House of Lords Journal Volume 3: 6 February 1626

Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 3, 1620-1628. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.

Citation:

'House of Lords Journal Volume 3: 6 February 1626', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 3, 1620-1628( London, 1767-1830), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol3/pp492-494 [accessed 16 November 2024].

DIE Lunæ, 6 die Februarii,

Anno Regni Serenissimi Domini Nostri Caroli, Dei Gratia, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ Regis, Fidei Defensoris, etc. Primo, Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales, quorum nomina subscribuntur, præsentes fuerunt:

Præsens REX.



Archiepus. Cant. Archiepus. Eborum. p. Epus. London. p. Epus. Dunelm. p. Epus. Winton. Epus. Petriburg. Epus. Hereforden. Epus. Wigorn. Epus. Norwicen. p. Epus. Roffen. p. Epus. Co. et Lich. p. Epus. Bath. et Well. p. Epus. Bangor. p. Epus. Elien. p. Epus. Cicestren. p. Epus. Oxon. p. Epus. Cestren. p. Epus. Landaven. Epus. Lincoln. Epus. Sarum. Epus. Exon. Epus. Meneven. p. Epus. Bristol. Epus. Assaphen. p. Epus. Gloucestren. Epus. Carlien.	p. Ds. Thomas Coventry, Miles, Ds. Custos Magni Sigilli. Comes Marleborough, Magnus Thesaur. Angliæ. p. Comes Manchester, Præsidens Concilii Domini Regis. p. Comes Wigorn, Ds. Custos Privati Sigilli, et Senesc. Hospitii. p. Dux Buckingham, Magnus Admirallus. Marchio Winton. p. Comes Arundel et Surr. Comes Marescallus Angliæ. p. Comes Pembroc, Camer. Hospitii. Comes Northumbriæ. Comes Salop. p. Comes Kanciæ. Comes Derbiæ. p. Comes Rutland. Comes Cumbriæ. p. Comes Sussex. Comes Huntington. Comes Bath. Comes Bedford. p. Comes Hertford. p. Comes Essex. Comes Lincoln. Comes Nottingham. Comes Suffolciæ. p. Comes Dorset. p. Comes Sarum. Comes Exon. p. Comes Mountgomery. p. Comes Bridgwater. Comes Leicestriæ. p. Comes North'ton. p. Comes Warwic. Comes Devon. p. Comes Cantabr. p. Comes Carlisle. p. Comes Denbigh. Comes Bristol. Comes Angles. Comes Holland. Comes Clare. p. Comes Bollingbrooke. p. Comes Westmerland. Comes Berk. p. Comes Cleveland. p. Comes Mulgrave. Comes Danby. p. Comes Tottnes. p. Comes Mounmouth. Vicecomes Mountague. Vicecomes Wallingford. Vicecomes Purbecke. Vicecomes Maunsfeild. Vicecomes Colchester. p. Vicecomes Rochford. p. Vicecomes Tunbridge. p. Vicecomes Say et Seale. p. Ds. Conway, Prin. Sec. Ds. Abergavenny. p. Ds. Audley. p. Ds. Willoughby de Er. Ds. Delawarr. p. Ds. Berkley. p. Ds. Morley et Mount. p. Ds. Dacres de Herst. Ds. Scroope. p. Ds. Duddeley. p. Ds. Stourton. Ds. Herbert de Shep. Ds. Darcy et Mennell. p. Ds. Vaux. Ds. Windsore. p. Ds. Mordant. Ds. St. John de Basing. Ds. Cromewell. Ds. Evre. Ds. Pagett. p. Ds. North. p. Ds. Howard de Walden. Ds. Wooton. p. Ds. Russell. Ds. Grey de Groby. Ds. Petre. p. Ds. Spencer. p. Ds. Denny. Ds. Stanhope de H. Ds. Arundell de W. p. Ds. Teynham. Ds. Stanhope de Sh. Ds. Noel. Ds. Brooke. p. Ds. Mountague. p. Ds. Grey de Warke. p. Ds. Deyncourt. Ds. Robarts. p. Ds. Vere.

King present.

HIS Majesty being placed in His Royal Throne, the Lords in their Robes, and the Commons below the Bar; it pleased His Majesty to speak unto them as followeth:

King's Speech.

"My Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and you Gentlemen all,

"Of Mine own Nature I do not love long Speeches; and I know I am not very good to speak much.

"Therefore I mean to shew what I should speak in Actions; and therefore I mean to bring in the old Customs, which many of My Predecessors have used before Me; which is, that My (fn. 1) [Lord] Keeper should tell you at large what I should speak to you in this Parliament."

The Lord Keeper, conferring first with His Majesty, spake as followeth:

"My Lords, and you the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the House of Commons,

L. Keeper's Speech.

"You are here assembled, by His Majesty's Writ and Regal Authority, to hold a Parliament, the general, ancient, and powerful Council of this Renowned Kingdom; whereof if we consider a-right, and think of that incomparable Distance between the Supreme Height and Majesty of Mighty Monarchs, and the submissive Awe and Lowliness of loyal Subjects, we cannot but receive exceeding Comfort and Contentment in the Frame and Constitution of this Highest Court; wherein not only the Prelates, Nobles, and Grandees, but the Commons of all Degrees, have their Part; and wherein that High Majesty doth descend to admit, or rather to invite, the humblest of His Subjects, to Conference and Council with our Sovereign, of the great, weighty, and difficult Affairs of the Kingdom; a Benefit and Favour whereof we cannot be too sensible, and thankful that we enjoy it; for sure I am, that all good Hearts would be sensible and sorrowful if we did want it. And therefore it behoves all, with united Hearts and Minds, free from Distraction and Diversion, to fix their Thoughts upon Councils and Consultations worthy of such an Assembly. Remember, that in it is represented the Majesty and Greatness, the Authority and Power, the Wisdom and Knowledge of this great and famous Nation; and it behoves us to bless and magnify God, that hath put the Power of assembling Parliaments into the Hands of Him, the Virtue in herent in whose Person doth strive with the Greatness of His Lineage and Descent, whether he should be accounted Major or Melior, a greater King or a better Man; and of whom you have had so much Trial and Experience, that He doth as affectionately love as He doth exactly know and understand the true Use of Parliaments: Witness His daily and unwearied Access to this House before His Access to the Crown, His Gracious Readiness in all Conferences of Importance, His frequent and effectual Intercession to His Blessed Father, of never-dying Memory, for the Good of the Kingdom, with so happy Success, that both this and future Generations shall feel it, and have Cause to rejoice at the Success of His Majesty's Intercession; and when the Royal Diadem descended upon Himself, presently, in the midst of His Tears and Sighs for the Departing of His most Royal and Dear Father, in His very first Consultations with His Privy Council, was resolved to meet His People in Parliament. And no sooner did the heavy Hand of that destroying Angel forbear those deadly Strokes, which for some Time made this Place inaccessible, but His Majesty presently resolved for to re-call it; and hath now brought you together, and in a happy Time I trust, to treat and consult, with uniform Desires and united Affections, of those Things that may concern the general Good. And now, being thus assembled, His Majesty hath commanded me to let you know, That as His Love and Affection to the Public moved Him to call this Parliament, so looking into the Danger of surviving or spreading that late Mortality, and weighing the Multitude of His Majesty's pressing Occasions and urging Affairs of State, both at Home and Abroad, much importing the Honour and Safety of this Kingdom, the same Affection that moved Him to call it doth forbid Him to prolong the Sitting of this Parliament. And therefore His Majesty, resolving to confine this Meeting to a short Time, hath confined me to a short Errand; and that is, That as Things most agreeable to His Kingly Office, to the Example of the best Times, and to the Frame of Modern Affairs, His Majesty hath called you together, to consult and advise of provident and good Laws, profitable for the Public, and fitting for the present Times and Occasions; for upon such depends the Assurance of Religion and Justice, which are the surest Pillars and Buttresses of all good Government in a Kingdom; for His Majesty doth consider, that the Royal Throne, on which God of His Mercy to us hath set Him, is the Fountain of all Justice; and that good Laws are the Streams and Quills, by which the Benefit and Use of this Fountain is dispersed to His People: And it is His Majesty's Care and Study, that His People may see, with Comfort and Joy of Heart, that this Fountain is not dry; but that they and their Posterity may rest assured and confident, in His Time, to receive as ample Benefit from this Fountain, by His Majesty's Mercy and Justice, as ever Subjects did in the Time of the most eminent Princes among His Noble Progenitors; wherein as His Majesty shews Himself most sensible of the Good of the Public, so were it an Injury to this great and honourable Assembly if it should be but doubted that they should not be as sensible of any Thing that may add to His Majesty's Honour, which cannot but receive a high Degree of Love and Affection, if His Majesty, succeeding so many wise, religious, and renowned Princes, should begin His Reign with some Additions unto those good Laws, which their happy and glorious Times have afforded. And this His Majesty hath Cause to desire at this Time especially above others; for His Majesty having, at His Royal Coronation, lately solemnized the Sacred Rites of that Blessed Marriage between Him and His People, and therein, by a most Holy Oath, vowed the Protection of the Laws, and Maintenance of Peace, both to the Church and People; no Time can be so fit for His Majesty to advise and consult at large with His People, as at this present Time, wherein so lately His Majesty hath vowed Protection to His People, and they have protested their Allegiance and Service to Him.

"This is the Sum of that Charge which I have received of His Majesty for to deliver unto you, wherein you see His Majesty's Intent to the Public; and therefore His Desire is, That, according to that Conveniency of Time which His Affairs may afford, you will apply yourselves for the Dispatch of the Business of this Parliament.

Commons directed to chuse a Speaker.

"And you of the House of Commons, for to you now I must speak, His Majesty's Pleasure is, that, according to your ancient Custom, you may resort to the House appointed for you, and there make Choice of a Speaker, whom His Majesty wisheth to be presented unto Him on Wednesday next."

Which being ended, the Lord Keeper commanded the Clerk to read the Names of Receivers and Triers of Petitions, which follow:

Les Receavors des Peticions d'Engleterr, d'Escoce, et d'Irland.

Receivers of Petitions.



Messire Randall Crew, Chr. et Cheif Justicier. Messire Johan Doddridge, Chr. et Justicier. Messire Jaques Whitlocke, Chr. et Justicier. Messire Robert Rich, Chr. Messire Edward Saltar, Chr.

Et ceux qui veulent delivrer leur Peticions eux baillent dedains six jours procheument ensuants.

Les Receavors des Peticions de Gascoigne et des autres Terres et Païs de par la Mere et des Isles.



Messire Johan Walter, Chr. et Cheif Baron del Exchequer le Roy. Messire Edward Bromley, Chr. et Baron d'Exchequer. Messire Will. Jones, Chr. et Justicier. Messire Charles Cæsar, Chr. et Docteur de Droit Civill. Messire Peter Mutton, Chr.

Et ceux qui veulent deliver leur Peticions eux baillent dedains six Jours procheument ensuants.

Les Triors des Peticions d'Engleterr, d'Escoce et d'Irland.



L'Archievesq de Canterbery. Le Baron Ley, Grande Tresorier. Le Viscount Maundevill, President du Counceill le Roy. Le Duc de Buckingham, Grande Admirall d'Engleterr. Le Count d'Arundell, Grande Marescall. Le Count de North'ton. Le Count de Warwic. Le Count de Carlile. Le Count de Clare. L'Evesq de Duresm. L'Evesq d'Ely. Le Baron Willoughby de Eresby. Le Baron Sheffeild. Le Baron Carew.

Touts ceux ensemble, ou quatre des Prelats et Seigneurs avantdits, appellants as eux les Serjaunts le Roy, quant serra busoigne, tiendront leur place en le Chambre de Tresorier.

Les Triors des Peticions de Gascoigne, et des autres Terres, et Pais de par la Mere et des Isles.



Le Count de Wircestre, Gardian du Pryvy Seale, et Seneschal du Maison le Roy. Le Count de Prembroc, Chamb'lein du Maison le Roy. Le Count d'Essex. Le Count de Dorsett. Le Count de Mountgomery. Le Count de Bridgewater. Le Count de Leicestre. Le Count de Holland. L'Evesq de Loundres. L'Evesq de Wircestre. L'Evesq de Co. et Lichfeild. Le Baron Wentworth. Le Baron Mountague.

Touts ceux ensemble, ou quatre des Prelats et Seigneurs avantdits, appellants as eux les Serjeants et aussil' Attorney duRoy, quant serra busoigne, tiendrount leur place en Chambre du Chamberleine.

Adjourn.

Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli, ex Jussu Domini Regis, continuavit præsens Parliamentum, usque in diem Mercurii, videlicet, octavum diem instantis Februarii, hora prima post meridiem.