CHAP. II.
FROM THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII. TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.
WE are now come to a period from which the Journals of the House of Commons are extant; though, during the reigns of Edward VI. Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, the entries are short and imperfect, and for some years, at the end of the reign of the latter of these monarchs, the original Journals are missing. I do not mean to insert, in the future progress of this work, every instance that is to be found of Privilege claimed or allowed, especially where there are, as in the more common complaints of breach of Privilege, several entries of the same sort: I shall confine myself to those Cases which appear to me the most interesting, and these I shall dispose in the order of time in which they happened.
21. On the 14th of January 1548, the Privilege of the House is granted to John Keysar, servant to Sir Ralph Vane[1]. On the 7th of February 1548, it is ordered, That J. S. servant to Sir A. Wyngfylde, shall have a Writ of Privilege[2]. —And there are several other similar instances in the reigns of Edward VI. and Queen Mary, of Privilege allowed to the servants of Members.
