Account of Proceedings in Parliament Noah Millstone Principal Investigator MPESE Sebastiaan Verweij Co-Investigator MPESE Richard Bell Research Associate Victoria Anker BRIHC Research Impact Fellow Mike Jones Research Software Engineer Helen Busby Transcription Volunteer Beth Southard Transcription Volunteer Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England (MPESE) 2017 United Kingdom Norwich Norfolk Record Office HMN 7/307, 772X8

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1628 English parliament

At the Parliament begun January the 1628

Jan 21 The first thing insisted vpon was what Innovations Their first walk into publiqe affairs was to be like good husbands to see if ther fences were firme for the Last Parliament having made a gallant hedge between Royal Prerogative & Popular Liberty their first care was to see wheth what incroach ments had been made vpon it & appointed a Committee to to view the scathes who gave account that not onely several irruptions and gapps had been made therein but also that it had been new printed with such an addition as was dis would gangrene the hole masse if not prevented. This inquisi= tion taking notice of the vndue enfer extorting Tonnage & Poundage vrged his Majesty to declare himself to the house June 24 that those levyes were not made as filing them vp vpon the score of his just Rights but onely as the products of his instant exigents disavowing vtterly any legal capa- city in him to impose them without Parliament concession & withal desiring they would hush all dolates relating to them by a present condescension and that since he had disclaimed the right it might be a motive to obs teme the favour. Their next walke was into Religion which was pre= sented obst in a very lapsing & tottering condition that Popery while the lawes were layd to sleep began to repullulate & grow a fresh That Papists were not onely tolerated but countenanced & graced That Armmianisme which is but parboyld Popery began to domineere notwithstanding it was declared against by the Lambeth Articles which were sent by King James to the Synod of Dort and to Ireland as the doctrine of the Church of England that the faitors of that ipinion rode safe vnder the lee of Royal favour, wheras the sound and oathedon were vnder inglorious disdein the Constat of this was that Mr Montague a man complained against in open Parliament was not withstanding by the sollicitasion of nol both pardoned his preceding errour, but advanced fines to the see of Chichester. And that Dr Mannering who was sensured also for high misdomeanours had reingratiated himself and obteined his Pardon & that there

For Constat of Recusants prevailing it was proved that That in Dublin the City of Dublin there were lately erected 13 houses (peculiar to Jesuites & Friers) more in number then there are Protestant Churches.

That in Scotland they have lately been very insolent & turbulent

That in some countyes of England they are multiplyd to the product some thousands of families now then in Queen Elizabeth her time

Putet by their mark & c. That in Clarkenwel there was a discovery of a Colledge of iu Jesui tes & Preists whereof 10 were apprehended & 3 were endited for Preists (and the rest of Preminment) whereof one was condemned and though direct treason was proved against them & one condemned yet the night before Excecution he was repreived by warrant th Order from the (R??? who ??? an order for Lord Chief Iustice hide who said he the Council table did it by order from his Majesty

The maine breach into the Subjects Liberty was by divers Customers who seased several Merchants goods for Tonnage & poundage vpon which the Customers were questioned and the King resigned vp the interest in them other ways then of free gift (though his warrant for the ??? of the sayes expressly they are a Principal Revenue of our crown) but to indemnify the Customers who he avowed acted onely by his command he requested the Parliament woud compare the difference by some expedi- ent of honour to him and saftey to them. But the house stood so stiff to the maintenance of their own rights as King much incensed wished to aj adjorn.

In religion they complained of several abuses Great complaints being exhibeted some relating to against the spreading 1. of Arminianisme then of Popery. For Arminianisme it was complained that not withstanding the Resolution of the ArchBishop of Canterbury & other Reverend & learned princes Byshops & divines assembled at Lambeth 1595 on purpose to declare their opinions concerning the some of the 39 Articles in those Particulars vnto which Articles the ArchBishop of York & all his Province did agree. , That notwithstanding the suffrage of our Brition Divines sent by King James to the Synod at Dort. And published by command That notwithstandin the / That notwithstanding those Articles of Lambeth were sent by King James first to the Synod at Dort by King James as the Doctrine of our church and there asserted by the suffrage of our British divines, And again to the Convoca- tion in Ireland there to be inserted amongst the Articles of the Religion establist there. That notwithstanding several de Recantations Censures formaly enjoyned and inflicted vpon the spreaders of that doctrine yet the maintainers of these points did dare to publish both by the presse & pulpit their tenets P 2/ they were not onely sheltered under the Lee of Royal favour but by the power & prevalence of the Byshops of Winchester & London advanced /1/ some they were pardoned formerly censured in open Parliament as Mountague Cozen, Manwaring, & Sibthorpe were had by the procuremeant & collinitative of Note Byshop of Winchester & the Earle of Dorcest obtenied their pardons under the great Seal and others were and those very men with others not only &c. to the great disanimation of the tru profesors. The Complaints referring to Oblique Popery were judacises the obtruting of the uncontrouled preaching of several points thereof warninge; that was by Mountague, Cozens & the Bishop of Gloucester, the endeviour obtru= ding of divers superstitious ceremonies by the Prelates as warring of Altars and placing the holy table Altarwise the L___ing dopping & cringing towards it the standing up at Gloria Patri things not enjoyned by any authoritqe act of State

Relating to Popery direct. The extraordinary fructification both in Ireland and England thereof, that in Dublin the chri Metroperlis of Ireland where lately all resorted to Church now there were erected more houses for Masse preists & Friers to officiat in than there were Parochial churches, that in some Counties of England where there were few or none during Queen Elizabeth her time there were now above 2000. That they there was a Colledge of Jesuits erected at Clerk- enwell who had there a Chappell and Library and other Roomes of necessaary accomodation with houshold vtensills of marked with + S. and as by their bookes of accoumpt appeared had in revenue 300l & an allowed them by the subscription if diverse Recusants subscribers That 10 of these were apprehended and indited 3 of Treason the rest of Pre??? And that although plain treason was Proved against them at the Sessions yet by the artiface of the 2 Lord chief Justices Hide & Richard suppassing our Kings evedence nothing was done against them, onely one was con- demned and the day before Execution was repreived by a warrant from the Chief Justice Hide: That the great resort to M??? at Somerset house was so great so frequent so openly connived at and the penality if state??? through his Majesty if over great indulgence so dispenced with as amounted in the able totel to litle lesse then in toleration.

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