Veneris, 1 die Decembris;
5° Gulielmi et Mariæ.
Prayers.
Justices of Peace in Wales.
MR. Lloyd, according to Order, presented to the
House a Bill for repealing a Clause, in the Statute
of 34 and 35° Hen VIIIth, by which the Justices of
Peace in Wales are limited to Eight in each County:
And the same was received.
The Bill was read the First time.
Resolved, That the Bill be read a Second time.
Duchy of Cornwall Leasing.
Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to
enable their Majesties to make Grants, Leases, and
Copies of Offices, Lands, and Hereditaments, Parcel
of their Duchy of Cornwall, or annexed to the same;
and for Confirmation of Leases and Grants already
made: And that Mr. Tracers do prepare, and bring in,
the same.
Free Proceedings in Parliament.
Colonel Granville, according to the Order of the
Day, reported from the Committee of the whole House,
to whom the Bill touching free and impartial Proceedings in Parliament was committed, That they had made
some Amendments 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: Where the same were once read
throughout, and then 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.
Supply Bill; importing Brandy, &c.
An ingrossed Bill for Repeal of the Clause, in the Act
made in the First Year of their Majesties Reign, for
prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France, which
prohibits the Importation of Brandy, was read the Third
time.
And an Amendment was proposed to be made in
Pr. 1. L. last, to leave out "Act," and insert "Acts,"
instead thereof:
And the same was, upon the Question severally put
thereupon, agreed unto by the House; and the Bill was
amended at the Table accordingly.
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the Title
be, An Act for repealing such Parts of several former
Acts, as prevent or prohibit the Importation of Foreign
Brandy, Aqua-Vitæ, and other Spirits, and Bacon, except
from France.
Ordered, That Sir Chr. Musgrave do carry the Bill to
the Lords, and desire their Concurrence thereunto.
Stockbridge Election.
A Petition of Henry Dawley Esquire was read; setting
forth, That the Petitioner was duly elected to serve in
this present Parliament, for the Borough of Stockbridg,
Com. Southampton; but the Bailiff of the said Borough
hath unduly returned Anth. Row Esquire, who was altogether a Stranger there; and many Votes for him were
obtained by extravagant Gifts: And praying Relief in
the said Matter.
Ordered, That the Examination and Consideration of
the said Petition be referred to the Committee of Privileges and Elections; And that they do report the Matter
thereof, with their Opinions therin, to the House.
Exporting Potters Clay.
A Petition of Edmund Warner Gentleman, was presented to the House, and read; setting forth, That the
Petitioners, and his Ancestors, have been, Time out of
Mind, Owners of an Estate wherein they have constantly
dug a Sort of Olay, only proper for making of white
Earthen-Ware, wherewith he hath always furnished the
Potters of England:—That, since the general Prohibition
of Commerce with France, the Dutch, who were used to
have the same Sort of Clay out of the French Conquest
in Flanders, have been furnished by your Petitioners:—
That the Customhouse-Officers, upon Pretence that the
Petitioners Clay was Fullers-Earth, seized several Vessels
thereof, going to Holland: Whereupon there hath been
two Tryals at the Exchequer-Bar; where it was found,
that the same was not Fullers-Earth, but Potters Clay:—
That the Committee for repealing a Clause in the Act
5° Eliz. having a Power to bring in a Clause to prevent
the Exportation of all Earth and Clay, it will be a great
Damage to the Petitioner's Inheritance: And praying to
be heard in the Premises.
Ordered, That the Examination and Consideration of
the said Petition be referred to the Committee to whom
the Bill, for repealing the 32d Article in the Statute of
5° Eliz. relating to Weavers of Cloth, is committed.
Committees.
Ordered, That all Committees be revived.
And then the House adjourned till To-morrow
Morning, Nine a Clock.