House of Lords Journal Volume 20: 18 June 1717

DIE Martis, 18 Junii.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

PRAYERS.

Ambrose versus Ambrose:

After hearing Counsel, upon the Petition and Appeal of Elizabeth Ambrose, Widow and Relict of Jonathan Ambrose, late Citizen and Goldsmith of London, deceased; complaining of a Decree made in the Court of Chancery, the 29th of June 1716, in a Cause wherein Thomas Ambrose and Elizabeth his Wife were Plaintiffs, and the Appellants and others Defendants; and praying, That the same may be reversed; and that the Fitzwalter Estate, in the Appeal mentioned, may be decreed to be Part of the Personal Estate of her said Husband, and as such divided between her and her Children, according to the Custom of the City of London, and the Statute of Distribution; or at leastwise that the Appellant may have One Third Part of the Rents and Profits thereof for the Time past, and for the Time to come during her Life, as her Dower and Thirds thereout; and that she may be effectually relieved, as to this House shall seem meet:" As also upon the Answer of the said Thomas Ambrose and Elizabeth his Wife, and the Answer of Thomasin Ambrose, an Infant, by her Guardian and Uncle Christopher Tower Esquire, put in to the said Appeal; and due Consideration had of what was offered in this Cause:

Judgement affirmed.

It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said Petition and Appeal be, and is hereby, dismissed this House; and that the said Decree therein complained of be, and is hereby, affirmed.

Tenths, for better collecting, Bill.

Hodie 1^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for the better collecting and levying the Revenue of the Tenths of the Clergy."

Dumfreis, Duty on Ale, &c. Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for laying a Duty of Two Pennies Scots, or One Sixth Part of a Penny Sterling, upon every Pint of Ale or Beer that shall be vended or sold within the Town of Dumfreis and Privileges thereof, for paying the Debts of the said Town, and for building a Church, and making a Harbour there."

And, after some Time spent therein, the House was resumed.

And the Earl of Clarendon reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the said Bill; and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Heldt & al. Nat. Bill.

Ordered, That the Committee to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act to naturalize John Jacob Heldt, Theodore Van Rheden, and others," stands committed, be revived; and meet on Thursday Morning next.

Books concerning the Highways towards Staines, to be inspected.

Ordered, That the Parish. Officers of the several Parishes of Fulham, Hammersmith, Chiswick, Eling, Old Brentford, New Brentford, Isleworth, and Heston, in the County of Middlesex, do, upon Request to them made, permit Mr. John Gardiner, Agent for the Petitioners against the Bill, intituled, "An Act for repairing the Highways, from that Part of Counter's Bridge which lies in the Parish of Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, to The Powder Mills on the Road to Staines, and to Cranford Bridge, in the Road to Colnebrooke, in the said County," to inspect the several Books of Rates, Assessment, and Collection, for mending the Highways in the said Parishes, for the Four Years last past, and to take such Copies or Memorandums thereout as he shall think fit; and that the said Books, and every of them, be, at the Charge of the Petitioners, brought before this House, when they shall be heard before their Lordships upon their Petitions against the said Bill.

Adjourn.

Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Mercurii, decimum nonum diem instantis Junii, hora undecima Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.

Die Sabbati, 13 Julii, 1717,
hitherto examined by us,

Stamford.
Clarendon.
Rochester.
Say & Seale.
Coningesby.