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D'Ewes, p. 181. It is probable that the member had no other view than the privilege of being free from arrests. It was also enacted, that whosoever by bulls should publish absolutions or other rescripts of the pope, or should, by means of them, reconcile any man to the church of Rome, such offenders, as well as those who were so reconciled, should be guilty of treason.
And he adds, "If any person take upon him the place of knight, citizen, or burgess, not being duly elected, according to the laws and statutes in that behalf provided, and according to the purport, effect, and true meaning of this our proclamation, then every person so offending to be fined or imprisoned for the same." * D'Ewes, p. 397. * Journ. Feb. 8th, 1580.
Soon after, the commons received a message from the upper house, desiring them to appoint a committee for a conference. At this conference, the peers informed them, that the queen, by a message delivered by Lord Burleigh, had expressed her displeasure that the commons should presume to touch on her prerogative. * D'Ewes, p. 434. D'Ewes, p. 440.
The queen, notwithstanding this unusual concession of the commons, ended the session with a speech, containing some reprimands to them, and full of the same high pretensions which she had assumed at the opening of the parliament. * D'Ewes, p. 483, 487, 488. Townsend, p. 66. D'Ewes, p. 466. Townsend, p. 17
The peers replied that they expected not such a frivolous objection from the gravity of the house; and that it was not material, whether the amendments were written on parchment or on paper, nor whether the paper were white, black, or brown. * D'Ewes, p. 525, 527. Townsend, p. 79. D'Ewes, p. 539, 540, 580, 585. Townsend, p. 93, 94, 95. * D'Ewes. p, 576, 577. D'Ewes, p, 570, 573. * D'Ewes, p. 547.
Johnson the task of compiling the catalogue. 'The Earl had the rarest books of all countries, languages, and sciences': thousands of fragments, some a thousand years old: vellum books, of which some had been scraped and used again as 'palimpsests': 'a great collection of Bibles, and editions of all the first printed books, classics, and others of our own country, ecclesiastical as well as civil, by Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde, Pynson, Berthelet, Rastall, Grafton, and the greatest number of pamphlets and English heads of any other person: abundance of ledgers, chartularies, etc., and original letters of eminent persons as many as would fill two hundred volumes; all the collections of his librarian Humphrey Wanley, of Stow, Sir Symonds D'Ewes, Prynne, Bishop Stillingfleet, John Bagford, Le Neve, and the flower of a hundred other libraries.
The behavior of the two houses was, in every other respect, equally tame and submissive. Though the commons showed so little spirit in opposing the authority of the crown, they maintained, this session, their dignity against an encroachment of the peers, and would not agree to a conference which, they thought, was demanded of them in an irregular manner. * D'Ewes, p. 259. D'Ewes, p. 252.
It was a strong symptom of a contrary spirit in the upper house, that they proposed to add Wednesday to the fast days, and to prohibit entirely the eating of flesh on that day. D'Ewes, p. 373. * D'Ewes, p. 357
She received from the parliament, during the course of her whole reign, only twenty subsidies and thirty-nine fifteenths. But such was the extreme, I had almost said, absurd parsimony of the parliaments during that period. * D'Ewes, p. 630. * Lord Salisbury computed these supplies only at two millions eight hundred thousand pounds, Journ. 17th Feb. 1609.
Parliamentary History, vol. vi. p. 449. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 224. * His credit with the king had given him such influence, that he had no less than twenty proxies granted him this parliament by so many peers; which occasioned a vote, that no peer should have above two proxies. The earl of Leicester, in 1585, had once ten proxies D'Ewes, p. 314.
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