Concurrent with a Joint-stock, may not prove fo inconfiftent Anno 10 Willa as to discourage the Subscription from ever coming near to III. 1693. the faid Million. 2dly, Because the Bill puts a Period to the Charter of the Eaft-India Company, and gives the Trade thither to other Perfons, without fo much as fuggefting that the said Charter, or the Trade carried on by virtue of it, hath been prejudicial to the King or Kingdom, tho' the faid Company have an exprefs Clause in their Charter, that it fhall not be determined without three Years Warning, even if it should appear not profitable to the King or this Realm; and the Bill granting likewife a Supply of two Millions, in which the Commons pretended the House of Lords ought not to make any Alteration; we are of Opinion their Lordships are thereby likewife deprived of the Freedom of their Vote in the Matter of the Eaft India Trade, to which it cannot be denied but they have an equal Right with the Commons, and yet by its being joined to a Bill of Supply, this House must either be the Occafion of disappointing fo large and neceffary a Grant for the Public Service, or be put upon the unreasonable Hardship of confenting to a Matter, which, tho' it seems so unjust, it is fruitless for them to examine, if their Amendments are not to be admitted, because offered to a Money-Bill, which we humbly conceive to be a manifest Violation of the Houfe, and tending to an Alteration of the Conftitution of the Government. Hallifax, H. London, Willoughby, Jeffreys, Berkeley of Berkeley, P. Winchefter, Torrington, Rochefter, Tho. Roffen', Howard, Denbigh, E. Gloucefter, Scarfdale, Godolphin, Audley, Granville, Peterborough, Dartmouth, Berkeley, Anglefey, Guilford. July the 5th, The King prorogued the Parliament with a *Speech, which was foon after diffolved. July the 20th, The King embark'd as ufual for Holland, where he negotiated and concluded the famous Treaty of Partition, which was the most remarkable Tranfaction, relating to England, of this Summer. December the 3d, His Majefty landed at Margate, three Days after which The Fourth Parliament of King WILLIAM M ET at Westminster, pursuant to a Proclamation for CHANDLER'S Hift. Anno 10 Will. III 1698. p. 90. Seffion Parliament diffolved. Anno 11 Will. Seffion with a Speech, which is to be found in CHANDLER'S III. 1698. Hiftory, Anno 10 Will. III. 1698, Page 91. January the 3d, The Lords being highly fenfible of his Majefty's great Care and Goodness towards his People, exprefs'd upon fo many Occafions, and particularly in his Speech to both Houses, at the opening of this Parliament, Lords Addrefs. begg'd Leave, by way of Addrefs, humbly to affure his Majetty, that as they fhould always retain a lively Impreffion of thofe great and continued Obligations, which his Majesty had laid upon this Nation to all Pofterity; so it should be, upon every Occafion, the perpetual Care and Study of that C House, with the moft zealous Duty, and the most grateful "Affections imaginable, to make his Majefty all fuitable Re"turns within their Power. And at this time particularly they 'further affured his Majesty, that they should not fail to ufe 'their most diligent Endeavours, for the attaining of those 'great and good Ends, which his Majefty had been pleased to recommend to his Parliament' King's Answer. Another Addrefs on disbanding the Army. The Earl of Warwick and Lord Mohon, To which the King reply'd, Th ८५ HAT he took their Addrefs very kindly, and gave them his hearty Thanks; and that they might always depend upon his Kindnefs, as he did on this Affurance of theirs to him, and their Zeal for the Public "Good." And upon his Majefty's paffing the A&t for the disbanding the Army, the Lords prefented their most hearty Thanks to his Majefty for it, and for the gracious Expreffions in his Speech, That it was his Majefty's fix'd Opinion that nothing could be fo fatal to them, as that any Distrust or Jealoufy fhould arife between his Majefty and his People; as likewife for his great Care and Concern for the Safety ⚫ of the Kingdom upon all Occafion, affuring his Majefty, ⚫ that at all Times, for the Safety of the Kingdom, and the • Preservation of the Peace, which God had given them, they would affift and defend his Majefty against all his Enemies both at Home and Abroad.' March the 28th, Edward Earl of Warwick, and Charles Lord Mohun, being feverally indicted for the + Murder of Richard Coote, Efq; were tryed by the House of Peers, in a tried for a Mur- Court prepared for that purpofe in Westminster-Hall, the Lord Chancellor of England, being constituted Lord High Steward upon this Occafion. The Court being opened, with the ufual Ceremonies, the Trial of the Earl of Warwick der; came February the ift. At which Time he made a Speech: See CHANDLER'S Hiftory, Anno 11 Will. III. 1698, Page 93. In a drunken Fray in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields: Three against Three. III. 1698. came on first, and lafted till late in the Evening, when the Anno ri Will. Peers adjourn'd to their own Houfe, and after fome Debate, the Lords temporal only returned to the Court in Weftminfer-Hall, where they delivered their Judgments feriatim upon their Honours, and unanimoufly acquitted the Earl of Warwick of the Murder, but found him guilty of Manflaughter; who craving the Benefit of his Peerage, according to the Statute in that Cafe provided, was thereupon discharged. and acquitted. The next Day came on, in like manner, the Trial of the Lord Mobon, who with great Compofednefs and Ingenuity, having made his Innocence appear, was acquitted of the faid Murder, by the unanimous Suffrages of the Peers there prefent. April the 27th, Hodie 3a vice leta eft Billa, entitled, An Bill for grante Act for granting to his Majefty the Sum of one Million, ing an Aid to eighty-four Thousand and fifteen Pounds, one Shilling and his Majefty for eleven Pence three Farthings for difbanding the Army, pro- disbanding the viding for the Navy, and for other neceffary Occafions. The Queftion was put, Whether this Bill fhall pass? It was refolved in the Affirmative. Diffentient' Army paffed. Because of the Claufe at the latter end of the Bill, which Proteft thereon. conftitutes Commiffioners for enquiring into, and taking an Account of all fuch Eftates real and perfonal, within the Kingdom of Ireland, as have been forfeited for High-Treafon by any Persons whatsoever during the late Rebellion within that Kingdom; which, we conceive, was a Matter foreign to this Bill, and more proper for a Bill by itself, and that the tacking of a Clause of that Nature is contrary to the antient Method of Proceedings in Parliament, and on that account, as we apprehend, may be of ill Confequence to the Freedom of Debate in either Houfe, and highly prejudicial to the Privileges of the Peers and the Prerogative of the Crown. Anglefey, Fo. Oxon', Suffolk, Raby, Haversham, Warrington, Rochefter, Cholmondeley, Jeffreys. May the 4th, The King put an End to the Seffion with a Speech, which fee in CHANDLER's Hift. Anno 11 Will. III. 1699, Page 105. June the 1ft, The King fet out for Holland, and feems to have had nothing fo much at heart, as fecuring to himself the Principality of Neufchatel, as Heir to the House of Longueville, claimed alfo by the Prince of Conti, and the Duchefs of Neumoirs, who were both prevailed upon by the moft Chriftian King, if not to drop their Pretenfions, to stop Proceedings. October Parliament prorogued. Anno 12 Will. Williamfon a October the 18th, His Majefty returned again to England. and November the 16th The SECOND SESSION of his Fourth W AS opened, with a Speech from the Throne, which fee in CHAND. Hift. Anno 12 W. III. 1699 P. 106. Fanuary the 23d, After hearing Council at the Bar to gainst the King, argue the Errors affigned upon the Writ of Errors dependJudgment re- ing in this Houfe, wherein Robert Williamfon is Plaintiff, and his Majesty, by his Attorney-General, Defendant, and Debate thereupon, this Question was put, Whether the Judgment of Reversal shall be reversed ? verfed. Prote thereon. Settlement of It was refolved in the Affirmative. Leave being asked and given for any Lord to diffent, thefe Lords, whofe Names are hereunto subscribed, do diffent, for the Reasons following: For that, we conceive, it did not appear, that ever any fuch Judgment was given by the Exchequer before the annexing the Court of Augmentations to the Exchequer. For that, fince the diffolving and annexing of the faid Court of Augmentations, there hath no fuch Judgment been given, unless in fuch Cafes which were in the Cognizance of the Court of Augmentations before it was diffolved. That the Judgments in the Cafe of Sir Henry Neville and Sir Thomas Wroth, and others of the like nature cited, seems to be by virtue of the Powers of the Court of Augmentations being annexed to the Court of Exchequer. That thofe Courts were duly annexed, appears by the Preamble of the Statute 1 Eliz. Cap. 4. by the Lord Chief Juttice Bromley's Cafe, and by the Cafe of the Earl of De vonshire in Coke's Reports, and for that the Court of Firstfruits and Tenths was diffolved and annexed in like manner to the Exchequer, as the Court of Augmentations was; which Powers, by that Annexation, fubfift in that Court to this Day. *Lonsdale, C. P. S. Sarum, Rivers, Haverfham, Stamford, Bergavenny, J. Culpeper, W. Wigorn', Rich. Peterburg', Audley. February the 8th, After reading the Order of the 29th the Scotch Co- of January laft, for refuming the adjourned Debate concerning the Settlement of the Scotch Colony at Darien, and long Debate thereupon, this Queftion was propofed, That lony at Darien debated. the Sir John Lowther, made Baron Lowther, and Viscount Lonsdale, May the 28th, 1696. the Settlement of the Scotch Colony at Darien is inconfiftent Anno 11 Will. with the Good of the Plantation-Trade of this Kingdom. Then the previous Question was put, Whether this Queftion fhall be now put? It was refolved in the Affirmative: Contents 32; Not content 26. Diffentient' III. 1098. Because, as we conceive, there has not been made appear, Proteft thereon. in this Debate, any Ground fufficient to determine a Point of fo great Importance, and yet it has been refused to allow Time for due Information in a Matter of Trade, which is very obfcure, and of the highest Confequence to the Quiet and Welfare of both Nations in this Conjuncture. Normanby, H. London, Nottingham, Weymouth. The 12th, The Lords reprefented in an Addrefs to his Lords Addrefs. Majefty, That according to their Duty, being follicitous against the said for the Prefervation and Increase of the Trade of the Colony. 'Kingdom, on which the Support of his Majefty's Great⚫ nefs and Honour fo much depended, as well as the Security ' and Defence of his People, had been very apprehenfive, 'that the Step made towards the Settlement of the Scots at 'Darien, might tend to the great Prejudice of England, and 'poffibly to the Disturbance of that Peace and good Corref'pondence with the Crown of Spain, which they conceived 'to be very advantageous. That therefore they had taken the fame into ferious Confideration, and thought it proper 'to be laid before his Majesty, as the common Father of both 'Countries. And that as they were truly fenfible of the great Loffes their Neighbour-Kingdom had fuftained, both by 'Men and Treasure, in their Expeditions to that Place, which they very heartily lamented; fo they should not endeavour, by any Interpofition of theirs, to defeat the Hopes the Scots might ftill entertain of recovering thefe Loffes by 'their further engaging in that Defign, but that they judged 'fuch a Prosecution on their Parts, muft end not only in far greater Disappointments to themselves, but, at the fame. 'time, prove inconvenient to the Trade and Quiet of the • Kingdom of England. That they prefumed to put his Ma 'jefty in mind of the Address of both Houfes of Parliament, • presented to his Majesty on the 17th of December, 1695, in the close of which Address his Majefty would see the una⚫nimous Senfe of the Kingdom, in relation to any Settlement the Scots might make in the Weft-Indies, by virtue of an Act of Parliament paft about that Time in the • Kingdom of Scotland, which was the Occafion of the Addrefs. That they also humbly reprefented to his Majesty, 1698 • that |