House of Commons Journal Volume 1: 10 May 1604 (2nd scribe)

Jovis, 10o Die Maii, 1604

Navy, &c.

THE Bill for the better Execution of former Laws for Maintenance of the Navy, and to set Mariners more plentifully on work, than of late Time they have been, in Voyages of Fishing: - The second Reading, and committed to Sir Geo. Moore, Sir Edw. Grevill, Burgesses of Port Towns, the Barons of the Ports, Sir Rob. Knolles, Sir John Thynne, Burgesses of Coventrie, Burgesses of York, Sir Jo. Savill, Sir Edw. Hext, Sir Rob. Wroth, Sir Jo. Heigham, Mr. Staughton, Mr. Fra. Moore, Sir Edw. Mountague, the Knights of Devon and Cornwall, Burgesses Cambridge: - Wednesday, Chequer Court.

Tanners, &c.

Tanners, and Leather: - This Afternoon, in the Chequer Chamber.

Brewers.

Brewers : - The same Place.

Tythes.

The Bill for Explanation, and more due Execution, of the Decree, made by Virtue of an Act, made 37 H. VIII. for Tythes in London : - Second Reading, and committed to Mr. D. James, Mr. Gowre, Mr. Wyseman, Sir Geor. Moore, Sir Rob. Wingfield, Sir Jo. Heigham, Sir Fr. Hastings, Sir H. Billingsley, Mr. Recorder of London, Mr. Fuller, Sir Rob. Wroth, Sir Fr. Knolles, Mr. Toby Matthewe, Sir Fr. Barrington, Mr. Johnson, Mr. D. Steward, Mr. Alford, Sir Jo. Thynne, Sir Nich. Saunders, Mr. Hyde, Sir Edw. Lewknor, Sir Edw. Mountague, Mr. Ryvers: - Tuesday Chequer Chamber.

Sail Cloths.

The Bill for the Making of Sail Cloths, called Powle Davies, secondly read, and committed to Sir Tho. Hobby, Sir Jo. Heigham, Mr. Dannett, the Burgesses of Port Towns, Sir Edw. Grevill, Sir Jo. Thynne, Sir Jo. Trevor, Sir Rob. Nappier, Mr. Hoskins. - Wednesday, Chequer Chamber.

False Dice,&c.

The Bill for Making, Selling, and Uttering, of false Dice brought in by Mr. Martin, from the Committee, with Amendments; and, upon the Question, dashed.

Shooting.

The Bill against Shooting in Guns, Killing of Fesants and Partridges, &c. brought in from the Committee, with Amendments; and upon much Dispute, by Sir John Harper, Mr. Baxter, Sir Geo. Moore, Sir James Barrington, Sir Edw. Mountague, ordered to be ingrossed.

Privilege.

A Subpoena served upon Sir Oliver St. John, by one .. . - The Serjeant to be sent for Edieock: - Upon the Question, Resolved.

Subpoena upon Sir Edw. Denny, by one Helyer. The Serjeant to be sent for him.

Subpoena upon Mr. Stone, by Wm. Butcher, Clerk of the Ordnance in Ireland, and Rachell, his Wife.

Subpoena upon Sir Edw. Herbert, by one Hughes. - Not to be sent for, till the Subpoena come in, and be seen; and then to be sent for. The Serjeant to be sent for all the rest.

Subpoena upon Sir John Hungerford, by one Gill. -

To be sent for also.

Privilege - Arrest of a Member.

Sir Tho. Sherleye's Cause. -

Mr. Fra. Moore: - That a new Bill may be drawn; or, that my Lord Chancellor may de bene esse deliver him.

Mr. Solicitor, of the same Opinion, for a new Bill.

Mr. Johnson: - Amendment in the Bill of Executions, by Message to the Lords.

The Bill for new Executions, &c. to be viewed by some Committees, after it had passed the House, but not sent up.

A new Bill to secure Sympson's Debt, and save harmless the Warden of the Fleet, in Sir Tho. Shirleye's Case, brought in by Sir Hen. Mountague, Recorder of London, and first read.

Amended, upon the first Reading : Words, " to the End," put in.

The second Reading. - Ordered to be ingrossed, upon the Question. -

The former Bill was passed both Houses, and found faulty; and therefore thought fit to pass this new Bill. -

Thrice read; and passed, upon the Question; and sent up to the Lords presently.

Message from the King.

Sir Roger Aston bringeth a Message from the King ; That he will give verbum Principis, to give his Royal Assent, at the End of the Parliament.

Privilege - Warden of the Fleete, &c.

Sir John Harper moveth, that Mr. Johnson, for conferring with the Warden, being close Prisoner, might be called in question.

Sir John Harrington . - That the Warden of the Fleet may be sent for again.

A Motion, to seize the Profits of the Fleet.

The Lieutenant of the Tower to render a Reason at the Bar, why he did not execute the Commandments of the House, for committing the Warden close Prisoner.

Mr. Laughton, - for a Writ De homine replegiando. -

It doth not lie upon an Execution.

A Letter, from the Warden of the Fleet's Wife, read in Court.

The Warden of the Fleet to be commanded to close Prison.

Quest. That the Lieutenant of the Tower be sent for, and all such, as had the Warden in Custody, brought with him, to render a Reason, why he did not keep him close Prisoner; and an Order to be conceived, to this Purpose : - Resolved, upon the Question.

Conference.

Mr. Attorney-general, Mr. D. Stanhope, and Mr. D. Swale, bring a Message from the Lords; That Report hath been made, touching a Frame of a Bill for the authorizing, &c. Their Lordships do find an Impossibility, that the Act can be, until Commissioners be named. They will name Fourteen Lords; expect a proportionable Number from us, according to the Custom: Desire a Conference with the great Committee; there they will bring the Names ; and, that our Committees may also have Authority to bring the Names to the Committee. The Time, and Place, they leave to us. - The Number may be presently made known by them unto the Lords.

The Messengers being removed;

Sir Rob. Wingfield: - To descend into Consideration of the several Qualities of Men.

Sir Edw. Hobby: - A Committee, to consider of Sir Fr. Bacon's Report, and the Committees.

1. Quest. Whether now agree upon the Number, or hereafter: Resolved, upon the Question, That presently.

The Number to be Thirty: - Resolved, upon the Question.

The Return, by some Messengers of our own presently.

Bills sent up.

Eight Bills sent up by Sir Fr. Hastings. -

D. of Somerset's Estate,

Mr. Seymors Cause, - till Saturday. - Put off till Monday, on Saturday.

Bills sent to Lords.

1. The Bill to take away Clergy from Cattle and Sheep Stealers.

2. The Bill concerning the Taking of Apprentices.

3. The Bill for rating of Labourers Wages, &c.

4. The Bill to restrain all Persons from Marriage, until their former Wives, and former Husbands, be dead.

5. An Act for the quiet Establishing and Settling of the Lands and Possessions, late of Sir George Rodney, Knight, deceased.

6. An Act for the Relief of Plaintiffs in Writs of Execution, where the Defendants in such Writs have been arrested, and set at Liberty by the Parliament.

7. The Wyndsor Bill, &c.