wales He then shewed what cause they had to embrace the said Prince by offering to him as the Princes of Cullen did to Christ all honor by throwing abroad money according to the order of the Pagans at the coming of their Prince by offering gold in token of riches and renown and myrrh in token of his honorable scepter He further sheweth that the same Prince should in their hands and hearts without all rancor be embraced and no otherwise then Simeon did Christ for that they had now seen that which long they had longed for and therein shewed how they should obey him as the Vicar and Legat of God that they might see the true peace in Israel viz. in England the inheritance of God whereof after so great victories was great hope The cause of the Parliament he sheweth to be for that the French under colour of Truce granted by the King at the mediation of the Pope and yet enduring had allied himself with the Spaniards and Scots the Kings enemies and had prepared puissant and great Armies thereby conspiring to blot out the English tongue and Nation wherein the King willed to have their faithful counsel Wherefore the Chancellor willed them to go together and give a speedy answer After this Sir Robert de Ashton the Kings Chamberlain declared That he was to move them from the King for the profit of the Realm The which words percase lay not in the Bishops mouth for that they touched the Pope viz. By protesting first that the King was ready to do all that ought to be done for the Pope But for that divers usurpations were done by the Pope to the King his Crown and Realm as by particular Bill in this Parliament should be shewed the King requireth them to seek redress Receivers of petitions for England Ireland France and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above T ryers of petitions for Gascoin c. as above After this the Commons were willed to repair to the Chapter house of the Abbey of Westminster to treat of these matters and how money might be best levied thereto and certain Lords there named were appointed from time to time to confer with the Commons for their better help The Lords and Commons grant to the King towards his great charges Four pence of every poll man or woman passing the age of fourteen years only Beggers excepted The Commons request that the King would appoint two Earls and two Barons to receive as well their Subsidy as the Subsidy of the Clergy and the Subsidy of Woolls granted the last Parliament so as the same be imployed upon the Wars and that the High Treasurer do in no wise meddle therewith Afterwards when it was declared to how great a sum the wages of those four Treasurers would amount unto the Commons then required that the High Treasurer might then be doer therein to the use of the Wars After the two and twentieth of February certain Bishops and Lords the Chancellor Treasurer and Keeper of the Privy Seal and all the Justices by the Kings appointment went to Sheen where the King lay sick and there in their presence the Articles of the Kings general pardon as ensueth were read with other answers made to the Petitions of the Commons as hereafter follow whereunto the King agreeth and willed that they should the next day be read in the House and to make the same the last day of Parliament the which was done the next day being the three and twentieth day of February by authority of the King and of the said President Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The Print touching the Liberties of the Church the great Charter and the Charter of the Forrest cap. 1 2 3. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The Print as touching the general Pardon cap. 3. agreeth with the Record Divers Articles of pardon which are comprised in the Pardon aforesaid That all persons and Corporations may have the pardon freely without paying any thing for the Great Seal Such as for Felonies are to sue shall do the same before the Nativity of S. Iohn and pay the Fees onely That such as owe unto the King may upon their Account be allowed of all such Loans as are due to them or to any of their Ancestors The Treasurers and Barons shall make allowance of due debt That title of prescription of any liberties may as well be allowed as if it were by grant and that prescription may be from the Coronation of the King The King by advice will do herein as he shall think best That the Justices of Peace do not enquire of any Articles which are to be redressed in any Lords Leet but only of the peace and of Labourers and that they hold their Sessions four times a year The Statutes heretofore made cannot stand if this be granted That the Patent of
have also seduced Egypt even they that are the stay of the Tribes thereof The Lord hath mingled a spirit of Perversenesse in the midst thereof and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit Neither shall there be any work for Egypt which the head or tail branch or rush may doe So as we may justly conclude with that of Psal. 118 8 9. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in Princes yea or Parliaments Wherefore Put not your trust in Princes in Parliaments nor in any son of man in whom there is no help yea Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of For although usually in a way of ordinary providence In the multitude of Counsellers there is safety yet God many times in justice Leadeth the greatest Counsellers yea Parliaments themselves away spoyled and maketh the Iudges fools so that though they associate themselves together they shall be broken in pieces and though they take Counsel together yet it shall come to naught when God is not with but against them whereof we have seen many late sad domestick experiments to wean us from Deifying Idolizing of or over-much confiding in or depending upon Parliaments which have been so subject to Errors Deviations Abortions in former and later times Touching the Original of electing and sending Knights Citizens and Burgesses to our Parliaments it is very obscure and dubious Sir Robert Cotton the Author of this Abridgment In his brief Discourse concerning the Power of the Peers in Parliament in point of Iudicature affirms and proves That the Generale Placitum Universalis Synodus Magnum Commune Concilium of the Realm now stiled a Parliament was held Ceram Episcopis Magnatibus suis Or Coram Episcopis Principibus Regni in praesentia Regis This Great Court or Council consisting of the King and Barons ruled all affairs of State and controlled all Inferiour Courts Causes being referred and transferred out of the County and other Courts unto it propter aliquam dubitationâ—m quae emergit cum Comitatus nescit dijudicare as Glanvil in King Henry the seconds reign informs us and Bracton Britton with sundry Statutes and Records of later date with the antient presidents of Ethelwold Bishop of Wilton his sute against Leoftine and Q Edgin against Goda in the time of King Ethelredâ— the sute between the Bishop of Winton Durham in the time of St. Edward and one in the 10. year of the Conqueror evidence The power of the Peers in this Courtt and of certain Officers as the Steward Constable and Marshal fixed upon Families in fee for many ages was so transcendent that it seemed to be set to bound in the execution of Princes wills and grew fearfull to Monarchy Hereupon King Henry 3. when the daring Earl of Leicester was slain at the battel of Evesham by the dear experience himself had made at the Parliament at Oxford in the 40. year of his reign and the memory of the many streights his Father was driven unto especially at Runny-mead near Stanes wisely began to lessen the strength and power of his great Council weakning that hand of power which they carried in the Parliaments by commanding the service of many Knights Citizens and Burgesses to that Council NOW BEGAN saith he THE FREQUENT SENDING OF WRITS TO THE COMMONS THEIR ASSENTS not only used in Money Charge and making Laws For before ALL ORDINANCES PASSED BY THE KING PEERS but THEIR CONSENTS IN JUDGMENTS OF ALL NATURES WHETHER CIVIL OR CRIMINAL For proof whereof he produceth some succeeding presidents out of records When Adomar that proud Prelat of Winchester the Kings half Brother had grieved the State with his daring power he was exiled by the joynt consent of the King the Lords and Commons and this appeareth expresly by the Answer to the Letter sent by Pope Alexander the 4th expostulating a Revocation of him from Banishment because he was a Church-man and so not subject to Lay Censures In this the Answer is Si Dominus Rex et regni Majores hoc vellent COMMUNITAS TAMEN IPSIUS INGRESSUM IN ANGLIAM JAM NULLATENUS SUSTINERENT The Peers subjoyn this answer with their names and Petrus de Montford VICE TOTIUS COMMUNITATIS as SPEAKER or PROLOCUTOR OF THE COMMONS For by this stile Sir Io. Tiptoff Prolocutor affirmeth under his Arms the Deed of entail of the Crown by King Hen. 4. in the 8. year of his reign for ALL THE COMMONS By which passage and president it is apparent that in Sir Robert Cottons Judgement the Commons were not usually summoned to our Parliaments by writs till after 40 of King H. 3. and that purposely to curb and lessen the power of the Lords in Parliament This President he cites of Bishop Adomar out of the Leiger book of St. Albans falls in 44 H. 3. full 5 years before the Earl of Leicester was slain in which year Adomar died at Paris as he was posting from Rome into England to recover his Bishoprick Pope Alexander also dyed the same year 1260. in which I read there was a Parliament held but no mention of any Commons in it neither is there in our Records any Writ of Summons for electing Knights or Burgesses to repair to it in this year Onely I find there was a great difference then begun between King Henry and his Magnates Barones about the Ordinances made in the Parliament at Oxford which the King refused to observe contrary to his Oath from which he gained an absolution from the Pope I likewise read in William Rishanger his Continuation of Matthew Paris that this 44. year Magnates the Nobles not Commons sent quatuor Milites satis facundos qui Epistolam Sigillis suis firmatam Papae Cardinalibus exhiâ—erent containing many grievous accusations against this Bishop elect of Winton to hinder his promotion and return into England which Letter was sent from them sitting rather in a Military Councel at Oxford than in a true and real Parliament where Simon de Montsord Earl of Leicester Richard de Clare Earl of Gloucester MULTIQUE NOBILES IPSIS ADHAERENTES CONVENERUNT OXONIIS EQUIS ARMIS SUFFICIENTER INSTRUCTI finaliter statuentes in animo aut mori pro pace patriae aut pacis eliminare a patria turbatores as Rishanger relates Praeceperuntque omnibus qui eisdem servitium militare debuerant quatenus cum insis venirent parati veluti ad corpora sua contra hostiles insultus defensuâ—i Quod et fecerunt palliantes talem adventum eo quod in Walliam contra hostes Regis viderentur collectis viribus profâ—cturi as Matthew Paris himself records Neither was this Letter signed and sealed by Peter de Montsord as Speaker or
Proctor to the Commonalty of England then assembled or represented by their Knights or Burgessesâ— in the Commons House of Parliament or distinguished from the Lords and Barons like that Deed of intayl by Sir Iohn Tiptoft their Speaker in 8 H. 4. as Sir Robert Cotton imports and others would thence inferr which I shall irrefragably evidence 1. By the beginning close and subscription of this very Letter printed in the Additamenta of Matthew Paris It begins thus Sanctissimo Patri in Christo Alexandro c. COMMUNITAS COMITUM PROCERUM MAGNATUM ALIORUMQUE REGNI ANGLIAE cum subjectione debita pedum oscula beatorum And it is thus joyntly subscribed and sealed by 6. Earls and 5. other Great men Et Nos R. de Clare Gloverniae Herefordiaeâ— S. de Monteforti Legriae R. Bigod Mariscallus Angliae H. de Bohun Herefordiae Essexiae W. Albemarle J. de Placito Warwici Comites H. Bigod Justiciarius Angliae P. de Subaudia J. Filius Galfridi Jacobus de Audel Petrus de Monteforti VIâ—E TOTIUS COMMUNITATIS praesentibus Literis SIGILLA NOSTRA APPOSUIMUS IN TESTIMONIUM PRAEDIâ—TORUM The Whole COMMUNITY therefore in whose behalf or stead they signed and sealed this Letter was only the Communitas Comitum Procerum Magnatum aliorumque Regni Angliae or Whole Baronage of England mentioned in the beginning of it in whole names alone it was written not the meer Commons house or Commonalty of England either in or out of Parliament as contradistinct from the Lords And these 11. Earls Barons and Great men joyntly signed and sealed it Vice totius Communitatis as joynt Proctors to this whole Community of the Baronage of England not ten of them as Proxies to the Earls Nobles and Great men and Peter de Montfort the 11. as Speaker or Proctor to the Commons in or out of Parliament as is erroniously surmised 2ly It is most evident by the words of Mat. Paris who placeth this Letter in Anno 1458. or 41 H. 3. whereas Sir Robert Cotton and Rishanger referr it to Anno 1260. or 44 H. 3 Destinantur Nuncii solennes ad Dominum Papam ex parte Regni ET TOTIUS ANGLIAE UNIVERSITATE c. Causam autem Itineris eorum et SCRIPTUM A BARNAGIO TRANSCRIPTUM audire qui cupit in libro Additamentorum invenire praevalebit Which compared with his Istud detestabile factum Romano erat Pontifici PER BARONES significatum in this very Letter his Magnates Nobiles terrae c. And his Tale iniit Consilium UNIVERSITAS BARNAGII will undeniably manifest That the Barons and Universality of the Baronage only not the meer Commons of England writ and sent this Letter and were the tota Communitas mentioned and intended in it in whose behalf these 11 Earls and Grandees subscribed and sealed it not the UNIVERSITAS REGNI POPULARIS ETSI NON NOBILES whom Mat. Paris distinguisheth from them by this very expression in the same year and upon the same occasion who Pictavienses obsiderent et Castra eorum funditus dissiparent Wherefore neither the signing nor sealing of this Letter by them Vice totius Communitatis nor this Clause in it Etsi Dominus Rex et Magnates hoc vellent COMMUNITAS tamen ipsius ingressum in Angliam nullatenus sustinerent meant only of the Vulgar Rable or Uiversitas Regni popularis as Mat. Paris stiles them who were much inraged against him being the same in substance with that phrase in King Henry the first his Letter unto Pope Paschal not in but out of Parliament Et si ego quod absit in tanta me dejectione ponâ—rem Optimates vero et TOTUS ANGLIAE POPULUS ID NULLO MODO PATERETUR can be any convincing or probable evidence at all that this Bishop elect of Winchester was then judicially banished by the joint consent of the King Nobles and Commons in Parliament as is suggested he being forced to fly thence through fear of their arms alone not banished by their judicial sentence as they thus expresly inform the Pope in another Letter sent to him with the former to inhibit his return Maxime CUM IPSE A REGNO EXPULSUS NON EXTITERIT SED SPONTE CESSERIT non ausus exhibitionem Iustitiae quae singulis secundum Iuramenta Regis Procerum debebatur expectare Much lesse is it any proof that the Commons in that age had a Voice and consent in Parliament Iudgments of all Natures since they never had it in succeeding ages unlesse it were by way of Bill as the whole Commons House acknowledged in the Parliament of 1 H. 4. n. 79. and I have manifested at large in my Plea for the Lords no more than that they had then a Speaker or House of Commons which is clear by subsequent Parliaments in this Abridgement they had not till many years after 44 H. 3. and after the Parl. of 6 E. 3. 3ly This will most evidently appear by the Barons Letter sent to King Henry the third to Lewes Anno Dom. 1264. the 48 year of his reign from their Camp Barones alii fideles sui c. subscribed only by the Earl of Leicester and Gilbert de Clare ad Petitionem aliorum And by the Letter of Richard King of Romans Prince Edward the Kings eldest son caeterique Barones omnes Milites praedicto Regi Angliae constanter adhaerentes fide sincera opibus sent to the Barons in answer thereunto thus subscribed Rex Alemanniae Edwardus filius Regis nomine suo aliorum Regi adhaerentium Omnes nos contenti sumus praedictorum Dominorum sigillis In both which Letters the two Earls and the King of Romans and Prince Edward joyntly signed and sealed in the Name of all the Barons Knights and others of either party and not one of them as a Proctor or Speaker to the Commons and the other as Proxie to the Barons and Lords both Letters being writ from their Camp not Parliament and neither of them relating to the Commons House or Judicature in Parliament just like this Letter concerning Bishop Adomar Therefore no inference can be thence deduced to prove the Commons had either any House Speaker or Judicature in the Parliaments of 42 or 44 of Henry the third The first expresse writ I find of any Knights of Counties by name summoned to our Parliaments as Members is that of Claus. 49 H. 3. dors 10 11. requiring Sheriffs to summon 2. Knights out of every County to the Paâ—liament which was presently after the battel of Evesham the same year the Earl of Leicester was slain the Barons totally routed by Pr. Edward and King Henry rescued out of their hands when Sir Robert Cotton affirms and that most truly as I conjecture THESE VVRITS BEGAN The writs of Rot. Claus. 15. Joh. pars 2. m. 7. dorso Patents 8 H. 3. pars 3. m. 4. Dors Claus. 38 H 3. dors 13. which seem somewhat like a Summons of Knights
Religious House belonging to Aliens And that during the Wars all French Religious persons may be banished the Realm Nothing was done herein Certain being taken Prisoners and unable to ransom themselves and namely Sir Matthew de Gorney Sir Matthew de Reedman Sir Thomas Foggs Sir Iohn Harpeden Sir Gregory Seas Sir Ieffery de Werkesley Sir Robert Twyford Sir Iohn Bourcher and divers other good Knights and Esquires pray the King to ransom them The King is wâ—llâ—nâ— to do for their comfort as far as reason would The Commons of the County of Devon for divers oppressions done by the Officers of the Stannary there by colour of their Liberties require the King by Parliament to explain his grant to them made which being divided into particular branches is done but too long to be abridged The like Bill did the Commons of Cornwall exhibit for the Liberties of the Stannary agreeing in grant and answer as the next above and theâ—efore too long to be abridged The Commons of the County of Cumberland require aid of the King for the repairing the City of Carlisle being in a manner spoiled and fallen down for that the Townsmen are not able to do the same and also for the appointing of one to be Warden of the Marches there The Bishops and Lords together with the Earl of Warwick and Sir Guy de Bryan shall assemble and appoint reasonable order therein The Inhabitants of the Port-Towns in England pray That whereas it often happeneth that a man or boy being in one of their ships or other vessels and by misadventure falling therefrom is drowned their ship or vessel is thereupon seised as a Deodand and that therein remedy may be had If the Vessel be upon the Sea it shall be adjudged no Deodand if upon the Fresh-water let him complain to the King who will shew favour The Watermen of London complain of leaving of Locks Stauks and Wears upon the River of Thames and namely of a Lock called Hamelden Lock and for that there is Custom demanded of them passing the Bridges of Stanes Windsor and Maidenhead and other Locks against their Custom For the Locks and Kidels the Statute made in 37 E. 3. tit 18. shall be executed And for exâ—cting money of them at the Bridges aforesaid or elswhere against their Fâ—â—nchises they shall make their suit in the Chancery and have their Writs grounded on their Liberties to stay such takings The Commons of the County of Kent complain against the Officers of the Castle of Dover for arresting them by their Catchpoles to answer before them whereunto they are bound The Officers shall have no jurisdiction out of the Fee of the Honor and Castle of Dover nor shall make any Process by Capias out of the Liberties of the Cinque-Ports Certain of the Sea-coasts complain to the King That where they be by the Kings appointment with their ships transported Sir Thomas Felton Steward of Gascoin and Sir William Elman Governor of Bayon unto Burdeaux and from thence went to the Bay where certain Spanish Gallies notwithstanding the Truce taken between the King and the Spaniards and Frenchmen boarded and kept them viz. the tenth of August last past before wherein they pray remedy The King hath and will do his best for redress and restitution The Inhabitâ—nts of the Town of Southampton pray the King to take the Town into his own hands for that they are not able to pay the Feefarm by reason of their great charge about the Fortification of the same and that he will send thither Men of war for the defence of the same The King will thereof be advised The Mayor and Commonalty of Winchester pray the King to confirm and grant to them their Liberties in such wise as was last granted to London and that towards the Murage of the same he would give them some Aid of Custom or otherwise The Commons of divers Cities and Towns require the payment of certain monies lent the King in the time of Thomas Brangtinham Bishop of Exeter Treasurer of England They shall be paid as soon as may be The Lords of the Realm and their Tenants pray the King of remedy against the Riots of divers Cities and Towns for that they enter upon their several grounds therein claiming Common considering the Wastes thereunto adjoyning may suffice therefore and namely that such of the Townsmen as have not land lying with any of the said Lords may have no Common in any of their lands This matter is before the Council The Inhabitants of Bath complain That whereas they had a Fair there at the Feast of S. Calixte the Town of Bristol being but ten miles from them have raised a Fair at Bristol the same day and forbidden all their Townsmen of Bristol upon certain pains to bring any Wares to the said Fair of Bath whereof they pray remedy It is before the Great Council The Commons of Essex and Suffolk pray that certain Clothes there or elswhere called Cogware and Kersies made in the said Counties be not within the compass of the Statute of Clothes made in 47 E. 3.41 The King willeth that they have such words that the strait ware called Cogware and Kersies made in the said Counties shall not be intended to be comprised in the said Statute nor under the pain therein The Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of London pray that they may enjoy all their liberties and that no stranger do keep house or be a Broker or sell Merchandise by Retail The King hath granted thereto conditionally that the same City be well governed saving to the Merchants of the Haunce their liberties The Citizens and Burgesses of certain places there named complain for and in the name of the Cities and Towns that divers of the Kings Tenants having Burgage within them do suffer them to fall down whereby they are the worse able to pay their Fee-farms and do therefore pray remedy The Citizens of Chichester pray remedy for that they are impleaded out of the same City for their Freeholds and for that they are driven to appear at Assises and Sessions contrary to the general words of their Liberties Let them shew their Charters in the Chancery and they shall have right They require confirmation of their Charters according to their purport Let them also shew their Charters and they shall have right The Commonalty of Surrey and Sussex pray remedy That whereas the King out of his Feefarms paid for the said Counties of Surrey and Sussex hath granted to Richard Earl of Arundel the two Turns of Sheriffs in the Rapes of Chichester and Arundel worth by the year 30l. and certain Rent called Sherringdeld to the yearly value of 14l. â—9 â— 1d. yielding
them to consult together Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyn and other Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England Wales and Scotland with their places appointed Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The next day after Sir Richard le Scroop Steward of the Kings House by the Kings commandment in the presence of the King Lords and Commons rehearsed the whole matter of the Arch-Bishop and willed them to consult thereof The same day the Commons required sundry Lords and Nobles with whom they might confer and as chief of them the King of Castill and Aragon and Duke of Lancaster The same King and Duke kneeling before the King required to be exempted from the same choice for that the Commons had slandered him in manner of Treason in which his defence he there openly before the King demanded the Combate to any person whatsoever or what other order the King should appoint Whereupon the whole Lords and Commons with one voyce purged him and requested that he would use no more such words where to the said Duke seemed to be content but said that the same report to set the Nobles at debate was no better then treason After that Sir Peirce de la Mare Knight being Speaker of the Parliament making his protestation said that what he had to say was from the whole House and therefore required that if he should happily speak any thing without their consents that the same ought to be amended before his departure from the said place He commendeth the feats of Chivalry and sheweth how we were thereby of all Nations renowned and how by the decay of the same the honor of this Realm was and daily would much decrease He further sheweth that when Merchants were Masters of ships and had the free disposition of them that then one Town in the Realm had more ships that were good then now had the whole Realm The Commons by him make three Petitions considering the Kings tender age First that it will please the King to name in the Parliament seventeen sufficient persons of all estates to be continually resident about the Affairs of the King and Realm with others of the Kings Officers so as they may be ascertained of their names who shall have the disposition of such things as they shall grant towards the War That their names may be known who shall be about the Kings person bringing him up in vertue and that the Kings house may be born with the Revenews of the Crown and what now is to be granted to be imployed onely upon the Wars That the Common Laws and other Statutes and Ordinances of the Law may be observed and may not be defaced with Masterships or singularities To the first request the King assenteth so as the Chancellor Treasurer Keeper of the Privy Seal Justices of the one Bench and the other may execute their Offices without the assent of such Councellors The King also by the advice of the Lords in the same Parliament for that one year chose nine other the like Councellors viz. â—he Bishops of London Carlisle and Salisbury the Earls of Stafford and March Sir Richard Stafford and Sir Henry le Scroop Baronets Sir Iohn Deverose and Sir Hugh Segrave Batchelors so as well these nine as the other seven shall continue Councellors but one year and not to be chosen during two years after That no gift of the King of any thing shall be made to any of the said Councellors during the said year but by the common assent of all other Councellors or the most of them that they take nothing other then meat and drink of small value upon pain of losing double to the party and sixfold so taken to the King and that they maintain no quarrel and that the discussion hereof be onely to the King to his Uncles of Spain Cambridge and Bucks That all such as shâ—ll complain of such Councellors and not able to approve shall incur the dangers of Accusers made in the time of E. 3. That such Councellors shall be sworn in the Kings presence to observe these Orders at which time the aforesaid Nine were sworn accordingly For the appointing of such as should be about the Kings person the Lords would not intermeddle and for the consideration of the Kings Houshold the Lords would talk with the chief Officers of the same to do therein to the Kings honor And to the third request the Lords granted The Lords and Commons granted to the King two Fifteens out of Cities and Burroughs and two Tenths of Cities and Burroughs the Fifteens of all Lands whatsoever and Tenths of all manner of goods to be levied between that and Candlemas ensuing so as the same with the Subsidy of Woolls be imploied upon the Wars onely and that some might be appointed thereunto All which was granted saving to the King the Custom of the Woolls 15000 l. wherein he was indebted for the Wars And thereupon William Wallworth and Iohn Philpot Merchants of London were appointed the keepers of such sums to the uses aforesaid whereto they were sworn before the King in open Parliament William de Monteacute Earl of Sarum complaineth that whereas E. 3. gave to William de Monteacutâ— Earl of Salisbury his Father in general tail with warranty the Castle Town and Honour of Denbigh with the Contrades of Roos Rowenox and Kiderminster and the Comote of Dimnael with the appurtenances in Wales the which in the life of E. 3. was recovered in the Kings Bench from the said Earl by Roger of Mortimer Earl of March Father to Edward now Earl by the name of the Land of Denbigh and for that error was in the same recovery he prayeth the examâ—nation of the same Record and restitution vide 2 R. 2.41 31. Whereupon Sir Iohn Cavendâ—sh Chief Justice of the Kings Bench by appointment brought out the same Record into the Parliament there to remain until the next Parliament and a Scire facias awarded against the said Edmond Earl of March then to be there and to abide further Order Sir Iohn de Cobham Knight Son of the Countess Marshal sheweth that where he for seisin gave to King Edw. 3. a ring of gold or the reversion of his Mannors of Wenden-hill Pademore Chederoldsenry Hanshardzolt Wedon in the Vale Draiton Beauchampe Nesseworth Sandresdon Holpesthorp Rolvesham in the County of â—olsonâ—n â—n Norfolk the good Mannor of Adington in Bucks and Rowlston in the County of Leicester to have all the premises after his decease to the King and of his Heirs of the Crown he now prayeth that according to his intent the same may remain in the Crown Whereupon the same Parliament divers Lords and others were examined openly who approved the gift in form
but for that time agreed to prepare an Army of men and a Navy of Ships whereunto they lent the King great sums of money the which Navy and Army he had prepared and thereby remained to them and to divers good Cities and Towns in debt He therefore willed the Lords by themselves and the Commons by themselves to weigh the necessiâ—ies and to provide therefore and not to muse at the sudden calling of this Parliament considering the same was for the Kings honour and safety of the Realm He further sheweth how for the charges of the Wars born and to be born the Treasurers of the same were and shou'd be ready to make them privy Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and for the forein Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above Sundry Nobles are named to examine the Revenues arising of the Subsidy of Wooll and to examine all the Revenues of the Realm viz. the old Maletolt of Woolls the revenues of Priors Aliens and all other receits of the King whatsoever To examine what Fees the Nobles and Officers received in the beginning of E. 3. what Annuities were granted by E. 3. or the black Prince his Son to survey all the Kings Moveables and enquire of the same to view the expences of the Kings Houshold of Callice and other forelets and apparrelments of War the Revenues of Burdeaux the Subsidy of Cloth the possessions of Cardinals Rebells upon debts upon receits of wages for the Wars and of Rome-pence or Peter-pence and the arrerages due for many years So as the King release and ease them of the Subsidy on Staple ware granted in the last Parliament tit 29. and the 6d. of every 20. in Merchandize then granted tit 30. The Lords and Commons do there grant to the King the Subsidies of Woolls there granted in the said last Parliament tit 29. to endure for one year longer and a certain sum of money of every estate of the Realm from the highest to the lowest Only I note every Justice of the two Benches with the chief Baron to be 5 l. whereas no Earl was above 4 l. The Mayor of London paid 4 l. as an Earl every Alderman 40 s. as a Baron Every Advocate 40 s. as an Advocate at Law The King being in Parliament the 27 day of May released the demand aforesaid tit 23. thenceforth to cease William de Montacute Earl of Salisbury sheweth the whole Circumstances and process contained in the last Parliament tit 31 32 33. The Scire fac granted the last Parliament to warn Edmond Earl of March is rehearsed at large Upon the same Scire facias awarded to the Sheriff of Shropshire Iohn de Ludlow Sheriff of the same returned the said Edmond Earl of March to be warned Whereupon the said Earl of Salisbury by Sir Iohn de Monteacute one of his general Attorneys by Pattent the same Earl being beyond the Seas in the Kings service as also the said Edmond Earl of March came into this present Parliament and hearing the return of the said Writs and Process of the said Earl of Salisbury by his said Attorney proffered to assign the errors contained in the said Record The Earl of March being there present alledged that the Writ of Scire fac is not sufficiently served for that the Writ willeth the Sheriff to warn Edmond Mortimer Earl of March Son and Heir of Roger Mortimer late Earl of March the Son of Edmond de Mortimer and the Sheriffs return is that he hath warned Edmond Mortimer Earl of March Son and Heir of Roger de Mortimer Son of Edmond de Mortimer late Earl of March which cannot be intended the same person for that Edmond the Father of Roger de Mortimer was never Earl of March The Earl of Salisbury affirmeth the Return to be good and prayeth that upon assigning of examination of the Errors the Judgment may be reversed But for that the Parliament grew towards an end and weighty affairs were to be done for the King besides the difficulty of the matter the King gave day to either of the said parties to the next Parliament with all advantages and the matter to stand as it now doth King E. 3. of certain purchased Fee-simple lands infeoffed the Duke of Lancaster and others in fee by Deed and caused Livery and Seâ—sin to be delivered thereupon without condition by writing or word Long after the same King prayed the said Feoffees by mouth that therewith they should provide for the sustenance of the Friars of Langley and for the Nuns of Dertford and to provide perpetual Obit for the Countess of Huntington and another for the soul of the Countess-Marshal and for other charges Whereupon all the Justices and Serjeants to the King there named were straitly charged in full Parliament to say their knowledge whether the Charge thus made to the Feoffees after the Feoffment aforesaid should by Law be adjudged a Condition so as the said gift were made conditionally All who agreed that sithence there was nothing spoken before the gift upon the gift nor yet upon the livery that the Kings request after they were thus in possession could not make any condition whereby the Kings right is now thereby saved And note that this motion was made at the suit of the Executors of King E. 3. who were infeoffed as is aforesaid and receiving of the profits were forbidden the same Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The print touching the Confirmation of the liberties of the Church cap. 1. swerveth from the Record for the Record hath saving the Kings regality which is not in the print Besides the print is more large then the Record in other points otherwise the print touching the Great Charter and the Charter of the Forrest agreeth with the Record That Answer reasonable may be given to all their Petitions now or hereafter to be moved and that Statutes be thereupon made before the departure of every Parliament Such Bills as remedy cannot otherwise be had but in Parliament reasonable answer shall be thereto made before such departure That the perambulations of the Forrest may be newly rode according to the Walks of King E. 1. That the Indictments of Vert or Venison may express the places of the trespasses or else to be void That any impeachment out of the bound of the Forrest may trebly therefore recover The Statutes or Charter of the Forrest shal be according to the Law and who will complain shall be heard It is enacted That in Loans which the King shall require of his Subjects upon Letâ—ers of Privy seal that such as have reasonable excuse of not lending may thereto be received without further
summons travel or grief That all Customers and Comptrollers of England mâ—y yearly be removed The King by advice herein will do his pleasure That execution may be done upon such of the County of Chester and other Counties Palatine as are outlawed for trespasses or felonies done in their Counties The King will provide remedy therefore saving the right of himself and of other men That such English as are remaining in prison in Scotland for things done since the Truce may be delivered without ransom as the Scots in like of custom be The Wardens of such parts be appointed for the like cases a day of meeting the last of Iune at what time good order may be taken That Sheriffs of all Shiâ—â—s where the King for to certain his debts hath appointed to certain men sundry sums of those Sheriffs receipts may upon their Accompts be discharged thereof The King will be advised by his Council That Theeves and Robbeâ—s may speedily come to their deliverance Of all Statutes made therefore the Council shall appoint the best to be executed and the Justices to make deliverance as oft as need shall require That remedy may be had forasmuch as by the inter comoveage with Scots the most of the Woolls of the Shires of York Duâ—esm Westmerland Cumberland and Northumberland are transported into Scotland without any Custom The King by his Council will provide That the King will appoint certain Vessels for the keeping of Stradborough the men of which Town withâ—n two years before paid 1000 l. ransom and for the defence of the North-coasts This matter is committed to the Earl of Northumberland the Mayor of London and to certain Merchants of the North of them to be considered In a Schedule annexed to the Roll is contained the Order of the parties aforesaid for the defence of the North-sea coasts and confirmed by those Estates of the Parliament That those Sea-coasts shall be defended with two Ships and two Barges and two Bullingeâ—s armed and appointed for the Wars at the charges hereafter ensuing viz. That every Ship Boat or other Vessel whatsoever passing those Sea-coasts shall pay for every Tun of his burthen six pence except all Vessels laden with Wines or other Merchandises from Flanders to be discharged at London and Ships or other Vessels laden with Staple-ware and to be discharged at Caliâ—e The which excepted Ships shall not be safe-conducted by the Admiral of the Sea without consideration Certain named are appointed keepers of the Sea coasts and to levie the Subsidy aforesaid both by Sea and by Land Certain Merchants are appointed to be Receivers and Comptrollers of the aforesaid Subsidie The Commons of Cumberland require that it would please the King to repair the City and Castle of Carlile in manner ruined and at his charges to appoint a worthy Guardian The King is not to repair the same Citie but he will give in charge that it be done about the Castle he is repairing touching the Warden the King by his Councel will do his pleasure That provision may be found that the money carried forth of the Realm may be brought in again and not clipped within the Realm â—e carried forth again The King upon conference with the Minters and Merchants will provide the best remedie That all religious persons may according to the last Parliament depart the Realm and namely the Prior of Halenge If any man will specially complain he may be heard for the Prior of Halenge hath found surety It is enacted that no Sheriff of any County shall be Justice of Peace in the same County That the King will pay the loans of E. 3. borrowed of the Subjects in the 43. year of his raign The King will so do so soon as conveniently he may The like motion and answer that is made in the last Parliament Tit. 57. That half pence and farthings may be coyned and commandment given to sell according to the same Upon having of Bullion the King will do so That Declaration may be made of Sylva cedua As it hath been heretofore used The Print touching the Statute made at Glocester touching Riots cap. 2. doth not agree with the Record for the Record doth generally revoke the said Statute made at Glocester which note They require that the Constable and Marshal of England do surcease to hold before themselves Pleas of Treason or Felony and that the same may only be determined before the Kings Justices according to the great Charter The Lords dare not disclose the same as well for that the Heirs who claim the same Office are within age and in the Kings keeping as for that the Parliament draweth to an end But as touching the appeal of Treason made in Cornwal and depending before the said Constable and Marshal the King will take the same into his own hands as shall please him for determining the same according to the Laws saving to every one his rights That there be a certain number of Justices learned in the Law which may in every Shire be appointed and chosen by the Lords and Commons that none be by them associated their Sessions to be holden four times yearly and there to have Fees at the Sheriffs hands The King will appointable Justices no Association shall be made no remotion without consent of the Councel two or three of such of them as shall hold the Sessions shall have the sixt part of the profit of the same untill the next Parliament A Statute made that such as demand land against the King and evidence therefore by Writ shewn in the Treasury that in such case who sueth for the King shall after the return of four Writs every Writ having â—orty dayes respit answer It is willed to be executed notwithstanding any commandment of the Great or Privy Seal That the Owners of the ships taken up for the Kings service for their losses in the same may be considered and that Mariners may have the like wages as Archers have It shall be as it hath been used That none of the Commons House be appointed to be Collector Cessor or Comptroller of any aids granted now The King granteth so as before their departure they in writing declare who are most able theâ—efore That the King will grant Pardons to all such as will for the only Fee of the Great Seal of all points of Eâ—re of desperate debts of any of his Ancestors and of all points of the Forrest until the Feast of Pentecost now present The King will be advised That the Treasurer for the Wars may be discharged and that all which is or shall be granted may be received by the Treasurer of England It liketh the King It is enacted to endure untill the
into the Parliament before the King and Lords bringing in Sir Iohn Gildesbrough knight whom they had chosen then to be their Speaker who making his Protestation required that whatsoever he should speak and be taken in evill part might be imputed to his ignorance and not unto the Commons And if that happily he should speak contrary to the expectation of the said Commons that they then at all times amend the same He saith then that the Commons suppose that if the King were reasonably governed in his expences within and without the Realm that he should little need to charge his Commons being already much impoverished And therefore they require the King to discharge the Lords of the great Councel and to appoint about him only five Councellors being his chief Officers viz. the Chancellor Treasurer Keeper of the Privy Seal chief Chamberlain and the Steward of the Houshold whose names they would knowâ— and that they should not be removed without Parliament but for death sickness or such like causes Finally he requireth that it would please the King to appoint by Commission certain such as should enquire by all means of the Kings charges as well of Houshold as otherwise and of all his Officers beyond the Seas as on this side and to appoint redresse for defaults since his Coronation The King after that granteth to such Commission and to the persons therein named according to the form following his estate and regality always saved The whole form and Commission it self with the Names of the Commissioners very large and worthy the noting The Lords and Commons do grant to the King one fifteen and a half to be taken out of the Cities and Towns and one Desme of Fifteenth and a half to be taken within Cities and Towns by way of a Loan untill the next Parliament and to be levied according as the last were so as the same be only imployed upon the Warrs They also grant unto the King the Subsidie of wools woolfels and skins from the Feast of S. Michael next until Michaelmas then next ensuing in such wise as was granted in the last Parliament beseeching that in the mean time there may not other Subsidies be asked of the Commons For a more declaration of the Statute of Treason made 25 E. 3. it was adjudged by the Temporal Justices and confirmed by Parliament that where one Iean Imperial Ianeois of S. Meces in Iennes came as an Ambassador to the King under the Kings letters of safe conduct for alliance to be had between the King and the Duke and Commonalty of Iennes the aforesaid Iean so being under the Kings protection was murthered in London by some of the Kings Subjects That such act and stroak was Treason and a fault of the Kings royal Majesty impaired William de Mountagne Earl of Salisbury cometh into the Parliament in proper person and by petition sheweth the whole matter contained in the last Parliament tit 19 20 21 22 23 24. and sheweth how long he had sued and that day was given him until this present time requireth that Sir Iohn Cavendish Knight there present before whom the matter was might bring before them the old Process and Record and that he might assign the Errors and they proceed to Judgment Whereupon Sir Iohn Bishopstone Clerk and servant to the Earl of March in the absence of the said Earl then being in Wales in preparing himself towards Ireland where he was appointed to be the Kings Lieutenant sheweth the Kings protection made to the said Earl of March for one half year The words of the protection being read as it is there word for word and allowed and the said Earl of March to go without day Philip Darcy knight sheweth that whereas King Edw. 3. granted to Iohn Darcy knight the reversion of the Mannors of Temphurst and Templemeston and to his heirs males which was the said Philip The Prior of S. Iohn of Ierusalem in England upon the Order of 17 E. 2. had sued a Scire facias against the said Philip where the said Philip prayed in aid of the King as in reversion and that the said Prior sued in the Chancery for a Procedendo which he requireth to be stayed The said Philip sheweth a Deed in the Parliament whereby the Predecessor of the said Prior granted those Mannors of Flaxfleet being then in the Kings hands together with the Mannors of Dennis and Stroud next Rocestre all being parcel of the Lands of the Temple to King E. 2. in fee the which Deed the same Prior seemeth to deny But the same being so shewed before was delivered to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer as appertaining to the King and order taken that no proceedings should be granted until Michaelmas after that in the mean time search might be made for the Kings title Iohn Earl of Pembroke being in the Kings custody and William la Zouch of Harringworth Cousins and heirs of William Cantlow shew that where Thomas the son and heir of Sir Robert Roos of Ingmanthorp sued them for certain lands in the Shire of York which late were the said Williams supposing certain Feoffments to be made by the said William without Condition for the advantage of this Complaint And for that the said Thomas sought to come to the trial of the Country which he had corrupted they required redress and trial by the Parliament The matter was committed to Iohn Knevit and Iohn Cavendish Chief Justices and to Robert Belknap Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas to examine and make report who did so at large whereby it falls out that the said Feoffments were made upon Condition as may there appear Petitions of the Commonsâ— with their Answers The print touching the liberties of the Church cap. 1. and observation of Laws cap. 11. in effect agreeth with the Record but not in form besides in the Record are contained the Great Charter and the Charter of the Forrest Sundry Counties lying upon the Sea-coasts by name require that all Chieftains of Soldiers do recompence the harms done to the Subjects by any of their Soldiers while they lay for passage over The King granteth so as the parties do make complaint to such Chieftains before their departure out of the Realm The Counties of Northumberland Cumberland and Westmerland require consideration of a Warden and Garrisons to lie on their Marches and that it may be commanded to all such as have Castles Forts or Lands as well within those Countries as upon all the Sea-coasts that they dwell upon the same To the first the King will provide To the second it is so commanded That no meer Welsh-man do purchase or procure any Lands or Lease in any of the Counties between the River of Severn and Wales on pain to lose the same to such on
money the King establisheth the order ensuing for passage over of Wools thinking thereby the more speedily to come by great sums to his content The print touching Merchant strangers cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The print touching the Staple to be open to all Merchants whatsoever cap. 2. agreeth with the Record The print touching a Subsidy for keeping the Seas cap. 3. agreeth with the Record The print touching the old Estates that ought to come into the Parliament cap. 4. agreeth with the Record The print touching the inquiry of Heresies cap. 5. agreeth with the Record Anno Quinto Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Westminster the day after All Souls in the fifth year of King Richard the Second FOr that this year All Souls fell on Saturday the Parliament was adjourned until Munday ensuing on which Munday the King and many Bishops and Lords came but for that sundry Sheriffs made no return of their Writs the Parliament was adjourned untill Tuesday after on which day the King and Lords and Bishops came into the White Chamber at Westminster and caused the names of the Knights and Burgesses to be called where upon the default of sundry of them the Parliament was therefore adjourned unto Wednesday after On which Wednesday for that great debate rose between the Duke of Lancaster and the Earl of Northumberland so as great force of arms men and Archers armed in warlike manner on both sides came to the Parliament whereof great complaint being made to the King the King with his Councel and Nobles were much busied to appease the same the King therefore adjourned the same Parliament till Saturday after On that same Saturday the King being in Parliament and the Councel being called by their names William Cant. elect and confirmed Chancellor of England began to declare the cause of the Parliament taking for this his Theam Rex convenire fecit consilium whereupon in English he made a good Oration applying it to the good vertuous government of the King and of his reign affirming that no reign could long endure if vice reigned therein the which to redress by this Parliament that could not be by the order of the other Law the King therefore had called the same Receivers of petitions for England Ireland and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Triers of petitions for England c. as above Triers of petitions for Gascoin c. as above The which done the Chancellor declared That on Munday the cause of the Parliament should more especially be declared willing all men therefore to attend The Wednesday after but certainly it should seem to be the Munday the Commons were all called by their names within the Chamber Blank where Sir Hugh Segrave Treasurer of England by the Kings Commandment remembred the Oration of the Archbishop of Canterbury and said that the especiall cause was to maintain the liberties of the Church and to provide for the observation of the peace and namely to punish the horrible tumults and rebellion made against the King in those tumults who was enforced to grant manumissions to the bondmen and others of the Realm as on them having Kingly power under the Great Seal of England The which he knowing to be done against Law willed them to seek remedy accordingly due for the confirmation or revocation thereof In the end he touched the Kings great want whereof certain of the Council should make them privy And so wishing them thereof to have due consideration wished the Commons to depart to their accustomed place within the Abby of Westminster The Monday after in the third day of the Parliament being the eighteenth day of November the Commons came into the Parliament to present Sir Richard Walsgrave knight whom they had chosen their Speaker who excused himself and desired to be discharged of the office whereunto the King on his allegiance willed him to stand being chosen by his companions Thereupon the said Sir Richard maketh the common protestation He then required a more full declaration of the Kings meaning either by a mean rehearsal or by his repetition The King therefore appointed Sir Richard le Scroop knight and created Chancellor to do the same who did so and namely touching the Repeal of the Manumissions made to the Bondmen Whereto all the Commons cryed with one voice that the Appeal was good and lawful adding That such infranchisement could not pass without their consents and so upon the prayer of the Commons the same Repeal was by assent confirmed Certain Bishops Lords and Nobles upon the request of the Commons are appointed to confer with them After this Conference the Commons thought it good that the King would grant a general Pardon to the offenders in these tumults The Commons require That of the particular consultations of the Bishops Lords and Justices a hearing might be brought to them Whereunto was answered that the old custom was that the Commons should bring to the Lords their conceits and devises and not to the contrary The which the King would should be observed The Commons afterwards coming into the Parliament and making their protestation shewed that for want of good redress about the Kings person in his houshold in all his Courts touching Maintainers in every County and Purveyors the Commons were daily pilled and nothing defended against the Enemy and that it would shortly deprive the King and undo the whole State Wherefore in the same Government they intirely require remedy Whereupon the King appointed sundry Bishops Lords and Nobles to sit in Privy Council about these matters Who since that they must begin at the Head and go at the request of the Commons they in the presence of the King charged his Confessor not to come into the Court but upon the four principal Feasts The Devises of the Commons exhibited in a Schedule First that there may be appointed about the Kings person the most sage and approved wise men in the Courtâ— the like Officers for the well governance of both That the most wise and able man in the Realm may be chosen Chancellor and that he seek to redress the enormities of the Chancery That the like order may be of the Treasurer Barons and Officers of the Exchequer That the like be made touching all the Justices of both Benches and that in thâ—s year two Justices two Serjeants and four Apprentices of the Law may be sworne to declare the delay and defects of the Law and that the same may be remedied That upon the accomplishment hereof the Commons may view the names of the persons and see the Ordinances before the confirming of them The provision may be made for observing of the peace and repressing of such tumults as late were
be advised That such Sheriff as failed to account the last Trinity Term considering the Insurrections then may be pardoned The King granteth thereto The King also pardoneth all Collectors and Comptrollers of the last Subsidie all issues lost for not appearing at Hilary term last in the Exchequer It is enacted that from henceforth the Collectors of Tenths and and Fifteens shall be accountable for the same by their Oath before the Barons of the Exchequer That all debts for lands seized into the hands of the King Edw. 3. may be pardoned If any speciall man make his complaint he shall be heard but generally the King will not grant thereunto It is enacted that no sum of the land be set on any person at the receipt of the Exchequer by payment or assignment unless such person be present or by his Attorney in Court An Order that the Collectors of Subsidies shall be charged to accompt according to the Roll between them and their Comptrollers made saving that they shall be further charged upon better proof Upon complaint made against Forresters it is enacted that the Charter of the Forrest be kept and that perambulations be made where any need is according the bounds made in the time of King Edward the first The King granteth that all men may have exemplifications of Deeds and Charters enrolled in the Chancery defaced in the late Insurrection without any fine in the Chancery It is enacted that all Sheriffs shall have allowance towards their charges of all such Fee-farms or profits belonging to the Sheriffs which were after granted to any Lords or other person for any annuall rent That no Prohibition be denied for Tenths of Wood demanded of Wood passing the age of twenty years As it hath been used the same shall be That no Fines be taken in the Chancery for any Writ The King meaneth not to lose any such commodity left him by his Ancestors It is enacted that the Charter made to Yarmouth touching one grant viz. That no man should buy or sell within seven miles of the same and that the road called Kirkleroade in Suffolk being six miles off the Town should be repâ—aled saving their old Liberties They pray remedy against such as purchase Abbies Priories or such like dignities from the Court of Rome by Provisions The King would have the Statutes therefore made to be executed That no Alien do enjoy any Ecclesiastical living within the Realm The King willeth as next above It is enacted that if any religious or other person shall cautelously cause the King to be infeoffed of any lands or hereditaments holden of any mean person and thereby extinguish his right to give the same in Mortmain that notwithstanding any such cautelous Feoffments the Lords or mean person of whom the lands are holden may lawfully enter saving to the King his due prerogative That the Heirs or Executors of any Captain taking wages and being dead or taken prisoner be not charged to pay any thing by them received It shall continue as heretofore That such Captains being appointed to serve on the Sea by a day certain upon the Kings Letters may receive their wages from the said day As heretofore so in the like case it shall be used The Kâ—ng upon request of the Commons granteth pardon to all Towns and Persons for their late Insurrections except the Town of Bury S. Edmonds and the names of them which are before excepted in a Roll. It is enacted that all Justices of Peace shall have full power at all times to make delivery of all rebels murtherers robbers and theeves taken with the manner so they be at the least three and one of them learned in the Law The print touching the Barons of the Exchequer cap. 9. agreeth with the Record The print touching Accompts in the Exchequer cap. 10. agreeth in effect with the Record but not fully for that some part is left out of the print The print touching Accompts there cap. 11. agreeth with the Record The print touching the Accompts of Nihil cap. 13. agreeth with the Record The print touching the Clerk of the Pipe and Remembrancer agreeth with the Record The print touching suing out of Liveries cap. 15. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The print touching Clerks sues in the Exchequer cap. 16. agreeth with the Record It is enacted that from henceforth no Barons of the Exchequer Clerk of the Pipe Remembrancer Opposer Comptroller Clerk of the Pleas Clerk of the Forein summons Auditor or other Chief Officer of the Exchequer be made unless he be well learned in the Law or otherwise very skilful in the courses and uses of the Exchequer The King at the request of the Commons enlargeth his Pardon for certain Felonies and Treasoâ—s as may in the Record appear The print touching Money cap. 2. far swerveth from the Record as having additions and diminutions other then the Record doth warrant The print touching Shipping and the Navy and of Merchandise cap. 3. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The print touching Wines cap. 4. agreeth with the Record to the midst of the same print The other half of the Record by evil keeping is lost unless it may upon search be found again The print touching Entry into lands cap. 7. agreeth with the Record as appeareth before tit 7. The print touching the Repeal of Manumissions made by the King cap. 6. agreeth with the Record as appeareth before tit 12.13 Anno Sexto Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Westminster in the Octaves of Saint Michaell in the 6th year of K. Richard 2d. THe Monday in the Octaves of St. Michaell being the first day of the Parliament sundry of the Lords and Bishops came into the painted Chamber looking of long for the other Lords and Commons but for that sundrie Sheriffs had not returneâ— their Writs the Parliament was adjourned untill Wednesday after On which Wednesday the King with most of the Bishops and Lords came into the Chamber depinct where every of the Commons were by their names called in before the Bishop of London Chancellor of England who by the Kings commandement pronounced the causes of the Parliament for three points The first for the maintenance of the liberty of the Church The second for observation of the peace laws and usages The third for the good governance of the Realm and of the Dominions of the same as against misdoers defence of the North-marches towards Scotland defence of the Territories beyond the Seas for the safetie of Ireland and Gascoyn for succouring of the Kings subjects in Portugal for the keeping of the Seas and for the charge about the same
whereon he wisheth throughly to consult Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoineâ— and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoine c. as above At this time commandement was given that all persons and Estates should return the next day to hear the cause of the Parliament more fully uttered The Thursday after being the next day the Bishop of Hereford by the Kings commandement declared the cause more fully saying that four things did chiefly encourage to adventure on that thing which they desired to atchieve whereof two appertained not to the proof viz. to Array and not Array the other two were Doubt and Hope as Doubt caused dismaying and fear so Hope caused honour to be atchieved He then setteth forth before them the miserable nakedness of the Realm as round beset with enemies and such not like to be conquered if doubt or negligence possessed mens hearts For hope to be had for resisting this he sheweth to be by two means viz. the one was with allyance with the Flemmings who offered their service to the King against his enemies The other was the offer of the Duke of Lancaster for the conquest of Portugal and Spain so as the Realm would lend him but 60000 l. which he would pay according to his offer made in the last Parliament He willed them to consult how money to the least loss of the Commons may be raysed for the enterprizing of these two voyages of Flanders and Spain or at the least of the one of them viz. Spain whereto all men should much the more be encouraged and have good hope considering that by two Croiseris the one granted to the Duke of Lancaster against Spain the other to the Bishop of Norwich against the Anti-Pope and all his accomplâ—ces the Pope hath thereby granted to all such as went sought or dyed in the quarrell full remission of all their sins The Commons having this their charge departed towards their place in the Abbey at Westminster but before they did any thing therein they made request to have certain especiall Lords by name assigned unto them with whom they might consult the which was granted their names then appearing After this the Lords and Commons granted to the King one fifteenth and one Tenth out of the Cities and Towns to be levyed in such wise as the last grant was and no otherwise to be imployed upon the defence of the Realm as to the King by the advise of his Councell and Lords of the Realm should seem good Thomas Feedon Richard Moory and Richard Dell as principall doers in the late insurrection and namely for burning and destroying the house and Mannours of the Order of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England are excepted out of the pardon and therefore their names were delivered into the Kings Bench that the like process might be made against them as against other Traytors Iohn Hene of London Iohn Battail and Thomas Battail with Sir Michaell Dagworth Kt. do in the Parliamemt wholly submit themselves to the order of the King and his Councel touching their long suit sustained in the Kings Bench for the mannour of Bradwell in Essex The King by assent of the Parliament for the fine of a thousand Marks having granted to the Citizens of York pardon of all Treasons Felonies c. The like pardon he granteth to the Burgesses and Commonaltie of Scarbourgh for 900. Marks fine whereof the Commonaltie 400. Marks and forty of the best Burgesses of the same Town the other 500. Marks except Robert Aolam and Robert Killington who for their severall Fines were also pardoned The King granteth the like pardon to the Burgesses of Beverley for the fine of 1100 Marks except persons there named A pardon to Adam Perkin of Homeson for the death of William Clarke of Winslow for the fine of 10. Marks A pardon to Ralph Fitz-Iohn of Aston for murdering his wife Agnes in Ashton wood A pardon to the Citizens of York A pardon to the Burgesses of Scarborow It is enacted that the Staple at Callice may be removed from thence to any other Town and to provide such orders therefore as to the King and his Councell shall seem meet The Lords being required by the King to shew their fantasies touching the Duke of Lancasters offer for the assayling of Spain as is aforesaid do think the same very good and honourable but to the number levying but two thousand men at Armes and so many Archers they think very small Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the liberty of the Church the great Charter and Charter of the Forrest and Purveyors Cap. 1. agreeth in effect with the Record but not in form The print touching abatement of Writs Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The print touching assize of Nusance Cap. 3. agreeth with the Record in effect though not in form The print touching lading of Merchandize in English bottomes Cap. 8. agrees with the Record in effect but much swarveth in form That no man shall charge another mans land with any Annuity unless he can prove seisin and payment of the Annuity The King will be thereof advised That the King will keep sufficiently the Sea considering that he hath vi d. of every pound The King by advise will provide remedy That remedy may be had against Aliens having any Ecclesiastical dignity and living The Statutes therefore made shall be observed The print touching retayling of sweet Wines Cap. 7. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form In consideration of wars like to ensue with Scotland they require that the Arch-Bishop of York the Bishop of Durisme the Earl of Northumberland and the Lords Nevill and Clifford may lye in their Countries and that it would please the King and Queen to approach to York To the Lords the King granteth if they have no good excuse to the rest the King will doe by his Councell The Print touching the Enrolments and exemplifications of Deeds Cap. 4. agreeth in effect with the Record but not in forme It is enacted that during two years ensuing no Fair shall be holden and that during one year no trail-baston shall be That Eschanges may be between Merchant and Merchant notwithstanding any Act in the last Parliament The Chancellor being required may grant Licence if the same be reasonable That the King will appoint a sufficient Admirall for the North who by good order may take upon him to keep the Sea Coasts there The King granteth thereto That no Justices of the Law be
and to put the same in execution so as the same be declared in the next Parliament to the end the Commons may then agree to or no. After this the Commons prayed the Lords in these Ordinances to regard the estate of the Universities of Cambridg and Oxford The Bishops Lords and Commons in full Parliament assented that the King his heirs and successors of England may lawfully make their Testament and that execution shall be done of the same The Lords and Commons grant to the King the like subsidie for three years as is contained before in 14. Ric. 16. together with one half Desme and half Fifteen The Lords at the request of the Commons have granted that no Eyre or Trayle le baston nor any generall Oyer and determiner should be holden untill the next Parliament except the Oyer and determiner in Norff. touching the death of Edmond Chipesby the elder and Walter Cook and one like Commission for the Kings Tenants of Fekenhan in the County of Worcester Thomas de Poutingdon complaineth against Sir Phillip Courtney for wrongfull expelling him out of the Mannours of Bigeleigh both of which c. Thomas and Sir Phillip comprimitted themselves by Parliament to abide the order of certain there named by a day to be made The like complaint made by Richard Somestre against the said Phillip for expelling him out of 4 Marks Land in Thurverton in the County of Devon who committed the same as before For that the King was assured that certain Lands were entayled by Fine to Rob. de Veer late Duke of Ireland and Earl of Oxford long before his attainder in the 11. year of this King the which by the death of the said Duke ought to descend to Sir Awbrey de Veer as uncle and heir to the said Robert The Lords by assent of Parliament made livery of all such Lands to the said Sir Awbrey and albeit the said Sir Awbrey had then shew'd nothing that the name title and honour of the same was entayled The Lords by assent of Parliament restored and granted to the said Sir Awbrey and the heirs males of his body lawfully begot the same name title and honour after which the said Awbrey was set in his place in the Parliament among his Peeres The King by assent of Parliament pardoneth to Iohn de Lancaster all treasons misprisions and misgovernances in Councell while he was about the Kings person and his being with the late Duke of Ireland beyond Sea after the Judgment given against him in the 11. year There was granted to the Deane and Chapter of Leichfield a new Scire fac upon their case returned in the next Parliament against the Pryor of Newport-Pannell for that their late Scire fac did quaile sc. 15 R. 2. tit 23. The like Scire fac was granted to Iohn Shepy Cleark se. 15. tit 23. Edmond Basset prayeth a Scire fac as is contained 15. tit 24. The like answer was now made to him as then was William Arch-Bishop of Cant. maketh his protestation in open Parliament saying that the Pope ought not to excommunicate any Bishop or entermeddle for or touching any presentation to any Ecclesiastical dignity recovered in any the Kings Courts He further protested that the Pope ought to make no translations to any Bishoprick within the Realm against the Kings will for that the same was the destruction of the Realm and Crown of England which hath alwaies been so free as the same hath had none earthly Soveraign but only subject to God in all things touching Regalities and to none other the which his protestation he prayed might be entred Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe like motion and answer is made as in the last Parliament tit 29.1 They pray that no man should be forced to appear before any Lords of the Councell c. cap. 2. agreeth with the Record At the request of the Commons it is enacted that the grant made to the Town of 〈◊〉 for taking certain impositions of all Merchants towards the repairing of their said Town for a certain tearm shall after same utterly cease That some way may be found for the maintenance of the Navy of the Realm being utterly decayed There is sufficient remedy by Statutes which the Lords would to be observed The print touching weights cap. 3. agreeth with the Record That all Conspirations may from henceforth be tryed in those Counties where the Indictments and Deliverances were made If any man be grieved let him sue to the Chancellor untill the next Parliament It is enacted that all the Filth upon the side of Thamise next the house of Rob. de Parris shall be utterly removed and that in some place before Easter then ensuing That the Butchers of London do build convenient and fit houses whereinto they may from time to time bring all their Ordure entrayles and other Filths and the same in Boates carryed into the middle of Thames and there cast the same at a full water when it first beginneth to ebbe and further that no person do throw or cause to be thrown or laid any Filth or Ordure Muck Rubbish or Caystage in the same water of Thames of the one side or of the other between the Palace of Westm. and the Tower of London on loss of 10 l. That no Cleark who writeth any Records in the Kings Bench or Common Pleas or at the Assizes be an Atturney or of Counsell in any case there to be tried The Lords will charge his Councell to take order therein That all such as bring prizes of Wine into the Realm do only pay in Ports 20 d. for every Tun and 10 d. for every Pipe They shall pay 2 s. for every Tun or else as they have done That the age of wood Tithable may be fully declared The King will move the Bishops therein between this and the next Parliament The print touching wearing Liveries cap. 4. agreeth with the Record Robert at Mule of Guilford and Alice his Wife prayeth the Kings pardon for that they were wrongfully condemned for taking of 700 l. of treasure trove at Guilford aforesaid Let them sue to the King for this is no petition of the Parliament The print touching Merchants Strangers cap. 1. far swerveth from the Record for that the print hath much more in the rehearsall than the Record hath That remedie may be had at the hands of the President of Wales for every man that is robbed or endangered by the Welsh men The King will be advised This Parliament ended on Monday the 10. of February Of the print Cap. 5. is no mention made in the Record than is contained before tit 20. And of the print cap. 1. there is no mention made
bring forth Richard Earl of Arundell being in his Custodie whom the said Constable brought into the Parliament the 21. of September At what time the Lords Appellants came also in their proper persons To the which Earl the Duke of Lancaster Steward of England by the Kings commandement and assent of the Lords declared the whole circumstances After the reading and declaring whereof the Earl of Arundell saith that he had one pardon made at the Parliament in the 11 R. 2. and one pardon made within six years before that present time and prayeth that they may be allowed The Duke answered that for as much as they were unlawfully made the present Parliament had revoked them The said Earl was therefore willed to say further for himself at his perill whereupon Sir Walter Clopton the Chief Justice by the Kings commandement declared to the Earl that if he said no other thing that the Law would adjudge him guilty of all the Actions against him The which Earl notwithstanding would say no other thing but required allowance of his pardon The Lords Appellants therefore in proper person require that Judgement may be given against the said Earl as convict of the Tresons aforesaid The Duke of Lancaster by the assent of the King Bishops and Lords adjudged the said Earl convict of all the Articles aforesaid and thereby a Traytor to the King and Realm and that he should be therefore hanged drawn and quartered and forâ—eit all such his Lands in Fee or Fee tayl as he had the nineteenth day of November in the tenth year of the King together with all his Goods and Chattels But for that the said Earl was come of Noble blood and House the King pardoneth him the execution of hanging drawing and quartering and granted that he should be beheaded And thereupon commandement was given to the Lord de Morley Lieutenant of the Marshall of England to do execution next to the Tower of London and so the said Earl was beheaded the same day Upon a Writ sent to Thomas Earl Marshall Captain of Callice to bring forth the body of Thomas Duke of Gloucester the said Captain returned the said Earl was dead in his keeping in the Kings prison at Callice After which returne read in Parliament the Lords Appellants in proper persons required that the said Duke might be adjudged even as a Traytor The Commons required the same Whereupon the Duke was adjudged a Traytor And that he should forfeit all such Lands in Fee or Fee-tayl as he had the thirteenth day of November in the eleventh year of this King and all his Goods and Chattels After this the Lords Appellants in proper persons require that if there were any confession or Record touching the aforesaid appeal of the persons appealed that the same might openly be declared Whereupon one Commission directed to Wil. Richill one of the Justices of the common Place to take the examination of the said Duke was returned and read with the examination of the said Earl made and written in the Castle of Callice with the very hand of the said Duke The Confession first declareth how that he was one that procured the Commission made in Anno 10. and thereby accroached to himself regall power in restraint of the King and Derogation of his Prerogative as since he learned albeit he then thought it not any and therefore craveth pardon He further confesseth an offence for coming armed into the Kings presence albeit he did the same for dread of his life and craveth pardon therefore He further acknowledgeth an offence for taking the Kings Leters from the Kings Messengers and interrupting the same He also accuseth himself for speaking slanderous words to the King in the presence of others albeit he meant no harme He further confesseth his evill for asking of certain learned with others whether he might not give up their Homage for fear of their lives which they meant Finally he confesseth that he with others for two or three days space meant to have deposed the King For all which his unkindness he craveth pardon After the reading hereof William Rickhill in open Parliament affirmed the said Confession to be made by the said Duke of his own free will being of perfect remembrance The Earl of Warwick was brought into the Parliament by the Constable of the Tower the 28th of September at what time the Lords Appellants were in proper person and to the which Earl the Duke of Lancaster Steward of England declared the accusations conteined before in the tit 12.13 The same Earl confessed all the points of Treason aforesaid and submitted himself to the Kings grace Whereupon the said Duke by assent of Parliament gave the like Judgement of this Earl as of the Earl of Arundell before tit â—7 for like Lands and Goods to have relation to the 13th day of November in the 10th year After Judgement the King at the request of the Lords Appellants and Commons to the said Earl pardoneth the execution aforesaid and granâ—eth to him life to remain banished during the same in the Isle of Man upon condition that no means should be made of any further favour to him And the said Earl was delivered to Sir William le Scroope and Sir Stephen his Brother to bring him to the said Isle both of whom undertooke body for body safely to keep the said Earl in the said Isle without departing there from The said Lords Appellants do appeal Thomas Mortimer Knight for the Treasons aforesaid who was fled into the wilde parts of Ireland whereupon the Parliament assigned a certain day for the said Thomas to come and render himself to the Law or else to be as a Traytor and that thereof Proclamation as aforesaid The Lords Appellants came into the Parliament in proper persons and required Judgement of the said Thomas as afore Vide in this year before tit 9. 16. The Duke of Lancaster therefore as Steward of England by the assent of the Parliament adjudged the said Sir Thomas attainted of the Treasons aforesaid and that he should forfeit all such Lands in Fee or Fee-tayl as he had the 13th of November in Anno tenth together with all his Goods and Chattells The said Lords Appellants impeached Sir Iohn Cobham Knight for the Articles expressed in tit 12. 13. He answered that he did not the same of his own procuring but by the Kings sundry Commandement notwithstanding the said Duke pronounced him by assent of Parliament a Traytor and therefore deathâ— that he should forfeit all such Lands as he had in Fee the nineteenth of November Anno tenth with his Goods and all fee tayled Lands for terme of his own life onely the
Ric. le Scroope Hugoni Burnell Tho. Berkley de Berkley Iohi. de Welles Phillippo le Dispencer Almarico de St. Amando Rado de Cromwell Rado de Lumley Rado Baroni de Graystock Rob. de Harrington Iohi. Darcey Waltero Fitz-Walter Will. de Willoughby Iohi. de Cobham Chlr. Will. de Dacre Tho. Nevill de Halmshyre Rico. Seymore Will. Beauchamp de Burgaveny Ioh. Lovell de Fishmerch Rico. Gray de Codonore Reg. Gray de Ruthin Tho. Bardolf de Wermegey Roberto Scales Petro de malo lacu The Parliament holden at Westminster the Munday in the Feast of St. Faith in the First year of King HENRY the Fourth 1 THe same Monday being the 6th of October Thomas de Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury by the Kings commandement who then sate in his Royall Estate in the great Hall at Westminster there being present the Lords and Commons declared how that a Parliament was summoned by King Richard to be holden there the Tuesday next before the which summons was undone and void by the acceptation of the renouncing of the same King Richard and deposing of him made the same Tuesday in the presence of the King Lords and Commons as by the Process hereafter shall appear 2 He then shewed how this most famous Realm for abundance of all felicities was long governed by children and young Councell and thereby like utterly to have been despoiled and wasted had not God sent a wise and discreet man to govern the same who meant by Gods help to be governed by the wise and old heads of the Realm 3 After this he took for his Theam these words of the Maccabees 1. Incumbit nobis ordinare pro Regno and that is to say It is the Kings will to be governed by the Honorable Discreet and Sage of the Realm and by their common consent and not by his own will ne after his own fashion to rule the same And further enforced that this Realm of any under the Sun might best live of it self and for proof alledged this Authority quod inter Regna hoc principatum tenet 4 He further addeth that to every good government three things belong viz. Justice the Laws duely observed and every Estate in his vocation well governed and thereupon heaped many reasons whereof this Realm ought with all renown to be governed and said further that the King meant to observe those three points 5 He concluded that King Henry their Lord meant to be crowned the Monday ensuing and after that done wholly to addict himself to matters touching the Common-Wealth and prayeth of the Commons the continuance of the Parliament untill the Tuesday ensuing after which Henry de Percie Earl of Northumberland and Constable of England demanded of the Lords and Commons by the Kings commandment whether they would agree to the same continuance who all being severally examined agreed thereunto 6 Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland 7 Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles 8 Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above 9 Tryars of Petitions for Gascoin c. as above The Record of the renunciation of King Richard the Second and the acceptation of the same together with the deposition of the said King 10 On Monday the Feast of St. Michaell in the 23 year of the raign of King Richard The Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishop of Hereford Henry Earl of Northumberland Ralph Earl of Westmerland Hugh Lord Burnell Thomas Lord Berkley the Prior of Canterbury and the Abbot of Westminster William Thurming Knight William Markham Justice Thomas Stow Iohn Burâ—ach Doctors of the Law Thomas of Erpinham and Thomas Gray Knights William Forraby and Dennis Lopham publique Notaries by the assent of sundry of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and other Lawyers of of all faculties gathered in Councell in Westminster in the place accustomed appointed to execute the Act here underwritten came to the presence of King Richard being in the Tower about nine of the clock 11 The Earl of Northumberland for and in the name of them all remembred the said King Richard of his promise made to the said Arch-Bishop and to him the said Earl at Conway in Wales at what time the said King Richard was at libertie How that he for certain defaults and inabillities in himself to rule would renounce and give up the Crowns of England and France with the whole rule of the same and that by the best advice that could be devised King Richard thereto mildly answered That he would willingly accomplish the same 12 After this the same day Henry Duke of Lancaster accompanied with the persons aforesaid with the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Lords of Roos Willoughby and of Burgaveny came into the Tower into the presence of the said King Richard where after familiar talk had between the King the Duke and Arch Bishop of Canterbury and sundry chearfull countenances In the end the same King calling all them that were present said openly That he was ready to make his aforesaid Renunciation and thereupon it was offered that the Instrument should be read by an Order The same King notwithstanding willingly and chearfully took and throughly read the same Instrument in effect following 13 The Instrument contained a clear absolution and discharge of all his Subjects Oaths and Obeysance with free renouncing of all Regiment and Rule and all things belonging thereto to all which he swore upon the Gospell never in thought word or deed to impugn but wholly to observe the same the which Scedule or Instrument he subscribed with his own hand 14 After which done the same King by word affirmed That if it had been in his power he would have appointed the said Duke of Lancaster to have succeeded him which sith it did not he required the said Arch Bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Hereford whom he made his Procurators to publish the same to the whol Estates and in token thereof pulled from his own finger a Ring of Gold of his own privy Signet and put the same on the Dukes finger 15 This company bidding the King farewell departed out of the Tower and came the next day into the great Hall of Westminster the place being honorably garnished for the Parliament where the said Arch-Bishop and Duke and other Bishops and Lords after named together with the Commons siting in their accustomed place where also the Kings Seat being very richly decked was void of any President Aâ— which time the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Hereford caused the renunciation aforesaid to be openly read and declared with all other circumstances of which the Arch Bishop as chief was first demanded and so orderly of all others whether they would admit the same Confession or no all who particularly
the said Earl the King by the assent of the whole Parliament granteth to the said Earl and to the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten the said 1000. Marks out of the Exchecquer untill he provide to him the said Earl Land to that valew 26 At the request of Iohn Cornwall Knight and Elizabeth his wife Countess of Huntington the King in full Parliament granteth to them the custodie and profits of the Abbey of Fescamp in Normandie during the wars for a yearly rent 27 At the request of Sir Stephen le Scroope of Masham Knight the King by assent of Parliament confirmeth to the said Stephen in fee for the Mannour of Flaxfleet in the Countie of York ten Marks of Rent with the Appurtenances in Northallerton and 20 l. yearly to be taken of the Farm of Kingstone upon Hull by the hands of the Bayliffs there 28 At the Petition of the Prior of the Cathedrall Church of the Virgin Mary of Coventrie the King granted by assent of the Bishops and Lords that out of the Conduit of water running to the said Priory no man do make any head or rock or break the same Conduit without the assent of the said Prior and that the same Prior and their Successors may at all time freely amend or repair the said Conduit and that no man do cast any ordure or other filth into their water called Sherborn on pain of ten pounds to the King and treble damages to the Prior for either of the said defaults 29 Upon the Petition of the Prior of St. Anne of the order of Carthuse next Coventrie the King by authority of Parliament restoreth the said Prior to the Priorie and Mannour of Swonsey and to the Vicaridge of the same which to the Prior by lycense of King Richard 2. was given by the Abbot of St. George and Bathe of the order of St. Bennet French And note that the said Prior by his Petition requireth to be restored also to the Mannour of dry Drayton whereof the King by his restitution makes no mention 30 Sir Bartholmew Verdon Knight and others named in the 5 th H. 4 th tit 53. maketh the like request to be generally restored to their bloud and to all their hereditaments by entrie thereto without any further suit the which the King by common consent granteth 31 For that the Scire facias of Robert Deynecourt against Errour in Ralph Adderley for errour hanging in Parliament was returned tarde venit It was therefore accorded that the said Roger should purchase a new Scire facias returnable in the next Parliament if he so would and that the process should be continued 32 On Friday the last day of the Parliament the Commons before the King prayen that the Ordinance touching the Wars should be executed and that the Lords Mâ—rchers of Wales do sufficiently man their Castles against the Welchmen 33 That the Goods taken upon the sea of such as be friends to the Realm may be restored 34 That money borrowed for saving of the honour of the Lord Iohn the Kings Son and the Estate of the Realm may be answered 35 That it will please the King to consider the painfull service of the Duke of York whilst he was the Kings Lieutenant of Guienne and that he may be payed what to him iâ— due 36 That it would please the King to remember the serâ—vice of Sir Thomas Erpingham Sir Thomas Bâ—mpson Iohn Northbury and other valiant Knights and Eâ—quires who adventured themselves with the King at his coming into the Kingdom 37 Upon the Petition of the Merchants of Italie the King by common consent revoketh the Statute mâ—de in the lâ—st Parliament as forbidding to keep their Merchandize unsold by the space of one quarter of a year and setteth them at libertie to sell the same as they might before the same Statute provided that they shall not carry away any of their Merchandize once brought into the Realm It agreeth with the print Cap. 4 th 38 That the Exchange may be between Merchant and Merchant and for Clearks and Pilgrims notwithstanding the order made in the last Parliament that all Money delivered by exchange in England should be imployed within the same Realm The King will be thereof advised 39 That the Merchants of Italie may chose their hosts where they like and be not appointed thereto as was provided the last Parliament The Statute therefore shall be observed 40 It is enacted that the Merchants of Italie shall pay but four Marks Subsidie for every sack of Wooll as Eglishmen do 41 That those Merchants may have some day of payment of their Customes The King will thereof be advised 42 That Customers and other Officers of Towns and Ports may be commanded to intreat those Merchants according to reason The King willeth the same 43 That those Merchants in all actions of debt accompt or trespass may be tryed before the Kings Councell Major or Aldermen of London by Merchants Law and not by enquest It shall continue as heretofore 44 That all Brokers coming from beyond the Seas may be banished the Realm by writ out of the Chancery if to those Merchants strangers seems unfit Upon due proof before the Chancellor he shall do therein accordingly 45 That those Merchants of Italie may imploy their money upon any English ware as well as upon Staple wares The King will thereof be advised Petitions of the Commons with their Answers 46 THat some certain place may be appointed for the Staple if wars should be betweeen this Realm and Flanders The King will be advised 47 That the owners of every Ship or other Vessell serving the King may have allowance of every Tun weight of the same Vessell 3 s. 4 d. for every quarter towards the apparrelling of the same Ship The Statutes therefore appointed shall be observed 48 That no stranger born be Customer or the like Officer neither enjoy any benefice within the Realm nor that any Welchman be suffered to go to Rome The King will be advised 49 Upon the motion of the Commons the King resumeth into his hands all the hereditaments which were the dower of Anne late Queen of England and granted away by him or by King Richard to any person whatsoever except to the Kings Sons all which shall remain in dower to the Queen now 50 That all such Commissioners as are fined for not sitting upon the same and did not know thereof may upon their Oaths in the Exchecquer be discharged As it hath been the same shall be 51 A motion to have certain of the lower house discharged of Collection of the Subsidies granted 52 That
He taketh for his Theam dum tempus habemus operamur bonum He enforceth thereupon that to every naturall disposition two kinds of times were limitted as to the trees one time of growing and another of blossoming and fructifying To man one time of labour and another of rest To Princes the heads of men one time for peace and another for war Also he sheweth that they finding his people in great ease and peace had thereby the better opportunity to assay the enemy and so applyed dum tempus He further pursueth saying that to such a haughtie and noble enterprize three things were very needfull viz. great Counsell obedience of his Subjects and frank relief of his Subjects who were moved largely to grant considering that their Prince their only patron should be driven to go in person wherefore he willeth the Commons by their assembling to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him before the King Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Wednesday the second day of the Parliament the Commons presented before the King and the Lords Thomas Chaucer Esq to be their Speaker who making the common protestation had thereof allowance The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords grant to the King two whole Dismes and two whole fifteens to be levyed of the Laity It is enacted that the King by his Councell shall have power to make Ordinances touching the Coyn to endure to the next Parliament Thomas Mountacute Earl of Salisbury son and heir of Iohn Mountacute late Earl of Salisbury in the last Parliament holden at Leicester by his petition required to reverse the Judgement made against the said Iohn in 2. H. 4. tit 35. for certain errors therein contained the which he did the more enforce by comparing the Judgement made against Thomas sometimes Earl of Lancaster in 13. E. 2. and against Roger de Mortimer sometime Earl of March in 4. E. 3. the which Earl had day of answer at this present Parliament Upon full digestion of which matter by the Lords they said that the cause of the death of the said Iohn was not like unto the other two Earles cases wherefore they adjudged that the said Earl should get nothing by his petition and further the said Bishops and Lords by the assent of the King affirm the said Judgement made against the said Iohn Mountacute Earl of Salisbury to be good The Mayor and Commonalty of London pray that all Kiddles Weares Fishgarthes Stanks Milnes and Stakes and all other engines levyed or made upon the water of Thames Maidway and Ley should utterly be layed down The Statutes therefore provided shall be executed and further in all Commissions touching the Water-baily the Mayor or Keeper of London for the time being shall be one Thomas Smalman who had recovered by an Assize certain lands in Thames-Ditton in Surrey against George Brewes and others but no Judgement could have for that the said Brewes brought the Kings Letters Patents to revoke the power of the said Justices wherefore he now craveth that he may now have Judgement notwithstanding the said repeal the which to do the King willeth one of the Justices by mouth only notwithstanding the repeal And note notwithstanding the Letters Patents of revocation aforesaid the Justices stayed not but took the said Assizes Henry Percie Son of Henry Percie late Earl of Northumberland being within age and prisoner in Scotland declaring how the King had enabled him to be Earl of Northumberland notwithstanding any the forfeitures of Henry his father c. he prayeth now a generall restitution to them in bloud and to all their hereditaments which were intayled with free entry into all the same saving to the King all the lands in fee simple The King granteth unto all the same so as the said Henry before his entry into any of the said lands do first by matter of Record prove in the Chancery the lands intailed saving as before Thomas Chawcer Esq chief Butler to the King prayeth that the Executors of H. 4. as in 1. H. 5. may appear and might pay to him 868. l. for wine taken up for the King and due to him upon tallyes whereto the King granteth At the Petition of Hamond Belknap the son of Sr. Robert Belknap the said Hamond is enabled in bloud and land to the said Robert notwithstanding any Judgement made against the said Robert in 11. R. 2. saving to the King and all other persons the hereditaments of the said Robert to them due At the petition of Thomas Chawcer Esq the King by common assent affirmeth to him all Letters Patents to him granted by Iohn Duke of Lancaster King R. 2. or H. 4. and of this King albeit those Letters Patents make no expresse mention of the value thereof Iohn Chadworth and other Citizens of London the Creditors of William Vennor a Londoner who upon collusion to defraud his Creditors had conveyed away his lands pray execution of the same lands for certain yeares according to the Statute made in R. 2. Upon recovery against the said William by due order of Law after the said William hath appeared in person or by Attorny excution of his lands shall be awarded The like request and answer is made to Mark le Fair for 400 l. as is before to Chawcer tit 18. The King of his own meer mercy pardoneth to all his Subjects all forfeitures incurred by the Statute of liveries of Cloath and Hats The King confirmeth to Iohn Duke of Bedford and to his heirs males of his body lawfully begotten the Castle Earldome Honour and Seigniority of Richmond late Iohn of Brittanies and which Ralph Earl of Westmerland held during his life except the Mannor town of Baynbrigg and the free Chase in Wensledale and sundry hereditaments in Wenstedale aforesaid in the County of York the which lands excepted King H. 4. by his Letters Patents in Anno 14. released freely to the said Ralph and his heirs The Prior and Covent of St. Neote of the Patronage of the Earl of Stafford being sometimes Aliens as a Cell of the Abbey of Beekeherlewyn in Normandy and being made Denizens by the Letters Patents of H. 4. prayeth the confirmation of the same the which is granted The Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Chichester to whom King H. 4. by his Letters Patents had granted the Priorie Manor and Prebend of Welmenghton with th' appurtenances in the Countie of Sussex then belonging to the Abbey of Grafton in Normandy
assent of Parliament the Priory Alien and Prebend of Uphaven in the Cathedrall Church of Sarum with the Chappel of Charleton belonging to the Abbey of St. Wandragisile in Normandy and licenceth the said Abbot to sell and the said Prior to buy the same Upon two Petitions of Katherine Queen Dowager of England and the King in performance of the league made between the French King and King H. 5. by two Letters Patents granted to the said Queen for her Dowry sundry Mannors Customes and other hereditaments of the Town and Principality of Wales and Dutchy of Lancaster there named to the clear yearly value of 20000 marks the which Dowry and Letters Patents are confirmed by the whole Estate wherein sundry provisoes are Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THat no man be bound to answer in the Chancery for any matter determinable at the Common Law on pain of the Plaintiff to lose 20 l. The Statute made in the 17 R. 2. shall be executed The print touching Purveyors cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print for avoiding of Irish men cap. 3. agreeth with the record A motion for the allowance of Sheriffs of no great force That all liberties granted to the Mayor Constable and Merchants of the Staple may be confirmed and that no plea hanging before the said officers be removed by writs or Letters Their liberties shall be confirmed without this Clause licet to the rest as it hath been heretofore the same shall be It is enacted that all offices granted to any person for life or in Fee by H. 4. or H. 5. shall be confirmed albeit in the grant of the same there be no expresse mention made of the value Anno Secundo Henrici Sexti Rex c. Humfrido Duci Gloucest c. apud Westm. primo die Septembris Numerus ordo Nobilium idem quod in posteriori Parliamento praeterque quod Iacobus de Berckley omi tendus est Henrico de Percie Com. Northumb Radulpho de Nevil Com. Westmerland Magistro Tho. de la Warr. VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Johanni de VVelles Chlr. Johanni Baroni de Graystock Reginald Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Johanni Latimer Chlr. Ricardo Strange Roberto Poynings Willielmo Botreaux Tho. Dacre de Gilsland VVillielmo de Clinton VVillielmo de Harrington Tho. Com. Marescallo Edwardo Com. Marchiae Tho. Duci Oxoniae Ricardo Com. VVa Jacobo de Audley Ricardo Cromwell hlr Hen. Fitz-Hugh The Parliament holden at Westminster the twentieth day of October in the second year of the reign of Henry the Sixth AFter the Commission read made to Humfry Duke of Gloucester sitting as in the last Parliament tit 1. The Bishop of Durham being Chancellor of England by the Dukes commandement declared the cause of the said Parliament and took for his Theam Deum timete Regem honorificate Upon which words he shewed how we ought to fear God viz. with a child-like fear quoniam qui timet Deum diligit eum tunc illuminabitur cor ejus And that the King ought to be honoured sith this realm had their longing viz. that the King of England might be King of France the which being brought to passe by the travel and Conquests of this Kings Father enforced the same according to this saying Omnis qui diligit eum qui genuit diligit eum qui natus est He further sheweth that the Lords of the Council appointed in the last Parliament for the governance of the realm and observation of peace during the Kings minority were assembled to the end they might by advice and assent of the Commons perfect the same wherefore he willed the Commons by their assembling to choose their Speaker and to present him to the said Duke the Kings Commissary Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Friday the 22. of October the Commons presented before the Commissary and Lords Iohn Russell Esquire to be their Speaker who with the common protestation was allowed Where Iohn la Talbott of Furnivall being the Kings Lieutenant of Ireland had accused Iames Boteiler Earl of Ormond of certain treasons depending before Iohn Duke of Bedford and Constable of England in his Marshals Court the King to appease the same doth by assent of Parliament utterly abolish the said accusation and suits upon the same Note the Accusations are particularly recited The Commons doe send certain by name to the Duke of Gloucester for vouch safing to make them privy to the Treaty of the Scotish Ambassadour for the delivery and marriage of the Scotish King which they liked well The order that the Minter within the Tower shall keep the Exchange conteined in the last Parliament tit 35. is to continue at the Kings pleasure It is enacted at the petitions of the North Counties that a Coinage should be at York during the Kings pleasure and that all men doe bring in their gold there to be coyned which is not of full weight On Wednesday the 17th day of December the Chancellor by the Kings Commissary appointed and adjourned the Parliament from the same day unto the next after Saint Hillary then ensuing On the 18th day of February being the last day of the Parliament the Commons granted to the King for two years the subsidie of Poundage as in c. The names of such Bishops Lords and other persons as were appointed to be of the Kings Council All which persons took upon them to be Counsellors upon certain Articles for the Orders touching the Council far swarving from the Articles in the last Parliament tit 26. to 34. and much in derogation of the Protectors power Amongst all the Articles I find this not the worst that the Clerk of the Council should be sworn ever to preferr and to procure the poorest man his Bill and Answer And the Kings Sergeant for Council to take no money therefore Iohn Mortimer of Bishops Hatfield in the County of Hereford Knight being committed to the Tower for supposition of Treason done against H. 5. broak the Tower in the first year of this King for which breach he was indicted of Treason and thereupon the same Indictment by consent of Parliament was confirmed to be good and the same Iohn being after apprehended was at this Parliament brought against whom upon the same Indictment Judgement was given that he should be carried to the Tower drawn through London to Tibourne there to be hanged drawn and quartered his head to be set on London-bridge and his four quarters on the
Duke of Gloucester that was son to King E. 3. next the Lord of Darbie that was after King H. 4. and then the Earl of Darby the next to him the Earl of Warwick father to the now Earl Defendant and then afterwards the Earl Marshall father to the now Earl Item also King H. 4. kept a great Councell at Westminster where debate was moved between the Earles of Kent and Arundell for their places in Parliament and likewise between the Earl of Warwick and the Earl Marshall brother to the now Earl Marshall where it was determined that the Earl of Kent should have place above the Earl of Arundell and that the now Earl of Warwick above the then Earl Marshall and so they were both set personally in possession In a patent of King R. 2. made to Thomas Duke of Gloucester of Holdernes and Okeham in the Testees the Earl of Warwicks father was set before the Earl Marshalls father Item in a letter sent to the Pope by King R. 2. for the matter of provision the name and seal of the Earl of Warwick was set before the Earl Marshall Item though the Earl of Arundell be not of the bloud royall nor ever bare the Armes of this land yet he hath had place in Parliament alwayes above the Ancestors of the Earl Marshall without interruption Item he requireth the Duke of Gloucester to call to his remembrance the Parliament holden at Leicester 2. H. 5. where notwithstanding the noble service done by the Duke of Exeter then being Earl of Dorset in the Dutchy of Guienne who was of the bloud royall and Uncle to the King and bare the royall Armes of England and France yet neverthelesse the said Earl of Warwick had place above the said Marshall and the said Earl of Dorset Item where the Lord Stafford that now is is lineally descended from E. 3. by royall whole bloud and not demi sanguinis by his mother the Countesse of Stafford daughter of Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Gloucester yet the Earl of Warwick hath place above the Lord Stafford Item it was declared that E. 1. had issue by his second wife the French Kings sister Thomas of Brotherton and Edward the younger brother which Thomas the Lord Marshall is descended of and of Edmond the Lady Princesse and the Earles of Kent came of the younger and that their difference in Armes was further off then the Earl Marshalls yet they had place before the said Earl Marshall Item it was also declared that E. 1. had another wife named Ellinor daughter to Alphonso King of Spain by whom he had a daughter two yeares elder then her brother E. 2. which daughter was wedded to the Earl of Hereford by whom she had two sons and two daughters the one named Earl of Hereford and the other Earl of Northampton the elder daughter being wedded to Courtney afterwards Earl of Devonshire who by this meanes was lineally descended of the bloud royall and yet the Earl of Warwick had his place in Parliament beâ—ore him It was moved that where commandement was before given that the Earles should both forbear to sit in the Parliament house untill the title of both parties were by their Councell declared in writing there were then writings exhibited into the Court declaring each others titles Item it was alleged for the said Earl of Warwick that he ought to enjoy the possession of the place in Parliament till the said Earl Marshall had a Judgement for his right Item it was answered for the Earl Marshall that such possession had against Title of right which began but lately by commandement ought not to be affirmed nor put him to his action or out of possession for lack of Judgement Item it was desired by Walter Beauchamp for the Earl of Warwick that learned men might examine the matter and if they should find the same otherwise over ruled than the law would that the said commandement might be reformed and that they might declare for the Lord of Warwicks possession and suffer him to enjoy the same peaceably seeing that all exceptions given on the Earl Marshals part may not hurt the possession of the Earl of Warwick The writings of both sides being shewed it was desired for the Earl Marshall that forasmuch as in his opinion he had brought sufficient proof he might have Judgemenr and that the Earl of Warr. might be excluded from claiming or challenging the said place and that all matters declared for the Earl Marshall might be entred of record And for the better and more speedy determination of the said Controversy the said Iohn Earl Marshall caused to be shewed unto the Court of Parliament that R. 2. by his Letters Patents dated the 21. year of his reign created Thomas then Earl of Nottingham and Marshall of England Duke of Norfolk giving him also for the better sustentation of the said Title forty marks yearly to hold both the said title and stipend to him and â—is heirs males which said Thomas Duke had issue Thomas and Iohn now Earl Marshall which Thomas died without issue and so the said Iohn claimeth to be Duke of Norfolk as heir uâ—to his brother Thomas The said Earl Marshall made humble petition to the King and to the said Duke of Gloucester his beloved Uncle and the rest of the Lords that he might be so reputed and declared Duke in that Parliament saving alwayes the right of possession of him and his heirs of his body coming as Earles of Norâ—olk to his place in that high Court above his said Cousin the Earl of Warwick desiring all that all other matters by him and his Councell notified and declared might be entred of record The King upon consideration of the said Letters Patents and such other proofs as the said Earl Marshall had made and declared by the advise and consent of the Lords spirituall and temporall and the Commons of the realm c. caused it to be declared and with one assent accorded That the foresaid Iohn Earl Marshall as son of the aforesaid Thomas Duke and brother and heir of the said Thomas son of Thomas by vertue of the said Letters Patents and by succession should from thenceforth be held and reputed Duke of Norfolk and should use and enjoy the stile title name and honour of the Duke of Norfolk according to the tenor of the aforesaid Letters Patents which declaration c. accorded the said Lord Chancellor by authority from the King openly delivered whereupon the foresaid Iohn as Duke of Norfolk immediately did homage to the King which done the King commanded the said Duke to take his place amongst his equalls which he did most thankfully The Parliament holden at Westminster the last of April in the third
have power to end all such bills as are not ended by Parliament It is decreed by Common assent of the Lords that the late subsedy of Tonnage and Poundage granted to the King ought simply to be payed notwithstanding any condition The twentieth day of March before the Lords and Commons the Bishop of London Chancellor of England by the Kings Commissaries commandement prorogued the Parliament from the same day unto the Monday next after the feast of St. George at Leicester aforesaid The first day of Iune the Commons by assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King the like subsedy of VVools c. Tonnage and Poundage for two yeares as in c. The King by Common assent granteth by his Letters Patents that the Prior of St. Trinity in York being a Cell of the Abbey of Meremaster in France should be Denizens The King granteth to Thomas Cornish of Uxbridge in the County of Middlesex a pardon for stealing of Muttons At the request of the Merchants of Hauns the King according to their liberties appointeth to them one of the Aldermen of London by name to be a Judge between party and party of the same Company of the Hauns in all sutes and that within one moneth after the death or leaving over of any such Alderman there be appointed to them one other Alderman to supply the same Petitions of the Commons with their Answers UPon motion of the Commons it was granted that all such Merchants as had payed subsedy for their wools and could prove before the Councell that the same or any part thereof were perished that then he should shipp so much without Custome That no man do make any Advowson Presentation Collation or induction to any Alien of any Benefice or Ecclesiasticall dignity on pain of the praemunire The King will be advised The like motion and answer as An. 3. H. 6. tit 39. That every Patron may newly present for the Non-residence of the Incumbent The Bishops have promised to take order therein The print against Bribery of Sheriffs cap. 1. agreeth with the record That all strangers being within the realm about Queen Ioan may depart out of the realm The Statutes therefore made shall be observed That the Chancellor of England for the time being may for reasonable fines grant Licences to the Kings Tenants holding in Chief to alien their lands and to the Kings widowes to marry their selves according to their ancient Custome The King will be advised The print touching the misprision of Clarks of the Kings Court cap. 3. agreeth with the record The print touching Knights of the Parliament cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching transporting of victualls cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print touching Assize and protections cap. 2. agreeth with the record Anno Sexto Henrici Sexti Rex c. Charissimo Avunculo suo Humfrido Duci Gloucestriae salt apud Westm Quindena Michaelis Teste Rege apud Westm. quinto die Iulii IOhanni Duci Bedfordiae Hen. Com. Northumber Johanni Com. Huntington Humf. Com. Stafford Ricardo Com. Warr. Jacobo de Berckley Chlr. Magistro Tho. de la Warr. VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Chlr. Johanni de Welles Chlr. Johanni Baroni de Graystock Chlr. Johanni Latimer Chlr. Roberto Poynings Chlr. VVillielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Willielmo de Harrington Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Lodovico Robesart Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. VVillielm Lovell de Fishmerch Chlr. Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Waltero Hungerford Chlr. Johanni Tibitott Chlr. Reginaldo le Warr. Chlr. Tho. de Morley Chlr. Willielmo Cheyney Capipitali Justiciario Rex Charissimo Avunculo suo Humfrido Duci Gloucestriae c. apud Westm. Quindena Michaelis Teste Rege apud Westm. decimo tertio die Iulii IOhanni Duci Norfolciae Hen. Com. Northumb. Johanni Com. Huntington Humfrido Com. Stafford Ricardo Com. Sarum Joh. Com. Oxoniae Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Warr. Jacobo de Berckley Chlr. Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Johanni de Welles Chlr. Johanni Baroni de Graystock Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Chlr. Johanni Latimer Chlr. Roberto Poynings Chlr. Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. VVillielmo de Harrington Chlr. Jacobo Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Lodovico Robesart Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Johanni Scroop de Masham Chlr. VVillielmo Lovell de Fishmersh Chlr. Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. VValtero Hungerford Chlr. Johanni Tibitott Chlr. Reginaldo la Warr. Chlr. Radulpho Morley Chlr. Johanni Arundell de Arundell Chlr. Johanni Gray de Codonore Chlr. Tho. Roos de Hamelake Chlr. Waltero Fitz-walter Chlr. Willielmo Fitz-hugh Chlr. The Parliament holden at Westminster in the Quindene of St. Michael in the Sixth year of Henry the Sixth IN the Quindene of St. Michael being the thirteenth day of October before the King sitting in the Chamber de pinct the Lords and Commons being present Iohn Arch Bishop of York being Chancellor of England declared the cause of the Parliament taking for his Theam Machab. 2. cap. 4. Sine providentia regali impossibile est pacem regibus dare wherein he noted two points the one the duty of the Prince towards the Subjects the other the duty of the Subjects towards the Prince To the first he affirmed three things to belong viz. That the Subjects should be kept from forein Invasion that Peace might be kept within the realm and that Justice should be indifferently ministred And that three things belonged to the Subjects viz. First largely to relieve the Prince in cases of defence In peace readily to obey all Magistrates And humbly to submit himself to the lawes The which the better to accomplish the King had assembled the same Parliament whereby he also would that all Estates should enjoy their liberties And for expedition herein he willed the Commons to make choice and presentation of their Speaker the next day to the King accordingly Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On the fifteenth day of October the Commons presented before the King and Lords Iohn Tirrill Esq to be their Speaker whose excuse made and not allowed he with the common protestation was liked The Chancellor by the appointment of the Duke of Gloucester to whom the Kings Letters Patents were made for proroguing the Parliament did the same prorogue from the eighth day
of Decemb. until the Quindene of St. Hillary then ensuing The like power is given to the Kings Council for 24000 l. as in 4 H. 6. tit 17. The Commons grant to the King by the assent of the Bishops and Lords Tonnage and Poundage for two years of every Parish Church within the realm 6 s. 8 d. for every twenty Nobles in value and 6 s. 8 d. of every person that holdeth immediately by a Knights fee or according to the rate The King by common consent of Parliament confirmeth to Henry Archishop of Canterbury the Letters Patents made by King H. 5. to the said Archbishop of three acres of land within the Town of Higham Ferres parcel of the Dutchy of Lancaster erected into a Chauntry by the said Archbishop and of the Priory of Moresey an Alien being parcel of the Abbey of St. Andreon in Normandy The King by common assent granteth by his Letters Patents to Thomas de Roos son and heir to Iohn late Lord de Roos an especial livery of all his hereditaments The King by his Letters Patents confirmed granteth that the Duke of Gloucester and Earl Thomas of Salisbury and their heirs and executors should be discharged of certain Jewels which King H. 5. laid to them in gage and of all Accompts due to the King Iohn Multon and Henry Heart Executors of the last Will and Testament of Iohn Harris of Cambridge prayen remedy against one Iohn Colls their Executor for misusing himself the which matter is committed to the Chancellor to be ended The Commons require the King to write to the Pope for the Purgation of the Archbishop of Canterbury who was cited to Rome as one that had wrought against the Pope in this realm The King granteth by his Letters Patents to Iohn Merbury Esq 40 Marks out of the profits of the County of Gloucester during his life in consideration that the said Iohn had so much out of the Manor of Isleworth in Midd. given to the Nuns of Sion At the Petition of certain men there named to whom King H. 4. by Debentaries did owe c. It is enacted that the said parties should be payed at the hands of the Executors of H. 4. All servants of the late H. the fifths houshold by especial name require to have pardons of all debts due by them to the said H. 5. the which is granted and confirmed David ap Thomas of Cardegan in Southwales Esq by his Petition is made a Denizen Iohn Sutton Knight hath the Kings Letters Patents of protection for one year The 3 day of May Humfrey Duke of Gloucester Protector and Defender of the Realm in full Parliament affirmed that he would not sit in the Parliament house before he understood what the power of the Protector was for as much as men speak diversly thereof After deliberations herein had by the Council and Lords the answer in the beginning it was declared unto the same Duke that he ought not to have been Protector notwithstanding to satisfie his desire it was granted that he should be Protector and have further power as in Anno 1 H. 6. tit 24 25. The which name of Protector or Defender importeth onely a personal duty of attendance to the actual defence of the realm against forein enemies and inward rebels and not any especial government as properly belongeth to Tutors Leiutenants Governours or Regents for if they had otherwise meant they then would have expressed more whereby in Council as Principal Counsellor he had preheminence but in Parliament he had no other place than as the Duke of Gloucester so as they wished him now to supply his place in Parliament and to be content with the power aforesaid for to other they would not grant The names of such Bishops and Lords and others are subscribed to the answer aforesaid The alteration and incorporation of the Abbesse and Nuns of Sion for that the erection was to have the same Corporation as well by Canons as by Nuns whereto Pope Martin the 5. would not agree that there should be two Capacities in one foundation whereto the Canons were exempted in title but not in deed so as they should serve securely It is enacted by the King Lords Temporal and Commons that no man should contract or marry himself to any Queen of England without the especial licence and assent of the King on pain to lose all his goods and lands The Bishops and Clergy agree to this Bill as farr forth as the same swarveth not from the Law of God and of the Church and so as the same importeth no deadly sin Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching Exigents out of the Kings Bench cap. 1. agreeth with the record That the Mayor and Officers of the Staple may in all pleas before them proceed to the end without any removing of the sameâ— according to the Law of Merchants albeit the same be against the Common Laws The King will be advised The print touching the arrayes in Assize cap. 2. agreeth with the record onely in the record is 8. dayes where the print is but 6. That the Statutes made touching Merchants Anno 5 H. 4. cap. 7 9. may be observed having thereto this adjunct that the Officer doe make fine and ransom at the Kings pleasure The King will be advised The like motion as in 4 H. 6. tit 34. The Chancellor shall grant such licences as have been used until the King be otherwise minded By the motion it appeared that the Kings Tenants could not ordinarily have granted a licence of Alienation unlesse he first shewed to the Council wherefore the same was made A motion against a certain tryal in Wales called a Rayth The King and Lords Merchers will take order therein That the Justices of the Peace may award the Capias and Exigents against the giver and wearer of liveries The Statute therefore made shall be observed That the Mayor and Keeper of London for the time being may have the execution of the Statute of Sewers touching the River of Thames Let them shew the bounds of their Liberty and they shall be answered The print touching Labourers cap. 3. agreeth with the record That the Statutes made in Anno 7 H. 5. cap. 1. may continue for 6. years with this adjunct that the outlawed in the said County of Lancaster may enjoy any benefit of sute in any other place other than in the said County and that they forfeit no goods by such outlawry out of the said County The King will be advised The print touching the election of Knights of the Shire cap. 4. agreeth with the
Kings secrets caused the peace to be broken The 7th that the said Duke supported the Kings enemies by staying sundry Armes which should have passed against them The 8th that the said Duke had fortified the Kings enemies by not compromising in the last peace the King of Aragon who is almost lost and the Duke of Britany lost All which Articles the Commons require to be enacted with prosecution therein The 9th day of March the Commons make a new complaint against the said Duke of Suffolk in effect following First in procuring the King in his 16th year to give away the inheritance and lands of the Crown in manner of a spoil For procuring many Liberties in derogation of the Common law and hinderance of Justice For procuring the c. of the Capiton to be Earl of Kendall and to have yearly c. For causing the King to give away the Castle of Manlion de Soob and other territories in Guienne For that the Earl of Amaniake and other Nobles of Guienne were drawn from the Kings obedience by the discoverture of the said Duke which was the utter decay of this realm For procuring the King to bestow the keeping of divers Towns and Offices in Normandy and Guienne upon unworthy persons For causing the King to grant unto Sir Percie de Brece one of his chief enemies an Imposition of wine and victuals coming to Roane by the river of Seine For procuring the King to grant the Earldoms of Enreney and Longuevill and other Lordships in Normandy to the bastard of Orleance and other French the Kings chiefest enemies without the assent of the Council For that the Duke procured the King in his onely presence to promise the French Ambassador to attend in person at the Convention in France to the Kings subversion if the same had taken effect For causing the Subsidies granted to be contrarily imployed For causing the Kings treasure to be spent upon the French Queen and other the French For that the treasure of 60000 l. left by the Lord Dudley late treasurer was by him consumed For procuring himself to be Earl of Pembrooke and obtaining the Lordships of Hereford West after the death of Sir Rowland Lenthall For conveying out of the Kings treasure the obligations of the Finnance of the Duke of Orleance For staying of processe of outlawry against William Talbois Esquire of Lincoln upon sundry appeals of murder For procuring a pardon to the said William for not appearing upon suertiship of peace For procuring persons of his Confederacy to be made Sheriffs For procuring a Garrison of English-men to fight against the Almains the Kings Allies on the part of the French the Kings enemies All which Articles they require to be enrolled and that the said Duke may answer to them The 9th day of March the same Duke was brought from the Tower by the Kings writ into the Parliament Chamber before the King and Lords to whom the Articles aforesaid were rehearsed who desired copies of them which was granted And he for more ready answer committed to certain Esquires to be kept in the Tower within the Kings Palace The 14. day of March the same Duke appeared before the King and Lords who on his knees denyed as untrue the 8. Articles as of Treason and the same offered to approve as the King shall appoint The first he denyed as impossible inferring that some of the Lords knew that he meant to marry his Sonne to the Earl of Warwicks daughter if she had lived And to many of the rest he referreth himself to some Acts of the Council and to the Kings Letters Patents To the yielding of Anâ—oy and Manoy he referred himself to the Acts of the Council which sheweth that other Lords were privy thereto and saith that the same was delivered by the Bishop of Chichester then Keeper of the Privy Seal The 17th day of March the said Duke was â—et to come beâ—before the Lords to whom the Chancellor repeated the Circumstance aforesaid and how that the said Duke therein had not put himself upon his Pairage wherefore he now asketh the Duke How he would be tryed who kneeling said that he hoped he had answered all things to the â—ull and so protesting his innocency refâ—rreth himself to the Kings order Thereupon the Chancellor by the Kings commandement pronounced that sith the Duke did not put himself upon his Peerage the King touching the Articles of Treason contained in the first Bill would be doubtfull And to the Article of misprision not as Iudge by the advice of the Lords but as one to whose Order the Duke had committed himself the King doth banish him the realm and all other his Dominions for 5. years from the first day of May then ensuing After which ended the Viscount on the behalf of the Bishops and Lords required that it might be enrolled that the same Iudgement was by the Kings own rule and not by their assent and required that neither they nor their heirs should by this example be barred of their Peerage An Act of Resumption for the King to take into his hands all hereditaments offices liberties and grants whatsoever from the first day of his reign unto the making of the same is granted except certain peculiar grants Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching exactions done by the Searchers of Plymouth cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print touching distresses taken by Welshmen cap. 4. agreeth with the record At the request of the Commons it was enacted that William Talbois of South Lynn in the County of Lincoln Esquire who in the Parliament time would have slain Ralph Lord Cromwell one of the Kings Council in the Palace of Westminster that the said William should be therefore committed to the Tower there to remain one year without Bayl Baison or Mainprize and that before his delivery he should answer to the same and to all other misdoings He was accounted a Common Murderer and Baretter The print touching restraint of woollen Cloathes in Brabant cap. 1. agreeth with the record The print touching the Kings pardon to the Sheriffs cap. 3. agreeth with the record The print touching Letters Patents made to Oastlers and Brewers cap. 2. agreeth with the record A motion of the Abbot of Bury St. Edmonds to be discharged of Desmes by him collected of no great purpose A motion that all officers and Clerks of Receipt as have received of any person more than his due fees from the first day of the Kings reign may render the same to the King The King will be advised Anno Vicessimo Nono Henrici Sexti Rex c. Ricardo Duci Eborum c.
of Burie who had in his hands 456 l. 2 s. â— d. of a rest for a Collection of Disms shall pay the same to the King albeit he have general pardon for that it was no meaning of the King to pardon the same Vide 27 H. 6. Anno Tricesimo Primo Henrici Sexti Rex c. Duci Eborum c. apud Reading Sexto die Martii Teste apud Westmonast Vicesimo die Ianuarii RIcardo Duci Somerset Johanni Duci Norfolciae Humf. Duci Buckingham Hen. Duci Oxoniae Edwardo Com. Richmond Jaspero Com. Pembrook Ricardo Com. Warr. Hen. Com. Northumb. Tho. Com. Devon Willielmo Com. Arundel Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Sarum Ricardo Com. Oxon. Johanni Com. Salopiae Johanni Com. Wigorn. Johanni Com. VVilton Johanni Vicecom de Beamont Chlr. Johanni Talbott Vicecom de Lisle Chlr. Hen. Vicecom Bourchier Chlr. Edwardo Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Edwardo Gray Domino de Grobie Chlr. Joh. de Berckley Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Rogero Hungerford sen. Milit. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Hen. Percie Dom. de Poynings Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Johan Beauchamp Chlr. Dom. de Beauchamp Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. Willielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. Hen. Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Leoni de Welles Chlr. Johanni Dom. de Clinton Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Edwardo de Nevel de Burgavenny Chlr. Tho. de Clifford Chlr. Edw. Brook de Cobham Chlr. Tho de Scales Chlr. Reginal Gray de Ruthine Chlr. Johanni Sturton de Sturton Milit. Ricardo VVodvill Domino de Rivers Chlr. Willielmo Bourchier Domino Fitz-warren Will. Bonevile Dom. de Bonevile de Chatton Milit. Hen Bromfleet Domino de Vessey Milit. Tho. Domino de Roos Mil. Roberto Hungerford Domino de Mollins Milit. Radulpho Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Tho. Hoo Chlr. Tho. Gray Domino de Richmond Mil. Willielmo Beauchamp Dom. de St. Amando Tho. Percie Dom. de Egremont Mil. Johanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. The Parliament holden at Reding the seventeenth of March in the one and thirtieth year of King Henry the Sixth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber of refectory within the Abbey of Reding and of the Lords and Commons William Bishop of Lincoln in the absence of Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement very notably declared the cause of the Parliament namely for the good government of the realm and safe defence of the same to which end he willed the Commons to choose and the next day to present their Speaker to the King Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the fees and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The eight day of March the Commons presented to the King Thomas Thorp Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse refused he with the Common protestation was allowed The Commons grant to the King one Desme and one Fifteen The Commons grant to the King Tonnage and Poundage during his life They also grant to the King during his Subsidy of woolls viz. 23 s. 4 d. for every sack of Denizens and 5 l. of Aliens and so of other Staple-ware according to the rate They also grant to the King of every Merchant not born within the realm and no Denizeâ— and keeping house 40 s. and of every such Merchant as shall remain within the realm but 6. weeks 20 s. per Annum And of every Merchant Alien being no Denizen 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. yearly during the Kings life The Speaker declared by mouth how that the Commons had granted to find in the Kings service twenty thousand Archers for half a yeares space The eighteenth day of March after thanks given to the Lords by the King himself Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement prorogued the Parliament from the day aforesaid and Town of Reding to the twentieth day of April then ensuing at Westminster The King discharged the realm and Commons of 7000 Archers parcell of the 20000 before granted A due proportioning of the 13000 men granted to serve the King for every particuâ—ar County within the realm In consideration of a summe or Masse of money to be levied by the Commons the King for three yeares is content to respite the levying of 13000 Archers unlesse he be drawn by great necessity or in person to go himself to take them It is enacted that Edmund Duke of Somerset late Captain of Callice shall be payed 21648 l. 10 s. out of the Customes of the Staple wares going out of the Port of Sandwich for fees and wages due to him and other Chief Captains and Souldiers while he was Captain there A particular rate out of the grant of a fifteen for certain in every County in England allotted to the repairing of Callice and for the making of a Risebanck An allotment of 20 s. out of the Subsedy for every sack of wool is allowed towards the wages and victualling of Souldiers in Callice The Commons grant unto the King the moity of one Desme and of one fifteen After the words spoken to the Commons by the King viz. VVe thank you for your grants for the which be ye assured we will be a good and gracious Lord unto you Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England the second day of Iuly by the Kings commandement prorogued the Parliament from the day aforesaid unto the seventh day of November at Reding The King delivered certain Schedules in parchment signed with his seal manuell the which he willed to be enrolled and enacted The which contain ten purveyances or provisions for Edmund Earl of Richmond and Iasper Earl of Pembrook and for none other severall persons as it should seem to be exempted and out of the Statute of resumption At Reding the twenty second of November in the 32. H. 6. to which place and day the Parliament was prorogued Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbâ—ry and Chancellor of England by his Letters patents rehearseth the beginning and prorogation of the Parliament and adjourneth the same from the day aforesaid to the eleventh day of February then ensuing at VVestminster aforesaid The eleventh day of February at Reding aforesaid Iohn Earl of Worcester and Treasurer of England by the Kings Letters Patents prorogued the Parliament from the day and place aforesaid to the fourteenth day of the same moneth at Westminster The fourteenth day of February Richard Duke of York by the Kings Letters Patents of precedency presideth in the same Parliament The same fourteenth day of February
declared the cause of the summons of the same Parliament After which he willed the Commons to choose and next day to present their Speaker to the King Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The third day of the Parliament the Commons declared to the Lords how they had chosen Sir Iohn Say Knight to be their Speaker The fourth day of the Parliament the Commons presented unto the King the same Sir Iohn whose excuse refused he with the common protestation was allowed After which the King with his own mouth made an Oration to the Commons in effect following That he meant to live upon his own without charging them wherein he required their help and promised requital in good governance The like Act of Resumption as was made in the last Parliament tit 39. to enjoy the same from the Feast of Easter last before and that the King should also enjoy for ever all such herediments as Richard Duke of York had the 30th day of December in Anno 39 H. 6. any grant to the contrary notwithstanding wherein are contained an infinite number of provisions In consideration of 33000 l. due by the King to the Mayor and Company of Staplers of Callice the King for 8. yeares and a half granted unto the same Mayor all and singular the Customs and Subsidies going out of the same Port and all the Kings revenues in Callice and the Marches of the same for the said term they allowing yearly a certain in summ for the Souldiers wages and maintenance of the works and that by Letters Patents Upon the surrender of the Letters Patents made to Thomas Blunt Esquire Treasurer of Callice the King for 8. years and a half by his Letters Patents appointed Iohn Tuske Mayor of the Staple to be Treasurer of Callice Ralph Wolsey Esquire Victualler of Callice surrendreth to the King his Letters Patents whereupon the King for the term aforesaid appointed the said Iohn to be Victualler there All which three grants are by common consent confirmed with certain-provisions Thomas Tresham Knight is restored to his hereditaments and his Attainder made in Anno 1 E. 4. made void Richard Welles Lord Willoughby son and heir of Leonard Wells Lord Willoughby is restored in bloud to the said Lord Leonard and to all the hereditaments of the said Lord Leonard notwithstanding the attainder made against the said Leonard in Anno 1 E. 4. The fifth day of Iuly Robert Bishop of Bath and Wells and Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement in the presence of the King Lords and Commons answered to certain requests of the Commons and first thanked them for the Statute of Resumption ascertained them that the King had provided for Callice had the like care for Ireland and Wales and further that the King desired the execution of the Laws After which by the Kings commandement he also prorogued the Parliament from the said day and place to the 6th day of November then ensuing at Reding The sixth day of November at Reding the same Chancellor by the Kings commandement and in the presence of the King Lords and Commons prorogued the same Parliament from the same day unto the sixth day of May then ensuing at Reding aforesaid Anno Octavo Edwardi Quarti THe same Chancellor the sixth day of May in the eighth year of the King at Reding in the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of estate in the Chamber within the Abbey there and of the Lords and Commons there by the Kings commandement adjourned the Parliament from that day unto the twelfth day of May then ensuing at Westminster Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the making of Worsteed cap. 1. agreeth with the record That every Justice of peace may let to bayl any arrested for suspition of felony returning their recognizance therefore taken at the next generall Gaole delivery and that the Justices of the peace may passe upon the tryall of such as become approvers The King will be advised The print touching Cloaths made within certain Hundreds in Devonshire cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print touching woollen yarnes and cloaths unfulled not to be transported cap. 3. agreeth with the record It is enacted that a clause granted among other things by the King and other his Progenitors to the Mayor and Citizens of London viz. for the apprehending of such felons as should haunt to London and committing of them to Newgate shall be void The seventeenth day of May in the presence of the King then sitting in the Chair of estate at Westminster and of the Lords and Commons the Chancellor made an eloquent oration beginning with Justice shewing the effects of the same He then declared the three estates to comprehend the governance of this land the preheminence whereof was to the King as chief the second to the Lords and Bishops and the third to the Commons He then remembreth in what estate the King found the Crown viz. dispoyled of the due inheritance wasted in the treasure the laws wracked and the whole estate by usurpation in a manner subverâ—ed besides how the Crown of France was lost the Dutchies of Normandy Gascoyne and Guienne the ancient patrimony of the Crown also lost and further how he found warr with Denmark pain Scotland and Britain and other parts yea and with the old enemy of France He then descending sheweth how the King had appeased all tumults within the realm and planted inward peace so as Law and Justice might be extended now the King had taken peace with Scotland how Lord Winters entred into league with Spain and Denmark so as entercourses between them now should be Yea and what was the greatest how he had allyed himself with the Dukes of Burgundy and Britanie two most mighty Princes in such wise as they had assured the King of their uttermost against the French for the recovery of France and other the Kings patrimonies whereof as they made little doubt so the King thought not good to omit such an opportunity yea such as never the like was Wherefore that the King might have this realm in such honour as others his Progenitors had he was ready to adventure himself for which he had called them and therefore prayeth their advise The Commons by assent of the Bishops and Lords granted unto the King two Desmes and two Fifteens to be levyed of the Layity except 12000 l. to be thereof
Parliament Where Richard Duke of Gloucester by recovery in the Common-pleas in 14 E. 4. recovered in fee the Manor of West Thamedon and Feildhouse and them of Inge Raulfe alias Ginge Railfe excepted 6. Mâ—ssuages 30. acres of Land 30. acres of Meadow 12. acres of Wood and 30 s. 2 d. of rent in the same Manor of Inge Raulfe against Richard Fitzlowes Esquire The King by assent of Parliament confirmeth the premisses to the said Duke against the heirs of the said Fitzlowâ—s a general saving for all other rights except also as aforesaid In consideration of the charges of Iohn Duke of Norfolk to be spent in the Kings service It is enacted that the said Duke shall and may make a Lease for 5. years of sundry his Manors there to Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury and others for the payment of his debts It is enacted that Iohn Audley Knight Lord Audley shall have the Wardship of Iohn Audley son and heir of Humfrey Audley Knight brother of the said Lord and of Ioane his sister if the said Iohn should die and the Custody of certain Manors by name in Suffolk which late were the said Hnmfreys until such time as the said Lord had received thereof 600 Marks which the said Lord payed for the redemption of the said land to such persons as the King had given the same unto in consideration of the treasons done by the said Humfrey The 26th day of Ianuary Anno 14 E. 4. It was enacted that Henry then Duke of Buchingham should be to all intents reputed and taken a person of full age of 21 years The King by assent of Parliament confirmeth to the said Duke and to the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten 40 l. yearly out of the profits of the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham according to the Letters Patents of Creation and grant thereof made to Humfrey late Duke of Buckingham by H. 6. m. 23. In which year of 23. and many years after the stile of the Earl of Warwick was written thus Henricus Praecomes Regni Angliae et Comes Warr. The which stile was granted by the Kings Letters Patents to the said Earl and to his heirs It is enacted that if Sir Galliard Dureford Knight of Duras a Gascoyne should die in the service of the King that then the Executors of the said Lord for 5. years next after his decease should enjoy an Annuity of 100 l. yearly granted to the said Lord during his life out of the Manor of Bollingbrooke to the performance of his will Sir Iohn Mannigham of Oldford in the County of Midd. Knight is restored to the bloud and lands and an outlary pronounced against him upon an Indictment of Treason made void Edward Ellesmere of London Esquire is restored to bloud and lands and an attainder against him Anno 1 E. 4. made void Iohn Dacre of Essex Esquire convicted as Sir Iohn Manningham tit 27. is likewise restored Where Iames Earl Dowglas was to passe over with the King to whom the King had granted yearly during his life out of sundry Customs 500 l. It was enacted that if he the said Earl should die within 3. years next after his said passage that then his Executors should in three years after receive out of the Customs 300 l. to perform his will Henry Bodrugan of Cornwal Esquire and Thomas Bonethon of the same Gentleman being attainted of Felony by act of Parliament at the surmise of Thomas Nevil Esquire for that they the said Henry and Thomas Bonethon did not appear and answer at a day certain according to the Order of the Parliament doe sufficiently avoid the same by their Petition whereupon they are restored and the said Attainder made void It is to be noted that the said Henry maried Margaret Viscountesse Lisle The same Henry being in like sort attainted at the sute of Iohn Arundel of Talverne in the County of Cornwall Esquire Iohn Peaporse Esquire William Cornswiewe Esquire and Otrice Philip Yeomen of the Crown is restored as next afore The Complaints against the said Henry are long and the crimes hainous Where H. 6. annexed the Priory of Sharborne in Southampton to the College of Eaton It is enacted that such persons as have the same Priory shall yearly â—ind a Masse-Priest to sing in the said Priory and to pray for the soul of the King and for the Soul of Heenport sometime Baron of the Exchequer and founder of the said Priory A long attainder of sundry persons conteined in effect following namely of Richard Welles late of Hellow in the County of Lincoln Knight Robert Welles of the same Knight and Thomas de Leland of Horbling in the said County Knight for levying warr against the King the twelfth of March in Anno 10 E. 4. at Empingham in a place called Hornfield in the County of Rutland Iohn Vere late Earl of Oxford late of Winhod in the County of Essex Knight Thomas Vere of the same Knight William Goldmansion of Bomley in Essex Esquire Robert Harleston of Sumplinge in Suffolk Esquire Robert Gibbon of Wingfield in Suffolk Esquire and others for raising war against the King at Barnet field in the County of Hartford on Easter-day Anno 2 E. 4. The Attainders of Tresham of Sywell in Northampton Knight Robert Bainton of Farleston in the County of Wilts Knight and of Iohn Delves of Uttokesheter in the County of Stafford Esquire and divers others for raising warr against the King at Tewkesbury the 4. of May Anno 11 E. 4. The forfeiture of all the hereditaments of the persons aforesaid with provisions for the Manor of Lilleford in Northampton and the Manor of Hokington in the County of Cumberland and other savings The Earl of Oxford George Vere and Thomas Vere are only pardoned with their lives Sundry provisions and savings and namely of all mens rents and services And for that Richard Hastings Knight had maried Iane the daughter and heir of Richard Wells Knight and the sister and heir of Robert Wells Knight the King by authority of Parliament granteth to the said Richard Hastings Knight for and during his life without impeachment of waste 22. Manors by name in Lincoln with sundry other lands in Lanc. 7. Manors in Norfolk one Manor in Denbigh one Messuage in Lincoln and one Mease called the Base Court with 17. tenements in the Parish of St. Gyles in London all which were Lord Welles or Robert Lord Willoughy or the said Richard Welles The King also granteth to the said Richard Hastings as is aforesaid sundry other Manors by name being the hereditaments of the said Richard Welles and LL. The pardon made for the Earl of Oxford and his brothers by which it appeareth that the said Earl fortified
and kept St. Michaels Mount against the King The Commons grant to the King one Desm and one Fifteen and three parts of either of them The fourteenth day of March Anno 14 E. 4. after the reading of the grant aforesaid and of the Petitions ensuing the Bishop of Lincoln Chancellor of England on the Kings behalf gave thanks to all the estates and so dissolved the Parliament Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print Anno 12 E. 4. cap. 1. agreeth with the record The print touching Subsidies cap. 3. agreeth with the record The print touching bow-staves cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print of adnulling of Letters Patents made for searchers of Victuals cap. 8. agreeth with the record The print touching Escheators cap. 9. agreeth with the record The print for Liveries to be given by the Prince cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print for shipping of woolls cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print touching Sewers cap. 6. agreeth with the record The print touching Wears and Fish-garthes cap. 7. agreeth with the record That the acquittal of certain Welshmen by name upon certain Felonies being unduly done and taken before Thomas Brampton and Iohn Wymes Justices of Assize in Hereff. Anno 13 E. 4. may be void it is enacted William Hyde a Burgesse for Chippingham in Wilâ—s being in Execution in the Kings Bench upon a Capias ad satisfaciend prayeth to be delivered by a writ out of the Chancery the which is granted saving the right to the other men to have execution after the Parliament ended The 23. of Ianuary Anno 14 E. 4. these Petitions ensuing were enacted An Act for the payment of the Kings debts upon Patents Bill or Talley due from Anno 10. The print touching the Kings Tenants going in his warrs cap. 1. agreeth with his record The print touching protections for such as goe into the Kings warrs cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print touching breaking of Truce cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching the shipping of woolls cap. 3. agreeth with the record Anno Decimo Septimo Edwardi Quarti The Parliament holden at Westminster the sixteenth day of Ianuary in the seventeeth year of King Edward the Fourth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct otherwise called St. Edwards Chamber and of the Lords and Commons Thomas Bishop of Lincoln and Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement declared the cause of the calling of the said Parliament taking for his Theam Dominus regit me nihil mihi deâ—rit Upon which he largely treated of the obedience of the Subjects due to the Prince and shewed out of the Old and New Testaments by sundry examples of such grievous plagues as ensued the rebell and disobedient and the saying of St. Paul Non sine causa Rex gladium portat He further sheweth how the Majesty of the King was upholden by the hand of the Counsel of God whereby he was advanced to the seat of his Ancestors He concludeth under the person of the King under the persons of the Bishops and Lords and under the persons of the Commons Si dominus regit me nihil mihi deerit sed in loco pascuae illos collocabit After which he willed the Commons the next day to chuse their Speaker among their selves and accordingly to present him to the King Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The second day of the Parliament certain of the Commons declared unto the Lords how they had chosen their Speaker The fourth day of the Parliament the Commons presented to the King William Allington to be their Speaker whose excuse refused he with the common protestation was allowed An Act shewing how the King had created Richard his second Son Duke of York and Norfolk Earl Marshal and Warren and Nottingham and had appointed his said Son to mary with Anne the daughter and heir of Iohn late Duke of Norfolk the said Anne being then of the age of six years Wherefore it is enacted that if the said Anne should happen to dye before issue had by the said Duke of York that then the said Duke should enjoy during his life sundry Baronies Honors Castles Manors Knights fees and other hereditaments by name in Wales Sussex and other Countries parcel of the inheritance of the said Anne A Confirmation of the Joynture rated by particulars to Elizabeth Dutchesse of Norfolk late the wife of Iohn Duke of Norfolk all which premises with all other the reversions of the hereditaments of the said Duke of Norfolk are granted to the said Duke of York during his life certain particular provisions for the Lord Howard the Lord Barkeley and others Richard Duke of Gloucester and Anne his wife in the right of his said wife assured to the King in fee the Castle and Manor of Elvel with the appurtenances in Wales in exchange whereof the King gave to the said Duke and to Anne in fee the Castle and Manor of Ugmore in Wales with Clauses of re-entry for either party in cases of eviction the which assurances are confirmed by Parliament The Duke of Suffolk giveth to the King in fee the Manors of Eastwordlebam and Westwordleham with the appurtenances in Southampton for the Manors of Dudington and Ascot with the appurtenances in Oxon in fee with the like Clause as before the which is confirmed as before It is enacted that Richard Duke of Gloucester and Anne his wife and the heirs of them and the Executors and Assigns of the said Duke may lawfully Alien discontinue and grant away sundry Advowsons there named of the inheritance of the said Anne in Mortmain or otherwise notwithstanding the Statute made in Anno 14 E. 4. tit 22. Where the King had created George Nevil the son of Iohn Nevil late Marquesse of Mountacute and made him Duke of Bedford the King by authority of Parliament revoketh the said Creation and all titles of honour as well from the said George and from the said John At the Petition of Roger Twyndowe Esquire Cosin and heir of Anckenett Twyndowe late wife of William Twyndowe Esquire deceased viz. son of Iohn son of the said William and Anckenett the judgement and processe had against the said Anckenett at Ware Anno 16. E. 4. for poysoning of Isabel late the wife of George Duke of Clarence is utterly repealed It is to be noted that the said Anckenett suffered death for the act aforesaid at
by all persons Realms safetie Reprâ—â—â—â—ng rebels and enemies within and without â—nvasion of Engâ—and peace Justice parliaments advise Welchmens quelling â—ide competent French war Guienne invaded parliaments sodain calling Speedy resolutions Commons to chuse and present their Speaker petitions Sir William Sturmey Speaker presented protestation Kings relief Two Desmes and Fifteens Subsidy of Woolls Wooll-fels Skins Tunage and Poundage granted for 2 d. Conditionally to be imploid only in the warrant and defence of the Realm Lord Furnivall Sir Iohn Pelham Treasurers for the wars appointed Treasurers for the wars sworn in Parliament Money lent to be repaid out of the Subsidy Welch rebels Commons request for the Kings Sons advancement Duke of York Good sâ—â—vice in wars to be rewarded Arrears paid Jewels Lord Coytifes rescue Welch rebels Petitions Resumption of the Câ—own Landâ— and Râ—venues Liberties of Towns Grants of Wineâ— resumâ—d Queens Dower Kings Grants confirmed Farmers to the King Farms injoyed Castle Caslet parke Law Kings prerogative Commissioners to inquire and execute Resumption for an year Annuities and Fees granted Châ—â—â— Officers Justices Barons of Exchecquer Resumption of Lands granted â—or an year Queen Kings Sons Grants by parliament Proclamation Patents broughâ— in Forfeiture Resumption Lords enact Prince of Wales Souldiers wages Defence of Wales Annuity out of the Exchecquer to the Earl of Sommerset confiâ—med by Parliament Sir Iohn Cornwall Grant in Parliament Abbey of Fescamp Wars Sir Stephen Scroope Annuity confirmed by Parliament Petition Grant by assent of the Bishops and Loâ—ds Prior of Coventrie Conduit of water Sherborn water Penalty Treble damages Petition Restitution of a Prioâ— and Lands in Parliamentâ— by the Kings Sir Bartholmew Verdon Restitution to bloud and Lands Scire facias Errour in Parliament â—arde reâ—urned Process continued Ordinance for Waâ—â— Lords Merchers of â—ales Castles mannedâ— Welch Friends Goods restored Râ—pâ—â—alâ— Loan money repaid Duke of Yorks a â—â—aâ—s to be â—aâ—d Souldiâ—rs services 〈◊〉 and recompenced Petition Itaâ—â—aâ— Merchants Staâ—ute revoked Exchange between Merchants Money Res. Italian Merchants Hosts Election Res. Italian Merchants Subsidy Merchants Customes Resp. Customers Officers of Ports Merchants well intreated Res. Merchants Triall for debt Account Trespass Law of Merchants Kings Councell Aldermen of London Res. Alien Brokers banished Chancery Res. Italian Merchants English wares Staple wares Res. Petitions Staple Wars Res. Ships in the Kings service Certain allowance for weight and apparrellingâ— Res. Aliens Officer Customer Welchmen Rome Res. Commons motion Resumption Queens Dower Commissioners Fines for neglect Oath Exchecquer Discharge Res. Commons not to be Collectors of the Subsidie Callice New exactions Res. Kings debt paid Tallies Res. Woolls shipping Ipswich Yarmouth Res. Villains Res. Subsidie of 6 s. 8 diâ— abated Mis-entry in the roll reformed Provisions Rome Letters Patents Accountss Officers Variance Foot of Fines Statute revoked Resp. King and his Councell may revoke an Act. Petitions Errour in Parliament to reverse a Fine and Judgment Falshoods Feoffments by Collusion Resp. Commissioners Kings thanks to Lords and Commons Parliament dissolved Writâ— of Summons Writs of Sâ—mmons Parliament proroged Painted Chamber Lord Chancellor King Causes of Parliament Liberties to be injoyed by all persons His Theam Good Government Welchmens Rebellion French Scots Guienne Callice Irish Parliament advicâ— Gâ—ds Law Peace Victory Petitions Sir Iohn Tibetott Speaker presented His excuse His election confirmed One Desme and Fifteeen granted Chancellor Treaty of Peace Proclamation Cessation Speaker presented Protestation Confirmation of the Commonâ— Liberties and Priviledges Amendment of their Bill by message to the Lords Speaker makes sundry remembrances before the King Good Governance Confirmaâ—ion of Liberties Guarding the Sea Guien Speaker Enrolment of the Speakers protestation Princes Residents in Wales Commission Wales Welchmen Conquest Gifâ—s French and Britains banishedâ— Answâ— Answ. False reports of the Commons discourse of the King Seas safeguard Committee Merchants Mariners c. to provide ships and men to guard the Seas Tonnage Poundage c. assigned them to defray the charge Privy Seals Prizâ—s taken to be enjoyed by them Imprest money required Enemies royal Navy One months warning Notice of peace Charges allowed Two Admirals to be nominated for the South and North. Parliament adâ—ourned Parliament re-assembled Parliament adjourned from day to day Lords Treaty Aliens about the Queen banished by name Proclamation by assent of Parliament Resumption of Lands and Annuities Speaker prayeth as large liberty of â—peech as any Speaker before himâ— Admiral elected to go to Sea Commons Privy Council Speaker Lords of the Council assent to thâ—ir election upon condition Speakers request Provisions for Calice Guienne Ireland Provision Kings Council Captains to repair to theirs Forts and A mier Speâ—ker desires Pardon Oath to abâ—de an Arâ—iâ—â—â—ment Hinton near Brackley Commission Array Câ—â—â—gy Musters Arbiterâ—â—â— Merchants Contâ—oversies Speakers â—equest Pâ—oâ—estaâ—ion Câ—own entailed Exemplification Speaker Prince sent into â—ales Rebellion Câ—stomers fraud Searchâ—rs Ireland Kings Houshold charges Commons Spâ—aker Protestation Good Government Council Reward Queens Dower Good service rerewarded Auditors Accounts Treasurers of War Gods service Aâ—biterment â—â—parceners Lord Mohun Castle Mannor Duâ—ster Minâ—head Culverton Carampton Mannor and Hundred Arbitrators sworn in Parliament Petitionâ— Sir Barthol Verdon Service in Wales Speaker Petitions read Merchants Subsidy Seas safeguard Realms defence Aliens banished Denizons Impotent persons Dutchmen Kingslands leased Improvement Resumption Kings housholds maintenance Expences moderatedâ— Parliament adjourned Parliament adjourned Lords and Commons called Their default Commons Speakers protestation confirmed Speakers motion Kings charge to the Lords and Commons Allegiance â—ll Government â— enquired Castle of Manlion Alien removed Wlechmens Fines and Ransoms Prisoners of War Hostages Scottish prisonerâ— Crown entailed Charter vacated Crown entailed Ducat Lancanst Non obstante Prince Henry Speaker Bill against Lollards Preaching against the Clergies temporalitieâ—â— Prophesiâ—s Slanders of the Lollards Pollicy of the Popish Clergy Tyranny Officers Imprisonmment Inquiry without Commission Sanctuary Petition Treasurers of war Auditors Account Due allowance Discharge Commons request Indempnity Impeachment Voyages Kings behalf Commons request Commons House Parliaments Roll engrossed Speaker Lords of the Council to swear Oath refused by the Lord. The King chargeth them on their allegiance to take the Oath All the Kâ—ngs Officers sworne to accomplish the Oath Worthy Officers No due grants to be staid Great seal Privy seal Maintenance of Suits Order of Law Officers Mediation Kâ—ins house Chamber Wardrobe Kings revenues imployed Gifts Profits Petitions received and answered Councellors Jurisdiction Common-Law Purveyors Suitors Countenance Full assent c. Officers Fees Extortion Queen Marshalsey Clerk of the Market Sheriffs Election of Knights fifteen days notice Kings great Officers Common Laws Aliens Fines Steward and Treasurer of the Kings house Servants misdemeanors Officers of the Kings house Chamberlain Statutes Judicial Officers and others at will only Officers Enquiry Misdemeanors Report to the Council Array Challenge Assise special Sheriffs fees Pannel Temporary Articles Custody of the Temporalties of Durham granted Bâ—shop elect
Wardens of the Marches Resumption Truce-breach Patents Outlawrieâ— Wools. Ravishment Woman Heirs Mariage by Duress Appeal Writs of Summons King Archb. Chancellor Causes of Parliament Commons to chuse their Speaker Liberties enjoyed Petitions Articles Causes of Parliament Charge of the Kings house Souldiers due pay Keeping the Seas Defence against French Scots 13000. Archers imployed Accord between the Lords Exportation of coyn Seas safegard Peace kept in Wales Committees of Lords Sir Iohn Wenlock Speaker presented Excuse Protestation Nobles acquitted of disloyalty by the Kings Charter Faâ—sâ— information Army raised D. of Yorks Letter Force raised Grievances Their Letters to the King Their Obedience Letters kept from the King Nobles kept by force from the King D. of Somerset slain Obedience to the King Their acquittance after the battel Their acquittance confirmed Oath of Allegeance of all Lords and Bishops to the King Oath The Lords discharged from keeping the sea Chancellour Parliament prorogued Generall pardon if Treason c. Parliament holden by Commission under the D. of York Commâ—ttee of Commons request Protector of the Realm desired Kings negligence Commons to have notice of him Riots Answer promised Committee of Commons renew their request Lords consultation Protector chosen Respite required Committee of Commons renue their sute Chancellor Kings assent to the D. of York to be Protector The Dukes Protestation Demand Protectors Stipend 4000 marks The Duke at the Lords request accepts the Protectorship Patent of the Protector confirmed by Parliament Determinable at the King and Lords assent in Parliament Patents The Government wholly committed to the Privy Councill Kings person excepted Patents Prince of Wales Earldom of Chester Prince Duke of Cornwall Livery thereof Princes diet in the Kings Court till he be of 14 years His allowance and Wardrobe till then Callice Sir Iohn Cheyney Victualler of Callice Monies lent Merchants loan of money Re-payment assured out of the Customs Resumption Kings Houshold charges Chancellor Kings Commissary Parliament prorogued Protectors Power repealed by the Kings Patent in Parliament Petitions Servants Repeal Outlawry Lancaster Extortion Excheq Brewers Silkwomen Abbey of Fountain Attorneys Writs of Summons King Chancellor Causes of Parliament Commons to chuse a Speaker Petition William Tresham Speake presented Excuse Protestation Duke of Yorks Attainder Kings love care in his Education Confederacy with I. Cade to be advanced to this Crown Coming with force to the Kings Court. Practice to be Protector Practice to raise an Army against the King Submission Oath to the K. Confederacy with other Nobles Ingratitude Battel at St. Albons Pacification Kings Pardon Promise of Allegiance The Dukes and Earls ambition New Oaths Policies Their Expedition Warâ—â—aiâ—ed Prisonersâ— taken Ks. pursute of them Pardon offered and refused Their new assemblies in the field against the King Kings death pretended Batâ—el ranged by them Camp fortified Ambush to surpâ—â—ze the King Their flight Subâ—ission Paâ—dâ—n Attaind of Treason Procurers of Treasonâ— Their lands in Fee and Tail forfeited Some pardoned Their lands yet forfeited Forfeiture Provisâ—es Oath of Allegeance to the King Prince and Kings heirs All the Bishops Lords take and subscribe it Exchange by the K. with the Queen Alnage Havering Dutchy of Lancaster Kings feoffees in trust Kings will Great seal Dutchy seal Parlâ—â—ments confirmation Petition Prince of VVales Dutchy of Cornwall Parliament Patents Livery sued Non obstante Patents confirmed Eaton College Patents confirmed Kings College in Cambridge Pembroke Hall Syon Priory confirmed Patents revoked Resumption Rebels Patents nulled Sheriffs Escheators Chester Flint Knights of Shires returned by the Kings Letters without any election Sheriffs Indemnity Note Robberies Rapes Exactions Answers thereto Rebels finâ—d after Pardon Lord Standleys accusation Imprisonment demanded Resp. Chancellor Kings thanks Parliment dissolved King Painted Chamber Chancellors speech Commons to chuse and present their Speaker Petitions Speaker elected Iohn Green Speaker presented Excuse Protestation Parliament revoked Privilege of Parl. Burgesse taken in Executionâ— inlarged Fleeâ— Councell in Parl. Duke of Yorks claim and title to the Crown exhibited and read in Parliament Not to be answered without the King His Pedegree and titleâ— The Lords declare the Title to the K. The Justices Kings Sergeants and Atney refuse to answer thereto though commanded Every Lord freely to utter his minde Oaths of the Lords and Duke to King Henry Acts of Parliament Acts of Intayl Arms born H. 4. Claimed it as Right heir to H. 3. Not as a Conqueror The Dukes Answer Oath against the Law of God void Acts by the Wrong-doer void Needless where right Arms forborn not Disclaimed A Cloak of violent Usurpation void Lords arbitrament between them King H. 6. to be K. during life The Du. to succeed him Chan. to declare it Kings assent to accord King to enjoy the Crown for life The D. his Sons sworn not to shorten his life or impair his Preheminence The Duke declared heir apparent to the Crown Resignation Hereditaments presently allotted to him and his sons Compassing the Du. death Treason Bishops and Lords Oath to the Duke and his heirs The Dukes Oath to the Lords Ks. royal assent to the arbitrament Statute of Intayl repealed The Duke and his Sons Oath Protestation to the King enrolled Lands assigned by Patent to the Duke Dutchy of Lancaster Confirmation Act declaring the D. right heir to the Crown Power to suppress Rebellions c. All Sheriffs c. to obey him as the King Dutchy of Lancaster Feoffees in trust Steward and Attorney of the Dutchy of Lanc. Chancellor of the Dutchy Dutchy of Lanc. revenues Receivor of the Dutchy Treasurer of England Realms affairs Feoffment to the use and performance of the Kings will Liveries Writs of Summons King Painted Chamber Causes of Parliament Speaker chosen Petitions Sr. Iames Strangewayes Speaker presented Excuse Protestation Speakers Oration Kings Commendation Thanks for victories Kings Title to the Crown H. 4. Tyrannous usurpation R. 2. murder E. 4. undoubted King Submission to him and his heirs H. 4. an Intruder Usurper E. 4. seized of the Crown as R 2. Rights excepted H. 4. and his heirs disabled disinherited Agreement between H. 6. E. 4. Breach thereof E. 4. discharged therof by the breach Tenants of Eastmain Bishop of Winchester New Customs raised Freeholders Copyholders Referreâ—s Report Tenants in Fault Attainder of K. H. 6. Queen Margaret and others Prince of Wales Knight of the Garter Beheading against Law Murder Attainders of sundry for the Duke of Yorks death Attainder of sundry Nobles others for being in Armes against K. E. 4. Treason K. H. 6. Q. Margaret Pr. Edw. attainted Barwicks surrender to the Scots H. 6. Qu. Princeâ— others attainted Procuring forein Princes to invade England Treason Carlisles surrender to the Scots Treason for being in Arms against E. 4. Treason for levying war against E. 4. Forfeiture of H. 6. for this Treason Dutchy of Lancaster Offices Liberties Treason Forfeiture Dower Treason Forfeiture Rebellion Submission upon Proclamation
Treason Annuity enacted to be first paid Earl of Cambridge Judgement in Parliament repealed Earl of Salisbury Lord le Despencer Judgement in Parliment repealed Restitution Restitution Petition Sir Iames Strangewaies Restitution Ireland Welshmen Hardelaghe Castle Rebels Treason Sr. Th. Lomley Knight Restitution Judgement in Parliament reversed Kings Oration the Commons Kings thanks to the Commons for his restitution to the Crown His promise to be a good King to them His care of their defence Parliament prorogued to the sixth of May An. 2. E. 4. Proclamation Liveries Maintenance Robberies Murders Kings absence Parliament dissolved by Commission Petitions Patents of H. 4.5.6 Repeal Indictments Sheriffs Tournes Leets Inquest Profits Sheriffs Resp. Writs of Summons Writs of Summons King Painted Chamber Chancellor Causes of Parliament Commons to elect and present their Speaker Petitions Iohn Say Speaker Presented Excuse Protestation Subsidy of 37000 l. granted Chancellour Thanks for the aid The Parliament prorogued to the 4. Novemb. 3. E. 4. Parl. held continued by Commission The King releaseth 6000 l. of the subsidy Subsidy altered to a a Fifteen Chancellor The Parl. adjourned to the 20. Febr. at the City of York Kings Commissary The Parliament adjourned to the 1. of May Anno 4 E. 4. Cause of Prorogation Conspiracies Rebellions Parliament held continued by Commission Parliament prorogued Privy Seal Rebels suppression Defence Forein Invasion Commission The Parliament prorogued to the 26. day of Ianuaâ—y at Westminster Broad-Cloth Wools. Corn imported Apparel Silkwomen Artificers Tonnage Poundage granted the King for his life Callice Souldiers Victuals and Pay Treasurer of Callice Account Exchequer Dean of St. Martins Attainders D. of Somerset Treason Levying Warr. Ralph Percie Treason Surrendring Castles Warr levyed Treason Adhering to the Ks. enemies Treason Treason Treason Attainder after a Pardon Treason Castle kept against the K. Attainders confirmed Restitutions repealed Proclamation Submission Treason Resumption of all Crown Lands Resumption Henry Wentworth Restitution Kings grant to his Sister confirmed Feme Coverts use sute without her Husband Dutchesse of Exeter Petition Earl of Oxford Repeal Subsidy Customs assigned to pay Debts Callice Staple Abbesse of Sion Dutchy of Cornwall annexed to the Crown Mayor of London Thames Plymouth Fee-farm Cloth Shipping Staple Woolls Newcastle Woolls Merchandize Burgundy Sureties Customers Comptrollers Cordwayners Horners Paten-makers Passage Dover Callice Free Passage Boats Rivers Resp. Writs of Summons King Painted Chamber Chancellor Causes of Parliament Commons to chuse and present their Speaker Petitions Sr Iohn Say Speaker Speaker presented Excuse Protestation Kings Oration That he would live of his own without charging the Commons Their help required Good Government Resumption Callice Kings grant of the Customs Revenues there to satisfie Debts Souldiers wages Fortifications Surrender Treasurer of Callice Surrender Victualler of Callice Charters confirmed Restitution Lord Willoughby Restitution Non-obstante Chancellor Commons requests answered Kings Thanks Resumption Callice Ireland Wales Laws execution The Parl. prorogued to the 6. day of Novemb at Reding Chancellor The Parliament prorogued to the 6. of May Anno 8 E. 4. Chancellor King The Parliament adjourned to the 12. of May at Westminst Worsteeds Justices of peace Bail Recognizance Approvers Resp. Devonshire clothes Yarn Cloth London Felons Newgate King Chancellors speech Justice Three Estates King supream Lords and Bishops next Commons next Crownes Inheritance spoiled Treasure wasted Laws wracked State subverted by Usurpation France lostâ— Warr with Denmark Scotland Brittany France Tumults appeased Peace planted Law and Justice extended Peace and Leagues with forein Enemies Scotland Spain Denmark Alliance with forein Princes Recovery of France Kings royall voyage in person Advice required 2 Desmes and Fifteens granted Poor Towns relief Queens dower confirmed Enabled to sue Patents Seal of the Dutchy of Lancaster Livery and seasin dispensed with Queens Dower Great Seal Dutchy seal Letter of Attorney Kings sisters portion Kings debts payed by Merchants assrured upon the Customes of Wools. Patents confirmed Petitions Clothes Resp. Juries Middlesex Sheriffs Sacrilege Treason Burnt Clergy Appeal Restitution Justices Lollards Resp. Liveries Complaint Exchange Tower Committee of Lords and Commons Account Answer to the Complaint Extortion Fees Proclamation Proof Justification Kings Exchange Tower Emption Kings Farm Writs of Summons Writs of Summons King Painted Chamber Chancellor Causes of Parliament Commons to chuse and present their Speaker Petitions Speaker chosen William Allington Speaker presented Excuse Protestation Commons grant 14000 Archers to the King for one year at their cost Contribution The Lords grant the tenths of their revenues Ryots Maintenance Oppressions Labourers Thanks to the Commons The Parliament prorogued to the 8. of February Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester created and the Lords granted to him confirmation Prince Dutchy of Cornwall Confirmation Hen. Percie Restitution Attainder reversed Attainder reversed Restitution Restitution Attainder reversed Restitution Restitution Restitution Restitution Restitution Lord Berckley Burrough of VVotton Restitution Restitution Restitution Restitution Restitution Restitution Restitution Restitution Restitution Restitution Chancellor and Scholars of Oxford Release confirmed St. Ralph Ashton Right of Ward Record imbezelled Copy enrolled Exemplification Great Seal Iohan Glyn. Murder Appeal Murder Appeal Parl. re-assembled A Dism and Fifteen granted Decayed Towns Thanks to the Commons Chancellor The Parl. prorogued to the 6. of Octob. Urgent causes Re-assembling before the day of Prorogation Subsidy Treasurer Tayl. Restitution Sir Rich. Fennis Tayl. Tayls confirmed Restitution Tho. Lord Stanley Patents Non-obstante Prince of Wales Confirmation Hardlagh Castle Restitution Restitution Confirmation Dean of New College in Leicester Gloucester Pardon Breach of Prison Imprisonment Habeas corpus Bayl. Imprisonment Riot Attainder of Felony by Parliament Petitions Revocation Kings Debts assured upon a Fifteen Staple Parliament reassembled Adjourned Merchants of Hauns Peace Stilliard Restitution Free trade Merchants strangers Stilliard Liberties confirmed Restitution Coparceners Disseisin Petition Restitution Resumption Dutchy of Lancaster and York Commission Chancellor Dutchy of Lancaster Debts assured Dutchy of Lancaster County Palatine Tho. Bourchier Cardinall Lord Howard Sir Ralph Verney Kings Secretary Queens Midwife Isle of Haxling Liberties Chancellor Kings thanks The Parliament prorogued to the twentieth day of Ianuary Parl. re-assembled The continuance of the Parliament unto the 1. of Feb. King Chancellor Causes of Parliament Warres The Parl. prorogued to the 9. of May Anno 14 E. 4. Parl. re-assembled Adjourned Duke of Clarence Duke of Gloucester Coparcenpis The Mothers Lands granted to them as heirs as if she were dead during her life Coparcentis Partition Discontinuance Coparceners Incumbrance Nullity Duke of Glocester Divorce Incumbrance Coparceners Survivorship Exchange Staple Fees Kings Justices Kings Serjeants Kings Attorneys Sheriffs of London Sergeants Rescous Chancellor The Parliament prorogued to the 6. of Iune Parliament re-aâ—sembled Adjourned Restitution Parliament proâ—gued Re-assembled Lord Hastings Lord Harrington Lord Bonvile Dower Joynturâ— confirmed Mariage Age of consent Infants assurance confirmed Sir Iohn Florey Restitution Restitution Town-Clerks of London Executors Fraudulent
AN EXACT ABRIDGEMENT OF THE RECORDS IN THE TOWER of LONDON From the reign of King Edward the Second unto King Richard the Third of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings reign and the several Acts in every Parliament Together with the Names and Titles of all the Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts and Barons summoned to every of the said Parliaments COLLECTED By Sir ROBERT COTTON Knight and Baronet Revised rectified in sundry mistakes and supplied with a Preface Marginal Notes Several Omissions and Exact Tables both of the Special Matters Great Officers Speakers Nobles and other Persons therein conteined By WILLIAM PRYNNE Esquire a Bencher of Lincolns Inne LONDON Printed for William Leake Stationer at the Crown in Fleetstreet between the two Temple Gates 1657. The Preface to the Reader COURTEOUS READER HAving already published to the World a Chronological Epitome or Summary Collection of all the extant Parliamentary Councils Synods and publike State-Assemblies held within the Realm of Great Britain upon several Occasions from the Britons first arival in it under King Brute as our old Historians generally assert till the Coronation of King William the Norman Anno Dom. 1066. conteining the space of 2390 years or thereabouts after the computation of the Chronicle of Bromton and others And having likewise an intention if God shall vouchsafe me life health liberty opportunity and encouragements to collect and publish an Exact Chronological History of all the Great Councils Synods Parliaments State Assemblies and the several Consultations Debates Acts Edicts Laws Statutes Ordinances Iudgements Petitions Proceedings in them and Writs of Summons to them extant either in Histories or Records all other usefull Records from the crowning of K. William the first Anno 1066. till the end of the reign of K. Charls 1648. A most necessary profitable useful Work never yet undertaken by any to my knowledge tending much to the Honour of our English Nation the Dignity of our Parliaments and Great Councils the advancement of our Laws and Learning the information instruction of the present times and future ages in our Parliamentary and State affairs of greatest concernment the enabling Members of Parliament both to know discharge their Duties and maintain their antient Privileges Jurisdictions better than in former times the preservation of our usefullest Parliamentary Rolls Journals and other Records from Suppression Embezlement Oblivion to rectifie sundry Gross mistakes both in our printed Statutes Law-books and Vulgar Historians The compleating of which vast undertaking requiring more toylsom Study Cost expence and time than yet I can bestow thereon I thereupon apprehended that I could not in the Interim perform a more profitable Service to my Country conducing towards the furtherance of that great Undertaking than at the earnest importunity of the Stationer and some special Friends to contribute my best directions assistance towards the printing and publishing of this Exact Abridgement of the Parliamentary Records in the Tower of London from the reign of King Edward 2. unto King Richard the 3. collected as is generally voiced believed by that most eminent industrious Collector of our best rarest English Antiquities Manuscripts Leger-books Records of all sorts Sir ROBERT COTTON whose famous Name and Memory alone are sufficient to adde more praise and lustre to this Abridgement than any Panegyrical Epistle I am able to prefix thereto This Exact Abridgement being licensed for the Press before the Stationer brought it me to peruse I thereupon diligently read over the Copy belonging formerly to a person of quality curiously bound up gilt and written in a very fair hand wherein I corrected several verbal mistakes of the Clerk in the Transcribing and comparing it with another Transcript of mine own supplyed some blank spaces in it together with the Abridgements of the whole Parliaments of 21 E. 3. 4. 16. Rich. 2. the explanation of the Charter of the Stanneries in the Parliament of 50 E. 3. the Abridgment of the beginning of the 1. Parliament of 5 R. 2. to numb 14. with the end of 15 R. 2. n. 36. c. wholly omitted in the Stationers Copy without any alteration except in the Clerks misprisions in or addition to the Text it self to avoid the Censure of being an over-officious Critick in another deceased honourable persons Posthumus Work After which perusal of the Copy finding neither Notes of direction in the Margin nor Tables in the end of this Abridgement to direct the Reader readily to finde out the principal things or Names of persons therein comprised I thereupon supplyed these defects with such Marginal Notes and Tables thereto annexed as might render it most usefull to the Buyers comprizing the Principal matters therein contained together with the Names of the Nobles and other persons mentioned therein in Alphabetical Tables with the names of the Admirals Chancellors Constables Marshals Iudges Protectors Privy Seals Speakers of Parliament Stewards of the Kings House and other Great Officers mentioned in it in a Chronological Order with the years Sections Pages wherein they are recorded Which additional Supplements will render it much more usefull and beneficial to the Reader upon all occasions than it would have been without them The Subject matter of this Exact Abridgement consisting wholly of Records or Rolls of Parliament and the principal matters of greatest publike and private concernment in Peace or War debated adjudged transacted in this supremest Court of the Realm both for Iudicature Consultation with the Names of all the Nobility summoned to or created in our Parliaments never formerly published in print and generally unknown to most Judges Lawyers Historians Gentlemen Bookmen of all Professions will sufficiently blazon and proclaim its Eminency Utility Excellency Complacency and Desirableness to every intelligent Reader beyond all other late publications and uncertain Reports of private Persons or Cases lately published or any Histories yet set forth without any other Proemial Encomiums yea the manifold discoveries it makes of the Variances of sundry printed Statutes from the Parliament Records both in form and substance and of divers bastard Statutes put in print never extant on Record which Sir Edward Cook hath gleaned out of this Abridgement and inserted into his 4 Institutes p. 50 51 52. though he there assumes the first discovery and honor of it to himself alone will undeniably demonstrate how worthy it is the most serious perusal of the greatest as well as meanest Professors of the Law who commonly take all printed Statutes and Reverend Sir Edward Cooks oft mistaken Records for undoubted Oracles without comparing them with the original Records themselves out of over-much laziness or credulity If any supercilious persons shall disdain or slight it because it is but an Abridgement and so not comparable to the Records themselves at large or object out of Sir Edward Cooks Reports and Institutes who oft forgot this lesson himself inculcates Satius et tutius est petere fontes quam sectari rivulos I answer That though
to Paâ—liament being conceived by some upon good grounds not to be a direct summons of any Commoners or Knights of Shirâ—s to Parliament as Members but in another kinde when as we find VVrits of Summons to Parliament directed to Bishops and the Temporal Lords and Barons before 49 H. 3. without any such VVrits for â—nâ—ghts or Burgesses In what place the Commons usually assembled at first is uncertain but most likely it was in the Chapter House of of the Abbot of Westminster as is clear by 50 E. 3. n. 8. and other records How unable and unwilling the Commons were at first of themselves to advise in maâ—ters of Peace or Warr referring themselves usually herein to the King and Lords alone and desiring a special Committee of Lords to advise and direct them in most things else and how they got a Speaker and House of their own at last in the dotage of King Edward the 3. and nonage of Richaâ—d the 2. and then proceeded by degrees to meddle with the greatest affairs of the State Court and Crown being set on by some ambitious Lords to promote their designes thereby you may observe throughout this Abridgement of which the Table will render you a more particular account What use the Lords made of the Commons and their Speakers to curb the King and his greatest Officers Minions Favourites you may here read at large in the Parliaments of 50 E. 3. of 1 3 5 7 10 11 R. 2. 1 H. 4.28 33 38 39 H. 6. And how King Rich. 2. made use of them to suppresse his Domineering Lords and King Edward the 4. used them as his Instruments to curb suppress both King Hen. the 6. and the Lords that were opposite to him you may observe in the Parliaments of 21 R. 2 33 39 H. 6. 1 Ed. 4. especially n. 38 39. in his Speech there made unto the Commons By whose assistance he was restored to the Crown and soon after to all the Lands and Revenues alienated from it by Acts of Resumption Whereupon he promised the Commons in Parliament with his own mouth To live of his own without charging them and left off all gathering of money and Impositions on them as the only thing which withdraws the hearts of the English from their Prince receiving onely Tonnage and Poundage and but some 3. or 4. Disms and Quindisms of small value which they freely granted him towards his wars during all his 23 years reign A president worthy present and future imitation for the oppressed peoples ease especially after so many yeares uncessant heavy Taxes of all sorts extorted from them rather for private ends than the publike Interest and Welfare of the Kingdom What other particulars of Note touching the Commons Lords or Parliament affairs occurr in this Abridgement the Table will more punctually inform the Reader I shall only further observe that in all the Parliaments of King Ed. 3. R. 2. H. 4 5 6. Ed. 4 and R. 3. here abridged the Commons House never claimed nor exercised any such Jurisdiction as hath been usurped by it of late years in some particulars of moment 1. They never presumed nor pretended to make print or publish any Act Ordinance Order whatsoever relating to the people Kingdom or own Members without the Kings and Lords precedent approbation and concurrence 2. They never attempted to impose any Tax Tallage Charge Impost Excise or Duty whatsoever on the people without the Lords and Kings assent 3. They never adventured to appoint any special Committees or Sub Committees to hear examine determine any particular businesse or complaint before without any Report thereof to the whole House of Commons nor without the privity and assent of the House of Lords by way of transmission or impeachment to their Superiour Authority and Judicature An intollerable Grievance of puny times 4. They never attached fined imprisoned or censured any Person by their own authority without the Lords as they have done hundreds of late years 5. They never presumed to seclude or secure any of their own Members nor yet finally to judge of the Legality or Illegality of their Elections nor of the breach of their Privileges by imprisonment or otherwise of which the King and Lords were antiently sole Iudges as is evident by 16 R. 2. n. 6. 12 R. 2. n. 23. 1 H. 4. n. 79. 4 H. 4. n. 19 20. 5 H. 4. n. 71.78 c. 5. 8 H. 4. 13. Brook Parl. 11. 8 H. 6. n. 57. 23 H. 6. n. 41. 31 H. 6. n. 36 27 28. 14 E. 4. n. 55. 17 E. 4. n. 36. with other Presidents cited in my Plea for the Lords 6. They were always Petitioners to the King Lords for publike Laws Grievances and private Persons but very seldom petitioned unto upon any occasion as you may observe throughout this Abridgment some of the first Petitions to them being those of the Upholsters and Merchant Adventurers of London whereon Acts were made mentioned in the printed Statutes of 11 H. 7. c. 19. 12 H. 7. â— 6. since the Parliaments here abbreviated 7. Though they had the free Election of their Speakers granted them yet they alwayes of course presented their Speakers to the King and Lords at their appointed time who had power to allow of them and their excuses or to disallow and discharge them when elected yea to enjoyn them to elect present another Speaker when the former through sicknes imprisonment or other impediment was disabled or discharged as is evident by 1 H. 4. n. 62 63 64 1 H. 5. n. 9 10 11.15 H. 6. n. 10.27 28 H. 6. n. 6 7. 32 H. 6. n. 6.25 26 27 28 29. and Cookes 4 Instit. p. 8. 8. They alwayes stood bare-headed when they repaired to the Lords House upon the first day of the Parliament Conferences Passing of Bils Messages or any other Occasions when as the Lords sate covered 8 R. 2. n. 2. which custome continued so long as the Lords House sate even till 1648. 9. They never did nor could of right administer an Oath to Witnesses or others examined by the whole House or Committees as the Lords House usually did 7 R. 2. n. 14. Plac. Coron 1 H. 4. n. 10. They had no Vote Iudicature in Writs of Error brought in Parliam returnable only before and tryed in and by the Lords House alone nor yet in Criminall Causes upon Impeachments wherein the Lords alone were Iudges in cases both of Peers and Commoners as I have proved at large in my Plea for the Lords Which the Commons themselves acknowledged 1 H. 7. n. 79. and you may here observe throughout this Abridgement To close up this Preface I dare affirm that the several Treatises of our English Parliaments formerly published by Sir Tho. Smith Iohn Vowel Hotinshed Statham Fitzherbert Brook Mr. Richard Crompton Mr Cambden Doctor Cowel Minshew and Sir Edward Cook with
Justice neither for the Great Seal Letter or other Commandment Item It is enacted That Sir William Montacute and all others with him at the apprehension of the Earl of Maâ—ch and others in Nott. being done by the Kings commandment shall be acquitted thereof and all other Murthers and Felonies there done It is also enacted That one Recognisance of Two thousand pounds which the Bishop of Winchester stood bound to pay to King Edward the Second should be void Anno Quinto Edwardi Tertii In the same Roll are contained the Remembrances of the Parliament at Westminster the morrow after S. Michael in the Fifth year of King Edward the Third THe Bishop of Winchester being Chancellor sheweth that the Parliament was called to treat of affairs touching the Land of Guienne and for Peace and other issue to be had between the King and the French and for the affairs of Ireland and for the Kings expedition thither The King by the Chancellor asketh Whether it were best to treat with the French by way of Amity or Marriage according to the offer of the French The Commons think the way of marriage to be the best after which certain Lords there named are appointed to treat therein Touching the affairs with Ireland it is fully accorded That the King shall passe thither in person and that in the mean time a power be sent thither and commandment given that all such as have any Lands there do repair thither for defence of the same It is agreed That all feats of Arms shall be defended as well by the Justices as others untill the King and his Councel do otherwise appoint It is accorded that such learned in the law as shall be sent as Justices or otherwise to serve in Ireland shall have no excuse That search be made among all the Kings Records to see what hath been for the amendment of the Irish. Sir Eâ—ball le Strange and eleven other Mainprisors to bring forth the body of Hugh the son of Hugh le Despencer the younger to answer in this Parliament who brought him forth accordingly and shew the Kings pardon to him made whereof they pray allowance and discharge of themselves which was granted It is agreed That Queen Isabel the Kings mother shall have yearly Four thousand pounds in rents or lands All the Estates in full Parliament do agree That none of them shall retain sustain or avow any Felon or other common breaker of the Law It is enacted That no Purveyance be made but for the King Queen and their children and that by good warrant and ready payment The King shall appoint certain persons to determine the Office of Thomas de Ferrers and other his brothers of the Parsonage of Marlston in the County of Leicester Commandment is given to the Abbot of Crowland and Sir Thomas Wake of Liddle between whom debate had been to keep the Peace The like Commandment was given to Sir William dâ— la Zouch of Ashby and to Sir Iohn Grey of Rotherfield The Bishop of London shall be in Councel attendant upon the King with others of the Councel The whole Estate moveth the King to be gracious to Edward the son of the late Earl of March the King asked what they would have done sith King Edward the Second was murthered by the procurement of the said Earlâ— they answer for certain Lands intailed the Kings answer was That the same should be done at his pleasure At the request of the whole Estate the King dischargeth Sir Thomas Berkley and his Mainprisors and day given to him to appear at the next Parliament By this and the eighth title before it appeareth that the old usage was That when any person being in the Kings displeasure was thereof acquitted by tyral or pardon yet notwithstanding he should put in twelve of his Peers to be his sureties for his good behaviour at the Kings pleasure Whereas Sr Henry Piercy for the yearly Fee of 500 Marks stood bound to serve the King with a certain number of men as well in Peace as in War The King in release of the same Fee granteth to the said Earl in Fee the Castle of Workworth in Northumberland and the Mannor of Rochbury In the backside of the lame Roll. Robert of Benhall Knight William of Clapton and Iohn of Clapton being convicted before the Justices of Assize in Norfolk and Suffolk of certain riots with sundry Knights and Esquires their sureties appeared in full Parliament and were severally fined and further bound with sureties to their good behaviour Sundry Merchants of Brabant were arrested by the English Merchants for Wools taken up to the use of the Duke of Brabant at which Dukes request the King requireth that all the English Meâ—chants do appear before the Councel and abide further Order therein Anno Sexto Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Monday next after the Feast of S. Gregory in the Sixt year of King Edward the Third AT this day these two Articles were read before the King and Councel and after proclaimed in Westminster and London and more was not this day for the Archbishop of Canterbury and others were not come The first was that no man upon pain to lose all he had should use or wear any coat of Plate or other weapon in London Westminster or the Suburbs of the same The second was That no games or other plays of men women or children should be used in VVestminster to the disturbance of the Parliament After that the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London Chancellor of England by way of Oration sheweth how the French King went to take a voyage to the Holy Land and desired the Kings Company which caused the King to call the same Parliament That being said Sir Ieffery le Scroop in the presence of the King by his commandment declared That the same was called as well to redress the breach of the Laws and Peace as for the Kings going to the Holy Land The Bishops answered That it did not properly appertain to them to councel in matters of peace and to prescribe for the punishment of evils and therefore they and the Proctors of the Clergie went by themselves to consult therein and the Lords and the Commons by themselves The Lords and the Commons return and by the mouth of Sir Henry Beomont think it best to treat of matters of Peace namely that certain Justices should be appointed in every County and of their power to determine that in every shire certain Officers with the Constables be appointed for apprehending of the evill
and levying of Huâ— and Cry And it was by the King Bishops Lords and Commons enacted and agreed that a sentence of Excommunication should be published in every Church throughout the Realm 1. To excommunicate all Breakers of the Peace 2. To excommunicate all such as should defend receive or be privie thereunto 3. That all Obligations and such like instruments thereupon made be utterly void so far as lyeth in the Bishop and all others or by them dispenced By the fift and sixt titles before it may appear that at this time the Lords and Commons were of one House and that then there was no Speaker for the Commons Touching the Kings Voyage to the Holy Land it was thought too timely and therefore deferred for three years Touching the Treaty with the French and alliance by Marriage The King by Sir Ieffery le Scroop sheweth How the French King declareth to the Kings Ambassador that so as the King would come over in person he should finde great friendship Of whom requiâ—ing advice therein Answer was made That for those respectâ— they agreed thereunto deferring the Kings expedition into Ireland for one year so as aid might be sent in the mean time The Saturday next after the beginning of the Parliament the same was dissolved Touching the debate between Sir Iohn Grey of Rotherfield and Sir William de la Zouch which was heard before the King and his Councel in whose presence there fell great woâ—ds between them so as the said Iohn drew his knife upon him in the Kings presence for the which they were both commanded to prison and being after brought forth to their answers the said William was delivered and the said Iohn recommitted to prison during the Kings pleasure Anno Sexto Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the morrow after the Nativity of our Lady in the Sixth year of King E. 3. THe Bishop of Winchester Chancellor of England declareth That the Parliament was called touching French affairs and the Kings expedition thither for repressing his Enemies At this day were proclaimed the Articles contained in the last Parliament 1.2.3 The Parliament was adjourned until Thursday following at what time considering the news from the North they doubted the Scots arrival Whereforeâ— the Bishops by themselves the Lords by themselves and the Knights by themselves advised the King to stay his journey into Ireland and to send thither a new supply of men and money to stay within the Realm and with an armed power to go towards the North there to lie ready for the Scot. Towards which Exploit They granted to the King one Disme and one Fifteen to be levied of the Laity so as the King will live of his own without grieving of his Subjects with outragious prizes or such like Whereupon The King revoked the new Commissions for reaâ—ing of Tallages and promiseth from henceforth to remise the same according to the old rate Anno Sexto Edwardi Tertii The Remembrances of the Parliament summoned at York the Friday next before the Feast of S. Michael in the Sixth year of Edward the Third Mense Decembris MEmorandum That the Parliament began before the King came to York On Friday the King was not come to York but remained not far from thence looking for the coming of such as were warned thereto Wherefore at this day the Parliament was adjourned till Monday after and from Monday until Tuesday then ensuing At which day Sir Ieffery le Scroop Knight by the Kâ—nâ—s commandment shewed the Kings approach thither which was uttered in the last Parliament And for that he understood that Edward Bayliol had proclaimed himself King of Scotland he required Councel of the whole Estate viz. Whether it were better for him to assail Scotland or to claim the Demesne of the same or else by making himself party to take the advantage and thereby to enjoy the services as other his Ancestors had But forasmuch as most of the States were absent the Assembly require the continuance of the Parliament until the Utas of S. Hilary then next ensuing at York which was granted and new Summons eâ—pecially awarded to evâ—ry pâ—rson with especial charge to attend so as the affâ—irs between the King and thâ— Realm might not be delayed for the debate betwixt the Archbishops of Canterbury and York for their supreme bearing of their Crosses To thâ—s Parliament came no other of the Clergy then the Archbishop of York the Bishops of Lincoln and Carlile and the Abbots of York and Selby The Archbishop of Canterbury came not nor any other of his Province and all for bearing of the Cross. Whereby the same was not only loss of the opportunity to Scotland but also an importable charge to the whole Estate by a new Reassembly The Reassembly of the Parliament adjourned unto York unto the Uta's of S. Hilary 6. Eâ— 3. REceivers of Petitions for England Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne Ireland Wales and the Foreign Isles Tryers of Petitions for England Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above An Order for the trying of Petitions as well before the King as before the Lords It was enacted That the Articles expressed in the last Parliamâ—nt should be proclaimed by the Steward and Marshal and by the Mayor and Bailiffs at York The same day commandment was given to the Mayor of York in the presence of the King in full Parliament to see the Peace kept in the same City and Suburbs thereof and to arrest them that did the contrary The Thursday after being the second day of the Parliament Sir Godfrey le Scroop in the presence of the King declareth to the whole Estates the Circumstances of the two last Assemblies and how the Bishop of Winchester and others were appointed to consult on certain causes The Saturday after the Bishop of Winchester and other Committees declared how he and they had consulted on the whole matter but for that the same greatly imported they were not therein fully resolved whereupon they wish the King to take advice of the Pope and of the French King for his better proceeding therein And further That the King would appoint Wardens of the Marches of the North. Whereupon the Commons had license to depart and the Lords commanded to attend unto the next day at which time the Parliament was dissolved Anno Octavo Edwardi Tertii Petitions and Acts moved at the Parliament holden at York the next before S. Peter in Cathedra 8. E. 3. IT was enacted That the great Charter of the Forrest and other Statutes should be observed and that such Statutes as be obscure by good advice shall be made plain That in every County be appointed one Justice of the Peace learned in the
Law who shall be chief that all offences before them be sued to the Outlawry and that the Justice do yearly extract their doings before the King The King will be advised only they shall yearly extract their proceedings into the Treasuryâ— That no pardon be granted to any outlawed by any suggestive means but only by Parliament The Statutes made shall be observed That all Justices of the Peace may have some certain Fee The King will provide therefore That Sheriffs may continue but one year according to the Statute of Lincoln and Woodstock The Statutes therefore made shall stand and the Chancellor and others who are appointed to make choice of Sheriffs shall name able men who shall continue one year or longer according to their demeanour It is enacted That the Justices of the one Bench and of the other Justices of Assize and the Peace in every County shall determine of false Jurors and Maintainers and that the King by his Letters Patents hath charged all Archbishops meekly to pronounce in every Parish Excommunication against all such offendors That all men may have their Writs out of the Chancery for only the Fees of the Seal without any Fine according to the great Charter Nulli vendemus justiciam Such as be of course shall be so and such as be of grace the King will command the Chancellor to be therein gracious It is enacted That Bigamy shall be tryed only in Court Christian. That remedy may be had against oppressions of the Clergy for probates of Wills and Citations for trifles The King will herein do his best and chargeth the Bishops to do the like It is enacted That the Justices of Assize after their Assize taken shall not depart before they have made delivery of their Gaol on pain to lose their Fees It is enacted If any delivery be taken before any other Justices then before such Justices as are appointed thereto contrary to the Statutes of Northampton that the same may be void That every Infant acknowledging any Statute or Recognisance may at his full age averre his Nonage There is a better Law then by Averment That all men may have delivery of their Beasts which escape into any Hay or Forrest without any Fine to the Forrester who accompteth them Forfeits and that Coroners may execute their office there The Coroners shall execute their office there and Wardens of Forrests shall be commanded to keep their Officers from extorting That certain may be appointed to hear the debates between the Town of Great Yarmouth and Little Yarmouth The Judgments therefore made between them shall stand That remedy may be had for the true making of Woollen cloaths according to the Assize The King will provide for the execution of the Statute That no money be carried forth out oâ— the Realm The King will therefore provide It is enacted That no purveyance be made but only for the King That Pardon may be granted for the debts of King Iohn and Henry the Third for which Process came daily out of the Exchequer The King will provide answer the next Parliament That remedy may be had against Sheriffs and their Officers for gathering of Green wax The Statutes therefore shall stand On the back-side of the same Roll. For that the Staple was ordained to endure at the Kings pleasure It is enacted that the same Staple should be revoked and that all Merchants-strangers may freely buy any Staple-wares paying the due Custom Sundry Justices in sundry Counties appointed to enquire of the Felonies of Bennet of Normandy It is enacted The Kings Bench shall stay in Warwickshire after Easter next for that Sir Ieffery le Scroop Chief Justice is busie in the Kings weighty affairs whose place to supply Sir Richard Willoughby is appointed and Sir William Shareshall is assigned with him one of the Justices of the Bench. Anno Decimo tertio Edwardi Tertii The Remembrances of the Parliament holden at Westminster in Quindena of S. Michael Ann. 13 Edw. 3. A Proclamation was made as in 6 E. 3. tit 4. The causes of the Parliament were declared to be three viz. First for the observation of the Peace Secondly for the defence of the Marches towards Scotland Thirdly for the keeping of the Sea After the Archbishop of Canterbury who with the Bishop of Duresme and Sir Michael de la Pool came from the King beyond the Seas in message to the whole Estates declared the things there atchieved and the hazard of his own person and whole power thereby wanting necessary things out of England And by Letters sent to the Earl of Huntington and to Merchants at Pearch it was declared how the King remained about S. Quintins accompanied with Fifteen thousand armed men and a great number more It was also declared how the King and others about him for the furnishing of him and the procuring of his Allies for this enterprise stood bound in Three hundred thousand pounds the which with his honor he ought to pay before his departure So as the end was He needed Aid Whereupon the Duke of Cornwal Guardian of England and other Lords granted to the King aid as followeth For the money he wanted the Archbishop of Canterbury by the Kings Letters-Patents had Commission to grant certain things to the Lords and Commons The Lords grant to the King the tenth sheaf of all the Corn of their Demesns except of their bound Tenants the tenth fleece of Wooll and the tenth Lamb of their own store to be paid in two years And would that the great wrong set upon Wooll be revoked and that this Grant turn not into a Custom That the keeping of the Kings Wards lands may be committed to the next of the kin of the same Ward That remedy may be found against such as dying pass away their Lands to defraud the Lord of the Wardship The Commons made answer That they knew and tendred the Kings estate and were ready to aid the same only in this new Devise they durst not agree without further conference with their Countries and so praying respite until another time they promise to travel to their Countries The Commons answer to the three Causes of the Parliament in form following First touching the Peace it would much help if good Justices were appointed in every County If such as be let to Main-prise do put in good Sureties as Esquires or Gentlemen and that no pardons were granted but by Parliament For keeping of the Sea the Cinque Ports or other Haven Towns who are discharged of all other contributions should do the same aid for the Sea coasts That such as
at the call of the same Richard That two Pinaces the one of Welbrook the other of Roger Normandes to attend the pleasure of the said Richard in the Port aforesaid That all the Inhabitants of Southampton do attend to defend the same and not depart on pain to lose all That Stephen Butterley and William of Weston Serjeants at Arms do provide sufficient Timber-boards and other Necessaries for the same Town by Indenture That all Munition and other Furniture of the same Town be delivered unto the said Richard by Indenture That the said Richard have the like power in all things as the Earl of Warwick had at such time as he was Gardian there That the Sheriff of Southampton have a Writ of attendance on the said Richard for victuals and other necessaries Touching Barwick and Edinburgh William of Snoringe and Iohn at Fennes Merchants of Lyn Robert of Bayons and Henry le Smith Merchants of Barton upon Humber do undertake at a certain price and by a certain day to deliver Ten thousand Quarters of all kind of Grain at the Town of Barwick and in the Road of Lighe Every Quarter of Wheat and Malt at Nine shillings Oats Beans and Pease at Five shillings A caution that under colour of the same they should not serve the Kings enemies Sir Thomas Rooksby hath taken upon him the keeping of the Castle of Edinburgh and Strivling until Midsomer then next ensuing The division of the Corn aforesaid and of other victuals of the same Castle and Town of Barwick are made the greatest whereof is allotted to the Castle Touching the Isle of Wight For keeping the sameâ— it was provided That all the inhabitants of the same during the War should be respited of the payment of the Aid That none of the same Isle shall be dispensed with to be absent therefrom neither be warned of any Assise or Inquest during the Wars Provision for Wine Grain Coals and other Necessaries for the Castle of Carisbrook in Wight The Kings Butler is appointed to deliver the Wine to Sir Iohn de Longford Constable of the same Castle and VVilliam of Kenenwich is commanded to provide the rest Sir Iohn de Ferrers Captain of Iersey hath appointed to send thither a sufficient Deputy to whom certain things are appointed for the defence of the same Commandment is given to the Bailiffs to seise the goods of William Paine a late Jurate there who revolted to the Enemy and to choose another It is enacted That the temporalities of the Provost of VVells be restored to the Provost now to hold his former estate On the back-side of the same Roll. The number of such as were set out by certain Nobles Knights and Gentlemen of the Counties of York Nottingham Derby Lancaster and Cumberland by particular rate being in the whole of Men and Arms Seven thousand four hundred of Archers on horseback Two hundred and of Halberters Two thousand The Soldiers of York Nottingham and Derby shall go at the costs of the Country unto Newcastle upon Tine only they of VVestmerland Cumberland and Lancaster to Carlisle only And the Captains and others being together shall lie and forrage upon Scotland and not upon the Marches of England A Clerk to be appointed for the defraying of the wages by the oversight of the Lords Percy and Nevil To speak with the Nobles and Knights to execute those things and to talk with the Merchants for Shifts and return of money for these exploits For that Richard Talbot is discharged for the keeping of Berwick It is agreed That Sir Walter Clark shall keep the same till Easter insuing Sir Thomas de Wake Sir William Ros Sir Tho. Ughtred Sir William de la Pool and Sir Michael de VVath are appointed to set for the Array of Souldiers for the County of York Sir Nicholas de Cantelow and Sir Richard de VVilloughby Sir Thomas le Longvillers for the Counties of Nottingham and Derby Sir Henry Heydock and Robert de Radcliff for the County of Lanc. Sir Anthony Lucy Sir Pierce Tilliol and Sir Hugh Delowthrey and Robert Parvynge for VVestmerland and Cumberland The Lords Piercy and Nevill Sir Robert Dacres Sir Iohn de Fenwick and Sir Thomas de Helprescotes for Northumberland who may appoint Captains and them displace on cause reasonable An Act to survey all Wasts done by any persons to the possessions of any religious Houses being in the hands of Aliens with the Circumstances Writs of respits to be made for the Prior at S. Dennyses next Southâ— for the Parsonages of Rye and Sandwich for paiment of their Dismes The like for the Prior of Brumcester for the setting forth of one man at Arms and two Archers Anno Decimo quarto Edwardi Tertii The Remembrances of the Parliament holden at Westminster the Wednesday next after Midlent in the reign of King Edw. 3. the 14th and of France the first OPen Proclamation was made in Westminster Hall as in the last Parliament tit 3. Sir Thomas of Drayton is made Clerk of the Parliament Sundry are appointed to receive the Petitions of Ireland VValesâ— and Flanders The Thursday after the Parliament was adjourned until Saturday ensuing The same Saturday it was declared that the Parliament was called that the King might be aided with a great sum the which lay him upon and therefore the Commons are willed to give answer on Munday ensuing The same Munday they granted to the King the ninth of their grain wool and lamb for two yeers to be levyed and of all Townsmen the ninth of their goods of such as dwelled in Forrests and Wastes a Fifteenth on condition the King would grant their Petitions contained in a Schedule The Petitions be these Viz. Sundry Bishops Lords and Commons were appointed daily to sit untill they had reduced the aforesaid grant in form of a Statute They brought the same into the form of a Statute agreed upon by the King and the whole Estates which beginneth To the honour of God And such Articles as were to continue but for a time the King exemplified under the Great Seal beginning Know ye that where our Bishops Earls c. For that also the King in his stile was named King of France and had changed his Arms whereby the Subjects were not longer bound to obey him as King of France the Kings Letters Patents of Indempnity were granted beginning Edwardus c. Know ye that where some people intend c. Certain Bishops and Lords require to be saved harmless against the Duke of Brabant for great sums of money wherein they stood bound for the King if the Duke of Cornwal married not with the daughter of the said Duke which was granted and all
de Seagrave Tho. de Berkley Anthon. de Lucy Gilberto Talbot Johanni de Harrington Henrico Grey Rogero Gray Rado Basset de Drayton Hugoni de Poyns Pho. de Columbariis Rogero de Claudes Johanni Nevil de Essex Nico. de Nevil Roberto de Insula Jacobo de Audley Johanni le Strange Hugoni le Despencer Petro de malo lacu le Quint. Rado de Bevill Rico. Talbot Johanni de Willoughby Johanni de Charlton sen. Ado de Well Willielmo Ayncourt Willielmo de Kerdeston Johan de Sutton in Holderness Johan de Fawconbridge Roberto de Morley Johanni de Lawborne Henrico Hussey Johanni de Gray de Rotherfield Johan fil Rico. de Gray de Codemore Johanni de Tibetot Roberto Fitz pain Rico Piercy Willlielmo de Clinton Com. Hunt Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Decimo quarto Edwardi Tertii DE Consilio summon cum consilio in propinquis partibus propter alacritatem REx I. Archiepiscopo Cant. c. apud Westm. die Lunae post festum Sancti Michaelis c. Teste apud Westm. 14 Septembris Consimiles literae conscriptae Rico Episc. London Rico. Episc. Bath Wells Johanni Episcopo Eliensi Rico. Episcopo Sar. Abbi de Waltham sancti Crucis Abbati Westminst Johanni de Warrenia Com. Sarum Rico. Com. Arundel Humf. de Bohun Com. Heref. Willielmo de Clinton Com. Huntington Laurenc de Hastings Com. Pembrochiae Rad. Basset de Drayton Tho. Wake de Lullell Barthol de Bourchew Rogero de Grey Hen. de Grey Hugo le Despencer Johanni de Grey de Rotherfield Johanni de Stonore Henrico Hussey Willielmo de Shareshall Jacobo de Woodstock Richardo Talbot c. The Parliament holden at Westminster the Wednesday next after the Translation of S. Thomas the Martyr Anno 14 E. 3. DEclaration was made That the Parliament was called First to consult what was best for the King and his Allies to do to the Enemy being on the Sea To provide for the common peace of the Land for the defence of the North-Marches for the keeping of the Sea And how the King might be answered for the last Subsidy granted After this open Proclamation was made in VVestminster-Hall of the Articles in the last Parliament tit 2. On Thursday upon declaration made of the Kings victory of the Enemies and how for the performance of the same he was to be aided with money And day given until Saturday then ensuing to answer On Saturday the Lords and Commons granted to the King as in the last Parliament viz. The Ninth of their Corn Wooll and Lamb and many Devises made for the due answering of the same Hereupon came the Earl of Arundel and Sir VVilliam Trussel from the King with Letters of Credit under the Privy-seal directed to the Lords and Commons purporting his great Victory and no less necessity to have indelayed pay of money Which Letters are at large By the same Letters amongst other things it appeareth that the King got the victory on S. Iohns day in the Water of Swine in the Port there And that also the Kings Allies carried the King about Tournay with an hundred men and that Sir Robert de Artons carried him at S. Havers with five men In the end the King sheweth great cause of danger and more of dishonor without present aid and requireth further credit in the Bearers After this certain Bishops Lords and Knights there named do appoint of their own credit to spare the King twenty thousand sacks of wooll every sack to be sold five marks under the price made at Nott. so as the King should be answered for every of the sacks of the best sort six pounds for others five poundsâ— and for the worst four marks over and above forty shillings Custom for every sack whereof present return should be made to the King An order taken that the Subsidy of the next year should be imployed for the paiment of these Woolls and to be confirmed by the Kings Letters-Patents Provision is appointed to be made for the King two parts at Sandwich and the third at Southampton of Wheat two thousand Quarters of Beans and Pease five hundred Quarters of Bacon eight hundred of Ale two hundred Tuns of Cheese forty Wayes of Wine an hundred Tuns Ambrose de Bewburgh is appointed for the Purvey at Sandwich Sir Iohn de Waterhall at Southampton Four thousand four hundred pounds is assigned to the Kings Butler out of the Aid of Essex and Oxon. The King of Scots shall have as in the last Parliament tit 4 5. who with forty men at arms is appointed to serve at Carlisle Certain by the advice of the Earl of Angos and of the Lord Piercy shall be appointed to set forth the Arrays of Yorkshire Nottingham and Derby to Newcastle upon Tine and so to the Marches Such Parsons of Churches as pay their Tenths shall pay no Ninth The Sheriff of Southampton is appointed to repair to the Constable of the Castle of Carisbrook and Wight and there to muster the men of the same Isle and to choose a Keeper of the same until further order Others to make enquiry of the like on this side Trent A Writ of Warrant to be directed to the Sheriff of York to deliver the body of the Earl of Norfolk to the Bishop of Duresm the Lord Piercy and Sir Ralph Nevil They to do further according to their Commission That Prior-Aliens and others who have their Possessions in Farm of the King shall pay no Ninths A Writ to gather no Ninths of any Religious person who payeth his Desme and was not summoned to the Parliament until Michaelmas next That such Hospitals as have not heretofore been taxed shall pay no Ninths Every Sheriff by Writ shall cause some certain Merchants of every City and Town within their Bailiwick to appear before the Council at a day and proclaim that no person buy any Wools before the King be served whereunto all Customers shall have an eye That the gathering of the Ninths for the Isle of Wight be stayed until Michaelmas It is enacted That twenty thousand Sacks of Wooll granted to the King shall be taken in whose hands the same may be found or Agreement to be made therefore of the two payments of the Ninths Henry Gould le Better Thomas Gray William of Lancaster and Iohn of Luttrington take Fifteen hundred Sacks of Wooll within the County of York to pay for every Sack 4 l. 10 s. over and above 40 s. Custom within three weeks Hardolf of Barto Merchant of Hull and Thomas Thurwit Merchant of Beverley took One thousand Sacks of Wooll Five hundred of Nottingham at 4 l. 13 s. 4 d. the Sack and Five hundred at Derby at 3 l. 3 s. 4 d. the Sack over and above 40 s. Custom to pay as next before Thomas of Loveshed William de Mallerstrange and Banbridgeâ— Merchants of York
if may be devised It is enacted That the party indicted may challenge his Indictor It is enacted That every person arrested into the Marshalsey may tell his own tale and that the Officers there do not pass the Verge That the Chancellor and Treasurer may be Peers of the Realm and no Stranger appointed thereunto neither that they attend any other Office The King will appoint such Officers as shall best like him That no mean man but the best of every County may be appointed to take Accompts of such as owe to the King As next before The King will appoint such as shall best like him That the Outlaws upon the 21 Title of this Parliament may be reversed The King granteth excepting all Accomptants and Transporters of Wooll uncustomed the forfeiture of Customs therefore of Conspirators Rioters and bringers in of old false money That the King will retain all the lands and profits of the Crown The King will do herein according to advice of Councel That remedy may be had against such as remaining in Prisons do for the lucre of the Gaolers appeal sundry men of good name in forein Countries The Justices of Assize shall do them right That no Common Fine of any Country be from henceforth made but that every man may be particularly punished The King willeth the same That the excessive Fines set on the Kings Subjects by such as have Leets may be redressed The King would the same It is enacted That good examination and correction be had in Towns enfranchised touching Weights and Measures so that the Statute may be duly observed It is enacted That Commissioners shall be made of Measures Alnage and Weights except of the Alnage whereof the King hath granted certain liberties to the Flemings wherein if any default be the same shall be amended The Chancellor and Treasurer shall appoint certain Fees for every Justice of Peace It is enacted That no Sheriff from henceforth be Justice but men of good learning and name The King granted no Writs to delay the Assize taken but in case of necessity by the assent of the Nobles neither will otherwise hereafter which if he do the same to be void Such Counties as have made Fine severally or in common shall be free therefore for ever That the Kings Debtors in the Exchequer may rebate the same Kings debts for debts due to them The King will be advised That all Justices of the Peace yearly at Michaelmas certifie their Extracts into the Exchequer as Justices of Assize do according to the Statute made at York in the eighth year of Edward the Second Tit. The Statute shall be kept That the Statute of Westminster may be declared what ways a Tenant in tail may alien The Law therein heretofore shall stand It is enacted That Non-claim of Fines levied surrendred do bar no man of his Action That the Executor of the Executor may have the like Action as the Testator had and that the Administrator may have the like The case of the Executor is against the Law and to the Administrator the Bishop shall have the action sith he is to answer That no man be impleaded in Court Christian for Tenths of Wood or Underwood but in places accustomed As heretofore the same shall be It is enacted That Parceners and Jointenants against whom Recoveries were had upon any Action ancestrial on Summons and Severance may and shall have their Writs without naming the others who recovered It is enacted That a Stone of Wooll shall contain but fourteen pounds and that twenty six Stone make a Sack It is also agreed That the Sheriffs shall continue but one whole year and that all Sheriffs be removed out of their Offices the day after All-Souls and that others be therein placed by the Chancellor Treasurer and Justices and Barons of the Exchequer That the Laws of the Realm be free and denied to no man the which are now so dear as no man can well follow them Let declaration done by Ordinaries by taking upon them cognisance of the Temporal Laws be redressed They shall answer to the Law That the Kings Officers may receive the Coin of Farthings and that they may be good Sterling and not utterly revoked Let the good money be as heretofore until other order On the back-side of the Roll Are contained sundry Articles of Advice given by the Merchants of the Staple to the whole Parliament containing in effect these heretofore named To abate the prices of the Florines to raise Forty shillings Custom in every Sack of Wooll and to establish the Staple rather in England then beyond the Seas and there you may see the strange practice for abusing the Staple The Commons find great default of Provisions coming from Rome whereby strangers were enabled within this Realm to enjoy Ecclesiastical dignities and shewed divers inconveniences ensuing thereby namely the decay of Hospitality the transporting of the Treasure to nourish the Kings mortal enemies the discovering of the secrets of the Realm and the disinabling and impoverishing the Clerks within this Realm They also shew how the Pope had in most covert wise granted to two new Cardinals sundry Livings within this Realm and namely to Cardinal Parrigots above ten thousand marks yearly tax They therefore require the King and Nobles to find some remedy for that they neither could nor would any longer bear those strange oppressions or else to help them to expell out of this Realm the Popes power by force The King understanding of these mischiefs willeth that between the Lords and Commons some remedy may be had whereto he might c. Hereupon the King Lords and Commons sent for an Act made at Carlisle in the 25 year of Edward the First upon the like complaint thereby forbidding that any thing should be attempted or brought into the Realm which should tend to the blemishment of the Kings Prerogative or in prejudice of his Lords and Commons And so at this time the Act called The Act of Provision was made by common consent which generally forbiddeth the bringing in of any Bull or such trinkets from the Court of Rome or the using allowing or enjoying of any such Bull Process Instruments or such Ware as thereby at large doth appear Anno decimo Octavo Edwardi Tertii Rex c. Henrico Comiti Lanc. c. apud Westm. die Lunae post Octabis Sanctae Trinitatis c. Teste Rege apud Westm. 20 Aprilis c. IOhanni de Warrenna Com. Sarum Hugoni de Courtney Com. Devon Willielmo Bohun Com. Northampton Willielmo de Clinton Com. Huntington Hugoni de Audeley Com. Glouc. Gilberto de Umfravil Com. de Anigos Laur. de Hastings Com. Pembrok
bestowed upon the Churches Noblemen and famous Towns of Normandie And of the Revenues of the Church of England the French King shall yearly have twenty thousand pounds saving the Popes rights And that surrender be made to the Scots of whatsoever hath at any time been taken from them After which Order read the same Messengers required the whole Estate to be advised what aid they will grant to the King for the furtherance of his enterprise The Commons require respite until Thursday then ensuing The same Thursday the Commons by a Schedule declare the sundry particular former aids the Imposition of forty shillings custome of Wool extorted of them against Law besides the arraying of men and common taking of Purveyors notwithstanding they graâ—t to the King two fifteens in two years that then the latter fifteen do also cease Petitions of the Commons with their Answers That all the Acts of Parliament before made may be observed so as they pass forth no Commissions for arraying of men The first point the King granteth of the rest he will be advised That such as were fined for not arraying of men may therefore be discharged The King will be advised That all within six miles of the Sea may have a Supersedeas for arraying of men That such as keep the Sea-coasts shall have a Supersedeas It is enacted That the Coining in all places shall be open as heretofore It is enacted That the Bringer of False money into the Realm shall lose life and member And that the Justices of Assise and of the Peace shall enquire of the same That the Kings Receivers may receive as well Gold as Silver and that the Changers thereof be not without Parliament The first is granted the second respited That the Forty shillings Subsidy of every Sack of Wooll may cease The King must first therein be moved The paiment be made for the last taking up of victuals Order shall be taken therein That the best of every County may be Justices of Peace and that they may determine all Felonies The first point is granted For the second the King will appoint learned Justices That the keeping of the Sea may from henceforth be at the Kings charge It shall be kept as heretofore it hath been That Sheriffs in every County may have sufficient in their Counties and that none of those Offices be granted for life or in Fee That Purveyors not taking the Constables with them according to the Statute of Westminster may be taken as Theeves and that Justices of Assise and Peace may enquire of the same The Statute made shall be observed That the Fifteens in Towns and antient Demesns be levied as in the bodies of Counties without increase The same shall be levied according to accustomed use That all Justices of Enquires be sworn as Justices of the Bench and that the Chief of them have power to swear the rest Such Justices shall be sworne as appertaineth so as they shall take nothing but meat and drink and that of small value and the Chief shall swear all the rest That the Fifteens beyond Trent be imployed only upon the defence of the North. The King will foresee the defence aforesaid That strangers enemies of the Realm and remaining now in Newgate may be judged during the Parliament They shall remain there till further order That no Charter of Pardon may be granted since the Kings last passage Advice shall be taken It is enacted That Lumbards and other Merchants shall receive gold for their ware without any other compact or pain of Fine or imprisonment That all Alien Monks do avoid the Realm by Michaelmas and that their livings be disposed to yong English Schollars The persons being spiritual cannot be tryed by Parliament their livings being in the Kings hands and without him cannot be disposed That the King may take the profits of all other strangers livings as Cardinals and others during their lives The King taketh the profits and the Councel hath sent their Petition to the King That such Aliens enemies as be advanced to livings they being in their own Countries Shoomakers Taylors or Chamberlains to Cardinals may depart before Michaelmas and their livings disposed to poor English Schollers As Tit. 3. That no payment be suffered to be made to any Cardinals living in France to intreat of war or peace The same is granted as reasonable That Aliens buying provisions or provisors do avoid the Realm as before or to be out of the Law The Statute heretofore made shall be observed and the King shall signifie to the Pope thereof That the yearly advancement of two thousand Marks granted out of the Provinces of Canterbury may be restrained and such as shall persue therefore to be out of the Law The Lords think the same but reasonable and it is further commanded that no such be from henceforth received It is enacted that whosoever shall bring into the Realm any Aliens enemies in any vessel that the same vessell be forfeited and the bodie of the bringers at the Kings pleasure That no Englishman do take any thing in Farm of any Alien religious nor buy any of their goods nor be of their Councel on pain of perpetual imprisonment These are against the Kings profit who lacketh such profits of the Farmers It is enacted that during the Wars no person do transport or send any money to the Pope nor to any Bishop or other Alien for what duty whatsoever Order shall be taken with every General of all houses of Fryers that they shall so look to all Fryers Aliens as that they shall not disclose the secrets of the Realm Where the Commons request was that those Fryers should depart the Realm never to return That the pension of seven shillings which Raymond Pilegrin receiveth yearly of every house of Religion within the Realm may cease The same Raymond is the Kings liegeman born in Gascoin and is sworn to be of the Kings Councel who by his procuracy receiveth the same That the yearly Pension of two thousand pound paid to the Abbot of Cluny the Kings enemy may cease for ever The same is payed there It is enacted that no person do bring into the Realm to any Bishop or other any Bull or other Letters from Rome or from any Alien unless he shew the same to the Chancellor or Warden of the Cinque-Ports on losse of all that he hath That the Statute made that the King should present to any Church of his gift falling void at any time within three years so as if the Parson had continued therein for three years that he should not be put out may stand The King will
be advised It is enacted that all religious persons for lands purchased since the twentieth of Edw. 3. and paying no Desmie therefore amongst the Clergie shall pay fifteens After this Mr. Iohn Charlton one of the Messengers aforesaid brought Letters from the Bishop of Durham from the Earls of Northampton Arundel Warwick Oxon and Suffolk and from Sir Hugh le Dispencer Lord of Glamorgan directed to the whole estate of Parliament and purporting that where the King at his arrivall at Hoges in Normandie had made his eldest son the Prince of Wales a Knight whereby he ought to have aid of the Realm as appertaineth Viz. forty shillings for every Knights Fee whereunto they all granted and took Order for the speedy levying of the same It is ordered in full Parliament at the request of the Commons that the Benefices of all Aliens should be seized into the Kings hand and he to take the profit of the same and that all Bishops should before the next Convocation certifie into the Chancery the Names of all Aliens their Benefices and values An Act as before that no Alien should send any Letters Tit. 42â— Anno Vicesimo primo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the morrow after S. Hilary in the 21 year of the Reign of King Edw. 3. of England and of France the 8 th PRoclamation made the first day by the Kings Commandment That no person shall use or bear any Arms within London and the Suburbs or in any place between the said City and Pallace of Westminster nor in no other part of the Pallace by Land or by Water except such of the Kings people as he shall appoint to keep the Kings peace and the Kings Ministers according to the Statute of Northampton yet Earls and Barons may wear their swords except in the Kings presence and place of Councel Receivers of Petitions for England and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for the Clergy Triers of Petitions Because divers Lords were not come the Parliament was continued from day to day thrice Viz. until Thursday following at which time William de Thorp in presence of the King Prelates Earls Barons and Commons declared that the Parliament was called for two causes the first Concerning the War which the King had undertaken by the consent of the Lords and Commons against his enemies of France The second How the peace of England may be kept Whereupon the King willed the Commons to consult together and that within four dayes they should give answer to the King and his Councel what they think therein The fourth day the Commons declare That they are not able to Councel any thing touching the point of the war wherefore they desire in that behalf to be excused and that the King will thereof advise with his Nobles and Councel and what shall be so amongst them determined they the Commons will assent unto confirm and establish Petitions of the Commons with their Answers That the Laws of Holy Church and of the Land and that the Peace be kept for which purpose they desire That no great person do maintain no Traitors Felons Robbers Trespassers against the peace Barretors Maintainers Confederators Embracers of business Conspirators Champtors and the like by which falsities the Peace is disturbed and the Laws frustrated and that certain Ordinances be made for punishment of such Offendors That to the intent that the Laws may be duly and indifferently ministred the King will be pleased so to encrease the fees of the knight Barons Justices Ministers and Officers and that they may be sworn to take nothing Touching the first point the King will call the great persons to him and will move this Article to them and with their advice will ordain such remedy as shall be pleasing to God and man Touching the second the King will advise what other Ministers shall be fit to take the Oath and will do what shall be needfull That all these Petitions which be for the common profit may be answered in Parliament before the Commons so as they may know the Endorsment and have remedie according to the Ordinance of Parliament That whereas the Scots by Covin with Philip de Valâ—is in the Kings absence did enter the Realm of England with all their hoast burning and destroying the Land and feloniously committing robberies murders c. And whereas in a Battel at Durham divers of them were slain and some of their Chieftains as David de Brays William Douglas and others were by force there taken and are in the Kings power that he will be pleased so to take order with them by his Councel that he and his people be not in little danger and that they may give surety for their good behaviour The King by advice de ses Grantz will provide so as shall be best Whereas the Staple of Wooll which is holden at Bruges in Flanders hath used to be free so as all Merchants might there freely buy merchandise and carry the same from thence whither they lift by Land or Sea and now the same freedom is restrained so as none can freely buy and carry from thence according to the antient usage with them of Flanders and Brabant And they of Brabant cannot bring their Wools bought in the Staple out of the Town of Bruges without sureties that the Wools shall be uttered in the Country of Brabant or that they bring Letters from the Town of Bruges without sureties in what Town of Brabant those Wools shall be uttered whereby the price of Wooll is much abased Also the three good Towns of Flanders Gant Bruges Ipre will not suffer the small Towns which were wont to buy great quantities of Wools to make Cloth but do destroy their Instruments to the abasement likewise of the price of Wools. Also the paiment of Gold is at so high a price in those parts that a man shall lose in Exchange the third penny and more for which matters it may please the Parliament to provide remedy The King will that the Ordinance of the Staple shall be viewed and that Thomas Melchburn with whom the Patent touching that Ordinance doth remain be called to bring the same with him and that some Merchants of the Country who best understand this matter and the King by advice of his Council will provide remedy Whereas in a Council holden by Lionel the Kings son the Guardian of England it was in the 21 year of the King ordered without the Commons That for keeping the Realm and safe conduct of ships should be taken upon every sack of Wooll passing the seas two shillings upon every Tun of Wine two shillings upon every pound Desavoires brought back into the Realm six pence and this charge to continue until Michaelmas next coming which charge is yet demanded
That whereas recovery is had in Wapentakes Hundreds Court Barons in debts covenant and other actions there pleadable the Bailiffs of those Courts do fount distress de Chatull de viss in lien of Execution according to the usage of the County which so remain oft-times very long before greement be made with the Plaintiff that if gree ' be not made with the plaintiff within fifteen dayes after judgement the Bailiffs of such Courts by the Oath of three or four des mientz homes de la ville ou lezecution serra in the presence of the plaintiff shall apprize the goods so taken by force of the judgement to the very value and sell them and if they cannot find such as will buy then to deliver the same to the Recoverer at that value Let the ancient Law be held untill it please the King by his Councel otherwise to ordain That whereas it was lately ordained and assented by the King and his Councel that the men and horses of the Kings houshold should not be harbinged in any part of the County but by Bill of the Marshal of the house and that they should deliver those Bills to the Constables of Towns and should be harblnged by them and that the Constables should cause them to have such sustenance for themselves and their horses as shall be meet and should cause their victuals to be prised by men of the same Towns sworne and that they before their departure thence should pay the parties of whom their victuals were taken And also it was assented that the horses and harness might be arrested untill they did pay for their victuals But now they go from Town to Town and harbinge themselves without any Constable and take mens goods without payment or apprising And if perhaps they bring Bills to the Constable therein is no mention made for how many horses or for how long So as they charge the Country at their own pleasure and depart without making paiment That in every Bill mention be made for how many horses Livery shall be made and that no horse have more then one Garson The Bill to be delivered to the Constable and he to make the price by men sworne of the Town so as the parties make paiment from day to day for such victuals according to the price without other delays according to the Statute The King is pleased that this Article and every point in it comprised be kept in all points according to the form of the Statute That Writs of Attaint be granted in Writs of Debt and in all other Writs and Bills where the Demands or the Damages do amount unto Forty shillings as well in Enquest past as to pass The antient Laws shall remain until the King be better advised Whereas divers Ministers of the King and others do sue tam pro Domino Rege quam pro seipsis whereas the whole Principal and Damages recovered doth go to themselves and not to the King in which case a man cannot have an Attaint or a Writ of Error That in such case Writs of Attaint may be granted as well for Enquests past and Judgments given as for Enquests to pass and Judgment to be given Touching Writs of Error let them be granted And as for Writs of Attaint the same was never ordained That a Writ of Scire facias may lie in case of garnishment which issueth out of a Judgment or of a Recognisance as well of debt as of damages as in case touching Land and in every other case where garnishment lieth where the thing whereof Execution is demanded amounteth to Forty shillings as well of Execution awarded as to be awarded Let the antient Law be kept until the King shall be pleased otherwise to ordain That Judgments given in the Exchequer may be redressed and reversed if therein be Error in the Kings Bench as well as Error given in the Common-Pleas and not before themselves that gave the same for it is not likely that a man will have a good conceit against his own opinion The King is pleased that when any man complaineth of Error given in the Exchequer the Chancellor and Treasurer and two Justices shall be assigned by Commission to cause the Record to be brought before them in the Exchequer and the Process of the Plea wherein Error is supposed and the same to correct as shall appertain The Merchants of Cities and Boroughs and the Commonalty of the Land shew that the Merchants are disturbed to buy and sell the Commodities of the Land as Tin of Cornwall may now be bought by no Merchant but by one stranger Tidman of Limberghe who buyeth all and sendeth over the Sea And pray that no such Merchandise be sold in gross but to the Commonalty of Merchants That is a profit belonging to the Prince and every Lord may make his profit of his own That no person by the voluntary suggestion or Certificate of an Accuser be by Writ sent for to come before the Kings Council where they are often inforced to make Fines or to lay down great sums of money or otherwise adjournez outre le meer as hath been heretofore often done but that such grievances be not afterward done The King is pleased that hereafter such things be not done against reason That all men may freely pass Wooll over the Seas at their pleasure paying the antient Custom of half a mark which thing was ordained by the Kings Charter That Subsidy was granted for a time yet enduring within which time the King will advise with his Council what shall be best to be done therein for the good of the people That the Statute whereby it is ordained that Sheriffs and Escheators shall be sufficient persons within the County and they not to remain longer then one year may be kept The King is pleased that the Statute shall be kept but when a good Sheriff is found his Commission shall be renewed and he newly sworne That the new Custom lately set viz. upon every Cloth carried forth by English Merchants 14 d. and by strangers 21 d. and upon every Worsted cloth 1 d. and of strangers 1 d. ob and of every Lit. 10 d. and of strangers 15 d. may be taken away The King Prelates Counts autres Grantz will that this Custom shall stand for it is good reason that such a profit be taken of Clothes wrought within the Realm and carried forth as of Wools out of the Land rateable the Cloth as the Sack That the Statute of Winchester and other Statutes made by the King and his Progenitors be kept and that the people be not grieved contrary to these Statutes The King is pleased that the Statute of Winchester and the other be kept Whereas the Aviners of the King Queen and
Prince severally do come yearly and assess Towns severally at Ten Quarters of Oats more or less at their pleasure and the same do cause to be carried away without paying for the same That such Tallages and Purveyance may be taken away The King hath and will forbid it and that no man take contrary to such prohibition saving to him the Queen his Companion and their Children their rightful takings That whereas the four great Rivers of England viz. Thames Tese Ouse and Trent were wont from Antiquity to be open and free for every Ship to pass with Merchandises and now of late daily the said Rivers are stopped and turned aside by Goors Mills Piles and Pales erected by every Lord against his own Land so as Ships cannot pass without danger That Justices may be assigned in every County to enquire of this business and to remove the oppression The King is pleased that such and so many Commissions shall be granted as reasonably shall be needful and that every man shall be heard that will complain for himself and the King That whereas a man is indicted and appealed of Felony and doth render himself at the Exigent although he be afterwards acquitted of the Fâ—lony yet his Chattels are forfeited without enquiry whether he did flie or withdraw himself Forasmuch as a man may be indicted in a forein Country being ignorant of it That therefore no man hereafter lose his Chattels but where it is found by Verdict that he withdrew himself Let the antient Law be kept until the King by advice of his Councel shall otherwise ordain That from henceforth no franchise Royal Land Fee or Advowson which belong or be annexed to the Crown be given or severed from the Crown The King will advise with his Councel that nothing shall be done in such case but to the honour of him and his Realm Whereas the Horses of the King the Queen and the Prince do wander into divers parts doing much hurt and damage to the people by taking of Hay Oats c. contrary to Ordinances already made That the King will ordain that those Horses may abide in some certain place of the County where they are and that purveyance may be made for them in convenient time of the year by the Depuâ—ies as may be agreed between them and the owners of these goods and that enquiry may be of all the ill behaviour of those takers before this time and that by Commissions the Plaintiff or parties grieved in this kind as well of wrongs heretofore done or hereafter to be done may be heard and determined The King is pleased that the Ordinances already made shall be kept and that purveyances may be made for his best profit and ease of the people Whereas it hath been ordained That all men may passe freely with their Wools and other Merchandise certain Merchants that have of the King the Custome and Subsidie for a certain sum yearly by colour of a bargain or purchase which they have made of the Kings Wools will suffer no man to passe over Wools but only thâ—ir proper Wools except they pay two Marks for a sack of Wool above the Custom and Subsidy to the great damage of the people and abâ—sement of the price of Wools whereof they desire remedy and that the Merchants may answer in this Parliament for such their out-rage done to the people Let the Merchants be called into the Parliament and Answer The poor Merchants shew That whereas Wools were taken at Dordraghe to the Kings use for which by Parliament allowance was made to the Merchants for their debts out of the Subsidy and Custom granted to the King Viz. twenty shillings for every sack carried over Sea And whereas a great part of the rich Merchants are satisfied of the Subsidie and Custom aforesaid and the poor Merchants yet behind of that which to them belongeth by reason that the rich Merchants have sued to the King that they and no other puissent a chatre les dits debts des poures merchants and to take allowance of the King and pay little to the poor Merchants but at their own will so as the rich Merchants are satisfied and the poor undone That therefore the King will pay them part of their debts or make to them assignment of part thereof and they will lose to the King the other part of their said debt or that the King will make to them such allowance as he made to the rich Merchants The King is pleased that the poor Merchants that are not satisfied shall shew to the Treasurer their Obligations and Patents whereof the Treasurer shall inform the King and he by advice will take Order that gree be made unto them assoon as he well may That whereas Edw. 1. lately granted to the people Purlieu through all the Forrest of England and granted to every man that would his Charter containing the bounds of the Forrests according to such Purlieu And afterward Edw. â— confirmed the same by his Charter which hath so continued untill of late the Kings Ministers have and do daily afforrest that which was dis-afforrested and put into regard that which was out of regard contrary to the Purlieus and the Charters of the said King also that the Ministers do summon mâ—an folk of forrain places to Indict people at their pleasure and make them travell from place to place and threaten them until they make Indictments at their appointment and desire And these Ministers purpose to afforrest Towns neer Forrests where are no wilde Beasts and do often grieve the people by the often coming of Forresters without profit to the King And whereas a Forrest is in divers Counties the Kings Ministers take folk of the one and the other County and by force make men of one County to indict men of another County of matters whereof they are ignorant of which grievances a man can have no Writ nor other remedy in the Chancery whereof they pray remedy The King is pleased That the Charter of the Forrests be kept in all points As touching Purlieus if any man will complain let him shew his grievance and thereupon he shall have a Writ in the Chancery and right shall be done him That Inquiry may be by good men why the King taketh no profit of that which he hath in Ireland Come toutz ses auncestors avoint ad de bien de la come pur maintenance sa guerre Seeing he hath more in Ireland then any of his Ancestors had and if default be found in the Ministers that such other be put in their places which will answer the King of the reasonable profit thereof The King is pleased that it shall be so Whereas many upon an Inquest of Office found for the King are put out of their Lands
and cannot afterwards upon great suit be ended in the Chancery to have their right discussed even to the disherison of divers That remedy may be provided so as without delay the right may be discussed and the party restored to his Land if his right be found Let the same Law be kept as heretofore was done and if any man find himself grieved let him shew himself specially his case and he shall have right Whereas a man for Treason doth forfeit all his lands to the King of whomsoever the same be holden that where the King doth grant away those lands without saying To hold of himself the Law may be declared in certain Whether the Donee shall hold of the King or of the former lord And where the King giveth those lands to hold of himself le quell le Chartre est repellable eant regarde a les seruises on nemy The King is pleased that in such case it shall be as it hath been in the times of his Progenitors of the Auncestors des gentz de la terre and if Declaration be hereof to be made the same shall be by good advice among other Articles whereof new Law is required Whereas Commissions went forth to enquire of all such as have in lands Five pounds Ten pounds Twenty pounds Forty pounds and above unto One hundred marks which Enquests were with much diligence per milts Gentz des Countees thereunto sworne and returned into the Chancery whereupon went forth Writs out of the Exchequer to levy of some the double of some treble that by good Enquâ—sts was found for Archers Hoblers and men of war contrary to Law and also Writs went forth to levy of some small Towns which are neither Cities nor Boroughs Twenty marks Twenty pounds at pleasure without any manner of Process The Commons thereof pray remedy De si Come nostre Sieur le Roy ad promise de sun bon grace de fair droit as jouiz geeva que plendre se voudront If any such Imposition have been made the same was upon great necessity and with the assent of the Counts Barons autres Grantz and some of the Commons then present Nevertheless the King will not that such Imposition be unduly drawn in consequence Whereas the King hath ordained two Great Seals for sealing of Judicial Writs in the Common-Pleas and Kings-Bench for every of wâ—ich Judicial Writs the Commons pay seven pence and for Originals six pence That he will ordain a Small Seal for Judicial Writs so as men may pay but Three pence for a Seal of a Judicial Writ to the great ease of the people and then will more Writs be purchased to the Kings great advantage For now the suit is so hard and dear that the mean sort are not able to pursue their rights Unto poor men shall be given for Gods lake and it is reason that such as are able do pay as in former times hath been used That where Land is given to a man and his wifeâ— their Estate is now dispunishable of Waste though they have no childe between them whereby often happeneth great damage and disherison to him in the Reversion That a Writ of Waste in such case may lie Let this remain among other Articles whereof new Law is required That Writs of Possession may lie of Lands devisable in case where they are not â—evised as of other Lands and in case such Lands be devised there to be saved to the Tenants their Answers Let this remain among other Articles whereof new Law is required That the Archbishop of Canterbury and the other Prelates have of late made a Constitution to give Tythes of Underwood only sold where heretofore no such Tythes were paid And further that now the Church-men by force of the said Constitution do take and demand Tythes as well of Great wood as of Underwood sold contrary to that which hath been used time out of mind Wherefore as well of one point as of the other they pray remedy The Archbishop of Canterbury and the other Bishops have answered That such Tythes are not demanded by force of the said Constitution but only of Underwood Whereas divers Aids have been granted to the King for maintenance of his Wars to the intent the same should be wholly to his profit divers Merchants by confederacie amongst themselvâ—s have colourably and covertly by way of Usury bargained wâ—th the King and have imposed upon these goods great sums viz. upon every Sack of Wooll Twenty three shillings four pence de pardonne en le Bargain ou pluis sont tenus de prendre a very value les biens le â—oy on dapestera lui lour deniers que touz les auters poures de sa Come de les donor Also in their payments they have allowance of Bills gained by Brocages of Debts due by the King ou ils achatent a liure ascune 12 d. ascune per 2 s. where there is more reason the King should have that advantage then they Also after their bargain at their suit there hath been stay and forbidding that no English Wooll may pass over Sea whereby the King hath lost his Subsidy and Custom too as much as they made chiâ—vesance by reason of which stay the Commons could not sell their Wools to pay their Fifteens and other charges And further some of the Collectors and their Deputies in gathering the said Wools have used great extorcion upon the people by false Weights Wherefore they pray the particulars may be examined in Parliament in presence of some persons to be assigned by the Commons to the end that the goods of the people taken for the Kings use may reasonably and wholly be turned to his profit so as the parties accused may not be excused against the King by fained and colourable Answer as between Merchant and Merchant The King will appoint some of the Sages of his Council to hear and determine the things contained in this Article And if any of the Commons can inform the King for his profit of any thing contained in this Article let him set it down in certain and the Justices appointed to enquire of false money shall have power to enquire of the Processes of such Ministers That the King by advice of his Council will provide remedy against the Popes Collations now of late made to Abbies and Priories which heretofore were never seen and are against the Liberties of the Church and to the disherison of the King and other Lords that are Patrons and blemishment of the Religious persons of England when these promotions shall be collated on strangers not fit and perhaps are Cardinals The King will advise with his Council what in this case shall be best to be done The Commons pray remedy That whereas men were about to prove Wills before the Official
Laws of the Realm also he will acquit himself by his Oath with one hundred Knights That he was not guilty of that for which he was banished and if his Oath be not due He will that the Archbishop Bishops and all the Priests of England do excommunicate him And yet if any man will say it against him he will defend himself by his body against all men except the Kings blood that it may please the King to end the same matters Forasmuch as Petition hath been made to the King that where villianage is alledged against the Demandant or Plaintiff the same should be tryed by the County where the partie alledging the exception doth lay the birth of the Defendant or Plaintiff to have beenâ— which Petition is against the law and usage to the great mischief of the Commons as appeareth by the pleading at the Assizes and other pleadings which are to be pleaded and determined in the Counties where the demand is or trespasses done que duissent purtant estre trop delayes a disheritance de la dit come and that which worse is If the Petition should be granted every man would alledge this exception against his adversary and would chuse a County at his pleasure whereby any freeman might by such means be made servile For by such exception alledged by un grant de la terre against a mean person the same should be tryed in a forreign County where his greatneâ—s is and where the mean man nor his Ancestors never came therefore the King will have regard to these and other mischiefs if the Petition should proceed and to the good laws and customs of the land and them to maintain without regard to the Petition of any single person against the Law of the land Whereas Lionel the Kings son and Elizabeth his wife do hold the County of Hulnester in Ireland in right and heritage of the said Elizabeth and forasmuch as if the said Elizabeth should dye without Issue the said County is to descend unto divers Persons whereof some are enemies to the King which Parceners would enter into the said heritage and would move war against the King as well in Ireland as elsewhere that against this evill and danger the King in this Parliament will provide remedy by the advice of the Prelates Counts and Barons and others of his Councel Iohn Wettenham and Walter de Cheriton Merchants desire that whereas the Commons have complained against them by divers Bills in Parliamentâ— Viz. that they have done divers extortions grievances and prejudices to the King and Commons Forasmuch as they have imployed their pains and diligence to serve the King and have therein suffered many mischiefs that the King will command the said Merchants to come before the Councel to answer whatsoever shall be objected and to declare their estate so as other Merchants hereafter may not doubt to deal with the King in Cheevances nor no other businesses as occasion shall require That none may chase or kill the Kings game when the same do scape out of the Forrests but only the Lords of the Woods and of the Soil where such game are found and that some certain punishments be ordered for them which shall do otherwise Whereas the Commons are charged to advise the King how the Peace of the land may be better kept To which was answered that in every County six persons of whom two to be des pluis grantz and two Knights and two men of Law and so more or lesse as need shall be and they to have power and Commission out of the Chancery to hear and determine the keeping of the Peace Et que counts traylebastoneries ne courgent as heretofore was assented by Parliament for they were the destruction of the people to small or no amendment of the Law or Peace nor punishment of Felons or Trespassers Wherefore because the Commons have so long continued together to their great costs and mischief they desire answer of this Bill lour deliverance Anno Vicesimo secundo Edwardi Tertii Rex c. Henrico Com. Lanc. c. apud Westm. die Lunae post mediam Dominicam Quadragesimae Teste Rege apud Westmonast 14 die Februarii Consimiles Literae subscriptae WIllielmo Bohun Comiti Northampton Henrico Bohun Com. Hereff. Essex Humfrido de Courtney Com. Devon Willielmo de Clinton Com. Huntington Ricardo Com. Arundel Thomae de Bello campo Com. Warr. Johanni de Vere Com. Oxoniae Gilberto de Humfravil Com. de Anegos Roberto de Ufford Com. Suff. Laurentio de Hastings Com. Pembroke Johanni de Mowbray Henrico Fitzhugh Barthol de Burghurst seniori Henrico Piercie Rado Baroni de Stafford Ricardo Talbot de Morley Waltero de Mamcy Thomae de Berkeley Johanni de Seagrave Thomae de Lucie Johanni Harrington Petro de malo lacu le Quint. Rado Bulmer Reginaldo de Cobham Reginaldo de Grey Rogero de Grey Rogero de Chandos Johanni de Charleton Johanni de Willoughby Henrico Hussey Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Johanni Bardolfe Nicolao de Cantilupo Johanni de Fauconbridge Thomae Wake de Ridall de Bradston Thomae de Bugworth Anno Vicesimo secundo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Monday next after the week in the midst of Lent Anno 22. Edwardi Tertii FOR that sundry of the Lords were not at this day come the Parliament was continned untill Tuesday and from thence Wednesday at the which day Sir William de Thorpe the Lord Chief Justice in the presence of the King and Lords by the Kings commandment declared That the Parliament was called for Two Causes The first How according to the Truce taken at Callice the King had accordingly sent Messengers to the Pope and looked for return of Answer before the last Parliament which now was not come for that also as sundry points of the Truce touching the King and his Allies were not performed And further For that sundry of the French prepared a puissant Army to invade this Realm The second cause was For the preservation of the Peace wherefore the whole Estates were willed to consult in what wise it might be releived for the attaining of his attempt The Lords and Commons took great advice from day to day and in the end answered in effect following They first shew the great charges laid upon the Commons as the reasonable aid being pardoned in 14. E. 3. whereof every Fine was forty shillings the setting forth of men the taking of victuals not paid for for the keeping of the Seas The Subsidy of Wooll amounting to Threescore thousand pounds yearly and yet without Law the lending of twenty sacks of Wooll the restraint of passing over of Wooll Notwithstanding they Grant to the King three Fifteens in three years so as the Subsidy of Wooll might cease so as David le Bruce William Douglas and other Chieftains
in Scotland be not delivered for ransom or faith so as if the Wats do cease within three years that then their Grant might cease so as all other their Petitions ensuing be granted and these their conditions enrolled and exemplified Petitions of the Commons with their Answer That the falshoods of such as were appointed to gather the Two thousand sacks of Wooll lent to the King may be determined by some of the Parliament and that all Acquittances to any such made be repealed This was answered it the last Parliament and therefore commandment to execute the same That commandment be given to the Nobles in no wise to maintain a common Robber or Theif that two Knights in every Shire-town and two learned in the Law be appointed Justices to determine all offences and to enquire of false money they to have some Fee The same was answered in the last Parliament That all Petitions in this present Parliament may be presently answered After Easter the same shall be answered That all Wooll and other Merchandizes may freely pass without any Loans or other Subsides over the due Customs The passage shall be free saving to the King his due That no Eyres of the Forrests or other enquires other then of peace be kept during the Wars The King is to do his pleasure therein That none of the Nobles nor other Captains of Scotland being the Kâ—ngs prisoners be in any wise delivered The King will do more if need shall be That such aid as is levied beyond Trent may be imployed on the Wars in Scotland That no Appeals be received of any Felonies done in any other Counties then where the Appeals were taken The King is not advised to make such new Laws That redress may be had for that the men of Bridges in Flunders have forbid all Merchants strangers to buy any staple Ware here The King will talk with the Flemish Ambassador and further to the good of the towns there That all enquires of Nineths granted may cease The King will be advised That the Order made that all Merchants for every Sack of Wooll should bring in two marks of Bullion may be repealed for that carrying over of Bullion is forbidden in Flanders The King will learn the truth of the Ambassador here It is agreed that the Customers at Easter next stay the receipt of two shillings of every Sack of Wool That remedy may be found that no Accomptant in the Exchequer do run in issues before he be warned The Proces shall be first a Venire fac then a Distringas and after a Writ out of the Chancery to the Treasurer and Barons That the Common Law may stand to the Bill of the Navy exhibited in the last Parliament The King will be advised The like motion for three years as before tit 9. It seemeth good for the ease of the Subjects if great necessity do not otherwise cause That the Marshal letting to Bail or at large any person committed to him for the peace do answer damages The King will be advised That no man be barred by non claim A Law cannot so suddenly be made That the Jurors in every Inquest and great assize may say the verity of the fact as in assize of Novel Disseisin The Law shall be kept as heretofore That the Purveyors for all victualls with two honest men where they shall purvey do take by Indenture The Laws heretofore made do suffice That none coming to the Parliament by summons be appointed a Sessor or a Receiver of the Fifteens triennial The King wlll appoint such men as he shall like That the erroneous judgâ—ments in the Exchequer be reversed in the Kings Bench. This was answered in the last Parliament A long complaint against Forresters for Afforresting of mens Purleus for undue tryal and for extortions A request that the great Charter may be kept and that all men may injoy the purlieus according to the perambulation made in the time of King Edward the first The King would the Charter to be kept and such as will complain in the right of their purlieus may have Writs out of the Chancery Whereupon Surry and other Countries shewed that they could not upon suit have such Writs The Order made at the last Parliament shall be kept and general Writs or special shall be granted to all such as will sue therefore so as right be had to the King to the Subjects They pray that the petitions declared by them in the last Parliament whereunto the King and Lords had agreed may be kept and not altered by any new coloured Bill or practice The King by the assent of the Lords made answer then that Laws and process heretofore used could not be altered without making of new Statutes which as yet they could not attend but shortly would On the Backside of the same Roll. The Worsted Weavers of Norwich and the Merchants of the same pray that such Letters Pattents as the King had granted to Robert Poley one of his Valects of assay and one of the Alnage of Worsted in Norwich and elsewhere in Norfolk during the life of the said Robert might be revoked and that they might have the same whereto was answered as followeth It seemeth to the Councel that the same ought to be granted for the common profit of all Estates Anno Vicesimo quinto Edwardi Tertii Rex c. dilecto fideli suo Henrico Com. Lanc. salutem c. apud Westmonasterium in Octabis Purificationis beatae Mariae Virginis Teste Rege apud Westmonast 25 die Novembris 24. E. 3. Consimiles Literae sabscriptae EDwardo Principi Walliae Duci Cornubiae Com. Cestriae Willielmo de Bohun Com. Northumberland Hugoni de Bohun Com. Hereff. Essex Hugoni de Courtney Com. Devon Williel Clinton Com. Huntington Ricardo Com. Arundel Thomae de bello Campo Com. Oxoniae Gilberto Humfravil Com. de Anegos Roberto de Ufford Com. Suff. Willielmo de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Johanni de Mowbray Henrico de Piercie Willielmo de Roos de Hamalack Rado de Nevill Rado Baroni de Stafford Ricardo Talbot Roberto Morley Waltero de Manny Johanni de Seagrave Thomae de Berkly Thomae de Lucie Petro de malo lacu le Quint. Reginaldo de Cobham Henrico Fitzhugh Reginaldo de Grey seniori Rogero de Grey Johanni Willoughbie de Ersby Rogero Chandos Johanni de Cherlton Walter la Zouch de Harringworth Johanni Bardolf Willielmo Dâ—ynecourt Johanni Tibitot Johanni Fitzwalter â—â—lâ—ero de â—awâ—onbridge Willielmo Baroni de Greystock Willielmo de Dacre Thomae de Musgrave Thomae de Furnival Thomae Bradeston Roberto Fitzpain Johanni de Grey de Rotherfield Johanni de Codenore Johanni Darcy de Knayth Johanni de
knowledge had with a great Navy and Army of men hastened himself from the River of Thames towards Iersey and being put back by contrary winds with great hazard arrived at Portsmouth where he abode until he heard news how the same King of Navar had revolted from his purpose and was become French Whereupon the King being advertised that the French made himself strong towards Callice with a great Army and thinking there to have some present Battel offered addressed himself thither being accompanied with his own Army and with certain of his Allies whom he found there viz. Sir Henry of Flanders and Sir Frank of Vanhall and many other Germans How the King on all All-Souls day last before marched toward his Enemy and proffered to him Battel which his Enemy by all means refused whereby the King wasting and spoiling the Country and seeing his own Army for want to languish returned to Callice where he made honorable peace and now returned into the Realm to Parliament After which discourse Sir William Shareshall willed the Commons to weigh the great travel of the King for their defence and of his readiness to encounter with the Scots who had taken the Town of Berwick as news then came to the King and to advise how he might atchieve victory of them of his long deferred Peace with the French and to the Kings honor and their ease On Friday after the Lords and Commons after short conference had granted to the King for six years the Subsidy of Wooll so as during the same time no other Aid or Impositions be laid upon the Commons Petitions of the Commons with their Answers That the Great Charter and the Charter of the Forrest in all points shall be kept The Statute that the Staples shall always be kept within the Realm shall be observed He in the Remainder in tall shall be received to defend his right where Tenant for term of life shall go about to lose or sell. The Statute made for the yearly removing of Sheriffs shall be observed That where the Commons have granted to the King Forty shillings of every Knights fee in aid to make his son Knight the Exchequer demandeth the same as well of mesne Lords as of the Tenants in demesne against reason wherefore they pray remedy The right use of the Exchequer is to be kept The Statute made for the Purveyors shall be keptâ— That no mans lands being bought in H. 3. his time which was before the Statute of Prerogative be not seised into the Kings hands by Escheators Let this be more particularly declared unto the King That the Justices of Peace may determine Weights and Measures The Statute made shall be observed such Justices shall make no Deputies neither shall the Sheriff Coroner or such like be from henceforth a Justice It is enacted That no Sheriff Constable of any Castle or Gaol be any Commissioner where men are to be imprisoned That the points of Confederacie may be declared considering that the Judges judge rashly thereof None shall be punished for Confederacie but in case where the Statute speaketh expresly upon the point contained in the same Statute That the Justices of Gaol-delivery on an Indictment of the Coroner coming before them may award the Exigent The old Law shall stand That such persons of the far North-Countries as upon Appeals joyn in an Issue on good or evil may try the same by Nisi prius considering that the Jury will not appear in the Kings Bench. The Old Law used shall be kept That remedy may be had against such as to defraud their Creditors before judgement do convey away their lands and goods The Statute therefore made shall be observed Such as be indicted before the Justices of the Peace shall make Attorneys have the hearing of their Presentments and Answer thereunto The like Act as in the last Parliament Tit. 30â— That Writs of Attaints may be had of Verdicts given in the Exchequer as of Verdicts given in other Courts The old Law shall be observed Anno â—ricesimo sexto Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster in Quindena Sancti Michaelis Anno 36 Edwardi Tertii AT this day for that sundry of the Lords were not come in the presence of the King and Lords the Parliament was adjourned unto another day At which day Sir Henry de Green the Kings chief Justice in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared the causes of the Parliament Viz. for redress of matters touching the Church for observation of the Peace for the affairs of Scotland and for the enhansing of the prices of Wool Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Aquitain and other forreign Countries and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Aquitaine c. as above The Wednesday after the King made Declaration how his Ambassadors and David le Bruce of Scotland had treated of peace The Lords made answer thereunto that they durst not advise the King to leave a thing so hurtfull unto the Crown for any offer of Peace The Lords being required to speak what they thought of the repair of Merchants to Callis thought it good to have the same done But the Commons referred their answer untill conference with the Merchants Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The print for the observation of all Statutes not repealed cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The print touching Purveyors or Buyers cap. 2.3 4 5 6. agreeth with the Record only there is left out of the print a pain on the Steward Treasurer Comptroller and other Officers of the Houshold at the Kings will for not executing of the Statute It is enacted that the Kings Carriages shall be made in as easie manner as may be and that in the Summer and other times convenient as in August That the ingrossing of Wines in London and other Port Towns may be enquired by forreign Inquests The Statute made therefore shall be observed That such as are imprisoned without due process of Law may be delivered The grieved upon Complaint shall be heard That Mainprize may be duly made to all persons and Fines to be duely rated according to the trespass The Statute therefore made shall be observed That Wools and other Merchandizes be weighed according to the late Statute The print touching the wages of Priests cap. 8. agreeth with the Record The print touching the punishment of Offendors of any of the Articles aforesaid cap. 9. agreeth with the Record The print touching the yearly holding of a Parliament cap. 10. agreeth with the Record The print touching the pardon of the Subsidie of Wool cap.
11. agreeth with the Record That more plenty of gold and silver may be had The King will do the same by advice The prâ—nt for the Session of the peace cap. 12. agreeth with the Record That the Justices of peace may have reasonable Fees and that they may enquire as well within Liberties as without The King will take Order therein That no man be impeached of any debt in the Exchequer after payment made and his Tallie had out The Chancellor Treasurer and others shall take Order therein That private Petitions now exhibited wherein the Lords endorse Coram Rege may be answered by the King before this Parliament be ended The King granteth thereunto The pardon cap. unico agreeth with the Record The print touching Waste done by the Escheators agreeth with the Record The print touching Fines of Labourers Cap. 14. agreeth with the Record but not fully which note The thirteenth day of November being the last day of the Parliament after the Petitions answered the Lords and Commons granted to the King for three years the Subsidy of Woolls Wooll-sells and Skins After this the Chancellor declared how that the King intended to advance to honor such of his sons as were of full age Namely that his son Lionel then being in Ireland should have the name of the Duke of Clarence to him and to his heirs males of his body lawfully begotten And that his son Iohn should in like manner be Duke of Lancaster and that his son Edmond should be Earl of Cambridge in Fee After which the King in full Parliament did girt his son Iohn with a sword and set on his head a Cap of fur and upon the same a Circlet of gold and pearls and named him Duke of Lancaster and thereof gave to him a Charter In like manner the King girded his son Edmond with a sword and named him Earl of Cambridge and thereof gave to him a Charter The Print touching pleading in the English tongue Cap. 15. agreeth with the Record Only where the Print is That all such Pleas should be enrolled in Latine the Record doth nothing warrant the same The Print touching such Actions whereof the Mayor and Constables of the Staple shall have Cognisance Cap. 7. agreeth with the Record Anno Tricesimo septimo Edwardi Tertii Rex c. Carissimo filio suo Johanni Duci Lancastriae c. apud Westmonasterium in Octabis Sancti Michaelis Teste Rege apud Westmonast primo die Junii EDmondo Com. Cantabrigiae Ricardo Com. Arundel Humfrido de Bohun Com. Hereff Essex Willielmo de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hugoni de Courtney Com. Devon Roberto de Ufford Com. Suff. Rado de Stafford Thomae de Vere Com. Oxoniae Gilberto Humfravil Com. de Anegos Henrico de Piercie Rado de Nevill Johanni de Mowbray de Axholm Henrico de Bello Campo Johanni de Audley de Heligh Johanni de Charleton de Poys Waltero de Manney Mauritio de Berkley Rogero de Clifford Guidoni de Bryan Rado de Basset Johanni Bardolf de Wirmsley Willielmo Deynecourt Johanni Talbott Thomae de Roos Thomae de Furnival Petro de Malo lacu Johanni Grey de Codenore Reginaldo Grey de Ruthine Thomae de Lucie Willielmo de Say Nicho. de Poynings Barthol de Burgherst Gilberto Talbot Roberto de Colvill Thomae de Ughtred Johanni de Willoughbie Thomae de Musgrave Rogero de la Warr. Nicho. Burnell Johanni de Huntingfield Johanni de Kirton Ranulpho de Dacre Johanni de Widhurst Johanni Northwood Roberto de Holland Willielmo la Zouch Rogero de Bello Campo Johanni de Strivelin Johanni de Mohun de Dunster Roberto de Herle Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Tricesimo septimo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Friday in the Octaves of S. Michael in the 37. Year of Edward the Third FOr that sundry of both Houses were not the same day come Sir Henry Green the Kings Chief Justice in the presence of the King Lords and Commons continued the Parliament until Friday ensuing On Friday the Bishop of Ely then Chancellor in the presence of the Lords and Commons made declaration of the calling of the same Parliament viz. For that the King being desirous to know the grief of his Subjects and namely of Outrages done against the liberties of the Church and for redressing enormities by exhibiting Petitions Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Aquitain and other Forein places and the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England as above Tryers of Petitions for Aquitain as above On Wednesday after commandment was given That no man should transport Woollen clothes Butter Cheese Sheep Malt or Beer But that the Merchants of Almain might carry Worsteds and Streight clothes And that the Merchants of Gascoin might carry Woollen clothes to the value of the Wines brought in Petitions of the Commons with their Answers They give the King most humble thanks for his great goodness to them shewed and uttered by his own mouth in the last Parliament They pray That the King will require the Archbishop and all other of the Clergy to pray for his Estate for the peace and good government of the Land and for the continuance of the Kings good will towards the Commons The same prayeth the King The Print for the confirmation of all Statutes not repealed Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record That the Ordinance for the Custom of Wools made at the first Parliament may continue They cannot be remedied without great deliberation That the Silver-coin may remain within the Realm and that Gold be paid to Merchants for Wares With opportunity the same shall be done That no more then one penny be taken for the exchange of a Noble It cannot conveniently be done That the Coyners do coyn the half of Silver into Half-pence and Farthings for the use of the poor The same is so appointed That remedy may be had against Merchants Hostlers Regrators Forestallers of Wates Fish Wine and Corn. The Ordinance for Fish sold at Blackney shall be kept For the execution whereof William of Wickingham and Iohn de Barry are appointed And order to be made against Merchants for carrying forth of Corn Meal and such other Victuals A Proclamation hath been and now newly is made to the contrary A remedy to be found against Wears and such other Engines on Rivers to the annoyance of Boats The Statute therefore made shall be kept That Nisi prius may be taken in every plea in what Court soever where the King is party And that if the Kings Attorney do not persue a Venire facias for the Jury that then the Justices may grant the same Upon complaint shewed the Chancellor or Keeper of the Privy-seal shall take order
Westminster the Monday the first day of May in the 42 year of the reign of King Edward the Third AT this day for that sundry of the Lords and Commons were not come the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury declared to the Lords and Commons then assembled in the Chamber de Pinct that the Kings pleasure was that the Parliament should be continued until the Thursday ensuing On the said Thursday the said Arch-Bishop in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared that the King yeelded to God his most hearty thanks for giving him Victory over his Enemies for the quiet government of his Realm and for the great Loyalty of his Subjects both in Body and Goods the which Blessing and good Estate as he decreed to continue and amend so that he might the better accomplish the same he had therefore called the Parliament Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyn and other forein places and Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The next day the same Arch-Bishop declared that of the long treaty between the Kings Councel and David le Bruce of Scotland this was the last offer of the said David viz. that he offered peace so as he might freely enjoy to him in Fee the whole Realm of Scotland without any subjection or any other thing which mâ—ght be accounted a perpetual charge Of which Peace the Lords and Commons being willed to give their advice made several Answers that they could not assent to any such peace but to the disherison of the King and of his Crown and to the great danger of themselves being sworn to the same After that the said Arch-Bishop on the Kings behalf gave to the whole Estates thanks for their Aids and Subsidies granted to the King and shewed further the great need of the same Whereupon the Lords and Commons granted to the King for two years the Subsidy of Wooll viz. of every sack of Wooll 30 s. 8 d. so much of every 2â—0 Fells and of every Last of skins 4 l. over the old Custom 6 s. 8 d of every sack of Wooll and so much of twenty dozen of Fells and 13 s. 4 d. of every last of skins Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The print touching the keeping of the great Charter cap. 1. agreeth with the Record onely the print wanteth and all other Statutes The print of Pardons agreeth with the Record The print that none be put to answer without due process of Law cap. 3. agreeth with the record The print touching Commissions cap. 4. agreeth with the Record The print touching Escheators cap. 5. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form quod nota The print touching Labourers cap. 6. agreeth with the Record The print touching Victualls in London cap. 7. agreeth with the Record Note that the Londoners required that no Forainer should retail any Wine Merchandize or Victualls in London which was not granted The print touching the restraint of English Merchants to fetch Gascoyne wine cap. 8. agreeth with the Record The print touching green wax out of the Exchequer cap. 9. agreeth with the Record The print touching such as be born at Callice cap. 10. agreeth with the Record The 21. of May the King gave thanks to the Lords and Commons for their coming and aide granted on which day all the Lords and sundry of the Commons dined with the King after which dinner Sir Iohn de Lee was brought before the King Lords and Commons next aforesaid to answer to certain Objections following and first to the complaint of William Latimer as followeth The King had granted the Wardship of Robert Latimer the Son and Heir of Sir Robert Latimer with certain Mannors during the same minority to the Bishop of Sarum whose estate the same William had and after the King granted the same to Sir Iohn Lee. The same William surmised that the said Sir Iohn being of power sent for him to London where he by duress of Imprisonment enforced the said William to surrender his Estate to him And by Recognizance therefore the same Sir Iohn excuseth himself for that the Grant was made unto him the which was not allowed for that the said VVilliam was not put out by due process of Law Another matter was objected against the said Sir Iohn for that during such time as he was Steward of the Kings House he should cause sundry men to be attached and to come before him as before the Kings Councel in places where he pleased where being out of Councel he caused men to answer as to things before the Councel That he as Steward having thereby authority onely within the Verge did notwithstanding cause sundry to be attached out of the Verge as Iohn Goddard and others making them to answer in the Marshalsâ—y of things done out of the Verge and other-some committed to the Tower of his own Authority as Iohn Sibill Edmond Urdsales and others That he had of his own authority against the Justices commandment discharged out of Newgate Hugh Lavenham Purveyor who had appealed sundry men of Felony That he bargained with Sir Nicholas Lovayn for the keeping of the Mannor of Rainham in Kent the which the same Sir Nicholas claimed to hold during the minority of the Son and Heir of Iohn Saunton where the said Iohn of Lee knew that the said Mannor was holden of the King in chief as of the Castle of Dover Of all which points for that the same Sir Iohn could not purge himself he was commanded to the Tower of London there to remain as prisoner until he had made Fines at the Kings will And commandment given to Sir Allen of Buxhal Constable of the Tower to keep him accordingly And so the Lords and Commons departed After that the said Sir Iohn being brought to Westminster before the Kings Councel and being there demanded of the same William Lattimer made answer that as freely as the King had granted to him the Wardship aforesaid so freely did he surrender the same into the Kings hands Whereupon by the same Councel it was ordered that the Wardship aforesaid should be reseised into the Kings hands and delivered unto the said William Lattimer according to the Grant made to the said Bishop and that all Recognizances and conveyances made by the said William to the said Sir Iohn should be void saving the Kings right Anno Quadragessimo Tertio Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster in the Octaves of St. Trinity in the 43. Year of Edward the Third THe Bishop of Winchester Chancellor of England the same day in the Chamber de Pinct in the presence of the King Lords and Commons
declared the causes of the Parliament in effect following viz. How the King in his weighty Affairs had always used their counsel and assent And lastly in taking the last peace with the French on conditions following viz. That the French by a day should render to the King certain Countries beyond the Seas That the same French should by a day pay unto the King certain sums of money And that he should not resort to Gascoyne or to any of the parts there and that the King in consideration thereof should for the same time leave the stile of France which he had done He further sheweth How the French had made no delivery of the Countries nor Money How further they had summoned the Earl of Erminake and the Lord de la Brett and others being of the Kings alliance to answer to certain Appeals at Paris And how the Prince of Gascoyne also being of the Kings Alliance was also summoned there to appear How also the French had sent certain Garrisons of men into Gascoyne and Ponhoy where ther had surprised certain of the Kings Castles and Forts And finally How the Prince of Gascoyne upon consultation with his Nobles and wise men had willed the King to write and use the stile of France The Chancellor therefore willed the whole Estates upon good advice to give their councel therein Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Guyenne and other places and Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Guyenne c. as above On Wednesday after the Bishops Lords and Commons answered the King that with good conscience he might use the stile and name of France and thereto they give their assent Whereupon the King took the same stile and name upon him and the eleventh day of Iune the Kings Great Seal was safely laid up and another Seal engraven with the stile of France was taken and used and sundry Pattents Charters and Writs therewith sealed And the same day were all other the Kings Seals in like sort changed Upon Declaration of the Kings great necessity the Lords and Commons granted to the King for three years of Denizens for every sack of Wooll Forty three shillings four pence of every twenty dozen of Fells Forty three shillings four pence and of every Last of skins Four pounds Of Aliens for every sack of Wooll Fifty three shillings four pence of every twenty dozen of Fells Fifty three shillings four pence and of every Last of skins Five pounds six shillings eight pence over the old Custom Petitions of the Commons with their Answers It is agreed that all the Kings Forts and Fortresses shall be surveyed and edified It is agreed that remedy may be had against religious Aliens for discovering the Councel of the Realm That remedy may be had against the excessive selling of Armors and Horse-coursers The King will appoint the Officers of every Town to provide therefore It is agreed that no man be punished contrary to the Statute Such Commissions as were to enquire of Scottish Labourers within the Realm were repealed That the time of prescription may be from the Coronation of Edward the First The old Law shall stand That Silva cedua may especially be declared The Statute shall be observed The print touching the pardon of the Forrest matters cap. 4. agreeth with the Record That Sheriffs be no further charged then they shall receive The party grieved upon complaint shall have remedy That the indicted upon any Trespass or Felony may upon issue joyned have a Nisi prius against the King So the same concerneth Treason the Chancellor or keeper of the Privy Seal shall therein do right That such as dwell upon the Sea coasts may set up poles or other instruments whereby men may know the increase or decrease of the Sea In time of War the same may be to less harm and after taken away That the Acquittance of the Co-Executors refusing administration may be void The Law shall be used as heretofore The Print cap. 1. touching the repeal of the Statute made in the last Parliament tit 17. doth not agree with the Record The Print touching the Staple to be in England cap. 1. far swarveth in form from the Record quod nota The next day being the tenth of Iune the King gave thanks to the Lords and Commons for their great travels and aide And in some sort of recompence promised to all such as should pass with him against the French that they should enjoy and bear all such Towns Castles and Possessions Persons Names Armes and Honours as they should obtain get or take of the French to them in Fee except to the King all Royalties and the Lands of the Church and that every person of his own Conquest and prowess should have Charters It is agreed that all Religious Aliens lands should be seised into to the Kings hands and let to farm to the Soveraigns of the same The King also commanded that all the Bishops should not onely muster their own servants and Tenants But also all Parsons Vicars and other religious persons of the Clergy so as they should be ready to resist the enemy And so the Parliament was dissolved Anno Quadragesimo quinto Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Monday in the first week of Lent in the 45. Year of King Edward the third THe same day in the Chamber de Pinct the Bishop of Winchester then Chancellor in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared how the King since the last Parliament had defraid a great mass of mony and had sent over a great Army of men for the Conquest and recovery of his own and how the King was lately ascertained of the power which the French had prepared to drive the King from his Hereditaments beyond the Seas of their great Navy And further how he meant to subject the whole Realm of England wherein he willed the whole Estates to give their counsel Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Guien and other foreign places and Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Guien c. as above The Lords and Commons grant unto the King a Subsidy of Fifty thousand pounds to be levied of every parish within the Realm twenty two shillings four pence so as every parish of greater value should according to his rate contribute to the parish of less value and that by Indenture It is agreed that a Staple shall be kept in Melcombe Sir Robert Thorp the Chancellor declared that forasmuch as Easter approached their Petitions
could not be answered but after the same Feast the King would appoint certain to answer them After this the King gave thanks to the Lords and Commons for their travel and aid and licensed them to depart And after the great Councel summoned and holden at Winchester at the Utaves of Trinity thâ—n ensuing the Chancellor declared to the Lords and Commons there assembled how that their Grant of twenty two shillings four pence of every parish would not amount to Fifty thousand pounds for that by the return into the Chancery there were not so many parishes within the Realm Whereupon the Lords and Commons for the accomplishment of the aforesaid sum granted to the King of every parish Church assessed within the Realm Five pounds ten shillings comprising therein the aforesaid sum of twenty two shillings four pence excepting the County of Chester and all such lands of the Church as were amortized before the twenâ—ieth year of Edward the First The form of the Commission for this Subsidy was read before the King and the Collectors and Commissioners were appointed by the Knights of the Counties After this the Petitions of the Commons not before answered were now read and answered before the King Lords and Commons which done the King licensed the Estates to depart and the Parliament ended Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The print touching the observation of the great Charter cap. 1. agreeth with the Record For that the Realm had been of long time governed by men of the Church in dishereson of the Crown the Lords and Commons required that Lay men onely may be principal Officers of the Kings Courts and House there particularly named and that none of the Clergy be saving to the King his free election to choose and remove such Officers so as they be Lay. The King will therein do by the advice of his Councel It is agreed that every Petition now exhibited may be by some of the Lords considered That all Lands holden of the King in chief may be letten for life without licence The King will do his pleasure The print for the pulling down of Mills cap. 2. agreeth not fully with the Record That there be no Fines for any Writs of the Chancery The Chancellor shall consider the state of the person That no purveyance be made for the King but for ready money and that the King be served by common measure The Statute made shall be observed That no Eyre or Treilbaston be holden during the Wars It is enacted It is enacted that all men may freely buy and sell corn and victuals within the Realm The Print for the Wooll sold cap. 3. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form quod nota That in the extracts of green wax may mention be made at whose suits such amerciaments were lost in what Term in what plea and between what parties Let the same be provided at the next Parliament The like motion and Answer as at the last Parliament Num. 19. That the birth of any man to be tried by men as well of the Country where the birth is alleadged as in the same County where the Writ is brought The Law used herein shall stand That no Mayor Bayliff or any Sergeants be Victualler Hostler or Taverner during their Offices on pain of 20. l. There is in this case a certain Law That the Easterlings may find surety to entreat the English Merchants in their Countries in such wife as they are here The same so hath and shall be done as need shall require That all Merchants may pass over Wooll â—râ—â—ly The King will be advised That such Statutes as restrain the English Merchants to fetch wine at Goscoyne may be utterly repealed The Statutes heretofore made shall stand That all Corporations may enjoy their Liberties any Statute to the contrary notwithstanding Such as be grieved upon complaint shall be answered They affirm the decay of the Navy to arise by three causes viz. First For that sundry mens ships are staid for the King long before they serve whereby the owners are driven at their charges to finde their Marriners to their undoing Secondly For that Merchants the nourishers of the Navy are often restrained their shipping whereby Mariners are driven to seek other Trades and Livings Thirdly for that the Masters of the Kings ships do take up Masters of other ships as good as themselves are whereby the most of these ships do lye still and the Marriners are enforced to seek new Livings whereof they pray remedy The King will provide remedy That all such Merchants as plead the Kings pardon for their goods not customed may have the same allowed The grieved upon complaint shall be heard That every man may freely make Fortresses Towns and Walls karnelled and embattelled The King will be advised That such as sue forth Assizes be not driven to pay for the Justices Patent The same shall be as it hath been That the Commissioners for the Kings affairs may be allowed their charges of the profit of their Sessions The King will provide therefore That in Villenage alledged in the Plaintiff as regardant to the Mannor the Visne may be where the Mannor is laid The King will be advised That no man be put from his possession by an Inquest of Office taken before the Escheator or other Justice by Commission until the right be tried by Scire facias The Statute made therefore shall stand That no Sheriff or Escheator do remain above one year and they may dispend 20 l. within their own County The Statute made shall be kept That the Boys or Varlets of France being here shall be used either as Servants or as Bond-men Let them stay untill the next Parliament That the Statutes whereby Justices shall not stay to do justice for the Great or Privy Seal or other commandment and that no man be put to answer but by the due order of Law may be kept Such as are grieved shall be heard The Print touching Impositions on Woolls cap. 4. agreeth with the Record That none of the Commons House be appointed for the Subsidy The King will be advised That such as remain upon the Sea-coasts by the Kings commandment may have Protections with the clause Volumus The same is to the apparent loss of the Commons That such as counterfeit any mans seal to any Deed remain in perpetual prison The Statutes mad etherefore shall stand That all Scottish money be brought into the Kings Exchequer by a day The Answer cannot be read That the Statutes of the Priests by assent of the Clergy may be observed The
Answer as next above cannot be read Anno Quadragesimo septimo Edwardi Tertii Rex c. Ricardo Com. Arundel c. apud Westmonasterium crastino Trinitatis Edmundi Regis proximo futuro c. Teste Rege apud Westmonast 4. Octobris HUgoni de Courtney Com. Devon Edwardo de Mortuo mari Com. Marchiae Charissimo filio nostro Com. Canterbr Willielmo de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Gilberto Humfravil Com. de Anegos Johanni de Charlton de Powys Willielmo de Latymer Guidoni de Brian Gilberto Talbot Johanni de Clinton Willielmo de Botreaux Johanni de War Henâ—ico de Scroope Warrinae de Insula Rogero de Bello Campo Johanni de Monteacuto Rogero de Strange de Blackmers Nicholao Burnel Johanni Gray de Codenore Reginaldo Grey de Ruthin Johanni Grey de Rotherfield Ricardo de Staffort Johanni de Cobham de Kent Willielmo de Furnival Willielmo de Say Willielmo de Huntingfield Johanni de Northwood Johanni Mohun de Dunster Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Rogero Strange de Knokyn Johanni Buttort Lucy de Ponings Jacobo de Audley de Helighe Almarico de Sancto amando Radolph de Dacre Rogero de Clifford Petro de malo lacu Et Thomae de Musgrave Willielmo de Lattymer Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Quadragesimo Septimo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the next day after St. Edmond the King in the 47 Year of Edward the Third THe same day Proclamation was made in VVestminster-hall that all such as were summoned to the Parliament might depart and be there the next morning in the Painted Chamber to hear the causes of the Parliament The same next day Sir Iohn Knyvet being Chancellor before the King Lords and Commons declared how for the peace broken by the French the King to resist the same his Adversary and for the obtaining of his right had sent over great Armies of men and lately his Son the King of Castile and Arragon and Duke of Lancaster had atchieved many great exploits to the overthrow oâ— his Enemies and nobly acquitted himself How the King further had set forth a royal Navy of ships to all which charges albeit the Subjects to their pains contributed yet was the same far more infinite charge to the Prince Remembring then that such Nobles and others as hazarded their lives for the whole Realms defence ought speedily to be refreshed with fresh succours and aid and the rather for that the enemy did never make himself by sea and land Therefore the King willed them throughly to weigh those matters and for that the season of War began to wear away it required more speedy answer they were willed therefore then to depart and to be there the next day The next day certain of the Commons came to the Lords House and required that certain of the Lords there named would vouchsafe to confer with the Commons Whereupon they went presently into the Chamberlains Chamber to treat with the Commons On Thursday in the week of St. Andrew the Lords and Commons upon consultation in aid of the Wars granted to the King as is contained written in a Schedule indented without any Seals thereunto annexed the copy whereof is under-written the which being given to the King was read before him and the Commons require Answer to their Petitions which was promised After that the Chancellor on the Kings behalf gave unto the whole Estates great thanks and it was willed that such of the Commons as would wait on their Petitions might so do and that the rest that would might depart And so the Parliament ended Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other Countries beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The effect of the Schedule aforesaid and of the copy of the same The Lords and Commons grant to the King two Fifteens to be paid in two years of every twenty shillings of Merchandize coming into the Realm or going out six pâ—nce for two years except of Woolls Skines and Wooll-Fells And also the Subsidy of Woolls for two years upon condition that if the Wars do cease within two years then the latter payments of all their Grants to cease They pray that these Grants may be imploied upon the Wars They pray that every Shire may have their Commissions without any thing paying They further pray that none of the Commons House be appointed to be a Collector for any of these Grants Vide Subsidy 46 E. 3. tit 10. Petitions of the Commons with their Answers That the Great Charter and the Charter of the Forrest be kept It pleaseth the King That right to every mans Petition now exhibited may be ministred Let that be eschewed which toucheth any private person The print touching the Assizes of broad cloathes cap. 1. agreeth with the Record That the City of London and all other Cities and Towns may enjoy all their Liberties any Statute notwithstanding Let them particularly shew the breach of any liberty and they shall be answered That the Staple may onely be kept at Callice and no Patent and Grant to be made to the contrary The King will appoint the Staple as by the Councel he shall think best The print touching Scottish silver coyn cap. 2. agreeth with the Record That any having a protection for serving in the Wars and do thereof fail by one moneth to the deceit of the Kings people such protection to be void Let the grieved come into the Chancery and he shall have remedy Certain Counties there named do pray that for the ease of their carriage of Wools that a Staple might be at Lyn. The King granteth thereunto so as the Staple at Yarmouth do continue That for Tythe of Wood above twenty years groweth may be enacted no Tythe to be due and that in all such cases a prohibition may be granted Such prohibitions shall be granted as heretofore hath been used They require remedy against Ordinaries for that upon this term Fidei lasio they take upon them cognizance of debt and to punish Labourers for that they make sundry blanks whereupon men by sudden citing are much hindred For the first the Common Law serveth To the second let the special matter be shewed and it shall be heard That the Statute made whereby buyers for the Kings Houshold should pay readily shall stand and that no man be impeached for resisting them therein The Statute therefore provided shall be kept and who will complain shall be heard That all Accomptants in Exchequer shewing cause of discharge may so be without delay on pain of imprisonment for the Officers A Statute is made therefore and the
grieved coming thither shall have right That remedy may be had against the Cyrographer for that he will not ingross any Fine within the Term until the foot of the fine be fretted unless he may have three shillings four pence or â—our shillings more then his due fee of forty shillings Let the grieved come to the Common Pleas and he shall have right That the Statute of Labourers may be executed four times in the year and that the Justices may be removed for not doing their duty The King granteth thereunto That villenage may onely be tried where it is laid and no where else The King meaneth not to alter the Law therein That Masters of ships may be paid the wages of them and their Marriners from the day of their being appointed to serve the King That taking of Ships shall not be but for necessity and payment shall be reasonable as heretofore The Masters of ships require allowance for the tackling of their ships worn by the Kings service Such allowance hath not been heretofore made They require remedy against the provisions of the Pope whereby he hath the first fruits of Ecclesiastical Dignities the treasure of the Realm which being conveyed away they cannot bear The King hath honourable Ambassadors at the Court of Rome touching these before whose return he cannot well answer The Burgesses of Bristoll require that the same Town with the Suburbs of the same may be a County of it self and that the perambulation of the bounds of the same returned into the Chancery with all the Liberties and Charters granted unto the same may be confirmed by Parliament The King granteth that the Charters Liberties and Perambulation mentioned before be confirmed under the Great Seal That no French Prior Alien be dwelling within twenty miles of the Sea coast for divers reasons there alleadged The King by Council will provide therefore That remedy may be had against Sheriffs as will take Bail of such prisoners indicted in the Toorn as were before bailed by other Sheriffs There is a Statute made therefore whereby the grieved may have remedy That remedy may be had that men be not called into the Exchequer upon suggestion without process contrary to the Statute made in the 42 of this King Let any man especially complain and he shall find remedy Anno Quinquagesimo Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Monday next after the Feast of St George in the 50. Year of King Edward the third THe same day most of the Lords and many of the Commons were before the King in his own Chamber where for that sundry of the Lords and Commons were not come Proclamation was made in the great Hall at Westminster that all such as were summoned to the Parliament should be there the next morning by eight of the clock At which day Sir Iohn Kâ—evit Knight Chancellor of England before the King Lords and Commons declared the causes of the Parliament to be three The first to provide for the Government of the Realm The second for the defence of the same as well beyond the Seas as on this side as well by Sea as by Land The third how he might prosecute his quarrel by War against his Enemies and maintaining the same affirming that as the King had always in all his attempts followed their good counsel so he meant herein to do no less Wherefore he willed them to go together the Lords by their selves and the Commons by their selves and speedily to consult and give answer Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above After that the Commons were willed to depart to their accustomed place being the Chapter house of the Abbot of Westminster whither they went Whereupon certain Lords and Nobles were appointed to go and consult with the Commons who are there particularly named The Lords and Commons do grant to the King the like Subsidies of Wooll Skins and Wool-Fells as were granted in the last Parliament to endure three years from the Feast of S. Michael next ensuing 47 E. 3. tit 7. An Order devised by the Commons that the King should have at least ten or twelve Councellors without whom no weighty matters should pass and for smaller matters at least six or four of them whereunto the King granted provided that the Chancellor Treasurer and Keeper of the privy Seal should by their selves end all matters belonging to their Offices and that these Councellors should take no rewards That no other of the Kings Officers or Ministers do take any reward for any matter touching their offices That report of matters of Council shall be made to the King by some one or two of the Council appointed and none others That all Ordinances made by the King and his Council shall be by all the Kings Officers executed That the Ordinances forbidding any man within London or elswhere to sell Sweet Wine by retail are repealed and that every Freeman may sell such Wines in London by retail So always that the Lord Mayor have the disposing thereof the price of the same The Commons afterwards in full Parliament making protestation of their due allegiance to the King declared That if he had faithful Councellors and Officers he could not but have passed all other Princes in treasure considering that the Ransoms of the Kings of Erance and Scotland were to him paid besides the great Subsidies here And therefore they require that falshoods and crafts of certain of the Kings Council and other persons may be tryed and punished which would long maintain his wars without any charge to the Commons And namely by trying of three points First of such of the Council as convey Staple-ware and Bullion to other places then to Calice for their own private turn Secondly of such as made shifts for money for the King deceitfully Thirdly of such as of Covin between certain of the Council and them bought of sundry the Kings Subjects debts due to the King to them for the tenth or twentieth penny Richard Lyons Merchant of London was accused by the Commons of divers deceits extortions and other misdemeanors as well for the time that he repaired to certain of the Kings Council as for the time that he was Farmer of the Kings Subsidy and Customs and namely obtaining Licences to convey over great Faizons of Wooll and Staple-ware for procuring new Impositions upon Staple-ware for devising the Change of Money for making the King for one Chevizance of Twenty marks to pay Thirty pounds for buying debts of divers men due to the King for small values for
to do whom they promised therein to be Mediators For that the King was diseased at Eltham the Lords and Commons went thither to have the premises before and after confirmed and answered Petitions of the Commons with their Answers That the Great Charter and Charter of the Forrest may be kept in all points The King granteth thereunto That the Sheriffs in all their returns of any Inquest do return the most honest and nighest neighbors and that in every weighty cause the Sheriff be sworne to view the Pannel before he return the same The Statute therefore made shall be executed and withall adjoined to the Oath of every Undersheriff that he in his own person shall survey the Pannel before he return the same A motion made That all Liberties granted to any Mystery or Occupation in any City or Town be revoked and no more granted so as the Mayor and Bailiffs of every City and Town may see things amended That divers Commissioners for Extortions or such like granted heretofore to sundry of evil name may be repealed and no such granted hereafter but to Lords and others of best reputation in their Countries The King granteth thereunto and that no such Commissions be hereafter made but to the Justices Serjeants and others learned in the Law and of best ability For the saving of Salmons and other Fryes of Fish in the Thames almost destroyed by certain Engines as the King himself hath often found That therefore all Trinks between London and the Sea may be overthrown and that no Salmon be taken between Gravesend and Henley upon Thames in the Kipper-time viz. between the Invention of the Cross and the Epiphanyâ— and that no Nets be laid in the Thames unless the same be of large mash of assize The Statutes therefore made shall be kept and Commissioners for the enquiry of the same That the Wears upon the River called Braint in the County of Middlesex parcel of the River Thames may be taken away The Statutes therefore made shall be executed That all Lombards as be called Brokers and who only maintain Usury having brought into the Realm besides the shameful sin which is not to be named being also privy Spies may be remedied The Brokers of a strange Country is partly answered in the Bill of London Many inconveniencies growing for that strangers in every Town being not free of the same are yet suffered to buy and sell there It is therefore required that Cities and Towns may have their liberties renewed and confirmed for reasonable Fines and that they may enjoy them so as no stranger in any Town being not free may occupy there Such as have good Charters or Liberties may shew them in the Chancery where they shall have right That the Protections cum clausula Volumus whereby many men are undone and namely by one made to Iacob Iocanim a Lombard may be repealed and no such hereafter granted The examination of such had by the Council shall be repealed if it need That Ribalds and sturdy Beggers may be banished out of every Town Touching Ribalds the Statute of Winchester and the Declaration of the same with other Statutes of Robersdmen be executed And for such as make themselves Gentlemen and Men of Arms or Archers if they cannot so prove themselves let them be driven to their occupation or service or to the place from whence they came The Counties of Lincoln Leicester Nottingham and Derby prayen that the Staple may be holden at Lincoln as it was at the first ordinance and not at S. Botolphs It shall continue at S. Botolphs at the Kings pleasure For that divers men do live incontinently for saving their Clergy it is requisite that any man may have his Clergy albeit he marry two wives or a widow The King will be advised That such Bailiffs in fee being indicted before the Justices of the Forrest for Verâ— or Venison and thereon have their Offices seised and forfeited to the King being not called to answerâ— may have a Writ out of the Chancery upon the Statute to be let to Mainprise until the Eyre and to be restored to their offices according as hath been used Who is specially grieved may declare the same and shall have remedy That all such Officers and others of the Kings Council being convicted of deceit and are displaced may never be restored that it be enacted If the defaults being declared to the King and Lords deserve such Judgment they will do as to them seems best That remedy may be had against such Aliens religious as sue in the Court of Rome for their pensions or livings Who is especially grieved may declare the same to the Council and shall find remedy That Justices of the Peace may be named by the Lords and Knights of every Shire in Parliament where they may be sworne and none to be renewed without Parliament and that they may be allowed reasonable Fees They shall be named by the King and his continual Councel and for the fees the King will be advised They require that for lands sold by any religious person or other person of the Church the Statute of Westm. the second may be kept and that judgment executory may be had against the tenant of the lands The King would have the Statute to be kept and touching Alienations made before this Parliament writs shall be granted against the tenants of the land and for such alienation to be made the King will be advised That Hundreds be not let to Fee-farm or other farm letten but kept in the Lords hands The Statutes therefore provided shall be kept That such as be indicted before the Coroner for murder and flying upon the same by sinister means to them they shall forfeit their goods may be enquired of only before the Justices of Goal delivery whether they so fled or withdrew themselves Who will especially complain shall finde favour That Staukes stakes and other annoyances made about havens may be removed and thrown down The Statute therefore made shall be kept That the Accompts as well for sums of money for Assarts as otherwise in the Exchequer may be discharged on their averment that there is no means to levie the same The grieved upon declaration shall have right That such Lords and others as have lands upon the Sea coasts for the defence of the same may be bound to dwell upon the same The King by advice will appoint order therein That no Sheriff be made but from year to year and that such and their Deputies as have to the contrary may be in the same case The Statutes therefore appointed shall be observed That none be appointed to be a Justice of Assise
in his own Country unless some forreign Justice be associate with him Who will complain shall have right That the Charter made to the men of Yarmouth that none should within the time of their fishing buy any Herring within seven miles of the same Town may be repealed so as men may openly buy and sell. The King granteth in respect of a new grant above mentioned saving to the Town all other their Liberties with this Clause licet That no man be barred by any warranty collateral but for so much of lands as descended to him by such Ancestry The King will be advised untill the next Parliament That the Justices of Assize shall keep their Sessions in Towns where Gaols be and make their deliverances before their departure at the least once by the year and that to the same Justices may be made in one Patent as well to take the Assize as to deliver the Gaole The Justices of Assize shall have their Patent in such wise as hath been and shall as well take the Assize as make delivery That all Sheriffs may be yearly chosen at the Feast of S. Michael and so as their gifts and dinners to the Officers of the Exchequer may be done That the Justices deliver into the same Court their Extracts at the Utaves of S. Michael and that they be delivered to the Sheriff at the fifteen of S. Martine or the day after Hilary at utmost That Sheriffs and Escheators may be yearly removed Sheriffs and Escheators shall be yearly chosen at Michaelmas and have out their Commissions the day after All Souls that no dinners or gifts be given them in the Receipt or Exchequer on pain That Writs be sent into all the Counties of England to publish the perambulations of the Forrest heretofore made and to make new perambulations and to establish the continuance of the same so as every Officer upon the breach thereof do forfeit his Office and render double damages to the party grieved The King meaneth newly to make perambulations through England and willeth that the Charter of the Forrest be observed That remedy may be had against certain Lombards who have coloured certain ships fraughted and wrecked goods of the Kings enemies and persued by certain of the Kings Subjects to be their own and by sinister means have obtained the same The grieved upon suit to the Councel shall have right That no lands or tenements be seized by any of the Kings Officers of any person not attainted of Treason or Felonie in his life time Let it be more fully opened That no Sheriff Under sheriff or Gaoler be Justice during their Offices neither that they be put in any Commission then only concerning their Offices It liketh the King That the Bishops do certainly appoint what shall be taken for a Probate of a Testament and for an Acquittance upon the accompt The Statutes therefore made shall be kept That for goods of Felons found by office every man may traverse such Offices and upon the reversing of the same to be discharged The Law shall stand as it doth That no man be charged upon an account in the Exchequer of Scottish money sweet Wine sold without licence Corn Lead Tin Worsted Butter and such like whereby no profit is to the Prince That for Scottish money remedie was provided 47 E. 3. tit 19. for sweet Wines remedy was appointed at the last Parliament and for the rest shall be with opportunity That the Clerks of the Market of the Kings houshold do not by extortion take Fines in gross or certain of any Towns and that there may be appointed a certainty of Measures and Weights according to to the Standard He shall see punishment done according to the quality of the fault without any such Fines taking there where he doth not his Office And the measure to be according to the Standard and Statute made That no Patent of any Lands found by the Escheators Enquest be granted so as the party will stand bound to answer the King the profits thereof if upon trial it be found for the King The King will be advised thereof That the Chancellor upon the Writ of Champerty may grant forth Writs at the suit of the party and that he may recover damages in his suit The King will be advised until the next Parliament They require remedy against reservation of Benefices from Rome This Bill is elswhere answered That the Lord Steward and Marshal of the Kings houshold do hold no other pleas then are contained in the Statute called Articuli super Chartas That they of twelve miles may be certainly limited whether from the Kings presence or the place of the housholdâ— and not from both unless they be together and that the Steward do keep his Session within three miles about the presence of the King as it hath been accustomed They shall have jurisdiction from the place where the King himself is or from the place where the houshold is kept twelve miles of every part only and not from the one and the other at one time And further the Statute therefore made shall stand That every man in the Exchequer being impleaded may wage his Law as in other Courts where wager doth lie They shall not wage their Law in the Exchequer as in other Courts where the King is not party That the Corographer may be sworne that neither he nor none of his Clerks do take for the ingrossing of a Fine but only Four shillings The Statute made therefore shall stand A long Bill against the usuâ—pations of the Pope as being the cause of all the plagues injuries famine and poverty of the Realm so as thereby was not left the third person or other Commodity within the Realm as lately was That the Tax paid to the Pope for Ecclesiastical dignities doth amount to five times as much as the Tax of all the profits as appertain to the King by the year of this whole Realm and for some one Bishoprick or other dignity the Pope by way of translation and death hath three four or five several Taxes That the Brokers of that sinful City for money promote many Caitiffs being altogether unlearned and unworthy of a Thousand marks Living yearly where the learned and worthy can hardly obtain Twenty marks whereby Learning decayeth That Aliens enemies to this Land who never saw nor care for to see their Parishioners have those Livings whereby they despise Gods service and convey away the treasure and are worse thâ—n Jews or Saracens To be considered that the Law of the Church would have such Livings to be bestowed for charity only without praying or paying That reason would that Livings given of devotion should be bestowed in hospitality That God had
committed his sheep to the Pope to be pastured and not shorne or shaven That Lay-Patrons perceiving this Simony and covetousness of the Pope do thereby learn to sell their Benefices to beasts none otherwise then Christ was sold to the Jews That there is none so rich a Prince in Christendom that hath the fourth part of so much treasure as the Pope hath out of this Realm for Churches most sinfully A repetition of the honor of the Church and that all the plagues there particularly named have justly fallen upon this Realm for suffering the same Church thus to be defaced with declaration that it will daily increase without redress A perswasion to reedifie the same and the rather for that this was the year of Jubile the fiftieth year of the Kings reign the year of joy and gladness then the which could be no greater The means how to begin this was to write two Letters to the Pope the one in Latine under the Broad Seal the other in French under the Seals of the Nobles importing these particularities requiring redress And for a further redress and accomplishment to enact That no money be carried forth of the Realm by Letter of Lombardy or otherwise on pain of forfeiture and imprisonment and to enact the Articles heâ—eafter ensuing The King hath heretofore by Statute provided sufficient remedy and otherwise persueth the same with the holy Father the Pope and so mindeth to do from time to time untill he hath obtained as well for the matters before as for the Articles ensuing being in manner all one That the Popes Collector and other strangers the Kings enemies and only Legier-Spies for English Dignities and disclosing the secrets of the Realm may be touched That the same Collector being also Receiver of the Popes pence keepeth a house in London with Clerks and Officers thereto as it were one of the Kings solemn Courts transporting yearly to the Pope Twenty thousand marks and most commonly more That Cardinals and other Aliens remaining at Rome whereof one Cardinal is a Dean of York another of Salisbury another of Lincoln another Archdeacon of Canterbury another Archdeacon of Duresm another Archdeacon of Suffolk and another Archdeacon of York another Prebendary of Thame and Nassington another Prebendary of York in the Church of York have divers other the best Dignities in England and have sent over yearly twenty thousand marks over and above that which English Brokers living there have That the Pope to ransom Frenchmen the Kings enemies who defend Lombardy for him doth always at his pleasure levy a Subsidy of the holy Clergy of England That the Pope for more gain maketh sundry translations of all the Bishopricks and other Dignities within the Realm That the Popes Collector hath this year taken to his use the First-fruit of all Benefices To renew all the Statutes against Provisors from Rome sith the Pope reserveth all the Benefices in the world for his own proper gift and hath this year created twelve new Cardinals so now there are thirty where wonted to be but twelve and all those Cardinals except two or three are the Kings enemies That the Pope in time will give the Temporal Manors of those Dignities to the Kings enemies since he daily so usurpeth upon the Realm and the Kings regality That all Houses and Corporations of Religion who unto the Kings reign now freely election of their Heads the Pope hath accroached the same unto himself That in all Legacies from the Pope whatsoever the English Clergy beareth the charge of the Legacies and all for the goodness of our money That also it appeareth that if the money of the Realm were as plenteous as ever it was the Collectors aforesaid with the Proctors of Cardinals would soon convey the same For remedy whereof it may be provided that no such Collector or Proctor do remain in England upon pain of life and member And that no English-man on the like pain become any such Collector or Proctor or remain at Rome For better information hereof and namely touching the Popes Collector for that the whole Clergy being obedient to him dare not him displease it were good that Sir Iohn Strensall Parson of S. Botolphs in Holborn may be sent for to come before the Lords and Commons of this Parliament who being streightly charged can declare much more for that he serveth the same Collector in house five years A long Statute made against Runnegate servants Beggers and Vagabonds much after the sort in the Statute made in the good King Ed. 6. his days against Vagabonds Touching this long Bill of Labourers let the Statutes heretofore made be duly executed They require that the Statute made in 14 E. 3. that the Kings Ward should be committed to the next Heir of the Ward to whom the lands cannot descend yielding therefore as much as another would might be confirmed The King granteth thereto saving his Regality That time of prescription in Writ of Right may be from the Coronation of the King E. 1. and in Writs of Mortedauncestre nuper obiit Cozenage Aiel c. and such other Writs mixt in the Rights from the Coronation of the King now The King will be advised for changing the Law heretofore used That no Alien do enjoy any living that hath cure or requireth residence This Bill is answered before in the two long Bills of Rome For that errors had before Justices of Assize are revocable before the chief Justice of the Common Pleas they require that the chief Justice there be appointed no Justice of Assize The King granteth when the number may spare him That a general pardon may be of all Misprisions and Intrusions made into any Lands holden of the King in chief The King will shew favour where him liketh That they may have an Action of Account against the Executors of Gardian in Soccage The King will be advised untill next Parliament That restitution may be made to Englishmen farmours of any Religious Aliens house Touching Farmers abovesaid the King granteth so it concern Priors Churches Conventual Collegial and Parochial but for English Governours the King will be advised That no especiall grant be made to any man for singular profit which may sound to the disadvantage of the King or Realm Let them declare more especially That the Statuâ—e made for buyers in 36 E. 3. tit 10 c. may be kept and that Justices of the Peace may enquire of the same The Statutes therefore made shall stand and the Justices of Peace shall determine the same That an Infant within age levying a Fine may have respite two or three years after his full age to reverse the same The Kâ—ng will be advised of the change thereof That no Alien be made Head of any
therefore yearly 3.6.8 â— that the Sheriff may upon his accompt be discharged thereof Let it be shewed to the King and if it please him that the Earl enjoy the same the Sheriff shall be discharged according to the quantity if not the Sheriff shall be at his answer The Burgesses of Southwark pray a Confirmation of their Charter lately burned by casualty Let them make their persuit in the Chancery and they shall have right The Major and Commons of Newcastle upon Tine complain that where the Prior of Tinmouth parcel of S. Iohn of Ierusalem in Englandâ— by cautelous and suborned means brought his Writ of Freehold in Fernham and put in view and plaint the greater parcel in value of the same Town holden in farm of the Crown time out of mâ—nde and recovered Whereupon order was taken that the same Justice of Assize should not in that Assize have a procedendo but that the Chancellor should grant a Commission for the examining of the truth untill which time the matter should stay they therefore require that the Assize be no further proceeded in until the Commission return Remedy is provided in this Parliament as appeareth by another Bill thereunto endorsed The Commons of the Marches in Estritheng require that Commission may be made to the Lord Percy the Prior of Bridelington Sir Robert Boynton Sir Robert de Constable Sir Iohn of Snareby and Iohn de Almary that they may appointable persons for the defence of the same and namely for an arrival between a place called Erledicks and the Town called Whitby It pleaseth the King The Commons of the Counties of Essex and Hartford pray that the Sheriff upon his account be allowed an hundred pounds yearly of that which he cannot receive Let them search the Exchequer Treasury and elsewhere for the causes of the distress oâ— thâ—se Farms for two years now ensuing and in the mean time the Sheriff shall have pardon of an hundred marks The Commons of the City of Rochester pray that the Clerk of the Market may have nothing to do within the said City He shall make assay and due punishment of such as make default without taking any Fines in gross of the same Town where he doth not his Office The Commons of the County of Northampton shew that the Sheriff is yearly charged with an hundred pounds for the profit of the shire where he knows not how to levie above fifty three pounds three shillings four pence and pray consideration thereof Let them declare their request in special manner They pray a pardon of all forfeitures supposed to be done by any of them whereof they were not attainted in their life and that no such hereafter be made The King will thereof be advised That the Process of such as be at Issue and do not within one year after sue out his Nisi prius be discontinued and had for nothing The Law heretofore used shall stand That no man upon pain of loss of all that he hath do carry forth Corn out of the Realm but only for the provision of Calice The Liege people shall be free to carry where they best like for their most profit The Commonalty of Nottingham Derby and Lincoln and of the Town of Nottingham require that by the Kings Letters-Patents the County and Town of Nottingham aforesaid may appoint two Guardians who may purchase lands unto them and their successors for the maintenance of a Bridge called Heybeth-bridge nigh unto the Town of Nottingham The King will be advised That the like Order that is made in London against the horrible vice of Usury may be observed throughout the whole Realm The old Law shall continue That recovery may be had and an Attorney by a Writ of Assise of Nevel disseisin of Nusance made to a Miln or to the Frank-tenant of Nusance made in times past as heretofore Let the Common-Law run They require that remedy may be had against certain Lombards who named themselves to be of the Company of Askertines or of Stroze or other the like and thereby have upon credit bought Wooll of English men some to the value of Thirty pounds and some Twenty pounds and some have departed to the great undoing of divers Englishmen as Thomas Blanchered Nicholas Iohn and other their Factors lately did It is before the Great Council For the trial of any mans birth whereupon inheritance doth stand that the Enquest for the trial may be of the County where the birth is laid and not where the Writ is brought The old Law therein shall be observed That the Kings carriage for himself and his houshold may be of carts and horses of his own and not to charge the Commons therewith And to remember the Court of Marshalsey for there is great complaint thereof throughout the whole Realm The King knoweth not how these things may be brought to pass but if they be he will charge the Steward and other Officers to make redress And to the Article of the Marshalsey let it be declared The Merchants of the Staple require to be eased of divers new Impositions as Chalking Tronage Wharfage c. The King would no new Impositions but that the same be enquired of if it be need That commandment may be made to the Sheriff and Justices of the Peace of every Shire to raise the power of the Shire for the repressing of Routs and Riots The King will appoint order and willeth that the Statute be executed They require that good regard may be had for the keeping of the Castle of Nottingham wherein the sons of Sir Charls de Blois are under the keeping of a stranger not able to answer therefore where by Record it doth appear that the Keeper of that Castle was wont to be an Earl of the Realm Let it be declared to the King and Great Council The Commonalty of Cities and Towns prayen that such parcel and Hamlets of Towns lying neer to the walls of their Cities and Towns and yet not belonging to the same may be contributory to all charges within such their walled Cities and Towns and that the Mayors and Bailiffs of the same may arrest all breakers of the peace there The King meaneth thereof to be advised That it will please the King to pardon to the Commons of Northhumberland all issues and amerciaments lost in any of the Kings Courts from 48. unto these presents The King will be advised The Commons of Southampton pray remedy against the extortions of the Lord Nevil for not paying men their wages whereby the soldiers spoiled the Couutry to the value of Four hundred pounds and that remedy may be provided for the like The offender shall answer
for the time past and for the time to come the King will provide remedy The Commons of Norfolk require that payment may be made to them and to all the Countries for sheep taken by the Purveyors far under the price against the Statute This Bill is otherwise answered within the Bill of Buyers That the poor Commons of Yarmouth who came to the Parliament to complain of the oppressions done to them by the rich of the same Town may be in the Kings protection sworne and examined for the profit of the King It pleaseth the King The Commons of the Diocesâ— of York complain of the outragious taking of the Bishop and his Clerks for admission of Priests to their Benefices Who hath most cause let him sue by the Law The Commons of the Hundred of Costleing in Sussex desire remedy forasmuch as the Cinque-ports have bought half the said Hundred and will not contribute any thing to them It is before the Great Council The Commons of Worcester-shire Salop and Stafford Hereford Bristol and Gloucester desire remedy for that the Merchants of those Shires in travelling to Calice are oft arrested for the trespasses and debts of other men with whom they have no acquaintance or doing And also that such as being of the Marches of Wales and County of Chester and rob in the Counties first recited and commit any other felonies or trespasses and being thereof attainted in such shires where the felonies are done may therefore lose their goods and lands to their Lords Let the old Law there be kept That no Woollen Yaâ—n be carried out of the Realm or sold to any person but imployed in Draping No such Yarn shall pass out of the Realm upon pain of forfeiture That all Liberties granted to any Cities or Towns may be confirmed and no Farmers of any such Liberties be distuâ—bed of the same Let them shew their Charters in the Chancery and they shall have right The poor Commons of Great Yarmouth prayen that they may freely buy and sell and chiefly in the Fishing-time according to their Charter and not to be oppressed by the rich Let them shew their griefs in specialties before the Great Council and they shall be heard The Commons of Tividal as well religious as secular prayen to be restored to their possessions given from them to their Enemies Let the Lords Marchers there named treat thereof and report to the Lords of the Parliament their opinions for remedy The Citizens of York desire that where the Lord of Arde and Cockham in Holland hath stayed six and thirty surples of their Wools to the value of Nineteen hundred pounds supposing that the King oweth him money for his service in France and will neither for the Kings letters nor other means deliver their Woolls that therefore they may have licence to stay the ships of the same Lord at Calice or in England till they be paid and answered to the value Let it be declared to the Grand Council and they shall have remedy according to reason Iohn de Butshorne maketh his title to the Manor of Grimsteed in the County of Wilts and to the Advowson of the said Manor and to the moyety of the Manor of Enkesbury in the County of Southampton and prayeth to be restored to the possession of the same from Robert de Beverley the premisses are confessed to be holden of the King in chief It is before the Great Council The Commons of Devonshire prayen that they may be paid for victuals taken of them by the Duke of Britany while he lay there a long time for passage and that from henceforth no protection be granted to any passenger over to take any victuals other then for present pay Let the offendor for the time past answer and for to come the King will provide That remedy may be had touching the dishonest returns of Bayliffs Nihil habent against them for their bribing Fees and other corrupâ—ions It is before the grand Councel Where men for fear and safeguard of their lives do flie to Church-yards and after depart therefrom the Steward of the Kings houshold forthwith enquireth how he escapeth out of the Churchyard and upon the matter found awardeth an escape against the Town or Parish wherein they pray remedy The King will be advised herein That if the party Plaintiff or Defendant upon his habeas corpus returned do not sue out his Nisi priuâ— that then the whole Processe may be discontinued and that in all and every of the Kings Courts and that every man may have the Nisi prius granted as well against the King as others without suing to the Privy Seal Let the Law used remain That such as have or shall sue livery upon an Inquest of Office by Escheators where those lands indeed are not holden of the King may be received to aver of whom or by what service the same lands are holden If any mans Inheritance be charged by any such Inquest he who will complain shall be received to traverse the Inquest before his homage done That any man having the Privy Seal for the payment of debts due by the King to him shall not be stayed from the payment thereof by any private letter of the Treasurer The King granteth thereunto That a Parliament may be holden every year the Knights of the Parliament may be chosen by the whole Counties and that the Sheriff may likewise be without brokage in Court To the Parliament there are Staâ—utes made therefore To the Sheriffs there is answer made To the Knights it is agreed that they shall be chosen by common consent of every County That such as by sinister means procure extents against the King at one value where it is thrice or far better may be punished The King will make enquiries thereof as him pleaseth That no pardon be granted to any impeached in this Parliament being the Kings Councellors or sworn to him but that such be therefrom removed and never restored and an Act thereof to be made The King will do therein as shall him please That all the Articles of wrongs declared in this Parliament against any person may be duely determined by Commissions by the Kings Justices and other Lords and that the Judgements given in this Parliament be not repealed by Brokers about the King The King will do by the advice of his Councel what shall be best saving to every Town his liberties They requâ—re the King to have good regard for the government of the Realm and that all profits of the Crown may be imployed to the Kings honour The King as next above will do for the good government his own profit and ease of the
hath been The Commons of Essex and Hertford pray as in 50 E. 3. tit 151. The King shewed favor at the first Parliament aâ—d so will as need shall be That every person of what sex soever being professed of any Religion and continuing the same habit to the age of fifteen years may upon the trial of the same in any of the Kings Courts be in Law utterly debarred of all inheritance albeit he hath a Dispensation from Rome against which Dispensations is the chief grief The King and the Lords will provide therefore That some provision may be made thaâ— Herring may be better cheap being now grown to an excessive price Indifferent and able men by Commission shall see the price and enquire of the causes and certifie the same whereupon order shall be taken The Commons of Devon desire That upon the return of the Commission touching the Customs of the Stannary there being now done in the Chancery that the rest of the liberties of the Stannery may be declared according to the promise of the last Parliament and that the same be made in Letters-Patents Richard Prince of Wales prayeth That the Declaration made in the last Parliament as touching the Stanneries in Devon and Cornwal may be revoked considering that the same was made the Prince nor any of his Councel or any other the Officers being called or made privy thereto Such as were for the County of Devon do pray that they may answer to such as alleadge that the said County should seek to hinder the profit of the said Prince The Circumstance shall be examined by the Councel of the King and Prince and thereupon Order shall be taken The Counties of Leicester and Northampton Huntington and Bedford complain upon the erection of three Mills upon the high stream of the River of S. Ives whereby neither Ships nor Boats can passe and whereby they surround all the grounds about the Towns of Buckten Brampton Gormercester Hemeford and Huntington Let the Statute in such case provided be executed The County of Warwick desire that the Goalhouse in Warwick being very ruinous may be repaired with the profits of the County aforesaid by the hands of the Sheriffs Let them sue to the Treasurer and other of the Councel to have redress That none such as passe over Wools or have Ships on the Sea be accounted Customers of weighers of Wools. The King will appoint such Customers as shall please him The Heirs and Tennants of the land of chief Taxers of the fifteen do pray that they may be taxed by the Barons of the Exchequer according to the old rate upon the view thereof without bringing any Writ therefore The Taxation being once reasonably made should seem to continue The Print as touching Frizes cap. 8. agreeth with the Record Divers Counties adjoyning upon the River of Severn do desire remedy for the course of the same River between Worcester and Bristow which is so straitned as that the grounds thereabouts are thereby surrounded that Ships and Boats cannot passe and many drowned in their beds Let certain Lords be appointed to hear and determine this matter That if it shall happen any man or boy to be drowned by a fall out of a ship or boat the Vessel shall be no Deodand Being upon the Sea it shall be adjudged no Deodand but being upon a fresh River the King will shew favour That every man may be received to prove his age and to sue livery by the inspection of his body and other sufficient wayes where it is not returned by Office The Chancellor by the sight of the bodies of such Heirs and of Offices returned shall do what shall seem best to be done That the Lord Latimer being in the last Parliament by untrue suggestions deprived of his Offices and of the Privie Councel may be by authority of Parliament restored thereto again The King granteth thereunto at the prayers of certain Bishops Lords and of the Commons Iohn de Hankword Knight requireth of the King such Charter of Pardon as was granted to Sir Robert Knowls Sir Iohn Clifford Knight requireth the like The King meaneth and will shew favour to them when he pleaseth That the Statute of Provisors made at any time may be executed and that remedy may be had against such Cardinals as have within the Provinces of Canterbury and York purchased any Reservations with the Clause of Ante ferri to the value of Twenty or Thirty thousand Scats of Gold against the Popes Collector who was wont to be an English-man and now is a meer French residing in London and conveyeth yearly to the Pope Twenty thousand marks or Twenty thousand pounds and who this year gathereth the First-fruits of all Benefices whatsoever The means to meet with these Reservations and Novelties are to command all Strangers to depart the Realm during the wars That no English-man may become their Farmors or do send to them any money without special licence on pain to be out of the Kings protection The Statutes and Ordinances therefore made shall be observed Petitions of the Clergy with their Answers That upon Prohibition for Sylva Cedua Consultations may be readily granted The Law heretofore reasonably used shall continue The print touching the proceeding after a Consultation Cap. 4. in effect agreeth with the Record but not in form That touching pensions claimed by one Church or Benefice out of another there may no Prohibition be granted and that the definition thereof may be only in the Ordinaries The King will make search in his Common-place Treasury or elswhere and thereafter will therein deal That of every Consultation conditional the Ordinary may of himself take upon him the true understanding thereof and proceed therein accordingly The King cannot depart with his right but to yield to his Subjects according to Law The print touching the Arrests of Priests Cap. 5. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form Touching the Bishop of Winchester and matters by him attempted to be reformed Order was that his Temporalties should be seised into the Kings hands This done the Knights and Burgesses were willed to sue forth their Writs for their Fees and so the Parliament made an end The last day of the Parliament Sir Thomas Hungerford Knight Speaker of the Parliament declared how that during the Parliament he had generally moved the King to pardon all such as were in the last Parliament unjustly convicted and how the King willed him to make a speciall Bill therefore which was done to seven as hereafter ensueth but no Answer thereto made The Commons moved for a Pardon for Richard Lyons Merchant of London and for restitution general They make the like motion
poor and that such Labourer in service by reason of any little tenure or for that he would be a Victualler be kept in the Stocks untill he serve The Statute made therefore shall be observed That no Mason Carpenter Artificer or Labourer do take any wages for the holy daies The Statutes therefore made shall be observed That the Petitions of the Commons in the 50 E. 3. whereto the Kings answer was The King willeth the same to be made in Acts for that some affirm them to be but Ordinances and no Acts. It is in part done and the rest the King will do according to reason That such as receive the Subsidy of Woolls and the Tallage of Groats granted 50 E. 3. may account in open Court before the Lords Certain be appointed to examine the receits and to make report unto the continual Council who shall take order therein That no stranger do keep any lodging within the Realm and that the goods of Strangers attached within the Realm may be restored to such Englishmen as have had their goods spoiled on the Sea in the time of Truce To the first point the King granteth except such as be leige men and to the second the King would have a stay of such goods until restitution That the Swanny-motes may be kept but at one time of the year and that no Free-man other then Officers of the Forrest be distrained to come to the Swanny-Motes The King would the Statute therefore provided to be kept That no man be imprisoned or amerced for Vert or Venison or other things against the Assize of the Forrest unless the same be contained in the Articles of the Charter of the Forrest and that every man may without impeachment chuse the Purlues The Charter and other Statutes of the Forrest shall be observed It is enacted that the perambulations of the Forrest heretofore made shall wholly stand and that no Forrester or other Minister of the Forrest have to do without but according to the assize of the Forrest That the misdemeanor of the Keeper and other Officers of the Forrest may be inquired of and snch as be removeable and faulty to be expelled The King will from time to time inquire and punish such defaults and who will complain shall be heard The Print touching debts allowed in the Exchequer cap. 5. agreeth in effect with the Record but not in form That no Officer of the Exchequer or of the Kings Houshold do maintain any quarrels in their Countries and that the priviledges for the Officers of the Exchequer may be declared Touching maintenance order is before and for declaration it hath been used that all Officers and their servants with them abiding shall in all personal actions sue and be sued in the Exchequer and not elsewhere That the jurisdiction of the Marshal may be limited and that all men may have their liberties allowed as well within the Verge as without and that no Court of antient demeasnes be thereby disturbed The Marshal shall have such jurisdiction as heretofore and who will complain shall be heard That the Popes Collector be willed to gather no longer the first fruits of Benefices within this Realm being a very novelty and that no other person do any longer pay them That no man do procure any Benefice by provision from Rome upon pain to be put out of the Kings protection That no Englishman do take to farm of any Alien any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Prebend on the like pain In which Bill is rehearsed that the French had 6000 l. yearly of such livings in England The Lords of the great Council shall take order in those three Bills That religious persons buy Lands and cause others to be in Feoffee thereof and yet take no profits that the King and the Lords may take the advantage The Lords mind not to change the old Law used That the Lords Leets may have the punishment of Tavernors and that they be not disturbed for that the Leet is within the Verge It is not the Article of the view of Franckpledge but shall be used as it hath been The Mayor Aldermen and Commons of London pray that they may have the like punishment of ill doers in Southwark as in London saving to all Lords their rights It is prejudicial to the King and to the Bishops of Canterbury and Winchester They pray that they may among themselves a Coroner chuse and refuse The King cannot depart with his old right The Commons pray that whereas the Sheriffs of the Counties of Essex and Hertford are yearly charged to pay Two hundred fifty seven pounds 17 s. of the farms of Serjeants and main Farms and thereby yearly lose a hundred pounds whereof the King yearly one hundred Marks sometimes more sometimes less that the King will make his pardon certain The King will shew favour therein according to his pleasure The Sheriffs of Bedâ—ord Bucks Northampton and divers other Shires being in the same predicament pray the like remedy The King will semblably as above deal The like motion is made as in 51 E. 3. tit 53. And the like answer thereto made That all persons as well religious as otherwise having any possâ—ssiâ—ns within any walled or fortified City or Town now decayed mâ—y to the re-edifying thereof contribute as other the Townsmen there do The King will that all such shall contribute according to the assurance of their tenure heretofore used saving to every man his priviledge They pray remedy against the Popes reservations to dignities elective the same being done against the Treaty of the Pope taken with King E. 3. The Chancellor calling to him such as he shall please shall see the Record and take order therein That the Chirographer shall render tenfold as much as he shall receive more then 4 s. of every fine The Statute before made shall be kept That the Statute made that the next of the kin of the Kings Wards to whom the Lands cannot discend shall have such Wards Lands in farm during the nonage before any other may be observed The King granteth thereunto That the Assizes sued forth in King E 3. time may continue in force at the suit of the party There is remedy heretofore provided That every Writ be as well maintainable in a Hamblet which beareth a certain known name as in a Town The Law heretofore used shall stand That a Writ of Partition may as well be maintainable between strangers purchasers as between parceners and prinuyes of blood The Law as next above The Print touching Feoffments upon collusion cap. 9. agreeth in effect with the Record but not in form That it may be declared whether the
Peter-pence shall be paid to the Popes Collectors or no. It shall be as it hath been used That the Justices of Assize may take Nisi prius of issues between the King and other persons of the Exchequer as well as of the Kings Bench or Common Pleas. As it hath been so shall it be That in the Counties of Northumberland Cumberland and Westmerland Indictments of man-slaughter taken in the Sheriffs turn shall continue good and elsewhere It shall be as the Law willeth That no suit between any patties be ended before any Lords or others of the Council but before the Justices onely The King granteth thereto The Print touching Villains Lands Tennants and the book of Dooms-day cap. 6. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form That such as have been broken in the Wars and others passing the age of sixty years may be exempted for being Escheator Coroner or such like Office that they be of no Juries nor loose Fines or Amerciaments The King will have consideration of Soldiers for the other there is a Statute made which shall be kept That every man have the priviledge of the Clergy notwiâ—hstanding the exception of Bigamy The Law therefore used shall stand That all Aliens as well religious as others do by Candlemass next avoid the Realm and that all their Lands and goods during the Wars may be imployed thereto for divers causes there declared The King granteth thereunto and that they take shipping at Dover to Callice where they shall be searched for carrying over more then for their needful expences except Priors conventual and persons known to be honest and such as be married or in house with Noblemen finding good surety â—or their good behaviour The Print as touching Retaining and Liveries cap. 7. agreeth in effect with the Record but not in form That if notorious felons be committed to the Bishops prison the same Bishop may more narrowly look to their purgation The King hath so willed them which if they do not he will provide by Law That an Escheator upon an Inquest of Office do not seize any mans lands without a Scire facias out of the Chancery It shall be as it hath been used That a Parliament may be yearly holden in convenient place to redress delays in Suits and to end such Cases as the Judges doubt of It shall be as it hath been used That justice be not deferred upon letters passing under the privy Seal or privy Signet That Statute therefore made shall be kept The Print touching Protections cap. 8. in effect agreeth with the Record but not in form Note that the Commons by their Petition required that every man might upon such protections aver that the party was not in the Kings service according to the surmise of his protection Whereunto was answer that averment lay not in such cases They require to know where the Staple should be if happily Calice should be besieged and that in such distress the Merchants amongst themselves might levy impositions for the safe transporting of their goods To the first It shall be in such places of the Realm as was last used to the second let them then make means to the Council and they shall be heard The King confirmeth the pardon made to the Bishop of Winchester who was excepted in the last pardon of King E. 3. They pray that such as in their Charters have Conuzance of all pleas may thereby hold pleas of Assize of No. Disseisen and Morte de Ancest They shall have allowance according to the form of their old Charter and the allowance heretofore made That no manner of Eyer or Trailbaston be holden during the War or twenty years within the Realm The King will be advised That the Bishops and Clergy may pay to the Tallage and Subsidy of their temporal possessions as the Laity doth which yet they refuse to do They shall so do for all possessions come to their hands or which they have purchased since the twentieth year of King E. 1. The print touching the general pardon of King E. 3. cap. 10. agreeth with the Record The print touching Sheriffs cap. 11. agreeth with the Record Note the Commons moved to have had the Escheator in the same case which was denied That the errors of the Exchequer may be redressed in the Kings Bench or Parliament That no ship Boat or other Vessel be forfeited as a Deodand where any person by falling out is drowned The King will shew favour to such as seek the same saving his Regality The print touching prisoners in the Fleet cap. 12. for the first part thereof doth not altogether agree with the Record And for the second part where a man will willingly confess himself debtor to the King the Record is in the Exchequer which is left out of the print which note well That the Ordinaries do receive of the people no pecuniary pains but inflict them with spiritual pennance The King hath charged all Ordinaries to do according to the Laws of the Church and not otherwise That it may be certainly appointed what Ordinaries shall take for the probate of a Testament and making of the Acquittance The King hath charged them to take but reasonably therefore That the King will examine the cause of the great decay of the Navy The King will do therein by the advice of the great Council That none of the Parliament be appointed Collectors of any thing granted now and that all persons whatsoever having Lay-fee may contribute to the charges of the Knights and to all Talliages To the first the King granteth to the second the Lords of the Realm will not so lose their own liberties The Petitions of the Clergy with their Answers That it will please the King to retain such Councellors and Servants as may be proved to be honest and of good skill and not covetous That the King will confirm to the Clergy all their Liberties without any fine paying therefore The King will charge his Councellors to be as good as he may That the Clergy be not impeached before any Temporal Judge for obeying the Ordinances of their Ordinaries The King would the same so as the same do not prejudice his person Crown or Laws of his Land That the Clergy upon every temporal suggestion is arrested into the Marshalsey and payeth for his discharge 6 s. 8 d. where a Lay man payeth onely 4 d. Let the grieved complain to the Steward of the Kings Houshold and he shall have remedy That Purveyors and builders do take of the provision of the Clergy and enforce them to make carriages against their Liberties The Statutes therefore made shall be kept
with this adjunct that for as much as Clerks cannot have their remedy therefore as the Statute would that therefore they shall have their Actions against such Purveyors by way of Trespass and thereby recover treble damages mentioned in the Statute The Sheriffs and Escheators with their Wives and Servants and horse do over-charge poor religious houses and over that do exact great sums of money of them The Statutes therefore made shall be observed The print touching Tithes and Oblations cap. 13. doth in part agree with the Record but not altogether quod nota That upon consultation granted of a pension brought by one person against another all depending before the Ordinary that the same Ordinary may fully decide the cause onely The King will charge the Justices to search forth the old Records and to do thereafter That no prohibition be granted before the whole circumstance of the matter be fully examined in the Chancery No prohibition shall be granted other then heretofore hath been and what ever was appointed in the last Parliament shall stand The Print touching tythes and Averments ca. 14. doth not altogether agree with the Record quod nota That the Ordinary may freely discuss every conditional consultation Let it be as it hath been That upon a prohibition for Tythes of Sylva cedua there may be readily granted a consultation and that neither the Judge neither the party pursuant be impeached therefore It shall be as it hath been That all men flying to the Church-yard or other holy places may enjoy the priviledge thereof without any temporal Watch or Ward No man shall make any ward but one of the Chancery The Print touching Arrests in Churches c. cap. 15. much swerveth from the Record which note Petitions for the City of London That all their Liberties with this clause Licet 2. any Statute notwithstanding may be confirmed To the first the King granteth to the second he will view the contraries and do thereafter They require that no stranger within the same Liberty do buy or sell any Merchandize of another stranger in pain of forfeiture The King willeth the same between Merchant and Merchant onely saving the Liberties of the Merchants of Aquitain That they attend upon no commandment of any the Kings Officers but onely at the Kings suit being sealed with the Great Seal or Privy except the Kings Justices according to their Charter Let it be continued as heretofore hath been It is enacted that the Citizens of London shall by their selves enquire of Customs Impositions and purprestures happening or arising within the City of London It is enacted that the Mayor and Chamberlain of London for the time being shall have the keeping of all the Lands and Goods of such Orphans as happen within the said City Saving to the King and other Lords their right of such as hold of them out of the same Liberty That the interpretation of any word or sentence touching their said Liberties which may severally be taken may be taken according to the intent and claim of the said Citizens Interpretation of Charters belong unto the King wherein if any doubt shall arise the King by advice will make interpretation according to reason That the City of London may enjoy all such Liberties as any other Town in the Realm if they have any other then the said Citizens have Let them declare the especial matter and they shall have answer That no protection Royal be allowed in debt account or Trespass wherein a Free-man of London is ten pounds For victual bought after the voyage or service whereof the protection mentioneth or for debt or contract after the date of such protection purchased the King granteth That no man condemned and laid in Newgate for any debt to any Citizen be removed to answer to the King in the Exchequer unless that the Kings debt be first to be due The King hath appointed the Barons and Officers of the Exchequer so to deal It is to be required that for any answer here given the Kings will is that the Citizens of London be in no wise restrained of any their Liberties or ancient Customs approved The Commons the last day of the Parliament by mouth required the Lords to have good regard that the King might have all such Lands as his Grandfather purchased to the ease of the Commons and also all the goods and Jewels of his said Grandfather considering what had been heretofore done in other Kings days in the like whereunto was made no other Answer but that the Lords wished the same for the Kings part and the soul of his said Grandfather The Parliament continued from day to day from the first day being the 13. of October this present year until the 18. of November in the same viz. in the whole 47 days At the which 18 day the Bills were read and the answers as aforesaid And so the King giving thanks to the Lords and Commons for their expedition and consideration of aid willed the Knights and Burgesses to sue forth their Writs for their Fees and so to depart And so ended this Parliament Anno Secundo Ricardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Westminster in the Quinden of Easter in the Second year of King Richard the Second IN the Quindena of Easter being the 25. of April the Duke of Lancaster and other Bishops and Lords assembled in the Kings Palace of Westminster attending of long time the coming of the King at the last for that certain Sheriffs had not made the return of their Writs the Parliament by the Kings commandment was continued untill the next day whereof Proclamation was made openly in Westminster-hall The next day being Tuesday for the cause aforesaid and for that sundry of the Bishops and Lords were then absent the Parliament by the Kings appointment was continued untill the next day The Wednesday following being the 27. of April the King with most of the Bâ—shops and Lords came into the Parliament into the Painted Chamber into the which the Commons were called before whom Sir Richard le Scroop Chancellor of England by the Kings appointment declared the causes of the Parliament vizâ— First was for the maintenance of the liberty of the Church Again for that in the end of the last Parliament the King had according to the order taken elected sundry Lords and others to be of his continual Council but for the sudden breaking up of the same Parliament he was not advised of the number which being chosen and sworn togethâ—r with the Nobles consulted about the Affairs of the Realm and the great dangers wherein the same was and weighing the great charges which the same needed would not fully determine the same without Parliament
next Parliament that all Merchants which shall bring in any cloth of Gold Riverchief Pearls Jewels or Furrs and all Merchants which shall transport Staple wares shall finde Surety to the Tower to the value of twelve pence in Bullion for every twenty shillings of such their Merchandise so brought in or transported That no Knight or Lady under forty pound land by the year do wear any precious Furrs cloth of Gold ribond of Gold or silk on pain to loose all that they have The King will be advised until the next Parliament It is enacted unto the next Parliament that every Goldsmith shall set his mark unto his Vessel which if it be not according to the sterling he shall forfeit it double be imprisoned and sined Certain Petitions of the Major and Aldermen of Callis touching their Liberties with the answers thereunto It is enacted that the Chancellor and Schollers of the University of Cambridge shall for five years in default of the Major and Bailiffs of the same Town of Cambridge have the punishment of all manner of Victuals Measures and Weights within the said Town and also power to punish the Major and Bayliffs and their Officers if there shall be any Victuallers for any such default And it is to be noted that of the printed Statute cap. 3. touching fained gifts and Feoffments to defeat mens Creditors there is no mention made in this Record Anno Secundo Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Gloucester the Wednesday next after the Feast of S. Luke the Evangelist in the Second year of King Richard the Second THe same Wednesday being the 20. day October and the first day of the Parliament certain of the Nobles met in a Chamber appointed in the Abby of S. Peters of Gloucester where for that divers of the Lords were not come nor the Sheriffs then returned their Writs the Parliament was adjourned until the next day by the Kings commandment The same Thursday after the King with his three Uncles of Spain Cambridge and Buckingham the two Archbishops and divers other Nobles assembled in the Great Hall of the Abby of Gloucester and there appointed where the L. B. of Davids by the commandment of the King declared the cause of the Parliament as followeth viz. First for the liberties of the Church maintenance of the Laws and observations of the Peace Secondly for that it was enacted that a Parliament should yearly be holden Thirdly for that the King desired to see and to consult with them so honorable an Assembly there gathered in Gods name which he commendeth willing unity and concord among them to be according to the resemblance of the Church Another great cause was for that the King being left in the midst of great Wars could not endure and maintain the same without their Aid He sheweth further that since the great villany and damage done by the Scots at Roxburgh at Truce thereupon taken for a time they the same Scots have allied themselves with the French to the end to depart from the same Truce and by all means to annoy the King and his friends All which to recite and the charges thereof to bear he willeth them deeply to consider One great mischief in the Commonweal he remembreth them viz. That the Law of the Land and the Law of Arms do not concur together by certain similitudes he wisheth them of those two Laws to make a Relative so as they may stand with the other Another mischief he noteth to wit Slanderers and sowers of discord between Nobles Gentlemen and Neighbours the which kind of men he resembleth to Dogs that eat raw flesh so applying them to eat and consume living men For all which enormities he wisheth them to seek redress and to be there the next day by eight of the clock to hear further Declarations and the Commons to keep the Chapter house within the great Cloister of the Abby aforesaid Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and for the forein Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoin c. as above The Friday after the two and twentieth of October the Lords and Commons assembled in the said great Hall where Sir Richard le Scroop Steward of the Kings Houshold declaring his own unworthiness there to speak shewed them how they were invironed with enemies and the King importably charged for keeping possession beyond the Seas namely that Callis cost him yearly twenty thousand pounds Brest twelve thousand marks besides Ireland Cherburgh Burdeaux and Bayn he sheweth that the old grant of the last Parliament was onely dispended in the Wars as the Officers could declare he wisleth them to consult for the rescue and the mean how to levie the charges After that the Commons came before the King where Sir Iames Pickering knight Speaker of the Parliament for the Commons maketh his Protestation as well for himself as for the whole House And first for the Commons That if he should speak any thing which happily might be ill taken it might be as as nothing so as the Commons at any time might amend the same And so much for himself He therefore rehearseth the whole charge of the Parliament pronoun the Chancellor and to the first points touching the liberties of the Church maintenance of the Laws and observations for the Peace the Commons making low curtesies rendred therefore most humble thanks and pray God for the execution of the same To the aid required for the King he sheweth how in the last Parliament upon the like motion to the Commons repeating the great charges of the King by the Treasurer they then made answer that they saw no such cause of aid whereunto for the King it was then replyed that the Kings Coronation was chargeable and that if the Commons would grant such reasonable aid whereby the King might thereby provide an army that they nothing doubted but that the King of himself might continue the same without charging them of long time upon which promise and hope the Commons did then grant the same large aid and being now unable to do the same require pardon thereof thinking that a great part of the same grant remained yet in the Kings Treasury The said Sir Richard le Scroop not knowing any such promise of discharge made in the last Parliament charging them with unâ—ruth for surmising any rest of the last grant to be And thereto calleth for witness William Walworth and Iohn Philpot Citizens of London and Treasurers appointed and sworn Thereupon the Commons make request to know how and in what manner the same sums were defraied whether some were not therefore indebted and who should be Councellors and great Officers
about the Kings person for this year The said Sir Richard le Scroop by the Kings commandment answered that albeit there never was account of Subsidies in or out of Parliament yet notwithstanding the King would that the said William and Iohn with others of the Kings Council should shew them the same so as the same should be taken for no example Touching any of the Kings debts the Exchequer used not to forget them Touching the Kings Officers and Councellors the King will chuse them according to his pleasure and thereafter make them prevail He therefore willeth the Lords as knowing the necessity to have due and speedy consideration thereof The Commons require longer day for the exhibiting of theâ—r Petitions which was granted They also require the Enrollment of the Aids and Subsidies granted the last Parliament the which was granted at the Kings pleasure and not at their request The Commons then require that five or six of the Lords might be appointed to come to discourse with them the Lords denyed that saying the same was the guise of two or three Parliaments before but theirs was that the Lords should among themselves chuse a certain number and the Commons the like and that they should confer together which they would do for if the Commons would not dissever themselves neither would they the Lords to which Order the Commons agreed After the Commons had reviewed the Enrollments of the receipts and expences about the Wars they eftsoon returned into the Parliament and commended the same as very honourable only they said that touching the forty six thousand pound defraied about the Marches of Callice Brest and other places of Gascoign and certain ransoms of prisoners should not run in their charge considering those defences were out of the Realm Thereunto was answered that those places were the very Barbicans and Propugnacles of the Realm the which being well defrauded and the Sea kept we should then enjoy peace at home and not otherwise The Commons then thought the goods of King E. 3. able to serve the turn Whereto was answered that the same goods were justly praised and delivered to certain his Creditors except certain implements of houshold wherefore the King stood bound to pay the value to certain of his Credâ—tors The Archbishop of Canterbury came before the King and Lords and required audience giving first most lowly thanks for the confirming of the liberties of the Church He then required that the great villany done in the Abby-Church of Westminster may be revenged viz. for that Robert Hamley Esq. and one other were murthered in the Church of Westminster by the high Altar at high Mass time And so beseecheth that the King may be vertuously brought up in his youth and have good Counsel The Temporal Lords on the contrary wished for the like bringing up of the King in vertue â—nd pray the King that where the Clergy hath incroached against the Laws that the same may be redressed They further say That the Judges and learned of the Law and certain Doctors of the Divine Civil and Common Law being examined and sworne before the King have thereby affirmed that no man ought to enjoy the Sanctuary in cases of Debt Accompt or Trespass but only in cases where the life or member of a man lieth in danger All which those Doctors and Clerks did after in this present Parliament defend and openly prove against the Bishops whereunto the Bishops could not then answer but required longer day which was granted Note in this Record are made certain reasons against Sanctuary for Debts about which priviledge it appeareth this Hurly-burly to have been The Lords and Commons grant to the King the like Subsidy of Wooll and Staple ware as was granted in 50 E. 3. tit 7. but expressed in 43 E. 3. tit 10. for one year over and above Which said subsidies they granted to the King as a new increase of the same subsidies Thirteen shillings four pence of every sack of Wooll Thâ—rteen shillings four pence for every twelve score Wooll-fells Twenty six shillings eight pence of every Last of Skins passing out of the Realm of all manner of persons for one year They also grant to the King six pence of every Twenty shillings merchandise passing or coming into the Realm They require the King to imploy their Grants to the maintenance of Wars and to appoint suffâ—cient and able Treasurers therefore as lately And to take these their Grants in good part for that by Plague War and Murrain they are able to do no more William of Montacute Earl of Salisbury rehearseth the old Petition contained in 1 R. 2. tit 28. 29. and prayeth as there is redress The Writ of Scire facias whereby the Earl of March was willed to appear The Sheriffs return upon the same Scire facias that the same Earl of March was not found within this Bailiwick neither any Lands or Tenements to be warned thereby who was Sheriff of Shropshire Whereupon the said Earl of Salisbury required another Scire fac for to warn Edmund now Earl of March the son and heir of the said Roger to be and answer at the next Parliament which was granted The Lady Nevill of Essex complaineth and sheweth that where Iohn Brewes and others brake her house at London and violently took thereout Margery the daughter of Iohn Nerfourd son to the said Lady and carried her away unto the house of Robert Howard knight All who kept away the said Margery to the end she should not pursue in Court Christian adnullation of contract of matrimony against the said Iohn Brewes For which cause the said Robert was by the Council committed to the Tower and after delivered surety and promised to do his uttermost to bring forth the said Margery by Michaelmas ensuing or else to yield himself prisoner to the Tower again The said Robert at Michaelmas came before certain of the Council and shewed his travel about the expedition asore but that he could not meet with her To whom the said Council gave three moneths of longer respite Notwithstanding upon the said Ladies pursuit for that the said Robert not bringing forth the said Margery did not yield himself prisoner to the Tower the same Robert was therefore committed to the Tower again Sir William of Windsor and Alice his wife late called Dâ—me Alice Perrers pray the revocation of a Judgment made in the last Parliament tit 41 42 43. against the said Alice for Errors therein contained The Record was brought forth and Errors assigned But the Kings learned Council adjudged and the Kings favour they could not sue in such wise but require that by Aâ—torney they might sue therefore Whereupon the said William and Alice his wife late called Dame Alice Perrers by a new Bill required that they by Edmund Clay and Robert Brown their
Attornies might pursue the Reversal of the said Judgment The King committed the matter to the Lords order who licensed them by the Kings favour to pursue the same as above The Citizens of Norwich require that no stranger within their Liberty may there sell or buy any merchandise by retail on pain of forfeiture There is a Statute hereafter made therefore which shall be kept It is enacted for the Citizens of Norwich That if their Customs and Usages heretofore used or hereafter to be used be difficult or defective in part or in all or that the same need any due amendment for any new matter arising whereof remedy was not before that time had that then the Bailiffs and 24 Citizens of the same City so therefore yearly to be chosen or the greater part of them shall from henceforth have power to ordain and provide from time to time such remedies which are most agreeable to saith and reason and for the most profit of the good and peaceable government of the same Town and of strangers thereto repairing as to them shall seem best so as such Ordinances be profitable for the King and his people Petitions of the Commons with their Answers That the liberties of the Church the Great Charter and the Charter of the Forrest may be maintained The King granteth thereto The Commons of the Dutchy of Cornwall shew how by the taking up of their Mariners lately the Spaniards burned all their ships and otherwise much endammaged them The like complaint made at the Sea-coasts and therefore prayen remedy The King by the advice of his Council will provide remedy therefore That every Disseisin may maintain his Assise against the principal Disseisor albeit they make over Feoffments to others in maintenance The Statute made therefore in the last Parliament shall be kept The Print touching Riots and Routs cap. 7. agreeth with the Record They pray remedy for that sundry men without any cause are called into the Exchequer to account for sweet Wines and Scotish money The King will cause the Officers to see the same amended They require remedy against the Extortions of Ordinaries for Probate of Testaments and against the slights of false Summoners there uttered unless the poor do bribe them with money which they call the Bishops Arms. Let declaration be made that the old Laws do not provide therefore and remedy shall be found That declarations may be made in what sort men shall pay tythe of their Wood. As it hath heretofore been used That men may enjoy their Purlieus freely and that perambulations may be made as was in time of King Henry The King thinketh that the perambulations be duly made and who will may complain and shall be heard That no man by Writ or otherwise be to answer of his Freehold before the Council but only at the Common Law No man shall be forced to answer finally thereunto provided that all persons shall answer before the Council of oppressions That the poorer sort of Justices of Peace in every Shire may be removed and more able in their place The Chancellor Treasurer and other of the Kings Council shall in such cases appoint the most able It is enacted that no Justice shall stay Justice for any Writ of the great or Privie Seal or other commandment whatsoever the same being against the Law or Statutes before that time made It is enacted that all Cities and Corporations may have their liberties confirmed according to the grant of the last Parliament That all Patents of Farms as well of Denizens as Aliens may be confirmed and not repealed The King granteth but where there are Extents duly returned or for other reasonable causes That all small Merchandises shall be carried to Callice except as is contained 1 R. 2. tit 36. That the Justices of the Kings Bench for the delivery of prisoners may have power to grant Nisi prius without Writs of the Chancery or the Privy seal As it hath been it shall be used It is enacted that no Escheator shall remain Escheator in the Office above three years They pray that all Lords holding as well of the King as of other Nobles may contribute to the payment of knights fees of the Parliament See the next Parliament tit 43. It shall be as heretofore That all Sheriffs upon their Accompts may be allowed for such liberties as have been granted to any person according to the rate of his or their Fee farm The Lords during the Kings minority cannot so deal but they will understand of the case whereby remedy shall be provided The Commons of Essex and Hartford-shire pray that the Sheriff of the same may yearly be discharged of One hundred pounds parcel of his Fee-farm which for certain causes there expressed he cannot levy The King of his meer good will hath pardoned them an hundred marks yearly for three Quarters ensuing The Print touching Labourers cap. 8. agreeth with the Record Divers Towns upon the Marches of Wales pray that they may not be distrained or impeached in Wales but where they are Debtors Suâ—tors or Trespassors The King and the Lords of the Marches will provide remedy therefore They require that the Justices of the Peace may be allowed some certain Fees Two or three of the Justices such as shall hold the Sessions shall be only for one year and receive the sixth part of the profits of those Sessions It is enacted that the Statute made in the 14. year of Edw. 3. cap. 5. touching taking away of delays shall be observed The Commons of the County of Kent pray that remedy may be had for the better keeping of the Sea-coasts so as the Nobles having great part of the same they may contribute thereto The King by advice of his Council will provide remedy Divers Counties bordering upon Severn require that the Statute made against Kidels Stauks and Stakes raised upon Rivers be executed It liketh the King It is enacted that no man shall be put out of his Freehold by any Letters-Patents granted upon suggestions unless the same be found for the King by Enquest or by Evidence in the Kings Court. That some remedy may be found against the taking of sundry mens ships whereby they have been spoiled to the utter decay of the whole Navy The King will therefore make the best provision he may That remedy may be provided against the Barks and Ballingers of Normandy upon the North parts of Tyne and thereby taking and spoiling divers and sundry English Boats since the last Truce The King by advice will provide remedy That remedy may be had against such Labourers as to avoid the same slee into Cities or Towns and there become
whom it is holden To their purchase the King granteth so as such meer Welshmen cannot find sureties for the peace and good behaviour Certain Counties bordering upon the Marches of Wales require remedy against such Welsh-men as come into their Counties committing sundry robberies rapes felonies and other evils The King by the advice of the Lords Marchers will provide remedy They require that no person upon an Inquest of Office by the Escheator be put out of his Lands finding Sureties to answer to the King if it be found for him or that no Patent be thereof granted The Statute therefore made shall be executed The Print touching the making of Woollen clothes and in the Office of Alnager cap. 2. agreeth with the Record They require paiment of divers Loans made unto the King upon Privy seals the day being long past The King will pay the same with all opportunity They require that none of the five principal Officers now appointed by Parliament be displaced before the next Parliament without some special fault found in them The Statutes therefore made in this Kings first year shall be observed That the English Merchants may be answered of the Scots goods remaining within the Realm for such their goods as are taken in Scotland The King will do what may be done from time to time That Parsons or Vicars have nor require any Mortuaries of the Armor of any man but that the said Armor may remain to their Heirs and Executors It shall continue as it hath The Print touching Provision Reservation and such merchandise from the Court of Rome cap. 3. in effect agreeth with the Record but nothing in form For the Print doth make no mention of the Popes abuses ne once to name the Pope where the Record doth altogether as saying that such novelties and abuses crept up lately viz. since the time of Clement the First It declareth that Pope Gregory promised to Edw. 3. to cease all such doings and that Urban that then was had notwithstanding granted unto one Cardinal Alleine the Priory of Decburst which never before was heard or suffered That he had granted to the Cardinal of Cisteron a Rebel to the King an expectation through the Province of Kent with the Clause of Ante ferri to the Tax of Four thousand pounds in Florins and to the said Cardinal the Archdeaconry of Bath besides divers and many others Anno Quarto Richardi Secundi Rex c. charissimo suo avunculo Johanni Regi Ca-Castellae Legionis Duci Lancastriae c. salutem Apud Westm. Crastino die Johannis ante Portuam Latinam Teste Rege Vicesimo quarto die Martii Consimiliâ—er subscriptis THom de Woodstock Com. Buck. Constabular Angliae Thom. de Holland Com. Kant Ricardo Com. Arundel Thom. de Bello campo Com. Warr. Hugo Com. Staff Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Willielmo de Monteacuto Com. Salis. Hen. de Percie Com. Northumb. Johanni de Moubray Com. Nottingham Jacobo de Audley de Helleigh Willielmo Bardolf de Warmegy Guidoni Brian Johanni Clinton Gilberto Talbot Johanni le Ware Henry le Scroop Tho. Rosse de Hamelake Johanni de Nevill de Raby Johanni Gray de Codenore Henry Grey de Wilton Reginaldo Grey de Ruthin Mauritio de Barkley Warrino de Insula Henry Fitz-Hugh Ricardo Scroop Nicho. Burnel Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Rogero de Clifford Johanni Buttort Rogero de Scales Rado de Cromwel Michaeli de la Poole Petro de Malo lacu Tho. de Berkley Willielmo de Thorp Willielmo de Windsor Rado Baroni de Greystock Roberto de Harrington Roberto de Willoughby Johanni de Clifton Johanni Cobham de Kent Hugoni de Dacre Rogero de Strange de Knokine Willielmo de Furnival Willielmo de Alde Burgge Ricardo de Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Tho. Dacre Tho. de Morley Johanni Bourchier Waltero Fitzwalter Johanni Lovel de Hichemerch Johanni de Monteacuto Roberto de Ashton Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Quarto Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Northampton the Munday next after the Feast of All Saints in the fourth year of Richard the second ON the same Munday being the fifteenth day of November certain Bishops and Lords assembled in Northampton in a Chamber within the Priory at S. Andrews therefore appointed where the Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor caused the great Charter to be read which done for that sundry of the Lords and Commons were not come by reason of the foul wayes much impâ—ited by a continual and outragious wet season and for that the Sheriffs had not returned their Writs the same Parliament by Commandment of the King who then was come in person to the Mannor of 〈◊〉 was adjourned to Thursday morning next ensuing The same Thursday the King being accompanied with sundry Bishops and not many Lords temporal for that the Duke of Lancaster and many of the Lords were then appointed to be on the Marches of Scotland came into the Chamber aforesaid whereunto were called the Kings Justices Serjeants Advocates and Commons where the Chancellor aforesaid for his introduction made a good collation which is not expressed He then declared that the Kings mind was to maintain the Liberties of the Church and to see the Common peace preserved and that the especial cause of the Parliament was for that the King in setting forth the Duke of Buckingham with a great Army of men into France for enterprizing this voyage into Scotland and for defending 〈◊〉 and other places beyond the Seas had not only defraied all that which they granted to him in the last Parliament but also was therefore enforced for making of Exchanges and Shifts to lay in manner his whole Jewels to gage all which to them was not unknown He willeth them to consider the same and how farther the King was bound by sundry means now to maintain not only the same charge now begun but also to make ready certain Gallies and to keep the Sea which were a matter impossible for any Christian Prince to accomplish of himself without aid about which and with the circumstances thereunto he willeth them to consult and speedily to give answer Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and for the forein Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoin c. as above The Chancellor then willed the Commons to depart to their lodging and to return next morning unto the new 〈◊〉 within the same Priory there to consult and to forget all manner of rancour and malice After that the Commons had for one day consulted they came into the Parliament into the Kings presence where Sir Iohn Oldersburgh Knight the Speaker desired a more fuller Declaration of the Kings necessity and what sum total he would
require therein requiring due consideration of the Commons poor estate being sundry wayes greatly impoverished Whereupon was delivered unto them by the Kings great Officers and Councel a Schedule containing divers particular charges amounting to the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds The Commons after came before the Lordsâ— requiring a moderation of the same sum and that it would please them to consult how the same might be levied After long debate betwixt the Lords and Commons for the levying of this sum as by sundry particular devices doth there appear the Commons offered to give an aid so as the Clergy who had the third part of the Realm would thereof pay one third part which was fifty thousand marks and the Commons an hundred thousand marks The Clergy answered That they were not to grant any aid by Parliament but of their free wills and therefore willed the Commons to do their duties and they would do their own Hereupon the Lords and Commons granted to the King of every person being man or woman passing the age of 15 years and being no begger twelve pence to be levied of every person of every parish according to their estate so as the rich doth bear with the poor and that the richest for him and his wife be not set above twenty shillings and the most poor for him and his wife no lesse then one groat They also grant to the King the Subsidies of Wools from the Feast of S. Martin then ensuing unto the Feast of the Nativity of our Lady then following in such wise as was granted in the last Parliament Sir Ralph of Ferriers knight who was arrested by the Duke of Lancaster on the Marches of Scotland for suspition of Treason as adhering unto the French the Kings enemies was brought into the Parliament before the Lords to answer thereto Divers Letters under the hand and seal of Arms of the said Sir Ralph and sent to sundry French Lords as to the Lord de la River the Earl of Longvile the Lord de Clisson the Lord Admiral and others were openly shewed and read in Parliament before the said Sir Ralph The contents of the Letters were humble commends and certification how that he in the behalf of the French had taken league and confirmed alliance with the Scots and to c. made the first payment requiring them to make the second payment occurrences touching the preparation of the English against the French request to remember his Fee and to give credit to the bearers of these Letters who were to say much and also touching the delivery of the Infants of Bois The Letters to the French Admiral willed him about Michaelmas to arrive about London where he should have a fair day to lay up Clerks the bearer of the same Letter for that he had discovered his Councel had it not been for the promise of 2000 Franks The bearers of these Letters and Entents were his said Clark one Iohn Fry and another but the most faithful were Frier William and Cannon who were often Liegers in France The Letter of Frier William to the same Sir Ralph sheweth how he sped well with the whole Councel of France that a way was found for Clark that he would bring the ransoms of the Infants of Boys and his annuity or see of the French The same Sir Ralph being brought into the Parliament by the Marshal of England required Councel which was denied him he then being willed to answer to those Letters beginneth a long circumstance of his acquaintance in France of his service there in King Edward the thirds time at which time he kept holds when others did not how he was Captain of Callis In which times he might have done hurt and did not he therefore alledged the same to prove innocency and the unlikelihood of this Whereupon the said Sir Ralph was remanded to prison and divers of his familiers being called into the Parliament house as the Parson of Brington and others together with the Beggar who first found these letters beside London the whole matter was examined and for that it appeared that certain of the Letters sent by the same Sir Ralph to the parties beyond the Seas were sealed together with other Letters senâ— from thence to the same Sir Ralph also sealed all of one hand and for that also that the seal was larger then the seal of the said Sir Ralph it seemed forged by some of his enemies for his overthrow In the end the same Sir Ralph being once or twice urged to answer whether these Letters were his or no answered That he did not remember that they were his own letters and that he was ready to approve as they should think good before which his last answer he offered the combate with any that would where from he was put And therefore as otherwise the Lords thought the same Sir Ralph to be thereof innocent wherefore he was committed to the custodies of the Earls of Warwick Stafford Salisbury Northumberland to Reynold Grey of Ruthen and the Prior of S. who became pledges body for body for the said Sir Ralph to answer when he should be called between that and the next Parliament and so the said Sir Ralph was set at large the said Letters and his Seal being of silver were delivered into the custody of Sir Iohn Cavendish chief Justice of England The Beggers being thought to be privy to this falsehood was committed to prison the Parson of Brington and other the friends of the same Sir Ralph being delivered Petitions of the Commons with their Answers That the great Charter and Charter of the Forrest and other Statutes of the Realm may be observed The King granteth thereto That the Commission sealed in the last Parliament for the survery of the Kings charges may be proceeded and that the Commissioners may have reasonable Fees allowed them It pleased the King That it would please the King to provide that the Subjects may be eased of their importable Tallages to the wars The King will so do saving his honour and estate That this Tallage now granted may be only imployed upon the charge of the Earl of Buckingham and Lords with him in Britain and and for the keeping of the Sea It pleased the King that it be dispended about the defence of the Realm That the County of Chester the Bishoprick of Durham and the Cinque-ports may be comprised within this Tallage The King granteth for the Cinque ports onely That half pence and farthings may be coyned according to the Sterleage The King will do for the ease of the people That no Ship or Vessel be taken for a Deodand where any person thereout falling is drowned Upon complaint the King will shew favour as heretofore hath been That remedy may be had against the
Normans ships of the Sea The King will do the best by advice That the Statute of granting Writs of and may be observed and that all such as shall have the same may be sworn by themselves and others being of good name and that their suggestions are true in all points The Statute therefore made heretofore shall stand That no outlawry be pronounced against any man unlesse the addition Sirname Place or Town where he dwelleth be therein The Common Law with the Statutes do suffice therein That no man be put out of his lands by an enquest of Office by the Escheater nor Patent thereof granted to any person before the Kings right be discussed The Statutes therefore made shall be kept That the Sheriffs of Essex and Hartford may be discharged of the hundred and ten pound yearly which they cannot receive After the expiration of pardon of an hundred marks for two years the King granteth the like pardon to the same Sheriff for three other years The Counties of Northampton Suffolk and other Counties pray the revocation of the Charter of great Yarmouth lately made for the annexing of Kirkley rode to the same Haven of Yarmouth and that no man should buy Herring within seven miles of the same Rode The Commissions lately cerâ—ified into the Chancery by the Earl of Suffolk and others shall by new Commissions be examined for that the said liberties were granted thereupon that the King may do therein the best and in the mean season that they of Yarmouth by Writs be commanded only to use their Liberties It is enacted that all men may carry their Butter Cheese and Victuals for one year to any place being friendly to the King They pray that the bounds between the parties of Holland and Kesteven Viz. between the water of land and the water of Witham and surrounded may be by Commission newly made It pleaseth the King if no contrary cause be shewed The Commons of the County of Derby pray that the Assizes and deliverances of the same County may be holden at Derby and no more at Salop. The King will charge his Justices to keep the same in the most convenient place Upon the Complaint of the County of Sussex and Surrey It is enacted That the Sheriff of the same Shire towards his charge of Fee-farm shall upon his account be allowed yearly fifteen pound which the Earl of Arundel payeth for his liberty That provision may be had against the Popes Collectors for levying of the first fruits of Ecclesiastical dignities within the Realm There shall be granted a prohibition in all such cases and other cases where the Popes Collector shall attempt any such Novelries That all manner of Debts of King Edw. 3. may be paid The most is and the rest shall be That all Priors Aliens may be removed out of their houses and licensed to depart and never to return and that Englishmen might be placed in their Livings answering to the King at they did The King will be advised That none who hath been Sheriff shall be so again The Statutes therefore made shall suffice A pardon granted of certain Felonies under a form That remedy may be had against the hainous Riot of certain in York who displaced one Iohn Gisburghthohel the sworn Major there and unduly chose one Simon in his place and him swore to be Major Commissions shall be directed to the Earl of Northumberland and others fully to enquire and to certifie the same That two Sergeants of Arms do fetch and bring up twenty four of the heads of these Rioters to the Councel That the said Simon be commanded to surcease any longer to play the Major and that he appear before the Councel That Iohn de Gisborn be commanded by Writ to execute the Office of the said Majoralty That the Bayliffs and other Officers be appointed to attend on the said Iohn That the Statute touching Wines may more particularly express the gageage of all kinde of Wines The King would the Statutes to be viewed according to their demand Anno Quinto Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Westminster the Wednesday next after Iohn Port-Latin in the Fifth year of King Richard the Second THe same Wednesday the King in person with certain Bishops and Lords came into the Parliament But for that certain Sheriffs had not returned their Writs the Parliament was adjourned untill the Thursday then following The same Thursday the King with sundry Bishops and Lords came into the Chamber de Pinct at Westminster whereinto all the Commons by name were called before whom Sir Richard le Scroop knight Chancellor of England declared how in the last Parliament was granted to the King the Subsidy with proviso that the same would suffice to serve the Kings turn touching shifts for money Since that the King by advice of his Great Council of Lords gathered at Windsor hath determined to make in his own person a Voyage Royal into France whereto every Lord had promised for one year to serve him with certain men of war for single wages and that upon conference with certain Merchants for money for so great an exploit they were come to talk for the only assurance of the same For which assurance and for a stay within the Realm in the Kings absence the Parliament was called whereabout he willed the Lords and Commons to consult Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoine and other places beyond the seas and the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoine c. as above The Friday following the Commons desired to know what sum would serve the King Whereto was answer Threescore thousand pounds for the which the King would give good assurance to be made unto the Creditors by the advice of the Lords and Commons The Saturday after the Knights of the Shires by themselves required of the Lords that the Merchants might be conferred withall for they had most knowledge therein Whereupon sundry Merchants there named are appointed to talk with them Whereon when the Commons had fully debated with the Knights of the shires they made relation to the Lords that they knew no way how to levy the same sum for that the Merchants fearing the example of Michael de la Pool and other Merchants who in the like shifts were undone and yet had but little gain doubted to do the same only they offered that if the Lords Esquires and Earls of the Realm would freely lend to the King any notable sum they would finde surety therefore and otherwise they would not deal For that the King perceived that the Merchants would make no means or shift for the
and Bailiffs that then were the form whereof doth there also appear The Major and Bailiffs which then were appeared in proper person and pleaded not guilty in writing thereunto the Commonalty by their Attornies appeared at the day The Major and Bailiffs that before were appeared also in proper person and the said Major answered that he was not privie to any such act but only by the compulsion of the other if any thing were therein done the which the learned Councel did disprove The Burgesses of Cambridge delivered into the Parliament the said two deeds sealed by the Chancellor and Schollers That one deed containing a release of all Liberties and Priviledges with a bond of Three thousand pounds to release all such suits against the said Burgesses The other was a Release of all Actions real and personal as there doth appear After the restitution and redelivering of which two Deeds they both were commanded to be cancelled for the causes aforesaid After that the Chancellor and Scholars aforesaid by way of Petition and in form of sundry Articles exhibited shewed the beginning and whole discourse of the Mayor and Bailiffs doings largely there contained Upon reading of which Bill it was demanded of the said Burgesses what they could say wherefore their Liberties late by the King confirmed should not be seised into the Kings hands as forfeited They require a Copy of the Bill Council and respite to answer To the Copy of the Bill it was answered That since they heard the same it should suffice for by Law they ought to have no Copy To Council it was said That wherein Council was to be had it should Wherefore they then were pointed to answer to no crime or offence but only touching their Liberties After many dilatory shifts the said Burgesses touching their Liberties only in the end submitted themselves to the Kings mercy and grace saving their answers to all other matters The King thereupon by common consent of Parliament seised the said Liberties into his hands as forfeited And after granted to the Chancellor and Scholars aforesaid within the aforesaid Town of Cambridge and suburbs of the same the affise cognisance and correction of Bread all Weights Measures Regrators and Forestallers with the Fines and Amerciaments of the same yielding therefore yearly at the Exchequer Ten pounds Vide R. 2. tit 11. And the rest of the Liberties he granted to the said Mayor and Bailiffs yielding therefore yearly the Feefarm of An hundred and one marks and Four marks of increase over and above the same at the Exchequer aforesaid William de Burcestor knight and Margaret his wife late the wife of Sir Bartholmew Burcester knight sheweth by a long Bill how Sir Thomas Hungerford knight was enfeoffed by the said Bartholmew of the Manor of High-Tresbury Steart and Colon in the County of Wilts and of certain Lands in Wales to the end a refeoffment should be made of the same to the said Bartholmew and Margaret and the heirs of the said Bartholmew and how by the Council of the said Thomas the same was done accordingly and that the said Thomas should notwithstanding inform the Lady le Dispencer the daughter and heir of the said Bartholmew that the said Bartholmew should be disseised of the premisses and thereby should procure the said Lady to enter upon the premisses And further that the said Thomas had bought the Mannor of High-Tresbury of the said Lady and therefore prayeth remedy The same Sir Thomas upon warning cometh into the Parliament and by his answer traverseth every point and seemeth very well to avoid the same The names of all such as were excepted out of the Pardon being the principal Leaders of the late Insurrection being many in number but no Gentlemen or other of name For that Christmas approached for the preparation of the Queens Coronation and other weighty affairs on the 15 of December the Parliament was adjourned untill the Friday next before the Convention of S. Paul then following The Reassembly of the Parliament after the Adjournment THe same Friday for that some of the Lords were not come the Parliament was adjourned until Monday next ensuing The same Monday the Bishops and Lords came into the Parliament where the Commons making rehearsal of their former proceedings required remedy The Duke of Lancaster offered in Parliament that so as the Realm would lend him Sixty thousand pounds he would enterprise to enter into Portugal and Spain and rescue the English-men keep the sea and seek to conquer their right and would further bind himself and his lands to repay the same in the year in money or service so as he were sound of body and out of prison Whereof was great dispute and altercation on both sides Look 6 R. 2. tit 13. The Lords and Commons grant unto the King the Subsidy of Wools and Staple-wares in such wise as was lately granted for four years from the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist then ensuing to be imployed upon the Wars and Voyage of the said Duke and that the King will do things according to the advice of his Council By whose advice they grant for the saving of his credit and profit he may for a time transport his Staple-ware to any other place besides Calice any Grant to the contrary notwithstanding The Commons require that if any League be taken with the Enemy that then the Grant and profit arising thereby may be laid up for the ease of the Commons They also require that the Commons may for a time be eased of Taxes It is enacted That all Deeds Feoffments and Conveyances whatsoever made by menaces in the last Insurrection should be void and that no man do enter into any lands or tenements but where lawfully he may And not with force or multitude of people upon pain of imprisonment or fine Upon complaint to the Councel all such as in these Insurrections have had any Deeds or Evidences purloined burned or cancelled and make proof of the same shall have remedy Petitions of the Commons with their Answers That the liberties of the Church great Charter and Charter of the Forrest may be maintained The King granteth thereunto That it may be enacted that no gift of land ward escheat or other gift be made by the King before he be out of debt To binde the King in such sort were dishonorable but the King will grant no such without the assent of the Lords of the Councel That the Kings great Officers of his house and Lords of the Parliament may be sworn to observe all Ordinances therefore appointed They are sworn thereunto The Print touching the 73 title of Purveyors agreeth with the Record That the debts of the Queen last that died due to the King may be pardoned The King will
appointed Justice of Assize or deliverie or of the Peace in his Countrie The King thereof will be advised That such Justices as keep the Sessions in the Shire of York may hold Sessions also twice in the year at least in the Counties of Northumberland Cumberland and Westmerland That the Justices shall hold their Sessions in order to the order made without reasonable excuse It is enacted for holding the Assizes in effect according to the Print Cap. 5. but not in forme That the Justices and their Clarks do enroll all Deeds to them brought within one Quarter of a year after such Deeds to them brought or else to answer the partie thereby endamaged The Statutes therefore provided shall be examined observed That the King will appoint good orders about his person and rule of his houshold so as he may live within his Revenues and that all profits and gifts may be employed upon the Wars to the ease of the Commons The King much desireth it and so by advise meaneth to do The King at the request of the Commons granteth pardon of all treasons and Fellonies done in the late Insurrection except certain before excepted and except Iohn Horne Adam Carlill and Walter Sibell of London now accused of horrible Acts. That remedie may be had against the misdemeanours of Cheshire men touching their rapes and other oppressions done in sundrie Countries wherein they seem to be lawless The King by advise will take the best order saving the liberties of Chester The print touching Ravishers Cap. 6. agrees with the Record in part but not altogether for that the print in sundry points containeth more than is in the Record quod nota For sundry causes in the Record alledged the Commons require that the King would allow to the Bishop of Norwich a certain Army and Provision therefore for the Invasion of France considering that the said Bishop hath the Popes Grosarie to prosecute the Anti-Pope and all his adherents of whom the French were chief The King hath appointed his Councell to treate with the Bishop herein That no Patent upon an enquest of office of the Escheator be granted of any mans lands untill the Kings title be fully disclosed The Statute therefore made shall be kept The King at the request of the Commons pardoneth all Trespasses touching Lands or Tenements Trespasses done by the Kings officers or other great Lords and of Jurors and maintainers of quarrels After three years expired during which terme the Sheriffs of Essex and Hertford hath by Parliament pardon of one hundred marks yearly parcell of his charge The King granteth the like pardon for three years more Upon complaint made by the Commons the King willeth that prohibition be made against the Popes Collectors for receiving of first-fruits The King upon request of the Commons confirmeth the Statute made in the last Parliament that the Barons of the Exchequer may discharge all matters there sued without further attending of the great or prive Seale The King revoketh the Statute made in the last Parliament tit 17. and the 5. Chapter in the Print touching Preachers upon the words of the Commons being this Forasmuch as the same Statute was never assented nor granted by the Commons but that which was therein done for it was never their meaning to be justified and bind themselves and their Successors to the Prelates no more than their Ancestors have done before them The King at the request of the Commons enacteth that no man from henceforth doeth transport any Corne out of the Land other than to Callice Gascoyn Brest Shirburgh and Barwick on forfeiting of the same And that no loading be granted to the contrary and that such as have Licence be bound to the same The Print touching Victuallers to bear no Judiciall office Cap. 9. agreeth with the Record The Print touching retailing of Fish Cap. 10. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme altogether The Print touching fore-stalling of Fish Cap. 11. agreeth with the Record in effect but not altogether in forme Among these Bills mention was made to have some remedy against Usurie Usurers and Brokers Touching Usurie the King would the Laws of the Church should discuss the same but if any man be grieved by Usury upon accompt trespass extortion oppression falsehood deceipt or such like means the Laws and Customes of the Realm shall punish the same The Print touching the Oath of Officers for the observation of the four Articles aforesaid Cap. 12. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme Note that these five Articles aforesaid were devised and requested by the Mayor and Aldermen and Ciâ—izens of London Upon the exhibition of the last Bills by the Mayor and Aldermen of London as is aforesaid aswell the said Mayor and Aldermen as most of the Fishmongers were at the reading of the same Bill in the Parliament at what time one Nicholas Exton who spake for the Fishmongers prayed the King to receive him and his Company into his protection so as no Corporall hurt come to them Thereupon it was commanded to either parties that they should keep the Peace the one towards the other on pain of loosing all that they had This done one Walter Sibell a Fishmonger started up and required audience which granted he began to crow that those devises were not exhibited for any good zeale to the Common-wealth but for meer malice born to the Fishmongers for that the chief exhibiters being in the time of King E. 3. condemned to prison for sundry their misdemeanors were so imprisoned by certain of the Fishmongers then being chief officers in London for which cause malice was to that time To that one Iohn Moore a Mercer answered that the Citizens of London meant to keep the Peace towards them unless they went about to let into the said City the Rebels of Kent and Essex as the said Walter and others did lately Walter took advantage of these words and desired the Lords to bear witness Moore hereupon expounded his words saying as the report went and prayed that the same might be enquired of which was granted Anno Sexto Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Westminster the Munday in the third week in Lent An. 6. RICHARDI 2. THe same Munday being the 24. of February certain Bishops and Lords assembled in the place accustomed in the Palace of Westminster and for that it was reported to them that sundry Sheriffs had not returned their Writs the Parliament by the Kings Commandement was adjourned to the next day The same Tuesday following the King with the Bishops Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament before
whom Master Robert Braybrook Bishop of London and Chancellor of England by the Kings Commandement declared the cause of the Parliament to be for maintenance of the Liberties of the Church and preservation of the Laws and peace of the Realm He then remembring them of that their ayde granted in the last Parliament and of the Kings purpose to go into Flanders for the voyage of the French sheweth that since the last Parliament heavy tydings came how that the French King had subjected to himself the whole Countrie of Flanders except the town of Gaunt and that upon the same tydings the King called a great Councell at Westminster by which it was determined that the King should pass in person to the rescue of the town of Gaunt if safely with his honour he might so do And that now therefore the Parliament was called for them to consult whether it were best for the King to go in person or to send an Army and for mony to maintain the same with the Circumstances thereto belonging the which he willed them fully to digest and to make speedy answer Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyn and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyn c. as above After the Commons had debated two daies of the same charge they besought the King to assign to them certain Lords there named to consult with them which was granted albeit it were at the election of the King to assign these Lords or others at his pleasure This done after long deliberation of the Commons of the rates aforesaid they came into the Parliament before the Kings presence and the Lords when Sir Iames Pickering Knight then Speaker after the Common Protestation made saith That albeit the same their consultation did properly appertain unto the King and Lords yet since it stood with their pleasures to charge the Commons therewith their conceit was that it had been best for the King in person to have enterprized a voyage which for that it could not for sundry reasons be they thought it best that the Bishop of Norwich having the Popes Crosary for persecuting the Anti-Pope his adherents should take upon him the quarrell against the French whereof was hope of good success he saith further that considering the Scots were so lusty that they would not agree to any reasonable league whereby we are like to have war which to us was accounted most dangerous they thought that the King or his Uncles of Lancaster Cambridge or Buckingham might not in any wise be spared out of the Realm untill with Scotland some certain order were taken the which they spake not by way of Counsell but to shew their advise whereto for the King was said a little difference to be between Counsell and advise The proffer of the Bishop of Norwich to the King and Lords in the beginning of the Parliament was so as the King would gâ—ant to him the whole 15 th and 10 th granted in the last Parliament with the 6 d. of every pound Merchandize and 2 s. of every Tun of Wine lately granted for the safe keeping of the Seas he would in seasonable time of the year furnish and send into France 3000. men at Armes and 3000. Archers of whom 500. men at Armes and 500 Archers should be appointed to keep the Sea and further that if he might have the West-Admirall to attend he would before March ensuing appoint for the defence of the Sea great Ships of War and Barges well appointed Petitions of the Commons with their Answers IT is enacted that the Liberties of the Church the great Charter and Charter of the Forrest be maintained That for the grant of vi d. of every pound of Merchandize and ii s. of every tun of Wine the Seas may be well kept The Chancellor and other Officers there named shall provide as speedie remedie as may be That the King will provide for the defence of the Marches of Scotland and namely for Barwick and Carlile and that some truce or peace may be taken The Duke of Lancaster and other Lords are sent thither of purpose to take order therein That the Statute of Purveyors may be observed and that ready payment may be made The Statute therefore made shall be observed That the most approved wisemen may be chose to be chief Officers for the governance of the Realm that their names might be known to the Parliament and they not removed without good cause The King by advise of his Lords shall appoint such Officers as shall like him whom he meaneth not to remove before the next Parliament The print touching the pardon Cap. 1. far swerveth from the Record That able men may be appointed to be of Counsell about the Kings Person and that an order may be taken for the Kings houshold so as he may live upon his own The King therein will be advised of his Lords and take such orders as may be for his honour At the request of the Commons it is enacted that the Citie of London shall injoy all such liberties as they had in the time of King E. 3. or as were to them confirmed by the King now saving to all Strangers their Liberties confirmed and saving that Victuallers should have no particular Liberties by themselves but to be under the rule of the Major In short time after the Bishop of Norwich had advised himself he came before the King and Lords and offeredâ— so as the King would allow to him the fifteenth last granted by the Commons he would serve the King one whole year in his wars within France with 3000. men at Armes and 2500. Archers well horsed and appointed the which offer was thought to be very good and for the Kings honour but for that the King would not adventure any of his Subjects unless he knew who should be Chieftain or Lievetenant considering the Bishops profession was to the contrary he required to know who they should be the Bishop would not that declare unless the King did assent to his offer saying that if it were his pleasure so to do they then should be as ready and worthy persons as any were within the Realm his own person and others of the bloud excepted The King accepteth his offer whereupon the Bishop gave him four names of them willing him to chose one such for his Lievetenant as he thought good After the view of whom the King would not seem to choose any Nobleman whereby it was assented that if the Bishop
were accused for surrendring the Castle of Drinckham in Flanders to the Kings enemies for money without the assent of the Kings Lieutenant There Spickworth proveth that the same was not in his keeping and thereby was discharged Crossingham answered that he yeilded the same upon necessity without money and submitteth himself to their order this was thought no good cause and therefore he was committed to prison The Chancellor in open Parliament charged the Bishop of Norwich with four chief points viz. First where he promised the King to serve him with a certain number for one whole year he had served but half a year and yet returned with his host spoyled The second he promised to muster and shew his Armie at Callice which also was not done and failed of his number The third for that in the last Parliament it was agreed that the King of Castile or some of the Kings Uncles should have gone as Generall for the honour of the Realm the same was not done and thereupon the voyage was lost for that upon the Bishops promise as good a Generall was promised The fourth for that the King appointed to have chosen some other temporall Lords or a sufficient Generall the which was not done because the Bishop took upon him the same whereby great villanies and other displeasures came The Bishop answered that albeit in this case he ought to have Counsell yet making his Protestation that he might all times avoid his answer he answered in person as followeth To the first his Commission was to go speedily to the rescue of Gaunt the which he did and this done as well the Grantoys as his own Captains thought it best to besiege the town of Ipre about which he losing many of his men by dint of Sword and Diseases he could not any longer do any good and therefore upon advice he removed To the second the speed which he made towards Gaunt caused him to make no muster at Callice To the third he had good Captains though not of the best and the Lord Nevill might have had by his own offer but that the King denyed him License the last Parliament To the fourth he refused no Lieutenant at the Kings hands onely the King writing to the Bishop beyond the Seas touching a Generall he therefore gave great thanks to the King for his great care of him and his and that otherwise he refused none as by his Letters may appear The Chancellor replyed taking advantage of the Bishops answer in the end and said that the Bishops answer seemed to the King and Lords no sufficient excuse for without his Imprisonment for what is contained in these four Articles he ought to make Fine and ransome at the Kings pleasure by seizing of the Temporalities of his Bishoprick when the King should please The Bishop after this was willed to declare such as were waged to serve him one year to the end they might serve the King in other places to accomplish their promise Thereto the Bishop answered that upon the delivery of Sir Robert Hulmer his Clarke and Treasurer he would do so Sir Robert was delivered and two severall dayes at the Bishops intreaty appointed for the case At the last the Bishop began to answer to the four Articles in manner aforesaid with somewhat adjoyned for his Purgation The Chancellor by replication disproveth the Bishop and concludeth although the King might pass on the Bishop as on a temporall Lord by reason that he took upon him to serve him as a Souldier and had the Sword carried before him contrary to his profession yet for that time the King would spare to lay hands on his person for his Imprisonment but for his other defaults and villanies the Lords by assent of the Parliament had adjudged him to make Fine and ransome at the Kings pleasure whereto he should be compelled by the seizure of his temporalities and it was commanded him from thenceforth no longer to have the sword carried before him Sir William Elinsham Sir Thomas Trevit Sir Henry de Ferrers and Sir William de Hurnedon Knights were openly accused in Parliament before the Lords for receiving divers severall summes for giving up of Holds and Fortresses without the assent of the King or his Generall together with one Robert Fitz-Raph the summes particularly layed to their charge amounted in the whole to 20000. Francks of Gold They all made certain fained excuses and submitted themselves to the Kings mercy The said Chancellor replyed and gave judgementâ— that they all should pay to the King of what they had received and remain in prison untill they had made Fine and ransome with the King and with them Sir William Harnedon was committed to prison his body and goods to be at the Kings pleasure Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the Liberties of the Church the great Charter and the Charter of the Forrest Cap. 1. and 2. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme That the Justices of both Benches and Barons of the Exchecquer may be sworn before the King Lords and Commons to do without consideration They be already sworn and if need be shall be again It is enacted that Writs shall be sent to the Justices of Peace to charge them that Vagabonds and Saylors do put in suretie for their good behaviour or else to remain in Prison untill the coming of the Justices of Assize which far swerveth from the Print Cap. 5. quod nota The print touching the execution of the Statute of Winchester Cap. 6. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme The print touching the false making of Wollen Cloaths Cap. 9. far swerveth from the Record for that in the print is much more matter than in the Record quod nota The print touching Purveyors Cap. 8. agrees with the Record in effect but not in forme The print touching Writs of Premunire Cap. 14. far swerveth from the Record as having sometimes more and sometimes less than in the Record It is enacted that if Commission or Patent be granted to any Sheriff or Escheator for longer space than for one year that the same be void saving the Kings Prerogative It is enacted that all Denizens passing Wools shall be discharged of 20. d. Custome of every Sack newly demanded by the Customers That the Seas may be safely kept for the grant of the Merchants made therefore The King by advice of his Counsell and Admirals will provide sufficiently therefore It is enacted that the Citizens of London shall enjoy all their whole Liberties whatsoever with this Clause licet usi non fuerunt
vel abusi fuerunt notwithstanding any Statute to the contrary That the Fishmongers and other Victuallers should be under the rule of the Mayor and Aldermen and that the Mayor and Aldermen should take no other Oath in the Exchecquer than they did in the time of K. E. 3. The print touching the discharge of Jurors in Writs of Nisi prius Cap. 7. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme It is enacted that no Man or Officer being from henceforth attainted or Convicted for any Falshood about the said Office be restored thereto again without especiall grace therefore had That no Forrester do take any Chymmage of or for any Wood Coale or Fewell but where the same is carried to be sold. The Statute of the Forrests and other Statutes shall be kept and who will especially complaine shall be heard It is enacted that all such as have any Castles or Fortresses nigh the Marches of Scotland shal sufficiently furnish the same with Men and Victuals and so keep the same and that the Warden of those parts may be there in his own person That no Writs of Oyer and Terminer be granted without assent of the Kings Counsell and good proof The Statutes therefore made shall be kept saving the Kings Prerogative Upon the complaints of Sheriffs for being charged with divers sums parcell of their Fee-Farmes and granted forth in Liberties It is enacted that the Chancellor and Treasurer shall from time to time make such allowance to the Sheriffs as they shall thinke good The print touching Fishmongers Victuallers and Vintners Cap. 10. far swerveth from the Record for that the Record maketh no mention of Victuallers besides that there is much more in the print than in the Record quod nota The Burgesses of Scarborough being much afflicted by the French Scots and Flemmings provide at their own charge for their Defence a Bark of Dullinger the which they being unable to furnish and maintaine do require of the King certain Contributions of such as pass with Fish or other things The King by the advice of his Counsell and Admirall will provide the best remedy It is enacted that these Burgesses shall enjoy all their Liberties according to their Charters The print touching Mainpernors in Writs of Debt Cap. 17. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme The print touching Provision from Rome Cap. 12. far swarveth from the Record for that the Record maketh two Statutes of the same besides the swerving in forme quod nota That no mans possessions be disturbed by any Commission out of the Chancery or Writ of Privy Seal without due answer and that all Bills exhibited in this Parliament be answered To the first the Counsell upon grief shewed they may provide remedy To the second let such Bills as cannot be ended by the Counsell be exhibited to the King That such Nobles or other Captains which serve the King and receive wages therefore may at their return be received to accompt in the Exchecquer without delay and that all debts upon so much service in the time of King E. 3. extended out of the Exchecquer may be pardoned Who will complain may shew his griefs and be heard That the Irish-men which are bailed by the laws of England may be partakers of the pardon granted by King E. 3. in his thirtieth year touching Presentments to any Benefices by voidance of the temporaltie of any Archbishop or other Bishops The King will therefore be advised That remedy may be had against the extortions of the Ordinaries by undue extortions The King will charge the Clergie to amend the same The end of the twelfth Chapter in the print beginning and to the intent agrees with this part of the Record Compare the 49. tit before quod nota That the like provision may be made against all such Beneficed Clarks and not keeping upon the same within England as late was made against such Clarks in Ireland The King will be thereof advised The print touching the observation of the Statute of Northampton Cap. 13. agrees with the Record The complaint of Elizabeth wife of Edward late Lord of Deldofepence for that upon a Quare impedit brought by the King against her for a Parsonage in Glamorgan in Wales her plea thereto was rased It is enacted that such plea as the Justices should record that she pleaded should be newly entered and the Cleark punshied for the razing That remedy may be had against Protections The Chancellor upon cause may redress the same The print touching the carrying of Armour or Victualls into Scotland Cap. 16. far swerveth from the Record as having much more which note The print touching Forrests by Forresters Cap. 3. far swerveth from the Record for in the beginning the Record would that all the Statutes of the Forrests should be kept and to the print thus much ought to be added and so it is to be enacted That no man shall be taken or imprison'd against the assises of the Forrest nor be compelled thereof to make any obligation nor other thing against his will And if any may be attainted to the contrary of these he shall pay double dammages to the party greived and notwithstanding shall make Fine and Ransome at the Kings pleasure Note that in comparing the fourth Chapter of the print touching Forrests the said third and fourth Chapters in print agreeth with the Record containing but one Chapter That no summe of mony called Queen Gold should be levied of any that hath ward in marriage of the King It shall be as it was in the time of Queen Philippa late Queen and of other Queens before That the town of Guilford by the Kings Grant which in the late Insurrection lost their Charters should have them renewed for the little Fee of twenty two shillings fonr pence The King by assent of Parliament confirmeth his Pardon made to Sr. Robert de Pleasington so as the same be no derogation to the Kings Prerogative Of the fifteenth Chapter in the print touching Maintainers is no mention made in the Record quod nota Anno Septimo Richardi Secundi Rex c. Johi Regi Castellae c. Apud Novum Sarum die Veneris post Festum Sancti Marci Evangelistae â—ertio die Martii Charissimo Avunculo Rs. Edward Com. Cantabr Chariss Avunc Rs. Tho. Com. Buck. Chariss Fratri Rs. Tho Com Cancii Dilecto fideli Rico. Com. Arundell Thomae Com. War Hugoni Com. Staff Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Rob. de Vere Com. Oxoni Hen. de Percy Com. Northumb. Tho. de Mowbray
thereof to the King and his Councell The Commons were urged to know whether they desired Peace of War for one must they chose They answered an honourable Peace for the King but for that in the Articles were contained many terms of the Civill-Law which they understood not and for that as they understood the Articles were that the King should have Guienne of the French by homage and service they knew not what to say only they hope that the King meant not to hold Callice and other Terrytories gotten by Sword of the French Whereto was said that otherwise Peace could not be granted and therefore willed the Commons to chose Peace or War who in the end rather desired Peace The Abbot of St. Edmonds Burie by a long Bill sheweth how the men of the same Town were pardoned for their late Insurrections so as they did find sufficient Sureties for their good Behaviour to the Abbot and his Successors and further sheweth that the Towns-men hitherto had shifted the same and prayeth that they may enter into Recognizance for the same which condition they in Record expressed The Prior and Covent of Montague being an Alien by their Petition declared how Sir William Seymor upon a Sciri Facias to execute a Fine for the Mannour of Omdu-Hall with the appurtenances in Somerset brought against the said Prior and Covent in the Kings Bench recovered there the said Mannour He sheweth further how the said Sciri Facias was purchased hanging a Writ of right against the said Prior to which Writ the said Prior appeared and that the said Prior was over ruled to plead further and no entrie thereof made he further sheweth matter and prayeth ayde of the King and it was over ruled without entrie thereof made whereupon he beseecheth that the roll may be newly made and amended due entries made as in the roll is mentioned which by the advise of the Justices and others their learned Counsell was granted and made wherein for the Prothonotarie or Bean-pleader are goodly forms and directions After which amendment and enrollment granted the said Prior and Covent by a Petition sheweth the old matter and Record and for certain errors therein contained prayeth the Examination and reversall of the said Judgment in Parliament and his Sciri Facias framed upon the said case to warn the said Richard to appear at the next Parliament to abide the order of the same and therein no protection be allowed for the said Richard and further that the old process and Record be at the same next Parliament all which were granted Petitions of the Commons with their Answers IT is enacted that the liberties of the Church the great Charter and the Charter of the Forrest be maintained That no Sherriff Under-Sherriff or Escheator do remain in the office above one year The Statute made therefore shall be observed That where the Aldermen of London are yearly chosen and returned at the feast of St. Gregory the Pope they require that free choice may be made of the most able men as well of such as were the year before as of others and that yearly The King granteth thereunto as long as thereby is good government in the City Sundry Countries pray the King to make an allowance to such as have been Sherriffs for such summes as they could not receive and that provision may be made for all such as shall succeed As in times past the Chancellor and Treasurer may make allowance and for the rest the King will provide They require that the Statute made against Ravishers in the 6 th year of this King may be revoked The Statute shall continue saving to the King and other Lords their forfeiture Anno Octavo Richardi Secundi Rex c. Charissimo Avunculo suo Regi Castellae Legionis Duci Lancast. c. Apud West Teste Rege apud Westm. 28. die Sept. Charissimo Avunculo suo Edward Com. Cantabr Char. Avunc suo Tho. Com. Buck. Chariss Fratri suo Tho Com Buck. Dilecto fideli Rico. Com. Arundell Thomae Com. War Hugoni Com. Staff Edw. Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Salop. Rob. de Vere Com. Oxon. Hen. de Percy Com. Northumb. Tho. de Mowbray Com. Notting Iacob de Audley Willo Bardolf de Wormegay Iohi. Fallesly Chlr. Guido de Bryan Iohi. de Clinton Gilberto Talbot Iohi. de Warr. Hen. le Scroope Chlr. Hen. de Ferrariis de Groby Tho. Roos de Hamelake Ioh. Nevill de Raby Ioh. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Rico. de Scroope Hugoni Burnell Tho. Camois Chlr Willo le Zouch de Harringworth Rogero de Clifford Iohi. Botreaux Rogero de Scales Rado de Cromwell Michael de la Poole Rado de Lumley Willo de Thorpe Rado Baroni de Greystock Will. Botteraux Chlr. Iohi. de Bello monte Robto de Harrington Iohi. de Clifford Robto de Willougby Rico. Talbot de Blackmert Ioh. de Cobham de Kent Willo de Eure. Ioh. de Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmshyer Willo de Aldburgh Rico. Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Thomae Darcey Thomae Morley Thomae de Bourchier Waltero Fitz-Walter Iohi. Lovell de Fishmerch Iohi. de Monteacuto Iohi. de Cherlton de Powis Rico. de Poynnings Thomae de Berkley Iohi Devereaux Simoni Burleigh Constabular Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the Saturday next after the Feast of Saint MARTIN in the eighth year of the raign of K. RICHARD the 2. THe same Saturday the Parliament for certain causes by the Commandement was adjourned untill Munday ensuing and on the same Munday it was adjourned untill Tuesday next following for the like cause at the Kings Commandement The same Tuesday before the King and Lords sitting and the Knights and Burgesses standing Sir Michael de la Poole Knight Chancellor of England speaking much of the Kings great care towards the Church Commons and Laws of England sheweth the same to be the chief cause of the Parliament Then rehearsing how the King had been environed with the French Spaniard Flemming and the Scots who being confederate made great preparations to c. which were like to ensue unless Politick advice were made to resist which was one other cause of this Parliament having these adjuncts how treasure might be gathered without which no resistance could be He shewed how for these Defences the King meant to hazard his own person to any perills whatsoever that he might justly encourage all estates willingly to offer themselves and what they had to such defence Then he touched the treachery and falshood of the French for that they in the last Treaty of Peace at Callice
persuading the English to decline there to departed from their own offers a good cause of assurance for the English in so good a quarrell to look for Victorie He then concludeth by shewing that four means or ways would greatly furtherâ— yea and speed this Consultation First to be early in the House the second to repell all Melancholly Passions the third to begin at most needfull matters And then to direct without mixture of any Orders And fourthly to abandon all Maintaining and partaking Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyn and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above Tryars of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The Lords and Commons granted to the King two Fifteens conditionally that the one Moitie of the Fifteen granted in the last Parliament may cease and so as if the King go not in Person or that Peace be taken then the last Fifteen may cease Upon discourse between the Chancellor and Schollers of Cambridge and the Mayor and Bayliffs of the same for the Kings Grant made to the Chancellor in the fifth year of this King tit 59. the King explaineth his said Grant in two points viz. that the said Chancellor c. shall have the delivery of the Bushell half Bushell and the Peck and the Groat for the Bushell and every other measure after the rate And the said Chancellor shall by his or their proper Officer Summon attach Regrators and such offenders of Victuals to appear and answer such offences Walter Sibell of London was arrested and brought into the Parliament before the Lords at the suit of Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford for slandring him to the Duke of Lancaster and other Nobles for Maintenance The same Walter denyed not but that he said that certain there named recovered against him the said Walter and that by Maintenance of the said Earle as he thought The said Earle being present affirmed himself to be innocent thereof and to be tryed Walter thereupon was committed to prison and the next day humbly submitting himself he desired the Lords to be a meane for him saying that he could not accuse him whereupon the Lords Convicted him to the Damage of 500. marks to the said Earl for the which and for his Fine and Ransome he was committed to Prison Alice the wife of Sir William Windsor Knight desired to have the Judgement and Order made against her in the time of King E. 3. and the Judgement and Statute made against her in the first year of this King to be repealed and that she may be restored to all her Lands and Tenements whatsoever The King repealeth those Orders Judgements and Statutes so as all Gifts Grants and Feoffments of any the Lands Tenements or houses repealed may remain in force The Prior of Montague rehearsed his matter contained in the last Parliament tit 21. Sir Richard Seymore in proper person appeareth upon the Sheriffs returne the old Record and process at large repeated wherein is a goodly forme of pleading worthy of all good Lawyers to be had by heart The Prior is willed to assign his Errors who assigneth according to the last Parliament tit 20. And for the Error in being put out of the Ayd of the King the cause in long pleading was this The Kâ—ng granteth to William de Montague Earl of Salisbury c. by Letters Patents the Patronage of the said Priorie and the Custody and Farme of the same in time of Peace and War yet after this Grant made to the Earl the same King E. 3. for a certain Rent granted the same Priorie to the said Prior during the Wars saving to him Knights Fees and advousons of Churches and after granteth the same Rent or Farme to the Earl And for that ayd of the King upon this disclosing was denyed to the Earl it was with the other conteined in the title before in error For which Errors It was adjudged that the former Judgement given in the Kings Bench should be undone and void and that the Prior should be restored to the said Mannour with the mean profits with commandement given to the Chancellor to execute the said judgement so alwaies as the said Sir Richard de la Poole by a Writ of Right or a new scire fac may prosecute his suit again Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the Liberties of the Church Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme The print toâ—ching Justices of Assize Cap. 2. agreeth with the Record The print touching Justices and Barons of the Exchecquer not to take any Mans Fee Cap. 3. agreeth in manner with the Record but not altogether in forme for that the Record hath much more quod nota That the Goods and Lands of any being dead be not seised into the Kings hands for any Debt unless the same be found of Record a Debt It shall be used as in time past That a pain may be provided for such as having any Castle or Fort Resident in the Marches of Scotland and do not furnish the same for Defence according to a Statute made in the sixth year of this King The King will charge the Lords to do the same as heretofore they have done Prohibitions touching Tyth-Wood shall be granted according to the Statute made in the 45th of E. 3. which is enacted Sundry Counties complain against the men of Cheshire for their sundry Robberies Felonies and other misdoings done in those Countries by reason of such misdoers forfeit no goods in the same Shire and to pray that they may Forfeit their Lands and Goods for Fellonies done in other places The King meaneth to provide remedy therefore if God so will That no Man take any the Fry of Fish in the River of Thames unless the Meshâ— of the Net be according to the Statute therefore provided The Statute therefore heretofore made shall be observed That some remedy of Defence may be provided for the Towns of Rye and Winchalsey for that upon suddain Invasions of the Enemy they are often spoyled and burned The King will provide therefore That none being Sheriffs Under-Sheriffs or Escheators shall for three years after execute the same Office again according to the Statute made The Chancellor shall answer by mouth The Answer of the Chancellor It were prejudiciall to the King and his Crown after one year to choose eft soon the same person being an able man wherefore it shall be at the Kings pleasure It is
otherwise to be disbursed by them It was agreed by Parliament that the Subsidie of Wool-Fells Wools and Skins granted unto the King untill the time of Midsummer then ensuing should cease from the same time unto the Feast of St. Peter ad vincula for that thereby the King should be interrupted for clayming such grant as due And from the said Feast of St. Peter they granted the same Subsidy to the King for one whole year to endure It is also enacted that the Staple shall be holden in England in such place as to the King and his Councell shall be thought most meet The Duke of Lancaster complaineth by mouth to the King Bishops and Lords in full Parliament that whereas after the death of Thomas Layhane who held the Mannor of Latham in the Countie of Lancaster of the said Duke in Thonage whereby the Mannour was seized into the hands of the said Duke of Lancaster according to his Countie Pallatine of Lancaster yet notwithstanding Iohn Stanley Knight in the right of Isabella his wife Daughter and heir to the said Iohn had entred and taken the profits of the said Mannour without any Livery or other suit made in the Chancery of the said Duke for which he prayeth remedy After which upon full advise of the Justices of both Benches and others of the Kings learned Councell it was declared in the said Parliament that the entrie of the said Iohn into the Mannour as aforesaid was unlawfull and that the said Iohn ought to make suit by Petition or otherwise in the Chancery of the said Duke for the Livery of the said Mannour in such case to be sued for Whereas the King at Hounslow lodge in Tividale Created Edmund Earl of Cambridge Duke of Yorke and to have to him and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten together with 1000. l. out of the Exchecquer untill the King had provided for him in Tayl as is aforesaid Land to the value of 1000. l. The King by whole assent of Parliament confirmeth the same by girding a Sword unto him and by putting on his head a Cap and circle of Gold The like confirmation is made to Thomas late Earl of Buckingham and Essex and Constable of England being then and there created Duke of Gloucester of the like estate of Revenue and Ceremonies as is next before The like confirmation is made to Sir Michael de la Poole Knight Chancellor of England being at the place aforesaid created Earl of Suffolk to have to him and the heirs Males of his body lawfully begotten with xx l. of the profits of the Countie aforesaid together with 500. l. yearly of the Hereditaments of William Ufford late Earl of Suffolk viz. the Castle Town Mannour and honour of Eyes with the Members of Suff. the hundred of Hertsmere and Stowe in Suff. the Farme of 23. l. 6. s. 8. d. out of the Mannour of Combs in Suff. the Mannour of Gesengthorpe in Essex the Mannor of Canton in Norff. the Mannour of Hangley in Suff. the Mannour of Trendon in Suff. the Mannour of Lowstock in the hundred of Luddington in Suff. 10. l. yearly which he should pay to the King for his Mannour of Costesly in Norff. the which confirmation was by girding of a sword The like confirmation was made to Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford whom the King lately before created Marquess of Dublin during his Life the old Lands and Dominions of Ireland with all proffits revenews regalities and jurisdictions whatsoever within the same as ample as the King ought to have the same and that he should enjoy to him and to his heirs all Conquered Lands by him they except the Kings only demesne in deed or in right the which Confirmation was made by the Girding of a Sword and putting on a Circle of Gold upon his head Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the observation of sundrie Statutes Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The Commons of the Counties of Essex and Hertford require that the Sheriffs of the same may upon their Oaths be charged or discharged of their Accompts The King will provide remedie therefore The Commons of Devonshire pray that the Sheriffs of the same may make their Accompts as they did before the time of King E. the first The King by advise of the Councell will provide remedie therefore The Commons of the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk pray that the Sheriffs of the same may be yearly discharged of 153 l. 13 s. 4 d. which they cannot receive by certain particulars there apparent The King by advice of his Councell will provide therefore The Commons of the Counties of Nottingham and Darby make the like request for their Sheriffs being yearly charged with 44 l. 2 s. 4 d. The King will provide remedie therefore That all persons as well within the liberties as without may be contributarie to the payment of the wages of the Knights of the Shire It shall be as it hath been used That all men upon an inquest of an office found by the Sheriff and meaning to traverse the same may upon suretie found in the Chancery take the same in Lease of the King and no other untill the right be found The Statutes so made shall be kept That the heirs of the Kings Debtors upon extent of their Lands for the King may have the same in lease doing therefore as others would therein As it hath been used it shall be The print touching villanies Cap. 2. agreeth with the Record At the request of the Commons it is enacted to endure untill the next Parliament that every Ship taken up for the Kings service shall towards their apparrelling take for every quarter 2 s. of every Tun-lighter It is enacted that none of the Commons House shall be appointed Collector or Assessor of any the Subsedies now granted They require that the Patent lately made to the Constable of the Tower of London whereby the Collector of his Office taketh Customes of Wines Oysters Mussels Rushes and other Victuals coming to London by water may be revoked The Petition of the Major and Commonaltie of London is endorsed It is enacted that the Statute of Purveyors and Buyers shall be executed and that the Justices of the Peace shall have power to hear and determine the same That the Statute of the Kings Houshold be yearly viewed once or oftner by the Chancellor Treasurer and Keeper of the Privie Seal and that the Statutes therefore appointed may be observed The King granteth to the first at his pleasure and to the second he granteth It is enacted that all Lords and other Persons having any possessions on the Marches beyond Trent
unless he was advanced to be Earl but onely by way of exchange viz. That the said Earl had Lands of the King to the value of CCCC marks for the like value of Inheritance which the said Earl had out of the Custome of Kingston upon Hull whereof some part was assigned to him before he was Chancellor and some touched his descent But Sir Richard le Scroope therein shewed how the said Earl by his valiant doings in sundry battails and his worthy behaviour and Counsell in sundry Offices at home had justly deserved what he had The Commons replying to the answer of the said Earl shewed forth his Oath whereto he was sworn being made Chancellor the effect whereof was for doing Justice observing the Laws Counselling the King keeping his secrets not to suffer any damage or disherizon to the King or to his Crown and that by all means he should promote the Kings profit And hereupon because he confessed the gift of the Lands to him whilst he was Chancellor and that during the same time the Exchange was made to the King of good Lands for a casuall Custome they inferred that the same was not for the Kings profit according to his Oath and therefore pray judgement In semblable manner they reply to the answer of the other five Articles by urging things to the uttermost and so of every of them prayed judgement And note that where the King gave to the Earls eldest son the Priorie of St. Anthonies for that the Prior of that same was French who were against the Pope and therefore Schismaticks another after by the Popes Provision was commended to the said Priorie being worth 400. marks yearly whom the Earl would not suffer to be admitted to the said Priorie as the Commons surmised untill he had granted unto the Earl C. l. yearly and to his Son during their lives Upon which the Commons by their replications to the said Article shew how Sir William Thorpe late Chief Justice of the Kings Bench was adjudged to death and to forfeit his Lands and Goods for receiving 20. l. of one for a matter depending before him in which predicament by urging they would have the said Earl for the act next before The Earl rejoyneth to their replication and sufficiently proveth that to the Oath was another intendment nothing so straightly as they would enforce and thereby further approveth that notwithstanding his Oath he might as he did both lawfully take and buy To the ninth title before he proveth great difference between Thorpes Case and his For that Thorpe for matters depending before him took rewards and sold Justice but in the case of the Prior he came to the said Earl not as a Judge but as the Father of his Son who had the said Priorie with whom Composition was made as for a thing in debate After which Answer and replication made by the said Earl The said Earl at the request of the Commons for the grievous offences against him surmised was arrested by the Kings commandement and committed to the keeping of the Constable of England and after let to Mainprize The judgement against the said Earl was that for breach of his Oath conteined in the first Article all the said Mannor and Hereditaments which he had of the Kings gift contained in the said first Article should be seized into the Kings hand to have to him and to his heirs for ever together with all the mean Profits and Issues of the same saving to the said Earl the name and title of an Earl together with xx l. yearly granted out of the Profits of the Countie of Suff. The like judgement was also given against him for the 400. Marks of Land exchanged with the King for so much Revenues out of the Custome of Hull The like judgement was also given against him for the Mannour of Flexfleete exchanged by the King for 50. l. yearly going out of the Custome of Hull The like judgement was given further against him for all the meane Profits and other commodities by him received or due to be received for the said Priorie of Saint Anthony And it was further adjudged that the Charter granted to Dover under the great Seal though it passed by warrantise should be revoked and utterly cease The Lords and Commons granted to the King one half Desme and one half fifteen and for Defence of the Realm of every Tun of Wine coming in or going out of the Realm iii s. and xii d. of every pound of Marchandize except the Staple ware and the Subsidie of Wools and Staple wares They also grant for one year another half of one fifteen upon certain conditions viz. that if certain Bishops Lords and others there named and appointed to be Commissioners for the redress of enormities do cause the King by their Inventions to be supplyed by their Profits that then their latter grant to stay upon condition those persons there named to be of the continuall Councell should not be removed and have their said Commissions repealed and that the same their grant and conditions be exemplified under the great Seal of every Shire freely Petitions of the Commons with their Answers IT is enacted that the great Charter the Charter of the Forrest and all other Statutes be observed without any Patent to the contrary saving to the King his Prerogative They require that the King will appoint certain of his Chief Officers the Chancellor Treasurer Keeper of the Privy Seal and Steward of his Houshold and that certain may be appointed to be of his great Couucell for one year The King granteth and touching his Steward of his houshold he will appoint with the advice of his Counsell And note that more than this last Act is no mention made of the first Act in print of this year That no Cardinall nor other Alien do enjoy within this Realm any Prebend or other Benefice The Statutes therefore made shall be observed It is enacted that the Statute touching Priors and possessions of Aliens shall continue without repeale It is enacted that all the liberties granted to the town of great Yarmouth shall be confirmed notwithstanding any repeale provided alwaies that all manner of persons as well Aliens as Demizenes may lawfully buy and sell Herrings and them carry away within the same Town and Port at their pleasures during the Fair there That the Statutes whereby the Justices of one Bench and the other should take no reward nor be of any mans Fee may be observed The King hath and will charge such Justices to Minister right and will punish the contrary and therefore willeth that all Statutes made touching them
Estate in that behalf as the Lords of the Parliament would award whereupon the King said openly in the Parliament that he thought that the said Duke was nothing faultie and therefore held him excused In the Parliament all the Lords as well Spirituall as Temporal being present claimed their Liberties and Franchises viz. that all weightie matters in the same Parliament which should be after moved touching the Peeres of the Land ought to be determined and judged and discussed by the course of the Parliament and not by the Civill Law nor yet by the Common Laws of the Land used in other more Courts of the Realm the which clayme and liberties the King most willingly allowed and granted thereto in full Parliament In full Parliament also the 5. Lords Appellants viz. Tho. Duke of Gloucester Henry Earl of Darby Rich. Earl of Arundell Tho. Earl of Worcester and Thomas Earl Marshall made their open protestations that whatsoever they attempted touching their Appeal and Suit in this Parliament or before they and their partakers did the same chiefly to the honour of God the ayde and safetie of the King the Realm and their own Lives In this Parliament the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury made openly solemne protestation for himself and the whole Clergie of his Province entred by word The effect whereof was that albeit he might lawfully be present at all their Parliaments yet for that in this Parliament matters of Treason were to be intreated off whereat by the Canonical Law they might not be present they therefore absented themselves saving their liberties therein otherwise The like protestations did the Bishops of Durham and Carlile make On Tusâ—day the 10 th of March being the 26 th day of this Parliament the Lords and Commons granted to the King one Half Desme and half Fifteenth for the defence of the Sea so as the same be thereon only imployed and so as the same be not made or taken for an example being given before the end of the Parliament whereby any Subsidy should be hereafter demanded before the end of the Parliament On Friday the 20 th of March and the 36 th day of the Parliament the Lords and Commons granted to the King in defence of the Realm and safetie of Merchandize 3 s. of every Tun of Wine and 12 d. of every pound of Merchandize except of Staple Ware and also they granted to the King the Subsidy of Staple Ware The same day all the Lords Bishops and Commons were openly sworne in Parliament upon the Cross of Canterbury that they should see the Peace kept that they should live and dy in the quarrell and defence of the bodies of the 5. Lords named Tit. 8. if any thing were against them attempted saving their allegiance to the King and their due obedience to his Prerogative and Laws The same Friday for that Easter approached the Parliament by Common assent of the whole estates was continued from the said Friday untill Monday next after the Quindene of Easter then ensuing and thereupon Writs were made to all the Lords summoned to the Parliament to be then there On Monday the same Parliament revived his course according to the request of the Lords and Commons On Tuseday the 2. day of Iune being the 30 th of that Parliament the Lords and Commons granted to the King in defence of the Realm one Subsidy of Wooll Skins and Wooll-fells carryed forth of the Realm viz. of every sack of Wooll over and above the old custome of 6 s. 8 d. and 44 s. 4 d. of Denizens and of Strangers 46 s. 8 d. of every Last of skins over the custome of one Mark 4 l. 6 s. 8 d. of Denizens 4 l. 13 s. 4 d. of Strangers of every CC Wooll-fells over the old custome of 6 s. 8 d. of Aliens for one whole year upon condition that the said Lords named in Tit. 8. may receive the c. in manner of this grant and Subsidy untill they have levyed the 20000 l. towards their charges layed out for the honour and safety of the King and of the Realm They also grant unto the King for one whole year as is contained before in Tit 1. The King by Parliament granted to Dame Anne the late Wife of Sir Iames Barnes Kt. the Mannour of West-Horkey with the appurtenances in Surrey being by the forfeiture of the said Sir Iames untill she were marryed or otherwise advanced freely The King also by the like assent granted to Sir William Fulthorpe Kt. his Father and being in the Kings hands to have the same Annuity during the life of the said Sir Roger. The King by like assent granted to Dame Katherine daughter of the Earl of Staff deceased and to Michaell de la Poole the Son of her Husband certain Mannours in the Counties of Lincolne and Not. the which Sir Michael de la Poole his Father late Earl of Suffolk long before any forfeiture had given the said Dame Katherine and to her said Husband and to the Heirs of their two bodyes lawfully begotten the which grant the King made at the request of the Earl of Warw. and other Lords Cosins and Allies of the said Dame Katherine The King at the request of the 5. Lords Appellants Tit. 8. granted to ayde Ieffrey Martin Cleark of the Crown and at the request of the Commons granted to ayde Iohn de Scardeburgh Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THat the Parliament may be holden in the Quindena of Michaelmas then ensuing The King will be advised That no person do intermeddle about the Kings person or affairs of the Realm other than those that be appointed by those of the Parliament or other than such as be assigned by the Lords of the continuall Councell That those Lords may remove all persons in the Kings Houshold and place others as they think that those Lords be sworn as in the oath there is contained To the first the King granteth to the second upon proof of any ones unworthiness about his person and declaration to him made he shall be removed and others placed The effect of the aforesaid Oath was that he should by no means suffer any Judgment Ordinance or Statute made in this Parliament to be repealed at any time to come that he should see the Laws observed and the Peace kept That no hereditaments or other profits then escheated to the King be granted to any during the Wars and that no Person do attempt to crave any of the same but that the same be imployed to the Kings best profit The King granteth except Offices and Bayliwicks and such gifts as he hath made in the Parliament so as
Parliament both of which parties being then heard for that the matter seemed to be determinable at the Common-Law the same parties were remitted thereto It was enacted that upon deliverance of such as were appealed for the death of Iohn Bowceby Cleark in Lincoln none should be returned unless he might freely dispend 40 l. by the year at least Upon complaint of the Bishop Deane Chapter of Lincoln for that they could never by distress or other means come to their rents in the same Town of Lincoln by reason of the Liberties granted to the said Town whereby the Major and Townsmen having the Tryall of all such matters before them kept them from their right A Writ was directed to the Major and Bayliffs of the said Town to appear at a certain day before the Lords and to have full authority from the whole Commonaltie of the same for abiding their determinations therein at which day the said Major and Bayliffs appeared in proper persons and for that they brought not with them full power from the said Commonaltie they were adjudged unto Contempt And it was further enacted that in Assizes Juries and all other Inquests which should be taken between partie and partie before the Major Bayliffs that for the same time shall be if any of the said parties would complain of a false Verdict thereby given they should have the Attaint to them granted and the Record by Writ shall be sent into the Kings Bench or Common Place and that in all such Attaints the Sheriffs return Forraigners of the said Countie without sending to the said Citie the which Jurie the Justices shall take notwithstanding any libertie to the said Citie granted The Chancellor and Schollers of the Universitie of Cambridg by their Petition require that they their Ministers and Servants be not put to answer of any Treason or Fellonie or other breach of Law before the Major and Bayliffs of the same Town and that upon the Tryall of all such offences the Sheriffs do return Forraigners oâ— the same County and none of the Town or Suburbes The Major and Bayliffs were commanded as in Tit. 12. before They accordingly appear but brought no Warrant from the Commonaltie of the same Town whereupon they were adjudged to fall into a contempt Thomas Methom Knight complaineth that whereas an Appeal was brought by Elizabeth the wife of Sir Iohn Fitz-William of Archsay Kt. for the death of the said Iohn against Iohn Aske and others in the Kings Bench the same Iohn found that the same Thomas and one Iohn Freyer were purchasers of the said Appeal to the Damage of 500. Marks of the said Iohn Aske for the which Damages he the said Thomas remained in the Marshallsey Whereupon for that the said Tho. shewed an Error in the same Judgment at his request it was adjudged that he should have a Sciri fac grounded upon his case returnable at the next Parliament to warn the said Iohn Aske then to be there that the said Thomas should be delivered out of the Malshallsey upon sufficient Suretie untill the Errors heard and thereupon the Bishops of Lincoln and Norwich the Lord Nevill and Sir Iohn Lovell to make a grant for Damages untill the said Iohn Aske undertook to bring forth the body of the said Thomas the next Parliament to be rendred to Prison if then the Judgment were affirmed and it was commanded to the Chancellor to make Writs as well for the Delivery of the said Thomas as for the Sciri fac Upon the like bill for Iohn Freyer the like order was taken for him upon Sureties aforesaid in form as is above For that certain Annuities were assigned to be payed to certain Justices banished into Ireland in the 11 th year of the King without certain limitation how the same should be paid It was enacted that the Wives or other Friends of the said Justices so remaining in Ireland should have to Farm all the Lands of the said Justices being not sold to the valew of such Annuitie notwithstanding any Patent made unto others which if it will not suffice then certain of the Councell shall take order therein It is enacted that the Statute made in the first year of the Kings Raign touching Priors Aliens and other possessions should be observed these being adjoyned that all Pryors Aliens being inducted by the Bishop of the place or by Abbies Exempt before seisin or which have the same during their Lives shall enjoy their said Priories for a reasonable summe notwithstanding any Patent to others thereof granted and that no Priorie or other Spiritualitie appropriated do remain in any temporall mans hands but only to the Clergie On Wednesday the second of March the Lords and Commons granted to the King for one year xxxviii s. iiii d. of every Denizon for every Sack of Wool over the old Custom of every Alien xxii s. viii d. of every Last of Skins of Denizons over c. of Aliens iii l. xiii s. iiii d. of Denizenes for every CCxl Wool Fells xxxiii s. iiii d. over c. of Aliens xxxvi s. viii d. over c. and of every tun of Wine coming in or going out of the Realme vi d. And that the same be imployed onely to the use of the Wars The King by assent of Parliament created his Uncle of Lancaster Duke of Aquitaine by setting a Crown on his head and giving to him a Rod of Gold to hold the same Dukedome with all Profits and Prerogatives to him during his life of the King as of the King of France as largely as ever the King held the same saving onely to the King as to the King of France the direct Dominion Superioritie and resort of the same Dutchy as by the Letters Patents thereof confirmed may appear After which done the Duke did Homage to the King for the same Dukedome giving most humble and hearty thanks to the King for the same honour and protested albeit he could not of himself maintain the State of the said Dukedome in time of War without the ayde of the King and Realme he would notwithstanding of his own dispend to the uttermost whereunto the King answered that the charges should be borne as between the Duke and his Councell should be agreed to which the Commons assented The King by the assent of the Parliament created Edward the eldest Son of the Duke of Yorke Earl of Rutland during the life of the said Duke and gave to him during the said Dukes life 8â—0 marks yearly and in value of the said 800. marks gave unto him the Castle Town and Domination of
Okeham in the said County together with the old Forrest of Rutland and the Office of the Sheriffwick of the same Shire So as if the same amount not to the yearly value of 800. marks that then the rest to be payed out of the Exchecquer as by the said Charter there confirmed and delivered to the said Earl may appear The Archbishop of Canterbury and Yorke for them and the whole Clergy of their Provinces make their solemn Protestation in open Parliament that they in no wise meant or would assent to any Statute or Law made in the restraint of the Popes Authority but utterly withstood the same the which their Protestations at their requests were enrolled Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THE print touching Protections cap. 16. agreeth with the Record in effect but swerveth in the rehearsall of the Statute The print touching the Constable and Marshall cap. 2. agrees with the Record altogether quod nota The Commons in the same motions required that the Constable of Dover should hold no forrein plea done in Kent unless the same concerned the Ward of the same Castle Whereunto was answered that sith the same touched the Kings Inheritance the King would send for his Ministers of the same Castle and take order therein They require that no man do wear any mans Cloth or Badge unless he be daily in his Houshould The King will be advised The print touching Serjeants at Arms cap. 6. agreeeth not altogether with the Record That no man do give any Livery but to his houshould servants and that no Livery be given by colour of any Fraternity The King will be advised That neither the Chancelor or other Chancelor do make any order against the Common Law nor that any judgement be given without due process of Law The usage heretofore shall stand so as the Kings Royalty be saved That every Sherriff may be allowed for liberties granted out of their Bailywick according to the rate The King willeth that upon examination of how much his Progenitors gave away by his Councell they should make allowance to them accordingly The print touching Provisions from Rome in the second Statute as the print is though untruly cap. 2. swerveth from the Record by wanting this viz. That if he be another of base degree he shall pay to the King the value of his Benefice for which such prayer was made and suffer imprisonment for one year which note well That no person do appear upon any Writ of quibusdam certis de causis before the Chancellor or any other the Councell where recovery is thereof given by Common law The King willeth as his Progenitors have done saving his Regality The print touching the circuit of the Marshalls jurisdiction cap. 2.3 agreeth with the Record The print touching the Clark of the Market cap. 4. agreeth with the Record The print touching Charters of Pardon in the second Statute as the print is though untruly cap. 1. agreeth with the Record For certain causes it is enacted that the Staple should continue at Callice untill the Feast of St. Andrew then ensuing The print touching Labourers cap. 8. agreeth with the Record rehearseth the Statute made 22. E. 3. where the print is in 25. E. 3. which is true and yet swerveth from the Record notaâ— The print that he in the reversion shall be received cap. 17. agreeth with the Record onely the Record to this word delaies in the print hath annexed whatsoever which the print wanteth quod nota The print touching Justices of the peace cap. 7. agreeth with the Record that only the Record hath next to sworn as it is in the print duely and without favour which the print wanteth quod nota The print touching the Admirall Cap. 5. agreeth with the Record The print touchiug weights and measure Cap. 9. agreeth with the Record only the Record is Cod Caude where the print is Cotgare quod nota That the Popes Collector be commanded to avoid the Realm within â—orty daies or else to be taken as the Kings enemy and that every such Collector from henceforth may be an Englishman and sworn to execute the Statute made in this Parliament The King will be thereof advised The print touching the bringing in Romish Merchandize in the second Statute of this year in print cap. 3. agreeth with the Record That every man may complain of the opressions of what person or estate soever without the incurring the pain of the Statute made at Gloucester in the second year of the King Every man may complain according to the Law The King pardoneth to the Commons of Northumberland Cumberland and Westmerland all Fines Issues and Amerciaments Arrerages of Fifteens and such like It is â—nacted that the Merchants and Artificers of Worsted in Norfoâ—k may carry and sell their single Worsted to any place or persons being of the Kings amity notwithstanding any inhibition or libertie to the contrary The print touching Shoomakers cap. 12. agreeth in manner with the Record The print touching Clothes of Ray cap. 10. agreeth with the Record The print touching Cognizance cap. 14. agreeeth not fully with the Record At the request of the Commons of the town of Cufford it was inacted that the Water-Bailiff of Callice should only take four pence Custome of every Boat coming with Victualls from the same town and not six pence as they then took That every Constable may have the weighing of Woolls according as it is there prescribed The King granteth to but for certain considerations the execution was suspended till further deliberation The print touching Clothes cap. 11 agreeth not with the Record for the print to these words upon a certain pain hath anexed to be limited by the Iustices of the Peace which the Record hath not quod nota They prayen that the Bounds between Holland and Kestiven there named may be by Commission onely inquired of bounded out which was granted and enacted that it shall so be That no other Custome than three pence be demanded of every Kersies passage out of the Realm according to the old usage Let it be so till the next Parliament between which time the King will be better advised Sundry Counties bordering upon Wales require remedy as it is there contained against misdemeanours of the Welchmen The King will charge by treating with the Lords Merchers to provide remedy therein It is enactedâ— that every man shall Cocquet his Woolls under his own name upon the pain contained in the eighteenth year of King E
3. The print touching Artifficers not to keep any Grey-hound c. cap. 13. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme The print touching Collation and Presentment cap. 1. agreeth not with the Record in the end of the same for the Statute hath as followeth And further the King willeth that no ratification granted for the Incumbent after that the King hath presented and commeâ—ced hâ—s suit shall be allowed hanging nor after judgement shall be fully executed as reason demandeth which the print wanteth quod nota This being done the Chancellour where the King was present willed the Knights and Burgesses to sue forth their Writs and so the Parliament ended the day of March. Of the print cap. 15. touching the Kings Castles and Gaoles there is no mention made in the Records of this year Of the print cap. 18. touching the Bishop Dean and Chapter of Lincolnâ— it is confirmed before tit 13. Of the print cap. 19. touching Salmon sewes is no mention made in the Record Of the print cap. 20. touching Pilgrims is no mention made in the Record Anno Decimo quarto Richardi Secundi Rex c. Joh. Duci Lancastriae Avunculo suo c. Teste Rege apud Westm. Cro. Martini apud West xij die Septembris CHariss Avunculo Regis Tho. Duci Eborum Chariss Avunculo Regis Tho. Duci Gloucestriae Chariss consanguineo Regis Ed. Com. Rutland Chariss Fratri Regis Ed. Com. Cantii Chariss fratri Regis Ioh. de Holland Com. Huntington Ric. Com. Arundell Ric. Com. Derby Thomae Com. War Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. de Percie Com. Northumb. Ioh. de Mowbray Com. Maresc Nottingh Nich. de Audley de Heligh Ioh. de Fallesley Chlr. Tho. Camois Tho. de Morley Ioh. Bourchier Ioh. Lovell de Fishmerch Ioh. de Cherlton de Powis Ioh. de Clinton Ric. Talbot de Godrickcastle Ioh. de Ware Henr. le Scroope Iohi. Roos de Hemelake Rado Nevell de Rabie Ioh. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Ric. le Scroope Ioh. Devereux Hugo Burnell Will. la Zouch de Harringworth Tho de Berkley Iohi. de Welles Tho. le Dispencer Almarico de Stâ— Amando Tho. de Clifford Rado de Cromwell Rado de Lumley Will. de Thorpe Rado Baroni de Graystock Will. Botreaux Chlr. Ioh. de Bellomonte Rob. de Harrington Rob. de Willoughby Ioh. de Cobham de Kent Will. de Dacre Ioh. le Strange de Knokin Tho. Nevill de Halmshyre Rico. Seymore Phillippo Darcey Waltero Fitz-Walter Tho. Bardolf de Wormegay Ioh. Devereux Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at Westminster the day after St. MARTIN in the xiiii th year of the Raign of King RICHARD the Second ON Saturday the next day after St. Martine the Bishop of Winchester being Chancellor after a long and eloquent discourse of Government of the King he rehearseth the League taken between the King and the French and sheweth how a great part of the substance thereof was how a finall Peace might be concluded with one whole assent therein without the which the King would not conclude thereon He sheweth further how that the Scots upon motion refused the League and that War at their hands was onely to be accompted of the charges whereof with the charges of Ireland of the Kings Fortresses beyond the Seas and for keeping of the Seas were so great as the King of himself without their ayde could in no wise sustain the same wherefore he wisheth them to consult as well therein as for Ordinance of good Laws Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above Tryars of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above It is enacted that after the Feast of the Epiphany next ensuing the Staple shall be removed from Callice into England in such places as are conteined in the Statute made 27. E. 3. the which Statute shall be fully executed And further that every Alien which bringeth any Merchandize into the Realm shall finde sufficient surety to buy and carry away commodities of the Realm to half the value of his said Merchandize The print touching the Exchange Cap. 2. agreeth with the Record The print touching the Oath of the Officers of the Staple Cap. 3. agreeth with the Record The print touching the prices of Staple Wares Cap. 4. swerveth from the Record for the Record hath for keeping of the high prices where the print wanteth this word high quod nota The print forbidding Denizons to transporte Wools Cap. 5. agreeth with the Record The print touching Fraightage of English Ships Cap. 6. agreeth with the Record The Dukes of Yorke and Gloucester require of the King assurance for M. l. yearly to either of them in especiall Tayle according unto the Kings promise whereupon the King willeth the Justices to devise such assurance for them and further commandeth that they may be readily payed Whereas the King granted late before to the Duke of Gloucester in especiall tayle the Castle of St. Brionell and the Forrest of Deane he now by assent of Parliament granteth that the said Duke shall hold the same Forrest as a Forrest It is declared by the King and Lords in this Parliament holden at VVestminster the next day after St. Martine that in the seventh year of this King the Earldome and Seigniory of Richmond with the appurtenances were adjudged by the King and Lords to be forfeited to the King by reason of the adherence of Iohn Duke of Brittaine then Earl of Richmond to the French against his Aliance made as well to the King now as to King E. 3. for which Alyance he enjoyed the said Earldome the which Judgement was not inrolled in the Roll of the said Parliament for certain causes then to the King and Lords well known The Lords and Commons prayed the King that the Prerogative of him and his Crown might be kept and that all things done or attempted to the contrary might be redressed and that the King might be as free as any his Progenitors were whereunto the King granted The Lords and Commons granted unto the King for three years the like Subsidies as are contained in the 11th of this King tit 16.17 So as the same be onely imployed upon the Defence of the Realm And upon condition that the Staple be removed from Callice to England and so continue Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the Observation of Statutes made at Canterbury Cap. 11. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme It is
enacted that the Statutes made touching Sheriffs and Escheators shall be observed The print touching Scottish money Cap. 12. agreeth with the Record Sundry Counties there named complain of the overcharging of Sheriffs and pray redress The King hath given full power to his Counsell to shew favour to every Sheriff upon his Accompt as to them shall seem reasonable That the Ordinance made in the 11th year whereby all Lands then Escheated to the King should be sold to his most profit may be confirmed Upon a more speciall Declaration right shall be ministred The King pardoneth to the Commons of Cumberland Northumberland and Westmerland all sums of money demanded in the Exchecquer by the name of divers Debts and their reliefs That redress may be had against the manifold Oppressions and other Trespasses done by the Men of Cheshire in the Counties bordering thereunto The King will be advised touching the Libertie of Cheshire They pray that against the horrible vice of Usury then termed Schefes and practised as well by the Clergie as Laytie the Order made by Iohn Nott late Mayor of London may be executed through the Realm The King willeth that those Ordinances be viewed and if the same be found to be necessary that the same be then affirmed The print touching the entertainment of Merchant strangers Cap. 9. agreeth with the Record It is enacted that no Denizen do Ship or cocquet Wools or Marchandize in his own name which belong to strangers to debar the King of his Custome on pain of Forfeiture The print touching Customers and Comptrollers Cap. 10. agreeth with the Record onely there wanteth touching Customers of Towns where the Staple should be within the Realm the which the print wanteth The Bakers Brewers and Buyers of Corne do claime 8. Bushels to the Quarter striked onely and no more The Statutes therefore made shall be observed That these words silva Cedua may be explained so as no man be driven to pay Tithe Wood to the contrary It shall be used as heretofore it hath been The King hath granted to the men of the Isls of Garnsie and Iersie Sercke and Aureny that they during the space of 8. dayes shall be free of all manner of Tolls Exactions and Customs within the Realm as his Leiges The Merchants of Kersies require that they may freely transport the said Kersies for the old Custome It is enacted that no Estues or Brothell Houses be kept in Southwarke but in the Common places therefore appointed Certain Port Towns require that the Admirall doe hold no Plea of trespass contract or Covenant done within their Liberties The King will appoint certain of his Councell to examine the matter and to take Order therein untill the next Parliament That remedy may be had against Mills Stanks Kiddells and such like Engines and Devises levyed upon the Thames The Statutes therefore made shall be observed The print touching the gaging of Renish Wines Cap. 8. agreeth with the Record The King at the request of the Commons by the assent of the Parliament repealeth the Judgement given against Iohn de Northampton late Mayor of London for certain Treasons and other Fellonies They require remedy against the outragious taking of Wages of Masters of Ships and Marriners The Admirall shall appoint them to take reasonable wages or punishment These things being done the Lords and Commons give humble thanks for the good Government and carefull zeale to them borne And the King gave thanks to them for their grants to him made And thereupon the Chancellor willed the Knights and Burgesses to sue Writs for their Fees and so the Parliament ended the third day of December And Note that of the 7th Chapter in print touching the Passage of them out of the Realm to be onely at Dartmouth is no mention made in this Record Anno Decimo quinto Richardi Secundi Rex c. Johi Duci Aquitaniae Lancastriae c. apud Westm. Cro. Annimar c. Teste Rege apud Westm. Septimo Die Novembris CHariss Avunculo Regis Ed. Duci Ebor. Chariss Avunculo Regis Tho. Duci Gloucest Chariss Consanguineo Regis Ed. Com. Rutland Chariss fratri Regis Tho. Com. Cantii Chariss Fratri Regis Iohi. de Holland Com. de Huntingt Rico. Com. Arundell Chariss Consanguineo Regis Hen. Com. Derbie Tho. Com. Warr. Edwro de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. de Percie Com. Northumb. Tho. de Mowbray Com. Maresc Nottingham Tho. Com. Stafford Iohi. de Fallesley Chlr. Tho. Camois Chlr. Tho. de Morley Chlr. Iohi. Bourchier Iohi. Lovell de Fishmerch Iohi. de Cherleton de Powis Iohi. Clinton Rico. Talbot de Godrickcastle Iohi. le Ware Hen. le Scroope Iohi. de Roos de Hamelake Rado Nevill de Raby Iohi. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Hen. Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Rico. le Scroope Iohi. Devereux Hugo Burnell Willo la Zouch de Harringworth Tho. Berkley Iohi. de Welles Philippo le Dispencer Hen. de Scto Amando Tho. de Clifford Rado de Cromwell Rado de Lumley Rado Baroni de Greystock Willo Botreaux Milit. Iohi. de Bellomonte Robto de Harrington Robto de Willoughby Iohi. Cobham de Kent Willo de Dacre Iohi. le Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmshyre Rico. Seymore Phillippo Darcey Waltero Fitz-Walter Tho. Bardolf de Wermegey Ioh. Devereux Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the next day â—ftâ—r All Souls in the Fifteenth year of the Raâ—gn of King Richard the 2. THe Friday being the same next day the Archbishop of Yorke Primate and Chancellor of England by the Kings appointment before him being present declared very wisely the causes of the Parliament As first the Church then the Laws and further that all Cities and Towns should enjoy all their Liberties as amply as ever they did He then shewed that the Parliament was summoâ—ed for three chief causes First for the observation of Peace and maintenance of the Laws The Second how the prices of Wools too much abâ—sed might be enhaunced And how the Wars of the same happily begun after the expiration of the truce might in best wise be maintained Thirdly touching the Statutes of Provision to see how the Holy Father might have that to him belonged Reddite quae sunt Cesaris Caesari quae sunt Dei Deo Receivers of the Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Triars of Petitions for England c. as above Triars of Petitions for Gascoin c. as above It is
de Kent by their Petitions require that of certain Lands and Tenements in Countie of Kent who are bound according to a certain rate in the Exchecquer to maintain a Bridge between the City of Rochester and the town of Strood they may among themselves yearly choose two Guardians or Keepers who may be of capacity to receive and purchase Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of five hundred Marks to impleade and to be impleaded whereunto the King granteth saving that they shall purchase but to the value of 300. Marks yearly Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THE print touching the observation of Statutes Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The print touching Forcible entries Cap. 2. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form That the Statute made in the 18. E. 3. touching the Castle of Dover and the Ordinance made in the 50 th year of the same King touching the same may be observed upon a certain pain Let the speciall griefs be shewed and remedie shall be had That the Sheriffs may be eased of their over-charging upon their Accompts by reason of Liberties granted to diverse Persons being parcell of their fee Farm The Kings Councell hath power to make allowance to the Sheriffs without any further Suit to the King The print touching the Admirall Cap. 3. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The print touching measure of Corn Cap. 4. agreeth in effect with the Record but not in form The print touching the Statute de Religiosis Cap. 5. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The King at the request of the Commons restored to Iohn of Northampton late Major of London all his Lands and Tenements whatsoever with his bloud notwithstanding any Judgment to the contrary The King at the like request of the Commons pardoneth to Ric. Norbury Mercer of London all Judgements of Treasons Felonies and Misprisions restoreth to him all his Lands Tenements and his Blood notwithstanding any such judgement and that by assent of Parliament The like pardon is made to Iohn Moor Mercer of London That Iohn Roches the Kings Batchelor may be considered for his charge sustained about the Castle of Brest whereout he was put before the end of the term The King hath commited the same to his Councell That the Knights Fees of Counties coming to the Parliament may be levied of all men generally aswell within the Libertie as without It shall be used as heretofore it hath been The print touching licences of Impropriations cap. 6. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form That no Villain of any Bishop or other religious persons do purchase any lands upon pain of forfeiâ—ing the same to the King and that no Villaines do put their Children in School The King will be thereof advised The print touching cloths of Gilford cap 10. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The Major and Burgesses of the Town of Barwick praying that they may buy certain Woolls of one part of Northumb. viz. of Cochet towards the North paying for the sack 26 s. 8 d. The King will thereof be advised The print touching carrying of Victualls to Barwick cap. 7. far swerveth from the Record and namely in the whole rehearsall That Merchants may transport Kersies according to the old custome They shall pay custome according to the Statute therefore made That this word Silva Cedua may be explained and full declaration made of that age wood shall be Tithed It shall be used as it hath been The Commons of Northumberland Cumb. and Westmerl pray that they may have full allowance of the Kings pardon granted to them in the last Parliament touching Issues and amerciaments The King grants thereunto That the Statute of the Forrest and namely touching Chyminage may be observed as well in the Forrest of Sherwood as in other Forrests The Statute of the Forrest shall be observed and who will complain shall be heard That the Statute of the first Parliament K. E. 1. touching the arresting of English Merchants in Wales may be observed The King will thereof be advised The print touching the passage of Tinne cap. 8. agreeth with the Record The print touching Girdlers cap. 11. agreeth with the Record That no English Merchant do lay in any strange Bottome any their Merchandize where they may have English to serve on pain to forfeit the same Let the Statute therefore made be observed That every man may enter into any City or Liberty and there seise his Villain The King will thereof be advised The Parliament made an end the second of December Of the Ninth and twelfth Capter in the print of this year there is no mention made in the Record Anno decimo sexto Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at WINCHESTER in the Utaves of St. Hillary in the sixteenth year of the raign of King RICHARD the second ON Munday which was the Utaves of St. Hillary the Parliament for certain weighty causes adjourned untill the next day ensuing on which next day the King being present the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury by the Kings appointment declared the cause of the Parliament to be for two cheif maters the first that whether there were War Peace or any other League taken between the King and his Adversaries Yet should the King of necessity be driven to defray great summes of mony the which how the same might best be levied they were now consult The second was to provide some remedy touching the Statute of Provisors for eschewing debate between the Pope and the King and his Realms Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoign and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Triars of Petitions for Gascoign c. as above Triars of Petitions for England c. as above On Wednesday following Sir Phillip Courtney being returned for one of the Knights for Devon came before the King in Parliament and for that he was accused of sundry heinous matters prayed to be discharged untill he was purged the which was granted and on Monday after at the request of the Commons was restored to his place and good name for that he had submitted himself to reasonable arbitrement It is enacted by common assent that the ordinances made in 13. Rich. 2. tit 19. shall be executed notwithstanding any Letters Patents to the contrary The Commons grant to the King that he by the advice of his Lords and Commons should have power to moderate the Statute of Provisions to the honour of God and saving the rights of the Crown
in the Record Anno decimo Septimo Richardi Secundi Rex c. Duci Aquitaniae Lancastriae c. apud Westm. Quindem Hillarii Teste Rege apud Windsor decimo tertio die Novembris CHariss Avunculo Regis Edo Duci Eborum Chariss Avunculo Regis Tho. Duci Gloucestriae Chariss consanguineo Regis Ed. Com. Rutland Chariss Fratri Regis Tho. Com. Cantii Chariss fratri Regis Ioh. de Holland Com. Huntington Dilecto fideli Consang Regis Ric. Com Arundell Chariss Consang Regis Hen. Com. Derby Iohi Com. War Alberto de Vere Com Oxoniae Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. Percie Com. Northumb. Tho. de Mowbray Com. Maresc Nottingh Tho. de Camois Tho. de Morley Ioh. Bourchier Ioh. Lovell de Fishmerch Ioh. Cherlton de Powis Ioh. de Clinton Ric. Talbot de Godrickcastle Ioh. de Ware Stephano Scroope de Musham Iohi. de Roos de Hamelake Rado Nevell de Rabie Rico. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Ric. le Scroope Hugoni Burnell Will. la Zouch de Harringworth Tho de Berkley Iohi. de Welles Phillippo le Dispencer Almarico de St. Amando Rado de Cromwell Rado de Lumley Rado Baroni de Graystock Constantino de Clifton Ioh. de Bellomonte Rob. de Harrington Rob. de Willoughby Ioh. Cobham de Kent Will. de Dacre Ioh. le Strange de Knokin Tho. de Lovell de Halmshyre Rico. Seymore Phillippo Darcey Waltero Fitz-Walter Tho. Bardolf Willo Beauchamp de Burgaveny Iohi. de Monteacuto Willo Heron. Ioh. de Bello Monte Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER in the Quindena of St. HILLARIE in the Sixteenth year of the Raign of King RICHArD the 2. ON Tuesday the Quindene of St. Hillary the Parliament for certain causes was adjourned untill the next day ensuing At which day the Archbishop of Yorke Chancellor of England by the Kings appointment in his presence declared that the Parliament was called First that all Bishops Lords and Corporations should enjoy their Liberties He further sheweth that the same was called for three principall causes The First for the observation of the Peace The Second for Wars which by assent of Parliament were begun The Third how charges might be levyed for the Defence of Guienne Callice Ireland and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoine and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above Tryars of Petitions for Gascoine c. as above The Thursday after the Commons presented to the King in full Parliament Sir Iohn Bussey for their Common Speaker who made the Common Protestation which being thought reasonable was allowed The Petition of the Deane and Chapter of Lichfield against the Prior of Newport Pannell for want of good matter was quailed The Petition of Iohn Sheepy Clarke for the like cause was also quailed The Petition of Edmund Basset was continued untill the next Parliament Iohn de Windsor complaineth and requireth to be restored to the Mannours of Rampton Cottenham and Westwick with their appurtenances in the County of Cambridge the which were adjudged to him by the Kings awarde then being in the possession of Sir Iohn Lisley and now withholden by Sir Richard le Scroope who by Champertie bought the same The cause was this upon the Petition of Windsor against Lysley they both compremitted the matter to the Kings Order the King committeth the same to the Councell they digesting of the same made a Decree for Windsor under the Privy Seale they sent Warrant to the Chancellor to confirme the same which was done under the Great Seal by a speciall Injunction to Lysley and a Writ to the Sheriffs to execute the same After this Lysley by Petition to the King requireth that the same might be determined at the Common Law nothwithstanding any former matter The King accordingly by Privy Seale giveth Warrant to the Chancellor to make a Supersedeas the which was done by Privy Seale After which Sir Richard le Scroope bought the same upon the ripping of the whole matter this sale was thought no Champertie whereupon it was adjudged that the said Windsor should take nothing by his suite but to stand to the Common Law and that the said Richard should goe without delay Richard Earl of Arundell declared to the King in the presence of certain Lords that he had certain conceptions to utter touching the Kings Honour First that he thought it not honourable for the King to suffer the Duke of Lancaster to goe Arme in Arme with him Secondly that it beseemed not the Dukes men to wear the same colour of Liverie that the Kings did Thirdly that the Duke in place of Counsell and Parliament spake such bitter words as the said Earl and such like durst not frankly to utter their minds Fourthly it was much against the Kings profit to give to the said Duke the Dutchy of Guienne Fiftly touching the great Mass of money given to the Duke for his voyage into Spain and touching the Peace by him lately taken Unto all which after the King had answered and justified it to be good it was awarded by the King by the assent of all the Lords that the said Earl in full Parliament should say to the said Duke these words following viz. Sir sith that it seemeth to the King and other Lords and eke that each here hath been so mickle grieved and displeased by my words It forethinketh and I beseech you of your grace and Lordship to quite me your man tallant The which the said Earl in the presence of the King and Lords did speake The Lords and Commons grant to the King for three years six pence of every pound of Merchandize and eighteen pence of every Tun of Wine coming in or going out of the Realm upon condition that after Peace taken with the French the same should cease William Leygrave of Bristoll sheweth that where he recovered against Iohn Cherleton and others certain Lands in Bristoll by an Assize of Fresh force before the Mayor and Bayliffs there the which without Warrant was reversed in the Kings Bench by a Writ of Error he prayeth the reversall of the said Judgement Whereupon was granted unto him a scire facias upon his Case against the said Charleton to be and abide the Order of the next Parliament and that the whole Record and proofs should then be there And note that in this and all the like Cases where any for Error requireth the reversall of any Judgement in the Kings Bench he sheweth in his Bill some especiall point
his common Protestation which was granted and enrolled At the request of the Commons Roger Earl of March took his Oath by the Cross of Canterbury to peform what the other Temporall Lords before should do Cap 12. The print touching the repeal of the Statutes made in the 11. R. 2. agreeth with the Record The print touching the Restitution of the Earl of Suffolk Cap. 13. agreeth with the Record onely in one place of the print there is the 10 th year where it should be the 11 th The Tuesday after Sir Iohn Bussey the Speaker declared before the King how ready the Commons were to ease the King by some Subsidie and prayeth for the Commons a generall pardon Whereunto the Chancellour by the Kings commandement answered that the King would be advised untill he knew of the Commons Grant Upon that request of the Commons the Clergie gave the like power to Sir William le Scroope of Wilts to answer for them as they late did to Sir Thomas le Percie Upon the advice of Sir Iohn Bussey most of the Bishops and Lords were sworn before the King again upon the Cross of Canterbury to repeal nothing in this year enacted so did sundry of the Proctors of the Clergie and most of the Commons by holding up their hands affirmed that they the same would do the Oath doth there appeare The King doubted whether it were good to send to the Pope for some means to bind the Kings of England his Successors to perform the same Oath for that by Oath he could not bind them against the libertie of the Crown Henry Duke of Hereford by the Kings commandement exhibited to the King in Parliament a Schedule containing the accusations of the Duke of Norfolk for words to him spoken by the said Duke of Norfolk the effect whereof in cheif part was That the King notwithstanding his fair countenances and great Oaths made did yet mean to oppresse the Duke of Lancaster and the said two Dukes of Aumerle and Exeter and the Marquess Dorset and that by the Oaths of other Nobles there named Wherefore by Act of Parliament this whole matter was committed to sundry Nobles and Knights of the Commons there named to determine vid. 21. tit 15. Thomas le Despencer Earl of Gloucester exhibiteth two Bills requiring by the first that the Revocation of the exile of Sir Hugh le Dispencer the Father of his Ancestor made in 15 E. 2. might be brought before the King and confirmed and that the repeal of the same made in 1. E. 3. might be revoked The second requireth the like for Sir Hugh le Dispencer the Son and his Ancestors The revocation of the exile of Sir Hugh le Dispencer the younger is at large and not elsewhere to be found that I have seen It first sheweth the manner of the apprehension of Newport Castle by whom the particular damages sustained thereby his judgement of exile and the errors whereupon the same was revoked In which I note The names of 10. Castles in Wales belonging to the said Hugh The names of twenty three Mannours very stately in Wales belonging to the said Hugh besides the Countries of Camtresmon Glamorgan and Wentlock with the Countie of Galesy The revocation of Sir Hugh le Dispencer the Father is above 6. wherein I note Of stately Mannours lying in sundry Shires belonging to the said Hugh I also note that he had twenty eight thousand sheep and one thousand Oxen and Stears one thousand two hundred Kine with their Calves and Xl. Mares with Colts of two years Cx. drawing Horses two thousand Hogges CCC Bullocks Xl. Tun of Wine vi C. Bacons iiii xx Karcases of Martlemas Beefe vi C. Muttons in Larder and Tuns of Sider Armour Plate Jewells and ready money better than ten thousand pound xxx vi Sacks of Wooll and a Librarie of Books The Writ sent to the Justices of the Kings Treasurie and Barons of the Exchecquer for the publication of the said revocation made in the fifteenth year of E. 2. for the said Lord le Dispencer The repeal of the said Revocation made in the first year of E. 3. as it is in the rehearsall and the 12. and 13 Chapters in print The said Earl of Gloucester prayeth that the Revocation aforesaid may be confirmed and the Repeal next above revoked considering that the said Repeal was made by King E. 3. at such time as E. 2. his Father being very King was living at the same time and Imprisoned that he could not resist the same The Lords being severally demanded what they thought of the said Repeal made in the 1. E. 3. thought the same unlawfull whereupon the King by full assent revoketh the Repeal aforesaid and confirmeth the revocation made 15. E. 2. and restoreth the said Earl to all the Inheritance of the said Hugh and to all actions Ancestors of the said Hugh and Hugh Provided alwaies that the King be saved harmless from any the said Lands granted by him or any of his Ancestors with warrantie and that the said Earl shall claim none of the said Inheritance being in the Kings Hand The Thursday after the Duke of Hereford humbly kneeling upon his knees before the King requireth pardon of sundry his ryots troubles and misdemeanors done within the Realm in offence of the King and of his estate whereof the King then granted pardon to him and published the same afterwards to the estates of his Realm The print touching Robberies done at Ratcot-bridg Cap. 14. agreeth with the Record The same day the Chancellor by the Kings commandment willed that if any man had or knew where was the pardon made to Richard late Earl of Arundell and repealed now by Parliament he should bring the same in on loss of all which he hath and accordingly Writs of Proclamation were sent through the Realm The same day Thomas Earl of Gloucester of his own free will came before the King sitting in Parliament and holding in his hand the Cross of Canterbury swore thereby to the King that he would never impeach any the Lords here under written neither his Highness for the Hereditaments which late were Sir Hugh le Dispencers Sir Hugh le Dispencer his Son his Ancestors but that he would at ny time make sufficient releases to them or to their heirs of the me upon request Alice the late wife of Sir William Windsor Knight requireth the revocation of a Judgment made against her 1. R. 2. tit 41. by the name of Alice Peeres for certain errors therein contained whereupon it was agreed in full Parliament that the King upon good deliberation should end the matter as to him should seem good The names
of the Lords Iohn Duke of Lancaster Edmund Duke of York Henry Duke of Hereford Edward Duke of Aumerle Tho. Duke of Surrey Iohn Duke of Exeter Iohn Marquess Dorset Roger Earl of March Iohn Earl of Salisbury William Earl of Wilts The Office of the Marshall was committed to the Duke of Surrey The Office of the Admirall was committed to Marquess Dorset with this declaration that the King was contented that the same should be known to the Estates albeit the same was freely in him to dispose and nothing appertaining to the Parliament Sundry Lords and certain of the Commons are appointed by common consent fully to answer all Bills and wholly to determine all other matters moved in the Parliament and not determined with all their Dependants according to the print Cap 16 th Wherein I note a rare Example that there was not one of the Clergie among them The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King during life the Subsidy of all Staple Ware according to the last grant and one Desme and half a Desme with one xv and half xv Upon which their grant the Commons required the King to have consideration of the great Spoile and havock made at Rotcot-bridg and further to consider the great Charge of the Lords Appellants whereto the King granted The Kings generall pardon very large with excepting certain agreeth with the print Cap. 15. Upon the grant of which pardon the King by his own mouth openly declareth that if the Lords or Commons should at any time impunge the grant of the Subsidy during his life then granted that then the pardon should cease After which done the Chancellor by the Kings commandment gave thanks to the Lords and Commons for their travels and granted and willed the Knights and Burgesses to sue forth their Writs and so licensed them to depart the Thursday aforesaid Petitions answered by the Lords appointed before tit 64. The Tuesday next after St. EDWARD THe Merchants Denisons and Aliens of the Realm require to have the Act made in 20 R. 2. tit 14. to be repealed considering that the Duke of Burgundy had enacted that no man should carry forth any Bullion out of the same Country of Flaunders The King will send his especiall Letters to the said Duke and to other his Officers and Ministers therein as oft as need shall require It is enacted that the Statute made touching Shoemakers in R. 2. tit 48. shall be observed in all points notwithstanding any repeale to the contrary The print touching the Staple at Callice Cap. 18. agreeth with the Record in effect though not in forme The print for bringing Ships fraught with Stone to Callice Cap. 18. agreeth in manner with the Record but not fully The print touching annoyance by Water-mills Cap. 19. agreeth with the Record The print touching the procuring the revocation of any Act Cap. 20. agreeth with the Record Whereupon the forme of the Oaths of the Bishops and Lords at such time as they should have Livery of their Temporallities or Lands was altered viz. for the Observation of the Acts and Orders passed by Parliament as for any Orders made within the time of the Parliament as by those severall Oaths may there appear On Tuesday the eighteenth of March in the 22th year of King R. 2. it was declared how Henry Duke of Hereford after the judgement given against him at Coventre had procured by Letters Patents from the King that he might during his absence by his Attornyes sue and have Liveries of any Lands descended to him and his Homage respited which Letters Patents were declared to be against the Law whereupon the King by the advice of the Committees aforesaid and assent of Parliament revokes those Letters Patents The repeale of like Letters Patents made to the Duke of Norfolk is also made The observation of which Statute and other Ordinances made as well at Coventre as elsewhere by authority of Parliament sundry Bishops and Lords and certain of the Commons there named were the same Tuesday sworn before the Kings person to performe upon the Cross of Canterbury After this the Chancellour by the Kings Commandement required openly that as many as were sworn and would the observation should hold up their right hands which was done by the whole multitude in the Kings presence Note that there is another Roll of this year and contents marked with the Letter E. In one Roll of this year marked with the Letters F. I. are contained the accusations of the Lords Appellants against the Duke of GLOUCESTER the Earls of ARUNDEL and WARR c. and Sir THOMAS MORTIMER with their Arraignments and judgements more particularly than before 1. THey first accused the said Duke for procuring the Commission expressed before tit 15 namely for sending by vertue thereof for Oswald Bishop of Galloway in Scotland the Kings enemy Then for raising a Warlike Company at Harringey in Middlesex and coming into the Court into the Kings presence armed For that they accroached to themselves Royal power and contrary to the Kings Commandement at the Parliament in 11 R. 2. adjudged and caused Sir Simon Burleigh Knight to be put to death as a Traytor For that they also the Thursday next after the Feast of Saint Michael in Anno 11. at Huntington purposed to have surrendred from the King their Homage and Allegiance and to have deposed the King For that they also took out of the Kings Treasury the Record whereby he surrendred the Kingdome the which they shewing unto the King at the Parliament at Westminster in the eleventh said then to the King that they had good cause then to depose him but they stayed the same for the love of his Noble Grandfather and Father and in hope of his better Government In another Roll annexed thereunto and intituled as followeth Placita Coronae coram Domino Rege in Parliamento suo at ud Westm. die Lunae proximae post Festum Exaltationis Sanctae Crucis Anno Regni Regis Richardi Secundi post Conquestum 21. ALl the matter and circumstances conteined in the last Roll next before are expressed All which Articles the Lords Appellants ought to approve as the King should awarde whose names were Edward Earl of Rutland Thomas Earl of Kent Iohn Earl of Huntington Thomas Earl of Nottingham Iohn Earl of Somerset Iohn Earl of Salop. Thomas Lord le Dispencer and William le Scroope Knight Whereupon the Lords Appellants required the King that such persons appealed as were under Arrest might come to their answer At which time it was commanded to Ralph Lord Nevill there present Constable of the Tower to
remainder to the right heirs in Tayle notwithstanding the King after of his meer grace granteth life to the said Sir Iohn Cobham so that he should remain in prison in the Isle of Iersey during his life and so as no further means of pardon were made for him The accusation of Henry Duke of Hereford made against the Duke of Norfolk and the Order therein taken as may appear in the 21. before tit 53. 54. The nineteenth day of March after the accusation aforesaid both the Dukes appeared before the King at Bristow where by assent of Parliament it was agreed that the determination of the same should be ended according to the Law of Chivalrie if sufficient proofs were not found On the 28th day of Aprill both the said Dukes appeared before the King at Windsor to whom day was given over to appear there on Munday the 29. of Aprill On which Munday both the said Dukes appeared and the Battail was joyned betwixt them by the advice of a great number of Dukes Earls Bishops Barons and Knights there assembled as those who had authority by Parliament for that no sufficient proofs could in the mean time be found Notwithstanding the King weighing the weightiness of the cause and how nigh the said Dukes were to him in blood for tender love took the Battail into his own hands and gave Judgement by authority of Parliament that the said Duke of Hereford should by a certain day then appointed depart and avoyd out of the Realm for ten years and that he should in no wise during the same terme come in the Company of the said Duke of Norfolk or of Thomas Swandell neither send nor receive any Letters or Message from them on pain of treason and that not for want of proof of his said accusation for that he was ready therein to do his devoir To the said Duke of Norfolk it was said that for as much as he had spoken certain words tending to great trouble and therein reecitd he was therefore banished the Realm during his life to avoyde by a day there limited and to remain in Almayne Boheme or Hungarie and in no other parts of Christendome and to pass over the Sea in Pilgrimage and further as above on pain of Treason and that for no default that the said Duke had made in his defence considering that therein he was ready to make his devoir And where the King had given to the said Duke of Norfolk sundry Mannours Lands and Tenements for joyning in the Appeal with the Lords Appelants aforesaid wherein for that the said Duke failed to proceed without any good ground the King adjudged by Act of Parliament that the said Duke should forfeit all the said Lands and all his Offices during his life together with all Warranties whereby any the Kings Ancestors were bound to any the Ancestors of the said Duke And also for certain payments behind and due to the King by the said Duke during such times as he was Deputy of Callice The King by authority of Parliament adjudged to seize into his hands all the Hereditaments of the said Duke over and above M l. yearly to be allowed to the said Duke untill the King were satisfied To the judgement of the said Duke of Norfolk is annexed a Certificate from the town of Lenestooke in Suffolk of the day of the passage of the said Duke towards Draight in Holland having in his Company to the number of thirty persons It was further ordained that neither of the said Dukes by any means should sue or procure any suit for them to be made of any release of their Judgements on pain of treason And note that in all the Judgements aforesaid the name and assent of the Procurator of the Clergie is alledged The eighteenth day of March in the two and twentieth year of the King the King by assent of the Lords as having full authority therein doth adjudge Sir Robert Pleasington Knight then dead a Traytor as procuring with the Duke of Gloucester the levying of War at Harringey for which he should lose all such his Lands in Fee or Fee tayl and goods which he had the thirteenth of November in Anno 11. Henry Bowet Claâ—ke for being of Counsell of the device made to the Duke of Hereford expressed before in tit 87. Was adjudged to dye and forfeit as a Traytor notwithstanding he was after pardoned of life and banished the Realm And note that there is one Roll of this year Intituled Copia Iudiciorum Anno Vicessimo tertio Richardi Secundi Rex c. dilecto Consanguineo suo Henrico Duci Lancastriae salutem apud Westm. in Cro. Sancti Michaelis prox futur Teste Rege apud Cestrium xxix die Augusti EDro. Duci Eborum Edro Duci Albemarliae Tho. Duci Surr. Iohi. Duci Oxoniae Iohi. Marchioni Dorset Tho. de Bellocampo Com. War Alberto de Vere Com Oxoniae Edro Courtney Com. Devon Ioh. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. Percie Com. Northumb. Edo Com. Stafford Michael de la Poole Com. Suffs Tho. de Percie de Wigor Tho. de le Dispencer Com. Gloucest Rado Nevill Com. Westmerland Tho. Camois Ioh. Bourchier Iohi. de Cherleton de Powis Willo de Clinton Mro Tho. de la Ware Stephano le Scroope de Masham Willelm Roos de Hamelake Hen. Fitz-Hugh Will. de Ferrariis de Groby Tho. de Morley Ric. le Scroope Hugoni Burnell Tho. Berkley de Weekley Iohi. de Welles Phillippo le Dispencer Almarico de St. Amando Rado de Cromwell Rado de Lumley Rado Baroni de Graystock Rob. de Harrington Iohi. Darcey Waltero Fitz-Walter Will. de Willoughby Iohi. de Cobham Chlr. Will. de Dacre Tho. Nevill de Halmshyre Rico. Seymore Will. Beauchamp de Burgaveny Ioh. Lovell de Fishmerch Rico. Gray de Codonore Reg. Gray de Ruthin Tho. Bardolf de Wermegey Roberto Scales Petro de malo lacu Tho. Erpingham Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Primo Henrici Quarti Rex c. Henr. Duci Lancastriae c. apud Westm. in Festo Sct. Fidis Virginis c. Sexto die Octobris 13. 99. Teste Rege apud Westm. 30. Septembris EDro. Duci Eborum Edro Duci Albemarliae Tho. Duci Surr. Iohi. Duci Oxoniae Iohi. Marchioni Dorset Tho. de Bellocampo Com. War Alberto de Vere Com Oxoniae Edro Courtney Com. Devon Ioh. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. Percie Com. Northumb. Edro Com. Stafford Michael de la Poole Com. Suffs Tho. de Percie Com. Wigor Tho. de le Dispencer Com. Gloucest Rado Nevill Com. Westmerland Tho. Camois Ioh. Bourchier Iohi. de Cherleton de Powis Willo de Clinton Mro de la Ware Stephano le Scroope de Masham Willelm de Roos de Hamelake Hen. Fitzâ— Hugh Will. de Ferrariis de Groby Tho. de Morley
admitted the same 16 After which admission it was thought good and expedient over and above the same to expresse by certain Articles the evill government of the King whereby he ought justy to be deposed 17 First was alledged the Kings Oath made at his Coronation 18 The Objections and Articles laid against the King Richard wherefore he was deposed are in the whole the number of 33 worth the noting and well marking 19 First for wasting and bestowing of the lands of the Crown upon unworthy persons and over charging the Commons with Exactions 20 For that the King by undue means procured divers Justices to speak against the Law to the destruction of the Duke of Gloucester and the Earls of Arundell and Warwick at Shrewsbury 21 For that the King against his promise procured the Duke of Ireland sundry Rebels about Cheshire where diverse murders by him were committed 22 For that the King against his own promise and pardon at the solemne procession apprehended the Duke of Gloucester and sent him to Callice there to be choked and murdered beheading the Earl of Arundell and banishing the Earl of Warwick and the Lord Cobham 23 For that the Kings retinue and rout gathered out of Cheshire about the apprehension of those Nobles committed diverse Murders Rapes and other Fellonies besides refusing to pay for their Victualls 24 For that the King condemned the Nobles aforesaid for diverse rodes made within the Realm contrary to his open Proclamation 25 For that the King doubly Fined men for their pardons 26 For that the King to oppress his whole Subjects procured in his lâ—st Parliament that the power thereof was committed to certain Persons 27 For that the King being sworne to minister right did notwithstanding enact in the last Parliament that no mediation should be made for the Duke of Lancaster contrary to his said Oath 28 For that the Crown of England being freed from the Pope and all other forraign power the King notwithstanding procured the Popes Excommunication on such as brake the last Parliament in derogation of the Crown Statutes and Laws of the Realm 29 For that the King banished the Duke of Lancaster for 10. years without any cause as the same King openly affirmed 30. For that the King unlawfully revoked the Letters Patents made to the said Duke of Lancaster as in An 21. Tit. 87. 31 For that the King contrary to the Laws and wills of the Justices suffered Sheriffs to continue longer than one year and placed such therein as were unfit 32. For that the King repayed not to his Subjects debts of them borrowed 33 For that the King in the time of Truce and Peace exacted great Subsidies and wasted the same about frivilous matters 34 For that the King refused to execute the lawes saying that the lawes were in his Mouth and Breast 35 For that the King by procuring by Statutes that he might be free as any of his Progenitors did under colour thereof convert lawes according to his will 36 For this which agreeth with the first part of the thirtieth title before 37 For that the King procured Knights of the Shires to be made to serve his own will 38 For that the King enforced Sheriffs to be sworn to execute all commandements under the great Seal privy Seal or Signet contrary to their accustomed Oaths 39 For that the King to wrack money from his Subjects procured seventeen severall Shires to submit themselves to his Grace whereby great summes of money were levied 40 For that the King being sworn to observe the liberties of the Church notwithstanding at his Voyage into Ireland enforced divers religious persons to give Horse Armour and Carts 41 For that the Justices for their good good councell given to the King were with evill countenance and threats rewarded 42 For that the King of his own will in passing into Ireland carried with him the Treasure Reliques and other Jewels of the Realm which were used safely to be kept in the Kings own Coffers from all hazard and for that the same King cancelled and razed sundry Records 43 For that the King by writing to foraign Princes and to his own Subjects is reputed universally a most variable dissembling man 44 For that the King would commonly say among the Nobles that all Subjects Lives Lands and Goods were in his hands without any forfeiture 45 For that the King suffered his Subjects to be condemned by Marshall Law contrary to his Oath and the Laws of the Realm 46 For that the Subjects being only bound by their allegiance were yet driven to take certain new Oaths for serving the folly of the King 47 For that the King by his private Letters would charge the Ecclesiastical Ministers in any new Canonical matter to stay contrary to his Oath 48 For that the King by force in his Parliament banished the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury without any good ground 49 For that the King by his last will passed under the great Seal and privie Signet gave unto his Successors certain Money and Treasure upon condition to perform all the Acts and Orders in the last Parliament which being ungodly and unlawfull he meant as ungodlily to dye in 50 For that the King in the 11. of his Raign in his Chappell in the Mannour of Langley in the presence of the Duke of Lancaster and York and others received the Sacrament of the Lords Body that he would never impeach the Duke of Gloucester his Uncle for any thing before done and yet to the contrary he procured him to be murdered 51 For that the King most fraudulently and untruely against his own Oath banished the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and wasted his Goods in which Article in private conference between the King and the said Arch Bishop the King in a manner prophesied and doubted that the like would happen of himself and thereupon shewed a speciall token to the Arch Bishop that if he sent the same at any time that the Arch-Bishop should look that the King would come to him 52 After this for the causes aforesaid and the Kings own confession of his defects the same seemed sufficient to the whole Estates for the Kings deposition whereupon by one consent they appointed the Bishop of Asaph the Abbot of Glastonbury the Earl of Lancaster the Lord Berkley Sir Thomas Erpingham and Sir Thomas Gray Knights and Sir William Thurning Justices Commissioners for giving sentence of deposition and deposing of the same King R. 53 The sentence of deposition by the Commissioners aforesaid 54 This being done Henry Duke of Lancaster so soone as the Kingdome was vacant arose out of his seat and standing upright so as he might be seen of the whole people did humbly cross himself on his
forhead and brest and first calling on the name of CHRIST claimed the Kingdome and Crown of England with the appurtenances then being void as his Inheritance descending by right from King Henry the Third through Gods grace through help of his Kindred and Friends 55 After which claim made and consultations had amongst the Lords and Estates they altogether assented that the same Duke should raign over them and fortwith so soon as the same King shewed unto the Estates the Signet of King Richard purporting the same their election The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury took the same King Henry by the right hand and brought him to the Royall Seat where King Henry on his knees made a short prayer after which the two Arch-Bishops brought and caused King Henry to sit in the Royall Seat 56 And before the people could make an end of their joying the Arch Bishop of Canterbury made a short Collation taking this for his Theam Vir dominabitur vobis 1. Reg. 9. He discourseth thereupon and saith God forgetting his offence where he said Dabo pueros Principes eorum Esai 3. turns the same into mercie and saies Vir dominabitur populo He then sheweth the properties of a Child that soon promiseth and soon forgetteth by which inconveniences no Kingdom could stand He sheweth then the conditions of a man which is to understand to love and to persist in truth And so applying the rule of King Richard to a Childs rule and the rule of this King to the rule of a man by discommending the one and commending the other 57 Which Collation ended King Henry openly gave thanks to the whole Estates and protested that by way of conquest he meant not to diminish any mans right but of such as had been against the Common Wealth 58 After this for that the power of all Officers ceased the King appointed his chief Officers and Justices who were sworn after the accustomed manner Proclamation was made that on Monday next after the Feast of St. Michaell the Parliament should be called at Westminster so as on the Saturday before all such as claimed to do any service at the said Coronation should be before the Steward Constable and Marshall of England at the White Hall of the Palace of Westminster 59 On Wednesday which was the next day after the Commissioners viz. the Bishop of Asaph for Arch-Bishops and Bishops the Abbot of Glastonbury for all religious Persons and the Earl of Gloucester for Dukes and Earls the Lord Berkley for Barons and Bannerets Sir Thomas Erpingham Chamberlain for Batchellors and Commons of the South Sir Thomas Gray for Batchellors and Commons of the North Sir William Thurning and Iohn Markham Justices for the whole Estates came to the Tower to King Richard of whom Sir William Thurning for and in the name of them all pronounced the Sentence of deposition and the words of resignation of Homage and Loyaltie 60 The which are at large recorded to the effect aforesaid 61 After which words spoken the said King answered that he looked not after rule but after all this he hoped that his Cosen would be a good Lord to him Who throughly marketh this tragedy shall not read the same without tears and who well noteth the sequell shall see new Lords new Laws and for new bloud-shed fresh revenge to ensue 62 On Monday the day of St. Edward King and Confessor the same King Henry was Crowned at Westminster with all solemnitie and honour that appertained at which day sundry of the Lords and others did their service due at such Coronation As doth appear hereafter 63 On Tuseday after the Commons presented to the King Iohn Cheney for their Speaker whom the King accepted who forthwith made the Common Protestation which the King allowed 64 On Wednesday ensuing the same Sir Iohn with the Commons came before the King at what time Sir Iohn declared that for a sodain disease he was unable to serve and how the Commons in his place had chosen Sir Iohn Doreward beseeching the King to allow the same Sir Iohn Doreward to be the Speaker for the Commons 65 The same Wednesday the same Sir Iohn Doreward made the common Protestation for him and the whole Commons as before the which the King allowed 66 The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords towards the Wars with Scotland defence of Callice provision for Ireland amendment of the State and in hope of their requests to be granted granted to the King for three years the Subsidie of Wools Skins and Wooll-fells viz. 50 s. for every sack of Denizens and four Pound of Strangers one Desme and one Fifteen 67 The print touching the repeal of the Parliament An o 21. R. 2. Cap. 3. agreeth with the Record in effect though not in form 68 The print touching the affirmation of the Parliament made An o 11. Richard 2. Cap. 4. agreeth with the Record as next before 69 The print Cap. 5. touching the restitution of the Lords and others forejudged in An o 2. R. 2. agreeth with the Record as above 70 It is enacted that all blank writings whatsoever which the City of London and 17. other Counties for fear sealed to King Richard shall be utterly void 71 They will the same and that from henceforth no such Commission be granted to any the Nobles to aid all matters as were granted in 21 R. 2. And further the print touching Treason cap. 10. agreeth with the Record 72 By the motion and means of the Archbishop of Canterbury every of the Lords and Commons upon demand assented and required that Henry the Kings eldest Son might be created Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester and further that he should succeed the King in the Realm of England whom they promised to accept and obey accordingly 73 Whereupon the King sitting in his Royall Seat in full Parliament set on a Circle on the head of the said Henry his eldest Son and gave to him a Golden Ring on his finger and put into his hand a Rod of Gold and after kissed him and thereof gave to him a Charter and so created him Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chesterâ— and thereupon caused him being so arrayed by the Duke of York his Uncle to be brought into the place in Parliament appointed for the Principalitie Note that all the aforesaid Process was done the first Wednesday in the Parliament 74 On Thursday after the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury willed all the Lords in no wise to disclose any thing should be spoke upon which the Earl of Northumberland demanded of the Lords what were best to be done for the life of the late King Richard whom they would by all means
It is enacted that certain writings called Ragamanes and blanks conteined before tit 69. shall be burned 95. They grant that all the pardons granted in Anno 21 R. 2. shall be good 96. At the request of the Commons the King promiseth to be good and gracious to the Dutchess of Ireland and other his Cosins Petitions of the Commons with their Answers 97. THe print touching the Church great Charter and Charter of the Forrest Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record 98. That the Lords Spirituall Temporall and Justices be not from henceforth received to say that they durst not for fear of death to say the truth The King reputeth them all to be just and that they will give to him no contrary Counsell which if they do let complaint be made 99. The print touching express mention in every Letters Patents Cap. 6. agreeth with the Record 100. That all the Kings Chief Officers may be sworn to shun all Bribery whereof the attainted to loose all he hath Every such Officer upon attaint shall be punished for his misdoing otherwise the Statutes made do suffice 101. That no part of the Lands of the Crown be sold given or exchanged and that there be a Resuming of these Lands mentioned The King will thereof be advised 102. That every man may pursue his remedy for all havock and spoyls made since the Kings coming For spoyls done where the Kings host hath been he taketh advice to the rest he granteth 103. That all men dispossessed of any Tenements without Process of Law may be restored thereunto being done since the Kings coming in They are remitted to the Common Law 104. That Henry Prince of Wales may enjoy the Realm after the Kings decease The King granteth 105. Sir Thomas Haxey Clarke is restored as before tit 90. 106. That in consideration of the great Plague in the North it would please the King to lye in the middest of the Realm The King will be advised 106. That the King will appoint able Captains as well in England as in Wales The King meaneth no less 107. The print touching the allowance for Sheriffs Cap. 11. agreeth with the Record 108. The Commons grant to the King that he shall be as free and enjoy as great liberties as any his Progenitors before him had Whereupon the King in Parliament promised that he would not turne the same contrary to the Laws 109. The Commons pray the reversall of the Judgement given against Richard Earl of Arundell in An. 21 R. 2. and restitution of Thomas the Son and heir of the said Richard The King hath shewed favour to Thomas now Earl and to others as doth appear 110. The Commons pray for the Archbishop of Canterbury as before tit 78. which is granted 111. That such Records touching the inheritance of the said Earl of Arundell and Surry late imbezeled may be searched for and restored The King willeth 112. They make the like request for Thomas Earl of Warwick his restitution The King hath shewed favour to him as before 113. They require repeale of the Parliament made Anno 21 R. 2. with a generall Restitution of Lands and Goods of all such as lost thereby The King hath been gracious as before and to the rest he will be advised 114. The print touching Subsidies for Kersies Cap. 19. agreeth with the Record 115. The like motion and answer as is before tit 88. 116. That the Loans which King Richard borrowed may be payed The King thereof will be advised 117. The like motion and answer for Victuals taken for King Richard 118. The Citizens of Lincolne pray to be eased of their Fee Farme being 180 l. by the year the which they were unable to pay Let them sue to the King who will be gracious 119. The Burgesses of great Yarmouth pray to be eased of Desmes and Fifteens considering their Fee Farme of 60 l. Let them c. as before 120. The print touching such as be put out without title Cap. 8. agreeth with the Record 121. That none presented by the King to any Benefice being fallen shall be received before recovery had by the King He willeth that prohibition be granted according to the pretence of the Statute 122. The print touching Mills Stankes c. Cap. 12. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme 123. 〈◊〉 of no mans Beasts brought to Smithfield Market none be taken to the use of the Sheriffs of London The Sheriffs of London shall answer to the same Article 124. It is enacted that all the debts due to King Richard be payed to the King 125 The pardon made by the King to Robert Tharley Receiver of Cornewall for certain Debts wherein the King was deceived is revoked 126. It is enacted that it might be enquired by whom any the Goods or Chattels of the late King Richard be imbezelled 127. It is enacted that the Esquires Masters of the Watch in Cheshire shall for certain moneys received by them of King Richardâ— serve the King for a time at their own costs 128 It is enacted that enquirie be made of the Concealments of Customers Collectors Sheriffs and Escheators 129 The print touching Reciaunts of Searchers Cap. 13. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme 130 That the Wives of such as were forejudged of Treason or Felonie and not guilty thereof may be endowed The Common Law shall be observed 131. The like answer is made for the heirs of such as are fore-judged 132. That the attainder of the eldest Son in the life of the Father be no bar to the younger Let the Common Law run 133. The like motion and answer as is before tit 126. 127. 134. That the Fines taken of such as were of the retinue of the Duke of Gloucester and the Earls of Arundell and VVar. and such like may be repayed The King will thereof be advised 135. The print touching Process to be made against men of Cheshire Cap. 18. agreeth with the Record 136 The Commons of Salop require that enquiries may be made touching great losses by them sustained by the Kings late Army there The King will be advised 137. They pray that the King will with the same search provide some sufficient prison for misdoers Upon information the King will cause the Justices of Assize to take order therein 138. That where two Offices be found upon a diem clausit extremum the one contrary to the other that the heir found in the fiâ—st
granted to the King for the moderation of the Statute touching Provisors in the last Parliament beseeching the King that the same may not Licence any Cardinall or Stranger to enjoy any Benefice within the Realme 27. They then also pray the King that in the same moderation he would consider the painfull service of Master Richard Clifford the Keeper of the Privy Seal The King the same promised 28. They also therein require the King to have consideration of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge 29. The same day was a VVrit sent to the Sheriffs of London for the burning of William Sawtre a Clarke convicted of the Clergie and by them appointed and brought to be burned 30. The Lords Temporall by the assent of the King adjudged Thomas Holland late Earl of Kent Iohn Holland late Earl of Huntington Iohn Mountague late Earl of Salisbury Thomas le Despencer and Raâ—ph Lumley Knight and divers others of England who were for their Rebellions and Treasons by certain of the Kings Subjects taken and beheaded to be Traytors and that they forfeit all such Lands as they had in Fee the fifth of Ianuary in the first of this King or at any time after together with all their Goods and Chattels 31. The names of such Lords and others as were at the same Judgement 32. On Wednesday the fifth of March the Commons coming before the King shew how that the States of the Realm might be well resembled to the Trinity viz. the King the Bishops and the Lords and Commons wherein ought to be unitie and therefore prayed the King to appease the Earl of Rutland and the Lord Fitz-Walter both of whom kneeling submitted themselves to the Kings order who promised an order 33. The same day the Commons first and the Lords after pray the King in consideration of the Earls of Rutland and Somerset in the Rebellions tryed to admit them to their Goods Names and Liberties and to his favour as fully as any other Lords notwithstanding the Judgement made against them primo Regis The which with thanks for their motion the King then doth 34. The Commons do grant that after a year and six months the King may reenter upon any of the Farmers for non payment of his Rent except for the Fee Farmes of Lordships Cities and Towns and that from thenceforth the King may make express mention thereof 35. The Commons pray the King that Sir Richard Clifford Keeper of the Privy Seal might enjoy the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells whereto he was commended by the Popes Bull notwithstanding the Statute of Provisors The King answered that could not be so for as much as Master Henry Bonnett was elected thereunto by the Laws of the Realm but otherwise he would remember the same Sir Richard in another time 36. At the request of the Commons it was enacted by the King that Dame Philip late the wife of Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland shall enjoy for her Dower all the Lands as she then had during the minoritie of the heir of Auberie de Vere late Earl of Oxford so as if the said heir at his full age doe confirme her estate that then she should have all the Hereditaments of the said Robert otherwise to forfeit the same and that the said Philip should then have her part during her life as of the Kings gift 37. Upon the Petitions of Sir Ralph Holt and Sir William de Burgh the King restoreth them to their blood and to all their Hereditaments being in the Kings possession or reversion notwithstanding any Judgement given against them in Anno 11 R. 2. 38. The Record and Process given in the Kings Bench against Edmond Basset for certain Lands expressed in 15 R. 2. tit 29. was brought into the Parliament and are annexed to this Record whereupon the Judgement in the Kings Bench for certain Errors was reversed and restitution of the premises with the main profits restored to the said Edmond 39. Upon the Petition of Iohn son and heir of Roger de Burley the Cosin and heir of Sir Simon de Burley Knight the King revoketh the Judgement made against Simon in Anno 11 R. 2. and restoreth the same Iohn to his blood saving that the last Will of King E. 3. may be performed touching the Abbey of our Lady of Grace next the Tower of London the Free Chappels of St. Stephens and the Fryers Preachers of London Vide 5. 14.4 H. 5.4 40. Upon the like Petition of the Prior of Newport Pannell as before was granted as Scire facias returnable in the next Parliament 41. The print touching the order of Cisteaux Cap. 4. agreeth with the Record in effect though not in forme 42. The print touching provisions from Rome Cap. 3. agreeth as before 43. The King upon Petition of the Mayor and Merchants of the Staple of Callice revoketh certain particular Licences granted to the Merchants of New Castle upon Tyme for transporting of Staple VVare to other places than to Callice 44. The Commons require the King to help to pacifie the Schism of the Church which had of long time continued so as the same might be no charge to the Realm The Lords require the same The King answered the Bishops shall consider the same 45. On Thursday the tenth of March the Commons require that the Article touching the moderation made at the last Parliament concerning the Act of Provision may be examined for as much as the time was recorded otherwise than was agreed The King granteth thereunto by Protestation that the same should be no example And upon examination the Bishops and Lords affirmed the same to be duly done the which the King then called to remembrance 46. The same Thursday being the last day of the Parliament the Commons kneeling before the King beseech the King to pardon them if happily they should through ignorance offend The King granted 47. The Commons assemble unto Mass where the Archbishop read the Epistle and Gospell the King did the Sacrifice by promising to maintain the Churches Faith and they were come to say Ite missa est Deo gratias they offer their granted Subsidie aforesaid for which the King giveth them thanks and the Chancellor willeth them to depart 48. The print touching the converting or punishing of such as hold any erronious opinion Cap. 15. far swerveth from the Record and not onely in forme but much more in matter also to maintain tyranny then in the Record which note well And note that this was the first Statute and Butcherly Knife that the impeaching Prelates procured or had against the poor Preachers of Christ
Lands there as the English shall at any time Conquer or obtain and that all such his Tenants and Souldiers as will become English may be in the Kings protection the which the King granteth so as they be sworn 28 The 25 th day of November the Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King the Subsidy of Woolls Wooll fells and Skins for three years 3 s. of every Tun of Wine 12 d. of every pound of Merchandize one Desme and one Fifteen After which grant the Lords and Commons prayed the King for the delivery of Sir Phillip Courtney out of the Tower the which the King granted so as he found good Sureties for his good behaviour All which being thus done the Earl of Northumberland in the absence of the Kings Steward required all the Lords and Commons to dine with the King the next day and so the Councell willed the Knights and Burgesses to sue forth their Writs the Parliament the same day ended Petitions of the Commons with their Answers 29 The print touching the Liberties of the Church Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record 30 The print touching the Clergie Cap. 2. 3. somewhat swerveth from the Record having in one place too much viz. apprelles and in another too little viz. to the ordinary which note 31 The print touching the Kings gifts Cap. 4. agreeth with the Record 32 That all Sheriffs upon their Oaths may be discharged in the Exchecquer Such as be grieved shall find remedie at the hands of the Councell and Barons of the Exchecquer 33 The print touching Sheriffs Cap. 5. agreeth with the Record 34 The print touching Shoomakers Cap. 35. agreeth with the Record 35 It is enacted that from henceforth the Chirographer shall be a man of ability and knowledg who shall in proper person continue in the said office alwaies without letting the same to Farm or to occupie the same by deputy or otherwise 36 The print touching the sealing of Cloaths in London Cap. 6. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form 37 That Damages in Accompt may be awarded to the Plantiff The old Law shall continue 38 The Statute for avoiding forging by Executors may keep place against a Woman Executrix who takes a Husband As next above 39 That there may no more be taken for weighing in any place of the Realm for any Aver-depoiz than in London The Councell by authority of Parliament shall take order therein 40 The print touching Desmes Cap. 7. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form 41 That every Executor for any release made by any his Co-executors shall recover by Accompt against them to the valew of the things released It shall be as heretofore 42 The Burgesses of Lewis require that the weighing of Woolls may be at Lewis and Chichester for the Countie of Sussex 43 The print touching forcible entries Cap. 8. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form 44 The print touching power in the Chancellor for Commissions Cap. 9. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form 45 That the Statute made touching Kersies and Cogware may tinue during the Kings time The King hereof will be advised 46 The print touching halfpence Cap. 10. agreeth with the Record 47 That the Statutes made in the 13 th and 15 th of R. 2. touching the Admirall in all his Judgments to do according to the Common Laws may be kept If the Admirall Constable or Marshall do against Law the Councell by Parliament authority to them granted may redress or remit the same to the Common-Law 48. This title agreeth with the 23. before 49 That the Chief Justice of the King be Justice in no other place As heretofore it shall be 50 The title touching exceptions to villanage to little purpose 51 The print touching Kiddles in the Thames Cap. 10. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in full form 52 The print touching Appropriation of Benefices Cap. 12. agreeth as next before 53 The Major and Aldermen of Callice require the King to grant unto them the Assize of Wine Ale and Beer and Bread within the Jurisdiction of the same Citie called le Eskenage as they then by grant enjoyed the same within the same Citie Let them sue to the King who will advise and consider the same 54 They require that they may enjoy the Hospitall of St. Nicholas in Callice called Gods House with all the Lands thereto belonging the which was founded by the Bayliffs Coremains and Esterins of the said Town As next before 55 That the Statute made in the first year of the King touching the Staple at Callice may be observed The King granteth except Worsteeds and other Cloaths herring and the Patent granted to the Men of Berwick in the first year of the King 56 The print that none shall be enforced to goe out of their Counties Cap. 13. agreeth with the Record 57 That the Statute made An 36. E. 3. touching the wages of Captains may continue The King by advise will take order therein 58 That every Parson may dwel and keep Hospitality on his Benefice or else to incurre the pain of the Statute of Provisors The King hath charged the Bishops to to take order herein by the next Parliament 59 It is enacted that all the Statutes made for Labourers shall be observed and that if any man do retain any one to be an Apprentice contrary to the form of the Statute of 12. R. 2. Cap. 5. being willed first to serve at husbandrie that reteynor shall forfeit ten Pounds 60 The print touching Labourers Cap. 14. agreeth with the Record 61 The print touching Merchants Cap. 15. agreeth with the Record 62 The print touching Fryers Cap. 17. agreeth with the Record 63 That the Admirall and his Lieutenant do sit to keep their Courts in no Libertie or Town but only upon the Sea-coasts or Arms of the Sea and that every plea before them may be determined in one place without adjournment The Statutes and usages heretofore made shall be observed 64 That no Person whatsoever have any Dove-house in any Town unless they may dispend 40 s. yearly in the same Town on pain of 5 l. The King will be hereof advised 65 That all the Kings Lands in Wales may be resumed and let out to obedient Subjects and not to rebellious Welch-men The King will do his pleasure 66 That in an Assize of Rent brought in the Confine of Counties if there be pleaded in Bar a
be resident upon his Office and that no comptroller upon pain of imprisonment do exercise his Office by deputie 109 The print touching Searchers Cap. 21. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form 110 The print touching Judgment in pleas reall and personall Cap. 23. agreeth with the Record 111 That the Kings debt touching Purveyance of Victuals taken up may be payed So soon as the same may be 112 That remedie may be had against such Feoffees in trust of Lands or Rents as do charge the same with rent-charges against the will of the Feoffers Let the Kings Councell be advised hereof untill the next Parliament 113 That all such Abbots Priors Knights Esquires and other the Kings true Subjects as were lately impeached wrongfully by William Taylor late of Lampworth a Common Prover in the Kings Bench of sundry haynous Crimes for the which the said William was hanged drawen and quartered may be discharged and acquitted by the Kings Writ to be sent to the Justices of the Kings Bench. The grant of the King and the Writ sent to the same Justices Anno quinto Henrici quarti The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the next day after Saint HILLARIE in the fifth year of King HENRY the Fourth ON MUnday the fourteenth day of Ianuary being the first day of the Parliament the Bishop of London Brother to the King and Chancellor of England in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared the cause of the Parliament and that the Kings will was that the holy Church all persons and Corporations should enjoy their Liberties 2. He took then for his Theame these words multitudo sapientum and thereby learnedly declared that by Councell every Realm was governed and resembled every man to the body of a man and applyed the right hand to the Church and the left hand to the Temporaltie and the other Members to the Commonaltie of all which Members and Estates the King being willing to have Councell had therefore called the same Parliament and that for sundry causes 3. First for the utter appeasing of Welch Rebellions for rebelling of the malice of the Duke of Orleance and the Earl of St. Paule who had bent themselves wholly against the King and the Realm and namely by their late arrivall in the Isle of Wight where they took the repulse To consider the imminent perill of the Marches of Callice Guienne and other like Dominions to remember the wars of Ireland and Scotland and not to forget to take an order touching the late Rebellions of Henry Percy and other their Adherents at the Battail of Shrewsbury and so willed the Commons to choose and the next day to present their Speaker 4. Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland 5. Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. 6. Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above 7. Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyn c. as above 8. On Tuseday the fifteenth day of Ianuary the Commons came before the King and presented for their Speaker Sir Arnold Savage who excused himself thereof but the King would not receive the same but allowed the election thereupon Sir Arnold made the Common Protestation for himself and the Commons which was accepted 9. On VVednesday the sixteenth of Ianuary the Commons came before the King and desired him to have regard to the charges for the repressing of the VVelch Rebels and keeping of the Sea to consult of the great charges of his House That the King and the Prince would give Liveries according to the Statute made 10. That the King would provide for the repayring of his Castles and Houses and namely for his Castle at Windsor which were greatly in decay and not to grant away the profits of those Castles and Houses and notwithstanding to stand to the repayring of the same without which he could not but run to the great charging of the Commons and to the subversion of the whole estate 11. On Friday the eighteenth day of February the Earl of Northumberland came into the Parliament before the King and the Lords and there by his Petition to the King acknowledged to have done against his allegiance and namely for gathering of power and giving of Liveries wherefore he prayeth pardon and the rather for that upon the Kings Letters he yeilded himself and came to the King into York whereas he might have kept himself away 12. The which Petition the King delivered to the Justices by them to be considered Whereupon the Lords made Protestation that the order thereof belonged to them And so they as Peers of this Parliament to whom such Judgement belonged in weighing the Statute of 27 E. 3. touching treasons and the Statute of Liveries made in this Kings time adjudged the same to be no treason nor Felonie but onely trespass fineable to the King 13. For which Judgement the said Earl gave great thanks to the King and Lords And at the request of the said Earl he the same Earl was then sworn to be true Liegeman to the King to the Prince the Kings eldest son and to the heirs of his body begotten and to every of the Kings Sons and to their issue succeeding the Crown of England according to the Laws and that done the King pardoneth the said Earl his Fine and Ransome 14. After which the Archbishop of Canterbury prayed the King that forasmuch as he and the Duke of Yorke with other Bishops and Lords were of sundry suspected to have been of the Confederacy of the said Henry Percie that the said Earl might publish the truth the Earl upon the Kings commandement by his oath purgeth them all thereof 15. And on this day the levying of War of the said Sir Henry Percie and others was adjudged treason by the King and Lords in full Parliament 16. At the request of the Commons the Lords accorded that four speciall persons should be removed out of the Kings House viz. the Kings Confessors the Abbot of Dore Master Richard Durham and Crosby of the Chamber Whereupon Saturday the ninth of February the said Confessor Durham and Crosbie came into the Parliament before the King and Lords where the King excused them saying that he then knew no cause wherefore they should be removed but onely for that they were hated of the people and therefore charged them to depart from his House according to the agreement and the like he would also have pronounced against the Abbot if he had been present 17. On the same Saturday the Commons gave great thanks to the King in full Parliament for the favour
the Commons the King granted that one Bennet William who was imprisoned to answer before the Constable and Marshall of England should be tryed according to the Common Laws of the Realm notwithstanding any Commission to the contrary and thereupon a Writ was accordingly directed to the Jâ—stices of the Kings Bench as may appear 40. Roger Deynecourte the son and heir of Iohn Deynecourte Knight complaineth of an erronious judgement given against him in the Kings Bench for Ralph de Alderlie touching the Mannour of Austie in the County of Warwick the which Errors are there particularly rehearsed whereupon a Scire facias was granted to the said Roger returnable in the next Parliament and Sir William Gascoyne Chief Justice for shortness of time examined a Copy of the Process and Record word by word and gave a Copy thereof under his hand to the Clarke of the Parliament 41. It was agreed between the Prince on the one part and Iohn Cornewall and the Countess of Huntington his wife on the other part That the said Iohn and Countess should surrender into the Princes hands all such Mannours and Hereditaments as were parcell of the Dutchy of Cornewall after which surrender an entry should be made in the Premises on the behalf of the Prince and that after the said entry the Prince by Deed and Letters of Attorny to deliver seisure should grant the premises to the said Iohn and Countess and for that the Prince was within age he should promise before the Lords to performe the same at his full age and the promise to be made for the Prince his Brother all which Acts should be done by Parliament 42. Whereupon the twentieth of March as well the said Prince as the said Iohn and Countess came in proper persons before the King and Lords where the said Countess confessed that she had during her life certain Mannors parcell of the said Dutchy upon which confession the King and Lords gave judgement that the said Prince should be restored to the said Mannours aforesaid and that after seizure had the Prince should make estate over as is aforesaid 43. The grant of the Prince to the said Iohn and Elizabeth Countess of Huntington during her life of the Castle and Mannour of Trematon the Mannour of Calestocke the Mannour of Ashburgh the Castle and Parke of Easternell the Mannour of Perin of Penknith the Burrows and Towns of Lostwithiell and Camelford the whole fishing of the Mannour of Fowley the Mannour of Tewinton the Mannour of Moreske the Mannour of Tintagell 44. This Deed being read in full Parliament the Prince the Lords Thomas Iohn and Humfrey made promise as aforesaid Livery and seizin was delivered to the said Iohn and Countess and the King promised to confirme the same 45. At the Petition of Ioane Queen of England the King granted that she the said Queen should enjoy during her life Lands and Tenements to the full summe of ten thousand marks by the year for and in the name of her Dower according as other Queens of England had done 46. At the like Petition of Sir Iohn Cornwall and Elizabeth Lancaster Countess of Huntington his wife the King granted that she the said Elizabeth should be a person able at the Common Law to sue and recover her Dower of all the Hereditaments late of Iohn de Holland Earl of Huntington her late husband as well against the King as against all other persons notwithstanding any Judgement against the said Earl and notwithstanding the said Countess be not thereof dowable 47. The like Petition answer and grant is made to Constance late the wife of Thomas le Despencer for the recovery of her Dower of the Lands of the said Thomas as is aforesaid 48. Upon the Petition of Edward Duke of York touching 1000 l. by the year granted by Richard the second to Edward the Father and to the heirs males in the 13 R. 2. the King granteth to Edward now Duke 4000 l. out of the Customs of Kingstone upon Hull and 289 l. 6 s. 8 d. out of the Customs of London as parcell of the said 1000 l. and to the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten 49. Iohn Earl of Somerset Captain of Callice and of the Marches thereof declaâ—eth that where by Indenture between the King and him he stood bound to keep the town and Castle aforesaid taking therefore for himself and his Souldiers in time of truce and peace 6301 l. 11 s. 8 d. and in the time of 10509 l. 6 s. 8 d. whereof he was behind unpayed 12423 l. 12 s. 4 d. he therefore for want of payment pâ—ayeth due payment from thenceforth the which the King granteth 50. Upon the Petition of Ioane late wife of Thomas Earl of Kent to have 1000 l. yearly during her life of the Hereditaments of the said Thomas the Kings by the assent of Edmond Earl of Kâ—nt Brother of the said Thomas granteth to the said Ioane during life certaine Mannours and Hereditaments there named to the value of 300. marks over and above her joynture for the which the said Ioane releaseth to the said Edmond all her Dower 51 The Wardens of the Goldsmiths of London by their Petitions shew how they ought to have the Survey and sight of the Cutters of London touching the working of Gold and Silver 52. The Wardens of the Cutlers of London maketh the like complaint 53. The King thereupon sendeth those Bills and two Writ to the Mayor of London willing him to examine the whole matter and to certifie the same 54. The Mayor upon due examination certifieth that the Cutlers ought to work Gold and Silver in their works but that the Goldsmiths ought to have the assay of Gold and Silver by Cutlers wrought 55. The King thereupon by assent of the Lords confirmeth to the said Goldsmiths their Charter granted 1 E. 3. with the clause of Licet and granteth to them other Liberties 56. Sir Bartholmew Verdon Knight Iames White Christopher White and Stephen Garnon Esquires being outlawed for sundry Robberies and Fellonies done in Ireland whereby all their Hereditaments were siezed into the Kings hands and granted away by the Lord Thomas the Kings son Lieutenant there the persons aforesaid having their pardons for their lives require to be restored to their bloud and to all their Hereditaments the King restoreth them to all their Hereditaments during their lives onely notwithstanding any grant to any person whatsoever 57. Upon the Petition of Iohn son and heir of Iohn de Burley Knight Cosen and heir to Simon de Burley Knight containing the effect expressed in 2 H. 4.
Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at COVENTRY the sixt day of October in the sixt year of the Raign of King HENRY the Fourth 1 ON Monday the 6. of October in the great Chamber within the Priorie of Coventrie therefore appointed and hanged the Bishop of Lincolnâ— the Kings brother Chancellor of England in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared the cause of that assemblie that first the holy Church all persons and all Corporations should enjoy their liberties 2 He then took for his Theam terraeâ— upon which he learnedly discoursed how for the safetie of the Realm as well within as without and namely for the repressing of the Welch rebels for resisting Enemies of France and Brittain who daily reenforced themselves for the Invasion of the Realm and subversion of the estate for the observing of Peace and ministration of Justice the King had called the wise of the Realm by them to be counselled 3 He further sheweth how by the last Parliament was no sufficient remedie provided for the quailing of the Welch neither competent relief granted for the performance of so great exploits and â—or that the French had determined war with England and had then invaded the Dominion of Guienne they should not so much marvell at the sudden calling of this Parliament as they ought most speedily to determine for the avoiding of those so great mischiefs and imminent perils wherefore he willeth the Commons to chose and the next day to present to the King their Speaker 4 Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland 5 Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles 6 Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above 7 Tryars of Petitions for Gascoin c. as above 8 On Tuesday the 7. of October the Commons presented unto the King Sir William Sturmey to be their Speaker who made the Common Protestation thereupon the Chancellor willed the Commons chiefly to consider how the King might best be relieved 9 On the 8 th day of November the Commons by the assent of the Lords granted unto the King two Desmes and two Fifteens the subsidy of Woolls Wooll-fels and Skins viz. of denizens for every sack of Wooll 43 s. 4 d. of every 240. Wooll-fels 43 s. 4 d. and for every last of Skins 5 l. of aliens 10 s. more in every parricular for two years and 3 s. of every Tun of Wine passing and repassing the Realm and 12 d. on every pound of Merchandize on condition the same should not be imployed but only to the maintenance of Wars and defence of the Realm according to the order there taken by the oversight of the Lord Furnivall and Sir Iohn Pelham Knights Treasurers appointed for the Wars 10 The same day the Lord Furnivall and Sir Iohn were sworn before the King and Lords in Parliament to execute their Offices according to the grant 11 Where sundrie Bishops Lords and others appointed to lend unto the King certain sums of money towards the rescuing of the Lord of Coytife who was besieged in his Castel by the rebels in Wales the King appointed by Parliament that such persons as so should lend should be repayed of the first payments of the subsidy then granted 12 On Saturday the 26. of October the Commons came before the King and Lords in full Parliament where they in recommending the Lords Iohn and Humphery the Kings Sons prayen the King to advance them to honourable Estates and Livings they also pray the King to remember the Duke of Yorks service in Guienne and elsewhere so as he might therefore be payed his due Fees behind They make the like request for the Earl of Somerset and Sir Thomas Beauford his brother They finally beseech the King to render to Richard Duke of Yorks brother certain Jewels to the valew of 4000 l. which were in the hands of King Richard the second 13 They make like request as is above for the rescue of the Lord Coytife besieged by the Welch in the Castle of Coytife Certain Petitions of the Commons FIrst that all such hereditaments liberties and Customes as were to the Crown in 40. E. 3. and since by any means granted to be resumed into the Kings hands for ever provided that all Towns shall enjoy their liberties except also the Lands of such as were forejudged in the 11 th Richard second and sold away 15 That all Tuns and Pipes of Wine granted to any person by the King or any his Progenitors be also resumed 16 That the Queen may be endowed of all such hereditaments as Anne the late Queen was in whose hands soever the same be and by what grant soever 17 That all grants of Edward third or any his Progenitors and before the said 40 th year may be confirmed by Parliament 18 That all Farmers to the King by any like grants may enjoy the same their Farms giving as much therefore as others will 19 That no man hereby be restrained of any warrant granted to build any Castle or Caslet or to inclose any Park 20 The King maketh answer that he will execute their requests so far forth as by the Law and his Prerogative he may do and for that the Lands of the Crown in An. 40 E. 3. were not certainly known he would appoint certain Commissioners to enquire and execute the same 21 It is enacted that for one whole year the King shall take the profits of all Annuities Fees or wages granted by King R. 2. or the King now except certain of the Chief Officers there named Justices Barons of the Exchecquer and other Officers of any his Courts whatsoever 22 And also that the King for the like term shall enjoy the like profits of all hereditaments granted as is above except such as are granted to the Queen or any of the Kings Sons and of such as have their grants by Parliament 23 That Proclamation be made that all such as have any Patents granted since 40. E. 3. of any Annuall valew for life or years do on pain of forfeiting the same bring them in by a day there prescribed to the end that such as deserve the same may have continuance and the rest revoked 24 Upon the Petition of Henrei Prince of Wales it was enacted by the Lords that the said Prince should have due payment made of 1000. Marks granted to him for the keeping of certain men at Arms for the defence of Wales 25 Where the King granted to Henry the Son of Iohn Earl of Somerset and to the heirs males of his body begotten 1000. Marks out of the Exchecquer now at the Petition of
all waggons and carts coming to Callice for buying of Staple ware may be free from certain new exactions there named It shall be as it was in the time of King E. 3. 53 That the Kings debts upon Tallies may be payed The King meaneth the same so soon as the same may be 54 That the shipping of woolls may be at Ipswich and not at Yarmouth from henceforth The same shipping with the Tunage of woolls shall be at both places untill the next Parliament 55 That the Statute made in the time of King Rich. 2. touching villaines and bond tenants may be moderated The Statute shall be observed 56 At the request of the Commons the King pardoneth 6 s. 8 d. of every sack of wooll and the like of other Staple commodities of the grant made 4. H. 4. by reason that so much was mis-entred in the roll 57 The print touching provision from Rome Cap. 1. swerveth from the Record 58 The print touching express mention of Letters Patents Cap. 2. agreeth with the Record 59 The print touching the Account of the Kings Officers Cap. 3. somewhat swerveth from the Record 60 A motion that a Statute made in the last Parliament as touching the foot of Fines might be revoked The King with his Councell by authoritie of Parliament have power to determine the same petition 61 There are annexed two Petitions in two schedules of Roger Deyncourt against Ralph Alderbury for the Mannour of Ansley in the Countie of Warw. requiring to reverse a Fine and Judgment in the Kings Bench for certain falshoods therein 62 That all Feoffments holden by Knights service and done by Collusion expressed in the Statute of Marlebourgh may upon the proof of the same be utterly void The King will appoint certain Lords and Justices to take order therein After these being read the Chancellor on the Kings behalf gave thanks to the Lords and Commons and so ended the Parliament Anno Septimo Henrici Quarti Rex c. Henrico filio suo Principi Walliae c. apud Coventrie decimo quinto die Februarii c. Teste Rege apud Westmonast vicesimo primo die Decembris EDwardo Duci Eboram Johanni Com. Somerset Edwardo Com. Cant. Edwardo Courtney Com. Devon Thom. Com. Arundel Michaeli de la Pool Com. Suff. Rado Nevil Com. Westmerland Ricardo Com. War Barth Bourchier Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Willielmo de Clinton Mr. Tho de la War Stephano le Scroope de Masham Willielmo Roos de Hamalake Hen. Fitz-hugh Willielmo de Ferrariis de Groby Tho. Morley Hugo Burnel Tho. Berckley de Berckley Johanni de Wells Rado de Cromwel Rado Baroni de Greystock Roberto de Harrinton Johanni Darcy Willielmo de Willoughby Johanni Cobham Chlr. Tho. Nevil de Halmeshire Willielmo Beauchamp de Burgavenney Johanni Lovel de Fishmerch Hen. Cuart Ricardo Gray de Codonore Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Petro de malo lacu Willielmo Zouch de Harringworth Ricardo Seymore Tho. Camois Johanni Tutchet Hen. de Bello monte Johanni de Latimer Ricardo le Strange Roberto Poinings Gilberto Talbott Thomae Erpingham Custodi Quinque Portuâ—m Anno Septimo Henrici Quarti Rex c. Henrico Principi Walliae c. apud Gloucestriae c. decimo quinto die Februarii c. Teste Rege apud Westm. c. ut supra excepto quod Gilbertus Talbot locatur in loco Stephani le Scroop qui quidem Stephanus omittendus est PRorogatio Parliamenti de Gloucest decimo quinto die Februarii usque in diem Lunae in Prima Septimana Quadragessimae apud Westm. tenend ut supra c. Anno Octavo Henrici Quarti The Parliament holden at Westminster the first day of March in the Eighth Year of King Henry the Fourth and ended 2â— December in the same year ON Monday the first of March in the Chamber de Pinct within the Kings Palace of Westminster Thomas de Langley Clerk Chancellor of England before the King Lords and Commons declared that the King had called the Parliament to the end that the holy Churchâ— all persons and Corporations should enjoy their Liberties in consideration of their due observance to him shewed He therefore proceedeth and taketh for his Theam these words Multorum consilia requiruntur in magnis and saith that in the weighty affairs touching the good government of the Realm and surety of the Subjects which were annoyed by the rebellion of the Welchmen and likelier to be by the French and Scots who ceased not to invade the Marches of Guienne and Callice besides the turmoile with the Irish he had called the same Parliament as meaning to follow the counsel of the wise saying Fili nil sine consilio facias tunc post factum non poenitebit wherein he meant also to begin with the example of Ahâ—shuerus qui interrogavit sapientes illorum cauta faciâ—bat consilia In which consultation he declareth to the King Lords and Commons that if they should observe the Laws of God they might then assure themselves to find peace at home and victory abroad Receivers of Petitions for England Scotland Wales and Ireland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Tuesday the second of March the Commons came before the King and presented for their Speaker Sir Iohn Tibetott who made his excuse as well for his youth as otherwise but the King affirmed the election The Commons by assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King one Desme and one Fifteen to be levied of the Layety and otherwise for one year they granted to the King as in the last Parliament On Wednesday the third of March upon the declaration of the Chancellor touching the Treaty of peace with the men of Princaves and of other parts beyond the Seas it was accorded that Proclamation should be made through the Realm that all such Englishmen as had attempted any thing against them should surcease the same On Tuesday the 23. of March the Commons came before the King where Sir Iohn Tibetott their Speaker made the common protestation and required the confirmation of their Liberties and Priviledges and that they might at any time send for any their Bills to the Lords for amendment of the same c. which was granted The same day the said Speaker before the King made sundry remembrances namely for good governance for confirmation of all Liberties for keeping of the Sea and for good provision for Guienne which was in the way of losing The third of April the same Speaker before the King required that this protestation before made might be
house Chamber and Wardrobe That all revenues and profits of the Crown and Realm may be imployed to the charges next aforesaid That no person on a pain do receive or take by way of gift any the profits aforesaid That two certain days in the week may be appointed for all Suitors to exhibit their Petitions to the King and that some may be appointed to receive and give answer to the same That no man do prefer any Bill or suit to the King on any other days That none of the Council hold plea of any matter determinable at the Common Law That all Statutes touching Buyers and Purveyors may be executed That no one of the Kings Council shall give comfort to any suitor before determination had in full Council That no matters of Council be dispatched but by full assent unless the same require great haste in which cases word shall be sent to such Councellors as be absent to the end their advice may be known The 15 16 17 18 19 and 20 Articles contain That none of the Kings higher Officers or other under-Officers or Clerks of any of his Courts or of his houshold shall take none other then their accustomed Fees nor that they do appoint any Minister under them to do the same That the Queen do pay for the journey to the Kings house as Queen Philip late did That none of the Officers of the Marshalsies of the Kings house or Clerk of the Market do hold any plea other then they did in the time of E. 1. That all the Sheriffs before the election of Knights of the Shire shall by open Proclamation in their Counties appoint fifteen dayes respite the day and place That all the Kings great Officers of every Court and of his House shall maintain the Common Laws That all Aliens being no Denizens do make Fines by a day with the King That the Steward and Treasurer of the Kings house have full power to discharge the Serjeants and other Officers of the Kings house for their misdemeanors That the said Officers and Chamberlain of the Kings house may execute the said offices according to the Statutes of the Kings house That no Officer Judicial or other Minister within the Kings house or in any his Courts have none of the said Offices but at will That every of the chief Officers of the Kings house and Courts shall make yearly due enquiries of all misdemeanors and misprisions done under them and thereof make report to the Kings Council That the Array of the special Assise challenged be tryed at large as in general Assises and that the Sheriff do take nothing for making any Pannel between party and party That all the Articles aforesaid shall only continue unto the end of the next Parliament The King for Six hundred pounds and other considerations granteth to Ralph de Cuer and Peter de la Hay the keeping of the Temporalties of the Bishoprick of Durham to the use of Thomas Langley Clerk Bishop elect by provision from Rome which was before granted to Iohn of Lancaster one of the Kings sons Where the Dean and Chapter of Pauls by the grant of E. 3. was to pay yearly to the King One thousand pounds for the Custody of the Temporalties of the Bishoprick of London for so long as the vacation thereof should endure the King granteth the same to Henry Bishop of Winchester and others to the use of Nicholas Bulbewich Clerk Bishop elect there by the Kings gift Edward Duke of York had the Kings gift of the Lands in Glamorgan in Wales which Constance le Despencer held paying yearly Three hundred pounds the which Rent the said Duke purchased of the King The Wardship of the body and custody of the lands of the Heir of the Lord Fitzwalter was granted to the Earl of Somerset Sundry Letters-patents were made between Philip Dutchess of Ireland and Richard Earl of Oxford touching certain Mannors and other Hereditaments The Castle of Keventhliz and all the Mannors Regalities and Appurtenances of Wertheromon Kandre Cotrich Melbeneth Pilluth Knigthon and Knocklaire in the Marches of Wales are granted to Richard Lord Gray during the minority of Edmond the son and heir of Roger late Earl of March and also the Wardship of the body and lands of the son and heir of Iohn Brightley of Devon was granted to the said Lord. Roger Deynecourt hath Forty marks yearly during his life by the cancelling of the Letters-patents of Richard Stanhop knight by the hands of the Sheriff of Nottingham David Holbath is made a Denizen by the Kings Letters-patents and assent of Parliament Richard Gabriel Clerk hath during his life certain lands in Iopplepenne in the Town of Caleshowethy in Devon to the value of Forty six shillings eight pence Alexander de Knight hath the Wardship of the body and lands of Iohn Daniel the brother and heir of Thomas Daniel of South-hampton holden of the Earl Marshal by Knights service being in the Kings hands by the Insurrection of the said Earl The King pardoneth to Agnes the which was the wife of Thomas Raliegh seventeen pound two shillings five pence for certain arrearages due for the lands of the heir of the said Thomas late in ward The King pardoneth to Sir Iohn Tibetot Knight in fee all the lands and hereditaments of Richard ap Griffith ap Voethus in the Counties of Carmarthen and Cardigan and elsewhere in the Principalities of Southwales for that he was adherent to Owen Glendor Rebel and Traitor and also the Office and keeping the Forrest of Wabridg and Sapeley in the County of Huntington without any thing yielding therefore and further the King gave to him the goods and chattels of Peter Friswick Carpenter a Felon amounting to one hundred and fifty pounds Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The print touching Liberties c. cap. 1. agreeth with the Record That no Tithes be payed for any slates or stones digged out of any quarries Tithes of the same shall be payed where it hath been used to be payed and not elsewhere At the request of the Commons the King granteth that the Statute made in his first year for the discharge of Sheriffs should be kept and for that the same sufficeth not for their discharges the King granteth that Lords of the Councel should have power by the next Parliament to take order therein That payment may be made for Victuals taken by the Kings Purveyors from the time of his Coronation The King is willing to do the same and that all the Statutes of Purveyors be observed The print touching costs cap. 3. agreeth with the Record The print touching Protections for Gaolers cap. 4. agreeth with the Record A long motion for the decent apparreling of every particular estate
Ignorance not unto the Commons Anno Nono Henrici Quarti Rex c. Henrico filio suo Principi Walliae Duci Cornubiae c. salutem apud Gloucest â—o die Octobris Teste Rege 26 die Augusti EDwardo Duci Eborum Johanni Com. Somerset Edwardo Com. Cant. Edwardo de Courtney Com. Devon Thom. Com. Arundel Michaeli de la Pool Com. Suff. Rado Nevil Com. Westmerland Ricardo Com. War Richardo Com. Oxoniae Barth Bourchier Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Willielmo de Clinton Mr. Tho de la War Stephano le Scroope de Masham Willielmo Roos de Hamalake Hen. Fitz-hugh Willielmo de Ferrariis de Groby Tho. Morley Hugo Burnel Tho. Berckley de Berckley Johanni de Wells Rado de Cromwel Rado Baroni de Greystock Roberto de Harrington Johanni Darcy Willielmo de Willoughby Johanni Cobham Chlr. Tho. Nevil de Halmeshire Willielmo Beauchamp de Burgavenney Johanni Lovel de Fishmerch Ricardo Gray de Codonore Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Petro de malo lacu Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Ricardo Seymore Tho. Camois Johanni Tutchet Hen. de Bello monte Johanni de Latimer Ricardo le Strange Roberto Poinings Gilberto Talbott Thomae Erpingham Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Nono Henrici Quarti The Parliament holden at Gloucester the 20. of October iâ— the Ninth year of King Henry the Fourth ON Thursday the 20. of October for that sundry of the Commons house upon calling made default the Parliament was continued until the Monday ensuing On Monday the 24. of October the Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England by the Kings commandment in the presence of him the Lords and Commons declared the cause of the same Assembly and for his Theme took these words Regem honorificate And thereby for three causes approved that the King ought to be honored First for that the King by maintaining the liberty of the Church honored God and therefore ought to be honored Secondly He ought to be honored for his great care towards his Subjects as well in the observation of all Laws as for the defence against the Forein Enemies Thirdly for that since the time of his Coronation he shewed favor and pardon to any offendor that craved the same He further sheweth how in necessity every member of mans body would seek comfort of the head as the chief and by application turned the same to the honoring of the King as the head He further willeth them the same afternoon to choose their Speaker and to present him the next day to the King and further to consider the Rebellion of the Welsh-men the safe keeping of the Sea the defence of Guienne Calice and Ireland and the Marches of the North and how by their aid the same might be defended Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoin c. as above On Tuesday the 25. of October the Commons presented their Speaker Thomas Chawcer who after excuse of himself made and affirmation of him he made the common Protestation which was granted On Wednesday the 9. of November the Comons came before the King where the said Speaker repeated his former Protestation and began to rehearse the grant of the Subsidies and the oaths of the Lords for the disposition of the same Whereunto the Chancellor answered that no Accompts were made to the Commons for the disposition aforesaid and that the Lords having little thanks thereof would by no means take the like oath again whereof the King on his request held them excused After which the said Speaker made great complaint against Purveyors Whereto the Steward and Treasurer of the Kings house answered that upon special grant the same shall be remedied This done the said Speaker presented a Bill on the behalf of Sir Thomas Brook against William Widecombe upon the reading of which the same Speaker required Judgment against the same William whereof advice was taken and the said William bound in 1000 l. to hear his Judgment in the Chancery On Monday the 14. day of November upon the coming of the Commons before the King and Lords the Speaker shewed the great discommodity for not keeping the sea and for that such as had lands in the Marches of Wales dwelled not thereon and prayed due consideration thereof the which was promised At the request of the same Speaker certain Lords by name were appointed to confer with the Commons Touching the request of the Merchants made in the last Parliament tit 142. the King granteth that Richard Oliderow late Admiral for the South and West be allowed 2668 l. to him due and that he be discharged of all Accompts At the request of the Commons the King granteâ—h to Thomas Sye and Iohn Camby the Priory of Hinkley being two Aliens during the wars for the yearly Rent of 41 l. A long Circumstance is made for words and displeasure taken between the Lords and Commons touching the grant of a Subsidy the 21. day of November For the appeasing whereof on Friday the last day of this Parliament this Order was taken viz. That in all Parliaments in the absence of the King it should be lawful as well to the Lords by themselves as to the Commons by themselves to debate of all matters touching the Realm and of the remedies and not to disclose the same to the King before a determination thereof made and that by the mouth of the Speaker The which Order was made for that part of the aforesaid displeasure arose by the means that in the question of the Subsidy the Lords made the King sundry times privy thereto and brought answer therein from the King upon which the Commons answered that the same was agaiâ—st their liberties On the same last day of the Parliament the Speaker required that the Commons might depart with as great liberty as they had done heretofore and that sufficient means might be found for the keeping of the seas and resistance of the Welsh men The Speaker also in the behalf of the Commons prayed the King to give thanks to the Prince for his great travels in Wales for the which as well the King as the Prince gave thanks to the Commons after which the Prince kneeling before the King purgeth the Duke of York of certain disloyal reports agaâ—nst him uttered by affirming him in open Parliament to be a true and loyal Knight The same Speaker moved the King to advance his Sons the Lords Thomas Iohn and Humfrey to some honourable names and livings and to charge the Lords Marchers of Wales to keep their Castles and other Fortresses The Lords and Commons granted to the King one Desme and half and the like Subsidie for Staple and other Merchandize for two years
as in the last Parliament In consideration of the Subsidies aforesaid the King promiseth that for two years then ensuing he will require no other Subsidies or other charge of his Subjects and for more assurance thereof willeth the same to be enacted so as every man that would might have a copie thereof The King willeth that all men be payed their Annuities according to their deserts notwithstanding the Statute made in the last Parliament Tit. 140. Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The Print touching the Church cap. 1. agreeth with the Record At the Petitions of the Citizens of London the King granteth that they shall enjoy all their Liberties notwithstanding the Act made in the last Parliament Tit. 127. by which it is to be noted that the Act made as aâ—oresaid is revoked That the Kings Letters Patents made to the University of Oxford that they should not for any Felony answer before any other Judge then before their Steward c. may be revoked considering that the same is in derogation of the Kings regality and breach of the Liberties granted to the Citizens of Oxford Vide 11 H. 4. tit 50. The Kings Councel by advice of the Judges have power to examine and to take order herein untill the next Parliament during which time the said new Liberties granted shall be suspended That all Sheriffs upon their Oaths may be allowed in the Exchequer The Kings Councel upon every particular declaration power to take order therein That in actions personal the Defendant may be received to wage his Law and that the Plaintiff be not non-suited therein The King thereof will be advised That all Kendall Cloaths and others whereof the dozen passeth not thirteen shillings four pence may be sold without the Alneagers Seal The King will be advised The print touching Kendal Cloathes cap. 2. agreeth with the Record That whereupon the suggestion of Merchant strangers sundry Commissions were directed whereby many Marriners were unduly punished the like be not from henceforth granted nor the Marriners put to answer other then at the Common Law The King will thereof be advised That none do sue to the Court of Rome for any Benefice but only â—n the Kings Court. The King thereof will be advised only the Councel shall have power between this and the next Parliament to take order therein The print touching Felonies in South-Wales cap. 3. agreeth with the Record It is enacted that every Felon in VVales flying to any other Lordship be from thenceforth delivered to the place where he committed the Felonie there to be tryed The Commons of Herefordshire pray remedy against the evill Customes of the Officers of the Forrests of Ewayston namely for taking their Cattel coming thereto as a forfeit The old good Laws and Customes shall be observed and the contrary forbidden by a Writ under the privie Seal They require that upon pursuit of Welsh theeves they may by the Welchmen be aided therein the which the King charged the Lords Marchers to cause their Tenants to do The print touching the disclaiming of Welsh Theeves cap. 4. agreeeth with the Record in effect but not in form Touching the Statutes of provisions from Rome expressed in the print cap. 8. there is no such mention made in the Record onely it is enacted that the Popes Collectors should not from thenceforth levie any money within the Realm for first-fruits of any Ecclesiastical dignities as due by any provision from Rome on pain to incur the penalty of the Statute of Provisors which the print hath not and is therefore well to be noted Vide postea tit 56. The Burgesses of the Town of Melcomb in Dorset considering their great spoils required for certain years to be discharged of their Fee-farms of eight Marks and of all Desmes and Fifteens the which request the King committeth to be enquired of and returned into the Chancery and there to have Order taken therein Vide 2 H. 4. tit 53. Upon the petition of the Commons of Chester it is enacted that the Prince of Wales Earl of the same shall enjoy all the Liberties and namely touching adjournments in Pleas that in certain Pleas there expressed such adjournments might be made without giving any day or entring the same in the Record That upon the seizure of the lands of all such Welchmen as be or shall be attainted and grant of those lands by the King the services therefore due to other Lords may be thereupon reserved The King thereof will be advised That the King will license all manner of persons to passe over the Seas and to purchase the Prior Aliens any of their possessions paying to the King reasonable Fines for the confirmation of the same The King will thereof be advised The print touching the taking of Assizes cap. 5. agreeth with the Record The Burgesses of the Town of Lyme in Dorset pray that in consideration of their great destructions they might enjoy the same Town forty years for the yearly Feefarm of Five pounds and for Thirteen shillings four pence for every grant of Desms and Fifteens according to an Extent thereof returned in the Chancery Vide 2 H. 4. tit 55. There is granted to the Kings Council full auâ—hority to examine this Petition and the return aforesaid and to take order therein The print touching Clothes cap. 6. agreeth with the Record The Burgesses of Shrewsbury shew many causes of their impoverishment and require therefore to be discharged of Desms The King will be thereof advised The Burgesses of Denelchester in the County of Somerset pray to be discharged of their Fee-farms of Thirty pounds and only to pay Eight pounds therefore or else to have restored to them parcel of the same Town and the Hundred of Staine which was granted away by king Iohn The Council upon examination of this and of the Commission granted in the time of R. 2. shall take order therein The print touching the levying of Desms and Fifteens cap. 17. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The inhabitants of the Town of Stock and other Towns in the Isle of Harling in the County of Southampton pray that the Kings Letters-Patents to them granted may be confirmed viz. That all the Inhabitants of the Isle aforesaid should every Fifteen pay only 6 l. 15 s. 7 d. q. and so ever or under according to the rate The which the King confirmeth The Burgesses of Great Yarmouth pray that to every grant of a Desme they may pay Forty pounds for Twenty years albeit they did always pay before One hundred pounds The King will thereof be advised The print touching provisions from Rome cap. 8. agreeth with the Record Anno Vndecimo Henrici Quarti Rex c.
Henrico filio suo Principi Walliae c. de Bristol Quindena Hillarii tenend apud West-monasterium 18 die Decembris ut ante excepto quod Barthol Bourchier omittendus est in loco suo Johannes Talbot Dom. Furnivall ponendus est similiter Willielmo de Willoughby omittendus est EDwardo Duci Eborum Johanni Com. Somerset Edwardo de Courtney Com. Devon Thom. Com. Arundel Michaeli de la Pool Com. Suff. Rado Nevil Com. Westmerland Ricardo Com. War Richardo Com. Oxoniae Johanni Talbot de Furnivall Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Willielmo de Clinton Mr. Tho de la War Johauni de Oldcastle Chlr. Henrico le Scroope de Masham Willielmo Roos de Hamalake Hen. Fitz-hugh Willielmo de Ferrariis de Groby Tho Morley Hugo Burnel Thoâ— Berckley de Berckley Johanni de Wells Rado de Cromwel Rado Baroni de Greystock Roberto de Harrington Johanni Darcy Tho. Nevil de Halmeshire Willielmo Beauchamp de Burgavenney Johanni Lovel de Fishmerch Ricardo Gray de Codonore Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Petro de malo lacu Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Tho. Camois Hen. de Bello monte Johanni de Latimer Ricardo le Strange Roberto Poinings Gilberto Talbott Henrico Principi Walliae Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Vndecimo Henrici Quarti The Parliament holden at Westminster the Quindene of Hillary in the eleventh year of King Henry the fourth ON Monday the twenty seventh of Ianuary being in the Quindene of Hillary for that there was then no Chancellor the Bishop of VVinchester the Kings Brother in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared the cause of the said Parliament and namely that the King would that Holy Church all persons and Corporations should enjoy all their Liberties He then took his Proposition Decet nos implere omnem justitiam and shewed that the Parliament was summoned for two causes the first for the inward government as for the due observation of Laws the second for outward governance and defence against the forreign enemy wherein he touched how the Duke of Burgundy who then was Governour of France meant by all force to besiege Callis and to enjoy the Realm And among other things he touched two kinds of government namely jus regiminis jus subjectionis allowing jus regiminis to be better according to the answer of Aristotle to King Alexander who being demanded in what wise the same Alexander might most strongly fortifie the walls of a new Propugnacle or Frontier Town answered that the most assured walls were the hearty good will of his Subjects and obeisance to Laws He then sheweth that all true Subjects ow to their Soveraigns three chief points viz. honour and obedience reverence and benevolence and hearty assistance And for that the present necessity required ready assistance and speedy dispatch the King had called this Assembly for a full consultation the which he wished might redound to the glory of God honour of the King and safety of the whole Realm to which end he willed the Commons to go to the election of their Speaker and to present him to the King the next day Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoin c. as above On Wednesday the twenty eighth of Ianuary the Commons coming before the King presented to be their Speaker Thomas Chaucer after whose excuse therein made he was willed by the King to take the same upon him After which he made the Common Protestation the which the King by his own mouth granted adjoyning thereunto that sith as well the Lords as the Commons were come to unity be doubted not that they the said Commons would speak any unfitting words or attempt any thing to the contrary On Wednesday the seventh day of February at the request of the Commons the Assizes were prorogued by the King during the Parliament On Saturday the tenth of February the Commons came before the King and Lords and requested couching Lollardâ— which they had before delivered so as nothing was therein acted whereto the King of his good will for that time granted so as the same should remain as no example On Saturday the fifteenth of March being Palm Sunday week at the request of the Commons the Parliament was adjourned untill the Quindene of Easter then folowing being the seventh day of April at which Quindene the Parliament re-assembled Certain requests of the Commons with their Answers The King granted that certain of the most learned Bishops worthy Lords and others shall be assigned to be of his Councel and that they and all the Justices shall be sworn to give good Councel and upright Judgment They granted that such as propounded lately untrue Indictments in the Kings Bench shall be duely punished if they may be known The King promiseth convenient payment for Victuals taken by Purveyors That the King will grant Commissions of Oyer and Terminer to punish Riots in Northumberland Westmerland Yorkshire Stafford Derby and Nottingham The Statutes therefore made and not repealed shall be kept Such as have Castles and Towns over the Marches of Scotland shall furnish them with all necessaries and keep there in proper person All such Statutes touching Wales shall be observed and all such persons as have Castles and Towns or Lands in Wales have promised for one year to furnish the same and to keep thereon in person The King will provide for the safe keeping of the Seas and will take Truce with the enemie as to him shall seem best The Revenues of the Kings Dominions beyond the Seas shall for three years be imployed upon the Souldiers there and no such Officer there as is immediatly accomptable to the King shall have the same by Patent during life The King granteth that no hereditaments or other profits of the Crown except Offices and Bailiwicks shall be granted to any person and if they be to be voided except certain recompence be made to the Queen to the Kings sons to the Duke of York and to the Lord Grey The Statutes made touching the Courts of the Cnnstable Marshal and Admiral of England shall be observed The King granteth that no Customer Comptroller or Searcher do keep any Oastery for any Merchant on grievous pains Fine and Imprisonment The print agreeth herewith in which it is to be noted that in the 14 year of King R. 2. tâ—e Subsidy and Custom of Wools came to One hundred and sixty thousand pounds over and above Poundage Tonnage Alnage Pellage c. All men shall pay Custom of Remnants of Cloth of what making or fineness soâ—ver according to the rate of whole Cloth on pain there limited The print cap 7. agreeth
with the Record The print touching Exchange of money cap. 8. agreeth with the Record None of the Kings chief Officers there named or Judges shall take any Bribe or reward on pain to answer treble to the King To which in the margent it is written Respectuatur per Dominum Principem Consilium That all such persons as shall be arrested by force of the Statute made against Lollardy in 2 H. 4. may be bailed and freely make their purgation That they be arrested by no others then by the Sheriffs or such like Officers neither that any havock be made of their goods The King will thereof be advised The King granteth that such Subsidies as shall be in this Parliament granted shall be imployed according to the Grant and not otherwise The King granteth that all strangers who are to come into the Realm except Merchants shall protest to live and die in the Kings quarrel shall serve in the wars if they be able shall not be lodged but in English-mens houses neither that any of them shall be Brokers and no Broker shall be a Merchant to his own use It is enacted that three parts of the Subsidy of Woolls shall be imployed upon the defence of Calice the Castle there the new Tower on Rochbank and of the Marches of Calice and to the paiments of certain debts there A wise division in what wise the said parties should be imployed The print touching Indictments cap. 9. agreeth with the Record only there wanteth in the print duly to go before returned note well Which Sir Iohn Trebiel knight imprisoned in the Tower for taking a French ship in the time of truce and brought to his answer at the first began to justifie the same in the end he confessed his fault and craved pardon upon which the King at the request of the Lords and Commons granted unto him pardon so always as he should satisfie the losses to the parties Iohn Bartram of Northumberland sheweth how Robert de Ogle knight gave to him in tail general the Castle and Mannor of Bothel with the appurtenances in the same County and how the Terre tenant was seâ—sed of the same until Robert de Ogle knight son of the said Robert with two hundred men dispossessed and kept him therefrom whereunto he prayeth restitution At whose request it was enacted that a Writ should go down to the Sheriffs of Northumberland to take all the promisses with all the goods therein and the same safely to keep with Proclamation at the gates of the same Castle to will all therein to depart and also to charge the said Robert at a certain day to answer in person at Westminster as well to the King as to the said Iohn Sundry long Complaints of Riots and misdemeanors done by Hugh Erdiswick Thomas de Swinnerton Thomas Stanley William Egerton Iohn Kingley William Venables Iohn Mayners William Mayners Thomas Mayners VValter Gilbert Henry Gilbert Iohn Gilbert Hugh del Hollins Iohn del Hollins Iohn Delves and Hugh Damport in the County of Stafford Whereupon order was taken that a Writ should be awarded to the Sheriffs of Stafford to apprehend them returnable at a day certain in the Kings Bench upon which if they appear not then to take their bodies to seise their lands and goods to answer the same before the Justices of the Kings Bench to whom authority was given to end the same On Wednesday the second of May upon the earnest request of the Commons such Lords as were appointed to be of the Kings Council were declared all who with the Justices were sworne to do justice only the Prince being one of them for his worthiness was not sworne At the request of Sir VValter Hungerford who was found faulty for certain Wastes done in the Priory of Farley whereof he had the custody who meaning to traverse the Office required that the Sheriffs should return none upon the same unless he might dispend Twenty pounds yearly the same was granted Iane Queen of England requireth that her Dower made by the Kings Letters-Patents may be confirmed by Parliament and that recompence may be to her made if any part thereof were recovered from her or seised into the Kings hands The which was granted Richard de Hastings sheweth how Ralph de Hastings his brother who was attainted and beheaded for certain Treasons in the sixth year of the King dyed without issue and prayeth to be restored as well to his blood as to all such lands as the said Ralph had at the day of his death without any further suit The which by whole assent of Parliament was granted VVilliam Doyley and Isabel his wife as in the right of the said Isabel Cousin and Heir of Christian Cheney c. maketh title to the Manor of Hinton next Berkley in Northampton and to the Advowson of the same and sheweth how they were by sundry wrongful means kept from the same and sheweth how they were by sundry wrongful means kept from the same by the Lord Lovell Whereupon the King named seven Knights and eight Esquires and so it was enacted that the Sheriffs of Northampton return twelve of them in an Assise between the said parties wherein the Lord Lovell should use no delay On Wednesday the ninth day of May and the last day of the Parliament the Speaker required the certain knowledge of the Councellors names upon which two were changed After which the Speaker recommended to the King the persons of the Queen the Prince the Lords Thomas Iohn and Humfrey the Kings sons and prayeth their advancement for the which the King thanketh them and promiseth satisfaction with opportunity The Commons with the assent of the Bishops and Lords grant to the King the like Subsidy as in An. 9 H. 4. tit 26. so as express mention were made of the same Provided of their own good wills whereof they gave Twenty thousand marks to the King to dispose of at his will Petitions of the Commons with their Answers Sundry Counties by particular Petitions require that their Sheriffs may be discharged of their Accompts in the Exchequer upon their oaths according to a Statute made in the first year of king Edw. 3. To all which was answered as followeth Let every such Sheriffs as are grieved yearly shew the same upon their Accompts unto the Council and they shall have power to moderate the same That all heirs holding of the King by Knights service may at their full age by a Writ de aetate probanda out of the Chancery traverse their ages notwithstanding any Inquest of Office and that they may have Livery of their lands accordingly It shall be as heretofore At the request of the Commons it was granted that the Mayor Sheriffs and Commonalty of Norwich shall for certain years have survey of measuring all manner of Worsted made
as well within Norwich as in Norfolk wheresoever and that none be sold without their seal for the which they shall take a halfpenny and that such as keep not measure shall be forfeited the one half to the King the other half to them In which Grant you may see all terms makings and quantities of all manner of Worsteds That certain Letters-Patents made whereby certain men exacted of every Cloth made and above the Alnage certain money called The measuring money may be revoked The Statute therefore made in 27 E. 3. shall be observed Upon the like motion as An. 9 H. 4. tit 51. the King granteth that the Council shall call before them the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and shall have power to confirm or revoke any their liberties which are unlawful At the request of the Burgesses of Truro in Cornwal the King granteth that during ten years in all grants of Desms and Fifteens they shall only pay Fifty shillings where before they paid Twelve pounds and twenty two pence Certain Counties of the North require that the Admiral may appoint a Deputy for the North. Sufficient remedy shall be provided therein Upon the return of the Commission on the behalf of the Burgesses of Melcombe in Dorset expressed in 9 H. 4. tit 44. the King granteth that for ten years they shall pay only Twenty shillings for Feefarm as Six shillings eight pence for their Desmes where before they paid Nine pounds nine shillings That the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer in Traverse of Inquests of Office may grant of the same Nisi prius returnable in any of the Benches or County The Statutes therefore made shall be observed The Burgesses of Lyâ—e in Dorset have granted to them according as is contained in 9 H. 4 tit 49. where before their Fee-farm was Thirty two marks and where they also paid to every Desme Eight pounds ten shillings That the Town of Hatch otherwise called VVest-Hatch in Somerset may be discharged of Thirty one shillings two pence exacted of them for a Desme by a mistaking of the same In regard that the Exchequer hath a Record touching the same the Barons of the same shall have power to end the same At the Petitions of the Citizens of Winchester the King granteth that within the same City they may purchase Lands and Tenements to the cleer yearly value of Forty marks Certain Counties pray that certain Wears and Stanks fixed in the River of Avon from a time may be laid open upon a pain The Statutes therefore provided shall be observed The print touching the election of the Knights of the Shire cap. 1. in full effect agreeth with the Record The print touching Common Hosteries cap. 1. in full effect agreeth with the Record A long complaint against the usurpation and exactions of the Admiral and his Court and request to have the same amended The Statutes therefore made shall be observed The print that the Justices of Assise should deliver all their Records into the Treasury cap. 3. agreeth with the Record It is enacted that the Justices of both Benches should appoint a certain number of Attornies for every County more then whom none should practise on the pain following and that the same Attornies should be every Term sworne to deal faithfully and truly for the breach whereof they should be imprisoned for one year and make ransom at the Kings will the Prothonotaries and Filicers upon conviction to abide the double pain Vide 13 H. 4. tit 48. On which Grant is indorsed viz. Respectuatur per Dominos Principem Concilium That no Custom be paid for the little or great seal of any Kersies Frizes or such Cogware As heretofore it hath been The print forbidding unlawful Games of Servants and Labourers cap. 4 agreeth not fully with the Record quod nota Iohn Cowley of Bridgwater prayeth that he may take Letters of Mart and Privy seal of all French-mens goods having no safe-conduct of the King to a certain value for certain his ships and other goods taken by the French in the time of Truce Upon his suit to the King he shall have such Letters requisatory as are needâ—ul and if the French do refuse to do him right the King will then shew his right The like Request and Answer as 9 H. 4. tit 47. The print touching Gally-halfpence cap. 5. agreeth with the Record The print touching Cloth-making and the Office of Aulnager cap. 6. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form That the half profits of their Benefices who be not resident thereupon may be imployed to the Kings use There was a remedy provided in the last Convocaâ—ion heretofore At the request of the Mayor and Commonalty of Oxford who pay to every Desme Eighty pounds fourteen shillings eleven pence it was enacted that all lands belonging to the Church being within the same Town being purchased since the 20. year of E. 1. should contribute to all Desmes and Fifteens A motion was made that none should be impleaded in Court Christian for any Temporal Contract on pain of imprisonment and fine at the Kings pleasure and amends to the party grieved The Common Law shall therein he observed Thomas Chawcer chief Butler to the King sheweth what prizes of Wines the King ought to have of every ship and also declareth how the King was much deceived thereof for that the Citizens of London being exempt from the same did use notwithstanding for money to make strangers free thereof The King will send for the Citizens therefore and further willeth that none shall enjoy any such Liberty unless he be there a Citizen resident and dwelling Anno Decimo tertio Henrici Quarti Rex c. Henrico filio suo Principi Walliae c. salutem apud Westmonasterium in crastino omnium Sanctorum Teste Rege apud Westm. vicesimo primo die Septembris EDwardo Duci Eborum Edwardo de Courtney Com. Devon Thom. Com. Arundel Michaeli de la Pool Com. Suff. Rado de Nevil Com. Westmerland Ricardo Com. Warr Richardo Com. Oxoniae Hugoni Stafford Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Willielmo de Clinton Mr. Tho de la War Johanni de Oldcastle Chlr. Henrico le Scroope de Masham Willielmo Roos de Hamalake Hen. Fitz-hugh Willielmo de Ferrariis de Groby Tho Morley Hugoni Burnel Tho. Berckley de Berckley Johanni de Wells Rado de Cromwel Rado Baroni de Greystock Roberto de Harrington Johanni Darcy Tho. Nevil de Halmeshire Roberto de Willoughbie Johanni Lovel de Fishmerch Ricardo Gray de Codonore Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Petro de malo lacu Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Tho. Camois Hen. de Bello monte Johanni de Latimer Ricardo le Strange Roberto Poinings Gilberto Talbot Johanni
Talbot de Furnivall Johanni Clifford No Lord Warden in this Roll. Anno decimo tertio Henrici Quarti The Parliament holden at Westminster the day after All Saints in the thirteenth year of King Henry the fourth ON Wednesday being the next day after All Saints and the third day of November the Commons were called in the presence of the Steward of the Kings House according to the Order After which Thomas Beauford the Kings Brother and Chancellor of England by the Kings Letters Patents there read and enrolled began prorogued and continued the same Parliament until the Wednesday following On the said Wednesday the said Chancellor by the Kings commandment in his presence and in the presence of all the Lords and Commons declared how that the Parliament was called for three causes namely for the good governance of the Realm due execution of Laws and defence of the Realm with the keeping of the Seas He then sheweth to the good governance of the Realm belonged trusty Councel without affection and due obeysance without grudging To due execution of Laws did appertain sincere keeping of the same and speedy redress for fear of abusion To the defence of the Realm they needed hearty and willing releiving of the King in his distresse and discreet and speedy provision for all which causes they were assembled He further pronounceth how the Kings pleasure was that the Church all persons and Corporations should enjoy their Liberties and for better expedition herein he willeth the Commons by going together to chuse their Speaker and the next day to present him to the King in full Parliament Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoin c. as above On Tuesday the fifth of November the Commons presented before the King and Lords Thomas Chaucer to be their Speaker who having no allowance of his excuse prayed that he might speak under Protestation whereunto they granted that he should speak as others before had done so as the King would therein have no Novelty and yet would also enjoy his Prerogative The Speaker desired respite to answer by Saturday following in Writing which was granted with such protestations as others before had and that whatsoever he should speak to the Kings displeasure might be imputed to his ignorance only the which the King granted The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King for one year the like Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage as in the last Parliament tit 45. so always as the same should be confessed to proceed of their own good will and not of duty They also grant that every person having twenty pound land above all charges all pay six shillings eight pence that any person hath except lands purchased in Morâ—main before the twentieth year of E. 1. and of all lands purchased in Frank-Almoin since the said twentieth year On Monday the last day of November the Speaker in the name of the Commons prayed the King to give thanks to the Prince and others appointed to be of the Kings Councel in the last Parliament the which the King did and namely for well imploying the treasure in the same Parliament granted William Lord Roos of Hamalake complaineth against Robert Thirwit one of the Justices of the Kings Bench for with-holding from him and his Tenants of his Mannor of Melton le Roos in Lincolnshire certain Common of pasture and of Turbary or Turf in Warbie in the County of Lincoln aforesaid and for lying in wait with the number of five hundred men for the Lord Roos Sir Robert Thirwit before the King confessed his fault and craveth pardon offering further to stand to the Order of two Lords of the kindred of the said Lord Roos such as he should chuse whereto the King agreed the Lord Roos chose the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Grey The said Archbishop and Lord Grey Chamberlain to the King make a long award leaving the right of the Common aforesaid to the determination of William Gascoin Chief Justice and further it was enjoyned to the said Sir Robert that at a day certain he should prepare at Melton Roos aforesaid two Tuns of Gascoin Wine two fat Oxen and twelve fat sheep and other preparation fit therefore and that he should bring thither all such Knights Esquires and Yeomen as were of his aforesaid crew where they all should confess their faults to the said Lord Roos and crave pardon and further offer to the said Lord Roos five hundred marks in recompence And that the said Lord Roos should refuse the same five hundred marks pardon them and take only the dinner aforesaid Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury by a long Instrument in Latine sheweth that how in the time of R. 2. the University of Oxford had purchased a Bull to be cleerly exempt from the Visitation of the said Archbishop to the end they might the better support Hereticks and Lollards and how that the said King Richard took order that they should be subject to the said Archbishops Visitation notwithstanding the said Bull. He further sheweth how in this Kings time he was disturbed of the Visitation aforesaid by Richard Courtney the Chancellor by Bennet Bret and Iohn Birch then Procurators of the said University and how that by their submission to the Kings order it was by him in the Chancery decreed that the said whole University and all Orders Persons and Faculties in the same should be fuâ—ly subject to the Visitation of the said Archbishop and his Successors and to his and their Officers And that as often as the said Archbishop or his Successors or his or their Officers were thereof by the said Chancellor interrupted their said Liberties should be seised into the Kings hands until the said Archbishop were thereto restored And further that for every time of such interruption the said Chancellor or other Officer should be bound to pay to the King One thousand pounds All which Articles and Orders at the request of the said Archbishop were confirmed by whole assent of Parliament By this it most manifestly appeareth that even in these days the Princes prerogatives were nothing subject to the Popes primacie for then would not this Archbishop the Popes fosterer and adopted son have so neglected the Popes Bulls which he as by this may appear took to be meer bulls and bubbles The erection of the Colledge of our blessed Lady S. Mary and of All Saints in Fotheringhay in the County of York with all the lands and liberties wherewith the same was endowed by the Kings Letters-Patents there at large is confirmed by whole assent of Parliament Iohn de Lumley knight is restored to his blood and to be son and heir
to Thomas de Lumley and brother and heir to Thomas de Lumley to the said Ralph and brother of the said Iohn notwithstanding any Judgment of Treason against them had And so is restored to all the hereditaments of the said Ralph and Thomas or any others to their uses the day of their deaths had into all which lands he might enter without any other pursuit In the like form William de Lasinby is restored to his blood and to all his hereditaments notwithstanding any Judgment of Treason against him had In the like sort Ralph Green Esquire son and heir of Henry Green and of Maud his wife is restored in blood unto all the hereditaments of the said Henry and Maud the which Henry was put to death at Bristoll in the 23. year of R. 2. Certain of Guienne remaining in the Realm and thereby reproached of the English as Aliens pray that by open Proclamation throughout the Realm they to all intents be enabled Subjects as English men be and that all such injuries may cease The which the King by the assent of the Bishops and Lords doth grant See 25 E. 3. Stat. 2. de Natis ultra mare At the request of the Abbot of Fourneys it was fully enacted That he might make Attornies in any plea for any matter in Craven within Stamlis-Wapentake and Frendies-Wapentake in the County of York At the request of Iohn Calvile it is enacted that the Advowson of the Parsonage of Newton should be appropriated to the Guardian and Captains of the Chantry of our Lady of Newton without any Vicar to be endowed thereupon On Saturday the 20. day of December being the last day of the Parliament the Speaker required of the King in the name of the Commons then present there to know his meaning touching an Article made in the last Parliament Who answered That the same was to be as free in his Prerogative as his Progenitors were Whereunto the Commons assented and so the King in Parliament revoked the Article aforesaid The same day the Lords and Commons by their Petition seem to lament for that the report went that the King was offended with some of the House for matters done in this and the last Parliament whereby they require the King to embrace them as his Loyal Subjects Whereto the King of his meer grace granteth On the same day the Speaker recommending to the King the persons of the Queen of the Prince and of other the Kings sons prayeth the advancements of their estates For the which the King giveth hearty thanks After which the Petitions being answered the Chancellor by the Kings commandment gave thanks to the whole Estates and ended the Parliament It is enacted That the Mint-master within the Tower of London and all other Minters by the Kings grant may during two years of every pound of Gold of the Tower-weight coin fifty Nobles of Gold and of the like pound of Silver coin thirty shillings Sterling so as the same Gold and Silver be of as good Allay as the old Coin was Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The print touching the Church-liberties c. cap. 1. agreeth with the Record Certain Counties by particular complaint pray the King that their Sheriffs be not surcharged with more then they can levy To whom answer was made as followeth Let every Sheriff being grieved shew the same to the King and he shall shew such Pardon as shall be seen That no man accompting in the Exchequer and having his Quietus est be not after called to accompt unless there be therein found concealment or false allowance The King will be thereof advised The like motion is made as in An. 11 H. 4. tit 50. Whereto answer is made That the King will be advised That no Licence be granted to transport Woolls or any other Commodities belonging to the Staple other then at Calice The King will â—orbear to grant any Licence for Woolls growing on this side the water of Coket so always as the men of Berwick may pass Woolls growing beyond the said water The print touching Justices of Assise cap. 2. agreeth with the Record That Merchant strangers may be demeaned within the Realm as English Merchants are in Flanders Viz. That no such Merchant be lodged other then in some notable English House that he buy no other Merchandise then his Hoast may see and that he make off his Merchandse within forty dayes after the same be brought into the Realm and that amongst them be no Broaker other then Englishmen enfranchised Certain Lords shall be appointed to peruse the Statutes between this and the next Parliament and therein to give their advice That all Merchants may freely transport any staple Merchandise so they passe the Straights of Morocco The King thereof will be advised It is enacted That Pepper shall be sold for twenty pence a pound in whose hands soever the same shall be found The print touching Liveries cap. 3. doth not fully agree with the Record The Commons of Northumberland pray that Justices of Assize may once yearly come into the same County that the Sheriffs and Coroners may yearly yeeld to them their presentments that enquiry may be made of Maintainers and that no money be carried into Scotland Certain Justices shall be assigned to make their Inquisitions as need shall require and the Statutes therefore made shall be observed The Inhabitants of the Town of Sutton Prior and Sutton Vantort otherwise called Plymouth pray that they may be incorporated by the name of Mayor c. and that they may have certain Customes for certain years there expressed Let these Suppliants compound with such Lords as have Liberties thereunto adjoyning and thereof make report at the next Parliament and they then shall have reasonable answer That the Officers of Glocester Worcester and Bridgenorth do exact no Impositions for any Wares passing upon the River of Severn The King thereof will be advised Certain Frontier-Counties on the Marches of Wales complain against the manifold Robberies and other Extortions of the Welchmen and for redress pray three Articles to be enacted The King thereof will be advised That certain Impositions newly made upon Cloaths and Canvas called the Measurage by certain under the colour of their Letters Patents may uterly be revoked The Statutes therefore provided shall be observed The print touching Cloth-making cap. 4. agreeth not fully with the Record and namely in the recital The print touching Customers c. cap. 5. doth not fully agree with the Record Iohn Swallow Thomas Allen and Iohn Lane Citizens of London pray a Writ of Procedendo against Philip Birchford and VVilliam Curson who prayed aid of the King touching certain lands late of William Atmil Jeweller supposed to die without heir
The King thereof will be advised The Citizens of Bristow and Glocester pray that they may passe the River of Severn with any their Merchandise in Drags and Boats paying their due Customes without any new Taxes to be levied by the men of Beaudley As heretofore it hath been That all Officers of Wales do arrest the next Cousins of all Rebels Theeves or Evil Doers of the Welch untill these Malefactors do yeeld their selves for that they by such kinsmen are only supported The King will thereof be advised The Clerks and Attornies of both the Benches pray the Revocation of a Statute made in the 11 H. 4. tit 6. Which motion approvâ—th that the same was an Act notwithstanding the respectuatur mentioned in the said year of 11. quod nota The Justâ—ces of both the Benches shall herein consult and of many other mischiefs in their said Courts between this and next Parliament and thereof make their Report Anno Primo Henrici Quinti Rex c. Charissimo Fratri Tho. Duci Clarentiae Com. Albemertiae apud Leicestriam vicessimo nono die Ianuarii Teste Rege apud Westm. primo die Decembris EDwardo Duci Eborum Edwardo Courtney Com. Devon Thom. Com. Arundell Ricardo Com. Westmerland Edwardo Com. Marchiae Ricardo Com. Warr. Tho. Com. Sarum Johanni Com. Marescallo Michael de la Pool Com. Suff. Ricardo Com. Oxoniae Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Willielmo de Clinton Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Heâ—â— le Scroop de Masham Willielmo Roos de Hamelake Hen. Fitz-Hugh Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Tho. Morley Hugoni Burnell Tho. Berkley de Berkley Johanni de Welles Radulpho Cromwell Radulpho Baroni de Graystockâ— Tho. de Dacre de Gilsland Roberto de Harrington Roberto de Willoughbie Johanni Lovel de Fishmerch Ricardo Gray de Codonere Reginal Gray de Ruthin Petro de Malo lacu Tho. Camois Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Willielmo de Botreaux Johanni Latimer Ricardo Strange Roberto Poynings Gilberto Talbot Johanni Clifford Johanni Talbot de Halmeshyre Noe Lord Warden Prorogatum Parliamentum de Leicest de vicesimo nono die Januarii usque ad ultimum Aprilis ibidem tenend ut ante in omnibus Rex c. Tho. fratri Duci Clarentiae c. apud Leicestriam ultimo die Aprilis Teste Rege apud Leicestriam vicessimo nono Januarii numerus Ordo Nobilium in omnibus ut ante The Parliament holden at Westminster in the third week of Easter in the first year of King Henry the Fifth ON Monday the fifteenth day of May and the Monday in the third Week of Easter the King sitting in his chair of Estate then attending on him the Bishops Lords and Commons the Bishop of Winchester being the Kings uncle and Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement uttered the cause of the same Parliament namely that the Church and all persons and Corporations should enjoy their liberties and also for that he desired to consult with them And hereupon he took for his proposition ante omnem actum consilium stabilire and so by many notable authorities shewed how that the King much desired to hear their good advise and Counsell First for the competent supportation of his Royall estate Secondly for the due execution of the good laws and good governance of the Realm Thirdly for the cherishing of such strangers as were his Allyes and for repressing his enemies and for the better atchieving of those weighty affairs by their ripe consultations he willed the Commons to assemble themselves to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him to the King accordingly Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Thursday the eighteenth day of May the Commons came before the King and Lords and presented for their Speaker William Stourton who having no allowance of his disabilitie required the Common protestation which was granted On Monday the twenty second of May the Commons came before the King where the Speaker declared before him that in the time of his Father many fair promises were made for due observation of lawes but that no execution ensued wherefore he prayed the King the better to provide therefore and namely to see due correction of the late Ryot committed at Cirencester against the Abbot therein To the which the Speaker on the Kings behalf was required to exhibite the same in writing to the end the King might be the better provided On Thursday the twenty fifth of May Iohn Dorewood and others sent by the Commons delivered to the King a Schedule for provision to be made in form following viz. Touching Ireland the Marches of Wales of Scotland and of Callice touching the Dutchy of Guyenne the safe keeping of the seas the Navy of England and governance and due observance and for sure provision to be made in form following for the repulse of the enemy The same day the said Iohn on the behalf of the Commons prayed that the protestation of the said William Stourton might be entred of Record which was granted On Satturday the third day of Iune the Commons came before the King and Lords and for that the aforesaid William by grievous sicknesse could by no means attend to be Speaker they presented the aforesaid Iohn who made the Common Excuse and the Common protestation the one refused and the other allowed Of Annuities to be payed to sundry persons by Letters Patents it was enacted by the whole assent that the King towards the supportation of his charges should yearly receive 10000 l. and of the rest they should be payed according to the rate Where King H. 4. had given by his last Will all his goods and chattels to the payment of his debts and to the payment of certain Legacies and of the same Will made Executors Henry Archbishop of York Thomas Bishop of Durham Iohn Pelham Robert Waterton and Iohn Laventhorp and thereof ordained Overseers the King and Archbishop of Canterbury for that the said goods were not able to accomplish the same the Executors refused the execution of the Will whereupon the Archbishop of Canterbury as Ordinary ought to have the Administration of the said goods and Chattels Wherefore to the end those goods should not be set to common sale considering that the same amounted to 25000. marks the King kept the goods and granted to the said Executors out of the Wardrobe to be paid the said summ of 25000. Marks in three years to dispose the same goods accordingly upon accompt and further than the same dischargeth the same
Executors of all executions growing by the same will Note the conveyance for the same is hardly elsewhere to be found The Commons prayen that the Statute made in Anno 5 H. 4. tit for the avoiding of Aliens might be observed whereto the King granteth saving his Prerogative Reice ap Thomas a Welshman prayeth that he to all intents might be made a loyal Liegeman notwithstanding the Statute made 2 H. 4. tit the which the King granteth The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords grant to the King the like Subsidy of Staple ware Tonnage and Poundage for 4. years as in 13 H. 4. tit 10. upon sundry conditions A general Pardon of sundry offences but nothing of life or member conditionally that their pardons were sued out by a day Upon the Petition of Gunwardby and others touching the erroneous Judgement given in the Kings Bench on the behalf of Iohn Windsor and sundry others in an Assize for certain lands in Rampton Cottenham Westwick Hekington Longestanton and Willingham in the County of Cambridge and upon the disclosing of the Errors aforesaid a Scire facias was granted to the said Gunwardby to warn the said Windsor and others to appear at the next Parliament to hear the Record and processe Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the election of Knights and Burgesses cap. 1. agreeth with the Record The print touching the removing of Stanks Kiddles c. cap. 2. agreeth with the record It is enacted that all the Statutes made against Provisors from Rome shall be observed A large complaint and prayer to redresse the manifold oppressions of the Ordinaries for probate of Testaments and such like If the Bishops upon the Kings charge to them given do not redresse the same the King will then doe it The like is made against Ordinaries for sessing Penance pecuniary upon Lechery c. Answered as before The like motion and answer is made as in Anno 13 H. 4. tit 31. The Knights and Burgesses being summoned to a Parliament the Commons pray for Costs because nothing was done at the Parliament 14 H. 4. which as it seems took no effect require allowance If upon view of the Kings Records any the like presidents may be found allowance of their fees shall be made The print touching forging of Deeds cap. 3. doth not fully agree with the record The print touching Under-sheriffs cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching additions in Writs of Exigent cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print forbidding the tryal of Asaph in Wales cap. 6. agreeth with the record That every Juror in all Inquisitions be sworn truly to say whether he received or that any thing was received to his use for proceeding thereof and that upon conviction by his Oath he may be tryed The print touching Priors Aliens French cap. 7. agreeth with the record That all grounds aforesaid by the perambulations of E. 3. may be utterly disforrested Such as be grieved against the Charters of the Forest upon complaint shall be heard A Declaration for surcharging of Sheriffs and prayer that they may be allowed upon their Oaths in the Exchequer Upon the Sheriffs comming before the Council and Barons of the Exchequer they shall finde remedy That no Barge Ship Boat or other vessel going on any river be taken for a Deodand if any person happily falling thereout be drowned The King will be thereof advised Richard Marlow and others prayen that where Iohn Calvile Captain of certain ships had taken two great Hulkes fully fraighted lying at Southampton c. suspecting to belong to the French that those ships might not be delivered without Inquisition and restitution The King will appoint certain Commissioners to hear and determine the same It is enacted that all Aliens do depart the Realm and that all such Merchants Aliens as do remain be under English hoasts on pain of imprisonment at the Kings will It is enacted that all the livings of Priors Aliens except such as be in tit 32. shall be seized into the Kings hands The print touching Irish begging Priests called Chamber-Deacons and other Irish cap. 8. agreeth with the record That Merchants may freely transport and bring into the Realm their goods or Arras and all other Merchandise except Merchandise of the Staple and the same sell at their pleasure to all men except to Merchants of Ieane paying their due Customes The King will thereof be advised The print touching the universall measure of Corn cap. 9. agreeth with the record Anno Secundo Henrici Quinti Rex c. Tho. Duci Clarentiae Com. Albemerciae fratri suo c. apud Westm. die Lunae post Octabis Sancti Martini Teste Rege apud Westm. Vicesimo sexto die Septembris hoc Parliamentum postea prorogatum fuit usque Leicestriam JOhan Duci Bedfordiae Com. de Kendall Humfrido Duci Gloucestriae Com. de Pembrook Edwardo Duci Eborum Ricardo Com. Cantabrigiae Edwardo Courtney Com. Devon Tho. Com. Arundell Edwardo Com. Marchiae Ricardo de Bello campo Com. VVarr Ricardo de Vere Com. Oxoniae Tho. Com. Sarum Johanni Com. Marescallo Tho. Com. Dorset Michael de la Pool Com. Suff. Radulpho Nevil Com. VVestmerland Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Willielmo de Clinton Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Hen. de Scroop de Masham Hen. Fitz-hugh VVill. de Ferrariis de Grobie Tho Morley Hugo Burnell Tho. Berkley de Berkley Johanni de VVelles Radulpho de Cromwell Radulpho Baroni de Graystock Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Roberto de Harrington Roberto de VVilloughbie Johanni Lovell de Fishmerch Ricardo Gray de Codonore Reginal Gray de Ruthine Petro de molo lacu VVillielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Tho. Camois VVillielmo de Botreaux Johanni de Latimer Ricardo le Strange Roberto Poynings Gilberto Talbot Johanni Clifford Johanni Talbot de Furnivall Noe Lord VVarden The Parliament holden at Westminster the Monday in the Octaves of S. Martine in the second year of King Henry the Fifth ON the same Monday the King sitting in his chair of Estateâ— in the Chamber de pinct within his palace of Westminster the Bishop of Winchester the Kings Uncle and Chancelloâ— of England by the Kings commandement declared before him the Lords and Commons how that the King would that the Church and all Persons and Corporations should enjoy their liberties He after sheweth that the King endeavoured not onely well to govern within the Realm but also enforced himself to recover his due inheritance belonging to the Crown of long time withholden the which quarrell he would prosecute even unto death and for the attempting of so weighty an exploit required good provision
and licence to buy the same pray the confirmation of those their Letters Patents which is granted Lewes Iohn a Welshman is enabled to be a Liege Englishman notwithstanding the Statute 2 H. 4. tit 77. The like grant by common assent is made to Iohn Mountgomerie Esquire The like is granted to Iohn Steward Esquire It is enacted by the whole consent that all the Manor and other hereditaments within the Kings Dominions which descended or ought to descend to the King after the death of Dame Mary one of the daughters and heirs of Humfrey le Bohun late Earl of Hereford Essex and Northampton and Constable of England as Sonne and heir of the said Dame Mary should be dissevered from the Crown of England and be annexed to the Dutchy of Lancaster to be of the same nature as by the Kings Letters Patents may fully appear In which Grant you may see those Liberties belonging to the Dutchie of Lancaster Petitions of the Commons with their Answers IT is enacted that the Church all persons and Corporations shall enjoy their Liberties That the Fees of Knights coming to the Parliament for the Countie of Kent may generally be levied of all persons holding by Knights Service within the County and not particularly of certain in the Guddable of Kent except of Bishops and Lords who came to the Parliament The Statute therefore made shall be executed The like motion and answer by the Weavers of London as in the 7. and 8. H. 4. tit 136. Drue Barentyne and others of London pray that the Letters of Mart or Reprisal granted by the King against the goods of the Merchants of Ieane may be confirmed The which the King granteth and thereby provideth for the safe keeping and well ordering of the said goods A Motion that the English Merchants may use the Iermanoes and other Italians touching the Letters of Mart aforesaid in such wise as they shall use the English The King will therein write to the Italians and to the rest will be advised The print touching Justices of Peace cap. 1. wanteth of the record these words following remaining within the same Counties which should be annexed to the words of the print of the Kings Council and these words in their Offices and Sessions to be annexed to the Justices of Peace within the Dutchie of Lancaster The print touching the wages of Priests cap. 2. agreeth with the record in effect but not in form besides that the record is 37 E. 3. where the print is 36. which note the print being therein the truer The Print touching Enquests cap. 3. agreeth with the record to these words so that from the beginning of which words to the end thereof there is no mention made in the record quod nota That the straight cloaths called the Dosens of Devonshire and Cornwall may pay Cocket Customes after the rate of broad Cloathes The King will thereof be advised The print touching the gilding of Goldsmiths of London cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching the Treasons and Felonies of Welshmen cap. 5. agreeth with the record At the request of the Mayor and Burgesses of Southampton who payed to the King 200 l. fee farm and 40 l. yearly to two Priors Aliens the King for 10. yeares releaseth to them 140 Marks yearly and further giveth license to them to purchase lands to the yearly value of one hundred pounds The print touching the Staple cap. 6. agreeth with the record in effect but not in form Anno Tertio Henrici Quinti Rex c. dilecto consanguineo c. Radulpho Com. Westmerland c. apud Westm. die Lunae post festum Sancti Lucae Evangel Teste Iohanne Duce Bedfordiae Custode Angliae apud Westm. duodecimo Augusti EDwardo Courtney Com. Devon Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Will de Ferrariis de Grobie Tho. Morley Hugoni Burnell Tho. Berckley de Berckley Johanni de Welles Radulpho de Cromwell Radulpho Baroni de Graystock Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Ricardo Gray de Codonore Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Petro de Malo lacu Johanni de Latimer Ricardo le Strange Roberto Poynings Gilberto Talbott Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Prorogatio Parliamenti à die Lunae post festum Sancti Lucae usque diem Lunae post festum Omnium Sanctorum apud Westm. tenend Rex c. dilecto c. Radulpho Nevill Com. Westmerland c. apud Westm. vicesimo nono die Septembris Teste Iohanne Duce Bedford c. THo Com. Arundell Edwardo Courtney Com. Devon Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Will. de Ferrariis de Grobie Tho. Morley Hugoni Burnell Tho. Berckley de Berckley Johanni de Welles Radulpho de Cromwell Radulpho Baroni de Graystock Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Johanni de Latymer Ricardo le Strange Roberto Poynings Gilberto Talbott Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Ricardo Gray de Codonore Rex c Charissimo fratri suo Tho. Duci Clarentiae c. apud Westm. decimo sexto die Martii Teste Rege apud Westm. Vicesimo primo die Ianuarii IOhanni Duci Bedford fratri Regis Humfrido Duci Gloucest fratri Regis Radulpho Com. Westmerland Consangu suo Edwardo Courtney Com. Devon Edwardo Com. Marchiae Johanni Com. Marescallo Tho. Com. Sarum Ricardo Com. Oxoniae Magistro Tho. de la VVar. VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Tho. Morley Hugoni Burnell Tho. Berckley de Berckley Johanni de VVelles Radulpho Cromwell Radulpho Baroni de Graystock Tho. de Dacre de Gilsland Radulpho de Harrington Ricardo Gray de Codonore Reginal Gray de Ruthine Tho. Camois VVillielmo Botreaux Johanni de Latimer Ricardo le Strange Roberto Poynings Gilberto Talbott Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Johanni Clifford The Parliament holden at VVestminster the sixteenth day of March in the third year of King Henry the Fifth ON the same sixteenth day the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct within his Palace of Westminster the Bishop of Winchester the Kings Uncle and Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement in the presence of him the Lords and Commons declared that the Kings will was that the Church all persons and Corporations should enjoy their liberty He then shewed the cause of the same Parliament and took for his Theame these words Vobis viam on which words he made a notable declaration affirming amongst the rest that a thing well begun and continued with diligence could not but come to good end according to the saying dimidium facti qui benè caepit habet The beginning he applyed to the attempt of the King by entring into France for the recovery of the same his due Patrimony The continuance he applyed to the Kings successe by obtaining Harslew upon his siege and by winning a battel of
And so alledging Bella faciamus ut pacem habeamus quia finis belli pax est He sheweth that the King meant to use their Counsell and therefore called the Commons to choose and to present their Speaker Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Wednesday the third day of the Parliament the Commons coming before the King and Lords presented Roger Flower to be their Speaker who made the common protestation and the same allowed The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King two whole Desmes and two fifteens to be levied of the Laity It is enacted that all such persons as shall before lend mony to the King shall freely have Letters Patents to be payed of the first mony coming of the subsidie aforesaid All which to perform if an end should come to the King the Dukes of Clarence Bedford and Gloucester for every of their selves faithfully promised to accomplish The names of certain Bishops and other Lords who subscribed to the Articles aforesaid A generall pardon granted by the King nothing touching life or losse of member On Wednesday the eighteenth of November being the last day of the Parliament the King sitting in his Royall Estate in full Parliament created Thomas Beauford Earl of Dorset to be Earl of Exeter after which the King commandeth him to sit in Parliament according to his estate A League and Alliance between the King his heirs and succesors Kings of England and Sigismond King of the Romans his heirs and successors Kings of the Romans are confirmed by whole assent of Parliament Note the Instrument of Alliance for the same is long and very effectuall Robert Whittington Esq and Ony his son complaining shew how that certain of the servants of Richard Old-castle Esq and the borderers of Wales by durance of imprisonment enforced the said Robert to release to the said Richard and Walter Hakelnyt Esq all manner of Actions for all which they prayen remedy The Kings Councell shall have power to call the parties before them and to end the same Iohn de Holland son of Iohn de Holland Earl of Huntington prayeth to be restored in bloud 2. H. 4. son of E. his wife to the said Iohn his father and to Richard his eldest brother who died without issue and to all the entailed lands of Iohn the Father as well of the Dutchy of Cornwall as otherwise except certain Mannors by name parcell of the said Dutchy so as he may freely enter into them The King enableth him in bloud according to his Petition and to all the intailed lands so as he first prove the same in the Chancery except as before and except all other lands parcell of the said Dutchy saving the fee simple lands to the King so as he do sue a Scire facias against the said Tenants for such whereof he should be in suit Iohn Allen and others Merchants of Coventry prayen restitution of 600 marks of old coin put into the hands of Richard Garmer late Master of the Mint within the Tower of London to be newly coined for that all the goods of the said Richard were seised to the Kings use by the Earl of Arundell Treasurer of England Upon proof hereof before the Councell they shall see the same payed so farr as the goods will extend William Clifford Constable of Bourdeaux complaining sheweth how that he had gotten the Town and Castle Rewle in Guyenne wherein he was besieged and could not keep the same without some succours the which he prayeth The King will accomplish the same with opportunity A motion is made that the suit hanging in the Court of Rome and in the Councell of Constance between Roger Frank and Iohn de Rippon touching the Abbey of Founteynes being very tedious may be ended The King will addresse his Letters to the Ambassadors at Constance to sollicite the end David Howell of Pembrook prayeth a pardon for all Treasons Felonies and Trespasses The King will be advised The print touching Irish Bishops c. cap. 6. agreeth with the record in effect but not in form Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the great Charter c. cap. 1. agreeth with record The print touching allowance of Sheriffs cap. 2. having these words is of extracts therein swarveth from the record quod nota The print touching Patent-makers cap. 3. agreeth with the record The King releaseth to Iohn Tutburie the Customes of certain Wines The print touching servants wages cap. 4. agreeth with the record The like motion and answer as in the last Parliament tit 31. That none of the Kings Subjects be barred of their due debtsâ— or suits for the same by colour of protection granted to any Prior Alien but during such time as they shall serve the King beyond the seas The Prerogative and Common lawes shall be maintained The print touching Merchants Aliens cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print touching the free pardon c. 8. agreeth with the record The print touching Peace-breakers and Letters of Mart cap. 7. agreeth with the Record Anno Quinto Henrici Quinti Rex c. Charissimo Avunculo suo Thomae Duci Exon. salt c. apud Westm. decimo sexto die Novembris Teste Iohanne Duce Bedford Custode Angliae apud VVestm quinto die Octobris CHariss Consang suo Hen. de Percie Com. Northumberland Radulpho Nevill Com. Westmerland Edwardo de Courtney Com. Devon Magistro Tho. de la Warr. Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Hugoni Burnell Johanni de Welles Radulpho Baroni de Graystock Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Johanni Latimer Ricardo Strange Roberto Poynings Gilberto Talbot Edwardo Cherleton de Powis Tho. Camois Willielmo Botreaux Tho. de Dacre de Gilsland The Parliament holden at Westminster the sixteenth day of November in the fifth year of King Henry the Fifth ON the sixteenth day of November in the presence of the puissant Prince Iohn Duke of Bedford Brother and Lieutenant to the King and Warden of England sitting in the Chamber de pinct in the Palace of Westminster the Bishop of Durham the Chancellor of England by his commandement in the presence of him the Lords and Commons declared that the Kings will was that the Church and all Estates should enjoy their liberties He then took for his Theam Confortamini viriliter agite et gloriosi eritis Upon which words he shewed what great comfort ought to have been considering that the King in the life of his
Flower Esquire to be their Speaker who with the Common protestation was allowed All Writs Commissions and Dependants of the same made by the assembly of the Council touching this Parliament are confirmed by authority of the same Thomas Bishop of Durham Chancellor of England to the late King H. 5. in the presence of the Duke of Gloucester and other Lords in the Castle of Windsor delivered and left with the King the great Golden Seal of the realm of England whereof he willed them to be witnesses and that the same may be enrolled The Bishop of London late Chancellor of the Dutchie of Normandy delivered the same Seal of that Dutchy at Rome to the Duke of Bedford who had the governance of the same and also in the presence as is aforesaid at Windsor the great Seal of England which King H. 5. gave to him to keep and prayeth to be discharged of the same by Act of Parliament and so was It is enacted that the Kings stile shall be changed and that accordingly there might be graven upon all his Seals as followeth Henricus Rex Franciae Angliae Dominus Hiberniae To satisfie the Commons request the Duke of Gloucester declared to them that the King had appointed the Bishop of Durham to be his Chancellor William Rindroffe to be Treasurer of England and Iohn Stafford to be keeper of the Privy Seal of all which offices their Patents are made and confirmed by Parliament It is enacted that all Estates shall have their Liberties confirmed being not revoked without these words Concedimus to be in any of the said affirmations Where King H. 5. made Henry Lord Fitz-hugh Walter Hungerâ—ord Walter Beauchampe Lewis Robsart William Porter Robert Babthorpe Iohn Woodhowse and Iohn Leventhorpe Esquires the Executors of his VVill and Testament the King granteth to them 40000 l. Marks for the performance of the same VVill 19 Marks was due to the Executors of H. 4. by oversight of the overseers of the same VVill of the Duke of Gloucester and others Lords there named The schedule thereto annexed conteineth the Kings Letters Patents in form aforesaid The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords grant to the King the like Subsidie of Staple-ware Tonnage and Poundage as formerly for two yeares ensuing It is enacted that all such as were imprisoned in any of the Kings Gaoles for Heresie or Lollardie should be delivered to the Ordinary of the same place to be punished It is enacted that all such Petitions as are not ended in this Parliament shall be committed to the Council to be determined according to their discretion The King by authority of Parliament granteth to the Duke of Gloucester the office of Chamberlain of England with all the profits at the Kings pleasure In like form the King granteth to the said Duke the office of Constable of England The King by his Letters Patents confirmed by Parliament appointeth Iohn Duke of Bedford Protector and Defender of the Realm and Church of England and Chief Counsellor of the King so long as the said Duke then being beyond the Seas should remain in England and in his absence only the Duke of Gloucester to supply the said office the which Duke of Gloucester in full Parliament took upon him the burthen aforesaid with protestation that the same should not redound to the prejudice of the Duke of Bedford It is enacted upon the Kings Letters Patents that the Protectors aforesaid shall during the Kings minority dispose of all the offices of the Forests Keepers of Parkes and VVarrens and all Benefices of the Kings gift being above the value of 20 Marks to continue during their lives Certain Bishops Lords and others are named to be Counsellors assisting to the Governance aforesaid The which Counsellors took upon them in form followingâ— viz. That all Justices of Peace Sheriffs Escheators Customers Comptrollers Weighers Searchers and such other Officers may be made be their advice and denomination That these Counsellors may make the most of all manner of VVards Marriages Farmes and other Casualties of the Crown That nothing be enacted by Council but by six or more at the least and in all great causes by all or the most and wherein the King is to be conferred withall that nothing be therein done without the assents of the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester That the Treasurer of England and the two Chamberlains of the Exchequer may for every of them have a key to the Kings Receipt so as they be sworn before the Councell to make none privy thereto other than the Councell That the Clarks of the Councell may be sworn duely to keep the names of the Councell who do sit and truly to enact all things done by them The which Articles with the proviso ensuing were enacted by assent provided alwayes that such officers as have the same for life or otherwise may appoint Deputies any of the Articles notwithstanding Anne Countesse of Stafford daughter and heir of Ellinor one of the daughters and heirs of Humphry de Bohun late Earl of Hereford Essex and Northampton and Constable of England reciteth a partition made between King H. 5. and her of the inheritance of the said Earl in the ninth of his reign at what time certain Knights fees in grosse were not parted whereof she now prayeth remedy and concerning certain members of the Castle of Brecknock in Wales The Kings Councell shall have power by authority of Parliament to take order herein Bartholomew Goldbeator Master of the Mint within the Tower requireth larger Commission touching the Coynage and Exchange of mony in the said Tower albeit the King meaneth that no Minter should hold the Exchange yet to the next Parliament liketh that the said Bartholomew should keep the Exchange so he taketh not above three half pence for the Exchange of a Noble The print cap. 4. c. agreeth with 2. H. 6. tit 11. The print touching the wages of Captains cap. 5. agreeth with the record The like Act is made touching Exchangers to Rome as in 9. H. 6. tit 24. It is enacted that Thomas Chawcer Chief Butler to the King shall enjoy the said office during his life according to the Letters Patents thereof made to him by Hing H. 4. In consideration that the Prior and Covent of â—nychester otherwise called Prior Ecclesiae Herodosiae surrendred unto the King for ever the Common of pasture for forty oxen and kine and twenty hoggs with the increase within the Kings Parkes of Clarindon and Wilts and the right of one called a Stickler who was to cut wood daily for them within the said Park the King granteth to them by the
year of King Henry the Sixth AT the beginning of the Parliament before the King sitting in person in the chair of Estate in the painted Chamber there being the Lords and Commons the Bishop of Winchester Chancellor of England declared that the Kings will was that all Estates should enjoy their liberties and for his Theam he took these words Gloria honor pax omni operanti bonum the which he divided into three parts viz. bonum honestum as which consisted in due obeysance of the Subjectâ— bonum delâ—ctabile as which stood in giving good Counsell and bonum utile which was by free and willing sustentation or relieving the Prince and Commonwealth By the first God was most glorified by the second the Prince best honoured by the third the Subjects saâ—ety governed according to the saying of Luke Gloria in excelsis Deo in terra pax hominibus bona voluntas Glory is given to God by due obedience of the Subjects the Prince is honoured by sound Counsell the Subjects governed in peace by relieving the Prince wherein he affirmeth that Princes ought to be obeyed though they were evil according to the saying of Peter obedite praepositis for albeit they were not good yet for that they commanded many good things to be observed they ought to be obeyed and remembreth Sicut Princeps tenetur regere regaliter sic plebs obedire The second division touching sound Counsell he allegeth Sapient 12. Salus ubi multa consilia and therein shewing how the Elephant had three properties the one for that he wanted a gall the second â—or that he was inflexible and could not bow the third for that he was of a most sound and perfect memory the which properties by application he wished to be in all Counsellers First that wanting a gall they should thereby be free from all malice rancor and envy by being inflexible that they should worship no reward nor in Judgement respect any person of a ripe memory that they by remembring perils past might prevent dangers to come The third for relieving the King he proved that the same ought to be done with all readinesse of mind considering that God by the young Prince his chosen vessel had not only governed them in safety but also given to them honourable victories and great conquests all which ought to enforce them more willingly to offer than the same should readily be taken Wherefore he willeth the Commons by their assembling to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Wednesday the second of May the Commons presented before the King and Lords Sr. Tho. Nanton knight to be their Speaker whose excuse being refused he with his protestation was allowed A great debate arose upon the Claim of Iohn Earl Marshall against Richard Earl of Warr touching the higher place in the Parliament house both of which Earles were commanded not to come at the house till the matters were fully heard but that the Councell learned of either of them should be heard what they could say touching the same And for that the Lords should be Judges of the same the Duke of Gloucester being Protector and other the Bishops Lords and others of the lower house swore upon the Gospel that they would uprightly judge the case leaving all affection For the proving of the Earl Marshalls title Roger Hunt of his Councell learned exhibited to the Lords a Pedegree shewing that the said Earl Marshall came of the bloud royall and gave the Armes of England whereby he ought to be preferred Note the said Pedegree proveth the Earl Marshall to come of the bloud royall from E. 1. It farther sheweth the said Earl to be allyed in bloud to the King from Thomas Earl of Lancaster It also affirmeth the said Earl to be allied in bloud to the King by the line of the Earl of Arundell To all this Sr. Walter Beauchamp Knight being of the Councell learned of the Earl of Warr. answereth and by many authorities sheweth that Antiquitie hath had superioritie above the bloud royall and so enforced the title of the Earl of Warr. but chiefly he relyeth upon the possession of the Earl of Warwick Herein is to be noted that the affirmations answers and replications of both parties being very long contain many good reasons and sundry lines of Noble-men very delectable to be read The Councell for both these Earles were instant for Judgement in the end it was devised and the said Earl Marshall for pacifying of the same required that he might be restored to be Duke of Norfolk according to the Creation of Thomas his father as brother and heir to Thomas who died without issue son of the said Thomas his father the which for sundry considerations worthy the sight was granted On Friday the fifteenth day of May the Duke of Gloucester by the Kings Letters Patents there read proroged the Parliament from the same day unto the Thursday then ensuing Iohn Lord Talbot with other Lords there named were bound by recognizance in the Chancery that the said Iohn should keep the peace towards Hugh Wenlockward that he should appear at the next Parliament The Lords of the Parliament by name promised by their faiths to the Bishop of VVinchester that they will not hinder but further such assurance as shall be made to the said Bishop by the King for money to him lent The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords grant to the King the Subsidie of wools for three years and Tonnage and Poundage for one year upon condition that Merchants Aliens should hardly be looked unto Touching the charge of Scotish hostages according to one Article of league it is enacted that the Wardens of the Marches shall not hereafter be impeached for attempting any hostage for the other but that upon their oathes they be discharged And further that they may take two or more hostages for one as of good will and no duty It is enacted that the quarrell and combat betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and Duke of Burgaine do in no case proceed but that the same by the Kings Letters Patents be committed to the old French King the Kings mother and to the regent of France and that the Duke of Burgain do deliver into indifferent hands the person of my Lord of Gloucester It is enacted that the Kings Councell shall have power to make assurances to the Bishop of Winchester and other of the
Kings Creditors of all such debts as are due to them After which the Kings Letters Patents were made to the said Bishop to receive 20000 l. of the first money of the Kings Customes or Revenues of the Crown arising the which are confirmed for which also the Kings Jewells are to him gaged Where Iohn Bishop of Ely in affidavit against Iohn Baldward of Sutton and others recovered 4000 Acres of Marish in Wisbich It is enacted that the execution of the said recovery should stay unto a certain time and that before the same time there should be a perambulation made between the Shires of Lincoln and Cambridge by which if it fell out that any of the premisses were within the County of Lincoln that then neither the said Bishop nor any of the Tenants within the County of Wisbich-hundred shall claim any common of pasture in any of the same found and contrarily that the said Baldward and other Tenants of Sutton should claim no common in any of the premisses found to be within the County of Cambridge And note that certain Lords there named were seized of the Mannor of Sutton in use by the Feoffement of H. 5. The executors of H. 5. granted unto the executors certain of the Kings Revenues which they had in use by the feoffement of 9000 marks the which the King by his Letters Patents and authority of Parliament confirmeth Sr. Iohn Cornewall Knight father in law to the Earl of Huntington then Prisoner to the Earl of Vandosme in France having by assignation the Wardenship of the body and lands of Iohn Arundell the son and heir of Iohn Arundell of Arundell Knight except to the King 500 marks prayeth the same yearly rent towards the payment of 1800 marks disbursed to the Earl Vandosme towards the ransome of the said Earl of Huntington the which is granted At the petition of the said Earl of Huntington the Lord of Gancourt and Totovill French Prisoners are delivered to the said Sr. Iohn Cornwall for 5000 markes disbursed for part of the said Earls ransome These titles only concern the delivery of the said Lords de Totevill and Gancourt the French prisoners aforesaid At the petition of Theobald Gorges the son of Thomas Gorges who being in ward to the King for the fourth part of the Mannor of Sturmists Marshall in the County of Dorset holden of the King in Chief by Knights service It is granted that he shall have his livery notwithstanding that by his office he was within age the which office he did disprove by meanes At the petition of Anne late the wife of Edmund Earl of March and Ulster It is enacted that the said Anne shall have livery of her dower upon finding of any offices after the death of the said Earl upon her oath not to marry The Duke of Exeter Thomas by name having the custody of the body and lands of Iohn son and heir of William Lord Roos of Hamalake of whose receipts the King dischargeth him The King confirmeth to Ellinor de Welles during her life 50 markes out of the Exchequer granted by King R. 2. Iohn Lord Scroop of Masham is restored to all such hereditaments as he can prove to be intailed to Henry late Lord le Scroop saving all fee simple lands to the King At the petition of William Fitz-hugh Knight son and heir of Henry Lord Fitz-hugh it is enacted that the Escheators of York do by a day return the offices found after the death of the said Lord and if none be found that then he surcease to take the same and that certain there named do by Commission take and return the said offices Where the King lent to the Duke of Gloucester 20000 markes in certain yeares to be repayed it is enacted that the Lords of the Councell shall take the sureties for the said payment Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THat such Merchants of the Staple as pay Custome and Subsedie for any their ware and that the same ware do perish may ship as much freely Upon due proof of such losse the Councell shall have power to end the same That the Merchants of the Staple having their Sarplers and packets duely weighed be not therefore by any suggestions after impeached The King will be advised That such Parsons or Vicars as do not the service and administer not the Sacraments in Chappels of ease to their Cures annexed may be enquired and punished There is sufficient remedy provided heretofore That all Parsons and Vicars and others having Cures and not resident thereupon may forfeit their Benefices the one half to the King and the other half to the Patron The King hath charged the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to provide remedy therein That no man of good name be impeached by the accusation of any being in the sanctuary unlesse suretyes be bound that proof be thereof made The Statutes therefore made shall be observed The Commons of Northumberland prayen that the extortions of the Sheriffs by yearly leavying certain summes of money called head pence amounting to 51 l. may be utterly abolished The same is committed to the Kings Councell That such Merchants as are robbed by the Britains in the time of truce may have Letters of Mart. As in next before That remedy may be provided for such victualls as are taken up by the souldiers lying in sundry Towns The grieved upon complaint shall be heard The print touching Masons cap. 1. agreeth with the record The print touching the river of Ley c. 5. agreeth with the record The print that no man shall carry over sheep cap. 2. agreeth with the record in effect but not in form That all men imprisoned for treason felonie or Lollardy may come to their answers speedily The Statutes before made shall be observed That the Treasurers of the Chamber of H. 4. and H. 5. who only are accomptable to the King and not in the Exchequer may pay all due debts due upon Tallyes The King will be advised The print touching the passage over of butter and cheese cap. 4. agreeth with the record That the Justices of peace in every County may redresse all matters of sewers and touching the waters The Statutes therefore made shall be observed The print touching the concealment of Customes cap. 3. agreeth with the record That the Feoffees as buy lands of the Kings Tenants in tayl may enjoy the same against the King The King will be advised Anno Quarto Henrici Sexti Rex c. Charis Avunc suo Iohan. Duci Bedfordiae
record A motion touching the pardon of H. 5. of no great force That the Statute made Anno 3 H. 6. tit 44. touching the river of Ley may be observed with this adjunct that all Bayliffs and other Officers within the precinct of the same do attend upon the Justices and that the Justices for every of their Sessions may have like fees as Justices of peace have The Statutes therefore made shall be observed That all the Statutes touching the Staple may be confirmed and that no licenses be granted That all men may have their free passage in Dragges and Floats upon the river of Severn without any thing paying therefore The King will be advised The print touching the Commission of Sewers cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print touching the shipping of Merchants cap. 6. agreeth with the record It is enacted that the Lords of the Councell shall have power to end all petitions not ended by Parliament by the advice of the Justices Whereof sundry bills and petitions the twenty fifth day of Iune were by certain of the Lords there named in the Starr-chamber answered and endorsed Anno Octavo Henrici Sexti The Parliament holden at Westminster the day next after the Feast of St. Matthew in the Eighth year of King Henry the Sixth ON Thursday being the next day after St. Matthew the twentieth day of September before the king himself then sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct the Lords and Commons being there present Iohn Arch-Bishop of York and Chancellor of England declared learnedly the cause of the same Parliament taking for his Theam Luke 11. Quomodo stabit regnum c. The which text as to the realm of England he divided into two parts the one by way of admiration the other by way of question He noted causes three viz. want of Faith the which was the root of all vice Eò quod sine side impossibile est placere Deo the second the want of due Fear being the author of every good mind Nam qui nihil timet negliget the third for want of upright Justice being the pillar of every Kingdome namely ex Iustitia sequitur pax ex pace rerum abundantia maxime procreatur In place of which three vertues he shewed that within this realm three vices reigned namely Infidelity by errors and heresies Obstinacy instead of fear and Oppression in place of Justice Through Infidelity he shewed how Iean and the late Kingdome of Bohemia were destroyed Fear he divided into two parts the one spirituall and vertuous as fearing God and man for God the other carnall and vicious as whereby murmure and rebellion spring which procured destruction such as happened to Chore Dathan and Abiram Numb 16. He also proveth that for oppression ensued transferring of kingdomes according to Eccles. 10. regnum alienum in regnum transfertur propter inâ—usâ—icias injurias So farre to the first by way of admiration to the second by way of question He affirmed that if true Faith due Fear and upright Justice might be restored there was then no doubt but that this kingdome should flourish He further sheweth that as the Prince was bound to defend the Subjects and to keep peace so ought the Subjects to minister to the Prince liberally of their goods to the atchieving of the same to which end the same Parliament was called wherefore he willed the Commons to choose and to present their Speaker the next day unto the King Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Friday the second day of the Parliament the Commons by certain of their fellowes declared unto the Lords how they had chosen one William Allington Esquire to be their Speaker and required respite for presenting of him untill the Monday following which was granted On Monday the sixteenth of September the Commons presented before the king and Lords the aforesaid William whose excuse being refused he with the common protestation was allowed The twelfth day of December the Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King one whole Desme and one fifteen to be levyed of the laity It was enacted that the King and his Councell should treat with the Duke of Burbon touching his ransome For that the King the sixth day of November in this present year in the day of Coronation had taken upon him the protection and defence of this realm It seemeth good to the Bishops and Lords upon good advise that the name and power of Protector and Defendor granted to the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester should from the same day of Coronation utterly cease and that they the said Dukes should have the name of principall Counsellors any order to the contrary notwithstanding the which name of Protector and Defender as touching his own person the Duke of Bedford in full Parliament did release so alwayes as the same should not hurt the title of Duke of Bedford The twenty ninth day of December the Commons at the Contemplation of Henry Bishop of Winchester and new made Cardinall granted one other Desme and fifteen to be levied of the laity Note the title of the said Cardinall is as followeth Reverendissimus in Christo Pater Dominus Henricus permissione divina titl Sancti Eusebii Presbyterii Cardinalis de Anglia nuncupatus The same Commons do also grant to the King Tonnage and Poundage to continue unto the next Parliament The Chancellor by the Kings commandement declareth how that the King by the assent of the Bishops and Lords had prorogued the same Parliament from the said twentieth day of December unto the Monday next after the feast of St. Hillary then ensuing at Westminster aforesaid For that no Cardinall is to be of any Kings Councell but at his own pleasure the Bishops and Lords assented that humble request should be made to the said Cardinall to vouchsafe to be made of the Councill with this protestation that the said Cardinall should absent himself in all affaires and Councills of the King wherein the Pope or See of Rome was touched upon which request â—o made the Cardinall took upon him the same in form aforesaid The King by common consent hath given to the Lord Talbot being prisoner in France as towards his importable ransome Sir William Bircham Knight a French Prisoner if that the same Sr. William were not to be impeached for the death of the Duke of Burgundy And it
is to be noted that the said Lord Talbot served King H. 5. in France by the space of two yeares valiantly without any wages It is enacted that the Duke of Orleance the Kings Cosen then in the Keeping of Sr. Thomas Chamberworth Knight should be delivered to Sr. Iohn Cornwall Knight by him safely to be kept It is also enacted that the keeping of the Duke of Burbon should be committed to Sr. Thomas Chamberworth Knight The King by the assent of the Bishops and Lords hath granted his assent to the election of Marmaduke Lumley Bishop elect of Carlite The matters in variance between Iohn Clement Esquire and the Tenants and Commons of the County of Cardigan and Morgan Clifford against the Abbot of Stanford is committed to certain Lords there named Authority is given to the Councell to make assurances to certain of the Kings Creditors for 50000 l. It is enacted that the Treasurer and Victualler of Callice shall receive a certain quantity of Staple ware and other revenues within the same Town to the payment of souldiers there and of other reparations The twenty third of February being the last day of the Parliament the Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King for two yeares the like subsedy of wools as before The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords do shorten the payment of the latter Dism and Fifteen to the King granted Certain Articles to the number of 18 touching the Orders of the Kings Council are established by the King Bishops and Lords Amongst which I note that the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester were in Council but as any two other of the Council And this amongst other good orders I see that the 11th Article of the same willeth to all Offices and Benefices of the Kings gift such as had served him and his Father should first be preferred thereunto A goodly president to encourage Officers to serve faithfully and painfully when that their hoping be not turned to haltering All which said Articles every of the Lords of the Council whose names are there contained promised faithfully to perform Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe King revoketh a grant made to Sir Iohn St. Iohn Mayor of Burdeaux and to the Jurats of the same touching a certain imposition to be raised of Merchants coming thither The print touching riots done in the Forest of Deane cap. 27. agreeth with the record The King by his Letters Patents confirmed by Parliament granteth that the keeper of his free Chapel of St. George within the Castle of Windsor shall be from thenceforth incorporared by the name of Keeper or Dean of the said free Chapel The print touching the privilege of the Convocation-house cap. 1. agreeth with the record The print touching Denmark cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print touching the power of the Commissioners of Sewers Cap. 3. agreeth with the record in effect but not in form The print touching liveries of Cloath and Hats cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching weights c. cap. 5. agreeth not fully with the record being 26 E. 3. where the print is 25. The print touching burning of houses to be Treason cap. 6. agreeth with the record That the Statutes made that all Appeals of things done out of the realm should be tried before the Constable and Marshal of England and all done within the realm to be tryed according to the Lawes of the realm may be kept The Statutes therefore made shall be kept The print touching the election of Knights for the Shire cap. 7. agreeth with the record A motion that Sheriffs and such other Officers be not impeached by process out of the Exchequer for things not levyable The Kings Council shall have power to determine the same That all Burgesses of the Parliament may have their writ to the Sheriffs of the same Shire to levy their fees and wages The King will be advised That the Justices of the Peace may enquire of all Pyracies The King will be advised The Statutes made against breakers of truces in the 2 H. 5. extend not to the parts of Scotland The declarations made upon those petitions Anno 4 H. 5. shall be observed The like motion and answer as Anno 6 H. 6. tit 42. That all such Souldiers as passe through the realm doe pay for their victuals and lodging The King will be advised That all lands doe contribute to the payments of Knights fees coming to the Parliament except Bishops Lords and Towns who send Burgesses The King will be advised The print touching the observation of the Statute of Labourers cap. 8. agreeth with the record That no subsidy be payed for Lambs-wooll sherling and scalding but only Poundage The King will be advised The print touching forcible entries into any hereditaments c. cap. 9. agreeth with the record Besides that the Statute by the record doth not fully agree with the print The print touching processe in Indictments and Appeals cap. 10. doth not fully agree with the record The print touching taking of Apprentices in London cap. 11. agreeth with the record The print touching assigning of errors cap. 12. agreeth with the record The print touching protections for such as should passe over with the King cap. 13. agreeth with the record The print touching Felons flying into secret places cap. 14. agreeth with the record The print touching the amendment of records cap. 15. agreeth with the record The print touching Inquisitions of Escheators cap. 16. agreeth with the record One William Lake servant to William Mildred a Burgesse for London being committed to the Fleet upon an execution of debt was delivered by the privilege of the Commons house and authority given to the Chancellor to appoint certain by Commission to apprehend him after the end of the Parliament Wherein is to be noted that there is no cause to arrest any such man but for Treason Felony or the Peace A motion answered before in tit 37. The print touching shipping to the Staple cap. 17th agreeth with the record The print touching the price of Staple ware and the Mint at Callice cap. 18. agreeth with the record The print touching privy conveying of Merchandize out of the realm cap. 19. agreeth with the record The print touching the Inhabitants of Callice that use to buy Staple ware cap. 20. agreeth with the record The print touching men of Newcastle and Barwick shipping to Callice cap. 21. agreeth with the record The print touching clacking and inforcing of wools cap. 22. agreeth with
said Manor It is enacted that the Mayor of Northampton for the time being shall compell all Tenants as have any houses upon certain streets and places there named to * pay the same from time to time The office of the Baily of Winchelsey is granted to William Pope Esquire during his life It is enacted that all the Kings Council and other head Offices there named shall have yearly out of the Exchequer fees by way of reward there expressed Authority is given to the Kings Council to make assurances to the Kings Creditors for 50000 l. The print touching the Dutchesse of Clarence and other the Coheirs of the Earl of Kent cap. 11. agreeth with the record in effect but not in full form Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the prorogation of Assize cap. 11. agreeth with the record The like motion and answer as in the last Parliament tit 42. That all outlawries in Actions personal pronounced before the Statute of additions made 1 H. 5. may be pardoned The King will be advised The print touching days of payment to be given by English Merchants cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print touching the affirmation of all Judgements against Owen Glendor cap. 3. agreeth with the record That in the writ of forging of false Deeds the Venire facias may be of both Counties as well where the land doth lye as where the writ is brought The King will be advised That the Statute made Anno 7 H. 6. tit 11. touching Denmark may be utterly void and revoked The King looketh to hear from his Ambassador there and in the mean time he will be advised The same title concerneth woollen yarn of no great force The print that Executors may have Idemptitate Nominis cap. 4. agreeth with the record The Commons of Northumberland Cumberland and Westmerland and of the Bishoprick prayen that the Merchants of Newcastle may at all times buy and transport their wools The King will be aduised The print touching the free passage on Severn cap. 3. agreeth with the record That all Judgements given before Anno 1 H. 4. may be good albeit the Letter of Attorney of any person in the said Judgments be lost saving to Iohn Harper and Ellinor his wife in Fee their title in the Manor of Rowley in Staffs The King will be advised The print touching the liberty of the Borough of Dorchester cap. 6. agreeth with the record The print touching the extortion of the Sheriffs of Hereford cap. 7. agreeth with the record The print touching the weighing of Cheese cap. 8. agreeth with the record The print touching the river of Ley cap. 9. agreeth with the record The print touching Attorneys to be made by religious persons in the North cap. 10. agreeth with the record That attachments and prohibitions against Tithe of great wood may be granted to every person out of either of the Benches The King will be advised In consideration of 200 l. payed by the Merchants of the Isle of Ely to certain of the County of Cambridge to buy twenty marks land by the year It is enacted that the said Inhabitants for ever shall be discharged from paying any thing towards the fees of Knights of the Shire for Cambridgeshire That two persons in every Hundred within the realm may by Commission be appointed to search the due making of woollen Cloathes and to seal the same taking therefore one penny The King will be advised Anno Decimo Henrici Sexti Rex c. Humfrido Duci Gloucestriae c. apud Westm. decimo septimo die Maii Teste apud Westm. vicesimo quinto die Februarii IOhanni Duci Norff. Hen. Com. Northumb. Ricardo Com. Sarum Ricardo Com. Warr. Johanni Com. Oxoniae Radulpho Com. Westmerland Willielmo Com. Suff. Jacobo Berckley Chlr. Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Johanni Baroni de Graystock Chlr. Roberto Poynings Chlr. VVillo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. VVillielmo de Harrington Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni Scroope de Masham Chlr. VVillielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. VValtero Hungerford Chlr. Johanni Tibetoft Chlr. Hen. Gray de Codonore Chlr. Willielmo Fitz-hugh Chlr. Willielmo de Nevill Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Johanni de Morley Chlr. Leoni de Welles Chlr. Reginaldo West Chlr. Johanni Beamond No Lord Warden The Parliament holden at Westminster the twelfth day of May in the Tenth year of King Henry the Sixth THe same twelfth day of May in the presence of the King himself sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct within the palace of Westminster the Lords and Commons being there also present Iohn Bishop of Bath and Wells being Chancellor of England by the Kings commandment declared the cause of the Parliament taking â—or his Theam the first of Peter Deum timete Regem honorificate By which he noted two points the first a general Counsel to Princes for knowledge to learn to obey and serve God according to the words of the Prophet Nunc Reges intelligite erudimini qui judicatis terram servite Domino in timore The second a commandement to the Subjects to learn to obey and honour the Prince according to the Apostles saying Rom. 13. Omnis anima sublimioribuâ— potestatibus subdita sit non enim est potestas c. And again Reddite omnibus debita tributum cui tributum est c. The which points he learnedly enlarged with sundry authorities examples and similitudes whereby he approved that the King and Realm of England might easily attain to the top of peace and prosperity if true fear of God and honour to the Prince were in the hearts of the Subjects wherefore for the attaining thereto and suppressing such rebels as despised the right of the Church and to destroy the Ministers of the same was the one cause of the same assembly The other cause was for due execution of Laws which was salus cujuslibet Civitatis Regni And the third cause was how to inrich the Subjects who of long time have lived in great penury He further sheweth how the Kings will was that every estate should enjoy his due liberties wherefore he willeth the Commons to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him to the King accordingly Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Walts and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The second day of the Parliament the Duke
of Gloucester declared to the Bishops and Lords that the Declaration of the Commons how that the Lords meant in perfect unity to serve would encourage them to labour with effect where the said Duke promised that although he were principal Counsellor yet would he doe nothing without the assent of most of them the which unity of the Lords was the next day declared to the Commons by the Chancellor The â—ourteenth day of May the Commons presented before the King Iohn Russell Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse being refused he with the Common Protestation was allowed A grant of half a Dism and half a Fifteen A grant for one year of the Subsidy of wools and the like Tonnage and Poundage as in the last Parliament tit 24. The King releaseth the increase of the Poundage of 6 d. in every pound set upon Merchant strangers The Cardinal in full Parliament declareth that he being in Flanders in the way to Rome returned back into the realm of his own will to purge himself of a bruit that he should be a Traytor to the Realm whereof the Duke of Gloucester by the Kings Commandement purged him But the truth is as by the next title following may appear that the Cardinal having certain of the Kings Jewels in gage meant to have them brought after him which Jewels were arrested and stayed at Sandwich by the Kings commandement wherupon the Cardinal in a fustian fume came in post for the recovery of them Tonching the Jewels stayed at Sandwich as before to the great hinderance of the Cardinal this order was taken that the Cardinal should pay to the King 6000 l. more for them and lend to him 14000 l. which was done The King by the Common assent of all the Estates pardoneth to the said Cardinal all offences punishments and pains incurred by him against the Statutes of Provisors At the Petition of Ralph Lord Cromwell it was declared by the Lords that the Lord Cromwell was discharged of the office of the Kings Chamberlain not for any offence but for that it seemed good so to the Council At the Petitions of the Executors of Richard Whittington Citizen and Mercer of London all the conveyances touching the erection of Whittingtons College in London founded by the said Richard are by common consent to be confirmed At the Petition of the Clarks of the Chapel among whom King H. 5. had given 200 marks order is granted for the payment of the same At the Petition of the Commons order is taken for the payment of the fees and wages of the Kings Justices Serjeants and Attorneys It is enacted that the Prior of the Charter-house in London doe enjoy a certain ground for ever coming from Islington to their said house c. for a Conduict paying to Iohn Foreby Esq and Margery his wife 12 d. yearly and to the heirs of Margery the said Margery enjoying the herbage thereof in fee. The Kings Letters Patents made to the Abbesse of Sion for transferring themselves from the first place of erection unto another are confirmed by common consent The Kings Letters Patents made to Margaret Sernfield late the wife of Nicolas Sernfield Knight of the Manors of Bourgh and Helston in the County of Cornwall during her life confirmed by common consent Certain Accomptants of the Kings houshold by name are pardoned according to the order of the house At the Petition of Richard Duke of Yorke son of Richard brother of Edward late Duke of York and Cosen to Edmond late Earl of March shall have his livery of all the hereditaments of the said late Duke and Earl The foundation of Robert Thresk Clerk of the Chauntery of St. Anne in the Church of Thresk with licence to the Mr. of the same to purchase lands are confirmed by common consent It is enacted that certain appointed by the Feoffees of H. 5. shall of the profits of his lands in use levy 8000 l. to the payment of certain of the Kings house In the title aforesaid are to be seen as well the names of the feoffees in trust as of the Executors of King H. 5. The King createth Sir Iohn Cornwall Knight Baron of Fannhoppe and thereby to sit and enjoy the liberty of a Baronie Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching Recognizance before the Mayor of the Staple at Callice cap. 1. agreeth with the record That the Defendants in an Appeal of Mayme may make his Attorney The King will be advised The Commons of Hereford prayen that none be amerced by the Sheriffs for any presentments before him in his turn but by honest persons before the Justices in their Sessions The King will be advised That the Statute made in the 7th of H. 4. cap. 17. touching the intreating of Merchant strangers may be executed with this adjunct viz. pains on the Merchants and officers of every Town for not executing The King will be advised The print touching the election of Knights of the Parliament cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print touching the restitution of goods taken by the King of Denmark cap. 3. agreeth with the record That none be compelled to be examined in Parliament or elswhere touching his Franck Tenant The King will be advised The Commons of Cornwall prayen and have like answer as before in this year tit 31. That all such persons as have their goods taken by the Merchants of Hauns in their parts may have their remedy by action in London against the Merchants of Hauns there remaining The King will be advised That no Merchant or other be impeached for the seal of any Cloath broad or narrow after such time as the Alnager hath sealed the same and Custom paid The King will be advised A motion for speedy redress of and in the actions of all such as were or should be of the Commons house The King will be advised That all parsonages appropriated not endowing of Vicars upon the same within six moneths shall be disapproriated The King will be advised The print touching the entry of such as shall appear in the Kings Courts in proper person cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching the bringing of Stone to Callice cap. 5th is utterly against the record which repealeth the Statute therefore made in An. 21 R. 2. where the print reviveth the same A motion and device for the true making of Gascoyne wines The King will send these Petitions to the Officers of Guienne to appoint them to take order therein The Statute against the extortions of Sheriffs made Anno 9 H. 6. tit 41. is
Speaker commended the Duke of Bedford for his notable prowess done in France and namely for the battel of Vernoyle and also for his politick governance of the Realm for the which they beseech the King to require the said Duke to attend about his person wherein after consultation had with the Council the same Duke upon the Kings motion granted thereunto After the Duke of Bedford had taken upon him to be about the Kings person he required six Articles to be granted which by the King and Lords were established By these Articles being but reasonable the Duke of Bedford recovered some prerogative which the Duke of Gloucester lost by the Cardinal and Clergies means his sworn enemies Among them the least was that a Roll should be made of such as had served at any time in the wars or otherwise to the end that they should be preferred to all Offices and Benefits The sixteenth day of November in the 12 year of the King the Duke of Bedford declareth that where he and the Duke of Gloucester for their attendance as principal Counsellors had some years the fee or allowance of 8000 markes yearly and at other times 6000 markes sometimes 4000 markes some times 5000 marks he would now for his personal attendance only require after the allowance of 1000 l. a year and 500 l. for his passage and 500 l. for his repassage for his going and returning beyond the Seas the which as easie and reasonable was granted A grant of one Desme and one Fifteen to be levyed of the Laity A like grant for two yeares of Tonnage and Poundage as Anno 10 H. 6. tit 12. And a Subsidy of 53 s. 4 d. of every sack of wooll for three years Authority committed to the Council to assure the Kings Creditors for 100000 Marks Thomas Bishop of Durham prayeth that a Commission granted to the King by certain there named who by vertue thereof sat and enquired at Horton Poole being within the Connty Palatine might be revoked Whereupon Sir William Earl Knight the Kings Attorney shewed and in manner by good matter proved that the said Bishop ought to have no County Palatine neither liberties royal Of the contrary the Bishop shewed his proof The matter on both parts is well debated Notwithstanding the Judgment was that the said Inquisitions returned into the Chancery or elswhere should be void The matter is large and sheweth the foulness touching liberties in the County Palatine Ralph Lord Treasurer of England prayeth that the Estates may consider of the Kings Revenews and Charge the same Revenew being not able to supply the Charge by 35000 l. by the year that order may be taken for the Kings houshold that hee may enjoy the office as freely as any others before and that no grant do passe by the King without the knowledge of him the said Treasurer He also by three long schedules thereto annexed sheweth the particulars oâ— the whole Revenues and profits of the Crown and the charge of the same by all wayes and means the which was willed to be shewn to the Commons the which was done and all the requests aforesaid granted After this the said Lord Cromwell by another Petition sheweth how Warrants for payments were come to him for more than two years profit of the Crown wherefore he eftsoon prayeth consideration of the Kings estate and a prescription for his payment The three schedules doe solely shew the particulars of the Revenews and profits of the Crown and of all the like particular charge of the same The King by his Letters Patents confirmed by Parliament granteth to Iaquet of Luxemburge Dutchesse of Bedford that she should be Denizen The like Letters Patents are granted to Andrew Ogard Knight bornn in Denmark The like are granted to Ralph Sage born in Normandy Iohn Earl of Somerset prisoner in France sheweth how H. 4. gave to Iohn Earl of Somerset his Father in fee all the Manors and hereditaments of Owen Glendor in Northwales and Southwales that Iohn Skydmore Knight and Alice his wife daughter and heir of the said Owen by colour of an old intail brought their Formedon for the Manors of Glendor and Kenthlith in South-wales he therefore prayeth that they and all others may be fore-barred to bring any action for any the hereditaments aforesaid other than their petition in the Kings Bench to be returnable The which is granted It is enacted that the Statute made Anno 4 H. 4. that no English man should marry with any of the Amity or Alliance of Owen Glendor should be kept and that all Letters Patents made to the contrary should be void At the Petition of Thomas Gower and Ioane his wife the which Ioane was born in Alanson in France It is enacted that all the children between them should be Denizens Iohn Earl of Arundel being in the Kings service beyond the Seas by his Petition prayeth to be admitted to his place in Parliament and Council as Earl of Arundel according as he and his Ancestors Earls of Arundel Lords of the Castle Honour and Seignory of Arundel by reason of the said Castle Honour and Seigniory had and ought to have To this Iohn Duke of Norfolk being within age and the Kings VVard by Petition answered that the abovesaid Iohn Lord Montrevers ought neither to have the place nor Seigniory aforesaid for as much as they both belonged to the said Duke wherefore he prayeth that the said sute may stay till his full age After this the Counsel of the Earl of Arundel by order of the Lords exhibited and proved by writing the title of the said Earl by force of an entayl Whereupon the King by assent of the Lords for the causes of the Earl first declared restoreth to him the dignity and place of Arundel At the Petition of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester whom H. 5. had created Earl of Pembroke and Duke of Gloucester only during the life of the said Duke and for them both had granted to him 58 l. yearly the King by authority of Parliament granteth to the said Duke the said Title and dignity and 60 l. to him and his heirs males of his body lawfully begotten and the Priory of Pembroke being an Alien to him during his life At the request of Hartonkevan Cluxt Knight to whom King H. 4. had granted 50 l. yearly during his life out of the Priory of Pembroke in Wales an Alien The King by the assent of the Lords confirmeth the same At the request of the Commons it is enacted that the Port of Melcombe shall be removed to Poole and that Melcombe be no longer a Port that the Mayor of Poole may wall the Town
pinct and in the presence of the Lords and Commons declared the cause of the Parliament taking for his Theam Soliciti sitis servare unitatem Spiritus in vinculo pacis Upon which amongst other things he shewed how the Duke of Burgundie who was sworn to the King and his father revolted and unwitting to the King or the Councel had appointed a Diet or sitting at Aras where two Cardinals came touching a peace between the King and the French He sheweth how the King sent noble Ambassadours thither who there made reasonable and mean offers the which the French refused and offered only scoffs whereby nothing being therein done the Diet brake up After which it was given the King to understand that the said Duke of Burgundy had entred into league with the French so as the same remained to the King who must either leave or lose his title stile and kingdom of France or else to defend the same with force VVherein how to take the best way was the cause of that Assembly to which end he wished the Lords to appoint themselves and the Commons to choose and the next day to present to the King their Speaker Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The thirteenth day of October the Commons presented to the King Iohn Bowes Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse refused he with the common protestation was allowed Authority is given to the Kings Councel to make assurances to the Kings Creditors for 100000 l. By Indenture dated between the King and the Duke of Gloucester the King for 9 years committed the keeping of the Town and Castle of Callice the Tower of Rishanke the Castle of Hames and Guynes with all other the Kings Dominions there wherein are appointed the numbers of men for every peece the Officers and their fees and wages the which indenture was confirmed by the Lords Assurance by the Kings Letters Patents is made to William Eskfield Hamon Sutton and Hugh Dicke for 8000 marks sent by them to the King of the revenues of the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Arundel being dead A Subsidie granted to the King viz. That every person having any frank Tenement in Lands Annuities Fees Offices or Hereditaments above five pound yearly to pay for every pound six pence upon his Oath A Desme and one fifteen is also granted to the King to be levyed of the laity deducting thereof 4000 l. to the relief of decayed Towns and Villages A Subsidie of 33 s. 4. d. of Merchants Denisons and of 46 s. 8 d. of Aliens for every sack of Wool and so according to the rate for other Staple ware is granted to the King and for two years Tonnage and Poundage The 3d. day of November the Bishop of Duresm in full Parliament delivered to the Cardinal and other the Feoffees of H. 5. Letters Patents of the said King under the great and privy Seals declaring the use of the same his feoffment Thomas Rampston Knight Prisoner to the Lords of Guyngain in France and fined at 18000 Escutes of gold whereof he payed 9000. Prayeth the delivery of William Botiler Esquire of France prisoner to the Durchesse of Clarence and others the which for his redemption is granted A pardon is granted to William Marfoot Mariner of Winchelsey for breaking the Castle of Dover Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe Print touching Judgements and Felonies agreeth with the Record The print against licenses for shipping of wools Cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print for the Sessions to be kept at Carlile cap. 3. agreeth with the record The print touching the Sessions in Middlesex cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching the shiping to the Staple cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print touching Aliens Victualers by retail cap. 6. agreeth with the record The print touching prizes upon the Seas cap. 7. agreeth with the record That no writ be sent out of the Exchequer against any man for any debt payed on pain that the Officer do lose his Office and make fine at the Kings pleasure The King will be advised That no Boat or Barge or other Vessel be forfeited as a Deodand for the misadventure or death of any man therein The Customs heretofore used shall be kept That the Easterlings may no longer enjoy their liberties since the English Merchants cannot enjoy theirs in Iceland The King will be advised The print touching safe conducts cap. 8. agreeth with the record That no religious person Alien be Collector of Desmes The King will be advised Anno Decimo Quinto Henrici Sexti Rex c. Humf. Duci Gloucest c. apud Cantabridg Vicesimo primo die Ianuarii Teste apud VVestm Vicesimo nono die Octobris JOhanni Duci Norfolk Hen. Com. Northumb. Ricardo Com. VVarr Johanni Com. Oxoniae Johanni Com. Huntington Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Radulpho Com. Stafford Tho. Com. Devon Jacobo Berckley Chlr. VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Radulpho Baroni de Graystock Chlr. Roberto Poynings Chlr. Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Willielmo de Harrington Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. VVillielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. VValtero Hungerford Chlr. Johanni Tiptoft Chlr. Henrico Gray de Codonore Chlr. VVillielmo Fitz-Hugh Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Lionell de Welles Chrl. Reginaldo VVest Chlr. Johanni Beomont Chlr. Iohanni Cromwell Chlr. Roberto Willoughbie Chlr. Hen. Bourchier Chlr. ParIiamentum Continuat Vicessimo primo die Ianuarii Teste Rege apud Westm. Decimo die Decembris HUmfrey Duke of Gloucester John Duke of Norfolk Hen. Earl of Northumberland Richard Earl of Warwick John Earl of Oxford John Earl of Huntington Ralph Earl of Westmerland Humfrey Earl of Stafford Tho. Earl of Devon James Berckley Chlr. VVilliam Ferrers de Grobie Chlr. Reynald Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Richard Strange Chlr. George Latimer Chlr. Ralph Baron de Graystocke Chlr. Robert Poynings Chlr. VVilliam Botreaux Chlr. William Harrington Chlr. Tho Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. James Audley Chlr. Ralph Cromwell Chlr. John de Scroop Chlr. William Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. VValter Hungerford Chlr. John Tiptoft Chlr. Henry Gray de Codonore Chlr. Robert Willoughbie Chlr. William Fitz-hugh Chlr. William Nevell Chlr. William Lovell Chlr. Leonard Welles Chlr. Reynald VVest Chlr. Johanni Beomont Chlr. Henry Bourchier Chlr. John Cromwell Chlr. Thomas Clifford Chlr. The Parliament holden at VVestminster the one and twentieth of Ianuary
in the fifteenth year of King Henry the sixth IOhn Bishop of Bath and Wells Chancellor of England in the presence of the King Lords and Commons by the Kings commandement declared the cause of the Parliament and took for his Theam Isa. 62. Corona Regni in manu dei c. Whereupon he shewed that three sorts of men are Crowned viz. All Christians in their baptism in token whereof they are anointed All Clerks in token of their order are shaven in token thereof All Kings in their Coronation in token whereof they wear a Crown of gold set with flowers and precious stones By the figure of the Crown he resembleth to the politique government by the flowers and stones the honours and office of a Prince as gold estimable and durable So that a Common-wealth is most firm and stable which is governed in the faithfull care of a Prince as gold is flexible to the workmen so ought every Commonalty to be at the beck of the Prince seeking the prosperity of the same The erecting and standing of the flowers in the upper part of the Crown pretendeth the Kings preheminency over the Subjects the which ought to be garnished with four Cardinal vertues viz. In the fore part ought to be Wisdom adorned with three precious stones viz. Memory of things past Circumspection to things present and Prudence of things to come On the right hand ought to be Fortitude accompanied with Courage in attempting Patience in suffering and Perseverance in well meaning On the left side ought to be Justice distributing her Arms in triple sort viz. to the best mean and lowest On the hinder part ought to be Temperance with her Trinity viz. Restraint of sensuality in fear Silence in speech and Mortification in will all which proceeding from God fully approved that the Crown of the King was in the hands of God He therefore sheweth that the same Parliament was called for three principal causes The first for Justice and Peace amongst the Subjects The second how the Commodities growing within this realm might have a ready Vent The third how the realm might be defended and the Sea kept against the Enemies and Rebels To which end he willed the Commons to choose and the next day to present their Speaker to the King Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The Commons presented to the King Sir Iohn Tirrell Knight to be their Speaker whose excuse being refused he with the common protestation was allowed An authority is given to the Treasurer of England to pay to the Cardinal 2000 Marks The Duke of Gloucester Captain of Callice prayeth that if any mishap should happen to Callice for want of payment of the souldiers the same may not be imputed unto him At the request of Sir Iohn Cromwell Knight Lord of Fanhope the Prior and Covent of the Friers Preachers within Ludgate are incorporated to whom the said Lord granted 40. marks yearly for an Obbit in a Chapel of his own erection there called Cornwall Chapel At the Petition of Isabel late wife of Iohn Botler of Beansley in the County of Lancaster Knight the which Isabel one William Pull of Winall in the County of Chester Gentleman shamefully did ravish It is enacted that if the said William doe not yield himself after Proclamation made against him that he should be taken as a Traytor attainted The same Isabel by another Petition sheweth how the said William by duresse and means of imprisonment enforced her to mary him and by colour thereof ravished her for the which she prayeth her appeal which to her is granted Richard Widonell Knight payeth to the King 1000 l. for a Fine for marrying of Iaquett Dutchesse of Bedford without license The King by Letters Patents confirmed by Parliament granteth licence to the Duke of Gloucester and Ellinor his wife to impark 200 Acres of land in Greenwich and that their Manor of Greenwich they may embattle and build with stone and also make a Tower of Stone within the same Park At the Petition of the same Duke it is enacted that if the Customs of Callice shall not suffice to pay the Souldiers their wages that the Treasurer of England shall pay the same Iohn Earl of Oxford prayeth the pardon of 300 l. the rest of 3000 l. paid to the King for marying without licence It was answered that the same debt was assigned but otherwayes the King would remember him Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the Marshall and Kings Steward of his house cap. 1. agreeth with the record The print touching the carriage of Corn over the Seas cap. 2. agreeth with the record That the Impositions of 4 d. for every 20 s. of Merchandize paid to the officers of Bourdeaux may cease The King will be advised That the Justices may determine the treasons for burning of houses made Anno 8 H. 6. The King will be advised The print touching the Clause Vidimus in a safe-conduct cap. 3. agreeth with the record The print touching Suerties upon writs of Subpoena cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching VVrits of Attaint cap. 5. agreeth with the record The 19th day of March certain of the Commons being sent declared to the King that the Commons had newly chosen William Beerly Esquire to be their Speaker for that Sir Iohn Tirrell by grievous sicknesse could not attend whereupon the King allowed the same William and granted that he should enjoy the common protestation The like Desme and fifteen is granted as in the last Parliament tit 14. The like Subsidie of Wools for three years is granted as in the last Parliament tit 19. Authority is given to the Kings Councell to make assurances to the Kings Creditors for the sum of 100000 l. The Kings general pardon of all Treasons felonies forfeitures and other offences VVhere Katherine Queen of England the Kings mother was dead and had made the King sole Executor the King appointeth Roberâ— Ralston Clerk keeper of the great Wardrobe Iohn Merston and Richard Alreed Esquires to execute the said Queens will by the oversight of the Cardinal the Duke of Gloucester and the Bishop of Lincoln or any two of them to whom they should accompt Authority is given to the Lords of the Councel to answer all such Petitions as are not answered in the Parliament After which viz. the second of Iune these Bills were read and answered by certain of
the Lords there named in the Star-chamber The print touching Guilds and Fraternities cap. 6. agreeth with the record The print touching the Wapentake of Stancliffe in Yorkshire cap. 7. agreeth with the record The print touching the carriage of Staple wares not Customed cap. 8. agreeth with the record Upon a private Petition of Iohn Norton and Walter Norton of Bristol Gent. against Thomas Stamford being condemned at their Sute in 400 marks he might therefore continue prisoner in the Fleet and not in the Kings Bench which was granted Anno Decimo Octavo Henrici Sexti Rex c. Humfrido Duci Gloucestriae apud VVestm Cro. Martini c. Teste apud Gilford vicessimo sexto die Septembris RIcardo Duci Ebor. Johanni Duci Norfolk Hen. Com. Northumb. Johanni Com. Oxoniae Radulpho Com. Westmerland Humfrido Com. Stafford Johanni Com. Somerset Tho. Com. Devon Jacobo de Berckley Chlr. Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Johanni Tiptoft Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Radulpho Baroni de Graystock Chlr. Roberto Poynings Chlr. VVill. Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. VVill. de Harrington Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho de Cromwell Chlr. Johanni le Scroope de Masham Chlr. Willielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. VValtero Hungerford Chlr. Hen. Gray de Codonore Chlr. Willielmo Fitz-hugh Chlr. Willielmo de Nevill Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Lionelli de Welles Chlr. Reginaldo West Chlr. Johanni Beamont Chlr. Johanni Cornwall Chlr. Henrico Bourchier Chlr. Roberto Willoughby Chlr. No Lord Warden The Parliament holden at Westminster the morrow after St. Martin in the Eighteenth year of King Henry the Sixth THe Bishop of Bath and Wells in the presence of the King Lords and Commons by the Kings commandment declared the cause of the Parliament and took for his Theam Matth. 2. Adaperiat Dominus Cor nostrum in lege suà in praeceptis suis faciat pacem c. Wherin he gathered two special points The first What great desire every Christian ought to have to the reformation of this life by the only means of God who against all hardness was to bend and incline his heart to his Laws and Commandements The second what thirst every sick Christian ought to have to crave and seek peace after his manifold conflicts and Battails in this world Touching the first that God should open the heart and not the hearts sith that the words were spoken to the Children of Israel he noted thereby was meant a mystical unity according to the 2 Iudic. Convenit universus Israel ad Civitatem quasi homo unus eademque mente unoque consilio which being spoken unto them was left for our learning that we might follow the same and might attain to true peace To the 2d by that word Israel is understood their estates namely of the Prince of Nobles or power and of wisdom all which if they the same agreed in unity there was no doubt but peace of body and soul would ensue For the atchieving whereof he affirmed the same Parliament to be called and remembring them that the King would all estates to enjoy their liberties he willed the Commons to choose and the next day to present their Speaker to the King Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The second day of the Parliament the Commons notified to the Lords the election of their Speaker The third day of the Parliament the Commons presented to the King William Tresham Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse refused he with the common protestation was allowed The one and twentieth day of the December the Chancellour by the Kings commandment declared to the Lords and Commons how that the King had prorogued the Parliament from the same day unto the day after St. Hilary at the Town of Reding to be holden One Desme and one Fifteen and one half of one fifteen is granted to belevied of the Laity in such form as Anno 4 H. 6. tit 13. A Subsidy of Wools granted to the King for 3 years as Anno 14 H. 6. tit 14. only there was six shillings eight pence raised upon the Aliens Tonnage and Poundage The Commons also granted to the King that all Aliens not Denizens within the Realm shall pay unto the King yearly sixteen pence being an Housholder and being none six pence There is authority given to the Treasurer of England and others to make assurance to the Kings Creditors for 100000 l. An order is taken for the payment of the Kings debts for the provision of his houshold There is authority committed to the Kings Council to take order touching Purveyors For that Gilbert Hore Sheriff for the County of Cambridge had made no return for the Knights of the said County it was ordered that he should goe to a new election and make proclamation that no person should come armed thereunto The King requireth the Feoffees of H. 5. namely the Cardinal and others of the whole Dutchy of Lancaster to make payment of such debts as were due for the charges of his houshold The Cardinal granteth thereunto but upon such reasonable conditions as is marvellous to see It is enacted by the whole Estates that the Lords of the Kings Council shall take such Order for the Petition of the men of Plymouth as to them shall seem best For the payment of 9 l. 3 s. 4 d. by the Master of Corpus Christi Chapel in St. Laurence Poultney given by Sir Iohn Poultney Knight to a Chantery in Pauls and for 20 l. yearly by the Master to the three massing priests in Pauls the like remedy is granted to the Dean of Pauls and Mayor of London as Anno 9. H. 6. tit 16. Debate was between the Dean of Lincoln on the one party and the Chapter of the same on the other party either of them bound themselves to abide the order of the Bishop of Lincoln the Bishop made an order that if any singular person break any of the orders he should pay 20 l. to the reparation of Lincoln Church now therefore it is enacted that for every such breach the Bishop and his Successors shall recover the same 20 l. by action of debt The Kings Letters Patents made to the Prior and Covent of St. Oswalds of Mostell in the Dutchy of Lancaster of the Advowson of the Hospitall of St. Nicolls in Pontfract and license to appropriate the same are confirmed by the whole Estates The Archbishop of Roan to whom the Pope at the death of the Bishop
of Ely by his Bulls had granted to the said Archbishop during all his life all the profits of the said Bishoprick by the name of Administrator of the said Bishoprick sheweth his Bull to the King who utterly rejecteth those Bulls notwithstanding for his service done in France the King granteth him the Administration aforesaid the which to all intents of the petition of the said Archbishop are confirmed to be of as great force as though he were Bishop touching profits liberties and abilities It is enacted that the heires of Henry Percie and Thomas Percie late Earl of Worcester the heir of Henry Percie late Earl of Northumberland the heires of the late Lord Bardolfe or the heires of any other attainted who were at the battel of Shrewsbury shall not be debarred of any lands intailed to them or to any their Ancestors but that they and every of them shall have their due recovery therefore any Judgement in the 5. or 7. H. 4. to the contrary notwithstanding A Merchant of Florence was severally indebted 3000 l. to the Bishops of St. Davids and Lincoln and to the Prior of Ierusalem the which Merchant died intestate the King by his Letters Patents made to the said Bishops and Prior granteth that the Administrator of the said Merchant shall first pay or the said Bishops and Prior and there wills to be sworn and none before the which Letters Patents are confirmed by common consent At the petition of the Iustices it is enacted that all the Iustices of both the Benches Iustices of Assize the Kings Serjeant and Attorny shall yearly at two feasts of the year there expressed be payed and allowed their fees and liveries by the hands of the Clark of the Hanaper for the time being out of the Customes of London Bristow and Kingston upon Hull Margaret the late wife of Sr. Thomas Malcfunt Knight made the like complaint against Lewis Layson otherwise Gethey a Welchman as is contained in An. 15. H. 6. tit 14. 15. against whom the like order is taken as there is taken only where the rape was committed in Wales it is enacted that the same be tried in Somerset William ap Gillin ap Griffith a Welchman is made a Denizon so as he marry no Welsh woman nor bear any office in VVales William Attlone and other Tenants of the Castle and Honour of Tutburie in Darby parcell of the Dutchy of Lancaster complain that by ryot done by Piercie Venables Gent. and many others with him they took away one Ioan Forman who was committed to prison to the keeping of the said William whereupon order was taken that certain Justices should determine the same At the like complaint of Iohn Stuch of the County of Salop made against Philip Egerton the like order is taken Liberties granted by the Kings Letters Patents and confirmed by the whole assent of Parliament with the limit of the same very large excepting that the same do not extend to the Mannor of Tremerton the Borrow of Salterish to the water of Tamer A petition of Iohn Earl of Sommerset Edmund Earl of Dorset Margaret Countesse of Devon Iohn Carpenter and Iohn Bugebrook Executors to Margaret Dutchesse of Clarence to no great purpose The King by common consent confirmed to the Prior and Covent of Mountgrace in the County of York the Mannor and Town of Beadelby given to them by the Duke of Surry There is authority given to the Councell to take order touching 15 s. to be payed yearly by the Prior of Ierusalem to the King for two forges in Fleetstreet Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching warrants for Letters Patents cap. 15. agreeth with the record The print touching Juryes in Attaint cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print touching Merchandize forein bought and forein sold cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching Collectors of Tenths cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print touching lands to be let to him that traverseth any office cap. 6. agreeth with the record The print touching returning of offices by Escheators cap. 7. agreeth with the record That no man do pay any fines for Alienations for lands holden of the King as of his Dutchy of Cornwall neither that other lands holden of other persons be not seized into the Kings hands where any heir holding of the Dutchie be within age The King will be advised That no person once making fine for not being Knight be never after called thereto again and that the fines be not other than they have been The King will be advised The print touching the taking of the Spanish ships on the Seas cap. 8. agreeth with the record The Print touching enterie of the Filiser and Exigenter cap. 9 agreeth with the record The print touching the Commissioners of Sewers cap. 10. agreeth with the record The print touching Justices of Peace to have twenty pounds land cap. 11. agreeth with the record The print touching Indictments cap. 12. agreeth with the record The print touching outlawries in the County of Lancaster cap. 13. agreeth with the record That every Merchant may lawfully transport all manner of Hides Calves skins Connie fells and tallow to what place him liketh otherwise than to Callice The king will be advised The print touching arrays and panels cap. 14. agreeth with the record That no owner of any ship be impeached for any hurt done by his ship to any other ship on the Sea or in any Port or Creek if he were not party thereto The King will be advised Whereby all writs all the records of the Kings Bench and Common pleas in the time of E. 3. R. 2. H. 4. and H. 5. were brought into the Treasurie at Westminster They require that the same may be broâ—ght into both the Benches again The King will be advised The print touching transporting wools to Callice cap. 15. agreeth with the record The print against deceipt in cloath-making cap. 16. agreeth with the record The print touching the gaging of vessels of VVine and Oyl cap. 17. agreeth with the record That every Customer and Comptroller of every port may licence the Kings Subjects to transport Corn from one shire or Town to any other taking surety of debt the to value that the same be not carried beyond the Seas The King will be advised In consideration of the great plague of Pestilence it was enacted that all such persons as should doe their homage to the King should doe the same without kissing of him and the same homage to bee as good as though they kissed him By this it appears that the order of homage done in
those times far doth swarve from the guise now which is so far from kissing the Prince as in doing the same they do not so much as see the Prince That no Italian or other Merchant beyond the Streight of Moroccoe bring no other Merchandise within the Realm other than are growing in the same their Countries and that for good reasons in the record The King will be advised That all spiceries sold in any Port within the realm by any Merchants strangers be as clear garbelled as the same is in London upon pain to forfeit the same The King will be advised It is enacted that the fourth part of the Desme and fifteenth shall be payed to the Treasurer of the Kings houshould therewith all to make ready pay for the Kings purveyance And by the same Act it appeareth that the Revennues of the Dutchies of Lancaster and Cornwall should be imployed to the present payment of the kings purveyance for the houshold The print touching Captaiâ—s abating of Souldiers wages cap. 18. agreeth with the record The print touching souldiers going away from their Captains cap. 19. agreeth with the record Of the print cap. 3. for transporting of butter and cheese there is no mention made in the record Anno Decimo Octavo Henrici Sexti HUmfrey Duke of Gloucester Richard Duke of York John Duke of Norfolk Hen. Earl of Northumberland John Earl of Oxford Ralph Earl of Westmerland Humfrey Earl of Stafford John Earl of Somerset Tho. Earl of Devon James Lo. Berckley VVilliam Lo. Ferrers of Grobie Leonard Lo. Gray of Ruthin Richard Lo. Strange George Lo. Latimer Ralph Lo. Graystockeâ— Robert Lo. Poynings VVilliam Lo. Botreaux Thomas Lo. Dacre of Gilsland VVilliam Lo. Harrington John Lo. Audley Ralph Lo. Cromwell John Lo. Scroop of Masham William Lo. Zouch of Harringworth VValter Lo. Hungerford John Lo. Tiptoft Henry Lo. Gray of Codonore Robert Lo. Willoughbie William Lo. Fitz-hugh William Lo. Nevell William Lo. Lovell Leonard Lo. Welles Reynald VVest Chlr. John Lo. Beomont John Lo. Cromwell Henry Lo. Bourchier Thomas Lo. Clifford Anno Vicessimo Henrici Sexti Rex Humf. Duci Gloucest c. apud Westm. die Conversionis Sancti Pauli Teste apud Manerium nostrum de Schens tertio die Decembris RIcardo Duci Ebor. Johanni Duci Norsolk Johanni Com. Huntington Hen. Com. Northumb. Humâ—rido Com. Stafford Tho. Com. Devon Willielmo Com. Arundel Iohanni Com. Somerset Edoardo Com. Dorset Radul Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Sarum Johanni Com. Oxoniae Willielmo Com. Suffolciae Jacobo Berckley Chlr. VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Edoardo de Gray de Râ—thin Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Johanni Tiptoâ—t Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Roberto Poynings Chlr. Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni de Scroop de Masham Chlr. VVillielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. VValtero Hungerford Chlr. Johanni Gray de Codonore Chlr. VVillielmo Fitz-Hugh Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Johanni Vicimetio de Beamont Chlr. Leonardo de VVelles Chlr. Johanni Cornwalliae Chlr. Roberto Willoughbie Chlr. Iohanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. Radulpho de Boteler Chlr. Iohanni de Clifford Chlr. Roberto Morley Chrl. No Lord VVarden Anno Vicessimo Tertio Henrici Sexti Rex c. Humfrido Duci Gloucestriae apud VVestm vicessimo quinto die Februarii Teste apud VVestm decimo tertio die Ianuarri RIcardo Duci Ebor. Iohanni Duci Norfolciae Joh. Duci Oxoniae Humf. Duci Buckingham Edoardo Marchioni Dorset Willielmo Marchioni Suffolciae Hen. Com. Northumb. Tho. Com. Devon VVillielmo Com. Arundell Roberto Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Sarum Johanni Com. Oxoniae Iohanni Com. Salopiae Johanni Vicecomiti Beamont Chlr. Jacobo Berckley Chlr. VVillielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Edoardo de Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Roberto Poynings Chlr. VVillielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni de Scroop de Masham Chlr. Willielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. Waltero Hungerford Chlr. Willielmo Fitz-Hugh Chlr. Hen. de Scroop de Bolton Chlr. VVillielmo de Nevill Chlr. Willielmo de Lovell Chlr. Lionelli de Welles Chlr. Roberto Willoughby Chlr. Iohanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. Radulpho Butler de Sutley Chlr. Tho. de Clifford Chlr. Hen. Bourchier Chlr. de Bourchier Edoardo Brooke de Cobham Chlr. Iohanni Talbot de Lilsle Chlr. Tho. de Scales Milit. Reginaldo Gray de VVilton Chlr. Roberto Hungerford Chlr. Domino de Mollins No Lord Warden named The Parliament holden at Westminster the twenty fifth day of February in the three and twentienth year of King Henry the Sixth IN the presence of the King sitting in person in the Chair of Estate and of the Lords and Commons Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of all England Deputy of the See of Rome and Chancellor of England declared the cause of the calling of the Parliament taking for his Theam Iustitia Pax osculatae Psal. 84. Upon which he sheweth how that through the great travell of the Earl of Suffolk the Kings dear Cozen and other Noblemen Ambassadors sent into France as well for a treaty of mariage to be had between the King and Margaret the daughter of the King of Sicile as for peace to be had between the realms of England and France the same Mariage was contracted and an abstaining from Warr for a time was granted He further shewed how that the said Earl remained in France attending for the safe conducting of the said Princesse Margaret into the realm of England by which two means through Gods grace he nothing doubted but that the same truce should turn in that wise as Justice and peace should be within the realm more than the same hath been wherefore he willed the Commons to chuse and the next day to present to the King their Speaker Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The second day of the Parliament the Commons report to the Lords that they had chosen their Speaker The third day of the Parliament the Commons presented unto the King William Burley Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse rejected he with the common Protestation was allowed The fifteenth day of March the Chancellor by the Kings commandement and assent of the Lords in the presence of the Commons prorogued the Parliament from that day unto the nineteenth day of April next ensuing at Westminster aforesaid The fifteenth day of December in the twenty fourth year c. the Chancellour prorogued the same Parliament from the same day unto
the twenty fourth of Ianuary ensuing at Westminster An Act that the Merchants of Ieane shall not pay any Escuage to the City of London for any the Merchandizes brought from Southampton to London by land The grant of half a tenth and half a fifteen excepting 2000 l. to be allowed to certain poor Townes by name The grant of a tenth and of a fifteen except 3000 l. to certain Towns wasted A subsedy of wools of 34 s. 4 d. of Denisons and 53 s. of Aliens for every sack of wool c. is granted to the King for four yeares Tonnage and Poundage of Denisons and double of Aliens The Kings Letters Patents under the great seal of England and under the seal of the Dutchie of Lancaster made to Iohn Cardinall and Archbishop of Canterbury and sundry others of sundry the possessions of the said Dutchie of Lancaster and three other Letters Patents under the only seal of the Dutchy of Lancaster made to the persons aforesaid of sundry possessions to the performance of the last Will and Testament of the said King are confirmed by the whole estate The fourth day of Iune the Speaker on the behalf of the Commons made to the King especiall commendation of the person and manifold services of the Marquesse and Earl of Suffolk and namely of the marriage of the King and abstinence of warr with the French for all which at the request of the Commons and mediation of the Lords it is enacted that the said Marquesse should be holden a most true and faithfull Subject The Declaration of the said Marquesse of his services and request to the effect aforesaid made the second day of Iune in Anno 23. to the King Lords and Commons on the which the Declaration aforesaid was enacted At the petition of the Mr. and Brethren of the house or Hospitall of St. Thomas the Martyr of Acres in the City of London by whole assent they are incorporated by the same name and certain houses in London are to them confirmed The Kings Letters Patents of the Erection and Donation of the College of Eaton founded Anno 20. H. 6. with all the lands and liberties then and now granted and especially declared and confirmed by the whole estates The like Letters Patents of the Kings made for the erection and donation of the Colledge in Cambridge are confirmed The ninth day of April An. 24. the Chancellor of England in the name of all the Lords in the presence of the King protesteth that the peace which the King had taken with the French King was of his own motion and will and not any of the Lords provocations the which is enacted It is enacted that a Statute made in the time of H. 5. that no peace should be taken with the French King that now is that then was called by the name of Dolphin of France without the assent of the three estates of both realms should be utterly revoked and that no person for giving Counsell to the peace with France be at any time to come impeached therefore Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching Purveyors cap. 1. 2. agreeth with the record That all the Statutes touching Welshmen be observed and that none of them be made Denisons or enjoy any office in Wales and that none of them stand to the contrary on pain of 200 marks The Statutes made in the time of H. 4. or H. 5. shall therein be observed The print touching shipping of thrums c. cap. 3. agreeth with the record That no Stapler have any voice at the election of any Mayor or Constable of the Staple unlesse he have goods coquetted in Callice to the number of 10. sacks The King will be advised The print touching the true making of Worsteeds cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching the taking of outlawes repairing into Herreford cap. 5. agreeth with the record Robert Sherborn of London Draper sheweth that whereas one Ienicogh a Welshman remained in the Kings Bench in execution for debt due to him and by collusion to defraud him procured himself to be appealed of a felonie whereby he was condemned and had his Clergie and was in the Abbots prison at Westminster for the same That the Justices of the Kings Bench might have power by writ to remove and lay his body untill the debt were satisfied and the Abbot to deliver the body on pain to answer the debt which was granted The print touching the shipping of corn cap. 6. agreeth with the record The print touching the gathering of head-pence by the Sheriff of Northampton cap. 7. agreeth with the record The print touching the exercise of the Sheriffs office cap. 8. agreeth with the record An act for Coyning and making current half pence and farthings to endure for two yeares The print touching the Commissioners of Sewers cap. 9. agreeth with the record That no man be indicted of any indictment or appeal in a forein County except the Plaintiff appeal and exigent be awarded into the County where the party was supposed to dwell The King will be advised The print touching the extortion of Sheriffs cap. 10. agreeth with the record The print touching levying of wages for the Knights of the Parliament cap. 11. agreeth c. That every person being of the Lords or Commons house having any assault or fray made upon him being at the Parliament or coming from thence may have the like remedy therefore as Sr. Thamas Parr Knight had The Statutes therefore made shall be observed A motion that one John Balton who most shamefully murdered Isabell the wife of Roger Bakewell and by becoming an approver was pardoned of felony might notwithstanding be executed No answer was made thereto The print touching the wages of servants of husbandry cap. 13. agreeth with the record The print touching forein pleas pleaded after issue joyned cap. 13. agreeth with the record That all Gascoyne wines may come down to the Ports of Bayon and Burdeaux and that all English merchants may freely buy and sell the same The King will be advised A long advise for the making and full measure of Gascoyne wines The King will be advised The print against Purveyors cap. 14. agreeth with the record The print touching the election of Knights of the Parliament cap. 15. agreeth with the record The print touching Gaging pence to the Gaingeor cap. 16. agreeth with the record The print touching the inquests and fees of the Escheators cap. 17. agreeth with the record The print touching buying of wines of the higher Country cap. 18. agreeth with the record Anno Vicesimo Quinto Henrici
Ordinary or of the Archbishop of Canterbury That the taking of Distresses by Welshmen and carrying them into another Lordship may be felony The King will be advised Advice from the true serving of the Processe awarded Anno 8 H. 6. tit 50. That the Statutes made at Leicester in the 22. year of King H. 5. cap. 6. may be repealed The King will be advised The print touching Welshmen cap. unico agreeth with the record A motion for payment of certain of the Kings debts of houshold to no great purpose That for distresse taken given or put away so as the owner may not come thereby the owner may in Action of trespass recover treble damages The King will be advised Anno Vicessimo Septimo Henrici Sexti Rex Ricardo Duci Eborum c. apud VVestm duodecimo die Februarii Teste apud VVestm secundo die Ianuarii WIllielmo Duci Suffolciae Iohanni Duci Norfolciae Humf. Duci Buckinghamiae Hen. Com. Northumb. Tho. Com. Devon VVillielmo Com. Arundell Radulph Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Sarum Johanni Com. Oxoniae Johanni Vicecomiti Beamont Jacobo Berckley Chlr. Edoardo de Gray Milit. Domino de Ferrariis de Grobie Edoardo Gray de Ruthin Milit Ricardo Strange Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Hen. Percie Domino de Poynings Chlr. VVillielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Johanni Beauchamp Milit. Domino de Beauchamp Jacobo de Fynes Milit. Domino de la et de lebe Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho de Cromwell Chlr. Johanni de Scroop de Masham Chlr. Willielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. Waltero Hungerford Chlr. Willielmo Fitz-Hugh Chlr. Hen. de Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Willielmo de Lovell Chlr. Lionelli de Welles Chlr. Roberto de Willoughby Chlr. Iohanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. Radulpho Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Tho. de Clifford Chlr. Hen. Vicecom Bourchier Chlr. Edoardo Brooke de Cobham Chlr. Iohanni Talbot de Lisle Reginaldo West Chlr. Tho. de Sâ—ales Chlr. Reginal Gray de VVilton Chlr. Johanni Surton Milit. Ricardo Wodvill Milit. Dom. de Rivers Tho. Hore Chlr. Tho. Domino de Roos Roberto Hungerford Milit. Domino de Mollins VVillielmo Bourchier Milit. Dom. Fitzwarren Willielmo Beauchamp Dom. de Sancto Amando Teste Rege apud Westmonast vicessâ—mo secundo die Maii. No Lord Warden named Rex dilecto sidelissimo Henrico Bromfleet Milit. salutem Cum c. ut supra usque ibi tractatum tum sic vobis in fide legiantia quibus nobis tenemini c. ut supra urgen tunc volumus cum vos urgen vestios haeredes masculos de corpore vestro legitime exeuntes Barones de Vessey existere Teste Rege apud Westm. Vicesimo quarto die Ianuarii The Parliament holden at Westminster the twelfth day of February in the twenty seventh year of the reign of King Henry the Sixth ON Wednesday the twelfth day of February in the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct in the Palace of Westminster and of the Lords and Commons Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement declared the cause of the Parliament making a notable declaration and willed the Commons to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him to the King Other report of these pronunciations there is none made Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Saturday the fifteenth day of February the Commons presented unto the King Iohn Day Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse made was rejected and he with the Common protestation allowed The grant of half a Desme and half a Fifteen to be levied of the Laity The grant of Tonnage and Poundage for five years of all Merchants as well of the Hauns as otherwise with three shillngs Tonnage more of Aliens as well of the Hauns as otherwise The fourth day of April the Chancellor by the Kings commandement and assent of the Lords prorogued the Parliament really from the same day untill Wednesday the seventh day of May next ensuing at Westminster There is authority given to the Council to make assurances to the Kings Creditors for 100000 l. as well upon the Kings Revenues as Jewels The thirtieth day of May for that the plague reigned in London and Westminster the Chancellor as afore prorogued the Parliament from the said day unto the sixteenth of Iune ensuing at Winchester The grant of another half Disme and Fifteen to be levyed of the Laity The Commons granted to the King sixteen pence to be taken of every housholder within the realm not being born within the Kings Dominions and six pence of every other person being not so born and no housholder and six shillings eight pence of every Merchant stranger and twenty pence of all and every of their Clerks The like Subsidy of Wools granted for 4. years as before A long motion that the Souldiers wages at Callice and the reparations there to be made may be supplyed out of the subsidy of wools which is granted The Lords Hastings Chancellor of France and the Abbot of Gloucester being sent in message by mouth from the Duke of Somerset the Kings Lieutenant in France declareth the same containing in effect 3. points The first of the great puissance and preparations made by the French of their daily damages in breach of peace The second that if warr should happen that then the Country of Normandy was not able to defend it self The third how the truce was but to endure for fourteen moneths wherefore in discharge of the said Duke they require the King and Council to remember and to prepare for the wars Upon contention between William Earl of Arundel and Thomas Earl of Devon for superiority of place in Council and Parliament It is enacted by the Kings and Lords by the advice of the Iudges that the said Earl of Arundel and his heirs by reason of the Castle and Honor of Arundel shall for ever enjoy the preheminent place in the presence of the King and elswhere above the said Earl of Devon Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the Staple cap. 12. agreeth with the record The print for the restraint of Cloathes in Brabant cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching distresses taken by Welchmen cap. 4. agreeth with the record That Clerks convicted may alwayes live in prison The Clergy shall take order therein The print touching Faires and Markets cap. 5. agreeth with the record The
print touching the Kings pardon to the Clergie cap. 6. agreeth with the record Of the three Chapters in print this record maketh no mention Anno Vicessimo Octavo Henrici Sexti Rex c. Willielmo Duci Suffelciae apud Westm. Sexto die Novembris Teste apud S. Vicesimo tertio Septembris IOhanni Duci Norfolciae Humf. Duci Buckinghamiae Hen. Com. Devon Willielmo Com. Arundel Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Sarum Johanni Com. Oxoniae Johanni Com. Wigorum Jacob. Com. Wilton Johanni Vicecom Beamont Jacobo Berckley Chlr. Edwardo Gray Milit. Domino de Grobie Edoardo Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Henrico Poynings Domino de Poynings Willielmo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. Johanni Beauchamp milit Domino de Beauchamp Jacobo Fynes milit Domino de Say de Seal Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. VVillielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. VVillielmo Fitz-Hugh Chlr. Willielmo le Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Leoni de VVelles Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Radulpho Willoughbie Chlr. Tho. de Clifford Chlr. Henrico Vicecom Bourchier Edwardo Brook de Cobham Chlr. Johanni Talbot de Lisle Milit. Reginaldo West Chlr. Johanni Sturton Milit. Domino de Sturton Tho. de Scales Chlr. Reginaldo de Wilton Ricardo Wodvill Milit. Dom. de Rivers Willielmo Bourchier Milit. Domino de Fitz-warrin Willielmo Boneville de Clinton chaton Hen. Bromflet Domino de Vessey Tho. Domino Roos Roberto Hungerford Domino de Mollins Milit. Radulpho Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Tho. Hore Chlr. No Lord VVarden The Parliament holden at Westminster on the Sixth day of November in the Twenty eighth year of King Henry the Sixth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct within the Palace of Westminster and of the Lords and Commons Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury declared how that the King had really prorogued the same Parliament in London for avoiding the infectious air of Westminster wherefore he willed the Commons to choose and the next day to present to the King their Speaker The fear of the Plague it seems caused the Archbishop to forget his Oration and the Clerk of the Parliament to enroll him as Chancellor Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Saturday the eighth day of November the Commons presented to the King Sir Iohn Popham Knight to be their Speaker whose excuse was received and he thereof discharged The same day the Commons presented to the King William Tresham to be their Speaker who with the Common protestation was allowed The fourth day of December the Parliament was adjourned from London to Westminster really to be holden by the Chancellor in the presence of the King Lords and Commons viz. the next day The seventeenth day of December the Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England in the presence of the King gave thanks on his behalf to the three estateâ— and prorogued the Parliament from the said day unto the twenty second of Ianuary next ensuing at Westminster The twenty second of Ianuary the Chancellor was discharged and Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of York was appointed Chancellor by the King The thirtieth day of March the Chancellor by the Kings commandement prorogued the Parliament from the said day unto the twenty ninth of April then ensuing at Leicester The Commons grant unto â—he King a subsedy viz. that every person having franck tenement by free Deed copte grant of Annuity or office to the clear yearly value of 20 s. to pay 6 d. and so from 20 s. to 20 l. from 20 l. to 200 l. yearly 12 d. for the pound from 200 l. to pay 2 s. for every 20 s. as Well for the Laity as the Clergie Gardians of Wards men having fees and all Corporations to pay accordingly Severall summes to a great value out of the Kings Revenues and fee farms are allowed to bear and pay charges of the Kings houshold The twenty second day of Ianuary the Duke of Suffolk requireth the King that he may be especially accused and be heard to answer to that which many men reported him to be an untrue man The Dukes protestation made to the King sheweth how his father and three of his brethren died in service of the King and of his father and Grandfather and that he himself had served in the warres thirty four years and being but a Knight and taken prisoner payed for his ransome 2000 l. that he had been of the order of the Garter thirty yeares and a Counsellor to the King for fifteen yeares that he had been seventeen yeares in the warres Without returning home and so asking Gods mercie as he had been true to the King and his realm he required his purgation The twenty sixth day of Ianuary the Commons require that the Duke for his confession might be committed to ward the Lords and Iustices upon consultation thought there was no good cause unlesse some speciall matter were objected against him The twenty eighth day of Ianuary the Speaker declared how the Duke of Suffolk as it was said had sold this realm to the French who had prepared to come hither and that the same Duke for his own defence had furnished the Castle of Wallingford with all warlike munition upon whose request the said Duke was then committed to the Tower of London The seventh day of February the Speaker of the Commons the Chancellor and the Lords sent to them by the King a Bill of Articles and accused William de la Pool Duke of Suffolk late of Ewelm in the Connty of Oxford of sundry treasons viz. First that the said Duke having the wardship of Margaret the daughter and heir of Iohn Duke of Somersetâ— whom he meant to marry to Iohn his Sonne and thereby for want of issue of the King to claim the Crown and to procure the French King by the means of certain French Lords there named to depose the King The 2d for that he procured the delivery of the Duke of Orleans in the 27 H. 6. and practising with him to cause the French to recover France from the King The 3d. touching the promise of delivery of Manns and Maine to require the King of Sicile the Kings enemy with the assent of the other Ambassadors The 4th for disclosing the Kings Counsel to the Earl of Dunnois bastard of Orleance and to others of the French The 5th for opening to the French the strength of the Kings piles Ordinance and munition beyond the seas The 6th that the said Duke by disclosing the
apud VVestm in festo Leonardi c. Teste apud Westm. quinto die Septembris HEn Duci Oxoniae Iohanni Duci Norfolciae Humf. Duci Buckinghamiae Edoardo Duci Somerset Ricardo Com. Warr. Hen. Com. Northumb. Tho. Com. Devon VVillielmo Com. Arundell Radulph Com. VVestmerland Ricardo Com. Sarum Johanni Com. Oxoniae Johanni Com. Wigorum Jacobo Com. Wilton Johanni Vicecomiti Beamont Chlr. Jacobo Berckley Chlr. Edoardo Gray Milit. Domino de Grobie Edoardo Gray de Ruthin Chlr. Rob. Hungerford senior Chlr. Radulpho de Graystock Chlr. Hen. Percie Chlr. Domino de Poynings VVilliâ—lmo Borreaux Chlr. Tho. Daâ—re de Gilsland Chlr. Johanni Beauchamp Milit. Domino de Beauchamp Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Willielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Masham Chlr. Willielmo Fitz-hugh Chlr. Hen. Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Leonide Welles Chlr. Johanni Domino de Clinton VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Edoard Nevill Domino de Bergavenney Roberto Willoughbie Chlr. Tho. de Clifford Chlr. Hen. Vicecom Bourchier Edw. Brook de Cobham Chlr. Johanni Talbot de Lisle Milit. Tho. de Scales Chlr. Reginal Gray de Wilton Chlr. Johanni Sturton Milit. Domino de Sturton Ricardo Woodvill Milit. Domino de Rivers Willielmo Bourchier Milit. Domino de Fitz-warrin Willielm Boneville Milit. Dom. de Boneville de Chaton Hen. Bromfleet Domino de Vessey Tho. Domino de Roos Roberto Hungerford Mil. Dom. de Mollins Radulpho Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Tho. Gray Domino de Richmond Willielmo Beauchamp Milit. Domino de St. Amando Tho. Percie Milit. Domino de Egremont Johanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. Breve dirigitur Willielmo Fynes Domino de Say Seal adveniendum ad Parliamentum Datum decimo tertio die Aprilis The Parliament holden at VVestminster on the feast of St. Leonard the twenty ninth year of the reign of King Henry the Sixth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct within the Palace of Westminster Lords and Commons Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of York and Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement declared that the Parliament was called first for defence of the realm safe keeping of the seas for provision for an Army against the French and for the suppression of Insurrections within the realm to which end he willed the Commons to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him to the King Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Monday the nineteenth day of November the Commons presented to the King Sir William Oldhall Knight to be their Speaker who with the common protestation was allowed Sundry devises and orders for the alteration of the payment of the Subsedy granted in the last Parliament Isabel the wife of William Tresham Esquire sheweth how Symon Norwich of Brumhurst in the County of Northampton Esquire for malice born to the said William lay in wait for the said William with sundry Welshmen there named and murdered the said William riding and saying of our Ladies Mattins at a place called Thorpland-close in Molton in Northampton towards the Duke of York She therefore prayeth that writs of proclamation may go to the Sheriffs of Northampton to proclaim and cause those evil doers to render themselves by a day and that upon their appearance they may be committed to ward and answer to the appeal the same to be tryed by sufficient men of Northamptonshire only and that the sons of the said VVilliam may pursue the Appeal if she should happily die the which was granted The seventeenth day of December the Chancellor in the presence of the King and of the three Estates really prorogued the Parliament from the same day unto the twentieth day of Ianuary then ensuing at Westminster The twenty ninth day of April the Parliament was likewise prorogued from the same day unto the fifth of May then ensuing at Westminster It is enacted that the King shall be preferred to 20000 l. out of the Customes of London and Southampton be for C li. payments It is enacted that the Statute made in the eighteenth year of this King for the allowance of the Kings Justices wages and liveries shall be observed In consideration of 4000 l. delivered to the King in Allom by the Merchants of Iean named It is enacted that they shall ship any Staple-ware out of the South until they be of the said summ answered It is enacted That certain Merchants of the South shall have all the Allom aforesaid paying in hand to the King 8000 l. and no man during two years on pain of forfeiture do bring buy or sell any other Allom. The Commons prayen the King that Edmond Duke of Somerset Alice Poole late the wife of William Poole late Duke of Suffolk William Bishop of Chester Sir Iohn Sutton Knight Baron of Dudley Thomas Daniel late of London Esquire Iohn Trevillian late of London Esq Edward Grimstone late of London Esq Thomas Kemp Clerk of the Commons Iohn c. late of London Esq Reynold Abbot of St. Peters in the County of Gloucester Thomas Pulford of London Esq Iohn Hampton William Myners Iohn Blackwell Iohn Penâ—rike Iohn Gergoran Esquire Stephen Slegg Thomas Stacy Tho. Hore Lord Hastings Edmond Hungerford Knight Thomas Stanley Knight Ienkin de Stanley Usher of the Kings Chamber Esq Barthol Hawley Ralph Balthorp Esq Edmond Hampton Knight Mr. Iohn Somerset Mr. Iervis de Deberre one of the Kings Secretaries Iohn Newport alias Spicer of the Isle of Wight Esquires and Robert Wingfield Knight he abandoned from the Kings presence during their lives and not to come within twelve miles of the Court for that the people speak evil of them The King of his meer motion is contented that all shall depart unlesse they be Lords and a few of them whom he may not spare from his person and they shall so continue for one year to see if any man can duely improve them Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe like Act of resumption as in the last Parliament tit 23. to begin at the first day of the Parliament Anno 28 H. 6. and to end at the last day of the Parliament excepting certain particulars The record is from the first day of the Kings raign and to begin at th' Annunciation of our Lady in 29 H. 6. The print touching the attainder of Iack Cade agreeth with the record The print touching process against breakers of truce cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print touching Letters Patents made in the City of York c. 3. agreeth with the record It is enacted that the Abbot
the Sea and against the Invasion of the French and namely against the Scots for besieging Barwick against the truce To appoint how and when the 13000 Archers granted the last Parliament should be imployed To make a perfect accord and unity between the Lords To restrain the carrying forth of gold and silver To provide for the safe-keeping of the Seas To foresee that the peace may be kept in Wales For every of which Articles certain Bishops and Lords were severally appointed On Friday the third day of the Parliament the Commons presented to the King Sir Iohn Wenlock Knight to be their Speaker whose excuse being refused he with the common protestation was allowed A long conveyance made by the King the King acquitteth Richard Duke of York Richard Earl of Warwick and Richard Earl of Sarum and them taketh to be his loyall Subjects albeit Edmond late Duke of Somerset Thomas Thorp and William Ioseph by their untrue means had caused the King to think the contrary and thereby to have raised a great power against the said Duke and others The Duke of Yorks letters sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England from Royston in May before touching his coming by force towards the King and his griefs conceived The Letters of the said Duke and Earls written to the King from Royston in May before containing their enterprize and due obeysance to the King The Letters were kept from the Kings knowledge by the Duke of Somerset and others untill such time as the said Duke of York and others met with the King at St. Albones The Duke of York and his Allyes the twenty second day of May last came to St. Albones to have spoken with the King whom the Duke of Somerset and others did resist with a great number of armed men in which conflict the same Duke of Somerset was slain The humble obeysance of the Duke of York and his Allies in coming into the Kings presence after the said conflict The acquittall of the said Duke of York and of all others coming with him to the said conflict or battel to any harms there done All which are confirmed by whole assent of Parliament the twenty third day of July in the thirty third year all the Bishops and Lords in open Parliament were sworn to be true to the King but none here are named nor their names The like order is taken for all other Lords as should after come to take the like oathes At the request of the Earles of Salisbury Shrewsbury and Worcester and of the Lord Sturton they were discharged from keeping of the Seas The one and thirtieth day of Iuly the Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England in the Kings presence prorogued the Parliament from the same day and place to the twelfth day of November ensuing at Westminster The generall pardon for Treasons Felonies Contempts Trespasses c. The one and twentieth day of November in the thirty fourth year of the Kings reign the King by his Letters Patents appointed Richard Duke of York to proceed in the Parliament the which Commission was read before the Lords and then before the Commons The thiâ—teenth day of November Burley and others coming from the Commons required the Duke of York and the Lords to move the King to appoint an able Protector and Defender of the realm sith the King would not attend the same and that the Commons might have knowledge of him wherein they remembred the great ryots and murders in the VVest parts between the Earl of Devonshire and the Lord Boneville the Duke and Lords promised to answer the same The fifteenth day of November the said Burley and others of the Commons coming before the Lords renewed the aforesaid sute and had the like promise After Consultations had amongst the Lords for a Protector aâ—d Defender they thought the Duke of York most worthy therefore and thereupon made request to take the same upon him according to the presidents before the which Duke upon excusing himself requireth respite The seventeenth of November Burley and others of the Commons coming before the Lords revived their sute again as before tit 31.32 The Chancellor declareth to the Commons how that the King by the assent of the Lords had requested the Duke of York to be Protector and Defender of the realm The Duke of York makes the like protestation and demand and thereto hath the like answer as Anno 31. H. 6. tit 34 35 36 37. After Conference had with the said Duke by certain of the Lords it was agreed that the said Duke should have towards his charges yearly four thousand marks After all which Articles agreed and earnest request made by the Lords to the said Duke to take the same upon him the said Duke at their earnest contemplations accepted the same charge not as sought by himself but as laid upon him by them The like Letters Patents are made to the said Duke and to Prince Edward as An. 3. H. 6. tit 38 39. only where by the former letters they were to continue at the Kings will instead thereof these words were inserted Quousque Consanguineus noster de occupatione ejus onere nomine hujusmodi per nos in Parliamento de aviseamento assensu Dominorum Spiritualium Temporalium in Parliamento existent exoneretur The which Letters Patents are confirmed by common consent The like other Letters Patents are made to the said Duke and Prince as An. 3. H. 6. tit 40. The twenty third of November in the thirty fourth year of the Kings reign the King committeth the whole estate affaires and governance of the realm to the Lords of his Councill only for matters concerning his person they shall not proceed without making him privy thereto The King by his several Letters Patents confirmeth to his Son Edward Prince of Wales and to his heirs Kings of England his creation of the Principality and Earldom of Chester with all the particular Dominions and hereditaments belonging to the Principality and Earldom And for that the said Prince the Kings first begotten the day of his birth is and ought to be Duke of Cornwall the King granteth to the said Prince livery of the same and of all other hereditaments belonging of common consent And further it is enacted that the said Prince shall be at diet and sojourn in the Kings Court unto his age of 14. years for the which diet the King shall yearly take all the revenues and profits of the said Principality Earldom and Dutchie of the said Prince until the said Prince come to the age of 14. years allowing yearly to the said Prince towards his Wardrobe and wages 10000 l. unto
Edward Earl of March Richard Earl of Warwick Richard Earl of Salisbury Edmond Earl of Rutland Iohn Lord Clinton Iohn Wenlock Iames Pickering and Iohn Coniers and Thomas Parr Knights Iohn Bourchier Edward Bourchier Esqs. Nephews to the said Duke Thomas Colt of London Gentleman Iohn Clay of Chesunt in Herefordshire Esq Roger Egerton of Shrewsbury Esq and Robert Bold Brother to Henry Bold Knight who with sundry others pitched their field of Ludlow in the County of Hereford on Friday the Vigil of the translation of St. Edward in Anno 38. The Duke pretended to his company that the King was dead for whose soul Masse was said in the said Dukes camp The Kings expectation of the Duke the Dukes ranging in battel the fortifying of his ground with Carts and Guns set before his eschurmishes made his ambush laid and his meaning suddenly to have surprized the Kings hoast The departure of the said Duke and Earls out of the field about midnight under colour to repose themselves at Ludlow and their flight into Wales for that their army sainted and submitted themselves unto the King who granted to them pardon The Attainder of the said Duke Earls and others aforesaid persons as Traytors Alice the wife of Richard Earl of Salisbury William Oldâ—all Knight and Thomas Vaughan of London Esq were attainted as Traytors for procuring the treasons aforesaid All and singular the hereditaments of the said Duke and others attainted in fee or fee tayl are forfeited Richard Gray Lord Powis Walter Devereux Esq and Henry Radford Knight being in the field with the Duke at Ludlow are pardoned but all their hereditaments as before and other profits are forfeited Sundry provisions as well for goods as lands as touching the forfeiture of the Lord Gray and Sir Walter Devereux the King would be advised A very solemn oath whereto all the Bishops and Lords there named did answer subscribed and sealed the eleventh day of December in full Parliament the effect was for due obeysance to the King the Queen Prince Edward and the heires of the Kings body The King by authority of Parliament giveth to the Queen the Mannor of Colsham with the Appurtenances in VVilts and 20 l. yearly out of the Aulnage of Cloaths in London in exchange for the Mannor of Havering at Bower in Essex All such Mannors and other hereditaments of the Dutchy of Lancaster as are comprised in 23 H. 6. tit 17. which other hereditaments of the said Dutchy are granted to Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury and to many other feoffees in trust for the performance of the Kings will all which are commanded to passe under the great seal and are confirmed by whole assent of Parliament Edward Prince of Wales by his petition reciteth the erection donation and annexion of the Dutchy of Cornwall with all the hereditaments and liberties belonging to the same granted by Parliament and sundry other Patents of E. 3. in An. 11. all which are recited at large whereupon the said Prince requireth that he may enjoy the same accordingly And among other things that all such teannts as hold of the said Dutchy in chief may therefore sue livery out of the said Dukes hand although they hold otherwise of the King in Chief and that he may freely enjoy the said Dutchy with all the revenues and liberties of the same as it ought to be notwithstanding the Statute thereof made Anno 33 H. 6. all which are granted by common consent with certain provisions swarving in part from 33. The King by his Letters Patents confirmed by Parliament confirmeth unto the Provost and Scholars of the College of Eaton as well all and singular his grants as all other mens grants made to the said Provost and Scholars The like confirmation is made to the Provost and Scholars of the Kings College in Cambridge with a provision for the Colledge called Pembroke hall in Cambridge The foundation or donation of the Priory of Syon erected by H. 5. is confirmed by whole assent of Parliament Petitions of the Commons with their Answers IT is enacted that all Letters Patents and grants of any office to any person which was against the King in the fields of St. Albones Blore-heath and Ludlow shall be void and that all grants made by Richard Duke of York or by the Earles of Salisbury or Warwick to any persons being in those fields against the King be also void And that the grants made by the King to any person being in those fields with him be good wherein certain provisions are It is enacted that all Letters Patents made to any person or persons of the offices of Sheriff or Escheator for life within the Counties of Chester and Flint be utterly void except to certain persons there named It is enacted that all such Knights of any County as were returned to this Parliament by vertue of the Kings Letters without any other election should be good and that no Sheriff for returning them to incurre the pain therefore provided in An. 23. H. 6. The Commons complain against twenty five Knights and Esquires by name of sundry Countries for their manifold robberies rapes and exactions against the which straight orders are devised to cause them to answer thereunto At the request of the Commons Walter Hopton Esq Roger Kenistone Fulk Stafford Esquires William Hastings Esq son of Leonard Hastings Knight and William Bowes Esquire for being at Ludlow field against the King and having their pardons are fined therefore The Commons accuse the Lord Stanley of sundry particulars being of confederacy with the Duke of York and pray that he may be committed to prison The King will be advised The twenty fifth day of December in the presence of the King and of the three estates the Chancellor by the Kings commandement after thanks given to all the estates dissolved the Parliament Anno Tricesimo Nono Henrici Sexti The Parliament holden at Westminster the seventh day of October in the thirty ninth year of King Henry the Sixth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct within the Palace of Westminster and of the Lords and Commons George Bishop of Exeter and Chancellor of England made a notable declaration taking for his theam Ioel 2. Congregate populum sanctificate ecclesiam after which done he willed the Commons to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him unto the King Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The Commons Declaration made to the Lord
Lovell Chlr. Edwardo de Bergavenny Chlr. Edwardo Brook de Cobham Chlr. Reginal Gray de Wilton Chlr. Willielmo Bourchier de Fitz-warrin Chlr. Hen. Bromfleet Domino de Vessey Chlr. Radul Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Johanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. Willielm Fines Domino de Say Chlr. Richardo Fines Domino de Dacre Chlr. Johanni Nevill de Mountague Willielmo Hastings Chlr. Hen. Stafford de South Chlr. Will. Domino Herberd Chlr. Waltero Devereux Domino de Ferrariis Chlr. Johanni Wenlock de Wenlock Ricardo Woodvill Domino de Rivers Chlr. Anthonio VVoodvill Dom. de Scales Tho. Domino Standley Chlr. Roberto Ogle Domino de Ogle Chlr. Tho. Domino Lumley Chlr. Humfrido Domino Cromwell Chlr. Johanni Bourchier Domino de Barnes Chlr. VVillielmo Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. Ricardo VVelles de VVilloughbie Chlr. Hen. Fitz-hugh Chlr. Hen. Gray Chlr. Ricardo VVest Chlr. Aequites aurati omnes praeter Dominum Scales The Parliament holden at Westminster the twenty ninth day of April in the third year of the reign of King Edward the Fourth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct in the Palace of Westminster and of the Lords and Commons George Bishop of Exeter and Chancellor of England made a notable declaration of the summons of the Parliament After which he willed the Commons to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him to the King Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The second day of the Parliament certain of the Commons declared unto the Lords that they had chosen their Speaker The third day of the Parliament the Commons presented to the King Iohn Say Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse being rejected he with the Common protestation was received The Commons by assent of the Bishops and Lords grant to the King in aid 37000 l. to be levied in the Counties Cities and Towns according to a rate there The 27th day of Iune in the presence of the King Lords and Commons the Chancellor by the Kings commandement gave thanks to the Commons for their aid granted and prorogued the Parliament from the same day unto the fourth of November then ensuing at Westminster The 4th of November Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury the Kings Cozen by the Kings Letters Patents held and continued the Parliament The same 4th day of November the King of his meer grace released unto the Commons 6000 l. parcel of the aforesaid grant tit 8. whereupon it is enacted that 31000 l. shall be levyed in manner of a Fifteen and be called by the same name of a Fifteen The same fourth day the Chancellor on the Kings behalf and of his said Lieutenant adjourned the said Parliament from the said day unto the twentieth of February then ensuing at the City of York The twentieth day of February at York in the presence of the Lords and Commons William Bishop of Lincoln by the commandement of William Archbishop of York the Kings Commissary by Letters Patents held the same Parliament and adjourned the same over from the said day unto the first day of May then ensuing at York aforesaid The cause of the said prorogation was for that the King was enforced to goe in person to Gloucester for the repressing of Conspiracies and rebellions against him Anno Quarto Edwardi Quarti THe same first day of May the Lords and Commons being assembled in the great Hall within the Palace of the Archbishop of York certain of the Kings Letters Patents made unto Richard Earl of Warwick and of Salisbury were read which authorized the said Earl to hold and continue the said Parliament from the said day unto the twenty fifth of November then ensuing at York After the reading whereof the Abbot of Fountaines thereunto appointed by the Kings Privy seal prorogued the same accordingly The cause hereof was that the King was busily occupied in the Marches of the North for the repressing of Rebels and defence of a Forein Invasion The twenty fifth of Novemb. in the fourth year of the King in the Hall of the said Archbishop of York the King by like Letters Patents made to the said Earl of Warwick and Salisbury for holding and proroguing the said Parliament from the same day unto the twenty sixth day of Ianuary then ensuing at Westminster read after which the Abbot of St. Maries of York by the Kings appointment declared and prorogued the same accordingly Petitions of the Commons with their Answers A Large Act touching the true making of broad Cloaths and touching all particular working and Officers belonging thereto very necessary although the same be not printed for that in the same year the same was repealed The print touching the shipping of Woolls cap. 1. agreeth with the record The print that no Corn shall be brought into the land cap. 2. agreeth with the record White Wheat was sold at 6 s. 8. d. the quarter The print touching apparell cap. 5. agreeth with the record The print touching Silk-women cap. 31. agreeth with the record The print touching Artificers and Handicrafts men cap. 4. agreeth with the record Acts and Ordinances made the 26. day of Ianuary Anno quarto Edwardi Quarti THe Commons by assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King the Subsidies hereafter for and during his life viz. Tonnage and Poundage of every English Merchant for every Sack of Wooll 33 s. 4 d. of every 240 Wooll-fells 33 s. 4 d. and of every Last of Hides 3 l. 6 s. 8 d. Of every Merchant Stranger as well Denizen as otherwise for every Sack of Wooll 3 l. 6 s. 8 d. of every Last of Hides 3 l. 13 s. 4 d. of every 240 Wooll-fells 3 l. 6 s. 8 d. A provision that the Town of Callice and the Souldiers there may be victualled and payed with part of the said Subsidies according to a rate there That the Treasurer of Callice doe yearly accompt in the Exchequer on a pain that the said Treasurer for the time being may dispose of all offices of Accompt in Callice or the Marches of the same to what person him liketh to hold the same at the Kings will Two particular provisions are therein the one for the Dean of St. Martins le Grange in London the other for the Easterlings The attainders of certain persons as hereafter do ensue Of Henry Beauford late Duke of Somerset for rearing of war against the King and joyning with H. 6. at the battel of Epham in the County of Northumberland the 8. day of May last Of Ralph Percie
deducted to the relief of the most poor Towns It is enacted that the Kings Letters Patents hereafter ensuing made to Queen Elizabeth of her dower shall be good and that the Queen be by that name personable to plead and be impleaded that parcell of her dower assigned by the Kings Letters Patents under the seal of the Dutchy of Lancaster be good albeit there be no livery and â—eiâ—â—n delivered upon the same wherein are certain provisions The Letters Patents and names of the Mannors and other hereditaments assigned unto the said Queen passed under the great Seal The Letters Patents passed under the seal of the Dutchy of Lancaster with a letter of Attorney therein to deliver seisin In consideration of 10000 l. payed in part of payment of a greater summe due by the King to Charles Duke of Burgundy for marriage between the said Duke and Margaret his sister and payed by the Mayor and Company of the Staplers the King by his Letters Patents granteth that they shall be payed the same of the subsedy of wools the which Letters patents are by common consent confirmed Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching set Cloaths cap. 1. agreeth with the record The like Statute is required as passed in An. 4. E. 4 tit 52. The King will be advised The print touching Juries in Middlesex cap. 3. agreeth with the record The print touching Sheriffs agreeth with the record The like motion and answer as in Anno 4. E. 4. tit 59. That all such as shall rob any Church of any Pax Coap Granel Masse-book or any other trinket of the Church wherof the whole rabble is named may be deemed a Traytor and be burned therefore that all such persons be deprived of the benefit of their Clergy and that the appeal for the restitution may also lye and that all Justices may enquire thereof By the preamble of these motions it seemeth that this Bill was made against the Lollards The King will be advised The print touching liveries of Companies cap. 2. agreeth with the record Upon Complaint made against Hugh Brice keeper of the Kings Exchange within the Tower certain of the Lords and Commons are appointed to hear the same The particular Accompt of the said Brice with the rates by him taken answering the Complaint Tenor hujus Schedulae Schedularum sequitur in his verbis WHereas George allegeth that I take of every Noble a half-peny contrary to the Kings proclamation I answer that the Proclamation is this That every man that bringeth a Noble of just poise to the Kings Exchange should have 6 s. 2. d. ob and so the Kings intent is to have of every Noble but a half-peny only the Proclamation is long and must have leasure and in case the truth should be proved the which to your wisdoms shall plainly appear it must be proved by indifferent persons wherefore if it please you to give me reasonable leisure I shall prove that I have not offended the Kings intent contained in the said Proclamation â—e hurt no other person that ought to take any avail by the same Also whereas divers of my Masters of this house think that my confession of the 9. d. ob should condemn my self I will prove sufficiently afore your Worships that I ought to have the said 9 d. ob by reason of my Farm as the Kings proper goods belonging to his Crown without any wrong done to any person in taking of the same The premisses considered I beseech you all my Masters to take such directions as shall accord with Gods pleasure worship to all and as the truth may be best known Tenor alterius Schedulae Schedularum praedictarum sequitur in his verbis Memorandum that there was changed in the Kings Exchange as it appeareth by the books of the said Exchange in the Tower from 12 September Anno quinto unto the Feast of Michael Anno sexto in gold 137875 old Nobles by weight whereof he retained of every such Noble above-written by way of emption for the Kings Farm and for my costs charges and weights 1 d. Summa 574 l. 9 s. 7 d. Item there was changed at the Exchange in the year and time aforesaid as it appeareth by the said Book in silver 3845 l. Troy whereof is retained of every pound above-written by way of emption and for my costs charges and wages 4 d. ob Summa 73 l. 1 s. 10 d. ob Summe total retained of the parcells aforesaid in the Exchange at London 646 l. 11 s. 5 d. ob Whereof paid to the King our Soveraign Lord for the time abovesaid 400 l. And so remaineth with me for my costs charges and wages 246 l. 11 s. 5 d. ob Memorandum that there was changed in the said Exchange from the Feast of St. Michael in Anno sexto unto Michaelmas Anno septimo that is to say 60153 old Nobles by weight whereof was retained of every such Noble above-written by way of emption for the Kings Farm and for my costs charges and wages 1 d. Summa 200 l. 13 s. 7 d. Item in Exchange for silver the said year 137 l. 19 s. 9 d. Summe total retained of the two parcels aforesaid in the Kings Exchange in London 384 l. 13 s. 4 d. Whereof was payed to the King our Soveraign Lord for that year 200 l. And so remaineth with me for my costs charges and wages 184 l. 13 s. 4 d. Memorand that there was changed in the Kings Exchange in London as appeareth by the books of the Exchange and Tower from the feast of St. Michael in Anno septimo unto the Feast of Easter following in Anno octavo that is to say in gold 33400 Nobles by weight whereof was retained of every such Noble above-written by way of exemption for the Kings Farm and for my costs charges and wages 4 d. Summa 30 l. 9 s. Summe total retained of the parcels aforesaid in the Kings Exchange in London 102 l. 9 s. Whereof paid to the King our Soveraign Lord for the time above-said 100 l. And so remaineth with me for my costs charges and wages for me and my servants 2 l. 9 s. It is to be known that I received gold and silver in the Tower by weight and delivered it again by the same weight Therefore taking the Kings Coin according to his Indenture without any profit to me or any of mine as I will in this and all the points aforesaid be reported by all Merchants bringing gold or silver to the Tower or Exchange and also by the Warden and Comptroller and other Masters of the Mint Anno Nono Edwardi Quarti Rex c. Charissimo Frati suo Georgio Duci Clarentiae c. apud Eborum Vicesimo secundo die Septembris Anno nono Edwardi Quarti RIcardo
Duci Gloucest Johanni Duci Norfolciae Johanni Duci Suffolciae Ricardo Com. Warr. Sarum Hen. Com. Essex Willielmo Com. Arundel Johanni Com. Salopiae Edwardo Com. Cantiae Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Johanni Com. Northumb. Johan Com. Oxoniae Radulpho Graystock Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Johanni Bernes Chlr. Tho. le Scroope de Masham Chlr. Johanni Beauchamp de Beauchamp Edwardo de Nevil de Bergavenny Chlr. Reginal Gray de Wilton Willielmo Bourchier de Fitz-warrin Chlr. Waltero Blunt de Mountjoy Johanni Strange Chlr. Hen. Gray Chlr. Ricardo VVest Chlr. Johanni Denham de Cary Chlr. VVill. Hastings de Hastings VValtero Devereux de Ferris Chlr. Johanni le Scroop de Bolton Radul Boteler de Sudley Chlr. Hen. Fitz-hugh Chlr. VVillielmo Fenis de Say Chlr. Ricardo Fenis de Dacre Chlr. Roberto Ogle Chlr. Tho. Lumley Chlr. Humf. Bourchier de Cromwell Chlr. Tho. de Stanley Chlr. Johanni Wenlock de VVenlock Chlr. Ricardo VVelles de VVilloughbie Chlr. VVillielmo Sturton de Sturton Chlr. VVillielmo Lovell de Morley Milites omnes praeter Morley Anno Duodecimo Edwardi Quarti Rex c. Charissimo fratri suo Georgio Duci Clarentiae c. apud Westm. sexto die Octobris Teste apud Westm. decimo nono die Augusti RIcardo Duci Gloucest Johanni Duci Norfolciae Johanni Duci Suffolciae VVillielmo Com. Arundell Hen. Com. Essex Edwardo Com. Cantii Radulpho Com. VVestmerland Hen. Com. Northumb. Anth. Com. Rivers Johanni Com. Salopiae Johanni Com. VVilts Radulpho Graystock Chlr. Tâ—o le Scroop de Masham Chlr. Johanni Beauchamp de Beauchamp Chlr. Johanni de Audley Chlr. Edwardo Nevill de Bergavenny Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de VVilton Johanni Strange Chlr. Hen. Gray Chlr. Johanni Howard Chlr. Ricardo West Chlr. VValtero Devereux de Ferrars Chlr. Johan le Scroop de Bolton Chlr. Radul Buteler de Sudley Chlr. Tho. Lumley de Lumley Chlr. Tho. Stanley de Stanley Chlr. Radulpho Fenis de Dacre Chlr. Johan Brook de Cobham Chlr. VValtero Blunt de Mountjoy Chlr. VVill. Sturton de Sturton Chlr. Johanni Bourchier de Bernes Chlr. Fulconi Bourchier de Fitz-warrin Chlr. Johanni Sutton de Dudley Chlr. VVillielm Hastings de Hastings Chlr. VVillielmo Berkley Chlr. Johanni Denham de Cary Denham Milites omnes except Denham The Parliament holden at Westminster the sixth day of October in the twelfth year of the reign of King Edward the Fourth IN the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of State in the Chamber de pinct within the Palace at Westminster and of the Lords and Commons Robert Bishop of Bath and Welles Chancellor of England made a notable declaration of the summons of the Parliament after which he willed the Commons to choose and the next day to present to the King their Speaker Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The second day of the Parliament the Commons declared to the Lords that they had chosen their Speaker The fourth day of the Parliament the Commons presented to the King William Allington Esquire to be their Speaker whose excuse refused he with the Common protestation was allowed The last day of November the Commons grant to the King 14000 Archers to serve the King at their costs for one year the same to be levyed out of all mens lands according to a proportion The Lords Spirituall and Temporall by themselves grant unto the King towards the furniture aforesaid the tenth part of one whole yeares revenue of all and singular their possessions The Commons by a long protestation require that the Statute made against ryots maintenance oppressions and for labourers may be executed The same day by the Kings commandement the Bishop of Rochester after thanks giving to the Commons for their grant doth prorogue the Parliament from the same day unto the eighth of February then ensuing at Westminster The King by Letters Patents createth Edward his first begotten son Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester the which is confirmed by common consent The King by other Letters Patents granteth unto the said Prince the hereditaments belonging to the said Principality and Earldome The King by other Letters Patents delivereth to the said Prince the Dutchy of Cornwall with the whole appurtenances all which grants are confirmed by assent of Parliament with sundry provisions Henry Percie Knight son and heir to Henry Percie late Lord of Northumberland is restored in bloud to the said Earldome and to all such hereditaments of the same Earl as came to the Kings hands the second day of March in Ann. 9. E. 4. and the attainder made against the said Earl An. 1. E. 4. tit 17. is made void The attainder made against William Grinsby Esq in An. 1. E. 4. is made void and he restored Robert Talbois Esq son and heir to William Talbois Knight is restored to the bloud and lands of the said William and the attainder of the said William An. 1. E. 4. tit 19. is made void George Brown Knight son of Tho. Brown of London is likewise restored as heir of the said Thomas notwithstanding any attainder made against the said George by verdict An. 38. H. 6. Robert Bulling Gentleman is restored and the attainder An. 1. E. 4. is made void â—homas Maidwell son and heir of Iohn Maidwell of Kirton in Lindsey in the County of Lincoln Gent. is restored to bloud and lands of the said Iohn Maidwell and the attainder had against him the said Iohn An. 1. E. 4. made void Edmond Cornwall son and heir to Thomas Cornwall is restored as above and the attainder had against the said Thomas An. 1. E. 4. is made void The like restitution of bloud and lands is made to Everard Digbie son and heir of Everard Digby late of Stockdry in Rutland Esq and the attainder had against the father An. 1. E. 4. is made void It is enacted that William Lord Berckley and Ioan his wife and the heirs of the sad William shall peaceably enjoy the Mannor and Burrough of Wotton under Egg the Mannor of Symond Hall and Erlingham with their appurtenances in the County of Gloucester against Margaret Viscountesse Lisle late the wife of Thomas Talbot late Viscount Lisle paying yearly to the said Margaret during her life 100 l. with certain provisions Ralph Nevil son and heir of Iohn Nevil Knight late Lord Nevil is restored to the bloud and lands of the said Iohn and the attainder had against the said Iohn An. 1. E. 4. is made void wherein certain provisions are Henry Roos Knight is restored in bloud and lands and the attainder had against him An. 1. E. 4. is made void Thomas Ormond
Esquire is also restored and the Attainder had against Thomas Ormond Knight Anno 1 E. 4. is made void The like restitution is made to Ralph Makerel Clerk and revocation as before Iohn Verney Esquire son and heir of Ralph Verney Knight and Margaret the wife of the said Iohn daughter and heir of Robert Whittingham Knight are restored to the bloud and lands of the said Robert and the attainder had against the said Robert Anno 1 E. 4. is made void William Stok is restored and the attainder had against him in Anno 1 E. 4. made void Iohn Skidamore Knight keeper of Pembrook Castle is restored to all his hereditaments and the attainder had against him Anno 1 E. 4. is made void William Cliff of Lockington in the County of York Yeoman son and heir of Henry Cllff late of the same Yeoman is restored to the bloud and lands of the said Henry and the attainder made against the said Henry Anno 1 E. 4. made void Robert Mersine son and heir of Robert Mersine of Andsworth in the County of Kent Esquire is restored to the bloud and lands of his said Father and the attainder had against the said Father in Anno 1 E. 4. made void The attainder of William Iasper of London Esquire Anno 1 E. 4. is made void and he restored The attainder had against Iohn Ioskin Esquire Anno 1 E. 4. is made void and Edward his son restored to blood and lands The Kings release under Letters Patents in Anno 3. of his reign made to the Chancellor and Scholars of Oxford of 5 l. yearly which they used to pay for the issues arising for Bread and Ale is confirmed by common consent Ralph Ashton Knight sheweth how in a writ of Right of Ward sued by him against one Roger Lener of the keeping of the Manor of Great Lener with th' appurtenances in Middleton in the County of Lancaster held of the said Ralph by Knights service as of his Manor of Middleton in the County of Lancaster the said Ralph recovered the same and for that the record was imbezelled the said Ralph having nothing but the copie thereof which is enrolled by word prayeth that the same copie may be taken for the record and that upon exemplification of the same under the Great Seal he may have execution the which was granted by full assent Iohan Glyn widdow late the wife of Iohn Glyn of Marvaile in the County of Cornwal Gent. sheweth how Thomas Clemens of Leskerd Borough in the said County Gent. with sundry others there named most shamefully murdered the said Iohn against all which evil doers straight order is taken for their punishments and enacted that if the said Ioane should die then the children should have the Appeal The like Order is taken against Robert Fernell of Newson in the County of York and others for murdering of Richard Williamson at the sute of Katherine wife of the said Richard There-assembly of the Parliament the 8th day of February in the year aforesaid at Westminster Anno Decimo Tertio Edwardi Quarti THe eighth day of April in the thirteenth year of this King the Commons grant unto the King one Fifeeen and one Desm except 6000 l. to be distributed to certain decayed Towns The same day after thanks given to the Commons the Chancellor by the Kings commandement prorogueth the Parliament from the said day to the sixth day of October then ensuing After which prorogation it is enacted that upon urgent cause the King moving the King may at any time before call and re-assemble the same Parliament sending forth Writs 20 dayes before to proclame It is enacted that all the money coming of the Tenths granted by the Lords tit 9. be payed to the Treasurer of England Humfrey Dacres Knight son of Thomas Dacres and brother to Randolph son and heir to the said Thomas of the body of the said Thomas begotten is restored to bloud and land notwithstanding the severall attainders had against the said Randolph and Humfrey the which are made void A provision for Richard Fennis Knight and Ioane his wife and the heirs of the said Ioane Sundry intayls of many Manors as well to the Lord Dacre the heir male as to Fennis the heir general are confirmed wherein also is to be noted a pedegree for the line of the Lord Dacre A restitution to Iohn Naylor of London Esquire as well of bloud as of Lands and the attainder had against him Anno 1 E. 4. made void All Letters Patents made to Thomas Lord Stanley are affirmed to be good notwithstanding the creation or any Letters Patents made to the Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester an exception also of the Milnes of Lordlamas and Kennocogh in the Lordship of Beaumaris and of all the lands late Richard Knightlyes in the said Lordship The like confirmation is made to Roger Kenaston Knight for the keeping of the Castle of Hardlagh Roger Heron Esquire son and heir of Iohn Heron Knight is restored in blood and lands to the said Iohn and the attainder had against the said Iohn Anno 1 E. 4. made void Richard Tunstall Knight is restored and the attainder had against him Anno 1 E. 4. made void The King by authority of Parliament confirmeth to the Dean of New College at Leicester in succession the Manor of Southorpe called Fillibertscourt in Glouc. and the Manor of Southorpe called Grayes Court with other lands in Southorpe the which premises King Edw. the 3. gave to William Harvey and Mary his wife in especial tayl An order taken for the principal streets in Gloucester The King by assent pardoneth to Iohn Duke of Norfolk and all other his officers of the Kings Bench in Southwark the breach of the said prison made at Michaelmas in the tenth year of King E. 4. by certain misdoers unknown and the taking out of the prisoners to the number of an hundred by name laid in for sundry offences Robert Fennell of Neusome mentioned before tit 39. being laid in Newgate without bail or mainprize prayeth that the Chancellor upon a Corpus cum causa may let him to bayl the which is granted A long complaint of Iohn Ashton of Holley in the County of York Knight for imprisoning of the said Iohn by Iohn Mayfield of Pontefract Esquire and others against all whom straight order is taken for causing them to answer thereunto Where Thomas Tretway of Reskenny in the County of Cornwall Esquire and many others within named upon a complaint of riot by one Iohn Vivian exhibited for riots surmised to be done by the said Thomas and others for want of answering thereunto stood attainted of felony by Order of Parliament
upon whose Petitions the said attainders have been revoked In consideration of 23000 l. due by the King to the Mayor and Merchants of the Staple the King by a long act granteth to them a Fifteen as Anno 7 E. 4. tit 9. In a Roll entituled Anno Decimo Quarto where indeed the same was Anno Decimo Tertio THe re-assembly of the Parliament prorogued unto the sixth day of October in Anno 13. and from the same continued from day to day to the thirteenth of December then ensuing The hostility and contention which was between the King and the Merchants of England of the one part and the Duke of Hauns or the Stilliards of the other part from the 21. day of November in Anno E. 4. unto the 19. day of September in Anno 13 E. 4. are utterly appeased so as every Merchant of either part to the said 19. day may lawfully require of the other part his own and a free intercourse between those Countries and Merchants for ever to be had To which end the King by his Letters Patents confirmeth to the said Merchants of the Stilliard their old liberties granted to all Merchant strangers of every Country by name by King E. 1. but after granted by especiall name to the Merchants of the Stilliard by E. 2. wherein is to be seen their Customes rated and the Kings grant not to 〈◊〉 the same all which by act of Parliament is confirmed Iohn Fortescue Knight is restored to bloud and lands and the attainder had against him An. 1. E. 4. made void William Shetford Cousin and heir to Ioan one of the sisters and heirs of William Burnen Knight complaineth that he was wrongfully disseised of and in the moity of the Mannor of Treycorn Hamet Donebant Deliow Doyl Wenell Delydowbolin Deliem Carbolyn and Lamlyn with the appurtenances in Cornwall by Thomas Bodnegate Cousin and heir to Alice the other sister and heires to the said William and that the premisses were assured to Elizabeth the wife of Iohn Welles for life sometime the wife of the said Thomas at whose petition power is given to the Chancellor and two Justices to end the same An act of Resumption for the King to take all the hereditaments of the Crown Dutchies of Lancaster and York from the feast of St. Thomas in Anno Dom. 1473 whereof the King was seized the fourth day of March An. 1. E. 4. or which came to the Kings hand at any time since by attainder or otherwise A speciall Commission given to the Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster for assuring the payment of certain of the Kings debts granted out of the same Dutchy and to passe under the seal of the said Dutchy A number of provisions and namely one that the same should not prejudice the Corporation union and annexion of the Dutchy of Lancaster and County Palatine nor the officers or tenants of the same In this time was Thomas Bourchier a Cardinall and Archbishop of Canterbury At this time was Iohn Howard Knight Lord Howard At this time was Sir Ralph Verney Knight Citizen and Alderman of London A provision for Iohn Blackhead A provision for VVilliam Hattclyffe the Kings Secretary We must not forget a provision for mother Cobb Midwife to Elizabeth the Kings best beloved wife Queen of England A provision for liberties granted to certain towns in the Isle of Haxling in the County of Southampton in An. 8. E. 4. The fourteenth day of December in the thirteenth year the Bishop of Duresm Chancellor of England in the presence of the King Lords and Commons after thanks giving on the Kings behalf to every estate by the Kings commandement prorogued the Parliament unto the twentieth day of Ianuary then ensuing at VVestminster The re-assumption of the Parliament the twentieth day of Ianuary aforesaid and continuance of the same to the first day of February then ensuing The said first day of February in the presence of the King sitting in the Chair of Estate the Lords and Commons the Bishop of Duresm Chancellor remembred the Commons that the same assembly was for consultation how the King might proceed in the warrs and for that they heard nothing from his brother of Burgundy whereon he much depended he by the Kings commandment prorogued the Parliament from the said day unto the ninth of May then ensuing Anno Decimo Quarto Edwardi Quarti THe re-assumption of the Parliament the ninth day of May and so continued unto the twenty eighth day of May then ensuing The King by the common consent granteth that George Duke of Clarence and Isabel his wife and Richard Duke of Gloucester and Anne his wife daughter and heir to Richard Nevill late Earl of Warwick and daughters and heirs apparent to Anne Countesse of Warwick shall enjoy to them and to the heirs of their said wives all the hereditaments belonging to the said Anne in such wise as if the said Anne were dead and that their said wives should be of bloud to the said Anne and enjoy all benefits accordingly and the said Anne therefore for ever barred That the said Dukes and their wives and the heirs of their said wives may make partition of the premisses to be good in Law and that the said Dukes or either of them over-living his wife shall during his life enjoy her property That all alienations discontinuances charges and incumbrances suffered by any of the said Dukes or their wives to debarr the other of their said purparties to be utterly void That if the said Duke of Gloucester be at any time after divorced from the said Anne after newly her mariage and suffer any such incumbrances as above to be void And further if the said Duke Richard upon such divorce doth the uttermost to be reconciled during his wifes life that then after the death of his said wife he shall enjoy her purparty A provision that the said Dukes and their wives might exchange with the King the Lordship Manor and Wapentake of Chestersield and Scurnsdale with the appurtenances in the same The effect of the grant made to the Mayor and Company of Staples in Anno 12 E. 4. tit 59. is in manner recited and thereby enacted that the said Mayor during the said term shall pay 1000 marks for the fees and rewards of the Kings Justices Sergeants and Attorneys A long complaint made by Robert Billesden one of the Sheriffs of London and Henry Newton one of the Sergeants against Robert Gibbs a Captain for succouring and taking away of one Thomas Bishop Grocer of London being arrested and in the custody of the said Henry whereupon order was taken that the said Sheriff and Henry should be discharged of the rescues
Powis Ricardo Hastings de Welles Oweno Ogle de Ogle Mil. Edwardo Hastings de Hungerford Anno Primo Ricardi Tertii In Rotulo Parliamenti tenti apud Westm. die Veneris vicesimo tertio die Januarii Anno regni Regis Richardi Tertii primo inter alia continentur ut sequitur Mcmorand quod quaedam Billa exhibita fuit coram Domino Rege in Parliamento praedicto in haec verba WHereas late heretofore that is to say before the Consecration Coronation and Inthronization of our Soveraign Lord King Richard the Third a roll of Parchment containing in writing certain Articles of the tenor under-written on the behalf and in the name of the Three Estates of this Realm of England that is to say of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons by name and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons by name and other Nobles and notable persons of the Commons in great multitude was presented and actually delivered unto our said Soveraign Lord the intent and effect expressed at large in the same roll to the which roll and to the Considerations and instant Petition comprised in the same our said Soveraign Lord for the publique weal and tranquility of this Land benignly assented Now for as much as neither the said three Estates neither the said persons which in their name presented and delivered as it is aforesaid the said roll unto our said Soveraign Lord the King were assembled in form of Parliament by reason whereof divers doubts questions and ambiguities been moved and ingendred in the minds of divers persons as it is said Therefore to the perpetual memory of the truth and declaration of the same be it ordained provided and established in this present Parliament that the tenor of the said roll with all the Contents of the same presented as is abovesaid delivered to our abovesaid Soveraign Lord the King in the name and in the behalf of the said three Estates out of Parliament Now by the said three Estates assembled in this present Parliament and by authority of the same be ratified enrolled recorded approved and authorized to the removing of the recasions of doubts and ambiguities and to all other lawfull effects that shall now thereof ensue so that all things said affirmed specified desired and remembred in the said roll and in the tenour of the same under-written in the name of the said three Estates to the effect expressed in the said roll be of the like effect vertue and force as if all the same things had been so said affirmed specified and remembred in full Parliament and by authority of the same accepted and approved the Tenor of the said roll of Parchment whereof above is made mention followeth and is such To the High and Mighty Prince Richard Duke of Gloucester PLeaseth it your Noble Grace to understand the Considerations Election and Petition under-written of us the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of this Realm of England and thereunto agreeable to give your assent to the Common and publique weal of this land and to the comfort and gladness of all the People of the same First we consider how that heretofore in time passed this land for many years stood in great prosperity honour and tranquility which was caused for so much as the Kings reigning used and followed the advice and counsel of certain Lords Spiritual and Temporal and other persons of approved sagenesse prudence policy and experience dreading God and having tender zeal and affection to indifferent administration of Justice and to the Common and publique weal of the land Then our Lord God was dread loved and honoured Then within the land was peace and tranquility and among the Neighbours Concord and Charity Then the malice of outward Enemies was mightily resisted and repressed and the Land honourably defended with many great and glorious victories Then the intercourse of Merchants was largely used and exercised by which things above remembred the land was greatly inriched so that as well the Merchants as the Artificers and other poor people labouring for their living in divers Occupations had competent gain to the satisfaction of them and their housholds living without miserable and intollerable poverty But afterwards when as such had the rule and governance of this land delighting in adulation and flattery and led by sensuality and concupiscence followed the counsel of persons insolent vicious and of inordinate avarice despising the Counsel of persons good vertuous and prudent such as above be remembred the prosperity of this land decreased daily so that our felicity was turned into misery and our prosperity into adversity and the order of policy and the Laws of God and man confounded whereby it is likely this Realm to fall into great misery and desolation which God defend without due provision of convenable remedy be had in this behalf in all godly haste Over this among other things more special we consider how that the time of the reign of Edw. the 4. late deceased after the ungracious pretended mariage as all England hath cause to say made betwixt the said King Edw. and Elizabeth sometimes Wife to Sir Iohn Gray Knight late naming her self and many years heretofore Queen of England the order of politique rule was perverted the Laws of God and of Gods Church c. also the Laws of Nature and of England and also the laudable customs and liberties of the same wherein every Englishman is inheritor is broken subverted and contemned against all Reason and Justice so that the Land was ruled by self-will and pleasure fear and dread all manner of Equity and Law laid apart and despised whereof ensued many inconveniencies and mischiefs as Murders Extortions and Oppressions namely of poor and impotent people so that no man was sure of his life land or livelyhood ne of his wife daughter or servant every good Maiden and Woman standing in fear to be ravished and deflowred And besides this what discords inward battels effusion of Christian mens blouds and namely by the destruction of the Nobles bloud of this land was had and committed within the same it is evident and notorious through all this Realm unto the great sorrow and heavinesse of all true English-men And here also we consider how that the said pretended Mariage betwixt the above-named King Edward and Elizabeth Gray was made of great presumption without the knowing and assent of the Lords of this land and also by Sorcery and Witchcraft committed by the said Elizabeth and her Mother Iaquet Dutchesse of Bedford as the common opinion of the people and the publique voice and fame is throughout all this land and hereafter if the cause shall require shall be proved sufficiently in time and place convenient And here also we consider how that the said pretended Mariage was made privily and secretly without
banished p. 124 442. No Stranger to be a Broker p. 133 141 442 482 611. Remedy prayed against Brokers Usurers p. 285. Brothelhouses not to be kept in Southwark p. 339. Bruges in Flanders the staple of wools held there and complaints against their Monopolies and restraints p. 52 70. A complaint for suing the Mayor of the staple in Callice by a London Merchant in the forein Court of Bruges and he ordered to incurre a Praemunire if he surcease it not p. 703. Sir William Bryan Knight imprisoned by Parl. for purchasing a Bull of Excommunication from Rome directed to the Archbishops against such who brake his house and took away his Charters and Privileges p. 543. Bullion orders and means for its importation p. 70 171 172 341 375. Inquiry of such as convey it away p. 121. Bullion to be brought to the staple p. 121 325 341. It s exportation inhibited by the Duke of Burgundy p. 70 375. Bulls of the Pope complained of inhibited nulled and their bringing in punished in a praemunire p. 41 45 50 64 103 324 334 343 457 460 479 480 584 623 See Pope Provisions Burdeaux ship passing thither taken p. 132. The revenues of it examined by Commissioners p. 168. expences for its keeping p. 174. An Imposition on Merchants coming thither granted to the Mayor and Jurates thereof revoked p. 594. Another imposition there complained against and to cease p. 619 Gaiscoyn wines to be brought down thither p. 632. Burgesses of Parliament see Commons and Privilege Duke of Burgundy inhibits exportation of Bullion p. 375. His perjury and revolt to the French p. 614. Ed. the 4. allieth himself with him p. 683. Much depends on him p. 694. An Act touching the Merchandise of Burgundy p. 679. Burroughs and Houses held in them by Burgage suffered to fall down complained of p. 123. Adam de Bury accused in Parl. sent for came not could not be found all his goods are arrested for it p. 123. restored to him afterwards at the Commons motion p. 152. Butchers of London where to keep slaughterhouses and cast their ordure p. 349. Butler of the King to deliver wines to furnish Castles p. 21â— Monies assigned him out of Aides p. 28. Complaint of his undue taking wines by the name of prizes p. 398 412. Tho. Chaucer chief Butler declareth whatâ— prizes of wines the king ought to receive of every ship how he was defrauded of them by the Londoners p. 476. Prayeth payment of monies upon Tallies for wines taken up by him for the king p. 540. The Office setled on him by Patent for life confirmed by Parliament p. 565. Butter not to be exported p. 96. its exportation licenced for one year p. 192. An Act concerning its exportation p. 581 626. C IAck Cade the Act for his attainder p. 647. Robert Poynings of Southwark Esq his Carver and Sword-bearer pardoned p. 652. Sir William Oldhall knight outlawed of Treasons for joyning with him p. 654. Richard Duke of York confederated with him to be advanced to the Crown p. 661. Callice King Edw. 3. his siege thereofâ— and resoâ—ution to take it p. 47. Merchants to repair to it by the Lords consent p. 92. Impositions on Wools there complained of and nulled p. 101. An Act that those born there should be Denizens and inheritable in England p. 106. A motion that the Staple may be kept there only p. 117. Staple ware and Bullion to be conveyed no where but thither p. 121. Lord Latymer impeached for procuring grants to the destruction of the Staple and Town of Callice p. 122. Adam de Bury Mayor thereof impeached for divers deceits and wongs p. 123. Corn and privisions to be transported thither p. 135. Complaints of English Merchants arrests there for others Debts and Trespasses p. 136. The Staple setled there and no where else in forein parts â—t incorporated endowed with sundry Liberties Privileges and a Mayor and Aldermen p. 140. Protections of such as lie there only by covin revoked p. 148. The expences of Callice examined p. 168. Petitions of the Mayor and Aldermen thereof touching their Liberties p. 172. Callice cost yearly 20000 l. p. 174 404. The Commons not to be charged with its expences p. 175. All merchandise to be carried thither p. 178. Staple removed thither p. 325. Acts that the Staple may be removed thence p. 283 309 337 338. Not to be held of the French King being gotten by the sword p. 300. The Burgesses grew rich by the Staple there the good Townes at home poorâ— and the King lost in his Customs p. 309. Captains of it and the Marches to reside there p. 312. Staple enacted to continue there for a time p. 334 341 356 393 408 570 464 472. Charges to be levied and ayd granted for its defence p. 351 472 360 375 390 404 415 425 451. A Petition that the sale of Tinn may not continue there p. 355. License to transport Staple wares to other places revoked upon their Petition p. 408. They pray the Assise of wine ale bear bread to be granted them p. 420. Iohn Earl of Somerset Captain thereof his Salary and Souldiers wages agreed on by Indenture both in times of Peace and Warr his arrears ordered to be paid p. 431. Complaint of their exactions upon wagons p. 443. Infested by the French p. 451. Provision for the dearth there p. 453. The abuses of the Treasurer thereof complained of and ordered to be redressed p. 461. It s Siege intended by the French and Duke of Burgundy p. 470. Three parts of the Subsidy of Wools imployed for its defence p. 472. No wools or Staple commodities to be transported but thither p. 481. It s defence and supply to be considered of by the Parliament p. 534. The Mint and Staple setled there p. 570 571 596 612 625 631. The Treasurer and Victualler thereof â—o receive Staple Wares and other revenues there for the payment of the Souldiers p. 593. Recognizances before the Mayor of the Staple by Act p. 604. An Act touching bringing of Stone thither p. 605. The keeping thereof committed to the Duke of Glocester for 9. years by Indenture wherein the Numbers of the Garrison Soldiers Officers their fees and wages are expressed p. 615. Danger like to happen to it for want of pay p. 618. The Treasurer of England to pay the Souldiers thereof what the Customs there will not payâ— p. 619. What Staplers shall elect the Mayor and Constable of the Staple there p. 631. Edmund Duke of Somerset Captain thereof his arrears to be paiâ— p. 650. Du. of York Captain thereof requireth satisfaction to 13 Articles p. 653. The Mayor Constable and Staplers allowed out of the Customs there the monies lent toward the Souldiers pay p. 653 659 678 681. The Parliament to take order for the due paying of the Souldiers therof p. 656 658â— 677â— The Treasurer thereof to account yearly at the Exchequer and dispose of all offices of Account there p. 677. An Act touching Passengers
them in King Lords Parliament Compurgators offered to acquit one condemned in Parliament in his absence without tryal p. 66. Concealment of any sums in Accomptants to be answered to the king after accounts passed and allowed p. 55. after pardon p. 396 after a Quietns est p. 481. an Acquittance p. 45. Condition annexed to the Subsidie of wools for 3 years that if the wars did cease the grant should cease p. 69. upon condition such persons may be of the Council and not removed c. p. 317. Pardon granted upon condition the king might enjoy the subsidies granted See Taxes A feofment and livery by the king without any condition in the Charter cannot by any subsequent words by him be made conditional p. 169. Confederacy Indictment and punishment for it p. 87 91. Confederacy of Merchants complained of p. 61. Confirmation of the Kings other Charters Patents Liberties Lands Annuities Grants Chantries Offices Exchanges Corporations in and by Parliament p. 81 82 85 119 133 134 159 178 363 418 439 440 480 540 541 542 543 563 565 566 569 570 579 580 586 594 602 603 604 610 611 623 630 635 653 654 663 667 681 689 691 692 693 694 697 698 699. Of a judgement formerly given in Parliament p. 539. Congregations gathering of them prohibited 423. Conisance of all Pleas by former Charters allowed p. 163. Conquest every person passing with the king into France to enjoy all Towns Castles Possessions Persons Names Arms Honours as he could get or take by his own conquest or prowesse and to have Charters of them saving to the king all royalties and Church-lands p. 110. The king sent an Army into France for the Conquest and recovery of his own p. 111. Callice and other Territories gotten by Sword from the French by the king not to be held by homage and service of the French king p. 300. The king passeth into Ireland with great zeal and hope to conquer it p. 358. K. H. 4. his Protestation that he claimed not the Crown by way of Conquest nor to diminish any mans right but such who had bâ—en against the Common-wealth p. 389. whose land he would have to him forfeited by way of Conquest p. 401. king H. 4. took upon him the Crown as right heir to H. 3. and not as a Conqueâ—our p. 666. The Ordinance of R. 2. upon the Conquest of Wales that no Welshman should bear any office there c. to be executed p. 405. They and the Irishmen wholly conquered p. 415. The Earl of Dunbar being the kings Liege prayeth he may be restored to all such his lands in Scotland as the English shall at any time conquer or obtain which is granted p. 418. Robert de Vere to enjoy to him his heir all lands he conquered in Ireland p. 311. Conspiracy Inquests on it to be returned by the Sheriff himself of the most lawfull men p. 87. The points of it to be explained seeing Judges judge rashly in it None to be punished for it but where the Statute is expresse p. 91. To be tried in the County where the Indictments were made p. 348. Not to be sued out of the Shire or Liberty p. 354 355. Imprisonment in the Tower upon an Action of Conspiracy in Lancaster complained of p. 398. An Act touching Conspirations in the Dutchy of Lancaster p. 557. Conspirators outlawries against them not to be reversed p. 39. No great person to maintain them p. 51. Constablesâ— Purveyors to take them with them p. 48. Men and horses of the King not to be harbenged or take any thing but by them and deliver the Bils of the Marshal of the House to them p. 55. To have the weighing of wools p. 335. To apprehend Felons and levy hue and cry 12. Constables of Castles or Gaolers not to be Commissioners where men are to be imprisoned p. 91. Constable of England not to hold plea of Treason Felony or things triable by the Common Law p. 171 306 333 411 420 429 472 594 595. The Chancellor after his impeachment and answer arrested by him p. 316. Such as claim to do any service at the Coronation appear before him and othersâ— p. 389. All Appeals of things done out of the Realm to be tried before him p. 594. Constable of Dover Castle See Dover Consultation In what cases to be granted and where twice p. 139 151 165â— 410. Contempt Adam de Bury his goods seized for not appearing in Parliament upon summons to answer his accusation p. 123. The Mayor and Bayliffs of Lincoln and Cambridge adjudged in contempt in Parliament for not bringing a Warrant or Attorney from the Commonalty of the said Towns p. 330 331. Contribution levied upon Neighbour towns for the fortification of Southampton p. 20. To Disms Quindisms payed notwithstanding Charters of exemption p. 81 476. By the Cinque-ports to those of Costleing hundred of which they had half p. 136. Of religious persons towards the repair of walled and fortified Towns where they have possessions p. 161. To Knights wages who shall contribute and who not p. 1.164 311 595. Towards the Guarding of the Sea-coasts p. 179. and of the Sea p. 295. Towards a ship and goods lost by the ships deâ—erting her against their Oath p. 548 549. To Taxes by Merchants resiants in Townsâ— p. 555. See London Quindisms Hamlets near the walls of Cities and Towns and no part of them not to be contributory to all charges in them though moved p. 136. Contrâ—llers of Customs not to let their office to farm on pain of forfeiture p. 38. To be yearly removed desired p. 170. Their grants for life moved to be revoked p. 318. To enjoy their Offices only during good behaviour and the Kings pleasure p. 325. An Act for it and that he hath no ship of his own p. 339. To keep no Ostery for any Merchant p. 472. To be made by advice of the Council p. 564. Denied to license transporting corn from one shire to another upon Sureties p. 625. An Act for Sureties found to them p. 679. Conviction of English by Welsh an Act concerning it p. 423. Convocation Writs to the Archbishops to call one in both Provinces p. 19. Many absent from it when called whereat the King was offended and commanded the Archbishop to punish the defaulters p. 43. Bishops before the next Convocationâ—o â—o certifie the names and benefices of Aâ—iens p. 50. A Constitution for tithes of Underwood made in it p. 60. Provided remedy against Non-residence p. 476 The Privilege of its members from arrests c. p. 594. Copy of a Bill of Complaint in Parl. denied to be granted to the Defendants p. 200. Coronation of the King p. 384 389 390. Coroners to have sufficient in their Counties p. 75. An Act concerning their election p. 87. Indictment before them for murder p. 126. Londoners pray they may chuse place and displace a Coroner from which antient right the King will not depart p. 147 161. None to be after 60
Exchequer to be redressed in the Kings Bench p 56â— 71 164. An Act touching Errors in London p 87. Errors in the Common Place to be redressed in the Kings Bench Errors in it in Parliament p 123. Before Iustices of Assise revocable before the Chief Iustice of the Comâ—lace p 130 131. In either Bench for an Erronious Iudgment in Lincoln p 546. An Act for assigning Errors p 595. Error in the Kings Bench and Parliament upon a Iudgment in Ireland p 596. Escapes of Fugitives out of Church-yards enquired of by the Stewards of the Kings house and an Escape awarded thereon complained as a grievance p 137. Of Prisoners and Felons how to be punished p 548. Escheators to be sufficient persons within the County p 57 113. To answer the profits of the Kings tenants p 87. To seise lands into the Kings hands p 91. Waste done by them how to be punished p 93. An Act concerning them p 106. None to remain above one year p 113 127 164. â—94 That no Patent for any Lands found by their Inquest be granted or the party outed of possession if he will be bound to answer the profits if it be found for the King upon his Traverse p 128â— 185 191 285 624. Their Inquests and Offices to be traversed how and when p 138 624. See Traverse None after sixty years to be an Escheator p. 162. Not to seise any mans lands upon an Inquest of Office without a Scire fac p 163. Oppress Religious houses p 165. None to remain in office above three years p 178. None to execute the office for three years after his remove p 306 338. Enquiry of their Concealments p 396. To be made by the Councils advice p 564â— Ordered to return an Office by a day p 580. An Act touching their Inquisitions p 596 touching Returns of their Offices p 624 touching their Fees p 632â— Patents to them for life in Chester and Flint made void p 664. An Act concerning them p 700. Escheats of Lands and Goods granted to Calice p 140. Not to be granted by the King to any during the Wars p 323 324. Excepted out of the general pardon p 325. To be sold for the Kings most profit p 338. Escuage pardoned p. 312 313. No Escuage to be paid to London by the Merchants of Iean for their merchandise customed at Southampton p 629. Essoins no Fourcher to be suffered by them p 411. Estreat p 86. Evidence to be given openly at the Bar in Inquests of Conspiracie c. p 87. Examinations read in Parliament of the Duke of Glocester taken by Commission at Callis to attaint him of Treason after his death p 378. Of Doctors of Divine Civil and Canon Law upon Oath touching the priviledge of Sanctuaries p 176. None to be compelled to be examined touching his Freehold in Parliament or elsewhere p 604. Of Witnesses on Oath See Parliament Exchanges of Lands c. with the King confirmed in Parliament p 588 663 565 694 697. Of Lands for a casual custome with the King adjudged fraud in the Chancellor p 315 316. Exchange of Monies and Exchangers Office p 23 48 52 121. between Merchant and Merchant notwithstanding any Statute p 284 421. Acts touching Exchange p 337 472 560 80. No Mint-master to be a Master of Exchange p 560. yet 565.568 dispenced with An Act touching Exchanges to Rome p 565. Fees for Exchange p 97 565. An account thereof to a Committee of Parliament p 684 685 686. Exchequer A Commission to the Opposer of it repealed p 24. Justices Extracts to be certified into it p 40. Kings Debtors to rebate the same there in debts due to them from the King p 40. Vexations of Accountants therein complained of p 54 55. Attornies in accounts to be there received ibid Error there where to be redressed See Error Writs out of it upon Inquests on Arrays to double or treble the value of the lands found complained of p 60. Processe and Issues there against Accountants p 70. The right use thereof to be kept in levying aid to make the Kings son a Knight p 91. An Attaint prayed for Verdicts there given p 92. No man to be impeached there for a debt after payment and a Tally p 93. An act touching the Remembrancer of it p 97. That all Scots money be brought into it by a day p 114 All Accountants to be discharged there without delay under pain of Imprisonment p 118. None to be called thither upon suggestion without due process p 119. Discharge of Sums upon Oath and averment which cannot be levied by Sheriffs and others Accounts there to be made by the Barons and Council or Treasurer p 126. see Accounts Sheriffs not to give Dinners to the Officers of the Exchequer p 127. That men may wage their Law there as well as in other Courts denied p 128. Search in the Treasury there for Discharges p 134. An Act touching Debts there allowed p 160. That Justices of Assise may take Nisi prius of Issues between the King and other persons of the Exchequer as well as of the K. B. and C. B. p 162. Confession to be the Kings Debtor on Record there p 164. Where prisoners in Execution in Newgate for Debt shall or may not be removed into the Exchequer for the Kings debt p 166. Remedy prayed against calling men to account for Sweet wines Scotish money p 177. See Account The wisest and ablest men to be Officers there p 197. The priviledges of the Officers there to be declared p 160. Collectors of Tenths to account there upon oath p 202 An Act touching Accounts there p 203. Clerks Fees there p 280. The Barons and all other Officers there specified to be learned in the Law or very skilful in the courses of the Court p 204. The Chancellor and Keeper of the Privy-seal to survey the Exchequer and Receipts to remove such Officers therein as are unfit and to place others p 325. An Annuity to be paid out of it p 322. Complaint against Writs thence Datum est nobis intelligi p 413. Averment there against Sheriffs returns of smal issues p 413. Commissioners fined for not sittingâ— to be discharged there upon their oaths that they had no notice p 443. No man after a Quietus est to be called there to Account but for a Concealment or False allowanceâ— p 481. That all Subpoena's thence Quibusdam certis de causis may be controlled p 548. The Treasurer and two Chamberlains of the Exchequer to have a Key to the Kings Receiptsâ— and their Oath p 564 565. No Sheriff or other Officer to be impeached by process thence for things not leviable p 595. No Writs to be issued thence for any Debts paid under a Penalty p 616. An Act against the Extortions of Officers there p 660. Excommunication denounced against Breakers of Peace Maintainers False Jurors Malefactors p 12 25 26. For Perjuryâ— p 66. Against all Breakers of the Oaths taken in 11 21 R 2. p 326 369 371.
Of the Kings Officers for making arrests in Churchyards complained against p 364. Sir Iohn Oldrastle excommunicated for Heresie p 554. The party cannot answer to the cause after it p 75. The Popes Excommunication procured against breakers of the Parliament of 21 R 2. in derogation of the Laws and Crown p 387. See p 343. Protested against by the Archbishop and Clergy p 348. See Bulls Excommunicato capiendo lies without a Scire facias which was desired p 75. A complaint against an Excommunication by the Archbishop for a civil cause p 343. Execution avoided by practise recharged on the party in the Bishops prison p 631. Of Lands at the day of the Writ purchased denied p 53. see p 55 56 62 696. Executors acquittance of one refusing administration prayed to be void p 109 110. Restitution of a reward made to the Executors p 113. Of Gardian in socage an account prayed against them p 131. Of Captains taking wages to pay what they received p 203. pray payment of debts from the King p 569. pray redress in Parliament against the abuses of a Co-executor p 588 may have an identitate nominis p 600. Whitington Colledge founded by his Executors p 603. Petition in Parliament p 624 635 696. An Annuity confined for five years to Executors after the death of him to whom it is granted p 698. Executors made by the King they to pay his debts refuse to administer for want of Assets c. p 169 419 535 563 564 569 570 588. King H. 6. sole Executor to Q. Katherine his Mother appoints others to execute her will p 620. Executors of Executors cannot have the like action as the estator yet prayed p 40. What actions are given them by Statute p 79. Exemplifications under the Great Seal of Articles in Parliament p 23 Of Statutes Conditions and Commissions for inquiry of Oppressions p 34. Of the Statute for Tithesâ— p 44. Of judgements in the Common Pleas p 75. Of all Deeds and Charters inrolled lost burnt or defaced in the Insurrection p 202. An Act touching Exemplifications of deeds p 284. Of an aid granted and the conditions for every County under the Great Seal freely p 317. Of a judgement enrolled when the Record in imbezzelled p 690. Exemption from Offices and Juries prayed for all men above 60 years p 149 162. Exigents where when and how to issue and in what actions p 46 57 91 410 413 422 535 547 558 589 590 605 625 631. Extents at undervalues to be inquired of p 138. Of Aliens Farms duly returned p 178. Of the Kings debtors Lands upon his heir p 511. Extortions Exactions and abuses complained of in Parliament and Orders for redress in Officers of the Forrest p 358 The Lord Nevil p 136. Sheriffs p 32 119 165 581 600 631. Escheators p 32 165. Aulnagers p 474 482. Ordinaries and Bishops Officers p 118 127 136 296. Farmers of Customes p 58 61 67 112 121 122. Collectors of Woolls and Taxes p 63. Searchers p 644. Gagers of Wines p 63. Officers and Sheriffs of London p 356 396. Merchants p 58 67 411. Officers of the Exchequer p 660. Admirals p 113 475. Marshalsey p 164. Privie Counsellors p 122 Cyrographer p 161. Pope and his Officers p 128 129. See Pope Usurers p 286. Others p 132 152 334 335.412 413 482 483.591 644 664 684. Commissioners for Extortions p 124 152. Extracts of Justices to be yearrly returned into the Exchequer p 15.40 127 159. To be mentioned in the Green-Wax at whose suit in what Term c. p 112. Eyres of Forrests not to be kept during the Wars p 70 112 125 163 347 Judgement to pass in them under the chief Justice Seal p 75. All points of the Eyre desired to be pardoned pâ—72 â—72 No Eyre to be kept without urgent necessity p 342. F FAir at Bath another raised at Bristol to its Nusance complained of p 133. No Fair to be held in two years p. 284. An Act touching Fairs p. 639. Faith want of it the root of all vice p. 591. The restitution of true Faith the best means to make the Kingdoms flourish p. 592. Faith Catholike to be maintained p. 405 447. False Imprisonment upon Attachments by Forresters p. 147. Farm Customers and others not to let their Offices to Farm p. 38. No Englishman to take any thing to Farm of an Alien religious prayed p. 49 131 147 151 161. Hundreds not to be let to Farm p. 126. Bailiffs of Wapentakes and Hundreds not to Farm them p. 139 398. Farms of Prior Aliens to the King discharged p. 409. Farmers to the King to enjoy their Grants upon resumptions giving as much as others p. 439. Mainperers of the Kings Farms for felony and their heirs how far chargeable to the King p 433. Farmers of Customs and Subsidies abuses exactions p. 58. See Extortion Farthings to be coined p. 41 97 171 191 631. Fear of death not to be pleaded in excuse by any Lord or Judge p. 394. No excuse p. â—99 400. The kinds and effects of Fear p. 591 592. Fee-farms Sheriffs to be discharged of those granted to others and which they cannot levy p 80 178 179 203. Port-Towns Petitions to be discharged of their Fee-farms or to be abated p. 132 133 385 397 421 467 468 475. Of Cambridge p. 200. No Re-entries for not payment of Fee-farms of Cities and Towns p 407. Fees for Justices of Peace see Iustices For sealing Writs p. 15 60. For admission to Benefices p. 136. Of Gaugers p. 63. Of Clerks in the Exchequer p. 204. Of the Chamberlain of Berwick p 25. For Probate of Wills p. 147 148. Of Cyrographers for Fines p. 128 161 162. For measuring of Vessels in Cambridge p. 304. For Worsteds search and sealing p. 474. For Searchers of Cloth p. 601. Of the Exchanger p. 565 684 685 686 For the Protector p. 652 658. Fees accustomed only to be taken p 457. Fees of the Justices and Barons increased p. 51. Pardon 's granted without Fees p. 146. Fees examined by Commissioners p. 168. To be ascertained p. 409 419 457. Extorted Fees more then due to be rendred to the King p. 644. Felons not to be maintained by Great men or others p. 10. An Act concerning such as flie into secret places p. 595. A Clause for apprehending such as haunt London and committing them to Newgate p. 682. An undue acquital of a Felon before the Justices of Assise nulled p 7â—0 Felons goods found by office traversed p. 127. Felony to be enquired of by Justices p. 16. Indictment and Acquital of it p. 57 146. Issue joyned thereon prayed to be tryed by Nisi prius p. 109. Of Chester-men see Cheshire Constable and Marshal not to hold plea of Felony but the Justices only p. 171. Pardon of Felonies p. 192. To be tryed in Wales where committed p. 467. An Act touching Felonies p 615. Attainder of Felony by Act of Parliament for not appearing at a day Avoided upon petition p. 699. Cutting out
Gold and Silver wrought by Cutlers p 431. An Act touching their guilding p 54â— An Act concerning them p 571. Iohn de Gominez his Impeachment and censure for surrendring up a forreign garrison before extremity p 158. Theobald Gorges case disproving an Office that found him within age and a Ward p 580. Thomas of Gourney condemned of Treason in Parliamentâ— for murdering K. Edw. â— after his deposing p 7. Government good one cause of summoning Parliaments and to be procured supported p 37 102 121 136 281 321 358 360 361 384 405 452 478 534 538 550 556 562 567 649 680. Oft promised but not performed by K Hâ— 4 p 534 III Governmentâ— King Rich. 2. Impeached and deposed for it in Parliament p 383 to 390. To be inquired of and redressed in Parliament p 455. brings destruction â—o Realm p 384 711 712. 713 The benefit and means of good Government p 384 385 710 711. Governors of Garrisons power and duty p 20 21. See p 158 159. Castles and Forts Grants of the King not to be made of Advowsons Franchises Royal oâ— Lands annexed to the Crown p 58 471. See Resumsion Not to be made without the Councels advice and Treasurers p 413. See Councel Of Lands found upon Escheators Offices when â—nd to whom to be made p 128. See Escheators Inquests None to be made to the prejudice of the King and Realm p 13â— Of no lâ—nds escheated during the Wars p 324. Confirmed in Parliament p 332 458 697 699 700. See Confirmation Charters No Legal grant to be stayed by the Councel at the great or privy Seal p 457. Green wax complaints and Orders concerning it p 16 106 356. Greenwich its Park and Tower with license to erect them p 619. Grievances to be complained of and redressed in Parliament p 31 54 59 60 61 62 85 96 119 141 165 455. See Parliament Greyhoundsâ— not to be kept by Artificers p 335. Grocers An Act concerning them p 97. Guienne Matters concerning it its defence Government c. p. 9â— 31 63 298 300 321 329 351 352 360â— 371 404 415 435 437 441 451 452 4â—3 464 534 601 610 615 642 682. The Natives are Denizens not Aliensâ— so declared p 480. Receiâ—ers and Triers of their Petitions appointed See Parliament Guilford Thâ—ir Charter burnt in the Insurrection renued p 297. H HAbeas Corpus in a Nisi Prius p 138 To remove a Prisoner out of the Bishops prison into the Kings Bench in execution p 631 Out of Chancery to bail a murderer upon a Petition in Parl. p 692. Halengâ— priorâ— p 171. Hall condemned and executed by judgment of Parliament as a Traitor for murthering the Duke of Glocester at Callis p 400 401. Half-pence to be coyned and Gally half pence p 355 420 476 671 631. Hamlet where a Writ lyeth in it or not p 162. Hamper Clerk of it to pay the Judges and Kings Lawyers their Wages p 623. worth 2000 l a year in 5 H 4. p 428. Harlagh Castle confirmed to Sir Roger Kenaston p 691. Harling Isle in Southampton their Patent confirmed and what Quindesms they are to pay p 468 693. Sir Tho. Haxey condemned of Treason for exhibiting a scandalous Bill to the Commons in Parl. against K. R. 2. His life pardoned at the Bishops suit p 362. restored and pardoned at the Commons petition p 393 394. Heir to answer the King if he have no Assets by descent not a common person p 80. Of Captains to pay any thing by them received p 203. That the Heirs of the Kings debters upon extent may hold the lands in Leaâ—e denied p 311. To have a Writ de aetate probanda at full age p 474. King Henry 4. his claim of the Crown election instalment Coronation p 388 389 390 The Crown intailed on his heirs male p 554 666. that Intail reversed his Heir disinherited and he pronounced a Murtherer and Usurpeâ— p 670. His promises to execute the Laws not performed p 534. His Will Legacies Executors goods debts p 535 569. King Henry the fifth his right to the Crown of France resolution to pursue it and proceedings in it p 538 544â— 553. His Will Legacies Executors Overseers p 563 564 583 5â—4 His conqâ—est of France p 567. King Henry the sixt King of France p 562 567 614. crowned and his Protector discharged p 592. His Crown revenues p 609. His Tâ—uce with France and Marriage with Queen Margaret p 629. His Feoffment in trust to the use of his will p 630. Eaton and Kings Colledges founded and endowed by him p 630 635 663. and the Nunnery of Sion p 570 588 589 603. He hath a Protector set over him at his full age and commits the whole government of the Realm to his Councel p 652 658 659. His answer to the Duke of Yorks claim and title to the Crown and submission to the Lords award concerning it p 665 666 667 670. He and his Issue deprived of the Crown attainted of Treason together with his Queen and adherents by Parliament p 670 671 672 677. Heresie The Faith to be maintained against it p 409. An act against Heretical Opinions varying from the Record ibid Imprisonment for Lollery p 411. Nâ—w Sects from beyond Seas banished and suppressed p 392. Excommunication for Heresie p 553 554. Imprisonment for it p 564 invadeth the faith p 583. The mischief of it p 591 592. A Writ de Haeretico comburendo granted in Parliamentâ— p 407. Hereticks in prison delivered over to the Ordinary p 564. Invade the Church p 583. Despise the rights and destroy the Ministers of the Church p 602. Heybeth-bridge p 1â—5 Herrings Act concerning them their prizes and fishing p 126 149 180 191 317 420. Holydayes No Wages to be taken for them p 159. Homage not to be done to the French King for Guyen Callis or what was got by the sword by the King of England p 300 353. Done to the Pope by King Iohn but refused by the King and Parliament p 102. Done to the King in Parliament for the Dutchy of Aquitain p 332. To be done to the French King for Guyen else no peace p 353. Homage done in Parl. by the Duke of Hereford upon his creation p 370. Patent for respiting it revoked p 375. Subject surrendring their Homage to the King Treasonâ— p 376 377. Resigned to R 2. upon his deposing by the Commissioners for the three Estates p 389 390. Done to the King in Parliament p 545. By the Duke of Norfolk in Parliament before he took his place p 576. Feoffees of H. 5. may take the Homage of any Tenants holding of them p 584. Kissing the King in making Homage dispenced with by Parliament because of the plague p 625 6â—6 Honor of the King to be supported p 17. See King Hope p 281 282. Horners an Act concerning them p 679. Horses of the King and Queen and Purveyance for them complained of his abuses therein p 55 58 75. An Act against taking Horses without authority p
to depart with his old right to have and chuse a Coroner in London nor grant any thing to his prejudice p 161 164. Will do his pleasure in resuming and letting Lands in Wales p 421. His pleasure to be known touching Customed goods p 555. A Mint at York during the Kings pleasure p 468. The Chancellor to grant Licenses of Alienation till the King be otherwise minded p 590. A Protector of the Realm made in Parliament so long as it shall please the King p 652 658. Might conclude a Peace without a Parliament but will not without their advice p 298. The Kings disinheritance the impairing of his Regality and Crown by the Popes provisions usurpations or otherwise not to be endured but redressed and punished by Parliaments p 41 61 64 65 100 102 105 130 145 182 190 330 333 343 387. His antient Rights not to be parted with or granted to others p 147 151 161 397 412. His profit to be advanced and things contrary to it denied when petitioned for p 49 58 61 121 122 131 201 203 315 325. His safety to be provided for by Parliament p 287 321 322 323 607. His Honor to be tendered supported by his Subjects Parliaments Council nothing done against it upon petitions Aids granted for that end p 27 62 64 65 91 138 141 156 167 190 201 202 287 298 314 321 322 323 352 353 361 362 463 470 556. Cannot subject his Realm or Subjects to the Pope or any Foreign power nor prejudice his Successors without their common consent in Parliament p 102 372. Dishonorable to be bound to make nâ— gift of Land Ward Escheat or other till out of Debt and refused by him p 200. Such as hold any Fee from him to serve him in the Wars p 313. Slandered by a Bill exhibited to the Commons who crave pardon for it deliver the Bill for which the Exhibitor is condemned of â—reason p 361 362. The Commonâ— crave pardon of him in Parliament on their knees for a misinformation p 40â— Ought not to talk of the Kings person in Parliament otherwise then beseems them p 452. Grieved for the Kings displeasure and crave his pardon and good will p 362 405 408. Their thanks to him for his goodness good will good government travel in the wars c. p 416 452. See Commons The King ought to live of his own without burdening and taxing the Subjects p 13 155 284 288 680. The total of his Revenues p 609. Ought to yield to his Subjects according to Law though he cannot part with his right p 151. Purgeth Lords suspected of Treason and Disloyalty in open Parliament p 321 369 426 427. He gives Iudgment of Banishment in Parliament on a Peer in an extraordinary way without the Lords who protest against it p 644. Gives Iudgment of Banishment and Forfeiture of Lands for Treâ—son in Parliament against the Archbishop of Canterbury together with the Lords p 368 388. The King and Lords Judges in Parliament p 392. See Parliament Gives judgment of banishment by authority of Parliament against the Duke of Norfolk for seditionâ— words spoken against him p 3â—0 His Royal assent to and confirmation of Bills Petitions c. in Parliament p 43 49 101 118 120 124 146 153. 666 667 714. To a Bishop elect p 593. His publike thanks to the Lords and Commons joyntly and severally by himself or his Chancellor for their aids granted pains taken good advice and affections shewed to him or his childrenâ— p 98 100 101 103 105 106 110 111 116 154 166 326 340 405 409 444 462 465 474 481â— 608 641 652 664 â—81 688 691 693. Gives thanks to his Councel and others at the Commons request 479 416. A Committee of Lords and Commons sent to him for his Royall assent and to visit him c. when sick p 146 651 652. The Kings expences revenues of all sorts examined by speciall Commissioners ordered by them and his Councel by order of Parliament p 168 191 313 564. See Councel His grants and gifts examined resumed p 153. See Resumption His Court houshold moved to be regulated reformed his Confessor with others suspected hated persons and Aliens removed out of it supervised regulated at the motion of the Commons and by Order of Parliament during the Kings minority and sometimes at his full age by his Assent with a Protestation of his Liberty c. and sometimes opposed p 156 164 168 196 197.284 288 312 317 323 361.426 427 455 457 622 641 646 647.652 656 659. Cannot binde his Successors by any Oath p 372. Good government prayed about his person and vertuous education during his Minority p 325 175 562. Crowned p 390 â—17 618. That he may be the better counselled prayed p 321. The Kings Minority p 175 178. Of full age and then takes the Government to himself p 329 592. His Protector during his Minority and their power See Protector Custos or Keepers of the Realm in his absence with their power See the first Table and Parliament He holds and claims the Crown by descent and birthright as from God not by election from the people p 154 389 665 666 667 670 672 713â— 714. Yet R 3. claimed and took it both by election and descent p 713 714. The Kings Councel and Court Officers named in Parliament when and in what cases with Protestation of his liberty to admit or change them at his pleasure See Commons Councel p 156 427 318 651 652. His voyage royal into France Ireland the holy Land and Marriage with France consulted of and resolved in the Parliament p 9 11 12 43 287 303 314 315 322 538 544 603 629 630. His stile and Arm altered in relation to France by consent of Parliament p 23 108 109 353 562 563 567. Hiâ— Houshold-Charges setled and provisions for it by Parliament p 3â—8 428 429. His Castles and Houses to be surveyed repaired and their profits not to be granted away p 426. Authorised by Parliament to make a Will his Will and Executors p 347 408 584. see Executors His debts paid by his Executors Trustees Orders in Parliament for paiment of them by assignments and otherwise p 58 192 535 540 546 569 578 579 581 584 588 593 599 604 609 612 614 620 622 635 636 638 692 693 701. Kings revenues laid up for one whole year without any diminution by gifts p 313. His Jewels pawned to relieve his necessities and the publick pâ—9 â—9 569. see Iewels Ought to be puissant and severe in the execution of his Laws p 367â— An Inquisition for his Goods embezelled p 396. His messengers to the Parliament relating his Foreign affairs and wants to them p 17 27 37 45 47 50. Edward 3. no lawful King during his deposed Fathers lifâ— p 373. Kings Officers who imploy their pains in his service falsly accused to be speedily tryed and acquitted p 67 152. The Kings command to arrest Traitors a sufficient ground of indempnity for murther and felony in the
Parliament p. 38 40 54 55 56 57 59â— 62 66 70 86 87 91 92 109 110 112 127 131 134 135 136 138 139 148 155 161 162 198 199 280 306 331 333 342 351 356 364 396 397 398 410 411 419 420 422 429 457 466 467 468 476 548 550 552 557 558 560 561 566 590 594 595 601 610 611. Nothing to be done in Derogation of the Common Law p. 404. Matters at Common Law not to be sued before the Council Admiral Marshal or Chancellor See those Titles Subversion of the Law an Article of Impeachment against K. R. 2. p. 387 388. and charged against K. E. 4. p. 711 712. The King not to use his Prerogative to the subversion of the Law nor contrary to it p. 395 387 388. That all Laws are in the Kings breast and that he may alter or expound them at his pleasure And Article against R. 2. when deposed ibid Common Law not to be delayed or stayed p. 429. See Justice and Justices All the Kings Officers to maintain the Common Law to pursue no suit or quarrel by any other means then by order of it nor appoint any Officer by any mediation contrary to Law p. 457. All the Council swears thereunto p. 456 457. See Statutes Every English mans inheritance p. 711. Law-breakers not to be retained or maintained by any of the three Estates p. 10 51. Law-Civil the Termes of it not understood by the Commons p. 300. Doctors of it sworn to deliver their Opinions concerning the Priviledges of Sanctuaries p. 176. Law-Canon the Bishops prohibited by it to be present in Parliament in matters of blood p. 322. See Canons Law-Martial and of the Land differ p. 173. Trial by it for Treason ordered by Parliament p. 372 379 380. Suffering Subjects to be tried by it contrary to the Law of the Land and Kings Oath an Article against R. 2. when deposed p. 388. A trial intended by it referred to the Judges to be by the Common Law p. 171 429. A general pardon granted to such who in the Insurrection executed any Rebels without due process of Law by Martial Law p. 190. A Commission in times of War to execute all Rebels by way of Martial Law p. 25. Executions of men by it without legal trial reversed by Parliament as erroneous p. 5 6. Lawyers sent to be Justices into Ireland and to have no excuse p. 10. To repress and redress the Laws defects p. 137. To be Iustices of Peace in every County c. See Iustices active in deposing of King R. 2. in bringing in K. R. 3. and approving his title to the Crown p. 385 389 390 713. Decline the Defence of K. H. 6. His title against the claim of the Duke of York p 665 666. Leagues and Truces with France Scotland and other Nations and Princes related to or approved confirmed in Parliament p. 201 287 456 550 551 565 614 629 630 683. Learnings decay and learned mens discountenance by Provisions and Aliens preferments complain'd against for redress p. 128. Lâ—ases of Lands found by â—â—quest to be made to the party that traverseth it p. 311. Of Dutchy-Lands and by Trustees how to be made p. 696 697. See Customers Controllers Sheriffs Farmers Leather an Act concerning its tanning p. 358. Sir Iohn Lee Steward of the Kings House his Impeachment Answer censure p. 106â— 107. Leets excessive fynes in them to be redressed p. 40. That presentments may be in them but twice a yeer p. 139. Justices of Peace not to eâ—quire of any Articles to be redressed in them p. 146. not to punish Taverners nor be disturbed though within the verge p. 161. An Act concerning Indictments in them p. â—73 Letters to the Parliament p. 50. not to be sent by Aliens in time of War See Aliens Given in evidence when found by a beggar in an Impeachment of Treason p. 189 190. Leiutenant of an Army made by the General p 289. Lewes Wool to be there shipped p. 101. and weighed p. 419. Ley River nusances in it how and by whom to be redressed p. 539 581 590 600. Leicester the New Colledge in it Land confirmed to the Dean thereof p. 69â— Libel to be sealed with the Judges Seal and shewed to the Chancellor upon a prohibition prayed p. 140. Liberties that all Persons and Corporations may fully enjoy their Libertys Franchises one prime cause of calling Parliament and so declared and the conservation of them one chief Petition of the Commons when violated p. 32 33 34 113 117 124 125 137 138 146 154 159 160 166 178 295 341 351 353 354 367 371 404 425 439 451 452 459 470 534 538 541 544 546 549 553 557 562 563 576 583 587 602 662 634 656 710. See Corporations Church and Magna Charta Liberties of Cambridge seized into the Kings hands for the towns-mens Insurrection and abuses to the University and Scholars p. 199 200. Lords of Liberties to be compounded with p. 482. Library of Hugh le Dispencer p. 372. License none to be granted by the King to buy Wines against the Statute p. 38. Procuring Licenses to transport Wool and staple ware An Article of Impeachment in Parliament p. 121. For exchange between Merchants by the Chancellor p. 284. To transport Corâ— p. 285. To pass over sea with the Bishop of Norwich to the wars p. 289. To carry victuals to Scotland elsewhere p. 318. An Act for Licenses of Impropriations p. 345. For transporting staple wares revoked upon Petition p. 408. Foâ— all to pass the Seas to Pâ—iors Aliens denied p 467. None to be granted to transport Wools or Looms but onely to Calice p. 481 482 585 590. Of Alieâ—aâ—ion by the Chancellorâ— p. 59. An Act against them fo shipping Wool p. 615. For Marriage p. 619. By the Customer to transport Corn from County to County denied p. 625. To transport Tâ—â— p. 355. Lincoln A Petition for holding the Staple there p. 125. A Complaint of the Bâ—shop Dean and Chapter thereof against the Mâ—jor and Towns-men and the injâ—stice of their Trials and Juries their contempt and the Order thereupon touching Juâ—ies and Attaints there p. 330. An Act touching the Bishop Dean and Chapter thereof p. 335. The Citizens pray to be eased of their Feofarme p. 395 421. Writs to be directed to the Sheriffe of the County upon error brought for a judgement in it p. 546. An Accord between the Dean and Chapter made by the Bâ—shop confirmed in Parliament with a forfeiture to repair the Church of Lincoln p. 623. Liveries and Retainers Acts and Orders and Petitions concerning them p. 163 333 â—61 364 392 412 426 46â— 482 540 590 594 668 673 684 700. Livery and Seisiâ— by a ring delivered adjudged good in Lawâ— p. 157. Of Lands in the Kings Case without condiâ—ion upon his Charterâ— p. 169. Of Lands in Cornwal made in Parliament by the Prince then an Infant p. 430. Dâ—wer assigned to the Queen of Dutchy Lands enacted to be good without Livery and
Bayle Sureties Of body for body for one banished into the Isle of Man to be kept there p. 379. Maintenance and Maintainers inquirable by the Justices of the Bench Assize Oyer and Terminer Peace p. 15. No great Persons or Officers to maintain any Traitors Felons Trespassers maintainers breakers of Peace c. p. 51.70.147 The Lords and Commons all sworn to it in Parliament p. 608 612. Of no Plea or quarrel in Courts p. 53 156 147 160. Inquests in maintenance to be returned by the Sheriffe himself of the most lawful and nighest men p. 87. An Act touching Maintainers p. 101 688. No woman to maintain any Plea in the Kings Courts and namely Alice Piers under loss of all and banishment p 123. Her censure and banishment thereupon p. 152 158 177 304. An Act concerning it p. 297 159. Complaints against Maintainers in every Court p. 136. The Commons willed to abandon all maintainers parties p. 303. An Earl accused in Parliament for maintenance and acquitted p 304. Enquiry after Maintainers prayed p. 482. Articles proclaimed against Maintainers p. 673. The Statute against Maintenance prayed to be executed p. 688. Maâ—ors of Towns none to be a Victualer Hostler or Taverner during his Office p. 113. To see things amended in every mysterie and occupaâ—â—on p. 1â—4 To arrest breakers of the Peace within their precincts not out of them though adjoining p. 136. A complaint against the undue Election of the Mayor of York and vitious acting the Mayor duly elected and sworn is restored commanded by Writ to execute the office and the other to forbear p. 192. Mayor and Commonâ—lty of Cambridge accused of an Insurrection and not in Parliament in contempt and censured p. 199 200. See Cambridgeâ— London York Major of the Staple and of Calice See Staple Calice Major Part nothing to be enacted by the Council in great causes but by all 〈◊〉 most of them p. 564 602. Malice the ground of Mortimer's judgement afterwards reversed p. 85. Malt its transportation prohibited p 96. An Act concerning it p. 356. Malâ—olt on Wools to be revoked p. 17. Man Isle Earl of Warwick banished to it and findes bail Body for Body to continue there p. 379. Manslaughter Indictments of it in Sheriffâ— Turns prayed to continue good p 162. Manumissions of Villains by duress in the â—â—surrection revoked nulled p. 195 196 204. Marches of Scotland and North Marches Orders for their defence against the Scots for Owners of Castles in those parts to furnish fortifie and reside upon them Arrays for that purpose Aides in Parliament for their defence and other things concerning them p. 20 21 23 35 37 43 49 79 100 131 134 137 185 188 281 283 284 285 305 309 312 313 318 321 326 361 370 464 553 578 579 612 654. Marches of Walesâ— those dwelling on them pray not to be distrained or impeached in Wales but where they are Debters Suiters or Trespassers to which the King and Lords Marches promise to provide remedy p. 179. See Wales Marriage The Marriage-Treaty of the King and marriage adviseâ— of and assented to in Parliament p. 9 10 629 630. Marriage-Contract its annihilation pursued in Court-Christian p. 176. By duress complained and nulledâ— p. 619 655. Of an Infant of sâ—x yeers raâ—ified by Parliament p. 702. Widows endowed not to marry without the King's assent p. 589. The King's Widows Oath not to marry without License See Oaths p. 585. None to marry with the kindred of Owen Glendor p. 424 610. Fine by a ward for marrying without license See Fine A Mariage at thirâ—een yeers confirmed and if no mutuâ—l society and huâ—band die his Brother to marry â—er after his decease p. 695 696. Justices punish the Clergy for taking money for solemnizing Marriage p. 32. They are not to have conusance of it p. 33. The promise of K. H. 5. by word of mouth to a ward of his own marriâ—ge for the sum of 10000 l. made coâ—firmed by Parliament under H 6. p. 569. Kâ—ngs marriage without the Loâ—ds câ—nsent complained against p. 711. By Wâ—tchcraft Sorcery and after a precontract void p 711 712. Marriners and Masters driven to other Trades by restraining shipping and taking them up by Masters of the Kings Shipsâ— to the decay of the Navy complained against for redress p. 113. To be paid their wages from the day of their being appointed to serve the King and pray allowance for the tackling of their Ships 118 119. Marriners to have the like wages as Archers when taken up for the King but the former use confirmed p 172. A complaint of taking up Marriners whereby Ships are lost and burnt by the Enemies and remedy promised p. 177. An Act touching Marriners to be reâ—ressed by the Admiral p 340. The punishment of Marriners by Commâ—ssions upon suggestions of strangers complained of and they not to answer but at common Law prayed p. 466. See Ships Navy Admiral Marquess created in Parliament the manner of it p. 310 311. Degraded p. 399. A strange new title therefore restitution of a degraded Marquess to that title refused p 417. Marshals of Courts their Fees to be regulated See Chancellor Iustices Marshal of England See the first Table The Earl Marshal to see Traytors executed p. 6. To make no process but what was used in Ed. 2. reign and limited by the Statute p. 74 75. Lord Latimer upon his impeachment and censure committed to the Constable and bayled p. 316. Complaints of his holding Plea against the Statute of Actio super Chartas and things triable at Common Law his Jurisdiction and Court limited to the verge which is twelve miles p. 128 160 171 306 411 420 429 457 39 135 147 432. Acts made concerning its limitation and jurisdictionâ— p. 306 333 411 420 457 472 432. Prohibition is to be granted where they meddle of things at Common Law p. 420. Sir Ralph Ferrars impeached of treason brought into Parliament by the Marshal of England p. 190. Not to meddle within the Guild-hall of Southwark oâ— Liberties granted to others by Charters prayed p. 147 148 160. Not to hold Plea of Treason or Felony done within the Realm but only without it p. 171 594 595. Those who were to do service â— the Coronation to appear before the Marshal and others p. 389. Marshal not to bayl or release any committed to him for thâ— peace p. 70. A prisoner remitted from the Marshal to a trial before the Judges at the Commons request p. 429. A Charge of Treason in the Marshals Court againâ—â— the Marquess of Ormund by the Lieutenant of Ireland abolished by the King â—ith the Parliaments assent p 567 568. Tâ—e Clergies complaint of Arâ—ests into the Marshalsey p. 164. That every maâ— there may tell his own tale and the Officer there not pass the verge p. 39. That none of the King's Servants implead aâ—â— there denied p. 80. Sir Iohn Lee impeached for attaching men to answer in the Marshalsey when Steward of things done out of the
Causes the King may re-assemble the Parliament within the time of its proroguation p. 691. 697. See p. 167. St. Neots the Prior and Covent Aliens made Denizens p 541. Nets destroying fry of Fish c. prohibited p. 572. Lord Nevill His Impeachment and Censure in Parliament p. 123. His extortions complained of in not paying his Soldiers Southampton their wages p. 136. New-castle upon Tyne their complaint against the Prior of Tinmouth upon a false recovery and View p. 134. Licence granted the Merchants of it to transport Wool other where then to Calice p. 408. An Act concerning it p. 596. A Petition of the Northern Counties that New-castle may always buy and transport their Wools p. 600. An Act for shipping Wools there p. 679. Newgate Prison and Prisoners matters concerning them p. 49 107 166 499 682. Newport-panel Prior p. 418. News the Statute of it 2. R. c. 4 not in the Record pâ— 180. Nisi Prius prayed upon Appeals in remote Northern Counties p. 91 92. Where the King is party p. 97. Upon any Trespass or Felony upon issue joined against the King p. 109. To be sued within one year after issue joyned p. 134. After the Habeas Corpus returned or else discontinuedâ— and to be granted in the Kings suits without suing a Privy Seal p. 1â—8 Of issues between the King and other persons of the Exâ—chequer p. 162. Granted by Justices of the Kings Beâ—ch without Writs from the Chancery or Privy Sealâ— p. 178. An Act touching discharge of Juries in it p. 295. That the Justices may have power to give Judgement forthwith after Verdict found without sâ—aying till the day of the Nisi Priuâ— return p. 410. To be granted in a traverse of any office returnable in any of the Benches or County See Office Inquest Nonability of persons professed to inherit notwithstanding the Popes dispensation p. 149. Of Councellours and Officers once censured and removed for Delinquency not to be restored p. 122 159 295. Nobles See Lords Noncavits of Fines levied surrendred to be no bar p. 40 a motion rejâ—cted that none be barred by Non-claim p. 70. Non-obstante Grants Restitutions c with a Non-obstante to other Acts c. p. 165 284 330 342 344 347 354 407 49 456 466 610 623 66â— 68â— 691. Non-residence occasioned by Provisionâ— to Aliens and the mischiefs of it complained against p. 65 128 409 Non-resident Aliens worse then Turks or Jews p. 128. A provision against them made in Ireland desired in England p. 296. A Praemuniâ—e prayed against such as procure any dispensations for Non-residents from Rome except Arch-bishops and Bishops Chaplains p. 409. That the King may enjoy half the profits of Non-residents livings p. 460 476 581. Remedy provided against it by Ordinances and the Convocation p. 466 476. Non-residents to forfeit half of their Benefices to the King the other to the Patron p. 581. That Patrons may present anew for Non-residency p. 585. Non-suit of the Plaintiff an Act touching it p. 410. Upon wager of Law p. 466 605. To be a Bar Ibid. Non-tenure of part p. 80. Normandy the Crowns inheritance lost p. 682. Northampton Major to compel the Tenants to pave the streets before their doorsâ— p 599. Iohn of Northampton Major of London excepted from pardon condemned of Treasons and Felonies yet after pardoned and restored p. 325 339 340â— 344. Norwich its Major to have survey of Worsteds in it and Norfolk p 474. Bishop of it General of the Army â—ent to Flanders impeached censured â—or his miscarriages in the service but not imprisoned though fined p. 282 284 285 288 289 291 to 295. Northumberland's and other Northern Counties petitions c. p. 91 92 334 482. Earl of Northumberlandâ—â—quited â—â—quited of Treason for his Insurrection by the Lords his homage thereupon to the King p. 426 427. See Table 2. Nottingham the Goal there annexed to the Sheriff wick upon their Petition p. 45. It s Castle wont to be kept by an Earl then by an Alien whose removal is prayed p. 135 176. Complaints against the Constable of it for exacting for every load of Coal for private use p. 358. Novelties to be suppressed 65. Not to be taken for an example p. 342. Prohibited and opposed by the King and Lords in Parliament p. 190 392 478 Nusances and Obstructions in Rivers navigable by Mills Wearsâ— Stanks Kiddles and the like complained of Acts made Commissions appointed to inquire of and redress them p. 57 75 76 80 97 112 124 126 146 150 179 139 339 348 349 375 396 412 420 475 535 539 555 571 700. In London removed p 348 349. O OAth and Swearing Of the King at his Coronation remedied to be kept violated by his Acts of Oppression and Injustice against Law p. 102 326 367 386 387 388. No Pardon to be granted any Felon c. but where the King may save his Oath p. 75. Oaths Of the Justices Judges Baâ—ons all Great Officers Privy Councellors and others to observe maintaine the Great Charter and the Laws faithfully to counâ—el the King to do Justice c. p. 32 33 34 35 37 46 48 51 52 74 294 315 316 318 323 329 334 456 457 471 473 202. Of the Lords and Commons in Parllament of Faith Homage and due Allegiance to the Kinâ— and his Heirs p. 105 426 427 455 576 657 662 663 666. Also to see the Peace kept not to alter repeal any Act Oâ—dinance or Judgement of Parliament To live and die with the Lords Appellants in the Cause c. saving their Alleâ—iance to the King and due Obedience to his Prerogative and Laws p. 322 326 369 371 372 375. Taken upon the Arcbishop's Crosser and St. Edward's Shrine holding up their right hand p. 34 322 371 372 369 373 375 376. The Great Charter to be newly proclaimed and confirmed by Oath p. 32. The Chancellor Treasurer and some of the Justices refuse an Oath as repugnant to their former Oath and Laws of the Realm p. 34. Oath of Praisers of Goods attached before sold in Execution by Bayliffs of Hundreds p. 55. Sir Matraver's offer to acquit himself of what he was condemned without hearing in Parliament by Oath with four hundred Knights his Compurgators p. 66. Judge Thorpe condemned to death for breaking his Oath by taking Bribes p. 74 316. Merchants to be credited touching prizes of their Wares upon their Oaths p. 88. King of Navarres Oath most willingly to enter into League with K E 3. yet he breaks it p. 90. King Iohns subjecting his Crown Realm to the Pope contrary to his Coronation-Oath p. 102. Lords and Commons sworn to the King's Crown cannot assent to 〈◊〉 dis-inheritance p. 105. Sheriffs and under Sheriffs sworn to view the Pannel in every weighty Cause ere returned p 124. Cyrographer and his Clerks to be sworn to take but 4 s for ingrossing a fyne p. 128. Treasurers of War sworn before the King in open Parliament p. 156. Divers Lords and others examined in Parliament
upon Oath to prove a Deed Livery p. 157. Judges Lawyers Doctors of Divine Civil and Canon Law examined and sworn before the King to deliver their Opinions touching the Priviledges of Sanctuaries in debt c. p. 176. Suggestions of Writs sworn to be true by the parties and others of good name p. 191. Collectors of Tenths to account upon Oath p. 202. The Major of Londons Oath by Act p. 286. The Chancellor impeached for breaking his Oath in defrauding the King c. p. 315 316. Archbishop not to be sworn to any inferior to the Pope yet taketh Oath of a Privy Councellour voluntarily saving his Prerogative p. 318. The Oath of the Mayors of the Staple by Act p. 337. The Bishops and Commons would have favour shewed to the banished Justices so as they incur not the breach of their Oaths and Conscience p. 353. The Oath of the Earl of Glocesterâ— in Parliament never to implead the King or other Lords in possession for the Lands of his Ancestors upon his restitution p. 373. An Oath inrolled in Chancery for all Bishops Successors Lords heirs to take confirmed by the Pope to binde them the Kings Successors Kingdom in perpetuity p. 369 371 372 375 387. A resignation of all Subjects Oaths and Allegiance to R. 2. p. 385 390. Atturneys Oath before an exigent issue that the contract or Trespass was in the same County p. 413. Scots indenized to be sworn to the King p. 418. Sheriffs to be discharged on their Oaths in the Exchequer p. 419 466. The Kings chief Officers to be sworn to shun all Bribery p. 394. The Customers sworn to be resident on their Office p. 424. Earl of Northumberland purgeth suspected Lords upon his Oathâ— p. 426. An Oath in Parliament before King and Lords to abide an Arbitrement p. 454. Privy Councellors and the Archbishop charged by the King on their Allegiance to take the Oath then presentedâ— them by Parliament which they did p. 456. The Lords Oath for disposing the subsidy grantedâ— p. 464. All Aliens coming into the Realm except Merchants to protest to live and die in the Kings quarell p. 472. The Prince not sworn when all the rest of the Council and Justices were for his Worthiness p. 473. Atturnies of both Benches to be sworn every Term to deal faithfully and truly and cashiered if they do not p. 475. Every Juror to be sworn to say whether he or any other for him received any thing p. 536. Clerk of the Council sworn duly to enter the Names of the Council that siâ— and their Acts p. 565. And to pass promote the poorest Man's Bill and Answer and the King's Sergeants for counsel therein to take no money p. 568. All Officers of the King 's having Patents in Courts to be sworn to appoint able Clerks and Ministers under them p. 571. The Lords and Commons Oath in Parliament impartially to judge the Case of Precedency between the Earls Marshal and Warwick without affection p. 373 378. Warders of the Marches of England and Scotland to be discharged upon their Oathes touching hostages p. 579. Livery of Dower to the Dutchess of Norwich upon her Oath not to marry p. 580. The Lords sworn without affection to hear and end the dissention between the Duke of Glocester and Bishop of Winchester in Parliament p. 583. All the Lords and Commons sworn in Parliament and others by Commission not to retain any Offendor of the Law or maintain any Title or quarrel p. 608.612 An Administrator of an Alien Merchant sworn to pay his Debts p. 623. An Oath against the Law of God voidâ— p. 666. Oath of the Duke of York and his Heirs in Parliament to perform the award made by the Lords touching the Crown between H. 6. and him and the Lords Oath to the Duke and his Heirs and their Oaths to defend the Lords for this agreement p. 667. Oath of secrecy taken by those who murdered the Duke of Glocester upon the sacrament in Caliâ—â— p. 400. Oath of the Major of London in the Exchequer p. 294. There are within the Realm too many forsworn already therefore imposing a New Oath was refused p. 33. Obit perpetual for two Countesses to be erectedâ— p. 169. Obligations of an Infant made void p. 103. To others uses to remain good after their Attainders p. 355. By Duresses in the Insurrection repealed and nulled p. 200. Blank ones sealed to R. 2. through fear nulled Burned p. 391 394. Officers fraud referred to certain persons to determine p. 10. When how and where traversâ—ble p. 59 127 138 396 397 421 460 624 311 411 461 473 474 475 580. The party not to be outeâ— upon it ibid. Where repugnant which shall stand p. 396 367 410. Where to be taken by the Escheator where by Commissioners p. 580. See Inquest Escheators Office Officers Great and other publick Officers to be freely elected by the King p. 39 112 312 317 329 374 375. See King Council By the Lords and Parliament p. 32 34 155 159 174â— 288. See Commons King Lords Council To be of the wisest best and ablest men in the Realm p. 197 288 457. Ill Officers complained of a Declaration That such who were grieved by the King or his Officers upon complaint should finde remedy p. 31 35. Great Officers and Judges sworn to observe the Laws and Great Charter p. 32 34. See Oath Iustices Council Complaints against the King's Officers in Parliament they censured removed for misdemeanors p. 32 33 34 35 39 121 122 123 315 316 368 641 642 643 644. The King to resume their Offices every Parliament and they to answer to all complaints p. 34 35. which they resign in Parliament till cleared and then are re-admitted p. 329. Customers Controllers and Surveyers Offices forfeited by letting them to Farms p. 38. No Aliens to be Officers p. 39. Old Servants and Officers of the King to be first preferred p. 594 608. All to be of sufficient Inheritance to answer p. 159. To maintain no Peace-breakers Offenders Suites Quarrels p. 51. See Maintenance To forfeit their Offices to be disabled to enjoy them upon default found in them and for neglect and misdemeanors p. 59.122 123 63 147 149 160 295 457 127 394. To be sworn p. 80. See Oath Laymen only to be principal Officers in the King's Courts and House not Clergy-men p. 112. To end all matters belonging to their Offices p. 120 155. None to be compelled to bear any Office after sixty yeers of Age prayed p. 149. To be all sworn to shun all Bribery and to lose all they have upon Attainder p. 349. No Officers high or low or any under them to take other then their accustomed Fees and no Officer to be appointed by any mediation contrary to the Laws p. 457. No Officer Judicial or Ministerial in the King's Courts or House to have their Offices but at Will and yeerly to make inquiries of all misdemeanors and misprisions done under them and report them to the King's
the Archbishop were restored and that for every such interruption they should pay to the King a thousand pound p. 479 489. Oxfords Major and Commonalty their Dism and Petition for contribution to it and Order thereon That all Lands belonging to the Church within the said Town purchased since the twentieth yeer of E. 1. should contribute to all Disms and Fifteens p. 476. P PAnnels the Sheriff and Undersheriffs sworn to view themâ—â—re returnedâ— p 124. Parceners where they may be summoned and severed p 40 41. Their Lands in Ireland not to descend to such as are the Kings enemies Order to prevent it p 66. A Writ of Partition between them and Tenants in common p 162 557 565. Pardon 's general petitioned for by the Commons in Parliament granted by the King at his pleasure p 97 106 109 113 131 146 152 163 172 192 196 197 198 199 203 204 282 289 284 285 296 306 338 339 345 367 371 394 411 434 540 50 552 620 639. Denied 131 134 172 306. Persons excepted out of general pardons p 163 203 284 325 367 292. Not granted till the last day of Parliament and after aids p 19â— 199 371. Pardon 's special and particular petitioned for by the Commons and granted thereupon only out of grace and at the Kings pleasure p 81 134 151 152 282 283 325 345 472. denied p 136 150 550. Pardon of Sheriffs accounts p 134 179 202 644. See Accounts Of Sheep stealing p 585. Of Outlawries p 600. Of Trespasses p 285 306. Of Prison Breach 615 692. Of Treason and Insurrection p 7.196 203 204.282 283 284 325 340 345 348 424 426 551 620 663 677 699 Of Fines and Amerciaments p 152 347â— Of Murder p 283 334 632. Of Arrears of Rent p 459. Of the Eyre or Forrest p 172. Of Provisors p 603. Of Felony p 146 192 204 282 283 284 306â— 325 334 341 545 551. Of Old Debts p 18 32 33 172 202 296 588 338 339. Of Riots and Misdemeanours p 373. Of Merchants for goods not customed p 213. Of Intrusions p 131. Of Piracy upon satisfaction p 472. Of Issues p 136 347. Of Treasure house p 349 Of Reliefs p 339. Of Liveries p 540â— Commissioners to receive Rebels and others to pardon p 25. Pardon 's granted repealed by Parliament and the persons pardoned arraigned condemned notwithstanding themâ— p 368 373 377 378 386 387. This charged as an high misdemeanour on R 2. p 386 387. Justices to consider of Malefactors Pardons ere they allow them p 54. The ill effects of pardons to Malefactors p 62 64 75. A pardon to a receiver of a debt wherein the King was deceived revoked p 396. Pardons Not to be granted to Falsifiers Clippers of Money p 54 62 64 75. Noâ— to persons censured by Parliamentâ— 1â—8 353 364. Nor of a debt assigned p 619. A pardon pleaded and allowed in Parliament p 10. All pardoned persons to resort to defend the Sea coasts under pain of forfeiting them p 20. All suggestions to be put into Pardons p 82 334. An Act touching Charters of Pardon p 334. An Act for such as procure pardon to any notable Thiâ—f p 432. King Henry the fourth shewed pardon to any offender that craved the same p 464. A motion that a murderer pardoned might yet be executed p 632. Arreaâ— of Desms paid notwithstanding a general Pardon p 648. Pardon of Treason yet the lands forfeited p 663 699. Parishes and Parish Churches how many in England a Tax granted on them and the Commons mistaken in their number p 111. PARLIAMENTS summoned by the Kings Writ by his Authority and in his name alone p 2 4 5 25 26 35 42 68 72 77 83 84 89 95 99 104 115 143 153.187 289 297 302 306 313 319 320 327 328 336 340 350 357 359 365 366 382 383 402 403 414 435 436 449 450 463 469 477 533 537 542 543 549 552 555 556 558 561 566 572 581 582 586 597 601 606 613 616 617 620 626 627 628 632 6â—3 636 639 645 648 655 660 668 673 679 686 687 705 708. The Summons of it abated nulled by the Kings resignation of his Crown p 384. suddenly called p 166 167. Parliament consists of the King three Estates Lords Spiritual Temporal and Commons always summoned to and present in it p 10.11.12.13.14.17.329.384.425.281.425.392 567.607.701.709.710.712.713.714 See Causes of Parliament A Parliament is to be held once or twice every year p 1.93.138.163.173 The King himself personally present in it both at the beginning end and at other times as there is occasion as being held by before and under him see King Held in his absence out of the Realm Infancie or sickness by the Guardian of Custos Regni Protector or Commissioners by Commissions from the King whose Commissions were read and recorded in Parliament in the Kings name as his Deputies p 17.19.73.144.146.358.553.562.567.583.597.651.658.659.675 President of it p 651 658 659. All Members are to repair to be present in and not depart from it without licence called by name and fined if absent p 13.14.43.142.194.281.361.653 See Commons Lords A Proclamation made at the beginning of it That none should bear arms weapons or use any Games where the Parliament was kept to prevent all force fear and disturbance thereby p 11.12.14.17.19.22.27 31.36.45.46.51.76.78 Adjourned by reason some Lords came to it with force and armed men p 195. The beginning sitting of the Parliament adjourned of course till a further day because many of the Lords and Commons were not come nor their Writs returned and the declaration of the causes of calling it deferred till they all appeared and were come p 11.13.14.19.31.36.46.51.69.73.78.90.92.96.105.120.144.154.167.173.182.188.193.195 201.281.286.287.290.298.308.454.464 The Causes of calling the Parliament declared in the beginning of it by the Chancellor for the most part sometimes by the Chief Justice or some Bishop Lord or Officer in the presence of the King Lords and Commons assembled together usually in the Painted-Chamber when held at VVestminster which are usually declared to be To counsel advise consult together resolve aid assist the King how to defend the Realm and his Dominions at home or abroad by Land and Sea against foreign Enemies or domestick Rebels and to grant Aids Subsidies for that end How to maintain or carry on defensive or invasive wars How to treat settle Peace Leagues Truces with Enemies by Ambassadors Treaties Marriages How to preserve the publick peace at home and suppress the disturbers thereof How the Kingdoms people may be well governed Justice duly executed the Great Charter Churches Corporations all other mens Liberties confirmed enjoyed the Laws maintained duly executed Good Laws established Obscure explained Ill redressed Oppressions Extortions all publick Grievances redressed the Commodities of the Realm vended enhansed the people eased enriched the Church and true Catholick faith defended against Hereticks Sectaries and the Kings publick necessities supplied p 9.11.12.13.17.19.22.27.31.36.37 43.47.51.69.73.78.82.85.90.92.96.100.102.105.108.111.116.120.144.145.154.167.173.174.182.188 193 195.196.281.287.291.298.303.309.314.321.329.33â—.341.346.351.358.360.361
them in such cases p 368. Remedy given by Parliament in cases remediless at Law p 539.540.545 See Misprision The Jurisdictions and Exorbitances of the Aâ—miral Constable Marshals Clergy of England and their Courts limited regulated by Parliament See these Titles The Right and Title of Freeholds examined and in some sort determined and setled in Parliament p 137.184.106.107.200.201.282.430.474.610.695 696.713 None may be examined in it against his will touching his Freehold p. 604. A Diâ—â—ress created by it to a stranger for Rents to pious and charitable uses see Distress Voidable or void Exchanges of Lands with the King Infants and others by husbands and their wives of the wives inheritance confirmed by Parliament see Confirmation Baron and Feme Exchange Infant Monks and Spiritual persons cannot be tryed by Parliament p 49. Matters of Parliament are to be ingrossed in the Roll by the Clerk of the Parliament p 406. Some of the Commons to be present at the ingrossing thereof petitioned for granted p 456. The Commons suggestion that the time of the moderation of provisors granted the last Parliament to the King was mis-entred examined by the Lords and resolved to be duly done p 408. Accounts of Subsidies Treasurers of Wars and the Kings Exchange taken in Parliament see Accounts Commons Exchange The Articles and Arraignment of the Archbishop of Canterbury brought into Parliament and Council p 38. The proceedings against the Earl of Ormond in the Marshals Court nulled by Order of Parliament see Marshal The several Debates of the Lords and Commons in Parliament touching the Realm not to be disclosed to the King before a determination of them and that by the Speaker p 465. The high esteem the people of England hâ—ve of the resolution and authority of Parliament p 713 714. Petitions in Parliament to be last answered and Aids granted before Pardons see Petitions Pardons Aids Parliament dissolved by the Kings resignation and deposing p 384. by his death and therefore nothing done no wages due p 536. The manner of ending dissolving of Parliaments with the Kings thanks to them and granting Writs for wages thereupon p 12.14 101.103 110.151.156.112.117.340.346.318.326.335.340.374.409.410.444.362.481.664 See Commons Lords King Justices of Bench Chancellor Council Admiral Officers Petitions Statutes Taxes Tunnage Poundage Quindesms Merchants touching Parliaments Partition where to be made between parceners and others claiming by descent or purchase from them see Parceners Passage free for Woolls prayed p 70. See VVoolls Staple Of Boats in Rivers p 679. Patents none to be made contrary to the Staple p 117. Of Lands found by Inquest of Office not till the Kings title be fully disclosed p. 285. see Inquest Express mention to be made in them p 394 406 444. None to be granted within one year after the Office found prayed p 421. An Act concerning Warrant for them p 624. An Act concerning Patents to Ostlers and Brewers p 644. An Act touching Patents p 673â— To Searchers p 700. Patents revoked p 439 453 539. See Charter Information Patents for assurance of Debts p 569. Patent-makers three Acts concerning them p 552 679. Patrons disinherited by the Popes provisions Usurpations on them p 61 64â— See Provisions Learn Simony from the Pope and sell their Benefices to Beasts p 129. That they may present for Non-residence moved p 585. Payment present and ready to be made by Purveyors for what they take p 10 18 48 55 57 61 63 80 87 112 118 136 137 288 424 455 471 447 686. An Act touching dayes of payment to be given by English Merchants p 600. Peace the preservation of it and preventing its disturbance one chief cause of calling Parliaments p 11.17.23.25.27.51.54.78.88.92.154.158.173.174.182.188.195.197.281.287.298.314.322.323.328.329.341.351.415.437.548.562.587.598.607.618 Injoined to be kept and made between Members of Parliament and others p. 7.9.12.74.286.405.573 578 579 583 584 602 603 607 656. Surety of the peace demanded against the Chancellor Dukes Lords Members of Parliament others in Parliament and there granted against them p 293 548 571 578 605 606 611 654. The Lady Beauchamp bound by Recognizance and sureties of Peace in the Chancery in 4000 l. for breach whereof she paid 1000 l. being mitigated on her petition in Parliament p 605 606 611 See p 558. Breakers of Peace to be arrested p 14.76 552. The priviledge of Parliament holds not in breach of Peace but that the Members may be arrested for it till they give Sureties see Parliament Iustices of Peace Peace at home a good opportunity to assay Enemies abroad p 538. The King advised to make any reasonable peace with the Enemy p 24. See League Parliament Iohn Peache his Impeachment Imprisonment for a Monopoly of Sweet Wines p 122 123. Pecuniary pains inflicted by Ordinaries complained against as illegall p 32 33 164 576. Peers See Lords Chancellor and Treasurer to be Peers p 39. Henry Piercy his Rebellion order to be taken in Parliament concerning it p 425 427. His Impeachment of High Treason for levying War p 426. See Table Pembroke Hall in Cambridge p 663. Priory of Pembroke p 610. Pensions of Churches where a suit lies for them in the spiritual Court where not and prohibitions granted therein p 50 139 151â— Pepper enacted to be sold at twenty pence the pound p 482â— Perambulations of Forrests to be new made and kept p 71 147 160. See Forrests Perjury too many forsworn within the Realm already and therefore no need of other swearing p 33. Breach of Oath In a Judge by Bribery p 74. Charged against the Chancellor Ibid Charged against Judge Thorpe 74 315 316 against R 2. when deposed p 386 387. See Oath Peter pence to be paid to Rome the Collectors of it p 129 162 168. Petitions in Parliament See Parliament For a Procedendo p 30 65. To reverse judgements and Attainders and for restitution to goods bloud lands p 7 8. See Parliament Restitution To be granted answered before the Parliament ended and those not answered referred to the Councel to be answered after it p 69 70 71 74 76 111 112 116 117 146 169 295 471 700. See Councel Petition of any single person against Law and the common good to be rejected p 66. Certain Orders to receive and Answer Petitions on set dayes and no other times prescribed to the Privy Councel p 457. Petitions of the Commons in Parliament to be last answered after Subsidies granted see Taxes p 406. The Commons petitioners not judges in Parliament p 392. Piepowder Courts p 703. Pinnaces for the Governour of Southampton p 20. Piracy pardon of it prayed p 148â— see Reprisals That Justices of peace might inquire of it prayed p 595. Plague and Pestilence Parliaments adjourned prorogued to some other place and time by reason thereof p 73 607 608 638 640. Kissing the King in doing homage dispensed with by reason of the plague p 625. Leases for life made during it by Tenants in chief without License of Alienation prayed to continue good in Law p 96. Commons disabled â—argeâ—y to supply
suppress routs and riots p. 135. Possession no good title without right p. 575 576. See Inquest and p. 113â— 185. Poultry an Act concerning their price p. 97. Powder 32 Tunnes in 14 E. 3. before its pretended invention p. 24. Sir Iohn Poultney his gift to Corpus Christi Chapel and Prisoners in Newgate p. 599 622 623. Prayers for the Kings State c. to be made by the Clergy p. 96. Preachers and Priests to instruct the people p. 65. The Statute against Preachers revoked because not assented to by the Commons p. 285. Priests wages limited p. 93 114 147 542 557. An Act touching their arrests p. 151. Precedency of other Earls granted by Patent p. 653. Cases of it resolved between Earls in Parliament p. 638 698 574 to 579. Prelates not to be impeached before the Justices p. 41. Praemunire against such as bring in Provisions or Bulls from Rome p. 147 161. See Pope Against deniers of Disms to the King p. 324. None to present collate induct any alien to an Ecclesiastical living under pain of a Praemunire moved p. 585. Against a Merchant for suing an English Merchant in the Court of Bruges being a forein Jurisdiction p. 703. Prescription the time of it the King will not alter the Law in it p. 109 130 146. That Title by Prescription to Liberties may be allowed as well as by Grants and in Pleas before the Marshal as well as before the Kings Justices prayed 146 147. Presentation to Churches and dignities obtained by Provision from Rome by Bishops and Religious persons within 4. Moneths p. 44 45. The King may present to any Church fallen void in his gift at any time within 3. years p. 50. The Ordinary not to refuse the Kings Clerk presented upon any Judgement for the King p. 81. A motion touching Irishmens presentments to Benefices to be within the Pardon of E. 3. p. 296. An act touching it p. 335. That none presented by the King to any benefice fallen be received before recovery p. 396. An act touching the Kings Presentments in others rights p. 422. Presentments that they may be made but twice a year in Leets and Wapentakes prayed p. 139. Presidents to be searched in case of Knights wages p. 536. For Irelands Government See Ireland Prices Of Wares of Merchants Strangers to be credited on their Letters and Oaths p. 80. Of Poultry p. 97. Of Wines to be set by the Justices of Assise p. 97 98. Of Sweet Wines set by the Mayor of Londou p. 121. Of Herring to be set by Commissioners p. 149. An act touching the Prices of Staple wares p. 337 596. Of Pepper enacted p. 482. Low Prices of Wooll Tinne c. to be considered how to be advanced p. 38 167 341. Prince See Wales Prisage or Prizes of Wine by the Constable of the Tower by Patent complained against p. 312. That the King may have onely 2. Tun of Wine of every ship in the name of a Prize prayed but the old usage kept p. 398 412. Undue taking of Wines by the Kings Butler by way of Prizes complained of with the answer p. 412. What Prizes of Wine the King ought to have out of every ship declared by the Kings Butler The Citizens of London exempted from and fraud therein p. 476. Prises or Prizes at Sea what custom to pay for wines taken p. 349. Merchants undertaking the care of the Sea to enjoy such Prizes as they take having due consideration of the Kings Chieftains p. 452. Taken upon Suspition to belong to the Enemy not to be discharged without examination p. 537. An act touchcng Prizes p. 616. Priors Aliens See Aliens Priority of payment of Debts Annuities ordered in Parl. p. 554 623 672. Prison breach of it by one committed for suspition of Treason adjudged Treason and he execute for it p. 568. An Act accordingly p 572. Pardoned p. 692.615 Prisoners how and by what writs to be delivered by the Justices p. 178. An yearly rent to be payed to the Prisoners in Newgate granted and confirmed in perpetuity p. 599. See Imprisonment Gaols Prisoners of Warre the King and Council to take order for their Safe Custody and take Sureties for their good behaviour p. 52 454. Great Dangerous Scots prisoners not to be delivered upon ransom or faith desired by the Parl. p. 69 70 155. Poor English unable to ransom themselves pray the King to ransome them who promiseth it as farr as reason would p. 131. French kept in Nottingh Castle under an Alien complained of p. 136. Differences about a Spanish Prisoner the party committed to the Tower for refusing to bring him forth p. 157. That English Prisoners in Scotland for things since the Truce may be delivered without ransom as the Scots are here of custome prayed p. 170. Lord Coucy a Prisoner in Wales his ransom desired ordered in Parliam p. 416. Scots Prisoners presented before the King in Parl their behaviour slattery desire they may be intertained according to the course of war which the King granteth for that they were taken valiantly in the field Committed to the Steward of the Kings House p. 416 417. Certain Castles Hostages for the Earl of Douglas upon his delivery Other Scots prisoners not to be slightly delivered being the flower of Scotland p. 455. A ransom prayed for a Scotish Prisoner by him that took him being delivered by the Kings command referred to the King and Council 460. The French refuse to deliver the English Prisoners or ransom them taken at Agincourt battel p. 550. French prisoners granted to English ones in France towards their ransom and exchange p. 570 579 615. Monies and Rents allowed by the King towards ransoms of English prisoners of war p. 579. Arrerages of ransom released to a French Prisoner p. 584. Order in Parliament for the safe keeping of the Dukes of Orleans and Burbon prisoners of war and a treaty about their ransom p. 592 593. Earl of Somerset Prisoner of war in France his Petition to stay a sute for lands given him which is granted p. 609 610. That all French prisoners as well Hostages as others in England being without the Kings safe conduct their Keeper or Host may be taken by an Englishman and ransomed at hiâ— pleasure the English being so serâ—ved in France p. 6â—2 Privilege of Clerks of the Chancery p. 45. Of Exchequer men See Exchequer Of Parliament Members See Parliament Privy-Seal and Keeper of it See Seal Probate of Wills complaints against extortions used in it with the answers thereunto and matters concerning it p. 15 32 33 61 127 164 178 536â— 548. Procedendo prayed and granted in Parl. p. 30 63 483. denied p. 134 184 483. Processe Legall due none to be imprisoned or answer for his free hold life c. without it p. 32 33 74 106 114 282 333 394. Processe usual in the execution of Stat. Merchants to be used p. 62. Against Accomptants in the Exchequer what p. 70. upon Indictments or Appeals p. 80 595. Against persons
answer no more p. 673. An Act touching Indictments in their Tourns p. 673. Two Tourns of the Sheriffs of Suffolk granted the Earl of Arundel in the Rapes of Chichester and Arundel of which the Sheriff prays discharge p. 133. Indictments of Man-slaughter in Sheriffs Tournsâ— in Northumberland Cumberland Westmoreland moved to continue good p. 162. Such as are amerced in their Tourns for annoyance to be received to traverse or try the Presentment in R. B. before the Amercements levied p. 461. Commons of Hereford pray they may not be amerced before the Sheriff in his Tourn but by honest persons before the Justices in their Sessions p. 604. An Act touching Indictments in their Tourn p. 612. In all Inquests to return the most honest and richest neighbors p. 124. An Act touching the Sheriffs Return p. 704. Shooe-makers and Cord waiâ—ers Act and Matters concerning them p. 358 359 375 419 679. Shrewsbury they pray discharge of their Tenths for poverty p. 468. Ships provided to guard and defend the Seas their Rendezvouses Admirals wages appointed by Parliament and where to victual c. p. 20 170 204 311 312. See Navy Seas defence Impositions for their safe conduct by Sea p. 52 53 63. See Tonnage and Poundage Complaint of Ships taken and lost in the King's service without any recompence by which the Navy is also destroyed p. 63. The whole Ship not to be forfeited for a trifle not customed p. 101. Complaints of staying Ships for the King's Service long before they serve whereby the Owners are forced to keep the Marriners to their undoing of the oft restraining of Ships and taking up their Masters and Marriners for the King's Ships whereby most of the Ships lie still and Marriners are forced to seek new Trades to the decay of the Navy p. 113. Taking of Ships not to be but for necessity allowance for the Tackling of them worn in the King's service prayed though not used before p. 118 119. If a man or boy fall out of a Ship or Vessel in the Sea it shall be no Deodand if in the Fresh-water or Port the King will shew favour p. 132 150. Complaint against Obstructions in Navigable Rivers that Ships and Boats cannot pass p. 150. When Merchants had free disposing of their Ships one Port-Town had more good Ships then now had the whole Realm p. 155. That the Owners of Ships taken for the King may be considered their losses in the same prayed p. 172. Complaints of burning and taking Ships by the Spaniards and other Enemies in Cornwal and elsewhere by pressing and taking their Marriners to the destruction of the Navy p. 177 179. An Act touching Shipping p. 204. Touching lading of Merchandize in English Ships and Bottoms p. 283 346 398. Enacted That every Ship taken up for the King's service shall toward their apparelling take for every quarter 2 s. a Tun p. 311 312. That every Owner of a Ship serving the King may have for every Tuns weight 3 s. 4 d. a quarter for the Ships service p. 318. So much prayed toward their apparelling p. 443. Commissions sent to sundry Port-Towns to make Boats and Ballengers without assent of Parliament repealed p. 406. Stayers of Ships of strangers by Writ directed to them by the King's Command to be indemnified against the Owners of them in any of the King's Courts prayed p. 432. Ships taken upon suspicion they belong to the Enemies not to be released without Examination p. 537. That no Ship be taken for the King's service by any Patents before they be seen by the Major and Officers of the Town and the price of the fraight by them made and ready payment prayed p. 547. Ships sworn to defend the Admiral and deserting her whereby she is taken by the Enemy to contribute to the loss p. 548 549. That no Owner of a Ship may be impeached for any harm done by his to another Ship in the Sea or any Port or Creek if he were not privy thereto prayed but denied p. 625. Imprisonment in the Tower for taking a French Ship in time of truce and recompence made to the Owner p. 472. See Navy Reprisals Admirals Merchants Walter Sibel excepted out of the general pardon for horrible acts p. 284. He opposeth the Bill against the Fish-mongers and is taxed for attempting to let the Rebels into London p. 287. Fined imprisoned for slandering the Earl of Oxford p. 304. Silk-women An Act concerning them p. 660. Silva Cedua See Tythes Silver Petitions Orders Acts concerning it and its coyning c. p. 37 48 80 93 96 439 481 560. Skins Transportative p. 645. Slanderers of Noble-men sowers of sedition the censure of such and publick-purging of some suspected Nobles from slanders and suspicions in Parliament by the King and others p. 155 173 299 300 321 343 352 392 465 607 641 657. Summons and Severance p. 40 41. Soldiers covenanted to serve the King with a certain number of men in war and peace for an yeerly fee the ancient manner of entertainment and raising Souldiers p. 10 11 20 24 25 396 431 439 440. A monthâ— pay before hand to Souldiers by way of advance p. 20 25. Those who went to the wars had protections See Protections Found at the King's Wages p. 20 24 331 333. Set out by Arrays p. 21 22 24 25. Commissions to finde Hoblers and Archers complained against p. 53. contrary to Law p. 60. None to finde men at arms but such as hold by that service enacted p. 79. Such as feign themselves men at arms or Archers and cannot prove themselves such to be driven to their Occupations p. 125. Complaint of Souldiers at Southampton spoyling the Country because they were not paid their wages and remedy prayed against it p. 136. The Major and Staplers of Calice upon all Roads furnished at their own costs without wages one hundred Bill-men and 200 Archers p. 140. Souldiers broken in the wars exempted from bearing Offices and serving in Juries p. 162. Their Children born beyond Sea when they are in the King's service Denizens and not Aliens p. 38 39. A Subsidy promised to furnish 2000 men at arms and so many Archers which came to 50000 l. p. 182. Chieftains of Souldiers to recompence the damages done by them whiles they lay for passage upon Complaint p. 185. None to be enforced to go out of their Counties but upon sudden coming in of Enemies p. 420. Disbursments of moneys for payment of Souldiers and Souldiers Arears ordered to be paid p. 431 433 439 440 653 681. Their good service prayed to be considered p. 441. The Kings Forraign Revenues to be imployed on the Souldiers there p. 471. Necessaries to be bought for the Kings Souldiers within the Realm and seâ—t to them p. 557. The Souldiers Victuals taken in divers Towns to be paid for p. 581. The Lord Talbot served the King two yeer without wages in France p. 593. That all such Souldiers as pass through the Realm may pay for their Victual and Lodging
p. 595. Perill for want of â—aying the Souldiers then at Calice premonished p. 618. The Treasurers of England to pay the Souldiers wages there if the Customes will not do it p. 619. An Act touching Souldiers going from their Captains and their abating their wages p. 626. The Souldiers wages at Calice ordered how to be paid p. 638 656 681. The Commons grant to finde 20000 Archers in the Kings service for half a yeer p. 650. And 14000 Archers for one yeer p. 688. Southampton Orders in Parliament for its fortifying victualling Garrisoning defence p. 20 25 28. The Inhabitants pray the King to take the Town into his own hands being unable to pay the Feefarm in regard of the great charge of their Fortifications and that he will send men of war thither for its defence p. 132. They pray remedy against the Extortions of the Lord Nevil for not paying the Souldiers and the spoiles done for want of pay p. 136. That the Normans may discharge their Merchandize there prayed p. 356. The Merchants of Iean and other places may discharge their Merchandize there p. 393 418 629. Upon their Petition there is 140 l. a yeer of their Fee-farm released for ten yeers and license to purchase Lands to the yeerly value of 100 l. p. 542. Pool to enjoy the like Liberties of a Port as Southampton p. 610. Payment of a Debt ordered out of its Customs p. 659 To be paved p. 703. Southwark how far subject to London and matters concerning it p. 161 369 460 132 146 147. Spain Spaniard matters concerning the peace and wars between England and them and their enmity against England p. 140 177 182 201 283 289 291 303 309 329 352 625â— 682. Speaker of the Commons house his Election presentation protestation Office See Commons Parliament The Names of Speakers See Tables 1. Discharged for sickness and another chosen p. 390 534 535 619 620 640. Taken in execution during the Parliaments prorogation not allowed his Priviledge and another electedâ— p. 649 650 651. During the Parliament he generally moved the King to pardoâ— such who the last Parliament were unjustly condemned and was willed to make special Bills thereof whiâ—h was done p. 151 152. He requireth confirmation oâ— the Commons Liâ—erties and Priviledges that they may send for their Bills to the Lords at any time to amend them that his Protestation might be entered and make sundry other Requesâ—s motions p. 452 453 454 455 456 464 Presents a Bill against Wide combe and prays judgement against him p. 465. The Debates of the Commoners not to be disclosed to the King before a determination and that by the mouth of the Speaker p. 465. He demands certain knowledge of the Councils Names recommends to the King the Person of the Queen Prince and other his Sons and prayeth their advancement p. 474 481. Râ—quireth of the King in the Commons Name to know his meaning touching an Article made the last Parliament which he thereupon explained p. 481. Commends in the Commons House the Duke of Bedford beseeching the King he may attend about His Person p. 608. Speedy Justice to be done p 63. Speedy Aid to be granted p. 174 188 291 470 478. Speedy Trial of Felons p. 581. Spoyls and plunders in wars that every man may have his action for them p. 341 346. Spices to be garbled p. 626. Spies Aliens such p. 109 124 129 141. Spiritual Court and Jurisdiction what things belongs to it and where a Prohibition or Consultation lie c p. 32 33 35 40 81 139 140â—151 165 176 285 476. See Clergy Ordinary Prohibition Tythes Stanneries The Oppressions of its Officers complained against and Charter of Liberties explained p 142 149 150. Staple Acts Ordinances concerning it the Major Officers of it Staple Wares and removing it from one place to another both in England and beyond the Seas with all matters concerning it and Staple wares p. 16 41 52 70 81 82 85 86 87 88 91 94 101 110 111 117 118 122 125.135 136 146 153 163 194 201 282 309 310 325 334 337 338 341 375 425 429 432 443 461 54â— 555 566 570 5â—0 590 596 605 615 631 639 654 658 663 695 121 172 322. Statutes printed in Statute-books not extant in the Record and Statute-Rolls p. 35 46 82 98 172 180 297 515 326 335 340 346 349 356 467 596 626 629. Statutes printed contrary to the Record p. 605. Statutes printed varying from the Record and Statute-Roll in substance omitting some things in it or adding to it p. 93 94 100â— 106 110â— 164â— 65 169 171 185 186 203 204 283 285 288 294 295 296 305 313 324 333 334 335 337 339 349 364 409 419 423 4â—4 444 461 466 476 472 542 546 552 605. Statutes printed varying from the Record in Form p. 79â— 80 106 115 146 151 159â— 160 162 163 165 204 283 284 285 286 294 295 296 305 324 325 333 338 344 â—45 355 356 â—64 â—71 397 408 411 413 419 420 432 433 434 444 461 463 475 476 482 483 536 542 552 581 594 595 605. Statutes and Acts of Parliament how and by whom made That of 19 E. 3. Stat 2. in the print concerning the subsidy sundry Bishops Lords and Commons were appointed to sit daily till they had reduced the Grant of it into the Fâ—rm of a Statuteâ— which being done it was agreed by the King and the whole Estates p. 23. The Petitions and Articles of the Lords and Commons and were then made into Statutes exemplified under the great Seal and delivered to the Lords and Commons p. 34. The Articles that were made in the Parliament of 15 E. 3. being reasonable and others agreed in Parliament of 17 E. 3. shall be made into Statutes by advice of the Justices p. 38. It is agreed by the King Earls Barons Justices and other Wise-men that the Petitions of the Commons there mentioned be made in sufficient Form of Law p. 45. The Commons Petition for a Law against Provisions from Rome and that the same be reduced into a Statute perpetually to indure as often hath been desired It seems to the Council fit to be done if it please the King by assent of thâ— Great Men to command the Commons beâ—ore him in Parliament to advise him what they think best to be done whereupon they declared their advise to â—he King anâ— Great Men by a Bâ—â—l p. 65. The Commons pray the Petitions delivered by them in the last Parliament wherâ—unâ—o the King and Lords had agreed may be kept and not altered by any new coloured Bill or Practice The King by assent of the Lords made Anâ—wer That Laws and Procesâ— heretofore uâ—ed could not be altered wiâ—hout making a new Statute which as yet they could not alter but shortly would p 71. The â—ommons pray that their Pâ—tiâ—ionâ— in 50 E. 3 to which the King's Answer was The King wâ—llâ—th the same to be made into Acts for that some affirm them to be but Ordinances
Taxes Subsidies Tenths Aids Tonnage Poundage granted to the King in and by Parliament for publick defence against the Enemy One tenth and fifteenth toward the wars with Scotland p. 13 19. The tenth Shaif Wool and Lamb granted by the Lords for two yeers p. 17. 30000 Sacks of Wool by the Commons p. 19. The ninth of Grain Wooll and Lamb for two yeers the ninth of all townsmens goods a fifteenth of such as dwell in Forrests and Wastes p. 22 27 29 31 32 33 34. 20000 Sacks of Wooll let at undervalues to be paid out of the next yeers subsidy p. 27 28 29 34. A subsidy of 40 s. upon every sack of wooll above the old custom granted p. 38 39 47. A triennial tenth granted by the Clergy two fifteens of Counties and two tenths of Cities granted by the Commons p. 43. Two fifteens in two yeers p. 47. Three fifteens in three yeers upon conditions p. 69. One fifteen granted p 79 81. The subsidy of wooll granted for three yeers to be whoolly imployed on the wars p. 82. Of wooll for six yeers p. 91. After the Petitions answered the subsidy of woolls woolfells and skins was granted by the Lords Commons for three yeers p. 94 96. The subsidy of woolls viz. 30 â— 8 d. of every sack of wool 270 wool-fels and every last of skins 4 l. above the old custom of 6 s. paid for every sack of wool and so much of every twenty dozen of fells and 13 s. 4 d. of every last of skins granted for â—wo yeers p. 105. A subsidy granted for three yeers of Denizens for every sack of wooll 1â—0 dozen of fells 43 s. 4 d. Of Aliens 53 s. 4 d. a piece Of every last of skins 4 l. of Aliens 4 l. 6 s. 8 d. above the old customs p. 109. The like subsidy granted for three yeers p. 120 152. A subsidy of 50000 l. granted to be levied viz. of every Parish 1 l. 2 s. 4 d. and the great Parishes to contribute proportionable to the less which amounting not to the sum they grant 5 l. 10 s. of every Parish-Church assessed within the Realm p. 111â— 112. Two fifteens granted to be paid in two yeers with Tonnage and Poundage p. 117. Poll-money granted p. 145 146. Two fifteens and two tenths granted out of Cities and Boroughs the fifteenth of all Lands and tenth of all manner of Goods granted with the subsidy of wools p. 156. A subsidy of wools and Poll-money p. 168. denied at first but at last granted with the subsidy of wools and staple wares with an increase of 13 s. 4 d. on woolls woolfels and 26 s. 8 d. on every last of Skins p. 174 175 176. The like granted for a yeer and one fifteen and half out of Cities and Towns by way of loan p. 183 191. A subsidy granted on wools c. and staple commodities in sundry proportions for guarding the Seas p. 194 198 199 201 323 332 348 342. For life p. 374. For three yeers p. 390 418 438 466 472 473. For four yeers p. 535. For two yeers p. 585 598. For four yeers p. 630. For life p. 649. One fifteen tenth p. 282 288 299. One dism and half and one fifteen half p. 575. One dism and half p. 466 474. Half a dism and half fifteen p. 604 630. Two disms p. 555. 559 401 404 592 598. 602 609 615. 620 622 649 650 675 683 691. 696. Subsidies granted upon condition That the Maltot upon wools be revoked and this grant not turned into a Custom p. 17. Upon condition expressed in a pair of Indenturesâ— p. 19. Upon condition the King grant the things in their Petitions contended in the Schedula and that all things in the Statute wherein the ninths are granted be kept else they think themselves not bound to pay any thing If the King grant the things in their Petitions they will then make him reasonable answer p. 32 33. The conditions exemplified under the Great-Seal delivered to the Lords and Commons p. 34. Two fifteens in five yeers if the wars cease then the last fifteen to cease p. 47. Three fifteens granted in three yeers so as the subsidies on wooll might cease and the prisoners of Scotland then taken be not delivered and if the wars cease within three yeers that the grant cease p. 69. Subsidy of woolls granted for six yeers so as no other aid or imposition be laid upon the Commons p. 91. Subsidies granted for two yeers upon condition to cease if the wars cease p. 117 299. A subsidy granted on woolls for one yeer longer and Pol-money so as the King shall ease them of the subsidy on the staple wares and poundage granted p. 168. The subsidy of woolls wool-fels and skins granted the King for a yeer upon condition no other subsidy be demanded of the Commons p. 183. A subsidy of staple wares granted for four yeers to be imployed in the wars and that the King will do according to the advice of his Council and if any Truce be made the profits of it to be laid up for ease of the Commons p. 201. Tonnage and Poundage granted on condition that the Clergy shall grant the like for their parts and all Estates contribute thereto p. 291 299. Two fifteenths granted conditionally that the moity of the former fifteen granted may cease and so as if the King go not in Person or Peace be taken the last fifteen to cease p. 303 309. No part of the subsidie to be otherwise disposed then limitted p. 309 313. Granted upon condition the Lords Appellants may first be paid the 20000 l. laid out towards their charges p. 322 323. Subsidie on staple wares c. upon condition the staple be removed from Calice into England and there continue p. 338. For three yeers on condition the same shall cease if the Peace be made with France p. 352. Subsidy Tonnage Tenths on condition the same should be imployed onely on the wars according to the order taken by the oversight of the Treasurers p. 438 464. Upon condition by the King That for two yeers ensuing he will require no other subsidy or charge of his Subjects p. 466. Granted so as express mention bâ— made provided of their own good wills whereof they gave 20000 l. to the King to dispose of at his pleasure p. 474. Tonnage and Poundage so as the same should be expressed to proceed of their own good will and not of duty p. 479. For four yeers upon sundry conditions p. 535. Upon condition that Aliens should hardly be looked into p. 578. To be paid simply notwithstanding any condition by the Lords common assent p. 584. Ninths and tenths not to be paid otherwise then upon conditions and in the maneâ— they were granted p. 32 33. The fifteens in Towns and ancient Dâ—meines to be levied without increase as in Counties and according to the accustomed use p. 48. The fifteens beyond Trent to be imployed only on the defence of the North
p. 49. Vexing of Collectors of subsidies after accounts passed of the subsidies collected by Barrecters complained of p. 54.55 Divers Aids granted to the King for maintenance of his wars to the intent they should be wholly for his profit yet abused by Merchants and Farmers of them p. 61 62. That the subsidy of woolls for every sack might cease denied because granted to the King for a time yet enduring p. 75. Subsidy of woolls pardoned p. 93. The Kings great thanks given to the whole Estates for their aids p. 105 116. See King An Account of the aids and subsidies demanded p. 174 175. The Commons pray ease from their importables Taxes to the wars p. 191. No impositions on wools c. but by Parliament p. 114 45 E. 3. c. 4. 152 324. Justices Lawyers Sergeants who be in London about their occasions and keep not continual residence there not to contribute to taxes in it for any there goods their remaining p. 180. The Commons durst not grant a Tax by reason of the peoples evils wills will be advised touching the continuance of the subsidy on staple wares wools c. p. 198. The custom of woolls interrupted intermitted for a season lest the King should claim it of right and custom p. 198 199 309. Exacting subsidies in times of peace to the peoples oppression and wasting the same an Article against R. 2. p. 387 388. The Commons to have an assent in all subsidies p. 392. An Act for the subsidy of Keirsies p. 395. The Commons offer their granted subsidies at the Mass p. 409. Italian Merchants to pay but four marks subsidy p. 441 442. A pardon of 6 s. 4 d. of every sack of wooll and so proportionably of the staple commodities of the subsidy granted p 443. Displeasure between the Lords and Commons â—bout disclosing the debates of the subsidy sundry times to the King before concluded of p 465. The subsidy and custome of Wools c. came to 150000 l. above Poundage Tonnage Alnage p. 472. Custom of cloth and remnants of cloth p. 472. The Commons by assent of the Lords appoint the disms fifteens granted by the former Parliament should be paid sooner then â—â—mitted p. 545 595. Merchants strangers to pay only 43 s. 4 d. subsidy for every sack of wool notwithstanding the grant made in 7 H. 5. p. 570 A subsidy of 6 s. 8 d. of every Parish Church 6 s. 6 d. of every person holding by a Knights fee for every 20 Nobles of Land p. 588. No subsidy to be paid for lambs wool scalding but only poundage p. 595. Of every Knights fee 20 s. and 20 l Landsâ— 20 s. and so pro rata p. 598. The King for certain doubts utterly releaseth the subsidy granted the former Parliament so as there be no mention made thereof p. 605. Every one that hath thy Lands Annuities Fee or Office above â—ive pounds the year to pay six pence the pound upon oath p 615. A Subsidy and poll-money on Aliens only p 622. The fourth part of the Dism and Fifteen paid to the Treasurer of the Kingâ— household to make ready pay for his purveyance â— 226. A Subsidy on Lands Free or Copy Officers Annuities from Twenty shillings to Twenty poundâ— 6â— the pound and Twelve pence on every pound above Twenty pounds per annum p 641 Devises and Orders for altering the payment of the Subsidy granted the Parliament before p 646. A Subsidy on Denizens Poll-money on Aliens p 649. A grant of Twenty thousand Archers for half a year 7000. of them released and the rest for a sum of mony granted p 650. Loans paid out of Subsidies p 652. see Loansâ— A Subsidy of 37000 l. granted the King releaseth 6000 l. of it the rest to be levied in manner of a Fifteen p 675 The Commons grant 14000 Archers to serve at their costs one year The Lords Spiritual and Temporal by themselves the Tenth part of one whole years Revenue of their possession p 688. A Subsidy mis-entred in the Roll abaâ—ed p 〈…〉 The levying of it on some places respited p 21 22 24 28. Released p 605 654. 675. Tonnage and Poundage 21 E 3. It was ordered without the Commons that for the keeping of the Realm and safe-conduct of ships there should be taken upon every Sack of Wooll passing the seas two shillings upon every Tun of Wine two shillings and upon every pound of Merchandise brought into the Realm six pence to continue till March then ensuing which was still continued after The Commons pray it may cease upon which all was laid down but two shillings upon every Sack of Wooll to endure till Easter next p 52 53. This was the original of Tonnage and Poundage It was ordained by the King Peers and Prelates by the assent of the Merchants who were slain and robbed on the sea That all Woolls which should pass to the Staple should pay Twelve pence upon every Sack for safe conduct p 63. This was prayed to cease but denied p 75. which grew soon after to be a Custom called Tonnage and Poundage ibid. A grant of 〈◊〉 pence upon every pound of Merchandise imported or exported except of Woolls Wooll-fells Skinâ— for two years to be imployed in the warâ— to cease if the wars ceased p 157. The like p 176 182 188. Six pence granted for every Tun 〈◊〉 of every Ship Vessel Boâ—t passing the North-seas except Vessels from Flanders to be discharged at London and Ships lâ—den with Staple-wines to Calice for safe-conduct and they not to be safe conducted without consideration Recâ—ivers Controllers and Leviers of it appointed p 170 171. Tonnage Poundage and a Subsidy granted for guarding the Seas p 194. The King hath six pence a pound to guard the Sea and two shillings of every Tun of Wine p 283 288 291. But six pence on every Tun of Wine granted p 332. Prizes of Wines to pay twenty pence for every Tun and ten pence for every Pipe pâ—49 â—49 For three years six pence for every pound of Merchandise and one shilling six pence of every Tun of Wine p 352. The same for five years p 362. Of every Tun of Wine two shillings and eight pence of every pound of Merchandise p 405 409. For three years three shillings for every Tun of Wine and twelve pence of every pound of Merchandise p 4â—8 438. The same for two years p 462. For one year of their own good will not duty p 479. For four years upon conditions p 535. For two years p 564 568. For one year p 578 584. For two years p 585 588. Till the next Parliament only p 593. For two years p 598. For one year p 602. For two years p 609.615 For five years of all Merchants as well those of Hanns as others and three shillings Tonnage of Aliens p 638. Tonnage and Poundage during the Kings life pâ—49 â—49 For three years to guard the seas p 650. Tonnage Poundage with the Subsidy of Woolls and Staple commodities
lands by Parliament p 7 8 339 340 344 345 393 394 408 472 676. See Parliament Restitution Treason pardoned for a Fine p 282 348 377 551. See Pardon Judgment of hanging drawing quarteringâ— beheading in Treason p 6 7 377 378 401 568 158 81 424. Queen Dowager accused of Treason and her Sureties Lands Goods seised thereupon p 557. A Pardon reversed pleaded and insisted on in it therefore Judgment given against him that pleaded it p 377 378. Condemnation of Treason in Parliâ—ment and Forfeiture of lands goods after death p 378 381 647. Treason against K. H. 5. tryed and the Traitor executed for prison-breach under H. 6. p. 568. Treason done beyond seas to be tried before the Constable and Marshal but all others at and by the Common-Law and Justices p 171 567 568 594 595. An Act touching Inquiries of Treason for Coining p 548. Nisi Prius not allowed in it after Issue joined p 109. A Peer slandered of Treason by the Commons requires â—eparation and is assoiled by them Reports to sâ—e the Nobles at debate no better then Treason p 155. The Statute of 25 E 3 of Treasons explained by the Lords as Judges in Parliament p 426. Such as rob any Church moved to be declared a Traitor and bâ—rned for it but rejected p 684â— Treasure Complaintsâ— Acts against its transportation p 73. 128. 129 seâ— Mony Treasure trove pardon â—ard for itâ— p 349. Treasuryâ—or â—or Records p 475 625â— see Records Treasurers of Wars appointed by Parliament to receive and dispose of Subsidies Tonnage and poundage grantedâ— sworne called to an Account which they give in Parliament discharged p 145.146.155.156.167.171.172.174.175.183.184.301.313.317.324 â—29 430.454.456.464 Treasurer of England see the Catalogue of them Table 1. Refuseth to be sworne p 34. One of the Peers and great Officers 31.39.120.159.329 One of the Privy-Council p 120. To appoint Fees for Justices of Peace p 40. One to receive the Accounts of Collectors of Woolls and Subsidies p 33. Matters referred to him upon petitions in Parliament p 58.81.150 One to hear Errors in Judgments in the Exchequer p 56. To take order to pay poor Creditors p 58.75 To discharge Sheriffs of what they cannot levy p 80. To consider of the Compositions offered for Aulnage p 82. One of the Governors of Merchants Aliens p 88. To end all matters belonging to his office p 120â— 155â— His private Leâ—ter not to stay any mans payment by Pâ—ivy-seal p 138. To receive the Subsidy granted for the use of the Wars p 146 172. To give allowâ—nce for repairing a Gaol decayed p 150. To be chosen by the Lords during the Kingâ— minority p 159. Declareth the Kings want of monies and toxeth the Commons with an â—ntruth p 174. One to remove the poorer sort of Justices p 178. To be a mâ—st wise and able man p 197. One to view the Statuâ—es of the Kings house yeaâ—ly and see them duly observed pâ—12 â—12 He resignes 〈◊〉 his Office and the Key of the Exchequer to the King in Parliament Requires any one might freely complain of any thing unduly done by him is justified by the Commons and restored p 329. He and the Steward have full power to discharge the Officers of the Kings houshold for misdemeanors p 457. To remedy the complaints against Purâ—eyors p 465. To have a key to the Kingâ— Receit and sworn to make none privy to it but the Council pâ—64 â—64 565. Ordered to stay in his hands 6000 l. to find the Kings house p 608. Gives a Particular of the Kings charges and revenues to the Parlâ— Warrants come to him for above two years payment and what order to take therein p 609. No Grant to pass the King without his knowledge ibid. Authority given him to pay monies to partciular persons p 618. And Soldiers wages at Calice p 619. The revenues of the Dutchy of Lancaster to be paid to him p 667 668. The mony of the Tenths granted by the Lords to be paid to him p 691. Treasurer of the Kings houshold alloted monies for its expences pâ—52 â—52 Treaty by Commissioners with the Scots Ambassadors to conclude a Peace p 569. Of the English with the French p 614. Transportation see Corn Victuals Merchants Trent River p 57. Trespass by Clergy-men against Purveyors for purveyance on them p 165. Trial of Villenage and other things Actions to be in their proper not forein Counties and matters concerning trials in our Puny Courts p. 66 113 118 125 135 138 147 331 411 412 421 442 516 623 567 568. Truces made approved confirmed by Parl. matters concerning them and acts of hostily done in them p. 25 37 43 69 78 79 145 170 173 295 371 595 612 629 638 688 654 705. Imprisonment for taking a French ship in time of Truce and Satisfaction given p. 472. Truce-breakers an Act for processe against them p. 648.654 701. Tumults suppression p. 195 197. See Riots Tyle an act concerning it p. 704. Tyrant Common the King bound in conscience to help vanquish him and Subjects to aid him therein p. 361. Tyranny of the Prelates against the Lollards p. 456. A good decription of it and a Tyrant p. 711 712. V. VAgabonds See Beggars Variance of the return and Writ p. 168. Of the Record from the Church recovered in a Quare Impedit for which it is reversed p. 393. Venire Facias p. 97.500 Verdict p. 71. Verge p. 106 107 128 160. See Marshal Vexations of Accountants and others complained of p. 54 59 106 107 128 160. Vicars appropriation made without Vicar or Vicaridge p. 481. Vicars to be endowed within 6 Months upon all appropriations p. 605. The Appropriation of Vicaridges in Cornwall petitioned against p. 422. Victories mentioned and thanks to God for them p. 27 90 91 105 115 416 451 553 556 577 669. Victuals provided for Garrisons and the Navy p. 20 22 24 25 28 48. See Navy Victuals Victuaâ—lers and matters concerning them their transportation regulation prices forestalling c. p. 20 21 79 82 53 96 97 100 106 112 113 122 137 157 159 172 192 285 289 295 296 304 318 393 395 397 412 423 581 586 595 616 700. Villanies Villain Tenure Villenage matters concerning them their trial manumission c. p. 80 98 113 118 162 195 311 345 346 355 420 443. Universities matters concerning them p. 102 103 172 199 200 304 331 347 407 547. See Oxford Cambridge Unity Union Concord ought to be and endevoured amongst the Members Houses of Parl. People Kingdom p. 173 598 607 621 656. Visue p. 113. Voucher p. 30. Vphaven Prior and Prebend 565. Usurpation of the Crown by H. 4. p. 670. The whole estate in a manner subverted by Usurpation p. 682. Usurers and Usury punished by the Justices p. 32. Punishable by the Ordinaries in Spiritual Courts whiles living p. 33 35 433. Every one that is attainted for a Broaker of Usury to forfeit all his goods moved p. 433. The King will have the punishment of dead Usurers p.
33 35 285. Complaint against Lumbards as Maintainers of Usury p. 124 An Order made in London against the hoâ—rible vice of Vsury prayed to be observed throughout the Realm p. 135 339. Remedy against Vsury and Vsurers prayed by Bill p. 285. Any man grieved by Vsury upon account trespass extortion c. the Law of the realm shall punish it p. 285 286. This horrible vice of Vsury practised as well by the Clergy as Laity p. 339. W. WAger of Law In other Courts but not in the Exchequer where the King is party not in other sutes p. 128. An act concerning it p. 433. Prayed in all personal actions and that thereby the Plaintiff might be Non-sute but denied p. 466. By religious persons and Non-sute thereupon p. 605. Wages of Knights See Knights of Shires Of Servants Labourers Priests Mariners Souldiers Archers regulating their Excesses Order for due payment thereof and acts motions concerning them See those Titles and p. 118 123 136 140 146 147 150 159 168 172 193 203 296 420 431 433 438 441 465 542 552 557 593 603 632 650. Of Masters of Ships and from what time to be paid p. 540 571. Wales Prince of Wales his manner of Creation Lands Revenues and matters concerning him as Prince thereof Duke of Cornwall Earl of Chester c. Sâ—e p. 5 43 123 124 144 145 149 391 392 423 426 428 454 465 50 56 394 653 659 689 700. See the 1. Table Not sworn as a Privy Counsellor for his dignity p. 473. Wales matters acts concerning it and its Government p. 87 136 345 397 405 415 416 421 423 424 439 440 454 459 467 471 556 557 623. President of Wales p. 349. Wales Marches of it and Lords Marchers matters acts concerning them and their Defence p. 87 79 185 411 412 465 466 467 482 534 590. Wapentakes matters concerning them and Attornies in them p. 139 481 620. Warre the subject wasted sâ—oyled impoverished undone by it p. 85 176 189 196 197 361. Advised of resolved concluded in and by Parliaments together with the best means to manage it when invasive or defensive An invasive resolved better than defensive matters advise concerning it both at home and abroad Aids Subsidies granted to be wholly imployed on the wars p. 21 34 43 49 57 61 69 70 78 82 85 90 91 109 110 112 116 117 120 121 151 155 162 163 167 168 173 174 191 201 202 284 289 309 324 361 415 429 472 550 556 662 682 683 701. See Parliamentâ— Kingdoms Defence Taxes Wards Wardships matters concerning them collusions in them their grants to the next of kin mariage Liveries proof of full age c. p. 7.17 106 107 130 162 171 363 458 564 569 580 579 690 698. A Ward restored to Liâ—ery of his Lands as of full age adjudged under age by Inspection in Parliament and the Land and Wardship reseised p. 103. See Collusion Inspection Livery Ouster le main Warden of the Cinqueports p. 50. See the Catalogue of them and their Summons to Parl. Table 1. Warden of the North Marches p. 14.170 See Marchers Warrants for Letters Patents p. 624. Warranty p. 126 428 432. Warren Free of the Earl Arundel in Sussex complained against p. 546 547. Wards Watches p. 140 432. Waste to be surveyed punished c. p. 22 60 93 392 473 611. Waterbaily of the Thames p. 334â— 539. Watermen p 132. Waxchandlers p. 612. Wears in navigable rivers to be removedâ— p. 97 124. See Nusances Weavers of London their Petition and Charter p. 461 541. Weighers and Weighing of wools and other things p. 325 335 406 419 564 600. Weight Isle with the Inhabitants of it respited payment of the Aid granted during the warrs p. 21. The Sheriff of Southampton to muster the Inhabitants and chuse a keeper of it till further order p. 28 deserted by most of the Inhabitants through losses by Enemies and Taxes p. 179. Invaded by the Du. of Orleance French repulsed thence p. 425. Weights Petitions Matters Acts concerning them p. 40 41 46 61 62 79 80 87 91 93 127 151 172 200 334 348 594 612. Wells the temporalties of the Provost restored p. 21. Welshmen their insurrections rebellions murders robberies felonies misdemeanors distresses complained of Petitions Acts Orders for their suppresston p. 185 335 349 411 412 415 421 423 424 425 426 437 438 451 452 464â— 465 482 483 542 553 623 624 636 639 644. Not to have or keep any Castles bear any office in Wales 405 423 631. Not to be made Denizens in England p. 631. Removed from the Kings person and Court p. 428. Not to purchase lands between the river of Severn and Wales p. 185 To find sureties for the Peace and good behaviour p. 285 412. Their goods to be arresâ—ed by Englishmen whose goods are there wrongfully detained and not delivered within 7. dayes after meanâ— made p. 411. No Welshman to go armed p. 423. No victuals or armor to be carried to them p. 423. Not to receive any Malefactor nor yet stranger for above one night unless they will answer for him p. 423. The next of kin to bring forth the Offenders p. 423 483. Their Forts and Towns to be stored with Englishmen p. 424. No English to marry with any of the kin of Owen Glendor p. 4â—4 No Welshmen to be suffered to go â—o Rome prayed p 443. Their fines and ransomes to be imployed towards the wars with them p. 455. To be deemed Traytors if they yield not themselves and a Castle held by them p. 672. Some indenized by special Letters Patents confirmed by Parl. p. 458 461 535 541 589 624 599. A Welshman made a Denizen so as he marry no Welshwoman nor bear any Office in Wales p. 624. The undue acquittal of some Welshmen at an assizes ordered to be void p. 700. West Hatch charged with a Tenth by a mistake p. 475. William de Weston his case and Sentence p. 157 158. Widdows Dowagers of the King where he shall have their forfeiture p. 87. Must have licens to Marry p. 585. And take an Oath not to marry without the Kings consents p. 580. See p. 589. VVinchester the Mayor and Commonalties petition to have their Liberties confirmed and a Murage granted p. 132. Their License to purchase 40 l a year p. 475. Winchelsey the Navy to ride there p. 20. Remedy prayed against its spoils and burning by sudden invasions of the enemy p. 305. The Bayliwick of it granted for life p. 599. Windsor Castle prayed to be repaired by the King p. 426. The Dean and Chapter there incorporated p. 594. Wines acts concerning them their making shipping importation prizes sale c. p. 2â— 63 82 93 96 97 98 101 106 113 121 123 127 177 180 192 204 339 349 358 398 412 439 552 605 229 625 632. What Tonnage was granted on them See Taxes Tonnage Whittington Colledge Charter confirmed p. 603. Women not to maintain or pursue any thing by maintenance in the Kings Court under
Arundel Restitution Error Trial by Peers Mag. Charta Attainder Parliament Petition Wil. Montacute Reward of good service Grant of the King Tail Denbigh Shrewsbury-Castle Tail Sir Edward Bohun Sir Robert Vfford Sir Iohn Nevil Sir Tho. Berkly Treason for murdering a deposed King Tried in Parliament by a Jury Sir Eubal le Strange Baron and Feme Restitution Duresse Release William la Zouch Baron and Feme Restitution Duresse Fine Iohn Clavering Restitution Tenure Escuage Sir Iohn Sherlton Sir G. de la Pool Peace Sheriffs Commissions Oppressions Escheators Corâ—ners Earl of Arundel Sir Iohn Carleton Peace Justice not to be delayed Great Seal Royal command Sir William Montacute Royal command Indempnity Murders Felonies Recognisance vacated Chancellor Causes of Parliament Guien Peace France Ireland Kings voyage French Treaty Marriage Commons advice Lords Committee Ireland Kings voyage thither Forces sent thither All who have lands there to repair thither Feats of Arms prohibited King and his Councel Lawyers and Justices sent into Ireland Records searched Ireland Mainprisors in Parliament Hugh le Dispencer Pardon allowed Queen Isabels Dower Estates in Parliament Felon Breaker of the Law Purveyance Ready Payment Office Tho. de Ferrers Marlston Parsonage Abbot of Crowland Sir Tho. Wake Peace Sir Wil. de la Zâ—uch Sir Iohn Grey Peace Bishop of London Kings Council Petition for Grace Earl of March Treason Tail Sir Tho. Berkley Mainprisors discharged Parliament Sir Henry Piercy Service in War and Peace Release Workworth Castle Rochbury Sir Robert Benhall Will. and Iohn Clapton Rioters fined in Parliament Sureties for good behaviour Merchants Reprisal Duke of Brabant Wools. Councel King and Councel Proclamation Weapons Arms Games prohibited Parliaments disturbance Causes of Parliament Chancellor Voyage to the Holy Land Breach of Laws and Peace Bishops and Clergies answer Consult by themselves The Earls and great men by themselves * The Record is Les diâ—z Countz Barons Grauntz per eux mesmeâ— Great menâ— not Common * Grantz Great Men see â— E. 3. n 3. Peace Justices of Peace Constables Malefactors apprehended Huâ— and Cry Excommuniâ—cation Peace-breakers Obligations Lords and Commons but one Hâ—use * The Record warrants no such thing but the contâ—ary and so doth 6 â— 3 n 3 next ensuing Voyage to the Holy Land deferred French Treaty Marriage Parliaments advice Ireland Parliament dissolved Sir Iohn Grey Sir Wil. de la Zouch Breach of Peace King and his Councel Imprisonment Chancellour Causes of Parliament French affaâ—rs and expediâ—ion Proclamation against weapons and Playes Parliament adjourned Scâ—ts Thâ— Bishops Lords and Comâ—ons several a vâ—â—es Irish voyage â—eferâ—edâ— Mâ—n and mâ—â—ies thâ—ther Scots Aid Disme and one Fifteen gâ—anted towards the Wars Parliament Parliament adjourned Sir Ieffery le Scroop Baliâ—l King of Scots Parliaments advice required tâ—uching Scotland Parliament adjourned for absence of Mâ—mbers New Summons Attendance required Archbishops difference about caâ—rying their Câ—â—sâ—ers Clergies default and absence Archbishop of Canterbury and his Clergies absence Parliament reassembled Petitions Gascoyne Ireland Wales Islands foreign Proclamtions against Weapons and Playes Peace to be kept Sir Godfrey le Scroop Committees report and advise Pope French King Wardens of the North. Commons licensed to depart before the Lords Parliament dissolved Great Charter Forrest Statutes explaind Justice of the Peace Lawyer Outlawry Extracts Resp. Treasury Pardon Parliament Resp. Justices of Peace Fees Resp. Sheriffs to continue but one year Resp. Chancellor Sheriffs elected Justices False Jurors Maintenance Excommunication Writs Chancery Fees Great Charter Resp. Bigamy tryall Court Christian. Probate of Wills Citations Resp. Justices of Assize Gaol delivery Justices Gaol delivery Infant Averment Statute Recognisance Resp. Deliverance Forresters Coroners Forfeiâ—ure Resp. Extortion Yarmouth Resp. Woollen Cloth Resp. Money exported Resp. Purveyance Pardon of debts Exchequer Resp. Sheriffs Green-wax Resp. Staple revoked Merchants Customs Justices Enquiry Felony Kings Bench. Sir Ieffery le Scroop Chief Justice Sir Rich. Willoughby Sir Wil. Sharshal Proclamation Causes of Parliament Peace Marches defence Sea guarded Kingâ— messengers Kings affairs Relief Kings Army and affairs Kings debts Kings Honor. Aid Duke of Cornwal Guardian of England Aid by the Lords Commission Tenths granted by the Lords * Maltolt revoked Wooll Wards Prochein-amy Collusion Wardship The Commons will not consent to a new Devise without conference with their Countries Commons answer Peace Justices Sureties Pardon only by Parliament Seas guarded Cinque ports Sea coasts Marches guarded Commons demand General pardon Aid le Roy. Purveyors Present pay Pardon of old Debts Customes of Wools Lead Common assent Parliament Resistance Monies Bullion Mint Navie Archbish. of Cant. Archbish. of York Array Holdernesse Array Commissions Purveyance Ports Coin not to be transported Earl of Richmond Lord Clifford Lord Ros Lord Moubray Sir William Daubeny Residence North marches defence Writs of Summons Knights gladiis cincti Archbishâ—ps Certificate Benefices Aliens Writs for the Convocation New Parliament summoned Duke of Cornwal Gardian of England Commissioners to begin the Parliament Proclamation for the Commissioners to begin and continue the Parliament Commission Parliament adjâ—urned from day to day for absence of divers Members Merchants Mariners Causes of Parliament Kings aid Sea guarded Marches defence Commons request Commons aid upon condition Lords answer Kings pleasure Lords aid granted Barony Tenths Commons aid conditional Merchants Mariners Cinque-Ports Ships Charges Councels promise Mariners Ships Charges Clerks Ships Portsmouth Dartsmouth Admiral Earl Arundel Winchelsey Admiral Earl of Huntingdon Admiral Ships stayed Proclamation Pardons Sea-coasts Sir Rich. Talbot Southampton Garrison Wages Soldiers Advance-money Fortification Charges levied Contribution Bp. of Winchester Prior of S. Swithin Abbot of Hide Residence Assistance Pinaces Inhabitants residence Forfeiture Serjeants at Arms Timber Boards Indenture Provisions Indenture Governors power Victuals Purveyance Sheriff Barwick Edinburgh Merchants Provisions Grain Raâ—â—s Kings enemies Sir Tho. Rooksbyâ— Edinburgh Castâ—e Sterling Provisions Barwick Isle of Wight Aid Respite Residence Protection Wars Provisions Carisbrook Castle Kings Butler Wine Sir Iohn de Longford Sir Iohn de Ferrers Iersey Deputy Provisions Bailiff of Iersey Jurate Revolt Porfeiture Provost of Wells Temporalties restored Array Soldiers Array March out of the Counties Captains Free-quarter on the Enemy Clerk Wages Nobles Knights Merchants Monies returned Berwick Array Array Array Array Array Captains Wasts Aliens Prior of S. Dennis Dismes respited Array Proclamation Clerke of the Parliament Receivers of Petitions Parliament adjourned Causes of Parliament Aid Commons answer Aid granted conditionally Commons Petitions Committees Statute Statute Exemplification Great Seal Kings stile Armes France Indemnity Indemnity Duke of Brabant Duke of Cornwal Letters Patents Enrolment Clergies Petitions Statute Committees Flanders Committee Merchants Exchange Merchants Prior Aliens Committees Defence Gascoign Island Sea-coasts Peace Covenants King Money Commons Accounts Account Sureties Account Sureties Sureties Sureties Sureties Parliament prorogued Petitions Bishops Customs Common assent Commission repealed Opposer Exchequer Respite of Tenths and Fifteens Sheriff Peace Alien Earl of Cambridge created Duke of Cornwal Custos
the Record Chancellor King Causes of Parliament Kings intent to pass the Seas Councill at Oxford Kings passage Offensive War best cheapest To avoyd reproch of Cowardise To gain his right to the French Crown To gain Honour Frances invasion of England Advise thereon Laws maintenance Peace preserved Petitions Chancellor impeached by the Commons Articles against him Purchasing the Kings Lands whiles Chancellour Deceit of the King Chancellors Demuâ—rer Represents the Kings person Counsell Answer by Proxy at Councell not admitted Personall answer His Protestation and Answer Counsels advice He purchased no Lands Lands given him with his Earldoms Exchange Customs of Hull His Counsels answer His just demerit of what he had The Commons reply His Oath of Chancellor Exchange of good Lands for a casual Custome Judgement prayed Priorie of St. Anthonies Prior Alien Schismaticks Provisions Annuity Commons replication Sir William Thorpe Chief Justice His Judgement of death Forfeitures Bribes Chancellors rejoynder in Oath Difference between Thorpes Case and his Bribes Chancellor arrested at the Commons request Committed to the Constable of England Parliament Priviledge Bayled Judgement against him Oath bâ—okâ—n Lands given him restored to the King Mean profits restored H. Earldomâ— saved and 20. l. out of the County of Suffolk Judgement against him for the Lands Exchanged Lands Exchanged Priory of St. Anthony Dover Charter Great Seal Repeale Half Desm and Quâ—ndesm granted Tunnage and Poundage Subsidy of Wools and Staple commodities Upon condition Commissioners to redress Enormities Kings Councel not to be removed Grant and conditions Exemplified freely Great Seal Great Charter Forrest Patent Kings Prerogative saved Chief Officers Chancellour Treasurer Privy Seal Steward Great Councell appointed for a year Resp. Steward of his Houshold Kings Councel Cardinal Alien Prebend Benefice Resp. Priors Aliens Great Yarmouths Liberties confirmed Free Trade Herrings Justices of the B. No reward Resp. Justices charged to do right Barons of Exchecquer Inquisition Liberties granted Sheriffs allowance Resp. Kings Councell Protection Delay Victuals Scotland Safe conduct Resp. License Serjeants aâ— Arms Miâ—demeanour Expulsion Resp. Proâ—ogation Assize Nov. Delay Resp. Ships serving the King Wages Res. Kings Councell North Quarters Residâ—nâ—e Resp. Comptrollers of Ports Grants Resp. Charters repealed Chancellor Resp. Kings Councell Archbishoâ—s Protestation Commission Archbishops Prerogative Not to be sworn to any inferiour to the Pope His Oath saving his Prerogative The Kings own Protestation Prejudice of the King and Crown Prerogative saved Parliament ended Writs of Summons Writs of Summons Chancellor Causes of Parliament Troubles Want of good government King better counselled Good government Peace observed Laws maintained Justâ—ce administred Misdemeanors punâ—shed Realms defence Seas guarded Marches of Scotland Guienne Charges levied Petitions Duke of Gloucest Slander King deposed Uâ—urpation Submission to tryall of the Lords The King purgeth him Lords claim their Liberties Matters of Parliament Peeres Course of Parliament The Law thereof Laws Civill Laws Common Not the Law and rule of Parliament Lords Appellants Protestations Appeal Gods Honour Kings ayde and safetie Self preservation Arch-Bishopâ— and Clâ—â—gâ—es protestation Entred Treason Canonâ—c Law Bishopâ— absent themselves in Cases oâ— bloud Half Dâ—sme and Fifteenth gâ—anted Conditionally Seas defence No president Subsidâ—eâ— noâ— usually granted till the end of Parliaments Realms and Merchandâ—ze defence Tunnage and Poundage granted Subsidie of Staple Ware All Lords and Commons sworn in Parliament to keâ—p Peace Live and Dye in the Lords Appellantâ— quarrel Allegiance to the King Kings Prerogative Laws Parliament adjourned Easteâ—s approach Writs of Summonâ— Paâ—liament revived Subsidie granted on Woolls Wool-fells Skins Realms defence Aliens Lords charges levied Tunnage and Poundage Kings grant Lady Anne Barns Forfeiture Annuitie Kings grant of Lands confirmed Lords request Lords request Clerk of the Crown Câ—mmons request Parliament Res. Kings Attendants Kings Person Parliament Kings Councell Servants removed Lords Oath Res. Proof Oath Repeal Laws observed Peace Lands Escheatedâ— not to be grantedâ— Wars Kings profit Res. Offices Bayliwickâ— Councell Queens Contribution to the Houshold expences Dower Res. Councell Popes Impositions Bulls Novelties Kings Wars Scismaticks Scotland Treason Res. Clergies half Desme Praemunire Res. Bohemians Aliens banished Queen Praemunire Res. Notice Chancellor Steward Chamberlain Merchants Annuities Impositions Sheriffs Accounts Gaoles Res. Kings Councell Pardon Privie Seals Assizes Gaole deliverie Lords expences Commons request Pardon London Persons excepted Foâ—feitures Escheates Charters Archbishop of Yorke Attainder Judgement confirmed No Pardon Kings person Misgovernance Staples Callice Bullion Resp. Kings Councell Chancellor Privy Seal Courts of Justice surveyed Officers unfit removed Comptroller Weigher Good behaviour Kings pleasures Bishop of Ely Chancellor Commons request Sir Iohn Holland created Earl of Huntingdon Girding with a sword Tayle Creation Mony Patent confiâ—med Peers Lords Merches Residence Castâ—â—s Kings Charges saved Resp. Commons request Kings Oath renewed Oath Mass. Sermon King new sworn Fealty Homâ—ge Lords and Commons swear Lords and Commons Oath To suffer no Repeal To maintâ—in the Laws and Customâ— Peace kept Bishops Excommunication Lords thanks to the King for his Justice Kings thanks for their grants Writs of Wages Parliament ended Printed Acts not in the Record Writs of Summons Wâ—its of Summons Chancellour King Kings â—ull age Liberties enjoyed Enemies France Spaine Guienne Scotland Ireland Consultation Peace Defence Ayde raised Petitions Chancellor Treasurer Lords of the Great Councell Privy Seal Officers pray to be discharged Great Seal succeeded Exchecquer Keys Lords of Councell Complaints Cmmons respite Officers acquitted Officers restored and â—einvested Kings Councell Kings Prerogative Councellors Parliament Oath of Councellors Assize Prioress of Dâ—tford Value Paâ—liament Rom. Arch-Deaconery Kings prejudice Laws Praeminire Moâ—gage paid Lands not restored Writ to appear Parliament Common-Law Appeal Jury sufficient Bishop Dean Chapter Dean of Lincoln Liberties Tryall Writ Lords Major and Bayliffâ— of Lincoln Appearance Commonalty Contempt Assize Juries Lincoln False Verdict Attaint Kings Bench Common Pleas. Sheriff Non obstante Universitie of Cambridg Petition Ministers Major and Bayliffs of Cambridg Treason Felony Triallâ— Juâ—y Commonalty Warrant Contempt Appeal Damages Marshallsey Error Sciri facias Parliament Sureties Errors Damages Mainperners Parliament Chancellor Writs Deliverance Sciri facias Sureties Annuities Justices Banishment Ireland Wives of Exiles Non obstante Councell Priors Aliens Iuduction Exemption Non obstante Priory Clergie Subsidy on Wools granted Aliens Tunnage granted Wars Parliament Duke of Aquitaine created Crown Rod of Gold Tenure France Homage Thanks Protestation Wars Defence Charges borne Kings Councell Earl of Rutland created Annuity Okeham Forrest Sheriffwick Exchecquer Charter confirmed Archbishops and Cleargies Protestation They will assent to no Statutes restraining the Popes Authority Enrolment Protections Varianceâ— Constable Marshall Constable of Dover Forraign Plea Kent Castle Ward Answer Kings Inheritance Liveries Res. Serjants at Arms. Liveries Fraternities Resp. Chancellor Common-Law Procesâ— of Law Resp. Kings Prerogative savâ—d Sheriffs allowance Liberties Resp. Examination Kings Councell Provisions Rome Variance Forfeiture Imprisonment Chancellor Subpaena Kings Councell Chancery Common-Law Resp. Kings
Earl of Worcestâ—r created Eaâ—l of Wiltshire created Parliament adjourned to Shrewsbury Oath to the King Oath of the Bishops and Lords to the King Temporall Lords Knights of the Countie Proctor for the Cleâ—gâ—e Excommunication denounced Parliament adjourned Reassembled at Shrewsbury Chancellor Causes of Parliament Churches and â—emples Liberties No Governours but one in the Realm Commons advice Chaâ—ges of Ireland Maâ—ches of Scotland Callice Guienne Truce expired The Speakers protestation enrolled Earl of March Oath Repeal of the Statutes of 11. R. 2. Restitution The Speakers Declaration Commons Subsidâ—e A generall pardon prâ—yed Chancellor Commons grant fiâ—st to be known Commons request Clergies Proctor Speaker Lords Commons Oath Not to repeal any thing Clergies Proctors Oath Pope Oath Kings of England and their Successors Libertie of the Crown Duke of Hereford Impeachment of the Duke of Norf. Words spoken Kings dissimulation Oath Committee of Lords and Commons Tho. Earl of Gloucester Râ—vocation of a Judgment â—n Parliament Exile Hugh le Dispencer Hugh le Dispencer Hugh le Dispencer Exile revoked Exile Errors in the Judgment Hugh le Dispencer Caâ—â—le Mannours Revocation Hugh le Dispencer Mannours His personall Estate Sider Jewels Librarie Justices Barons of Exchecquer Revocation published Revocations repeal Râ—vocation confirmed King Repeal revoked Lords â—â—ntence of the repeal Repeal revoked Restitutâ—on Actions Ancestors Proviso Kings Warrantie Duke of Hereford Pardon Ryots Misdemeanours Robberies Chancellor Pardon repealed Richard Earl of Arundell Foâ—feiture Proclamation Earl of Gloucester Oath Release of rights to Lands Revocation of a Judgment in Parliament Alice Peeres Reference to the King Lords Appellants Marshal Admirall Officers Kings Prerogative Parliament Committee of Lords and Commons to determine matters of Parliament Clergie Subsidy of Staple Commodities granted for life Desmes and Fifteens Ryots Lords Appellants charges Kings pardon Kings Declaration Pardon to cease if the Subsidy were impunged Chancellor Kings thanks Writs for wages Parliament end den Merchants Aliens Repeal Duke of Burgundy Bullion Resp. Kings Letters Shoemakers Staple Callice Ships Stone Callice Nusances Water-millâ— Revocation of Acts Treason Bishops and Lords Oath To observe the acts and Orders of Parliament Hen. Duke of Hereford Judgement Attorney Livery sued Homage respited Patents against Law revoked Committee Patents nulled Statutes to be observed Oath to observe Statutes Chancellour Oath Holding up Hands Lords Appellants Accusations Treason Commission procured Bishop of Galloway Raising War Coming armed to the Kings presence Accroaching Royall pâ—wer Adjudging Sir Simon Buâ—leâ—gh to death in Parliament against the Kâ—ngâ— command Purpose to surrender their Homage and Allegiance Kings deposing Recoâ—d embâ—aseâ—â—d Kingdom surrendâ—ed Kings deposition delayd Impeachment Treason Articles proved Appellants Arrest Answer of the parties appealed Ralph Lord Nevil Constable of the Tower Earl of Arundel brought to the Parliament His Impeachment Earl of Arundel pleads his pardon in Parliament and another after that Pardons not allowed as unlawful Revoked His further Answer Sir Wal. Clopton Chief Justice Judgement by Nihil dicit He insists on his pardon Judgement demanded against him Judgement given to Treason Kings Lords Judges Traytor to the King and Realm Forfeituâ—e of Fee and Tayl Lands and Goods His hanging drawâ—ng and quaâ—tering pardoned Beheaded Loâ—d de Moâ—ley Lâ—eutenant Marshall Th. Earl Marshall Captain of Callice Duke of Gloucester The retuâ—n the Duke was dead Parliament Duke adjudged a Traytor after his death Loâ—ds in Fee and Fee Tayl and Goods forfeited Confession Examinatâ—on Commission read Richill Examination taken and returned writ with the Dukes one hand His heâ—p procured the Comâ—ission Aâ—câ—oached royall powâ—r Restâ—aint of the King and his Preâ—ogative Craveth pardon Fear of death Paâ—don craved Taking the Kings Lâ—tters Slanderous words Homage surrendred Meant to depose the King Judge Richill attests his Confession to be fâ—eeâ— Earl of Warwick brought to Parliament Constable of the Tower Lords Appellants The Lord Steward declared the accusations The Earls confession Submission Lords Judges Judgement against him Forfeiture Lords and Commons request His life pardonâ—d Banishment Isle of Man Condition He is sent to the Isle of Man to be kept Mainprise body for body Sir Tho. Mortimer His flight into Ireland Day assigned him to come in Traytor Proclamation Judgement demanded against him Lords Judges Note that the judgâ—ment was given by the Lord Steward of England pro tempore Forfeiture Sir Iohn Cobham Impeachment Kings command â—udgement against him as a Traytor Treasons Forfeiture Tayle forfeited His life pardoned Imprisonment iâ— Iersy for life Accusation Duke of Norfolk Dukes appearance Bristow Triall by Martiall Law by assent of Parliament Dukes appearance Battle joyned Couâ—t Marshall Want of proofs The King takes up the Battle Gives judgement of banishment for 10 years No Letters nor intelligence Treason Duke of Norfolke Sâ—ditious words Banishment for life into Almayn Hungary or Bohemia Pilgrimage Treason Defence rejected Lands given him forfeited He refused to proceed in the appâ—als Officers Warranty forfeited Arrears to the King Depuâ—y of Callice His Lands seized into the Kings Hands Allowance Certificate His exile Vncharitableness None to sue for release of judgements Cleargies Proxy Quero whether it were not the Procuâ—ator of the Bishop absent Sir Ro. Pleasington adjudged a Traytor aâ—ter his death for Levying War Forfeiture King Judge Henry Bowet Treason Pardon Banishment Writs of Summons Writs of Summons Arch-Bishop King Causes of Parliament Parliament dissolved by King Richards renunciation and deposing Childrens government Young Councell Wise Kings and Governours Old and wise Councell Kings Issue will govern by advise and consent of his Sages not after his own will Englands self-sufficiencie Preheminencie Good government Justice Laws executed King Henr. Coronation Commonâ—wealth Commons Parliament adjourned by the Lords and Commons assent Earl of Northumberland and Constable of England Petitions Richard 2. Renunciation and Deposition Notary publick Lawyers King Rich. promise to renounce and give up the Crown for his Defaults and unabilities King Richard 2. his Renunciation Instrument of it read The Instrument of Renunciationâ— Subjects Oaths and Obedience discharged His Oath to confirm it His subscription of it He would have appointed Hâ—nry 4. to succeed him were it in his power His Procurat to publâ—sh it His privâ—e Signet put â—n Henry 4. his â—inger Westminstâ—r Hall Parliament Kings Thâ—one void The Râ—nunciation read and admitted Articles against R. 2. for which he ought to be deposed Coronation Oath Articles 33. Crown Lands wasted Commons overcharged Justices procured to speak against Law Noblâ—s unjustly destroyed Rebels and Murders in Cheshire Murdering the Duke of Gloucester and others against his own promise and pardon His Souldiers Murders Rapes Fellonies Plunder Free-quarter unredressed Nobles condemned agaâ—nst his Proclamation Double Fines for Pardons Power of Parliament committed to a Committee For breach of his Oath in prohibiting mediations Crown of England Freedome Popes excommunication procured in derogation thereof the Laws Banishment without the cause Illegal revocation of Letters Patents Sheriffs continued above one year
Sheriffs unfit Loanes not repayed Subsidies exacted in times of Peace Mispent Laws unexecuted Laws in his brest Prerogative abused to subvert Laws Knights of Shires procured for his own end Oaths unusuall for Sheriffs to execute his commands Exactions of moneys from his Subjects Churches Liberties violated against his Oath Arâ—ay Purveyance Justices discountenanced threatned for their good Counsell Jewels and Treasures transported into Ireland Cancelling and razing Records His ill fame and dissimulation Tyranical speech Subjects Lives and Goods in his hands without forfeiture Subjects condemned by Marshall Law against his Oath Oaths new imposed on the Subjects Stay of Ecclesiastical proceedings against his Oath Banishment without groundsâ— The Arch-Bishop His last Will and Legacies to his Successors upon ungodly conditions Duke of Gloucester murdered against his solemne Oath Arch-Bishop banished against his Oath His prophecie of retaliation to himself Sufficient causes to depose K. Ric. 2. Commissioners to give Judgment of Deposition The sentence of Deposition Henry Duke of Lancaster his claim to the Crown by descent from Henry 3. The Lords and Estates upon consultation assent to elect him King Installed in the royall Thron Arch-Bishop Childs properties A Mans properties King Rich. dispraised King Henry applauded King Henry his thanks Protestation Conquest disclaimed Common-Wealths Enemies Officers and Justices appointed Sworn Proclamation Parliament called Coronatâ—on services Commissioners Sentence of deposition pronounced Homage and Loyaltie resigned Kings answer New Lords new Laws Bloud-shed Revenge Henry 4. his Coronation Coronation services Sir Iohn Cheney Speaker presented Protestation Sir Iohn Cheney discharged for sickness Sir Iohn Doreward elected and confirmed in his place Sir Iohn Doreward Protestation Subsidy of Woolls c. Gâ—anted for 3. years Wars Scotland Callice Ireland Petitions granted Parliament of 21. R. 2. repealed Parliament of 11. R. 2. confirmed Lords restitution Blank writings London Diocess Commissions Treason The Kings eldest Son câ—eated Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall Earl of Chester Succession to thâ— Crown Prince of Waleâ— c. Created The Command of it Coroneâ— Golden Ring Vâ—â—ga aurea Kiâ—s Charter Hâ—s place in Parliament Livery King Richards life to be saved Lords advise touching R. 2. Confinement Imprisonment King R. Imprisonment Princes Title assented to Heir apparent of the Realm Rich. 2. adjudged to perpetuall Imprisonment Commons request Duke of Brittain Earl of Richmond Patents repeal Arch-Bishop Wastes in the Arch-Bishops Lands Kings assent Commons prayer Not privâ—â— to Judgments in Parliament Commons only Petitioners King and Lords only Judges Statutes Subsidies Nota. Earl of Northumb. Constable of England Purgation Slander Wars in Scotland The King purgeth them Waâ—s assented to by the Lords The Kings eldest Son Henry created Duke of Lancaster His Title Dutchey of Lancasterâ—eviâ—ed â—eviâ—ed from the Crown and setled on the Prince Charter in Parliament King and Lords enact New Râ—ligions suppressed Banishment Pardon Privie Seal Liveries Commons grant the King liberty to moderate or repeal a Statute Provâ—soâ—s Gold Callice Staple Callice Merchants Hampton Barwick Woolls Liberties confirmed Corporations Fine Râ—s Chancellor Fine Unâ—veâ—siâ—â—es Oxâ—oâ—d â—â—mbridg London â—ssizes Sâ—eriffs Coâ—oners Res. Corâ—ner Petition Sir Thomas Haxey restored Judgment in Parliament reversed Restitution William Chedder Wotton-underegg Suggestion Presentation Qâ—â—re Impedit Writ to the Bishop Error Variance Judgment reversedâ— Writ of Restitution Sir William Richâ—ll examined Warrant Sir Walter Clopton Chief Justice Lords Judges Acquitall by them Ragamans burnt Pardon 's confirmed Commons Dutchess of Ireland Churches Liberties Great Charter Forrest Fear of death not to be pleaded Res. Ill Counsell Patents Officers Oath Bribery Forfeiture Res. Crown Lands Resumption Res. Actions for Plunâ—â—r spoyls Res. Kings Army Facile entry Restitution Res. Common Law Prince of Wales to succeed Res. Restitution Plague Res. Captains able Res. Sheriffs allowance Commons grant Kings Freedome and Preâ—ogatâ—ve Not to be used contrary to Law Commonâ— prayers Earl of Arundel Restitution Judgâ—ment in Parliament â—eversed Res. Archbishop Wasts Earl Arundel Records embezeled Res. Tho. Earl Waâ—â—ick Restitution Res. Parliament repealed Restitution Res. Subsidies Kersies Liberties Loans to Richard 2. repayd Res. Victuals Purveyance Lincoln Fee-Farme Res. Gr. Yarmouth Desms Quindesms Res. Foâ—cible Entrie Presentation Bâ—nefices Recoveâ—y Res. Prohibition Mills Stancks Nusances Puâ—vâ—yance Sheriffs of London Res. Debts to R 2 payd to H. 4. Debt pardoned Râ—â—â—iver of Cornwall Pardon revoked King dâ—ceâ—ved Inquâ—â—y R 2 goods imbezâ—llâ—â— Cheshiâ—e Waâ—ch Service in Waâ—s Wages Inquâ—â—y Concâ—â—â—ments Customers Sherâ—â—fs Eâ—châ—â—tors Sâ—aâ—chers Râ—sidâ—â—â—e Fâ—â—ejud per. Dowâ—r Res. Common Law Heirs Attainder Heirs Res. Common Law Fines repayd Res. Process Cheshiremen Iâ—quiry Daâ—mages Kings Army Res. Prisons Malefactors Res. Justices of Assize Offices repugne Heirs Livery Res. Kings right Common Law Ind 〈◊〉 Ayding the King Restitution Eaâ—l of Oâ—ford Chambâ—rlaine Res. Charters revoked Vnwoâ—thy pâ—â—â—onâ— Pâ—incâ—pality of â—ales Res. Debts R. 2 Releases repealâ—d Pâ—incipality of Wales Cornwall Chester Res. Great Seal Râ—vocation Repeal Appeals Justices â—anishmenâ— Restitution Res. London Mâ—lcombe Fâ—e Farme Desmâ—â— Fifteens Res. Confirmation London Clâ—aâ—hs fâ—ee packiâ—g Vâ—ctuals Retâ—yle Justices of Peace Attaint Res. Common Law English Ships Lading Res. Thames Barge Deodand Res. Sales of Land Variance Pardon Conspiracy Imprisonment Tower of London Res. Kings Councel Resp. Peace breakers King and Councel Wapentakes Hundreds Farms Res. Presage Res. Personall Actions Common Law â—es Commonâ— prayer Loâ—d Appâ—llants called to aâ—â—wer Dukâ— of Albemâ—â—le 〈◊〉 Kâ—nâ—s commaâ—d 〈…〉 Kâ—nâ—s â—anâ—shment agaiâ—â—â— his wâ—ll Wâ—tnesâ—â—â— Duke of Gloucesters dâ—aâ—h Duke of Suâ—rey Tender age Duke of Exeter Duke of Gloucest Marquess Dorset Eaâ—l of Salisbury Fâ—aâ— oâ— lâ—fe Paâ—don craved Eaâ—l of Gloucester Consultâ—tion Kâ—ng and Lords Jâ—dges and Judgment Dâ—gâ—adations â—â—om honouâ—s Lands and Goods oâ—â—â—iâ—â—d Trâ—aâ—on to adher to deposed King Richard Châ—ef Justice Iohn Hall Examination upon Oath Coâ—â—ession Commanded to murder the Duke of Gâ—oucâ—stâ—â— Hâ—s Confederates Oâ—th of secrecy not to disclose the plot and muâ—der Duke of Norff. Kings will to slâ—y him Duke confessed The Duke smothered Lords Judges Thâ—y â—djudge him to 〈◊〉 executed as a Traytor Execution accordingly Commons request Judgment affirmed Judgment lawfull Lands forfeited Conquest Chief actors in the Parliament of 21. Rich. 2. Writs of Summons Writs of Summons Knights and Burgesses called by name Chancellor Steward Parliament adjourned Sir William Thurning Chief Justice C. B. Causes of Parliament Church Coâ—poâ—ations Liberties to be enjoyed Good Laws Justice Common-Law King gâ—â—at chaâ—â—â—s Coronation Nobles â—â—bellion suâ—pâ—essâ—d Sâ—ots voyaâ—e Noâ—â—h â—â—les Kâ—â—g in Person Queens retuâ—n in â—o Fâ—ance Jewels Callice Fortresses Guiennâ— anâ—exâ—d to the Câ—own Waâ—s Scotland Ireland Lords and Commons to consult thereofâ— Spâ—aker chosen and presented Petitions Sir Arnold Savage Speaker presented Protestation enrolled Speakers speech Desme Quindesme Tunnâ—ge and Poundage granted Commons thanks to the King Catholique Faith maintained Commons request untrue repoâ—ts of the Commons House Commons Declaration Good government King Nobles Subjects hearts Their advice not to agree to the French
Challenges Kings promise to pursue their advice Kings thanks for their good wills Commons Petitions by mouth To be put into writing Answer to them Bishop of Norwich his pardon Accusations Bishops oâ—der Kings linâ—age The Bishops thanks Amity Shaking hands Kissing Commons request Ordinance Conquest of Wales Welshmen Commons request Priors Aliens Lands seized Wars Bishops and Lords advice Annuities revoked Custome of Wools Commons requests Cisteaux order A Bill agreed by the King and Lords sent to the Commons assented to by them Wool weighing King Richards Inventory Treasurers Inquiry by a Committee Commons discharge Parliament matters ingrossed Justices departure Clarke of Parliament Commissions for making Boats and Ballengers without assent of Parliament Repealed Conference with the Lords Commons Declaration Subsidies not used to be granted before Petitions answered Conference with the Lords No such use Petitions last answered Sir William Baggot Restitution Pardon Patents Commons assent Kings power to dispense with the Statute of Provisors Cardinals Aliens not to enjoy Benefices Siâ— Richard Clifford Privy Seal Vniversities Oxford Cambridge Writ de Hâ—â—ret Comâ—uâ—â—ndo 〈◊〉 Sâ—â—trie Lords judges by the Kings assent Aâ—judge sundry Nobles and other Traytors after execution Behâ—ading Fâ—rfâ—ituâ—e of Lands and Gâ—ols Lords names and Judgement Commons Declaration Trinity in Vniâ—y Apâ—eâ—sing disterenâ—es between two Lords They submit to the King Commons and Lords requests Eaâ—l of Rutland Earl of Somâ—rset restored to the Kings favour Kings thanks Restitution Commons grant Kâ—ng reenter for Non payment of Rent Fee Farmes Commons request Sir Râ—ch Clifford Privy Seal Popes Bull. Provisâ—rs Non obstante Laws oâ— the Land Election Commons request Dower Wardshâ—p Earl of Oxford Confirmation Forfeiture Petition Restitution Non obstante Edmond Bassets Case Error in Parliament Judgement in K. Bench reversed for Error Restitution Petition Iohn de Burley Judgement in Parliament revoked Restitution with a saving King E. 3. his will Lady of Grace Abbey Free Chappels Fryers Preachers Error Scire facias Next Parliament Cisteaux order Variance Provisions Rome Petition Callice Staple Licences revoked Newcastle Merchants Commons request Churches Schisms Lords request Bishops to consider it Commons request Moderation of Provisions Misentâ—y examined Kings Protestation The entry rightly done Commons kneeling before the Kâ—ng crave his pardon Ignoâ—ance Commons at Mass. Kings promise to mâ—intain the Church Subsidy granted offâ—rd at the Mass. Kings thanks Chancellor Parliament ended Heresy and Error Variance from the Record Church Liberties Pluralities Non Residence Provisoâ—s Chaplains Schollers Praemunire Bulls to be cancelled Appropriations Provisions Mony exported Variance Marshall Variance Fees ascertained Marshall Warden of the Fleet. Resp. Kings Councell Chancellor Justices Priors Aliens Farmes Bishops Jurisdiction Sheriffs overcharged Resp. Councell Protections Resp. Protections revoked Consultation Tith-Wood Resp. Arrest Imprisonment Great Charter Resp. Coyns Commons request Dâ—spensation Provisions Justice stayed Forfeiture Resp. Offices found Livery sued Dispossession Scire facias Resp. Justices Nisi prius Judgement Resp. Old use Non suit Justices of Assize Deeds acknowledged Enrolment Resp. Subpoenas Chancery Exchecquer Resp. Necessity Capias Exigent Annuity Detinue Covenant Resp. Appeaâ—ance Fouâ—rcher Essoyns Resp. Old Laws kept Chirographer Variance Commissions Clarke of the Crown Admirall Forrest Officers Extortion Incroachments Resp. Perambulation Welchmen Variance Pardon Constable Marshall Jurisdiction Triall Law of the Land Resp. Purveyors Lollerie Extortion Sheriffs of London Smithfield Tythes Resp. Welchmen Wales Goods attached Marches of Wales Reprisall Traverse of Offices Scire facias Chancery triall C. B. Res. Chancellor Supersedeas Delays Res. Wears Mils Nusances Rivers Res. Protections revoked Res. Jurisdiction Marshalsea Admiralty Res. Gloucester Worcester Taxes Victuals Severne Old Custome Resp. Extortions Lords Marchers Wales Treasons Rebellions Res. Kings Rights Pardon Welchmen Rebels Satisfaction Res. Kings Prerogative Welchmen Welchmen Sureties for good behaviour Welchmen Jurisdiction Constable of â—â—ver Dover Castle Res. Liberties Prisage of Wines Kings Butler Res. Kings Right Liveries Exchecquer Writâ— Res. Use. Exigent Attornys Oath County Res. Law Attornys falshoodâ— Exchecquer Averments Sheriffs returns Issues Res. Barons of Exchecquer Repeal Variance Kings Grants Councels advice Res. Kings Liberty Penal Laws Writs of Summons Knights and Bugesses called by name in the Chancery Chancellor Kings Councell Adjournment Chancellor Causes of Parliament Liberties to be enjoyed by all Persons Chancellors speech Peace Obedience Dissention Disobedience War Nobles and Realms near subversion King raised Victory over the Scots Schismes in the Church Wars with Scotland maintained Welch subjected Irish Conquered Guienne Callice defended Their advise required Commons to chose and present their Speaker Petitions Sir Henry de Redford Speaker presented His protestation Chancellor Commons desire a conference with some Lords Kings protestation entred Steward Secretary Messengers to the Commons Committee of Lords Commons thanks to the King for his voyages to Scotland and Wales Kings Sonâ— Valour Ireland Thanks to the Earl of Northumberland Lord Gray of Ruthin Prisoner in War Ransome to be raised by his Friends Kings assistances for his Ransomes King in Parliament Scots Prisoners of War presented to the King in Parliament Scots Prisoners humble deportment Their prayer to be entertained according to the course of War Peace or a League prefered by them with Scotland Flattery Untruth Steward of the House King Rich. 2. his Money and Jewels left â—n tâ—ust Accounts pardoned Earl of Somerset Loyalty Restitution Marquess name stâ—ange and refused Forcible entry into Lands complained of Sir Phillip Courtney Examination thereof Judgment by the King and Lords Entry Assize Election Abbot of Meniham Imprisonment Judgment in Parliament Good bâ—havâ—our Contempt Committed to the Tower Petitions Sir Phillip Courtney Iudgment Release Bar. Bastardy Revocations Provisions Pope Confirmation Prioâ— Aliens Lands seized Petition Merchants of Ieans Southampton London Custome Seawage Testimonials Customers Petitâ—on Restitution Prior of Newport Errours assigned in Parliament Adjournment till next Parliament Earl of March Restitution to Lands in Scotland Conquered by the English Tenants Souldiers Kings Protection Oath Subsidy of Woolls and Tunage and Poundage granted one Desme and Fifteen granted Petition for Sir Phillip Courtnies release Sureties for the Good behaviour All the Lords and Commons invited to dine with the King Writs for the Knights and Burgesses wages Parliament ended Liberties confirmedâ— Clergâ—e Variance Kings gifts Sheriffs discharged Exchecquer Res. Kings Councellâ— Barons Sheriffs Shoomakers Chirographer Ability Proper persons No Deputie Sealing of cloaths Damages Account Res. Old Law Forging Executors Res. Weights Fees Res. Councell Desmes Executors Release Account Res. Old Law Lewis Chichesterâ— Weighing of Woolls Forcible entries Variance Chancellor Commissions Kersies Resp. Halfpence Admiralty Common Law Resp. Admirall Marshall Councell to redress Common-Law Chief Justice Res. Old Law Exceptions Villanage Kiddles Thames Appropriations Benefices Callice Assize of Wine Ale c. Jurisdiction Res. King Callice Hospitall of St. Nicholas Res. Staple Callice Res. Worsteeds Herring Berwick Array None enforced to go out of his County Captains wages Res. Residence Hospitality Penalty Resp.
Lancaster Humfrey Bohun Constable of England Parceners Dutchy of Lancaster Petitions Liberties enjoyed Knights of Kent wages how to be levied Weavers of London Reprises Letters of Mart confirmed Merchants of Iean Resp. English Merchants Italians Letters of Mart. Resp. Justices of Peace Variance Dutchy of Lancaster Priests wages Variance Enquests Vaâ—iance Devonshire Cloathes Cocket Customs Resp. Gilding Goldsmiths Treason Welchmen Southampton Fee-farm released in part Priors Aliens License to purchase Lands Mortmain Staple Writs of Summons Parliament proroged Writs of Re-Summons Writs of Summons King Painted Chamber Chancellors speech All to enjoy their liberties Causes of Parliament France the Kings due patrimony His good beginning and proceedings there Consultation Commons to choose their Speaker Petitions Sir Walter Beauchamp Speaker presented Protestation Disms Quindisms sooner paid than limited Scismes at Rome Bishops confirmed by the Metropolitan Kings Writ Henry Percy Homage made in Parl. to the King Prorogation of the Parliament Chancellor Causes of the Adjournment The Devout time Peace offered by French King of Romans Mediator for Peace Commons to consult thereof Dutchy of Lancasters Liberties confirmed Steward of the Dutchy Justices of Peace Dutchy Seal Nullity Kings Pardon Io. Baskervile Restitution Recovery in Assize Alexander Meringe Clerks mistake Disseisin after the Assize Misprision Amendment Justices London Wardens Search Mayor and Aldermen of London Scire facias returnable next Parl. Executors Error in Parliament to reverse a Judgement in B. R. Attorney in Parliament Writs of Errour Lincoln Sheriffs Coventry Surveyors Dyers Kings debts to be satisfied Tallyes Churches Liberties c. Knights wages Resp. Attornies Variance Amerciament Merchants complaint against Imposition Extortion of the Kings Officers in Bayon Unâ—versity Resp. Grievances Usurpation E. of Arundel Free Chase Warren Rape of Lewes Earl Warren Resp. Livery sued Chancellor and Justices Sheriffs discharge Exchequer Resp. Ships impressed Patents for impressing Fraight Hyre Ready mony Resp. Ships serving the King Fraight Wages Resp. Aliens Iseland Fishing Resp. Iustices Chief Barons Kings Serjeants Attorneys Resp. Old Use. Incumbent Benefice Provisions Ordinaries inquiryâ— Hospitalls Resp. Indictment Kings Bench. Capias Exigent Resp. Purveyors Measure Marker Payment Resp. Clergy Universities New Learning Provisors Old â—aith neglected Resp Bishops to remedy it Washing of money Prisoners escape Arbitrary penalty Resp Treason Coynage Earl of Arundels encroachments Prior of Tortington Resp. Complaint against a â—raudulent recovery of 2. Manors in an Assize Resp. King and his Assistants Surety of the Peace prayed in Parliament out of the Chancery Subpoenaâ— Chancery Exchâ—quer Common Law Penalty Resp. Fees Probate of Testaments Archbishop of York His Liberties confirmed Sheriffs Turn Beverley Rippon Oyer and Terminer Felonies Iustices of Peace Non-obstante Repeal Admiral ship Burdeaux Masters Oaths not to desert the Admiral Ship taken by the enemy ContributioÌ„ Recompence from the other ships Resp. Chancellor and Justices to order it Writs of summons King Painted Chamber Chancellors speech Liberties to be enjoyed Causes of the Parliament Kings Oath and travell Good Lawes Upright Government Peace with Enemies French refuse Peace Prisoners and their ransomes refused King necessitated to Warr. Peace the end of Warr. Commons to choose and present their Speaker Petitions Roger Flower Speaker presented His Protestation 2 Desmes and 2 fifteens granted Moneys advanced by loane to be paid out of the subsidy Sureties for re-payment Subscription to the Articles Kings generall pardon King makes an Earl in Parliament * It should be Duke of Exeter A league between the King his heirs and successors and the K. of the Romans c. confirmed by Parliament Release by Duresse Wales Resp. Kings Councell Restitution in bloud and lands intailed Io. Holland Com. Huntington Dutchy of Cornwall Resp. Restitution Petition Tayle Scire facias Master of the Mine Restitution Old coyn Tower Treasurer Resp. Councell Bourdeaux Succours prayed Resp. Suit at Rome and in the Council of Constance Abby of Fountains delay Resp. Kings Letters Pardon prayed Resp. Irish Bishops Great Charter Sheriffs allowance Extracts Variance Patent makers Customs of Wines released Servants wages Debts Protections Priors Aliens Resp. Kings Prerogative Common Law Merchants aliens Pardon Peace-breakers Letters of Mart. Writs of Summons Duke of Bedford Warden of England Parliament held by him Painted Chamber Chancellor his Speech Liberties to be enjoyed by all Estates Kings atchievments Welch Rebels suppressed Conspiracies against the Christian faith Victory over the French Normandy Causes of Parliament Keeping the Peace Laws observation Kings Voyage Guarding the Marches of Scotland Honour Commons to choose and present their Speaker Petitions Roger Flower Speaker presented His Protestation One Dism and Quindism granted Sergeants called Apprentices at Law made Sergeants after their refusal Warden of England Sir Iohn Oldcastle Outlawed of Treason Excommunicated for Heresy Brought before the Lords He answers not to his Conviction Adjudged a Traytor to the King and Realm His Judgement of Treason to be hanged and burned Tower The Record against him Lollards Conspiracy to subvert the Clergy kill the King and other Nobles Earl of Huntindon Livery stayed Scire facias Prisoner in Execution Bayled Gardian of England Lord Powis Proclamation Sir Iohn Oldcastle Heretick Iudas his reward Monies lent to the King for his wars repaid out of the Customs Patents confirmed Duke of Exeters Creation money Priority Liberties confirmed Insurrections Lollards Traytors Commissions Resp. Nusances in Rivers Resp. Merchants Taxes Port Towns Resp. Merchants Staple Custome Cockets Vexation Slander Resp. Kings pleasure Attornyes Collectors of the Clergy Resp. Writâ— of Summons Writs of Summons Chancellors speech Warden of England Parliament held by him Painted Chamber Prayers for the King Peace sought Warr began Victory Honour Good Governance Defence Aid Commons to choose and present a their Speaker Petitions Roger Fowler Speakerâ— Presented His protestation One Dism and Quindism granted Advance moneys to be secured by it Lords subscription Lords of the Council Coin Monies kept within the Realm Necessaries for soldiers bought here Wools transported Staple Non-obstante Confessor Queen Dowager accused of Treason Sureties Lands seised Indictment removed Murderâ— No such Indictment Indictment vacated Indictment recalled Liberties Conspâ—racy Partition Copartners Resp. Common Law Chaplains wages Penaltyâ— Resp. Exigent Forgery of Deeds Recognizance Peace Sicknesse Imprisonment Plea Resp. Common Law Hunters Forfeiture Resp. Annuity Writs of Summons Duke of Bedford Parliament held by him Chancellors speech Law Causes of Parliament Good Lawes Frontiers Defence Petitions Lieutenant of England Richard Baynard Speaker presented His Protestation 1 Desm and 1 fifteen granted William Lord Clinton Feoffement in trust Performance of his Will Refusall to perform the trust Re-enfeoffement inacted Incumbrances discharged Feoffement in Parliament Deed inrolled Somersham Tythes of Meadow Arches Abbot of Ramsey Prohibition Judgement in Parliament against the Prohibition Coyn. Coynage Mony Mint Master Exchanger Resp. Wardens of Exchange Coynage Callice Allay Mony Gold False weights Temporary Statutes Justices Sheriffs Clarks misprisions Amendment Resp. Kings Councell Exchangers Rome
fee. Sr. Iohn Poultney Lands given to pious and charitable uses Corpus Christi Chapel Prisoners London Distress created Prior of Christ-Church Distress for a quit-rent Treaty of Peace with France Identitate Nominis Outlawry Additions Welshmen Denizen Chancellor Sute for a Bargain of Wool Rent in feee Distress Mayor of Northampton And repay Baily of Winchelsey Kings Council Officers Fees Kings Council Assurance Kings Creditors Coheirs Petitions Assize Outlaries pronounced Additions Resp. Payment Merchants Judgements Owen Glendor Forging of Deeds Venire facias Resp. Statute revoked Denmark Resp. Ambassador Yarn Executors Idemptitate nominis Newcastle Merchants Wools. Resp. Free passage Severn Iudgements Letter of Attorney Resp. Dorchester Extortion Sheriffs Weights Cheese Ley river Attornies Attachments Prohibitions Tith-wood Resp. Ely Isle Cambridgeshire Knights of Parliaments Fees Searchers of Woollen cloth Fees Cloths sealed Resp. Writs of Summons King Painted Chamber Chancellor Causes of Parliament Princes duty Subjects duty Peace Rebells against the Chuâ—ch Ministers Lawes execution Subjects inrichment Liberties Speakers Choice Presentation Petiâ—ions Lords Unity Duke of Gloucester Chief Counsellor King Council Major part Iohn Russel Speaker Presented Excuse Protestatiion Dism granted Subsidy of Wools. Tonnage and Poundage Increase of Poundage released Cardinals purgation Rumor Traytor to the Realm Kings Jewels gaged Arrested Kings Jewels The Cardinals loan of monies on them Pardon to the Cardinal Provisors Petition Ralph L. Cromwell L. Chamberlain discharged for no offence Kings Council Petition Executors Whittington College confirmed Petition Clerks of the Chapel Kings Gift Payment Commons Petitionâ— Iustices wages Kings Sergeants Kings Attorny Prior of Charter-house Conduict Rent Herbage Abbess of Sion Letters Patents Confirmation Letters Patents Confirmation Accountants Pardon D. of York Petition Livery ouster le main Chantry Morâ—main Confirmation Kings feoffees in trust Payment of debts Kings Executors Sir Iohn Cornwall created a Baron Recognizance Staple Mayhem Attorney Resp. Sheriffs turn Amerciâ—ment Iustices Resp. Merchant strangeâ—s Resp. Election of Knights Restitution Denmark Parl. Free-hold Examination Resp. Coâ—nwall Sheriâ—â—s Turn Merchants Hauns Repâ—iâ—al Resp. Merchant Clothâ— Alnage Seal Resp. Commons House Expedition Resp. Appropriation Vicar endowed Resp. Entry Outlawry Calice stone Print contrary to the record Gascoyne Wines Resp. Sheriffs extortions Prohibitions Attachments Tith-wood Resp. Exigents Indictments Appeals Lancaster Outlawry Forfeiture Resp. Religious persons Non-sute Wager of Law Resp. Attaint Damages Iuries Resp. Subsidy released Fofeiture Staple-wares Surety for the Peace Recogn Chancery Scire facias Error in Parliament Errors assigned Next Parliament Writs of Summons King Painted Chamber Chancellour Causes of Parliament Lords Commons Artificers Unity Peace Equity Justice Obedience Commons to chuse and present their Speaker Liberties enjoyed Petitions Roger Hunt Speaker presented Excuse Protestation Duke of Bedford Kings person Safegard Losses in France False Rumors Purged by the King Loyal Subject Plague Chancellour Kings thanks Parliament proroâ— Kings want of mony for his Houshold L. Treasurer Speaker president Excommunication President Maintenance Offender against the Laws Lords Oaths All the Commons sworn against maintenance Commons House Speaker Duke of Bedfords Commendation Good Government To attend about the Kings person Kings Counsell advised with Articles established Prerogative Service in the wars Preferments Duke of Bedford Chief Counsellors of the King Fees Passage 1 Dism and Fifteen granted Tonnage Poundage Subsidy of wools c. for 3. years Kings Council Creditors assurance Bishop of Durham Commission County Palatine Kings Attorney County Palatine of Durham Inquisitions nulled Lord Treasurer Kings Revenue short 35000 l. per annum of his charge Kings houshold No Grant of the K. to pass without the Treasur knowledge Crowns revenews Commons L. Cromwell Petition Warrants Payments Kings estate considered Crowns revenews Dutchesse of Bedford Denizen Denizen Denizen Earl of Somerset Prisoner of Warr. Owen Glendor Tayl. â—â—â—medon 〈◊〉 of Actions Petition Owen Glendor Patents vacated Denizens Earl of Arundels Petition Place and Precedency Duke of Noâ—folk Ward Paroll demurre Council â—n Parliament Tayl. Restitution awarâ—ded Petition H. Duke of Glocesâ—er His honour confirmed Annuity granted Tayl. Prior Alien Annuity Prior Alien Confirmation Commons request Melcomb Port. Poole Liberties Southampton Non-ubstante Sr. Iohn Radcliff Annuity Lady Beauchamp bound to the Peace Payeth 1000 l. for breach thereof Sureties Kings Council to attend Cardinal Stewes Inquest Murder Baron and Feme Judgement of treason Resp. Churches Liberties Sheriffs Assize Collusion Assize Pernors of profits Scots Britons Admiralty Restitution Reprisal Resp. Damages Attaintâ— Waste Justices of Peace Stewards Counsel learned Resp. Alien Brokers Resp. Merchants alien Present payment Resp. Indictments Sheriffs turns Weights Measures Prohibit Tithwood Alnage Tenure Honour of Bolony Resp. Kings Council Truce-breaking Repeals Wardens of North-marches Resp. Scire facias Statute-staple Affrays Privilege of Parl. Wax-chandlers Merchants Aliens Merchandize Resp. Callice Shipping Creeks Kings Feoffees Kings debts paid Resp. Customs imbezelledâ— Customers Prisoners French Safe Conduct â—ex Talionis Resp. Commissions Oath Writs of Summons Writs of Summons Chancellour King Painted Chamber Causes of Parliament Duke of Burgundy Revolt Cardinals Peace Ambassadors Frenchmens scoffs Kings Title of France Defence with force Advice of Parliament Commons to chuse and present a Speaker Petitions Iohn Bowes Speaker presented Excuse Protestation Kings Council Assurance to Creditors Duke of Gloucester Callice Souldiers Wages Monies lent assured Subsidie of 6 d. upon every pound land Oath Desme granted Decayed Towns relief Subsidie on Wools c. and Tonnage and Poundage for 2 years Kings Feoffees in trust Uses declared by Patent Prisoner of War Fine and ransome Ransom Pardon granted Dover Castle Prison-breach Judgements Felonies Licenses Shipping Wools. Sessions Carlisle Sessions Staple Aliens Victuallers Retail Prizes on the Sea Writ Exchequer Penalty Resp. Vessel Deodand Resp. Easterlings Liberties Iceland Resp. Safe Conduct Alien Collector of Desmes Resp. Writs of Summon Writs of Summons Chancellor King Causes of Parliament Crowned men Kings Crown Commonwealth stable Obedience to the Prince Kings Prehemâ—nence Kings Virtues Justice Crown in Gods hands Justice Peace Vent of Commodities Realms defence Seas guarded against Enemies Rebels Commons to chuse present a Speaker Petitions Sr. Io. Tirrel Speaker Presented Excuse Protestation Treasurer Debts paid Callice Souldiers payment Sr. Iohn Cromwell Corporation of Friers Annuity Cornwall Chapel Petition Ravishment Proclamation Traytor Petition Duresse Mariage Ravishment Appeal Fine to the King Mariage without the Kings license Patents confirmed License to impark and build Greenwich Park Petition Customs of Callice Souldiers pay Treasurer of Engl. E. of Oxford Fine for mariage without license Debt assigned Marshall Steward Corn transported Impositions at Burdeaux to cease Resp. Treason Burning of Houses Resp. Safe-Conduct Sureties Subpoena Attaint Committee of Commons Will. Beerley Speaker Sir Iohn Tirrel their Speaker being sick Protestation Disme and fifteen granted Subsidy of Wools for three years Kings Council Assurance for the Kings debts General pardon of Treasons c. Queen Mother King made her Executor He
deputes others to perform her will Cardinal Lords of the Council to answer Petitions Bills read and answered by certain Lords in the Star-chamber Guilds Fraternitie Wapentake Staple wares Custom Prisoner Fleet. Kings Bench. Writs of Summons Chancellour King Causes of Parliament Unity Peace Liberties to be enjoyed Commons to choose and present their Speaker Petitions Speaker elected William Tresham Speaker Presented Excuse Protestation Chancellour Parliament prorogued to Reding 1 Desme and one fifteen andâ— half granted Subsidy on Wools. Tonnage and Poundage granted Aliens Aliens Poll mony Treasurer Assurance to Kings Creditors Kings Debts Houshold Kings Counciâ—il Purveyors No return of Knights Election of Knights None to come armed thereto Kings Feoffees to pay his debts Kings Houshold Kings Councill Petition Plymouth St. Laurence Poultney Chantry Pauls Dean of Pauls Mayor of London Annuity Distress Dean and Chapter of Lincoln Arbitrement confirmed by Parliament Forfeiture Bishop of Lincoln Debt Prior of St. Oswalds Charter confirmed by Parliament Appropriation Pope Provision Bishoprick of Ely Popes Bull rejected by the King Kings grant Petition Administration of a Bishoprick or Commend Confirmation in Parliament H. Piercie Forfeiture Attainder Treason Tayl. Merchant Alien dies intestate Administrator Oath Parent Priority of Payment Confirmation Petition Justices of both Benches Justices of Assize Kings Serjeants Kings Attorny Fees and Liveries Clark of the Hanaper Customes of London Bristol Kingston Rape Duresse Wales Tryal Welshman Denizon Condition Dutchie of Lancaster Ryot Prisoner rescued Justices Oyer and Terminer Ryots Liberties granted Confirmed by Parliament Tremerton Salterish Tamer Petition Io. Earl of Somerset c. Executors Prior of Mount-grace Lands confirmed to them Mortmain Councel Annuity Prior of Ierusalem Warrants Patents Juries Attaint Merchandise forein Collectors Tenths Office traversed Leases Offices returned Escheators Fines for Alienation Dutchy of Cornwall Nonnage Resp. Fines for knighthood Resp. Reprisal Spanish Ships Felizer Exigents entred Sewers Justices of Peace Indictments Outlawries Lancaster Merchants Transportation Hides Skins Tallow Resp. Arrays Pannels Ships Dammages Resp. Writs Treasury Resp. Wools. Callice Deceits Cloath Gaging Vessels Wine Oyl Customer Comptroller Licence to transport Corn from County to County Surery Resp. Plague Homage Kissing dispensed with Italian Merchantsâ— No Merchant to import Merchandise but of their own Country Resp. Spiceries Garbelling Forfeitures Resp. 4 part of theâ— Desme to defray purveyance for the Kings House Ready pay Treasurer of the Houshold Dutchy of Lancâ—ster Cornwall Purveyance Captains Souldiers wages Souldiers going from their Captains Transportations Butter Cheese Writs of Summons Writs of Summon King Archbishop Deputy of the See of Rome Chancellor Causes of Parl. Ambassadours Mariage Treaty Peace Mariage contracted Truce Safe conduct Truce Justice Peace Commons to chuse and present their Speaker Petitions Speaker chosen Will Burley Speaker Presented Excuse Protestation Chancellor Parl. prorogued The 15. Iune the Parl. for the plague harvest was prorogued to 20 Octob. Parl. prorogued Merchants of Ieane Escuage London Half a Tenth and Fifteen Allowance to poor Towns Tenth and Fifteen Poverty Subsedyâ— Tonnage and Poundage for four years Aliens Patents Staple Lancaster Dutchy Cardinall Archâ—bishop of York Seal Kings feoffees in trust Confirmation Speaker Marquesse Earl of Suffolks good services Kings marriage Peace with France His Loyalty specially enacted Marquesse his Declaration of his services Petition Hospitall of St. Tho. of Acres Corporation Mortmain Confirmation Eaton College confirmed by Parliament Patents Patents College in Cambridge confirmed Chancellor and Lords protestation against the peace of France Act repealed No peace without consent of the three Estates of England and France Peace with France Purveyors Welshmen Denizeâ—s Office VVales Resp. Shipping thrums Election of the Mayor of the Staple Callice Resp. Worsteeds Outlawes Kings Bench. Execution Collusion Clergy Habeas Corpus Sanctuary Satisfaction Corn shipped Head-pence Sheriffs Coyning Half-pence Farthings Sewers Indictment Appeal Forein County Exigent Resp. Extortion Sheriffs Knights wages Privilege of Parliament Assault Sr. Tho. Parr Resp. Murderer pardoned To be executed notwithstanding Servants wages Forein Pleas. Gascoyne wines Free Trade Resp. Gascoyne wine Resp. Purveyors Knights election Gageour Escheators Fees Wines Writs of Summons Writs of Summons King Archbishop Popes Legate Chancellour Causes of Parliament Ambassadors Interview Safe conduct Parliaments advice Parliaments counsel Commons to chuse and present their Speaker All to enjoy their Liberties Petitions Speaker elected William Tresham Speaker presented Excuse Protestation Executors Charitable uses Chancellor Mr. Chaplains of Trinity Pontfract Entry Patents Provost of Eaton its Lands Liberties confirmed Fairs Patents confirmed Kings College in Cambridge Queens Dower confirmed by Parliament Petition Reprisal Letters of Mart. Truce Dutchess of Gloucester barred of her Dower Kings Council Assurance Kings Creditors Petitions Schoolmasters placed and displaced Ordinary Archbishop Distresses Welshmen Felony Resp. Process Stat. repealed Resp. VVelshmen Kings debts Distress Trespass Treble Damages Resp. Writs of Summons King Painted Chamber Chancellor Causes of Parliament Commons to choose and present a Speaker Petitions Iohn Day Speaker presented Excuse Protestation Half Dism and Fifteen granted Tonnage and Poundage for 5. years granted Parliament prorogued Council Assurance Kings Debts Revenues Jewels Plague Chancellor Parliament prorogued Half Dism Quindism granted Poll-money granted Alien Subsidy of Wools. Soldiers wages Caâ—lice Reparations Lord Hastings Duke of Somerset Kings Lieutenant in France Message from him to the Parliament Power Preparat of the French King Breach of Peace Warr. Normandies weakness Truce near expired Preparat for Warr. Earl of Devon Eaâ—l of Arundel Precedency King and Lords enact Judges advice Arundels precedency Petitions Staple Cloaths Brabant Distresses VVales Clarks convict Prison Resp. Fayres Markets Kings Pardon Writs of Summons King Painted Chamber Archbishop Parliament prorogued Plague Commons to choose and present a Speaker Petitions Sir Iohn Popham Speaker His excuse admitted and he discharged William Tresham Speaker presented Protestation Parliament adjourned Archbishop Chancellor Thanks to the three Estates Parliament prorogued Old Chancellor discharged A new appointed Chancellour Parliament prorogued Subsidy granted of 6 d. the pound for lands of 12 d. above 20 l. to 100 l. and 2 s. above 100 l. lands Kings Houshold Charges out of his revenues Duke of Suffolk Speciall accusation Reports The Dukes protestation His Ancestors loyalty and service His own service in the warrs else where Taken prisoner His great ransome Order of the Garter Counsellor to the King His Purgation required The Commons require his Commitment The Lords and Justices see no cause for it Imprisonment Speciall matter Speakers charge against the Duke Report of selling the realm to the French Furnâ—shing VVallingfoâ—d Castle for his defence He is committed to the Tower upon request Articles of Accesation against VVill. de la Pool Duke of Suffolk To match his Son to the Daughâ— heir of the D. of Somerset To claim the Crown To depose the K. by aid of the French Enlarging the D. of Orleance Practising with the French to recover
France Practice to deliver Manns Main to the King of Sicily the Kings Enemy Disclosing the Kings Couns to the French Disclosing to the Fr. the Kings forces c. For causing the Peace to be broken Supporting the Ks. Enem staying arms For not comprising the K. of Aragon D. of Britany in the last peace Commons pray the Attic. to be enacted New Articles by the Commons Procuring the King to give away his Crown Lands For procuring Lib. in derogation of the Com. Law Justice Procuring Honors and Pensions For causing the K. to give away a Cast. c. The Author of Guienns revolt from the King For procuring the keeping of Towns offices on unworthy persons Causing an Imposition on victuals to pleasure an Enemy Procuring grants from the K. in Normandy to Frenchmen his chiefest Enemies For procuring the K. to promise to attend in person at a Convention in France Misimployment of Subsidies Spending the Kings Treasure c. Consuming the Ksâ— Treas For procuring himself to be E. of Pembroke c. For conveying out the Kings treasure For staying of process on an Appeal c. For procuring a Pardon for a Murderer c. For procuring his Confederates to be made Sheriffs For fighting with the Kings Allies c. Art to be enrolled The D. to answ them The D. brought by writ to the Parl. The Articles read to him He desires Copies of them Kept in the Kings Palace in the Tower tâ—ll answer by certain Esquires He appears and kneels Denies the 8. articles of treason The 1. impossible He referreth himself to some Actâ— of Council to many of the rest and the Kings Patents The other Lords privy thereto Bishop of Chichester Privy Seal His 2. Appearance before the Lords The Chancellor repeats his Answer That he put not himself upon his Peerage Protesteth his Innocency Referreth himself to the King He put not himself on his Peerage The King acquiâ—s him of Treason King Banishment Banâ—sheth him upon the Articles of misdemeanoâ— not as his Judge but Arbitratoâ— to whom he appealed The Lords Protestation against it enrolled Resumption Exactions Searchers Plymouth Distresses Welshmen VVill. Talboys Privilege of Parl. Assault Ralph L. Cromwell Kings Council Imprisonment in the Tower Damages Common Baretter Cloaths Brabant Pardon Sheriffs Patents Oastlers Brewers Abbot of Buâ—y Disms Officers Extortion Fees Resp. Writs of Summons King Archbishop of York Cardinall Chancellor Causes of Parliam Defence of the Realm Seas garding Supplies Army Iusurrections Suppression Commons to chuse and present a Speaker Petitions Sir Will. Oldhall Speaker Presented Protestation Subsidy altered Complaint and Appeal of murder by the wife VVelshmen Murder Writs of Proclamation for the Male-factors to render themselves Appearance Imprisonment Appeal Triall Appeal by the sons Parliament prorogued Parliament prorogued Kings poverty Customs Justices wages and Liveries Allom. Merchants of Iean To be repaid for it out of the Customs of Staple wares The Allom sold for present Monies Monopoly None to bring in or sell Allom in 2. years Persons banished the Kings Court because the people speak ill of them Commons Clerk Kings Secretary General accusation Ill fame Resp. King consents for one year unless they be Lords Petitions Resumption Iack Cade Attainder Truce-breakers Patents York Arrears of Disms to be paid notwithstanding the Kings pardon Deceit Writs of Summons King W. Bishop of Lincoln Archbishop Chancellor Causes of Parliament Good Government Def. of the Realm Commons to choose their Speaker Petitions Thomas Thorp Speaker Presented Excuse Protestation Dism Fifteen granted Tonnage and Poundage for life Subsidy of wools Staple commodities Merchants Aliens Poll-money Speaker Commons to find 20000 Archers for half a year Kings thanks to the Lords Chancellour Parliament prorogued Archers King dischargeth them of 7000. Archers Souldiers proportionably raised The levying of 13000 men respited for a sum of mony Great Necessity Câ—llice Commandeâ—s Captains and Souldâ—ers arrests paid out of the Customes Callice repair out of the Quindisms Victuals and Souldiers pay of Callice out of the Customes Moity of a Desme Quindesme granted Kings thanks to the Commons for their grant Parliament prorogued Schedules sealed with the Kings seal Enrolled Exemptions from resumptions Parliament prorogued Patents Parliament adjourned Iohn Earl of VVorcester Treasurer of England Parliament prorogued Richard Duke of York President of the Parliament Patents Privilege of Parliament Thorp the Speaker VValter Rayle imprisoned The Speaker imprisoned upon an execution at the Duke of Yorks sute Judges not to judge of Parliaments privileges Parliament Judge of the Law its privileges Their advise Supersedeas speciall No priviledge in Treason Felony Breach of Peace Lords Judges of the Speakers privilege His privilege denyed A new Speaker orderd to be chosen A new Speaker elected Sr Thomas Charleton Approved by the King Commons request to the Lords Callice danger Seas safeguard Subsidies rightly imployed No other subsidies Great Councell to answer all Committee of Lords Kings sicknesse Articles Who. Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Chancellor Privy Counsellers nominated to the King Their report The King gives no answer King sick The Lords make the Duke of York Protector and Defendor of the Realm during the Kings pleasure Articles Lords power Protector Resp. Kings Minority All the Ls. will assist Resp. Protectors power and office Resp. Hâ—s Salary Resp. Kings Letters Patents conferring his power of Chief Counsellor and Protector Prince Edward Fee of 2000 marks Queen Margaret Admirals to keep the Seas appointed by Parliament Tonnage and Poundage Loan by Cities and Towns to be repaid out of the Customs Kings Houshold expences assigned Treasurer of the Houshold Robert Poynings Iack Cade Pardon Recogn sureties in Chancery for the good behaviour Recogn forfeited Extended on the parties and Sureties Lands and goods Lords fined for absence Staple Callice Souldiers wages to be paid out of the Subsidy of it Edward Prince of Wales created by Letters Patents Earl of Chester Confirmed by the Lords Commons Th. E. of Devonshire Treason Trial and Acquittal by Peers Hen. D. of Buckingh Steward of England Protestation Loyalty Further Tryal Lords acquit him Denizens E. of Richmond created Precedency above all Earls The whole County and honor of Richmond granted him Warranty Earl of Pembrook created by Patent Precedency of other Earls The whole County Honor Dominion of Pembroke entailed on him Confirmed by Parliament Lands granted to the E. of Richmond Tayl general Tenure by Fealty Duke of York Captain of Callice Articles required Ready payment Staple Subsidy in part released Tho. of Acres Hospitalâ— Lands given conferred to it by Parliament Romans Chauntery in Shoreditch confirmed Patents Queens Annuity of 1000 l. out of the Customs confirmed Patents Queens Dower confirmed Patent Aâ—â—ears to the Earl of Shrewsbury to be paid out of the Customs confirmed Ralph L. Cromwell Surety of the Peace against the Duke of Exeter granted in Parliament Iack Cade Attainder William Oldhalls Attainder confirmed Privy Seals Attachments
conveyance Proclamation Dism and Fifteen granted Archers wages Chancellor The Parl. prorogued to the 23. of February Parliament re-assembled Ordinances Tenths to the King Kings Feoffees in trust Kings last will Dutchy of Lancaster Dutchy of Lanc. Officers Dutchy of Lancaster Leases Grants Dutchy Seal Leases Dutchy Seal Stilliard Merchants of the Hauns Mayor of London Rent Petitions Duke of Glocester Lands granted Tayl. Duke of Clarence Lands granted Exchange Coperceners Advowson Scardesburgh Re-entry Kings Grant revoked Tayl. Grant in see by Parliament Tenure Recovery Confirmation by Parliament Duke of Norfolk Lease Payment of debts Lord Audley Wardship granted Morgage redeemed Forfeiture Treason D. of Buckingham Full age Du. of Buckingham Annuity confirmed Creation money Earl of Warwicks Stile Annuity confirmed to Executors Will. Restitution Outlawry Treason Restitution Restitution Earl Dowglas Annuity confirmed to Executors Will. Attainder of Felony by Parliament Petitions Restitution Vicontesse Lisle Restitution Priory of Sherborn Eaton College Chauntry Heenport Baron of the Exchequer Treason Levying Warr against the King Attainder Io. Vere Earl of Oxford Treason Levying Warr. Attainder Attainder Treason Levying Warr. Forfeiture Pardon of life Savings Sir Richard Hastings Kings Grant Walle Richard Wells Sir R. Hastings Richard Wells E. of Oxfords pardon St. Michaels Mount Dism Quindism granted Petitions Chancellor Kings Thanks Parliament dissolved Sheriffs Subsidies Bow-staves Patents Victuals Escheators Liveries Wools. Sewers Wears Fish-garths Acquittal Welshmen Justices of Assize Repeal Privilege of Parliament Burgesse delivered out of Execution Writ out of Chancery Execution afterwards saved Petitions Kings debts payed Kings Tenants Warres Protections Truce-breaking Wools. King Painted Chamber Chancellor Causes of Parliament Subjects obedience Rebels plagues King supported by God Restored Commons to chuse and present their Speaker Petitions Speaker chosen William Allington Speaker Presented Excuse Protestation Duke created Mariage to a Feme of 6. years Husband to enjoy his wifes estate without issue Tenant by the Courtesy Joynture confirmed Exchange confirmed Re-entry Exchange confirmed Baron and Feme Discontinuance Advowsons Non-obstante George Nevil created D. of Bedford His Pâ—tent revoked in Parliament Petition Judgment repealed Poysoning Indictment Execution Attainders nulled Attainder revoked Restitution Restitution Canterburies paving Tauntons paving Ciciter Southampton Sr. Ralph Ashton Ryots Process Forein sutes Proclamation Petitions Money Piepowders Games unlawfull Apparel Tyle Cloathes sealing Sheriffs return Parliament Privilege of Parliament Exchequer Supersedeas Irishmen Residence Writs of Summons King Painted Chamber Chancellor Causes of Parliament Commons to chuse and present their Speaker Petitions Committee of Commons Speaker chosen Iohn Wood Speaker Presented Excuse Protestation Dism and Fifteen granted Decayed Towns An Annual Subsidy on Aliens Statutes proclamed Weights Measures Labourers Beggarâ— Annuity of 11000 l. to defray the Kings houshold expences Princes Dutchy of Cornwal Tail Exchange Confirmation Patents confirmed Du. of Glocester Wardship of the North Merches Customs Fee-farms Dutchy of Lancaster Scotland Prerogatives royal Knights service William Viscount Berckley Tayl. Non obstanie Discontinuance Kings Tenants Dutchy of Lancaster Fraudulent conveyances Wardships Use. Relief Writâ— Chancery Imbezelling Attorney of the Dutchy Corporation Dean and Canons of Windsor Castle Confirmation Cardinall of Canterbury Kings Feoffees in trust Dutchy of Lancaster Release Advowson Boston Appropriation Exchange Confirmation of Patents Kings stile and supremacy Dutchesse of Exeter Tayl. Tenent by the Courtesy Patents Kings confirmation Tayl. Patents Tayl. Attainder revoked Restitution Restitution Petition Exeter Taylors Repeal Apparel Barrel-fish Silk-weavers Bowes Hats Capps Swans Woodsâ— Purliews Barwick Writs of Summons Things done and concluded without the 3. estates in Parl give little or no satisfaction to the People though in the name of the Parl. and 3. Estaâ— The Parliaments Confirmation * The 3. Estates must concurr to make a Paâ—l else his Title would neither be valid nor satisfactory but ambiguous as before No one or two of them being a full or real Paâ—lâ— but all conjoyned The new device of this Bloudy Usurper to intitle himself to the Crown of England and take upon him the Regal Government Good Counsellors Administration of Justice Merchandise and Trade Merchants Artificers Adulation Avarice Ill Counsel Laws Confounded Edward the 4. his Mariage blemished Laws perverted Liberties and Laws every English mans Inheritance Arbitrary Government Force It s mischievous Fruits Murders Extortions Oppressions Incertainty of Mens lives and Estates Discords Warrs Nobles bloud destroyed Kings Mariage without the Lords assent and by sorcery and witchcraft Void Mariage Private Mariage in a Chamber Precontract Edward the 4th his ungodly disposition His Children illegitimate and Bastards The Duke of Clarence attainted by Parliament His issue therby not inheritable and uncapable to claim the Crown Richard the 3. declared undoubted heir to the Crown An Englishman by birth His pretended vertue and â—itness to reign as King without one word of his desperate Treasons Regiâ—â—des Murders Hypocrisy other Vâ—câ—s His valour in battel His honourable and royal birth * His election by the 3. States this Instrument to be King of England * They make his hereditary Title the ground of their Choice Their Petitition and importunity to him to accept of the Crown though himself most eagerly thirsted after it His hereditary right thereto seconded by their election Their promise to assist serve obey him upon his acceptance thereof as his Subjects and to live and dye with him Their pretended great Thraldom Bondage Oppressions c. under his Predecessors Extortions New Impositions against Laws and Liberties Nota. Their prayer for him Great Trouble occasioned partly by himself Justice Richard the 3. His hereditary Title to the Crown by the Law of God and Nature * The Lawyers starter and approve his Title The Common people ignorant in the Laws * The Parlâ— authorâ—ty with the people when true free and real consisting of the 3. Estates * It s Declaration quiâ—teth all mens minds removeth all doubts seditions yet he that conâ—iders 39 H. 6. n. 8. to 33. 1 E. 4. n. 8. to 40. will scarce believe this for a truth neither proved it so in his own case * The 3. Estates must all concurr to make a Parliament and valid Election * They decree and declare him undoubted King of this Realm by inheritance and their lawful election coupled together * The Crown setled entailed on him and the heirs of his body * His Son declared heir apparent * Here he creats ratifies his own Title
enacted that the Statutes made in the first year of King E. 3. Cap. 7. and in the second Parliament shall be observed The print touching false Entries of the Clarks c. Cap. 4. agreeth with the Record That such Clarks of either of the Benches that shall refuse to bring into the Courts the Rolls whereby Attornyes may have free search shall be imprisoned for one whole year and Fine with the King Who findeth himself grieved may complain to the Chancellor and shall finde remedy That remedy may be had against Clarks of the Exchecquer who will not allow the Pardons of King E. 3. to the party without great Charges Who hath cause to complain may so do and be heard That a generall Pardon of all Felonies and other Trespasses and Offences may be granted The King will thereof be advised It is enacted that no Plea which shall concern the Common Laws shall be tryed before the Constable or the Marshall Anno Octavo Richardi Secundi De Faciendo servitio in Comitiva Regis versus Scotos Rex c. Charissimo Avunculo suo Joh. Regi Castellae Novum Castr. 14. die Julii Teste Rege apud Westm. 13. Die Maii. CHariss Avunculo suo Ed. Com. Cant. Chariss Avunculo suo Tho. Com. Buck. Chariss fratri suo Tho. Com. Cantii Rico Com. Arundell Thom. Com. Warr. Hugoni Com. Staff Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Rob. de Vere Com. Oxoniae Hen. de Percie Com. Northumb. Tho. de Mowbray Com. Notting Iocobo de Audley de Heleigh Will. Bardolf de VVermigay Ric. Poynings Guidoni de Brian Ioh. de Clinton Gilberto Talbot Ioh. le VVare Henrico le Scroope Chlr. Hen. de Ferrariis de Groby Ioh. Roos de Hamelake Ioh. Nevill de Raby Ioh. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Tho. de Berkley Ioh. de Fabsley Chlr. Will. le Zouch de Harringworth Hugoni Burnell Rogero Clifford Ioh. Buttort Rogero de Scales Rado de Cromwell Michael de la Poole Rado Baroni de Greystock Will. Botreaux Chlr. Ioh. de Bellomonte Rob. de Harrigton Rob. de Willoughby Thomae Camois Chlr. Ric. Talbot de Blackmore Ioh. de Clinton Ioh. de Cobham de Kent Will. de Dacre Ioh. le Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmshyre Ric. Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Philippo Darcy Tho. de Morley Ioh. Burchier Waltero Fitz-Walter Ioh. Lovell de Fishmerch Ioh. de Monteacutâ— Symoni de Burleigh Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Nono Richardi Secundi Rex c. Regi Castellae c. apud Westm. post Festum Sancti Luci die Veneris c. Teste Rege apud Westm. quinto die Decembris CHariss Avunculo Ed. Duci Eborum Chariss Avunculo Tho. Duci Albemarliae Chariss fratri Tho. Com. Cantii Rado Com. Arundell Thom. Com. Warr. Hugoni Com. Staff Ed. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Rob. de Vere Com. Oxoniae Hen. Percie Com. Northumb. Hen. Com. Derby Tho. de Mowbray Com. Notting Mich. de la Poole Com. Suffolke Iocobo de Audley de Heleigh Will. Bardolf de VVermigay Guidoni de Brian Ioh. de Clinton Ioh. le VVare Henrico le Scroope Hen. de Ferrariis de Groby Ioh. Nevell de Raby Ioh. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Henrico Fitz Hugh Ric. de Scroope Will. la Zouch de Harringworth Rogero Clifford Ioh. Buttort Rogero de Scales Rado de Cromwell Rado de Lumley Will. de Thorpe Rado Baroni de Greystock Will. Botreaux Ioh. de Bellomonte Rob. de Harrigton Rob. de Willoughby Ioh. de Cliffourd Ioh. de Cobham de Kent Will. de Dacre Ioh. le Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmshyre VVill. de Alderburgh Ric. Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Philippo Darcy Tho. de Morley Tho. Bourchier Waltero Fitz-Walter Ioh. Lovell de Fishmerch Ioh. de Monteacuto Ioh. de Cherlton de Powis Ric. de Poynings Tho. Camois Chlr. Ric. Talbot de Blackmore Chlr. Ioh. Devereux Symoni de Burleigh Custodi Quinque Portuum The PARLIAMENT holden at WESTMINSTER the Friday next after the Feast of St. LUKE in the ninth year of the raign of King RICHARD the 2. THe same Friday for that sundry of the Nobles were not come nor the Sheriffs returned their Writs the Parliament by the Kings commandement was adjourned untill the next day and the same next day it was adjourned untill the Munday then ensuing On the which Munday Michael de la Poole Earl of Suffolk and Chancellor of England in the presence of the King Lords and Commons pronounced the cause of the Parliament to be how the State of the Realm being assaulted on every side with most mortall enemies might be defended and preserved the Defence he shewed to consist in four points whereof two concerned outward or forrain affairs and two inward or affairs within the Realm The one of the inward affairs was touching the Staple the other concerning Money or Coyn. The first of forrain affairs was what was to be attempted for defence The second how the same War might be nourished and maintained Touching the Staple he thought best that the same were planted within the Realm considering that the Burgesses of Callice and other towns beyond the Seas grew very rich thereby and good towns at home within the Realm were much decayed And so much for the Common profit Touching the King he affirmed that the Subsidie of Wools yeelded more to the King when the Staple was kept in England by 1000. marks yearly than it did now being holden beyond the Seas Touching the Coyn he sheweth that weighing how all Nations much thirsted thereafter and therefore conveyed much over wherefore the best was to raise them by raising the value That the Realm was best defended by pursuing the enemy by sharpe War and he perswaded by many reasons that it was better to seek than to be sought and that a Subsidie was out of necessity to be granted which was as manifest as being offered to the King would be plausible about all which he willed them to consult Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoygn and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above Tryars of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The Lords and Commons granted to the King a Fifteen and half a Fifteen towards the voyage of Iohn King Castell and Portugall Duke of Lancaster and for the safe keeping of the Sea and Defence of the Marches The voyage of the same King and Duke was appointed into Spain and agreed by Parliament upon certain considerations The last being so as no part of the said Subsidie was
all men that do pretend any title of any thing forfeited do therefore sue to the Councell That the Queen do pay xiii l. to the Kings Houshold as the late Queen that dyed did or otherwise according to the rate of the Dower The King willeth the same according to the advise of himself and of his Councell That such Impositions as are gathered by the Popes Bulls of Volumus Imponimus of the translations of the Bishops and such like may be imployed upon the Kings War against the Scismaticks of Scotland and that such as bring into the Realm the like Bulls or Novelties may be reputed for Traytors The King granteth that no such Impositions be to the charge of the people and will write to the Pope to stay such Novelties That the two half Desmes granted by the Clergie of the Province of York may be speedily levyed and that none do save the denyers of the same upon pain to be out of the Kings protection The one half Desme is granted and for the other the King hath written for whom the King will ordain punishment if they refuse to pay That all the Bohemians and others then such as be by the Councell appointed to serve the Queen may depart the Realm by Midsummer ensuing on pain to be out of the Kings protection The King willeth that they be warned by the Chancellor Steward or Chamberlain by that time to avoyd the Realm The print touching Merchants selling Cap. 7. agreeth in effect with the Record but not in form The print touching Annuities granted by the King Cap. 8. agreeth with the Record The print touching Impositions on Staple Ware Cap. 9. agreeth with the Record That regard may be had to all such Sheriffs as are over-charged upon their Accompts and that all Gaoles let out by Patent may be rejoyned by the Sheriffs For regard of the Sheriffs the King granteth to his Councell power to pardon as to them shall seem good between this and the next Parliament and to the Gaoles they will be advised The print touching letters of the Signet or Privie Seal Cap. 10. agreeth with the Record The print touching the place where Assizes or Gaole-deliveries shall be Cap. 21. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form It is enacted that the 5 Lords Appellants shall receive 23 l. as is contained before 11.16 The King at the request of the Commons granteth pardon to the Citizens of London of all Treasons Fellonies and other offences of loss of life except Iohn Northampton Draper Iohn Moore and Richard Northbury Mercers saving to the King all Forfeitures and Escheates and that such as will have pardon do pursue therefore their Charters The print touching the Attainder of the Arch-Bishop of York and others Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The print touching the affirmation of Judgment against the parties aforesaid Cap. 3 agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The print hath no pardon by grant or procured to any the parties aforesaid Cap. 4. and agreeth with the Record as before That no man shall be impared of any misgovernance about the Kings person other than be such as are there named Cap. 2. agreeth with the Record as above That the Staple of woolls may be removed from Midleborough unto Callice before Michaelmas ensuing and that the Bullion may be there The King is willing that the Lords of his own Councell with others have power by this Parliament to appoint the same at Callice or elsewhere It is enacted that the Chancellor and Keeper of the Privie Seale shall have power to Survey the Courts of the Chancery both Benches the Exchecquer and the Receipts to remove such Officers as therein be not fit and others to place in the same It is enacted that no Comptroller or Wayer of any Ports within the Realm do enjoy their said Offices but during their good behaviour at the Kings pleasure That the King will have due consideration of the great charges sustained by the Bishop of Elye Chancellor of England to the great decay of the possessions Houses and store of Charls of York whereto the said Chancellor is translated whereunto the King by the mouth of his Steward promised to consider the same to their contentations The King at the request of the Commons createth Sir Iohn Holland his Brother to be Earl of Huntington by girding him with a Sword to have the same honour and style to him and the Males begotten of the bodies of him and Elizabeth his wife with 20. l. of the profits of the said County of Huntington He also giveth to the said Iohn and his Heirs begotten of the body of the said Elizabeth Land by year with the said 20. l. and other Lands to him before time given in which grant are recited the Letters Patents the King delivered in full Parliamâ—nt to the said Earl and him committed to sit among the Peers in the Parliament They require that the Lords Merchers of the North may remaine and dwell upon Castles and other places upon the Marches saying that if it were so the King would save great charges The King answered that he would have the Lords to doe as their Ancestors had done in the time of his Progenitors The Commons require the King that it would please him to renew his Oath made at his Coronation and that Bishops Lords and Commons may onely swear to him according to the Oath ensuing Whereupon on Wednesday the third of Iune being the 120 th day of the Parliament after a Mass of the Holy Ghost in the Church of Westminster and a Sermon made by the Archbishop of Canterbury the King reneweth his Oath with great solemnitie in the said Church of Westminster the Bishops Lords and Commons beholding the same At which time the Bishops did their Fealtie to the King and the Lords their Homage who with the Commons were then sworne openly as ensueth The effect of the Oath was that they by no means should suffer any Judgement Ordinance or Statute made in the Parliament to be repealed that they should see the good Laws and Customs of the Realm to be maintained and Peace kept After which done the Archbishop and other Bishops pronouncâ—d a solemn Excommunication against all breakers of the same On Thursday the fourth of Iune the Lords yeilded most humble thanks to the King for his great Justice done at what time the King by his Chancellor gave them hearty thanks for their Grants to him made And thus the said Chancellor willing the Knights and Burgesses to sue forth their Writs for
their Fees the Parliament ended Touching the Fourth Fifth and Sixt Chapters in Print of this year is no mention made in this Record Anno Duodecimo Richardi â—ecundi Rex c. Avâ—nculo suo â—d Duci â—bor c. salutâ—m apud Câ—ntâ—b c Cro. Nativitat Mariae prox futur c. Teste Rege apud Oxon. xxviii Die Julii CHariss Avunculo suo Tho. Duci Gloucestriae Chariss fratri Regis Tho. Com. Cantii Chariss fratri Regis Ioh. Holland Com. Huntington Dilecto fideli Consanguineo Ric. Com. Arundell Tho. Com. Warr. Ed. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. Percie Com. Northumb. Hen. Com. Darbie Thom. de Mowbray Com. Maresc Nottingh Ric. de Audley de Heleigh Ioh. de Falâ—esley Chlr. Tho. Camois Chlr. Guid. de Bryan Ioh. de Clinton Ric. Talbot de Godrackcastle Ioh. le Ware Hen. le Scroope Ioh. Roos de Hamelake Ioh. Nevill de Raby Ioh. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Hen. Fitz-hugh Ric. Scroope Ioh. Deureeux Hugo Burnell Will. la Zouch de Harringworth Rogero Clifford Rado de Cromwell Rado Lumley Will. de Thorpe Rado Baroni de Greystock Will. Botteraâ—x Chlr. Ioh. de Bellomonte Rob. de Harrington Rob. de Willoughby Ioh. de Clifton Ioh. de Cobham de Kent Will. de Dacre Ioh. de Strange de Knokin Tho. de Nevill de Halmshyre Ric. Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Phillippo de Darcey Tho de Morley Ioh. Lovell de Fishmerch Ioh. de Monteacuto Ioh. de Cherlton de Powis Tho. de Berkley Ioh. de Welles Philippo de le Dispencer Ioh. Devereux Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno decimo tertio Richardi Secundi Rex c. Joh. Duci Lancastriae c. apud Westm. die Lunae post Festum Sci. Hillarii Teste Rege apud Redding Sexto die Decembris CHariss Avunculo suo Ed. Duci Gloucestriae Chariss Fratri Tho. Com Cantii Chariss fratri Ioh. Holland Com. Huntington Ric. Com. Arundell Tho. Com. Warr. Ed. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. de Percie Com. Northum Tho. de Mowbray Com. Maresc Notting Rico. Audley de Heleigh Ioh de Fallesley Chlr. Tho. Camois Chlr. Tho. de Morley Ioh. Bourchier Ioh Lovell de Fishmerch Ioh. de Cherlton de Powis Ioh. de Clinton Ric. Talbot de Greystock Ioh de Warr. Hen. de Scroope Ioh. Roos de Hamelake Rado Nevill de Rabie Ioh. Gray de Codonore Hen. Gray de Wilton Reginaldo Gray de Ruthin Hen. Fitz-hugh Ric. le Scroope Ioh. Devereux Hugo Burnell Will. la Zouch de Harringworth Tho. de Clifford Rado de Cromwell Rado Lumley Will. Thorpe Rado Baroni de Graystock Will. Botreaux Ioh. de Bellomonte Rob. Harrington Rob. de Willoughby Ioh de Cobham de Kent Will Dacre Ioh. de Strange de Knokin Tho Nevill de Halmshyre Rico. Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Tho. Darcey Tho. de Morley Ioh. Bourchier Ioh. Lovell de Fishmerch Ioh. de Monteacuto Ioh. de Cherlton de Powis Tho de Berkley Ioh de Wells Philippo le Dispencer Almarico de St. Amand. Ioh. Devereux Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the Munday next after the Feast of St. HILLARIE in the thirteenth year of the Raign of King RICHArD the Second ON the same Munday being the eleventh day of Ianuary William de Wickham Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England by the Kings commandement declared before him and the whole Estates how the King now being come to more full age meant the better to see his people governed and that as well the Clergy as the Temporallitie should enjoy all their Liberties He further sheweth how the King being environed with his enemies of France Spain and Guienne on the one part and of Scotland and Ireland on the other was now to consult in what wise Peace or Defence might be taken with them And how ayde to sustain the charges thereof might be levied of the Lords and Commons without which it would not be avoyded Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoine and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above Tryars of Petitions for Gascoine c. as above On the twentieth day of Ianuary the fourth day of the Parliament the Bishop of Winchester being Chancellor and the Bishop of St. Davids being Treasurer with all the Lords of the great Councell except the Clarke of the Privy Seal prayed the King to be discharged of their said Offices and to have others therein placed At which time the Chancellor gave up to the King the great Seal and the Treasurer the Keys of the Exchecquer the which the King received and them discharged together with the Lords of the great Councell who being discharged required openly in the Parliament that every person would complain of any thing unduly done by them The Commons required respit of answer untill the next day At which time they with the Lords upon demand affirmed all to be well done Whereupon the King recharged those Officers by delivering the great Seal to the said Bishop of Winchester and the Keys of the Treasury to the said Bishop of St. Davids and received those to be his Councellors which were before with his Uncles the Dukes of Lancaster and Gloucester with Protestation for any act then done he would at his pleasure take or refuse his Councellors aforesaid All of which said Officers and Councellors were then sworn in Parliament faithfully to Counsell the King For certain causes shewed in Parliament it was enacted that no man should be impannelled or returned in the Assize of Novell Disein granted by Walter Parke of Upton Escandaâ—â—ore before the Justices of Assize in c. against Ioan Prioress of Detford and her Under-Tenants in Ashton St. George of Ashton Bevell nor in any Inquest to be taken in a writ of Trespass by the said Walter before the Justices of the Common Place against Henry Green Knight and the said Prioress for Trespass done at Upton Escandamore unless he have Lands and Tenements to the value of 40 l. a year at the least The 26 th day of Ianuary Iohn Mandonor Cleark was charged openly in Parliament that he should not pass nor send over to Rome nor attempt to do any thing there touching the Arch-Deconry of Durham in prejudice of the King or of his Laws or of the partie presented thereto by the King on perill of that might ensue Iohn Choungeor complainant against Sir Robert Knowles Knight for that he infeoffed the said Sir Robert of certain his Lands untill certain money was to him payed which was done and that the said Iohn could not have his Land whereupon by Writ the said Sir Robert appeared in
upon a Writ of Error brought by the said Prior should be revoked as erronious and that the former Judgment given in the Common Place for the said Dean and Chapter should be good A Commandment was given to the Chancellour to execute the former judgement in the Common place Of this year is no mention made in the print Anno Vicessimo Richardi Secundi Rex c. Charissimo vunculo suo Johi Duci Aquitaniae Lancastriae c. apud West in Festo S. Vincentii Teste Rege apud Westm. Tricessimo die Decembris EDo Duci Eborum Tho. Duci Gloucestriae Henr. Com. Derbiae Edro Com. Rutland Tho. Com. Cantii Rico. Com Arundell Tho. de Bello campo Com. War Aldredo de Vere Com Oxoniae Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. Percie Com. Northumb. Iohanni de Holland Com. Huntingt Tho. de Mowbray Com. Maress Nottingh Tho. le Dispencer Tho. Camois Ioh. Bourchier Ioh. Cherlton de Powis Ioh. de Clinton Ioh. de Ware Stephano Scroope de Musham Willelm Roos de Hamelake Hen. Fitz-hugh Ric. le Scroope Hugoni Burnell Will. la Zouch de Harringworth Tho de Berkley Iohi. de Welles Phillippo le Dispencer Almarico de St. Amando Rado de Cromwell Rado de Lumley Rado Baroni de Graystock Rob. de Harrington Will. de Willoughby Ioh. Cobham de Kent Will. de Dacre Ioh. le Strange de Knokin Tho. de Lovell de Halmshyre Rico. Seymore Will. Beauchamp de Burgaveny Iohi. de Monteacuto Iohi. de Fishmerch Rico. Gray de Codonore Reg. Gray de Ruthin Rado Gray de Raby Tho. Bardolf de Wermegey Tho. de Morley Will. de Ferrariis de Groby Will. Heron. Phillippo Dacre Roberto Scales Edro Com. Rutland Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the Monday in the Feast of St. VINCENT in the twentieth year of King RICHARD the 2. ON Munday the feast of St. Vincent the King being in the Parliament the Bishop of Exeter being Chancellour by his commandement declared the cause wherefore the Parliament was called and alledged by many authorities of the Scriptures that foure points belonged to every Prince to consult in his Parliament First that the Church should enjoy her liberties in peace Secondly that all the Subjects should be governed without oppression Thirdly that the good laws should be maintained the evill amended and iustice executed Fourthly that the Realm should be defended against the forrein enemies all which the King was ready to do by good advice He then declared the danger by the Scotts and Irish men the hazard of Guienne and the Marches of Callice and willeth them to consult of the same to the least charge of the Realm Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Guienne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above Tryars of Petitions for Guienne c. as above On Tuseday following the Commons chose Sir Iohn Bussey to be their Speaker whereto the King agreed The said Sir Iohn had his common Protestation there allowed At the same time the Duke of Lancaster required the King to do Justice upon Sir Thomas Talbot the Chancellor then declared that the next day the cause of the Parliament should be more especially declared The Wednesday ensuing the Chancellor and others of the King Officers declared to the Commons the speciall intent of the King other mention there is not made The same time the Commons require the King to send for such Bishops and Lords as were absent the Chancellor answered that the same were too long and tedious On Thursday ensuing the Commons before the King and Lords made their excuse that where it was said that the Commons upon excitation meant to move the King for staying to send the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and the Earl's of Rutland and Marshall in message to his Father the King of France into the parts of Lumbardie according to his promise that they never were moved nor meant the same of the event of the same Voyage whatsoever it should be or of any the like They onely require the King to hold them excused and refer the same to his own pleasure Whereunto the King by his own mouth declared certain causes of the same journy First for appeasing of the Warrs and the intollerable losses thereby ensuing The second for that the said King was his Affinee and Cosin and his Ally and further he thought to aid him The third for that in conscience he was bound to help to vanquish the common Tryant The King declareth further that he would be at liberty at all the like times to ayd any his Allies To the request of the Duke of Lancaster for justice to be done on Sir Thomas Talbot the King meant to do justice upon whatsoever he were yea though of his own blood The Chancellor declareth to the Commons that he and others of the Kings Officers would come the next Parliament and debate with them of weighty affairs On Friday in Candlemas week the Chancellor being willed by the King to declare the Conference with the Commons answered that they required four points First for the continuance of Sheriffs The Second for the defence of the North marches The Third touching Liveries and Badges and the Fourth for the avoyding the outragious expences of the Kings House and namely of Bishops and Ladies The King by his own mouth answereth to every Article and touching the fourth seemed much offended saying that he would be free therein and that the Commons thereby committed offence against him his Dignity and Liberty the which he willed the Lords to declare the next day to the Commons And further willed the Duke of Lancaster to charge Sir Iohn Bussey Speaker to the Parliament to declare the name of him who exhibited the same Bill After this declaration made by the Lords to the Commons the Saturday ensuing they delivered the name of the Exhibiter which was Sir Thomas Haxey the which Bill was delivered by the Cleark of the Parliament to the Cleark of the Crown After which the Commons forthwith came before the King shewing themselves heavy of cheare and declaring that they meant no harm they submitted themselves to the King and most humbly craved pardon The Chancellor by the Kings Commandment declared that the King held them excused and the King by mouth declared that they were sunderly bound to him and namely in forbearing to charge them with Desmes or Fifteens the which he meant no more to charge them in his own person The Lords and Commons grant to the King for
5. years as is contained in the 11. R. 2. Tit. 16. for three years as is there contained Tit. 17. It is enacted that every Merchant should bring into the Tower of London one ounce of Gold foraign Coin of every sack of Wooll for every CC XL. Wooll fells and for every half Last of Skins or else 13 s. 4 d. for every of them over and above the due Customes and to put in Security therefore Vide 1. H. 4. Tit. 86 Writs to the Customers and Officers of Ports to take such Sureties The Commons grant to the King power to moderate the Statute of Provisors as in 16. R. 2. Tit. 8. saving the right of the Kings Crown After this forthwith the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and York for themselves and the Clergie of their Provinces declared to the King in open Parliament that forasmuch as they were sworn to the Pope and Sâ—a of Rome if any thing were in Parliament attempted in restraint of the same they would in no wise assent thereunto but utterly withstand the same the which their Protestations they required to be enrolled After that Sir Thomas Haxey by Parliament adjudged to dy as a Traytor the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and other Bishops craved of the King that the said Thomas might have Life the which the King granted that done they for the honestie of the Church required that he might remain in their keeping the which the King also granted and commanded Sir Thomas Sercie Steward of his Houshold to deliver the said Thomas Haxey to the Arch-Bishop Vide the cause of his Judgment before Tit. 16. Vide 1. Hen. 4. Tit. 90. The Bishop of Landaffe prayeth Restitution of the Mannour of Bishippiston in Wales parcell of his Temporalities the which Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warr. since the death of the last Bishop had kept The Earl of Warr. being present was demanded hereof and could not deny the same nor shew any cause wherefore it was adjudged that the same Mannour should be â—eized into the Kings hands and the Issues taken by the Earl to be answered and that the said Earl should fine with the King for his contempt Upon the Petition of the begging Fryers there at large is enacted that none of that order should pass over the Seas without lycense of his Soveraign nor that he take upon him no order of Master of Divinity unless he were first apposed in his Chapter Provinciall on pain to be out of the Kings protection William Mounteacute Earl of Salisbury prayeth a Scire facias against Roger de Mortimer Earl of March returnable at the next Parliament for the Castle Town and Honour of Denbeigh and the Cantreds of Roos Reyvinriocks and Kardiner and the Comote of Dimnall in Wales the which was granted Vide 21. Rich. 2. Tit. 25. The King doth confirm unto the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury this Prerogative That the same Arch-Bishop and his Successors shall have the keeping of all Lands holden of him in Chief and thereupon caused to be delivered to the said Arch-Bishop the Castle of Tenbridg holden of him in Chief during the minoritie of the heir of the Earl of Stafford The King as sole Emperour of the Realm of England for the honour of his bloud wileth and of his full power inabled and made mulier of his proper authority Sir Iohn Beauford his Brothers and Sisters and also published their legitimation according to the form of his Charter the which was read in full Parliament and delivered the same to the Duke of Lancaster their Father The like Charter was made to Iohn Knight Henry Clarke Thomas de Damosells and Ioan Beauford the damosel and dear children of Iohn Duke of Lancaster The Chancellor then declared how that the King had created the said Iohn his Cosin Earl of Somerset to have to him and to the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten with 20 l. in the like manner yearly of the profits of the Countie of Somerset Whereupon the same Iohn was brought before the King in Parliament between the Earls viz. of Huntington and Marshall arrayed in a robe as in a Vesture of honour with a sword carried before him the pummell whereof being guilded And the Charter of his Creation was openly read before the Lords and Commons after which the King girded him with a sword aforesaid took his homage and caused him to be set in his place in the Parliament viz. between the Earls Marshall and Warr. The Charter of the said Creation The King granteth to the Earl of Nottingham and to the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten the Office Name and Title of Earl Marshall of England the Office of Marshall in the Kings Bench and in the Exchecquer the Office of Proclaimer Marshall the Steward and Marshall of the Kings Houshold and further that the said Earl and his heirs males Marshalls of England by vertue thereof may carry before them a certain golden Staff enamelled black at both ends with the Kings Arms at the upper end and his own Arms at the nether end the which Charter was openly read in the Parliament and delivered to the said Earl Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching selling of Merchandize Cap. 4. doth not altogether agree with the Record which note but it agreeth with tit 40. in the same Record The print touching taking of horse without authority Cap. 5. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form That the Kings Officers for making Arrests or Attachments in Church-yards are therefore excommunicated whereof remedie is required Right shall be done to such as be specially grieved The print touching riding armed Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record to this point and moreover the Kings c. of which latter point the Record maketh no mention The print touching wearing of Liveries Cap. 2. agreeth with the Record The print that no Lords should sit with the Justices of Assize Cap. 3. agreeth with the Record For this title look before Tit. 34. The print touching the revocation of certain banished Justices Cap. 6. agreeth with the Record Anno Vicessimo Richardi Secundi Rex c. Johi Duci Aquitaniae Lancastriae c. apud West die Lunae post Festum exaltationis Sanctae Crucis c. Teste Rege apud Westm. Decimo octavo die Julij EDo Duci Eborum Henr. Com. Derbiae Edro Com. Rutland Alberto de Vere Com Oxoniae Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Hen. Percie Com. Northumb. Iohanni Holland Com. Huntingt Iohani Com. Somerset Ioh. Com. Cantii Tho. Com Nottingham Maresc Angliae Ioh. de Monteacuto Com. Saram Tho. le Dispencer Tho. Camois Ioh. Bourchier Ioh. Cherleton de Powis Waltero Fitz Walter Ioh. de
years of age prayed 149 162. Sheriffs of London may take Assises in the absence of the Coroner after proclamation p. 391. May execute their Office within Forests p. 16. Corporationsâ— to enjoy all their Charters and Liberties p. 113 117 124 125 137 159 178 341 351 367 393â— 404 437 451 478 538 541 544 549. Sion The Abbesse and Nuns incorporated p. 589. Corporations Weights and Measures to be well examined and corrected in them p. 40. Strangers not free thereof not to buy or sell in them p. 124 125 141. Hamlets near their walls no parts of them not to contribute to their Charges or be under their Government p. 136. Move to have their pardon freely p. 146. The Friers Preachers of Cornwall Chapel within London incorporated p. 618. Cornwall their complaint against Tidman for the Monopoly of Tinn p. 58. Complain of the Oppression of the Officers of the Stannerie pray a Declaration of their Charter which is done p. 131 142. Their complaint of the taking up of their Mariners and plunders by the Spaniards p. 177. The Duke of Cornwal created and his Charter confirmed in and by Parliament p. 427 428 430 678. The Dutchy of Cornwall setled by Charter and Parliament on the Prince Ibid. p. 659 663 677. United to the Crown p. 678. A prayer that nonâ— pay fines for license of alienation oâ— Lands holden of this Dutchy nor other Lands held of other persons seised for wardship which is denied p. 624 625. A Petition that all releases of Debts due to this Dutchy by R. 2. should be revoked p. 397. The Surrender to and Lease of the Duke of Cornwall of Lands in the Dutchy confirmed in Parliament p. 430. The Lands thereof resumed p. 677. Corn its exportation inhibited p. 18 100 135 285 permitted p. 355 625 631. Act against forestallers of it p. 97. The measure of it p. 339 344 537. Costs an Act touching them p. 459. Coventry Prior a grant of a Conduict of water to him under a penalty for Nusances confirmed p. 440. Council and Councellors The Great Council used for the Lords in Parliamenâ— or Parliament p. 111 133 135 136 137 142 161 164. For the Lords extraordinarily assembled out of Parl. p. 81 85 193 167 286 314. For the Lords of the Privy Council 182 183 329â— 429. stiled the Lords of the Continual Council or Continual great Council p. 126 159 160 167 317 419.429 The Privy Conncil not to hold plea of Free-hold Life Member or any thing triable by the Common Law p. 74 77 106 107 162 178 348 4â—7 333. Nor to send for any to appear before them upon suggestions p. 56 348. To give answers to Bills and Petitions not answered in Parliament which they answered in Starr-chamber or elsewhere p. 295 444 468 564 565 584 591 596 620. The King and his Council used for the Lords in Parl. who enact and award restitution of Lands forfeited p. 7. Summon all English Merchants to appear before them upon a reprisal p. 11. commit a Member to prison for ill words and breach of the Peace before them p. 12. are to receive the Commons answer and advise the King in matters of war peace and Lawes p. 51 53 55 57 71â— 141 282. To hear and determine publike Grievances p. 61. To imploy Subsidies granted for defence of the Realm as they see good p. 282. They Declare the power of the Protector p. 589. The King in answer to Petitions promiseth to doe things by advice of his Council p. 40 51 52 57 58 62 63 64 67 112 119 138 177 179 159 170 179 202 294 312 294 311 318 324 419 481. The King and Council to treat with the Duke of Burbon touching his ransom p. 592. The King and his Council to make Ordinances and all Officers to execute them p. 121. To appoint the Great Officers p. 159. The Reports of matters of Council to be made to the King by two of the Council appointed for it p. 121. Answers to Petitions by their advise p. 67 71 49 52. Have power to make Ordinances touching coin p. 539 557. All such who have Annuities or Offices of the King summoned before them p. 583. Bringers in of Popes Bulls to be taken and brought beâ—ore the king and his Council for their contempt p. 64. The King to redresse controversies between the Universities and Friers Preachers by his Councils advice p. 103. He and his Council examine the abuses oppressions of Sir Ioh. Lec to make ward therein p. 106 107. The K. to appoint the Staple where he thinks best by his Councils advice p. 117 163 325 429. To redress the abuses of such who sue in the Court of Rome p. 125. of Protections Ib. 148. To appoint Justices of Peace p. 126 178. To examine the abuses of Lumbards colouring enemies goods p. 127. Imprison for a Rapâ— of a Gentlewoman and duresse p. 176. oppressions to be answered before them p. 178. To be Governours of Merchants Strangers p. 88. To summon Merchant to appear before them at a day to buy wools p. 28. To take order touching Purveyors p. 622. References and redresse upon Petitions requests for things or grievances in Parliament made to the Councel p. 150 159 282 284 313 318 324 333 338 339 345 355 356 358 398 409 421 422 423 433 444 457 458 459 460 461 466 467 468 474 536 551 560 581 595 612. To appoint the Statutes against Theeves to be executed p. 170. No association to or remotion of Justices but by assent of the Councel p. 172. Riotors summoned to appear before them p. 192. To acquaint the Commons in Parliament with the Kings wants p. 196. H. to make no grant of Lands but by their advice p. 202 439. A long sute wholly submitted to the King and his Councel p. 282 such Bills as cannot be ended by the Councel to be exhibited to the King p. 295. Merchants debts prayed to be tryed before them p. 442. To make allowances to Merchants who guarded the Sea p. 462. have power to revoke or confirm any of the Universities of Oxfords Liberties p. 474. Sworn to observe the Great Charter Laws and other Rules Orders prescribed them in and by the Parliament and rightly to Counsel the King p. 50. 155 156 329 456 457 471 473 564 565 568 593 594 602 608 611 120 121. To do all by consent of the Major part p. 457 564 602. Worthy ones to be appointed and not removed without good cause and proof p. 317.457 28â— 288 564. To be honest sage stable and gravest men p. 155 164 384 457 471 563 574 577 651. Nominated appointed and prescribed orders in and by the Parliament p. 10â— 24 25 156 159 167 183 198 288 317 329â— 453 456 457 458 471 471â— 473 519 563 564 567 568 592 593 594 608 651 652. But this was during the Kings absence in forein parts or his minority or with his consent and approbation with a protestation of his freedom herein p.