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A63022	Historical collections, or, An exact account of the proceedings of the four last parliaments of Q. Elizabeth of famous memory wherein is contained the compleat journals both of Lords & Commons, taken from the original records of their houses : as also the more particular behaviours of the worthy members during all the last notable sessions, comprehending the motions, speeches, and arguments of the renowned and learned secretary Cecill, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Rawleigh, Sir Edw. Hobby, and divers other eminent gentlemen : together with the most considerable passages of the history of those times / faithfully and laboriously collected, by Heywood Townshend ...	Townshend, Hayward, b. 1577.	1680 (1680)	Wing T1991; ESTC R39726	326,663	354

liberty of Priviledg to all the Members of this House and their Servant And lastly if any mistaking of any Message delivered unto him from the Commons should happen that her Majesty would be pleased to attribute that to his weakness in delivery or understanding and not to the House As also any forgetfulness through want of memory or that things were not so judicially handled or expressed by him as they were deliver'd by the House To which after the Queen had spoken to the Lord Keeper again the Lord Keeper spake in effect as followeth Mr. Speaker her Majesty doth greatly commend The Lord-Keeper replies by the Queens Order and like of your grave Speech well divided and well contrived the first proceeding from a sound Invention and the other from a setled Judgment and Experience You have well and well indeed weighed the state of this Kingdome well observ'd the greatness of our puissant and great Empire the King of Spain the continual and excessive charges of the Wars of Ireland which if they be well weighed do not only shew the prudence of our gratious Soveraign in defending of us but also the greatness of the charge continually bestowed by her Majesty even out of her own Revenues to protect us and the exposing of her Majesties self to continual troubles and toilesome Cares for the benefit and safety of her Subjects Wherefore Mr. Speaker it behoveth us to think and say as was deliver'd by a great man lately in a Concilio ad Clerum opus est subsidio ne fiai exitum or as I think excedium Touching your other Requests First For freedom of Speech her Majesty willingly Consenteth thereunto with this caution That the matter be not spent in Idle and Vain matters Painting out the same with Froth and Volubility of words And her Majesty Commandeth That you suffer not any Speeches made for Contention or Contradiction-sake maintained only by a Tempest of words whereby the Speakers may seem to get some reputed Credit by imboldning themselves to maintain Contradiction and on purpose to trouble the House with vain and long Orations to hinder the Proceedings in more weighty and greater Importance Touching Access to her Person she most willingly granteth the same desiring she may not be troubled unless urgent and matters of great Consequence compel you thereunto For this hath been held for a wise Maxime In troubling great Estates you must trouble seldome For Liberty unto your selves and servants her Majesty hath Commanded me to say unto you all That she ever intendeth to preserve the Liberty of the House and granteth Liberty to the meanest Follower of the meanest Member of this House But her Majesties Pleasure is you should not maintain and keep with you notorious Persons either for Life or Behaviour As desperate Debtors who never come abroad fearing her Laws but at these times Petty Foggers and Vipers of the Common Wealth prouling and common Solicitors that sets Dissention between man and man and men of the like Condition to these These her Majesty earnestly desireth a Law may be made against as also that no Member of this Parliament would entertain or bolster up any man on the like Humor or Quality on pain of her Highnesses Displeasure For the Excuse of the House and your self Her Majesty Commandeth me to say That your Sufficiency hath so often times been approved before her That She doubteth not of the Sufficient Discharge of the Place you shall serve in Wherein she willeth you to have a special Eye and Regard not to make new and idle Laws and trouble the House with them But rather to look to the Abridging and Repealing of diverse obsolete and superfluous Statutes As also First To take in hand Matters of greatest Moment and Consequence In doing thus Mr. Speaker you shall fulfil her Majesties Commandment do your Country good and satisfy Her Majesties Expectation Which being said the Speaker made three Reverences to the Queen Then the Lord Keeper said For certain great and weighty Causes Her Highness's Pleasure is the Parliament shall be Adjourned until Friday next Which Speech was taken to be an Adjournment of the Lower House but it was not so meant wherefore the Lower House sate the next day being Saturday morning So after some room made the Queen came through the Commons to go into the Painted-Chamber who graciously offering her Hand to the Speaker he kissed it but not one word she spake unto him neither as she went through the Commons few said God bless your Majesty as they were wont in all great Assemblies And the throng being great and little room to pass she moved her Hand to have more room whereupon one of the Gentlemen Ushers said openly Back Masters make room And one answered stoutly behind If you will Hang us we can make no more room which the Queen seemed not to hear though she heaved up her Head and looked that way towards him that spake After she went to White-Hall by Water Saturday Octob. 31. I was not there thinking the House had not sare till Thursday but I heard there was a motion made for the maintenance of the Priviledges of the House and to have a Committee for it which was appointed on Thursday at one of the Clock in the Afternoon And two Bills were Read one against Drunkenness another that no Bishop nor Arch-Bishop may make any Lease in Remainder or Reversion until within three Years before the expiration of the former Lease This Day the Prayer was brought into the House which was appointed every Morning to be Read during the sitting of this Parliament amongst other Prayers by a Minister appointed for that purpose The COPY of the PRAYER OH Eternal Almighty and ever Living GOD A Prayer to be used Every Morning in the House of Commons which hast made the Eye and therefore seest which hath framed the Heart and therefore understandest from whose only Throne all Wisdome cometh Look down upon us that call upon Thee bow down thine Ear and hear us open thine Eyes and behold us which in the Name of thy Son and our Saviour do lift up our Hearts unto Thee Forgive us O Lord forgive us all that we have done amiss in Thought Word or Deed. Forgive us our negligences forgive us our unthankfulness make us mindful of thy Benefits and thankful for all thy Mercies Thou that seest the Hearts and searchest the Reins and beholdest the utmost parts of the World try and examine our Hearts and guide us in thy ways knit our Hearts unto Thee that we may fear thy Name Let us ever fear this Glorious and Fearful Name The Lord our God Let all that despise Thee feel thy Judgments Let all Men know it is a fearful thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God Let thy Mercies always prevent us and compass us about In all our Ways Words and Works let us set Thee always before our Eyes Remove from us all vanity and hypocrisy Let thy Truth always

Committees in the Bill concerning Coopers brought in the Bill again as not dealt in by the Committee for lack of convenient time The Bill for restraint of new buildings converting of great houses into several Tenements and for restraint of Inmates and Inclosures neer unto the Cities of London and Westminster with one Amendment to the said Bill was sent up to the Lords by Mr. Treasurer Sir John Woolley and others with a Remembrance to move their Lordships for sending down of the Bill for grant of three entire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths granted by the Temporalty to the end Mr. Speaker may this afternoon present the same unto her Majesty according to the former accustomed usage of this House Mr. Serjeant Owen Mr. Atturney-General and Mr. Powle brought down from the Lords an Act entituled An Act for the Queens most gracious general and free Pardon Divers other Bills were this day read This Afternoon the Parliament was dissolved 39 Eliz. A Journal of such things as passed in the Vpper House of Parliament in the Parliament that held Anno xxxix o Eliz. Reginae and began October 24. in the same year and ended February 9. following ANno Dom. 1597. Regni Eliz. Reginae 39. die Lunae 24. Mensis Octob. Inchoatum est Parliament Westmonasterii in Domo consuet quo die Regina diversi Domini tam Spiritual quam Temporal viz. Archiepiscopus Cant. Tho. Egerton Miles Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli Dominus Burleigh Dominus Thesaurarius Angliae Marchio Winton Comes Sussex Magnus Marescall Comes Nottingham Magnus Scenescall eight other Earls one Viscount fifteen Bishops and twenty three Barons were present whose Name are particularly set down in the Journal-book Dicto 24. die Octob. viz. primo die hujus Parliamenti Oct. 24. introduct est Breve quo Archiepiscopus Ebor. praesenti Parliamento interesse summonibatur admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi locum salvo jure alieno Consimilima Brevia introduct sunt 4 Comitibus 10 Episcopis 5 Baronibus The Lord Keeper by the Queens commandment delivered to both Houses the Causes that moved her majesty to summons this Parliament The Lord Keeper's Speech THE Queens most excellent Majesty Lord Keeper's Speech my most gracious and dread Soveraign hath commanded me to declare unto you my Lords and others here present the Causes which have moved her Highness to summons this Parliament at this time which before I can express I must confess truely that the Royal presence of her Majesty the view of your Lordships and this honourable Assembly together with the consideration of the weightiness of the service and of my own weakness doth much appale me and cause me to fear Wherefore if either through fear I forget or through the many wants and imperfections which I have I fail to perform that duty which is required I do most humbly crave pardon of her Majesty and beseech your Lordships to bear with me The great Princely Care which her Highness now hath An. 1597. as heretofore she hath ever had to preserve her Kingdoms in Peace and safe from all forreign Attempts hath caused her at this present to assemble this honourable and great Council of her Realm to advise of the best and most needful means whereby to continue this her peaceable and happy Government and to withstand the malice of her mighty and implacable Enemy which hitherto by the space of many years through her provident and Princely wisdom hath been performed to the great and inestimable benefit of her Subjects as that the simplest amongst them could not but see and the wisest but admire their happiness therein the whole Realm enjoying Peace in all security when our Neighbour-Countries have been torn in pieces and tormented with cruel and bloody Wars This her Majesty is pleased to ascribe to the mighty power and infinite mercy of the Almighty And therefore it shall well become us all most thank-fully upon the knees of our hearts to acknowledge no less unto his holy Name who of his infinite goodness still preserve her Highness and send her many years more over us in all happiness to reign In this her blessed Government her Highness chief care and regard of all hath been of the honour and service of the Almighty God that true Religion might be planted and entertained in the hearts of her People through all the parts of her Realms and as well in that behalf as for the peace and benefit of her Subjects she hath from time to time established many good Laws to meet with the Disorders and to punish the offences of wicked and ungodly men that continuing in their bad ways they may not be hardened and go forward in their wickedness for Mora in peccato dat incrementum sceleri And whereas the number of the Laws already made are very great some also of them being obsolete andworn out of use others idle and vain serving to no purpose some again over-heavy and too severe for the offence others too loose and slack for the faults they are to punish and many of them so full of difficulties to be understood that they cause many controversies and much trouble amongst the Subjects You are to enter into a due consideration of the said Laws and where you finde superfluity to prune and cut off where defect to supply and were ambiguity to explain that they be not burthen-some but profitable to the Common-wealth Which being a service of importance and very needful to be required yet as nothing is to be regarded if due means be not had to withstand the malice and force of those professed Enemies which seeks the destruction of the whole State This before all and above all is to be thought of and with most endeavour and care to be provided for for in vain are Laws made and to little purpose will they serve be they never so good if such prevail as go about to make a Conquest of the Kingdom and destruction of the People Wars heretofore were wont to be made either out of Ambition to enlarge Deminions or out of Revenge to requite Injuries but this against us is not so In this the holy Religion of God is sought to be rooted out the whole Realm to be subdued and the precious life of her excellent Majesty to be taken away which hitherto by the powerful hand and great goodness of the Almighty have been preserved maugre the Devil the Pope the Spanish Tyrant and all the misohievous designes of all her Enemies Wherefore it is high time that this be looked into and that no way be left unsought nor means unused that may serve for defence thereof Her Majesty hath not spared to disburse a mass of Treasure and to sell her Land for the maintenance of her Armies by Sea and Land whereby with such small helps as from her Subjects hath been yielded she hath defended and kept safe her Dominions from all such forcible attempts as have been made which

preserve us Bless our Consultations and Councels bless the Thoughts of our Hearts bless the Words of our Lips let our Meditations be acceptable in thy sight Let all be directed to the advancement of thy Glory the upholding of thy true Worship the safely of thy blessed Servant and Anointed Queen our dear and dread Soveraign and to the continuance of the Peace and good of this Land Let all prosper that love Thee confound the Councel of the Wicked break their Jaws in their Mouths that speak against thy Truth or have evil will against Her whom in thy great Mercy thou hast set over us multiply and increase her days add age after age in all peace and happiness unto her Years make her a long Nursing Mother unto thy Church a Comfort to thy People a Terror to thine and her Enemies Bless her Armies both at home and abroad bless her going out and her coming in bow down the Backs of all that rise against her continue thy Truth Grace Mercy and Peace amongst us whilst the Sun indureth And we will Offer unto Thee O Lord our God the Sacrifice of Prayer and Thanksgiving we will Praise Thee with joyful Lips our Hearts shall rejoyce in Thee we will sing of thy Salvation all the Days of our Lives and always say Thine is the Kingdom all Power and Glory for ever and ever Amen Munday November A Bill against Ale-Houses c. 2d The House sate and an Act was Read against Excess in Inns Victualling-Houses and Ale-Houses By the preclose of which every Ale-House-Keeper or Inn-Keeper was required to Observe certain Rules or to Forfeit sive Pound An Act for the Breeding of Horses for Service A Bill for breeding of Horses c. and for the avoiding of the stealing of them was put in by the Lord Chief Justice Popham Sir Edward Hobby Sir Edw. Hobby's Speech for Abridgment of Laws Penall made a Speech for the Abridging of the multiplicity of Penal Laws which he said Were the Thornes that did prick but did yield no Fruit and that they being not looked unto it bred in us an alteration of Manners and therefore the Proverb must needs be fulfilled Morum mutatio mutationem legum requirit times are not as they have been and therefore the necessity of the times requires a necessity of the Alteration of Laws and commending the proceedings of former Ages he concluded with a desire of a Commitment Which speech Seconded by Mr. Serjeant Harris was seconded by Mr. Serjeant Harris who said That Anno 27. of the Queen the like motion had been made and that then by reason of the shortness of the time and sudden ending of the Parliament nothing was done therein notwithstanding he said this motion being now so happily made in the beginning of the Parliament he thought it fit for his part to deserve a Commitment He was Seconded again Then by Mr. Wiseman by Mr. Wiseman of Lincolns-Inn who was of the same mind and said That divers particular Laws of his knowledge were now both needless to be performed as also dangerous to the Subjects by reason of the Penalties So a Commitment was granted divers Committees assigned and Fryday in the Afternoon at two of the Clock in the Exchequer-Chamber appointed for that Purpose The Act was Read for Explanation of Statutes for Leases made by Arch-Bishops and Bishops Mr. Speaker shewed to the House That some particular Members found themselves aggrieved That the antient Order for Putting off their Spur before they came into the Parliament-House was not observed which he prayed might be done others would have Boots and Rapiers taken away but nothing was done therein Tuesday November 3. The Act to preserve the Breed of Horses and against the Stealing of them was Read And a motion was made therein by Sir George Moore who said That he feared the Bill would not pass in that two Vouchers by this Bill must be where by a former Statute there is to be but one and that very hardly observed And besides the Law may be defrauded because a poor Man must sell a Horse and so be voucher after and then not able to answer the value So the Bill was Committed and the Committees appointed to meet in the Exchequer-Chamber to Morrow in the Afternoon The Act to restrain the Excess and Abuse used in Victualling-Houses Mr. Johnson moves for Corporal punishment against the Alehouse-Keepers and Mr. Johnson moved that bodily punishment might be inflicted on Alehouse-Keepers that should be offenders and also Provision made therein to restrain Resort to Alehouses In the same Bill Sir George Moore made a Speech against Drunkenness and desired some special Provision might be made against it For although there were Laws already against it yet they did not reach grievous enough to the offence in that kind now Committed And therefore we must not be like Spiders that always keep their old and the same Webs so allowing the same Laws which must alter with the times and touching the Authority that is given to the Justices of Assize and Justices of the Peace by this Bill That they shall assign Inns and Inn-Keepers I think that inconvenient for an Inn is a Mans Inheritance and they are set at great rates and therefore not to be taken away from any particular Man Another wish'd that there might be a reformation of Ale which is now made so strong that he offered to affirm it upon Oath that it is commonly sold for a Groat a Quart It is as strong as Wine and will Burn like Sack Mr. Glascock of Grays-Inn moved to the House and said Glascock against the suppressing of Alehouses for very good Reasons Mr. Speaker I will only liken this Bill to the Suppression of Stews and Bawdy-Houses in old time That where then all Whores and Bawds were together in one House now being suppressed every Mans House is a Bawdy-House so if you take away Alehouses and hinder them from being Drunk there it will be a ready way to make every Man Drunk at his own House at home Mr. Leigh stood up and moved Mr. Speaker that some of the House were desirous to know what the Lord Keepers Speech was Mr. Leigh 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 the Lord Keepers Speech 〈◊〉 in the Upper-House of Parliament when the Burgesses were kept out And also he complained of a Gentleman Usher that said through the Door of the Upper-House That if they were not quiet they should be set in the Stocks To which Mr. Controuler made answer That he would intreat Mr. Secretary Cicil who was there in regard he had promised to procure them the understanding of the Lord Keepers Speech to deliver the Effect thereof And also he desired the House that for any word spoken to any particular Member of this House by the Usher he would undertake particular satisfaction should be made So after a pause a while Mr. Secretary stood up and spake to to this Effect Secretary Cicil