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The Parliament holden at VVestminster on the feast of St. Leonard the twenty ninth year of the reign of King Henry the Sixth.
[unspec 1] * 1.1IN the presence of the King, sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct. within the Palace of Westminster, Lords, and Commons, Iohn the Cardinall Archbishop of York,* 1.2 and Chan∣cellor of England,* 1.3 by the Kings commandement, declared, that the Parliament was called,* 1.4 first for defence of the realm,* 1.5 safe keeping of the seas, for provision for an Army against the French,* 1.6 and for the suppression of Insurrections within the realm,* 1.7 to which end he willed the Commons to choose their Speaker, and the next day to present him to the King.
[unspec 2] * 1.8Receivers of petitions for England, Ireland, Wales, and Scot∣land.
[unspec 3] Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne, and other places beyond the seas, and of the Isles.
[unspec 4] Tryers of petitions for England, &c. as above.
[unspec 5] Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne, &c. as above.
[unspec 6] On Monday the nineteenth day of November, the Commons pre∣sented to the King Sir William Oldhall Knight to be their Speaker,* 1.9 who with the common protestation was allowed.* 1.10
[unspec 7] * 1.11Sundry devises and orders for the alteration of the payment of the Subsedy granted in the last Parliament.
[unspec 8] Isabel the wife of William Tresham Esquire,* 1.12 sheweth, how Symon Norwich of Brumhurst in the County of Northampton Esquire, for malice born to the said William, lay in wait for the said William, with sundry Welshmen there named,* 1.13 and murdered the said William riding,* 1.14 and saying of our Ladies Mattins, at a place called Thorp∣land-close in Molton in Northampton, towards the Duke of York.
[unspec 9] She therefore prayeth, that writs of proclamation may go to the Sheriffs of Northampton,* 1.15 to proclaim, and cause those evil doers to render themselves by a day, and that upon their appearance they may be committed to ward,* 1.16 and answer to the appeal,* 1.17 the same to be tryed by sufficient men of Northamptonshire only, and that the sons of the said VVilliam may pursue the Appeal if she should happily die:* 1.18 the which was granted.
[unspec 10] The seventeenth day of December, the Chancellor in the presence of the King, and of the three Estates, really prorogued the Parlia∣ment from the same day,* 1.19 unto the twentieth day of Ianuary then ensuing at Westminster.
[unspec 11] The twenty ninth day of April the Parliament was likewise pro∣rogued from the same day unto the fifth of May then ensuing at Westminster.* 1.20
[unspec 12] * 1.21It is enacted, that the King shall be preferred to 20000 l. out of