The Parliament holden at VVestminster on the feast of St. Leonard the twenty ninth year of the reign of King Henry the Sixth.

[ 1] *IN 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,* and Chan∣cellor of England,* by the Kings commandement, declared, that the Parliament was called,* first for defence of the realm,* safe keeping of the seas, for provision for an Army against the French,* and for the suppression of Insurrections within the realm,* to which end he willed the Commons to choose their Speaker, and the next day to present him to the King.

[ 2] *Receivers of petitions for England, Ireland, Wales, and Scot∣land.

[ 3] Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne, and other places beyond the seas, and of the Isles.

[ 4] Tryers of petitions for England, &c. as above.

[ 5] Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne, &c. as above.

[ 6] On Monday the nineteenth day of November, the Commons pre∣sented to the King Sir William Oldhall Knight to be their Speaker,* who with the common protestation was allowed.*

[ 7] *Sundry devises and orders for the alteration of the payment of the Subsedy granted in the last Parliament.

[ 8] Isabel the wife of William Tresham Esquire,* 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,* and murdered the said William riding,* and saying of our Ladies Mattins, at a place called Thorp∣land-close in Molton in Northampton, towards the Duke of York.

[ 9] She therefore prayeth, that writs of proclamation may go to the Sheriffs of Northampton,* to proclaim, and cause those evil doers to render themselves by a day, and that upon their appearance they may be committed to ward,* and answer to the appeal,* 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:* the which was granted.

[ 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,* unto the twentieth day of Ianuary then ensuing at Westminster.

[ 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.*

[ 12] *It is enacted, that the King shall be preferred to 20000 l. out of Page  647 the Customes of London,* and Southampton be for C li. pay∣ments.

[ 13] It is enacted, that the Statute made in the eighteenth year of this King, for the allowance of the Kings Justices wages,* and liveries, shall be obser∣ved.

[ 14] In consideration of 4000 l. delivered to the King in Allom by the Merchants of Iean named.* It is enacted, that they shall ship any Staple-ware out of the South,* until they be of the said summ answered.

[ 15] It is enacted, That certain Merchants of the South shall have all the Allom aforesaid,* paying in hand to the King 8000 l. and no man during two years on pain of forfeiture,* do bring, buy, or sell any other Allom.

[ 16] The Commons prayen the King,* that Edmond Duke of Somerset, Alice Poole late the wife of William Poole, late Duke of Suffolk, William Bishop of Chester, Sir Iohn Sutton Knight, Baron of Dudley, Thomas Daniel late of London Esquire, Iohn Trevillian late of London Esq Edward Grimstone late of London Esq Thomas Kemp Clerk of the Commons,* Iohn, &c. late of London Esq Reynold Abbot of St. Peters in the County of Gloucester, Thomas Pulford of London Esq Iohn Hampton, William Myners, Iohn Blackwell, Iohn Pen•rike, Iohn Ger∣goran Esquire, Stephen Slegg, Thomas Stacy, Tho. Hore Lord Hastings, Edmond Hungerford Knight, Thomas Stanley Knight, Ienkin de Stan∣ley Usher of the Kings Chamber, Esq Barthol. Hawley, Ralph Bal∣thorp Esq Edmond Hampton Knight, Mr. Iohn Somerset, Mr. Iervis de Deberre one of the Kings Secretaries,* Iohn Newport, alias Spicer, of the Isle of Wight Esquires, and Robert Wingfield Knight, he aban∣doned from the Kings presence during their lives,* and not to come within twelve miles of the Court, for that the people speak evil of them.

The King of his meer motion is contented,* that all shall depart unlesse they be Lords, and a few of them whom he may not spare from his person, and they shall so continue for one year, to see if any man can duely improve them.