DIE Sabbati, videlicet, 24 die Aprilis,
Domini (fn. *) tam
Spirituales quam Temporales, quorum nomina subscribuntur, præsentes fuerunt:
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p. Calolus Princeps Walliæ, etc.
p. Archiepus. Cant.
Archiepus. Eborum.
p. Epus. London.
p. Epus. Dunelm.
Epus. Winton.
Epus. Petriburg.
Epus. Hereforden.
Epus. Wigorn.
Epus. Norwicen.
p. Epus. Roffen.
Epus. Glocestren.
Epus. Carlien.
p. Epus. Co. et Lich.
p. Epus. Bath. et W.
p. Epus. Bangor.
Epus. Elien.
Epus. Cicestren.
p. Epus. Oxon.
p. Epus. Cestren.
p. Epus. Landaven.
p. Epus. Sarum.
p. Epus. Exon.
p. Epus. Meneven.
p. Epus. Bristol.
Epus. Asaphen. |
p. Epus. Lincoln, Ds. Cust. Mag. Sigilli.
Comes Midd, Mag. Thesaurarius Angliæ.
Vicecomes Maundevill, Præs. Concilii Domini Regis.
p. Comes Wigorn, Ds. Cust. Privati Sigilli.
p. Dux Buch. Magnus Admirall. Angliæ.
Marchio Winton.
p. Comes Oxon. Magnus Camer. Angliæ.
p. Comes Arundell et Surr. Comes Marescallus Angliæ.
p. Comes Cantabr. Senes. Hospitii.
p. Comes Pembroc. Camerar. Hospitii.
Comes Northumbriæ.
Comes Nottingham.
Comes Salop.
p. Comes Kanciæ.
Comes Derbiæ.
p. Comes Rutland.
Comes Cumbriæ.
Comes Sussex.
Comes Huntingdon.
Comes Bath.
p. Comes South'ton.
Comes Bedd.
Comes Hertford.
p. Comes Essex.
p. Comes Lincoln.
Comes Suffolciæ.
Comes Dorsett.
Comes Sarum.
Comes Exon.
p. Comes Mountgomery,
p. Comes Bridgwater.
p. Comes Leicester.
Comes North'ton.
Comes Warwic.
p. Comes Devon.
Comes March.
Comes Holdernesse.
p. Comes Carlile.
p. Comes Denbigh.
Comes Bristol.
p. Comes Anglisey.
Vicecomes Mountague.
p. Vicecomes Wallingford.
Vicecomes Purbecke.
Vicecomes Maunsfeild.
Vicecomes Colchester.
p. Vicecomes Rochford.
Vicecomes Andever.
Vicecomes Tunbridge.
Ds. Abergavenny.
Ds. Audley.
Ds. Zouch.
p. Ds. Willoughby.
p. Ds. Delawarr.
p. Ds. Berkley.
Ds. Morley et M.
Ds. Dacres de H.
Ds. Stafford.
Ds. Scroope.
p. Ds. Duddeley.
p. Ds. Stourton.
Ds. Herbert de Sh.
Ds. Darcy de Men.
Ds. Vaux.
Ds. Windsore.
p. Ds. Wentworth.
p. Ds. Mordant.
p. Ds. St. John de Bas.
p. Ds. Cromwell.
Ds. Evre.
Ds. Sheffeild.
p. Ds. Pagett.
p. Ds. North.
p. Ds. St. John de Blet.
Ds. Howard de W.
Ds. Wootton.
p. Ds. Russell.
p. Ds. Grey de Groby.
p. Ds. Petre.
p. Ds. Danvers.
p. Ds. Spencer.
p. Ds. Say et Seale.
p. Ds. Denny.
Ds. Stanhope de H.
p. Ds. Carewe.
Ds. Arundell de W.
p. Ds. Haughton.
Ds. Teynham.
Ds. Stanhope de Sh.
p. Ds. Noel.
p. Ds. Brooke.
p. Ds. Mountague.
p. Ds. Cary de Lep.
Ds. Kensington.
p. Ds. Grey de W. |
Jurati in causa Domini Thesaurarii:
Witnesses in the Lord Treasurer's Cause.
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Alexander Southwood.
Sir Bevis Thelwell.
Charles Stanley.
John Bacon.
Richard Colebucke.
William Ferrers.
Ralphe Canninge.
Francis Plastoe.
Oliver Browne.
John Whinyard.
Ottwell Worsley.
John Pulford. |
L. Talbott.
Ambr. Jennings.
Lewes Tyte.
William Foster.
Francis Morris.
Edward Johnson.
John Fletcher.
Andrew Bassano.
Roberte Egleston.
George Strowde.
William Barowe.
Mr. Henshawe. |
Their Oath.
To answer the Truth unto such Questions as shall
be demanded by the House, or any Committee
appointed by the House.
Ld. Stafford's Privilege. Thomas's Arrest.
Upon Report made to the House this Day by the
Lord Denny, That the Arrest of Walter Thomas, Town
Clerk of Chippingnorton, and Servant to the Lord Stafford, appears to be a Matter of small Moment, and not
so great as was conceived; it is Ordered, That the
former Order, made the Thirteenth of this April, for
the Serjeant at Arms to bring before their Lordships
Edward Chadwell, Gentleman, and others, who arrested the said Walter Thomas (which Order was suspended by another Order of the 21st of this Month),
shall now be discharged, and the said Edward Chadwell
dismissed.
Avoiding Delays in Law Suits.
Hodie 1a
vice lecta est Billa, An Act for avoiding
vexatious Delays caused by removing Actions and Suits
out of Inferior Courts.
Assurance of Lands to Sir Thomas Cheeke.
Hodie 2a
vice lecta est Billa, An Act for Confirmation
of the Assurance of certain Lands sold by Sir Thomas
Beamond, Knight and Baronet, Lord Viscount Beamond, of Swords, in the Kingdom of Ireland, and Dame
Elizabeth his Wife, unto Sir Thomas Cheeke, Knight.
Committed unto the
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E. of Essex.
E. of Bridgwater.
L. Bp. of Roffen.
L. Bp. of Landafe. |
L. Petre.
L. Grey of Groby.
L. Denny.
L. Noel. |
To meet on Friday Morning next, the 30th of this
April, at Eight in the Morning.
Monson's Petition.
The Petition of Sir Thomas Monson, Knight, was
read, touching the Extent of the Lands of Sir Roger
Dalison, Knight and Baronet, deceased; and committed
unto the
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L. Viscount Rochford.
L. Viscount Andever.
L. Bp. of Co. et Lich.
L. Bp. of Bath. et Well. |
L. Sheffeild.
L. North.
L. Walden.
L. Russell. |
To meet when they please.
Petition against Popish Recusants presented to the King.
The Lord Archbishop of Cant. signified to the
House, That Yesterday (according to their Lordship's
Commandment) the Committee for the Petition concerning Jesuits, Seminary Priests, and Recusants, waited
on His Majesty; and that his Grace delivered the said
Petition unto His Majesty, having first read the same;
which Petition His Majesty accepted, and gave a gracious Answer unto the same.
The Lord President reported the said Answer, and
read the same unto their Lordships; and Mr. Attorney
read the same also, in hæc verba: videlicet,
"My Lords and Gentlemen,
King's Answer to it.
Although I cannot but commend your Zeal in offering this Petition, yet, on the other Side, I must
hold Myself unfortunate, that I should be thought
to need a Spur to do that which My Conscience and
Duty bind Me unto; what My Religion is, My Books
do declare, My Profession and Behaviour do shew,
and I hope I shall never live to be thought otherwise; sure I am, I shall never deserve it. And, for
My Part, I wish it might be written in Marble, and
remain to Posterity, as a Mark upon Me, when I
shall swerve from My Religion; for he that doth dissemble with God is not to be trusted of Men. My
Lords, for My Part, I protest unto you, My Heart
hath bled when I have heard of the Increase of
Popery. God is My Judge, it hath been such a great
Grief unto Me, that it hath been like Thorns in My
Eyes, and Pricks in My Sides; so far have I been,
and ever shall be, from turning any other Way.
And, My Lords and Gentlemen, ye all shall be My
Confessors, that, if I knew any Way better than
other to hinder the Growth of Popery, I would take
it; for knowing that I do, and being persuaded as I
am, I could not be an honest Man and do otherwise:
And this I may say further, that, if I be not a Martyr,
I am sure I am a Confessor; and in some Sense I may
be called a Martyr, as in the Scripture Isaac was persecuted by Ismaell in mocking Words; for never King
suffered more by ill Tongues than I have done, and I
am sure for no other Cause. And yet I have been
far from Persecution; for I have ever thought no
Way more increaseth any Religion than Persecution,
according to that Saying, That sanguis martyrum is
semen ecclesiæ. Now, My Lords and Gentlemen, I
will not only grant the Substance of what you crave,
but add something more of My own; for the Two
Trearies being already annulled, as I have declared
them to be, that necessarily follows of itself which
you desire. It needs no more but that I declare by
Proclamation, which I am ready to do, That the
Jesuits and Priests do depart by a Day; but it cannot
be as you desire, by one Proclamation to be out of
all My Dominions; for a Proclamation here extends
but to this Kingdom. This I will do, and more: I
will command all My Judges, when they go their Circuits, to take the same Course, for putting all the
Laws against Recusants in Execution; that they were
wont to do before these Treaties; for the Laws be
still in Force, and were never dispensed with by Me,
and, God is my Judge, never were intended so
to be. But, as I told you in the Beginning of the
Parliament, you must give Me Leave to do as a
good Hotseman, sometimes to use the Rein, and not
always the Spur; so that now there needs only My
Declaration. And for the disarming, that is already
provided for by Law; and it shall be done as you desire. And more, I will take Order to prevent that
shameful Disorder of the resorting of My Subjects
in Numbers to the Houses of all Foreign Ambassadors; and of this I will advise with My Council, how
it may best be reformed. True it is, Houses of Ambassadors be Privileged Places; and, though they cannot take them out of their Houses, yet the Lord
Mayor and Mr. Recorder of London may take them
as they come from thence, and make some of them
Examples. Another Point I will add, concerning
the Education of the Children of Recusants, of
which I have had a principal Care, as My Lord of
Cant. and the Bishop of Winchester, and other Lords
of My Council, and indeed all My Council, can
bear Me Witness, with whom I have advised concerning this Matter; for, in good Faith, it is a Shame
that their Children should be so bred here, as if
they were brought up in Madrid or in Roome. So as
I grant you all that you desire and more, only I am
sorry that I was not the first Mover; and, if you had
not moved these Things to Me, yet I would have done
them Myself. Now for the last Part of your Petition, you have therein given Me the best Advice in
the World; for it is against the Rule of Wisdom that
a King should suffer any of His Subjects to be beholding and depend upon any other Prince than Himself; and what hath any King to do with the Laws
and Subjects of another Kingdom? Therefore assure yourselves, that, by the Grace of God, I will
be careful that no such Condition be hereafter foisted
in upon any other Treaty whatsoever; for it is fit that
My Subjects should stand or fall to their own Lord."
Report from the Committee for examining the Charge against the Ld. Treasurer.
The Lord Archbishop of Cant. reported also to the
House, That the Committee appointed to examine the
Complaint of the Commons against the Lord Treasurer
have met, and examined divers Witnesses, who were
sworn here in the House; and have made a Collection
of Part of the said Charge.
Mr. Attorney read the same, in hæc verba: videlicet,
Part of the Lord Treasurer's Charge.
1. The Farmers of the Petty Farms of Wines and
Currants having sustained great Loss in their Farm,
by an Impost of Three Pounds upon the Tun of
Wines newly set, were long and instant Suitors to
the Lord Treasurer for Relief; but, finding none,
exhibited their Bill into the Exchequer; and, after a
Petition to His Majesty for Reparation of their Loss,
and after a gracious Answer from His Majesty, the
Lord Treasurer agreed with them upon a Recompence
of Nine Thousand Five Hundred Pound, to be defalked by One Thousand Pound per Annum out of
their Rent; yet, after this Agreement made, he protracted their Warrant about Six Months; and, in the
End, took of them a Bribe of Five Hundred Pounds
for their Dispatch, which was set upon the Account
of the Petty Farms; but, since the Summons of the
Parliament, by his Lordship's Direction, the same was
posted to the Account of the Great Farm.
2. The Lord Treasurer being presented with a
Tun of Wine by the Farmers of the Petty Customs,
and not contented therewith, exacteth Money of them,
who were thereupon drawn to give him an Hundred
Pounds.
3. The Farmers of the Great Farm having, by
their Lease, covenanted to give Security for Payment
of their Rent, divided their Farm into Thirty-two
Parts, appointing every Partner to give Security of
Fifteen Hundred Pounds for every Part. Five of the
Partners relinquishing their Parts, the Security sell
short Seven Thousand Five Hundred Pounds; whereupon the Four Patentees, resuming those Five Parts
to themselves, tendered their own Security, which
his Lordship agreed to accept; yet protracted them
about Three Quarters of a Year, until they gave
him Five Hundred Pounds for his Dispatch; and
whereas his Lordship pretends, by his Answer to
the House of Commons, that he had this Five Hundred Pounds, and the other Five Hundred Pounds first
mentioned, in one intire Sum, for Four Thirty-two
Parts of that Great Farm; it appeareth his Lordship
had no Parts at all in that Farm.
4. George Herriott, having the Farm of Sugars
upon a Rent of Ten Thousand Marks per Annum,
the Lord Treasurer procured Herriott to surrender
that Lease; and, to effect the same, gives Order for
Payment of Fourteen Thousand Eight Hundred and
Sixty-five Pounds, due to Herriot for Jewels; all
which was paid between the 15th of December 1621,
and the 10th of January following. This Lease
was no sooner surrendered, but the Lord Treasurer
procures a Lease unto Two of his Servants, by Indenture, dated 13 Jan. 1621, for One and Twenty
Years, at Two Thousand Pounds Rent per Annum,
which Rent his Lordship paid so slowly, that, there
having but Four Thousand Pounds thereof grown
due since the Lease, Three Thousand Pounds thereof
was paid on and since the 31st of December last; and
whereas the Merchants importing any Merchandize,
and paying the Duties, are freed to export within
the Year, without any new Payments; this is observed in all other Farms, but is denied in this, for the
Lord Treasurer's Benefit.
5. The City of London having yielded to a Composition for Grocery Ware, which the Out-Ports,
and in particular the City of Bristol, refused; upon
long Debate and Advisement, in the Time of the
Lord Treasurer Salisbury, it was resolved they should
not be pressed thereto; nevertheless, the Lord Treasurer hath given Warrant to levy that Composition
upon the Merchants of the Out-Ports, against their
Wills, or else to stay the Landing of their Goods;
which hath been put in Execution accordingly.
6. In December 1618, His Majesty, upon great
Deliberation and Advisement, did set forth Instructions very sitting and necessary for the Well-ordering
of the Court of Wards. The Lord Treasurer, becoming Master of the Wards, and, for his own private Gains, aiming at an Alteration of those Instructions, first procured a Reference to divers of the
Council to consider thereof; yet after waived that
Reference, and, by his own Power and Greatness
with the Officers of the Court, though much against
their Wills, and by Misinformation of His Majesty,
though much to the Disadvantage of the King and Subject, in the Year 1622, procures new Instructions,
thereby taking the Petitions from the Clerk of the Court,
and appropriating them to himself and his Secretary, who takes great Rewards of the Subject for
procuring Answers to the same; and, by Colour of
those new Instructions, he doubles the Fee of Continuances of Liveries; and having to himself concealed Wardships, he may easily make Wardships
concealed by the Course of the new Instructions.
Also he hath made a Stamp, and delivered the same
to his Secretary to be used, thereby most unlawfully
putting into the Hands of his Secretary the greatest
Part of the Power and Trust appertaining to the Office of Master of the Wards; which the Secretary
hath used, stamping therewith, in the Absence of the
Master, Tenders, Continuances, Warrants to the
Great Seal, Grants of Wardships and Leases, Indentures of Liveries, etc. And where, by the Privy Seal
of 6° Jac. there was an Allowance settled, for the
Ordinary of the Office of Ordnance; which being
put out of Order in the Time of Sir Roger Dalison,
in Anno 1617, the Lords, upon Reference from His
Majesty, set, under their Hands, a Proportion of
Supply. And in Anno 1620, the Lord Treasurer
himself, with the rest of the Commissioners of the
Navy, set down a new Proportion, both for present
Supply and future upholding that Office; his Lordship, being Treasurer for the Space of Two Years and
a Half, hath observed none of these Proportions or
Establishments, whereby the Stores are in Effect
wholly unfurnished.
And there being a Contract made with Mr. Evelyn,
by himself and other Commissioners, for His Majesty,
for serving His Majesty with Gunpowder, being a
Bargain of high Consequence to have been kept, his
Lordship hath also neglected and broken that Bargain,
to the Hazard of the Kingdoms, and Prejudice of
the King.
He hath also made unlawful Bargains for the
Lands of Sir Roger Dalison, wherein, for compassing
those Lands, he had contracted to do his Endeavour
to procure Payment of Eight Thousand Pounds of
old Arrears, which he performed when he became
Treasurer, and to pay for the Land, with making of
Baronets and Suits to the King, and in particular
with a Suit for compounding with His Majesty's Copyholders of Wakefeild, valued by himself worth Two
Thousand Pounds; and having agreed with Sir Thomas Dalison and the Officers of the Ordnance, he,
to gain indirectly, and by oppressive Means, an
Estate which Sir Roger Dalison had passed to Sir
Richard Smyth and Sir John Davy, (fn. *) setteth on
Foot an Outlawry of Sir Roger Dalison's, and thereby
dispossesseth Sir Richard Smyth and Sir John Davy,
who had been in Possession by a Trial at Law, using
the Power of his Place, and Countenance of the
King's Service, to wrest them out of a Lease and
Estate of a great Value."
Ld. Treasurer's Charge to be sent to him.
And it is Ordered, That the said Part of the
Lord Treasurer's Charge shall be sent unto him this
Day, by Mr. Serjeant Davis and Mr. Serjeant Finch.
To answer it at the Bar.
And it is further Ordered, That the Lord Treasurer appear here on Thursday next, at Nine of the
Clock in the Morning, to answer his Charge at the Bar.
His Witnesses to be sworn before his Appearance.
And also, That, if the Lord Treasurer hath any Witnesses to be examined, he may present their Names to
the House, to be sworn and examined here between this
and the same Day.
And, Memorandum, That it is Ordered by the House,
That the Lords Sub-committees for Privileges, etc. shall
see this Entry made in the Journal Book: videlicet,
Whereas, by the ancient Customs of this House,
the Parties accused and complained of are to receive
their Charge at the Bar; yet at this Time, in regard
the Prince and many other Lords are necessarily to
attend the King at Windsore, for the solemnizing of
St. George's Feast, and cannot return to be here till
Thursday next; therefore, for gaining of Time, and
also that the Lord Treasurer might have this Time
to prepare his Answer; it was Agreed, That his
Charge shall be sent unto him in Writing. But this
to be no Precedent for the future."
Adjourn.
Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli declaravit præsens
Parliamentum continuandum esse usque in horam 2m
hujus diei, in pomeridiano, Dominis sic decernentibus.
Post meridiem,
Domini (fn. *) tam Spirituales quam Temporales, quorum nomina subscribuntur, præsentes fuerunt:
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Carolus Princeps Walliæ, etc.
p. Archiepus. Cant.
Archiepus. Eborum.
Epus. London.
Epus. Dunelm.
Epus. Winton.
Epus. Petriburg.
Epus. Hereforden.
Epus. Wigorn.
Epus. Norwicen.
p. Epus. Roffen.
Epus. Glocestren.
Epus. Carlien.
p. Epus. Co. et Lich.
Epus. Bath. et W.
Epus. Bangor.
Epus. Elien.
Epus. Cicestren.
p. Epus. Oxon.
p. Epus. Cestren.
Epus. Landaven.
p. Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Exon.
Epus. Meneven.
p. Epus. Bristol.
Epus. Asaphen. |
p. Epus. Lincoln, Ds. Custos Mag. Sigilli.
Comes Midd. Magnus Thesaur. Angliæ.
P. Vicecomes Maundevill, Præsidens Concilii Domini Regis.
Comes Wigorn, Ds. Cust. Privati Sigilli.
Dux Buck. Magnus Admirallus Angliæ.
Marchio Winton.
Comes Oxon, Magnus Cam. Angliæ.
Comes Arundell et Surr.
Comes Maresc. Angliæ.
Comes Cantabr. Senesc. Hospitii.
Comes Pembroc, Camerar. Hospitii.
Comes Northumbriæ.
Comes Nottingham.
Comes Salop.
Comes Kanciæ.
Comes Derbiæ.
Comes Rutland.
Comes Cumbriæ.
p. Comes Sussex.
Comes Huntingdon.
Comes Bath.
Comes South'ton.
Comes Bedd.
Comes Hertford.
p. Comes Essex.
p. Comes Lincoln.
Comes Suffolciæ.
Comes Dorsett.
Comes Sarum.
Comes Exon.
Comes Mountgomery.
p. Comes Bridgewater.
Comes Leicestriæ.
Comes North'ton.
Comes Warwic.
Comes Devon.
Comes March.
Comes Holdernesse.
Comes Carlile.
Comes Denbigh.
Comes Bristol.
Comes Anglisey.
Vicecomes Mountague.
p. Vicecomes Wallingford.
Vicecomes Purbeck.
Vicecomes Maunsfeild.
Vicecomes Colchester.
Vicecomes Rochford.
Vicecomes Andever.
Vicecomes Tunbridge.
Ds. Abergavenny.
Ds. Audley.
Ds. Zouch.
Ds. Willoughby de E.
Ds. Delawarr.
p. Ds. Berkley.
Ds. Morley et Mont.
Ds. Darce de Herst.
Ds. Stafford.
Ds. Scroope.
P. Ds. Duddley.
Ds. Stourton.
Ds. Herbert de Shep.
Ds. Darcy de Men.
Ds. Vaux.
Ds. Windsore.
Ds. Wentworth.
Ds. Mordant.
Ds. St. John de Bas.
p. Ds. Cromewell.
Ds. Evre.
p. Ds. Sheffeild.
p. Ds. Pagett.
p. Ds. North.
p. Ds. St. John de Blet.
p. Ds. Howard de Wal.
Ds. Wootton.
p. Ds. Russell.
Ds. Grey de Groby.
p. Ds. Petre.
p. Ds. Danvers.
p. Ds. Spencer.
p. Ds. Say et Seale.
p. Ds. Denny.
Ds. Stanhope de Har.
Ds. Carewe.
Ds. Arundell de W.
Ds. Haughton.
Ds. Teynham.
Ds. Stanhope de H.
Ds. Noel.
Ds. Brooke.
p. Ds. Mountague.
Ds. Cary de Lep.
Ds. Kensington.
p. Ds. Grey de W. |
Maintenance of Hospitals, etc.
THE Lords Committees on the Bill for better
Maintenance of Hospitals are to meet on Saturday next
Week: videlicet, the First of May, at Two in the Afternoon, in the Painted Chamber.
Confirmation of Do.
The Lords Committees on the Bill for Confirmation
and Continuance of Hospitals are to meet on Friday
next, the 30th of this April, at Two, in the Painted
Chamber.
Concealments.
The Lords Committees on the Bill concerning Concealments are to meet on Thursday next, the 29th of this
April, at Two, in the Painted Chamber.
Sir Peter Vanlore's Bill.
Hodie 1a
vice lecta est Billa, An Act to make void
certain Assurances, fraudulently made, and set on Foot,
by Sir Richard Lydall, Knight, in Deceit of Sir Peter
Vanlore, Knight; and to settle and invest the Possession
and Interest of the Leases assigned thereby in the said
Sir Peter Vanlore, according to other Conveyances made
thereof.
Dallson's Petition.
The Petition of Sir Thomas Dalison was read, concerning the Extent of the Lands of his Father Sir
Roger Dalison, deceased, and purchased by the Lord
Treasurer; and committed to the Lords Committees appointed this Morning for the Petition of Sir Thomas
Mounson, concerning the said Extent.
Juratus in causa Domini Thesaurarii:
Witness in Ld. Treasurer's Cause. His Oath.
John Gardyner.
To make true Answers unto such Questions as shall
be demanded of him by the House, or any Committee appointed by the House.
Starkey's Bill.
The Lords Committees on the Bill concerning Ralphe
Starkey are to meet on Monday next, at Two, in the
Painted Chamber.
Mr. Serjeant Davis and Mr. Serjeant Finch were sent
to the Lord Treasurer, with that Part of his Charge
which was read this Morning by Mr. Attorney, with this
Order: videlicet,
"Die Sabbati, 24° Aprilis, 1624.
Ld. Treasurer ordered to tend to answer his Charge at the Bar.
It is this Day Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal in this High Court of Parliament assembled, That the Lord Treasurer appear here on
Thursday next, at Nine of the Clock in the Morning, to answer his Charge at the Bar; and also that,
if the Lord Treasurer hath any Witnesses to be examined, he may present their Names to the House, to
be sworn and examined here between this and the
same Day.
"Henr. Elsynge,
"Clericus Parliamentorum."
The Messengers were also commanded to deliver this
Message to the Lord Treasurer: videlicet,
Message to the Ld. Treasurer.
That this is said to be but Part of the Charge, because there are other Things against him, which are yet
in Examination; which when they shall be reported to
the House, his Lordship shall be charged therewith, if
the House think them fit.
Adjourn.
Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque in diem Lunæ, videlicet, 26m diem Aprilis proximum, hora nona, Dominis
sic decernentibus.