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Anno quinto Henrici quarti. The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the next day after Saint HILLARIE in the fifth year of King HENRY the Fourth.
ON MUnday the fourteenth day of Ianuary being the first day of the Parliament, the Bishop of London Brother to the King, and Chancellor of England, in the presence of the King, Lords, and Commons declared the cause of the Parlia∣ment, and that the Kings will was, that the holy Church, all per∣sons and Corporations should enjoy their Liberties.
2. He took then for his Theame these words multitudo sapien∣tum; and thereby learnedly declared, that by Councell every Realm was governed, and resembled every man to the body of a man, and applyed the right hand to the Church, and the left hand to the Temporaltie, and the other Members to the Commonaltie, of all which Members and Estates, the King being willing to have Councell had therefore called the same Parliament, and that for sundry causes.
3. First for the utter appeasing of Welch Rebellions; for re∣belling of the malice of the Duke of Orleance, and the Earl of St. Paule, who had bent themselves wholly against the King, and the Realm, and namely by their late arrivall in the Isle of Wight, where they took the repulse. To consider the imminent perill of the Marches of Callice, Guienne, and other like Dominions; to re∣member the wars of Ireland and Scotland, and not to forget to take an order touching the late Rebellions of Henry Percy, and other their Adherents at the Battail of Shrewsbury, and so willed the Commons to choose, and the next day to present their Speaker.
4. Receivers of Petitions for England, Ireland, Wales, and Scot∣land.
5. Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas, and of the Isls.
6. Tryers of Petitions for England, &c. as above.
7. Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyn, &c. as above.
8. On Tuseday the fifteenth day of Ianuary, the Commons came before the King, and presented for their Speaker Sir Ar∣nold Savage, who excused himself thereof, but the King would not receive the same, but allowed the election: thereupon Sir Ar∣nold made the Common Protestation for himself, and the Com∣mons which was accepted.