House of Lords Journal Volume 17: 27 April 1702

DIE Lunæ, 27 Aprilis.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

PRAYERS.

Lords take the Oaths.

This Day William Lord Bishop of Landaffe took the Oaths, and made and subscribed the Declaration, pursuant to the Statute; and also took the Oath of Abjuration, and subscribed the same, pursuant to the late Act of Parliament. Also,

John Lord Haversham took the Oath of Abjuration, and subscribed the same, pursuant to the late Act of Parliament.

Bagenall's Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for the Relief of Nicholas Bagenall Esquire, with relation to the forfeited Estates in Ireland."

ORDERED, That the Consideration of the said Bill be committed to the Lords following; (videlicet,)

Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet on Wednesday the Nine and Twentieth Day of this Instant April, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

Message from H. C. with Bills; and to return Balsal Hospital Bill.

A Message from the House of Commons, by the Earl of Dysert and others:

Who brought up a Bill, intituled, "An Act for erecting Hospitals and Workhouses, within the Town of Sudbury, in the County of Suffolke, for the better employing and maintaining the Poor thereof;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Sir John Mordaunt and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for the better Government of the Hospital of Balsall, in the County of Warwick, founded by the Lady Katherine Leveson;" and to acquaint this House, that they have agreed to the same, with an Amendment, whereunto they desire their Lordships Concurrence.

Which was read Thrice, and agreed to; and ORDERED, That the Commons have Notice thereof.

A Message from the House of Commons, by Sir Jacob Banks and others:

Who brought up a Bill, intituled, "An Act for the Relief of Colonel Henry Luttrell, with relation to the forfeited Estates in Ireland;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Colonel Luttrel's Bill.

Hodie 1^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for the Relief of Colonel Henry Luttrell, with relation to the forfeited Estates in Ireland."

Messages from H. C. with Bills; and to return Mathews's.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Snell and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for vesting the Estate of William Mathews Gentleman and Katherine his Wife in Trustees, to be sold, for the Purposes therein mentioned;" and to acquaint this House, that they have agreed to their Lordships Amendments made to the said Bill.

A Message from the House of Commons, by Sir John Bowles and others:

Who brought up a Bill, intituled, "An Act for the re-building and repairing the Piers of the Town and Port of Whitby, in the County of York;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

A Message from the House of Commons, by Mr. Bertie and others:

Who brought up a Bill, intituled, "An Act for Sale of certain Manors and Lands of John late Earl of Exeter, for Payment of the Debts, and Performance of the Will of the said Earl;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Ranger versus Ashmead, in Error:

After hearing Counsel, this Day, at the Bar, to argue the Errors assigned by Charles Ranger, in a Writ of Error brought into this House the Fourth Day of March last, from a Judgement given in the Court of King's Bench, with the Affirmance thereof in the Exchequer Chamber, to which Christopher Ashmeade is Defendant, upon an Action of Trespass against the Plaintiff in the Writ of Error (and one Edward Hort, since deceased) for breaking and entering his Close, and cutting down his Trees, in the Parish of Crudwell, in the County of Wilts; and due Consideration of what was offered thereupon:

Judgement affirmed.

It is Resolved and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said Judgement, given for Christopher Ashmeade, in the Court of King's Bench, and the Affirmation thereof in the Exchequer Chamber, against the said Charles Ranger, shall be, and is hereby, reversed; and that the Record and Affirmation thereof be remitted.

The Tenor of which Judgement, to be affixed to the Transcript of the Record, followeth; (videlicet,)

"Et postea, scilicet, Vicesimo Septimo Die Novembris, Anno Regni Domini Nostri Gul. Tertii nunc Regis Angl. &c. Tertio Decimo, dictus Dominus Rex Gul. Tertius mandavit Dilecto et Fideli suo Joh'i Holt Militi, Capital. Justic. ejusdem Domini Regis ad Placita coram ipso Rege tenend. assign. Breve suum Clausum in hæc Verba, ss. "Guliel. Tertius, Dei Gratia, Angl. Scot. Franc. et Hib'niæ Rex, Fidei Defensor, &c. Dilecto et Fideli Nostro Joh'i Holt Militi Capitali Justic. Nostro ad Placita coram Nobis tenend. assign. Salutem. Quia in Record. et Process. cujusdem Loquelæ quæ fuit in Cur. Nostra coram Nobis per Bill. inter X'poserum Ashmead et Carol. Ranger Jun. et Edwardum Hort jam defunct. de quadam Transgress. eidem X'pofero per præfat. Carol. et Edwardum illat. ac etiam in Redditione Judicii versus præfat. Carol. in Loquela præd. ut dicitur, quæ quidem Record. et Process. Causa Error. intervenient. coram Justic. Nostris de Communi Banco et Baronibus de Scaccario Nostro in Camera Scaccarii venire fecimus, et Judicium inde coram Justic. Nostris de Communi Banco et Baronibus Nostris de Scaccario Nostro vers præfat. Carolum affirmat. est, Error intervenit manifestus, ad grave Dampnum ipfius Carol. sicut ex Querela sua accepimus; Nos Errorem, si quis fuit, Modo debito corrigi, et Partibus præd. plenam et celerem Justitiam sieri volentes in hac Parte, vobis mandamus, quod si Judicium inde coram Nobis reddit. sit, ac in Camera Scaccarii Nostri præd. coram præfat. Justic. Nostris de Communi Banco et Baronibus de Scaccario Nostro præd. affirmat. est, tunc Record. et Process. præd. cum omnibus ea tangen. Nobis in prox. Parliamento tenend. Tricesimo Die Decembris prox. sequen. distincte er aperte sine Dilatione mittatis, et hoc Breve; ut, inspectis Recordo et Processu præd. ulterius inde de Assensu Dominorum Spiritualium et Temporalium in eodem Parliamento existen. pro Error. ill. corrigendo fieri facimus quod de Jure et secundum Legem et Consuetudinem Regni Nostri Angl. finit. faciend. Teste Meipso, apud Westm. Vicesimo Septimo Die Novembris, Anno Regni Nostri Tertio Decimo." Virtute cujus quidem Brevis, dictus Capital. Justic. Record. et Process. præd. dicto Domino Regi nunc in præsenti Parliamento suo, propriis Manibus suis protulit, secundum Exig. Brevis præd. Posteaque, scilicet, Die Mercurii, Undecimo Die Martii, Anno Regni Dominæ Annæ nunc Reginæ Angl. &c. Primo (ante quem Diem, scilicet, Octavo Die ejusdem Mensis Martii, dictus Dominus Gulielmus Tertius Diem suum clausit extremum), præd. Carolus per Ric'um Milner Attorn, suum coram dicta Domina Regina in præsenti Parliamento suo apud Westm. in Com. Midd'x assemblat. ven. et dicit, quod in Record. et Process. præd. necnon in Redditione Judicii præd. ac etiam in Affirmatione ejusdem Judicii, manifeste est Erratum in hoc, videlicet, Quod præd. Dampna Octo Librarum et Unius Solidi, pro Inquisitione præd. in Forma præd. compert. Occasione Transgress. præd. quoad Fractionem et Intrationem Clausii præd. ac Succisionem et Prostrationem præd. Quinque Ulmorum, fuerunt et sunt valde immoderata et excessiva, eo quod Valor ipsorum Ulmorum in Dampn. ill. compert. content. et assess. ac præfat. X'pofero allocat. fuit, ubi Valor ille in ea Parte minime contineri, assideri, five considerari debuit; Ideo in eo manifeste est Errat. Erratum est etiam in hoc, videlicet, quod ubi per Record. præd. apparet, quod Judicium in Loquela præd. reddit. reddit. et affirmat. fuit pro præd. X'pofero Ashmead, versus ipsum Carolum Ranger, Judicium in eodem Placito per Legem Terræ hujus Regni Angl. reddi et affirmari debuisset pro eodem Carolo, versus præfat. X'poserum: Ideo in eo manifestest Errat. Et petit idem Carolus, quod Judicium præd. necnon Affirmatio ejusdem, ob Error. præd. et al. in Record. et Process. præd. existen. revocentur, adnullentur, et penitus pro nullo habeantur; et quod ipse idem Carolus ad omnia quæ ipse Occasione Judicii præd. necnon Affirmation. ejusdem, amisit, restituatur, &c. Super quo, præd. X'poferus Ashmead, per Adrian. Moore Attorn. suum, ven. et dicit, quod nec in Record. et Process. præd. nec in Redditione Judicii præd. neque in Affirmatione ejusdem Judicii, in ullo est Erratum; et pet. quod Curia Parliamenti nunc hic procedat ad Examinationem tam Recordi et Process. præd. quam Materiarum præd. superius pro Error. assign.; et quod Judicium præd. ac Affirmatio ejusdem in omnibus affirmentur, &c. Et quia Cur. Parliamenti nunc hic, scilicet, apud Westm. in Com. Midd'x, assemblat. de Judicio suo de et super Præmiss. reddend. nondum advisatur, Dies inde dat. est Partibus præd. coram eadem Cur. usque ad Diem Lunæ, Vicesimum Septimum Diem Aprilis ex tunc prox. sequen. apud Westm. in Com. Midd'x, de Judicio suo inde audiendo, co quod eadem Curia Parliamenti inde nondum &c. Ad quem Diem, coram Curia Parliamenti præd. ven. Partes præd. per Attornatos suos præd.; super quo, vis. et per eandem Cur. Parliamenti nunc hic plenius intellect. omnibus et singulis Præmissis, maturaque Deliberatione inde habita, videtur eidem Cur. Parliamenti nunc hic, quod in Record. et Process. Reddition. Judicii præd. necnon in Affirmatione ejusdem Judicii per Curlam Cameræ Scaccarii præd. manifeste est Erratum: Ideo consideratum est per eandem Curiam Parliamenti præd. Judicium præd. necnon Affirmatio ejusdem per Curiam Cameræ Scaccarii præd. revocentur, adnullentur, et penitus pro nullo habeantur; et quod idem Carolus ad omnia quæ ipse Occasione Judicii præd. ac Affirmatione ejusdem amisit restituatur, &c."

Adjourn.

Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Martis, vicesimum octavum diem instantis Aprilis, hora undecima Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.