June 1736, 21-30
DIE Martis, 21o Junii.
REX.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
Fredericus Princeps Walliæ.
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Epus. Bath. & Wells.
Epus. Roffen.
Epus. Cicestriens.
Epus. Meneven.
Epus. Norwic. |
Ds. Hardwicke, Cancellarius.
Comes Wilmington, Præses.
Dux Dorset, Senescallus.
Dux Richmond.
Dux Bolton.
Dux Devon.
Dux Montagu.
Dux Kent.
Dux Ancaster & Kesteven, Magnus Camerarius Angl.
Dux Newcastle.
Comes Pembroke.
Comes Westmorland.
Comes Winchilsea & Nott.
Comes Chesterfield.
Comes Cardigan.
Comes Anglesey.
Comes Scarbrough.
Comes Coventry.
Comes Cholmondeley.
Comes Craufurd.
Comes Morton.
Comes (fn. 1) Loudoun.
Comes Finlater.
Comes Selkirk.
Comes Breadalbane.
Comes Dunmore.
Comes Ilay.
Comes Rockingham.
Comes Halifax.
Comes Cowper.
Comes Pomfret.
2. Comes Effingham.
1. Comes Fitzwalter.
Viscount Fauconberg.
Viscount Tadcaster.
Viscount Falmouth.
Viscount Torrington. |
Ds. Harrington, Unus Primariorum Secretariorum.
Ds. Delawarr.
Ds. North & Guilford.
Ds. Clifton.
Ds. Poulet.
Ds. Lynne.
Ds. Carteret.
Ds. Haversham.
Ds. Gower.
Ds. Montjoy.
Ds. Foley.
Ds. Ducie.
Ds. Monson. |
PRAYERS.
The House was adjourned during Pleasure, to robe.
The House was resumed.
The King present:
His Majesty, being seated on the Throne, adorned
with His Crown and Regal Ornaments, and attended
with His Officers of State; the Prince of Wales
(in his Robes) sitting in his Place on His Majesty's
Right Hand; the Lords being also in their Robes;
commanded the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to
let the Commons know, "It is His Majesty's Pleasure,
that they attend Him immediately, in this House."
Who being come, with their Speaker; he, after a
Speech to His Majesty in relation to the Money Bills
to be passed and other Matters, delivered the said Bills
to the Clerk; who brought them to the Table; where
the Clerk of the Crown read the Titles of those and
the other Bills ready for the Royal Assent, as follow:
Bills passed.
"1. An Act for enabling His Majesty to settle a Revenue, for supporting the Dignity of her Royal Highness the Princess, in case she shall survive his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales; and for exempting
such Yearly Sum or Sums of Money as His Majesty
hath granted, or shall grant, to his said Royal Highness, from the Payment of Fees, Taxes, and other
Charges whatsoever; and for enabling his said Royal
Highness to make Leases of Lands, Parcel of the
Dutchy of Cornwall, or annexed to the same."
"2. An Act for repealing the present Duty on
Sweets, and for granting a less Duty thereupon; and
for explaining and enforcing the Execution of an Act
passed in the Ninth Year of His present Majesty's
Reign, intituled, "An Act for laying a Duty upon
the Retailers of Spirituous Liquors, and for licensing
the Retailers thereof;" and for appropriating the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament; and for
making forth Duplicates of Exehequer Bills, Lottery
Tickets, and Orders, lost, burnt, or otherwise destroyed."
"3. An Act for laying a Duty upon Apples imported from Foreign Parts; and for continuing an
Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His
present Majesty, for granting an Allowance upon the
Exportation of British-made Gunpowder; and for
taking off the Drawback upon Exportation of Foreign
Paper; and for the better securing the Payment of
the Bounty on the Exportation of British-made Sail
Cloth; and for giving further Time for the Payment
of Duties omitted to be paid for the Indentures and
Contracts of Clerks and Apprentices."
"4. An Act for repealing the Duties payable ad
Valorem upon Foreign Oysters imported into this
Kingdom; and for laying another Duty thereon."
To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced,
severally, in these Words; (videlicet,)
"Le Roy remercie ses bons Sujets, accepte
leur Benevolence, et ainsi le veult."
"5. An Act for indemnifying Persons who have
omitted to qualify themselves for Offices, or to take
the Oaths required, within the Time limited by Law;
and for allowing further Time for those Purposes."
"6. An Act for Relief of Insolvent Debtors."
"7. An Act to explain and amend so much of an Act
made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Queen
Anne, intituled, "An Act for reducing the Laws
relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, sturdy Beggars, and
Vagrants, into One Act of Parliament; and for the
more effectual punishing such Rogues, Vagabonds,
sturdy Beggars, and Vagrants, and sending them
whither they ought to be sent," as relates to common
Players of Interludes."
"8. An Act for the more effectual preventing the
unlawful playing of Interludes within the Precincts
of the Two Universities, in that Part of Great Britain
called England, and the Places adjacent; and for explaining and amending so much of an Act passed in
the last Session of Parliament, intituled, "An Act
for laying a Duty upon the Retailers of Spirituous
Liquors, and for licensing the Retailers thereof," as
may affect the Privilege of the said Universities, with
respect to licensing Taverns and all other Public
Houses within the Precincts of the same."
"9. An Act to disable Alexander Wilson Esquire from
taking, holding, or enjoying, any Office or Place of
Magistracy, in the City of Edinburgh, or elsewhere in
Great Britain; and for imposing a Fine upon the
Corporation of the said City."
"10. An Act for the more effectual bringing to Justice any Persons concerned in the barbarous Murder
of Captain John Porteous, and punishing such as shall
knowingly conceal any of the said Offenders."
"11. An Act for continuing an Act for the more
effectual punishing wicked and evil-disposed Persons
going armed and disguised, and doing Injuries and
Violences to the Persons and Properties of His Majesty's Subjects, and for the more speedy bringing the
Offenders to Justice; and for continuing Two Clauses,
to prevent the cutting or breaking down the Bank of
any River or Sea Bank, and to prevent the malicious
cutting of Hop-binds, contained in an Act passed in
the Sixth Year of His present Majesty's Reign; and
for the more effectual Punishment of Persons removing any Materials used for securing Marsh or Sea
Walls or Banks; and of Persons maliciously setting on
Fire any Mine, Pit, or Delph, of Coal, or Cannel
Coal; and of Persons unlawfully hunting, or taking
any Red or Fallow Deer, in Forests or Chases; or
beating or wounding Keepers or other Officers in
Forests, Chases, or Parks; and for more effectually
securing the Breed of Wild Fowl."
"12. An Act for collecting, at the Port of Leghorn,
certain small Sums of Money, to which the Merchants
trading there have usually contributed, for the Relief
of shipwrecked Mariners, Captives, and other distressed Persons, His Majesty's Subjects; and for other
charitable and public Uses."
"13. An Act for regulating the Company of Watermen, Wherrymen, and Lightermen, rowing on the
River Thames, between Gravesend, in the County of
Kent, and Windsor, in the County of Berks."
"14. An Act for explaining and amending an Act
passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act for building a
Bridge cross the River Thames, from The New Palace
Yard, in the City of Westminster, to the opposite Shore,
in the County of Surrey."
"15. An Act to enable the Magistrates and Town
Council of the Borough of Lanark to repair and maintain their Bridge over the River Clyd, at Clydsholm, in
the Shire of Lanark."
"16. An Act for making navigable the River Rodon,
from a little below a Mill called Barking Mill, in the
County of Essex, to Illford Bridge, in the said County."
"17. An Act for repairing the Road from Hertford
Bridge Hill, to the Town of Basingstoke; and also the
Road from Hertford Bridge Hill aforesaid, to the
Town of Odiham, in the County of Southampton."
"18. An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers
granted by an Act passed in the Eighth Year of the
Reign of His late Majesty King George the First, for
repairing the Highways from The Stones End, at Whitechapel Church, in the County of Middlesex, to Shenfield,
and to the furthermost Part of the Parish of Woodford,
leading to the Town of Epping, in the County of
Essex; and for repairing the Road leading from the
Causeway in the Parish of Low Layton, through Wanstead, to the End of the Parish of Woodford next to
the Parish of Chigwell, in the said County of Essex."
"19. An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers
granted by an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the
Reign of His late Majesty King George the First, intituled, An Act for repairing and widening the
Road leading from The Black Bull Inn, in Dunstable,
in the County of Bedford, to the Way turning out of
the said Road up to Shafford House, in the County of
Hertford; and for preventing the driving of Cattle
through private Grounds and Passages, to avoid the
Payment of the Toll charged upon Cattle by an Act
of the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty,
and the Eighth Year of the Reign of His present
Majesty, for repairing the Roads from South Mims
to St. Albans, in the said County of Hertford."
"20. An Act for explaining and amending and making more effectual several Acts of Parliament, made
in the Fourth, Sixth, and Tenth Years of the Reign
of His late Majesty King George the First, respectively,
for repairing the several Roads therein mentioned,
in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, and Sussex; and for
enlarging the Terms and Powers by the said Acts
granted; and for repairing the Road lying between
Nonesuch and Worcester Parks, in the Parish of Cuddington, in the said County of Surrey."
"21. An Act to enable the present and future Proprietors and Inhabitants of the Houses in Red Lyon
Square, in the County of Middlesex, to make a Rate
on themselves, for raising Money sufficient to enclose,
pave, watch, clean, and adorn, the said Square."
"22. An Act for re-building the Church of the
Parish of St. Olave, in the City of London, and in
the Borough of Southwark, in the County of
Surrey."
"23. An Act for the making the Chapel in the
Hamlet of Abthorpe and Foxcoate, in the Parish of Towcester, in the County of Northampton, a Parish Church;
and for appointing a District or Parish thereto; and
for enabling the Master of the Free Grammer School,
within the said Hamlet of Abthorpe and Foxcoate, to
be Vicar of the said Parish Church."
"24. An Act for the better regulating the Nightly
Watch and Beadles, within the City of London and
Liberties thereof; and for making more effectual the
Laws now in being, for paving and cleansing the
Streets and Sewers in and about the said City."
"25. An Act for the better regulating the Nightly
Watch and Beadles, within the Liberty of Saffron Hill,
Hatton Garden, and Ely Rents, in the Parish of St.
Andrew, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex."
"26. An Act to prevent the Act made in the Twentyfirst Year of the Reign of King James the First, intituled,
"An Act for Limitation of Actions, and for avoiding
Suits in Law," being pleaded, insisted on, or taken Advantage of, by any Persons claiming under the last
Will of Richard Norton Esquire, of Southwick, deceased, against any Claim, Title, or Demand, which
Thomas Norton Esquire hath to or upon the Manor of
Old Alresford, and Lands in the County of Southampton, settled by Indenture of the Fifth of March One
Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty-seven, or the Rents
and Profits thereof."
To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced,
severally, in these Words; (videlicet,)
"Le Roy le veult."
"27. An Act for Sale of Part of the Estate of Daniel
late Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, deceased, for
Payment of Debts and Encumbrances charged upon
and affecting the same; and for other Purposes therein mentioned."
"28. An Act for establishing and confirming a Partition of the Estates of Sir Robert Furnese Baronet, deceased, among his Three Daughters and Coheirs; and
for settling their several specific Shares and Allotments to such Uses as their several undivided Third
Parts thereof stood limited before such Partition; and
for other Purposes therein mentioned."
"29. An Act for enroling of certain Indentures of
Lease and Release, executed by Sir William Dudley
and Dame Elizabeth his Wife; and for making the
Exemplification and attested Copies of such Indentures, and also of an Act of Parliament and certain
Articles of Agreement therein referred to, Evidence
in all Courts of Law and Equity in Ireland."
"30. An Act for Sale of the Manor of Kippax, in
the County of York, Part of the settled Estate of Sir
Reginald Graham Baronet; and for settling his Estates
at Norton and Nunwick, in the same County, being of
greater Value, to the same Uses; and for making a
Partition of the Manor of Whitwell, between him and
his Brother Richard Graham Esquire."
"31. An Act to establish an Agreement, made by
the Devisees of Sir Samuel Ongley Knight, deceased,
with Sir Roger Hudson Knight, for the Sale of Two
Messuages, on the East Side of Bishopgate Street, in
the City of London; and for the Purchase of Two
Messuages on the North Side of Threadneedle Street,
in the said City, with Part of the Money arising from
the said Sale; and for other Purposes therein mentioned."
"32. An Act for confirming an Agreement between
the Rector of the Parish Church of St. Mary Woolnoth,
and of the united Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth
and St. Mary Woolchurch, in the City of London, and
the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens, of the said
City, with the Consent of the Patron and Ordinary,
for the Grant of a Parcel of Ground therein mentioned, lying in Stocks Market, to the said Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens, in Consideration of a Rent
of Ten Pounds a Year, payable to the said Rector
and his Successors for ever."
"33. An Act to enable Peter Legh, of Lyme, Esquire,
to revoke or alter some of the Uses and Estates limited in a Settlement formerly made by him; and
to empower certain Tenants for Life therein to make
Jointures and Provision for Daughters and Younger
Sons, in the Life-time of the said Peter Legh the
Elder, and with his Consent."
"34. An Act to enable Peter Shakerley and George
Shakerly, Sons of George Shakerley Esquire, to make
suitable Jointures for their Wives, and Provision for
their Daughters and Younger Sons, out of the Estates
of the said George Shakerley the Father, lying in the
Counties of Chester and Lancaster."
"35. An Act to enable the Guardians of Anthony
Langley Swymmer, an Infant, to join in making Leases
of certain Mines, in the County of Flint, with the
other Owners thereof, during the Minority of the said
Infant."
"36. An Act to vest the Estates of Frederick Trench
Esquire, in the Counties of Westmeath and Meath, in
the Kingdom of Ireland, in Trustees, to raise Money
for the Payment of Debts; and, after discharging
the said Debts, to the Use of the said Frederick
Trench and his Heirs; and for settling other Lands
therein mentioned, to the Uses of his Marriage Settlement."
"37. An Act for Sale of Part of the settled Estate
of George Cary Esquire, lying in the County of Devon,
for discharging several Debts and Encumbrances of
his late Father and Grandfather; and for settling an
Estate in the County of Middlesex to the Uses of his
Marriage Settlement."
"38. An Act to enable George Seton, of Barnes, to
sue, or maintain any Action or Suit, notwithstanding
his Attainder; and to remove any Disability in him,
by reason of his said Attainder, to take or inherit any
Real or Personal Estate that may or shall hereafter
descend or come to him."
"39. An Act to enable James Rollow, only Son of
Robert Rollow, late of Powhouse, deceased, to sue, or
maintain any Action or Suit, notwithstanding his Attainder; and to remove any Disability in him, by
Reason of his said Attainder, to take or inherit any
Real or Personal Estate that may or shall hereafter
descend or come to him."
"40. An Act to enable Jordan Langdale, of Cliff,
in the County of York, to sue, or maintain any Action
or Suit, notwithstanding his Outlawry; and to remove
any Disability in him, by reason of his said Outlawry,
to take or inherit any Real or Personal Estate that
may or shall hereafter descend or come to him, and
also such Real Estate as he was entitled unto, in Reversion or Remainder, before his said Outlawry."
"41. An Act for dividing and enclosing certain
Open and Common Fields, within the Lordship and
Parish of Stallingborough, in the County of Lincoln."
"42. An Act to enable Edward Mountfort, and his
Issue Male by Mary his now Wife, to take and use
the Surname of Grosvenor."
"43. An Act for naturalizing Bartholomew Gallatin,
Francis Perrier, and James Solier."
To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced,
severally, in these Words; (videlicet,)
"Soit fait comme il est desiré."
Which done, His Majesty spake as follows:
"My Lords, and Gentlemen,
His Majesty's Speech.
"I am come to put an End to this Session of Parliament, that you may be at Liberty to retire into your
several Countries, and, in your proper Stations, to
promote the Peace and Welfare of the Kingdom.
"I return you My Thanks, for the particular Proofs
you have given Me of your Affection and Regard to
My Person and Honour; and hope the Wisdom and
Justice which you have shewn upon some extraordinary Incidents will prevent all Thoughts of the like
Attempts for the future.
"The Conduct of this Parliament has been so uniform, in all your Deliberations upon Public Affairs,
that it would be as unjust not to acknowledge it, as
it is unnecessary to enumerate the several Particulars.
"Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
"Your Care, as well in raising the Supplies necessary
for the Service of the current Year, as in doing it in
the Manner the least grievous and burthensome to My
People, is a fresh Instance of your equal Concern for
the Support of My Government, and for the true Interest of your Country.
"My Lords, and Gentlemen,
"You cannot be insensible what just Scandal and
Offence the Licentiousness of the present Times, under
the Colour and Disguise of Liberty, gives to all honest
and sober Men; and how absolutely necessary it is to
restrain this excessive Abuse, by a due and vigorous
Execution of the Laws. Defiance of all Authority,
Contempt of Magistracy, and even Resistance of the
Law, are become too general, although equally prejudicial to the Prerogative of the Crown, and the Liberties of the People; the Support of the one being
inseparable from the Protection of the other. I have
made the Laws of the Land the constant Rule of My
Actions; and I do with Reason expect, in Return, all
that Submission to My Authority and Government
which the same Laws have made the Duty, and shall
always be the Interest, of My Subjects."
Then the Lord Chancellor, by His Majesty's Command, said,
Parliament prorogued.
"My Lords, and Gentlemen,
"It is His Majesty's Royal Will and Pleasure, that
this Parliament be prorogued to Thursday the Fourth
Day of August next, to be then here held: And this
Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Thursday the
Fourth Day of August next."
Hitherto examined by us,
Bridgewater.
Abingdon.
Macclesfield.
Falmouth.
R. Lincoln.
N. St. Davids.
Isa. Asaph.