Summary of the Work.-Periods of assembling the Irish Parliament. - Conferences.- Public Ac- counts.Iffuing of Writs.-Proxies.-Of the An Indenture containing a Grant of all his Ma- jefties Revenue of Ireland, ordinary and extra- ordinary, certain and cafual whatsoever, (new and extraordinary Aydes by future Acts of Par- liament onely excepted,) to Sir James Shaen and others for seven Years, to commence the 26th Day of December 1675 inclufive. Yielding and paying therefore unto his Majefty the Summe of Twenty Thousand Pounds the laft Day of every Calendar Moneth; the first Payment of Twenty Thousand Pounds to be compleated and made at or before the last Day of April 1676; and the laft Twenty Thousand Pounds at or before the An Act for naturalizing fuch foreign Merchants, Traders, Artificers, Artizans, Manufacturers, THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE IRISH PARLIAMENT. CHA P. III. Of the Proceedings of the Commons of Ireland from 1634 to 1666, TH SECTION I III. HE first feffion, which was held by CHAP. lord Strafford, began on the 14th of July, one thousand fix hundred and thirty- 1634 four. When the lords and commons had proceeded to Saint Patrick's church, in a very pompous proceffion, with the lord de VOL. II. B puty, CHAP. III. puty, the judges, and a large military escort*, they returned to their respective rooms in 1634 the Castle; and on the next day, after the lord deputy had made a fpeech, which is not entered in the journals, they made choice of Mr. Catelyne, the recorder of Dublin, for their speaker; who was presented, and anproved, on the following day, by the lord deputy. On the 17th, committees for privileges were appointed to meet on Fridays in the Court of Chancery at two o'clock; and after a debate whether they should first 'decide upon the legality of elections, or proceed to read bills, it was decided for the latter propofition by one hundred and twentynine to one hundred and feven voices. On the 19th, Sir Thomas Bramfton was ordered upon a question to be expelled, as he was fovereign of Belfast, for which place he had been returned; and he was required to make reftitution of fixteen * Commons Journals, vol. i. p. 102. pounds |