Veneris, 24 die Maii ; 1° Willielmi et Mariæ.
Prayers.
Lisle's Claim on Lord Jeffryes.
A PETITION of Anne Harfeild, Mary Browne,
and Mabella Lisle, Daughters of the Lady Lisle,
beheaded at Winchester was read; setting forth, That
their Mother, 1° Jac. upon the Duke of Monmouth's Defeat, was seized on by a Troop of Horse; her House
plundered, and Goods and Chattels taken from her, to
some Thousands of Pounds Value: And afterwards she
was imprisoned and indicted at Winchester, for harbouring
one John Hicks, Clerk, as knowing him a Traitor, though,
at that time, not indicted or convicted of any such Crime;
and by a Verdict injuriously extorted by the late Lord
Jeffryes, she was attainted, convicted, and executed for
High Treason; whereby the Petitioners were left destitute
of their Fortune, and forced to subsist on the Charity of
their Relations; all the Real Estate being entailed on
the Son, being Five hundred Pounds per Annum: And
praying the Consideration of the House; and to order the
Petitioners what they should think suitable to their Necessities, out of the Lord Jeffryes' Estate.
Ordered, That the said Petition do lie on the Table.
Arundell Building Grounds.
An ingrossed Bill, sent down from the Lords, intituled,
An Act for building into Tenements the remaining Part
of Arundell Grounds, as now inclosed, was read the first
time.
Resolved, That the Bill be read a Second time.
Tucker's forfeited Estate.
A Petition of Reignald Tucker was read; setting forth,
The Petitioner, being zealous for the Protestant Religion,
suffered greatly for the same under King James the Second;
and That upon Advantage taken against him as a Favourer of the late Duke of Monmouth: So that the Petitioner was tried at Wells in Somersetshire, in March168 6/7;
and by Sir Francis Withins condemned do die; but reprieved by the said King, during his Pleasure; who gave
the Petitioner's Estate, Real and Personal, unto Theophilus
Oglethorpe, and kept him in Prison till December last: So
that he, and his Four Children, were exposed to Miseries:
And that the Petitioner's Wife, Katherine, instead of purchasing a Pardon for him, was, before his Trial, married
to one Vaughan, by means of Sir Tho. Williams; for which
the said King pardoned her: And praying the said Sentence and Attainder to be reversed; and a Divorce from
his Wife a Vinculo Matrimonii; the Court of Doctors
Commons granting Divorcements only a Thoro & Mensa.
Resolved, That it be referred to the Committee to
whom the Matter of Mr. Speake's Petition is referred; to
examine the Matters of Fact in the said Petition; and report the same to the House.
Naval Officers not qualifying.
A Bill to prevent the Forfeitures of Officers going to
Sea, was read the First time.
Resolved, That the Bill be read a Second time To-morrow Morning.
Suspending Habeas Corpus.
A Bill to impower his Majesty to apprehend and detain such Persons as he shall find just Cause to suspect are
conspiring against the Government, was read the Second
time.
Resolved, That a Bill be committed to a Committee of
the whole House.
Resolved, That the House do immediately resolve into
a Committee of the whole House, to consider of the said
Bill.
Mr. Speaker left the Chair.
Mr. Hamden took the Chair of the Committee.
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.
Mr. Hamden reports from the Committee of the whole
House, That they had agreed upon some Amendments
to be made to the Bill: Which he read in his Place, with
the Coherence; and afterwards delivered the same in at
the Clerk's Table; where the same were once read
throughout; and a Second time, one by one; and, upon
the Question severally put thereupon, agreed unto by the
House.
Ordered, That the Bill, so amended, be ingrossed.
Royal Assent to Bills.
A Message from his Majesty, by Sir Thomas Duppa,
Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod;
Mr. Speaker,
The King commands this House to attend His Majesty
in the House of Peers, immediately.
The House went up to attend his Majesty accordingly.
And being returned,
Mr. Speaker acquaints the House, That his Majesty
had given the Royal Assent to the Bill for Exempting
their Majesties Protestant Subjects from the Penalties of
certain Laws: And the Bill for annulling, and making
void, the Attainder of Alitia Lisle, Widow: And a Bill
for the Sale or Leasing of a capital Messuage, late Mr.
Secretary Coventrye's, in Piccadilly.
East India Company.
Ordered, That the Matter relating to the East India
Company, upon the Petition of Martha Bolton, which
was appointed to be this Day heard at the Bar of this
House, be heard To-morrow Morning, at Ten of the
Clock.
Ditto.
Ordered, That the Matter relating to the East India
Company, upon the Petition of Dorothy Bowyer, which
was appointed to be this Day heard at the Bar of the
House, be heard To-morrow Morning, at Ten of the
Clock.
Call of the House.
Ordered, That the Call of the House be adjourned till
Monday Sevennight.
Bill of Indemnity.
Resolved, That the House do, upon Monday Morning
next, proceed in the further Consideration of the Heads
for the Bill of Indemnity.
And then the House adjourned till To-morrow
Morning, Nine of the Clock.