Jovis, 14o Aprilis

French Company's Patent.

SIR Wm. Strode moveth for an Order for the French to be sent for to attend with their Patent this Afternoon, at the Committee in this House: And ordered accordingly.

Taxes, &c.

L. 1. An Act concerning Taxes and Impositions upon Merchants, and other Subjects of the Realm, and upon their Wares, Goods, and Chattels.

Apesley's Estate.

L. 1. An Act for Confirmation of the Sale of certain Lands and Tenements in Fletton, in the County of Huntingdon, according to the last Will and Testament of Edw. Apesley Knight, deceased, for the Payment of his Debts.

Mayors, &c. sitting in Parliament.

Mr. Fuller reporteth, that, by a general Consent, Mr. Berry, Bailiff of Ludlow, and that hath returned himself, should be removed.

But for the other Mayors and Bailiffs which have returned themselves; that, because the Cases might differ, and the Particulars then not examined, the Committees thought not fit then further to proceed in any Resolution for any of them.

Privilege.

And for Sir Wm. Bampfeild's Case; that committed, before Election, for a Contempt for not accepting the Offer for Sir Jo. Wentworth.

Mayors, &c. sitting in Parliament.

For Berry, Question, Whether he shall be removed, and a new Choice : - Resolved, affirmatively: Principally, because he confessed openly, he was a Bailiff, &c.

Sir Ro. Hitcham, Sir Geo. Moore, and Mr. Duncombe, - to have all removed that are in Berry's Case.

Mr. Weare : - Quaestio juris, et facti. For the Law, they resolved no Mayor, or Bailiff, that returns himself, may serve here: But the Question of the Fact; if it appear not by the Return, or by their own Confession, no Proof against them ; where proceeded against Berry upon his own Confession.

Mr. Ashley moveth, there may be a Question whether any Mayor, or Bailiff, that returneth himself, may serve as a Member of this House.

Question, Whether all Mayors, and Bailiffs, that are in Berryes Case, shall be removed : - Resolved, Yea.

Conference desired.

Mr. Secretary, with divers principal Members of the House, sent up with a Message to the Lords, to pray a Conference about the Palsgrave's Bill.

Privilege.

Question, Whether Sir Wm. Bampfeild, committed after the Summons, and before the Election, for a Contempt, - Ordered, upon the Question, That he shall have his Privilege, by Writ of Habeas Corpus.

Santie's Petition.

The Petition of Jo. Santie to be referred to the Committees for Privileges; and they to see the Order made last Parliament in that Business.

E. of Dorset's Hospital.

L. 1. An Act for the Founding and Establishing of a College or Hospital in the Town of East Grinsteade, in the County of Sussex, according to the Intention of the late Right honourable Robert Earl of Dorsett, for 31 Persons;

and for incorporating the said 31 Persons, and enabling them with Maintenance and Revenue, according to the last Will of the said Earl.

Elector Palatyne, &c.

Mr. Secretary reporteth, that the Lords accept the Conference, this Morning, in the Painted Chamber:

Their Number to Forty.

Mr. Sidney Mountague moveth, first for a Committee, to consider of the Substance of the Conference.

Mr. Attorney : - That in this Bill special Care taken to honour the Palatyne. - No Thought, but the Issue Female of a Male should inherit the Crown.

Mr. Crew: - To send up to the Lords - Eighty to be named.

Mr. Secretary, and Mr. Chancellor sent, to shew the House's Acceptance accordingly.

Mr. Secretary, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Chancellor of the Duchy, Sir Tho. Lake, Mr. Attorney-general, Mr. Solicitor, Mr. Tho. Crew, Mr. Whitlocke, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Francis Moore, Mr. Tho. Fanshaw, Mr. Attorney of the Duchy, Sir Ro. Gardyner, Sir Jo. Bennett, Sir Tho. Cheeke, Sir Dudley Diggs, Sir Edw. Mountague, Sir Christopher Hatton, Mr. Chibborne, Mr. Jones, Sir Ro. Rich. Mr. Finch, Sir Gilbert Haughton, Sir Myles Fleetwood, Sir Edwyn Sands, Mr. Attorney of the Wards, Sir Tho. Low, Sir Tho. Smyth, Sir Olyver Luke, Sir Tho. Grantham, Sir Tho. Heyward, Sir Henry Rich, Sir Jo. Strangwayes, Sir Herbert Crofts, Sir Ro. Phillippes, Sir Jo. Brooke, Sir Jo. Morley, Sir Henry Howard, Mr. Rich. Cicill, Mr. Bing, Sir H. Savyle, Sir Olyver Cromwell, Sir George Manners, Sir Roger Owen, Sir Edw. Gyles, Sir Tho. Denton, Sir Jo. Sammes, Mr. Rich. Berkley, Sir Rich. Weston, Sir Francis Popham, Sir Maurice Berkeley, Sir Charles Wilmott, Sir Wm. Borlacy, Sir Francis Lea, Sir Ro. Cooke, Mr. Duncombe, Mr. Whitson, Sir Tho. Jarratt, Sir Mervyn Awdeley, Mr. Hackwill, Sir George Moore, Mr. Middleton, Sir Rich. Tichborne, Sir Phillipp Carye, Mr. Freake, Sir Jo. Scott, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Hitchcocke, Sir Tho. Grymes, Sir James Scydamore, Mr. Nanton, Sir Warwick Heale, Sir Alexander St. John, Sir Jerome Horsey, Sir Wm. Browne, Sir Robert Sidney, Sir Wm. Tay, Mr. Leonard, Sir Robert Mansell, Sir Guy Palmes: - Mr. Attorney-general to open the Matter to the Lords.

Tenants in Tail.

L. 1. An Act to enable Tenant in Tail to sell his Lands, notwithstanding the Reversion or Remainder be conditionally conveyed unto the King's Majesty.

Elector Palatyne, &c.

Mr. Attorney reporteth, that, after Matter of good Manner to the Lords, he put them the Case ; whereby the Doubt appeared, and the Means of clearing the Doubt. - That the House tasted better the Addition, than Diminution. - The Words to be added, " by any other Husband." - That the Lords, with much Commendation, allowed the Wisdom and Proceedings of the House. -

Moveth, for Order, some may retire into the Committee Chamber, to make the Amendment.

The Amendments made ; and these Words, " by any other Husband," set down in Paper, and so annexed to the said Bill. The Amendments twice read by the Clerk. After, the Bill and Amendments the third Time read by the Clerk. After, the said Bill and Amendments read the third Time, by Mr. Speaker, for want of a Breviate.

That done, Mr. Speaker made the Question, Whether the said Bill, with the said Amendments, should pass.

The Bill, with the Amendments, upon the Question, whether .......