House of Lords Journal Volume 18: 17 March 1707

DIE Lunæ, 17 Martii.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

PRAYERS.

Message from H. C. with a Bill.

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

Who brought up a Bill, intituled, "An Act for continuing the Duties upon Houses, to secure a Yearly Fund for circulating Exchequer Bills, whereby a Sum not exceeding Fifteen Hundred Thousand Pounds is intended to be raised, for carrying on the War, and other Her Majesty's Occasions;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Duties upon House, for Exchequer Bills, Bill.

Hodie 1^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for continuing the Duties upon Houses, to secure a Yearly Fund for circulating Exchequer Bills, whereby a Sum not exceeding Fifteen Hundred Thousand Pounds is intended to be raised, for carrying on the War, and other Her Majesty's Occasions."

Message from H. C. with a Bill.

A Message from the House of Commons, by the Lord William Pawlet and others:

Who brought up a Bill, intituled, "An Act for the Relief of John Baker, his Mother, Brother, and Sisters, Widow and Children of Colonel Henry Baker, deceased;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Baker & al. Bill.

Hodie 1^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for the Relief of John Baker, his Mother, Brother, and Sisters, Widow and Children of Colonel Henry Baker, deceased."

Message from H. C. with Bill.

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

Who brought up a Bill, intituled, "An Act for continuing an Act made in the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and false Musters; and for the better Payment of the Army and Quarters;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Mutiny Bill.

Hodie 1^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for continuing an Act, made in the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and false Musters; and for the better Payment of the Army and Quarters."

Farmer's Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for vesting in Trustees, a Messuage and several Closes in Ratcliff Culey, in the County of Leicester, to be sold, upon the settling another Estate, of as great or greater Value, to the like Uses as the Lands to be sold are limited."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was Resolved in the Affirmative.

Message to H. C. with it.

A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by Sir Richard Holford and Mr. Pitt:

To carry down the said Bill, and desire their Concurrence thereunto.

Land Forces, &c. for recruiting, Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for the better recruiting Her Majesty's Land Forces and the Marines, for the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seven."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House, presently.

Then the House was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee thereupon.

After some Time, the House was resumed.

And the Lord Herbert reported, "That the Committee of the whole House had gone through the said Bill; and think it fit to pass, without any Amendment."

Thompson versus Ling, in Error.

Whereas Brian Thompson and Walter Wildboare brought into this House their Writ of Error, on the Seventh Day of this Instant March, to reverse a Judgement given in Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench, and the Affirmation thereof in Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, to which Brian Ling is Defendant; that, by the Standing Orders of this House, the Plaintiffs ought to have assigned Errors thereupon within Eight Days after bringing the same into this House, which they have not done; and the House being this Day moved, "That the said Writ of Error should be discontinued, for Want of Prosecution:"

Writ of Error discontinued.

It is therefore Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said Writ of Error shall be, and is hereby, discontinued; and that the Record shall be remitted, to the End Execution may be had, as if no such Writ of Error had been brought into this House.

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

Et Postea, seilicet, Decimo Septimo Die Martii, Anno Regni dictæ Dominæ Reginæ nunc Angl. &c. Sexto usque quem Diem præd. Brianus Thompson et Walterius habuerunt Licentiam Error. in Record. præd. assign. ven. præd. Brianus Ling; et præd. Brianus Thompson et Walterius non vener. nec Error. in Record. præd. assignaver.: Ideo considerat. est per eandem Cur. Parliamenti (eo quod præd. Brianus Thompson et Walterius Breve de Error. præd. non Proseccut. sunt) quod Record. et Process. præd. in præd. Cur. Dominæ Reginæ, coram ipsa Regina, remittantur, pro Executione inde pro eodem Briano Ling fiend."

Aynsworth's Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for the better Discovery of the Estate of John Aynsworth, late of London, Merchant."

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 Tuesday the First Day of April next, at Ten a Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

Adjourn.

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