July 1780 1-10
DIE Lunæ, 3o Julii 1780.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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Archiep. Cantuar.
Epus. Eliens.
Epus. Bath. & Wells.
Epus. Roffen.
Epus. Lincoln.
Epus. Meneven. |
Dux Gloucester.
Ds. Thurlow, Cancellarius.
Comes Bathurst, Præses.
Comes Dartmouth, C. P. S.
Dux Devonshire.
Dux Chandos.
Dux Northumberland.
March. Rockingham.
Comes Westmorland.
Comes Aberdeen.
Comes Oxford.
Comes Ferrers.
Comes Waldegrave.
Comes Ashburnham.
Comes Fitzwilliam.
Comes Radnor.
Comes Hillsborough.
Comes Clarendon.
Viscount Hereford.
Viscount Townshend.
Viscount Stormont.
Viscount Dudley & Ward. |
Ds. Willoughby Br.
Ds. Ravensworth.
Ds. Digby.
Ds. Amherst.
Ds. Loughborough. |
PRAYERS.
Bills passed by Commission.
The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House, "That
His Majesty had been pleased to issue a Commission
to several Lords therein named, for declaring His
Royal Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both
Houses of Parliament."
The House was adjourned during Pleasure.
The House was resumed.
Then Three of the Lords Commissioners, being in their
Robes, and seated on a Form placed between the Throne
and the Woolfack, the Lord Chancellor in the Middle,
with the Archbishop of Canterbury on his Right Hand, and
the Lord President on his Left; commanded the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to signify to the Commons,
The Lords Commissioners desire their immediate Attendance in this House, to hear the Commission
read."
Who being come with their Speaker;
The Lord Chancellor said,
"My Lords, and Gentlemen of the House of Commons,"
"His Majesty not thinking sit to be personally present
here at this Time, has been pleased to cause a Commission to be issued under the Great Seal, and thereby given His Royal Assent to divers Acts, which have
been agreed upon by both Houses of Parliament, the
Titles whereof are particularly mentioned; and by the
said Commission hath commanded Us to declare and
notify His Royal Assent to the said several Acts, in the
Presence of you the Lords and Commons assembled
for that Purpose; which Commission you will now
hear read."
Then the said Commission was read by the Clerk, as
follows:
GEORGE R.
George the Third by the Grace of God, of
Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of
the Faith, and so forth: To Our Right Trusty and
Right Well-beloved the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and to Our Trusty and Well-beloved the
Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs of the House of Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, Greeting,
Whereas We have seen and perfectly understood
divers and sundry Acts agreed and accorded on by you
Our loving Subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this Our present Parliament assembled, and endorsed by you as hath been
accustomed, the Titles and Names of which Acts
hereafter do particularly ensue, (that is to say) "An
Act for raising a further Sum of Money by Loans or
Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One
thousand seven hundred and eighty." "An Act for
repealing an Act made in the Nineteenth Year of the
Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act
for granting to His Majesty, certain Duties on
Licences to be taken out by all Persons letting Horses
to Hire for travelling in the Manner therein mentioned, and certain Duties on all Horses let to Hire for
the Purposes of travelling Post and by Time; and upon
certain Carriages therein mentioned," and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof." "An Act for
granting to His Majesty additional Duties upon Starch
and Hair Powder imported, and upon Starch made in
Great Britain, and upon Sweets." "An Act to repeal so much of an Act made in the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Years of the Reign of King Charles the
Second, as restrains the Removal of Wool and other
Articles to certain Times and Hours therein mentioned." "An Act for granting further Time for
allowing the Drawback on the Exportation of Coffee
imported by the East India Company in the Ship
Europa, in the Year One thousand seven hundred and
seventy-five." "An Act for continuing in the Possession of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies for a further Time, and
under certain Conditions, the Territorial Acquisitions
and Revenues lately obtained in the East Indies; and
for reviving and continuing for a further Time so
much of an Act made in the Thirteenth Year of the
Reign of His present Majesty (intituled, "An Act for
establishing certain Regulations for the better Management of the Affairs of the East India Company as
well in India as in Europe") as hath expired in the
Course of the present Year; and for indemnifying the
said Company for any Money they have paid or may
pay, in or about the Building of Three Ships of the
Line for the Service of the Public." "An Act to
explain and amend Two Acts made in the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, with respect to the Limits of the Greenland Seas
and Davis's Streights, and the Seas adjacent thereto,
and to enlarge the Time for the Return of the Vessels
employed in the Whale Fisheries." "An Act for
continuing the Encouragement and Reward of Persons making certain Discoveries for sinding the Longitude at Sea, or making other useful Discoveries and
Improvements in Navigation; and for making Experiments relating thereto." "An Act to empower
His Majesty to prohibit the Exportation, and to restrain the carrying Coastwise of Copper in Bars or
Copper in Sheets, for a limited Time." "An Act to
vest certain Messuages, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments in Trustees, for the better securing His Majesty's Dock, Ships and Stores at Chatham." "An
Act to repeal so much of an Act made in the Seventeenth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, as relates
to the more easy and speedy Recovery of Small Debts
within the Parishes of Halifax, Bradford, Kighley,
Bingley, Guiseley, Calverley, Batley, Birstal, Mirfield,
Hartishead cum Clifton, Almondbury, Kirkheaton, Kirkburton and Huddersfield, and the Lordship or Liberty
of Tong, in the West Riding of the County of York,
and for granting other Powers for those Purposes;
and for extending the Jurisdicton of the Court Baron
of the Manor of Kighley, in the said County." "An
Act for vesting certain Manors and Hereditaments
situate in the County of Lincoln (which by the Will of
Thomas Humberston Esquire, deceased, were devised to
Thomas Frederick Mackenzie Humberston Esquire, for
his Life, with several Remainders over in strict Settlement) in Trustees, for the Purpose of selling the
same, and laying out the Monies to arise from such
Sale in the Purchase of certain other Hereditaments,
Part of the Estates of the Right Honourable Kenneth
Mackenzie Earl of Seaforth, in the Kingdom of Ireland,
to be settled to the Uses to which the Estates intended
to be sold, now stand limited." "An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open and Common Fields,
Common Pastures, Common Meadows, and other
Commonable Lands and Grounds of and within the
Manor and Parish of Thrapston, in the County of
Northampton." "An Act for dividing, allotting and
enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common
Pastures, Common Meadows, and other Commonable
Lands and Grounds of and within the Parish of Brixworth otherwise Bricklesworth, in the County of Northampton." "An Act for dividing and enclosing certain Moors, Commons or Waste Grounds in the Manor
or Township of Grewelthorp, in the West Riding of
the County of York." "An Act for dividing and enclosing the Common and Open Fields, Meadows, Commonable Lands and Waste Grounds in Little Catworth,
in the County of Huntingdon." And albeit the said
Acts by you Our said Subjects the Lords and
Commons, in this Our present Parliament assembled,
are fully agreed and consented unto, yet nevertheless
the same are not of Force and Effect in the Law, without Our Royal Assent given and put to the said Acts:
And forasmuch as for divers Causes and Considerations We cannot conveniently at this Time be present
in Our Royal Person, in the Higher House of Our
said Parliament, being the Place accustomed to give
Our Royal Assent to such Acts as have been agreed
upon by you Our said Subjects the Lords and Commons, We have therefore caused these Our Letters
Patent to be made, and have signed the same; and by
the same do give and put Our Royal Assent to the
said Acts, and to all Articles, Clauses, and Provisions
therein contained, and have fully agreed and assented
to the said Acts; Willing that the said Acts, and
every Article, Clause, Sentence, and Provision there
in contained, from henceforth shall be of the same
Strength, Force, and Effect, as if We had been
personally present in the said Higher House, and
had openly and publickly, in the Presence of you all,
assented to the same: And We do by these Presents
declare and notify the same Our Royal Assent, as
well to you the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons aforesaid, as to all others whom it may
concern: Commanding also, by these Presents, Our
right trusty and Well-beloved Counsellor Edward
Lord Thurlow, Our Chancellor of Great Britain, to
seal these Our Letters Patent with Our Great Seal of
Great Britain; And also, commanding the most
Reverend Father in God, Our right trusty and
Well-beloved Counsellor Frederick Archbishop of
Canterbury, Primate and Metropolitan of all England;
Our said Chancellor of Great Britain; Our right
trusty and right Well-beloved Cousins and Counsellors
Henry Earl Bathurst, President of Our Council; William Earl of Dartmouth, Keeper of Our Privy Seal;
Our right trusty and right entirely beloved Cousins and
Counsellors Augustus Henry Duke of Grafton, Thomas
Duke of Leeds, Hugh Duke of Northumberland, Master
of Our Horse; Our right trusty and right Well-beloved
Cousins and Counsellors William Earl Talbot, Steward
of Our Household; Francis Seymour Earl of Hertford,
Chamberlain of Our Household; John Earl of Sandwich, First Commissioner of Our Admiralty; William
Henry Earl of Rochford, Hugh Earl of Marchmont,
John Earl of Ashburnham, Groom of Our Stole; Wills
Earl of Hillsborough, One of Our Principal Secretaries of State; William Earl of Mansfield, Our
Chief Justice assigned to hold Pleas before Us;
Our right trusty and Well-beloved Cousins and
Counsellors George Viscount Townshend, Thomas
Viscount Weymouth, David Viscount Stormont, One
other of Our Principal Secretaries of State; and
Our right trusty and Well-beloved Counsellor Jeffery
Lord Amherst, or any Three or more of them, to
declare and notify this Our Royal Assent, in Our
Absence in the said Higher House, in the Presence
of you the said Lords and the Commons of Our Parliament, there to be assembled for that Purpose; and
the Clerk of Our Parliaments to endorse the said Acts
with such Terms and Words, in Our Name, as is
requisite, and hath been accustomed for the same,
and also to enrol these Our Letters Patent and the
said Acts, in the Parliament Roll; and these Our
Letters Patent shall be to every of them, a sufficient Warrant in that Behalf: And finally, We do
declare and will, that after this Our Royal Assent
given and passed by these Presents, and declared and
notified as is aforesaid, then and immediately the said
Acts shall be taken, accepted and admitted good,
sufficient, and perfect Acts of Parliament, and Laws,
to all Intents, Constructions and Purposes, and to be
put in due Execution accordingly; the Continuance
or Dissolution of this Our Parliament, or any other
Use, Custom, Thing or Things to the contrary thereof
notwithstanding. In Witness whereof, We have caused
these Our Letters to be made Patent.
Witness Ourself at Westminster, the First Day
of July, in the Twentieth Year of Our
Reign.
By the King Himself, signed with His own
Hand.
"Yorke."
Then the Lord Chancellor said,
"In Obedience to His Majesty's Commands, and by
virtue of the Commission which has been now read,
We do declare and notify to you the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in Parliament assembled, That His Majesty, hath given His Royal
Assent to the several Acts in the Commission mentioned; and the Clerks are required to pass the same,
in the usual Form and Words."
Then the Clerk Assistant, having received the Money
Bills from the Hands of the Speaker, brought them to
the Table, where the Deputy Clerk of the Crown read
the Titles of those and the other Bills to be passed, severally, as follow; (videlicet)
1. "An Act for raising a further Sum of Money by
Loans or Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year
One thousand seven hundred and eighty."
2. "An Act for granting to His Majesty additional
Duties upon Starch and Hair Powder imported, and
upon Starch made in Great Britain, and upon
Sweets."
3. "An Act for repealing an Act made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for granting to His Majesty certain
Duties on Licences to be taken out by all Persons
letting Horses to hire for travelling in the Manner
therein mentioned, and certain Duties on all Horses
let to hire for the Purposes of travelling Post, and by
Time, and upon certain Carriages therein mentioned;" and for granting other Duties in lieu
thereof."
To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced,
severally, by the Clerk Assistant, in these Words;
(videlicet)
"Le Roy remercie ses bons Sujets, accepte leur
Benevolence, et ainsi le veult."
4. "An Act to repeal so much of an Act made in
the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of the Reign
of King Charles the Second, as restrains the Removal
of Wool, and other Articles, to certain Times and
Hours therein mentioned."
5. "An Act for granting further Time for allowing
the Drawback on the Exportation of Coffee imported
by the East India Company in the Ship Europa, in the
Year One thousand seven hundred and seventy-five."
6. "An Act for continuing in the Possession of the
United Company of Merchants of England trading to
the East Indies, for a further Time, and under certain
Conditions, the Territorial Acquisitions and Revenues
lately obtained in the East Indies; and for reviving
and continuing for a further Time, so much of an Act
made in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His
present Majesty (intituled, "An Act for establishing
certain Regulations for the better Management of the
Affairs of the East India Company, as well in India
as in Europe,") as hath expired in the Course of the
present Year, and for indemnifying the said Company
for any Money they have paid or may pay, in or about
the Building of Three Ships of the Line, for the
Service of the Public."
7. "An Act to explain and amend Two Acts made
in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of the Reign of
His present Majesty, with respect to the Limits of
the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights, and the
Seas adjacent thereto, and to enlarge the Time for
the Return of the Vessels employed in the Whale
Fisheries."
8. "An Act for continuing the Encouragement and
Reward of Persons making certain Discoveries for
finding the Longitude at Sea, or making other useful
Discoveries and Improvements in Navigation, and for
making Experiments relating thereto."
9. "An Act to empower His Majesty to prohibit the
Exportation, and to restrain the carrying Coastwife
of Copper in Bars or Copper in Sheets, for a limited
Time."
10. "An Act to vest certain Messuages, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments in Trustees, for the better
securing His Majesty's Dock, Ships and Stores at
Chatham."
11. "An Act to repeal so much of an Act made in the
Seventeenth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, as
relates to the more easy and speedy Recovery of Small
Debts within the Parishes of Halifax, Bradford, Kighley, Bingley, Guiseley, Calverley, Batley, Birstal, Mirfield, Hartishead cum Clifton, Almondbury, Kirkheaton,
Kirkburton and Huddersfield, and the Lordship or
Liberty of Tong, in the West Riding of the County of
York; and for granting other Powers for those Purposes; and for extending the Jurisdiction of the Court
Baron of the Manor of Kighley, in the said County."
To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced,
severally, by the Clerk Assistant, in these Words;
(videlicet)
"Le Roy le veult."
12. "An Act for vesting certain Manors and Hereditaments situate in the County of Lincoln, (which by
the Will of Thomas Humberston Esquire, deceased, were
devised to Thomas Frederick Mackenzie Humberston
Esquire, for his Life, with several Remainders over,
in strict Settlement), in Trustees, for the Purpose of
selling the same, and laying out the Monies to arise
from such Sale, in the Purchase of certain other Hereditaments, Part of the Estates of the Right Honourable Kenneth Mackenzie Earl of Seaforth, in the Kingdom of Ireland, to be settled to the Uses to which the
Estates intended to be sold now stand limited."
13. "An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open
and Common Fields, Common Pastures, Common
Meadows and other Commonable Lands and Grounds
of and within the Manor and Parish of Thrapston, in
the County of Northampton."
14. "An Act for dividing, allotting and enclosing the
Open and Common Fields, Common Pastures, Common Meadows and other Commonable Lands and
Grounds of and within the Parish of Brixworth otherwise Bricklesworth, in the County of Northampton."
15. "An Act for dividing and enclosing certain
Moors, Commons, or Waste Grounds in the Manor
or Township of Grewelthorp, in the West Riding of
the County of York."
16. "An Act for dividing and enclosing the Common
and Open Fields, Meadows, Commonable Lands
and Waste Grounds in Little Catworth, in the County
of Huntingdon."
To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced,
severally, by the Clerk Assistant, in these Words;
(videlicet)
"Soit fait comme il est desiré."
Then the Commons withdrew.
The House was adjourned during Pleasure.
The House was resumed.
Public Accounts Bill.
Ordered, That the Bill, intituled, "An Act for
appointing and enabling Commissioners to examine,
take and state the Public Accounts of the Kingdom,
and to report what Balances are in the Hands of Accountants which may be applied to the Public Service;
and what Defects there are in the present Mode of
receiving, collecting, issuing and accounting for Public Money; and in what more expeditious and effectual, and less expensive Manner the said Services can
in future be regulated and carried on for the Benefit
of the Public," be read the Third Time To-morrow.
Vote of Credit Bill:
Hodie 3a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for
enabling His Majesty to raise the Sum of One Million,
for the Uses and Purposes therein mentioned."
The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall
pass?"
It was resolved in the Affirmative.
Sinking Fund Bill.
Hodie 3a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for
granting to His Majesty a certain Sum of Money out
of the Sinking Fund; and for applying certain Monies
therein mentioned, for the Service of the Year One
thousand seven hundred and eighty; and for further
appropriating the Supplies granted in this Session of
Parliament."
The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall
pass?"
It was resolved in the Affirmative.
Messages to H.C. that the Lords have agreed to the Two preceding Bills.
And Messages were, severally, sent to the House of
Commons, by Mr. Pechell and Mr. Eames:
To acquaint them, That the Lords have agreed to the
said Bills, without any Amendment.
Papists restraining Bill.
The Order of the Day being read for the Lords to be
summoned;
Then the Order of the Day being read for the House
to be put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled,
"An Act to secure the Protestant Religion in Great
Britain from any Encroachments of Popery, by more
effectually restraining Papists or Persons professing the
Popish Religion, from teaching or taking upon themselves the Education or Government of the Children
of Protestants;"
Address for Account of Papists.
Ordered, That an humble Address be presented to
His Majesty, to request that He will be graciously pleased
to give Directions to the Right Reverend the Archbishops and Bishops to procure from their parochial
Clergy, "An Account of the Number of Papists, or
reputed Papists, and to cause the same to be laid before
this House on the First Day of the next Session of
Parliament."
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to His
Majesty by the Lords with White Staves.
Then the House was adjourned during Pleasure, and
put into a Committee upon the said Bill.
After some Time, the House was resumed:
And the Earl of Oxford reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and
made several Amendments thereto, which he was
ready to report, when the House will please to receive
the same."
Ordered, That the said Report be received Tomorrow.
Sheriffs, &c. Indemnity Bill.
The Order of the Day being read for the House to
be put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An
Act to prevent any Mischief or Inconvenience which
may arise to Sheriffs, Gaolers, Suitors, Prisoners or
others, by the Prisoners in several Gaols in the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey, and the City of London,
having been set at Liberty during the late Tumults
and Insurrections;"
The House was adjourned during Pleasure, and put
into a Committee upon the said Bill.
After some Time, the House was resumed:
And the Lord Privy Seal reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and
made several Amendments, which he was ready to
report, when the House will please to receive the
same."
Ordered, That the said Report be received Tomorrow.
Riots Suppressors Indemnity Bill.
The House (according to Order) was adjourned
during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill,
intituled, An Act to indemnify such Persons as have
acted in the Suppression of the late Riots and Tumults
in and about the Cities of London and Westminster,
and Borough of Southwark; and for the Preservation
of the Public Peace.
After some Time, the House was resumed:
And the Lord Privy Seal reported from the Committee,
"That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him
to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."
Adjourn.
Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Martis,
quartum diem instantis Julii, horâ undecimâ Auroræ,
Dominis sic decernentibus.
DIE Martis, 4o Julii 1780.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
|
Archiep. Cantuar.
Epus. Eliens.
Epus. Meneven. |
Ds. Thurlow, Cancellarius.
Comes Bathurst, Præses.
Comes Dartmouth, C.P.S.
Dux Devonshire.
Dux Queensberry.
Dux Portland.
March. Rockingham.
Comes Westmorland.
Comes Oxford.
Comes Ferrers.
Comes Waldegrave.
Comes Ashburnham.
Comes Fitzwilliam.
Comes Temple.
Comes Radnor.
Comes Hillsborough.
Viscount Stormont.
Viscount Wentworth.
Viscount Dudley & Ward. |
Ds. Willoughby Br.
Ds. Edgcumbe.
Ds. Fortescue.
Ds. Amherst.
Ds. Loughborough. |
PRAYERS.
Riots Suppressors Indemnity Bill:
Hodie 3a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to
indemnify such Persons as have acted in the Suppression of the late Riots and Tumults in and about the
Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of
Southwark, and for the Preservation of the Public
Peace."
The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall
pass?"
It was resolved in the Affirmative.
Message to H.C. that the Lords have agreed to it.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by
Mr. Pechell and Mr. Eames:
To acquaint them, That the Lords have agreed to
the said Bill, without any Amendment.
Public Accounts Bill.
The Order of the Day being read for the Third reading of the Bill, intituled, "An Act for appointing and
enabling Commissioners to examine, take and state
the Public Accounts of the Kingdom, and to report
what Balances are in the Hands of Accountants,
which may be applied to the Public Service, and
what Defects there are in the present Mode of receiving, collecting, issuing and accounting for Public
Money, and in what more expeditious and effectual,
and less expensive Manner, the said Services can in
future be regulated and carried on for the Benefit of
the Public;"
The said Bill was accordingly read the Third Time.
Then it was moved, "That the Acts of the 19th of
Charles the Second, the 2d of William and Mary,
and the 9th of Anne, for examining the Public Accounts of the Kingdom, might be now read":
The same were accordingly read by the Clerk.
Then the following Amendment was proposed to be
made to the said Bill:
Pr. 4. L. 36. After ("receiving") insert ("ordering, paying, disposing")
The Question was put thereupon?
It was resolved in the Negative.
Then the following Amendment was proposed to be
made to the said Bill:
Pr. 4. L. 38. After ("Revenue") insert ("or requisite for the Discovery of any Frauds relating
thereto")
The Question was put thereupon?
It was resolved in the Negative.
Then the following Amendment was proposed to be
made to the said Bill:
Pr. 6. L. 5. After ("appoint") insert ("and to
produce all or any of their Books, Vouchers, Acquittances or other Writings, and to be examined
upon his, her or their corporal Oaths touching the
Premises")
The Question was put thereupon?
It was resolved in the Negative.
Then the following Amendment was proposed to be
made to the said Bill:
(fn. 1) After ("mentioned") insert ("and in case of Neglect or Refusal, the said Commissioners, or any
Three or more of them, are hereby authorized, by
Warrants under their Hands and Seals, to commit
such Persons so neglecting or refusing unto any of His
Majesty's Prisons, there to remain under safe Custody,
without Bail or Mainprize, until he, she or they
shall yield Obedience to that which shall be so required of them")
The Question was put thereupon?
It was resolved in the Negative.
Then the following Amendment was proposed to be
made to the said Bill:
Pr. 6. L. 10. & 11. After ("mentioned") insert
("Provided also, and be it further enacted, That if
any Person or Persons who, by the Authority of this
Act, shall be examined upon Oath before the said
Commissioners, or any of them, shall wilfully and
falsely forswear himself or herself, such wilful and
false swearing shall be taken and adjudged to be
wilful Perjury; and such Person or Persons shall and
may be proceeded against, in such Manner, to all
Intents and Purposes, as by the Laws of the Realm,
in Cases of Perjury, is provided and appointed; and
shall suffer and incur, upon Conviction, like Pains
and Penalties as by the said Laws and Statutes are
appointed to be inflicted and imposed")
The Question was put thereupon?
It was resolved in the Negative.
Then the following Amendment was proposed to be
made to the said Bill:
Pr. 6. L. 15. After ("empowered") insert ("and
required")
The Question was put thereupon?
It was resolved in the Negative.
Then the following Amendment was proposed to be
made to the said Bill:
Pr. 6. L. 16. After ("any") insert ("Frauds,
Exactions, Negligences, Defaults, Abuses or other")
The Question was put thereupon?
It was resolved in the Negative.
Then the following Amendment was proposed to be
made to the said Bill:
Pr. 6. L. 19. After ("Management") insert ("ordering, paying, receiving or disposing")
The Question was put thereupon?
It was resolved in the Negative.
Then the following Amendment was proposed to be
made to the said Bill:
Pr. 6. L. 22. After ("aforesaid") insert ("and to
examine the Rates and Prices agreed by any Contract,
or otherwise, for any Provisions, Wares or Materials
provided for the Service of His Majesty's Land or Sea
Forces, and what the same were then truly worth;
and was really paid for the same, and by whom and
to whom")
The Question was put thereupon?
It was resolved in the Negative.
Then the following Amendment was proposed to be
made to the said Bill:
(fn. 2) After ("aforesaid") insert ("and to enquire if any
and what Part of the Monies granted and appropriated by Parliament have been bestowed or disposed of
to or for any other Use or Purpose, and to what other
Uses or Purposes the same or any Part thereof was
so bestowed or disposed")
The Question was put thereupon?
It was resolved in the Negative.
Then the following Amendment was proposed to be
made to the said Bill:
(fn. 2) After ("aforesaid") insert ("and also to require an
Account of the respective Officers of all Pensions,
Salaries and Sums of Money paid or payable to the
Members of either House of Parliament, out of the
Revenue or otherwise")
The Question was put thereupon?
It was resolved in the Negative.
Then the following Amendment was proposed to be
made to the said Bill:
Pr. 7. L. 38. After ("an") insert ("exact and
full")
The Question was put thereupon?
It was resolved in the Negative.
Then the following Amendment was proposed to be
made to the said Bill:
Pr. 7. L. 38. After ("of") insert ("all")
The Question was put thereupon?
It was resolved in the Negative.
Then it was proposed to leave out in Press 9,
Lines 27 and 28, the Words ("Chancellor of the
Exchequer or before") in order to insert the Words
("Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, or the Keeper of
the Great Seal, or")
The Question was put, "Whether the Words proposed to be left out, shall stand Part of the
Bill?"
It was resolved in the Affirmative.
Then the following Amendment was proposed to be
made to the said Bill:
Pr. 11. L. 22. After ("appoint") insert ("And be
it further enacted, That the said Commissioners or any
Three or more of them, by Warrant under their Hands
and Seals, shall and may, and they are hereby required, to assign and allow such Part and Proportion
of all such Monies as shall be discovered and sufficiently proved before them by any Person or Persons,
to have been unjustly gotten or detained from His
Majesty, by Means of any Frauds, Exactions or
Abuses in the Premises, as they the said Commissioners
shall think a fit Reward for such Discovery, not exexceeding One Third, nor being less than One-tenth
Part of the Monies so discovered, the same to be had
and taken by the Person or Persons making such Discovery from Time to Time, in such Manner and such
Proportions as the said Commissioners shall appoint,
by such their Warrant as aforesaid, out of such Receipt into which the same shall at any Time be paid,
without any further or other Warrant or Allowance
in that Behalf")
The Question was put thereupon?
It was resolved in the Negative.
The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall
pass?"
It was resolved in the Affirmative.
Message to H. C. that the Lords have agreed to it.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by the
former Messengers:
To acquaint them, That the Lords have agreed to the
said Bill, without any Amendment.
Papists restraining Bill.
The Earl of Oxford (according to Order) reported the
Amendments made by the Committee of the whole
House, to the Bill, intituled, "An Act to secure the
Protestant Religion in Great Britain from any Encroachments of Popery, by more effectually restraining Papists or Persons professing the Popish Religion
from teaching or taking upon themselves the Education or Government of the Children of Protestants."
The said Amendments were read by the Clerk as
follow:
Pr. 1. L. 8. After ("Boarding") insert ("and")
L. 9. Leave out ("or Teaching")
L. 30. After ("Education") insert ("Government and Boarding") and in the same Line leave out
("Teaching Instruction")
L. 32 and 33. Leave out ("or the Boarding
for the Purpose of Education")
Pr. 2. L. 7. After ("educated") leave out ("taught
instructed")
L. 8. Leave out ("or") and insert ("and")
In the Title of the Bill:
L. 1. Leave out from ("Act") to ("more")
in Line 3, and insert ("for")
L. 5. Leave out ("teaching or")
L. 6. Leave out ("or") and insert ("and")
And the Two First Amendments being read a Second
Time, were, severally, agreed to by the House.
Then the next Amendments being again read,
The same was objected to;
After Debate,
The Question was put, "Whether to agree to the
said Amendment?"
It was resolved in the Affirmative.
The rest of the Amendments being read a Second
Time were, severally, agreed to by the House.
Then it was moved, "That the said Bill be read the
Third Time on this Day Seven-night."
Which being objected to;
The Question was put thereupon?
It was resolved in the Negative.
Sheriffs, &c. Indemnity Bill.
The Lord Privy Seal (according to Order) reported
the Amendments made by the Committee of the whole
House, to the Bill, intituled, "An Act to prevent any
Mischief or Inconvenience which may arise to Sheriffs,
Gaolers, Suitors, Prisoners or others, by the Prisoners in several Gaols in the Counties of Middlesex and
Surrey, and the City of London, having been set at
Liberty during the late Tumults and Insurrections."
And the same, being read Twice by the Clerk, were
agreed to by the House.
Ordered, That the said Bill, with the Amendments,
be engrossed.
Thread Lace Bill.
The Order of the Day being read for the House to be
put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act
to alter the Duties upon Foreign Thread Lace imported into this Kingdom;"
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged.
Ordered, That the House be put into a Committee
upon the said Bill on this Day Three Months.
Austrian Netherlands, Account of Exports and Imports ordered.
Ordered, That the proper Officer do lay before
this House at the Opening of the next Session of Parliament, "A State of the Exports and Imports to and from
Great Britain and the Austrian Netherlands, for the
last Seven Years."
Adjourn.
Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Mercurii,
quintum diem instantis Julii, horâ undecimâ Auroræ,
Dominis sic decernentibus.
DIE Mercurii, 5o Julii 1780.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
|
Archiep. Cantuar.
Epus. Eliens.
Epus. Lincoln.
Epus. Meneven. |
Dux Cumberland.
Ds. Thurlow, Cancellarius.
Comes Bathurst, Præses.
Comes Dartmouth, C.P.S.
Dux Devonshire.
Dux Queensberry.
Dux Portland.
Dux Chandos.
Dux Northumberland.
March. Rockingham.
Comes Westmorland.
Comes Carlisle.
Comes Aberdeen.
Comes Ferrers.
Comes Ker.
Comes Waldegrave.
Comes Ashburnham.
Comes Fitzwilliam.
Comes Temple.
Comes Northington.
Comes Radnor.
Comes Clarendon.
Viscount Townshend.
Viscount Dudley & Ward. |
Ds. Digby.
Ds. Rivers.
Ds. Foley.
Ds. Loughborough. |
PRAYERS.
Bills passed by Commission.
The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House, "That
His Majesty had been pleased to issue a Commission
to several Lords therein named, for declaring His
Royal Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both
Houses of Parliament."
The House was adjourned during Pleasure.
The House was resumed.
Then Three of the Lords Commissioners, being in
their Robes, and seated on a Form placed between the
Throne and the Woolsack, the Lord Chancellor in the
Middle, with the Archbishop of Canterbury on his Right
Hand, and the Earl of Ashburnham on his Left; commanded the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to signify
to the Commons, "The Lords Commissioners desire
their immediate Attendance in this House, to hear the
Commission read."
Who being come, with their Speaker;
The Lord Chancellor said,
My Lords, and Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
"His Majesty not thinking sit to be personally present
here at this Time, has been pleased to cause a Commission to be issued under the Great Seal, and thereby
given His Royal Assent to divers Acts, which have
been agreed upon by both Houses of Parliament, the
Titles whereof are particularly mentioned; and by the
said Commission hath commanded Us to declare and
notify His Royal Assent to the said several Acts, in the
Presence of you the Lords and Commons assembled
for that Purpose; which Commission you will now
hear read."
Then the said Commission was read by the Clerk, as
follows: viz.
GEORGE R.
George the Third, by the Grace of God, of
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of
the Faith, and so forth: To Our Right Trusty and
Right Well-beloved the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and to Our Trusty and Well-beloved the
Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs of the House of Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, Greeting.
Whereas, We have seen and perfectly understood
divers and sundry Acts agreed and accorded on by you
Our loving Subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this Our present Parliament assembled, and endorsed by you as hath been
accustomed, the Titles and Names of which Acts
hereafter do particularly ensue, (that is to say) "An
Act for enabling His Majesty to raise the Sum of One
Million for the Uses and Purposes therein mentioned."
An Act for granting to His Majesty a certain Sum of
Money out of the Sinking Fund, and for applying
certain Monies therein mentioned for the Service of
the Year One thousand seven hundred and eighty;
and for further appropriating the Supplies granted in
this Session of Parliament." "An Act for appointing
and enabling Commissioners to examine, take and
state the Public Accounts of the Kingdom, and to
report what Balances are in the Hands of Accountants, which may be applied to the Public Service;
and what Defects there are in the present Mode of
receiving, collecting, issuing and accounting for Public Money; and in what more expeditious and effectual
and less expensive Manner the said Services can in
future be regulated and carried on for the Benefit of
the Public." "An Act to indemnify such Persons
as have acted in the Suppression of the late Riots and
Tumults in and about the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark; and for the
Preservation of the Public Peace." And albeit
the said Acts by you Our said Subjects the Lords and
Commons, in this Our present Parliament assembled,
are fully agreed and consented unto, yet nevertheless
the same are not of Force and Effect in the Law, without Our Royal Assent given and put to the said Acts:
And forasmuch as for divers Causes and Considerations We cannot conveniently at this Time be present
in Our Royal Person, in the Higher House of Our
said Parliament, being the Place accustomed to give
Our Royal Assent to such Acts as have been agreed
upon by you Our said Subjects the Lords and Commons, We have therefore caused these Our Letters
Patent to be made, and have signed the same; and by
the same do give and put Our Royal Assent to the
said Acts, and to all Articles, Clauses, and Provisions
therein contained, and have fully agreed and assented
to the said Acts; Willing that the said Acts, and
every Article, Clause, Sentence and Provision therein contained, from henceforth shall be of the same
Strength, Force and Effect, as if We had been
personally present in the said Higher House, and had
openly and publickly in the Presence of you all,
assented to the same: And We do by these Presents
declare and notify the same Our Royal Assent, as
well to you the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons aforesaid, as to all others whom it may
concern: Commanding also, by these Presents, Our
right trusty and Well-beloved Counsellor Edward
Lord Thurlow, Our Chancellor of Great Britain, to
seal these Our Letters Patent with Our Great Seal of
Great Britain; and also, commanding the most
Reverend Father in God, Our right trusty and
Well-beloved Counsellor Frederick Archbishop of
Canterbury, Primate and Metropolitan of all England;
Our said Chancellor of Great Britain; Our right
trusty and right Well-beloved Cousins and Counsellors
Henry Earl Bathurst, President of Our Council; William Earl of Dartmouth, Keeper of Our Privy Seal;
Our right trusty and right entirely beloved Cousins and
Counsellors Augustus Henry Duke of Grafton, Thomas
Duke of Leeds, Hugh Duke of Northumberland, Master
of Our Horse; Our right trusty and right Well-beloved
Cousins and Counsellors William Earl Talbot, Steward
of Our Household; Francis Seymour Earl of Hertford,
Chamberlain of Our Household; John Earl of Sandwich, First Commissioner of Our Admiralty; William
Henry Earl of Rochford, Hugh Earl of Marchmont,
John Earl of Ashburnham, Groom of Our Stole; Wills
Earl of Hillsborough, One of Our Principal Secretaries of State; William Earl of Mansfield, Our
Chief Justice assigned to hold Pleas before Us;
Our right trusty and Well-beloved Cousins and
Counsellors George Viscount Townshend, Thomas
Viscount Weymouth, David Viscount Stormont, One
other of Our Principal Secretaries of State; and
Our right trusty and Well-beloved Counsellor Jeffery
Lord Amherst, or any Three or more of them, to
declare and notify this Our Royal Assent, in Our
Absence in the said Higher House, in the Presence
of you the said Lords and the Commons of Our Parliament, there to be assembled for that Purpose; and
the Clerk of Our Parliaments to endorse the said Acts
with such Terms and Words, in Our Name, as is
requisite, and hath been accustomed for the same;
and also, to enrol these Our Letters Patent and the
said Acts, in the Parliament Roll; and these Our
Letters Patent shall be to every of them, a sufficient Warrant in that Behalf: And finally, We do
declare and will, that after this Our Royal Assent
given and passed by these Presents, and declared and
notified as is aforesaid, then and immediately the said
Acts shall be taken, accepted, and admitted good,
sufficient, and perfect Acts of Parliament, and Laws,
to all Intents, Constructions and Purposes, and to be
put in due Execution accordingly; the Continuance
or Dissolution of this Our Parliament, or any other
Use, Custom, Thing or Things to the contrary
thereof notwithstanding. In Witness whereof, We
have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent.
Witness Ourself, at Westminster, the Fifth
Day of July, in the Twentieth Year of Our
Reign.
By the King Himself, signed with His own
Hand.
"Yorke."
Then the Lord Chancellor said,
"In Obedience to His Majesty's Commands, and by
virtue of the Commission which has been now
read, We do declare and notify to you the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in Parliament assembled, That His Majesty hath given His
Royal Assent to the several Acts in the Commission
mentioned; and the Clerks are required to pass the
same, in the usual Form and Words."
Then the Clerk Assistant, having received the Money
Bills from the Hands of the Speaker, brought them to the
Table, where the Deputy Clerk of the Crown read the
Titles of those and the other Bills to be passed, severally,
as follow; (videlicet)
1. "An Act for enabling His Majesty to raise the
Sum of One Million for the Uses and Purposes therein
mentioned."
2. "An Act for granting to His Majesty a certain
Sum of Money out of the Sinking Fund; and for applying certain Monies therein mentioned for the
Service of the Year One thousand seven hundred and
eighty; and for further appropriating the Supplies
granted in this Session of Parliament."
To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced,
severally, by the Clerk Assistant, in these Words;
(videlicet)
"Le Roy remercie ses bons Sujets, accepte leur
Benevolence, et ainsi le veult."
3. "An Act for appointing and enabling Commissioners to examine, take and state the Public Accounts
of the Kingdom, and to report what Balances are in
the Hands of Accountants, which may be applied to
the Public Service; and what Defects there are in the
present Mode of receiving, collecting, issuing and
accounting for Public Money; and in what more
expeditious and effectual and less expensive Manner
the said Services can in future be regulated and carried
on for the Benefit of the Public."
4. "An Act to indemnify such Persons as have acted
in the Suppression of the late Riots and Tumults in
and about the Cities of London and Westminster, and
Borough of Southwark; and for the Preservation of
the Public Peace."
To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced, severally, by the Clerk Assistant, in these Words; (videlicet)
"Le Roy le veult."
Then the Commons withdrew.
The House was adjourned during Pleasure.
The House was resumed.
Sheriffs, &c. Indemnity Bill:
Hodie 3a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to
prevent any Mischief or Inconvenience which may
arise to Sheriffs, Gaolers, Suitors, Prisoners or others
by the Prisoners in several Gaols in the Counties of
Middlesex and Surrey, and the City of London, having
been set at Liberty during the late Tumults and Insurrections."
The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall
pass?"
It was resolved in the Affirmative.
Message to H. C. with it.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by
Mr. Pechell and Mr. Eames:
To carry down the said Bill, and desire their Concurrence thereto.
Lace, Accounts relative to, ordered.
Ordered, That the proper Officer do lay before this
House, "A Return of the Quantity of Lace legally entered at the Customs, together with the Amount of
the Duties collected upon the same within the Space
of Seven Years, ending at the Thirty-first December
1778."
Also, "A Return of the Quantity of Lace legally
entered at the Customs, together with the Amount of
the Duties collected upon the same, from the Time
when the Stamps were first affixed, to the Thirtieth
June 1778, specifying the Time when they were first
affixed."
And also, "A Return of the Quantity of Lace to
which a Stamp was affixed (in pursuance of the Directions of the Act of the Nineteenth Year of His present
Majesty, "for more effectually preventing Smuggling")
between the passing of that Bill and the First of August
1779, upon Affidavits of the said Lace having been
legally entered, and the Duties collected upon it."
Papists restraining Bill.
Moved, "That the Bill, intituled, "An Act to secure
the Protestant Religion in Great Britain from any Encroachments of Popery, by more effectually restraining Papists or Persons professing the Popish Religion,
from teaching or taking upon themselves the Education or Government of the Children of Protestants,"
be now read the Third Time."
The said Bill was accordingly read the Third Time.
Moved, "That the Bill, with the Amendments, do
pass?"
Which being objected to,
The Question was put, "Whether this Bill, with the
Amendments, shall pass?"
It was resolved in the Negative.
Adjourn.
Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Jovis, sextum diem instantis Julii, horâ undecimâ Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.
DIE Jovis, 6o Julii 1780.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
|
Epus. Lincoln.
Epus. Meneven. |
Ds. Thurlow, Cancellarius.
Dux Northumberland.
Comes Hertford, Camerarius.
Comes Ferrers.
Comes Waldegrave. |
Ds. Amherst. |
PRAYERS.
King's Answer to Address.
The Lord Chamberlain reported, "That the Lords
with White Staves had (according to Order) waited
on His Majesty, with their Lordships Address of
Monday last, for the Account therein mentioned, and
that His Majesty was pleased to say, "He would give
Directions accordingly."
Sheriffs, &c. Indemnity Bill.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons,
by Mr. Ord, and others:
To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act to prevent any
Mischief or Inconvenience which may arise to Sheriffs,
Gaolers, Suitors, Prisoners or others, by the Prisoners
in several Gaols in the Counties of Middlesex and
Surrey, and the City of London, having been set at
Liberty during the late Tumults and Insurrections;"
and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to
the same, without any Amentment.
Gloucester Gaol Bill.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons,
by Sir George Yonge, and others:
To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for erecting a
New Gaol and House of Correction, and for removing
certain Gateways in the City of Gloucester; and for
amending the several Acts passed for the Maintenance
and Support of the Poor of the said City, and lighting,
paving and regulating the Streets there;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to their Lordships Amendments made thereto, with Amendments, to
which they desire their Lordships Concurrence.
Adjourn.
Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Sabbati,
octavum diem instantis Julii, horâ undecimâ Auroræ,
Dominis sic decernentibus.
DIE Sabbati, 8o Julii 1780.
REX.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
|
Archiep. Cantuar.
Epus. Eliens.
Epus. Meneven. |
Dux Cumberland.
Ds. Thurlow, Cancellarius.
Comes Bathurst, Præses.
Dux Chandos.
Dux Northumberland.
March. Lothian.
Comes Talbot, Senescallus.
Comes Westmorland.
Comes Aberdeen.
Comes Oxford.
Comes Ferrers.
Comes Ker.
Comes Radnor.
Comes Ailesbury.
Viscount Falmouth.
Viscount Dudley & Ward. |
Ds. Edgcumbe.
Ds. Amherst.
Ds. Rivers.
Ds. Loughborough. |
PRAYERS.
The House was adjourned during Pleasure to robe.
The House was resumed:
King present.
His Majesty being seated on the Throne, adorned with
His Crown and Regal Ornaments, and attended by His
Officers of State (the Lords being 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;
The Deputy Clerk of the Crown read the Title of the
Bill to be passed as follows; (videlicet)
Bill passed.
1. "An Act to prevent any Mischief or Inconvenience
which may arise to Sheriffs, Gaolers, Suitors, Prisoners
or others, by the Prisoners in several Gaols in the
Counties of Middlesex and Surrey, and the City of
London, having been set at Liberty during the late
Tumults and Insurrections."
To this Bill the Royal Assent was pronounced,
by the Clerk Assistant, in these Words; (videlicet)
"Le Roy le veult."
Then His Majesty was pleased to speak as follows;
(videlicet)
His Majesty's Speech.
My Lords, and Gentlemen,
It gives Me great Satisfaction to find Myself able to
determine this long Session of Parliament, that you
may be at Liberty to return to your several Counties,
and attend to your private Affairs, after so laborious a
Discharge of your Duty in the Publick Service; and I
take this Occasion to express My sincere Acknowlegement for the fresh Proofs you have given Me of
your affectionate Zeal for the Support of My Government, and of your just Estimation of the real and permanent Interests of your Country.
Your Magnanimity and Perseverance in the Prosecution of this just and necessary War, have enabled
Me to make such Exertions as will, I trust, by the
Assistance of Divine Providence, disappoint the violent
and unjust Designs of My Enemies, and bring them to
listen to equitable and honourable Terms of Peace.
"These Exertions have already been attended with
Success by Sea and Land; and the late important and
prosperous turn of Affairs in North America affords
the fairest Prospect of the returning Loyalty and Affection of My Subjects in the Colonies, and of their
happy Re-union with their Parent Country."
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
I feel Myself under particular Obligations to thank
you for the large and ample Supplies you have so
chearfully granted, and for the Confidence you repose
in Me. No Attention shall be wanting on My Part,
to render them effectual, and to see them faithfully
applied.
My Lords, and Gentlemen,
Let Me earnestly recommend to you to assist Me, by
your Influence and Authority in your several Counties,
as you have by your unanimous Support in Parliament, in guarding the Peace of the Kingdom from
future Disturbances, and watching over the Preservation of the Publick Safety. Make My People sensible
of the Happiness they enjoy, and the distinguished Advantages they derive from Our excellent Constitution
in Church and State. Warn them of the Hazard of
Innovation. Point out to them the fatal Consequences
of such Commotions as have lately been excited; and
let it be your Care to impress on their Minds this
important Truth, that rebellious Insurrections to resist or to reform the Laws, must end either in the Destruction of the Persons who make the Attempt, or in
the Subversion of our free and happy Constitution."
Then the Lord Chancellor having received Directions
from His Majesty, said,
Parliament prorogued.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
It is His Majesty's Royal Will and Pleasure, That
this Parliament be prorogued to Thursday, the Twenty-fourth Day of August next, to be then here holden;
and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to
Thursday the Twenty-fourth Day of August next."