This Bundle also contains Articles of Accusation against Thomas Yotten, the Town Clerk of York, on a Roll of Parchment, apparently incomplete: This does not appear to have been any Parliamentary Proceeding whatever.
The introductory and concluding Forms to each Act, “Item quedam Billa,” &c. and the Conclusion “Qua quidem Billa,” &c. which during this Period are respectively inserted at the Beginning and End of each Act on the Roll in Chancery, are never inserted on the Original Act at the Parliament Office.
19 Hen. VII.—The introductory Forms of opening of the Parliament, &c. which as usual are on the Roll of Chancery, do not appear on any Instrument at the Parliament Office.
The Act entered on the Roll in Chancery No. 2. pro Principe, is wanting at the Parliament Office. The Act, For the Monastery of St. Saviour of Sion, No. 33. at the Parliament Office, is No. 6. on the Roll in Chancery. This Act provides that if the King shall at any Time during the Parliament &c. make any Covenant by Indentures with the said Convent respecting certain Matters mentioned, that such Indentures &c. shall stand and be as an Act of this present Parliament, and be of like Force, as if they were entered in Parliament, and in the Rolls of the said Parliament remaining of Record—No. 7. on the Roll in Chancery is an Entry of an Indenture on the Subject alluded to in No. 6. This does not appear in the Parliament Office.
No. 34. in the Parliament Office (a Subsidy Act) is No. 11. on the Roll in Chancery: The Schedule of Names annexed to this Act is contained in the Parliament Office, in a long narrow Roll, consisting of many Rolls tacked together, and the Order of the Counties is different from what appears on the Roll in Chancery or the printed Copy of it. On the Roll at the Parliament Office several Places are inserted, and the Names of the Commissioners appointed crossed through. These are omitted on the Roll in Chancery.
No. 19. on the Roll in Chancery, Chapter 9. of the Public Acts as printed, is missing at the Parliament Office.
No. 24. in the Parliament Office, an Act for Attainder of Lord Audley and others, is No. 21 on the Roll in Chancery: This Act, in the Parliament Office, is contained in Two Sheets of Parchment and Two Riders or Provisoes, tacked all together; One of these Sheets and both the Riders are signed H. R. but no Royal Assent appears indorsed on any of them.—In the Bundle of this Year is the following Letter from the King to the Speaker of the House of Commons, directing the Erasure of the Name of Robert Symson from this Act. On the Act, as in the Parliament Office, an Erasure appears accordingly in various Places before the Name of John Watson. In the Roll all is fair, and the Royal Assent is entered.
| H. R. [The King’s Signature.] |
By the King. |
Trusty and welbeloved we grete you wele And where as a bill of attaynder cam lately unto you to pass by the Assent of this present Parliament in the which Bill oon Robert Symson of our Citie of London gentilman is recited amongst other Rebellys to passe in the said Attayndre We for certain Causes us moving Wol and comand you to doo the name of the said Robert Symson by whatsoever Name or Names he be called to rased and strocken owte of the said Bill and these or l̵res shalbe your sufficient Warrant in that behalve. Yeven under our Signet at our Palais of Westmr the xxviijth day of Marche.
| Indorsed— | To our * * * Dudley Speker | [Sir Edw. Dudley was Speaker this Year. See Rot. Parl. 19 H. VII.] |
| * * * Mordaunt Knight. |
No. 8. in the Parliament Office is No. 27. on the Roll in Chancery, and Chapter 10 of the Public Acts as printed. The last Proviso to this Act, in favour of H. Wyatt, was omitted in the old Editions of the Statutes, but was inserted by Cay. On the Roll in Chancery it appears that this Proviso was omitted at first to be entered, and was afterwards inserted in a Rider annexed, and signed “Exd per me R. Hatton.”
On No. 27. in the Parliament Office, which is No. 32. on the Roll in Chancery, the Royal Assent is written twice.
No. 20. in the Parliament Office, respecting the Staple at Calais, is No. 3. on the Roll in Chancery. Tacked to No. 20. is an Instrument beginning “Also where,” &c. but which appears to have been a separate Bill, with separate Assent of both Houses and the King. The Royal Assent was first “Soit fait come il est desire,” but this is run through with a Pen, and “Le R. le veut,” written instead: This is entered on the Roll in Chancery nu. 33, as a separate Act, with the latter Form of Assent; and is Chapter 22 of the Printed Acts “For Attornies and Factors at Calais.”
The Bundle at the Parliament Office of this Year, 19 H. VII. also contains—1. A Roll of Names of Commissioners for the Subsidy, not belonging to this Year, nor on the Roll in Chancery, but probably belonging to 12 Hen. VII.—2. The King’s Letter for Symson above stated.—3. A Bill (Number 22.) to repeal an Act, 4 H. IV. that Merchandize should be charged and discharged at the greate Ports of the Realm, and not in Creeks, &c. Indorsed Le Roy se advisera. In the Calendar it is called “An Act concerning Creeks, &c.”
HENRY VIII.
