House of Commons Journal Volume 11: 10 April 1696

Veneris, 10 die Aprilis;

8 Gulielmi Tertii.

Prayers.

Royal Assent to Bills.

A MESSAGE from his Majesty, by Sir Fleetwood Shepherd, Gentleman-Usher of the Black Rod:

Mr. Speaker,

The King commands this Honourable House to attend him in the House of Peers, immediately.

Accordingly, Mr. Speaker, with the House, went up to attend his Majesty.

And, being returned;

Mr. Speaker reported, That his Majesty had been pleased to give the Royal Assent to the several publick and private Bills following; viz.

An Act for granting to his Majesty several Rates, or Duties, upon Houses, for making good the Deficiency of the clipped Money:

An Act for granting to his Majesty an additional Duty upon all French Goods and Merchandize:

An Act for the Continuing, Meeting, and Sitting of a Parliament, in case of the Death, or Demise, of his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors:

An Act for continuing Four former Acts, for preventing Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England:

An Act for raising the Militia for the Year 1696, although the Month's Pay, formerly advanced, be not repaid:

An Act for further regulating Elections of Members to serve in Parliament; and for the preventing irregular Proceedings of Sheriffs, and other Officers, in the electing and returning such Members:

An Act for continuing several former Acts, for punishing Officers and Soldiers who shall mutiny, or desert his Majesty's Service; and for punishing false Musters; and for Payment of Quarters; for One Year longer:

An Act for the Increase and Encouragement of Seamen:

An Act for preventing Frauds, and regulating Abuses, in the Plantation Trade:

An Act to encourage the bringing Plate into the Mint, to be coined; and for the further remedying the ill State of the Coin of the Kingdom:

An Act requiring the Practisers of the Law to take the Oaths, and subscribe the Declarations, therein mentioned:

An Act for Repair of the Highways between Wimondham and Attleborough, in the County of Norfolk:

An Act for impowering the Most Noble Ann Duchess of Buccleuch, and the Right Honourable James Earl of Dalkeith, her Son, of the Kingdom of Scotland, to grant Leases for improving a Piece of Ground in the Parish of St. Martin's in the Fields, in the County of Middlesex:

Royal Assent to Bills.

An Act to enable Trustees to raise Money for the making a wet Dock, and improving the Estate of the Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock, at Rotherhith, in the County of Surrey:

An Act to naturalize William, commonly called Viscount Tunbridge, and other Children of the Earl of Rochfort:

An Act for the better Improvement of a House and Ground in Great Queen-street:

An Act to enable Trustees to sell a Messuage, Garden, and Out-house, in Lincoln's-Inn Fields, late of Sir Robert Sawyer Knight, deceased; and for purchasing other Lands and Tenements, to be settled to the same Uses:

An Act for settling divers Lands, and Rents-charge, on the Rector of the Church of Maidwell, in the County of Northampton, and his Successors; and, in lieu thereof, for settling other Lands, and discharging Tythes belonging to the said Church, according to several Agreements between the Patron and the said Rector made upon the Inclosing of Lands in Maidwell; and afterwards, with Consent of the Ordinary, confirmed by several Decrees in the Court of Chancery:

An Act for settling the personal Estates of Richard Jones Esquire, and Mary Gyfford Spinster, Minors, in Trustees, for the Purposes therein mentioned:

An Act for the better supplying the City of Bristoll with fresh Water:

An Act for erecting of Hospitals and Work-houses within the City of Bristoll, for the better employing and maintaining the Poor thereof:

An Act for making good the last Will of Sir William Barkham Baronet, deceased; and vesting of Lands in Trustees, to be sold, for Payment of his Debts, and making Provision for his Children:

An Act to enable Sir Charles Heron Baronet to sell Lands for Payment of a Portion, and Debts:

An Act to enable Sir Thomas Wagstaffe Knight to raise and secure a Portion for Frances, his only Daughter, and Heir-apparent:

An Act for vesting a Moiety of the Manor of Shepton Mallet, in the County of Somerset, and a divided Moiety of the Manor of Wells, in the said County, in Trustees, to be sold, for Payment of a Mortgage charged thereon; and for making a Provision for the Maintenance of Mary the Wife of William Sands Esquire, and her Children:

An Act for making the Towns of Stretton, and PrinceThorpe, a separate Parish of Woolston, in the County of Warwick:

An Act for vesting Part of the Estate of Joseph Dawson Esquire in Trustees, for Payment of Debts, and for a Provision for the Maintenance and Marriage of his Daughters:

An Act for the Sale of Lands in Horsington, in the County of Somerset, Part of the Estate of William Ridout, an Infant, for Payment of Incumbrances charged thereon; and for preserving the Residue of the said Estate for the Infant:

An Act for vesting certain Lands of Thomas Bigg and his Wife, in Chislet, in the County of Kent, in Trustees, for Payment of Debts, and making Provision for their Children.

And then the House adjourned till Monday Morning, Nine a Clock.