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In the House of Commons, when the Speaker is cho∣sen, he in his place where he shall first sit down, shall dis∣able himself, and pray them to proceed a new Election: But after he is put into the Chair, then he shall pray them that he may disable himself to the King.
Note, The King, the first day of the Parliament, shall sit in the Upper-House; and there the King, or Chan∣cellor
by his Command, shall shew the Causes of Cal∣ling the Parliament; and in Conclusion of the Oration, the Commons are commanded to chuse a Speaker; which after 2 or 3 dayes they present, where He makes an Ora∣tion, disabling himself, &c.
In the Lower House when a Bill is read, the Speaker opens the parts of it, so that each Member may under∣stand the intent thereof; and the like is done by the Lord Chancellor in the Upper House: Then upon the second Reading, sometimes it is Engrossed without Com∣mitment: Then it is put to the Question; and so in the Upper House: But neither in the Upper or Lower House, the Chancellor or Speaker, shall not repeat a Bill, or an Amendment but once.
When a Bill is committed to the second Reading, then if Committees do amend it in any Point, they shall write their Amendments in a Paper, and shall direct to a Line; and what Words shall be interlined, and where; and then all shall be ingrossed in a Bill.
And if a Bill pass the Commons House, and the Lords amend it, they do as before shew the Line, &c. and after the Amendments are ingrossed, with particular Referen∣ces, and the Bill sent down to the Commons, the Amend∣ments are road three times; and so e••converso, of a Bill passing the Upper House.
No Lord, Knight, Citizen, or Burgess, may speak above once to one Bill in one day.
No private Bill ought to be read before publike Bills.
In the Commons House, those that are for the New Bill (if there be a Question of Voyces) shall go out of the House; and who are against the Bill, or for the Com∣mon-Law, or any former, shall fit still, for they are in possession of the Old Law.
In the Upper House, two Lords are appointed to num∣ber the Voyces.
In both Houses, he that stands up first to speak, shall speak first without difference of Persons.
When a Bill is ingrossed at the third Reading, it may be amended in the same House in matter of substance, •• fortiori, the Errour of the Clerk in the ingrossing may be amended, &c.