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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

in the high places of the West-Saxons we read of a Parliament holden and since the Conquest they have been holden by all your Royal Predecessors Kings of England and Queens of England In the times of the West-Saxons a Parliament was held by the Noble Queen Ina by these words I Ina Queen of the West-Saxons The Antiquity of Parliaments in this Island have caused all my Fatherhood Aldermen and wise Commons with the Godly-men of my Kingdome to consult of weighty matters c. Which words do plainly shew the parts of this Court still observed to this day For in Queen Ina is Your Majesties most Royal Person represented The Fatherhood in antient time were those whom we call Bishops and still we call them Reverend Fathers an antient and free part of our State By Aldermen was meant your Noblemen for so honourable was the word Alderman in antient time that the Nobility only were called Aldermen By wisest Commons is signified your Knights and Burgesses and so is your Majesties Writ De discretioribus magis sufficientibus By Godliest men is meant your Convocation-house it consisteth of such as are devoted to Religion and as godliest men do consult of weightiest matters so is your Highness Writ at this day Pro quibusdam arduis urgentissimis negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Ecclesiae tangentibus Your Highness Wisdome and exceeding Judgment with all careful Providence needed not our Councels yet so urgent Causes there were of this Parliament so importunate Considerations as that we may say for we cannot judge if ever Parliament was so Needful as now or ever so Honourable as this If I may be bold to say it I must presume to say that which hath been often said but what is well said cannot be too often spoken This sweet Council of ours I would compare to that sweet Commonwealth of the little Bees Sic enim parvis componere magna solebam The little Bees have but one Governour whom they all serve he is their King Quia latrea habet latiora he is placed in the midst of their habitations ut in tutissima turri they forage abroad sucking honey from every flower to bring to their King Ignavum Fucos pecus à Principibus arcent the Drones they drive out of their Hives non habentes aculeos and whoso assails their King in him immittunt aculeos tamen Rex ipse est sine aculeo Your Majesty is that Princely Governour and Noble Queen whom we all serve being protected under the shadow of your wings we live and wish you may ever sit upon your Throne over us and whosoever shall not say Amen for them we pray ut convertantur nè pereant ut confundantur nè noceant Vnder your happy Government we live upon Honey we suck upon every sweet Flower but where the Bee sucketh Honey there also the Spider draweth Poyson some such there be but such Drones and Dore-Bees we will expel the Hive and serve your Majesty and withstand any Enemy that shall assault You our Lands or Goods Our lives are prostrate at your feet to be commanded yea and thanked be God and honour be to your Majesty for it such is the power and force of your Subjects that of their own strengths they are able to encounter your greatest Enemies and though we be such yet have we a Prince that is Sine aculeo so full of that Clemency is your Majesty I come now to your Laws The Laws we have conferred upon this Session of so honourable a Parliament are of two natures the one such as have life but are ready to die except your Majesty breathe life into them again the other are Laws that never had life but being void of life do come to your Majesty to seek life The first sort are those Laws that had continuance until this Parliament and are now to receive new life or are to die for ever The other that I term capable of life are those which are newly made but have no essence until your Majesty giveth them life Two Laws there are but I must give the honour where it is due for they come from the noble wise Lords of the Vpper House the most honourable and beneficial Laws that could be desired the one a Confirmation of all Letters-Patents from your Majesties most noble Father of all Ecclesiastical Livings which that King of most renowned Memory took from those superstitious Monasteries and Priories and translated them to the erecting of many foundations of Cathedral Churches and Colledges thereby greatly furthering the maintenance of Learning and true Religion The other Law to suppress the obstinant Recusate and the dangerous Sectary both very pernicious to your Royal Government Lastly your most loving and obedient Subjects the Commons of the Lower House most humbly and with dutiful thanks stand bound unto your gracious goodness for your general and large Pardon granted unto them wherein many great Offences are pardoned but it extendeth onely to Offences done before the Parliament I have many ways since the beginning of this Parliament by ignorance and insufficiency to perform that which I should have done offended your Majesty I most humbly crave to be partaker of your most gracious Pardon The Lord Keeper then received Instructions from the Queen and afterwards replied unto the Speaker The former part of this Speech was an Answer almost verbatim to the Speaker's Oration very excellently and exactly done and those things which followed were to this or the like purpose The Lord Keeper HE said The Lord Keeper replies That her Majesty most graciously did accept of the Service and Devotions of this Parliament commending them that they had employed their time so well and spent it on necessary Affairs save onely that in some things they had spent more time than needed but she perceived some men did it more for their satisfaction than the necessity of the thing deserved She misliked also that such irreverence was shewed towards Privy-Counsellors who were not to be accounted as common Knights and Burgesses of the House Gently rebukes them for some Miscarriages that are Counsellors but during the Parliament whereas the other are standing Counsellors and for their wisdom and great service are called to the Council of State Then he said That the Queens Majesty had heard that some men in the case of great necessity and grant of Aid had seemed to regard their Country and made their necessity more than it was forgetting the urgent necessity of the time and dangers that were now eminent That her Majesty would not have the People feared with Reports of great dangers Gives them Cautions but rather to be encouraged with boldness against the Enemies of the State And therefore that she straightly charged and commanded that the mustred Companies in every County should be supplied if they were decayed and that their Provisions of Armour and Ammunition should be better than heretofore it hath been used

would be looked into and remembred Wherefore Mr. Speaker I desire some Committees should be appointed of the sufficientest and wisest men in the House to consider thereupon Sir John Wooley to the like effect FIrst saying Sir John Wooley's Speech That upon the cause of the danger the Realm was now in and of the remedy his Speech should consist which he likened to a natural Body which the more the principal Member was in danger the greater means should be used for the preservation thereof Roan being now made Admiral of France by the League should say he was a poor Admiral now but that he doubted not but shortly he should be able to bring such a Navy to Sea as should terrifie the Queen of England Also he shewed how the Princes of the Holy League had conspired the Overthrow of this Realm the Extirpation of Religion and the Confusion of her Majesty and her Royal Subjects And he exhorted the House now the season of the year grows on which called many of the Knights and Burgesses to be in their Countries besides the Sickness being in the Town so that many of that House knew not whether he lodged in a house infected or not that they would seek to dispatch and end the Parliament so soon as might be He also shewed how the Dunkirkers troubled our Fisher-men in small Barques upon the Sea-coasts and so moved that this matter might be committed to some of the sufficientest in the House He also exhorted the House to a speedy agreeing of a Subsidy which considering the dangers we were in and that it was for our own good as also for her Majesties he hoped no good Subject but would most willingly agree to it Also he shewed that the Wars which the King of Spain brought upon this Nation had cost her Majesty a Million of money but this he avouched that where it cost her Majesty one it cost the King of Spain three Sir John Fortescue THey that spake before me spake sufficiently of the Authors of ours Troubles and of the great danger which is now eminent upon us insomuch that it is come to this point now Non utrum imperare sed utrum vivere I will speak of nothing but that which concerns my Calling Her Majesty not onely being careful for the preservation of her own Realm but of her Neighbours also she hath not onely defended her own Subjects from being invaded but also hath aided Strangers which wanted money with whom otherwise it would have gone very ill by this time and also with our selves insomuch that the burthen of four Kingdoms hath rested upon her Majesty and maintained with her Purse England France Ireland and Scotland For how could the French King at his first coming to the Crown have held out against those Leaguers had not her Majesty assisted him with her men and money which hath cost her Majesty above 100000 l. for 't is well known the French King had not been able to withstand the Duke of Parma's coming into France had it not been for our English-men and money As for the Low Countries it stood her Majesty yearly ever since she undertook the defence of them in 150000 l. all which her Majesty bestowed for the good of this Realm to free us from War at home Besides when her Majesty came to the Crown she found it four Millions indebted her Navy when she came to view it she found it greatly decayed Yet all this she hath discharged and thanks be to God she is nothing indebted And now she is able to match any Prince in Europe which the Spaniards found when they came to invade us yea she hath with her Ships compassed the whole world whereby this Land is made famous through all Nations She did finde her Navy furnished onely with Iron Pieces but she hath furnished it with Artillery of Brass so that one of her Ships is not a Subjects but rather a petty Princes wealth As for her own private Expences they have been little in Building she hath consumed little or nothing and for her Apparel it is Royal and Princely becoming her Calling but not sumptuous or excessive the Charges of her house small yea never less in any Kings time and shortly by Gods grace she will free her Subjects from that trouble which hath come by the means of Purveyors Wherefore she trusteth that every good Subject will assist her Majesty with his Purse seeing it concerns his own good and the preservation of his estate for before any of us would lose the least member of his body we would bestow a great deal and stick for no cost or charges how much more ought we in this politick body whereof not onely a member but the whole body is in jeopardy if we do not make haste to the preservation of it And for these Subsidies which are granted to her Majesty now-a-days they are less by half than they were in the time of Henry the Eighth Now although her Majesty hath borrowed some money of her Subjects besides her Subsidies yet hath she truely repaid every one fully He desired the matter might be put to a Committee to consider of Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Speaker THat which these honourable Personages have spoken of their Experience Sir Francis Bacon's Speech may it please you to give me leave likewise to deliver of my common knowledge The cause of assembling all Parliaments hath been hitherto for Laws or Moneys the one being the sinews of Peace the other of War To the one I am not privy but the other I should know I did take great contentment in her Majesties Speech the other day delivered by the Lord Keeper how that it was a thing not to be done suddenly or at one Parliament nor scarce a year would suffice to purge the Statute-book nor lessen it the Volume of Laws being so many in number that neither common people can half practise them nor the Lawyers sufficiently understand them than the which nothing would tend more to the praise of her Majesty The Romans they appointed ten men who were to correct or recall all former Laws and to set forth those twelve Tables so much of all men commended The Athenians likewise appointed six to that purpose And Lewis the the ninth King of France did the like in reforming his Laws On Tuesday Feb. 27. a Bill was read for transporting of Cloath the first time Mr. Morris Atturney of the Court of Wards MY Religion towards God Mr. Morris's Speech my Allegiance to her Majesty the many Oaths that I have taken for the maintaining of her Supremacy causeth me to offer to your considerations matters concerning the sacred Majesty of God the Prerogative and Supremacy of her Majesty the Priviledges of the Laws and the Liberties of us all After some touch upon the usage of Ecclesiastical Discipline by the Prelates he laid down these three things Lawless Inquisition injurious Subscription and binding Absolution to which he spake severally shewing the

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

malum The malice of our Arch-enemy the Devil though it was always great yet never greater than now and that Dolus and Malum being crept in so far amongst men it was necessary that sharp Ordinances should be provided to prevent them and all care to be used for her Majesties preservation Now am I to make unto your Majesty three Petitions in the names of your Commons First That liberty of Speech and freedom from Arrests according to the ancient custom of Parliament be granted to your Subjects That we may have access to your Royal Person to present those things which shall be considered of amongst us And lastly That your Majesty will give us your Royal Assent to the things that are agreed upon And for my self I humbly beseech your Majesty if any speech shall fall from me or Behaviour found in me not decent and unsit That it may not be imputed blame upon the House but laid upon me and pardoned in me To this Speech the Lord Keeper having received new Instructions from the Queen he replied HE commended the Speaker greatly for his Speech Lord Keeper's Reply and he added some Examples for the Kings Supremacy in Henry the second 's time and Kings before the Conquest As for the Deliverance we received from our Enemies and the Peace we enjoyed he said the Queen would have the praise of all those to be attributed to God onely To the Commendations given to her self she said Well might we have a wiser Prince but never should they have one that more regarded them and in Justice would carry an evener stroke without acceptation of Persons and such a Princess she wished they might always have Yo your three Demands the Queen answereth Liberty of Speech is granted you but how far this is to be thought on there be two things of most necessity and those two do most harm which are Wit and Speech the one exercised in Invention the other is uttering things invented Priviledge of Speech is granted A good caution about liberty of speaking in the House but you must know what Priviledge you have not to speak every one what he listeth or what cometh in his brain to utter but your Priviledge is to say Yea or No. Wherefore Mr. Speaker her Majesties pleasure is That if you perceive any idle heads which will not stick to hazard their own Estates which will meddle with reforming of the Church and transforming of the Common-wealth and do exhibit any Bills to such purpose That you receive them not until they be viewed and considered of by those whom it is fitter should consider of such things and can better judge of them To your Persons all Priviledge is granted As also about priviledge of their persons with this Caveat That under colour of this Priviledge no mans ill doings or not performing of duties be cover'd and protected The last free Access is also granted to her Majesties Person so that it be upon urgent and weighty Causes and at times convenient and when her Majesty may be at leisure from other important Causes of the Realm After this Speech was ended the Lord Keeper continued the Parliament in manner and form following Dominus Custos Magni Sigill ex mandat Dominae Reginae continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Sabbati prox futur This day was returned the Proxie of John Bishop of Carlisle by which he constituted John Archbishop of Canterbury John Bishop of London and Matthew Bishop of Durham his Proctors quod nota On Saturday Feb. 24. a Bill for restraining and punishing vagrant and seditious persons who under fained pretence of Conscience and Religion corrupt and seduce the Queens Subjects prima vice lect Eodem die Returnat est Breve quod Richardus Wigorn. Episcopus praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur idem Episcopus ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento locum admissus est salvo cuiquam jure suo Dominus Custos magni Sigill continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae hora nona This day was returned the Proxie of John Archbishop of York by which he constituted onely one Proctor viz. John Archbishop of Canterbury quod nota Feb. 25. Sunday On Munday Feb. 26. Returnatum est Breve quo Edwardum Dom. Cromwel praesenti Parliamento interesse summonebatur qui admissus est ad suum praeheminenciae sedendi in Parliamento locum salvo jure alienae The Writ returned whereby Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury was summoned The several Writs returned whereby George Bishop of Landaff William Lord Compton and Edward Earl of Worcester were summoned It seemeth by the Journal-book that nothing else was done this day but the Parliament continued in usual form As on Thursday the 22th of February and on Saturday the 24th day of the same month two extraordinary Proxies were returned from two Spiritual Lords the first constituting three Proctors and the other but one for the most ordinary use of the Bishops is to constitute two Proctors So also on the 27th of February being Tuesday though the Lords did not sit yet was one unusual Proxie returned from another Spiritual Lord who constituted but one Proctor to give his voice in Parliament in his absence whereas it is before often observed no Temporal Lord nominateth usually above one Proctor and no Spiritual Lord fewer than two This said Proxie is thus entered in the Journal-book of the 35 year of the Queen at the beginning of it 27º Februarii introductae sunt Littera Procuratoriae Thomae Wintoniensis Episcopi in quibus Procuratorem suum constituit Johannem Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem On Wednesday Feb. 28. two several Writs were returned whereby John Bishop of Bath and Wells and Matthew Bishop of Durham were summoned to come to this Parliament who accordingly took their places Also this morning two Bills had each of them one reading Nota That because the dayly continuing of the Parliament in these words Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum c. being but matter of course is omitted in all the Journal afterwards unless something extraordinary and unusual doth happen in respect of the Person time or manner On Thursday March 1. March 1. two Bills were each of them once read On Saturday March 3. to which day the Parliament had on Thursday been continued four Bills had each of them one reading March 4. Sunday On Munday March 5. three Bills were read and the second upon the second reading was committed to be ingrossed Nota This day also was returned a Proxie for a Temporal Lord by which he constituted two Proctors which because it is extraordinary and unusual I desired to have it inserted and the rather because of eight other Temporal Lords none of them constituted above one Proctor according to the ordinary practice both in these times and since The said Proxie before mentioned is thus entered in the beginning of the original Journal-book of this Upper House of Parliament Quint. Marcii

to meet on Tuesday in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-Chamber A Bill against Transportation of Monies was brought in On which Mr. Davis made a long Speech The Effect whereof was A Bill against Transporting of Coyn. That by Transportation of Money the Realm is Impoverished for that Twenty Shillings English is Twenty Three Shillings Flemish and as much good Silver in the first as the last And so he said They gained Three Pence in every Pound and the like he said was in Commodities Mr. Secretary Cecil spake Secretary Cecil touching the Subsidy touching the Subsidy as Followeth VVhen it was the good Pleasure of the House to give Order to the Committees to consider the common danger of the Realm in which not only every Member of this House but every Man in the Kingdom is Interessed It liked the Committees after their resolution to choose one amongst all to give an Account of their Proceedings and that is my self I do know it were the safest way for a mans memory to deliver the last Resolution Reports to the whole House what was Cone at the Committee without any precedent Argument for rare is the Assembly in which there is not some variety of Opinions I need not recite the Form of the Committee by reason of so good Attendance being little inferior to our Assembly at this present yet if it be true that Forma doth dare essentiam it will be somewhat necessary for me to deliver the manner of our Proceeding and the Circumstance rather than hazard the Interpretation of such a Resolution The Day was Saturday last the Place this House the Time about four houres And I am of Opinion That if we had all agreed upon the manner as we did speedily upon the matter all had been dispatched in an hour It seemed by the ready Consent of the Committee That they came not one to look on another like Sheep one to accompany another but the Matter was Debated by some and at last Consented unto by all Our Contention bred Difference our Difference cause of Argument both how to ease the State and make this Subsidy less burthensome which shall be recited Some were of Opinion that the Three Pound Men should be spared because it was to be consider'd they had but small portions and they did give almost Secundum sanguinem Others were of Opinion that the Four Pound men should give double and the rest upward should be higher Cessed Others vvere of other Opinions Again it was moved Whether this Subsidy should go in the name of a Benevolence or Contribution Or whether in the Name of a Fourth Subsidy but vvas said to be subject to great Mistaking because it vvould be said to be a great Innovation But at last most Voices Resolved It should have the old Name of a Subsidy because Subsidium and Auxilium are all one The most Voices Concluded There should be no Exception of the Three Pound men because according to their Rate some vvere Assessed under value besides separation might breed Emulation Suspition of Partiality and Confusion The Time vvas Resolved upon and that in respect of Expedition to be by the First of February and the vvhole Realm when each man comes into his Country will be better satisfied when they shall know vve have spared no man nor made no Distinction It vvas said by a Member of this House Sir Francis Hastings That he knew some poor People Pawn their Pots and Pans to pay the Subsidy It may be you dwell vvhere you see and hear I dwell where I hear and believe And this I know That neither Pots nor Pans nor Dish nor Spoon should be spared when Danger is at our Elbowes But he that spake this in my Conscience spake not to hinder the Subsidy or the greatness of our Guift but to shew the Poverty of some Assessed and by sparing others But by no means I would have the Three Pound men Exempted because I would have the King of Spain know how willing we are to sell all in Defence of Gods Religion our Prince and Country I have read when Hannibal resolved to sack Rome he dwelt in the Cities Adjoyning and never feared or doubted of his Enterprize until word was brought him That the Maidens Ladies and VVidows of Rome sold their Ear-rings Jewels and all their Necessaries to maintain War against him I do take my self in Duty bound to acquaint this House with the Modesty of the Committee at the Proposition That when first this House never stuck to Commit they never stuck in understanding the Reasons to grant it And I do perswade my self that the Bonus Genius of this House did not wish a more Resolved Unity than we had Unity in Resolution And of this Great Committee it may be said De Majoribus Principes Consultant De minoribus omnes Thus by your Commandments I have undergone this Charge and will be ready to do the like Duty whensoever you shall command me Then after Consultation of the great Occasions The Subsidy put to the Question and voted without any Opposition it was put to the Question Whether the double Tenths and Fifteens should be Paid by the First of February and the Subsidy by the last of February viz. for this Fourth Subsidy before the Third began And that the First Payment of the First Three Subsidies should be brought in by the Tenth of June viz. half a Subsidy And all said Yea and not one No. Then was a Motion made by Sir Robert Wroth Sir Robert Wroth's Proposition rejected That this new Subsidy might be drawn in a Bill by it self to which should be Annexed A preamble of the great Necessity the willingness of the Subject and that it might be no Precedent But that could not be yeilded unto Then Mr. Speaker asked the House If they would appoint Committees to draw the Bill So they appointed the Queens Council and all the Serjeants at Law of the House and no more Mr. Francis Moore Moved Mr. Francis Moores Motion That that which was done might be compleatly done and the Subsidy gathered by Commission and not by the old Roll for Peradventure some were dead others fallen to Poverty others Richer and so ought to be enhaunced c. And withal he said The granting of the Subsidy seemed to be the Alpha and Omega of this Parliament Mr. Wingfeild Moved the House That seeing the Subsidy was granted and they yet had done nothing It would please her Majesty not to Dissolve the Parliament until some Acts were passed Mr. Wingfeild's Motion Mr. Serjeant Harris said Serjeant Harris That he that spake Intempestivè spake Injocundè And the Motion of the Gentleman that last spake is not now to be Discussed We are to speak touching the Subsidy Mr. Francis Bacon after the Repetition of the Sum of what was done Yesterday Mr. Bacon That the Three Pound men might not be excluded he concludes it was Dulcis tractus pari Jugo And therefore