Veneris, 19 die Decembris; 2° Gulielmi et Mariæ.
Prayers.
Wooton Bassett Election.
ORDERED. That the Report from the Committee
of Privileges and Elections, touching the Election for the
Borough of Wooton Bassett, be made upon Monday Morning
next, when the other Reports from the said Committee
are made.
T. Williams' Estate.
An ingrossed Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act
for the raising Money out of the Estate of Tho. Williams,
Esquire, deceased, by letting Leases, and otherwise, for
the more speedy Payment of his Debts, was read the
Third time.
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, do pass:
And that the Title be agreed to.
Ordered, That Mr. Christie do carry the said Bill to the
Lords; and acquaint them, That this House hath agreed
thereunto, with some Amendments; and desire their Lordships Concurrence to the said Amendments.
Aulnage Duty.
Sir John Guise reports from the Committee to whom
the Bill for transferring the Duty and Subsidy of Aulnage
to the Custom-house, was committed, That they had
agreed upon several Amendments to be made thereunto:
Which they had directed him to report to the House:
And which he read in his Place with the Coherence; and
afterwards, delivered in at the Clerk's Table.
And a Motion being made, and the Question being
put, That the Lord Cornbury be heard, as to his Interest,
at the Bar of this House, before the said Report be further
proceeded on;
It passed in the Negative.
Then the said Amendments were once read throughout; and afterwards, a Second time, one by one; and,
upon the Question severally put thereupon, agreed unto
by the House.
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be
ingrossed.
Attainting Persons in Rebellion.
Mr. Solicitor General reports from the Committee of
the whole House, to whom the Bill for attainting several
Persons in Rebellion in England and Ireland, and for confiscating their Estates, and applying the same towards the
Charge of the present War, was committed, That they
had agreed upon several Amendments to be made thereunto: Which they had directed him to report to the
House: And which he read in his Place; and afterwards,
delivered in at the Clerk's Table: Where the same were
once read throughout; and afterwards a Second time,
one by one: And, with several Amendments made by
the House to several of them, the same were, upon the
Question severally put, agreed unto by the House.
Also several Amendments were proposed to be made
in the Preamble, and Body of the Bill: Which, upon the
Question severally put thereupon, were agreed unto by the
House.
And then a Proviso was offered to be added to the Bill,
That their Majesties may extend such Grace and Favour
to Henry Lord Dover, both as to Life and Estate, as their
Majesties shall think fit.
And the Question being put, That the Proviso be read
a Second time;
The House divided.
The Yeas go forth.
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Lord Colchester, |
112. |
| Lord Cornbury, |
| Tellers for the Noes, |
Lord Wm. Pawlett, |
119. |
| Sir Walt. Young, |
So it passed in the Negative.
Resolved, Nemine contradicente, That the Bill, with the
Amendments, be ingrossed.
A Message from the Lords, by Sir John Hoskyns and
Sir Adam Otly;
Bains' Estate.
Mr. Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill, sent
up from this House, intituled, An Act for vesting several
Messuages and Tenements in the City of London, late the
Estate of John Bains, Gentleman, deceased, in Trustees,
to be sold for the Payment of Debts, without any Amendments.
Supply Bill; East India Goods.
Also the Lords have agreed to the Bill, sent up from
this House, intituled, An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East India Goods and
Manufactures, and upon all Wrought Silks, and several
other Goods and Merchandize, to be imported after the
Five-and-twentieth Day of December 1690, without any
Amendments.
T. Williams' Estate.
Also the Lords have agreed to the Amendments made
by this House to the Bill, intituled, An Act for the
raising Money out of the Estate of Thom. Williams,
Esquire, deceased, by letting Leases, and otherwise, for
the more speedy Payment of his Debts.
Ways and Means.
Then the House, according to the Order of the Day,
resolved itself into a Committee of the whole House, to
consider of further Ways and Means for raising the Supplies to be granted to their Majesties.
Mr. Speaker left the Chair.
Mr. Solicitor General took the Chair of the Committee.
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.
Mr. Solicitor General reports from the said Committee,
That they had agreed upon a Resolution; which they
had directed him to report to the House: And which he
read in his Place; and afterwards, delivered in at the
Clerk's Table: Where the same was read; and is as
followeth; viz.
Resolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee,
That the Remainder of a Sum not exceeding the Sum of
Four Millions Eighty-six thousand Two hundred Fiftyfive Pounds, for the Supplies to be granted to their
Majesties, be raised, by doubling the additional Duties of
Excise upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors, mentioned in an
Act of the First Year of their Majesties Reign, intituled,
An Act for an additional Duty of Excise upon Beer, Ale,
and other Liquors, to begin from the Time the Act for
doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer, Ale, and other
Liquors, during the Space of One Year, doth expire.
And the said Resolution being read a Second time;
Resolved, That this House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolution, That the Remainder of a
Sum, not exceeding the Sum of Four Millions Eighty-six
thousand Two hundred Fifty-five Pounds, for the Supplies
to be granted to their Majesties, be raised, by doubling
the additional Duties of Excise upon Beer, Ale, and other
Liquors, mentioned in an Act of the First Year of their
Majesties Reign, intituled, an Act for an additional Duty
of Excise upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors, to begin
from the Time the Act for doubling the Duty of Excise
upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors, during the Space of
. . . Year, doth expire.
Mr. Solicitor General acquaints the House, That he
was directed by the said Committee to move the House,
That the House would give Leave for a Bill to be brought
in pursuant to the said Resolution.
Ordered, That a Bill be brought in pursuant to the
said Resolution.
Commissioners of Accompts.
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow Morning
at Ten a Clock, resolve itself into a Committee of the
whole House, to consider of the Bill for appointing and
enabling Commissioners to take the publick Accompts.
Navy and Army Estimates, &c.
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow Morning,
take into Consideration the Report formerly made from
the Committee to whom the Consideration of the Estimates and Accompts relating to the Army, Navy, and
Treasury, were referred: And also such further Report as
shall be then made from the said Committee.
Ordered, That the said Committee do sit this Night,
and To-morrow Morning, before the House sits.
And then the House adjourned till To-morrow
Morning, Eight of the Clock.