House of Commons Journal Volume 1: 22 February 1576

Mercurii, vicesimo secundo Februarii, 1575

Haberdashers.

1. The Bill for the Haberdashers. - The first Reading.

Poor.

1. nova. The Bill for setting the Poor on Work, and for Avoiding of Idleness - The first Reading.

1. Proviso for Sowthwark to the same Bill, once read.

Isley's Debts.

3. The Bill for the true Payment of the Debts of Willm. Isley Esquire. - The third Reading. - Jud'm.

Privilege.

Report was made by Mr. Attorney of the Duchy, upon the Committee for the Delivery of Mr. Hall's Man, that the said Committees found no Precedent for setting at large by the Mace any Person in Arrest; but only by Writ; and that, by divers Precedents of Record, perused by the said Committees, it appeareth, that every Knight, Citizen, and Burgess of this House, which doth require Privilege, hath used in that Case to take a corporal Oath before the Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, for the Time being, that the Party for whom such Writ is prayed, came up with him, and was his Servant at the Time of the Arrest made. And thereupon Mr. Hall was moved by this House, that he should repair to the Lord Keeper, and make Oath in Form aforesaid; and then to proceed to the Taking of a Warrant for a Writ of Privilege for his said Servant; according to the said Report of the said former Precedents.

Sir Henry Knyvett, Mr. Serjeant Lovelace.

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