A Bill respecting Hunting, with “Le Roy s’avisera” indorsed, is contained in the Bundle of this First Year at the Parliament Office, as also a Recognizance, on Paper, from the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield. In the same Bundle are also contained two Sets of Provisoes, but to what Acts they belong does not appear, nor are they contained in any Act of 1 Hen. VIII. on the Roll in Chancery.—There is also a separate single general Proviso in Favour of the Hanse Merchants, exempting them from the Operation of any Acts of that Session, which does not appear on the Roll in Chancery. These Provisoes are all signed by the King.
To No. 4. in the Parliament Office, in the Bundle of 3 Hen. VIII., No. 9. on the Roll in Chancery for that Year, and printed as Chapter 4 of the Public Acts, for the Protection of Persons in the War, the Assent of the Commons is expressed, “oue le Schedule annex.” This Schedule contains loose Memoranda of a Proviso to be added to, and of various Alterations to be made in, the Act. The Alterations are made on Erasures accordingly; and in the Entry on the Roll in Chancery the Proviso is added, and the Act entered as corrected. The Royal Assent or Signature does not appear to the Schedule in the Parliament Office.—To Cap. 11. No. 11, in the Parliament Office, respecting Physicians and Surgeons, a Memorandum is annexed “That Surgeons be included like as Physicians for preventing the Mischief of ignorant Persons presuming to exercise Surgery.”[1] and every Thing relating to Surgery is accordingly interlined. This Act is entered twice on the Roll in Chancery, No. 18. and No. 22. exactly alike, and with the Insertions as to Surgeons.
To No. 21. in the Bundle of this Third Year in the Parliament Office, No. 1. on the Roll in Chancery, and Chapter 1. in the List of Private Acts, as printed in the modern Editions of the Statutes, three Provisoes annexed are signed by the King, and included in the Assent of the Commons. A separate Bill is also annexed, beginning, “Be it furthermore enacted,” with distinct Assent of the King, and of the Lords and Commons; all these are included in one Act in the Roll in Chancery.—To No. 23. in the Parliament Office, being No. 7. on the Roll in Chancery, which is a Subsidy Act, the Royal Assent is endorsed on the Act at length, “Le Roy remercie ses Com̄s, &c.” On the Roll the Assent is expressed, “Le Roy le veult.”—No. 8. on the Roll in Chancery is wanting at the Parliament Office.
No. 16. in the Bundle of this Year at the Parliament Office, is No. 4. on the Roll in Chancery, and Chapter 4. in the printed List of Private Acts. No. 17. in the Parliament Office, is No. 2. on the Roll in Chancery, and Chapter 2. in the printed List of Private Acts. No. 16. and 17. in the Parliament Office, are both indorsed, “Soit fait, &c. oue les Provisions a y celles annexes.” To No. 17. there are twenty-five Provisoes annexed, in separate Slips of Parchment; to No. 16. no Provisoes are now annexed: It appears, however, that eight of the twenty-five Provisoes annexed to No. 17. belong to No. 16. and these are accordingly so entered on the Roll in Chancery. All these Provisoes are signed “Henry R.” in the King’s Hand-Writing. One is indorsed “Le Roi le veut.” On the Front of another is written, in a Hand quite different from the Text of the Proviso,
| “Vacat̃ ꝑ expressum meum consēsum |
ꝑ me Ed̵um Sutton Dom. Dudley.” |
But no Notice is taken of this in the Roll in Chancery, where this Proviso is regularly entered in the same Manner as the other Provisoes. On the Face of one of the Provisoes is written, “By the King,” in the same Hand as the Body of the Proviso.
The Acts of the Years 5 Hen. VIII., 6 Hen. VIII., and 7 Hen. VIII. at the Parliament Office, appear to have been intermixed with each other, and afterwards arranged, and their Titles inserted in the Calendar, without Reference to the Roll in Chancery or to the Journals of the House of Lords: The Bundle of the 5th Year contains only ten Acts, the Titles of which appear in the Calendar as being all the Statutes of that Year. On the Roll in Chancery of that Year are nineteen Acts: The nine deficient Acts at the Parliament Office are mixed in the Bundles, and inserted in the Calendar, as of the 6th and 7th Years.
One of the Acts of the 7th Year, Cap. 5. of the Public Acts, is missing from the Bundle at the Parliament Office, and so marked in the Calendar: And in the Bundle of the 6th Year, No. 28. is an Act of the 4th Year.
To the Act of Resumption of 6 Hen. VIII., No. 25. in the Parliament Office, among several other Riders or Schedules annexed was one in Favour of George Earl of Shrewsbury, which, by some Mistake, was omitted to be inserted in the Roll in Chancery when the Act was there inrolled. See No. 8. on that Roll. To remedy this Defect, the Original Rider or Schedule, signed with the King’s Hand, has been taken from the Instrument at the Parliament Office, and tacked to the Roll in Chancery, with a Reference to the Place where it should be inserted; and to the Instrument at the Parliament Office is added a Copy of the said Rider or Schedule, with a Notice that the Original was so annexed to the Roll in Chancery.[2]
- ↑ This Memorandum is copied in the Edition by Cay; and all subsequent Editions.
- ↑ See Lords’ Journals, vol. i. p. 48. “Mem. qd̴ hodie ex mandato d̵ni Cardinalis & alioꝝ Dñoꝝ mandat̃ erat Cl̵ico Plm̃ti qd̴ annecteret actui resumptionis quandam provisionem regia manu signatum pro Georgio Comiti Salop: et qd̵ eandem provisionem faceret irrotulari in Rotulo Pl̵m̃ti.”
